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May 15, 2007

http://pww.org/article/articleview/11027/1/371

Hunger Spreads Across U.S.

People's Weekly World Newspaper, 05/10/07 12:20

Oregon Gov. Tom Kulongoski lived on $21 worth of food for a week
the average weekly food stamp budget for his state's residents
during Hunger Awareness Week, April 20-27. Oregon Food Bank
spokesperson Jean Kemp-Ware said the governor's initiative dramatized
the plight of 425,000 Oregonians who rely on food stamps to stave off
hunger each month.

The action was part of the successful struggle to block Bush
administration cuts that would have terminated food stamps for 50,000
people in Oregon, she told the World. Every month, she said, hundreds
of thousands of Oregon's poor run out of food stamps by the third week
and are forced to turn to food pantries and soup kitchens to keep from
starving.

Denise Holland, executive director of South Carolina's Harvest Hope
food bank, told the World her organization provides food for 200,000
families across the state. "Every year we conduct a survey of how many
people we are serving," she said. "For the past six years, the rate
has risen by about 30 percent every year."

She added, "We see an incredible number of working families that
simply can't make it. The cost of gasoline, that's money that was
going for food now going to pay those higher expenses. People on the
edge are being pushed into a crisis situation.

"There's no reason for hunger," she said, but "we have a lot of
hunger in America. The face of hunger is real. It could happen to any
of us."

In 1968, a CBS documentary titled "Hunger in America" exposed severe
malnutrition in the U.S. Faced with public outrage, Congress enacted a
range of measures the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, expansion
of food stamps, the Women, Infant and Children (WIC) nutrition
program, free or reduced cost school lunch and breakfast programs and
Meals on Wheels for senior citizens which reduced hunger and
malnutrition during the 1970s.

Now it appears that hunger is roaring back.

Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass), co-chair of the Congressional Hunger
Center, charged recently that 40 percent of those eligible do not
receive food stamps. The average benefit is $1 per person per meal.

McGovern called it "unconscionable that programs proven to combat
hunger in America are continually under attack" by the Bush
administration. The surplus food program is continually "zeroed out"
by the administration, he charged, and the food stamp program is
"constantly derided with 'fraud, waste, and abuse,'" although the GAO
reports the program is corruption-free.

McGovern denounced regulations requiring legal immigrants to wait
five years before becoming eligible for food stamps and denying
low-income school children free meals during the summer because school
is not in session.

At least 5.4 million people have been pushed into poverty since
2000, bringing the total to over 37 million people, 12.4 million of
them children. Hunger follows close behind. Disproportionately it is
African Americans, Latinos and other people of color who go hungry.
Immigrant families are among the hardest hit. Undocumented immigrants
are not counted.

Debbie Weinstein, executive director of the Washington-based Human
Needs Coalition, blames lack of income for rising hunger. "As we came
out of the recession in the early 1990s, the prosperity was never
shared, especially with the poorest people," she told the World. "They
have been left struggling to make ends meet. We've had report after
report of the increasing inequality in this country. The very richest
are seizing an ever greater share of the wealth."

An increase in the minimum wage to $7.25 an hour minimum wage is
"anti-hunger" legislation. The House approved it, but Republicans are
blocking it in the Senate by attaching new tax giveaways for the rich,
she said.

The good news is that since the Nov. 7 election, the political
situation has changed, Weinstein said. "We are no longer just fighting
to stop cutbacks. We can actually push for increases in these programs."

The Progressive Caucus introduced an alternative budget, authored by
Reps. Barbara Lee and Lynn Woolsey, California Democrats, which cuts
the Pentagon budget by $86 billion this year and saves another $200
billion by leaving Iraq. It raises $300 billion more by ending Bush's
tax cuts for the wealthiest 1 percent of the population.

The half-trillion-dollar savings is earmarked to fully fund
nutrition programs, federal aid to education, CHIP health care for
children, rebuilding New Orleans and other human needs.

It failed to win a majority vote, yet that budget sets minimum
targets in the current battles over appropriations, Weinstein said.

Eight Republican presidential candidates, in a recent debate at the
Reagan Library, could not think of a single thing wrong in the United
States. By contrast, Democratic candidate John Edwards is campaigning
in poverty-stricken North Carolina and New Orleans.

In his recent book "Ending Poverty in America," he writes, "The men,
women and children living in poverty one in eight of us do not
have enough money for the food, shelter and clothing they need. ...
That is not a problem. That is not a challenge. That is a plague."

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http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=5565
World Net Daily
A Free Press
For A Free People
Founded 1997 Tuesday, May 15, 2007 Morning Edition

WND Exclusive MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH

'Pedophile protection racket' still going strong

Accusers say Planned Parenthood deliberately ignores law
Posted: May 12, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Bob Unruh
) 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Despite widespread condemnation for performing abortions on underage
girls while protecting the statutory rapists involved by not reporting
them to authorities, Planned Parenthood is continuing the practice
big-time with many new cases of underage girls according to an
investigation of violations of state criminal reporting laws.

Critics of Planned Parenthood characterize the practice as a
"pedophile protection racket."

In Michigan, activists have discovered two 11-year-olds given
abortions by Planned Parenthood and no investigation has been
launched; in Ohio, a 16-year-old complained during an abortion at
Planned Parenthood her father was assaulting her, but she was returned
to his custody and the assaults continued, and in California, a
reporter posing as a pregnant 15-year-old is told by Planned
Parenthood to lie and say she's 16, activists have told WND.

"Local research has shown that two 11-year-old females have had
abortions at this facility, and [the cases] have not been reported [to
authorities] as required by [the Michigan Child Protection Law of
1975]," according to a statement released at a news conference in
front of a Michigan Planned Parenthood business by Ann Norton of
Operation Red Sea and others.

"We are here demanding a proper and thorough investigation of all
under-age girls who have been denied protection, and whose bodies have
been violated for others' selfish gain," Norton said. "Don Imus was
fired for calling the Rutgers' girls basketball team 'hoes.' I then
must ask the question 'What should be done to Planned Parenthood who
treats young girls from our community like one?'"

In Ohio, lawyer Brian Hurley is representing an child assault victim
who was attacked for five years by her father, who eventually was
sentenced to five years in prison. However, that came only after she
reported the abuse to Planned Parenthood, and was ignored, so the
abuse continued for another 18 months, Hurley said.

At issue is abortion industry compliance with state laws across the
nation requiring those in positions of authority who see evidence of
child assault to report it to police. The laws, while not identical,
are similar around the United States.

It was an issue on which former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline
was an expert. He waged a four-year-long battle over the reporting by
abortion businesses of such situations in that state as attorney
general, and continues as a district attorney today after pro-abortion
forces combined to defeat him in the 2006 election.

After a years-long delay in obtaining records he had subpoenaed from
abortion industry representatives, he filed a list of charges against
a prominent late-term abortionist, only to see a local district
attorney and judge, who reportedly had ties to the abortionist,
dismiss the counts without notifying him.

