USA IMPERIALISM AND ITS CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY

2007-12-31T13:41:00.000-08:00

WILL 2008 SEE THE IMPEACHMENT OF THE BUSH-CHENEY GANG, AND ITS REPLACEMENT BY A PARTICIPATORY, DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN USA ? WILL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE PREVAIL, PUT AN END TO THE USA PLUTOCRACY, AND MAKE IT A HAPPY NEW YEAR FOR THE ENTIRE HUMANITY ?

by Benjamin Merhav

Following are two articles. The first is The New York Times editorial, which indicates that even the USA ruling class is no longer united behind the Bush-Cheney administration. The second one proves once more - if any more proof is needed - the brutality, inhumanity, immorality and illegality of this USA administration, thus indicating the urgent need for its immediate impeachment, and for its replacement by a genuine participatory democracy.

Let us be sober and clear : the USA is still run by an entrenched plutocracy. Therefore, none of the present candidates for the Presidency would make any difference, nor will the present members of Congress. The people, and the people alone - in their vast majority - should prevail ! And for this to happen the people's resistance movement, namely, the movement for impeachment must be shouldering this responsibility now !

POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOW (before it is too late ) !

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Editorial
"Looking at America
Published: December 31, 2007

There are too many moments these days when we cannot recognize our country. Sunday was one of them, as we read the account in The Times of how men in some of the most trusted posts in the nation plotted to cover up the torture of prisoners by Central Intelligence Agency interrogators by destroying videotapes of their sickening behavior. It was impossible to see the founding principles of the greatest democracy in the contempt these men and their bosses showed for the Constitution, the rule of law and human decency.

It was not the first time in recent years we've felt this horror, this sorrowful sense of estrangement, not nearly. This sort of lawless behavior has become standard practice since Sept. 11, 2001.

The country and much of the world was rightly and profoundly frightened by the single-minded hatred and ingenuity displayed by this new enemy. But there is no excuse for how President Bush and his advisers panicked — how they forgot that it is their responsibility to protect American lives and American ideals, that there really is no safety for Americans or their country when those ideals are sacrificed.

Out of panic and ideology, President Bush squandered America's position of moral and political leadership, swept aside international institutions and treaties, sullied America's global image, and trampled on the constitutional pillars that have supported our democracy through the most terrifying and challenging times. These policies have fed the world's anger and alienation and have not made any of us safer.

In the years since 9/11, we have seen American soldiers abuse, sexually humiliate, torment and murder prisoners in Afghanistan and Iraq. A few have been punished, but their leaders have never been called to account. We have seen mercenaries gun down Iraqi civilians with no fear of prosecution. We have seen the president, sworn to defend the Constitution, turn his powers on his own citizens, authorizing the intelligence agencies to spy on Americans, wiretapping phones and intercepting international e-mail messages without a warrant.

We have read accounts of how the government's top lawyers huddled in secret after the attacks in New York and Washington and plotted ways to circumvent the Geneva Conventions — and both American and international law — to hold anyone the president chose indefinitely without charges or judicial review.

Those same lawyers then twisted other laws beyond recognition to allow Mr. Bush to turn intelligence agents into torturers, to force doctors to abdicate their professional oaths and responsibilities to prepare prisoners for abuse, and then to monitor the torment to make sure it didn't go just a bit too far and actually kill them.

The White House used the fear of terrorism and the sense of national unity to ram laws through Congress that gave law-enforcement agencies far more power than they truly needed to respond to the threat — and at the same time fulfilled the imperial fantasies of Vice President Dick Cheney and others determined to use the tragedy of 9/11 to arrogate as much power as they could.

Hundreds of men, swept up on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, were thrown into a prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, so that the White House could claim they were beyond the reach of American laws. Prisoners are held there with no hope of real justice, only the chance to face a kangaroo court where evidence and the names of their accusers are kept secret, and where they are not permitted to talk about the abuse they have suffered at the hands of American jailers.

In other foreign lands, the C.I.A. set up secret jails where "high-value detainees" were subjected to ever more barbaric acts, including simulated drowning. These crimes were videotaped, so that "experts" could watch them, and then the videotapes were destroyed, after consultation with the White House, in the hope that Americans would never know.

The C.I.A. contracted out its inhumanity to nations with no respect for life or law, sending prisoners — some of them innocents kidnapped on street corners and in airports — to be tortured into making false confessions, or until it was clear they had nothing to say and so were let go without any apology or hope of redress.

These are not the only shocking abuses of President Bush's two terms in office, made in the name of fighting terrorism. There is much more — so much that the next president will have a full agenda simply discovering all the wrongs that have been done and then righting them.

We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will see, once again, the reflection of the United States of America."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11488.htm

"Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children
By Philip Watts

01/08/06 "revcom.us" -- -- John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles.

This came out in response to a question in a December 1st debate in Chicago with Notre Dame professor and international human rights scholar Doug Cassel.

What is particularly chilling and revealing about this is that John Yoo was a key architect post-9/11 Bush Administration legal policy. As a deputy assistant to then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, John Yoo authored a number of legal memos arguing for unlimited presidential powers to order torture of captive suspects, and to declare war anytime, any where, and on anyone the President deemed a threat.

It has now come out Yoo also had a hand in providing legal reasoning for the President to conduct unauthorized wiretaps of U.S. citizens. Georgetown Law Professor David Cole wrote, "Few lawyers have had more influence on President Bush’s legal policies in the 'war on terror’ than John Yoo."

This part of the exchange during the debate with Doug Cassel, reveals the logic of Yoo’s theories, adopted by the Administration as bedrock principles, in the real world.

Cassel: If the President deems that he’s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the person’s child, there is no law that can stop him?

Yoo: No treaty.

Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.

Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

The audio of this exchange is available online at revcom.us

Yoo argues presidential powers on Constitutional grounds, but where in the Constitution does it say the President can order the torture of children ? As David Cole puts it, "Yoo reasoned that because the Constitution makes the President the 'Commander-in-Chief,’ no law can restrict the actions he may take in pursuit of war. On this reasoning, the President would be entitled by the Constitution to resort to genocide if he wished."

What is the position of the Bush Administration on the torture of children, since one of its most influential legal architects is advocating the President’s right to order the crushing of a child’s testicles?

This fascist logic has nothing to do with "getting information" as Yoo has argued. The legal theory developed by Yoo and a few others and adopted by the Administration has resulted in thousands being abducted from their homes in Afghanistan, Iraq or other parts of the world, mostly at random. People have been raped, electrocuted, nearly drowned and tortured literally to death in U.S.-run torture centers in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Guantánamo Bay. And there is much still to come out. What about the secret centers in Europe or the many still-suppressed photos from Abu Ghraib? What can explain this sadistic, indiscriminate, barbaric brutality except a need to instill widespread fear among people all over the world?

It is ironic that just prior to arguing the President's legal right to torture children, John Yoo was defensive about the Bush administration policies, based on his legal memo’s, being equated to those during Nazi Germany.

Yoo said, "If you are trying to draw a moral equivalence between the Nazis and what the United States is trying to do in defending themselves against Al Qauueda and the 9/11 attacks, I fully reject that. Second, if you’re trying to equate the Bush Administration to Nazi officials who committed atrocities in the holocaust, I completely reject that too…I think to equate Nazi Germany to the Bush Administration is irresponsible."

If open promotion of unmitigated executive power, including the right to order the torture of innocent children, isn’t sufficient basis for drawing such a "moral equivalence," then I don’t know what is. What would be irresponsible is to sit by and allow the Bush regime to radically remake society in a fascist way, with repercussions for generations to come. We must act now because the future is in the balance. The world cannot wait.

While Bush gives his State of the Union on January 31st, I’ll find myself along with many thousands across the country declaring "Bush Step Down And take your program with you."

Philip Watts - pwatts_revolution@yahoo.com

(Emphasis added - B.M.)

2007-11-29T18:43:00.000-08:00

IS A FASCIST COUP NOW UNDERWAY IN THE USA ?
by Benjamin Merhav

The following article is certainly a grave warning to the entire humanity - of environmental, political, and military catastrophic dangers - and not just to the people of the USA. We have by now several grave warnings regarding the current rule of big business. Yet to zionist impostors like Noam Chomsky, the USA continues to be the "most free country in the world", thus lulling the world's people into complacency.

Other impostors, especially on the environmental front, lull the people by expecting a change of the country's leadership, without touching the true world rulers, namely, the huge transnational corporations who are spearheaded by the zionist apartheid regime of Israel rulers.

Let us replace the rule of big business by the direct rule of the people, namely, replace the plutocracy by a direct and participatory democracy now !

POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE !

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2007/291107_fascist_coup.htm

"Naomi Wolf: America's Fascist Coup Owes Legacy To Bush's Nazi Grandfather

Author of "10 steps" speaks publicly for the first time about origins of modern-day tyranny
Paul Joseph WatsonPrison PlanetThursday, November 29, 2007

Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930s America.

Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America.

Speaking on the Alex Jones Show, Wolf said that she was first alerted to begin researching America's slide into fascism when her friend, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, warned her that the same events that laid the foundations for the rise of the Third Reich in early 1930's Germany, when it was still a Parliamentary democracy, were being mirrored in modern-day America.

"A small group of people began very systematically to use the law and dismantle the Constitution and put pressure on citizens to subvert the law - and that opened the door for everything that followed," said Wolf.

"When I started reading, not only are tactics and strategy being reproduced exactly right now by the Bush administration - but actual sound bytes and language and images and scenarios are being reproduced," she added.

Wolf's essay, Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps, has received plaudits for how it succinctly describes the ways in which dictatorships the world over throughout the 20th century have evolved by following the exact same blueprint for tyranny that we see unfolding in America today.

"Everybody that wants to close down a Democracy does the exact same ten things, the same classic steps and unfortunately we're starting to see these ten steps being put in place in the United States," said Wolf.

For the first time publicly, Wolf traced the origins of contemporary developments back to President Bush's Nazi grandfather, Prescott Bush, and his plan to launch a fascist coup in the 1930's.

"There was a scheme in the 30's and Prescott Bush was one of the leaders of this scheme, an industrialist who admired fascism and thought that was a good idea - to have a coup in the United States along the lines of the coup they saw taking place in Italy and Germany," said Wolf, referring to the testimony of Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler, who was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush - the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush.

A recent BBC radio report confirmed that there was an attempted coup led by Prescott Bush.
"Smedley Butler had been involved with violent regime change throughout his career, but he was approached by these conspirators, including Prescott Bush, and he outed them and he testified to Congress that they were planning a coup in the United States - it's in the Congressional record," said Wolf, adding that the coup was being bankrolled by German industrialist and one of Hitler's chief financiers Fritz Thyssen.

"What is amazing to me and resonant to me is that when the Nuremberg trials were finally put in place, these Nazi industrialists, some of whom had colluded with Americans including IBM, were about to be brought to trial and sent to prison - there was a moment at which they were going to look into turning the spotlight on their American partners," said Wolf.

The author added that laws such as the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were consciously designed to protect current President Bush and his co-conspirators from being indicted for war crimes, harking back to Prescott Bush's history.

"The family history is that you can make so much money uniting corporate interests with a fascist state that violently represses people, that's why when I saw the recycling of so much Nazi language, Nazi tactics, Nazi strategies, Nazi imagery in the Bush White House and then finally belatedly people brought to me this history of Prescott Bush's attempted coup and Smedley Butler's revelations - it gives me absolute chills," said Wolf.

The fact that Bush's grandfather was a Nazi cannot be presented alone as proof that President Bush is carrying on the legacy, but his policies and rhetoric, which in her essay Wolf clearly documents are borrowed from the Nazi playbook, and in particular the recent move to smear administration critics as potential terrorists, are evidence that George W. Bush is the figurehead for a modern-day fascist coup in America led by the Neo-Cons.

Wolf concluded that history shows the only safe course for preserving freedom in such a climate is to prosecute and jail the protagonists of the coup as early as possible, a process many would argue should have been enacted several years ago.
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Alex Jones' Endgame features rare archive footage of Smedley Butler exposing the fascist coup. Martial Law features an interview with researcher John Buchanan, who was the first to discover documents pertaining to Prescott Bush's activities in the national archives. Watch for free at Google Video here"

(Emphasis added - B.M)

2007-11-23T12:40:00.000-08:00

AGAINST WARMONGERS AND IMPERIALIST WARS AND THOSE WHO PROFIT FROM THEM
by Benjamin Merhav

The following is an excerpt from a speech by a USA general , Major General Smedley Darlington Butler (1881 - 1940) :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#Speaking_and_writing_career

"I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." [19]

Here is how the Wikipedia describes his career :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler

"Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940), nicknamed "The Fighting Quaker" and "Old Gimlet Eye," was a Major General in the U.S. Marine Corps and, at the time of his death, the most decorated Marine in U.S. history.

During his 34 years of Marine Corps service, Butler was awarded numerous medals for heroism including the Marine Corps Brevet Medal (the highest Marine medal at its time for officers), and subsequently the Medal of Honor twice. Notably, he is one of only 19 people to be twice awarded the Medal of Honor, and one of only three to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor, and the only person to be awarded a Marine Corps Brevet Medal and a Medal of Honor for two different actions.
In addition to his military career, Smedley Butler was noted for his outspoken anti-interventionist views, and his book War is a Racket. His book was one of the first works describing the workings of the military-industrial complex and after retiring from service, he became a popular speaker at meetings organized by veterans, pacifists and church groups in the 1930s.

In 1934, he informed the United States Congress that a group of wealthy industrialists had plotted a military coup to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "

http://lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

" War is a Racket
Foreword

Excerpt from a speech delivered in 1933 by General Smedley Butler, USMC

War is just a racket. There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.

It may seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison. Truthfulness compels me to. I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers.

I suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like all the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own until I left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation while I obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the military service.

I helped make Mexico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.

During those years, I had, as the boys in the back room would say, a swell racket. Looking back on it, I feel that I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

CHAPTER ONE: War Is A Racket

War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows. [Please note these are 1935 U.S. dollars. To adjust for inflation, multiply all figures X 10 or more]

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few – the selfsame few who wrung dollars out of blood in the war. The general public shoulders the bill. And what is this bill?

This bill renders a horrible accounting. Newly placed gravestones. Mangled bodies. Shattered minds. Broken hearts and homes. Economic instability. Depression and all its attendant miseries. Back-breaking taxation for generations and generations.

For a great many years, as a soldier, I had a suspicion that war was a racket; not until I retired to civil life did I fully realize it. Now that I see the international war clouds gathering, as they are today, I must face it and speak out.

Again they are choosing sides. France and Russia met and agreed to stand side by side. Italy and Austria hurried to make a similar agreement. Poland and Germany cast sheep's eyes at each other. All of them are looking ahead to war. Not the people – not those who fight and pay and die – only those who foment wars and remain safely at home to profit.

There are 40,000,000 men under arms in the world today, and our statesmen and diplomats have the temerity to say that war is not in the making. Hell's bells! Are these 40,000,000 men being trained to be dancers?

Not in Italy, to be sure. Premier Mussolini knows what they are being trained for. He, at least, is frank enough to speak out. The publication of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said: "And above all, Fascism… believes neither in the possibility nor the utility of perpetual peace…War alone brings up to its highest tension all human energy and puts the stamp of nobility upon the people who have the courage to meet it."

Undoubtedly Mussolini means exactly what he says. His well-trained army, his great fleet of planes, and even his navy are ready for war. His recent stand at the side of Hungary in the latter's dispute with Yugoslavia showed that. And the hurried mobilization of his troops on the Austrian border after the assassination of Dollfuss showed it too. There are others in Europe too whose sabre rattling presages war, sooner or later.

Herr Hitler, with his rearming Germany and his constant demands for more and more arms, is an equal if not greater menace to peace.

Yes, all over, nations are camping in their arms. The mad dogs of Europe are on the loose. The trend is to poison us against the Japanese. What does the "open door" policy to China mean to us? Our trade with China is about $90,000,000 a year. Or the Philippine Islands? We have spent about $600,000,000 in the Philippines in thirty-five years and we (our bankers and industrialists and speculators) have private investments there of less than $200,000,000.
Then, to save that China trade of about $90,000,000, or to protect these private investments of less than $200,000,000 in the Philippines, we would be all stirred up to hate Japan and go to war – a war that might well cost us tens of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of lives of Americans, and many more hundreds of thousands of physically maimed and mentally unbalanced men.

Of course, for this loss, there would be a compensating profit – fortunes would be made. Millions and billions of dollars would be piled up. By a few. Munitions makers. Bankers. Ship builders. Manufacturers. Meat packers. Speculators. They would fare well. Yes, they are getting ready for another war. Why shouldn't they? It pays high dividends.

But what does it profit the men who are killed? What does it profit their mothers and sisters, their wives and their sweethearts? What does it profit their children? What does it profit anyone except the very few to whom war means huge profits? Yes, and what does it profit the nation?
Take our own case.

Until 1898 we didn't own a bit of territory outside the mainland of North America. At that time our national debt was a little more than $1,000,000,000. Then we became "internationally minded." We forgot, or shunted aside, George Washington's warning about "entangling alliances." We went to war. We acquired outside territory. At the end of the World War period, as a direct result of our fiddling in international affairs, our national debt had jumped to over $25,000,000,000.

It would have been far cheaper (not to say safer) for the average American who pays the bills to stay out of foreign entanglements. For a very few this racket, like bootlegging and other underworld rackets, brings fancy profits, but the cost of operations is always transferred to the people – who do not profit.

CHAPTER TWO: Who Makes The Profits?

The World War cost the United States some $52,000,000,000. Figure it out. That means $400 [over $4,000 in today's dollars] to every American man, woman, and child. And we haven't paid the debt yet. We are paying it, our children will pay it, and our children's children probably still will be paying the cost of that war.

The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are 6, 8, 10, and sometimes 12%. But war-time profits – ah! that is another matter – 20, 60, 100, 300, and even 1,800% – the sky is the limit. All that traffic will bear. Uncle Sam has the money. Let's get it. Of course, it isn't put that crudely in war time. It is dressed into speeches about patriotism, love of country, and "we must all put our shoulders to the wheel," but the profits jump and leap and skyrocket – and are safely pocketed. Let's just take a few examples.

Take our friends the du Ponts, the powder people – didn't one of them testify before a Senate committee recently that their powder won the war? Or saved the world for democracy? How did they do in the war? Well, the average earnings of the du Ponts for the period 1910 to 1914 were $6,000,000 a year. It wasn't much, but the du Ponts managed to get along on it. Now let's look at their average yearly profit during the war years, 1914 to 1918. Fifty-eight million dollars a year profit we find! Nearly ten times that of normal times, and the profits of normal times were pretty good. An increase in profits of more than 950 per cent.

Take one of our little steel companies that patriotically shunted aside the making of rails and girders and bridges to manufacture war materials. Well, their 1910 - 1914 yearly earnings averaged $6,000,000. Then came the war. And, like loyal citizens, Bethlehem Steel promptly turned to munitions making. Did their profits jump – or did they let Uncle Sam in for a bargain? Well, their 1914 - 1918 average was $49,000,000 a year!

