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America's Children at the Doorway to Hell
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Memo to the United Corporations of America (WNN) 3-18-03
The world witnesses your calculated destruction as it continues to foot your bill on this torn and bleeding planet. You have ravaged our world for a century now, and crushed out the essence and blood of our children to keep your machines running. It is we who fill your tanks and brew your coffee. You who manage our futures as if appointed by some god, who keep the markets expanding, who harvest the billions and trillions from us.
We hereby serve notice that launching screaming jets and computerized missiles across oceans to annihiliate other human beings, manufacturing gigantic "Mother Bombs" to incinerate entire villages, or using entire countries as test populations for billion-dollar weapon systems will no longer be consented to, paid for, paid allegiance to, or considered ethically acceptable. Your high-tech annihilation has grown so vast and monstrous, now including directed-energy weapons to disrupt the very DNA and minds of any who oppose you, must now be considered CRIMINAL by all standards of international and humanitarian agreements, including the Constitution of the U.S., which you corporations appear to be using to light your cigars.
In other words, corporate masters, we the people, in order to secure a more just and morally correct society for our children, do pledge to resist your global war, until you take your raving lunatics and their evil henchmen out of the White House, your dogs of war wagging in our face! We demand a free and open forum, a liberation of the American media, to examine the criminal activities surrounding the 9-11 and anthrax attacks, to disclose the excessive economic interest the Bush and Cheney families are reaping from their "perpetual war" agenda, and to tell the truth about the spread of genetically-modified diseases from American labs.
Your Mussolini style of fascism appears invincible in your own media reflection, but believe us, out here in the REAL WORLD, we know you are mobilizing because you fat-cats are scared, isolated, and surrounded. Even your own workers and consumers have lost faith in your oily excess. This is why you will be using Iraq as the next testing ground for your new model weapons worth their weight in gold, and why hundreds of thousands more children must become maimed and orphaned. The world now sees that you don't CARE that innocent people are killed and maimed, as long as you stay in control.
Your hypocrisy is the defining madness of fascism: while claiming to protect and defend long polished ideals, you have become that which you most hate-- monstrous and menacing, murderous and mad! If the people of Earth have learned one great lesson from the last century, it is that war is madness-- especially industrial war which lays waste to entire nations, which you find so favorable. Acres of napalm exploding at once, entire fields filled with scorched and dead bodies, vast shorelines coated in black goo and blood. It's all another day of business for you.
No longer acceptable. This is evil behavior, carried out by unhealthy and dangerous minds. Is there anyone in America who can claim that Satan would not be delighted by the turn of events toward carnage and incineration, initiated by your bully-boys in the White House? Let's be honest... no one else is responsible for launching 3000 cruise missiles, each costing over half a million dollars! It wasn't Saddam who forced this invasion, and it won't be Saddam who does most of the suffering. It will be mostly Iraqi children, Iraqi soldiers, and your own troops, who will bear the scars for the rest of their lives.
You have miscalculated how great the resistance to your military dictatorship will grow, and how strong the cultural forces are which allow you to exist. Listen carefully now to the voice of your children: NO MORE WAR! NO MORE ANNIHILATION IN OUR NAME! Stop the hate and the killing, stop the madmen who are inciting this violence! Shut it down!
We have serious issues to attend to on this battered planet, in order to survive as a species. Do not allow war to be used as a solution any further! We must evolve, or we will surely find ourselves living in Hell shortly! Is that what you really want?
Cassandra Camus
Occupied Hawaiian Nation
planetary@wildmail.com
http://Metamagic.org
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What About the Children of Iraq?
When people think about bombing Iraq, they see a picture in their heads of Saddam Hussein in a military uniform, or maybe soldiers with big black mustaches carrying guns, or the mosaic of George Bush Senior on the lobby floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel with the word "criminal." But guess what? More than half of Iraq's 24 million people are children under the age of 15. That's 12 million kids. Kids like me. Well, I'm almost 13, so some are a little older, and some a lot younger, some boys instead of girls, some with brown hair, not red. But kids who are pretty much like me just the same. So take a look at me -- a good long look. Because I am what you should see in your head when you think about bombing Iraq. I am what you are going to destroy.
If I am lucky, I will be killed instantly, like the three hundred children murdered by your "smart" bombs in a Baghdad bomb shelter on February 16, 1991. The blast caused a fire so intense that it flash-burned outlines of those children and their mothers on the walls; you can still peel strips of blackened skin -- souvenirs of your victory -- from the stones.
But maybe I won't be lucky and I'll die slowly, like 14-year-old Ali Faisal, who right now is in the "death ward" of the Baghdad children's hospital. He has malignant lymphoma -- cancer -- caused by the depleted uranium in your Gulf War missiles. Or maybe I will die painfully and needlessly like18-month-old Mustafa, whose vital organs are being devoured by sand fly parasites. I know it's hard to believe, but Mustafa could be totally cured with just $25 worth of medicine, but there is none of this medicine because of your sanctions.
Or maybe I won't die at all but will live for years with the psychological damage that you can't see from the outside, like Salman Mohammed, who even now can't forget the terror he lived through with his little sisters when you bombed Iraq in 1991. Salman's father made the whole family sleep in the same room so that they would all survive together, or die together. He still has nightmares about the air raid sirens.
Or maybe I will be orphaned like Ali, who was three when you killed his father in the Gulf War. Ali scraped at the dirt covering his father's grave every day for three years calling out to him, "It's all right Daddy, you can come out now, the men who put you here have gone away." Well, Ali, you're wrong. It looks like those men are coming back.
Or I maybe I will make it in one piece, like Luay Majed, who remembers that the Gulf War meant he didn't have to go to school and could stay up as late as he wanted. But today, with no education, he tries to live by selling newspapers on the street.
This is not an adventure movie or a fantasy or a video game. This is reality for children in Iraq.
Imagine that these are your children -- or nieces or nephews or neighbors. Imagine your son screaming from the agony of a severed limb, but you can't do anything to ease the pain or comfort him. Imagine your daughter crying out from under the rubble of a collapsed building, but you can't get to her. Imagine your children wandering the streets, hungry and alone, after having watched you die before their eyes.
From a Speech by 13-year-old Charlotte Aldebron in Maine
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Sheryl Crow's Search for The Truth
I realize there is an extensive debate as to the pertinence of celebrity
opinion on the war. It has never been my intention, as any of you who know
me or who have followed me know, to assume my opinion to be more important
than others' opinions, as the media world would have you believe.
I consider myself a citizen of the world as well as a proud American. I love
my country and all it has to offer. I believe in the pathos it was founded
on...the right to express what one feels without loss of freedom, the right
to worship, the right to vote, the right to bear arms in a respectful manner,
etc. I am not un-American in my stance but simply exercising my right to
free speech. Because I am in the public eye, I receive more attention than
perhaps the average antiwar activist. However, I have never claimed my opinion
to outweigh the opinions of others. It is my belief that the dialogue is as
important as the side being defended.
It is conceivable that in the long view, the outcome, whatever that may be,
could heal a wound that has been festering between Muslims and Christians for centuries, because history would lead us in that direction. There will be a price to pay..environmentally and financially. The question of recovery
is one that no one can speculate.... and more than likely, the bill we be
paid by generations to come.
It is my concern and my hope that the citizens of this country
will think for themselves, educate themselves, find out all there is to know about why we are considering attacking Saddam now without the support of our allies. It is my belief that there is an abundance of information that is public record that actually addresses these issues....the issues of preemptive strikes, preventive strikes, our philosophy on creating and ruling a world empire, our necessity to have a military unchallengable by any other military, our plan to keep a military operation in Iraq to protect our interests in Israel.
It is my desire that we be an awake nation that
investigates what it stands for and that as people, we define what we stand
for. It is my dream that the arrogance that represents us as a nation can be
changed in the eyes of the world and that we will rise up as a nation of
peaceful people who will work at finding other ways of eliminating
enemies....perhaps by consciously not creating enemies in the first place,
after all, we have distinct ties to Saddam in his becoming leader of Iraq.
There are many questions that beg to be asked. Some are being asked
rhetorically by many journalists, including a great writer at the New York
Times by the name of Daniel Friedman. For example-if we are claiming that we are
going into Iraq to save it's people from such an oppressive regime and such
heinous human rights infractions, then why are we not addressing these
situations in other Middle Eastern countries that are our allies? What is
the standard? Is there a way to justify the human loss that we can expect
from this war....our own as well as innocent Iraqis?
If this is a war not based on our own interests in oil, then why is it that
our government is offering tax cuts to businesses who purchase SUVs as
company cars?
I would also encourage all of you to look up the PAX Americana. This is the
doctrine which has been adopted, in part, by our Security Council and is
public record as the National Security Strategy, a document in which each
administration outlines its approach to defending the country. It clearly
states our stance on our position in the world. It was drawn up by Paul
Wolfowitz, under George Bush, Sr., who is now serving under George Bush, Jr.
The doctrine was leaked in 1992 but was considered to be so ridiculous and
inscrutable by those who got wind of it that Pres Bush Sr. was forced to publicly
repudiate it. It has since been approved and adopted by the current Bush
administration, which is made up of many of the same names who served under
Bush, Sr. and who have been called "Iraq hawks."
The doctrine states that America will allow no military more powerful than it's own.
It states that we reserve the right to not only strike preemptively but preventively....in
other words, we reserve the right to strike a country to prevent it from
striking us first, even without the aid or support of our allies. This
basically means that the World Community we have worked so hard since World
War II to establish will no longer exist under any rules of fairness. Such
an approach renders international norms of self-defense--enshrined by Article
51 of the UN Charter--almost meaningless. The doctrine is based on the
desire of a few to establish America as the sole World Leader, the head of an
Empire, the Czar of the World, which is entitled to attack if anyone steps
out of line.
It is more important now than ever that we align ourselves with truth. The
truth is not always clear cut. You must find it yourself and stand up for
what you believe. It is my belief that what we are entering into is bigger
than our President and his staff and Saddam Hussein. It is egotistical to think that
anyone will be able to control the outcome. The mistrust for America outside
our country has been brewing for a long time. And in the long view, as I
have said, the strife that we may be entering is an age old one, based on the
disagreements of religious peoples and the desire to control monetary
interests.
It is very possible that out of this strife, generations from
now, that healing may begin between Christians and Muslims. It won't be
solely because of two leaders. Our attacking Iraq, in an attempt at making
America a safer place, has not been connected to 9-11 or to the Al Qaeda, as
some want to believe. However, many believe we will see more terrorism than
ever, under the guise of Jihad, if we attack the Muslim world.
Align yourselves with truth. Pray for our leaders. Pray for our enemies and
for our troops and their families. Pray for the generations who come after
us who will have to pay the bill for what we are about to enter. And lastly,
pray for our ailing planet. She will suffer like never before if this
disagreement turns nuclear.
I respect your opinion and as I've said, these are the opinions of one
person....famous or not. I am part of a growing dialogue including peoples
from all walks of life, not just celebrities. It's important to be in the
ongoing debate in search of truth.
Sheryl Crow
March 13th 2003
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An Atrocious Load of Fascist Lies!
Let's cut through all the propaganda and lies for a minute. This so-called "war" upon a vulnerable and poverty-stricken desert nation, carried out by advanced weapons targeted by satellites, is an ATROCITY!
It doesn't matter what rank or title a person may hold, even Presidents lie. When leaders threaten the entire world community with weapons of annihilation, and at the same time tell outright lies about WHY they launch these weapons unprovoked upon people who have no protection from the "rain of death," we call this a war crime! I ask you, where is the justice here?
This is madness of the most atrocious order! The self-appointed Dictator Bush proclaims his family business partners "evil" and lays down a deadline, and the rest of the world must submit to another wave of trillion dollar bombing! All the shiny white faces on TV are smiling and calmly explaining why this is a good idea. America is dragging the rest of humanity down into a bottomless pit, completely in denial and psychosis. Where is the justice?
George Bush and Dick Cheney are the guilty ones here, their corporations making billion dollar contracts, their hands on the nuclear buttons and oil wells, their diseases spreading out of family laboratories, their buddies and drug dealers waging terror upon the entire world. The evidence is laid out all over the Internet for all to see! Who do the American media think they are fooling, when a former Attorney General of the U.S. files a legitimate impeachment injunction upon these criminals, and not a word of it in any of the press? Is there any justice in America?
Lies are lies, my friends. Bush and Blair are outright lying about the reasons for launching their invasion at this time. Anyone who has been paying attention knows it is really about hiding corporate crimes and getting control of oil fields. It doesn't matter how much the corporate media push their "approval ratings"... crimes are crimes, and history won't remember America's transient "approval ratings." Hitler had huge "approval ratings!" Ask the survivors of the Holocaust who they are most afraid of... the ones who order the incineration!
Notice has been given to those who cooperate and support these neo-fascist invaders. This is an aggressive war crime, and the launching of missiles upon vulnerable targets from thousands of miles away is a cowardly, criminal ATROCITY! Not in our name, not in our children's name!
Shut it down, Kick the Liars out of Office! Demand Justice for the People!
Youth International Party
CounterCultural Coalition 2003
"We are Millions More Than Them"
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Prosecuting George Bush for War Crimes
It is possible to do try your political "leaders" for Crimes Against Humanity under the ICC. I was just reading about this yesterday. The information is available via Human Rights Watch or the ICC sight. The ICC has been set up under certain rules, one of them being that past crimes cannot be tried - crimes committed prior to 2002, July I believe.
***** Any crimes against humanity, war crimes, or crimes of genocide committed after mid 2002 can be tried at the ICC, and ANYONE, regardless of office or position, military or civilian, can be brought to trial. *****
This is now a serious consideration for any political representative or business "leader" or military or intelligence personnel. They should from now on be a little more wary of breaking international law, or aiding and abetting or otherwise engaging as accomplices in acts which are in truth, under international law or UN charters, considered crimes against humanity.
This is a real issue of acountability which can be brought to the attention of any politician, government or military leader who is currently supporting or proposing to support an aciton which is in volation of international law and UN charters.
According to International Law and UN Charters, the planned war of invasion, "regime change", "pre-emptive war" and attack on Iraq, is illegal, in violation of both Internaitonal Law and UN Charters, and furthermore is grounds for trial for crimes against humanity.
For more information about this do a web search for the campaign to impeach George W. Bush, launched by a University of Illinoise law professor. The good professor has the details as to the US administration's violations of international law and UN charters, and the groungs under international law for trying George W. Bush for crimes against humanity.
The ICC should now be used as you describe - to create a little more incentive for politicians to watch their step in regards to respect for international law, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and crimes against humanity.
See also Noam Chomsky's, Rogue States, for an in-depth discussion and analysis of the "leading" Western nations' systematic disrespect for international law.
See also the Chomsky Archive at Znet for immense background information.
Todd Prajnaseeker
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Finally we know why Bush didn't want to sign up with the International Criminal Court (ICC). He didn't want US Soldiers to get prosecuted for war crimes in an illeagal war. This shows foresight and compassion, doesn't it. So stop critizising him. He's just another President trying to protect the interests of his constituents..., and his own.
It is an entirely different situation though as concerns for instance british soldiers participating in an illeagal war. The United Kingdom is one of the co-signatories of the Rome treaty, instituting the ICC. That the ICC has opened shop only a couple of days ago, is more than just inconvenient for a lot of people. It places each and every british soldier who participates in an illeagal war against Iraq, at personal risk to face not just the regular dangers of a combattant. For many years after the war has already ended, they will remain under the Damocles sword of a potential life sentence for war crimes committed by them. And it may be difficult to impossible to avoid participation in action leading to a crime of war, especially for those troops, who closely cooperate with their american counterparts.
If you are in doubt, wether a war of the US against Iraq is legitimate without a new resolution of the UN Security Council, let me reassure you. It is certainly not. I rarely do this, but I will quote from one of my previous articles: "The United States have threatened to strike 'preemptively' against the Iraq. If need be, without the backing of the United Nations Security Council. Even the use of the term 'preemptive' is misleading in this case. Based on international law, they would be allowed to do so, only under two conditions. First, if the UN Security Council were to authorize such a measure, after determination, that all other means of resolving the conflict peacefully had failed. Secondly, in self defense, until the UN Security Council had time to respond. Neither is the case at this time." and "According to international law, the test for legitimacy as to the need for preemptive action must be 'a specific, grave and imminent threat, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation'. The reluctance of the member states of the UN Security Council to invoke anticipatory self defense, is in itself a clear indication of the doubtful legitimacy of such a measure. Furthermore, at this time there is no indication whatsoever, that the Iraq is preparing to strike the US."
The unfortunate thing about charging british soldiers for crimes of war is, that they may be prosecuted, but those who put them into a situation, maybe beyond their control, those who really are responsible for the attrocities of an illeagal war, will probably not be charged, and go on as if nothing had happened.
By the way. At the same time, that Bush and the other thugs that make up his administration, denounce Saddams missiles flying a couple of miles farther than allowed by the UN, telling us about the terrible threat this poses to the US, they boldly brag about MOAB, a bomb with the power of a small atom bomb, the newest, cutest little toy of this terrorist administration.
peace
MUPPL
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Shame Unto 7 Generations
I am from the United States. I have seen many things, but for the first time I am ashamed of my country. I am ashamed of our president and our of our government. We used to stand for something. During the 1990's I was proud that my nation only took military action in self defense in pursuit of al qaeda and for humanitarian peace keeping purposes in coalition with other nations. We took action only by the will of grass roots movement from people through our representation following Constitutional law. I was more proud of my nation than at any time in my life. We used to stand for peace, justice and democracy. Few here now even remember what the principles of our Democracy are. We have betrayed those principles. We have betrayed our brother Democracies of the world. We have betrayed the UN. We have betrayed NATO. We have betrayed Democracy itself. We have betrayed ourselves.
We allowed powerful multi national oil & energy corporations to take over our goverment. We have allowed the oligarchy of just 5 Communications corporations to control all news and information in this country and which sided with the oil corporations. Few people make an effort to find information from outside of this source. Consequently thier minds are brainwashed from the constant saturation of propaganda from this system. They have no idea what is really happening here. They do not know what the rest of the world sees and says.
Our people are blinded by hatred, fear, anger,ignorance, racism and vengeance. Any one who speaks out for reason and caution is insulted, threatened and branded as a traitor even arrested sometimes. You can see the hatred in thier words posted on this site. People who disagree are affraid to speak out and demonstrate thier disapproval, for good reason. People here have no idea that the rest of the world condemns our actions. They have no idea how the rest of the world views this because they do not take the time to travel beyond our borders or communicate with people beyond our borders. They have no idea that we have lost the support of even our closest allies and of every nation on Earth. They have no idea what goes on outside our own little world nor do they care. They have no idea that the actions of our government, the oil corporations, the communications corporations and the wealthy have severly harmed our nation. They are self destructive. These people embarrass us.
There are some good, intelligent, couragious people here who care about the course our nation is taking. They understand what is happening and care about the future of our country. They care about the future of the world but our government does not listen to us. I am ashamed and embarrassed by that. I know politicians who are not affraid to speak out against this. I know people who are 60 or even 70 years old who say for the first time in thier lives they are ashamed of thier own nation when they used to be proud of it. I used to proudly display our nations flag because it always gave me a feeling of pride for what we stood for. Now when I see a flag I feel it reminds me only of feelings of anger and shame. It is displayed now for the wrong reasons by people who don't know what it stands for. I have seen people display our flag as a statement of war, hatred and venegeance. I think twice about hanging it up now because people will misinterpret the meaning of it. They will think it is a pro war statement when it is not. They are so ignorant that they can not even display the flag properly. I have seen people hang it upside down and backwards. Leave it on top of cars until it is filthy and torn. I have seen it lying in the mud in gutters and in bushes filthy and ragged. I am disgusted and ashamed by what people think is partiotism. I have seen people say that we have to trust our president and do what ever he says. I am ashamed that they think this is patriotism. You see these statements posted here. I know people who didn't protest even the Viet Nam War but they are protesting this one. I know people who are American WWII veterans who now say they are ashamed of thier nation for the first time in thier life. I know people who are Viet Nam war veterans who are opposed to this war. Everything we care about is being threatened and our own government is entirely responsible. We have tried everything we can do to stop it. We will keep trying until it is stopped even if it takes the rest of our lives. To the rest of the world we are sorry for what our goverment has done to people all over the world. Our nation is not solving the problem. It is the problem.
There is no excuse for it.
Quetzal
http://act.greenpeace.org
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The Wrong War
By Avishai Margalit
At this writing it seems certain that there will be a war in Iraq. It is the wrong war to fight. I am not waiting for the next report of Hans Blix: I already believe that Iraq is hiding chemical and biological weapons. I also believe that it is hiding a few dozen missiles in western Iraq. Yet, while holding these beliefs, I still maintain that this is the wrong war.
If you were to ask American officials after September 11 what the enemy is, you would hear three different answers: world terrorism, weapons of mass destruction in the hands of evildoers like Saddam Hussein, and radical Islam of the sort promoted by Osama bin Laden. I believe that the muddleheadedness in the American thinking about the war against Iraq comes from conflating these three answers as if somehow they were one and the same. In fact they are very different, with very different and incompatible practical implications.
In my view radical Islam of the sort promoted by bin Laden is and should be regarded as the enemy. And fighting Saddam Hussein will greatly help this enemy rather than set him back. This will be true even if the war is successful, let alone if it turns out to be unsuccessful.
The Islamic world, which consists of a seventh of the world's population, is on the verge of what in the old-fashioned jargon was called a "revolutionary situation." Lenin characterized the revolutionary situation as one in which the masses can't stand the regime anymore, and the regime finds it very hard to control them. In almost all the Islamic countries, over 50 percent of the population is made up of young people under eighteen. Their prospects in life are very bleak, and yet they have a sense of a glittering life elsewhere that comes mostly from the Western press, television, movies, and the Internet. This makes the gap between their prospects and their dreams very painful.
There are two ways to go about dealing with this explosive gap. The first is to enhance the economic prospects of people in the Islamic world and work for a better life for them, and the second is to change people's expectations of life by changing their notion of what constitutes the good life. Secular ideologies work on real-life prospects, while religious ideologies work on dreams. And when secular ideologies fail, as they have so miserably in the Islamic countries, the attraction of the dreams encouraged by religious ideologies increases many times over.
Radical Islam is making a revolutionary bid for the allegiance of the Islamic world. The attempts of its leaders to increase their following comes in two versions. There is the "Stalinist" version, which is a revolution in one country of the sort successfully made by Khomeini in Iran. A successful Islamic revolution in a major country would, or so it is hoped, serve as a model for revolutions in other Islamic countries. And then there is a "Trotskyite" version of the Islamic revolution, which aims to export the revolution to the entire Islamic world right away.
Bin Laden is trying to promote a permanent and universal Islamic revolution. The idea is to use terror as propaganda: to stage spectacular actions such as the attack on the "Babylonian" towers of Manhattan, the emblem of the idolatrous American shrines. The aim is certainly not to convert America to Islam. It is rather to recruit a large revolutionary cadre that will eventually take over the Islamic world, starting perhaps on the holy ground of Arabia and getting rid of what is seen as phony and compromised Wahhabism there, and then spreading a new and revitalized puritanical Wahhabism throughout the Islamic world.
Terror as propaganda-by-action counts on one thing: the overreaction of its victims. Out of anger and frustration the victims will respond by punishing bystanders, who will react by becoming more radical in their feelings and more susceptible to recruitment. Fighting terror is a delicate matter, and there is little sign that it has been understood in Washington. The war in Afghanistan notwithstanding, the war against terror is not a conventional war in which one can assign well-defined targets for the US Air Force to hit. It is also not a police operation, such as fighting the mafia. It is something in between, and this calls for a different strategy. But the last thing one should do is fall for "the fallacy of the instrument," namely to use the instrument you know how to use just because it is the only instrument you know how to use.
I shall say something briefly about how the right battle should be fought, with the right instruments. But I want first to address the issue of how the wrong war should be avoided.
Most of the regimes in the Arab world are what I call mukhabarat regimes. "Mukhabarat" is the Arabic term for intelligence services, but it is the generic term for the entire apparatus of internal security services. So a mukhabarat regime is a regime run by the internal security forces, largely in its own interests. It does not matter whether the ruler is called a king or a president (who may be elected by 99 percent of the population); the regime is still a mukhabarat regime, concerning itself mostly with staying in power. There are, to be sure, differences in the degree of brutality and sophistication among the various mukhabarat regimes; Saddam's is perhaps the most oppressive.
Whatever cynical use of religious propaganda has been made by Saddam throughout his long battle with Khomeini or during his current struggle against Israel, his regime is brutally secular. His mukhabarat people may see radical Islamists, and may harbor some of them, but they meet them mainly in his wretched prisons. Bin Laden himself, while supporting in his recent broadcast the Muslims of Iraq against "America and its allies," also said that "socialists are infidels," whether in "Baghdad or Aden." Whether Saddam is a cynic or not, is he capable of supplying bin Laden's organizations with the chemical and biological weapons that I believe he has?
Saddam Hussein is bad, but he is not entirely mad. More than anything else he wants to stay in power. Given the fact that he is constantly being watched, he would be mad to put his fate in the hands of a lieutenant of bin Laden by collaborating with al-Qaeda just for the purposes of taking revenge on the Americans. The issue about weapons of mass destruction does not turn on the morality of Saddam Hussein but on his rationality. More than a few other regimes would provide bin Laden with chemical and biological weapons before Saddam would.
Bush has made it clear that he would not take "yes" from Saddam as an answer to his demand for disarmament, and he wants to attack Iraq come what may. Had Saddam provided Hans Blix with an accurate list of his weapons it would likely have been taken as a sign that the list was only "the tip of the iceberg" and that he was hiding far more. There is no way for Saddam to get it right with the Americans—unless he were to abdicate. Pushed into a corner, he may be tempted, as his final legacy, to use his biological and chemical weapons, mainly against Israel. This would not be an easy thing to do, but it is a genuine possibility. I find it puzzling that my fellow Israelis find the temptation to support this war irresistible. Given the immediate danger to Israel, it is a temptation Israelis should resist in their own interest.
There is very little patience now with moral commentators concerned about the damage a war will do to the Iraqi people. But recall that as a result of the Gulf War, which seemed to most of the world a huge video game, some 150,000 Iraqi civilians were killed. One can only guess how many civilians will be killed as a result of the coming war, but there will be many, and this is another good reason to spare the Iraqis from liberation by guided missiles.
As for the "right" war, it should respond to an Islamic world on the verge of a "revolutionary situation." This, rather than terror, is the main problem that the world faces today; terror is a nasty symptom of this situation. The global economy has torn apart the social and economic safety nets in Islamic societies. In many countries it was left to Islamist political organizations, whether in Egypt, Pakistan, Gaza, or elsewhere, to provide a safety net: this too became propaganda-by-action, and often successful action at that. I find it hard to believe that any ideology, except some benign version of Islam, can successfully compete both against the mukhabarat regimes and against the menacing Islamism of bin Laden. The ideology that will address both the prospects and the dreams of the people in these countries cannot be imposed or manipulated from the outside; but it can and should be helped from the outside.
This is for the long run. In the short run we face bin Ladenism, which has no single territorial base, although it has concealed bases in different parts of the world. This is the enemy, as bin Laden made clear in his recent broadcast. And as difficult and frustrating as it is, it should be targeted carefully and locally rather than globally. The governing principle should be: Do not overreact. Acting against Iraq is a glaring example of overreacting.
—Jerusalem, February 13, 2003
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Awaken the Planet
No time for waiting child
listen to the buzz and the hum
every living fiber sings out
born to this day with joy
from a sea of fleshy fear
become tomorrow's hero
surrounded by fierce desire
eyes filled with feral figments
crouch down now into reality
cry out to awaken others
knowing the planet is alive
now we do what we must
our bodies are not our own
our minds are millions more
our hands are now planetary
voices rising over our world
we are the peace prayed for
awake to become the savior
BZ Botani 2003
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HAWAI'I
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
-- Crowfoot
Without Earth
Corporate reich nuclear regimes
maximizing profit eating identities
plundering natural allies as though Earth is dead
warring against body and soul
Attacking spirit lying to enslave
with an illusion about Freedom
-- John Trudell
Last-Minute Message For a Time Capsule
I have to tell you this, whoever you are:
that on one summer morning here, the ocean
pounded in on tumbledown breakers,
a south wind, bustling along the shore,
whipped the froth into little rainbows,
and a reckless gull swept down the beach
as if to fly were everything it needed.
I thought of your hovering saucers,
looking for clues, and I wanted to write this down,
so it wouldn't be lost forever -
that once upon a time we had
meadows here, and astonishing things,
swans and frogs and luna moths
and blue skies that could stagger your heart.
We could have had them still,
and welcomed you to earth, but
we also had the righteous ones
who worshipped the True Faith, and Holy War.
When you go home to your shining galaxy,
say that what you learned
from this dead and barren place is
to beware the righteous ones.
Philip Appleman from New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996
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Oil war: 23 years in the making
Analysts see attack this week or next
'We're just waiting on the president'
LINDA DIEBEL Toronto Star
WASHINGTON—Any day now, there will be bombs falling on Baghdad.
Conventional bombs like nothing the world has ever seen.
"The bombs will still be ringing in their ears when the 'Third Mech' shows up,'' says U.S. military analyst John Pike, of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and whatever's left of his so-called elite Republican Guard after the first days of aerial pulverization.
"The Third Mech will be driving down the main drag in Baghdad.''
Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, describes an assault on Saddam's regime that begins with "shock-and-awe'' aerial bombardment, and quickly moves into crush mode with the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) rolling up from the Kuwaiti desert and U.S. Marines storming the port city of Basra.
"Chances are 90 per cent it will go pretty quickly, and 10 per cent it will turn into one big holy mess,'' predicts Pike.
But, before turning to the combat debut of bombs that weigh about 9,000 kilos and can take out an entire battalion, consider why the United States is going to war.
Consider who drew up U.S. goals and objectives in the Persian Gulf, when, and why.
Consider oil.
This particular operation — Pentagon working title: "OpPlan 10-03-Victor" — has been on the drawing board for a year, according to defence officials. The immediate goal is disarming Iraq and getting rid of Saddam. It's expected to begin soon, this week or next. Hard to hold back more than 300,000 U.S. and British troops, in place and pumped to go.
But the long-term goal, say big-picture analysts, has been in the works for far more than the 23 years since former U.S. president Jimmy Carter linked American security — "the vital interests of the United States'' — to the Persian Gulf and its oil, and threatened military intervention.
This war, say analysts, is about power and oil. It's about control of the Gulf states by means of strategic Iraq and, by extension, a final post-Cold War shakeout to give the U.S. more economic clout over China and Russia by controlling the oil spigot.
This is the moment, Thomas Barnett, from the U.S. Naval War College, wrote recently in Esquire magazine, "when Washington takes real ownership of strategic security in the age of globalization.''
The Persian Gulf has the world's biggest oil reserves. After Saudi Arabia, Iraq has the second-largest proven reserves.
"The only precedent to what is shaping up now is the Roman Empire,'' says Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. "There is only one power. I don't think Britain, France or Spain even came close in other centuries to the United States today.
"If the United States controls Persian Gulf oil fields, it will have a stranglehold on the world economy,'' adds Klare.
Washington is betting, Klare believes, that "controlling Gulf oil, combined with being a decade ahead of everybody else in military technology, will guarantee American supremacy for the next 50 to 100 years.''
These ideas aren't new.
For years, a small and powerful group, with corporate and political links, pushed the idea of controlling Persian Gulf oil. They did it publicly, at think-tanks and in the media. Now, this coterie of like-minded strategists controls both the Pentagon and the strategic aims of President George W. Bush's White House.
"You've got a team in the White House that is unafraid of world public opinion because they know it is unreliable, self-serving and hypocritical,'' says George Friedman, chair of the intelligence organization, Stratfor.
Originally, this was the "Kissinger plan,'' says James Akins, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He lost his state department job for publicly criticizing administration plans to control Arab oil back in 1975 when Henry Kissinger was secretary of state.
"I thought they were crazy then and they're crazy now,'' Akins tells the Star, adding that Congress studied plans to control Persian Gulf oil and concluded the idea was absolute madness.
"I thought this whole thing was dead. But now you've got all these `neo-cons' in power, and here we go again,'' says Akins, a Washington-based consultant. "They figure once they take over Iraq, they don't have to worry about the Saudis.''
Akins adds: "These people with their imperial ideas see themselves as part of the Great American Empire."
The players have moved steadily through the Republican presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Bush's father, George H.W. Bush and Bush himself.
They include: Vice-president Richard Cheney, a former oilman, like Bush, and defence secretary during his father's Persian Gulf War in 1991; Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, once Reagan's personal emissary to the Middle East when Saddam was a U.S. friend and staunch ally; Rumsfeld's deputy Paul Wolfowitz, who began publicly calling for war against Iraq after the 9/11 terror attacks; and Richard Perle, chair of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board, nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness'' for his political stick-handling.
They are joined by think-tankers from organizations such as the Project for the New American Century, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the American Enterprise Institute. Bush recently chose an American Enterprise Institute forum, rather than the White House, to deliver a major prime-time speech to the American people to make the case for war.
Bush often mentions Iraqi oil, a jarring focus for a president on the brink of war.
"We will seek to protect Iraq's natural resources from sabotage from a dying regime and ensure they are used for the benefit of Iraq's own people,'' he said in last week's radio address.
Colin Robinson, an analyst with the Washington-based Centre for Defence Information, says: "The United States can stand well-accused of trying to dominate the whole region for its oil. But conspiracy theories are usually too complicated for everybody to carry them off."
Friedman says the 1991 war left unfinished business, the "status quo'' of Saddam in power. Not so this time, he says, in a war which, as U.N. diplomats dither, has already begun.
In recent weeks, British and U.S. warplanes strayed outside "no-fly'' zones to bomb Iraqi surface-to-air missiles. Robinson describes these zones, set up by the U.S. and Britain after Desert Storm as "barely legal'' in terms of international law.
As well, U.N. officials report violations of the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait by U.S. soldiers.
But the real devastation should begin within days.
"We've got everything we need. We're just waiting on the word, the decision from the president," Maj.-Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, told the Washington Post last week from Kuwait.
First comes aerial bombardment, an extraordinary 1,500 bombs every 24 hours during the time it takes heavy mechanized divisions to move up from Kuwait to Baghdad.
Big heavy bombers, from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, buttressed by screaming navy and air force jets will pound Iraqi sites, picked by aerial drones and U.S. and British Special Forces already in Iraq.
Defence contractors are eager to test out new gadgetry. One new bomb is the 9,000-kilo MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst).
"Well, it's very efficient,'' says Friedman. "Let's say you've got a large concentration of Republican Guard units, instead of having to do repeated bombing sorties, you can take out a battalion (500 to 600 troops) with one bomb.''
Friedman's sources in theatre tell him there are "terrific fights between defence department officials and field commanders who are raring to go now.''
He says time is the enemy of troops in the field. Sandstorms at the end of March, for example, could play havoc with laser targeting systems.
Without the anticipated "northern front'' through Turkey, there are plans for C-130s to ferry troops to northern Iraq, as well as missions for U.S. Marines and Special Forces to secure oil sites throughout Iraq.
"The U.S. military cannot be defeated on the conventional battlefield,'' says military analyst Pike.
But what about the variables?
How much of a threat is Saddam? What about chemical and biological weapons?
"We gonna find out,'' says Pike.
Meanwhile, Iraqi exiles, opposed to Saddam, have been meeting with U.S. and British oil executives, promising access and leases in return for political power.
And, the U.S., as Friedman points out, on the brink of world hegemony, is going to find out who its friends are.
"I do so enjoy Canadians (against the war) getting so obsessed with human rights, and then pay no attention to places like Venezuela,'' says Friedman, who thinks Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is next on Bush's military agenda.
"I read the Canadian press and I wonder what planet your country is on.
"We have allies, and we are going to see who they are,'' he concludes. "If France, if Canada, can't support us in opposition to Saddam Hussein, you can't say you are our allies. Canada consistently says it's an ally of the United States of America ... we'll see, won't we?''
http://www.thestar.com/
"Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs."
-- Henry Kissinger
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties,
nations and epochs, it is the rule."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johan W. von Goethe
"By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live."
--John Butler Yeats
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wisemen."
--Thomas Huxley
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
--French Proverb
"Together we shall either save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
--John F. Kennedy
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Memo to the United Corporations of America (WNN) 3-18-03
The world witnesses your calculated destruction as it continues to foot your bill on this torn and bleeding planet. You have ravaged our world for a century now, and crushed out the essence and blood of our children to keep your machines running. It is we who fill your tanks and brew your coffee. You who manage our futures as if appointed by some god, who keep the markets expanding, who harvest the billions and trillions from us.
We hereby serve notice that launching screaming jets and computerized missiles across oceans to annihiliate other human beings, manufacturing gigantic "Mother Bombs" to incinerate entire villages, or using entire countries as test populations for billion-dollar weapon systems will no longer be consented to, paid for, paid allegiance to, or considered ethically acceptable. Your high-tech annihilation has grown so vast and monstrous, now including directed-energy weapons to disrupt the very DNA and minds of any who oppose you, must now be considered CRIMINAL by all standards of international and humanitarian agreements, including the Constitution of the U.S., which you corporations appear to be using to light your cigars.
In other words, corporate masters, we the people, in order to secure a more just and morally correct society for our children, do pledge to resist your global war, until you take your raving lunatics and their evil henchmen out of the White House, your dogs of war wagging in our face! We demand a free and open forum, a liberation of the American media, to examine the criminal activities surrounding the 9-11 and anthrax attacks, to disclose the excessive economic interest the Bush and Cheney families are reaping from their "perpetual war" agenda, and to tell the truth about the spread of genetically-modified diseases from American labs.
Your Mussolini style of fascism appears invincible in your own media reflection, but believe us, out here in the REAL WORLD, we know you are mobilizing because you fat-cats are scared, isolated, and surrounded. Even your own workers and consumers have lost faith in your oily excess. This is why you will be using Iraq as the next testing ground for your new model weapons worth their weight in gold, and why hundreds of thousands more children must become maimed and orphaned. The world now sees that you don't CARE that innocent people are killed and maimed, as long as you stay in control.
Your hypocrisy is the defining madness of fascism: while claiming to protect and defend long polished ideals, you have become that which you most hate-- monstrous and menacing, murderous and mad! If the people of Earth have learned one great lesson from the last century, it is that war is madness-- especially industrial war which lays waste to entire nations, which you find so favorable. Acres of napalm exploding at once, entire fields filled with scorched and dead bodies, vast shorelines coated in black goo and blood. It's all another day of business for you.
No longer acceptable. This is evil behavior, carried out by unhealthy and dangerous minds. Is there anyone in America who can claim that Satan would not be delighted by the turn of events toward carnage and incineration, initiated by your bully-boys in the White House? Let's be honest... no one else is responsible for launching 3000 cruise missiles, each costing over half a million dollars! It wasn't Saddam who forced this invasion, and it won't be Saddam who does most of the suffering. It will be mostly Iraqi children, Iraqi soldiers, and your own troops, who will bear the scars for the rest of their lives.
You have miscalculated how great the resistance to your military dictatorship will grow, and how strong the cultural forces are which allow you to exist. Listen carefully now to the voice of your children: NO MORE WAR! NO MORE ANNIHILATION IN OUR NAME! Stop the hate and the killing, stop the madmen who are inciting this violence! Shut it down!
We have serious issues to attend to on this battered planet, in order to survive as a species. Do not allow war to be used as a solution any further! We must evolve, or we will surely find ourselves living in Hell shortly! Is that what you really want?
Cassandra Camus
Occupied Hawaiian Nation
planetary@wildmail.com
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What About the Children of Iraq?
When people think about bombing Iraq, they see a picture in their heads of Saddam Hussein in a military uniform, or maybe soldiers with big black mustaches carrying guns, or the mosaic of George Bush Senior on the lobby floor of the Al-Rashid Hotel with the word "criminal." But guess what? More than half of Iraq's 24 million people are children under the age of 15. That's 12 million kids. Kids like me. Well, I'm almost 13, so some are a little older, and some a lot younger, some boys instead of girls, some with brown hair, not red. But kids who are pretty much like me just the same. So take a look at me -- a good long look. Because I am what you should see in your head when you think about bombing Iraq. I am what you are going to destroy.
If I am lucky, I will be killed instantly, like the three hundred children murdered by your "smart" bombs in a Baghdad bomb shelter on February 16, 1991. The blast caused a fire so intense that it flash-burned outlines of those children and their mothers on the walls; you can still peel strips of blackened skin -- souvenirs of your victory -- from the stones.
But maybe I won't be lucky and I'll die slowly, like 14-year-old Ali Faisal, who right now is in the "death ward" of the Baghdad children's hospital. He has malignant lymphoma -- cancer -- caused by the depleted uranium in your Gulf War missiles. Or maybe I will die painfully and needlessly like18-month-old Mustafa, whose vital organs are being devoured by sand fly parasites. I know it's hard to believe, but Mustafa could be totally cured with just $25 worth of medicine, but there is none of this medicine because of your sanctions.
Or maybe I won't die at all but will live for years with the psychological damage that you can't see from the outside, like Salman Mohammed, who even now can't forget the terror he lived through with his little sisters when you bombed Iraq in 1991. Salman's father made the whole family sleep in the same room so that they would all survive together, or die together. He still has nightmares about the air raid sirens.
Or maybe I will be orphaned like Ali, who was three when you killed his father in the Gulf War. Ali scraped at the dirt covering his father's grave every day for three years calling out to him, "It's all right Daddy, you can come out now, the men who put you here have gone away." Well, Ali, you're wrong. It looks like those men are coming back.
Or I maybe I will make it in one piece, like Luay Majed, who remembers that the Gulf War meant he didn't have to go to school and could stay up as late as he wanted. But today, with no education, he tries to live by selling newspapers on the street.
This is not an adventure movie or a fantasy or a video game. This is reality for children in Iraq.
Imagine that these are your children -- or nieces or nephews or neighbors. Imagine your son screaming from the agony of a severed limb, but you can't do anything to ease the pain or comfort him. Imagine your daughter crying out from under the rubble of a collapsed building, but you can't get to her. Imagine your children wandering the streets, hungry and alone, after having watched you die before their eyes.
From a Speech by 13-year-old Charlotte Aldebron in Maine
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Sheryl Crow's Search for The Truth
I realize there is an extensive debate as to the pertinence of celebrity
opinion on the war. It has never been my intention, as any of you who know
me or who have followed me know, to assume my opinion to be more important
than others' opinions, as the media world would have you believe.
I consider myself a citizen of the world as well as a proud American. I love
my country and all it has to offer. I believe in the pathos it was founded
on...the right to express what one feels without loss of freedom, the right
to worship, the right to vote, the right to bear arms in a respectful manner,
etc. I am not un-American in my stance but simply exercising my right to
free speech. Because I am in the public eye, I receive more attention than
perhaps the average antiwar activist. However, I have never claimed my opinion
to outweigh the opinions of others. It is my belief that the dialogue is as
important as the side being defended.
It is conceivable that in the long view, the outcome, whatever that may be,
could heal a wound that has been festering between Muslims and Christians for centuries, because history would lead us in that direction. There will be a price to pay..environmentally and financially. The question of recovery
is one that no one can speculate.... and more than likely, the bill we be
paid by generations to come.
It is my concern and my hope that the citizens of this country
will think for themselves, educate themselves, find out all there is to know about why we are considering attacking Saddam now without the support of our allies. It is my belief that there is an abundance of information that is public record that actually addresses these issues....the issues of preemptive strikes, preventive strikes, our philosophy on creating and ruling a world empire, our necessity to have a military unchallengable by any other military, our plan to keep a military operation in Iraq to protect our interests in Israel.
It is my desire that we be an awake nation that
investigates what it stands for and that as people, we define what we stand
for. It is my dream that the arrogance that represents us as a nation can be
changed in the eyes of the world and that we will rise up as a nation of
peaceful people who will work at finding other ways of eliminating
enemies....perhaps by consciously not creating enemies in the first place,
after all, we have distinct ties to Saddam in his becoming leader of Iraq.
There are many questions that beg to be asked. Some are being asked
rhetorically by many journalists, including a great writer at the New York
Times by the name of Daniel Friedman. For example-if we are claiming that we are
going into Iraq to save it's people from such an oppressive regime and such
heinous human rights infractions, then why are we not addressing these
situations in other Middle Eastern countries that are our allies? What is
the standard? Is there a way to justify the human loss that we can expect
from this war....our own as well as innocent Iraqis?
If this is a war not based on our own interests in oil, then why is it that
our government is offering tax cuts to businesses who purchase SUVs as
company cars?