In the Ohio case, Hurley told the Cincinnati Enquirer that his
client's lawsuit outlines how the 16-year-old in 2004 was taken by her
father to Planned Parenthood for an abortion.

"She tried to put an end to this abuse by informing a Planned
Parenthood employee that she had been forced to have sex and to do
things she did not want to do. Tragically for her, Planned
Parenthood's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy was in full force," Hurley
said.

"If the allegations are true, then PP is complicit in the abuse of
[the 16-year-old] when they should have protected her," said Dana Cody
of Life Legal Defense Foundation. "Our children deserve better."

Hurley said he already has obtained documentation from Planned
Parenthood showing references to a "don't ask, don't tell," policy.

The woman who later was able to prosecute the father for the assaults
called it one of the worst cases of child abuse she's seen.

"The father was basically treating his daughter like she was his
wife," said Rachel Hutzel.

In that particular jurisdiction, the law requires teachers, clinic
workers and others to report suspicious of abuse. Hurley said Planned
Parenthood "completely ignored her cry for help" so his client was
"raped on many occasions over the next one and one-half years."

A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman said she couldn't discuss the case,
but eventually "people may be surprised."

Hurley also said he represents another victim, who was assaulted by
her soccer coach at age 14, and taken to Planned Parenthood for an
abortion. She identified herself with a junior-high school ID and the
21-year-old coach paid with a credit card and driver's license, but
still there was no report.

Planned Parenthood officials there, too, have battled against
releasing records that could reveal cases of assaults on children.

"My guess is that this is just the tip of the iceberg, and that is why
Planned Parenthood will do anything to prevent us from seeing its
records," Hurley said.

And at UCLA, student reporter Lila Rose has written about posing as a
15-year-old and going to a Santa Monica Planned Parenthood. She
"explained" that her boyfriend was 23.

"Planned Parenthood staff informed Rose that this constituted
statutory rape and then encouraged her to 'figure out a birth-date
that works,' to obtain the abortion and avoid getting the man in
trouble with the police," according to a report.

"The Planned Parenthood staff assured Rose that if she said she was 16
or older, they wouldn't have to report the rape," said the report.

"California's mandatory reporting laws for statutory rape are supposed
to protect pregnant minors," said Rose, the editor in chief of The
Advocate. "Underage girls are being targeted by predators, and Planned
Parenthood is busy covering up the evidence. How many other rapes has
this one clinic covered up?"

The dialogue went like this:

Planned Parenthood: "If you're 15, we have to report it. If you're
not, if you're older than that, then we don't need to."

15-year-old: "Okay, but if I just say I'm not 15, then it's
different? So I could just say"

Planned Parenthood: "You could say 16."

15-year-old: "I could say 16?"

Planned Parenthood: "Yes."

15-year-old: "Okay, yeah. So I would just write 16?"

Planned Parenthood: "Well, just figure out a birth date that
works. And I don't know anything."

Planned Parenthood of Indiana also has come under investigation by the
state Attorney General's Medical Fraud Unit by investigators looking
up records of 12- and 13-year-old abuse victims.

None of this, however, catches Mark Crutcher of Life Dynamics, off guard.

"It's not surprising at all. It's just more proof that what we said is
true, that Planned Parenthood is running a pedophile protection
racket," said Crutcher.

It was his organization that several years ago assembled a massive
undercover investigation, and had an actress call and record about
800 calls to Planned Parenthood and other facilities across the nation.

Representing herself as underage (13) and technically a victim of
sexual assault on a child (by a 22-year-old perpetrator) most of the
clinics offered advice that she conceal her actual age or do other
things to prevent falling under a "requirement" that the abortion be
reported.

Most of the clinic workers warned her that the situation was unlawful,
but then 91 percent of those same facilities agreed to conceal the
circumstances.

Crutcher also said he believes that ultimately, the information that
will destroy the abortion industry will come from the industry itself,
such as the documents that Kline subpoenaed in Kansas, or those
similar documents being sought in Ohio and Indiana.

"There is no doubt, [sexual assaults on children] are happening over
and over again," Crutcher told WND.

The evidence of the importance of those records is provided by the
clinics themselves, which at least in Kansas went on the record that
they would refuse to comply with the state's mandatory reporting laws,
Crutcher noted.

Cruther earlier explained to WND that the trail of paperwork is what
needs to be followed. He said his research shows that the abortion
industry "services" provided to underage girls across the nation
outnumber the "reports" of suspicion of assault on a child by 11-1
under the best of circumstances. "And most reports are not by
providers; they're made by pediatricians and emergency room
physicians," he said.

He said the refusal by abortion businesses to follow reporting
regulations will eventually doom them. That's because under Title X
funding, through which many abortion businesses gain a significant
amount of their revenue, if they don't follow state laws including
reporting laws they could lose the funding.

The ChildPredators.com website provides a wide range of information
about the problem, the predators, the cover-up connections, the
solution as well as legal options for those victimized by the failure
of abortionists to follow reporting requirements.

This link at ChildPredators.com provides information about resources
for victims and parents, causes of action, claims a victim may have,
claims parents may have, claims against referring parties, class
action litigation as well as potential criminal prosecution for
failure to report.

This link at ChildPredators.com provides an overview of the problems
encountered by women injured or assaulted in abortion procedures, as
well as an overview of the precedents if a woman is killed.

This link at LifeDynamics.com provides information about abortion
malpractice cases, resources and procedures.

The AbortionInjury.com website offers information if you or someone
you know has been hurt by an abortion procedure.

Are you a representative of the media who would like to interview the
author of this story? Let us know.

Bob Unruh is a news editor for WorldNetDaily.com.

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From: jack gordon <jac...@earthlink.net>
Date: May 7, 2007 4:53:24 PM EST
Subject: INCONTROVERTIBLE PROOF THAT
KENT STATE WAS OFFICIAL MURDER BY THE STATE OF OHIO...

AND ALMOST CERTAINLY DONE WITH THE
APPROVAL/SPONSORSHIP OF THE NIXON ADMIN.!!!

Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman: The Lethal Media Silence On Kent
State's Smoking Guns
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Mon, 05/07/2007 - 11:35am. Guest Contribution

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION
by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman

The 1970 killings by National Guardsmen of four students during a
peaceful anti-war demonstration at Kent State University have now been
shown to be cold-blooded, premeditated official murder. But the
definitive proof of this monumental historic reality is not,
apparently, worthy of significant analysis or comment in today's
mainstream media.

After 37 years of official denial and cover-up, tape-recorded
evidence that has existed for decades and has been in the possession
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has finally been made public.

It proves what "conspiracy theorists" have argued since 1970 --
there was a direct military order leading to the unprovoked
assassination of unarmed students. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
documents show collusion between Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes and the
FBI that aimed to terrorize anti-war demonstrators and their protests
that were raging throughout the nation.