Or, let's take United States Steel. The normal earnings during the five-year period prior to the war were $105,000,000 a year. Not bad. Then along came the war and up went the profits. The average yearly profit for the period 1914 - 1918 was $240,000,000. Not bad. There you have some of the steel and powder earnings. Let's look at something else.

A little copper, perhaps. That always does well in war times. Anaconda, for instance. Average yearly earnings during the pre-war years 1910 - 1914 of $10,000,000. During the war years 1914 - 1918 profits leaped to $34,000,000 per year. Or Utah Copper. Average of $5,000,000 per year during the 1910 - 1914 period. Jumped to an average of $21,000,000 yearly profits for the war period.

Let's group these five, with three smaller companies. The total yearly average profits of the pre-war period 1910 - 1914 were $137,480,000. Then along came the war. The average yearly profits for this group skyrocketed to $408,300,000. A little increase in profits of approximately 200 per cent. Does war pay? It paid them.

But they aren't the only ones. There are still others. Let's take leather. For the three-year period before the war the total profits of Central Leather Company were $3,500,000. That was approximately $1,167,000 a year. Well, in 1916 Central Leather returned a profit of $15,000,000, a small increase of 1,100 per cent. That's all. The General Chemical Company averaged a profit for the three years before the war of a little over $800,000 a year. Came the war, and the profits jumped to $12,000,000 – a leap of 1,400 per cent.

International Nickel Company – and you can't have a war without nickel – showed an increase in profits from a mere average of $4,000,000 a year to $73,000,000 yearly. Not bad? An increase of more than 1,700 per cent. American Sugar Refining Company averaged $2,000,000 a year for the three years before the war. In 1916 a profit of $6,000,000 was recorded.

Listen to Senate Document No. 259. The Sixty-Fifth Congress, reporting on corporate earnings and government revenues. Considering the profits of 122 meat packers, 153 cotton manufacturers, 299 garment makers, 49 steel plants, and 340 coal producers during the war. Profits under 25 per cent were exceptional. For instance the coal companies made between 100 per cent and 7,856 per cent on their capital stock during the war. The Chicago packers doubled and tripled their earnings.

And let us not forget the bankers who financed the great war. If anyone had the cream of the profits it was the bankers. Being partnerships rather than incorporated organizations, they do not have to report to stockholders. And their profits were as secret as they were immense. How the bankers made their millions and their billions I do not know, because those little secrets never become public – even before a Senate investigatory body.

Here's how other patriotic industrialists and speculators chiseled their way into war profits.
Take the shoe people. They like war. It brings business with abnormal profits. They made huge profits on sales abroad to our allies. Perhaps, like the munitions manufacturers and armament makers, they also sold to the enemy. For a dollar is a dollar whether it comes from Germany or from France. But they did well by Uncle Sam too. For instance, they sold Uncle Sam 35,000,000 pairs of hobnailed service shoes. There were 4,000,000 soldiers. Eight pairs, and more, to a soldier. My regiment during the war had only one pair to a soldier. Some of these shoes probably are still in existence. They were good shoes. But when the war was over Uncle Sam has a matter of 25,000,000 pairs left over. Bought – and paid for. Profits recorded and pocketed.

There was still lots of leather left. So the leather people sold your Uncle Sam hundreds of thousands of McClellan saddles for the cavalry. But there wasn't any American cavalry overseas! Somebody had to get rid of this leather, however. Somebody had to make a profit in it – so we had a lot of McClellan saddles. And we probably have those yet.

Also somebody had a lot of mosquito netting. They sold your Uncle Sam 20,000,000 mosquito nets for the use of the soldiers overseas. I suppose the boys were expected to put it over them as they tried to sleep in muddy trenches – one hand scratching cooties on their backs and the other making passes at scurrying rats. Well, not one of these mosquito nets ever got to France!

Anyhow, these thoughtful manufacturers wanted to make sure that no soldier would be without his mosquito net, so 40,000,000 additional yards of mosquito netting were sold to Uncle Sam. There were pretty good profits in mosquito netting in those days, even if there were no mosquitoes in France. I suppose, if the war had lasted just a little longer, the enterprising mosquito netting manufacturers would have sold your Uncle Sam a couple of consignments of mosquitoes to plant in France so that more mosquito netting would be in order.

Airplane and engine manufacturers felt they, too, should get their just profits out of this war. Why not? Everybody else was getting theirs. So $1,000,000,000 – count them if you live long enough – was spent by Uncle Sam in building airplane engines that never left the ground! Not one plane, or motor, out of the billion dollars worth ordered, ever got into a battle in France. Just the same the manufacturers made their little profit of 30, 100, or perhaps 300 per cent.
Undershirts for soldiers cost 14¢ [cents] to make and uncle Sam paid 30¢ to 40¢ each for them – a nice little profit for the undershirt manufacturer.

And the stocking manufacturer and the uniform manufacturers and the cap manufacturers and the steel helmet manufacturers – all got theirs. When the war was over some 4,000,000 sets of equipment – knapsacks and the things that go to fill them – crammed warehouses on this side. Now they are being scrapped because the regulations have changed the contents. But the manufacturers collected their wartime profits on them – and they will do it all over again the next time.

There were lots of brilliant ideas for profit making during the war.

One very versatile patriot sold Uncle Sam twelve dozen 48-inch wrenches. Oh, they were very nice wrenches. The only trouble was that there was only one nut ever made that was large enough for these wrenches. That is the one that holds the turbines at Niagara Falls. Well, after Uncle Sam had bought them and the manufacturer had pocketed the profit, the wrenches were put on freight cars and shunted all around the United States in an effort to find a use for them. When the Armistice was signed it was indeed a sad blow to the wrench manufacturer. He was just about to make some nuts to fit the wrenches. Then he planned to sell these, too, to your Uncle Sam.

The shipbuilders felt they should come in on some of it, too. They built a lot of ships that made a lot of profit. More than $3,000,000,000 worth. Some of the ships were all right. But $635,000,000 worth of them were made of wood and wouldn't float! The seams opened up – and they sank. We paid for them, though. And somebody pocketed the profits.
It has been estimated by statisticians and economists and researchers that the war cost your Uncle Sam $52,000,000,000. Of this sum, $39,000,000,000 was expended in the actual war itself. This expenditure yielded $16,000,000,000 in profits. That is how the 21,000 billionaires and millionaires got that way. This $16,000,000,000 profits is not to be sneezed at. It is quite a tidy sum. And it went to a very few.

The Senate committee probe of the munitions industry and its wartime profits, despite its sensational disclosures, hardly has scratched the surface. Even so, it has had some effect. The State Department has been studying "for some time" methods of keeping out of war. The War Department suddenly decides it has a wonderful plan to spring. The Administration names a committee – with the War and Navy Departments ably represented under the chairmanship of a Wall Street speculator – to limit profits in war time. To what extent isn't suggested. Hmmm. Possibly the profits of 300 and 600 and 1,600 per cent of those who turned blood into gold in the World War would be limited to some smaller figure.

Apparently, however, the plan does not call for any limitation of losses – that is, the losses of those who fight the war. As far as I have been able to ascertain there is nothing in the scheme to limit a soldier to the loss of but one eye, or one arm, or to limit his wounds to one or two or three. Or to limit the loss of life.

There is nothing in this scheme, apparently, that says not more than 12 per cent of a regiment shall be wounded in battle, or that not more than 7 per cent in a division shall be killed. Of course, the committee cannot be bothered with such trifling matters.

CHAPTER THREE: Who Pays The Bills?

Who provides the profits – these nice little profits of 20, 100, 300, 1,500 and 1,800 per cent? We all pay them – in taxation. We paid the bankers their profits when we bought Liberty Bonds at $100.00 and sold them back at $84 or $86 to the bankers. These bankers collected $100 plus. It was a simple manipulation. The bankers control the security marts. It was easy for them to depress the price of these bonds. Then all of us – the people – got frightened and sold the bonds at $84 or $86. The bankers bought them. Then these same bankers stimulated a boom and government bonds went to par – and above. Then the bankers collected their profits.
But the soldier pays the biggest part of the bill.

If you don't believe this, visit the American cemeteries on the battlefields abroad. Or visit any of the veteran's hospitals in the United States. On a tour of the country, in the midst of which I am at the time of this writing, I have visited eighteen government hospitals for veterans. In them are a total of about 50,000 destroyed men – men who were the pick of the nation eighteen years ago. The very able chief surgeon at the government hospital; at Milwaukee, where there are 3,800 of the living dead, told me that mortality among veterans is three times as great as among those who stayed at home.

Boys with a normal viewpoint were taken out of the fields and offices and factories and classrooms and put into the ranks. There they were remolded; they were made over; they were made to "about face"; to regard murder as the order of the day. They were put shoulder to shoulder and, through mass psychology, they were entirely changed. We used them for a couple of years and trained them to think nothing at all of killing or of being killed.

Then, suddenly, we discharged them and told them to make another "about face"! This time they had to do their own readjustment, sans [without] mass psychology, sans officers' aid and advice and sans nation-wide propaganda. We didn't need them any more. So we scattered them about without any "three-minute" or "Liberty Loan" speeches or parades. Many, too many, of these fine young boys are eventually destroyed, mentally, because they could not make that final "about face" alone.

In the government hospital in Marion, Indiana, 1,800 of these boys are in pens! Five hundred of them in a barracks with steel bars and wires all around outside the buildings and on the porches. These already have been mentally destroyed. These boys don't even look like human beings. Oh, the looks on their faces! Physically, they are in good shape; mentally, they are gone.
There are thousands and thousands of these cases, and more and more are coming in all the time. The tremendous excitement of the war, the sudden cutting off of that excitement – the young boys couldn't stand it.

That's a part of the bill. So much for the dead – they have paid their part of the war profits. So much for the mentally and physically wounded – they are paying now their share of the war profits. But the others paid, too – they paid with heartbreaks when they tore themselves away from their firesides and their families to don the uniform of Uncle Sam – on which a profit had been made. They paid another part in the training camps where they were regimented and drilled while others took their jobs and their places in the lives of their communities. The paid for it in the trenches where they shot and were shot; where they were hungry for days at a time; where they slept in the mud and the cold and in the rain – with the moans and shrieks of the dying for a horrible lullaby.

But don't forget – the soldier paid part of the dollars and cents bill too. Up to and including the Spanish-American War, we had a prize system, and soldiers and sailors fought for money. During the Civil War they were paid bonuses, in many instances, before they went into service. The government, or states, paid as high as $1,200 for an enlistment. In the Spanish-American War they gave prize money. When we captured any vessels, the soldiers all got their share – at least, they were supposed to. Then it was found that we could reduce the cost of wars by taking all the prize money and keeping it, but conscripting [drafting] the soldier anyway. Then soldiers couldn't bargain for their labor, Everyone else could bargain, but the soldier couldn't.

Napoleon once said, "All men are enamored of decorations...They positively hunger for them." So by developing the Napoleonic system – the medal business – the government learned it could get soldiers for less money, because the boys liked to be decorated. Until the Civil War there were no medals. Then the Congressional Medal of Honor was handed out. It made enlistments easier. After the Civil War no new medals were issued until the Spanish-American War.

In the World War, we used propaganda to make the boys accept conscription. They were made to feel ashamed if they didn't join the army. So vicious was this war propaganda that even God was brought into it. With few exceptions our clergymen joined in the clamor to kill, kill, kill. To kill the Germans. God is on our side...It is His will that the Germans be killed. And in Germany, the good pastors called upon the Germans to kill the allies...to please the same God. That was a part of the general propaganda, built up to make people war conscious and murder conscious.

Beautiful ideals were painted for our boys who were sent out to die. This was the "war to end all wars." This was the "war to make the world safe for democracy." No one mentioned to them, as they marched away, that their going and their dying would mean huge war profits. No one told these American soldiers that they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with United States patents. They were just told it was to be a "glorious adventure."

Thus, having stuffed patriotism down their throats, it was decided to make them help pay for the war, too. So, we gave them the large salary of $30 a month. All they had to do for this munificent sum was to leave their dear ones behind, give up their jobs, lie in swampy trenches, eat canned willy (when they could get it) and kill and kill and kill...and be killed.

But wait! Half of that wage (just a little more than a riveter in a shipyard or a laborer in a munitions factory safe at home made in a day) was promptly taken from him to support his dependents, so that they would not become a charge upon his community. Then we made him pay what amounted to accident insurance – something the employer pays for in an enlightened state – and that cost him $6 a month. He had less than $9 a month left.

Then, the most crowning insolence of all – he was virtually blackjacked into paying for his own ammunition, clothing, and food by being made to buy Liberty Bonds. Most soldiers got no money at all on pay days. We made them buy Liberty Bonds at $100 and then we bought them back – when they came back from the war and couldn't find work – at $84 and $86. And the soldiers bought about $2,000,000,000 worth of these bonds!

Yes, the soldier pays the greater part of the bill. His family pays too. They pay it in the same heart-break that he does. As he suffers, they suffer. At nights, as he lay in the trenches and watched shrapnel burst about him, they lay home in their beds and tossed sleeplessly – his father, his mother, his wife, his sisters, his brothers, his sons, and his daughters.

When he returned home minus an eye, or minus a leg or with his mind broken, they suffered too – as much as and even sometimes more than he. Yes, and they, too, contributed their dollars to the profits of the munitions makers and bankers and shipbuilders and the manufacturers and the speculators made. They, too, bought Liberty Bonds and contributed to the profit of the bankers after the Armistice in the hocus-pocus of manipulated Liberty Bond prices.
And even now the families of the wounded men and of the mentally broken and those who never were able to readjust themselves are still suffering and still paying.

CHAPTER FOUR: How To Smash This Racket!

Well, it's a racket, all right. A few profit – and the many pay. But there is a way to stop it. You can't end it by disarmament conferences. You can't eliminate it by peace parleys at Geneva. Well-meaning but impractical groups can't wipe it out by resolutions. It can be smashed effectively only by taking the profit out of war.

The only way to smash this racket is to conscript capital and industry and labor before the nations manhood can be conscripted. One month before the Government can conscript the young men of the nation – it must conscript capital and industry and labor. Let the officers and the directors and the high-powered executives of our armament factories and our munitions makers and our shipbuilders and our airplane builders and the manufacturers of all the other things that provide profit in war time as well as the bankers and the speculators, be conscripted – to get $30 a month, the same wage as the lads in the trenches get.

Let the workers in these plants get the same wages – all the workers, all presidents, all executives, all directors, all managers, all bankers – yes, and all generals and all admirals and all officers and all politicians and all government office holders – everyone in the nation be restricted to a total monthly income not to exceed that paid to the soldier in the trenches!

Let all these kings and tycoons and masters of business and all those workers in industry and all our senators and governors and majors pay half of their monthly $30 wage to their families and pay war risk insurance and buy Liberty Bonds. Why shouldn't they? They aren't running any risk of being killed or of having their bodies mangled or their minds shattered. They aren't sleeping in muddy trenches. They aren't hungry. The soldiers are! Give capital and industry and labor thirty days to think it over and you will find, by that time, there will be no war. That will smash the war racket – that and nothing else.

Maybe I am a little too optimistic. Capital still has some say. So capital won't permit the taking of the profit out of war until the people – those who do the suffering and still pay the price – make up their minds that those they elect to office shall do their bidding, and not that of the profiteers.

Another step necessary in this fight to smash the war racket is the limited plebiscite to determine whether a war should be declared. A plebiscite not of all the voters but merely of those who would be called upon to do the fighting and dying. There wouldn't be very much sense in having a 76-year-old president of a munitions factory or the flat-footed head of an international banking firm or the cross-eyed manager of a uniform manufacturing plant – all of whom see visions of tremendous profits in the event of war – voting on whether the nation should go to war or not. They never would be called upon to shoulder arms – to sleep in a trench and to be shot. Only those who would be called upon to risk their lives for their country should have the privilege of voting to determine whether the nation should go to war.

It would be a simple matter each year for the men coming of military age to register in their communities as they did in the draft during the World War and be examined physically. Those who could pass and who would therefore be called upon to bear arms in the event of war would be eligible to vote in a limited plebiscite. They should be the ones to have the power to decide – and not a Congress few of whose members are within the age limit and fewer still of whom are in physical condition to bear arms. Only those who must suffer should have the right to vote.

A third step in this business of smashing the war racket is to make certain that our military forces are truly forces for defense only.

At each session of Congress the question of further naval appropriations comes up. The swivel-chair admirals of Washington (and there are always a lot of them) are very adroit lobbyists. And they are smart. They don't shout that "We need a lot of battleships to war on this nation or that nation." Oh no. First of all, they let it be known that America is menaced by a great naval power. Almost any day, these admirals will tell you, the great fleet of this supposed enemy will strike suddenly and annihilate 125,000,000 people. Just like that. Then they begin to cry for a larger navy. For what? To fight the enemy? Oh my, no. Oh, no. For defense purposes only.

Then, incidentally, they announce maneuvers in the Pacific. For defense. Uh, huh. The Pacific is a great big ocean. We have a tremendous coastline on the Pacific. Will the maneuvers be off the coast, two or three hundred miles? Oh, no. The maneuvers will be two thousand, yes, perhaps even thirty-five hundred miles, off the coast. The Japanese, a proud people, of course will be pleased beyond expression to see the United States fleet so close to Nippon's shores. Even as pleased as would be the residents of California were they to dimly discern through the morning mist, the Japanese fleet playing at war games off Los Angeles.

The ships of our navy, it can be seen, should be specifically limited, by law, to within 200 miles of our coastline. Had that been the law in 1898 the Maine would never have gone to Havana Harbor. She never would have been blown up. There would have been no war with Spain with its attendant loss of life. Two hundred miles is ample, in the opinion of experts, for defense purposes. Our nation cannot start an offensive war if its ships can't go further than 200 miles from the coastline. Planes might be permitted to go as far as 500 miles from the coast for purposes of reconnaissance. And the army should never leave the territorial limits of our nation.
To summarize: Three steps must be taken to smash the war racket: 1.) We must take the profit out of war; 2.) We must permit the youth of the land who would bear arms to decide whether or not there should be war; 3.) We must limit our military forces to home defense purposes.

CHAPTER FIVE : To Hell With War!

I am not a fool as to believe that war is a thing of the past. I know the people do not want war, but there is no use in saying we cannot be pushed into another war. Looking back, Woodrow Wilson was re-elected president in 1916 on a platform that he had "kept us out of war" and on the implied promise that he would "keep us out of war." Yet, five months later he asked Congress to declare war on Germany.

In that five-month interval the people had not been asked whether they had changed their minds. The 4,000,000 young men who put on uniforms and marched or sailed away were not asked whether they wanted to go forth to suffer and die. Then what caused our government to change its mind so suddenly?

Money.

An allied commission, it may be recalled, came over shortly before the war declaration and called on the President. The President summoned a group of advisers. The head of the commission spoke. Stripped of its diplomatic language, this is what he told the President and his group:

"There is no use kidding ourselves any longer. The cause of the allies is lost. We now owe you (American bankers, American munitions makers, American manufacturers, American speculators, American exporters) five or six billion dollars. If we lose (and without the help of the United States we must lose) we, England, France and Italy, cannot pay back this money...and Germany won't. So....."