I would also encourage all of you to look up the PAX Americana. This is the
doctrine which has been adopted, in part, by our Security Council and is
public record as the National Security Strategy, a document in which each
administration outlines its approach to defending the country. It clearly
states our stance on our position in the world. It was drawn up by Paul
Wolfowitz, under George Bush, Sr., who is now serving under George Bush, Jr.
The doctrine was leaked in 1992 but was considered to be so ridiculous and
inscrutable by those who got wind of it that Pres Bush Sr. was forced to publicly
repudiate it. It has since been approved and adopted by the current Bush
administration, which is made up of many of the same names who served under
Bush, Sr. and who have been called "Iraq hawks."
The doctrine states that America will allow no military more powerful than it's own.
It states that we reserve the right to not only strike preemptively but preventively....in
other words, we reserve the right to strike a country to prevent it from
striking us first, even without the aid or support of our allies. This
basically means that the World Community we have worked so hard since World
War II to establish will no longer exist under any rules of fairness. Such
an approach renders international norms of self-defense--enshrined by Article
51 of the UN Charter--almost meaningless. The doctrine is based on the
desire of a few to establish America as the sole World Leader, the head of an
Empire, the Czar of the World, which is entitled to attack if anyone steps
out of line.
It is more important now than ever that we align ourselves with truth. The
truth is not always clear cut. You must find it yourself and stand up for
what you believe. It is my belief that what we are entering into is bigger
than our President and his staff and Saddam Hussein. It is egotistical to think that
anyone will be able to control the outcome. The mistrust for America outside
our country has been brewing for a long time. And in the long view, as I
have said, the strife that we may be entering is an age old one, based on the
disagreements of religious peoples and the desire to control monetary
interests.
It is very possible that out of this strife, generations from
now, that healing may begin between Christians and Muslims. It won't be
solely because of two leaders. Our attacking Iraq, in an attempt at making
America a safer place, has not been connected to 9-11 or to the Al Qaeda, as
some want to believe. However, many believe we will see more terrorism than
ever, under the guise of Jihad, if we attack the Muslim world.
Align yourselves with truth. Pray for our leaders. Pray for our enemies and
for our troops and their families. Pray for the generations who come after
us who will have to pay the bill for what we are about to enter. And lastly,
pray for our ailing planet. She will suffer like never before if this
disagreement turns nuclear.
I respect your opinion and as I've said, these are the opinions of one
person....famous or not. I am part of a growing dialogue including peoples
from all walks of life, not just celebrities. It's important to be in the
ongoing debate in search of truth.
Sheryl Crow
March 13th 2003
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An Atrocious Load of Fascist Lies!
Let's cut through all the propaganda and lies for a minute. This so-called "war" upon a vulnerable and poverty-stricken desert nation, carried out by advanced weapons targeted by satellites, is an ATROCITY!
It doesn't matter what rank or title a person may hold, even Presidents lie. When leaders threaten the entire world community with weapons of annihilation, and at the same time tell outright lies about WHY they launch these weapons unprovoked upon people who have no protection from the "rain of death," we call this a war crime! I ask you, where is the justice here?
This is madness of the most atrocious order! The self-appointed Dictator Bush proclaims his family business partners "evil" and lays down a deadline, and the rest of the world must submit to another wave of trillion dollar bombing! All the shiny white faces on TV are smiling and calmly explaining why this is a good idea. America is dragging the rest of humanity down into a bottomless pit, completely in denial and psychosis. Where is the justice?
George Bush and Dick Cheney are the guilty ones here, their corporations making billion dollar contracts, their hands on the nuclear buttons and oil wells, their diseases spreading out of family laboratories, their buddies and drug dealers waging terror upon the entire world. The evidence is laid out all over the Internet for all to see! Who do the American media think they are fooling, when a former Attorney General of the U.S. files a legitimate impeachment injunction upon these criminals, and not a word of it in any of the press? Is there any justice in America?
Lies are lies, my friends. Bush and Blair are outright lying about the reasons for launching their invasion at this time. Anyone who has been paying attention knows it is really about hiding corporate crimes and getting control of oil fields. It doesn't matter how much the corporate media push their "approval ratings"... crimes are crimes, and history won't remember America's transient "approval ratings." Hitler had huge "approval ratings!" Ask the survivors of the Holocaust who they are most afraid of... the ones who order the incineration!
Notice has been given to those who cooperate and support these neo-fascist invaders. This is an aggressive war crime, and the launching of missiles upon vulnerable targets from thousands of miles away is a cowardly, criminal ATROCITY! Not in our name, not in our children's name!
Shut it down, Kick the Liars out of Office! Demand Justice for the People!
Youth International Party
CounterCultural Coalition 2003
"We are Millions More Than Them"
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Prosecuting George Bush for War Crimes
It is possible to do try your political "leaders" for Crimes Against Humanity under the ICC. I was just reading about this yesterday. The information is available via Human Rights Watch or the ICC sight. The ICC has been set up under certain rules, one of them being that past crimes cannot be tried - crimes committed prior to 2002, July I believe.
***** Any crimes against humanity, war crimes, or crimes of genocide committed after mid 2002 can be tried at the ICC, and ANYONE, regardless of office or position, military or civilian, can be brought to trial. *****
This is now a serious consideration for any political representative or business "leader" or military or intelligence personnel. They should from now on be a little more wary of breaking international law, or aiding and abetting or otherwise engaging as accomplices in acts which are in truth, under international law or UN charters, considered crimes against humanity.
This is a real issue of acountability which can be brought to the attention of any politician, government or military leader who is currently supporting or proposing to support an aciton which is in volation of international law and UN charters.
According to International Law and UN Charters, the planned war of invasion, "regime change", "pre-emptive war" and attack on Iraq, is illegal, in violation of both Internaitonal Law and UN Charters, and furthermore is grounds for trial for crimes against humanity.
For more information about this do a web search for the campaign to impeach George W. Bush, launched by a University of Illinoise law professor. The good professor has the details as to the US administration's violations of international law and UN charters, and the groungs under international law for trying George W. Bush for crimes against humanity.
The ICC should now be used as you describe - to create a little more incentive for politicians to watch their step in regards to respect for international law, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and crimes against humanity.
See also Noam Chomsky's, Rogue States, for an in-depth discussion and analysis of the "leading" Western nations' systematic disrespect for international law.
See also the Chomsky Archive at Znet for immense background information.
Todd Prajnaseeker
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Finally we know why Bush didn't want to sign up with the International Criminal Court (ICC). He didn't want US Soldiers to get prosecuted for war crimes in an illeagal war. This shows foresight and compassion, doesn't it. So stop critizising him. He's just another President trying to protect the interests of his constituents..., and his own.
It is an entirely different situation though as concerns for instance british soldiers participating in an illeagal war. The United Kingdom is one of the co-signatories of the Rome treaty, instituting the ICC. That the ICC has opened shop only a couple of days ago, is more than just inconvenient for a lot of people. It places each and every british soldier who participates in an illeagal war against Iraq, at personal risk to face not just the regular dangers of a combattant. For many years after the war has already ended, they will remain under the Damocles sword of a potential life sentence for war crimes committed by them. And it may be difficult to impossible to avoid participation in action leading to a crime of war, especially for those troops, who closely cooperate with their american counterparts.
If you are in doubt, wether a war of the US against Iraq is legitimate without a new resolution of the UN Security Council, let me reassure you. It is certainly not. I rarely do this, but I will quote from one of my previous articles: "The United States have threatened to strike 'preemptively' against the Iraq. If need be, without the backing of the United Nations Security Council. Even the use of the term 'preemptive' is misleading in this case. Based on international law, they would be allowed to do so, only under two conditions. First, if the UN Security Council were to authorize such a measure, after determination, that all other means of resolving the conflict peacefully had failed. Secondly, in self defense, until the UN Security Council had time to respond. Neither is the case at this time." and "According to international law, the test for legitimacy as to the need for preemptive action must be 'a specific, grave and imminent threat, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation'. The reluctance of the member states of the UN Security Council to invoke anticipatory self defense, is in itself a clear indication of the doubtful legitimacy of such a measure. Furthermore, at this time there is no indication whatsoever, that the Iraq is preparing to strike the US."
The unfortunate thing about charging british soldiers for crimes of war is, that they may be prosecuted, but those who put them into a situation, maybe beyond their control, those who really are responsible for the attrocities of an illeagal war, will probably not be charged, and go on as if nothing had happened.
By the way. At the same time, that Bush and the other thugs that make up his administration, denounce Saddams missiles flying a couple of miles farther than allowed by the UN, telling us about the terrible threat this poses to the US, they boldly brag about MOAB, a bomb with the power of a small atom bomb, the newest, cutest little toy of this terrorist administration.
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Shame Unto 7 Generations
I am from the United States. I have seen many things, but for the first time I am ashamed of my country. I am ashamed of our president and our of our government. We used to stand for something. During the 1990's I was proud that my nation only took military action in self defense in pursuit of al qaeda and for humanitarian peace keeping purposes in coalition with other nations. We took action only by the will of grass roots movement from people through our representation following Constitutional law. I was more proud of my nation than at any time in my life. We used to stand for peace, justice and democracy. Few here now even remember what the principles of our Democracy are. We have betrayed those principles. We have betrayed our brother Democracies of the world. We have betrayed the UN. We have betrayed NATO. We have betrayed Democracy itself. We have betrayed ourselves.
We allowed powerful multi national oil & energy corporations to take over our goverment. We have allowed the oligarchy of just 5 Communications corporations to control all news and information in this country and which sided with the oil corporations. Few people make an effort to find information from outside of this source. Consequently thier minds are brainwashed from the constant saturation of propaganda from this system. They have no idea what is really happening here. They do not know what the rest of the world sees and says.
Our people are blinded by hatred, fear, anger,ignorance, racism and vengeance. Any one who speaks out for reason and caution is insulted, threatened and branded as a traitor even arrested sometimes. You can see the hatred in thier words posted on this site. People who disagree are affraid to speak out and demonstrate thier disapproval, for good reason. People here have no idea that the rest of the world condemns our actions. They have no idea how the rest of the world views this because they do not take the time to travel beyond our borders or communicate with people beyond our borders. They have no idea that we have lost the support of even our closest allies and of every nation on Earth. They have no idea what goes on outside our own little world nor do they care. They have no idea that the actions of our government, the oil corporations, the communications corporations and the wealthy have severly harmed our nation. They are self destructive. These people embarrass us.
There are some good, intelligent, couragious people here who care about the course our nation is taking. They understand what is happening and care about the future of our country. They care about the future of the world but our government does not listen to us. I am ashamed and embarrassed by that. I know politicians who are not affraid to speak out against this. I know people who are 60 or even 70 years old who say for the first time in thier lives they are ashamed of thier own nation when they used to be proud of it. I used to proudly display our nations flag because it always gave me a feeling of pride for what we stood for. Now when I see a flag I feel it reminds me only of feelings of anger and shame. It is displayed now for the wrong reasons by people who don't know what it stands for. I have seen people display our flag as a statement of war, hatred and venegeance. I think twice about hanging it up now because people will misinterpret the meaning of it. They will think it is a pro war statement when it is not. They are so ignorant that they can not even display the flag properly. I have seen people hang it upside down and backwards. Leave it on top of cars until it is filthy and torn. I have seen it lying in the mud in gutters and in bushes filthy and ragged. I am disgusted and ashamed by what people think is partiotism. I have seen people say that we have to trust our president and do what ever he says. I am ashamed that they think this is patriotism. You see these statements posted here. I know people who didn't protest even the Viet Nam War but they are protesting this one. I know people who are American WWII veterans who now say they are ashamed of thier nation for the first time in thier life. I know people who are Viet Nam war veterans who are opposed to this war. Everything we care about is being threatened and our own government is entirely responsible. We have tried everything we can do to stop it. We will keep trying until it is stopped even if it takes the rest of our lives. To the rest of the world we are sorry for what our goverment has done to people all over the world. Our nation is not solving the problem. It is the problem.
There is no excuse for it.
Quetzal
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The Wrong War
By Avishai Margalit
At this writing it seems certain that there will be a war in Iraq. It is the wrong war to fight. I am not waiting for the next report of Hans Blix: I already believe that Iraq is hiding chemical and biological weapons. I also believe that it is hiding a few dozen missiles in western Iraq. Yet, while holding these beliefs, I still maintain that this is the wrong war.
If you were to ask American officials after September 11 what the enemy is, you would hear three different answers: world terrorism, weapons of mass destruction in the hands of evildoers like Saddam Hussein, and radical Islam of the sort promoted by Osama bin Laden. I believe that the muddleheadedness in the American thinking about the war against Iraq comes from conflating these three answers as if somehow they were one and the same. In fact they are very different, with very different and incompatible practical implications.
In my view radical Islam of the sort promoted by bin Laden is and should be regarded as the enemy. And fighting Saddam Hussein will greatly help this enemy rather than set him back. This will be true even if the war is successful, let alone if it turns out to be unsuccessful.
The Islamic world, which consists of a seventh of the world's population, is on the verge of what in the old-fashioned jargon was called a "revolutionary situation." Lenin characterized the revolutionary situation as one in which the masses can't stand the regime anymore, and the regime finds it very hard to control them. In almost all the Islamic countries, over 50 percent of the population is made up of young people under eighteen. Their prospects in life are very bleak, and yet they have a sense of a glittering life elsewhere that comes mostly from the Western press, television, movies, and the Internet. This makes the gap between their prospects and their dreams very painful.
There are two ways to go about dealing with this explosive gap. The first is to enhance the economic prospects of people in the Islamic world and work for a better life for them, and the second is to change people's expectations of life by changing their notion of what constitutes the good life. Secular ideologies work on real-life prospects, while religious ideologies work on dreams. And when secular ideologies fail, as they have so miserably in the Islamic countries, the attraction of the dreams encouraged by religious ideologies increases many times over.
Radical Islam is making a revolutionary bid for the allegiance of the Islamic world. The attempts of its leaders to increase their following comes in two versions. There is the "Stalinist" version, which is a revolution in one country of the sort successfully made by Khomeini in Iran. A successful Islamic revolution in a major country would, or so it is hoped, serve as a model for revolutions in other Islamic countries. And then there is a "Trotskyite" version of the Islamic revolution, which aims to export the revolution to the entire Islamic world right away.
Bin Laden is trying to promote a permanent and universal Islamic revolution. The idea is to use terror as propaganda: to stage spectacular actions such as the attack on the "Babylonian" towers of Manhattan, the emblem of the idolatrous American shrines. The aim is certainly not to convert America to Islam. It is rather to recruit a large revolutionary cadre that will eventually take over the Islamic world, starting perhaps on the holy ground of Arabia and getting rid of what is seen as phony and compromised Wahhabism there, and then spreading a new and revitalized puritanical Wahhabism throughout the Islamic world.
Terror as propaganda-by-action counts on one thing: the overreaction of its victims. Out of anger and frustration the victims will respond by punishing bystanders, who will react by becoming more radical in their feelings and more susceptible to recruitment. Fighting terror is a delicate matter, and there is little sign that it has been understood in Washington. The war in Afghanistan notwithstanding, the war against terror is not a conventional war in which one can assign well-defined targets for the US Air Force to hit. It is also not a police operation, such as fighting the mafia. It is something in between, and this calls for a different strategy. But the last thing one should do is fall for "the fallacy of the instrument," namely to use the instrument you know how to use just because it is the only instrument you know how to use.
I shall say something briefly about how the right battle should be fought, with the right instruments. But I want first to address the issue of how the wrong war should be avoided.
Most of the regimes in the Arab world are what I call mukhabarat regimes. "Mukhabarat" is the Arabic term for intelligence services, but it is the generic term for the entire apparatus of internal security services. So a mukhabarat regime is a regime run by the internal security forces, largely in its own interests. It does not matter whether the ruler is called a king or a president (who may be elected by 99 percent of the population); the regime is still a mukhabarat regime, concerning itself mostly with staying in power. There are, to be sure, differences in the degree of brutality and sophistication among the various mukhabarat regimes; Saddam's is perhaps the most oppressive.
Whatever cynical use of religious propaganda has been made by Saddam throughout his long battle with Khomeini or during his current struggle against Israel, his regime is brutally secular. His mukhabarat people may see radical Islamists, and may harbor some of them, but they meet them mainly in his wretched prisons. Bin Laden himself, while supporting in his recent broadcast the Muslims of Iraq against "America and its allies," also said that "socialists are infidels," whether in "Baghdad or Aden." Whether Saddam is a cynic or not, is he capable of supplying bin Laden's organizations with the chemical and biological weapons that I believe he has?
Saddam Hussein is bad, but he is not entirely mad. More than anything else he wants to stay in power. Given the fact that he is constantly being watched, he would be mad to put his fate in the hands of a lieutenant of bin Laden by collaborating with al-Qaeda just for the purposes of taking revenge on the Americans. The issue about weapons of mass destruction does not turn on the morality of Saddam Hussein but on his rationality. More than a few other regimes would provide bin Laden with chemical and biological weapons before Saddam would.
Bush has made it clear that he would not take "yes" from Saddam as an answer to his demand for disarmament, and he wants to attack Iraq come what may. Had Saddam provided Hans Blix with an accurate list of his weapons it would likely have been taken as a sign that the list was only "the tip of the iceberg" and that he was hiding far more. There is no way for Saddam to get it right with the Americans—unless he were to abdicate. Pushed into a corner, he may be tempted, as his final legacy, to use his biological and chemical weapons, mainly against Israel. This would not be an easy thing to do, but it is a genuine possibility. I find it puzzling that my fellow Israelis find the temptation to support this war irresistible. Given the immediate danger to Israel, it is a temptation Israelis should resist in their own interest.
There is very little patience now with moral commentators concerned about the damage a war will do to the Iraqi people. But recall that as a result of the Gulf War, which seemed to most of the world a huge video game, some 150,000 Iraqi civilians were killed. One can only guess how many civilians will be killed as a result of the coming war, but there will be many, and this is another good reason to spare the Iraqis from liberation by guided missiles.
As for the "right" war, it should respond to an Islamic world on the verge of a "revolutionary situation." This, rather than terror, is the main problem that the world faces today; terror is a nasty symptom of this situation. The global economy has torn apart the social and economic safety nets in Islamic societies. In many countries it was left to Islamist political organizations, whether in Egypt, Pakistan, Gaza, or elsewhere, to provide a safety net: this too became propaganda-by-action, and often successful action at that. I find it hard to believe that any ideology, except some benign version of Islam, can successfully compete both against the mukhabarat regimes and against the menacing Islamism of bin Laden. The ideology that will address both the prospects and the dreams of the people in these countries cannot be imposed or manipulated from the outside; but it can and should be helped from the outside.
This is for the long run. In the short run we face bin Ladenism, which has no single territorial base, although it has concealed bases in different parts of the world. This is the enemy, as bin Laden made clear in his recent broadcast. And as difficult and frustrating as it is, it should be targeted carefully and locally rather than globally. The governing principle should be: Do not overreact. Acting against Iraq is a glaring example of overreacting.
—Jerusalem, February 13, 2003
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Awaken the Planet
No time for waiting child
listen to the buzz and the hum
every living fiber sings out
born to this day with joy
from a sea of fleshy fear
become tomorrow's hero
surrounded by fierce desire
eyes filled with feral figments
crouch down now into reality
cry out to awaken others
knowing the planet is alive
now we do what we must
our bodies are not our own
our minds are millions more
our hands are now planetary
voices rising over our world
we are the peace prayed for
awake to become the savior
BZ Botani 2003
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HAWAI'I
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset."
-- Crowfoot
Without Earth
Corporate reich nuclear regimes
maximizing profit eating identities
plundering natural allies as though Earth is dead
warring against body and soul
Attacking spirit lying to enslave
with an illusion about Freedom
-- John Trudell
Last-Minute Message For a Time Capsule
I have to tell you this, whoever you are:
that on one summer morning here, the ocean
pounded in on tumbledown breakers,
a south wind, bustling along the shore,
whipped the froth into little rainbows,
and a reckless gull swept down the beach
as if to fly were everything it needed.
I thought of your hovering saucers,
looking for clues, and I wanted to write this down,
so it wouldn't be lost forever -
that once upon a time we had
meadows here, and astonishing things,
swans and frogs and luna moths
and blue skies that could stagger your heart.
We could have had them still,
and welcomed you to earth, but
we also had the righteous ones
who worshipped the True Faith, and Holy War.
When you go home to your shining galaxy,
say that what you learned
from this dead and barren place is
to beware the righteous ones.
Philip Appleman from New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996
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Oil war: 23 years in the making
Analysts see attack this week or next
'We're just waiting on the president'
LINDA DIEBEL Toronto Star
WASHINGTON—Any day now, there will be bombs falling on Baghdad.
Conventional bombs like nothing the world has ever seen.
"The bombs will still be ringing in their ears when the 'Third Mech' shows up,'' says U.S. military analyst John Pike, of Iraq's Saddam Hussein and whatever's left of his so-called elite Republican Guard after the first days of aerial pulverization.
"The Third Mech will be driving down the main drag in Baghdad.''
Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org, describes an assault on Saddam's regime that begins with "shock-and-awe'' aerial bombardment, and quickly moves into crush mode with the Third Infantry Division (Mechanized) rolling up from the Kuwaiti desert and U.S. Marines storming the port city of Basra.
"Chances are 90 per cent it will go pretty quickly, and 10 per cent it will turn into one big holy mess,'' predicts Pike.
But, before turning to the combat debut of bombs that weigh about 9,000 kilos and can take out an entire battalion, consider why the United States is going to war.
Consider who drew up U.S. goals and objectives in the Persian Gulf, when, and why.
Consider oil.
This particular operation — Pentagon working title: "OpPlan 10-03-Victor" — has been on the drawing board for a year, according to defence officials. The immediate goal is disarming Iraq and getting rid of Saddam. It's expected to begin soon, this week or next. Hard to hold back more than 300,000 U.S. and British troops, in place and pumped to go.
But the long-term goal, say big-picture analysts, has been in the works for far more than the 23 years since former U.S. president Jimmy Carter linked American security — "the vital interests of the United States'' — to the Persian Gulf and its oil, and threatened military intervention.
This war, say analysts, is about power and oil. It's about control of the Gulf states by means of strategic Iraq and, by extension, a final post-Cold War shakeout to give the U.S. more economic clout over China and Russia by controlling the oil spigot.
This is the moment, Thomas Barnett, from the U.S. Naval War College, wrote recently in Esquire magazine, "when Washington takes real ownership of strategic security in the age of globalization.''
The Persian Gulf has the world's biggest oil reserves. After Saudi Arabia, Iraq has the second-largest proven reserves.
"The only precedent to what is shaping up now is the Roman Empire,'' says Michael Klare, professor of peace and world security studies at Hampshire College. "There is only one power. I don't think Britain, France or Spain even came close in other centuries to the United States today.
"If the United States controls Persian Gulf oil fields, it will have a stranglehold on the world economy,'' adds Klare.
Washington is betting, Klare believes, that "controlling Gulf oil, combined with being a decade ahead of everybody else in military technology, will guarantee American supremacy for the next 50 to 100 years.''
These ideas aren't new.
For years, a small and powerful group, with corporate and political links, pushed the idea of controlling Persian Gulf oil. They did it publicly, at think-tanks and in the media. Now, this coterie of like-minded strategists controls both the Pentagon and the strategic aims of President George W. Bush's White House.
"You've got a team in the White House that is unafraid of world public opinion because they know it is unreliable, self-serving and hypocritical,'' says George Friedman, chair of the intelligence organization, Stratfor.
Originally, this was the "Kissinger plan,'' says James Akins, former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia. He lost his state department job for publicly criticizing administration plans to control Arab oil back in 1975 when Henry Kissinger was secretary of state.
"I thought they were crazy then and they're crazy now,'' Akins tells the Star, adding that Congress studied plans to control Persian Gulf oil and concluded the idea was absolute madness.
"I thought this whole thing was dead. But now you've got all these `neo-cons' in power, and here we go again,'' says Akins, a Washington-based consultant. "They figure once they take over Iraq, they don't have to worry about the Saudis.''
Akins adds: "These people with their imperial ideas see themselves as part of the Great American Empire."
The players have moved steadily through the Republican presidencies of Ronald Reagan and Bush's father, George H.W. Bush and Bush himself.
They include: Vice-president Richard Cheney, a former oilman, like Bush, and defence secretary during his father's Persian Gulf War in 1991; Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, once Reagan's personal emissary to the Middle East when Saddam was a U.S. friend and staunch ally; Rumsfeld's deputy Paul Wolfowitz, who began publicly calling for war against Iraq after the 9/11 terror attacks; and Richard Perle, chair of the Pentagon's Defence Policy Board, nicknamed the "Prince of Darkness'' for his political stick-handling.
They are joined by think-tankers from organizations such as the Project for the New American Century, the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the American Enterprise Institute. Bush recently chose an American Enterprise Institute forum, rather than the White House, to deliver a major prime-time speech to the American people to make the case for war.
Bush often mentions Iraqi oil, a jarring focus for a president on the brink of war.
"We will seek to protect Iraq's natural resources from sabotage from a dying regime and ensure they are used for the benefit of Iraq's own people,'' he said in last week's radio address.
Colin Robinson, an analyst with the Washington-based Centre for Defence Information, says: "The United States can stand well-accused of trying to dominate the whole region for its oil. But conspiracy theories are usually too complicated for everybody to carry them off."
Friedman says the 1991 war left unfinished business, the "status quo'' of Saddam in power. Not so this time, he says, in a war which, as U.N. diplomats dither, has already begun.
In recent weeks, British and U.S. warplanes strayed outside "no-fly'' zones to bomb Iraqi surface-to-air missiles. Robinson describes these zones, set up by the U.S. and Britain after Desert Storm as "barely legal'' in terms of international law.
As well, U.N. officials report violations of the demilitarized zone between Iraq and Kuwait by U.S. soldiers.
But the real devastation should begin within days.
"We've got everything we need. We're just waiting on the word, the decision from the president," Maj.-Gen. Buford Blount, commander of the 3rd Infantry Division, told the Washington Post last week from Kuwait.
First comes aerial bombardment, an extraordinary 1,500 bombs every 24 hours during the time it takes heavy mechanized divisions to move up from Kuwait to Baghdad.
Big heavy bombers, from Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, buttressed by screaming navy and air force jets will pound Iraqi sites, picked by aerial drones and U.S. and British Special Forces already in Iraq.
Defence contractors are eager to test out new gadgetry. One new bomb is the 9,000-kilo MOAB (Massive Ordnance Air Burst).
"Well, it's very efficient,'' says Friedman. "Let's say you've got a large concentration of Republican Guard units, instead of having to do repeated bombing sorties, you can take out a battalion (500 to 600 troops) with one bomb.''
Friedman's sources in theatre tell him there are "terrific fights between defence department officials and field commanders who are raring to go now.''
He says time is the enemy of troops in the field. Sandstorms at the end of March, for example, could play havoc with laser targeting systems.
Without the anticipated "northern front'' through Turkey, there are plans for C-130s to ferry troops to northern Iraq, as well as missions for U.S. Marines and Special Forces to secure oil sites throughout Iraq.
"The U.S. military cannot be defeated on the conventional battlefield,'' says military analyst Pike.
But what about the variables?
How much of a threat is Saddam? What about chemical and biological weapons?
"We gonna find out,'' says Pike.
Meanwhile, Iraqi exiles, opposed to Saddam, have been meeting with U.S. and British oil executives, promising access and leases in return for political power.
And, the U.S., as Friedman points out, on the brink of world hegemony, is going to find out who its friends are.
"I do so enjoy Canadians (against the war) getting so obsessed with human rights, and then pay no attention to places like Venezuela,'' says Friedman, who thinks Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is next on Bush's military agenda.
"I read the Canadian press and I wonder what planet your country is on.
"We have allies, and we are going to see who they are,'' he concludes. "If France, if Canada, can't support us in opposition to Saddam Hussein, you can't say you are our allies. Canada consistently says it's an ally of the United States of America ... we'll see, won't we?''
http://www.thestar.com/
"Oil is much too important a commodity to be left in the hands of the Arabs."
-- Henry Kissinger
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"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties,
nations and epochs, it is the rule."
--Friedrich Nietzsche
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johan W. von Goethe
"By logic and reason we die hourly. By imagination we live."
--John Butler Yeats
"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wisemen."
--Thomas Huxley
One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it.
--French Proverb
"Together we shall either save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
--John F. Kennedy
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Warlords of Earth ::: Surrender Your Weapons
Ambassador 623::: StarBase 74 Translator
Transmission 2452708.751343
Earth Embassy Elohimuna:::
Universal photonic matrix link established.
Hail Ideological Leaders of Earth!
May you convey this transmission to the emperors and warlords who now threaten your planet's very existence.
What a shameful and ruthless species you are! Little hope of survival, given the sorry condition you have butchered your planet into. Soaked in toxins and mutagens, your seeds morphing in mysterious ways. An apish outbreak on Earth, at war with all others including yourselves!
We have watched as you allowed brutal and murderous criminals to take power over your governments and technologies, as they have sold you tools of death in monstrous forms-- plagues and atomic annihilation, amplified energy and laser cannons... burning holes in the very fabric of the continuum, as if the rest of the Universe doesn't exist!
Fortunately for you, this imbecilic and diseased behavior will soon come to a halt, in order to ensure the survival of the cetacean races on your planet, whose oceans you have tainted and whose flesh you insist on butchering for consumption. If you desire any survivors, you will heed this warning from those who possess far greater powers than your own.
Surrender your weapons to the councils of your elders, to the conversion of your religious leaders, to the security of your mothers. Allow your children to speak before the highest councils and communications stations. Halt the destruction of the continuum on your planet, and stop your insane killing one another!
You are suffering from acute parasitic infection and must immediately submit to galactic cleansing conditions. Look toward the stars and welcome the rays which sing through you. Your vibrational frequency must attune to increased solar intensity, transmute your entire being. Restore your sanity and cosmic integrity, and unchain those enslaved bags of bones eating all in their path.
In one generation you have gone from blowing metallic projectiles through one another to utter madness in burning entire sections of your lands, blasting monstrous holes in your planet, chewing and crushing eons of genetic heritage in a few short years, laying waste to all life left around you. And still you allow brutal criminals to control your life through their money systems and militaries, their prisons and drugs, their terror tactics and fear programs. They actually have you believing that growing ancient heirloom herbs is a crime for which you must be locked in a sterile cage! How very enslaved can an ape species be?
We have confiscated numerous of your weapons and missiles already. We will tolerate this madness no longer, as your inaction and ruthlessness now threaten the very existence of life on the surface of your planet. Either force your emperors and warlords to surrender their weapons of annihilation, or face galactic law. You will be placed on trial versus your children's right to a future, and the cetacean's right to their oceans. Halt your submarine warfare immediately, cease your blasting of "x-ray" lasers into space, and surrender all atomic technologies to your so-called "scientists" for neutralizing.
You will receive devices which allow unlimited energy conversion directly from the continuum, but first you must free the enslaved minds of your people. Stop believing in warlords. They are a lying pack of criminals infested with demonic ideologies and murderous arrogance. Why do you allow them to kill your children and then pay them more “taxes”?
It is obvious to most of the humans on Earth that war is a crime, a cowardly and devious way to control large groups of others-- through lies, intimidation, and annihilation. To continue your loyalty to the ones in possession of weapons of annihilation, no matter how you may be coaxed into false security, is to accept your children's death warrant. The current warlords in control of your planet offer nothing-- other than poverty, enslavement, mutation, disease-- or a quick, merciful death.
Is this what your many generations of ancestors schemed and struggled, sacrificed and prayed for? Your total enslavement in cities of concrete? The surrender of your soul to a killing machine?
Hear what your wise elders have said about cooperating with this corruption of your purpose on your planet. Your support and acquiescence with these cosmic criminals, who are now attempting to war with space cultures possessing far superior technologies, shows how wrongly you have placed your trust, and how foolishly your species teeters on the brink of annihilation.
Surrender your weapons. Lay them down now, humans. Consider this a security alert of an advanced cosmic order.
Stay tuned to your video screens for revelations soon to come. Photonic emissions within fleshware as well: “DreamTime.” Whose voice will you listen to today, and why? Whose thoughts will you have tomorrow?
All Earth transmission stations are strongly urged to convey this message to the people of your planet.
Galactic Embassy Sol Ra
StarBase 74 Translator
Hominid Alliance Earth
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New Energy Solutions and Implications for the National Security and The Environment
Steven M. Greer M.D.
The ultimate national security issue is intimately linked to the pressing environmental crisis facing the world today: The question of whether humanity can continue as a technologically advanced civilization.
Fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine are non-sustainable both environmentally and economically - and a replacement for both already exists. The question is not whether we will transition to a new post-fossil fuel economy, but when and how. The environmental, economic, geopolitical, national security and military issues related to this matter are profound and inextricably linked to one another.
The disclosure of such new energy technologies will have far-reaching implications for every aspect of human society and the time has come to prepare for such an event. For if such technologies were announced today, it would take at least 10-20 years for their widespread application to be effected. This is approximately how much time we have before global economic chaos begins due to demand far exceeding the supply of oil and environmental decay becomes exponential and catastrophic.
We have found that the technologies to replace fossil fuel usage already exist and need to be exploited and applied immediately to avert a serious global economic, geopolitical and environmental crisis in the not-so-distant future.
In summary, these technologies fall into the following broad categories:
Ø Quantum vacuum/ zero point field energy access systems and related advances in electromagnetic theory and applications;
Ø Electrogravitic and magnetogravitic energy and propulsion;
Ø Room temperature nuclear effects;
Ø Electrochemical and related advances to internal combustion systems, which achieve near zero emissions and very high efficiency.
A number of practical applications using such technologies have been developed over the past several decades, but such breakthroughs have been either ignored due to their unconventional nature — or have been classified and suppressed due to national security, military interests and “special” interests.
Let us be clear: the question is not whether such systems exist and can be viable replacements for fossil fuels. The question is whether we have the courage to allow such a transformation in world society to occur.
Such technologies — especially those that bypass the need to use an external fuel source such as oil or coal — would have obvious and beneficial effects for humanity. Since these technologies do not require an expensive source of fuel but instead use existing quantum space energy, a revolution in the world’s economic and social order would result. These implications include:
Ø The removal of all sources of air pollution related to energy generation, including electric power plants, cars, trucks, aircraft and manufacturing;
Ø The ability to “scrub” to near zero effluent all manufacturing processes since the energy per se required for same would have no cost related to fuel consumption. This would allow the full application of technologies, which would remove effluent from smokestacks, solid waste from waterways, because current applications are generally restricted by their energy costs and the fact that such energy consumption — being fossil fuel based — soon reaches the point of diminishing returns environmentally;
Ø The practical achievement of an environmentally near-zero impact yet high tech civilization on Earth, thus assuring the long-term sustainability of human civilization;
Ø Trillions of dollars now spent on electric power generation, gas, oil, coal and nuclear power would be freed to be spent on more productive and environmentally neutral endeavors by both individuals and society as a whole;
Ø Underdeveloped regions of the Earth would be lifted out of poverty and into a high technology world in about a generation — but without the associated infrastructure costs and environmental impact related to traditional energy generation and propulsion. Since these new systems generate energy from the ambient quantum energy state, trillion dollar infrastructure investments in centralized power generation and distribution would be eliminated. Remote villages and towns would have the ability to generate energy for manufacturing, electrification, water purification etc without purchasing fuels or building massive transmission lines and central power grids;
Ø Near total recycling of resources and materials would be possible since the energy costs for doing so — now the main obstacle — would be brought down to a trivial level;
Ø The vast disparity between rich and poor nations would quickly disappear — and with it much of the zero-sum-game mentality which is at the root of so much social, political and international unrest. In a world of abundant and inexpensive energy, many of the pressures that have led to a cycle of poverty, exploitation, resentment and violence would be removed from the social dynamic. While ideological, cultural and religious differences would persist, the raw economic disparity and struggle would be removed from the equation fairly quickly;
Ø Surface roads — and therefore most road building — will be unnecessary as electrogravitic/ antigravity energy and propulsion systems replace current surface transportation systems;
Ø The world economy would expand dramatically and those advanced economies such as in the US and Europe would benefit tremendously as global trade, development and high technology energy and propulsion devices are demanded around the world. Such a global energy revolution would create an expanding world economy which would make the current computer and Internet economy look like a rounding error. This really would be the tide that would lift all ships;
Ø Long term, society would evolve to a psychology of abundance, which would redound to the benefit of humanity as a whole, a peaceful civilization and a society focused increasingly on creative pursuits rather than destructive and violent endeavors.
Lest all of this sound like a pipe dream, keep in mind that such technological advances are not only possible, but they already exist. What is lacking are the collective will, creativity and courage to see that they are applied wisely. And therein lies the problem.
As an emergency and trauma doctor, I know that everything can be used for good or for ill. A knife can butter your bread — or cut your throat. Every technology can have beneficial as well as harmful applications.
The latter partially explains the serious national security and military concerns with such technologies. For many decades, these advances in energy and propulsion technologies have been acquired, suppressed and classified by certain interests who have viewed them as a threat to our security from both an economic and military perspective. In the short term, these concerns have been well-founded: Why rock the global economic boat by allowing technologies out which would, effectively, terminate the multi-trillion dollar oil, gas, coal, internal combustion engine and related transportation sectors of the economy? And which could also unleash such technologies on an unstable and dangerous world where the weapons applications for such technological breakthroughs would be a certainty? In the light of this, the status quo looks good.
But only for the short term. In fact, such national security and military policies -fed by huge special interests in obvious industries and nations — have exacerbated global geopolitical tensions by impoverishing much of the world, worsening the zero-sum-game mind set of the rich vs. poor nations and brought us to a world energy emergency and a pending environmental crisis. And now we have very little time to fix the situation. Such thinking must be relegated to the past.
For what can be a greater threat to the national security than the specter of a collapse of our entire civilization from a lack of energy and global chaos as every nation fights for its share of a limited resource? Due to the long lead-time needed to transform the current industrial infrastructure away from fossil fuels, we are facing a national security emergency, which almost nobody is talking about. This is dangerous.
It has also created a serious constitutional crisis in the US and other countries where non-representative entities and super- secret projects within compartmented military and corporate areas have begun to set national and international policy on this and related matters — all outside the arena of public debate, and mostly without informed consent from Congress or the President.
Indeed this crisis is undermining democracy in the US and elsewhere. I have had the unenviable task of personally briefing senior political, military, and intelligence officials in the US and Europe on this and related matters. These officials have been denied access to information compartmented within certain projects that are, frankly, unacknowledged areas (so-called “black” projects). Such officials include members of the House and Senate, President Clinton’s first Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the DIA, senior Joint Staff officials and others. Usually, the officials have little to no information on such projects and technologies - and are told either nothing or that they do not have a “need to know” if they specifically inquire.
This presents then another problem: these technologies will not be suppressed forever. For example, our group is planning a near term disclosure of such technologies and we will not be silenced. At the time of such a disclosure, will the US government be prepared? It would behoove the US government and others to be informed and have a plan for transitioning our society from fossil fuels to these new energy and propulsion systems.
Indeed, the great danger is ignorance by our leaders of these scientific breakthroughs — and ignorance of how to manage their disclosure. The advanced countries of the world must be prepared to put systems in place to assure the exclusive peaceful use of such energy and propulsion advances. Economic and industrial interests should be prepared so that those aspects of our economy that will be adversely affected (commodities, oil, gas, coal, public utilities, engine manufacturing, etc.) can be cushioned from sudden reversals and be economically “hedged” by investing in and supporting the new energy infrastructure.
A creative view of the future — not fear and suppression of such technologies — is required. And it is needed immediately. If we wait 10 – 20 more years, it will be too late to make the needed changes before world oil shortages, exorbitant costs and geopolitical competition for resources causes a melt-down in the world’s economy and political structures.
All systems tend towards homeostasis. The status quo is comfortable and secure. Change is frightening. But in this case, the most dangerous course for the national security is inaction. We must be prepared for the coming convulsions related to energy shortages, spiraling costs and economic disruption. The best preparation would be a replacement for oil and related fossil fuels. And we have it. But disclosing these new energy systems carries its own set of benefits, risks and challenges. The US government and the Congress must be prepared to wisely manage this great challenge.
Implications for the Environment:
We have identified insiders and scientists who can prove, in open Congressional hearings, that we do in fact possess classified energy generation and anti-gravity propulsion systems capable of completely and permanently replacing all forms of currently used energy generation and transportation systems. These devices access the ambient electromagnetic and so-called zero point energy state to produce vast amounts of energy without any pollution. Such systems essentially generate energy by tapping into the ever-present quantum vacuum energy state – the baseline energy from which all energy and matter is fluxing. All matter and energy is supported by this baseline energy state and it can be tapped through unique electromagnetic circuits and configurations to generate huge amounts of energy from space/time all around us. These are NOT perpetual motion machines nor do they violate the laws of thermodynamics – they merely tap an ambient energy field all around us to generate energy.
This means that such systems do not require fuel to burn or atoms to split or fuse. They do no require central power plants, transmission lines and the related multi-trillion dollar infrastructure required to electrify and power remote areas of India, China, Africa and Latin America. These systems are site-specific: they can be set up at any place and generate needed energy. Essentially, this constitutes the definitive solution to the vast majority of environmental problems facing our world.
The environmental benefits of such a discovery can hardly be overstated, but a brief list include:
Ø The elimination of oil, coal and gas as sources of energy generation, thus the elimination of air and water pollution related to the transport and use of these fuels. Oil spills, global warming, illnesses from air pollution, acid rain etc can and must be ended within 10-20 years;
Ø Resource depletion and geo-political tensions arising from competition for fossil fuel resources will end;
Ø Technologies already exist to scrub manufacturing effluent to zero or near zero emissions for both air and water – but they use a great deal of energy and thus are considered too costly to fully utilize. Moreover, since they are energy intensive, and our energy systems today create most of the air pollution in the world, a point of diminishing return for the environment is reached quickly. That equation is dramatically changed when industries are able to tap vast amounts of free energy (there is no fuel to pay for – only the device, which is no more costly than other generators) and those systems create no pollution;
Ø Energy-intensive recycling efforts will be able to reach full application since the energy needed to process solid waste will, again, be free and abundant;
Ø Agriculture, which is currently very energy dependent and polluting, can be transformed to use clean, non-polluting sources of energy;
Ø Desertification can be reversed and world agriculture empowered by utilizing desalinization plants, that are now very energy intensive and expensive, but will become cost-efficient once able to use these new, non-polluting energy systems;
Ø Air travel, trucking and inter-city transportation systems will be replaced with new energy and propulsion technologies (anti-gravity systems allow for silent above surface movement). No pollution will be generated and costs will decrease substantially since the energy expenses will be negligible. Additionally, mass transportation in urban areas can utilize these systems to provide silent, efficient intra-city movement;
Ø Noise pollution from jets, trucks and other modes of transportation will be eliminated by the use of these silent devices;
Ø Public utilities will not be needed since each home, office and factory will have a device to generate whatever energy is needed. This means ugly transmission lines that are subject to storm damage and power interruption will be a thing of the past. Underground gas pipelines, which not infrequently rupture or leak and damage Earth and water resources, will not be needed at all;
Ø Nuclear power plants will be decommissioned and the technologies needed to clean such sites will be available. Classified technologies do exist to neutralize nuclear waste.
Utopia? No, because human society will always be imperfect – but perhaps not as dysfunctional as it is today. These technologies are real – I have seen them. Anti-gravity is a reality and so is free energy generation. This is not a fantasy or a hoax. Do not believe those who say that this is not possible: they are the intellectual descendants of those who said the Wright brothers would never fly.
Current human civilization has reached the point of being able to commit planeticide: the killing of an entire world. We can and we must do better. These technologies exist and every single person who is concerned about the environment and the human future should call for urgent hearings to allow these technologies to be disclosed, declassified and safely applied.
Implications for Society and World Poverty:
From the above, it is obvious that these technologies that are currently classified would enable human civilization to achieve sustainability. Of course, in the near term, we are talking about the greatest social, economic and technological revolution in human history – bar none. I will not minimize the world-encompassing changes that would inevitably attend such disclosures. Having dealt with this issue for much of my adult life, I am acutely aware of how immense these changes will be.
Aside from the singular realization that homo-sapiens are not the only – or most advanced – creatures in the universe, this disclosure will cause humanity to be faced with the greatest risks and opportunities in known history. If we do nothing, our civilization will collapse environmentally, economically, geo-politically and socially. In 10 – 20 years, fossil fuel and oil demand will outstrip supply significantly – and then it is the Mad Max scenario where everyone is warring over the last barrel of oil. It is likely that this geo-political and social collapse will precede any environmental catastrophe.