It is difficult to overstate the political and cultural impact of the
killing of the four Kent State students and wounding of nine more on
May 4, 1970. The nation's campuses were on fire over Richard Nixon's
illegal invasion of Cambodia. Scores of universities were ripped apart
by mass demonstrations and student strikes. The ROTC building at Kent
burned down. The vast majority of American college campuses were
closed in the aftermath, either by student strikes or official edicts.

Nixon was elected president in 1968 claiming to have a "secret plan"
to end the war in Southeast Asia. But the revelation that he was in
fact escalating it with the illegal bombing of what had been a
peaceful non-combatant nation was more than Americans could bear.

As the ferocity of the opposition spread deep into the grassroots,
Nixon's Vice President Spiro Agnew shot back in a series of speeches.
He referred to student demonstrators as Nazi "brownshirts" and
suggested that college administrators and law enforcement should "act
accordingly."

On May 3, 1970 -- the day before National Guardsmen under his
purview opened fire at Kent State -- Rhodes echoed Agnew's remarks by
referring to student demonstrators as "the strongest, well-trained
militant revolutionary group that has ever assembled in America ...
They're worse than the brownshirts and the Communist element and the
night riders and the vigilantes. They are the worst type of people
that we harbor in America...."

Rhodes told a reporter the Ohio National Guard would remain at Kent
State "until we get rid of them" referring to a demographic group that
was overwhelmingly white, middle class, and in college. The next day,
Rhodes, the administration, and the FBI sent those students a lethal
message.

Rhodes was the perfect messenger. Bumbling and mediocre, with a long
history of underworld involvement, Rhodes was a devoted admirer of
Nixon and of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Public records reveal that
Rhodes was a virtual stooge for the FBI because of the agency's files
tying Rhodes directly to organized crime.

When Kent's ROTC building was torched on May 2 under suspicious
circumstances (student protestors couldn't get it to light until a
mysterious "biker" showed up with a canister of gasoline), it provided
the perfect cover for Rhodes to dispatch the National Guard.

But contrary to law, they were supplied with live ammunition. On May
4, in the presence of a peaceful, unthreatening rally, the Guard was
strung along a ridge 100 yards from the bulk of the protestors.
Earlier, rocks and insults had been hurled at the Guard. But not one
of the numerous investigations and court proceedings involving what
happened next has ever contended any of the students were armed, or
that the Guard was under threat of physical harm at the time of the
shooting.

For 37 years, the official cover story has been that a mysterious
shot rang out and the young Guardsmen panicked, firing directly into
the "mob" of students. This week, that cover story was definitively
proven to be a lie.

Prior to the shooting, a student named Terry Strubbe put a microphone
at the window of his dorm, which overlooked the rally. According to
the Associated Press, the 20-second tape is filled with "screaming
anti-war protestors followed by the sound of gunfire."

But in an amplified version of the tape, a Guard officer is also
heard shouting "Right here! Get Set! Point! Fire!"

The sound of gunshots follows the word "Point." Four students soon
lay dead. Two days later, two more would die at Jackson State
University, as police fired without provocation into a dorm.

Strubbe gave a copy of the Kent tape to the FBI soon after the
shooting (he has kept the original in a safe deposit box). Eight
Guardsmen were later tried for civil rights violations, and acquitted.
Neither their officers, nor Nixon, nor Agnew, nor Rhodes, nor the FBI,
were ever brought to trial. But massive volumes of research --
including an epic study by James A. Michener and William Gordon's Four
Dead in Ohio -- strongly imply an explicit conspiracy to intimidate
the national anti-war movement.

After 37 years, Strubbe's tape got its first widespread public
perusal last week. Six months ago, Alan Canfora, 58, one of the nine
wounded Kent students, learned it had been given to Yale University's
archives. Last week, he played it to a group of students and reporters
at a small university theater.

The fact that the Guard got direct orders to set, aim, and shoot
flies directly in the face of the official cover story that they were
responding in panic to a random shot fired at them, or that they were
defending themselves from some kind of student attack.

In fact, it seems highly likely no shot ever rang out prior to the
order to fire. Nor could the Guard, who killed a student as much as
900 feet away from the rally, say they were under any serious attack
from the students.

The Kent State killings are now prominently featured in virtually
every history book of the United States used in American schools. The
accounts often include the famous photo of an anguished Mary Ann
Vecchio crying for help next to the dead body of student protestor
Jeffrey Miller. (They were 265 feet away from where the shot that
killed Miller was fired.) Rendered into song by Neil Young's classic
"Ohio," there are few more definitive moments in the history of this
nation.

But meaningful analysis of the implications of this tape has been
mysteriously missing from the American media. The Associated Press did
carry a widely-run story about the surfacing of this evidence, as did
National Public Radio. But the Columbus Dispatch, in Ohio's capital,
buried the report on page A-5 under the innocuous headline "Victim
shares audio tape of Kent State shootings." Virtually absent from the
major U.S. media has been a concerted examination of the fact that the
keystone in this monumental American saga has been re-set.

For we now know a premeditated, unprovoked order was indeed given to
National Guardsmen to fire live ammunition at peaceful, unarmed
American students, killing four of them. The illegal order to arm the
Guard with live ammunition in the first place could only have come
from the governor of Ohio. The very loud, very public nod to shoot
some "brown shirt" students somewhere to chill the massive student
uprising against the Southeast Asian war was spewed all over the
national media by the second-highest official in U.S. government.

Now the magnitude of Kent State's impact on American politics and
culture, already immense, has been significantly deepened. Alan
Canfora intends to use this tape to re-open investigations into what
happened at Kent State 37 years ago.

But the media's apparent unconcern about confirmation of the official
order to carry out these killings may bear a simple message: that we
should be prepared for them to happen again.

A BUZZFLASH GUEST CONTRIBUTION

Bob Fitrakis's forthcoming book, The Fitrakis Files: Cops, Coverups
And Corruption, containing further background information on James A.
Rhodes, is at www.freepress.org , where this article first appeared.
Harvey Wasserman's History Of The United States is at www.solartopia.org

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From: Rick Davis <rda...@yin.or.jp>
Date: May 8, 2007 10:00:50 PM EST
Subject: Genetically Engineered Crops May Produce Herbicide Inside Our
Intestines

http://www.non-gm-farmers.com/news_details.asp?ID=2778

Bon appetit!

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From: "paul illich" <paul_...@hotmail.com>
Date: May 12, 2007 9:13:02 AM EST
To: bluegre...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bluegreenearth] Solar Power at Half the Cost
Reply-To: bluegre...@yahoogroups.com

http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18718

Solar Power at Half the Cost:
A new roof-mounted system that
concentrates sunlight could cut the price of photovoltaics
By Kevin Bullis

A new mechanism for focusing light on small areas of photovoltaic
material
could make solar power in residential and commercial applications
cheaper
than electricity from the grid in most markets in the next few years.
Initial systems, which can be made at half the cost of conventional
solar
panels, are set to start shipping later this year, says Brad Hines,
CTO and
founder of Soliant Energy, a startup based in Pasadena, CA, that has
developed the new modules.