Had secrecy been outlawed as far as war negotiations were concerned, and had the press been invited to be present at that conference, or had radio been available to broadcast the proceedings, America never would have entered the World War. But this conference, like all war discussions, was shrouded in utmost secrecy. When our boys were sent off to war they were told it was a "war to make the world safe for democracy" and a "war to end all wars."

Well, eighteen years after, the world has less of democracy than it had then. Besides, what business is it of ours whether Russia or Germany or England or France or Italy or Austria live under democracies or monarchies? Whether they are Fascists or Communists? Our problem is to preserve our own democracy. And very little, if anything, has been accomplished to assure us that the World War was really the war to end all wars.

Yes, we have had disarmament conferences and limitations of arms conferences. They don't mean a thing. One has just failed; the results of another have been nullified. We send our professional soldiers and our sailors and our politicians and our diplomats to these conferences. And what happens?

The professional soldiers and sailors don't want to disarm. No admiral wants to be without a ship. No general wants to be without a command. Both mean men without jobs. They are not for disarmament. They cannot be for limitations of arms. And at all these conferences, lurking in the background but all-powerful, just the same, are the sinister agents of those who profit by war.

They see to it that these conferences do not disarm or seriously limit armaments. The chief aim of any power at any of these conferences has not been to achieve disarmament to prevent war but rather to get more armament for itself and less for any potential foe.

There is only one way to disarm with any semblance of practicability. That is for all nations to get together and scrap every ship, every gun, every rifle, every tank, every war plane.
So...I say, TO HELL WITH WAR! "

(Emphasis added - B.M.)

2007-11-22T12:47:00.000-08:00

CONSUMERISM, APATHY, AND BLIND OBEDIENCE ARE MAJOR PROPS OF BIG BUSINESS RULE (PLUTOCRACY) ; CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE AND ECONOMIC BOYCOTTS ARE EFFECTIVE MEANS OF ASSERTING PEOPLE'S POWER AND DEMOCRACY
by Benjamin Merhav

The following message has been produced and circulated by Peter L. Thottam, Esq. (JD MBA) Executive Director Los Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC), USA. It sure deserves the close attention of people everywhere !

Boycott Update (peterthottam@gmail.com) :

The National Boycott campaign is working... Facing the usual post-Thanksgiving Christmas crush of consumerism this Friday with increasing dread? Sick of the "I am what I own" mentality? Cheap plastic crap ( i.e. repackaged petroleum waste products) from China got you down? Consider stopping shopping for the next 2 months and handing a few of these out at the local mall . . . . see http://adbusters.org/metas/eco/bnd/ for details and bigger posters . . . Bush said to "Go Shopping" after 9/11. Just Do It? No, Just Don't Do It. . . Stop Shopping.

Please feel free to forward this email and to help spread the word.

Buy Nothing Day / National Impeachment & End the War Boycott Buy Nothing Day demonstration, San Francisco, November 2006 Buy Nothing Day & The Stop Shopping Campaign, are informal periods of protest against consumerism observed by social activists. In 2007, Buy Nothing Day falls on November 23rd in North America and November 24th internationally. [1] It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by -- among many other groups -- the Canadian Adbusters magazine and the Los Angeles National Impeachment Center.

The first Buy Nothing Day was first originated and organized in Vancouver in September of 1992 "as a day for society to examine the issue of over-consumption." [2] In 1997, it was moved to the Friday after American Thanksgiving, which is the top busiest shopping day of the year in the United States. Outside of North America, Buy Nothing Day is celebrated on the following Saturday. Despite controversies, Adbusters managed to advertise Buy Nothing Day on CNN , but many other major television networks declined to air their ads.[3]

Soon, campaigns started appearing in United States, the United Kingdom, Israel, Germany, New Zealand, Japan, the Netherlands, and Norway. Participation has grown rapidly in recent years and now includes more than 65 nations. [4]

Adbusters states that it "isn't just about changing your habits for one day" but "about starting a lasting lifestyle commitment to consuming less and producing less waste.

"References"Buy Nothing Day" Adbusters.org Buy Nothing Day 2006 press release "Buy Nothing Day "The Guardian.co.uk "Buy Nothing Day 2006 press release" Buy Nothing Day 2006 press release

-- Peter L. Thottam, Esq. (JD MBA) Executive DirectorLos Angeles National Impeachment Center (LANIC)Mobile: (310) 497-7255

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2007-11-19T12:01:00.000-08:00

POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOW, BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE !
by Benjamin Merhav

The following article is sure timely, except for a couple of mistaken conclusions. The first is in the first sentence, namely, that "Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid" etc. It is not humanity that's committing suicide ! It is the rule of big business which is perpetrating the ultimate crimes against humanity, as big business continue to pursue ever bigger profits and ever more power over the entire planet !

The political system must change first, so that the people themselves - the vast majority of humanity ! - will run their own lives. Which brings us to the second mistake in the article, namely, that "There is hope of breaking the logjam" if only the leaders of the USA and China would change. No, the change will come only by changing the the system, a change from a plutocracy to a genuine democracy, participatory democracy. New presidents in the USA and in China or elsewhere won't make any difference, because the transnational corporations would remain behind the political scene as the top rulers. Our planet cannot continue and sustain life under the rule of big business !

POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOW !

"A World Dying, But Can We Unite To Save It?
By Geoffrey Lean
19 November, 2007
The Independent

Humanity is rapidly turning the seas acid through the same pollution that causes global warming, the world’s governments and top scientists agreed yesterday.

The process — thought to be the most profound change in the chemistry of the oceans for 20 million years — is expected both to disrupt the entire web of life of the oceans and to make climate change worse.

The warning is just one of a whole series of alarming conclusions in a new report published by the official Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which last month shared the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore.

Drawn up by more than 2,500 of the world’s top scientists and their governments, and agreed last week by representatives of all its national governments, the report also predicts that nearly a third of the world’s species could be driven to extinction as the world warms up, and that harvests will be cut dramatically across the world.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who attended the launch of the report in this ancient Spanish city, told The Independent on Sunday that he found the “quickening pace” of global warming “very frightening”.

And, with unusual outspokenness for a UN leader, he said he “looked forward” to both the United States and China — the world’s two biggest polluters — “playing a more constructive role” in vital new negotiations on tackling climate change that open in Indonesia next month.
The new IPCC report, which is designed to give impetus to the negotiations, highlights the little-known acidification of the oceans, first reported in this newspaper more than three years ago. It concludes that emissions of carbon dioxide — the main cause of global warming — have already increased the acidity of ocean surface water by 30 per cent, and threaten to treble it by the end of the century.

Achim Steiner, the executive director of the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), said yesterday: “The report has put a spotlight on a threat to the marine environment that the world has hardly yet realized. The threat is immense as it can fundamentally alter the life of the seas, reducing the productivity of the oceans, while reinforcing global warming.”

Scientists have found that the seas have already absorbed about half of all the carbon dioxide emitted by humanity since the start of the industrial revolution, a staggering 500 billion tons of it. This has so far helped slow global warming — which would have accelerated even faster if all this pollution had stayed in the atmosphere, already causing catastrophe — but at an increasingly severe cost.

The gas dissolves in the oceans to make dilute carbonic acid, which is increasingly souring the naturally alkali seawater. This, in turn, mops up calcium carbonate, a substance normally plentiful in the seas, which corals use to build their reefs, and marine creatures use to make the protective shells they need to survive. These include many of the plankton that form the base of the food chain on which all fish and other marine animals depend.

As the waters are growing more acid this process is decreasing, with incalculable consequences for the life of the seas, and for the fisheries on which a billion of the world’s people depend for protein. Every single species that uses calcium in this way, that has so far been studied, has been found to be affected. And the seas are most acid near the surface, where most of their life is concentrated.

A report by the Royal Society, Britain’s premier scientific body, concludes that, as a result, of the pollution, the world’s oceans are probably now more acidic that they have ever been in “hundreds of millennia”, and that even if emissions stopped now, the waters would take “tens of thousands of years to return to normal”.

Professor Ulf Reibesell of the Leibnitz Institute of Marine Sciences in Kiel, Germany’s leading expert on the process, concludes in an issue of UNEP’s magazine Our Planet, to be published next month, that, if it continues to the levels predicted by yesterday’s report for the end of the century, the seas will reach a condition unprecedented in the last 20 million years.

He recalls how something similar happened when a comet hit Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago, blasting massive amounts of calcium sulphate into the atmosphere to form sulphuric acid, which in turn caused the extinction of corals and virtually all shell-building species.

“Two million years went by before corals reappeared in the fossil record,” he says, adding that it took “a further 20 million years” before the diversity of species that use calcium returned to its former levels.

Scientists add that, as the seas become more acidic, they will be less able to absorb carbon dioxide, causing more of it to stay in the atmosphere to speed up global warming. Research is already uncovering some signs that the oceans’ ability to mop up the gas is diminishing. Environmentalists point out that the increasing acidification of the oceans would in itself provide ample reason to curb emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels and felling forests even if the dwindling band of skeptics were right and the gas was not warming up the planet.

But yesterday’s cautiously worded report, which was agreed by the US government, also provides ample evidence that climate change is well under way, and is accelerating. It concludes that the warming is now “unequivocal” and “evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level”.

It adds: “Eleven of the last 12 years rank among the 12 warmest years in the instrumental record of global surface temperature”. It goes on: “Observational evidence from all continents and most oceans shows that many natural systems are being affected by regional climate changes, particularly temperature increases.”

If humanity were not affecting the climate, it concludes, declines in the sun’s activity and increased eruptions from volcanoes - which throw huge amounts of dust in the air that screen out sunlight - would have been likely to “have produced cooling” of the planet.
But emissions of all the “greenhouse gas” pollutants that cause global warming increased 70 per cent between 1970 and 2004 alone, it reports, adding that levels of carbon dioxide, the most important one, in the atmosphere now “exceed by far” anything that the Earth has experienced in the past 650,000 years. And it goes on to conclude that “continued greenhouse gas emissions at or above current rates would cause further warming and induce many changes in the global climate system during the 21st century.”

It makes a host of specific predictions for every continent and warns that “impacts” could be “abrupt” or “irreversible”. One example of an irreversible impact is an expected extinction of between 20 and 30 per cent of all the world’s species of animals and plants even at relatively moderate levels of warming. If the climate heats further, it adds, extinctions could rise to 40 to 70 per cent of species.

The IPCC scientists and governments say that they are also more concerned about “increases in droughts, heatwaves and floods” as the climate warms. They believe that the damage to the world’s economy would be even greater than they had previously predicted, and were even more certain that the poor and elderly in both rich and poor countries would suffer most.

Yet the report also concludes that, while some climate change is now inevitable, its worst effects could be avoided with straightforward measures at little cost if only governments would take action. It says that the job can be done by using “technologies that are either currently available or expected to be commercialized in coming decades”. It could be done at a cost of slowing global growth by only a tenth of a percentage point a year, and might even increase it.

The missing element, virtually everyone agrees, is political will from governments. Next month they meet in Bali to start negotiations on a new treaty to replace the current provisions of the Kyoto Protocol, which run out in 2012.

The timetable is desperately tight; time lags in the process of getting a new treaty ratified by the world’s governments means that it will have to be agreed by the end of 2009 — and there is no sign of anything on the horizon.

Yet the treaty will have to go far beyond the protocol in order to put the whole world on track rapidly to reduce emissions if the world is to achieve the pollution cuts that the scientists say will be needed to avoid catastrophe. And it will have to ensure rapid action. Dr Rajendra Pachauri, the IPCC’s chairman, yesterday repeated a consensus among experts that the world as a whole will have to start radical reductions within eight years if there is to be any hope of preventing dangerous climate change.

Stephanie Tunmore of Greenpeace International said: “It is clear from this report that we are gambling with the future of the planet — and the stakes are high. This document sets out a compelling case for early action on climate change.”

The UN Secretary-General, agreed. The effects of climate change have become “so severe and so sweeping” he said “that only urgent, global action will do. There is no time to waste.”
Mr Steiner called the report “the most essential reading for every person on the planet who cares about the future”. He added: “The hard science has been distilled along with evidence of the social and economic consequences of global warming, but also the economic rationale and opportunities for action now. While the science will continue to evolve and be refined, we now have the compelling blueprint for action and, in many ways, the price tag for failure — from increasing acidification of the oceans to the likely extinction of economically important biodiversity.”

And Yvo de Boer, the executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change — the parent treaty to the Kyoto Protocol — told the IoS that reaching agreement was “incredibly urgent”.

He pointed out that the world would replace 40 per cent of its power generation capacity in the next five to 10 years and that China is already building one or two coal- fired power stations a week. Those installations would last for decades - and the nations that built them would be reluctant to demolish them any earlier - so that unless the world rapidly changed direction it would be all the more difficult to avoid climate change running out of control.

Sticking point: It is crucial to get the US and China on board.

Getting agreement on a new treaty to tackle climate change hangs on resolving an “after you, Claude” impasse between the United States and China, the two biggest emitters of carbon dioxide, the main cause of global warming.

China insists - with other key developing countries like India and South Africa — that the United States must move first to clean up. It points out that, because of the disparity in populations, every American is responsible for emitting much more of the gas than each Chinese. But the US refuses to join any new treaty unless China also accepts restrictions.

There is hope of breaking the logjam. Chinese leaders know their country would be severely affected by global warming, and have done more than is generally realized to tackle it, not least by rapidly expanding renewable energy. The US will have a new leader by the time negotiations are completed, and even President Bush is backtracking, at least rhetorically.

Yesterday UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said he was optimistic. “I look forward,” he said, with a hint of steel, “to seeing the United States and China playing a more constructive role in the coming negotiations.”

Arctic Greenland ice sheet will virtually completely disappear, raising sea levels by over 30 feet, submerging coastal cities, entire island nations and vast areas of low-lying countries like Bangladesh.

Latin America

The Amazon rainforest will become dry savannah as rising temperatures and falling water levels kill the trees, stoke forest fires and kill off wildlife .

North America

California and the grain-producing Midwest will dry out as snows in the Rockies decrease, depriving these areas of summer water.

Australia

The Great Barrier Reef will die. Species loss will occur by 2020 as corals fail to adapt to warmer waters. On land, drought will reduce harvests.

Europe

Winter sports suffer as less snow falls in the Alps and other mountains; up to three-fifths of wildlife dies out. Drought in Mediterranean area hits tourism.

Africa

Harvests could be cut by up to half in some countries by 2020, greatly increasing the threat of famine. Between 75 million and 250 million people are expected to be short of water within the next 30 years. "

(Emphasis added - B.M.)

2007-11-18T13:21:00.000-08:00

A Real Terrorist Is On The Loose: Humanity And Mother Earth Are in Danger
By Ali Baghdadi
17 November, 2007
Countercurrents.org

"I am greatly honored to be speaking to you. I must tell you from the start that I will not beat around the bushes. I am not here to entertain you or to please you. Truth sometimes hurts. You are adults. You can take it.

I am a Palestinian, an Arab and a Muslim. That means I belong to the people that the United States government has designated as enemy. I belong to the camp of the "bad guys", who are punished, murdered, tortured and even raped. But I am also an American. I belong to the camp of the "good guys", who are doing the murder, torture and rape, who are waging what President George W. Bush calls a crusade, against my people, the "terrorists". Israel is an integral member of this camp. As a matter of fact, the American Israeli Political Action Committee (AIPAC), a Zionist-Jewish lobby in Washington, is leading this camp.

My wife for forty three years is an American. My six children and eleven grandchildren know no other country on Earth except the United States of America. Two of my kids have served in the military, and were honorably discharged.

Let me put it this way. I do belong to the people who hate you. Ironically, I also belong to the people, who are hated, not only by Arabs and Muslims, but by almost the rest of the world, including Europeans. The United States is hated not only by Muslim masses, but also by Arab rulers who enjoy Washington's military and political support. Yes, America is hated by its "loyal friends", King Abdallah of Saudi Arabia, King Abdallah II of Jordan, President Mubarak of Egypt, and al-Maliki of Iraq, among many others. They hate, because the White House humiliates them, despises them and pushes them around. George W. Bush has given them one choice. Either you are with us, or with the "terrorists", their own people. They are unwilling to face the destiny of those who challenge the American empire. Unlike Saddam Hussein, they chose to be living cowards and traitors, instead of becoming great martyrs loved and honored by the Arab and Muslim people. The fact remains that, when their service is no longer needed, their master will trash them, will flush them into the sewage of history. America has no permanent friends, only interests. Today, anti-Americanism throughout the world is the norm, not the exception.

During a two day visit to my city of birth, Jerusalem, and as my family and I were attempting to enter the Holy Sepulcher, the holiest church in Christianity, Palestinians told me, point blank, straight to my face, that they hate me; that they hate all Americans; that I am one of them, an enemy to Arabs and Muslims. The fact that I have been defending Arab and Muslim causes, particularly the Palestinians, for forty seven years, made no difference. I do understand.
A day earlier, at the Jordan River entry point to my native lands, Palestine (Israel), I was treated by the Israeli authorities quite differently. Though none of us meet the profile of a Muslim "terrorist", my son and I have no beard, and my grandson is too young to have a beard; though my wife is blond, has a low profile and peaceful disposition; though my wife, daughter and granddaughter had no headscarf; and though we all carried U.S. passports; we waited for seven hours in front of the passport control window before we were allowed in. In the eyes of the Israeli authorities, we are all Palestinians, not Americans. We are all potential terrorists.

I don't blame the Palestinians, my fellow countrymen and women for hating me. President Jimmy Carter describes the Tel-Aviv government as the worst occupational regime. Nelson Mandela and Bishop Desmond Tutu speak of Israel as worse than the former apartheid government of South Africa. The present South African government agrees.
In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians are murdered daily. They are being starved to death. They all live in a prison. Their homes and agricultural lands are bulldozed. Their olive and citrus trees are uprooted. More than 550 Israeli military checkpoints are scattered all over the West Bank alone. A trip between two villages that normally takes fifteen minutes last for five to seven hours. Palestinian babies die at military checkpoints while their mothers are on their way to a hospital to deliver. Palestinians drinking water is stolen and diverted to Jewish swimming pools in illegal settlements built on their confiscated lands. Their economy is in shambles. The little of what they clench unto of their remaining land is actually a living hell. More than 60% of the work force is unemployed. Palestinian children are seen searching in Jewish garbage dumps for food to eat. Recently, Palestinian students who had come home to visit were not permitted to return to their universities abroad.

Three weeks ago, despite protest made by the United Nations, the world community and international human rights organizations, food, electricity and fuel to Gaza were cut in half, by Israeli government, as a mass punishment, because the Palestinians chose Hamas as their representative, in an election that was described by former President Carter, as free and democratic. President Bush, who told us that his invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq is prompted by his desire to spread democracy, labels the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement, Hamas, as a terrorist organization with which the United States will not deal. Even Israeli military disagrees with Bush's claim. According to a Nov 11, 2007 news report published by Haaretz, a leading Israeli newspaper, Israeli paratroopers testified that "in all parameters, we are facing an army, not gangs."

The Zionist controlled U.S. mass media allege that Israel is not morally or legally obliged to cater to needs of Palestinians who are blockaded, who are under occupation, and all their air, sea and land entry points are controlled by Israeli forces. Israel continues to disavow responsibility for the human catastrophe Palestinians are facing, in violation of international law.