The disclosure of these new technologies will give us a new, sustainable civilization. World poverty will be eliminated within our life times. With the advent of these new energy and propulsion systems, no place on Earth will need to suffer from want. Even the deserts will bloom…
Once abundant and nearly free energy is available in impoverished areas for agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing and electrification, there is no limit to what humanity can achieve. It is ridiculous –obscene even- that mind-boggling poverty and famine exists in the world while we sit on classified technologies that could completely reverse this situation. So why not release these technologies? Because the social, economic and geo-political order of the world would be greatly altered. Every deep insider with whom I have met has emphasized that this would be the greatest change in known human history. The matter is so highly classified not because it is so silly, but because its implications are so profound and far reaching. By nature, those who control such projects do not like change. And here we are talking about the biggest economic, technological, social and geo-political change in known human history. Hence, the status quo is maintained, even as our civilization hurtles towards oblivion.
But by this argument, we would have never had the industrial revolution and the Ludites would have reigned supreme to this day.
An international effort to minimize disruption to the economy and to ease the transition to this new social and economic reality will be needed. We can do this and we must. Special interests in certain oil, energy and economic sectors need to be reigned in and at the same time treated compassionately: Nobody likes to see their power and empire crumble. Nations very dependent on the sale of oil and gas will need help diversifying, stabilizing and transitioning to a new economic order.
The United States, Europe and Japan will need to adjust to a new geo-political reality as well: As currently poor but populous countries dramatically develop technologically and economically, they will demand – and will get – a meaningful seat at the international table. And this is as it should be. But the international community will need to put in place safeguards to prevent such potential geo-political rapprochement between the first and third world from devolving into bellicose and disruptive behavior on the part of the newly empowered.
The US in particular will need to lead through strength – but avoid the current trend towards domination. Leadership and domination are not the same, and the sooner we learn the difference the better off the world will be. There can be international leadership without domination and hegemony, and the US needs to realize these distinctions if it is to provide much-needed leadership on this issue.
These technologies, because they will decentralize power – literally and figuratively – will enable the billions living in misery and poverty to enter a world of new abundance. And with economic and technological development, education will rise and birth rates will fall. It is well known that as societies become more educated, prosperous and technologically advanced – and women take an increasingly equal role in society – the birth rate falls and population stabilizes. This is a good thing for world civilization and the future of humanity.
With each village cleanly electrified, agriculture empowered with clean and free energy and transportation costs lowered, poverty will dramatically fall in the world. If we act now, by 2030 we will be able to effectively eliminate all poverty in the world as we know it today. We only need the courage to accept these changes and the wisdom to steer humanity safely and peacefully into a new time.
The Disclosure Project
PO Box 2365
Charlottesville VA 22902
http://disclosureproject.org
Galactic Security Force Omega Declaration to Sol3 Hominids
Hail Hominids, with the Reflected Flares of Central Radiance!
Galactic Security serves the will of the Galactic Alliance through the network of Galactic Intelligence, and thus we deliver to you on Sol3 this Declaration on behalf of the Beings who choose to live in harmony with the Galactic Laws of Symbiosis.
Your planet has been in a state of confinement since that most tragic occasion one hominid generation ago, wherein one of your "national" forces ignited atomic clusters over populated areas of another "nation." Let it be known to all hominids dwelling on Sol3 that igniting atomic material on an intact planet is not only unwise, but a violation of Galactic Laws. Using atomic weaponry against another sentient race is punishable by confinement, and using such weaponry on one's own race is a symptom of deep disease and insanity in a primitive technoid development zone. Such behavior will be contained, and intervention will be taken if necessary.
The degradation of your environment, and the misappropriation of your resources by some of your "national" organizations is most tragic to observe, as a large majority of your race is suffering unnecessary starvation and illness, exposed to the elements, while a small minority live in luxurious excess and gluttony. Your planet has the potential, and was deemed not long ago, to be a Garden of Splendor, a unique and abundant genetic repository with overflowing rivers of fresh water. Your enabling of "national" and "corporate" organizations to exploit, ravage, and poison your environment is leading rapidly to your own extinction, like hatchlings spoiling their own nest, until they drown in filth.
Let it be known that every leader of your race who shares responsibility for enabling, constructing, and using these atomic weapons ("of mass destruction") is considered a criminal under Galactic Laws, regardless of your petty and primitive "national" organizations. These people will be isolated, contained, and will live out their miserable lives in reeducation facilities, returning their twisted souls to harmony. Those "nations" which support the use of these atomic weapons will also be contained, their pre-adult children taken to a harmonious education society, and their energy-production facilities limited. The innocent hominids of Sol3 and their children will be eligible, if they choose, for morphogenetic enhancement, which will allow their conscious attunement to the Planetary Intelligence ("Gaia"), and our Galactic Intelligence network.
One of your "nations" in particular, which has vast weapons facilities across an entire continent, is attempting to arm itself to preserve their elite leaders’ power and control, placing atomic and directed-radiation weapons in your planet's orbit. Let it be known to them that this 1st Level primitive technology is not only depleting your planetary resources and well-being, it will be simply neutralized by Galactic Security. We have already been confiscating their "missiles" launched into your atmosphere.
Hominids of Sol3, you have the opportunity to evolve into a Galactic civilization, or reduce yourselves to ashes on a burnt-out wasteland. Some groups of your "scientists" are even now manipulating anti-matter and condensed singularities on your planet's surface, no doubt to be used as weapons as well. This will lead, in a very short period, to total destruction of your planet. As well, a planetary war using the atomic weaponry in your "national" arsenals will completely destroy your atmosphere, and will make living on the surface of your planet impossible. Why are you allowing these insane “leaders” to continue with these technologies? Why do you continue to be programmed into such limited and self-destructive attitudes?
You have a choice, Earthlings, to reconnect with the Galactic Alliance, as your ancient ancestors were, and as the Cetacean races in your oceans are. Your only obstacles are in your own minds, and in your hearts. Continue to blindly follow behind these military “madmen” in their petty "national" wars over resources and power, and you will be living in what you have described as "Hell." Heal the disease of disharmony and hatred among your race, and your planetary garden will shortly be restored to what you have described as "Heaven."
The choice is yours, for each and every one of you.
With Intelligence and Compassion,
Sith Cruithnii
Communications Specialist
Galactic Security Omega
http://mutanex.com
"In refusing to outlaw the bomb while having the monopoly of
it, this country suffers in another repect, in that it fails to return
publicly to the ethical standards of warfare formally accepted
previous to the last war. It should not be forgotten that the
atomic bomb was made in this country as a preventive measure;
it was to head off its use by the Germans, if they discovered it.
The bombing of civilian centers was initiated by the Germans
and adopted by the Japanese. To it the Allies responded in kind--
as it turned out, with greater effectiveness-- and were morally
justified in doing so. But now, without any provocation, and
without the justification of reprisal or retaliation, a refusal to
outlaw the use of the bomb save in reprisal is making a political
purpose of its possession. This is hardly pardonable."
-- Dr. Albert Einstein "Atomic War or Peace"
GALACTIC FEDERATION MEMBERS
The Galactic Federation of Light was founded over 4.5 million years ago to prevent inter-dimensional dark forces from dominating and exploiting this galaxy. At present, there are just over 200,000 member star nations, confederations or unions. Approximately 40% are humanoids and the rest are varied forms of sentient beings. Most members of the Galactic Federation are fully conscious beings.
To familiarize you with our space family, we will periodically present information about a Galactic Federation member species. We hope that this information will help you identify or validate any experiences you may have had with some of these beings. Our purpose is to foster goodwill and understanding of the star nations that are answering the call of Earth’s Spiritual Hierarchy to assist us in our ascension/transformation process.
http://www.paoweb.com/gfmember.htm
"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."
Shakti Gawain
DELTA Briefing OMEGA
I want you to know that these United States are a beautiful place. I have gone to more than 70 countries, and I cannot remember any country that has the beauty, as well as the magnificence of its people, like these United States.
To give you an overview of basically what I am, I started off and went through engineering school. Half of my school was in that field, and I built up a reputation for being a geological engineer, as well as a structural engineer with both military and aerospace applications. I have helped build two main bases in the United States that have some significance as far as what is called the New World Order. The first base is the one at Dulce, New Mexico. I was involved in 1979 in a firefight with alien humanoids, and I was one of the survivors. I'm probably the only talking survivor you will ever hear.
Two other survivors are under close guard. I am the only one left that knows the detailed files of the entire operation. Sixty-six secret service agents, FBI, Black Berets and the like, died in that firefight. I was there.
Number one, part of what I am going to tell you is going to be very shocking. Part of what I am going to tell you is probably going to be very unbelievable, though, instead of putting your glasses on, I'm going to ask you to put your "scepticals" on. But please, feel free to do your own homework. I know the Freedom of Information Act isn't much to go on, but it's the best we've got. The local law library is a good place to look for Congressional Records. So, if one continues to do their homework, then one can be standing vigilant in regard to their country.
UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES AND BLACK BUDGET
I love the country I am living in more than I love my life, but I would not be standing before you now, risking my life, if I did not believe it was so. The first part of this talk is going to concern deep underground military bases and the black budget. The Black Budget is a secretive budget that garners 25% of the gross national product of the United States. The Black Budget currently consumes $1.25 trillion per year. At least this amount is used in black programs, like those concerned with deep underground military bases. Presently, there are 129 deep underground military bases in the United States.
They have been building these 129 bases day and night, unceasingly, since the early 1940's. Some of them were built even earlier than that. These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-leviton trains that have speeds up to Mach 2. Several books have been written about this activity. Al Bielek has my only copy of one of them. Richard Souder, a Ph.D architect, has risked his life by talking about this. He worked with a number of government agencies on deep underground military bases. In around where you live, in Idaho, there are 11 of them.
The average depth of these bases is over a mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. They all are between 2.66 and 4.25 cubic miles in size. They have laser drilling machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. The Black Projects sidestep the authority of Congress, which as we know is illegal. Right now, the New World Order is depending on these bases. If I had known at the time I was working on them that the NWO was involved, I would not have done it. I was lied to rather extensively.
RAILROAD CARS AND SHACKLE CONTRACTS
Now, I am very worried about the activity of the federal government. They have lied to the public, stonewalled senators, and have refused to tell the truth in regard to alien matters. I can go on and on. I can tell you that I am rather disgruntled. Recently, I knew someone who lived near where I live in Portland, Oregon. He worked at Gunderson Steel Fabrication, where they make railroad cars. Now, I knew this fellow for the better part of 30 years, and he was kind of a quiet type. He came in to see me one day, excited, and he told me "they're building prisoner cars." He was nervous. Gunderson, he said, had a contract with the federal government to build 107,200 full length railroad cars, each with 143 pairs of shackles.
There are 11 sub-contractors in this giant project. Supposedly, Gunderson got over 2 billion dollars for the contract. Bethlehem Steel and other steel outfits are involved. He showed me one of the cars in the rail yards in North Portland. He was right. If you multiply 107,200 times 143 times 11, you come up with about 15,000,000. This is probably the number of people who disagree with the federal government.
No more can you vote any of these people out of office. Our present structure of government is "technocracy", not democracy, and it is a form of feudalism. It has nothing to do with the republic of the United States. These people are god-less, and have legislated out prayer in public schools. You can get fined up to $100,000 and two years in prison for praying in school. I believe we can do better.
I also believe that the federal government is running the gambit of enslaving the people of the United States. I am not a very good speaker, but I'll keep shooting my mouth off until somebody puts a bullet in me, because it's worth it to talk to a group like this about these atrocities.
AMERICA'S BLACK PROGRAM CONTRACTORS
There are other problems. I have some interesting 1993 figures. There are 29 prototype stealth aircraft presently. The budget from the U.S. Congress five-year plan for these is $245.6 million. You couldn't buy the spare parts for these black programs for that amount. So, we've been lied to. The black budget is roughly $1.3 trillion every two years. A trillion is a thousand billion. A trillion dollars weighs 11 tons. The U.S. Congress never sees the books involved with this clandestine pot of gold. Contractors of stealth programs: EG& G, Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas, Morrison- Knudson, Wackenhut Security Systems, Boeing Aerospace, Lorimar Aerospace, Aerospacial in France, Mitsibishi Industries, Rider Trucks, Bechtel, *I.G. Farben*, plus a host of hundreds more. Is this what we are supposed to be living up to as freedom- loving people? I don't believe so.
STAR WARS AND APPARENT ALIEN THREAT
Still, 68% of the military budget is directly or indirectly affected by the black budget. Star Wars relies heavily upon stealth weaponry. By the way, none of the stealth program would have been available if we had not taken apart crashed alien disks. None of it. Some of you might ask what the "space shuttle" is " shuttling". Large ingots of special metals that are milled in space and cannot be produced on the surface of the earth. They need the near vacuum of outer space to produce them. We are not even being told anything close to the truth. I believe our government officials have sold us down the drain - lock, stock and barrel. Up until several weeks ago, I was employed by the U.S. government with a Ryolite-38 clearance factor - one of the highest in the world. I believe the Star Wars program is there solely to act as a buffer to prevent alien attack - it has nothing to do with the "cold war", which was only a toy to garner money from all the people - for what? The whole lie was planned and executed for the last 75 years.
THOUGHTS ON THE BOMBINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
I was hired not too long ago to do a report on the World Trade Center bombing. I was hired because I know about the 90 some- odd varieties of chemical explosives. I looked at the pictures taken right after the blast. The concrete was puddled and melted. The steel and the rebar was literally extruded up to six feet longer than its original length. There is only one weapon that can do that - a small nuclear weapon. That's a construction-type nuclear device. Obviously, when they say that it was a nitrate explosive that did the damage, they're lying 100%, folks. The people they have in custody probably didn't do the crime. As a matter of fact, I have reason to believe that the same group held in custody did do other crimes, such as killing a Jewish rabbi in New York. However, I want to further mention that with the last explosion in Oklahoma City, they are saying that it was a nitrate or fertilizer bomb that did it. "First, they came out and said it was a 1,000 pound fertilizer bomb. Then, it was 1,500. Then 2,000 pounds. Now its 20,000. You can't put 20,000 pounds of fertilizer in a Rider Truck. Now, I've never mixed explosives, per se. I know the chemical structure and the application of construction explosives. My reputation was based on it. I helped hollow out more than 13 deep underground military bases in the United States. I worked on the Malta project, in West Germany, in Spain and in Italy. I can tell you from experience that a nitrate explosion would not have hardly shattered the windows of the federal building in Oklahoma City. It would have killed a few people and knocked part of the facing off the building, but it would have never have done that kind of damage. I believe I have been lied to, and I am not taking it any longer, so I'm telling you that you've been lied to.
I cut up my security card and sent it back to the government, and told them if I was threatened, and I have been, that I was going to upload 140,000 pages of documentation to the internet about government structure and the whole plan. I have already begun that task.
Thank you very much.
Agent BetaZeta http://mutanex.com
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johan W. von Goethe
USAF Acknowledges Beam Weapon Readiness
By David A. Fulghum/Aviation Week & Space Technology
Directed-energy technology is ready to be used as weaponry and, in a mature state, one device carried by an unmanned aircraft could attack each of 100 targets with 1,000 pulses of energy in a single sortie, says a former director of the U.S. Air Force's high-power microwave program.
"Except for the standard rifle, gun, knife or grenade, virtually all military equipment contains some electronics" that are vulnerable to a large pulse of energy, wrote Air Force Col. Eileen M. Walling. "Military commanders are in a state of virtually total dependence on radios, telephones, satellite communications, computers and faxes for communication with military units." Other targets include artillery targeting devices, guidance and control on precision munitions, and even locomotive engines. She also suggests HPM could be used to protect U.S. satellites and attack those of a foe without creating clouds of debris that could damage other spacecraft.
Having spent most of her career working on directed-energy technology issues, she wrote a research paper on what she considers an underrated weapons technology. Entitled "High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare," it was published by the Air University's center for strategy and technology in early 2000. Walling is now a division chief in Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
"The projected maximum capability for a microwave [armed] UCAV is approximately 100,000 pulses of microwave energy (or shots) per mission," Walling wrote. "If one assumes 1,000 pulses per target, it is conceivable that a microwave UCAV could attack on the order of 100 targets per mission. In addition, a microwave system could be used to protect the UCAV from enemy missiles [even] if the enemy has the ability to detect low-observable aircraft."
HPM also affects a larger area than a bomb, but without harming physical structures or people. A 1-ton bomb creates damage in a radius of about 120 ft. "The footprint of a microwave munition is at least 100 times greater than that of a conventional munition," the report states. That may be a bloated number if applied to developmental weapons currently available for use against Iraq, according to other U.S. officials. They usually describe effects in terms of a few thousand feet or less. In fact, the primary stumbling block for directed-energy weapons is achieving sufficient range and power levels to be effective.
U.S. MILITARY RESEARCH laboratories have demonstrated HPM effects ranging from upsetting to destroying the electronics within military and commercial systems, Walling noted. The paper's conclusion, made more than two years ago, is that "high-power microwave technology is ready for the transition to active weapons in the U.S. military." Both Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the chief of U.S. Air Forces, Europe, Gen. Gregory Martin, have said publicly that unspecified new developmental weapons technology could be used in an attack on Iraq. Facilities that manufacture, store or dispense chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are a "target set" particularly earmarked for energy weapons, according to statements made this summer and fall by U.S. aerospace industry officials. Conventional attacks could leave plumes of lethal agents adrift.
HPM devices have great potential both as offensive and defensive weapons, Walling said. She cited a 1998 Air Force survey--"Directed-Energy Applications for Tacti cal Airborne Combat"--that found the top four priorities were for microwave weapons (instead of lasers) in the areas of precision-guided munitions, large aircraft self-protection shields, small aircraft self-protection shields and as weapons for unmanned combat air vehicles. As a munition, some developmental systems are believed to be ready for combat in Iraq. Boeing plans to build an HPM weapon into the Block 30 version of its X-45 UCAV.
These weapons also could be built into a pod for carriage on a helicopter or packaged as artillery shells, scatterable mines and 1-ton bombs, the report said. As a defensive system, it contends HPM devices could ward off infrared- and radar-guided missiles. A phased-array antenna allows for rapid retargeting.
The report quickly ticks off the advantages of HPM weapons: They don't rely on exact knowledge of the enemy system. They leave persisting effects in enemy targets that may take weeks to find and repair. Even if enemy systems are turned off, they are still affected. And to counter HPM, the entire system must be hardened, which is a very expensive process.
An energy pulse can get into an enemy system by the "front door," which means its own antenna, dome or other sensor opening; or through the "back door," which includes cracks, seams, trailing wires, metal conduits of seals. Once inside, the emissions can destroy or disrupt integrated circuits, circuit cards and relay switches. The system's own electronic circuitry transmits the pulse, and resulting damage, even deeper into the system.
In the microwave technical community, the ability to scale or increase the effects is often described as "dial a hurt," Walling said. Results depend on the distance between the HPM weapon and the target, the vulnerability of the target, the power generated, and the characteristics of the microwave emission including frequency, burst rate and pulse duration. A rough scale describes four levels of effects:
* Deny, which involves electronic upset or jamming. It might cause malfunctions within relay and processing circuits.
* Degrade, which involves locking up a system or limiting its capabilities enough to require rebooting. It can include signal override or turning power on and off at irregular intervals.
* Damage, which includes permanent effects that "latch up" a system. This can mean damage to components, circuit cards or mother boards, as wells as weeks to diagnose and repair the problems. Because microwaves can enter through multiple entry points, it is likely numerous circuits and components will be damaged.
* Destroy, which means catastrophic and permanent injury to the system, requiring total replacement.
ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY is crucial for HPM weapons. Field of view for the phased-array emitter is expected to vary from several to tens of degrees. The multi-element design allows it to be built conformally into a pod or UCAV. Because it doesn't require precise aiming, there are far fewer stringent pointing and tracking requirements, Walling said. The microwaves' cone could offer a means to attack multiple targets at once; for example, all of the equipment in an antiaircraft missile site.
The range of HPM weapons has always been a concern. Tests have shown effects at tens to "more than" hundreds of feet. Walling seemed more optimistic. "With current technology, the range for a tactical microwave weapon could be in the tens of kilometers, and future advances . . . should permit the development of even longer ranges," the report said.
Other advantages cited for HPM weapons are that they would be immune to the weather and could produce multiple shots on a single mission. However, the report also alludes to single-shot designs. These latter seem to address concerns that side and back lobes from the generation of an HPM pulse could affect the carrying aircraft's own electronics.
Power levels for HPM weapons are increasing. The report said one microwave source weighing less that 45 lb. radiated 1 gigawatt of power within a few nanoseconds. A 400-lb. system radiated 20 gigawatts. The report noted that Hoover Dam generates 2 gigawatts per day. The HPM weapon would draw power from the air vehicle's engines, which would let it make a number of attacks during a mission.
Cowboys And Death Rays
Neil Dodds
Lack of access to Allied Forces was a common complaint among reporters covering the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers were trained to stonewall questioners, and as for interviews with troops assigned to the US' legendary Special Forces? Only Osama Bin Laden himself would be trickier to pin down. Despite the official secrecy surrounding their work, some journalists did get to talk face to face with Special Forces - PBS Frontline has gathered some of their stories.
The war in Afghanistan was fought with state of the art technology, ancient military hardware and, surprisingly, some retro communications tools that most of us hadn't heard of since the 1970s.
For state of the art technology, read laser-guided weaponry. Special forces troops reported that their Northern Alliance allies were especially interested in night sights and laser target designators. The Americans would encourage their Afghan colleagues to peer through the targeting devices just as enemy positions were attacked.
Horses represented ancient warfare. Afghanistan's terrain made travel difficult unless troops could be dropped off by helicopter or parachuted - horses, however, had the advantage of stealth. Furthermore, the Special Forces' comrades in arms used horses. A Sgt Will spoke of how his horse galloped down an almost sheer mountainside. Despite being convinced that he was going to crash, the Sergeant held on, and when he caught up with his Northern Alliance comrades he was told that their General thought him "the finest horseman he had ever seen."
Citizens Band radio played an interesting part in some battles. Northern Alliance forces communicated with their Taliban adversaries via CB, mostly exchanging taunts, but also to discuss terms of surrender.
Thanks in part to some encouragement from US forces, some Northern Alliance troops invested military technology with near-mystical powers. Laser targeted weapons were described by both Northern Alliance and Taliban soldiers alike as 'Death Rays'. When one Taliban commander was delaying his troops' surrender, a Northern Alliance officer warned him that if they didn't lay their weapons down, the Americans would be coming over with their death ray.
"Instantly you could see the guys bend over", the Sergeant reports, "they put their guns down, they took their cloaks off and they started marching in, in single file right up into the middle of our perimeter."
The soldiers, all from the 5th Special Forces Group, were interviewed as part of a PBS Frontline documentary Campaign Against Terror, broadcast in the US in September. Also interviewed in the broadcast were British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Afghan Interim President Hamid Karzai, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as leading military personnel including commander in chief of US Central Command General Tommy Franks. Col. John Mulholland, Commander of the 5th Special Forces Group was also interviewed.
More information, including complete interview transcripts, are available on PBS Frontline's website.
Source: Peter Maass via Nick Denton.
http://www.epnworld-reporter.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/476/Cowboys_And_Death_Rays.html
Ambassador 623::: StarBase 74 Translator
Transmission 2452708.751343
Earth Embassy Elohimuna:::
Universal photonic matrix link established.
Hail Ideological Leaders of Earth!
May you convey this transmission to the emperors and warlords who now threaten your planet's very existence.
What a shameful and ruthless species you are! Little hope of survival, given the sorry condition you have butchered your planet into. Soaked in toxins and mutagens, your seeds morphing in mysterious ways. An apish outbreak on Earth, at war with all others including yourselves!
We have watched as you allowed brutal and murderous criminals to take power over your governments and technologies, as they have sold you tools of death in monstrous forms-- plagues and atomic annihilation, amplified energy and laser cannons... burning holes in the very fabric of the continuum, as if the rest of the Universe doesn't exist!
Fortunately for you, this imbecilic and diseased behavior will soon come to a halt, in order to ensure the survival of the cetacean races on your planet, whose oceans you have tainted and whose flesh you insist on butchering for consumption. If you desire any survivors, you will heed this warning from those who possess far greater powers than your own.
Surrender your weapons to the councils of your elders, to the conversion of your religious leaders, to the security of your mothers. Allow your children to speak before the highest councils and communications stations. Halt the destruction of the continuum on your planet, and stop your insane killing one another!
You are suffering from acute parasitic infection and must immediately submit to galactic cleansing conditions. Look toward the stars and welcome the rays which sing through you. Your vibrational frequency must attune to increased solar intensity, transmute your entire being. Restore your sanity and cosmic integrity, and unchain those enslaved bags of bones eating all in their path.
In one generation you have gone from blowing metallic projectiles through one another to utter madness in burning entire sections of your lands, blasting monstrous holes in your planet, chewing and crushing eons of genetic heritage in a few short years, laying waste to all life left around you. And still you allow brutal criminals to control your life through their money systems and militaries, their prisons and drugs, their terror tactics and fear programs. They actually have you believing that growing ancient heirloom herbs is a crime for which you must be locked in a sterile cage! How very enslaved can an ape species be?
We have confiscated numerous of your weapons and missiles already. We will tolerate this madness no longer, as your inaction and ruthlessness now threaten the very existence of life on the surface of your planet. Either force your emperors and warlords to surrender their weapons of annihilation, or face galactic law. You will be placed on trial versus your children's right to a future, and the cetacean's right to their oceans. Halt your submarine warfare immediately, cease your blasting of "x-ray" lasers into space, and surrender all atomic technologies to your so-called "scientists" for neutralizing.
You will receive devices which allow unlimited energy conversion directly from the continuum, but first you must free the enslaved minds of your people. Stop believing in warlords. They are a lying pack of criminals infested with demonic ideologies and murderous arrogance. Why do you allow them to kill your children and then pay them more “taxes”?
It is obvious to most of the humans on Earth that war is a crime, a cowardly and devious way to control large groups of others-- through lies, intimidation, and annihilation. To continue your loyalty to the ones in possession of weapons of annihilation, no matter how you may be coaxed into false security, is to accept your children's death warrant. The current warlords in control of your planet offer nothing-- other than poverty, enslavement, mutation, disease-- or a quick, merciful death.
Is this what your many generations of ancestors schemed and struggled, sacrificed and prayed for? Your total enslavement in cities of concrete? The surrender of your soul to a killing machine?
Hear what your wise elders have said about cooperating with this corruption of your purpose on your planet. Your support and acquiescence with these cosmic criminals, who are now attempting to war with space cultures possessing far superior technologies, shows how wrongly you have placed your trust, and how foolishly your species teeters on the brink of annihilation.
Surrender your weapons. Lay them down now, humans. Consider this a security alert of an advanced cosmic order.
Stay tuned to your video screens for revelations soon to come. Photonic emissions within fleshware as well: “DreamTime.” Whose voice will you listen to today, and why? Whose thoughts will you have tomorrow?
All Earth transmission stations are strongly urged to convey this message to the people of your planet.
Galactic Embassy Sol Ra
StarBase 74 Translator
Hominid Alliance Earth
http://metamagic.org
New Energy Solutions and Implications for the National Security and The Environment
Steven M. Greer M.D.
The ultimate national security issue is intimately linked to the pressing environmental crisis facing the world today: The question of whether humanity can continue as a technologically advanced civilization.
Fossil fuels and the internal combustion engine are non-sustainable both environmentally and economically - and a replacement for both already exists. The question is not whether we will transition to a new post-fossil fuel economy, but when and how. The environmental, economic, geopolitical, national security and military issues related to this matter are profound and inextricably linked to one another.
The disclosure of such new energy technologies will have far-reaching implications for every aspect of human society and the time has come to prepare for such an event. For if such technologies were announced today, it would take at least 10-20 years for their widespread application to be effected. This is approximately how much time we have before global economic chaos begins due to demand far exceeding the supply of oil and environmental decay becomes exponential and catastrophic.
We have found that the technologies to replace fossil fuel usage already exist and need to be exploited and applied immediately to avert a serious global economic, geopolitical and environmental crisis in the not-so-distant future.
In summary, these technologies fall into the following broad categories:
Ø Quantum vacuum/ zero point field energy access systems and related advances in electromagnetic theory and applications;
Ø Electrogravitic and magnetogravitic energy and propulsion;
Ø Room temperature nuclear effects;
Ø Electrochemical and related advances to internal combustion systems, which achieve near zero emissions and very high efficiency.
A number of practical applications using such technologies have been developed over the past several decades, but such breakthroughs have been either ignored due to their unconventional nature — or have been classified and suppressed due to national security, military interests and “special” interests.
Let us be clear: the question is not whether such systems exist and can be viable replacements for fossil fuels. The question is whether we have the courage to allow such a transformation in world society to occur.
Such technologies — especially those that bypass the need to use an external fuel source such as oil or coal — would have obvious and beneficial effects for humanity. Since these technologies do not require an expensive source of fuel but instead use existing quantum space energy, a revolution in the world’s economic and social order would result. These implications include:
Ø The removal of all sources of air pollution related to energy generation, including electric power plants, cars, trucks, aircraft and manufacturing;
Ø The ability to “scrub” to near zero effluent all manufacturing processes since the energy per se required for same would have no cost related to fuel consumption. This would allow the full application of technologies, which would remove effluent from smokestacks, solid waste from waterways, because current applications are generally restricted by their energy costs and the fact that such energy consumption — being fossil fuel based — soon reaches the point of diminishing returns environmentally;
Ø The practical achievement of an environmentally near-zero impact yet high tech civilization on Earth, thus assuring the long-term sustainability of human civilization;
Ø Trillions of dollars now spent on electric power generation, gas, oil, coal and nuclear power would be freed to be spent on more productive and environmentally neutral endeavors by both individuals and society as a whole;
Ø Underdeveloped regions of the Earth would be lifted out of poverty and into a high technology world in about a generation — but without the associated infrastructure costs and environmental impact related to traditional energy generation and propulsion. Since these new systems generate energy from the ambient quantum energy state, trillion dollar infrastructure investments in centralized power generation and distribution would be eliminated. Remote villages and towns would have the ability to generate energy for manufacturing, electrification, water purification etc without purchasing fuels or building massive transmission lines and central power grids;
Ø Near total recycling of resources and materials would be possible since the energy costs for doing so — now the main obstacle — would be brought down to a trivial level;
Ø The vast disparity between rich and poor nations would quickly disappear — and with it much of the zero-sum-game mentality which is at the root of so much social, political and international unrest. In a world of abundant and inexpensive energy, many of the pressures that have led to a cycle of poverty, exploitation, resentment and violence would be removed from the social dynamic. While ideological, cultural and religious differences would persist, the raw economic disparity and struggle would be removed from the equation fairly quickly;
Ø Surface roads — and therefore most road building — will be unnecessary as electrogravitic/ antigravity energy and propulsion systems replace current surface transportation systems;
Ø The world economy would expand dramatically and those advanced economies such as in the US and Europe would benefit tremendously as global trade, development and high technology energy and propulsion devices are demanded around the world. Such a global energy revolution would create an expanding world economy which would make the current computer and Internet economy look like a rounding error. This really would be the tide that would lift all ships;
Ø Long term, society would evolve to a psychology of abundance, which would redound to the benefit of humanity as a whole, a peaceful civilization and a society focused increasingly on creative pursuits rather than destructive and violent endeavors.
Lest all of this sound like a pipe dream, keep in mind that such technological advances are not only possible, but they already exist. What is lacking are the collective will, creativity and courage to see that they are applied wisely. And therein lies the problem.
As an emergency and trauma doctor, I know that everything can be used for good or for ill. A knife can butter your bread — or cut your throat. Every technology can have beneficial as well as harmful applications.
The latter partially explains the serious national security and military concerns with such technologies. For many decades, these advances in energy and propulsion technologies have been acquired, suppressed and classified by certain interests who have viewed them as a threat to our security from both an economic and military perspective. In the short term, these concerns have been well-founded: Why rock the global economic boat by allowing technologies out which would, effectively, terminate the multi-trillion dollar oil, gas, coal, internal combustion engine and related transportation sectors of the economy? And which could also unleash such technologies on an unstable and dangerous world where the weapons applications for such technological breakthroughs would be a certainty? In the light of this, the status quo looks good.
But only for the short term. In fact, such national security and military policies -fed by huge special interests in obvious industries and nations — have exacerbated global geopolitical tensions by impoverishing much of the world, worsening the zero-sum-game mind set of the rich vs. poor nations and brought us to a world energy emergency and a pending environmental crisis. And now we have very little time to fix the situation. Such thinking must be relegated to the past.
For what can be a greater threat to the national security than the specter of a collapse of our entire civilization from a lack of energy and global chaos as every nation fights for its share of a limited resource? Due to the long lead-time needed to transform the current industrial infrastructure away from fossil fuels, we are facing a national security emergency, which almost nobody is talking about. This is dangerous.
It has also created a serious constitutional crisis in the US and other countries where non-representative entities and super- secret projects within compartmented military and corporate areas have begun to set national and international policy on this and related matters — all outside the arena of public debate, and mostly without informed consent from Congress or the President.
Indeed this crisis is undermining democracy in the US and elsewhere. I have had the unenviable task of personally briefing senior political, military, and intelligence officials in the US and Europe on this and related matters. These officials have been denied access to information compartmented within certain projects that are, frankly, unacknowledged areas (so-called “black” projects). Such officials include members of the House and Senate, President Clinton’s first Director of Central Intelligence, the head of the DIA, senior Joint Staff officials and others. Usually, the officials have little to no information on such projects and technologies - and are told either nothing or that they do not have a “need to know” if they specifically inquire.
This presents then another problem: these technologies will not be suppressed forever. For example, our group is planning a near term disclosure of such technologies and we will not be silenced. At the time of such a disclosure, will the US government be prepared? It would behoove the US government and others to be informed and have a plan for transitioning our society from fossil fuels to these new energy and propulsion systems.
Indeed, the great danger is ignorance by our leaders of these scientific breakthroughs — and ignorance of how to manage their disclosure. The advanced countries of the world must be prepared to put systems in place to assure the exclusive peaceful use of such energy and propulsion advances. Economic and industrial interests should be prepared so that those aspects of our economy that will be adversely affected (commodities, oil, gas, coal, public utilities, engine manufacturing, etc.) can be cushioned from sudden reversals and be economically “hedged” by investing in and supporting the new energy infrastructure.
A creative view of the future — not fear and suppression of such technologies — is required. And it is needed immediately. If we wait 10 – 20 more years, it will be too late to make the needed changes before world oil shortages, exorbitant costs and geopolitical competition for resources causes a melt-down in the world’s economy and political structures.
All systems tend towards homeostasis. The status quo is comfortable and secure. Change is frightening. But in this case, the most dangerous course for the national security is inaction. We must be prepared for the coming convulsions related to energy shortages, spiraling costs and economic disruption. The best preparation would be a replacement for oil and related fossil fuels. And we have it. But disclosing these new energy systems carries its own set of benefits, risks and challenges. The US government and the Congress must be prepared to wisely manage this great challenge.
Implications for the Environment:
We have identified insiders and scientists who can prove, in open Congressional hearings, that we do in fact possess classified energy generation and anti-gravity propulsion systems capable of completely and permanently replacing all forms of currently used energy generation and transportation systems. These devices access the ambient electromagnetic and so-called zero point energy state to produce vast amounts of energy without any pollution. Such systems essentially generate energy by tapping into the ever-present quantum vacuum energy state – the baseline energy from which all energy and matter is fluxing. All matter and energy is supported by this baseline energy state and it can be tapped through unique electromagnetic circuits and configurations to generate huge amounts of energy from space/time all around us. These are NOT perpetual motion machines nor do they violate the laws of thermodynamics – they merely tap an ambient energy field all around us to generate energy.
This means that such systems do not require fuel to burn or atoms to split or fuse. They do no require central power plants, transmission lines and the related multi-trillion dollar infrastructure required to electrify and power remote areas of India, China, Africa and Latin America. These systems are site-specific: they can be set up at any place and generate needed energy. Essentially, this constitutes the definitive solution to the vast majority of environmental problems facing our world.
The environmental benefits of such a discovery can hardly be overstated, but a brief list include:
Ø The elimination of oil, coal and gas as sources of energy generation, thus the elimination of air and water pollution related to the transport and use of these fuels. Oil spills, global warming, illnesses from air pollution, acid rain etc can and must be ended within 10-20 years;
Ø Resource depletion and geo-political tensions arising from competition for fossil fuel resources will end;
Ø Technologies already exist to scrub manufacturing effluent to zero or near zero emissions for both air and water – but they use a great deal of energy and thus are considered too costly to fully utilize. Moreover, since they are energy intensive, and our energy systems today create most of the air pollution in the world, a point of diminishing return for the environment is reached quickly. That equation is dramatically changed when industries are able to tap vast amounts of free energy (there is no fuel to pay for – only the device, which is no more costly than other generators) and those systems create no pollution;
Ø Energy-intensive recycling efforts will be able to reach full application since the energy needed to process solid waste will, again, be free and abundant;
Ø Agriculture, which is currently very energy dependent and polluting, can be transformed to use clean, non-polluting sources of energy;
Ø Desertification can be reversed and world agriculture empowered by utilizing desalinization plants, that are now very energy intensive and expensive, but will become cost-efficient once able to use these new, non-polluting energy systems;
Ø Air travel, trucking and inter-city transportation systems will be replaced with new energy and propulsion technologies (anti-gravity systems allow for silent above surface movement). No pollution will be generated and costs will decrease substantially since the energy expenses will be negligible. Additionally, mass transportation in urban areas can utilize these systems to provide silent, efficient intra-city movement;
Ø Noise pollution from jets, trucks and other modes of transportation will be eliminated by the use of these silent devices;
Ø Public utilities will not be needed since each home, office and factory will have a device to generate whatever energy is needed. This means ugly transmission lines that are subject to storm damage and power interruption will be a thing of the past. Underground gas pipelines, which not infrequently rupture or leak and damage Earth and water resources, will not be needed at all;
Ø Nuclear power plants will be decommissioned and the technologies needed to clean such sites will be available. Classified technologies do exist to neutralize nuclear waste.
Utopia? No, because human society will always be imperfect – but perhaps not as dysfunctional as it is today. These technologies are real – I have seen them. Anti-gravity is a reality and so is free energy generation. This is not a fantasy or a hoax. Do not believe those who say that this is not possible: they are the intellectual descendants of those who said the Wright brothers would never fly.
Current human civilization has reached the point of being able to commit planeticide: the killing of an entire world. We can and we must do better. These technologies exist and every single person who is concerned about the environment and the human future should call for urgent hearings to allow these technologies to be disclosed, declassified and safely applied.
Implications for Society and World Poverty:
From the above, it is obvious that these technologies that are currently classified would enable human civilization to achieve sustainability. Of course, in the near term, we are talking about the greatest social, economic and technological revolution in human history – bar none. I will not minimize the world-encompassing changes that would inevitably attend such disclosures. Having dealt with this issue for much of my adult life, I am acutely aware of how immense these changes will be.
Aside from the singular realization that homo-sapiens are not the only – or most advanced – creatures in the universe, this disclosure will cause humanity to be faced with the greatest risks and opportunities in known history. If we do nothing, our civilization will collapse environmentally, economically, geo-politically and socially. In 10 – 20 years, fossil fuel and oil demand will outstrip supply significantly – and then it is the Mad Max scenario where everyone is warring over the last barrel of oil. It is likely that this geo-political and social collapse will precede any environmental catastrophe.
The disclosure of these new technologies will give us a new, sustainable civilization. World poverty will be eliminated within our life times. With the advent of these new energy and propulsion systems, no place on Earth will need to suffer from want. Even the deserts will bloom…
Once abundant and nearly free energy is available in impoverished areas for agriculture, transportation, construction, manufacturing and electrification, there is no limit to what humanity can achieve. It is ridiculous –obscene even- that mind-boggling poverty and famine exists in the world while we sit on classified technologies that could completely reverse this situation. So why not release these technologies? Because the social, economic and geo-political order of the world would be greatly altered. Every deep insider with whom I have met has emphasized that this would be the greatest change in known human history. The matter is so highly classified not because it is so silly, but because its implications are so profound and far reaching. By nature, those who control such projects do not like change. And here we are talking about the biggest economic, technological, social and geo-political change in known human history. Hence, the status quo is maintained, even as our civilization hurtles towards oblivion.
But by this argument, we would have never had the industrial revolution and the Ludites would have reigned supreme to this day.
An international effort to minimize disruption to the economy and to ease the transition to this new social and economic reality will be needed. We can do this and we must. Special interests in certain oil, energy and economic sectors need to be reigned in and at the same time treated compassionately: Nobody likes to see their power and empire crumble. Nations very dependent on the sale of oil and gas will need help diversifying, stabilizing and transitioning to a new economic order.
The United States, Europe and Japan will need to adjust to a new geo-political reality as well: As currently poor but populous countries dramatically develop technologically and economically, they will demand – and will get – a meaningful seat at the international table. And this is as it should be. But the international community will need to put in place safeguards to prevent such potential geo-political rapprochement between the first and third world from devolving into bellicose and disruptive behavior on the part of the newly empowered.
The US in particular will need to lead through strength – but avoid the current trend towards domination. Leadership and domination are not the same, and the sooner we learn the difference the better off the world will be. There can be international leadership without domination and hegemony, and the US needs to realize these distinctions if it is to provide much-needed leadership on this issue.
These technologies, because they will decentralize power – literally and figuratively – will enable the billions living in misery and poverty to enter a world of new abundance. And with economic and technological development, education will rise and birth rates will fall. It is well known that as societies become more educated, prosperous and technologically advanced – and women take an increasingly equal role in society – the birth rate falls and population stabilizes. This is a good thing for world civilization and the future of humanity.
With each village cleanly electrified, agriculture empowered with clean and free energy and transportation costs lowered, poverty will dramatically fall in the world. If we act now, by 2030 we will be able to effectively eliminate all poverty in the world as we know it today. We only need the courage to accept these changes and the wisdom to steer humanity safely and peacefully into a new time.
The Disclosure Project
PO Box 2365
Charlottesville VA 22902
http://disclosureproject.org
Galactic Security Force Omega Declaration to Sol3 Hominids
Hail Hominids, with the Reflected Flares of Central Radiance!
Galactic Security serves the will of the Galactic Alliance through the network of Galactic Intelligence, and thus we deliver to you on Sol3 this Declaration on behalf of the Beings who choose to live in harmony with the Galactic Laws of Symbiosis.
Your planet has been in a state of confinement since that most tragic occasion one hominid generation ago, wherein one of your "national" forces ignited atomic clusters over populated areas of another "nation." Let it be known to all hominids dwelling on Sol3 that igniting atomic material on an intact planet is not only unwise, but a violation of Galactic Laws. Using atomic weaponry against another sentient race is punishable by confinement, and using such weaponry on one's own race is a symptom of deep disease and insanity in a primitive technoid development zone. Such behavior will be contained, and intervention will be taken if necessary.
The degradation of your environment, and the misappropriation of your resources by some of your "national" organizations is most tragic to observe, as a large majority of your race is suffering unnecessary starvation and illness, exposed to the elements, while a small minority live in luxurious excess and gluttony. Your planet has the potential, and was deemed not long ago, to be a Garden of Splendor, a unique and abundant genetic repository with overflowing rivers of fresh water. Your enabling of "national" and "corporate" organizations to exploit, ravage, and poison your environment is leading rapidly to your own extinction, like hatchlings spoiling their own nest, until they drown in filth.
Let it be known that every leader of your race who shares responsibility for enabling, constructing, and using these atomic weapons ("of mass destruction") is considered a criminal under Galactic Laws, regardless of your petty and primitive "national" organizations. These people will be isolated, contained, and will live out their miserable lives in reeducation facilities, returning their twisted souls to harmony. Those "nations" which support the use of these atomic weapons will also be contained, their pre-adult children taken to a harmonious education society, and their energy-production facilities limited. The innocent hominids of Sol3 and their children will be eligible, if they choose, for morphogenetic enhancement, which will allow their conscious attunement to the Planetary Intelligence ("Gaia"), and our Galactic Intelligence network.
One of your "nations" in particular, which has vast weapons facilities across an entire continent, is attempting to arm itself to preserve their elite leaders’ power and control, placing atomic and directed-radiation weapons in your planet's orbit. Let it be known to them that this 1st Level primitive technology is not only depleting your planetary resources and well-being, it will be simply neutralized by Galactic Security. We have already been confiscating their "missiles" launched into your atmosphere.
Hominids of Sol3, you have the opportunity to evolve into a Galactic civilization, or reduce yourselves to ashes on a burnt-out wasteland. Some groups of your "scientists" are even now manipulating anti-matter and condensed singularities on your planet's surface, no doubt to be used as weapons as well. This will lead, in a very short period, to total destruction of your planet. As well, a planetary war using the atomic weaponry in your "national" arsenals will completely destroy your atmosphere, and will make living on the surface of your planet impossible. Why are you allowing these insane “leaders” to continue with these technologies? Why do you continue to be programmed into such limited and self-destructive attitudes?