Concentrating sunlight with mirrors or lenses on a small area cuts
the costs
of solar power in part by reducing the amount of expensive photovoltaic
material needed. But while concentrated solar photovoltaic systems are
attractive for large-scale, ground-based solar farms for utilities,
conventional designs are difficult to mount on rooftops, where most
residential and commercial customers have space for solar panels. The
systems are typically large and heavy, and they're mounted on posts
so that
they can move to track the sun, which makes them more vulnerable to
gusts of
wind than ordinary flat solar panels are.

Soliant has designed a solar concentrator that tracks the sun
throughout the
day but is lighter and not pole-mounted. The system fits in a
rectangular
frame and is mounted to the roof with the same hardware that's used for
conventional flat solar panels. Yet the devices will likely cost
half as
much as a conventional solar panel, says Hines. A second-generation
design,
which concentrates light more and uses better photovoltaics, could
cost a
quarter as much. He says that a more advanced design should be ready by
2010.

The Soliant design combines both lenses and mirrors to create a more
compact
system. Each module is made of rows of aluminum troughs, each about the
width and depth of a gutter. These troughs are mounted inside a
rectangular
frame and can tilt in unison from side to side to follow the sun. Each
trough is enclosed on top with a clear acrylic lid. Inside each
trough, a
strip of silicon photovoltaic material runs along the bottom. As light
enters, some of it reflects off the inside surface of the trough and
reaches
the strip of silicon. The rest of the incoming light is focused on
the strip
by a lens incorporated into the acrylic lid.

As a solar concentrating system, this design has a few drawbacks.
Because
the troughs are mounted close together, they shade each other during
parts
of the day, decreasing the total amount of electricity produced. They
can
also only track from side to side, which makes it impossible for
them to
follow exactly the arc of the sun across the sky. This second problem
will
be addressed in the second-generation design, in which each trough
will be
divided into sections, each of which can pivot from side to side and
also up
and down.

But the ease of installation could help convince solar installers to
use the
technology, says Craig Cornelius, the technology manager for the
Department
of Energy's (DOE) solar-energy technology program. DOE recently
announced
$168 million in funding for 13 solar projects, under which Soliant will
receive up to $4 million. Cornelius says that the lower installation
costs
will help reduce the overall costs of solar power from the modules.

Cornelius thinks that some customers, such as those with plenty of roof
space, will opt for cheaper, thin-film solar panels, which in some
cases can
double as shingles, but are less efficient than conventional solar
panels.
But for those who need more power for the space they have, Cornelius
says
that Soliant's approach may prove the best option. Its modules
produce as
much power as conventional flat panels but are less expensive, using 88
percent less silicon. The company's next-generation system would be even
better, producing three times as much power per area.

To test the panels, Soliant is working with DOE and Sun Edison, an
established solar-system installer and operator based in Beltsville,
MD. The
second-generation system will be even more challenging to develop
because
light will be focused on a smaller area, requiring better tracking
of the
sun. Soliant will also be working with Emanuel Sachs, professor of
mechanical engineering at MIT, to improve manufacturing techniques
and the
system for aiming the concentrators.

"In some ways, what's interesting about [Soliant's] approach is
[that] the
engineering issues they have to solve are relatively mundane," Cornelius
says. "This is one of the projects that I'm most excited about in
our whole
portfolio."

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From: "Stephanie Sutton" <ssu...@phisciences.com>
Date: May 9, 2007 2:08:10 PM EST
To: "Stephanie Sutton" < ssu...@phisciences.com>
Subject: FW: UPDATE: Cheney IMPEACHMENT Initiative, Our Next Move

Friends -

I just added this link to go out with every email I send

Please do it too. Steph

-----Original Message-----
From: The Pen [mailto:demo...@peaceteam.net]
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:51 AM
To: ssu...@phisciences.com
Subject: UPDATE: Cheney IMPEACHMENT Initiative, Our Next Move

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From: Rick Davis <rda...@yin.or.jp>
Date: May 10, 2007 9:13:37 PM EST
To: undisclosed-recipients: ;
Subject: Heads up: CFC says US dollar is finished

The Council on Foreign Relations (the organization of movers and
shakers who really run the US) says the US dollar is toast.

http://cryptogon.com/?p=706

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The Globalization of Electronic Election Theft

By Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman

Global Research, May 13, 2007

freepress.org

>From Ohio and California to Scotland and France, the disputes
surrounding electronic voting machines have gone truly global.

E-voting machines have already been extensively studied and condemned
by a wide range of expert committees, commissions and colleges,
including the General Accountability Office, the Carter-Baker
Commission, Johns Hopkins University, Princeton University, Stanford
University and others. Rigging of a recount in Cleveland has resulted
in two felony convictions. The failures of e-voting machines have been
the subject of numerous documentary films, including the aptly titled
HBO special "Hacking Democracy."

Now the secretaries of state in Ohio and California are subjecting
e-voting to still more official review. Ohio's Jennifer Brunner has
announced she'll seek bids to conduct independent studies of both
touch-screen machines, which record votes electronically, and optical
scanners, which tabulate paper ballots electronically.

Brunner has already removed the entire board of elections of Cuyahoga
County (Cleveland) in part because of a major fiasco caused by new
electronic machines in the state's 2006 primary election. Voting
rights activists vehemently opposed the $20 million purchase, but it
was rammed through by Board Chair Robert Bennett and Executive
Director Michael Vu.

The machines then caused long reporting delays. Vu resigned under
pressure from the board. Bennett then resigned---along with the rest
of the board---under pressure from Brunner. Bennett chairs the Ohio
Republican Party, works closely with White House advisor Karl Rove,
and was instrumental in delivering Ohio's decisive votes to George W.
Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Two felony convictions have so
far arisen from what prosecutors call a "rigged" recount that occurred
that year in Cleveland, under Bennett's supervision.

The specifics of Brunner's investigation, which she wants done by
September, are not yet public. But the newly elected Democrat says she
intends to "fill in the gaps" on studies of Diebold, ES&S and Hart
InterCivic machines whose vote tallies were key to giving Bush a
second term. The conservative Columbus Dispatch has already predicted
that the results of the investigation "likely will disappoint
conspiracy theorists."

California's new Secretary of State Deborah Bowen will begin her
study May 14, and wants it done by late July. An interagency agreement
with the University of California will use three "top-to-bottom review
teams" with about seven people each to inspect documents, previous
studies, computer source code and a penetration attack to test system
security. Cost is estimated at $1.8 million to be covered by system
vendors and the Help America Vote Act. Systems from Diebold, ES&S,
HartIntercivic, Sequoia and InkaVote of Los Angeles will be examined.

Other states are also re-evaluating their electronic voting systems,
and fierce controversy is raging nationwide over a federal bill from
Representative Rush Holt (D-NJ) which institutes certain voting
reforms but allows the use of electronic machines to continue.