No wonder that my family and I saw, by the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem, Palestinian crowds who were not allowed to pray at al-Aqsa and the Dome of the Rock mosques, shouting, pleading upon the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadi Nejad, to fire Iranian missiles towards their Israeli occupied city, out of no concern for their own lives. No wonder why, after experiencing the intolerable living conditions of Palestinians, my children and my grandchildren in my company, stood helplessly by, and expressed approval and support, despite the heavy presence of trigger happy Israeli soldiers. No wonder why, during the 1991 war of aggression ordered by Bush senior, against Iraq, West Bank Palestinians danced on the roofs of their homes and cheered Saddam?s missiles lighting the skies on their way to Tel-Aviv and Haifa. No wonder why, after they were forcefully driven out of over 550 towns and villages in 1948, and the remaining 22% of their lands occupied in 1967, did Palestinian youths, males and females, find no alternative but to explode themselves amongst Israeli soldiers. Palestinians have no army. They have no tanks, no jet fighters, no apache helicopters, and no weapons of mass destruction, but their enemy does and uses.

Iraq as a country has been completely destroyed. Its seven thousand year civilization has been shattered. Its infrastructure has been ruined. Its industrial machinery, 750 billion dollars worth, was disassembled and sold as scrap to neighboring countries. Its water, air and land have been poisoned. It resources are being robbed. Since Bush's "mission accomplished" declaration on aircraft carrier The Lincoln in the Gulf, 1.2 million men, women and children have been murdered, a death toll that rivals Rwanda genocide. This brings the total number of Iraqis losing their lives from a combination of the two wars led by Bush the father and the son, and including the 13 years of illegal sanctions imposed on the country, to 3.5 million. Iraqi widows number over 3 million. Iraqi orphans exceed 5 millions. 70% of Iraqi children suffer traumatic stress syndrome due to death and destruction they are exposed to daily. Though Iraqis are known to be proud, educated and hard working people, thousands of mothers and children are forced into prostitution to survive. According to the U.N., Iraqi refugees, including the internally displaced, reached 4.4 million, two millions in Syria alone.

A month ago, in an interview that appeared on 60-Minutes CBS TV, a U.S. field commander said that the military is authorized to bomb and kill civilians if a suspected Taliban fighter was in their midst, provided that the number of those civilians is less than thirty. If the number of unarmed civilians was higher, the approval of the U.S. Secretary of Defense or the President would become necessary. I am almost certain that those two men have never said no to the murder of Muslims and destruction of Muslim countries.

Even the Afghani leader, Hameed Karazai, a puppet and a traitor, stated on the same program that he had complained to the U.S. President and had asked him "to stop bombing us". Remember that Karazai is the White House man. Until he was handpicked by Bush and Cheney to become president of Afghanistan, the man was employed by Unical, an oil giant, here in the United States.

You must have heard a question that Americans often ask, "Why do they hate us?"
In a speech given to the Congress, George W. Bush answered, because they hate our freedoms. We are told that they hate us because we are rich. They envy us because we stand for democracy and freedom. They resent us because we are the most powerful nation. They are jealous of our achievements and accomplishments. They are loners like Timothy McVeigh. They are intolerant; and their religion is primitive, irrational and violent. Certainly, these statements are insults to the intelligence of the American people.

Americans, particularly the Christian Zionists, ignore the fact that Arab Christians share Muslim sentiments. They also hate America.

"Why do they hate us?" Americans should have known why. Americans have allowed the Israeli Jewish lobby to hijack U.S. government in the service of the Israeli policy of aggression and expansionism. No Republican or Democrat candidate can win without the blessings and approval of this lobby. We have been pouring billions of dollars into aid to insure Israel's military superiority over all Arab armies. We protect Israel in the United Nation, despite its refusal to implement U.N. resolutions, and its disrespect to international law. We have also allowed Israel to be the only state in the Middle East that possesses nuclear weapons aimed at all major Arab and Muslim cities. In addition, this illegal and genocidal war was waged on behalf the Zionist state, to prevent Iraq of becoming a threat and a challenge to its military power and dominance.

Israel invaded southern Lebanon in July of 2006. Israeli-U.S. F-15 and F-16 fighters dropped over 1.25 million American cluster bombs on the civilian population. Lebanese cities and villages were bombarded, day and night. The infrastructure, including highways, roads, and bridges south of Beirut, was destroyed. Food, water and fuel storages were hit. Apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, clinics and houses of worship were leveled to the ground. One million Lebanese refugees were compelled to flee, with little food or water. It took 33 days of killing and destruction by the Israeli army, which is described as the fourth most powerful army in the world, before the U.S. agreed to a U.N. resolution for a cease fire.

Notably, Americans who volunteered to go to Lebanon to help were there only to rescue the surviving animals.

Five weeks ago, many of the residents of southern California, who escaped the deadly fires that resulted in over a half million displaced individuals, left almost everything behind, but brought with their animals, their dogs, cats and even fish.

Love for animals is not confined to Americans. It is universal. I do love animals.
Again, I must tell you the truth. Americans show unusual love and mercy towards animals. Those who are cruel to animals are punished and jailed if convicted. But what is really disturbing is the fact that the great majority doesn't show similar love and mercy towards people, towards fellow men and women. Death and destruction has been an integral part of Western culture and Western history.

I am not a psychologist or a psychiatric. However, I do know that that is sick. It is also sickening. It makes me vomit.

Despite tight censorship, Americans saw the destruction of Baghdad, and images of the assault on the city of Falujah, which was nearly razed to the ground. They saw the devastation of the entire city. They saw Iraqi corpses blackened with Napalm and phosphorus bombs, which are outlawed. They heard cheers and laughs of U.S. soldiers as they bring down mosques and minarets. They saw the marines shooting unarmed, wounded and harmless civilians that had taken refuge in houses of worship. Though the number of active Iraqi resistance fighters is no more than 20,000, the U.S. army fired 1.5 billion small arms rounds in one year, more bullets than can be manufactured. The very little of what Americans have seen is enough to demand a Nuremberg-like trial for the President, the Vice President, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State and their advisors, as well as top generals in the Pentagon.

U.S. citizens have failed to do their part. They have been silent, and silence is complicity. They are not prepared to dedicate a fraction of the time wasted on stupid TV programs to learn a little about world affairs and the serious crimes against humanity that their government is actually committing.

Americans are generally indifferent and heartless. Americans see wars as action movies, computer games, exciting and entertaining. The 2,000 pounds bombs and ballistic missiles raining down on Baghdad were fireworks. Victims are numbers and their murder is collateral damage.

The question that puzzles me is, "How many more nations should be invaded and destroyed; how many more cities should be torched and devastated; how many more millions should be massacred; how many more widows and orphans should be left without a supporter; how many more Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons we are going to build; how many more innocents we are going to torture; how many more international laws and conventions our country will be violating, before the American conscience can be awakened and become functional?"

Our "State of the Union" is gloomy and disgraceful. It is true that there are honorable, caring and courageous American men and women, Christians, Jews, atheists and others, who strongly protest U.S. policy. It is true that there are Americans who challenge the benefiters of war. Unfortunately, they are in the tiny minority. They are seldom seen on major news networks.

In the meanwhile, Bush continues to allege that we "don't torture" and that "waterboarding" does not cause permanent damage. Republican and Democratic senators, who should experience this technique only for a minute or two, have just confirmed Mukasey as U.S. attorney general, another victory for (AIPAC), despite the fact that he refused to recognize "waterboarding" as torture. Mukasey, a Zionist Jew who, as a judge, sentenced an innocent blind Muslim scholar for life imprisonment for a crime that he never committed, is now the Secretary of the "U.S. Department of Injustice". Under the disguise of combating terrorism, efforts to marginalize Muslims and intimidate non-Muslims of an imaginary enemy, the Los Angeles Police Department has just announced a program to "map" Muslim communities. Muslims population in the greater Los Angeles is estimated to be a half of a million. According to recent polls, 53% of the Americans favor expanding the fraudulent ant-terrorism war to include Iran.

I didn't come here to solicit your support and arouse your sympathy for Arab and Muslim causes. Americans pass the buck. They cannot escape responsibility. They put their trust mostly in the hands of criminals, who do not take the legitimate interests of their country at heart and instead, cater to Israeli demands.

Arabs and Muslims will survive. Eventually they will liberate their lands, control their destiny, protect their resources and catch up in the field of science, and technology. All indications show that the Bush Empire is collapsing, and Israel, as an apartheid state, will finally disappear. The year 2007 has been the deadliest for U.S. troops in Iraq, and also Afghanistan.

Israel was forced to retreat from Lebanon. None of its objectives have been realized. Hezbollah is stronger now than ever. Military maneuvers held last week, have shown beyond a doubt the readiness and preparedness of the Lebanese resistance fighters to defend their country.

Though they are facing 160,000 U.S. troops and 180,000 U.S. mercenaries that are called contractors, Iraqi resistance has dragged the United States into a quagmire. Bush has been begging neighboring countries, including Iran, to give a hand. "Support the Troops" stickers, have been disappearing, not because Americans are largely against death and destruction. They want an end to this war because it is costly, and their money is going down the drain. The real cost is, according to the latest estimates, is 3.5 trillion dollars. Also Americans are not winning.
What is really tragic is that Americans are generally not concerned about the boys and girls that come home in boxes under the cover of darkness. They are not photographed. They are not seen. The overwhelming majority are Blacks, Latinos and poor Whites. According to official figures, which are too distorted, almost 4,000 of our American sons and daughters have died in vain, died for Israel and big business.

The injured and maimed are approximately 30,000. Those who suffer brain damage and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder are approximately 48,000. Soldiers who no longer serve in the front lines are neglected by the "Commander in Chief" of the U.S. Army. An estimated 200,000 veterans have been homeless at some point in the last year. Veterans waiting for their disability claims increased from 325,000 in 2002 to 600,000. Cooper, the head of the agency in charge of veterans' benefits, an Evangelist, appointed by Bush, proclaimed that Bible study is "more important than doing [my] job." Health care for Iraq's veterans will cost tax-payers 650 billion dollars and is rising.

Bush's claim that the "surge" mission is working, is another big lie. Operations usually carried out by U.S. death squads have been intentionally reduced. U.S. military ground missions and engagements have been greatly decreased. Fewer road bombs have been exploding because American forces stick to their bases, and no longer roam the streets. However, airstrikes against heavily populated civilian targets launched in 2007 are four times that of the ones launched in 2006. The U.S. will eventually cut and run as it did in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia. Members of the Iraqi parliament, though they were handpicked by the Americans, want U.S. troops out, now.

In Afghanistan, Karazai is not actually a president but a mayor of a heavily U.S. guarded section of Kabul, the capital. Taliban resistance fighters are regaining strength and winning. The British foreign intelligence, MI6, has been working on a deal with Taliban. NATO has rejected U.S. requests for more troops.

I came here, however, to warn you. A serial killer, a mass murderer and a war criminal and his gang are all on the loose. Americans ought to wake up to the truth. They are in great danger.
George W. Bush is talking about a Third World War, a "nuclear holocaust", which may bring an end to life on earth as we know it. "So I've told people that, if you're interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon," Bush recently declared.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that regularly inspects Iran's nuclear facilities emphasizes that Iran has no atom bomb development program. The uranium enrichment is for peaceful purposes. Iran is not a nuclear threat. Many U.S. experts agree.

The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which coordinates the judgments of the US's 16 intelligence agencies, refused to yield to Cheney's demands to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear program.

According to a Nov 11, 2007 news report, Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for American forces in Iraq, near the Iranian border, told the Observer that US military officials are putting huge pressure on interrogators who question Iraqi 'insurgents' to find incriminating evidence pointing to Iran.

According to specialists, Bush is a mad man. He is a psychopath. His brain is damaged as a result of years of alcohol dependency. As a child, he stuffed fire crackers in the mouths of frogs on his family farm, and left them to explode. The man hallucinates. He admitted that he talks to God. He told the Palestinian Authority "President", Mahmoud Abbas, that God told him to invade Iraq to spread democracy. He is waiting for the green light from his god to strike Iran. Of course, Bush's god is big business. He prays for the oil companies and the war industrial complex. He gives alms in the form of governmental contracts to his friends, who are robbing the American tax-payers in the billions of dollars. If he is allowed to push the button, the consequences will be a global disaster. Humanity and mother earth are at great risk."

(A speech at Northeastern University, Chicago)
(Emphasis added - B.M.)

2007-11-08T02:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.mindfully.org/Reform/2006/Earth-Weapon-Moret24feb06.htm
Planet Earth As Weapon and Target
by LEUREN MORET

Leuren Moret, President, Scientists for Indigenous People,City of Berkeley Environmental Commissioner,Past President, Association for Women Geoscientists,leurenmoret@yahoo.com

Beginning with the use of nuclear energy for military purposes, mankind has entered a seemingly endless race to harness the natural forces within the planet, in the atmosphere and in space for waging war. The earth is already gravely affected by many of those secret research and testing programmes leading to unpredictable environmental and epidemiological consequences.

The term ‘exotic weapons systems’ includes weapons designed to damage space or natural ecosystems (such as the ionosphere and upper atmosphere) or climate, weather, and tectonic systems with the purpose of inducing damage or destruction upon a target population or region on earth or in space.( US Congress H.R. 2977: Space Preservation Act of 2001)

THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER AND ITS PERMANENT WAR ECONOMY

The ‘permanent US war economy’ of the USA traces its roots in organisations and “a culture of death” back to the China opium wars, and through the current Iraq war. Samuel Russell, the primary American opium smuggler, acquired a vast fortune by launching the first clipper ship in 1823. Leading British and American families made vast fortunes with clippers smuggling opium from Turkey and India to China.

The illicit proceeds of expanded drug-trafficking today are proliferating wars and influencing the foreign policy of modern nation-States. Many researchers tie former President George H W Bush to the CIA as far back as the 1950s, and indicate that one of his jobs was to consolidate and coordinate the world’s biggest industry—the global narcotics trade.

The Vietnam ‘war’ may have been a cover for US consolidation of the ‘Golden Triangle’, formerly under the control of the French. This seems to have been confirmed by Ross Perot when he was appointed by President Reagan to be a special presidential investigator looking for POWs and MIAs from the Vietnam ‘war’, and found himself on the wrong side of Vice President George H. W. Bush.

In the revealing book about the abandonment of POWs/MIAs, Kiss the Boys’ Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, Monika Jensen-Stevenson writes:

Relations between Bush and Perot had gone downhill ever since the Vice President had asked Ross Perot how his POW/MIA investigations were going.
“Well, George, I go in looking for prisoners”, said Perot, “but I spend all my time discovering the government has been moving drugs around the world and is involved in illegal arms deals ... I can’t get at the prisoners because of the corruption among our own people.”

This ended Perot’s official access to the highly classified files as a one-man presidential investigator. “I have been instructed to cease and desist”, he had informed the families of missing men early in 1987.
(Kiss the Boys’ Goodbye: How the United States Betrayed Its Own POWs in Vietnam, Monika Jensen-Stevenson and William Stevenson, NY Dutton, Penguin Books, 1990).

William Huntington Russell, a cousin of opium smuggler Samuel Russell, arrived at Yale in 1832 after studying in Germany for two years from 1831–32, when it was a hotbed of new ideas. He returned steeped in Hegelian philosophy which provided the philosophical roots of fascism and communism. Granted authority to start a chapter by the mother society in Germany, he founded the first US secret society at Yale known today as “Skull and Bones”. Espionage, drug smuggling, and historically foreign-based secret societies intertwined and evolved throughout American history. Skull and Bones became the country’s secret establishment; it institutionalised the sociological excess of “elite deviancy”, with “vertical and horizontal chains of influence” providing continuity over two centuries to carry out conspiratorial schemes and permanent wars.

Many Secretaries of War were ‘Bonesmen’ as well as some US Presidents. Early American Universities were often founded by opium fortunes. Even the Manhattan Project in World War II had close ties to Skull and Bones, and the nuclear weapons labs have been managed since by the University of California, which was founded by a ‘Bonesman’.

The unique relationship between Yale and the Intelligence Community had been established during the Revolutionary War through the ‘Culper Ring’, America’s first intelligence operation started by George Washington. Following World War II, the CIA was established as the top foreign espionage and counter-espionage agency. With strong ties to Yale, and Skull and Bones, it has played a powerful covert role in countries around the world. ‘Bonesmen’ share an affinity for the Hegelian ideas of the historical dialectic, which dictates the use of controlled conflict (thesis versus anti-thesis) to create a pre-determined synthesis. The synthesis is of their making and in this New World Order, the state is absolute and the citizen can only become free by worship and obedience to the state.

In the new book, Fleshing Out Skull and Bones: Investigations into America’s Most Powerful Secret Society by Kris Millegan, 2003 there is evidence that these secret societies “create and play both sides in controlled conflicts to produce (desired) outcomes”:
From 1785, the origin of the New World Order can be traced to Adam Weishaupt, founder of the Illuminati and his manuscript which was accidentally discovered when a courier died en route from Frankfurt-am-Main to Paris. Original Shift in Days of Illumination, contained the long-range plans for the secret society which was “The New World Order through world revolution”.

Adam Weishaupt wrote:

"By this plan, we shall direct all mankind in this manner. And, by the simplest means, we shall set all in motion and in flames. The occupation must be so allotted and contrived that we may, in secret, influence all political transactions."

In 1798, Professor John Robinson who had been invited to join the Illuminati but had declined, published a book called Proofs of a Conspiracy:
"An association has been formed for the express purpose of rooting out all the religious establishments and overturning all the existing governments... the leaders would rule the World with uncontrollable power, while all the rest would be employed as tools of the ambition of their unknown superiors. "(Ibid)

The same year George Washington acknowledged Illuminati activity in America and believed their purpose was to separate the People from their government.
It is not my intention to doubt that the doctrine of the Illuminati and the principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more satisfied with this fact than I am.

The Illuminati allied themselves with the Masons, and Skull and Bones show similarities in their practices and beliefs. The New World Order is based on a political philosophy that blends Zionism and Fascism—an ideology known generally as neo-conservatism.
The interests behind the Bush Administration, such as the CFR, The Trilateral Commission—founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski for David Rockefeller—and the Bilderberg Group, have prepared for and are now moving to implement open world dictatorship within the next five years. They are not fighting against terrorists. They are fighting against citizens.

(Dr. Johannes B. Koeppl, Ph.D. former German Defense Ministry Official and Advisor to former NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner. November 6, 2001, quoted in The High Priests of War: The Secret History of How America’s ‘Neo-Conservatives’ Trotskyites Came to Power, Michael Collins Piper, 2004).

Today, the shadow of the architects of earlier wars, continues as a permanent war economy with proliferation of ever more horrific weapons for future wars. In the interim period between wars, the technologies developed for the last war are used to develop new weapon systems, one could call exotic weapons, for the next war. The atomic and other technologies introduced in World War II, have been secretly developed during the Cold War, into new directed energy weapons which seem beyond the realm of possibility.

It is the function of the CIA to keep the world unstable, and to propagandise and teach the American people to hate, so we will let the Establishment spend any amount of money on arms.
(John Stockwell, former CIA official and author)

The legacy of the weapons proliferators, drug traffickers, sex traffickers, and gambling promoters of yesterday.... continues to enrich the same families. It is a culture of death and destruction which is turning Planet Earth into a death star.