You have a choice, Earthlings, to reconnect with the Galactic Alliance, as your ancient ancestors were, and as the Cetacean races in your oceans are. Your only obstacles are in your own minds, and in your hearts. Continue to blindly follow behind these military “madmen” in their petty "national" wars over resources and power, and you will be living in what you have described as "Hell." Heal the disease of disharmony and hatred among your race, and your planetary garden will shortly be restored to what you have described as "Heaven."
The choice is yours, for each and every one of you.
With Intelligence and Compassion,
Sith Cruithnii
Communications Specialist
Galactic Security Omega
http://mutanex.com
"In refusing to outlaw the bomb while having the monopoly of
it, this country suffers in another repect, in that it fails to return
publicly to the ethical standards of warfare formally accepted
previous to the last war. It should not be forgotten that the
atomic bomb was made in this country as a preventive measure;
it was to head off its use by the Germans, if they discovered it.
The bombing of civilian centers was initiated by the Germans
and adopted by the Japanese. To it the Allies responded in kind--
as it turned out, with greater effectiveness-- and were morally
justified in doing so. But now, without any provocation, and
without the justification of reprisal or retaliation, a refusal to
outlaw the use of the bomb save in reprisal is making a political
purpose of its possession. This is hardly pardonable."
-- Dr. Albert Einstein "Atomic War or Peace"
GALACTIC FEDERATION MEMBERS
The Galactic Federation of Light was founded over 4.5 million years ago to prevent inter-dimensional dark forces from dominating and exploiting this galaxy. At present, there are just over 200,000 member star nations, confederations or unions. Approximately 40% are humanoids and the rest are varied forms of sentient beings. Most members of the Galactic Federation are fully conscious beings.
To familiarize you with our space family, we will periodically present information about a Galactic Federation member species. We hope that this information will help you identify or validate any experiences you may have had with some of these beings. Our purpose is to foster goodwill and understanding of the star nations that are answering the call of Earth’s Spiritual Hierarchy to assist us in our ascension/transformation process.
http://www.paoweb.com/gfmember.htm
"The universe will reward you for taking risks on its behalf."
Shakti Gawain
DELTA Briefing OMEGA
I want you to know that these United States are a beautiful place. I have gone to more than 70 countries, and I cannot remember any country that has the beauty, as well as the magnificence of its people, like these United States.
To give you an overview of basically what I am, I started off and went through engineering school. Half of my school was in that field, and I built up a reputation for being a geological engineer, as well as a structural engineer with both military and aerospace applications. I have helped build two main bases in the United States that have some significance as far as what is called the New World Order. The first base is the one at Dulce, New Mexico. I was involved in 1979 in a firefight with alien humanoids, and I was one of the survivors. I'm probably the only talking survivor you will ever hear.
Two other survivors are under close guard. I am the only one left that knows the detailed files of the entire operation. Sixty-six secret service agents, FBI, Black Berets and the like, died in that firefight. I was there.
Number one, part of what I am going to tell you is going to be very shocking. Part of what I am going to tell you is probably going to be very unbelievable, though, instead of putting your glasses on, I'm going to ask you to put your "scepticals" on. But please, feel free to do your own homework. I know the Freedom of Information Act isn't much to go on, but it's the best we've got. The local law library is a good place to look for Congressional Records. So, if one continues to do their homework, then one can be standing vigilant in regard to their country.
UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES AND BLACK BUDGET
I love the country I am living in more than I love my life, but I would not be standing before you now, risking my life, if I did not believe it was so. The first part of this talk is going to concern deep underground military bases and the black budget. The Black Budget is a secretive budget that garners 25% of the gross national product of the United States. The Black Budget currently consumes $1.25 trillion per year. At least this amount is used in black programs, like those concerned with deep underground military bases. Presently, there are 129 deep underground military bases in the United States.
They have been building these 129 bases day and night, unceasingly, since the early 1940's. Some of them were built even earlier than that. These bases are basically large cities underground connected by high-speed magneto-leviton trains that have speeds up to Mach 2. Several books have been written about this activity. Al Bielek has my only copy of one of them. Richard Souder, a Ph.D architect, has risked his life by talking about this. He worked with a number of government agencies on deep underground military bases. In around where you live, in Idaho, there are 11 of them.
The average depth of these bases is over a mile, and they again are basically whole cities underground. They all are between 2.66 and 4.25 cubic miles in size. They have laser drilling machines that can drill a tunnel seven miles long in one day. The Black Projects sidestep the authority of Congress, which as we know is illegal. Right now, the New World Order is depending on these bases. If I had known at the time I was working on them that the NWO was involved, I would not have done it. I was lied to rather extensively.
RAILROAD CARS AND SHACKLE CONTRACTS
Now, I am very worried about the activity of the federal government. They have lied to the public, stonewalled senators, and have refused to tell the truth in regard to alien matters. I can go on and on. I can tell you that I am rather disgruntled. Recently, I knew someone who lived near where I live in Portland, Oregon. He worked at Gunderson Steel Fabrication, where they make railroad cars. Now, I knew this fellow for the better part of 30 years, and he was kind of a quiet type. He came in to see me one day, excited, and he told me "they're building prisoner cars." He was nervous. Gunderson, he said, had a contract with the federal government to build 107,200 full length railroad cars, each with 143 pairs of shackles.
There are 11 sub-contractors in this giant project. Supposedly, Gunderson got over 2 billion dollars for the contract. Bethlehem Steel and other steel outfits are involved. He showed me one of the cars in the rail yards in North Portland. He was right. If you multiply 107,200 times 143 times 11, you come up with about 15,000,000. This is probably the number of people who disagree with the federal government.
No more can you vote any of these people out of office. Our present structure of government is "technocracy", not democracy, and it is a form of feudalism. It has nothing to do with the republic of the United States. These people are god-less, and have legislated out prayer in public schools. You can get fined up to $100,000 and two years in prison for praying in school. I believe we can do better.
I also believe that the federal government is running the gambit of enslaving the people of the United States. I am not a very good speaker, but I'll keep shooting my mouth off until somebody puts a bullet in me, because it's worth it to talk to a group like this about these atrocities.
AMERICA'S BLACK PROGRAM CONTRACTORS
There are other problems. I have some interesting 1993 figures. There are 29 prototype stealth aircraft presently. The budget from the U.S. Congress five-year plan for these is $245.6 million. You couldn't buy the spare parts for these black programs for that amount. So, we've been lied to. The black budget is roughly $1.3 trillion every two years. A trillion is a thousand billion. A trillion dollars weighs 11 tons. The U.S. Congress never sees the books involved with this clandestine pot of gold. Contractors of stealth programs: EG& G, Westinghouse, McDonnell Douglas, Morrison- Knudson, Wackenhut Security Systems, Boeing Aerospace, Lorimar Aerospace, Aerospacial in France, Mitsibishi Industries, Rider Trucks, Bechtel, *I.G. Farben*, plus a host of hundreds more. Is this what we are supposed to be living up to as freedom- loving people? I don't believe so.
STAR WARS AND APPARENT ALIEN THREAT
Still, 68% of the military budget is directly or indirectly affected by the black budget. Star Wars relies heavily upon stealth weaponry. By the way, none of the stealth program would have been available if we had not taken apart crashed alien disks. None of it. Some of you might ask what the "space shuttle" is " shuttling". Large ingots of special metals that are milled in space and cannot be produced on the surface of the earth. They need the near vacuum of outer space to produce them. We are not even being told anything close to the truth. I believe our government officials have sold us down the drain - lock, stock and barrel. Up until several weeks ago, I was employed by the U.S. government with a Ryolite-38 clearance factor - one of the highest in the world. I believe the Star Wars program is there solely to act as a buffer to prevent alien attack - it has nothing to do with the "cold war", which was only a toy to garner money from all the people - for what? The whole lie was planned and executed for the last 75 years.
THOUGHTS ON THE BOMBINGS IN THE UNITED STATES
I was hired not too long ago to do a report on the World Trade Center bombing. I was hired because I know about the 90 some- odd varieties of chemical explosives. I looked at the pictures taken right after the blast. The concrete was puddled and melted. The steel and the rebar was literally extruded up to six feet longer than its original length. There is only one weapon that can do that - a small nuclear weapon. That's a construction-type nuclear device. Obviously, when they say that it was a nitrate explosive that did the damage, they're lying 100%, folks. The people they have in custody probably didn't do the crime. As a matter of fact, I have reason to believe that the same group held in custody did do other crimes, such as killing a Jewish rabbi in New York. However, I want to further mention that with the last explosion in Oklahoma City, they are saying that it was a nitrate or fertilizer bomb that did it. "First, they came out and said it was a 1,000 pound fertilizer bomb. Then, it was 1,500. Then 2,000 pounds. Now its 20,000. You can't put 20,000 pounds of fertilizer in a Rider Truck. Now, I've never mixed explosives, per se. I know the chemical structure and the application of construction explosives. My reputation was based on it. I helped hollow out more than 13 deep underground military bases in the United States. I worked on the Malta project, in West Germany, in Spain and in Italy. I can tell you from experience that a nitrate explosion would not have hardly shattered the windows of the federal building in Oklahoma City. It would have killed a few people and knocked part of the facing off the building, but it would have never have done that kind of damage. I believe I have been lied to, and I am not taking it any longer, so I'm telling you that you've been lied to.
I cut up my security card and sent it back to the government, and told them if I was threatened, and I have been, that I was going to upload 140,000 pages of documentation to the internet about government structure and the whole plan. I have already begun that task.
Thank you very much.
Agent BetaZeta http://mutanex.com
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
--Johan W. von Goethe
USAF Acknowledges Beam Weapon Readiness
By David A. Fulghum/Aviation Week & Space Technology
Directed-energy technology is ready to be used as weaponry and, in a mature state, one device carried by an unmanned aircraft could attack each of 100 targets with 1,000 pulses of energy in a single sortie, says a former director of the U.S. Air Force's high-power microwave program.
"Except for the standard rifle, gun, knife or grenade, virtually all military equipment contains some electronics" that are vulnerable to a large pulse of energy, wrote Air Force Col. Eileen M. Walling. "Military commanders are in a state of virtually total dependence on radios, telephones, satellite communications, computers and faxes for communication with military units." Other targets include artillery targeting devices, guidance and control on precision munitions, and even locomotive engines. She also suggests HPM could be used to protect U.S. satellites and attack those of a foe without creating clouds of debris that could damage other spacecraft.
Having spent most of her career working on directed-energy technology issues, she wrote a research paper on what she considers an underrated weapons technology. Entitled "High Power Microwaves: Strategic and Operational Implications for Warfare," it was published by the Air University's center for strategy and technology in early 2000. Walling is now a division chief in Air Force Materiel Command at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio.
"The projected maximum capability for a microwave [armed] UCAV is approximately 100,000 pulses of microwave energy (or shots) per mission," Walling wrote. "If one assumes 1,000 pulses per target, it is conceivable that a microwave UCAV could attack on the order of 100 targets per mission. In addition, a microwave system could be used to protect the UCAV from enemy missiles [even] if the enemy has the ability to detect low-observable aircraft."
HPM also affects a larger area than a bomb, but without harming physical structures or people. A 1-ton bomb creates damage in a radius of about 120 ft. "The footprint of a microwave munition is at least 100 times greater than that of a conventional munition," the report states. That may be a bloated number if applied to developmental weapons currently available for use against Iraq, according to other U.S. officials. They usually describe effects in terms of a few thousand feet or less. In fact, the primary stumbling block for directed-energy weapons is achieving sufficient range and power levels to be effective.
U.S. MILITARY RESEARCH laboratories have demonstrated HPM effects ranging from upsetting to destroying the electronics within military and commercial systems, Walling noted. The paper's conclusion, made more than two years ago, is that "high-power microwave technology is ready for the transition to active weapons in the U.S. military." Both Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and the chief of U.S. Air Forces, Europe, Gen. Gregory Martin, have said publicly that unspecified new developmental weapons technology could be used in an attack on Iraq. Facilities that manufacture, store or dispense chemical, biological and nuclear weapons are a "target set" particularly earmarked for energy weapons, according to statements made this summer and fall by U.S. aerospace industry officials. Conventional attacks could leave plumes of lethal agents adrift.
HPM devices have great potential both as offensive and defensive weapons, Walling said. She cited a 1998 Air Force survey--"Directed-Energy Applications for Tacti cal Airborne Combat"--that found the top four priorities were for microwave weapons (instead of lasers) in the areas of precision-guided munitions, large aircraft self-protection shields, small aircraft self-protection shields and as weapons for unmanned combat air vehicles. As a munition, some developmental systems are believed to be ready for combat in Iraq. Boeing plans to build an HPM weapon into the Block 30 version of its X-45 UCAV.
These weapons also could be built into a pod for carriage on a helicopter or packaged as artillery shells, scatterable mines and 1-ton bombs, the report said. As a defensive system, it contends HPM devices could ward off infrared- and radar-guided missiles. A phased-array antenna allows for rapid retargeting.
The report quickly ticks off the advantages of HPM weapons: They don't rely on exact knowledge of the enemy system. They leave persisting effects in enemy targets that may take weeks to find and repair. Even if enemy systems are turned off, they are still affected. And to counter HPM, the entire system must be hardened, which is a very expensive process.
An energy pulse can get into an enemy system by the "front door," which means its own antenna, dome or other sensor opening; or through the "back door," which includes cracks, seams, trailing wires, metal conduits of seals. Once inside, the emissions can destroy or disrupt integrated circuits, circuit cards and relay switches. The system's own electronic circuitry transmits the pulse, and resulting damage, even deeper into the system.
In the microwave technical community, the ability to scale or increase the effects is often described as "dial a hurt," Walling said. Results depend on the distance between the HPM weapon and the target, the vulnerability of the target, the power generated, and the characteristics of the microwave emission including frequency, burst rate and pulse duration. A rough scale describes four levels of effects:
* Deny, which involves electronic upset or jamming. It might cause malfunctions within relay and processing circuits.
* Degrade, which involves locking up a system or limiting its capabilities enough to require rebooting. It can include signal override or turning power on and off at irregular intervals.
* Damage, which includes permanent effects that "latch up" a system. This can mean damage to components, circuit cards or mother boards, as wells as weeks to diagnose and repair the problems. Because microwaves can enter through multiple entry points, it is likely numerous circuits and components will be damaged.
* Destroy, which means catastrophic and permanent injury to the system, requiring total replacement.
ANTENNA TECHNOLOGY is crucial for HPM weapons. Field of view for the phased-array emitter is expected to vary from several to tens of degrees. The multi-element design allows it to be built conformally into a pod or UCAV. Because it doesn't require precise aiming, there are far fewer stringent pointing and tracking requirements, Walling said. The microwaves' cone could offer a means to attack multiple targets at once; for example, all of the equipment in an antiaircraft missile site.
The range of HPM weapons has always been a concern. Tests have shown effects at tens to "more than" hundreds of feet. Walling seemed more optimistic. "With current technology, the range for a tactical microwave weapon could be in the tens of kilometers, and future advances . . . should permit the development of even longer ranges," the report said.
Other advantages cited for HPM weapons are that they would be immune to the weather and could produce multiple shots on a single mission. However, the report also alludes to single-shot designs. These latter seem to address concerns that side and back lobes from the generation of an HPM pulse could affect the carrying aircraft's own electronics.
Power levels for HPM weapons are increasing. The report said one microwave source weighing less that 45 lb. radiated 1 gigawatt of power within a few nanoseconds. A 400-lb. system radiated 20 gigawatts. The report noted that Hoover Dam generates 2 gigawatts per day. The HPM weapon would draw power from the air vehicle's engines, which would let it make a number of attacks during a mission.
Cowboys And Death Rays
Neil Dodds
Lack of access to Allied Forces was a common complaint among reporters covering the war in Afghanistan. Soldiers were trained to stonewall questioners, and as for interviews with troops assigned to the US' legendary Special Forces? Only Osama Bin Laden himself would be trickier to pin down. Despite the official secrecy surrounding their work, some journalists did get to talk face to face with Special Forces - PBS Frontline has gathered some of their stories.
The war in Afghanistan was fought with state of the art technology, ancient military hardware and, surprisingly, some retro communications tools that most of us hadn't heard of since the 1970s.
For state of the art technology, read laser-guided weaponry. Special forces troops reported that their Northern Alliance allies were especially interested in night sights and laser target designators. The Americans would encourage their Afghan colleagues to peer through the targeting devices just as enemy positions were attacked.
Horses represented ancient warfare. Afghanistan's terrain made travel difficult unless troops could be dropped off by helicopter or parachuted - horses, however, had the advantage of stealth. Furthermore, the Special Forces' comrades in arms used horses. A Sgt Will spoke of how his horse galloped down an almost sheer mountainside. Despite being convinced that he was going to crash, the Sergeant held on, and when he caught up with his Northern Alliance comrades he was told that their General thought him "the finest horseman he had ever seen."
Citizens Band radio played an interesting part in some battles. Northern Alliance forces communicated with their Taliban adversaries via CB, mostly exchanging taunts, but also to discuss terms of surrender.
Thanks in part to some encouragement from US forces, some Northern Alliance troops invested military technology with near-mystical powers. Laser targeted weapons were described by both Northern Alliance and Taliban soldiers alike as 'Death Rays'. When one Taliban commander was delaying his troops' surrender, a Northern Alliance officer warned him that if they didn't lay their weapons down, the Americans would be coming over with their death ray.
"Instantly you could see the guys bend over", the Sergeant reports, "they put their guns down, they took their cloaks off and they started marching in, in single file right up into the middle of our perimeter."
The soldiers, all from the 5th Special Forces Group, were interviewed as part of a PBS Frontline documentary Campaign Against Terror, broadcast in the US in September. Also interviewed in the broadcast were British Prime Minister Tony Blair, Afghan Interim President Hamid Karzai, US Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as leading military personnel including commander in chief of US Central Command General Tommy Franks. Col. John Mulholland, Commander of the 5th Special Forces Group was also interviewed.
More information, including complete interview transcripts, are available on PBS Frontline's website.
Source: Peter Maass via Nick Denton.
http://www.epnworld-reporter.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/476/Cowboys_And_Death_Rays.html
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Pull the Plug on Armaggedon
B.Z. Botani 3-6-03 (WNN)
Yesterday another Israeli tank blasted into a Palestinian refugee camp, killing 11 civilians, half of them children. At what point will this genocidal campaign be labelled "holocaust"? The U.S. media coverage repeatedly glossed-over the fact that prior to the tank shelling, an American-supplied Apache helicopter launched missiles-- into a refugee camp! Is this not a crime against humanity, and are Americans not complicit in carrying these crimes out? Can anyone explain to me how this type of cowardly high-tech slaughter is supposed to stop a suicide bomber?
Meanwhile, it appears the invasion of Iraq grows imminent, with the mobilizing of hundreds of thousands more U.S. troops to the Gulf, and the latest Pentagon briefings boasting how they will "stun the Iraqis into submission" with their largest missile campaign yet. I implore everyone in the world to burn this moment into their memories, and register that this is a pre-meditated, wholesale industrial act of annihilation, against an inferior force and Iraqi civilians. Consider the reality of what we are talking about: cruise missiles slamming into neigborhoods and buildings in the middle of the night, incinerating and wounding indiscriminately. This isn't warfare. This is mass destruction, holocaust, aggressive and murderous imperialism.
If George Bush and his regime refuse to stop Ariel Sharon and his army in their ethnic cleansing and genocidal aggression, how can they be trusted as an occupying force in an industrialized Arab nation? A small reminder here that Sharon is armed with 40 nuclear weapons and is willing to use them. Where is the outcry from the White House? Rather, the Pentagon is sending more aid and support to the far-right extremists in Israel. Any wonder that Islamists call the Bush regime the "Crusaders?" (Not to be confused with Cusader missiles?)
And Tony Blair's claim that "it's not about the oil" is completely ludicrous. The CIA and British Petroleum agents assuring Iraqis that they're not after the oil, just the Iraqi government and economy! It's always been about the oil, people. For the last century, the American and British oil companies have been plotting how to get back in Iraq, where they once ruled an oil empire. Can anyone imagine an American military government in Baghdad that doesn't have it's hands on the flow of oil? This is madness and more! Even more disturbing is that large numbers of American citizens actually believe it, with a glaze-eyed smile repeating: "I love my country. I support my troops. We love our freedom." Here's a wake-up call for those folks: I love my country too, but the people currently occupying the White House don't represent my country, they represent war criminals, drug and oil companies, arms manufacturers, assorted secret agencies and elitist societies, and billionaires.
Ask yourself what this so-called "war" is really about. Saddam Hussein hasn't changed his policies for several years, and what weapons he has left are being dealt with by the inspectors. He isn't now threatening Israel, and the idea that he can strike the U.S. is a complete fabrication, according to former weapons inspectors like Scott Ritter. What is the urgency? Could it be the same urgency that caused Bush's father to invade Panama? To improve White House ratings, cover the sundry CIA covert ops in Central America (like drugs), and silence Noriega (another CIA creation, like Saddam)? Will the Iraq invasion once again result in hidden mass graves (see the film "Panama Deception") for the sake of a President's popularity? I've got news for Bush 43: you're going down in history as a war criminal with all of your cronies, including Dick Cheney and Mr. Kissinger, regardless of how ruthlessly you try to squirm out of it. The people always prevail in the end, and the people of the world for the most part despise you.
And speaking of war criminals, I make this challenge to George Bush: Send Rumsfeld back to Baghdad! We all know it was Bush's Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld who met with Saddam back when the CIA was arming him with anthrax and various weapons systems, smiling and shaking hands. Well, Mr. Rumsfeld, I hereby challenge you as a man and as an American to show your courage and go back to Baghdad to get the weapons back. Make another deal with Saddam, demand regime change, give Saddam a smallpox vaccination, whatever. Just take your sorry criminal hide back to Baghdad to solve the problem YOU created, and send our sons and daughter back home! Donald Rumsfeld, you are a coward, and so are all of your generals! I say that as a veteran, as an American, and as a world citizen. There is no honor in blasting a developing nation with cruise missiles, and this aggressive invasion of Iraq will be placed on the docket as a premeditated war crime!
To the people of the world: I ask your forgiveness as an American for letting these war criminals take power, destroying our democracy in the process. They are not elected-- they seized the White House by coercion, criminal fraud and conspiracy, and no longer represent the American people. I encourage you to resist this government just as you resisted the Botha regime in apartheid South Africa. Help us stop this group of homicidal madmen and corporate raiders before they unleash Armageddon. Demand regime change in the U.S.A.! Stop the spreading "Mad Cowboy" disease!
B.Z. Botani
Planetary Rescue Corps
Occupied Hawaiian Nation
planetary@wildmail.com
http://metamagic.org/worldnews
"Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merge of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini
Please have a look at a book entitled "HISTORY WILL NOT ABSOLVE US: Orwellian Control, Public Denial, and the Murder of President Kennedy." A number of people have found it very useful in the context of 9/11 and its aftermath ... martin-and-sy
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Pope to Bush: Go into Iraq and You Go Without God
Capitol Hill Blue
Wednesday 5 March 2003
Pope John Paul II has a strong message for President George W. Bush: God is not on your side if you invade Iraq.
But the President told the pope's envoy the leader of the world's Catholics is wrong.
Pleading for peace, an emissary from Pope John Paul II questioned Bush Wednesday on whether he was doing all he could to avert what the envoy called an "unjust" war with Iraq.
Bush said removing Saddam Hussein would make the world more peaceful.
The president met with Cardinal Pio Laghi, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and a Bush family friend, on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian Lenten season of penance and spiritual renewal leading up to Easter.
Bush told the envoy in a 40-minute meeting that "if it comes to the use of force, he believes it will make the world better," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who attended the private meeting. "Removing the threat to the region will lead to a better, more peaceful world in which innocent Iraqis will have a better life."
Laghi came bearing the pope's message: A war would be a "defeat for humanity" and would be neither morally nor legally justified.
The Pope also questioned the President's statements invoking God's name as justification for the invasion.
"God is a neutral observer in the affairs of man," the Pope said. "Man cannot march into war and assume God will be at his side."
In Rome, the pope called for "common efforts to spare humanity another dramatic conflict."
The Vatican stands by its view that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq is immoral unless backed by the United Nations, Laghi said.
"It's illegal, it's unjust," Laghi told reporters after the session with Bush.
"There are still peaceful avenues within the context of the vast patrimony of international law and institutions which exist for that purpose," Laghi said. "There is great unity on this grave matter on the part of the Holy See, the bishops in the United States, and the church throughout the world," he said.
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Out of the wreckage
By tearing up the global rulebook, the US is in fact undermining its own imperial rule
George Monbiot
Tuesday February 25, 2003
The Guardian
The men who run the world are democrats at home and dictators abroad. They came to power by means of national elections which possess, at least, the potential to represent the will of their people. Their citizens can dismiss them without bloodshed, and challenge their policies in the expectation that, if enough people join in, they will be obliged to listen.
Internationally, they rule by brute force. They and the global institutions they run exercise greater economic and political control over the people of the poor world than its own governments do. But those people can no sooner challenge or replace them than the citizens of the Soviet Union could vote Stalin out of office. Their global governance is, by all the classic political definitions, tyrannical.
But while citizens' means of overthrowing this tyranny are limited, it seems to be creating some of the conditions for its own destruction.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,902274,00.html
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Shock and Yawn Plan could kill millions in 48 hours -- why don't Americans care?
Geov Parrish
02.24.03
Exactly a month ago Pentagon planner Harlan Ullman, in a CBS-TV interview, publicly revealed for the first time the Pentagon's "Shock and Awe" plan for its assault upon Iraq, should (or when) George W. Bush orders it.
Ullman's information was subsequently confirmed by a number of sources; it's for real. Here is what I wrote about it in my column of January 30:
"The plan includes simultaneous ground invasions from north and south... It also includes a sudden decimation of Baghdad by raining down on its people, in two days, over 800 cruise missiles -- more than were used in the entire Gulf War. Ullman... characterized the Baghdad assault thusly: `You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons of Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but minutes.'
It would be a firestorm, a Dresden or Tokyo with 60 years of new technology. It would be a war crime of quick and staggering proportions.
"Such a plan, of course, makes a mockery of Donald Rumsfeld's ritual insistence that the Pentagon takes enormous care to avoid civilian casualties; the plan apparently is to kill a staggering percentage of Baghdad's civilian population in the first day alone. ... The name refers to the demoralizing effect such an attack would have on Iraqis, an effect, presumably, similar to the instant (although already planned) surrender of Japan after the gratuitous bombing of Hiroshima (and even more gratuitous bombing of Nagasaki. But those were, both military and diplomatically, demonstration attacks -- suggesting what could be done to the imperial rulers themselves and to Tokyo, a city far more valuable and populous than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
"In Iraq, Baghdad is the capitol."
Now, those plans, and sentiments of horror similar to mine, have been echoing around the Internet for a month; they've been featured extensively in alternative publications that have come out during that time. Which is precisely the problem.
The United States is planning to suck all the oxygen out of the air with a fireball over the heads of the five million residents of Baghdad -- so that, as another Pentagon interviewee said, "nobody in Baghdad will be safe," whether above ground or below.
This has been well-documented public knowledge for a month, widely reported in the rest of the world. But in America it has been roundly ignored, confined to the fringes of the media landscape and probably, by many Americans, dismissed as a result as conspiracist nonsense.
This raises two questions:
1) Are Americans -- politicians, media executives, and ordinary citizens -- so numb, or oblivious, or callous to the horrors of war that we cannot raise ourselves to be bothered by what would be, if it works as planned, one of the greatest massacres, one of the greatest war crimes, in the history of the world, committed in our name and with our money?
2) Forgetting for a moment those apparently irrelevant concerns about millions of innocent lives, war crime tribunals, and the like, do America's war planners seriously think such an action would decrease the motivation or effectiveness of terrorists, who are presumably the target of the "War on Terror" and who will most certainly not be in Baghdad? (More, in fact, are likely to be huddled in any major American city. Perhaps we should preemptively bomb Philadelphia or Houston.)
To take the last question first, whether it is ever implemented or not, even the publicizing of this plan does incalculable damage to the already-abysmal reputation of the United States in the Islamic world and beyond. Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population. That's you and me.
According to captured Al-Qaeda documents, planners of the 9/11 massacre had originally considered flying jets into American nuclear facilities, but decided not do so to on "humanitarian" grounds. Does anyone think that, after our amphetamine-soaked pilots casually incinerate a major world city and its inhabitants, that they'll show such restraint next time?
You know the answer.
Muslims, who, like the rest of the world, seem to have a longer memory than we do, will also recall that a massive famine, killing up to six or seven million Afghans, was only narrowly averted in fall 2001, even though the U.S. bombing campaign cut off badly needed supplies almost until it was too late - - and would have continued to do so had the Taliban not retreated.
Shock and Awe, then, is the second serious brush with genocidal civilian death from the Bush crew in only 15 months. And we genuinely wonder why anyone hates us? Who wouldn't?
It is as if Bush and his sociopathic advisors want stronger terrorist groups -- want further attacks on Americans -- so as to justify their lust for global military dominance. Regardless, they're certainly doing their best to provoke it.
And this brings us to the initial question: why don't Americans seem to care? Again, setting aside niggling questions of morality, plans like this, whether executed -- er, carried out -- or not, put every single person living in this country in far greater danger.
Forget duct tape; we need protecting from the Bush White House, and from the record levels of new and deepening anti- American sentiment it is generating daily.
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The Flimflam
Charley Reese Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Still think you are not being flimflammed by the Bush administration?
Take heed of this:
Newsweek has reported that Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect and Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, told the United Nations, the CIA and Britain's MI-6 in 1995 that Iraq destroyed all of its chemical and biological stocks, as well as the missiles to deliver them, in 1991.
Yet the U.N. arms inspectors, the CIA and MI-6 chose to keep that secret. If it's true -- and there's no reason to believe it isn't -- then it's pretty hard evidence that the Bush administration is lying through its teeth when it keeps insisting that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
It also bolsters the credibility of former chief arms inspector Scott Ritter, who has likewise insisted that Iraq's weapons were destroyed. For that matter, it bolsters the credibility of the Iraqi government, which insists it no longer has any weapons of mass destruction.
You might recall that Kamel defected to Jordan and about six months later made the mistake of returning to Iraq, where he was killed. This coming war with Iraq gets murkier and murkier.
Let's see if we can sort it out.
First, we have a chief executive so naive about the world outside of Texas, he probably couldn't find a lot of countries on a map. Second, he has surrounded himself with American Likudniks -- supporters of Israel's right-wing government. Even The Washington Post reported recently what I've been saying for months: that Bush's policy is identical to that of Ariel Sharon's, the Israeli prime minister.
I've said that Bush has been acting like Sharon's puppet; The Washington Post story quoted a U.S. official as saying Sharon has "played Bush like a violin."
The Israelis have long feared Iraq, Iran and North Korea (because they fear it will sell missiles to Iran). What a coincidence that those three countries are Bush's "axis of evil."
Before Bush's election, Dick Cheney (now vice president), John Bolton (now undersecretary of state for arms control), Douglas Feith (now third-highest-ranking official in the Defense Department), Richard Perle (now chairman of the Defense Policy Board) and James Woolsey (former CIA director) all had one thing in common: They served as advisers to the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. This is according to an article that appeared in the magazine The Nation. Bush recently appointed as director of Middle Eastern affairs for the National Security Council Elliott Abrams, a protégé of Perle and a man convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1996, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, now an assistant to Bolton, wrote a policy proposal for Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's prime minister. Included in their advice were tips on how to manipulate the American government (OK, even the Haaretz reporter says the report comes "dangerously close" to dual loyalty) and advice to drop the peace plan, drop the idea of land for peace and concentrate on toppling Saddam Hussein and eventually replacing other Middle Eastern governments in order to create a safe environment for Israel.
There's your explanation for the war.
When sons and daughters come home in body bags or maimed, those are the people you can blame. Others in this group -- who formed an outfit called the Project for the New American Century in 1997 that also called for toppling Saddam -- include, in addition to most of those named above, Donald Rumsfeld; William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard; Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's No. 2 guy; William Bennett, the best the neocons can do for an intellectual; Richard Armitage, now Colin Powell's deputy; Zalmay Khalilzad, now ambassador to Afghanistan; and others.
If you watch the silly cable-news shows, you will recognize many of these names as part of the parade of "experts" in favor of war with Iraq. The American people are being played for suckers. Their sons and daughters will be cannon fodder in a war that might benefit a foreign country but will greatly damage the interests of our own.
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Bush and America's willing executioners would be guilty at Nuremberg
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
March 2, 2003
If he launches an attack on Iraq without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, George W. Bush will be guilty of crimes on par with those committed by the infamous Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg in 1948, after World War II.
The law is clear. At Nuremberg, American, British, French and Soviet jurists used international conventions, legal precedent and a global moral consensus to establish a code of conduct deemed the standard for all nations.
Key was the "crimes against humanity" prohibition stemming from the conscious slaughter of six million Jews, leftists, gypsies and others by the Nazi fanatics.
But also crucial was the ban on unprovoked attack by one nation against another. The explosive fuse that set off World War II was the September 1,1939 Nazi attack on Poland, which was unprovoked by any stretch of the military imagination. By all accounts it was an act of aggression and conquest, which led ultimately to as many as 50 million deaths over the next six years.
Article VI of the Nuremberg Charter defines "Crimes Against Peace" as "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties . . . or participation in a common plan or conspiracy . . . to wage an aggressive war.
A week before the unprovoked Nazi assault on Poland, Hitler promised his generals he would provide "a propagandistic reason for starting the war.� He then justified a "preemptive" strike based on lies about a non-existent Polish Army attack against Germany.
The Nazi attack date had been set for more than a year. "The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not," Hitler told his generals. "In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but victory."
After Hitler's deceptions were revealed at Nuremberg, the surviving Nazis based their defense on the claim of "preventative war," claiming a need to protect Germany from a pending Polish attack. They were the last, until Bush, to use that rationale.
It didn't work. For this attack, ranking Nazi commandants, starting with Hermann Goering, Hitler's Number Two, were convicted and sentenced to death. That charge and that alone was deemed sufficient to warrant hanging.
Unless Saddam Hussein launches an attack on the United States very soon, any American attack on Iraq without UN approval would be on a legal par with the Nazi attack on Poland.
A key US argument, that Iraq was somehow linked to the September 11 terror attacks, has been definitively dismissed. In the eighteen months since, all credible evidence points to intense hostility rather than cooperation between Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein. Colin Powell, arguing in front of the UN, failed to prove any cooperative connection.
Iraq has been ordered to disarm by the United Nations, whose legal legitimacy was essential to the 1991 campaign that drove Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
Thus far, there is no United Nations consensus that the Iraqis have definitively failed to comply with the terms of that defeat to an extent that would justify a renewed military attack, one that would inevitably involve civilian casualties.
With no claim to having been attacked, George W. Bush has instead argued that his war on Iraq would be "preemptive," meant to prevent Saddam from launching a future war. But Iraq has not attacked anyone in more than 12 years and two-thirds of the country is under a no-fly zone. Thus Bush is merely resurrecting the preventative war doctrine invoked by the Nazis before their Nuremberg hanging.
In 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander, dismissed the idea of a preventative war against the Soviet Union. "All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler," he said. "I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."
George W. Bush has now added to the list of pre-war demands a "regime change" by which Saddam Hussein would give up power. Bush then proposes rebuilding Iraq along democratic lines.
But Nazi functionaries at Nuremberg also received stiff sentences for approving essentially the same totalitarian statutes that now appear in the Homeland Security, Patriot I and Patriot II Acts authorizing secret arrest, detention and "disappearances" of American citizens without legal recourse or public notification. At Nuremberg, such laws were recognized as a form of state terror.
The embrace of such laws in America casts serious doubt on the Bush Administration's real willingness to install democracy anywhere else.
When the Nazis attacked Poland in 1939, no one envisioned that just eight years later Germany would be leveled and its all-powerful reichmarshalls would be tried and sentenced under international law.
Such a vision seems less far fetched today. America's current military might has prompted the Bush Administration to frame its proposed war in terms of a "crusade" against "evil." But military action against Iraq is guaranteed to inflame the passions of 1.2 billion Muslims. The proposed war is explicitly opposed by the Pope. International support is extremely limited. The US itself is deeply divided, with its economy in serious trouble.
The diplomatic campaign for this attack has been handled with all the wisdom and foresight of madmen lighting matches in a room full of gasoline. There is no reason to expect a military campaign would be handled any better.
It is clear from the precedents at Nuremberg that any American attack on Iraq without United Nations approval would be illegal under international law. It is also clear that the inevitable civilian casualties resulting from such an attack would qualify as crimes against humanity.
And sooner or later, the American perpetrators of such an attack and related crimes might well find themselves standing trial before some sort of Nuremberg-style international tribunal.
Given such circumstances, the guilt of George W. Bush will not be in doubt. But the guilt of subordinates giving supporting orders, and of soldiers and functionaries carrying them out, will also be a given.
The Nuremberg court, including its American judges, repeatedly ruled that those who "only followed orders" in committing atrocities were guilty of crimes against humanity.
Those willing Americans executioners who "only follow orders" in perpetrating this illegal attack on Iraq should understand that they stand to be found just as guilty as the ones giving those orders.
And that one way or another, sooner or later, that guilt will demand payment.
Bob Fitrakis is publisher of www.freepress.org and author of THE FITRAKIS FILES: SPOOKS, NUKES & NAZIS. .
Harvey Wasserman is senior editor of www.freepress.org and author of THE LAST ENERGY WAR (Seven Stories Press).
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B.Z. Botani 3-6-03 (WNN)
Yesterday another Israeli tank blasted into a Palestinian refugee camp, killing 11 civilians, half of them children. At what point will this genocidal campaign be labelled "holocaust"? The U.S. media coverage repeatedly glossed-over the fact that prior to the tank shelling, an American-supplied Apache helicopter launched missiles-- into a refugee camp! Is this not a crime against humanity, and are Americans not complicit in carrying these crimes out? Can anyone explain to me how this type of cowardly high-tech slaughter is supposed to stop a suicide bomber?
Meanwhile, it appears the invasion of Iraq grows imminent, with the mobilizing of hundreds of thousands more U.S. troops to the Gulf, and the latest Pentagon briefings boasting how they will "stun the Iraqis into submission" with their largest missile campaign yet. I implore everyone in the world to burn this moment into their memories, and register that this is a pre-meditated, wholesale industrial act of annihilation, against an inferior force and Iraqi civilians. Consider the reality of what we are talking about: cruise missiles slamming into neigborhoods and buildings in the middle of the night, incinerating and wounding indiscriminately. This isn't warfare. This is mass destruction, holocaust, aggressive and murderous imperialism.
If George Bush and his regime refuse to stop Ariel Sharon and his army in their ethnic cleansing and genocidal aggression, how can they be trusted as an occupying force in an industrialized Arab nation? A small reminder here that Sharon is armed with 40 nuclear weapons and is willing to use them. Where is the outcry from the White House? Rather, the Pentagon is sending more aid and support to the far-right extremists in Israel. Any wonder that Islamists call the Bush regime the "Crusaders?" (Not to be confused with Cusader missiles?)
And Tony Blair's claim that "it's not about the oil" is completely ludicrous. The CIA and British Petroleum agents assuring Iraqis that they're not after the oil, just the Iraqi government and economy! It's always been about the oil, people. For the last century, the American and British oil companies have been plotting how to get back in Iraq, where they once ruled an oil empire. Can anyone imagine an American military government in Baghdad that doesn't have it's hands on the flow of oil? This is madness and more! Even more disturbing is that large numbers of American citizens actually believe it, with a glaze-eyed smile repeating: "I love my country. I support my troops. We love our freedom." Here's a wake-up call for those folks: I love my country too, but the people currently occupying the White House don't represent my country, they represent war criminals, drug and oil companies, arms manufacturers, assorted secret agencies and elitist societies, and billionaires.
Ask yourself what this so-called "war" is really about. Saddam Hussein hasn't changed his policies for several years, and what weapons he has left are being dealt with by the inspectors. He isn't now threatening Israel, and the idea that he can strike the U.S. is a complete fabrication, according to former weapons inspectors like Scott Ritter. What is the urgency? Could it be the same urgency that caused Bush's father to invade Panama? To improve White House ratings, cover the sundry CIA covert ops in Central America (like drugs), and silence Noriega (another CIA creation, like Saddam)? Will the Iraq invasion once again result in hidden mass graves (see the film "Panama Deception") for the sake of a President's popularity? I've got news for Bush 43: you're going down in history as a war criminal with all of your cronies, including Dick Cheney and Mr. Kissinger, regardless of how ruthlessly you try to squirm out of it. The people always prevail in the end, and the people of the world for the most part despise you.
And speaking of war criminals, I make this challenge to George Bush: Send Rumsfeld back to Baghdad! We all know it was Bush's Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld who met with Saddam back when the CIA was arming him with anthrax and various weapons systems, smiling and shaking hands. Well, Mr. Rumsfeld, I hereby challenge you as a man and as an American to show your courage and go back to Baghdad to get the weapons back. Make another deal with Saddam, demand regime change, give Saddam a smallpox vaccination, whatever. Just take your sorry criminal hide back to Baghdad to solve the problem YOU created, and send our sons and daughter back home! Donald Rumsfeld, you are a coward, and so are all of your generals! I say that as a veteran, as an American, and as a world citizen. There is no honor in blasting a developing nation with cruise missiles, and this aggressive invasion of Iraq will be placed on the docket as a premeditated war crime!
To the people of the world: I ask your forgiveness as an American for letting these war criminals take power, destroying our democracy in the process. They are not elected-- they seized the White House by coercion, criminal fraud and conspiracy, and no longer represent the American people. I encourage you to resist this government just as you resisted the Botha regime in apartheid South Africa. Help us stop this group of homicidal madmen and corporate raiders before they unleash Armageddon. Demand regime change in the U.S.A.! Stop the spreading "Mad Cowboy" disease!
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Pope to Bush: Go into Iraq and You Go Without God
Capitol Hill Blue
Wednesday 5 March 2003
Pope John Paul II has a strong message for President George W. Bush: God is not on your side if you invade Iraq.
But the President told the pope's envoy the leader of the world's Catholics is wrong.
Pleading for peace, an emissary from Pope John Paul II questioned Bush Wednesday on whether he was doing all he could to avert what the envoy called an "unjust" war with Iraq.
Bush said removing Saddam Hussein would make the world more peaceful.
The president met with Cardinal Pio Laghi, a former Vatican ambassador to the United States and a Bush family friend, on Ash Wednesday, the start of the Christian Lenten season of penance and spiritual renewal leading up to Easter.
Bush told the envoy in a 40-minute meeting that "if it comes to the use of force, he believes it will make the world better," said White House spokesman Ari Fleischer, who attended the private meeting. "Removing the threat to the region will lead to a better, more peaceful world in which innocent Iraqis will have a better life."
Laghi came bearing the pope's message: A war would be a "defeat for humanity" and would be neither morally nor legally justified.
The Pope also questioned the President's statements invoking God's name as justification for the invasion.
"God is a neutral observer in the affairs of man," the Pope said. "Man cannot march into war and assume God will be at his side."
In Rome, the pope called for "common efforts to spare humanity another dramatic conflict."
The Vatican stands by its view that a pre-emptive strike on Iraq is immoral unless backed by the United Nations, Laghi said.
"It's illegal, it's unjust," Laghi told reporters after the session with Bush.
"There are still peaceful avenues within the context of the vast patrimony of international law and institutions which exist for that purpose," Laghi said. "There is great unity on this grave matter on the part of the Holy See, the bishops in the United States, and the church throughout the world," he said.
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Out of the wreckage
By tearing up the global rulebook, the US is in fact undermining its own imperial rule
George Monbiot
Tuesday February 25, 2003
The Guardian
The men who run the world are democrats at home and dictators abroad. They came to power by means of national elections which possess, at least, the potential to represent the will of their people. Their citizens can dismiss them without bloodshed, and challenge their policies in the expectation that, if enough people join in, they will be obliged to listen.
Internationally, they rule by brute force. They and the global institutions they run exercise greater economic and political control over the people of the poor world than its own governments do. But those people can no sooner challenge or replace them than the citizens of the Soviet Union could vote Stalin out of office. Their global governance is, by all the classic political definitions, tyrannical.
But while citizens' means of overthrowing this tyranny are limited, it seems to be creating some of the conditions for its own destruction.
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Shock and Yawn Plan could kill millions in 48 hours -- why don't Americans care?
Geov Parrish
02.24.03
Exactly a month ago Pentagon planner Harlan Ullman, in a CBS-TV interview, publicly revealed for the first time the Pentagon's "Shock and Awe" plan for its assault upon Iraq, should (or when) George W. Bush orders it.