Now the issue has spread worldwide. Widespread cries of theft and
fraud erupted in Ukraine, just before the US 2004 election. A forced
re-vote ousted the "official" winner.

In Mexico, leftists contend the recent presidential election there was
stolen just as Bush did it in the US, with some of the same personnel
pulling it off.

Now similar cries are coming from Scotland and France. May 3
elections in Scotland using new electronic counting systems resulted
in as many as 100,000 votes being classed as "spoilt papers." (About
90,000 such ballots from Ohio 2004 remain uncounted to this day).

Complex methods of tabulating and weighting the Scottish votes
yielded "chaos." Several vote counts were suspended. In some races the
tally of rejected ballots was greater than some candidates' winning
margin. "This is a temporary interruption to one small aspect of the
overall process," says a spokeswoman for DRS, the company responsible
for the vote counting technology.

The language in France has not been so polite. A watershed
presidential election has just been won by Nicolas Sarkozy, a blunt
right-wing Reagan-Bush-style extremist over the socialist Segolene
Royal. Sarkozy is a hard-edged authoritarian whose intense
anti-immigrant rhetoric matches his support for the American war in
Iraq and his avowed intent to slash France's social service system,
including a public health program widely considered among the best in
the world.

Like the balloting in Ukraine, the US, Scotland and Mexico, Sarkozy's
victory was marred by angry, widespread complaints about dubious vote
counts whose discrepancies always seem to favor the rightist
candidate. Throughout France, the cry has arisen that the
conservatives have done to Segolene Royal what Bush/Rove did to John
Kerry.

In the not-so-distant past, other elections were engineered by George
H.W. Bush, head of the Central Intelligence Agency and father of the
current White House resident. During the Reagan-Bush presidencies, in
the Philippines, Nicaragua, El Salvador and other key third world
nations, expected leftist triumphs somehow morphed into rightist
coups. "CIA destabilizations are nothing new," said former CIA station
chief and Medal of Merit winner John Stockwell in 1987. "Guatemala in
1954, Brazil, Ghana, Chile, the Congo, Iran, Panama, Peru, Bolivia,
Ecuador, Uruguay---the CIA organized the overthrow of constitutional
democracy."

The recent trend to privatizing vote counts, with corporations
claiming "proprietary rights" to keep their hardware and software
covert, has added a new dimension to an old tradition. The recent
"e-victories" in the US and France have significantly tipped to the
right the global balance among the major powers. So while Ohio and
California conduct their studies of electronic voting, the whole world
will be watching.

Bob Fitrakis's forthcoming book, THE FITRAKIS FILES: COPS, COVERUPS
AND CORRUPTION, is at http://www.freepress.org/, where this article
first appeared. Harvey Wasserman's SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED
EARTH, A.D. 2030, is at http://www.solartopia.org/.

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Venezuela Accuses U.S. DEA of Being a "Drug Cartel"

By Chris Carlson

Global Research, May 13, 2007

Venezuelanalysis.com - 2007-05-08

Mirida, May 8, 2007 (venezuelanalysis.com) The Venezuelan government
responded yesterday to United States Drug Czar John Walters'
criticisms that Venezuela is not cooperating with the United States in
the fight against drugs by saying that the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Agency is a "drug cartel." The Venezuelan government rejected Walters'
statements, saying that the U.S. has the intention of damaging
Venezuela's reputation and intervening in its affairs.

John Walters, who is the Director of the Office of National Drug
Control Policy in Washington, made the statement in an interview with
the Colombian magazine Semana last week. And today in Brussels,
Walters made further statements about Venezuela at a meeting with the
European Union and NATO about drug-related issues. Walters warned of
an increasing problem with cocaine entering Europe from South America,
and in particular from Venezuela.

"Venezuela is gaining importance for drug dealers," said the US Drug
Czar. "There are flights from legal airports to Dominican Republic and
Haiti. Sea shipments are dispatched from several points on the
Venezuelan coast."

But the Venezuelan government rejected the claims made by Walters,
saying it was an attempt to discredit anti-drug efforts in Venezuela.
Minister of the Interior Pedro Carreqo warned that the recent
declarations are a new attempt to intervene in Venezuela with the
intention of putting military bases in Venezuelan territory.

(The United States establishes cooperation agreements in the fight
against drug trafficking through economic cooperation so that they can
later impose the presence of military bases under the pretense of
cooperation," said Carreqo yesterday.

Carreqo dismissed any possibility of permitting the intervention of
US authorities in Venezuela to fight drug trafficking and accused the
US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) of forming its own "drug cartel."
According to the Carreqo, when Venezuela ended its cooperation with
the DEA two years ago, they observed that the US agency was
trafficking drugs through the country.

"They were making a large quantity of drug shipments under the
pretense of monitoring them, and they didn't carry out arrests or
breakup the cartels," explained Carreqo. "We were able to determine
the presence of a new drug cartel in which the United States Drug
Enforcement Agency was monopolizing the shipment of drugs," he said.

Carreqo assured that Venezuelan security forces are willing to
receive information that the United States can offer in order to
detain drug traffickers in the country, but he maintained that
Venezuela "is not going to allow them to carry out operations in our
territory."

"Venezuela is a free, independent country that has its own National
Armed Forces and security forces to provide protection to our country,
and we are not going to let some other Armed Forces come to our
government and impose on us the presence of military bases," stated
Carreqo.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez ordered an end to the country's
cooperation with the DEA in 2005, alleging that some members of the
agency were infiltrating government intelligence and were a threat to
the security of the country. Since then, Washington has made repeated
accusations about drug trafficking in Venezuela, claiming that their
lack of cooperation is allowing drugs to be passed through the country
and into the United States.

The Venezuelan government, however, sees these declarations as an
attempt to coerce them into allowing US intervention in the country.
Venezuela insists that if the United States government is sincerely
concerned about fighting drugs, it should lead by example and protect
its own borders from illegal drugs.

"Just like they ask Venezuela to do flyovers under the excuse that
this is a drug trafficking route, they should use their Air Force to
flyover their own airspace," said Carreqo.

Carreqo suggested that instead of continuing the supposed anti-drug
program Plan Colombia, that the United States "should apply a Plan
Washington, New York, or Miami, so that they flyover their own air
space, and take care of their coast and border because 85% of the
drugs that are produced in Latin America go to the United States."

Just as other South American countries have suggested, Venezuela
insists that the United States could best fight drug production in
Latin America by lowering the demand for drugs inside the United States.
(By the law of the market, if you reduce the demand, you reduce the
production," said Carreqo

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US Sponsored
Bombing of Somalia: The Hidden War for Oil
Strategic Interests Behind
US-Ethiopian Alliance

By Carl Bloice

Global Research, May 14, 2007

Black Commentator

Carl Bloice elucidates the failure or unwillingness of the Western
media to accurately report the invasion and occupation of Somalia by a
US backed Ethiopian government. He asserts that behind the
US-Ethiopian political alliance lies a strategic move to secure
positioning in this oil region.