OUTER SPACE, EXOTIC WEAPONRY AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER

Military interest in space became intense with the introduction of rocket science and nuclear technology to the US military arsenal during World War II. Between 1945 and 1963 rocket technology and nuclear technology developed simultaneously. Nuclear weapons testing in the atmosphere, underground and underwater provided new information about the composition of the Earth’s atmospheric layers and how they function, such as the protective characteristic. The ionosphere is the most important protective blanketing layer on earth, shielding it from the solar wind and cosmic energetic particles. The existence of the Van Allen belts was discovered in 1958. The electrojet was also discovered in the ionosphere, two very large rivers of direct current electricity—a source of electrical power greater than anything on earth. Other contributions were made to scientific knowledge from nuclear bomb tests, about the lithosphere, magnetosphere, and the gravitational field, but it did not come without a price.

The atomicity equivalent (equal number of radioactive atoms) of radiation released during atmospheric testing was 40,000 Hiroshima bombs which led to a global cancer epidemic—just the tip of the iceberg, and at the bottom of the list of free radical diseases caused by internal low level radiation exposure. Dr. Rosalie Bertell has estimated that 1.3 billion people have been killed, maimed, and diseased by the nuclear weapons and nuclear power programmes. The average yearly scholastic aptitude test scores for all children in the United States declined from pre-bomb test scores of 475 to 425 for children born in 1963 at the peak of bomb testing, and never fully recovered. The WHO reported in 2004, of the countries surveyed, that the United States has the highest rate of mental illness in the world at over 26 per cent.

The hidden benefit from a nation’s health devastated for decades by radiation, is huge profits to pharmaceutical corporations and to those who own them and also promote the wars—the Bush family, the Carlyle Group, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and many others.

And what was the environmental impact, known as “the Cold War Mortgage”? The US has 10,500 contaminated sites, and five “National Sacrifice Zones” which will never be cleaned up. The fishing catch in the North Atlantic declined 50 per cent by 1963 and correlated with Strontium 90 levels measured downwind in Norwegian milk. The fishing catch recovered quickly after the Partial Test Ban Treaty was signed in 1963. In the Pacific, the fishing catch declined by 65 per cent and never returned to normal levels because other countries continued atmospheric testing. China was the last to stop in 1993.

Terrell E Arnold, who has been responsible for training our most senior and most promising military officers as chairman of the Department of International Studies at the US National War College in Washington, reports that Coalition dead and wounded may actually be twice what the US government admits and that, including the effects of our use of depleted uranium and other toxic weapons, “a long-term casualty rate for American forces of 40–50 per cent appears realistic.”
(Jung Sung-Ki, “USFK Lost Depleted Uranium: Activist”, The Korea Times, December 23, 2005).

The Korea Times reported on December 23, 2005, that the US military has 2.7 million depleted uranium bombs in South Korea. It is understandable why North Korea wants nuclear weapons.
US Department of Homeland Security Dirty Bomb Cleanup Guidance published January 3, 2006 would allow radiation levels that will cause cancer in 1 in every 3 to 4 people exposed for 30 years, using National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII or EPA risk estimates.
(Nuclear Information Resource Service (NIRS), Press Release, January 4, 2006).
Since 1945, in just 60 years, Dr. Strangelove (Edward Teller) and the “Nuclear Cowboys” have poisoned the world, altering the genome of the entire planet which developed over 4.5 billion years. The new exotic weapons systems of the New World Order promise to be far more destructive to the environment and will be used to reduce global population levels and upwardly concentrate wealth.

Two recent bills in the US Congress hint at secret technologies that have been developed from research on the atmosphere since World War II. Exotic weapons systems are a reality and are intended for the militarisation of space. H.R. 2977: the Space Preservation Act of 2001, introduced in the House by Congressman Dennis Kucinich, defines weapons systems such as directed energy, plasma, mood control, mind control, psychotronics, and chemicals which can target objects, individuals, and populations from space.

The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values. Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen. These files will be subject to instantaneous retrieval by the authorities.
(Zbigniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages, 1971).

Senate Bill S. 517: the Weather Modification and Research Operations Board of 2005, introduced in the US Senate by Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison, describes development of research and technologies to alter atmospheric cloud formations in the troposphere, something that has been happening for over 40 years. But there is clearly a hidden military purpose.

The military destruction of the environment and global public health during the Cold War will pale next to the devastation and destruction caused by these exotic weapons and space technologies. All of Planet Earth including outer space is now the battlefield, and its natural processes are the new weapons of war that will be used against the citizens of the world.
The threat of environmental crisis will be the ‘international disaster key’ that will unlock the New World Order. (Mikhail Gorbachev Quoted in ‘A Special Report: The Wildlands Project Unleashes Its War On Mankind’, by Marilyn Brannan, Associate Editor, Monetary & Economic Review, 1996, p.5).

US Representative Kucinich had been strongly opposed to the militarisation of space, and his bill on Space Preservation was intended as a reaffirmation of:
... the policy expressed in section 102(a) of the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 (42 U.S.C. 2451(a)), stating that it ‘is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind’. (H.R. 2977: Space Preservation Act of 2001).

Kucinich said, “If we don’t invest, we can’t be assured that Americans are going to be involved with the commercial space ventures of the future”. He added, “We have to be very careful about any efforts which militarise space, because the militarisation of space will destroy the commercial potential of space. We spend $300 billion a year on the military, and we should be spending money on peacetime development of technology, that’s what it comes down to. I think NASA is the key to America’s future and leadership in every area of technology. You can never spend too much on R&D, because we will grow our economy through R&D”, he said.

But that is not what happened. Instead, the US went to war in Afghanistan, put $300 billion into the war in Iraq (dumping old weapons and testing new exotic weapons), starved the NASA budget, and lost a space shuttle in a tragic accident. On November 28, 2005, it was announced that NASA received US government clearance to purchase Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Due to a ‘spacecraft gap’ in NASA’s aging fleet, the programme does not have the ability until 2012 to maintain the presence of US Astronauts on the International Space Station without the Russian spacecraft.

If the technology exists, we will use it ... officially or not. (David MacMichaels, former CIA agent, at Congresswoman C. McKinney’s 9/11 Congressional Briefing, July 22, 2005).
In an interview in Berkeley, California, on September 14, 2002, Kucinich passionately warned me “If we don’t stop them now... they have those space weapons and they are going to put them up there in space ... and they absolutely are going to use them...”. Onstage an hour later, he was presented with Berkeley Resolution #61744, the Berkeley Space Preservation Resolution. Earlier that year, this author had read the ‘definitions’ of weapons in space in Kucinich’s bill (HR 2977: The Space Preservation Act of 2002):

"III. Directing a source of energy (including molecular or atomic energy, subatomic particle beams, electromagnetic radiation, plasma, or extremely low frequency (ELF) or ultra low frequency (ULF) energy radiation) against that object; or
IV. any other unacknowledged or as yet undeveloped means.
(ii) Inflicting death or injury on, or damaging or destroying, a person (or the biological life, bodily health, mental health, or physical and economic well-being of a person)—
(I) through the use of any of the means described in clause (i) or subparagraph (B);
(II) through the use of land-based, sea-based, or space-based systems using radiation, electromagnetic, psychotronic, sonic, laser, or other energies directed at individual persons or targeted populations for the purpose of information, war, mood management, or mind control of such persons or populations; or
(III) by expelling chemical or biological agents in the vicinity of a person.
(B) Such terms include exotic weapons systems such as—
(i) electronic, psychotronic, or information weapons;
(ii) chemtrails;
(iii) high altitude ultra low frequency weapons systems;
(iv) plasma, electromagnetic, sonic, or ultrasonic weapons;
(v) laser weapons systems;
(vi) strategic, theater, tactical, or extraterrestrial weapons; and
(vii) chemical, biological, environmental, climate, or tectonic weapons."

I was alarmed at the applications and implications of targeting individuals and populations from space, thereby guaranteeing further destruction of the environment. I wanted to do a resolution at the municipal level that other cities could pass which would build support in Congress for his bill. International lawyer, Alfred Labremont Webre, who had already contributed to an International Space Preservation Treaty through the Institute for Cooperation in Space, helped craft the resolution for me which the Berkeley City Council passed unanimously on September 10, 2002.

Predictably, Kucinich’s bill never passed in Congress. But after Mayor Lisa Barrett introduced the Berkeley Resolution to the Bowen Island City Council in British Columbia, it swept through Canada. In the spring of 2005, it was used to gather thousands of signatures from Canadians opposed to Canada joining National Missile Defence (NMD). Angry Canadians had discovered Prime Minister Paul Martin, under intense pressure by the US, had made a secret agreement with President Bush to join NMD. Canadian citizens marched into Parliament with thousands of signatures and forced Martin to withdraw his secret NMD agreement.

It was a wise decision by Canadian citizens but a fatal outcome for Martin. It was certain that there would be an attempt to replace him with a more conservative government which would adopt NMD. Not a single NMD test had really worked, and whistleblowers such as MIT Professor Theodor Postol, had documented extensive science fraud throughout the history of the project. Ted Postol challenged the Pentagon and won. Now missile defense again has pitted him against the government—and his employer and colleagues, Charles P. Pierce (Boston Globe, October 23, 2005). The only test that was ‘successful’ worked because a homing device was put on one missile so the other missile could locate it.

Since Reagan initiated the programme, $92.5 billion has been spent on Star Wars/Strategic Missile Defence. Star Wars was science fraud nearly from the start. Marion Fulk, a Manhattan project scientist who worked in the nuclear weapons programme at the Livermore Lab, described the ‘Cottage shot’ which was part of a directed energy project he was working on when Edward Teller and Lowell Wood hijacked it and ran off with it to Washington DC. (Personal communication November 30, 2005). Seeing the intentional misapplication of it, Fulk almost immediately retired. Teller called it ‘Star Wars’ and sold it to President Reagan in one hour. In 1983, Reagan got up and talked about a world made safe from the fire in the sky, but his vision was closer to magical thinking than to reality. Many exotic technologies were proposed: 100-ton space-based lasers, neutral particle beams, electromagnetic rail guns, brilliant pebbles, and brilliant eyes.

The problem is that it cost a lot, never worked, will never work, and the Russians who were militarily outspent by the US during the Cold War, proved later to be smarter by strategically developing the most lethal missile in the world.

The Russian 3M-82 Moskit anti-ship cruise missile called the SS-N-22 Sunburn by NATO is a weapon that the US Navy currently has no defence against and it has now been upgraded to a newer version. Russia has sold them to China and Iran.

The Sunburn can deliver a 200–300 kiloton equivalent of TNT nuclear payload, or a 750 pound conventional warhead, at Mach 3 or three times the speed of sound, as low as 9 feet off the ground, making it invisible to radar. And it can elude enemy defences with violent-end manoeuvers. It was designed to defeat the US Aegis radar defence system.

China demonstrated this missile in full view of the multinational naval forces during ‘Summer Pulse’ exercises off Taiwan. These were ‘masterminded’ by the US military in the Pacific in the summer of 2004 to show US superior military power to China. Instead, it became a statement of Chinese military advantage when China shot a Sunburn through the bull’s eye of a target on a ship anchored in front of the multinational fleet off Taiwan. It also reinforced the reality that the US is ten years behind Russia in missile development.

Clinton-Gore declassified documents from 1995 reveal that a US-Russia secret agreement allowed Russia to continue arms sales to Iran, and that America actually helped Russia improve its weapons. The US also secretly agreed to buy ‘Sunburn’ missiles from Russia. US Admiral Bowes wrote to Russian Admiral Gromov in a September 1995 letter:
“I appreciate the opportunity to convey to you the United States Navy’s interest in acquiring all variants of the SS-N-22 ‘Sunburn’ Anti-Ship Supersonic Ship-to-ship missile for test and evaluation.”

Amazingly, the US turned down the Russian Sunburn offer. According to one Pentagon source, the administration balked at the Sunburn price of nearly ‘a million dollars’ a missile.(“How US Helped Russia Improve Deadly Missiles” by C. Smith, Newsmax.com January 23, 2001).
The two NMD missiles tested in the Pacific in December 2004 and February 2005, failed to even leave their silos and cost $85 million each. The Sunburn missile now at $2 million and a proven lethal weapons system seems like a very good bargain. The US Navy has a missile gap with no old ones left and no new ones to replace them. The Russians continue to make the best weapons in the world—secretly with US government help. But this is nothing new.
Reported in December 2005, Russian tests have been successful with a new class of land or submarine based ballistic missiles which can manoeuvre during flight, are called “quasi or semi” ballistic missiles and are unstoppable with present ABM interceptors.

These dramatically upgraded Bulava (SRBM) and Topol (SS-27) missiles have turned the tables on US missile defence since the only feasible defence against them implies having pre-positioned space-based anti-ballistic missile interceptors in orbit. That appears impossible for the already over budget US Missile Defence Agency which failed in two out of three tests to even get the ground-based interceptor engines to ignite.

CHINAGATE

Cinton’s Nuclear Potlatch (A potlatch is a ceremony among Native American Peoples in the Pacific Northwest. Hierarchical relations between groups were observed and reinforced through the exchange of gifts and other ceremonies. The potlatch is an example of a gift economy; the host demonstrates his wealth and prominence through giving away his possessions and thus prompts participants to reciprocate when they hold their own potlatch).

Newly declassified ‘Chinagate’ documents reveal that in 1996 under pressure from Hughes Aerospace CEO C. Michael Armstrong, US President Bill Clinton gave a waiver and personally approved the export to China, of radiation-hardened specialised chip sets for a Chinese meteorological satellite. The special chips are necessary for advanced space technology and are critical for nuclear warfare in advanced nuclear warheads.

“In all likelihood we will be glowing in the dark before we discover the true extent of the Clinton decade of betrayal”, stated Rick Fisher, Asian Security Fellow at the Center for Security Policy.
“If it was indeed intended for a new PRC weather satellite, then it is possible that it was used for their new polar orbit weather satellites. This is significant because the Chinese themselves acknowledge that their polar orbit weather satellites directly contribute to their long-range missile targeting capability. This becomes even more important for their new smaller but more accurate warheads, used on their new DF-31, DF-31A, DF-5 Mod2 and JL-2 missiles. If they encounter significant weather, warhead accuracy degrades, reducing their utility”, stated Fisher. (“ Clinton Gave China Chips for Nuclear War” Charles R. Smith, Newsmax.com October 1, 2003 ).

This shows the extent to which the Clinton White House placed trade, specifically with China, above National Security. Even more telling, the transfer took place during an investigation of Chinese espionage into missing US radiation-hardened satellite chips. When a damaged American Loral satellite from a failed Chinese launch was returned to Loral electronics, the radiation hardened encrypted telemetry chips, stored in a secure flight control box similar to those found on airliners were missing. The NSA changed all US satellite codes as a result of the theft of the Loral chips, which cost American taxpayers millions of dollars.

The Chinese army also made contributions to the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign, sometimes in cash. Allegations of espionage, illegal campaign donations, and possibly bribery were never fully investigated.

Hughes CEO Armstrong was not so lucky. Hughes was charged by the US State Department with 123 counts of violating national security for satellite exports to China, which Hughes admitted were military items. The company pleaded no contest, which disgraced the company, and it was fined half a billion dollars. After trashing Hughes, Armstrong moved on to AT&T and then Comcast.

Because of the greed of Hughes/Armstrong, the Commerce Department allowed the Chinese army to obtain a vast array of advanced missile, satellite, and space technology. Several years ago, while the US space shuttle was grounded, the US space technology illegally sold to the Chinese Army was used on China’s first manned spacecraft.

In 1997 as chair of the President’s Export Council, Armstrong stated in a report that the US nuclear industry had to sell 100 nuclear reactors to China or the US nuclear industry and the US Navy’s nuclear programme would be threatened. That the survival of the US nuclear industry depends on China was an outrageous argument. He was unsuccessful in lobbying for the sales despite efforts by Clinton to export nuclear technology to China. A reluctant Republican-controlled Congress resisted the sales because of national security concerns.

From the 1970s through the Clinton era, China apparently got the entire classified portfolio on design and manufacturing of all US major “nukes”. Nuclear weapons lab scientist, Dr. Wen Ho Lee, falsely accused of transferring classified information to China, was made the scapegoat, humiliated, put in prison in solitary confinement for 278 days in leg irons, while Wang Jun, the head of the Chinese Secret Police and a major arms dealer was able to have coffee with President Clinton in the White House. Secretary of Defence William Cohen, commented on the transfer of nuclear weapons technology from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory to China:
“They weren’t exactly spying in my view. We gave it to them.”

While the Mossad (assisted by Mossad agent and international publisher Robert Maxwell) and Chinese spies were stealing nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear weapons labs, Richard Berta, the Western Regional Inspector from the Inspector General’s Office at the Department of Energy (DOE) was too busy doing business with the lab administrators to notice.

According to US Congressional Testimony of Danielle Brian on September 24, 2002, when the World Trade Center disaster happened in 2001, Navy Seals were secretly sent into nuclear facilities as ‘terrorists’ and were able to enter the classified areas and steal enough weapons grade plutonium from the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab to make a nuclear bomb. They used wire cutters to get through the perimeter fence and a wheelbarrow to get the plutonium out of the lab. This exercise was repeated with similar concerns about security this year at the Livermore nuclear weapons lab.

The ‘Nuclear Potlatch’ legacy that President Clinton left for the twenty-first century is a modern Chinese army equipped for global nuclear war. Not so much an accident, but a pattern seen over and over again that in reality is a setup. The US lays a weapon on the table, says to a country “Go ahead... pick it up...” and when the country reaches for that new ‘toy’—they are whacked with a big stick and eventually “bombed into radioactive rubble”.

The Wars on Terror, Drugs, and Weapons of Mass Destruction are dreamed up in that Death Star in Arlington, Virginia—the Pentagon. Three branches of the US government are part of the staged production that give Americans a false notion that they live in a democracy and have a truthful media reporting to them about the success of ‘exporting democracy’ through wars.

Nothing could be further from the truth. The United States has become a fascist state where there is no clear distinction between legitimate and clandestine illegal organisations.

While the George H. Bush administration was hyping the War on Terror, Defense Information Agency (DIA) officials believed that nuclear technology had been transferred to Pakistan and began investigating. Similarities between Pakistani and US weapons designs were of particular concern. A regular exchange of information was discovered, between China and the Army Computer Lab at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, that took place during the 1980s and early 1990’s (under Presidents Reagan/Bush and Bush/Quayle). At the same time the CIA and US policy-makers used A.Q. Khan as a cover, claiming he was secretly running a black-market network for distributing nuclear materials to countries like Iran, North Korea, Libya, and Malaysia, when he was simply acting as their frontman.

Many of the companies he did business with are government controlled. Efforts to trade nuclear technologies with North Korea in exchange for missile technologies were approved by the top echelon of both the Pakistan and Saudi governments. Countries that detained Khan were ordered to “look but don’t touch” by the US, and he was released. Pakistani Nazir Ahmed Vaid was arrested in Houston in 1984 attempting to smuggle out 50 krytrons, electronic switches for nuclear weapons. He received a very special deal and was let off on probation and deported. He continued to enter the country illegally and conduct business until 2004 when his son was warned by a Customs’ Agent that there was a detention order on his father.