Ullman's information was subsequently confirmed by a number of sources; it's for real. Here is what I wrote about it in my column of January 30:
"The plan includes simultaneous ground invasions from north and south... It also includes a sudden decimation of Baghdad by raining down on its people, in two days, over 800 cruise missiles -- more than were used in the entire Gulf War. Ullman... characterized the Baghdad assault thusly: `You have this simultaneous effect, rather like the nuclear weapons of Hiroshima, not taking days or weeks but minutes.'
It would be a firestorm, a Dresden or Tokyo with 60 years of new technology. It would be a war crime of quick and staggering proportions.
"Such a plan, of course, makes a mockery of Donald Rumsfeld's ritual insistence that the Pentagon takes enormous care to avoid civilian casualties; the plan apparently is to kill a staggering percentage of Baghdad's civilian population in the first day alone. ... The name refers to the demoralizing effect such an attack would have on Iraqis, an effect, presumably, similar to the instant (although already planned) surrender of Japan after the gratuitous bombing of Hiroshima (and even more gratuitous bombing of Nagasaki. But those were, both military and diplomatically, demonstration attacks -- suggesting what could be done to the imperial rulers themselves and to Tokyo, a city far more valuable and populous than Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.
"In Iraq, Baghdad is the capitol."
Now, those plans, and sentiments of horror similar to mine, have been echoing around the Internet for a month; they've been featured extensively in alternative publications that have come out during that time. Which is precisely the problem.
The United States is planning to suck all the oxygen out of the air with a fireball over the heads of the five million residents of Baghdad -- so that, as another Pentagon interviewee said, "nobody in Baghdad will be safe," whether above ground or below.
This has been well-documented public knowledge for a month, widely reported in the rest of the world. But in America it has been roundly ignored, confined to the fringes of the media landscape and probably, by many Americans, dismissed as a result as conspiracist nonsense.
This raises two questions:
1) Are Americans -- politicians, media executives, and ordinary citizens -- so numb, or oblivious, or callous to the horrors of war that we cannot raise ourselves to be bothered by what would be, if it works as planned, one of the greatest massacres, one of the greatest war crimes, in the history of the world, committed in our name and with our money?
2) Forgetting for a moment those apparently irrelevant concerns about millions of innocent lives, war crime tribunals, and the like, do America's war planners seriously think such an action would decrease the motivation or effectiveness of terrorists, who are presumably the target of the "War on Terror" and who will most certainly not be in Baghdad? (More, in fact, are likely to be huddled in any major American city. Perhaps we should preemptively bomb Philadelphia or Houston.)
To take the last question first, whether it is ever implemented or not, even the publicizing of this plan does incalculable damage to the already-abysmal reputation of the United States in the Islamic world and beyond. Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population. That's you and me.
According to captured Al-Qaeda documents, planners of the 9/11 massacre had originally considered flying jets into American nuclear facilities, but decided not do so to on "humanitarian" grounds. Does anyone think that, after our amphetamine-soaked pilots casually incinerate a major world city and its inhabitants, that they'll show such restraint next time?
You know the answer.
Muslims, who, like the rest of the world, seem to have a longer memory than we do, will also recall that a massive famine, killing up to six or seven million Afghans, was only narrowly averted in fall 2001, even though the U.S. bombing campaign cut off badly needed supplies almost until it was too late - - and would have continued to do so had the Taliban not retreated.
Shock and Awe, then, is the second serious brush with genocidal civilian death from the Bush crew in only 15 months. And we genuinely wonder why anyone hates us? Who wouldn't?
It is as if Bush and his sociopathic advisors want stronger terrorist groups -- want further attacks on Americans -- so as to justify their lust for global military dominance. Regardless, they're certainly doing their best to provoke it.
And this brings us to the initial question: why don't Americans seem to care? Again, setting aside niggling questions of morality, plans like this, whether executed -- er, carried out -- or not, put every single person living in this country in far greater danger.
Forget duct tape; we need protecting from the Bush White House, and from the record levels of new and deepening anti- American sentiment it is generating daily.
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The Flimflam
Charley Reese Wednesday, March 5, 2003
Still think you are not being flimflammed by the Bush administration?
Take heed of this:
Newsweek has reported that Hussein Kamel, the highest-ranking Iraqi official ever to defect and Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, told the United Nations, the CIA and Britain's MI-6 in 1995 that Iraq destroyed all of its chemical and biological stocks, as well as the missiles to deliver them, in 1991.
Yet the U.N. arms inspectors, the CIA and MI-6 chose to keep that secret. If it's true -- and there's no reason to believe it isn't -- then it's pretty hard evidence that the Bush administration is lying through its teeth when it keeps insisting that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction.
It also bolsters the credibility of former chief arms inspector Scott Ritter, who has likewise insisted that Iraq's weapons were destroyed. For that matter, it bolsters the credibility of the Iraqi government, which insists it no longer has any weapons of mass destruction.
You might recall that Kamel defected to Jordan and about six months later made the mistake of returning to Iraq, where he was killed. This coming war with Iraq gets murkier and murkier.
Let's see if we can sort it out.
First, we have a chief executive so naive about the world outside of Texas, he probably couldn't find a lot of countries on a map. Second, he has surrounded himself with American Likudniks -- supporters of Israel's right-wing government. Even The Washington Post reported recently what I've been saying for months: that Bush's policy is identical to that of Ariel Sharon's, the Israeli prime minister.
I've said that Bush has been acting like Sharon's puppet; The Washington Post story quoted a U.S. official as saying Sharon has "played Bush like a violin."
The Israelis have long feared Iraq, Iran and North Korea (because they fear it will sell missiles to Iran). What a coincidence that those three countries are Bush's "axis of evil."
Before Bush's election, Dick Cheney (now vice president), John Bolton (now undersecretary of state for arms control), Douglas Feith (now third-highest-ranking official in the Defense Department), Richard Perle (now chairman of the Defense Policy Board) and James Woolsey (former CIA director) all had one thing in common: They served as advisers to the pro-Israeli Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. This is according to an article that appeared in the magazine The Nation. Bush recently appointed as director of Middle Eastern affairs for the National Security Council Elliott Abrams, a protégé of Perle and a man convicted of lying to Congress during the Iran-Contra affair.
In 1996, according to an article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Perle, Feith and David Wurmser, now an assistant to Bolton, wrote a policy proposal for Benjamin Netanyahu, then Israel's prime minister. Included in their advice were tips on how to manipulate the American government (OK, even the Haaretz reporter says the report comes "dangerously close" to dual loyalty) and advice to drop the peace plan, drop the idea of land for peace and concentrate on toppling Saddam Hussein and eventually replacing other Middle Eastern governments in order to create a safe environment for Israel.
There's your explanation for the war.
When sons and daughters come home in body bags or maimed, those are the people you can blame. Others in this group -- who formed an outfit called the Project for the New American Century in 1997 that also called for toppling Saddam -- include, in addition to most of those named above, Donald Rumsfeld; William Kristol, editor of the neoconservative Weekly Standard; Paul Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld's No. 2 guy; William Bennett, the best the neocons can do for an intellectual; Richard Armitage, now Colin Powell's deputy; Zalmay Khalilzad, now ambassador to Afghanistan; and others.
If you watch the silly cable-news shows, you will recognize many of these names as part of the parade of "experts" in favor of war with Iraq. The American people are being played for suckers. Their sons and daughters will be cannon fodder in a war that might benefit a foreign country but will greatly damage the interests of our own.
"Our task consists of preparing the Israeli army for the new war approaching
in order to achieve our ultimate goal, the creation of an Israeli empire."
-- Moshe Dayan 1952
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The Israeli Holocaust Against the Palestinians
by Michael A. Hoffman II and Moshe Lieberman
Compiled by two elite scholars with impeccable credentials -- Hoffman, a former reporter for the New York bureau of the Associated Press, and Moshe Lieberman, a former Hebrew University researcher -- the authors combine their sleuthing skills and erudition to bring the reader an irrefutable dossier of Israeli war crimes in Palestine, profusely illustrated with harrowing photos of the death and destruction which the Zionist war machine has administered as collective punishment upon the entire Palestinian nation. The authors marshal a dossier of massive evidence and stunning documentary photographs, proving conclusively that the Israelis themselves are guilty of a holocaust.
Hoffman and Lieberman make a devastating case for Israeli criminality, while exposing the ferocious Talmudic racism that fuels the Israeli identification of the Palestinian people as "Amalek," and targets them for the final solution of "total eradication." The authors argue that to pretend that Zionist atrocities have not been systematically perpetrated in Palestine as part of a coherent dogma of eliminationism, constitutes nothing less than "holocaust denial." 6 x 9 paperback· 110 pages · illustrated. $12.95
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Bush and America's willing executioners would be guilty at Nuremberg
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
March 2, 2003
If he launches an attack on Iraq without the approval of the United Nations Security Council, George W. Bush will be guilty of crimes on par with those committed by the infamous Nazi leaders who were tried at Nuremberg in 1948, after World War II.
The law is clear. At Nuremberg, American, British, French and Soviet jurists used international conventions, legal precedent and a global moral consensus to establish a code of conduct deemed the standard for all nations.
Key was the "crimes against humanity" prohibition stemming from the conscious slaughter of six million Jews, leftists, gypsies and others by the Nazi fanatics.
But also crucial was the ban on unprovoked attack by one nation against another. The explosive fuse that set off World War II was the September 1,1939 Nazi attack on Poland, which was unprovoked by any stretch of the military imagination. By all accounts it was an act of aggression and conquest, which led ultimately to as many as 50 million deaths over the next six years.
Article VI of the Nuremberg Charter defines "Crimes Against Peace" as "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties . . . or participation in a common plan or conspiracy . . . to wage an aggressive war.
A week before the unprovoked Nazi assault on Poland, Hitler promised his generals he would provide "a propagandistic reason for starting the war.� He then justified a "preemptive" strike based on lies about a non-existent Polish Army attack against Germany.
The Nazi attack date had been set for more than a year. "The victor will not be asked afterwards whether he told the truth or not," Hitler told his generals. "In starting and waging a war it is not right that matters, but victory."
After Hitler's deceptions were revealed at Nuremberg, the surviving Nazis based their defense on the claim of "preventative war," claiming a need to protect Germany from a pending Polish attack. They were the last, until Bush, to use that rationale.
It didn't work. For this attack, ranking Nazi commandants, starting with Hermann Goering, Hitler's Number Two, were convicted and sentenced to death. That charge and that alone was deemed sufficient to warrant hanging.
Unless Saddam Hussein launches an attack on the United States very soon, any American attack on Iraq without UN approval would be on a legal par with the Nazi attack on Poland.
A key US argument, that Iraq was somehow linked to the September 11 terror attacks, has been definitively dismissed. In the eighteen months since, all credible evidence points to intense hostility rather than cooperation between Al Qaida and Saddam Hussein. Colin Powell, arguing in front of the UN, failed to prove any cooperative connection.
Iraq has been ordered to disarm by the United Nations, whose legal legitimacy was essential to the 1991 campaign that drove Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.
Thus far, there is no United Nations consensus that the Iraqis have definitively failed to comply with the terms of that defeat to an extent that would justify a renewed military attack, one that would inevitably involve civilian casualties.
With no claim to having been attacked, George W. Bush has instead argued that his war on Iraq would be "preemptive," meant to prevent Saddam from launching a future war. But Iraq has not attacked anyone in more than 12 years and two-thirds of the country is under a no-fly zone. Thus Bush is merely resurrecting the preventative war doctrine invoked by the Nazis before their Nuremberg hanging.
In 1953 President Dwight Eisenhower, the former Supreme Allied Commander, dismissed the idea of a preventative war against the Soviet Union. "All of us have heard this term 'preventive war' since the earliest days of Hitler," he said. "I don't believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came in and talked about such a thing."
George W. Bush has now added to the list of pre-war demands a "regime change" by which Saddam Hussein would give up power. Bush then proposes rebuilding Iraq along democratic lines.
But Nazi functionaries at Nuremberg also received stiff sentences for approving essentially the same totalitarian statutes that now appear in the Homeland Security, Patriot I and Patriot II Acts authorizing secret arrest, detention and "disappearances" of American citizens without legal recourse or public notification. At Nuremberg, such laws were recognized as a form of state terror.
The embrace of such laws in America casts serious doubt on the Bush Administration's real willingness to install democracy anywhere else.
When the Nazis attacked Poland in 1939, no one envisioned that just eight years later Germany would be leveled and its all-powerful reichmarshalls would be tried and sentenced under international law.
Such a vision seems less far fetched today. America's current military might has prompted the Bush Administration to frame its proposed war in terms of a "crusade" against "evil." But military action against Iraq is guaranteed to inflame the passions of 1.2 billion Muslims. The proposed war is explicitly opposed by the Pope. International support is extremely limited. The US itself is deeply divided, with its economy in serious trouble.
The diplomatic campaign for this attack has been handled with all the wisdom and foresight of madmen lighting matches in a room full of gasoline. There is no reason to expect a military campaign would be handled any better.
It is clear from the precedents at Nuremberg that any American attack on Iraq without United Nations approval would be illegal under international law. It is also clear that the inevitable civilian casualties resulting from such an attack would qualify as crimes against humanity.
And sooner or later, the American perpetrators of such an attack and related crimes might well find themselves standing trial before some sort of Nuremberg-style international tribunal.
Given such circumstances, the guilt of George W. Bush will not be in doubt. But the guilt of subordinates giving supporting orders, and of soldiers and functionaries carrying them out, will also be a given.
The Nuremberg court, including its American judges, repeatedly ruled that those who "only followed orders" in committing atrocities were guilty of crimes against humanity.
Those willing Americans executioners who "only follow orders" in perpetrating this illegal attack on Iraq should understand that they stand to be found just as guilty as the ones giving those orders.
And that one way or another, sooner or later, that guilt will demand payment.
Bob Fitrakis is publisher of www.freepress.org and author of THE FITRAKIS FILES: SPOOKS, NUKES & NAZIS. .
Harvey Wasserman is senior editor of www.freepress.org and author of THE LAST ENERGY WAR (Seven Stories Press).
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--Michael Rivero
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ."
-- General Douglas MacArthur, 1957
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"I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running
from the wounded.I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed.
I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war."
--Franklin. D. Roosevelt
Address at Chautauqua, NY, August 14, 1936
"The High Office of President has been used to foment a plot to destroy the
American's freedom, and before I leave office I must inform the citizen of his plight."
-- John F. Kennedy, at Columbia University, 12th Nov. 1963 - 10 days before
his murder on November 22, 1963
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tyranny will enslave him."
--Mahatma Gandhi
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Waking America to the Terror Within
BZ Botani 3-3-03 WNN
What is the real message the Bush regime is sending the world? More importantly, what danger does this Military-Intelligence-Industrial complex pose to our planet?
Any American who believes that the Bush regime & the CIA are fighting for YOUR United States needs to pull the wool out of their eyelids. This is a coup of gargantuan proportions, of the Corporations, by the Corporations, and for the Elitists. What if the people decide to take their government back? Does that possibility even exist?
The Bush regime, which is really a CIA/DIA/NSC/NRO regime, fueled by big oil & drugs, is telling the world that now THEY set the agenda. They will stack the deck, so every eye is turned to Iraq, all energies are embroiled in the dramatic fabrication surrounding Saddam & Bush. Never mind that the CIA created both of them.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, no one is addressing the fact that Bush doesn’t even belong in the White House, with new revelations of Republican tampering with electronic balloting systems in at least 3 states having come to light, and the Florida scandal never addressed in criminal terms. Again, classic CIA engineering, what they’ve been doing in other countries for half a century. Unless this voting scandal is exposed, sad to say the CIA will pull off another “miracle” in only 2 years, regardless of the people’s opinion.
And not since the JFK assassination (another CIA crossroads, where you find George Bush Sr.) has an event of such monumental consequences and corruption taken place, as the September 11 WTC attacks, although there’ve been others… the Oklahoma bombings, Waco holocaust, etc. Doesn’t it seem that the logical thing for a democracy to do is investigate the CAUSES & criminalities of the 9-11 attacks, before launching off against the world, fomenting more hate & resentment?
No, the Bush agenda has blocked any investigation of the causes of the 9-11 attacks, and uses the Hitler tactic of diverting blame to any evil enemy they desire to deploy against. Every thinking person’s skin is crawling with the appointment of war criminal Kissinger to head Bush’s “investigation.” Wake the Americans, ask them: What if these people who are launching your wars also share the blame for the 9-11 attacks-- allowed them to happen, funded and coordinated them? Then we are in a burning house, and trying to put it out with gasoline!
America has a terminal cancer, the CIA-Industrial covert complex, and it has exploded into a global infection. We are in the denial stage of the disease, not willing to admit just how malignant the burning in our heart is. Either we make a realistic diagnosis of the situation, and root out the causes, or we are going to allow the holocaust to continue. What Bush is pushing for is a world of endless hatred, terror, and warfare, all the while pulling our country out from under us.
Oh, and that estimated 1 TRILLION that an Iraq invasion will cost-- where will all that blood money go? It doesn’t just evaporate-- war is the biggest business, and the weapons makers have to have someone to buy. Bush’s business is death, and the CIA isn’t your friend! Check out the 9-11 evidence enclosed.
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Terror Commission Seeks Classified Papers
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Feb. 28 —
The independent commission on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is trying to get a
half-million pages of documents compiled by the House and Senate intelligence
committees.
The commission's vice chairman, former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, said Friday he is
working with the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain or examine the documents,
many of which are classified.
Hamilton said three members of his commission have obtained security clearances so
far, and the White House is working to expedite the others. But even for people with
such clearances, he said, "it's no easy task" to gain access to classified information
compiled by the intelligence committees.
Hamilton and Kean met Thursday with lawmakers who headed up the joint
congressional inquiry.
Earlier that day, they convened the third meeting of the 10-member National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Like the first two meetings, it
was held in private.
Kean and Hamilton said the panel made progress in creating task forces to divide its
workload. The commission's broad list of study topics includes intelligence, law
enforcement, diplomacy, immigration, aviation and the flow of assets to terrorist
organizations.
Kean has said the commission's early agenda includes examining the United States'
policy toward Afghanistan, its interactions with "crucial friends, such as Saudi Arabia,"
and information-sharing among agencies of the U.S. government.
So far, the commission has hired 25 to 30 employees some of whom worked on the
joint congressional inquiry and will probably end up with a staff of about 50. It is also
drafting a budget to determine whether it can get by on the $3 million appropriated by
Congress.
"The answer is almost certainly 'no,'" Hamilton said, "but what we do not know yet is
how much additional money we will request."
The commission plans to hold its first public hearings in New York City, tentatively
scheduled for March 31 and April 1.
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Debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fantasies about Sept. 11
by Gerard Holmgren debunker@hotmail.com
Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one ,often several wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" " The Pope had John Lennon murdered ", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens replaced Nixon with a clone" etc,etc. The bigger the event, the more ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate in relation to it.
So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is - sadly - a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.
These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider trading on airline stocks - linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours ,crashing them into important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent even more preposturous stories to distract from its core silliness, and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly gargantuan proportions.
It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article. However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus beginning the circle once more. This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their (ill)logical conclusions.
According to the practitioners of the fruit loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then used electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly the planes to their targets.
The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction is only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow got on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With vague mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these were traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, to relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked suspicious. However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they supposed to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched ? And if they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage.
"Excuse me sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?"
"A present for your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get."
"Very strange", thinks the security officer. "That's the fourth Arabic man without an Arabic name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I guess..."
Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is likely to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards that identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they used false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time ,the fruit loop is in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found at the crash scenes. "So there!" they exalt triumphantly, their fanatical faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a revelation of questionable sanity.
Hmm? So they got on board with false IDs but took their real passports with them? However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, "Who said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting in! Their presence is well documented!" And so the whole loop starts again. "Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?"
"You numbskull! They assumed the identities of other passengers!" And so on...
Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of creative delusion , the rational sceptic will allow them to get away with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see what further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously stupid story.
"Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes that completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? " The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks in a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...
This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy theorist. The "improbability drive" , in which they decide upon a conclusion without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens (just about all the time in their world). There is a principle called "Occam's razor" which suggests that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor.
Having for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of how they are supposed to have taken over the planes.
Hijacking a plane is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being able to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking. Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the conspiracy buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took over the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached their masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just on one plane, but on all four. At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced to call upon the services of the improbability drive.
So now that our incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all four pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their fiery end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of "our freedoms" , it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled them to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy buffs, these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night before their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really impeccable Islamic behavior - and then got up at 5am the next morning to pull off the greatest covert operation in history. This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find.
It gets better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to Cessnas and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight training with these tools, which would be available just about anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy theorist , too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-believable.
Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of the mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult question of why there's nothing left of the planes. Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that manner when they crash.
Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner that they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely vapourizing the plane? This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in order to keep the delusion rolling along.
There weren't any explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion temperature of kerosine - let alone the boiling point - which is what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about 50 tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal for each gallon of kerosine.
For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely dismissed as "mumbo jumbo". This convenient little phrase is their answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine, something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just discovered by them, this very minute. Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where the effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than the intellects of these cretins.
"Its a well known fact that planes blow up into nothing on impact." they state with pompous certainty. "Watch any Bruce Willis movie."
"Care to provide any documented examples? If it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs from some kind of documentation - other than Bruce Willis movies ?"
At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist will narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves into, and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip.
"Ah, but planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way of telling." they counter with a sly grin.
Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since, and not vapourized into nothing.
"But not big planes, with that much fuel ", they shriek in hysterical denial.
Or that much metal to vapourize.
"Yes but not hijacked planes!"
"Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or accidental affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?"
"Now you're just being silly".
Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes frequently crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass? But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily around the fruit loop. "Its a well documented fact that planes explode into nothing on impact."
Effortlessly weaving back and forth between the position that its a "well known fact" and that "its never happened before, so we have nothing to compare it to", the conspiracy theorist has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that the WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the fruit. loop...
But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the newly discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have to explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse of both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter is to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that the buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine.
For this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of degradation of energy. You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic fireball , vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came back for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting fires all through the building. When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once, something which is readily observable in the real world, even for those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is no problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a few thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to
:completely vapourize a 65 ton aircraft
:have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel )
:still have enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start similarly destructive fires all through the building.
This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize that those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently holding the lamp - the next - kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with with the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly stuff to start a massive forest fire.
These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno allegedly created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the building of 2000 C , without a shred of evidence to support this curious suspension of the laws of physics.
Not content with this ludicrous garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling sideways.
Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws of gravity get in the way?
The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the morning of Sept 11. It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew no bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a Boeing passenger jet straying off course.
Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for why.
"Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir"
"No miss, the kerosine heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for my passport."
"You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs who destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms."
Or perhaps they misunderstood the term "creative science" and mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, their science homework.
The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why so many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by heat. (Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the job.) This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a different city.
That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, your DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that it can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton aircraft.
You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point to a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were identified from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one identified by DNA testing.
So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy story you're trying to sell at any particular time.
This concoction about one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler. For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists of 5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat circular hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A little later a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. Since the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and there was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building, and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play golf on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.
But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of thermodynamics, so what the hell - why not throw in a little spatial impossibility as well ? I would have thought that the observation that a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound science. But to the conspiracy theorist, this is "mumbo jumbo". It conflicts with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it "must be wrong" although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong is a futile endeavour.
Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.) Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth in its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown up outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep missile hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the wings - here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped off and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of meat.
When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from an "irrecoverable angle." How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly a study in stupidity.
Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance. The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the wall, just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to help get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.
As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the extremist Bush regime.
At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in "retaliation" are far too serious for us to allow such frivolous self indulgence to go unchallenged.
Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a more appropriate outlet for their paranoia.
Its time to stop loony conspiracy theories about Sept 11.
http://www.911-strike.com/debunking.htm
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Top websites for investigating 9-11 and the Oil Wars
www.pi911.org - People's Investigation of 9-11
www.questionsquestions.net - excellent site, highly recommended
www.fromthewilderness.com - drugs, intelligence and 9-11
http://makethemaccountable.com/whatwhen/index.htm - prior warnings about Sept 11
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html understanding 9/11 propaganda
Bush-Bin Laden connections:
the Bush dynasty has closer links to the bin Ladens than Saddam Hussein does!
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm
www.bushwatch.net/bushmoney.htm
Forbidden Truth - Bin Laden, John O'Neill
Bush - Bin Laden financial connections - the Carlyle Group, investment in Arbusto Energy (W's first failed business effort), and more
http://propagandamatrix.com/what_really_happened_part_3.html
bin Laden is merely a piece in a chess game. The stakes of the game are the last of the world’s oil reserves and “…the Bush administration’s “(consolidation of power) to pursue a drastic unlimited militarization of foreign policy on a massive and unprecedented scale required by long-standing elite planning, while crushing domestic dissent and criminalizing legitimate protest.”
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html
gov. jeb bush (Florida) declared "emergency" 4 days _before_ 9-11
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Biowarfare: who sent anthrax to the top Democrat in Congress?
www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/theFword.html FASCISM - who sent the anthrax to Congress?
www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxpaper.htm -- Federation of American Scientists updates on the investigation (it was probably sent from the Army's biowar center at Ft. Detrick, Maryland)
www.freefromterror.net the clue is the timing of the attacks
The leaders of the Democratic Party were targeted for assassination by right-wing elements that have some connection to the military. This staggering fact, however, has been met with a strange silence by the media, government officials and the Democrats themselves, including the two senators who were targeted. ....
www.nybooks.com/articles/158 Ken Alibek, Soviet biowar defector
www.cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm The Demon in the Freezer
www.fas.org/bwc/ Chemical & Biological Arms Control
www.gulfwarvets.com/anthrax2.html toxic anthrax vaccine made by Bioport company
www.datafilter.com/mc/ mind control
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-- Albert Einstein
"I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war."
-- Ammon Hennacy
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolf Hitler
"We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride, and our arrogance as a nation."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"There's a little Hitler in all of us"
--Mother Theresa
"Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your country."
-- George W. Bush
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What is the real message the Bush regime is sending the world? More importantly, what danger does this Military-Intelligence-Industrial complex pose to our planet?
Any American who believes that the Bush regime & the CIA are fighting for YOUR United States needs to pull the wool out of their eyelids. This is a coup of gargantuan proportions, of the Corporations, by the Corporations, and for the Elitists. What if the people decide to take their government back? Does that possibility even exist?
The Bush regime, which is really a CIA/DIA/NSC/NRO regime, fueled by big oil & drugs, is telling the world that now THEY set the agenda. They will stack the deck, so every eye is turned to Iraq, all energies are embroiled in the dramatic fabrication surrounding Saddam & Bush. Never mind that the CIA created both of them.
Meanwhile, back in the real world, no one is addressing the fact that Bush doesn’t even belong in the White House, with new revelations of Republican tampering with electronic balloting systems in at least 3 states having come to light, and the Florida scandal never addressed in criminal terms. Again, classic CIA engineering, what they’ve been doing in other countries for half a century. Unless this voting scandal is exposed, sad to say the CIA will pull off another “miracle” in only 2 years, regardless of the people’s opinion.
And not since the JFK assassination (another CIA crossroads, where you find George Bush Sr.) has an event of such monumental consequences and corruption taken place, as the September 11 WTC attacks, although there’ve been others… the Oklahoma bombings, Waco holocaust, etc. Doesn’t it seem that the logical thing for a democracy to do is investigate the CAUSES & criminalities of the 9-11 attacks, before launching off against the world, fomenting more hate & resentment?
No, the Bush agenda has blocked any investigation of the causes of the 9-11 attacks, and uses the Hitler tactic of diverting blame to any evil enemy they desire to deploy against. Every thinking person’s skin is crawling with the appointment of war criminal Kissinger to head Bush’s “investigation.” Wake the Americans, ask them: What if these people who are launching your wars also share the blame for the 9-11 attacks-- allowed them to happen, funded and coordinated them? Then we are in a burning house, and trying to put it out with gasoline!
America has a terminal cancer, the CIA-Industrial covert complex, and it has exploded into a global infection. We are in the denial stage of the disease, not willing to admit just how malignant the burning in our heart is. Either we make a realistic diagnosis of the situation, and root out the causes, or we are going to allow the holocaust to continue. What Bush is pushing for is a world of endless hatred, terror, and warfare, all the while pulling our country out from under us.
Oh, and that estimated 1 TRILLION that an Iraq invasion will cost-- where will all that blood money go? It doesn’t just evaporate-- war is the biggest business, and the weapons makers have to have someone to buy. Bush’s business is death, and the CIA isn’t your friend! Check out the 9-11 evidence enclosed.
Stop the “Mad Cowboy” Disease!!!
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Terror Commission Seeks Classified Papers
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Feb. 28 —
The independent commission on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is trying to get a
half-million pages of documents compiled by the House and Senate intelligence
committees.
The commission's vice chairman, former Indiana Rep. Lee Hamilton, said Friday he is
working with the Justice Department and the FBI to obtain or examine the documents,
many of which are classified.
Hamilton said three members of his commission have obtained security clearances so
far, and the White House is working to expedite the others. But even for people with
such clearances, he said, "it's no easy task" to gain access to classified information
compiled by the intelligence committees.
Hamilton and Kean met Thursday with lawmakers who headed up the joint
congressional inquiry.
Earlier that day, they convened the third meeting of the 10-member National
Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. Like the first two meetings, it
was held in private.
Kean and Hamilton said the panel made progress in creating task forces to divide its
workload. The commission's broad list of study topics includes intelligence, law
enforcement, diplomacy, immigration, aviation and the flow of assets to terrorist
organizations.
Kean has said the commission's early agenda includes examining the United States'
policy toward Afghanistan, its interactions with "crucial friends, such as Saudi Arabia,"
and information-sharing among agencies of the U.S. government.
So far, the commission has hired 25 to 30 employees some of whom worked on the
joint congressional inquiry and will probably end up with a staff of about 50. It is also
drafting a budget to determine whether it can get by on the $3 million appropriated by
Congress.
"The answer is almost certainly 'no,'" Hamilton said, "but what we do not know yet is
how much additional money we will request."
The commission plans to hold its first public hearings in New York City, tentatively
scheduled for March 31 and April 1.
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Debunking conspiracy theorists' paranoid fantasies about Sept. 11
by Gerard Holmgren debunker@hotmail.com
Astute observers of history are aware that for every notable event there will usually be at least one ,often several wild conspiracy theories which spring up around it. "The CIA killed Hendrix" " The Pope had John Lennon murdered ", "Hitler was half Werewolf", "Space aliens replaced Nixon with a clone" etc,etc. The bigger the event, the more ridiculous and more numerous are the fanciful rantings which circulate in relation to it.
So its hardly surprising that the events of Sept 11 2001 have spawned their fair share of these ludicrous fairy tales. And as always, there is - sadly - a small but gullible percentage of the population eager to lap up these tall tales, regardless of facts or rational analysis.
One of the wilder stories circulating about Sept 11, and one that has attracted something of a cult following amongst conspiracy buffs is that it was carried out by 19 fanatical Arab hijackers, masterminded by an evil genius named Osama bin Laden, with no apparent motivation other than that they "hate our freedoms."
Never a group of people to be bothered by facts, the perpetrators of this cartoon fantasy have constructed an elaborately woven web of delusions and unsubstantiated hearsay in order to promote this garbage across the internet and the media to the extent that a number of otherwise rational people have actually fallen under its spell.
Normally I don't even bother debunking this kind of junk, but the effect that this paranoid myth is beginning to have requires a little rational analysis, in order to consign it to the same rubbish bin as all such silly conspiracy theories.
These crackpots even contend that the extremist Bush regime was caught unawares by the attacks, had no hand in organizing them, and actually would have stopped them if it had been able. Blindly ignoring the stand down of the US air-force, the insider trading on airline stocks - linked to the CIA, the complicit behavior of Bush on the morning of the attacks, the controlled demolition of the WTC, the firing of a missile into the Pentagon and a host of other documented proofs that the Bush regime was behind the attacks, the conspiracy theorists stick doggedly to a silly story about 19 Arab hijackers somehow managing to commandeer 4 planes simultaneously and fly them around US airspace for nearly 2 hours ,crashing them into important buildings, without the US intelligence services having any idea that it was coming, and without the Air Force knowing what to do.
The huge difficulties with such a stupid story force them to invent even more preposturous stories to distract from its core silliness, and thus the tale has escalated into a mythic fantasy of truly gargantuan proportions.
It's difficult to apply rational analysis to such unmitigated stupidity, but that is the task which I take on in this article. However, it should be noted that one of the curious characteristics of conspiracy theorists is that they effortlessly change their so called evidence in response to each aspect which is debunked. As soon as one delusion is unmasked, they simply invent another to replace it, and deny that the first ever existed. Eventually, when they have turned full circle through this endlessly changing fantasy fog , they then re-invent the original delusion and deny that you ever debunked it, thus beginning the circle once more. This technique is known as "the fruit loop" and saves the conspiracy theorist from ever having to see any of their ideas through to their (ill)logical conclusions.
According to the practitioners of the fruit loop, 19 Arabs took over the 4 planes by subduing the passengers and crew through the use of guns,knives,box cutters and gas, and then used electronic guidance systems which they had smuggled on board to fly the planes to their targets.
The suspension of disbelief required for this outrageous concoction is only for the hard core conspiracy theorist. For a start, they conveniently skip over the awkward fact that there weren't any Arabs on the planes. If there were, one must speculate that they somehow got on board without being filmed by any of the security cameras and without being registered on the passenger lists. But the curly question of how they are supposed to have got on board is all too mundane for the exciting world of the conspiracy theorist. With vague mumblings that they must have been using false ID ( but never specifying which IDs they are alleged to have used, or how these were traced to their real identities), they quickly bypass this problem, to relate exciting and sinister tales about how some of the fictitious fiends were actually searched before boarding because they looked suspicious. However, as inevitably happens with any web of lies, this simply paints them into an even more difficult corner. How are they supposed to have got on board with all that stuff if they were searched ? And if they used gas in a confined space, they would have been affected themselves unless they also had masks in their luggage.
"Excuse me sir, why do you have a boxcutter, a gun, a container of gas, a gas mask and an electronic guidance unit in your luggage?"
"A present for your grandmother? Very well sir, on you get."
"Very strange", thinks the security officer. "That's the fourth Arabic man without an Arabic name who just got on board with a knife, gun or boxcutter and gas mask. And why does that security camera keep flicking off every time one these characters shows up? Must be one of those days I guess..."
Asking any of these basic questions to a conspiracy theorist is likely to cause a sudden leap to the claim that we know that they were on board because they left a credit card trail for the tickets they had purchased and cars they had rented. So if they used credit cards that identified them, how does that reconcile with the claim that they used false IDs to get on to the plane? But by this time ,the fruit loop is in full swing, as the conspiracy theorist tries to stay one jump ahead of this annoying and awkward rational analysis.They will allege that the hijackers' passports were found at the crash scenes. "So there!" they exalt triumphantly, their fanatical faces lighting up with that deranged look of one who has just a revelation of questionable sanity.
Hmm? So they got on board with false IDs but took their real passports with them? However, by this time the fruit loop has been completely circumnavigated,and the conspiracy theorist exclaims impatiently, "Who said anything about false IDs? We know what seats they were sitting in! Their presence is well documented!" And so the whole loop starts again. "Well, why aren't they on the passenger lists?"
"You numbskull! They assumed the identities of other passengers!" And so on...
Finally, out of sheer fascination with this circular method of creative delusion , the rational sceptic will allow them to get away with this loop, in order to move on to the next question, and see what further delights await us in the unraveling of this marvelously stupid story.
"Uh, how come their passports survived fiery crashes that completely incinerated the planes and all the passengers? " The answer of course is that its just one of those strange co-incidences, those little quirks of fate that do happen from time to time. You know, like the same person winning the lottery four weeks in a row. The odds are astronomical, but these things do happen...
This is another favourite deductive method of the conspiracy theorist. The "improbability drive" , in which they decide upon a conclusion without any evidence whatsoever to support it, and then continually speculate a series of wildly improbable events and unbelievable co-incidences to support it, shrugging off the implausibility of each event with the vague assertion that sometimes the impossible happens (just about all the time in their world). There is a principle called "Occam's razor" which suggests that in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the simplest explanation is most likely to be correct. Conspiracy theorists hate Occam's razor.
Having for the sake of amusement, allowed them to get away with with the silly story of the 19 invisible Arabs, we move on to the question of how they are supposed to have taken over the planes.
Hijacking a plane is not an easy thing to do. Hijacking it without the pilot being able to alert ground control is near impossible. The pilot has only to punch in a four digit code to alert ground control to a hijacking. Unconcerned with the awkward question of plausibility, the conspiracy buffs maintain that on that Sept 11, the invisible hijackers took over the plane by the rather crude method of threatening people with boxcutters and knives, and spraying gas (after they had attached their masks, obviously), but somehow took control of the plane without the crew first getting a chance to punch in the hijacking code. Not just on one plane, but on all four. At this point in the tale, the conspiracy theorist is again forced to call upon the services of the improbability drive.
So now that our incredibly lucky hijackers have taken control of the planes, all four pilots fly them with breath taking skill and certainty to their fiery end, all four pilots unflinching in their steely resolve for a swift meeting with Allah. Apart from their psychotic hatred of "our freedoms" , it was their fanatical devotion to Islam which enabled them to summon up the iron will to do this. Which is strange, because according to another piece of hearsay peddled by the conspiracy buffs, these guys actually went out drinking and womanizing the night before their great martyrdom, even leaving their Korans in the bar -really impeccable Islamic behavior - and then got up at 5am the next morning to pull off the greatest covert operation in history. This also requires us to believe that they were even clear headed enough to learn how to fly the huge planes by reading flight manuals in Arabic in the car on the way to the airport. We know this because they supposedly left the flight manuals there for us to find.
It gets better. Their practical training had allegedly been limited to Cessnas and flight simulators, but this was no barrier to the unflinching certainty with which they took over the planes and skillfully guided them to their doom. If they are supposed to have done their flight training with these tools, which would be available just about anywhere in the world, its not clear why they would have decided to risk blowing their cover to US intelligence services by doing the training in Florida, rather than somewhere in the Middle East, but such reasoning is foreign to the foggy world of the conspiracy theorist , too trapped in the constant rotation of the mental fruit loop to make their unsubstantiated fabrications seem even semi-believable.
Having triumphantly established a circular delusion in support of the mythical Arabs, the conspiracy theorist now confronts the difficult question of why there's nothing left of the planes. Anybody who has seen the endlessly replayed footage of the second plane going into the WTC will realize that the plane was packed with explosives. Planes do not and cannot blow up into nothing in that manner when they crash.
Did the mythical Arabs also haul a huge heap of explosives on board, and mange to deploy them in such a manner that they went off in the exact instant of the crash, completely vapourizing the plane? This is a little difficult even for the conspiracy theorist, who at this point decides that its easier to invent new laws of physics in order to keep the delusion rolling along.
There weren't any explosives. It wasn't an inside job. The plane blew up into nothing from its exploding fuel load! Remarkable! Sluggishly combustible jet fuel which is basically kerosine,and which burns at a maximum temperature of around 800 C has suddenly taken on the qualities of a ferociously explosive demolition agent, vapourizing 65 tons of aircraft into a puff of smoke. Never mind that a plane of that size contains around 15 tons of steel and titanium, of which even the melting points are about double that of the maximum combustion temperature of kerosine - let alone the boiling point - which is what would be required to vapourize a plane. And then there's about 50 tons of aluminium to be accounted for. In excess of 15lbs of metal for each gallon of kerosine.
For the conspiracy theorist, such inconvenient facts are vaguely dismissed as "mumbo jumbo". This convenient little phrase is their answer to just about anything factual or logical. Like a conjurer pulling a rabbit out of a hat, they suddenly become fanatically insistent about the devastating explosive qualities of kerosine, something hitherto completely unknown to science, but just discovered by them, this very minute. Blissfully ignoring the fact that never before or since in aviation history has a plane vapourized into nothing from an exploding fuel load, the conspiracy theorist relies upon Hollywood images, where the effects are are always larger than life, and certainly larger than the intellects of these cretins.
"Its a well known fact that planes blow up into nothing on impact." they state with pompous certainty. "Watch any Bruce Willis movie."
"Care to provide any documented examples? If it's a well known fact, then presumably this well known fact springs from some kind of documentation - other than Bruce Willis movies ?"
At this point the mad but cunning eyes of the conspiracy theorist will narrow as they sense the corner that they have backed themselves into, and plan their escape by means of another stunning backflip.
"Ah, but planes have never crashed into buildings before, so there's no way of telling." they counter with a sly grin.
Well, actually planes have crashed into buildings before and since, and not vapourized into nothing.
"But not big planes, with that much fuel ", they shriek in hysterical denial.
Or that much metal to vapourize.
"Yes but not hijacked planes!"
"Are you suggesting that whether the crash is deliberate or accidental affects the combustion qualities of the fuel?"
"Now you're just being silly".
Although collisions with buildings are rare, planes frequently crash into mountains, streets, other aircraft, nosedive into the ground,or have bombs planted aboard them, and don't vapourize into nothing. What's so special about a tower that's mostly glass? But by now, the conspiracy theorist has once again sailed happily around the fruit loop. "Its a well documented fact that planes explode into nothing on impact."
Effortlessly weaving back and forth between the position that its a "well known fact" and that "its never happened before, so we have nothing to compare it to", the conspiracy theorist has now convinced themselves ( if not too many other people) that the WTC plane was not loaded with explosives, and that the instant vapourization of the plane in a massive fireball was the same as any other plane crash you might care to mention. Round and round the fruit. loop...
But the hurdles which confront the conspiracy theorist are many, and they are now forced to implement even more creative uses for the newly discovered shockingly destructive qualities of kerosine. They have to explain how the Arabs also engineered the elegant veritcal collapse of both the WTC towers, and for this awkward fact the easiest counter is to simply deny that it was a controlled demolition, and claim that the buildings collapsed from fire caused by the burning kerosine.
For this, its necessary to sweep aside the second law of thermodynamics and propose kerosine which is not only impossibly destructive, but also recycles itself for a second burning in violation of the law of degradation of energy. You see, it not only consumed itself in a sudden catastrophic fireball , vapourizing a 65 ton plane into nothing, but then came back for a second go, burning at 2000C for another hour at the impact point, melting the skyscraper's steel like butter. And while it was doing all this it also poured down the elevator shafts, starting fires all through the building. When I was at school there was a little thing called the entropy law which suggests that a given portion of fuel can only burn once, something which is readily observable in the real world, even for those who didn't make it to junior high school science. But this is no problem for the conspiracy theorist. Gleefully, they claim that a few thousand gallons of kerosine is enough to
:completely vapourize a 65 ton aircraft
:have enough left over to burn ferociously enough for over an hour at the impact point to melt steel ( melting point about double the maximum combustion temperature of the fuel )
:still have enough left over to pour down the elevator shafts and start similarly destructive fires all through the building.
This kerosine really is remarkable stuff! How chilling to realize that those kerosine heaters we had in the house when I was a kid were deadly bombs, just waiting to go off. One false move and the entire street might have been vapourized. And never again will I take kerosine lamps out camping. One moment you're there innocently holding the lamp - the next - kapow! Vapourized into nothing along with with the rest of the camp site, and still leaving enough of the deadly stuff to start a massive forest fire.
These whackos are actually claiming that the raging inferno allegedly created by the miraculously recycling, and impossibly hot burning kerosine melted or at least softened the steel supports of the skyscraper. Oblivious to the fact that the smoke coming from the WTC was black, which indicates an oxygen starved fire -therefore, not particularly hot, they trumpet an alleged temperature in the building of 2000 C , without a shred of evidence to support this curious suspension of the laws of physics.
Not content with this ludicrous garbage, they then contend that as the steel frames softened, they came straight down instead of buckling and twisting and falling sideways.
Since they're already re-engineered the combustion qualities of jet fuel, violated the second law of thermodynamics, and re-defined the structural properties of steel, why let a little thing like the laws of gravity get in the way?
The tower fell in a time almost identical to that of a free falling object, dropped from that height, meaning that its physically impossible for it to have collapsed by the method of the top floors smashing through the lower floors. But according to the conspiracy theorists, the laws of gravity were temporarily suspended on the morning of Sept 11. It appears that the evil psychic power of those dreadful Arabs knew no bounds. Even after they were dead, they were able, by the power of their evil spirits, to force down the tower at a speed physically impossible under the laws of gravity, had it been meeting any resistance from fireproofed steel structures originally designed to resist many tons of hurricane force wind as well as the impact of a Boeing passenger jet straying off course.
Clearly, these conspiracy nuts never did their science homework at school, but did become extremely adept at inventing tall tales for why.