The US bombing of Somalia took place while the World Social Forum was
underway in Kenya, three days before a large anti-war action in
Washington on 27 January 2007.

Nunu Kidane, network coordinator for Priority Africa Network (PAN),
was present in Nairobi. After returning home, she asked: how 'to
explain the silence of the US peace movement on Somalia?'

Writing in the San Francisco community newspaper Bay View, Kidane
suggested one valid reason: 'Perhaps US-based organizations don't have
the proper analytical framework to understand the significance of the
Horn of Africa region. Perhaps it is because Somalia is largely seen
as a country with no government and in perpetual chaos; with
"fundamental Islamic" forces, not deserving of defense against the
military attacks by US in search of "terrorists".'

To that it may be added the role of the major US media in the lead up
to the invasion and the suffering now taking place in the Horn of Africa.

'The carnage and suffering in Somalia may be the worst in more than a
decade - but you'd hardly know it from your nightly news', wrote
Andrew Cawthorne for Reuters from Nairobi last week.

Amy Goodman's Democracy Now recently examined the coverage of ABC,
NBC and CBS on Somalia in the evening newscasts since the invasion.

ABC and NBC had not mentioned the war at all. CBS mentioned the war
once, dedicating three whole sentences to it. Despite the fact that
there have been more casualties in this war than in the recent
fighting in Lebanon.

While the major US print media have not completely ignored the
conflict, their reporting is even more shallow than prior to the
invasion of Iraq.

As recently as last week, Reuters was still maintaining that
Ethiopian troops had invaded its neighbour with the 'tacit' support of
the United States.

At least The New York Times has taken to describing it as 'covert
American support'. Both characterisations obscure the truth.

The attack on Somalia was pre-planned. It would never have taken
place without the approval of the White House.

We now know that the Bush administration gave the Ethiopian
government the go ahead to ignore its own imposed ban on weapons
purchases from North Korea, in order to gear up for the battle ahead.
US military forces took part in the assault.

'The US political and military alliance with Ethiopia - which openly
violated international law in its aggression towards Somalia, is
destabilizing the Horn region and begins a new shift in the way the US
plans to have permanent and active military presence in Africa', wrote
Kadane.

Planning for the invasion actually began last summer when the Union
of Islamic Courts (UIC) took control of the Somali government.

The US-Ethiopian version of shock and awe was to swiftly bring about
the desired regime change, installing the Washington-favoured,
government-in-exile of President Abdullahi Yusuf.

Only a few days after their troops entered the country, Ethiopian
officials said their forces lacked the resources to stay in Somalia,
and that they would be leaving soon.

At one point, the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi declared -
Bush-like - that the invaders' mission had been successfully
accomplished and that two-thirds of his troops were returning home.

That turned out not to be true. Three months later, the Ethiopians
are still in Somalia committing what numerous observers are calling
horrendous war crimes.

'The obviously indiscriminate use of heavy artillery in the capital
has killed and wounded hundreds of civilians, and forced over 200,000
more to flee for their lives', Walter Lindner, German ambassador to
Somalia, wrote to the country's acting president last week.

Displaced persons are 'at great risk of being subjected to looting,
extortion and rape - including by uniformed troops' at a various
"checkpoints". Cholera - endemic to the region during the rainy season
- is beginning to cut a swathe through the displaced', he continued.
Adding that attempts by international groups to offer assistance to
the victims are being obstructed by militias who are stealing
supplies, demanding 'taxes', and threatening relief workers.

On 3 April, Associated Press reported that a senior European Union
security official had sent an email to the head of the EU delegation
for Somalia warning that:

'Ethiopian and Somali military forces there may have committed war
crimes...donor countries could be considered complicit if they do
nothing to stop them. I need to advise you that there are strong
grounds to believe that the Ethiopian government and the transitional
federal government of Somalia and the African Union (peacekeeping)
Force Commander, possibly also including the African Union Head of
Mission and other African Union officials have, through commission or
omission, violated the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.'

In the meantime, the Bush administration has worked hard to raise
troops from nearby cooperative states to take over the job. Promises
were made, but with one exception, remain unfulfilled.

In a telephone conversation with Bush, Ugandan president Yoweri
Museveni promised to provide between 1,000-2,000 troops to protect
Somalia's transitional government and train its troops.

The Ugandans arrived. But they are said to have been largely confined
to their quarters, refraining from taking part in the effort to crush
the opposition.

Meanwhile, the 'transitional government' and Ethiopian forces have
been reported shelling civilian areas in the capital from the
government compound they are supposedly guarding.

None of the reporters on the scene appear to have explored the
question of why the other African governments have failed to send
troops. But I think the answer is obvious.

They would be called 'peacekeepers' but would be called upon to
inject themselves into a civil conflict on the side of an unpopular
puppet government, something they are loath to do.

Three months ago, I wrote:

'If the unfolding events in Iraq are any indication, what started out
as a swift invasion and occupation could turn out to be a long and
widening war.'

That was an understatement. At the time of writing, about 1,300
people are reported to have perished in the fighting. Over 4,300
wounded, and nearly 400,000 have fled their homes. Refugees trying to
cross the Red Sea are reportedly drowning off the Somali coast.

'There is a massive tragedy unfolding in Mogadishu, but from the
world's silence, you would think it's Christmas', the head of a
Mogadishu political think-tank told Cawthorne. 'Somalis, caught up in
Mogadishu's worst violence for 16 years, are painfully aware of their
place on the global agenda.'

'Nobody cares about Somalia, even if we die in our millions',
Cawthorne was told by Abdirahman Ali, a 29 year-old father-of-two, who
works as a security guard in Mogadishu.

And, just as in Iraq, US supported forces - the small army of the
enthroned and very unpopular government and the invaders - are caught
up in a civil war, set in motion by invasion and occupation.

Additional to the forces loyal to the overthrown Islamist government,
the regime in power is opposed by the Hawiye, one of the country's
largest clans.

A spokesman for the clan recently called upon 'the Somali people,
wherever it exists, to unity in the fight against the Ethiopians. The
war is not between Ethiopia and our tribe, it is between Ethiopia and
all Somali people', he said.

'For the major [world] leaders, there is a tremendous embarrassment
over Somalia', Michael Weinstein, a US expert on Somalia at Purdue
University told Reuters.

'They have committed themselves to supporting the interim government
- a government that has no broad legitimacy, a failing government.
This is the heart of the problem. But Western leaders can't back out
now, so of course they have 100% no interest in bringing global
attention to Somalia. There is no doubt that Somalia has been shoved
aside by major media outlets and global leaders, and the Somali
Diaspora is left crying in the wilderness.'

Last week, during what was described as a lull in the fighting,
Ethiopian soldiers were moving from house to house in the capital
Mogadishu, taking hundreds of men away by the truckload to an
uncertain fate.

Meanwhile, the traumatised residents of the rubble strewn city were
reported gathering up bodies, many of them rotting, for burial.

'Most of the displaced civilians are encamped on Mogadishu's
outskirts, where the scenes are medieval', reported The Economist last
week.