In the 1980s, Congressman Charlie Wilson working with the CIA, told Pakistan’s President Zia ul-Haq:
“Mr. President, as far as I am concerned you can make all the bombs you want.”
(Joseph J. Trento, Prelude to Terror: The Rogue CIA and the Legacy of America’s Private Intelligence Network).

It is hard to believe that the US intelligence community was unaware of a massive secret atom bomb project funded by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through the failed BCCI bank. According to a Senate report George H.W. Bush’s favorite bank was also used to covertly fund the anti-Soviet Afghanistan resistance, and the CIA has been aware since the 1970s of Pakistan’s nuclear program when Bush was Director. Among George W. Bush’s “Axis of Evil” supposed enemies, many of his father’s ‘friendenemies’ are listed.

The pan-Islamic bomb project may be one of the biggest nuclear conspiracies in modern history. Recent disclosures involve CIA covert agent Valerie Plame’s investigation of WMD, her attendance at American-Turkish Council events, and several trips to Turkey. The Turkish newspaper Huriyet described her visit as a search for WMDs and more likely their components. Transactional emails made between Asher Karni [Israeli businessman in S. Africa], Zeki Bilmen [Turkish businessman] of Ginza Technologies in New Jersey, and Humayun Khan [operative for the Pakistani military] concerned procurement of oscilloscopes and oscillators (used to build missiles and nuclear weapons), and triggered spark gaps (used to spark nuclear explosions). Referring to the spark gaps, Bilmen said in another email “... No Export Licence Required to South Africa. I thought you might want to know.” Asher Karni, a Hungarian-born Israeli citizen and resident of South Africa, was caught at the Denver airport in 2003 exporting 200 nuclear weapons triggers to Pakistan, and was sentenced to 3½ years in prison on August 4, 2005. By illegally providing nuclear components arranged by the White House and Pentagon through middleman Asher Karni, the Bush administration and pro-Israeli neocons hoped to accelerate Iran’s nuclear programme by ten years. Turkey’s role in illicit nuclear transactions and selling off classified US military data involves the Russian-Ukrainian-Israeli Mafia and their ‘friends’ involved in related activities.

SECRET DEVELOPMENT OF EXOTIC SPACE WEAPONS EXPLORATION OF SPACE FOR MILITARY PURPOSES

“Cover stories about projects must be believable and cannot reveal any information regarding the true nature of the project.”
(National Industrial Security Programme Manual (draft) March 1992, provided by US Department of Defense for industrial contractors).

The ‘true nature’ of the project is clearly US military space dominance and warfare.
Nearly all of the atmospheric research undertaken by the US since World War II has been conducted by or for the benefit of the military under the legitimate cover of ‘academic research’ and shielded from scrutiny by secrecy. The best and the brightest minds have been lured into this research, engaged in compartmentalised investigations with little knowledge of the larger application.
The militarisation of US Space Command: 2020 Vision is sanctioned by Congress. The military considers space the “high ground” and clearly it is the next battlefield... or is this just another cover?
“We’ll expand into these two missions (space control and space force application) because they will become increasingly important. We will engage terrestrial targets someday—ships, airplanes, land targets—from space. We will engage targets in space, from space. And this command will engage quickly; [the missions] are already assigned, and we’ve written the concepts of operations. We will engage re-entry vehicles in the medium of space with a ballistic missile defence system of North America. It’s politically sensitive, but it’s going to happen. Some people don’t want to hear this, and it sure isn’t in vogue... but—absolutely—we’re going to fight in space.”
(General Ashy, commander US Air Force Space Command and commander-in-chief of the combined US-Canada North American Air Defence Command (NORAD), August 5, 1996).

Orbiting our world at hypervelocity (10 km/sec), mostly in low-Earth orbits, are a large number of satellites (the real number is classified) and a debris field of space trash which travels at speeds of up to 17,000 miles an hour. As of 1987, orbital pollution was composed of more than 7000 objects 10 cm, 50,000 objects from 1–10 cm, and 10–100 billion paint chips which are now in orbit. By 2002, the US Air Force Space Command was tracking 10,000 objects 10 cm: “operating and dead satellites, explosion fragments from rocket engines, garbage bags and frozen sewage dumped by astronauts, shrapnel from antisatellite weapons tests, 34 nuclear reactors and their fuel cores, an escaped wrench, an astronaut’s glove and a toothbrush”.

Returning space shuttles often have dings and window cracks. Astronaut Edgar Mitchell described how a paint chip nearly took out the Space Shuttle and that it is “nearly too dangerous now” to travel in space. The 1987 risk of a damaging collision during several years in orbit was 1 in 500. The volume of debris doubles about every 5 years and weighed 3000 tons in 1997. Pieces of space trash 10 cm must each be identified and tracked by complex military computers in order to differentiate them from a missile attack. Each piece of space trash is reported and registered annually with the UN.

In January 1978, when Cosmos 954, a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, fell from orbit over Canada, it released radioactive debris and dust contaminating a path 2,000 km long. That was not the first one. NASA’s New Horizons space probe heading for Pluto is powered by a Radioactive Thermoelectric Generator or “RTG” containing 24 pounds (about 132,465 Curies) of extremely deadly plutonium—mostly Pu 238, and about 12 per cent Pu 239 (aka ‘weapons grade plutonium’). The military connection to this launch is that covertly RTGs could be used for orbiting spy satellites, but the military will not admit using them. Military plans to use nuclear weapons and nuclear powered propulsion in space should be of great concern. Lower orbital space is already contaminated with uranium and its decay products from atmospheric testing. It remains suspended in the atmosphere until it is rained or snowed out of the air, depositing it in the environment.

The expanding ring of man-made garbage circling the earth at hypervelocity, is an increasing threat to spacecraft and satellites. Objects “greater than 1 mm will likely penetrate the skin of a satellite or a solar panel, those greater than 1 cm will cause the break-up of satellites, and those greater than 10 cm can cause the total fragmentation of a satellite”. The UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space reported in 1999 that 16,000 space objects had reentered the atmosphere in the previous 40 years. That is about one object a week with a cross section of one square metre.

Military and NASA officials dismiss claims by scientists and astronauts that weapons in space could leave so much debris that lower orbital space would be unusable. The danger of radioactive pollution from nuclear weapons in space is never mentioned.

In a speech in April 2002, Astronaut Sally Ride said anti-satellite weapons would be “disastrous”, particularly between 150 and 400 miles high. This zone includes the space shuttle, international space station, and reconnaissance satellites.

Yet in the face of the new upgraded Russian Topol and Bulova missiles, and of the complete failure of the US land-based anti-missile missiles, space-based weapons are the only defence possible. A high-tech space battle could be catastrophic as biophysicist John Primack argues, because if an enemy chose a low-tech delivery of “giant loads of rock or metal pellets into space”:
No actual space war even has to be fought. Any country that felt threatened by America’s starting to place lasers or other weapons in space would only have to launch the equivalent of gravel to destroy the sophisticated weaponry.
(“Scientist: Space weapons pose debris threat” Richard Stenger, CNN, May 3, 2002).
A marble travelling at 17,000 mph, 10 times faster than a bullet, could hit an object “with the force of a one-ton safe dropped three stories”. This could set off a series of collisions that would cascade into more and more collisions eventually leaving the orbital zone unusable. Another example of ancient Mesopotamian warfare turning high-tech weapons into dust.

So what are the real weapons and what is the real purpose for the militarisation of space?

SOLAR POWER SATELLITE PROJECT (1968)

The solar power satellite programme (SPS) in the late 1960s, won public support from civilians and universities as an alternative to nuclear power, but served for the military as a cover for continued research and experimentation on the ionosphere. The projected cost of the electricity produced by this project was $3000 per kilowatt compared to $1100 per kilowatt for nuclear power. This was a very expensive programme from the start, requiring nearly $800 billion for the 60 satellites required alone, and it must have been obvious to some that it would never be implemented. The whole budget cost was 2–3 times greater than the entire DOE budget! In 1978, Dr. Rosalie Bertell was on a government review panel, and discovered the shadow of the military through another panel member who pointed out that there was a possibility of developing a satellite-borne beam weapon for anti-ballistic missile use. Another possibility was that it could be used for a satellite surveillance system.

“My former neighbour worked for TRW for many years putting the little black boxes together in the sats [satellites] they were launching. Interestingly, these so-called ‘weather’ sats suddenly went missing. My neighbour said he had heard enough talk at TRW to cause him to believe these sats went ‘stealth’ into 20,000-mile high orbits from the original 300-mile high orbit. He was not certain of the function of the little black boxes but his fringe knowledge of laser systems and related components led him to believe these ‘weather’ sats were in fact laser guns for preemptive action when needed ... until then, it is anyone’s guess as to what function they actually are performing.
Speculation about a ground-based high-energy laser beam that could thermally destroy incoming enemy missiles was also discussed. In Livermore, California, in the middle of the night in the summer of 1993, I observed from my backyard a very large amber coloured laser beam about 10 feet in diameter, pointed straight up into the atmosphere from the Lawrence Livermore Lab. All air traffic was diverted for 5 miles around the beam. When I asked a physics student, working at the lab and renting a room in my house that summer, what it was for, he said, “Oh, they’re making a star up there...”

In the entrance of the large Laser Facility at Livermore Lab is a 10 feet tall bronze statue of Shiva, representing the dance of the Universe. The first big laser project was called Shiva. A tradition at the Livermore lab is that each one is destroyed when a new one is built.

STRATEGIC DEFENCE INITIATIVE (SDI) OR ‘STAR WARS’

The United Nations Committee on Disarmament told Dr. Bertell, who had been concerned about weapons applications, that as long as SPS was called ‘solar energy’, it could not be considered a weapons project (Planet Earth: The Latest Weapon of War by Rosalie Bertell, Black Rose Books, 2001). Eventually Congress killed it because of the cost. But it came back as the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) or Star Wars under Reagan. The cost of building the Star Wars defense system was estimated at $100 to $1000 billion. The US spent nearly $30 billion on it, despite objections from scientists, NATO allies, and anti-nuclear movements who stressed that it broke the terms of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty.
Disillusioned researchers in the US have claimed that Star Wars was science fraud and that data was falsified, Caspar Weinberg, Secretary of Defence under Reagan, stated that it was actually conceived to deceive the USSR and force them to escalate military defence spending. In 1991, I was approached at the Lawrence Livermore Lab by a gray-haired scientist I had never met but who seemed to know me. He said:
“The Cold War is over, we’ve looked at the books in the USSR and they are bankrupt. When the Soviet Union collapses in a year or two you are out of here. We only need you [geoscientists] to monitor global nuclear weapons testing. We are dismantling the military and expanding the intelligence community by at least ten times.”

In 1993 the funds from the Star Wars project, which had officially ended, were transferred to the Ballistic Missile Defence Organisation, the third reincarnation of the same project since Reagan. Now that it was a compartmentalized project—laser defence, radar systems, National Missile Defence (NMD), and the Space Shuttle—none of the parts seemed particularly alarming until, as Dr. Rosalie Bertell puts it, space shields or plasma shields were taken into consideration as the real purpose behind the persistent reincarnations of these very expensive programmes.

THE JAPANESE AUM SHINRIKYO AND ELECTROMAGNETIC WEAPONS RESEARCH

On April 23, 1993, Aum Shinrikyo, the Japanese ‘Supreme Truth’ Buddhist Sect, purchased a 500,000 acre sheep ranch in Western Australia near Banjawarn. They sold the ranch and suddenly left Australia in October 1994. Indications were that they had prospected for uranium, used chemicals and a laboratory for an unknown purpose, and after they left Australia traces of Sarin gas were found on sheep and wool (“Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Case Study on the Aum Shinrikyo”, Senate Government Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations October 31, 1995 Staff Statement). Later members of this sect were implicated in the 1995 attack on the Tokyo subway with Sarin gas. The leader was tried and convicted in Tokyo while I was in Japan for the summer of 2003. I met Japanese journalists who had followed the story and personally knew members of the sect, many of whom are scientists. Manhattan Project member, Dr. Fred Wood, and Alden Bryant, Secretary-Treasurer of the New Energy Movement warned me about how dangerous Russian exotic weapons technology is and said that it had been leased by the Aum from Russia. The Aum recruited followers in Japan, Russia, Australia, Sri Lanka, the United States, and visited Yugoslavia. Links to the Yakuza (Japanese Mafia) through drug dealing were alleged in the Japanese media.

A Congressional investigation of the Aum Shinrikyo in 1995 reported that their interest in WMDs was related to Armagedon-like events they planned to stage against New World Order interests:

“It [Aum] claims that the Jews are planning similar massacres in other areas of the world in order to carry out a sinister plot to reduce the world’s population by three billion people by the year 2,000. The Aum also has linked the Jews to its other enemies within Japanese society—the ‘black aristocracy’ of Japanese ‘internationalists’ including a number of current and former Japanese politicians and statesmen.”

The sect claimed 65,000 members, with over half in Russia. The Japanese government estimated their assets at $1 billion. Many of the Aum followers were highly educated in the science and technological fields and graduated from Japan’s best universities. The sect spent over $400 million on computer equipment, nearly all purchased from a Taiwan company. Their cult acquired conventional weapons but were more interested in WMDs and apparently saw Russia as a source for more exotic, and far deadlier weapons.

When the Russian Duma did an investigation of the sect, Russian parliamentarian Vitaliy Savitsky, chairman of the Duma’s Religious Affairs Committee told fellow parliamentarians that, “his committee seriously suspected that Aum Shinrikyo had been assisted in its penetration into Russia by Russian intelligence services.”

From February to April 1995, the Aum sent a party of six members to the Tesla Museum in Belgrade, the former Yugoslavia, to review Tesla’s original thesis and other research papers pertaining to “Tesla weapon systems” which focus on wave amplification. Nokola Tesla was a scientist who experimented in the fields of atmospherics, electromagnetics, fluid dynamics, and geodynamics in the early 1900s, and discovered alternating current. Although Marconi won the Nobel Prize for inventing radio, Tesla later won a lawsuit claiming that he had been the rightful inventor. When he died in the US in 1943, all of his papers were seized by the US government and classified. The Aum members studied research on the Tesla Coil, used for alternating current, as well as other inventions and experiments. His early experiments with resonating frequencies were experiments in creating earthquakes. He was quoted as saying that with his technology he could ‘split the world’ in two. Tesla had developed a ‘ray’ gun in the 1930s which was actually a particle beam accelerator. This gun was reported to be able to shoot down an airplane at 200 miles, and he claimed to have invented the Tesla shield which nothing could penetrate.

In April 1993, Australians were told by the Aum sect that the property in Australia was to be used to ‘conduct experiments there for the benefit of mankind’. On May 28, just 35 days after the purchase, a strange meteor like fireball, an explosion, and an earthquake of magnitude 4 were reported in the area. In September 1993, a front company for Aum was used to import electrical equipment including transformers, static converters, generators, coaxial cabling, batteries, meters and tools, and protective equipment into Australia.
Later a geologist named Harry Mason, visited the area and investigated the semi-desert region looking for meteor craters. He discovered from interviews with residents that:

“... people heard the fireball well before they saw it; it was a large orange-red spherical fireball with a very small bluish conical tail; the speed was like that of a 747 jet liner; the fireball flew apparently parallel to Earth’s curvature in a long ‘nap of earth’ arcing trajectory at low altitude (about 2000 metres) over a distance of at least 250 kilometres; the fireball arced down toward the ground and disappeared behind trees or low hills; then a blinding massive high energy burst of blue-white light lit up the night as if it was daylight. Observers could see more than 100 kilometres in every direction at ground level; a red colour flare then shot vertically skywards and a massive seismic ground wave hit the observers; a very loud major explosive blast followed, that was heard over a 250 km by 150 km corridor; minor quake damage was reported as far as 150 km southeast.”
(Harry Mason, ‘Bright Skies Part I’, Nexus, March–April 1997).

There were many irregularities which indicated this phenomenon was very different from anything known before. Since the 1993 fireball event, thousands of similar sightings and light-energy emissions have occurred in Australia. Dr. Bertell reports that the fireball trajectories pass near four military complexes: Showa and Mizuho in Japan, Molodezhnaya and Novolazarevskaya in Russia. The Kamchatka peninsula, in Siberia, is also suspected of being one of a series of former Soviet electromagnetic weapons transmitters around the world.

UNDECLARED ELECTROMAGNETIC WAR

Design work began on antiballistic missiles (ABM) in 1946, at the University of Michigan, for interception of long-range missiles. The Soviet Union also began development of ABM defence after World War II, mainly theoretical research between 1948 and 1951. By 1967 the USSR began working on projects for early warning systems, space defence, and a system for outer space control. These became the main components of the ABM and space defence of the Soviet Union.

Upgraded from above-the-horizon radar, the Soviet Duga-2 “Iron Yard” over-the-horizon radar was designed in 1970 to detect enemy missiles within two or three minutes, and was successfully tested at Novaya Zemlya. At Nikolaev the radar built included 26 huge transmitters (each one was of the size of a two-story building).
“The transmitting antenna was 210 meters wide and 85 metres high. The receiving antenna was 300 metres wide and 135 metres high. The antenna field housed 330 transmitters of about 15 meters each. These radars had to reliably detect group and mass launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles from the territory of the US.”

On July 4, 1976, the 200 th anniversary of the United States, the first such facility began operations at Kiev and has been on the air ever since. The powerful electromagnetic transmissions were a signal transmitted at frequencies between 3.26 and 17.54 megahertz, and was pulse-modulated at a rate of several times a second. The 2 MW transmitter at first interfered with communications, and ham radio operators picked it up all over the world, but corrections were made so that it skipped critical frequencies for aircraft and transoceanic flights as it moved across its operational spectrum.

Two more similar facilities were built later near Chernigov and Komsomolsk-na-Amur. The facilities at Kiev and at Komsomolsk-na-Amur provide coverage of the United States. A smaller lower-power facility at Nikolaeyev near Odessa provides coverage of China.
On July 18, 1977, the US government became covert partners with the Soviets and the secret code name given to it in the US was Project Woodpecker. The US sent a team of scientists to Russia with a 40 ton magnet and other scientific material and equipment for further research and development.

The main research center for the Project has been the Lawrence Livermore National Lab. Covert funding funneled through the CIA and National Security Agency provided support along with collaboration by the Department of Defence and NASA from the beginning of the project. In January 1995, the Livermore State of the Laboratory award publication announced that a 21-member Woodpecker team had received the Intelligence Community Seal Medallion in 1994 for “its work on a classified project to improve information-gathering techniques.” The Deputy Director of the CIA and the Director of the NSA presented the award at CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia. The award cited the team’s success:

“...on a series of technical problems of enormous complexity, resulting in an extremely powerful operational capability that can be used to gather intelligence from unique sources not exploitable by any other means.”

The lab publication stated that in 1985 the project team started work on feasibility studies. The final product was delivered to the project sponsor in 1992, just as the Cold War ended.
On June 22, 1995, Dr. Armen Victorian received an answer from the Oakland office of the DOE on his appeal for a Freedom of Information (FOIA) request on Project Woodpecker:
In its May 5, 1995 determination, Oakland stated that a search had been conducted for documents responsive to Victorian’s request, but that no records were found as a result of the search. Oakland specifically stated that information relating to Project Woodpecker had been destroyed.