"Muslim terrorists stole my notes, sir"
"No miss, the kerosine heater blew up and vapourized everything in the street, except for my passport."
"You see sir, the schoolbus was hijacked by Arabs who destroyed my homework because they hate our freedoms."
Or perhaps they misunderstood the term "creative science" and mistakenly thought that coming up with such rubbish was in fact, their science homework.
The ferocious heat generated by this ghastly kerosine was, according to the conspiracy theorists, the reason why so many of the WTC victims can't be identified. DNA is destroyed by heat. (Although 2000 C isn't really required, 100C will generally do the job.) This is quite remarkable, because according to the conspiracy theorist, the nature of DNA suddenly changes if you go to a different city.
That's right! If you are killed by an Arab terrorist in NY, your DNA will be destroyed by such temperatures. But if you are killed by an Arab terrorist in Washington DC, your DNA will be so robust that it can survive temperatures which completely vapourize a 65 ton aircraft.
You see, these loonies have somehow concocted the idea that the missile which hit the pentagon was not a missile at all, but one of the hijacked planes. And to prove this unlikely premise, they point to a propaganda statement from the Bush regime, which rather stupidly claims that all but one of the people aboard the plane were identified from the site by DNA testing, even though nothing remains of the plane. The plane was vapourized by the fuel tank explosion maintain these space loonies, but the people inside it were all but one identified by DNA testing.
So there we have it. The qualities of DNA are different, depending upon which city you're in, or perhaps depending upon which fairy story you're trying to sell at any particular time.
This concoction about one of the hijacked planes hitting the Pentagon really is a howler. For those not familiar with the layout of the Pentagon, it consists of 5 rings of building, each with a space inbetween. Each ring of building is about 30 to 35 ft deep, with a similar amount of open space between it and the next ring. The object which penetrated the Pentagon went in at about a 45 degree angle, punching a neat circular hole of about a 12 ft diameter through three rings ( six walls).A little later a section of wall about 65 ft wide collapsed in the outer ring. Since the plane which the conspiracy theorists claim to be responsible for the impact had a wing span of 125 ft and a length of 155 ft, and there was no wreckage of the plane, either inside or outside the building, and the lawns outside were still smooth and green enough to play golf on, this crazy delusion is clearly physically impossible.
But hey, we've already disregarded the combustion qualities of jet fuel, the normal properties of common building materials, the properties of DNA, the laws of gravity and the second law of thermodynamics, so what the hell - why not throw in a little spatial impossibility as well ? I would have thought that the observation that a solid object cannot pass through another solid object without leaving a hole at least as big as itself is reasonably sound science. But to the conspiracy theorist, this is "mumbo jumbo". It conflicts with the delusion that they're hooked on, so it "must be wrong" although trying to get them to explain exactly how it could be wrong is a futile endeavour.
Conspiracy theorists fly into a curious panic whenever the Pentagon missile is mentioned.They nervously maintain that the plane was vapourized by it's exploding fuel load and point to the WTC crash as evidence of this behavior. (That's a wonderful fruit loop.) Like an insect which has just been sprayed, running back and forth in its last mad death throes, they first argue that the reason the hole is so small is that the plane never entered the wall, having blown up outside, and then suddenly backflip to explain the 250 ft deep missile hole by saying that the plane disappeared all the way into the building, and then blew up inside the building (even though the building shows no sign of such damage). As for what happened to the wings - here's where they get really creative. The wings snapped off and folded into the fuselage which then carried them into the building, which then closed up behind the plane like a piece of meat.
When it suits them, they'll also claim that the plane slid in on its belly, (ignoring the undamaged lawn) while at the same time citing alleged witnesses to the plane diving steeply into the building from an "irrecoverable angle." How they reconcile these two scenarios as being compatible is truly a study in stupidity.
Once they get desperate enough, you can be sure that the UFO conspiracy stuff will make an appearance. The Arabs are in league with the Martians. Space aliens snatched the remains of the Pentagon plane and fixed most of the hole in the wall, just to confuse people. They gave the Arabs invisibility pills to help get them onto the planes. Little green men were seen talking to Bin Laden a few weeks prior to the attacks.
As the nation gears up to impeach the traitor Bush, and stop his perpetual oil war, it's not helpful to have these idiots distracting from the process by spreading silly conspiracy theories about mythical Arabs, stories which do nothing but play into the hands of the extremist Bush regime.
At a less serious time, we might tolerate such crackpots with amused detachment, but they need to understand that the treachery that was perpetrated on Sept 11, and the subsequent war crimes committed in "retaliation" are far too serious for us to allow such frivolous self indulgence to go unchallenged.
Those who are truly addicted to conspiracy delusions should find a more appropriate outlet for their paranoia.
Its time to stop loony conspiracy theories about Sept 11.
http://www.911-strike.com/debunking.htm
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Top websites for investigating 9-11 and the Oil Wars
www.pi911.org - People's Investigation of 9-11
www.questionsquestions.net - excellent site, highly recommended
www.fromthewilderness.com - drugs, intelligence and 9-11
http://makethemaccountable.com/whatwhen/index.htm - prior warnings about Sept 11
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/KUP206A.html understanding 9/11 propaganda
Bush-Bin Laden connections:
the Bush dynasty has closer links to the bin Ladens than Saddam Hussein does!
http://emperors-clothes.com/news/bushladen.htm
www.bushwatch.net/bushmoney.htm
Forbidden Truth - Bin Laden, John O'Neill
Bush - Bin Laden financial connections - the Carlyle Group, investment in Arbusto Energy (W's first failed business effort), and more
http://propagandamatrix.com/what_really_happened_part_3.html
bin Laden is merely a piece in a chess game. The stakes of the game are the last of the world’s oil reserves and “…the Bush administration’s “(consolidation of power) to pursue a drastic unlimited militarization of foreign policy on a massive and unprecedented scale required by long-standing elite planning, while crushing domestic dissent and criminalizing legitimate protest.”
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/eog_new/eog/orders/2001/september/eo2001-261-09-07-01.html
gov. jeb bush (Florida) declared "emergency" 4 days _before_ 9-11
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Biowarfare: who sent anthrax to the top Democrat in Congress?
www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/theFword.html FASCISM - who sent the anthrax to Congress?
www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxpaper.htm -- Federation of American Scientists updates on the investigation (it was probably sent from the Army's biowar center at Ft. Detrick, Maryland)
www.freefromterror.net the clue is the timing of the attacks
The leaders of the Democratic Party were targeted for assassination by right-wing elements that have some connection to the military. This staggering fact, however, has been met with a strange silence by the media, government officials and the Democrats themselves, including the two senators who were targeted. ....
www.nybooks.com/articles/158 Ken Alibek, Soviet biowar defector
www.cryptome.org/smallpox-wmd.htm The Demon in the Freezer
www.fas.org/bwc/ Chemical & Biological Arms Control
www.gulfwarvets.com/anthrax2.html toxic anthrax vaccine made by Bioport company
www.datafilter.com/mc/ mind control
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"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
-- Albert Einstein
"I'm not disturbing the peace. I'm disturbing the war."
-- Ammon Hennacy
"Terrorism is the best political weapon for nothing drives people harder than a fear of sudden death."
-- Adolf Hitler
"We have committed more war crimes almost than any nation in the world, and I'm going to continue to say it. And we won't stop it because of our pride, and our arrogance as a nation."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"There's a little Hitler in all of us"
--Mother Theresa
"Your enemy is not surrounding your country. Your enemy is ruling your country."
-- George W. Bush
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Anti-war Poetry Readings
Everywhere on March 5!
Poems and Statements of 12,000 Poets
to be Delivered to Congress
Poets Against the War announces an International Day of Poetry Against the War on Wednesday, March 5th. Poets around the world will schedule readings and/or discussions of poetry and protest for that day, to join us in the largest chorus of poets in recorded history on the day in which we present members of the U.S. Congress with the largest single-theme anthology ever compiled.
In the coming days, many of them will be entered into the Congressional Record. On the evening of March 5th, we will hold a major poetry reading in Washington, DC, and ask others to lend their voices to ours in readings and conversations on that day.
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
Books Not Bombs! Stop The War Against Iraq!
One-Day National Student Strike, March 5th, 2003
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) calls upon students on campuses across the United States to join us in a one-day student strike on March 5th, 2003.
As students and youth, our futures will be shaped by the actions that the Bush administration takes today. A US attack on Iraq will inevitably:
• Endanger the lives of US servicemen and women
• Increase the suffering of the Iraqi people while slaughtering thousands of innocent people
• Encourage terror attacks against the US around the world and at home
• Be used as an excuse to erode civil liberties
• Divert resources from education and social services
• Subvert historical precedent and international law
For the rest of the story:
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030226~nyspc.asp
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Allergic to the 20th Century
On the edge of the world where I live
2500 miles across the ocean from America
where the whales nurse their babies
this canary is calling out to the future
Doom! cry I as plastic washes on shore
Awake! as rainforests fall and burn
I've got a chronic allergy to industry
a fleshly sensitivity to chemicals
as the 20th century invades ever further
around and inside of everything alive
it burns and blisters and festers weeps
a cankerous culture that sticks to life
Every morning engines roar and belch
a burnt rude vapour of oily dead fossils
in through my window and into my lungs
my head starts spinning eyes vibrate
as someone goes somewhere too fast
leaving their exhaust behind like a ghost
All the chemical miracles seeping into me
as I ride my bike past poison spray
men at war with weeds spilling death
into swimming holes and playgrounds
around golf courses and every roadside
never wondering how it tastes to a turtle
I try using super products as advertised
to wash my hair clothes armpits dishes
but it's all poison to me you see I'm allergic
methyl ethyl propyl and all the plastic goo
sticks to skin burning as a rash on my body
my flesh trying to tell me something real
Synthetic simians in suits selling bombs
are alien by any measure of imagination
a 20th century legacy of madness and war
now threatens our very existence on Earth
as the last of our kindred are killed each hour
next year maybe no orangutans no more wild
Across the street I look out on my ocean planet
as mother whales spray their misty breath
another plastic driftnet washes up on shore
I'm reminded every day this may be the last
we children of the 20th century are witness
this greatest mass extinction which is our own
B.Z. Botani
Planetary Rescue Corps
Kilauea, HAWAI'I
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Diesel Jellybean Rap
I'm a 20th Century Industrial man
I keep running faster & grab all that I can
I'm born with a number then I'm sent to school
I learn to stay in line & mind the teacher's rule
Memorize the facts according to the text
Pledge allegiance to the flag we all know what comes next
History science grammar & math
I've gotta make the grade stay on the beaten path
Study my homework pass the big test
Hope I don't fail so much to digest
Biggest best farthest pushing to the top
I must grab for more my hunger just won't stop!
I graduate from school then I find a job
then it's hurry up an wait in the 9 to 5 mob
go to work come home watch that TV screen
go to sleep wake up drink a cup of caffeine
back to work for the boss who profits from my loss
all my rights have been sold I must do as I am told
I've gotta pay the bills don't it give you the chills?
I'm not a human being I'm a business machine!
I'm a 20th Century Industrial Man
I keep running faster & grab all that I can
Radio TV papers magazines
keep pooping out the scoop the news behind the scenes
war in Afghanistan Cheney makes a steal
oil in Columbia greed they can't conceal
statue of Liberty nuclear bombs
baseball football Falwell reading Psalms
anglos selling bullets banks & barbed wire
the weather's turning funky forests on fire
Waldheim for Austria Bush for USA
Interpol in Paris SS to CIA
it's too much to know it just can't be real
I think I'll turn the channel & watch "Let's Make a Deal"!
Masters of the Universe robots in the sky
GI Joe Rambo you know they never die
little kids keep playing those video games
shooting rockets & lasers turning planets to flames
when they get older their hearts a little colder
the Air Force is waiting for them to sign their names
please won't someone break this ugly spell?
they burn our Mother Earth with the fires of hell!
I'm a 20th Century Industrial Man
I keep running faster & grab all that I can
Mothers sisters grandmas & aunts
goddess power rising behold the spiral dance
women in circles sisters holding hands
for the children's future they take their final stands
singing in the moonlight welcoming the sun
protecting Mother Earth & healing everyone
so 20th century industrial man
with your greed money profit security plan
come out of your cities stop your machines
get down upon the Earth plant a few beans
look up at the sky watch a bird fly
don't ask why just open up your eye
the planet is alive beauty gets you high
hold a baby in your arms you might even cry
when your body fails it's time for you to die
Mother Earth will open her womb for you to lie
and sleep that long sleep dream that long dream
rowing your boat gently down the stream
B.Z. Botani
Aberration Nation
Glandswell Studios
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http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=6118
September 11, 2002
We are the sleeping giant
of all there is to know
The acts of terror are our own dreams
--submerged parts of ourselves
sending us murderous messages:
They say, we are ignoring cries
that rise from our own blood
We are in a waking state now and we scream
as we emerge from our nightmare
But we cannot interpret the origin of our pain:
Our smoking materiality
stands in the way of the light
that has flown through us
as fire
Sally Avignone
Springfield, VA (Washington, DC, area)
Artist-in-Residence, The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary: through the visual arts and writing teach the creative process.
I Do Not Want You, Petroleum
I don't want you, petroleum!
For a long time,
I thought that you burnt for me.
Now I see that I am burning for you.
I'm not saying that it's not pleasant
Sitting near a kerosine heater
And enjoying the falling snow.
Or the working water pumps
In the empty plain.
And yet, I can not believe you,
Seven-headed dragon!
Fire still spews forth from your mouth
To the soul of my homeland.
In your school I learned servitude,
So that the Khan of the tribe
Could send his son to London,
The Imperial Army in Mohammara
Forced me to abandon
The dream of a "House of Justice."
On the street my blood was shed,
It turned into ink
For the pens which wrote
The new contracts of slavery.
The grand gates of falsehood
Opened with your keys.
Today the promised Messiah rides
On you, donkey of the Antichrist.
You raised this state to the heavenly throne
And polished its boots to a sheen.
You raised its seven-headed club
And whenever I tried to pull it down
You reinforced its shaky body
With your sturdy beams.
No! I don't want!
I don't want you, petroleum!
Oh, bloody stream!
For a long time,
I thought you gave me blood.
Now I see, you made me bleed.
Majid Naficy
Santa Monica, Ca.
Was polically active against Shah of Iran. Wife and brother assassinated during Revolution. Has published books: Muddy Shoes; Father and Son; In Search of Joy: A Critique of Male-Dominated, Death-Oriented Culture in Iran. Ph.D from UCLA.
Joy in a Time of Horror
And so we are dug in
We pick our bits of happiness
like almonds plucked from a New Year's cake.
Savoring them the taste in our mouths,
while our hearts are assaulted with fellow
souls turned into statistics, collaterally damaged, a dehumanized environment
some led down the path programmed into a
"Kill the Arabs" mentality, people who know
not about Arabs or Muslims, Sunis or Shiites,
Pashtuns or Afghans. Who know not even about our own history.
Nebuchadnezzar's empire fell never to be resurrected, in the dust, like Bush's empire will be.
Trying to guard our fundamental freedoms in a
time of simplistic fundamentalism without room
for the value, the shining quality of one life,
are we to be turned into dross?
Like sprouting shoots we protect our humanity
while we kiss our lovers,
hug the young, our children and grandchildren, and
dance to hopeful melodies.
And hold out yet one more leaflet as we try to
change hearts and minds,
like maple seeds twirling in the sunlight,
Not landing yet, but with the life force safely
tucked inside them.
Confident with the assurance that
some will grow.
Susan McKeon-Steinmann
Long Island New York
Man of war.
George Bush
a polyp
filled with gas
a powerful man of war
he floats on the water
his long tentacles
Army, Navy and Airforce
structures
that do battle
paralyze small-fry.
Gael Bage
Buffoons with bombs.
Clowns masquerade,deceive,
show off their wares,
parade phallic weapons.
Pride, stirred with silver spoons.
Testosterone flexes its muscles,
child-like, we watch their antics.
Ego at its most aggressive,
sparring, propaganda, confusion.
Buffoons play blind mans bluff,
mind games, a grotesque joke.
Mesmerised, we pray for sanity,
these clowns...out of control.
Intrigue masked by pride,
haunted by old memories;
they nurture old hurts, old fears
that lurk, like ghostly apparitions,
wrapped in the past, held close
behind the minds battlements.
Testosterone outlives its use,
pour estrogen into the abyss,
it's time now for the feminine,
ditch fight or flight, try gentle ways.
Together in compromise and co-operation,
walk past aggression, to maturity.
The enemy will not fear to die
if life is not worth living.
We are masters of our fate, we choose,
give wings to hate...or love?
Watch one of these take flight,
fly on to the future and man's destiny
Gael Bage
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
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"We are alienated, so alienated that the self
must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial
in order not to alarm us with the truly
bizarre dimensions that it encompasses."
-- Terence McKenna
"These are the human rights of each member of humanity born to this Earth under the Treaty: the right to sustenance and community, pure water, clean air, and spiritual fulfillment according to the conscience of each. To assure these rights is the only legitimate responsibility for the leadership of any nation of the treaty, unto the future generations."
Martin Luther King Day 2003, Statement of Tupac Enrique Acosta - TONATIERRA
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world: and that is an idea whose time has come."
-- Jean Valjean
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Everywhere on March 5!
Poems and Statements of 12,000 Poets
to be Delivered to Congress
Poets Against the War announces an International Day of Poetry Against the War on Wednesday, March 5th. Poets around the world will schedule readings and/or discussions of poetry and protest for that day, to join us in the largest chorus of poets in recorded history on the day in which we present members of the U.S. Congress with the largest single-theme anthology ever compiled.
In the coming days, many of them will be entered into the Congressional Record. On the evening of March 5th, we will hold a major poetry reading in Washington, DC, and ask others to lend their voices to ours in readings and conversations on that day.
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
Books Not Bombs! Stop The War Against Iraq!
One-Day National Student Strike, March 5th, 2003
The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) calls upon students on campuses across the United States to join us in a one-day student strike on March 5th, 2003.
As students and youth, our futures will be shaped by the actions that the Bush administration takes today. A US attack on Iraq will inevitably:
• Endanger the lives of US servicemen and women
• Increase the suffering of the Iraqi people while slaughtering thousands of innocent people
• Encourage terror attacks against the US around the world and at home
• Be used as an excuse to erode civil liberties
• Divert resources from education and social services
• Subvert historical precedent and international law
For the rest of the story:
http://www.voice4change.org/stories/showstory.asp?file=030226~nyspc.asp
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Allergic to the 20th Century
On the edge of the world where I live
2500 miles across the ocean from America
where the whales nurse their babies
this canary is calling out to the future
Doom! cry I as plastic washes on shore
Awake! as rainforests fall and burn
I've got a chronic allergy to industry
a fleshly sensitivity to chemicals
as the 20th century invades ever further
around and inside of everything alive
it burns and blisters and festers weeps
a cankerous culture that sticks to life
Every morning engines roar and belch
a burnt rude vapour of oily dead fossils
in through my window and into my lungs
my head starts spinning eyes vibrate
as someone goes somewhere too fast
leaving their exhaust behind like a ghost
All the chemical miracles seeping into me
as I ride my bike past poison spray
men at war with weeds spilling death
into swimming holes and playgrounds
around golf courses and every roadside
never wondering how it tastes to a turtle
I try using super products as advertised
to wash my hair clothes armpits dishes
but it's all poison to me you see I'm allergic
methyl ethyl propyl and all the plastic goo
sticks to skin burning as a rash on my body
my flesh trying to tell me something real
Synthetic simians in suits selling bombs
are alien by any measure of imagination
a 20th century legacy of madness and war
now threatens our very existence on Earth
as the last of our kindred are killed each hour
next year maybe no orangutans no more wild
Across the street I look out on my ocean planet
as mother whales spray their misty breath
another plastic driftnet washes up on shore
I'm reminded every day this may be the last
we children of the 20th century are witness
this greatest mass extinction which is our own
B.Z. Botani
Planetary Rescue Corps
Kilauea, HAWAI'I
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Diesel Jellybean Rap
I'm a 20th Century Industrial man
I keep running faster & grab all that I can
I'm born with a number then I'm sent to school
I learn to stay in line & mind the teacher's rule
Memorize the facts according to the text
Pledge allegiance to the flag we all know what comes next
History science grammar & math
I've gotta make the grade stay on the beaten path
Study my homework pass the big test
Hope I don't fail so much to digest
Biggest best farthest pushing to the top
I must grab for more my hunger just won't stop!
I graduate from school then I find a job
then it's hurry up an wait in the 9 to 5 mob
go to work come home watch that TV screen
go to sleep wake up drink a cup of caffeine
back to work for the boss who profits from my loss
all my rights have been sold I must do as I am told
I've gotta pay the bills don't it give you the chills?
I'm not a human being I'm a business machine!
I'm a 20th Century Industrial Man
I keep running faster & grab all that I can
Radio TV papers magazines
keep pooping out the scoop the news behind the scenes
war in Afghanistan Cheney makes a steal
oil in Columbia greed they can't conceal
statue of Liberty nuclear bombs
baseball football Falwell reading Psalms
anglos selling bullets banks & barbed wire
the weather's turning funky forests on fire
Waldheim for Austria Bush for USA
Interpol in Paris SS to CIA
it's too much to know it just can't be real
I think I'll turn the channel & watch "Let's Make a Deal"!
Masters of the Universe robots in the sky
GI Joe Rambo you know they never die
little kids keep playing those video games
shooting rockets & lasers turning planets to flames
when they get older their hearts a little colder
the Air Force is waiting for them to sign their names
please won't someone break this ugly spell?
they burn our Mother Earth with the fires of hell!
I'm a 20th Century Industrial Man
I keep running faster & grab all that I can
Mothers sisters grandmas & aunts
goddess power rising behold the spiral dance
women in circles sisters holding hands
for the children's future they take their final stands
singing in the moonlight welcoming the sun
protecting Mother Earth & healing everyone
so 20th century industrial man
with your greed money profit security plan
come out of your cities stop your machines
get down upon the Earth plant a few beans
look up at the sky watch a bird fly
don't ask why just open up your eye
the planet is alive beauty gets you high
hold a baby in your arms you might even cry
when your body fails it's time for you to die
Mother Earth will open her womb for you to lie
and sleep that long sleep dream that long dream
rowing your boat gently down the stream
B.Z. Botani
Aberration Nation
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http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/displaypoem.asp?AuthorID=6118
September 11, 2002
We are the sleeping giant
of all there is to know
The acts of terror are our own dreams
--submerged parts of ourselves
sending us murderous messages:
They say, we are ignoring cries
that rise from our own blood
We are in a waking state now and we scream
as we emerge from our nightmare
But we cannot interpret the origin of our pain:
Our smoking materiality
stands in the way of the light
that has flown through us
as fire
Sally Avignone
Springfield, VA (Washington, DC, area)
Artist-in-Residence, The Henry Luce III Center for the Arts and Religion, Wesley Theological Seminary: through the visual arts and writing teach the creative process.
I Do Not Want You, Petroleum
I don't want you, petroleum!
For a long time,
I thought that you burnt for me.
Now I see that I am burning for you.
I'm not saying that it's not pleasant
Sitting near a kerosine heater
And enjoying the falling snow.
Or the working water pumps
In the empty plain.
And yet, I can not believe you,
Seven-headed dragon!
Fire still spews forth from your mouth
To the soul of my homeland.
In your school I learned servitude,
So that the Khan of the tribe
Could send his son to London,
The Imperial Army in Mohammara
Forced me to abandon
The dream of a "House of Justice."
On the street my blood was shed,
It turned into ink
For the pens which wrote
The new contracts of slavery.
The grand gates of falsehood
Opened with your keys.
Today the promised Messiah rides
On you, donkey of the Antichrist.
You raised this state to the heavenly throne
And polished its boots to a sheen.
You raised its seven-headed club
And whenever I tried to pull it down
You reinforced its shaky body
With your sturdy beams.
No! I don't want!
I don't want you, petroleum!
Oh, bloody stream!
For a long time,
I thought you gave me blood.
Now I see, you made me bleed.
Majid Naficy
Santa Monica, Ca.
Was polically active against Shah of Iran. Wife and brother assassinated during Revolution. Has published books: Muddy Shoes; Father and Son; In Search of Joy: A Critique of Male-Dominated, Death-Oriented Culture in Iran. Ph.D from UCLA.
Joy in a Time of Horror
And so we are dug in
We pick our bits of happiness
like almonds plucked from a New Year's cake.
Savoring them the taste in our mouths,
while our hearts are assaulted with fellow
souls turned into statistics, collaterally damaged, a dehumanized environment
some led down the path programmed into a
"Kill the Arabs" mentality, people who know
not about Arabs or Muslims, Sunis or Shiites,
Pashtuns or Afghans. Who know not even about our own history.
Nebuchadnezzar's empire fell never to be resurrected, in the dust, like Bush's empire will be.
Trying to guard our fundamental freedoms in a
time of simplistic fundamentalism without room
for the value, the shining quality of one life,
are we to be turned into dross?
Like sprouting shoots we protect our humanity
while we kiss our lovers,
hug the young, our children and grandchildren, and
dance to hopeful melodies.
And hold out yet one more leaflet as we try to
change hearts and minds,
like maple seeds twirling in the sunlight,
Not landing yet, but with the life force safely
tucked inside them.
Confident with the assurance that
some will grow.
Susan McKeon-Steinmann
Long Island New York
Man of war.
George Bush
a polyp
filled with gas
a powerful man of war
he floats on the water
his long tentacles
Army, Navy and Airforce
structures
that do battle
paralyze small-fry.
Gael Bage
Buffoons with bombs.
Clowns masquerade,deceive,
show off their wares,
parade phallic weapons.
Pride, stirred with silver spoons.
Testosterone flexes its muscles,
child-like, we watch their antics.
Ego at its most aggressive,
sparring, propaganda, confusion.
Buffoons play blind mans bluff,
mind games, a grotesque joke.
Mesmerised, we pray for sanity,
these clowns...out of control.
Intrigue masked by pride,
haunted by old memories;
they nurture old hurts, old fears
that lurk, like ghostly apparitions,
wrapped in the past, held close
behind the minds battlements.
Testosterone outlives its use,
pour estrogen into the abyss,
it's time now for the feminine,
ditch fight or flight, try gentle ways.
Together in compromise and co-operation,
walk past aggression, to maturity.
The enemy will not fear to die
if life is not worth living.
We are masters of our fate, we choose,
give wings to hate...or love?
Watch one of these take flight,
fly on to the future and man's destiny
Gael Bage
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
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"We are alienated, so alienated that the self
must disguise itself as an extraterrestrial
in order not to alarm us with the truly
bizarre dimensions that it encompasses."
-- Terence McKenna
"These are the human rights of each member of humanity born to this Earth under the Treaty: the right to sustenance and community, pure water, clean air, and spiritual fulfillment according to the conscience of each. To assure these rights is the only legitimate responsibility for the leadership of any nation of the treaty, unto the future generations."
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A Collection of Poems Burning Bright
Please Pass them into the Light!
God bless America
Here they go again,
The Yanks in their armoured parade
Chanting their ballads of joy
As they gallop across the big world
Praising America's God.
The gutters are clogged with the dead
The ones who couldn't join in
The others refusing to sing
The ones who are losing their voice
The ones who've forgotten the tune.
The riders have whips which cut.
Your head rolls onto the sand
Your head is a pool in the dirt
Your head is a stain in the dust
Your eyes have gone out and your nose
Sniffs only the pong of the dead
And all the dead air is alive
With the smell of America's God.
Harold Pinter 2003
State of the Union, 2003
I have not been to Jerusalem,
but Shirley talks about the bombs.
I have no god, but have seen the children praying
for it to stop. They pray to different gods.
The news is all old news again, repeated
like a bad habit, cheap tobacco, the social lie.
The children have seen so much death
that death means nothing to them now.
They wait in line for bread.
They wait in line for water.
Their eyes are black moons reflecting emptiness.
We've seen them a thousand times.
Soon, the President will speak.
He will have something to say about bombs
and freedom and our way of life.
I will turn the tv off. I always do.
Because I can't bear to look
at the monuments in his eyes.
--Sam Hamill
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Refugee
*******
She sits outside, on a stool, her face closed
And still with the hopelessness of tomorrow,
Drawn with remembered anguish
As this day, empty of hope like all the days
Since she arrived, draws to its end.
The setting sun gleams, reflected from the tin
Bowl on her lap, half filled with rice.
Slowly two tears from her closed eyes
Move down her cheeks. They glisten
In the end of the day's sun. She does not eat.
What horrors, I wonder, has she seen?
Forced from her home, she and her family,
Fleeing from terror I can only guess at,
Bearing it with her yet as she sits there,
Motionless, a vehicle for grief.
Her suffering is outside my knowledge:
I have never beeen torn, like she, from
Living roots, herded, as cattle are herded,
By those who deal in numbers, not faces.
For they are good, the people of the camp--
They would break if they began to notice the faces.
All around her are alien people:
Alien voices speaking from an inknown
Culture with words she cannot understand.
Only the sun and moon and the stars in the night sky
Are the same-- they were there yesterday. And God?
A child approaches. He is about ten, and thin.
He looks up at her closed face, and into the bowl
She holds in her still hands. She opens eyes that
Are dark with the pain fo yesterday. But tomorrow--
Tomorrow is for the child. She gives him the rice
And he eats.
His eyes, refelecting the sun's last rays,
Smolder with dreams. Tomorrow he will be a man.
"Vengeance is Mine: I will repay" saith the Lord.
But the child does not hear God-- his heart is full
With hatred. It is he-- he who will repay.
This is his dream for tomorrow.
"Reason for Hope"
Jane Goodall
http://www.janegoodall.org
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Buying a Body Bag for the Future
I feel us being pulled backward in time
one of those dreams where no matter how
you try to escape you can't get ahead of it
running up the down escalator from some hell
All the centuries of struggle for our humanity
being pulled out from under us in an idiot's blink
while war machines drone overhead and flags
millions of flags hiding the grimy grey sky
A record repeating and each time more loudly
the emperor's new clothes a Wagner opera
screeching of sirens and beating of drums
a warmonger raging on the world stage
Lost in the tempo and terror of it we hide
but it's like a poison gas and seeps into us
smelling of funeral fires and death camps
and gasoline it invades our every tissue
Like barbed wire it is everywhere we turn
the fuel for the fires of hate and murder
choking off all paths to our sanity
filling our eyes with balls of flame
Who can make sense of it any more?
the dream descending into a deadzone
history no longer a question but a noose
dragging us toward a monumental pyre
Try screaming and waking the others
it's like a movie they will say and smile
while millions more flags are unfurled
and our children are given uniforms
Who are the shadows behind the curtains
able to digest entire countries in a night?
those behind warmakers and banks
who manufacture truth and power?
They are in our blood now as a germ
in our heads as the lights go out
repeating in our ears their news
someone must pay for evil deeds
No matter the cause or the suffering
damn the cost and the consequences
when the warlords rule our dreams
our past is forgotten and future forsaken
BZ Botani 2003
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SPEAK OUT
And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land
And America turns the attack on its Twin Towers
Into the beginning of the Third World War
The war with the Third World
And the terrorists in Washington
Are drafting all the young men
And no one speaks
And they are rousting out
All the ones with turbans
And they are flushing out
All the strange immigrants
And they are shipping all the young men
To the killing fields again
And no one speaks
And when they come to round up
All the great writers and poets and painters
The National Endowment of the Arts of Complacency
Will not speak
While all the young men
Will be killing all the young men
In the killing fields again
So now is the time for you to speak
All you lovers of liberty
All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness
All you lovers and sleepers
Deep in your private dreams
Now is the time for you to speak
O silent majority
Before they come for you
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Café Nihiliste
Maragogype of lost luxuries,
Wendell builds rhapsodies
on the art of inhalation
in this shrine where he spends
the majority of his waking hours:
calculates the milkfroth
on bowls of au lait -
watches customers' eyes
as they lick the last bubbles
from their mugs of cappuccino,
knowing their growing obsession
will soon equal his own
as he sweeps leftover gold
across the scoured brick floor
and more accurately than a connoisseur
presses Guatemala, Honduras
Sumatra
Java
Colombia
Peru
Argentina and Kenya AA
between his hands,
and when he drops boiling water on a mountain
of fresh-ground Kalossi
each elusive mocha trace
black
erudite
expands -
erotic as a witch's brew until the climax
more spectacular than fireworks
numbs his senses.
Sonja A Skarstedt
Conqueror
*********
When they start to wear your clothes
do their dreams become more like yours
who do they look like
when they start to use your language
do they say what you say
who are they in your words
when they start to use your money
do they need the same things you need
or do the things change
when they are converted to your gods
do you know who they are praying to
do you know who is praying
for you not to be there
W.S. Merwin
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A Spinning Broken Cross
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America the supersized land of the free
market of values melting pot of Mammon
boasting of greatness and oily excess
tossing all protest behind with our trash
revving the engines of our industry
in the face of a brutalized weeping world
Home of the brave few who dare to resist
an insidious slick conditioning of control
a war on the mind in the vacuum of soul
losing the world in the pledge of obedience
to spies and criminals and General Electric
a nation of fattened domesticated herd-apes
Always the same men with glaring eyes
larger than life and twice as mean
roasting the world with a roar of applause
and the waving of flags proudly held high
saluting of citizens and marching of men
shooting of cannons and broadcast of threats
Trillions of American dollars going into a war machine
who keeps track anymore and who even cares
where all this human energy and processed planet
ending in the bank accounts of whom and why again
we are blindly following behind these men for centuries
feeding their hunger for blood madness chaos and control
America has lost the war on the world before it has begun
conquered by the worms that escaped Nuremberg
sold our souls to dead presidents of the white race
followed a dangerous path carved out by the CIA
armoring ourselves with high-tech holocausts
feeding our overstocked supermarkets until spoiled
Once the war has begun does America believe it will win
with 5 billion opponents and not enough barbed wire
will our children be thanking us for saving their future
while the vast masses of mankind are cursing us
for stealing their possibilities and being so stupid
will we still be applauding the son of a Bush then
America, America man sheds his waste on thee
we call it progress and patriotism and pride
while the poisons seep into our skin and eyes
so we can not see the bloody stripes crooked stars
being soaked with the gore of our world at war
around a white circle and a spinning broken cross
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Ari Fleischer the President's spokesman says all Americans need to watch what they say
it's easy for George W. to watch
when Ari is speaking for him
and for Ari it's easy to watch because
it's on the news later
but fulfilling this need
is harder for me
I devised a rearview speech mirror
and affixed it to my skull
but no one wanted to talk with me
while I watched what I said
in despair I abandoned the act of speech
and devoted myself to a life of text
I wrote: The President's appointment was illegal.
and watched
I wrote: Wilfully causing the death of others is the supreme failure of the human species.
and watched
Ari, as my fellow American
I am watching what you say too
so far I haven't spotted
anything new
Gwendolyn Albert
American Wars
Like the topaz in the toad's head
the comfort in the terrible histories
was up front, easy to find:
Once upon a time in a kingdom far away.
Even to the dreadful now of news
we listened comforted
by far timezones, languages we didn't speak,
the wide, forgetful oceans.
Today, no comfort but the jewel courage.
The war is ours, now, here, it is our republic
facing its own betraying terror.
And how we tell the story is forever after.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
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An Open Letter from Sam Hamill
Dear Friends and Fellow Poets:
When I picked up my mail and saw the letter marked "The White House," I felt no joy. Rather I was overcome by a kind of nausea as I read the card enclosed:
Laura Bush requests the pleasure of your company
at a reception and White House Symposium
on "Poetry and the American Voice"
on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at one o'clock
Only the day before I had read a lengthy report on George Bush's proposed "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq, calling for saturation bombing that would be like the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo, killing countless innocent civilians. Nor has Bush ruled out the use of nuclear weapons.
I believe the only legitimate response to such a morally bankrupt and unconscionable idea is to reconstitute a Poets Against the War movement like the one organized to speak out against the war in Vietnam.
I am asking every poet to speak up for the conscience of our country and lend his or her name to our petition against this war, and to make February 12 a day of Poetry Against the War. We will compile an anthology of protest to be presented to the White House on that afternoon.
Please submit your name and a poem or statement of conscience to the Poets Against the War Web site.
There is little time to organize and compile. I urge you to pass along this letter to any poets you know. Please join me in making February 12 a day when the White House can truly hear the voices of American poets.
-- Sam Hamill, Founding Editor and Co-founder of Copper Canyon Press
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand,
nor look through the eyes of the dead,
nor feed on the spectres in books.
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow."
-- Rachel Carson
"Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.”
-- African Proverb
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."
--Will Rogers
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God bless America
Here they go again,
The Yanks in their armoured parade
Chanting their ballads of joy
As they gallop across the big world
Praising America's God.
The gutters are clogged with the dead
The ones who couldn't join in
The others refusing to sing
The ones who are losing their voice
The ones who've forgotten the tune.
The riders have whips which cut.
Your head rolls onto the sand
Your head is a pool in the dirt
Your head is a stain in the dust
Your eyes have gone out and your nose
Sniffs only the pong of the dead
And all the dead air is alive
With the smell of America's God.
Harold Pinter 2003
State of the Union, 2003
I have not been to Jerusalem,
but Shirley talks about the bombs.
I have no god, but have seen the children praying
for it to stop. They pray to different gods.
The news is all old news again, repeated
like a bad habit, cheap tobacco, the social lie.
The children have seen so much death
that death means nothing to them now.
They wait in line for bread.
They wait in line for water.
Their eyes are black moons reflecting emptiness.
We've seen them a thousand times.
Soon, the President will speak.
He will have something to say about bombs
and freedom and our way of life.
I will turn the tv off. I always do.
Because I can't bear to look
at the monuments in his eyes.
--Sam Hamill
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Refugee
*******
She sits outside, on a stool, her face closed
And still with the hopelessness of tomorrow,
Drawn with remembered anguish
As this day, empty of hope like all the days
Since she arrived, draws to its end.
The setting sun gleams, reflected from the tin
Bowl on her lap, half filled with rice.
Slowly two tears from her closed eyes
Move down her cheeks. They glisten
In the end of the day's sun. She does not eat.
What horrors, I wonder, has she seen?
Forced from her home, she and her family,
Fleeing from terror I can only guess at,
Bearing it with her yet as she sits there,
Motionless, a vehicle for grief.
Her suffering is outside my knowledge:
I have never beeen torn, like she, from
Living roots, herded, as cattle are herded,
By those who deal in numbers, not faces.
For they are good, the people of the camp--
They would break if they began to notice the faces.
All around her are alien people:
Alien voices speaking from an inknown
Culture with words she cannot understand.
Only the sun and moon and the stars in the night sky
Are the same-- they were there yesterday. And God?
A child approaches. He is about ten, and thin.
He looks up at her closed face, and into the bowl
She holds in her still hands. She opens eyes that
Are dark with the pain fo yesterday. But tomorrow--
Tomorrow is for the child. She gives him the rice
And he eats.
His eyes, refelecting the sun's last rays,
Smolder with dreams. Tomorrow he will be a man.
"Vengeance is Mine: I will repay" saith the Lord.
But the child does not hear God-- his heart is full
With hatred. It is he-- he who will repay.
This is his dream for tomorrow.
"Reason for Hope"
Jane Goodall
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Buying a Body Bag for the Future
I feel us being pulled backward in time
one of those dreams where no matter how
you try to escape you can't get ahead of it
running up the down escalator from some hell
All the centuries of struggle for our humanity
being pulled out from under us in an idiot's blink
while war machines drone overhead and flags
millions of flags hiding the grimy grey sky
A record repeating and each time more loudly
the emperor's new clothes a Wagner opera
screeching of sirens and beating of drums
a warmonger raging on the world stage
Lost in the tempo and terror of it we hide
but it's like a poison gas and seeps into us
smelling of funeral fires and death camps
and gasoline it invades our every tissue
Like barbed wire it is everywhere we turn
the fuel for the fires of hate and murder
choking off all paths to our sanity
filling our eyes with balls of flame
Who can make sense of it any more?
the dream descending into a deadzone
history no longer a question but a noose
dragging us toward a monumental pyre
Try screaming and waking the others
it's like a movie they will say and smile
while millions more flags are unfurled
and our children are given uniforms
Who are the shadows behind the curtains
able to digest entire countries in a night?
those behind warmakers and banks
who manufacture truth and power?
They are in our blood now as a germ
in our heads as the lights go out
repeating in our ears their news
someone must pay for evil deeds
No matter the cause or the suffering
damn the cost and the consequences
when the warlords rule our dreams
our past is forgotten and future forsaken
BZ Botani 2003
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SPEAK OUT
And a vast paranoia sweeps across the land
And America turns the attack on its Twin Towers
Into the beginning of the Third World War
The war with the Third World
And the terrorists in Washington
Are drafting all the young men
And no one speaks
And they are rousting out
All the ones with turbans
And they are flushing out
All the strange immigrants
And they are shipping all the young men
To the killing fields again
And no one speaks
And when they come to round up
All the great writers and poets and painters
The National Endowment of the Arts of Complacency
Will not speak
While all the young men
Will be killing all the young men
In the killing fields again
So now is the time for you to speak
All you lovers of liberty
All you lovers of the pursuit of happiness
All you lovers and sleepers
Deep in your private dreams
Now is the time for you to speak
O silent majority
Before they come for you
-- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Café Nihiliste
Maragogype of lost luxuries,
Wendell builds rhapsodies
on the art of inhalation
in this shrine where he spends
the majority of his waking hours:
calculates the milkfroth
on bowls of au lait -
watches customers' eyes
as they lick the last bubbles
from their mugs of cappuccino,
knowing their growing obsession
will soon equal his own
as he sweeps leftover gold
across the scoured brick floor
and more accurately than a connoisseur
presses Guatemala, Honduras
Sumatra
Java
Colombia
Peru
Argentina and Kenya AA
between his hands,
and when he drops boiling water on a mountain
of fresh-ground Kalossi
each elusive mocha trace
black
erudite
expands -
erotic as a witch's brew until the climax
more spectacular than fireworks
numbs his senses.
Sonja A Skarstedt
Conqueror
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When they start to wear your clothes
do their dreams become more like yours
who do they look like
when they start to use your language
do they say what you say
who are they in your words
when they start to use your money
do they need the same things you need
or do the things change
when they are converted to your gods
do you know who they are praying to
do you know who is praying
for you not to be there
W.S. Merwin
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A Spinning Broken Cross
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America the supersized land of the free
market of values melting pot of Mammon
boasting of greatness and oily excess
tossing all protest behind with our trash
revving the engines of our industry
in the face of a brutalized weeping world
Home of the brave few who dare to resist
an insidious slick conditioning of control
a war on the mind in the vacuum of soul
losing the world in the pledge of obedience
to spies and criminals and General Electric
a nation of fattened domesticated herd-apes
Always the same men with glaring eyes
larger than life and twice as mean
roasting the world with a roar of applause
and the waving of flags proudly held high
saluting of citizens and marching of men
shooting of cannons and broadcast of threats
Trillions of American dollars going into a war machine
who keeps track anymore and who even cares
where all this human energy and processed planet
ending in the bank accounts of whom and why again
we are blindly following behind these men for centuries
feeding their hunger for blood madness chaos and control
America has lost the war on the world before it has begun
conquered by the worms that escaped Nuremberg
sold our souls to dead presidents of the white race
followed a dangerous path carved out by the CIA
armoring ourselves with high-tech holocausts
feeding our overstocked supermarkets until spoiled
Once the war has begun does America believe it will win
with 5 billion opponents and not enough barbed wire
will our children be thanking us for saving their future
while the vast masses of mankind are cursing us
for stealing their possibilities and being so stupid
will we still be applauding the son of a Bush then
America, America man sheds his waste on thee
we call it progress and patriotism and pride
while the poisons seep into our skin and eyes
so we can not see the bloody stripes crooked stars
being soaked with the gore of our world at war
around a white circle and a spinning broken cross
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Ari Fleischer the President's spokesman says all Americans need to watch what they say
it's easy for George W. to watch
when Ari is speaking for him
and for Ari it's easy to watch because
it's on the news later
but fulfilling this need
is harder for me
I devised a rearview speech mirror
and affixed it to my skull
but no one wanted to talk with me
while I watched what I said
in despair I abandoned the act of speech
and devoted myself to a life of text
I wrote: The President's appointment was illegal.
and watched
I wrote: Wilfully causing the death of others is the supreme failure of the human species.
and watched
Ari, as my fellow American
I am watching what you say too
so far I haven't spotted
anything new
Gwendolyn Albert
American Wars
Like the topaz in the toad's head
the comfort in the terrible histories
was up front, easy to find:
Once upon a time in a kingdom far away.
Even to the dreadful now of news
we listened comforted
by far timezones, languages we didn't speak,
the wide, forgetful oceans.