On 26 April, Martin Fletcher wrote in The (London) Times about five
days he spent in Mogadishu, during which he canvassed many ordinary
Somalis:

'People lack water, food and shelter. Cholera has broken out. The
sick sometimes have to pay rent even to sit in the shade of trees.
Things will get worse with the rains, which have started. Aid agencies
say people will soon start dying in large numbers. Some reckon Somalia
is facing its biggest humanitarian crisis, worse than in the early
1990s, when the state collapsed amid famine and slaughter.
Overwhelmingly, they loathed a government they consider a puppet of
the hated Ethiopians.'

Last week the Washington Post reported that interviews it conducted
in Ethiopia and testimony given to diplomats and human rights groups
'paint a picture of a nation that jails its citizens without reason or
trial, and tortures many of them - despite government claims to the
contrary'.

The paper commented that such cases are especially troubling because
the US government, a key Ethiopian ally, has acknowledged
interrogating terrorism suspects in Ethiopian prisons, where some
detainees were sent after being arrested in connection with Ethiopia's
invasion of Somalia in December.

The following day the paper reported: 'More than 200 FBI and CIA
agents have set up camp in the Sheraton Hotel here in Ethiopia's
capital and have been interrogating dozens of detainees -- including a
US citizen picked up in Somalia and held without charge and without
attorneys in a secret prison somewhere in this city, according to
Ethiopian and U.S. officials who say the interrogations are lawful.'

History will probably record the Ethiopian government's decision to
team up with the US administration for regime change in Somalia as the
height of folly. The country has enough problems at home, brought into
sharp relief on 24 April, when forces of an ethnic-Somali separatist
group, the Ogaden National Liberation Front, raided an oil exploration
facility, killing 74 people, including nine employees of a Chinese oil
company.

'As much as China's - and indeed America's - ally Meles Zenawi, the
Ethiopian prime minister, might like to be on top of security across
the Horn, he is not always able to deliver. His army is the region's
most powerful conventional force. But under his rule, Ethiopia is
fraying again around the edges', said the Financial Times editorial on
26 April.

Armed separatist groups are now changing tactics. Unable to match the
army on the battlefield, the Ogaden National Liberation Front has
chosen the spectacular to draw attention to its cause.

Only recently, a separatist group in the north tried something
similar, by kidnapping a group of British diplomats. Both horrific
events can be attributed partly to fallout from Ethiopia's messy
intervention in neighboring Somalia.

Initial battles last December were decisively in Ethiopia's favour.
But like the Americans in Iraq, the Ethiopians in Somalia were ill
prepared for the aftermath. A growing insurgency has delayed the
withdrawal of their troops, exposing the government to attacks at
home. It has also inflamed tension among ethnic Somalis in Ethiopia.
And ironically, the Chinese workers killed near Ethiopia's border with
Somalia may have been victims more of Washington's policy in the
region than of Beijing's.

The US has actively backed Meles Zenawi's Somali adventure. In doing
so it has undermined multilateral efforts to bring about peace. 'There
are two main questions that Colonel Yusuf's and Ethiopia's Western
backers should now ask themselves', said The (London) Guardian 26
April 26.

First, what was gained by encouraging the Ethiopian army to topple
the Islamic Courts? The US allowed Ethiopia to arm itself with North
Korean weapons and also participated in the turkey shoot by using
gunships against suspected insurgents hiding in villages near the
Kenyan border.

Second, Washington was convinced that the Islamic Courts were
sheltering foreign terror suspects: 'But how many did they get and
what price have Somalis paid?'

'America can be more heavily criticised for subordinating Somali
interests to its own desire to catch a handful of al-Qaeda men who may
(or may not)have been hiding in Mogadishu', said The Economist.

Chatham House, a British think tank of the independent Royal
Institute of International Affairs, has concluded:

'None has been caught, many innocents have died in air strikes, and
anti-American feeling has deepened. Western, especially European,
diplomats watching Somalia from Nairobi, the capital of Kenya to the
south, have sounded the alarm. Their governments have done little.

In an uncomfortably familiar pattern, genuine multilateral concern to
support the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Somalia has been
hijacked by unilateral actions of other international actors -
especially Ethiopia and the United States following their own foreign
policy agendas.'

Actually, there is no more reason to believe the Bush administration
promoted this war, in clear violation of international law and the UN
Charter, 'to catch a handful of al-Qaeda men', than that the invasion
of Iraq was to eliminate weapons of mass destruction. What has
unfolded over the past three months flows from much larger strategic
calculations in Washington.

The invasion and occupation of Somalia coincided with the Pentagon's
now operational plan to build a new 'Africa Command' to deal with what
the Christian Science Monitor dubbed 'strife, oil, and Al Qaeda'.

When I first visited this subject shortly after the invasion, I
quoted 10 per cent as the figure which is the proportion of our
country's petroleum from Africa; and noted that some experts were
saying the US would need to up that to 25 per cent by 2010. Wrong again.

Last week came the news that the US now imports more oil from Africa
than from the Middle East; with Nigeria, Angola and Algeria providing
nearly one-fifth of it - more than from Saudi Arabia.

The rulers in Addis Ababa claim the invasion was a pre-emptive attack
on a threatening Somalia. The Bush administration says giving a wink
and a nod to the attack was merely a chance to capture a few terrorist
holed up in Somalia. But for most of the media and diplomatic
observers outside the US, this was another strategic move to secure
positioning in a region where there is a lot of oil.

On file are plans - put on hold amid continuing conflicts - for
nearly two-thirds of Somalia's oil fields to be allocated to the US
oil companies Conoco, Amoco, Chevron and Phillips.

It was recently reported that the US-backed prime minister of Somalia
has proposed enactment of a new oil law to encourage the return of
foreign oil companies to the country.

Salim Lone, spokesperson for the UN mission in Iraq in 2003, now a
columnist for The Daily Nation in Kenya, recently told Democracy Now:

'The prime minister's attempt to lure Western oil companies is on a
par with his crying wolf about al-Qaeda at every turn. Every time you
interview a Somalia official, the first thing you hear is al-Qaeda and
terrorists. They're using that. No one believes it. No one believes it
at all, because all independent reports say the contrary.'

I spoke with Kidane last week and she conceded that the situation in
Somalia might seem complex to many in the peace and social justice
movements.

However, she said, it is impossible to overlook the parallel with the
situation in the Iraq: 'It's aggression, that is undeniable, and the
same language is being used to justify it.'
Kidane is spot on to insist that the movements for peace and justice
in the US - and elsewhere - must take up the issue. The unlawful US-
Ethiopian invasion and occupation of that country and the accompanying
human suffering and human rights abuses constitute a new - and still
mostly hidden - war, which is in many ways is similar to that in Iraq.
And, waged for the same reason.