Back in 1952 a secret meeting was held in New Mexico between Russian and US scientists at the Sandia Lab, which is part of the nuclear weapons programme. An exchange of information on the biological hazards of microwave and electromagnetic frequencies, and safety levels, was not entirely successful. The Russians publicly acknowledged the risks but the Americans did not take them seriously. Shortly after that the Russians began a 30-year programme beaming the US embassy in Moscow with microwaves, causing the deaths of three US Ambassadors and illnesses in employees. The “Moscow Signal” discovered by the CIA in 1962, was used by the Russians on US embassy employees to test low-level EMR (electromagnetic resonance) effects.
In April 1976, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent the following telegram to the US Embassy in Moscow, which summarized the conclusions of the study of the Moscow signal:
“Subject: Radiation and UHF and Electromagnetic Dangers”
“Beginning in 1960 the Soviet Union directed the high frequency beams
of radiation at the US Embassy in Moscow which were calculated not to pick up intelligence but cause physiological effects on personnel. The effects the Soviets calculated to achieve in the personnel serving (at least as early as 1960) included (A) Malaise (B) Irritability, (C) Extreme fatigue. At this time the Soviets believed that the induced effects were temporary. Subsequently, it has been verified that the effects are not temporary. Definitely tied to such radiation and the UHF/VHF electromagnetic waves are: (A) Cataracts, (B) Blood changes that induce heart attacks, (C) Malignancies, (D) Circulatory problems, and (E) Permanent deterioration of the nervous system. In most cases the after-effects do not become evident until long after exposure—a decade or more.”
(William MacIntosh, Project Pandora, http://www.geocities.com/adrian9999999999/pandora.htm).

The Soviets apparently were the first to use electropollution or directed energy with malicious intent. By 1955 the US Navy was conducting EMR experiments with UHF (ultra-high frequencies) for the purpose of targeting individuals, crowds, or armies. The effects could be scaled up or down, and today are called Non Lethal Weapons (NLW). A 2004, “Military contract for Pulsed Energy Projectile (PEP) Pain Study, a heavily redacted US Navy contract for development of NLW with the University of Florida, reveals interesting details of pulsed microwave directed energy weapons.

“...decades of research and investment of untold millions of rubles in the process of psycho-corrections has produced the ability to alter behaviour on willing and unwilling subjects, experts add. The Russian experts, including George Kotov, a former KGB General, also report a list of software and hardware associated with their psycho-correction programme that could be procured for as little as $80,000. As far as it has become possible to probe and correct psychic contents of human beings despite their will and consciousness by instrumental means; results having been achieved can get out of control and be used for inhumane purposes of manipulating psyche.” (Barbara Opall, Defence News, January 11–17, 1993).

ULTIMATE WEAPON—THE ENERGY OF NATURE AND LIFE

As described in World As Laboratory: Experiments With Mice, Mazes, and Men by Rebecca Lemov, Hill and Wang (2005). American POWs returned from World War II brainwashed and nonresponsive, waiting like cattle on ships when they arrived, confused and unenthusiastic about being back. Military heads of staff, puzzled by the mental state of the soldiers, wondered if they had been subjected to new techniques unknown to the West. In 1953 Allen Dulles, newly appointed Director of the CIA, described how ‘Communist apparatchiks’ had turned the soldiers into robots whereby the victim’s brain:

“... becomes a phonograph playing a disc put on its spindle by an outside genius over which it has no control ...”

Under Dulles, the Agency soon developed its own programme to explore control of human behaviour from a CIA list of research areas.

In Britain, mind control research began at the Tavistock Institute in the 1950s. At Britain’s leading psychiatric research facility, the ‘submissive monkey response to the dominant monkey’ was of particular interest to British scientists. After identifying the specific brain rhythm for docile submissive behaviour, it has been superimposed on the ELF signal beamed on British microwave transmitters. Britain had developed radar transmitted with microwave in the 1940s, and was already advanced in the technology.

It is no surprise that the goal was accomplished, weaponising mind control, considering the resources invested in it, but the manner in which it was conducted is a warning. The ultimate weapon, of all weapons that have been developed, is manipulation of our electro-magnetic environment. And through this research the most important scientific discovery has been made ... the nature of life. The most shocking discovery, for all of humanity, is that this time we are the enemy.

The discovery of a complex set of electromagnetic signals in the US Embassy in Moscow by the CIA in 1962 led to Project Pandora. The project was set up to investigate ‘the effects of low level electromagnetic radiation on man’. Monkeys brought into the Embassy and exposed had damage to blood and chromosomes. White blood cell counts were 40 per cent higher (common to incipient leukemia) in some Embassy personnel, and a physician who did the studies was quoted in the Associated Press as saying they had found lots of chromosome breaks. Although the State Department claimed the Moscow signal was never more than 18 microwatts (relevant Project Pandora records have allegedly been destroyed), research protocols for the project were as high as 4,000 microwatts. At the 1967 Glassboro talks, President Johnson asked Premier Kosygin to stop the microwaving of the Embassy but it continued.

By 1955 the Naval Medical Research Institute began research on high-power transmitters using short UHF wavelengths which burned exposed skin. They also “cooked” dogs to death, and developed a crude electromagnetic flamethrower. This was early experimentation on what are called today, Non Lethal Weapons (NLW), which can obviously be lethal. Researcher Sol Michaelson discovered in 1958 that dogs exposed to UHF wavelengths struggled to get out of their restraints, but for an unknown reason, continued to face the transmitted beam. In 1960 the Soviets discovered that UHF wavelengths caused muscle weakness and lethargy in experiments on rats. By the mid-1960s the Soviets reported that a microwave beam could produce ‘eyestrain and blurred vision, headaches, and loss of concentration. (In Robert O Becker, op.cit )

In 1971 a historic conference was held in Warsaw where scientists from the USSR Institute of Labour Hygiene and Occupational Diseases presented a list of symptoms which they called ‘microwave sickness'. Low blood pressure and slow pulse were the first symptoms. Later other common symptoms were:
“... chronic excitation of the sympathetic nervous system (stress syndrome) and high blood pressure. This phase also often includes headache, dizziness, eye pain, sleeplessness, irritability, anxiety, stomach pain, nervous tension, inability to concentrate, hair loss, plus an increased incidence of appendicitis, cataracts, reproductive problems, and cancer. The chronic symptoms are eventually succeeded by crises of adrenal exhaustion and ischemic heart disease (blockage of coronary arteries and heart attack).” (Robert O. Becker M.D., The Body Electric).

The Soviets had already set high standards for EMF protection. Dr. Karel Marha, from the Institute of Industrial Hygiene in Prague, recommended that a higher standard be adopted in the West.

THE MIND HAS NO FIREWALL

Three American researchers, Ross Adey (communication of cells), Allan Frey (microwave auditory effect), and José Delgado (electromagnetic behaviour control), conducted research on communication in the body, the brain, and behaviour modification in the 1960s and 1970s which propelled the development of mind control technology.

After participating in the Pandora Project, Ross Adey worked at UCLA and later established the Brain Research Institute, where he was best known for his studies on the biologic effects of weak electromagnetic forces, a paradigm shift that was not always appreciated by mainstream scientists unwilling to accept new ideas. Despite the resistance he made major contributions.
In his research he intensely studied the “window effect” where a certain result would occur at certain frequencies and power levels but not at others interspersed between the windows. He believed “windows” would be discovered at fractions of a microwatt, far below what he had studied. A later study confirmed his belief and suggested changes in brain waves down to a billionth of a microwatt. He discovered that “calcium-outflow windows could interfere with functioning of the entire brain” because amplification of signals in communications between cells was calcium dependent. This proved to be one of his most important discoveries.

He and his colleagues also demonstrated that behaviour modification could be achieved by entraining the brain waves of a cat with microwaves modulated in different ways and then imposing specific electrical patterns on parts of the brain.

In 1983 he demonstrated a Russian LIDA machine which had a small transmitter that emitted 10 Hertz waves for tranquilisation and enhanced suggestibility. The tube was an ancient vacuum-tube design which a former POW in Korea recognised as similar to ones he had seen during interrogation. The Koreans and other communist block countries have used ELF waves for at least 50 years.

Allan Frey, a freelance biophysicist and engineering psychologist, studied the bioeffects of microwaves for decades, and discovered in 1962 that the perception of sound could be induced with low level microwave, even in deaf humans.

He also discovered that the permeability of the blood-brain barrier could be increased with certain pulsed microwave beams, an additional weapon which enhanced the effects of drugs, bacteria, or poisons.

“Using relatively low-level RFR, it may be possible to sensitise large military groups to extremely dispersed amounts of biological or chemical agents to which the unirradiated population would be immune.” (Tyler, Capt Paul E, MC, US Navy).

“The Electromagnetic Spectrum in Low-Intensity Conflict” 1986

By synchronising the pulse rate of a microwave beam with the beat of a heart isolated from a frog, he could speed up, slow down, or stop the heart. This was reproduced in live frogs which indicated it was possible to cause heart attacks with a microwave penetrating the human chest.
Confirmation came from a 1982 Air Force review of biotechnology:

“... impressed electromagnetic fields can be disruptive to purposeful behavior and may be capable of directing and/or interrogating such behavior. Further, the passage of approximately 100 milliamperes through the myocardium can lead to cardiac standstill and death, again pointing to a speed-of-light weapons effect.” \

“A rapidly scanning RFR system could provide an effective stun or kill capability over a large area.” (“Final Report on Biotechnology Research Requirements for Aeronautical Systems Through the Year 2000” USAF).

There were indications that other pulse frequencies could interfere with metabolic processes. This was demonstrated in simulated muscle tissue at the Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory in Pensacola.

José Delgado, the psychotic advocate of a “psycho-civilised” society, began his career in fascist Spain in World War II conducting research on the use of pain and pleasure for mind control. He was an MKULTRA experimenter who once demonstrated a radio-controlled bull on CNN in 1985, and stopped it as it charged him by transmitting a radio signal to an electrode implanted in the bull’s brain.

“We need a programme of psychosurgery and political control of our society. The purpose is physical control of the mind. Everyone who deviates from the given norm can be surgically mutilated.
Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.” (Dr. Jose Delgado, Congressional Record, No. 26, Vol. 118, February 24, 1974)

As Director of Neuropsychiatry at Yale University Medical School, he refined the design of his “transdermal stimulator”... a computer controlled, remote neurologic transceiver and aversion stimulator. The potential of using electrical stimulation of the brain (ESB) for mind control was mostly explored through his work, but he later shifted to the biological effects of electromagnetic fields.

In one of his experiments he used a signal on a cat which caused it to lick its fur and continue compulsively licking the floor and bars of its cage. In another experiment on a monkey, he triggered the monkey by stimulating a portion of its brain which caused it to walk back and forth across its cage, climb to the ceiling and come back down. The monkey repeated this triggered by the signal as many as 60 times an hour. He could also trigger monkeys to smile or turn their heads ‘up to twenty thousand times in two weeks’ no matter what they were doing. He said, “They looked like electronic toys.”

Implants provide even better transmitters, cochlear implants will send electrical signals into the fluid of the inner ear. Implants in teeth or dental fillings pick up radio signals and transmit sound vibrations through bone conduction. Time Magazine listed a “Phone Tooth” as one of the best inventions for 2002. When embedded in a molar it can receive cell phone calls, signals convert to vibrations which travel through the skull to the inner ear.

TYRANNY WITHOUT TERROR

The danger to all societies is that technologies such as microwave and radio transmissions, which can impose certain thoughts or moods on targets or populations, compliance and complacency, and monitoring of EEG (electro-encephalogram) potentials—all together pose the terrifying threat of total remote control of society.

An article in the Washington Times on August 22, 2002, “NASA Plans to Read Terrorist’s Minds at Airports” revealed that Northwest Airlines, NASA and an unidentified commercial entity had been developing brain-monitoring (mind reading) devices for airports (since at least 1995). Three other airlines were also involved.

When the documents for a joint project meeting between NASA and Northwest were requested under a FOIA, the results were shocking. The project meetings had been ongoing since 1995. Passengers were monitored at a more intense level at each step, from the time they made a reservation, to arrival at the airport, when they checked in. The monitoring included biometrics, personal information from DARPA/government created databases, both ECG (electrocardiograms) and EEG (electroencephalograms), and even further redacted information in the report which was not provided. Physicist Robert Park was interviewed for the Washington Times, August 17, 2002.

“We’re getting closer to reading minds than you might suppose. It does make me uncomfortable. That’s the limit of privacy invasion. You can’t go further than that.”
(Robert Park, spokesman for the American Physical Society).

Park is a Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, where a ‘Thought Machine’ was developed for mind control, as reported in the 1970s in the South China Morning Post. Robert Park would understandably be reluctant to admit that physicists and his society, APS, have been instrumental as collaborators (theoretical) with electrical engineers (applied) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) in developing mind control technology.

Defence Electronics reported a spring, 1993, meeting with psychotronics expert Dr. Igor Smirnov and Clinton Administration officials. The CIA, FBI, DIA, and ARPA with Clinton officials wanted to know if psycho-correction programmes could be implemented by the US government. Not just for domestic riots, this technology could be used to change the opinion or judgement of decision-makers, key personnel, or populations. It is a given that psychotronic technology will be used to suppress political dissidents and other potential threats to the New World Order.

“...Using electroencephalographs, Smirnov measures brain waves, then uses computers to create a map of the subconscious and various human impulses, such as anger or the sex drive. Then through taped subliminal messages, he claims to physically alter the landscape with the power of suggestion.” (Newsweek magazine, August 22, 1994).

MIND READING DEVICES

“Alan Yu, a former lieutenant colonel in the Taiwan National Defence Department, says that the United States has not only developed an operational mind control machine, but has also distributed models for use by allied countries. Yu states that such machines pose a great threat to human rights and the American way of life. He calls the device the “Mind Reading Machine” (Mind Machine).

“In the spring of 1984, Yu was a lieutenant colonel serving in the National Defence Department of Taiwan. At that time, Yu read a classified document from the department that he serviced under. The document said the Military Police Department of Taiwan had purchased several of the Mind Reading Machines from the United States (In Taiwan, it was called Psychological Language Machine).

Yu reports that before he left, this machine had become the most effective weapon for the security departments of Taiwan …
“Demonstrations of this equipment have shown encouraging results after exposure of less than one minute and have produced the ability to alter behavior on unwilling subjects.”
(Richard A. Miller, ‘Conciousness Technologies Conference’, July 2001)

GWEN TOWERS

About the time the Cold War was winding down, Ground Wave Emergency Network (GWEN) towers were constructed in the 1980s across the United States. Nearly 300 feet tall with long copper wires coming out of them in a radial pattern on the ground, they transmit bursts of very low frequency (VLF) waves at 150–175 KHertz, in a 300 mile circle from the towers. Messages are transmitted at 20 minute intervals, or hour intervals if from another source. They have a strange distribution across the US. They also emit UHF waves of 225–400 MHertz. Their purpose is not altogether clear. Officially they are for the Continuity of Government (COG) programme under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) (illegally started by Col. Oliver North as the Federal Emergency Military Agency) but this may be a cover.

Colonel Paul Hanson, GWEN Programme Director for the Air Force, said:

“The towers will not help wage a nuclear war because they would be destroyed in any protracted confrontation.”

Because the GWEN system is transistor-based they are particularly vulnerable to EMP from nuclear strikes. The location of the towers is well known, leaving them open to attack. Dr. Robert Becker M D believes they have another purpose.

GWEN is a superb system, in combination with cyclotron resonance, for producing behavioural alterations in the civilian population. The average strength of the steady geomagnetic field varies from place to place across the United States. Therefore, if one wished to resonate a specific ion in living things in a specific locality, one would require a specific frequency for that location. The spacing of GWEN transmitters 200 miles apart across the United States would allow such specific frequencies to be ‘tailored’ to the geomagnetic-field strength in each GWEN area.
(Robert O. Becker, M.D., in Crosscurrents: The Perils of Electropollution).

In 1975 the Soviet journal International Life in a discussion of electronic mind control, said that large groups of people could experience suppressed mental activity from atmospheric electricity. The journal went on to say a sonic generator, tuned to an infrasound frequency which is below hearing level could create “feelings of depression, fear, panic, terror, and despair”.

Since the creation of Homeland Security with nearly unlimited funding after the September 11, 2001, WTC disasters, there are indications that the GWEN network will be expanded. Because Homeland Security, the Northern Command (an illegal domestic military administration created after 911), FEMA, the Justice Department, and Law Enforcement are an interlocking operation now, the expansion of the GWEN network clearly has an ominous purpose.

Two of the strongest proponents for NLW/psychotronics are US Army Colonel John Alexander (retired), in charge of the NLW program at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) since he retired from the Army in 1988, and Janet Morris. Alexander is a member of the AVIARY, a group of Department of Defense officers and scientists with a mandate to discredit any serious UFO research. Each member has a bird’s name and Alexander is known as PENGUIN, and they are “deep CIA”.

Morris is the Research Director of the US Global Strategy Council (USGSC) with ties to the CIA and the Federal Government, chaired by Dr Ray Cline, former Deputy Director of the CIA. Morris “is a key US liaison between Russian and US Officials”. She has arranged demonstrations by Russian psychotronic experts for US officials, and reported that Russians are interested in converting military hardware to NLW for US use. To hide the covert use of the KGB psychotronic equipment from the American public, a series of disinformation articles have appeared in the press about ‘non-lethals’ such as “net, foams, sticky material to snag an attacker, mace-like compounds, and high-tech sticky goo shot at fleeing criminals”.

Because the US military is prohibited from developing certain kinds of weapons, the research and development must be done ‘outside’, usually by the DOE (Department of Energy). Colonel Alexander and Janet Morris are focused on the development and use of psychotronic weapons, representing the interests of the military, CIA, and ruling elite. The Los Alamos and Livermore nuclear weapons labs have brought over Russian scientists and KGB officers to collaborate at the labs and other US agencies. Russian collaboration has involved not only weapons development, in this case the psychotronics primarily, but also methods of political control post-911. KGB Generals have been advisors to Homeland Security on developing internal checkpoints and internal passports in the US. It is clear what lies ahead for the American people... and it’s not ‘democracy’.

By letting the USSR target America with Woodpecker for an unknown purpose, the US government was able to conduct a project through another state thus bypassing US Law. The US has been doing the same for Russia. Echelon, the NSA satellite surveillance system, has served the same end. Member countries have been able to spy on their own citizens by receiving information second-hand from other member countries.

In the mid-1980s, over two dozen scientists working at the Marconi Corporation in Britain, died mysteriously from ‘suicides and accidents’. They were under contract to do classified work for the British and US Navy. Researchers have reported that some of the project computer engineers wrote software related to targeting spots on the body similar to acupuncture spots, with directed energy weapons. Whatever they were doing, the projects were clearly collaborative between the US and British military and governments and were highly classified. In fact, since 911, over 50 world class microbiologists have been murdered or have died mysteriously, and nearly all were in the US or Britain. Many were working on ethnic-specific bioweapons.