Today, no comfort but the jewel courage.
The war is ours, now, here, it is our republic
facing its own betraying terror.
And how we tell the story is forever after.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
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An Open Letter from Sam Hamill
Dear Friends and Fellow Poets:
When I picked up my mail and saw the letter marked "The White House," I felt no joy. Rather I was overcome by a kind of nausea as I read the card enclosed:
Laura Bush requests the pleasure of your company
at a reception and White House Symposium
on "Poetry and the American Voice"
on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 at one o'clock
Only the day before I had read a lengthy report on George Bush's proposed "Shock and Awe" attack on Iraq, calling for saturation bombing that would be like the firebombing of Dresden or Tokyo, killing countless innocent civilians. Nor has Bush ruled out the use of nuclear weapons.
I believe the only legitimate response to such a morally bankrupt and unconscionable idea is to reconstitute a Poets Against the War movement like the one organized to speak out against the war in Vietnam.
I am asking every poet to speak up for the conscience of our country and lend his or her name to our petition against this war, and to make February 12 a day of Poetry Against the War. We will compile an anthology of protest to be presented to the White House on that afternoon.
Please submit your name and a poem or statement of conscience to the Poets Against the War Web site.
There is little time to organize and compile. I urge you to pass along this letter to any poets you know. Please join me in making February 12 a day when the White House can truly hear the voices of American poets.
-- Sam Hamill, Founding Editor and Co-founder of Copper Canyon Press
http://www.poetsagainstthewar.org/
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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall possess the good of the earth and sun, (there are millions of suns left,)
You shall no longer take things at second or third hand,
nor look through the eyes of the dead,
nor feed on the spectres in books.
You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me,
You shall listen to all sides and filter them from your self.
- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
"If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow."
-- Rachel Carson
"Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.”
-- African Proverb
"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is."
--Will Rogers
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US Lawyers Warn Bush On War Crimes
By Grant McCool
NEW YORK (Reuters) - A group of U.S. law professors opposed to a possible war on Iraq warned U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday that he and senior government officials could be prosecuted for war crimes if military tactics violated international humanitarian law.
"Our primary concern ... is the large number of civilian casualties that may result should U.S. and coalition forces fail to comply with international humanitarian law in using force against Iraq," the group, led by the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, said in a letter to Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
The group cited the particular need for U.S. and coalition forces to abide by humanitarian law requiring warring parties to distinguish between military and civilian areas, use only the level of force that is militarily necessary and to use weaponry that is proportionate to what is being targeted.
The letter, which had more than 100 signatories, said the rules had been broken in other recent wars.
It said air strikes on populated cities, carpet bombing and the use of fuel-air explosives were examples of inappropriate military action taken during the 1991 Gulf War, the 1999 Kosovo campaign and the 2001 Afghan conflict that led to civilian casualties and might be used again in Iraq.
The letter to Bush and Rumsfeld coincided with similar notes sent this week to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien by lawyers in those countries.
Ironically, Bush on Wednesday advised Iraqi officers and soldiers to disobey any orders to use weapons of mass destruction in the event of a conflict. "If you choose to do so, when Iraq is liberated, you will be treated, tried and persecuted as a war criminal," he said.
On Sunday, Rumsfeld said he would favor granting Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and senior Iraqi leaders immunity from possible war crimes prosecution if it would clear the way for their exile and avoid a war.
INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT
Government officials in Britain and Canada could theoretically be investigated by the new International Criminal Court in The Hague if it was determined that international laws had been broken in war. The United States has refused to cooperate with the court and has withdrawn its signature from the treaty establishing it.
The letter to Blair, dated Jan. 22, from Public Interest Lawyers said that if Britain's actions in Iraq were deemed possible war crimes, "we, and others, will take steps to ensure that you, and other leaders of the U.K. government are held accountable."
The Canadian group, Lawyers Against the War, said in its letter dated Jan. 20, that it was putting Chretien's government on notice that without explicit U.N. Security Council approval for a war on Iraq, "we will pursue all responsible government officials on charges of murder and crimes against humanity in both the Canadian and the international criminal courts."
One of the leading signatories to the letter to Bush said although Washington was not a party to the ICC, U.S. officials could still be prosecuted under the Geneva Convention.
"War crimes under that convention can be prosecuted wherever the perpetrators are found," said Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N24141230
US interrogators turn to torture, Constitution cast aside
Guardian Unlimited
Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Saturday January 25, 2003
"I have never seen clients treated so badly" said Randy Hamud, the San Diego-based lawyer who has represented a number of the Arab men detained last year, some of whom are still in custody. "The constitution has been cast aside. The United States is no longer the moral leader of the world."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,882002,00.html
Pentagon Eyes Mass Graves Option
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/012603A.mass.graves.htm
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American Academics Join Israeli Colleagues
In Warning Against Ethnic Cleansing
We join with our Israeli colleagues in calling for vigilance as events unfold in Israel and the Occupied Territories. With an average of more than $10 million dollars per day of American tax dollars going to Israel, we believe Americans cannot remain silent while crimes as abhorrent as ethnic cleansing are being openly advocated.
We urge our government to communicate clearly to the government of Israel that the expulsion of people according to race, religion or nationality would constitute crimes against humanity and will not be tolerated.
http://www.professorsofconscience.org/
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1. Send an e-mail message to academicsignatures@yahoo.com
Type "Include Me" in the subject line.
2. Type your name, title and institutional affiliation in the body of
the message.
EXAMPLE: John Smith, Associate Professor, History, UC Berkeley
3. Then, share the url http://www.professorsofconscience.org
with other justice-minded colleagues who may also wish to be included in the list of signatories.
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Is The BushAdmin The Fourth Reich?
One of the main differences between Bush and Hitler as leaders is that the later built a nation out of rubble. Germany post WWI was left virtually castrated after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. The people of Germany were ostracized on an international level and needed a scapegoat. Hitler initially selected Jews and Communists to fill that slot. Hitler helped to create and then triumphed over the political unrest that plagued post war Germany. During the early years under his leadership, Germany experienced a period of rebirth and pride in the Fatherland. The economy improved greatly and, as witnessed during the 1936 Olympics, the world was introduced to a new Deutschland. The world saw a proud and thriving country rise out of a once devastated enemy.
George W. Bush, on the other hand, has taken a country that enjoyed peace and prosperity for almost a decade and trashed it completely. But when we look at the similarities, however, between post September 11th, 2001 and post February 27th, 1933 (The Reichstag Fire) is where the rise of the Third Reich and today's Bush II administration look remarkably alike. The attacks of September are Bush's "Reichstag Fire."
http://www.bushwatch.net/bushfuhrer.htm
Author links Bush family to Nazis
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
“The president of the Florida Holocaust Museum said Saturday that George W. Bush’s grandfather derived a portion of his personal fortune through his affiliation with a Nazi-controlled bank.
“John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department’s Nazi War Crimes Unit, said his research found that Bush’s grandfather, Prescott Bush, was a principal in the Union Banking Corp. in Manhattan in the late 1930s and the 1940s.
“Leading Nazi industrialists secretly owned the bank at that time, Loftus said, and were moving money into it through a second bank in Holland even after the United States declared war on Germany. The bank was liquidated in 1951, Loftus said, and Bush’s grandfather and great-grandfather received $1.5 million from the bank as part of that dissolution.
‘That’s where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich,’ Loftus said.”
http://www.newscoast.com/headlinesstory2.cfm?ID=35115
'Big Brother' Is No Longer a Fiction, ACLU Warns in Report
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/011703E.aclu.big.bro.htm
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The Immaculate Deception:
The Bush Crime Family Exposed
by Russell S. Bowen
America West Publishers
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This is perhaps the most shocking book written this century about treason committed by the highest leaders within the U.S. Government. This disturbing and thought provoking exposé, which few Americans know about, reveals the truth about the drug running carried out by the secret government. The Immaculate Deception reveals the unsavory past of George Bush and his family, detailing the unscrupulous activities in which he has been involved.
About the Author:
Russell S. Bowen is a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General who has revealed his position with the Office of Security Services (OSS) — forerunner to the CIA — and his drug running activities on behalf of the U.S. government. With this book he has courageously come forward to tell the truth about his association.
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"The Americans are forcing even their friends
nto becoming their enemies. It is curious that
the Americans, who calculate so carefully on
the possibilities of military victory, do not realize
that in the process they are incurring deep
psychological and political defeat. The image
of America will never again be the image of
revolution, freedom and democracy, but
the image of violence and militarism."
-- Vietnamese Buddhist Leader
"Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism."
-- Aldous Huxley
"I think the subject which will be of most importance politically
is Mass Psychology... Its importance has been enormously increased
by the growth of modern methods of propaganda. Although this
science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to
the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know
how its convictions are generated."
-- Bertrand Russel
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
"He who fears not the death of a thousand cuts
will dare to unhorse the emperor."
-- Ancient Chinese proverb
"We will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr
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Prosecute Bush Family for War Crimes & Treason!
Please email this letter, appending your Name and Nationality at the end of the letter of motion, to all the US Federal Senators and Representatives and all the UN Offices you know of.
Then forward this letter to every US and World Citizen you possibly can.
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We, the people of the United States of America and of the Greater World, put forward the motion that it become US Federal Law that the Yale University Order of Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove of Sonoma, California be fully publicly investigated and federally outlawed, and that all past and present members be identified and barred from holding any position in Local, State or Federal US Public Service in addition to their progeny thus barred for the next three generations.
We put forward the motion that all property and assets of the foresaid societies and members be seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to the protection of children from abuse, hunger, homelessness and poverty throughout the world.
We further put forward the motion that all property and assets gained from slavery since the commencement of the American Civil War and all profits resulting thereof be legally seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to sheltering homeless people throughout the world.
We hereby put forward the motion that all people and descendents thereof that participated or profitted from slavery since the commencement of the American Civil War be witheld from holding any position in Local, State or Federal US Public Service for the next three generations.
We hereby put forward the motion that all property and assets held within the USA and all profits thereof gained from the financial activities of the Nazi Regime be hereby seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to sponsoring Anti-Violence education in Junior Secondary Schools throughout America, targeting those schools with the highest rate of violence as the priority.
We hereby put forward the motion that all people and descendents thereof that were members or supporters of the Nazi Regime be barred from holding any position in Local, State or Federal US Public Service for the next three generations.
We hereby put forward the motion that the US Federal Government shall abide by the same obligations that it demands of Iraq, disclosing the entirety of Weapons Program to the United Nations Security Council, opening all US Military, Navy Airforce and Military Science Bases internationally (terrestrial, subterrestrial and extra-terrestrial) for detailed inspection by UNMOVIC and the immediate compliance of disarmament of ALL weapons of mass destruction (including electromagnetic, sonic and laser technologies).
We put forward the motion that the US Federal Government put forward the motion to the United Nations that all countries throughout the world abide by the same foresaid process of unilateral disclosure, inspection and disarmament.
We hereby put forward the motion that the current President of the United States of America, Mr George W. Bush Jr, resign from his position of office on the grounds of his hereditary support of and profiteering from Slavery and the Nazi Regime (his grandfather Prescoot Bush having been a Nazi Financier and profiteer of slavery), he and his families long held membership in the pro-Nazi Order of Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove wherein they are guilty of heinous crimes, and his responsibility for the deaths over 2000 people on Septemeber 11, 2001, at the World Trade Centre.
We further put forward the motion that George W. Bush Jnr be charged with pre-meditated murder on over 2000 accounts (one count per fatal casualty of the World Trade Centre disaster) and sentenced to 1000 years imprisonment without release in a maximum security prison, in a public ward among other convicted murders.
We hereby put forward the motion that all assets of the Bush Family and the Carlyle Group be seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to natural flora and fauna regeneration programmes throughout the United States and the world.
By the Will of God, SO BE IT !!!
Name:
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"There is, before all peoples, a precious chance to turn the black tide
of events. If we failed to strive to seize this chance, the judgment of
future ages would be harsh and just.If we strive but fail and the world
remains armed against itself, it at least need be divided no longer in its
clear knowledge of who has condemned humankind to this fate."
-- Dwight Eisenhower
http://www.rise4news.net/Impeachment_Resolution.html
Standing on the Dead
By Marc Ash
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
--Adolf Hitler
In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with "Running Nazi front groups in the Untied States."
His name: Prescott Bush.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/012303A.ma.dead.htm
"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
—William E. Dodd, US German Ambassador 1937
"The conservative movement has been hijacked and turned into a globalist, interventionist, open borders ideology, which is not the conservative movement I grew up with."
-- Patrick Buchanan
George W. Bush and the Brotherhood of Death
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/09.23A.msnbc.bonse.htm
Report: Bush Warns Joint Chiefs Against Treason
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/012503B.bush.treason.htm
WTC Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother
By Margie Burns
A company that provided security at the World Trade Center, Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport and United Airlines between 1995 and 2001 was backed by a private Kuwaiti-American investment firm whose records were not open to full public disclosure, with ties to the Bush family.
Marvin P. Bush, a younger brother of George W. Bush, was a principal in the company from 1993 to 2000, when most of the work on the big projects was done. But White House responses to 9/11 have not publicly disclosed the company's part in providing security to any of the named facilities.
Public records indicate that the firm, formerly named Securacom, had Bush on its board of directors. He was also listed as a significant shareholder. The firm, which is now named Stratesec, Inc., is located in Sterling, Va., a D.C. suburb, and emphasizes federal clients.
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"The real target in war is the mind of the enemy command, not the bodies of his troops. If we operate against his troops it is fundamentally for the effect that action will produce on the mind and will of the commander; indeed, the trend of warfare and the development of new weapons – aircraft and tanks – promise to give us increased and more direct opportunities of striking at this psychological target."
--Captain Sir Basil H. Liddell Hart, 1944
"If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no
hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are
opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to
making a better world. That's your choice"
-- Noam Chomsky
"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate,
violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in
a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must
be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of
annihilation."
--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
"Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless
or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its
corruption and lawlessness."
-- Mahatma Gandhi
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Then forward this letter to every US and World Citizen you possibly can.
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We, the people of the United States of America and of the Greater World, put forward the motion that it become US Federal Law that the Yale University Order of Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove of Sonoma, California be fully publicly investigated and federally outlawed, and that all past and present members be identified and barred from holding any position in Local, State or Federal US Public Service in addition to their progeny thus barred for the next three generations.
We put forward the motion that all property and assets of the foresaid societies and members be seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to the protection of children from abuse, hunger, homelessness and poverty throughout the world.
We further put forward the motion that all property and assets gained from slavery since the commencement of the American Civil War and all profits resulting thereof be legally seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to sheltering homeless people throughout the world.
We hereby put forward the motion that all people and descendents thereof that participated or profitted from slavery since the commencement of the American Civil War be witheld from holding any position in Local, State or Federal US Public Service for the next three generations.
We hereby put forward the motion that all property and assets held within the USA and all profits thereof gained from the financial activities of the Nazi Regime be hereby seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to sponsoring Anti-Violence education in Junior Secondary Schools throughout America, targeting those schools with the highest rate of violence as the priority.
We hereby put forward the motion that all people and descendents thereof that were members or supporters of the Nazi Regime be barred from holding any position in Local, State or Federal US Public Service for the next three generations.
We hereby put forward the motion that the US Federal Government shall abide by the same obligations that it demands of Iraq, disclosing the entirety of Weapons Program to the United Nations Security Council, opening all US Military, Navy Airforce and Military Science Bases internationally (terrestrial, subterrestrial and extra-terrestrial) for detailed inspection by UNMOVIC and the immediate compliance of disarmament of ALL weapons of mass destruction (including electromagnetic, sonic and laser technologies).
We put forward the motion that the US Federal Government put forward the motion to the United Nations that all countries throughout the world abide by the same foresaid process of unilateral disclosure, inspection and disarmament.
We hereby put forward the motion that the current President of the United States of America, Mr George W. Bush Jr, resign from his position of office on the grounds of his hereditary support of and profiteering from Slavery and the Nazi Regime (his grandfather Prescoot Bush having been a Nazi Financier and profiteer of slavery), he and his families long held membership in the pro-Nazi Order of Skull and Bones and the Bohemian Grove wherein they are guilty of heinous crimes, and his responsibility for the deaths over 2000 people on Septemeber 11, 2001, at the World Trade Centre.
We further put forward the motion that George W. Bush Jnr be charged with pre-meditated murder on over 2000 accounts (one count per fatal casualty of the World Trade Centre disaster) and sentenced to 1000 years imprisonment without release in a maximum security prison, in a public ward among other convicted murders.
We hereby put forward the motion that all assets of the Bush Family and the Carlyle Group be seized by the US Federal Treasury and entirely directed to natural flora and fauna regeneration programmes throughout the United States and the world.
By the Will of God, SO BE IT !!!
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Standing on the Dead
By Marc Ash
"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
--Adolf Hitler
In October of 1942, under the Trading With the Enemy Act, the U.S. government halted operations at New York's Union Banking Corporation. A bank official was charged with "Running Nazi front groups in the Untied States."
His name: Prescott Bush.
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"A clique of U.S. industrialists is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic government and is working closely with the fascist regime in Germany and Italy. I have had plenty of opportunity in my post in Berlin to witness how close some of our American ruling families are to the Nazi regime. They extended aid to help Fascism occupy the seat of power, and they are helping to keep it there."
—William E. Dodd, US German Ambassador 1937
"The conservative movement has been hijacked and turned into a globalist, interventionist, open borders ideology, which is not the conservative movement I grew up with."
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Report: Bush Warns Joint Chiefs Against Treason
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WTC Security, Secrecy and a Bush Brother
By Margie Burns
A company that provided security at the World Trade Center, Washington D.C.'s Dulles International Airport and United Airlines between 1995 and 2001 was backed by a private Kuwaiti-American investment firm whose records were not open to full public disclosure, with ties to the Bush family.
Marvin P. Bush, a younger brother of George W. Bush, was a principal in the company from 1993 to 2000, when most of the work on the big projects was done. But White House responses to 9/11 have not publicly disclosed the company's part in providing security to any of the named facilities.
Public records indicate that the firm, formerly named Securacom, had Bush on its board of directors. He was also listed as a significant shareholder. The firm, which is now named Stratesec, Inc., is located in Sterling, Va., a D.C. suburb, and emphasizes federal clients.
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Memes: TELEVISION AND THE HIVE MIND
by Mack White
Sixty-four years ago this month, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare.
It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles' explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape the alien invad ers.
Later, psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University's Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program. Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done groundbreaking research on, among other things, mass brainwashing.
Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of "psycho-political operations" (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Then, during World War II, Cantril÷and Rockefeller money÷assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study Nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying Nazi techniques to OSS propaganda. Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council.
Thus, by the end of the 1940s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up--just in time for the Dawn of Television ...
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit.
This numbing of the brain's cognitive function is compounded by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is dimin ished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on a conscious level we do not--the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us, but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised--and the effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers.
It is not just commercials that manipulate us. On television news as well, image and sound are as carefully selected and edited to influence human thought and behavior as in any commercial. The news anchors and reporters themselves are chosen for their physical attractiveness--a factor which, as numerous psychological studies have shown, contributes to our perception of a person's trustworthiness. Under these conditions, then, the viewer easily forgets--if, indeed, the viewer ever knew in the first place--that the worldview presented on the evening news is a contrivance of the network owners--owners such as General Electric (NBC) and Westinghouse (CBS), both major defense contractors. By molding our perception of the world, they mold our opinions. This distortion of reality is determined as much by what is left out of the evening news as what is included--as a glance at Project Censored's yearly list of top 25 censored news stories wil l reveal. If it's not on television, it never happened. Out of sight, out of mind.
Under the guise of journalistic objectivity, news programs subtly play on our emotions--chiefly fear. Network news divisions, for instance, frequently congratulate themselves on the great service they provide humanity by bringing such spectacles as the September 11 terror attacks into our living rooms. We have heard this falsehood so often, we have come to accept it as self-evident truth. However, the motivation for live coverage of traumatic news events is not altruistic, but rather to be found in the central focus of Cantril's War of the Worlds research--the manipulation of the public through fear.
There is another way in which we are manipulated by television news. Human beings are prone to model the behaviors they see around them, and avoid those which might invite ridicule or censure, and in the hypnotic state induced by television, this effect is particularly pronounced. For instanc e, a lift of the eyebrow from Peter Jennings tells us precisely what he is thinking--and by extension what we should think. In this way, opinions not sanctioned by the corporate media can be made to seem disreputable, while sanctioned opinions are made to seem the very essence of civilized thought. And should your thinking stray into unsanctioned territory despite the trusted anchor's example, a poll can be produced which shows that most persons do not think that way--and you don't want to be different do you? Thus, the mental wanderer is brought back into the fold.
This process is also at work in programs ostensibly produced for entertainment. The "logic" works like this: Archie Bunker is an idiot, Archie Bunker is against gun control, therefore idiots are against gun control. Never mind the complexities of the issue. Never mind the fact that the true purpose of the Second Amendment is not to protect the rights of deer hunters, but to protect the citizenry against a tyrannica l government (an argument you will never hear voiced on any television program). Monkey see, monkey do--or, in this case, monkey not do.
Notice, too, the way in which television programs depict conspiracy researchers or anti-New World Order activists. On situation comedies, they are buffoons. On dramatic programs, they are dangerous fanatics. This imprints on the mind of the viewer the attitude that questioning the official line or holding "anti-government" opinions is crazy, therefore not to be emulated.
Another way in which entertainment programs mold opinion can be found in the occasional television movie, which "sensitively" deals with some "social" issue. A bad behavior is spotlighted--"hate" crimes, for instance--in such a way that it appears to be a far more rampant problem than it may actually be, so terrible in fact that the "only" cure for it is more laws and government "protection." Never mind that laws may already exist to cover these crimes--the law against murder, for instance. Once we have seen the well-publicized murder of the young gay man Matthew Shepherd dramatized in not one, but two, television movies in all its heartrending horror, nothing will do but we pass a law making the very thought behind the crime illegal.
People will also model behaviors from popular entertainment which are not only dangerous to their health and could land them in jail, but also contribute to social chaos. While this may seem to be simply a matter of the producers giving the audience what it wants, or the artist holding a mirror up to society, it is in fact intended to influence behavior.
Consider the way many films glorify drug abuse. When a popular star playing a sympathetic character in a mainstream R-rated film uses hard drugs with no apparent health or legal consequences (John Travolta's use of heroin in Pulp Fiction, for instance--an R-rated film produced for theatrical release, which now has found a permanent home on television, v ia cable and video players), a certain percentage of people--particularly the impressionable young--will perceive hard drug use as the epitome of anti-Establishment cool and will model that behavior, contributing to an increase in drug abuse. And who benefits?
As has been well documented by Gary Webb in his award-winning series for the San Jose Mercury New, former Los Angeles narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, and many other researchers and whistleblowers--the CIA is the main purveyor of hard drugs in this country. The CIA also has its hand in the "prison-industrial complex." Wackenhut Corporation, the largest owner of private prisons, has on its board of directors many former CIA employees, and is very likely a CIA front. Thus, films which glorify drug abuse may be seen as recruitment ads for the slave labor-based private prison system. Also, the social chaos and inflated crime rate which result from the contrived drug problem contributes to the demand from a frightened soc iety for more prisons, more laws, and the further erosion of civil liberties. This effect is further heightened by television news segments and documentaries which focus on drug abuse and other crimes, thus giving the public the misperception that crime is even higher than it really is.
There is another socially debilitating process at work in what passes for entertainment on television these days. Over the years, there has been a steady increase in adult subject matter on programs presented during family viewing hours. For instance, it is common for today's prime-time situation comedies to make jokes about such matters as masturbation (Seinfeld once devoted an entire episode to the topic), or for daytime talk shows such as Jerry Springer's to showcase such topics as bestiality. Even worse are the "reality" programs currently in vogue. Each new offering in this genre seems to hit a new low. MTV, for instance, recently subjected a couple to a Candid Camera-style prank in which, after winning a trip to Las Vegas, they entered their hotel room to find an actor made up as a mutilated corpse in the bathtub. Naturally, they were traumatized by the experience and sued the network. Or, consider a new show on British television in which contestants compete to see who can infect each other with the most diseases--venereal diseases included.
It would appear, at the very least, that these programs serve as a shill operation to strengthen the argument for censorship. There may also be an even darker motive. These programs contribute to the general coarsening of society we see all around us--the decline in manners and common human decency and the acceptance of cruelty for its own sake as a legitimate form of entertainment. Ultimately, this has the effect of debasing human beings into savages, brutes--the better to herd them into global slavery.
For the first decade or so after the Dawn of Television, there were only a handful of channels in each market--o ne for each of the three major networks and maybe one or two independents. Later, with the advent of cable and more channels, the population pie began to be sliced into finer pieces--or "niche markets." This development has often been described as representing a growing diversity of choices, but in reality it is a fine-tuning of the process of mass manipulation, a honing-in on particular segments of the population, not only to sell them specifically-targeted consumer products but to influence their thinking in ways advantageous to the globalist agenda.
One of these "target audiences" is that portion of the population which, after years of blatant government cover-up in areas such as UFOs and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, maintains a cynicism toward the official line, despite the best efforts of television programmers to depict conspiracy research in a negative light. How to reach this vast, disenfranchised target audience and co-opt their thinking? One way is to put do cumentaries before them which mix of fact with disinformation, thereby confusing them. Another is to take the X Files approach.
The heroes of X Files are investigators in a fictitious paranormal department of the FBI whose adventures sometimes take them into parapolitical territory. On the surface this sounds good. However, whatever good X Files might accomplish by touching on such matters as MK-ULTRA or the JFK assassination is cancelled out by associating them with bug-eyed aliens and ghosts. Also, on X Files, the truth is always depicted as "out there" somewhere--in the stars, or some other dimension, never in brainwashing centers such as the RAND Corporation or its London counterpart, the Tavistock Institute. This has the effect of obscuring the truth, making it seem impossibly out-of-reach, and associating reasonable lines of political inquiry with the fantastic and other-wordly.
Not that there is no connection between the parapolitical and the paranormal. There is undoubtedly a cover-up at work with regard to UFOs, but if we accept uncritically the notion that UFOs are anything other than terrestrial in origin, we are falling headfirst into a carefully-set trap. To its credit, X Files has dealt with the idea that extraterrestrials might be a clever hoax by the government, but never decisively. The labyrinthine plots of the show somehow manage to leave the viewer wondering if perhaps the hoax idea is itself a hoax put out there to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials. This is hardly helpful to a true understanding of UFOs and associated phenomena, such as alien abductions and cattle mutilations.
Extraterrestrials have been a staple of popular entertainment since The War of the Worlds (both the novel and its radio adaptation). They have been depicted as invaders and benefactors, but rarely have they been unequivocally depicted as a hoax. There was an episode of Outer Limits which depicted a group of scientists staging a mock alien invasion to frighten the world's population into uniting as one--but, again, such examples are rare. Even in UFO documentaries on the Discovery Channel, the possibility of a terrestrial origin for the phenomenon is conspicuous by its lack of mention.
UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, the real-life model for the French scientist in Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, attempted to interest Spielberg in a terrestrial explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallee said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"
How convenient that what Spielberg says the people expect is also what the Pentagon wants them to believe.
In Messengers of Deception, Vallee tracks the history of a wartime British Intelligence unit devoted to psychological operations. Code-named (interestingly) the "Martians," it specialized in manufacturing and distributing false intelligence to confuse the enemy. Among its activities were the creation of phantom armies with inflatable tanks, simulations of the sounds of military ships maneuvering in the fog, and forged letters to lovers from phantom soldiers attached to phantom regiments.
Vallee suggests that deception operations of this kind may have extended beyond World War II, and that much of the "evidence" for "flying saucers" is no more real than the inflatable tanks of World War II. He writes: "The close association of many UFO sightings with advanced military hardware (test sites like the New Mexico proving grounds, missile silos of the northern plains, naval construction sites like the major nuclear facility at Pascagoula and the bizarre love affairs ... between contactee groups, occult sects, and extremist political fa ctions, are utterly clear signals that we must exercise extreme caution."
Many people find it fantastic that the government would perpetrate such a hoax, while at the same time having no difficulty entertaining the notion that extraterrestrials are regularly traveling light years to this planet to kidnap people out of their beds and subject them to anal probes.
The military routinely puts out disinformation to obscure its activities, and this has certainly been the case with UFOs. Consider Paul Bennewitz, the UFO enthusiast who began studying strange lights that would appear nightly over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. When the Air Force learned about his study, ufologist William Moore (by his own admission) was recruited to feed him forged military documents describing a threat from extraterrestrials. The effect was to confuse Bennewitz--even making him paranoid enough to be hospitalized--and discredit his research. Evidently, those strange lights belonged to the Air Force, which does not like outsiders inquiring into its affairs.
What the Air Force did to Bennewitz, it also does on a mass scale--and popular entertainment has been complicit in this process. Whether or not the filmmakers themselves are consciously aware of this agenda does not matter. The notion that extraterrestrials might visit this planet is so much a part of popular culture and modern mythology that it hardly needs assistance from the military to propagate itself.
It has the effect not only of obscuring what is really going on at research facilities such as Area 51, but of tainting UFO research in general as "kooky"--and does the job so thoroughly that one need only say "UFO" in the same breath with "JFK" to discredit research in that area as well. It also may, in the end, serve the same purpose as depicted in that Outer Limits episode--to unite the world's population against a perceived common threat, thus offering the pretext for one-world government
The following quotes demonstrate that the idea has at least occurred to world leaders:
"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." (President Ronald Reagan, speaking in 1987 to the United Nations.
"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets." General Douglas MacArthur, 1955)
Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." (John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy a t Columbia University, speaking at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917)
And where was this "alien threat" motif given birth? Again, we find the answer in popular entertainment, and again the earliest source is The War of the Worlds--both Wells' and Welles' versions.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that H. G. Wells was a founding member of the Round Table, the think tank that gave birth to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) and its American cousin, the CFR. Perhaps Wells intentionally introduced the motif as a meme which might prove useful later in establishing the "world social democracy" he described in his 1939 book The New World Order. Perhaps, too, another purpose of the Orson Welles broadcast was to test of the public's willingness to believe in extraterrestrials.
At any rate, it proved a popular motif, and paved the way for countless movies and television programs to come, and has often proven a hand y device for promoting the New World Order, whether the extraterrestrials are invaders or--in films like The Day the Earth Stood Still--benefactors who have come to Earth to warn us to mend our ways and unite as one, or be blown to bits.
We see the globalist agenda at work in Star Trek and its spin-offs as well. Over the years, many a television viewer's mind has been imprinted with the idea that centralized government is the solution for our problems. Never mind the complexities of the issue--never mind the fact that, in the real world, centralization of power leads to tyranny. The reptile brain, hypnotized by the flickering television screen, has seen Captain Kirk and his culturally diverse crew demonstrate time and again that the United Federation of Planets is a good thing. Therefore, it must be so.
It remains to be seen whether the Masters of Deception will, like those scientists in The Outer Limits, stage an invasion from space with anti-gravity machines and holog rams, but, if they do, it will surely be broadcast on television, so that anyone out of range of that light show in the sky, will be able to see it, and all with eyes to see will believe. It will be War of the Worlds on a grand scale.
Jack Kerouac once noted, while walking down a residential street at night, glancing into living rooms lit by the gray glare of television sets, that we have become a world of people "thinking the same thoughts at the same time."
Every day, millions upon millions of human beings sit down at the same time to watch the same football game, the same mini-series, the same newscast. And where might all this shared experience and uniformity of thought be taking us?
A recent report co-sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Commerce Department calls for a broad-based research program to find ways to use nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences, to achieve telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified sensory experience, enhanced intellectual capacity, and mass participation in a "hive mind." Quoting the report: "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur. Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind--an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)
This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the center of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.
And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.
In a sense, those people who fled the Martians that night were right to be afraid. They were indeed under attack. But they were wrong about who was attacking them. It was something far worse than Martians. Had they only known the true nature of the danger facing them, perhaps they would have gone to the nearest radio station with torches in hand like the villagers in those old Frankenstein movies and burned it to the ground, or at least commandeered the new technology and t urned it towards another use--the liberation of humanity, instead of its enslavement.
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U.S. Government Report: Human Beings to be Merged with Technology to Create a "Hive Mind"
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THE GLOBAL BRAIN AWAKENS
In The Global Brain Awakens Peter Russell shows that humanity has reached a
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by Mack White
Sixty-four years ago this month, six million Americans became unwitting subjects in an experiment in psychological warfare.
It was the night before Halloween, 1938. At 8 p.m. CST, the Mercury Radio on the Air began broadcasting Orson Welles' radio adaptation of H. G. Wells' War of the Worlds. As is now well known, the story was presented as if it were breaking news, with bulletins so realistic that an estimated one million people believed the world was actually under attack by Martians. Of that number, thousands succumbed to outright panic, not waiting to hear Welles' explanation at the end of the program that it had all been a Halloween prank, but fleeing into the night to escape the alien invad ers.
Later, psychologist Hadley Cantril conducted a study of the effects of the broadcast and published his findings in a book, The Invasion from Mars: A Study in the Psychology of Panic. This study explored the power of broadcast media, particularly as it relates to the suggestibility of human beings under the influence of fear. Cantril was affiliated with Princeton University's Radio Research Project, which was funded in 1937 by the Rockefeller Foundation. Also affiliated with the Project was Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) executive Frank Stanton, whose network had broadcast the program. Stanton would later go on to head the news division of CBS, and in time would become president of the network, as well as chairman of the board of the RAND Corporation, the influential think tank which has done groundbreaking research on, among other things, mass brainwashing.
Two years later, with Rockefeller Foundation money, Cantril established the Office of Public Opinion Research (OPOR), also at Princeton. Among the studies conducted by the OPOR was an analysis of the effectiveness of "psycho-political operations" (propaganda, in plain English) of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the forerunner of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Then, during World War II, Cantril÷and Rockefeller money÷assisted CFR member and CBS reporter Edward R. Murrow in setting up the Princeton Listening Center, the purpose of which was to study Nazi radio propaganda with the object of applying Nazi techniques to OSS propaganda. Out of this project came a new government agency, the Foreign Broadcast Intelligence Service (FBIS). The FBIS eventually became the United States Information Agency (USIA), which is the propaganda arm of the National Security Council.
Thus, by the end of the 1940s, the basic research had been done and the propaganda apparatus of the national security state had been set up--just in time for the Dawn of Television ...
Experiments conducted by researcher Herbert Krugman reveal that, when a person watches television, brain activity switches from the left to the right hemisphere. The left hemisphere is the seat of logical thought. Here, information is broken down into its component parts and critically analyzed. The right brain, however, treats incoming data uncritically, processing information in wholes, leading to emotional, rather than logical, responses. The shift from left to right brain activity also causes the release of endorphins, the body's own natural opiates--thus, it is possible to become physically addicted to watching television, a hypothesis borne out by numerous studies which have shown that very few people are able to kick the television habit.
This numbing of the brain's cognitive function is compounded by another shift which occurs in the brain when we watch television. Activity in the higher brain regions (such as the neo-cortex) is dimin ished, while activity in the lower brain regions (such as the limbic system) increases. The latter, commonly referred to as the reptile brain, is associated with more primitive mental functions, such as the "fight or flight" response. The reptile brain is unable to distinguish between reality and the simulated reality of television. To the reptile brain, if it looks real, it is real. Thus, though we know on a conscious level it is "only a film," on a conscious level we do not--the heart beats faster, for instance, while we watch a suspenseful scene. Similarly, we know the commercial is trying to manipulate us, but on an unconscious level the commercial nonetheless succeeds in, say, making us feel inadequate until we buy whatever thing is being advertised--and the effect is all the more powerful because it is unconscious, operating on the deepest level of human response. The reptile brain makes it possible for us to survive as biological beings, but it also leaves us vulnerable to the manipulations of television programmers.
It is not just commercials that manipulate us. On television news as well, image and sound are as carefully selected and edited to influence human thought and behavior as in any commercial. The news anchors and reporters themselves are chosen for their physical attractiveness--a factor which, as numerous psychological studies have shown, contributes to our perception of a person's trustworthiness. Under these conditions, then, the viewer easily forgets--if, indeed, the viewer ever knew in the first place--that the worldview presented on the evening news is a contrivance of the network owners--owners such as General Electric (NBC) and Westinghouse (CBS), both major defense contractors. By molding our perception of the world, they mold our opinions. This distortion of reality is determined as much by what is left out of the evening news as what is included--as a glance at Project Censored's yearly list of top 25 censored news stories wil l reveal. If it's not on television, it never happened. Out of sight, out of mind.
Under the guise of journalistic objectivity, news programs subtly play on our emotions--chiefly fear. Network news divisions, for instance, frequently congratulate themselves on the great service they provide humanity by bringing such spectacles as the September 11 terror attacks into our living rooms. We have heard this falsehood so often, we have come to accept it as self-evident truth. However, the motivation for live coverage of traumatic news events is not altruistic, but rather to be found in the central focus of Cantril's War of the Worlds research--the manipulation of the public through fear.
There is another way in which we are manipulated by television news. Human beings are prone to model the behaviors they see around them, and avoid those which might invite ridicule or censure, and in the hypnotic state induced by television, this effect is particularly pronounced. For instanc e, a lift of the eyebrow from Peter Jennings tells us precisely what he is thinking--and by extension what we should think. In this way, opinions not sanctioned by the corporate media can be made to seem disreputable, while sanctioned opinions are made to seem the very essence of civilized thought. And should your thinking stray into unsanctioned territory despite the trusted anchor's example, a poll can be produced which shows that most persons do not think that way--and you don't want to be different do you? Thus, the mental wanderer is brought back into the fold.
This process is also at work in programs ostensibly produced for entertainment. The "logic" works like this: Archie Bunker is an idiot, Archie Bunker is against gun control, therefore idiots are against gun control. Never mind the complexities of the issue. Never mind the fact that the true purpose of the Second Amendment is not to protect the rights of deer hunters, but to protect the citizenry against a tyrannica l government (an argument you will never hear voiced on any television program). Monkey see, monkey do--or, in this case, monkey not do.
Notice, too, the way in which television programs depict conspiracy researchers or anti-New World Order activists. On situation comedies, they are buffoons. On dramatic programs, they are dangerous fanatics. This imprints on the mind of the viewer the attitude that questioning the official line or holding "anti-government" opinions is crazy, therefore not to be emulated.
Another way in which entertainment programs mold opinion can be found in the occasional television movie, which "sensitively" deals with some "social" issue. A bad behavior is spotlighted--"hate" crimes, for instance--in such a way that it appears to be a far more rampant problem than it may actually be, so terrible in fact that the "only" cure for it is more laws and government "protection." Never mind that laws may already exist to cover these crimes--the law against murder, for instance. Once we have seen the well-publicized murder of the young gay man Matthew Shepherd dramatized in not one, but two, television movies in all its heartrending horror, nothing will do but we pass a law making the very thought behind the crime illegal.
People will also model behaviors from popular entertainment which are not only dangerous to their health and could land them in jail, but also contribute to social chaos. While this may seem to be simply a matter of the producers giving the audience what it wants, or the artist holding a mirror up to society, it is in fact intended to influence behavior.
Consider the way many films glorify drug abuse. When a popular star playing a sympathetic character in a mainstream R-rated film uses hard drugs with no apparent health or legal consequences (John Travolta's use of heroin in Pulp Fiction, for instance--an R-rated film produced for theatrical release, which now has found a permanent home on television, v ia cable and video players), a certain percentage of people--particularly the impressionable young--will perceive hard drug use as the epitome of anti-Establishment cool and will model that behavior, contributing to an increase in drug abuse. And who benefits?
As has been well documented by Gary Webb in his award-winning series for the San Jose Mercury New, former Los Angeles narcotics detective Michael Ruppert, and many other researchers and whistleblowers--the CIA is the main purveyor of hard drugs in this country. The CIA also has its hand in the "prison-industrial complex." Wackenhut Corporation, the largest owner of private prisons, has on its board of directors many former CIA employees, and is very likely a CIA front. Thus, films which glorify drug abuse may be seen as recruitment ads for the slave labor-based private prison system. Also, the social chaos and inflated crime rate which result from the contrived drug problem contributes to the demand from a frightened soc iety for more prisons, more laws, and the further erosion of civil liberties. This effect is further heightened by television news segments and documentaries which focus on drug abuse and other crimes, thus giving the public the misperception that crime is even higher than it really is.
There is another socially debilitating process at work in what passes for entertainment on television these days. Over the years, there has been a steady increase in adult subject matter on programs presented during family viewing hours. For instance, it is common for today's prime-time situation comedies to make jokes about such matters as masturbation (Seinfeld once devoted an entire episode to the topic), or for daytime talk shows such as Jerry Springer's to showcase such topics as bestiality. Even worse are the "reality" programs currently in vogue. Each new offering in this genre seems to hit a new low. MTV, for instance, recently subjected a couple to a Candid Camera-style prank in which, after winning a trip to Las Vegas, they entered their hotel room to find an actor made up as a mutilated corpse in the bathtub. Naturally, they were traumatized by the experience and sued the network. Or, consider a new show on British television in which contestants compete to see who can infect each other with the most diseases--venereal diseases included.
It would appear, at the very least, that these programs serve as a shill operation to strengthen the argument for censorship. There may also be an even darker motive. These programs contribute to the general coarsening of society we see all around us--the decline in manners and common human decency and the acceptance of cruelty for its own sake as a legitimate form of entertainment. Ultimately, this has the effect of debasing human beings into savages, brutes--the better to herd them into global slavery.
For the first decade or so after the Dawn of Television, there were only a handful of channels in each market--o ne for each of the three major networks and maybe one or two independents. Later, with the advent of cable and more channels, the population pie began to be sliced into finer pieces--or "niche markets." This development has often been described as representing a growing diversity of choices, but in reality it is a fine-tuning of the process of mass manipulation, a honing-in on particular segments of the population, not only to sell them specifically-targeted consumer products but to influence their thinking in ways advantageous to the globalist agenda.
One of these "target audiences" is that portion of the population which, after years of blatant government cover-up in areas such as UFOs and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, maintains a cynicism toward the official line, despite the best efforts of television programmers to depict conspiracy research in a negative light. How to reach this vast, disenfranchised target audience and co-opt their thinking? One way is to put do cumentaries before them which mix of fact with disinformation, thereby confusing them. Another is to take the X Files approach.
The heroes of X Files are investigators in a fictitious paranormal department of the FBI whose adventures sometimes take them into parapolitical territory. On the surface this sounds good. However, whatever good X Files might accomplish by touching on such matters as MK-ULTRA or the JFK assassination is cancelled out by associating them with bug-eyed aliens and ghosts. Also, on X Files, the truth is always depicted as "out there" somewhere--in the stars, or some other dimension, never in brainwashing centers such as the RAND Corporation or its London counterpart, the Tavistock Institute. This has the effect of obscuring the truth, making it seem impossibly out-of-reach, and associating reasonable lines of political inquiry with the fantastic and other-wordly.
Not that there is no connection between the parapolitical and the paranormal. There is undoubtedly a cover-up at work with regard to UFOs, but if we accept uncritically the notion that UFOs are anything other than terrestrial in origin, we are falling headfirst into a carefully-set trap. To its credit, X Files has dealt with the idea that extraterrestrials might be a clever hoax by the government, but never decisively. The labyrinthine plots of the show somehow manage to leave the viewer wondering if perhaps the hoax idea is itself a hoax put out there to cover up the existence of extraterrestrials. This is hardly helpful to a true understanding of UFOs and associated phenomena, such as alien abductions and cattle mutilations.
Extraterrestrials have been a staple of popular entertainment since The War of the Worlds (both the novel and its radio adaptation). They have been depicted as invaders and benefactors, but rarely have they been unequivocally depicted as a hoax. There was an episode of Outer Limits which depicted a group of scientists staging a mock alien invasion to frighten the world's population into uniting as one--but, again, such examples are rare. Even in UFO documentaries on the Discovery Channel, the possibility of a terrestrial origin for the phenomenon is conspicuous by its lack of mention.
UFO researcher Jacques Vallee, the real-life model for the French scientist in Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, attempted to interest Spielberg in a terrestrial explanation for the phenomenon. In an interview on Conspire.com, Vallee said, "I argued with him that the subject was even more interesting if it wasn't extraterrestrials. If it was real, physical, but not ET. So he said, 'You're probably right, but that's not what the public is expecting--this is Hollywood and I want to give people something that's close to what they expect.'"
How convenient that what Spielberg says the people expect is also what the Pentagon wants them to believe.
In Messengers of Deception, Vallee tracks the history of a wartime British Intelligence unit devoted to psychological operations. Code-named (interestingly) the "Martians," it specialized in manufacturing and distributing false intelligence to confuse the enemy. Among its activities were the creation of phantom armies with inflatable tanks, simulations of the sounds of military ships maneuvering in the fog, and forged letters to lovers from phantom soldiers attached to phantom regiments.