Carl Bloice is a writer based in San Francisco. He is a member of the
National Coordinating Committee of the Committees of Correspondence
for Democracy and Socialism. He is on the editorial board of Black
Commentator where a version of this article was originally published
on 2 May 2007.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are the sole
responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of
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From: Rick Davis < rda...@yin.or.jp>
Date: May 14, 2007 1:56:15 AM EST
Subject: The Police State Road Map (ebook released by author)

http://www.policestateplanning.com/id19.htm

Contents

Preface

Part 1

Three Hundred Trillion Dollars and Counting

Chapter 1 MONEY

1.1 The Money Magicians
1.2 The Banking Cartel

Chapter 2 THE GREAT TRUST

2.1 The Military-Industrial Complex
2.2 Five Monopolies
2.3 Who Owns the Stock?
2.4 Who Owns the Media?

Chapter 3 THE GREAT TRUST AND WESTERN FOREIGN POLICY

3.1 International Relations Policy Groups
3.2 Tax Exempt Foundations and Charity Funding
3.3 The IMF and World Bank
3.4 Control over Western Governments

Chapter 4 COMMUNISM AND FASCISM

4.1 The Heart of the Issue: Power and Property Rights
4.2 Lessons From History

Chapter 5 LESSER DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

5.1 Empowering Third World Governments
5.2 The Sell Off

Chapter 6 PRIVATISATION IN THE WEST

6.1 Public Private Partnership
6.2 The Policy Comes from the Top

Part 2

The Art of Killing Quietly

Chapter 7 THE ECONOMY

7.1 The Function of Poverty
7.2 Monetary and Fiscal Policy
7.3 Free Trade Agreements
7.4 Open Borders
7.5 The Environmental Movement
7.6 War as a Means of Planned Waste
7.7 Criminalizing Society
7.8 Disease

Chapter 8 THE NEW POLITICAL SYSTEM

8.1 The Future of Democracy
8.2 Banning Opposition to World Government
8.3 Creating Regional Governments
8.4 World Government or World War Three

Chapter 9 THE WAR ON TERROR

9.1 CIA/MI6/Mossad/ISI: The Global Terrorist Network
9.2 Proliferating Weapons of Mass Destruction

Chapter 10 MARTIAL LAW

10.1 Martial Law Legislation
10.2 Foreign Troops
10.3 Gun Confiscation

Chapter 11 THE LEGAL APPARATUS OF TOTALITARIANISM

11.1 Integration
11.2 UK Mental Health Laws
11.3 Abolition of Juries and Arbitrary Detention
11.4 Expanding the Definition of 'Terrorism'
11.5 Surveillance Legislation
11.6 The Ruling Class Above the Law

Chapter 12 THE TECHNOLOGICAL APPARATUS OF TOTALITARIANISM

12.1 ID Cards and Biometric Identification
12.2 Computer Databases
12.3 DNA Databases
12.4 Implantable Microchips
12.5 Radio Frequency Identification
12.6 Car and Mobile Phone Tracking
12.7 Surveillance Cameras
12.8 Black Budget Funding

Chapter 13 THE FAMILY AND RELIGION

13.1 Elitism and the New Age Religion
13.2 Caught in the Act at Bohemian Grove
13.3 Targeting the Young
13.4 Banning Monotheism
13.5 Enforcing Love of Big Brother
13.6 Sexual Abuse

Chapter 14 POPULATION CONTROL

14.1 Funding Population Control
14.2 Aims and Methods
14.3 Environmentalism
14.4 Public Health Policy and Western Medicine
14.5 Cancer
14.6 Vaccination
14.7 Mind Control Technology
14.8 Junk Food
14.9 Fluoride
14.10 Germ Warfare
14.11 Depleted Uranium
14.12 Forced Abortion and Sterilization
14.13 GM Food
14.14 Weather Modification
14.15 Nanotechnology
14.16 Eugenics

Conclusion

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From: "Chihaya" <chi...@aapt.net.au>
Date: May 7, 2007 10:46:26 PM EST
Subject: Bravo Canale 5 of Italia!!

To us "9/11 victims" are not only the 3,000 people that perished on
that day, but also some 650,000 civilians killed in Iraq since the
invasion began, 100,000 plus Afghans who've met the same fate in their
country, more than 3,000 US soldiers sent by "Dick & Rummy" to die
under false pretense, and --sadly but truly -- the ever increasing
number of first responders who were knowingly sent to their death by
an administration that could be defined "criminal" for this one action
alone.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAZ20070503&articleId=5550

Yes, I feel the same, as well as one guy on that audio

London 9/11 Truth Roundtable (Podcast)
Submitted by Dem Bruce Lee Styles on Sat, 05/05/2007 - 11:41am.
Listen here on 911Podcasts (MP3)
http://www.911podcasts.com/files/audio/2704-1-20070501-911_uk_roundtable_edited.mp3

says,

"If we let them get away with it, we haven't got any future."

and he talks about having his children work for this(if we couldn't
finish this job, I suppose) and I agree with him.

Watch that 6min video from Canale 5, though we all know it. ;o)
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=MAZ20070503&articleId=5550

And if you read Italian all right,
http://www.luogocomune.net/site/modules/911/

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From: "Dick Eastman" <olfr...@nwinfo.net>
Date: May 7, 2007 11:42:50 PM EST
Subject: [911TruthAction] JoAnn: AMEC Construction Mgmt renovated
Pentagon wedge before 9-11, renovated Building 7 and then cleaned up
both WTC site and Pentagon !!!!!!

astounding -- why hasn't this been shouted from the roof tops????

Something is wrong with our system of getting out the important
evidence even to other investigators.

From: JoAnn
To: 9-11-...@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:31 PM

"AMEC Construction Management, a subsidiary of the British
engineering firm AMEC, renovated Wedge One of the Pentagon before 9-
11 and cleaned it up afterward. AMEC had also renovated Silverstein's
WTC 7, which collapsed mysteriously on 9-11, and then headed the
cleanup of the WTC site afterward. The AMEC construction firm is
currently in the process of closing all its offices in the United
States."

http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/10/300788.shtml

-------

Dick Eastman <olfriend@...> wrote:

> I have just learned
that Alex Jones -- who I apparently have not been following closely
enough -- has evidence on his site -- a video taken at the Pentagon
after the crash which shows an explosion on the second floor at
column 19.
>
> What caused the explosion is unknown.
>
> I did not know this video recording existed and I had not heard
about the explosion that occured minutes after the crash.
>
> In my ignorance and assuming that the damage at the window
between column 19 and 20 had occured at the time of the crash at
pillar 14 -- that it was all part of a simultaneous attack -- I
assumed that this hole had been caused by a missile entering the
building. Everything I said on this is now garbage.
>
> I thought this one of the strongest proofs of a false-flag attack.
>
> Charles Guliani is sending me the clip from A. Jones. If there
is a URL I will pass it on.
>
> I was going to be on Guliani's radio program -- but now I am not
sure I want to do it. What else do I think I know that other
investigators know about but never bothered to let me know about.
>
> Dick Eastman
> Yakima, Washington

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