Vallee suggests that deception operations of this kind may have extended beyond World War II, and that much of the "evidence" for "flying saucers" is no more real than the inflatable tanks of World War II. He writes: "The close association of many UFO sightings with advanced military hardware (test sites like the New Mexico proving grounds, missile silos of the northern plains, naval construction sites like the major nuclear facility at Pascagoula and the bizarre love affairs ... between contactee groups, occult sects, and extremist political fa ctions, are utterly clear signals that we must exercise extreme caution."
Many people find it fantastic that the government would perpetrate such a hoax, while at the same time having no difficulty entertaining the notion that extraterrestrials are regularly traveling light years to this planet to kidnap people out of their beds and subject them to anal probes.
The military routinely puts out disinformation to obscure its activities, and this has certainly been the case with UFOs. Consider Paul Bennewitz, the UFO enthusiast who began studying strange lights that would appear nightly over the Manzano Test Range outside Albuquerque. When the Air Force learned about his study, ufologist William Moore (by his own admission) was recruited to feed him forged military documents describing a threat from extraterrestrials. The effect was to confuse Bennewitz--even making him paranoid enough to be hospitalized--and discredit his research. Evidently, those strange lights belonged to the Air Force, which does not like outsiders inquiring into its affairs.
What the Air Force did to Bennewitz, it also does on a mass scale--and popular entertainment has been complicit in this process. Whether or not the filmmakers themselves are consciously aware of this agenda does not matter. The notion that extraterrestrials might visit this planet is so much a part of popular culture and modern mythology that it hardly needs assistance from the military to propagate itself.
It has the effect not only of obscuring what is really going on at research facilities such as Area 51, but of tainting UFO research in general as "kooky"--and does the job so thoroughly that one need only say "UFO" in the same breath with "JFK" to discredit research in that area as well. It also may, in the end, serve the same purpose as depicted in that Outer Limits episode--to unite the world's population against a perceived common threat, thus offering the pretext for one-world government
The following quotes demonstrate that the idea has at least occurred to world leaders:
"In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us realize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world." (President Ronald Reagan, speaking in 1987 to the United Nations.
"The nations of the world will have to unite, for the next war will be an interplanetary war. The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets." General Douglas MacArthur, 1955)
Some one remarked that the best way to unite all the nations on this globe would be an attack from some other planet. In the face of such an alien enemy, people would respond with a sense of their unity of interest and purpose." (John Dewey, Professor of Philosophy a t Columbia University, speaking at a conference sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1917)
And where was this "alien threat" motif given birth? Again, we find the answer in popular entertainment, and again the earliest source is The War of the Worlds--both Wells' and Welles' versions.
Perhaps it is no coincidence that H. G. Wells was a founding member of the Round Table, the think tank that gave birth to the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) and its American cousin, the CFR. Perhaps Wells intentionally introduced the motif as a meme which might prove useful later in establishing the "world social democracy" he described in his 1939 book The New World Order. Perhaps, too, another purpose of the Orson Welles broadcast was to test of the public's willingness to believe in extraterrestrials.
At any rate, it proved a popular motif, and paved the way for countless movies and television programs to come, and has often proven a hand y device for promoting the New World Order, whether the extraterrestrials are invaders or--in films like The Day the Earth Stood Still--benefactors who have come to Earth to warn us to mend our ways and unite as one, or be blown to bits.
We see the globalist agenda at work in Star Trek and its spin-offs as well. Over the years, many a television viewer's mind has been imprinted with the idea that centralized government is the solution for our problems. Never mind the complexities of the issue--never mind the fact that, in the real world, centralization of power leads to tyranny. The reptile brain, hypnotized by the flickering television screen, has seen Captain Kirk and his culturally diverse crew demonstrate time and again that the United Federation of Planets is a good thing. Therefore, it must be so.
It remains to be seen whether the Masters of Deception will, like those scientists in The Outer Limits, stage an invasion from space with anti-gravity machines and holog rams, but, if they do, it will surely be broadcast on television, so that anyone out of range of that light show in the sky, will be able to see it, and all with eyes to see will believe. It will be War of the Worlds on a grand scale.
Jack Kerouac once noted, while walking down a residential street at night, glancing into living rooms lit by the gray glare of television sets, that we have become a world of people "thinking the same thoughts at the same time."
Every day, millions upon millions of human beings sit down at the same time to watch the same football game, the same mini-series, the same newscast. And where might all this shared experience and uniformity of thought be taking us?
A recent report co-sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the Commerce Department calls for a broad-based research program to find ways to use nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive sciences, to achieve telepathy, machine-to-human communication, amplified sensory experience, enhanced intellectual capacity, and mass participation in a "hive mind." Quoting the report: "With knowledge no longer encapsulated in individuals, the distinction between individuals and the entirety of humanity would blur. Think Vulcan mind-meld. We would perhaps become more of a hive mind--an enormous, single, intelligent entity."
There is no doubt that we have been brought closer to the "hive mind" by the mass media. For, what is the shared experience of television but a type of "Vulcan mind-meld"? (Note the terminology borrowed from Star Trek, no doubt to make the concept more familiar and palatable. If Spock does it, it must be okay.)
This government report would have us believe that the hive mind will be for our good--a wonderful leap in evolution. It is nothing of the kind. For one thing, if the government is behind it, you may rest assured it is not for our good. For another, common sense should tell us that blurring the line "between individuals and the entirety of humanity" means mass conformity, the death of human individuality. Make no mistake about it--if humanity is to become a hive, there will be at the center of that hive a Queen Bee, whom all the lesser "insects" will serve. This is not evolution--this is devolution. Worse, it is the ultimate slavery--the slavery of the mind.
And it is a horror first unleashed in 1938 when one million people responded as one--as a hive--to Orson Welles' Halloween prank.
In a sense, those people who fled the Martians that night were right to be afraid. They were indeed under attack. But they were wrong about who was attacking them. It was something far worse than Martians. Had they only known the true nature of the danger facing them, perhaps they would have gone to the nearest radio station with torches in hand like the villagers in those old Frankenstein movies and burned it to the ground, or at least commandeered the new technology and t urned it towards another use--the liberation of humanity, instead of its enslavement.
RELEVANT LINKS
U.S. Government Report: Human Beings to be Merged with Technology to Create a "Hive Mind"
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THE GLOBAL BRAIN AWAKENS
In The Global Brain Awakens Peter Russell shows that humanity has reached a
crossroads in its evolutionary path. Computers, satellites, fiber optics,
video recorders and other technology, are the catalysts linking our planet
into one, worldwide community - a "global brain". This technology, combined
with a the rapidly growing human potential movement, is helping to create a
collective consciousness that is humanity's only hope of saving it from
itself. However, Russell warns if we continue on our current path of greed
and destruction, humanity will serve only as a planetary cancer.
Selling more than 100,000 copies and translated into ten languages, his
seminal work, The Global Brain, won acclaim from forward thinkers
worldwide. It was regarded by many as years ahead of its time, and its
original predictions about the impact of computer networks and changing
social values have since been realized.
Peter Russell, who holds advanced degrees in theoretical physics,
experimental psychology and computer science, makes no apologies for
presenting what may seem like a Utopian theory. He advises, "The image a
society has of itself can play a crucial role in the shaping of its future.
A positive vision is like the light at the end of the tunnel, which, even
though dimly glimpsed, encourages us to step in that direction".
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science will be diligently studied, it will be rigidly confined to
the governing class. The populace will not be allowed to know
how its convictions are generated."
-- Bertrand Russel
"Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
-- Mohandas Gandhi
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-- John F. Kennedy
"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. Political language is
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A coalition of Canadian peace groups today announced their intention to
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The most recent case of nation building is, of course, Afghanistan,
where it's unclear that leader Hamid Karzai controls all the bathrooms in
his presidential palace, much less the countryside outside of Kabul. As
Masood Farivar wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, "Afghanistan lies
in ruins and faces a real danger of slipping back into anarchy."
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U.S. Use of Cluster Bombs Endangers Civilians
The U.S. dropped some 250,000 cluster bombs in Afghanistan last year without taking adequate precautions to prevent them from killing scores of civilians, in violation of international law, says a new report from Human Rights Watch. Unexploded duds still litter the country, further endangering civilians.
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The government of the United States is clearly the biggest threat to the security of our planet. It must be disarmed.
Jim Steitz Logan
Appeal to all world leaders to wake up and take care of this NOW! and a special message to George W. Bush: We, the United States, should practice what we preach otherwise we are simply hypocrites and not telling the truth to ourselves or anyone else at all. This is spiritually criminal and not in sync with world "leader" but rather global bullying bandit. It's high time our "leader" in the white house lives up to the integrity of our so-called principles -- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ALL people which gives absolutely NO ONE the right to encroach on the economics, governments, civil or environmental rights whatsoever of any other people. What are you thinking? No One But God will ever rule the world. Obviously you've proven you only build enemies by attempting to make everything "your way." World politics makes me sick when I think of what "we" have done and who "we" have killed in the name of "what's right for us or somebody else" in the past 50 years. May God have mercy on your judging murdering souls. It's high time we take loving care of the ENTIRE tribe and STOP killing each other. What the hell is civilized about the world when we have this sense of having to have more bigger better weapons? And this bullshit about defense is simply about the enemies you have personally developed yourselves in the name of your business. It's nothing more than a BUSINESS OF EGO. Along with the Corporate GREED, your scorecard is rating rock bottom. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO BE A TRUE LEADER, MR PRESIDENT, AND OTHERWISE, YOU'RE JUST A PUPPET OF UGLINESS!!! So make a real name for yourself in the history of the world and get rid of ALL the weapons! NOW!
christine page Waialua
Please stop the childish behavior! It is very easy to get along-a lot easier than killing everyone on the face of the planet.
Julia Benedetti La Jolla
"Only after the Last Tree has been cut down, Only after the Last River has been poisoned, Only after the Last Fish has been caught, Only then will you find that Money cannot be Eaten." Cree Indian Prophecy To us all that lives is sacred. Please think about the future, about what kind of a World we will leave to our children and grandchildren. Please be fully aware of the choices you are making now. Choose and decide with your HEART. There is SO much at stake! Please take note of our concerns: there are many more of us who just don't know the ways to speak out. Let us speak on behalf of All of them.
Jan Gosen and Margot Wolff Zwolle
This petition presumably only a gesture, but the principle is clear: most countries don't 'have a lighter conscience' than Iraq.
Jay Rossouw Uvongo
Please perform a weapons inspection in the United States. Please unite the nations, not divide them.
emily Hicks Seattle
Just do it - let's get the whole truth out there so we know what we're up against on all fronts. If we expect other countries to comply, it's fair for us to do the same.
Suzan Patrick Denver
this is every bit as vital as monitoring iraq, perhaps more so. stand with us for the entire world. thank you.
betts richter albuquerque
Dear friends, I apply to become active member of your inspection team. My engagement will be very cheap for your organization, in fact, it will be free of charge, since I don’t have to travel anywhere. There is still a lot of American weapons “to be inspected” in my homeland – parts of exploded bombs, even unexploded ones stuffed with uranium in our backyards, cluster bombs hidden in bushes, wings of crashed air-planes… All of that left after the bombing of Serbia in 1999.
Mira Djurdjevic, Belgrade, Serbia
The whole world is copying the U.S. in the worse possible ways. Bombings in multiple countries, North Korea admitting to secret nuclear weapons and WMD, human rights and liberties being suspended worldwide under the guise of security etc. The One World Order and WTO must be stopped before they destroy any resemblance to normal happy life for any living thing on this planet. The U.S. should lead by example, not force.
meria Heller Phoenix
It's past time for the United Nations to hold the USA accountable for adhering to and ratifying the same laws and treaties the USA wants to hold other countries accountable to.
Dave Paulsen Bellingham
All countries should be accountable to abide by international laws and rules, and that includes the U.S.
Catherine Dishion Santa Barbara
Please, do not allow the United States to act as an "above-the-law" mediator of the world. Make us, and all nations, subject to the same policies, regardless of our self-assigned duty of policing the world.
Michael Doyel, Jr. Saint Louis
As far as those who are killed are concerned, it would not make any difference whatsoever as to whether such people are killed by enemy fire or by friendly fire. Their life is gone for ever just the same. If such countries as Iraq and North Korea are required to open their secret military bases for inspection because of the possibility that they may have a few weapons of brutal destruction, such countries as the United States and Great Britain, which have tons and tons of such brutal and dangerous weapons, ought to be required to open their secret military bases in no lesser way. And if such countries as Iraq and North Korea are expected to comply, countries such as the United States and Great Britain are also expected to comply by all means.
Charles Mercieca Huntsville
Let all powers be inspected in the same way the US Administration continues to submit other countries to. Bravo!
Saille Abbott Vancouver
Please don't accept the argument that Iraq is the only dangerous country with 'weapons of mass destruction'. ALL countries with 'weapons of mass destruction' are dangerous and this includes the United States among others.
susan ambler katoomba
Today we stand in a place of making some very important decisions for this planet. We have met the enemy and they are us. What gives us the right to do what we have done over this planet in the name of peace? Peace can NEVER be achieved by war. When will you people get this? If you want war then go fight it yourselvs and leave us who do not. Put on the gear and be the first to fight.
alaria sun Hedgesville
I am concerned with my government's apparent lack of compassion and lawfulness. What we are amounting to is just a bunch of bullies...
Christine Urbanek Denver
In addtion, the UN Security Council should require the United States and all other countries to be inspected for both secret and non-secret locations of weapons of mass destruction. Further, the UN should require that any UN resolution regarding inspections of one country for weapons of any kind, must apply to all countries suspected of holding such weapons. Further, The UN should require inspection of all countries suspected of producing or holding anti-personnel cluster bombs, land mines and any other weapons designed expressly for random killing of civilians, and should require destruction of all such weapons found.
Karl North Marathon
I sign this petition to show my concern for my world. I am a citizen of Earth before I am a citizen of the United States, and I know my country is pursuing a wrong and shameful course of action. I would like people of the world to know that many Americans disagree with the US government's actions, but that they are too afraid to speak out. Let this be the beginning of the end of fear!
Joe Sehl Minneapolis
The change into a peaceful global community is now inevitable. It is only a matter of how smooth we make this transition into a NEW TIME. The UN must fulfill its duties and accept the International 13-moon World Peace Calendar in 2004. Returning to Natural Time is perhaps the only way that we can unite world-wide for PEACE and Collective Consciousness. Check out: www.tortuga.com
Starr Weatherbie Seattle
I think it looks as if the UN is an American puppet when it allows the US to break all the rules, then goes after others when the US demands it.
Barbara Kirkpatrick Syracuse
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If the USA wants weapon inspections, elsewhere, than others can inspect their caches -- every last one. The USA is after World domination -- even ownership. Already the USA has basically taken over my country (Canada). We just don't have voting rights in the USA and we don't have to salute that ugly striped flag...yet. But U.S. aircraft carriers and battleships sit in our harbours and U.S. fighter jets fly over my head several times a day. Their customs agents swarm our ports and airports. The Americans have somehow made our dollar artificially low, so they can buy up all our companies. They have looted our resources without paying for them and still they want more. "Free" trade has only gone one way with Americans. Please stop them.
Sue Shaw Port Alice
It is clear that corruption is rampant (see: www.ourcourtssuck.com) The more we learn about details behind 9-11, the more suspect becomes the present administration of the White House and their corporate ties. In light of all the gathering evidence and in consideration of America's aggressive military stance, I sincerely believe that it would be prudent to require weapons inspections at US military bases.
David Thomson Kelowna
If the US does not want nations harboring weapons of mass destruction, it should open its facilities to the same inspection process imposed on other countries.
Leticia Guerra San Antonio
I'm 84 years old and was an Army nurse in WWII. I am ashamed of the course of action that my country is currently pursuing.
Estaiene Miller Port Angeles
all nations should abide by the same standards, whether we are are wealthy and powerful or poor and vulnerable
David Conner Newfield
Democracy means that we all are responsible for what our government does and the people deserve to know more.
Jo Ann Kaminsky Fayetteville
Many of Earth's children know that you are feigning an interest in the well-being of us all. We know that you are a puppet of the few greedy men who are goading the rest of humanity to become their slaves. You are being exposed for what you are. Don't lie to us. We are awake. The people in your organization will be held accountable for it is written "As ye sow, so shall ye reap".
Pritam Singh Markham, Ontario
The Security Council should take Mr. Bush's admonition to get the spine to enforce its regulations on all violating nations which, of course, includes the United States.
Marilyn Gatlin Longmont
The United States Government must be required to make all of it's secret military installations and research bases open to a multi-national team of United Nations appointed weapons inspectors. The world cannot be or feel safe until all forms of weaponry and all means of mass murder and destruction are abolished forever.
David Butterfield Penticton
Please put a hobble on this most dangerous rogue nation on planet Earth.
Eldon Warman Calgary
Please consider that when you wage a war you wage it with human lives of young men and women who have so much to discover besides the pain and brutality that war brings. Ask yourselves if all these deaths, your sons,daughters, sisters, brothers and other loved ones in the armed forces are worth Bushs' oil. And if your willing to murder innocent civilians who live in the wrong country at the wrong time and simply want to live their lives. Even america dosent have the right to take that away.
Margaret Reese fayettevile
Let the principles of the Earth Charter guide you. Think of the children and listen to their hearts screaming for peace. We can make war archaic. You have the power. Use it for the benefit of all time and all beauty. Let the light of truth shine through you. May you hear our souls speak and may you honor the wishes of the universe.
April Ambrose Searcy
All weapons of mass destruction, whoever owns them in whatever country, ought to be neutralized and deactivated. Otherwise Bush and the US are like the pot calling the kettle black. Love, peace and truth are what we all need, not more "holy wars"!
Leonard Thornton Victoria
We pay for it. We should know exactly how it is spent.
Eric Baicy Seattle
When President Bush repeatedly uses statements such as, "...the forces of evil..." he is guiding his followers towards hatred. He invented a great oxymoron when he said that if Iraq doesn't comply, then we will use force to create peace. He sounds a lot like the big bully in school! "You do as I say or I'll shove this fist down your throat!" ...It's easy to fight with brute force. The real challenge is resolving the situation in a mutually beneficial way...Additionally, what is the integrity in forcing others to comply to a rule that we consider ourselves exempt from??? What if we began preaching what we practice? I wonder how we would sound then?
Angie Watson Salt Lake City
It is a great hypocrisy that the US demands weapons inspections in Iraq, yet itself retains the most advanced program of developing weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The US is not interested in disarmament - its a weapons monopoly that it is after. In the interest of world peace, the Security Council must demand access for inspections of the US military bases.
Karol Florek Lidcombe
I urge you not to bow down to US Government pressure to attack Iraq. Granted, Saddam Hussain is a tyrant to his people but he is not the threat to the world that George Bush Junior would have us believe. I am gravely concerned by the holier than thou stance the US Government is taking on this issue considering its own dark past in terms crimes against humanity (bombing Hiroshima being one of many deplorable acts of barbarity). That it has the nerve to feel it has the moral superiority to just take over another country is outrageous. This is imperialism at it's worse and will only seek to promote hatred of the west in nations that have been exploited by the west for centuries.
Ann Carroll Melbourne
I believe that weapons inspections should begin with the U.S. government. The U.S. develops and supplies weapons to many nations and has done so for many years. This proliferation of weaponry promotes deadly conflict and misuses resources which would better be used for the enhancement of human life.
Justine Shrider Huntsville
The secret US military bases that hide "weapons of mass destruction" should be under just as much scrutiny as those in Iraq. Do not let our government push the rest of the world around. Please hold our country accountable for it's actions. Please also save countless lives by standing up against our country's agenda against Iraq.
Eric Grossmann Elgin
in the name of international rights and the worlds indigenous peoples the un must recognise and deconstruct the us hegemony that is choking the world. no one appointed the us government/cia/military industrial complex as 'our' world leader.
ray jackson Sydney
Stop this ridicules imperialistic action!! The US does not own everything in the world and therefore have the right to destroy at will!! Basta!!
lucille cordova Albuquerque
There should be no double standard. These weapons and chemicals are dangerous to ALL people of the world. The U.S. Government must not be allowed to hold itself above international law. Please make them accountable.
Catana Weinbrown Sea Cliff
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Harold Pinter speaks on American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance,
stupidity and belligerence
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002
Turin Honorary Doctorate - November 27th 2002
I am deeply honoured to receive this degree from such a great university.
Earlier this year I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its
after-effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to
swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not
drown and I am very glad to be alive. However, I found that to emerge from
a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public
nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance,
stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever
known effectively waging war against the rest of the world. "If you are not
with us you are against us" President Bush has said. He has also said "We
will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the
world's worst leaders". Quite right. Look in the mirror chum. That's you.
The US is at this moment developing advanced systems of "weapons of mass
destruction" and it prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has more of
them than the rest of the world put together. It has walked away from
international agreements on biological and chemical weapons, refusing to
allow inspection of its own factories. The hypocrisy behind its public
declarations and its own actions is almost a joke.
The United States believes that the three thousand deaths in New York are
the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American
deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence.
The three thousand deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to.
The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through US and British
sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never
referred to.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never
referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born
with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or
rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.
The two hundred thousand deaths in East Timor in 1975 brought about by the
Indonesian government but inspired and supported by the United States are
never referred to.
The half a million deaths in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Uruguay, Argentina and Haiti, in actions supported and subsidised by the
United States are never referred to.
The millions of deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are no longer referred to.
The desperate plight of the Palestinian people, the central factor in world
unrest, is hardly referred to.
But what a misjudgement of the present and what a misreading of history
this is.
People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they
do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do
not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers.
They not only don't forget. They strike back.
The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of
retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state
terrorism on the part of the United States over many years, in all parts of
the world.
In Britain the public is now being warned to be "vigilant" in preparation
for potential terrorist acts. The language is in itself preposterous. How
will - or can - public vigilance be embodied? Wearing a scarf over your
mouth to keep out poison gas? However, terrorist attacks are quite likely,
the inevitable result of our Prime Minister's contemptible and shameful
subservience to the United States. Apparently a terrorist poison gas attack
on the London Underground system was recently prevented. But such an act
may indeed take place. Thousands of school children travel on the London
Underground every day. If there is a poison gas attack from which they die,
the responsibility will rest entirely on the shoulders of our Prime
Minister. Needless to say, the Prime Minister does not travel on the
underground himself.
The planned war against Iraq is in fact a plan for premeditated murder of
thousands of civilians in order, apparently, to rescue them from their
dictator.
The United States and Britain are pursuing a course which can lead only to
an escalation of violence throughout the world and finally to catastrophe.
It is obvious, however, that the United States is bursting at the seams to
attack Iraq. I believe that it will do this - not just to take control of
Iraqi oil - but because the US administration is now a bloodthirsty wild
animal. Bombs are its only vocabulary. Many Americans, we know, are
horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
Unless Europe finds the solidarity, intelligence, courage and will to
challenge and resist US power Europe itself will deserve Alexander Herzen's
definition (as quoted in the Guardian newspaper in London recently) "We are
not the doctors. We are the disease".
Harold Pinter
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"To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright loveliness in the eternal cold - brothers who know now they are truly brothers."
--Archibald Mc Leish
"Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world."
--E.O. Wilson
"Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man."
--Stewart Udall
"The destiny of humans cannot be separated from the destiny of earth."
--Thomas Berry
"A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community."
--Aldo Leopold
"Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.”
-- African Proverb
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Become an Honorary Weapons Inspector
And Support Our Mission Into The USA!
Join us in challenging rogue states run by military fanatics who
produce and conceal weapons of mass destruction.
Rooting Out Evil is sending a weapons inspection team to the
United States to inspect the chemical, biological, and nuclear
weapons produced and concealed by the Bush regime.
And we want you to join us - in person or in spirit.
Become an Honorary Weapons Inspector
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Canadians to lead weapons inspection team into USA
A coalition of Canadian peace groups today announced their intention to
send an international team of volunteer weapons inspectors into the United
States later this winter. The coalition, Rooting Out Evil, are recruiting
inspectors through their newly launched website, www.rootingoutevil.org.
"Our action has been inspired by none other than George W. Bush," said
Christy Ferguson, a spokesperson for the group. "The Bush administration
has repeatedly declared that the most dangerous rogue nations are those
that:
1) have massive stockpiles of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons;
2) ignore due process at the United Nations;
3) refuse to sign and honour international treaties; and
4) have come to power through illegitimate means.
"On the basis of President Bush's guidelines, it is clear that the current
U.S. administration poses a great threat to global security," said Ferguson.
"We're following Bush's lead and demanding that the U.S. grant our
inspectors immediate and unfettered access to any site in the country -
including all presidential compounds - so that we can identify the weapons
of mass destruction in this rogue state," added David Langille.
Visitors to Rooting Out Evil's website are invited to sign on as honorary
members of the weapons inspection team. Honorary inspectors can participate
in the action, or they can simply lend the support of their name as they
would on a petition.
The actual inspection team that crosses the border will be comprised of
prominent individuals from Canada and other countries.
The Rooting Out Evil coalition includes Greenpeace Canada, the Centre for
Social Justice, and the Toronto Committee Against War and Sanctions on Iraq,
and is supported by American groups such as the National Network to End the
War Against Iraq, Global Exchange and the US section of the Women's
International League for Peace and Freedom. They oppose the development,
storage, and use of weapons of mass destruction by any state.
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For information:
David Langille or Christy Ferguson
info@rootingoutevil.org
Saskatchewan, Canada
Phone (306) 664-6071
http://www.rootingoutevil.org
BBC | Carter Warns Against 'Catastrophic' War
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.12B.bbc.carter.htm
Martin Lewis | Cassius Clay Nation
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.12C.ml.clay.htm
Floundering Fathers All F's on nation-building report cards
The most recent case of nation building is, of course, Afghanistan,
where it's unclear that leader Hamid Karzai controls all the bathrooms in
his presidential palace, much less the countryside outside of Kabul. As
Masood Farivar wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal, "Afghanistan lies
in ruins and faces a real danger of slipping back into anarchy."
http://reason.com/links/links121002.shtml
U.S. Use of Cluster Bombs Endangers Civilians
The U.S. dropped some 250,000 cluster bombs in Afghanistan last year without taking adequate precautions to prevent them from killing scores of civilians, in violation of international law, says a new report from Human Rights Watch. Unexploded duds still litter the country, further endangering civilians.
From: Human Rights Watch. December 18 2002
More about: Afghanistan, United States, codes of conduct, conflict, human rights, law
Leaked Report Says German and US Firms Supplied Arms to Saddam
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.19B.ger.us.suppliers.htm
Iraqi Report Named US Arms Suppliers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.15A.iraq.us.names.htm
Inspectors Angered by US Claims Over Iraqi Weapons
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.11C.us.claims.htm
Let the Inspections Work
As weapons inspections in Iraq kick into high gear, most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. But some in the Bush Administration are still dead set on war, even if the inspections are working. Please join us in asking the Bush Administration and the United Nations to Let the Inspections Work!
Sign the Petition at: http://www.moveon.org/winwithoutwar/
Steve Sack by Steve Sack
FOR IMMEDIATE WORLDWIDE RELEASE
Require Weapons Inspections at US Secret Military Bases
We, the undersigned, hereby appeal to the UN Security Council to pass a resolution to require the United States to open its secret military and research facilities for inspection.
Evidence has been mounting, from the world's leading viral scientists, chemical weapons experts, and former military officers at these facilities, that highly dangerous and experimental technologies and weapons are being developed at US secret bases, under the cloak of "National Security."
The American people, including our representatives, can not gain access to these facilities, under threat of death (posted), and have no way of monitoring the threats to our security, health, and foreign relations. We can no longer trust our secret government agencies to tell us the truth.
If the UN Security Council does not intervene, and no action is taken to expose the deadly nuclear, biological, chemical, and energy weapons in various stages of deployment, then we believe the survival of humanity may be jeopardized.
The United States is not automatically the "good cowboy" simply because we have a pretty flag and a White House on our money, especially with secret elite societies having colonized our military and spy agencies for the past century, now having taken control of the Executive "Command in Chief."
We appeal to the international community to rise up with us and confront this military danger to our children and our future.
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The most dangerous country on earth is the one with the most / most destructive weapons and the ability to deliver those weapons anywhere. The U.S. holds no "moral superiority" over the rest of the world, and must be held to the same standards.
Mark Rushton Oxford
We all know that there is no greater terrorist threat and no greater centre for weapons of mass distruction than the secret government operating in the USA. Let's stop with the rhetoric and start dealing with the problem.
David Laird Burlington
Let's stop the hypocrisy of the US dictating to the rest of the world about "weapons of mass destruction", when it is the No. 1 threat to the world.
Nathan M. Gant Oviedo
The government of the United States is clearly the biggest threat to the security of our planet. It must be disarmed.
Jim Steitz Logan
Appeal to all world leaders to wake up and take care of this NOW! and a special message to George W. Bush: We, the United States, should practice what we preach otherwise we are simply hypocrites and not telling the truth to ourselves or anyone else at all. This is spiritually criminal and not in sync with world "leader" but rather global bullying bandit. It's high time our "leader" in the white house lives up to the integrity of our so-called principles -- life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for ALL people which gives absolutely NO ONE the right to encroach on the economics, governments, civil or environmental rights whatsoever of any other people. What are you thinking? No One But God will ever rule the world. Obviously you've proven you only build enemies by attempting to make everything "your way." World politics makes me sick when I think of what "we" have done and who "we" have killed in the name of "what's right for us or somebody else" in the past 50 years. May God have mercy on your judging murdering souls. It's high time we take loving care of the ENTIRE tribe and STOP killing each other. What the hell is civilized about the world when we have this sense of having to have more bigger better weapons? And this bullshit about defense is simply about the enemies you have personally developed yourselves in the name of your business. It's nothing more than a BUSINESS OF EGO. Along with the Corporate GREED, your scorecard is rating rock bottom. THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY TO BE A TRUE LEADER, MR PRESIDENT, AND OTHERWISE, YOU'RE JUST A PUPPET OF UGLINESS!!! So make a real name for yourself in the history of the world and get rid of ALL the weapons! NOW!
christine page Waialua
Please stop the childish behavior! It is very easy to get along-a lot easier than killing everyone on the face of the planet.
Julia Benedetti La Jolla
"Only after the Last Tree has been cut down, Only after the Last River has been poisoned, Only after the Last Fish has been caught, Only then will you find that Money cannot be Eaten." Cree Indian Prophecy To us all that lives is sacred. Please think about the future, about what kind of a World we will leave to our children and grandchildren. Please be fully aware of the choices you are making now. Choose and decide with your HEART. There is SO much at stake! Please take note of our concerns: there are many more of us who just don't know the ways to speak out. Let us speak on behalf of All of them.
Jan Gosen and Margot Wolff Zwolle
This petition presumably only a gesture, but the principle is clear: most countries don't 'have a lighter conscience' than Iraq.
Jay Rossouw Uvongo
Please perform a weapons inspection in the United States. Please unite the nations, not divide them.
emily Hicks Seattle
Just do it - let's get the whole truth out there so we know what we're up against on all fronts. If we expect other countries to comply, it's fair for us to do the same.
Suzan Patrick Denver
this is every bit as vital as monitoring iraq, perhaps more so. stand with us for the entire world. thank you.
betts richter albuquerque
Dear friends, I apply to become active member of your inspection team. My engagement will be very cheap for your organization, in fact, it will be free of charge, since I don’t have to travel anywhere. There is still a lot of American weapons “to be inspected” in my homeland – parts of exploded bombs, even unexploded ones stuffed with uranium in our backyards, cluster bombs hidden in bushes, wings of crashed air-planes… All of that left after the bombing of Serbia in 1999.
Mira Djurdjevic, Belgrade, Serbia
The whole world is copying the U.S. in the worse possible ways. Bombings in multiple countries, North Korea admitting to secret nuclear weapons and WMD, human rights and liberties being suspended worldwide under the guise of security etc. The One World Order and WTO must be stopped before they destroy any resemblance to normal happy life for any living thing on this planet. The U.S. should lead by example, not force.
meria Heller Phoenix
It's past time for the United Nations to hold the USA accountable for adhering to and ratifying the same laws and treaties the USA wants to hold other countries accountable to.
Dave Paulsen Bellingham
All countries should be accountable to abide by international laws and rules, and that includes the U.S.
Catherine Dishion Santa Barbara
Please, do not allow the United States to act as an "above-the-law" mediator of the world. Make us, and all nations, subject to the same policies, regardless of our self-assigned duty of policing the world.
Michael Doyel, Jr. Saint Louis
As far as those who are killed are concerned, it would not make any difference whatsoever as to whether such people are killed by enemy fire or by friendly fire. Their life is gone for ever just the same. If such countries as Iraq and North Korea are required to open their secret military bases for inspection because of the possibility that they may have a few weapons of brutal destruction, such countries as the United States and Great Britain, which have tons and tons of such brutal and dangerous weapons, ought to be required to open their secret military bases in no lesser way. And if such countries as Iraq and North Korea are expected to comply, countries such as the United States and Great Britain are also expected to comply by all means.
Charles Mercieca Huntsville
Let all powers be inspected in the same way the US Administration continues to submit other countries to. Bravo!
Saille Abbott Vancouver
Please don't accept the argument that Iraq is the only dangerous country with 'weapons of mass destruction'. ALL countries with 'weapons of mass destruction' are dangerous and this includes the United States among others.
susan ambler katoomba
Today we stand in a place of making some very important decisions for this planet. We have met the enemy and they are us. What gives us the right to do what we have done over this planet in the name of peace? Peace can NEVER be achieved by war. When will you people get this? If you want war then go fight it yourselvs and leave us who do not. Put on the gear and be the first to fight.
alaria sun Hedgesville
I am concerned with my government's apparent lack of compassion and lawfulness. What we are amounting to is just a bunch of bullies...
Christine Urbanek Denver
In addtion, the UN Security Council should require the United States and all other countries to be inspected for both secret and non-secret locations of weapons of mass destruction. Further, the UN should require that any UN resolution regarding inspections of one country for weapons of any kind, must apply to all countries suspected of holding such weapons. Further, The UN should require inspection of all countries suspected of producing or holding anti-personnel cluster bombs, land mines and any other weapons designed expressly for random killing of civilians, and should require destruction of all such weapons found.
Karl North Marathon
I sign this petition to show my concern for my world. I am a citizen of Earth before I am a citizen of the United States, and I know my country is pursuing a wrong and shameful course of action. I would like people of the world to know that many Americans disagree with the US government's actions, but that they are too afraid to speak out. Let this be the beginning of the end of fear!
Joe Sehl Minneapolis
The change into a peaceful global community is now inevitable. It is only a matter of how smooth we make this transition into a NEW TIME. The UN must fulfill its duties and accept the International 13-moon World Peace Calendar in 2004. Returning to Natural Time is perhaps the only way that we can unite world-wide for PEACE and Collective Consciousness. Check out: www.tortuga.com
Starr Weatherbie Seattle
I think it looks as if the UN is an American puppet when it allows the US to break all the rules, then goes after others when the US demands it.
Barbara Kirkpatrick Syracuse
What is good for the goose is good for the gander. If the USA wants weapon inspections, elsewhere, than others can inspect their caches -- every last one. The USA is after World domination -- even ownership. Already the USA has basically taken over my country (Canada). We just don't have voting rights in the USA and we don't have to salute that ugly striped flag...yet. But U.S. aircraft carriers and battleships sit in our harbours and U.S. fighter jets fly over my head several times a day. Their customs agents swarm our ports and airports. The Americans have somehow made our dollar artificially low, so they can buy up all our companies. They have looted our resources without paying for them and still they want more. "Free" trade has only gone one way with Americans. Please stop them.
Sue Shaw Port Alice
It is clear that corruption is rampant (see: www.ourcourtssuck.com) The more we learn about details behind 9-11, the more suspect becomes the present administration of the White House and their corporate ties. In light of all the gathering evidence and in consideration of America's aggressive military stance, I sincerely believe that it would be prudent to require weapons inspections at US military bases.
David Thomson Kelowna
If the US does not want nations harboring weapons of mass destruction, it should open its facilities to the same inspection process imposed on other countries.
Leticia Guerra San Antonio
I'm 84 years old and was an Army nurse in WWII. I am ashamed of the course of action that my country is currently pursuing.
Estaiene Miller Port Angeles
all nations should abide by the same standards, whether we are are wealthy and powerful or poor and vulnerable
David Conner Newfield
Democracy means that we all are responsible for what our government does and the people deserve to know more.
Jo Ann Kaminsky Fayetteville
Many of Earth's children know that you are feigning an interest in the well-being of us all. We know that you are a puppet of the few greedy men who are goading the rest of humanity to become their slaves. You are being exposed for what you are. Don't lie to us. We are awake. The people in your organization will be held accountable for it is written "As ye sow, so shall ye reap".
Pritam Singh Markham, Ontario
The Security Council should take Mr. Bush's admonition to get the spine to enforce its regulations on all violating nations which, of course, includes the United States.
Marilyn Gatlin Longmont
The United States Government must be required to make all of it's secret military installations and research bases open to a multi-national team of United Nations appointed weapons inspectors. The world cannot be or feel safe until all forms of weaponry and all means of mass murder and destruction are abolished forever.
David Butterfield Penticton
Please put a hobble on this most dangerous rogue nation on planet Earth.
Eldon Warman Calgary
Please consider that when you wage a war you wage it with human lives of young men and women who have so much to discover besides the pain and brutality that war brings. Ask yourselves if all these deaths, your sons,daughters, sisters, brothers and other loved ones in the armed forces are worth Bushs' oil. And if your willing to murder innocent civilians who live in the wrong country at the wrong time and simply want to live their lives. Even america dosent have the right to take that away.
Margaret Reese fayettevile
Let the principles of the Earth Charter guide you. Think of the children and listen to their hearts screaming for peace. We can make war archaic. You have the power. Use it for the benefit of all time and all beauty. Let the light of truth shine through you. May you hear our souls speak and may you honor the wishes of the universe.
April Ambrose Searcy
All weapons of mass destruction, whoever owns them in whatever country, ought to be neutralized and deactivated. Otherwise Bush and the US are like the pot calling the kettle black. Love, peace and truth are what we all need, not more "holy wars"!
Leonard Thornton Victoria
We pay for it. We should know exactly how it is spent.
Eric Baicy Seattle
When President Bush repeatedly uses statements such as, "...the forces of evil..." he is guiding his followers towards hatred. He invented a great oxymoron when he said that if Iraq doesn't comply, then we will use force to create peace. He sounds a lot like the big bully in school! "You do as I say or I'll shove this fist down your throat!" ...It's easy to fight with brute force. The real challenge is resolving the situation in a mutually beneficial way...Additionally, what is the integrity in forcing others to comply to a rule that we consider ourselves exempt from??? What if we began preaching what we practice? I wonder how we would sound then?
Angie Watson Salt Lake City
It is a great hypocrisy that the US demands weapons inspections in Iraq, yet itself retains the most advanced program of developing weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. The US is not interested in disarmament - its a weapons monopoly that it is after. In the interest of world peace, the Security Council must demand access for inspections of the US military bases.
Karol Florek Lidcombe
I urge you not to bow down to US Government pressure to attack Iraq. Granted, Saddam Hussain is a tyrant to his people but he is not the threat to the world that George Bush Junior would have us believe. I am gravely concerned by the holier than thou stance the US Government is taking on this issue considering its own dark past in terms crimes against humanity (bombing Hiroshima being one of many deplorable acts of barbarity). That it has the nerve to feel it has the moral superiority to just take over another country is outrageous. This is imperialism at it's worse and will only seek to promote hatred of the west in nations that have been exploited by the west for centuries.
Ann Carroll Melbourne
I believe that weapons inspections should begin with the U.S. government. The U.S. develops and supplies weapons to many nations and has done so for many years. This proliferation of weaponry promotes deadly conflict and misuses resources which would better be used for the enhancement of human life.
Justine Shrider Huntsville
The secret US military bases that hide "weapons of mass destruction" should be under just as much scrutiny as those in Iraq. Do not let our government push the rest of the world around. Please hold our country accountable for it's actions. Please also save countless lives by standing up against our country's agenda against Iraq.
Eric Grossmann Elgin
in the name of international rights and the worlds indigenous peoples the un must recognise and deconstruct the us hegemony that is choking the world. no one appointed the us government/cia/military industrial complex as 'our' world leader.
ray jackson Sydney
Stop this ridicules imperialistic action!! The US does not own everything in the world and therefore have the right to destroy at will!! Basta!!
lucille cordova Albuquerque
There should be no double standard. These weapons and chemicals are dangerous to ALL people of the world. The U.S. Government must not be allowed to hold itself above international law. Please make them accountable.
Catana Weinbrown Sea Cliff
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Harold Pinter speaks on American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance,
stupidity and belligerence
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002
Turin Honorary Doctorate - November 27th 2002
I am deeply honoured to receive this degree from such a great university.
Earlier this year I had a major operation for cancer. The operation and its
after-effects were something of a nightmare. I felt I was a man unable to
swim bobbing about under water in a deep dark endless ocean. But I did not
drown and I am very glad to be alive. However, I found that to emerge from
a personal nightmare was to enter an infinitely more pervasive public
nightmare - the nightmare of American hysteria, ignorance, arrogance,
stupidity and belligerence; the most powerful nation the world has ever
known effectively waging war against the rest of the world. "If you are not
with us you are against us" President Bush has said. He has also said "We
will not allow the world's worst weapons to remain in the hands of the
world's worst leaders". Quite right. Look in the mirror chum. That's you.
The US is at this moment developing advanced systems of "weapons of mass
destruction" and it prepared to use them where it sees fit. It has more of
them than the rest of the world put together. It has walked away from
international agreements on biological and chemical weapons, refusing to
allow inspection of its own factories. The hypocrisy behind its public
declarations and its own actions is almost a joke.
The United States believes that the three thousand deaths in New York are
the only deaths that count, the only deaths that matter. They are American
deaths. Other deaths are unreal, abstract, of no consequence.
The three thousand deaths in Afghanistan are never referred to.
The hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dead through US and British
sanctions which have deprived them of essential medicines are never
referred to.
The effect of depleted uranium, used by America in the Gulf War, is never
referred to. Radiation levels in Iraq are appallingly high. Babies are born
with no brain, no eyes, no genitals. Where they do have ears, mouths or
rectums, all that issues from these orifices is blood.
The two hundred thousand deaths in East Timor in 1975 brought about by the
Indonesian government but inspired and supported by the United States are
never referred to.
The half a million deaths in Guatemala, Chile, El Salvador, Nicaragua,
Uruguay, Argentina and Haiti, in actions supported and subsidised by the
United States are never referred to.
The millions of deaths in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia are no longer referred to.
The desperate plight of the Palestinian people, the central factor in world
unrest, is hardly referred to.
But what a misjudgement of the present and what a misreading of history
this is.
People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they
do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do
not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers.
They not only don't forget. They strike back.
The atrocity in New York was predictable and inevitable. It was an act of
retaliation against constant and systematic manifestations of state
terrorism on the part of the United States over many years, in all parts of
the world.
In Britain the public is now being warned to be "vigilant" in preparation
for potential terrorist acts. The language is in itself preposterous. How
will - or can - public vigilance be embodied? Wearing a scarf over your
mouth to keep out poison gas? However, terrorist attacks are quite likely,
the inevitable result of our Prime Minister's contemptible and shameful
subservience to the United States. Apparently a terrorist poison gas attack
on the London Underground system was recently prevented. But such an act
may indeed take place. Thousands of school children travel on the London
Underground every day. If there is a poison gas attack from which they die,
the responsibility will rest entirely on the shoulders of our Prime
Minister. Needless to say, the Prime Minister does not travel on the
underground himself.
The planned war against Iraq is in fact a plan for premeditated murder of
thousands of civilians in order, apparently, to rescue them from their
dictator.
The United States and Britain are pursuing a course which can lead only to
an escalation of violence throughout the world and finally to catastrophe.
It is obvious, however, that the United States is bursting at the seams to
attack Iraq. I believe that it will do this - not just to take control of
Iraqi oil - but because the US administration is now a bloodthirsty wild
animal. Bombs are its only vocabulary. Many Americans, we know, are
horrified by the posture of their government but seem to be helpless.
Unless Europe finds the solidarity, intelligence, courage and will to
challenge and resist US power Europe itself will deserve Alexander Herzen's
definition (as quoted in the Guardian newspaper in London recently) "We are
not the doctors. We are the disease".
Harold Pinter
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--Archibald Mc Leish
"Only in the last moment in history has the delusion arisen that people can flourish apart from the rest of the living world."
--E.O. Wilson
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--Stewart Udall
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--Aldo Leopold
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