By the mid to late eightees the psychotronic systems were set up in the US and Britain. With installation of the GWEN towers and HAARP in the US, the ‘show was on the road’. When the Cold War ended in 1992, all they had to do was ‘unveil it’.

A classified conference sponsored by the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab was held in the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University in November 1993. Colonel Alexander served as the conference Chairman. The meeting was attended by Attorney-General Janet Reno, numerous scientists, military weapons experts, and intelligence officials from state and local police departments. The main purpose of the meeting was to prepare leading law enforcement officials for the use of psychotronic mind-control weapons. Some of the lectures given were:
Dr. George Baker from Defence Nuclear Agency: “RF Weapons: A Very Attractive Non-Lethal Option”
Dr. Clay Easterly from Oak Ridge National Laboratory: “Application of Extremely Low Frequency Electromagnetic Fields to Non-Lethal Weapons”
“Radio-frequency Weapons, High Powered Microwave Technology, Acoustic Technology”
Zbiegniew Brzezinski, a Rockefeller recruit and founder of the Trilateral Commission, had much revealing information to give back in the seventies about technologies that are being disclosed now. He wrote in Between two Ages:
“Accurately timed, artificially excited electronic strokes could lead to a pattern of oscillations that produce relatively high power levels over certain regions of the Earth ... one could develop a system that would seriously impair the brain performance of a very large population in selected regions over an extended period.” (Zbiegniew Brzezinski, Between Two Ages, 1971).

When an American electropollution activist asked Motorola the purpose of the 10 hertz frequency on the carrier wave of the new Motorola police radio system, she did not get an answer (Personal Communications with Libby Kelley, Chair Marin County Health Council, 2003). From my own investigations and many interviews, I learned that this system was beamed across America when the Cold War ended, through Motorola radio systems, the Police and emergency response radio towers, cell phone towers, satellites, and another Motorola product —TETRA—in Britain:
Costing £2.9 billion, the UK’s new police communication system TETRA has been described by one independent scientist as likely to cause ‘more civilian deaths than all the world’s terrorist organisations put together’. (Jay Griffiths, “A Popular Revolt”, The Ecologist, September 17, 2004)
Death may be the hidden purpose, for “culling” society. Welcome to the New World Order.

WEATHER MODIFICATION

The earth and atmosphere rotate more or less at the same speed. The sun’s radiation provides energy to heat the earth, and differences in relative motion between the atmosphere and the earth depend on perturbations of energy and distribution. Ocean currents and the enormous heat capacity of the oceans are coupled with and control global climate. The amounts of energy in weather systems—hurricanes, tornadoes, thunderstorms—are far greater than what is under our direct control so it would be very difficult to directly modify them. Successful weather modification is more likely to occur by manipulating instabilities in the atmosphere.

An excellent example of the government/military application of weather on a regional scale is the impact of atmospheric nuclear weapons tests conducted by nuclear states during the period of atmospheric and underground testing which began in the 1940s and continued through the early 1990s. No country wanted to admit nuclear testing was dangerous, but at the same time nuclear states did not want to damage the health and genetic future of their own citizens, with the exception of the US. The location of nuclear weapons test sites and timing of tests were carefully and strategically planned, again with the exception of the United States.

Seasonal monsoon systems brought fallout and rainout of nuclear materials to India and Pakistan from nuclear tests in China, Kazakhstan and Australia. This resulted in contamination of the Himalayas with rainout and snowout of fission products into the headwaters of the major rivers of Southeast Asia. Chinese testing in the Gobi Desert and in Kazakhstan by the Soviets overtly protected their own populations from the dangerous consequences of nuclear exposure, and covertly passed the risk on to nations downstream from the Himalayas. The truth is now emerging that populations in Egypt, the Arabian peninsula, India, Pakistan, and Australia have suffered the long-term environmental and health consequences of exposure to radioactive iodine and fission products from those tests.

These are the countries affected by the monsoon, with the highest rates of diabetes in the Indian Ocean region, reported in 3.1–5.0 per cent of their populations. The United States stands out as the country that nuclear bombed North America, including Hawaii, Alaska, and Canada with serious health consequences, with 7.1–16.7 per cent of their populations suffering from diabetes. The Center for Disease Control recently predicted that one in three children born in the United States in 2000 will become diabetic, an acknowledgement of the possible long-term effects of the ‘nuclear weapons’ and nuclear power programmes. Damage from exposures even if DNA is not damaged, can be passed on to the progeny of those exposed, including reduced mental abilities.

The southeast Asian region will be exposed to high levels of radiation if a war against Iran is staged by the US and Israel. NSA former analyst Wayne Madsen reported on January 2, 2006, that the Chinese authorities have already warned southeast Asian nations that the radiation from the use of tactical nuclear weapons and depleted uranium weaponry (dirty bombs, dirty missiles, and dirty bullets) will cause radioactive contamination during the monsoon season.
“Southeast Asian intelligence sources report that Burma’s (Myanmar’s) recent abrupt decision to move its capital from Rangoon (Yangon) to remote Pyinmana, 200 miles to the north, is a result of Chinese intelligence warnings to its Burmese allies about the effects of radiation resulting from a US conventional or tactical nuclear attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

There is concern that a series of attacks on Iranian nuclear installations will create a Chernobyl-like radioactive cloud that would be caught up in monsoon weather in the Indian Ocean.”

“Low-lying Rangoon lies in the path of monsoon rains that would continue to carry radioactive fallout from Iran over South and Southeast Asia between May and October. Coastal Indian Ocean cities like Rangoon, Dhaka, Calcutta, Mumbai, Chennai, and Colombo would be affected by the radioactive fallout more than higher elevation cities since humidity intensifies the effects of the fallout. Thousands of government workers were given only two days’ notice to pack up and leave Rangoon for the higher (and drier) mountainous Pyinmana.”(http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/dec30-jan606.htm)

HURRICANE KATRINA

Storm modification can have major strategic and economic implications. Hurricane Katrina appears to have been a manipulated economic hit on New Orleans... it would not be the first time.
“We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.”
(Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal).

Engineering the forced relocation of the poor and black from their property, allows a vertical transfer of wealth upwards.

Manipulation of hurricanes may be possible by modifying the transfer of energy from the ocean into the atmosphere, increasing or dissipating hurricane strength, and other technologies which allow hurricanes to be “dragged”. The irregularities of nature are a convenient cover for manipulated events with hidden economic, military, or political benefits.

The hurricane Katrina disaster was not only shocking to people around the world, it forced Americans to painfully confront the ugly truth, overwhelming racism and genocide, the hidden-white only—“democracy” of America. It was a devastating psychic trauma for all Americans. Abandoned by their state, communities across America and survivors of New Orleans understood they had to “deal with it” on their own... on their own meager savings and retirements while disaster profiteers “pigged out” at the public trough.

Was Hurricane Katrina manipulated by weather modification technology?

NASA photo53 from Hurricane Katrina eyewall images taken on Sunday, August 28, 2005, during a NOAA P-3 hurricane hunter flight, at the time the storm was a Category Five storm seems to suggest it. What is the beam pointed directly into the eye of the hurricane?

US Military experiments on environmental engineering have been chemical or wave-related, and are well documented. In 1958 Chief White House adviser on weather modification, Captain Howard T. Orville, said the US Department of Defence (DoD) was studying “ways to manipulate the charges of the earth and sky and so affect the weather” by using an electronic beam to ionize or de-ionize the atmosphere over a given area. Canada was a partner in this research, from the start, and launched satellites into the ionosphere in 1962. Two other early experiments were Project Skyfire and Project Stormfury when the DoD was experimenting with lightning and hurricanes during the Vietnam War.

UCLA Professor Gordon J.F. MacDonald, a member of the President’s Science Advisory Committee in 1966, and later a member of the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, published papers on environmental-control technologies for military purposes and suggested many, but warned later about the impact on the environment. In 1968 in his chapter “How to Wreck the Environment” in the book Unless Peace Comes, he described “the use of weather manipulation, climate modification, polar ice cap melting or destabilisation, ozone depletion techniques, earthquake engineering, ocean wave control and brain wave manipulation using the planet’s energy fields”.

CLIMATE MODIFICATION

By 1965 research on climate change was pioneered by three research groups: the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, UCLA’s Department of Meteorology, and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Between 1965 and 1975, interest increased and proliferated new studies, the main ones being the RAND Corporation (Santa Monica, CA) funded by the US Air Force, Goddard Institute for Space Studies (New York, NY) funded by NASA, and the Australian Numerical Meteorological Research Centre (Melbourne, Australia). It is interesting that studies in climate modification funded by the military surfaced in this period. In order to determine whether or not it was possible, reasearch had to be done on climate variations under natural conditions. During this same period large projects to study climate change from the ice record began in Antarctica (1973) and Greenland (1977). Projects that seem innocuous on their own, when put together and integrated, had a very different purpose.

Early modeling studies focused on coupled atmosphere-ocean models, and spectral transform techniques. Research on the influence of carbon dioxide on climate under natural conditions used information from the ice record. Later, research began on the influence of man on climate change, or ‘inadvertent climate modification’ from pollution-induced ‘changes in climate, ocean ecology, or in large terrestrial ecosystems’. By the 1970s environmentalists introduced stratospheric ozone depletion, acid rain, and upper-atmosphere pollution from supersonic planes as climatic concerns.

Two areas of instabilities can be used to modify the climate—energy coming from the Sun, or energy escaping from the atmosphere of the earth. Huge manmade energetic explosions high up in the atmosphere used to trigger instabilities, might be possible at some time in the future; in fact the Navy exploded 3 nuclear bombs in the Van Allen belt in 1958 under Project Argus and violently disrupted it. Modification of long-wave outgoing radiation, changes in the transparency of the earth’s atmosphere to radiated energy, or of terrestrial regions (desert, vegetation, water, ice) provide the most likely possibilities for human “technogenic” intervention. The military has long wanted to eliminate civilian participation in space programmes in order to gain full control.

The ‘New World Order’ is being rolled out with exotic weapons that were developed collaboratively and secretly throughout the Cold War. The National Missile Defence fraud is being forced by the USA on unwilling countries around the world, at a cost of $1 trillion for the biggest corporate welfare project in world history.
(Emphasis added - B.M.)

2007-11-03T04:12:00.000-07:00

IMPEACH BUSH AND CHENEY NOW, AND SAFEGUARD THE PEOPLE'S POWER BY DIRECT AND FULL PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY FOLLOWING THE IMPEACHMENTby Benjamin Merhav

The following NLG historical resolution was downloaded today, 3rd of November, 2007 (eastern Australia time) from the website of the coalition for the impeachment of President Bush and Vice President Cheney.

When the impeachment is successfully passed then the people of the USA would need to be on guard so that genuine democracy - direct and participatoy democracy! - will prevail, rather than return to the old plutocracy rule, when anybody and anything - including people's lives - can be bought or sold by
by the owners of big money !

Our planet cannot continue to sustain life under the rule of big business !

POWER TO THE PEOPLE NOW !

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/28354

The National Lawyers Guild of the USA on Friday 2nd of October, 2007,unanimously and enthusiastically passed a resolution supporting the impeachment of Bush and Cheney as follows:

"Resolution on Impeachment of Bush and Cheney

Whereas George W. Bush and Richard B. Cheney:

1. deliberately misled the nation and doctored intelligence, as described in the Downing Street minutes, http://www.downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html
about the threat from Iraq in order to justify a war of aggression and an occupation of Iraq, as further described in House resolution H.
Res. 333 http://kucinich.house.gov/UploadedFiles/int3.pdf

and as listed in House Resolution H. Res. 635
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=hr109-635

2. committed crimes against peace by initiating war against Iraq in violation of the UN Charter
http://www.worldpress.org/specials/iraq/;

3. committed crimes against humanity in their conduct of the occupation of Iraq in which they killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians and created millions of refugees http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1892888,00.html and http://edition.cnn.com/2
006/WORLD/meast/10/13/iraq.main/index.html;

4. killed over 3700 American soldiers and severely wounded nearly 30,000 more in the pursuit of an illegal, immoral, and unjust occupation of Iraq. While Bush and Cheney have stated no truthful noble cause for the war, one of the central purposes appears to be to take control of Iraq's immense oil reserves to financially benefit private corporate interests.
See Bush's benchmark listing fact sheet released the same day Bush announced the "surge" that expressly called on the Iraq parliament to "enact hydrocarbons law to promote investment . . . "

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/01/200701103.

html and http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/56672/;

5. committed further crimes against peace by threatening Iran in violation of the UN Charter, as described in House resolution H. Res. 333 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgibin/query/z?c110:H.RES.333: and http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6649053.stm;

6. detained thousands of prisoners without charges and without providing the ability to confront their accusers at a fair trial http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Regions/Americas/United-States-of-America;

7. condoned the torture of prisoners in violation of the Geneva Conventions, the US anti-torture statute of 1994, the US War Crimes Act of 1996, and the oath of
office http://hrw.org/english/docs/2004/05/24/usint8614.htm
and
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Regions/Americas/United-States-of-America
and
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/24/bush_shuns_patriot_act_requirement/.

Bush's refusal to faithfully execute the laws prohibiting torture and his declaration on February 7,2002 that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to prisoners in Afghanistan and in Guantanamo set the stage for torture there http://hrw.org/reports/2004/usa0604/2.htm.
The Rumsfeld approved Guantanamo torture techniques were then imported to Iraq in August 2003, where the International Committee of the Red Cross found "systemic" mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners in several facilities and where the Schlesinger Report confirmed in August 2004 that abuses were
"widespread" and "serious both in number and in effect," and that there is both "institutional and personal responsibility at higher levels;"

8. approved at least two different illegal electronic surveillance programs of American citizens without a warrant in violation of the fourth amendment and in violation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, and repeatedly lied to the American people by stating that no surveillance was taking place without a court order. The first program includes intercepting phone and email conversations without warrants and was exposed by the NY Times on December
16, 2005 http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/CPC/NYT_15cnd-program.html.
After that program was exposed Bush said the program was carefully targeted to just include international calls and suspected members of Al Qaeda. Then, the second program was exposed by USA Today on May 11, 2006. It provides a wholesale attack on the fourth amendment by recording call identification
information of tens of millions of purely domestic calls as well as international calls http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-05-10-nsa_x.htm;

9. attacked basic human rights protections in the constitution including habeas corpus, fifth amendment freedom from loss of life, liberty and property without due process of law, eighth amendment freedom from cruel and unusual punishment, and fourth amendment freedom from reasonable search and seizure;

10. attacked the separation of powers in an effort to consolidate power in the executive;

11. attacked the messenger who revealed that Bush "twisted" intelligence "to exaggerate the Iraqi threat."
Just as Nixon retaliated against former Pentagon analyst Daniel Ellsberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ellsberg, according to papers filed in court by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in April 2006, there was "concerted action" by "multiple people in the White House" to "discredit, punish or seek revenge against" former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for his July 6, 2003 NY Times op ed piece
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/06/opinion/06WILS.html?ex=1372824000&en=6c6aeb1ce960dec0&ei=5007 that ripped the cover off of Bush's false assertions in his 2003 state of the union address that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Africa for building a nuclear bomb. In
retaliation, and to silence other would-be critics, the White House collected information about Wilson and disclosed to reporters that his wife, Valerie Plame, was a covert agent in the CIA counterinsurgency division, putting her life, and the lives of her contacts, at risk in violation of a US law protecting intelligence personnel (The Impeachment of George W. Bush, by Elizabeth
Holtzman);

12. as the sole person under the Federal Stafford Act with responsibility and authority to issue emergency orders to mobilize the military and any federal resources needed to aid and assist in a disaster (see Failure of Initiative, February 2006 report of the House Select Bipartisan Committee to investigate the Preparations for and the Response to Hurricane Katrina
http://katrina.house.gov/), Bush failed to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, violated the public trust, and demonstrated reckless and inexcusable indifference to human life before, during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Bush knew but did not act until too late, and then he lied
about it on national TV. Footage and transcripts from briefings Aug. 25-31 demonstrate that Bush was personally told well in advance of the "unprecedented strength" of the hurricane, the "devastating damage expected," and that "water shortages will make human suffering incredible," according to highly accurate predictions by the National Weather Service. The Associated Press reported that "in dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster
officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage," http://www.truthout.org/cgibin/artman/exec/view.cgi/47/18079. Yet Bush failed to muster resources to evacuate residents in
advance and failed to assist New Orleans residents after Hurricane Katrina hit.

Then three days later Bush told Good Morning America, "I don't think that anybody anticipated a breach of the levees." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpdyn/content/article/2006/03/02/AR2006030202130.html In years before the storm Bush demonstrated inexcusable criminal negligence and violated the public trust by cutting the budget for hurricane defense, though the high probability of the breaching of the levees and the
enormous risk to human life from a major hurricane hitting New Orleans were predicted and well known for years before the hurricane hit
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/09/03/katrina.chertoff/index.html;

13. failed to take care that the laws be faithfully executed by issuing signing statements that claim the authority to disobey laws based on the president's own interpretation of their constitutionality, and then by taking action in violation of these laws, including the US law making torture a crime, laws regarding Congressional oversight that require providing information to Congress, laws regarding domestic spying, laws regarding civil liberties, and laws
strengthening whistle blower protection, thereby expanding the president's own power by stepping into the legislative and judicial functions at the expense of Congress and the courts, upsetting the balance among the three branches of government, and moving us away from the rule of law toward vastly increased executive power; http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws/ and
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/03/24/bush_shuns_patriot_act_requirement/ ;

14. converted the Justice Department into an arm of the Republican Party by firing meritorious federal prosecutors who refused to base decisions on whom to prosecute on political considerations--to help Republicans win election, an offense James Madison discussed in a speech to the Senate on June 17, 1789, in which Madison said, "The danger then consists merely in this, the president can displace from office a man whose merits require that he should be continued in it.
What will be the motives which the president can feel for such abuse of his power, and the restraints that operate to prevent it? In the first place, he will be impeachable by this house, before the senate, for such an act of mal-administration; for I contend that the wanton removal of meritorious officers would subject him to impeachment and removal from his own high
trust."
http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/mep/displaydoc.cfm?docid=fc11904

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/113/print/;

15. condoned criminal conduct and obstructed justice by commuting the sentence of convicted perjurer Scooter Libby to keep him silent and to demonstrate that Bush and Cheney will not allow high officials in the administration to be held accountable for their criminal acts;

16. obstructed congressional investigations of these and other acts by the administration by defying subpoenas from Senate and House committees seeking documents and testimony under oath by administration officials and former administration officials; and Whereas the constitution requires the president to take the following oath of office: "I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the Office of the President of the United States, and
will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States;"and

Whereas the constitution provides that the president "shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed;"and

Whereas the constitution mandates that "the President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors;" and

Whereas impeachment was so important to our founding fathers that it is mentioned six times in five different sections of the constitution; and

Whereas George Mason, a primary author of the Constitution, said that impeachment was the single most important part of the entire document. "Shall any man be above Justice? Above all shall that man be above it who can commit the most extensive injustice?"
http://gunstonhall.org/georgemason/constitution.html
July 20, 1787; and

Whereas "high Crimes and Misdemeanors" is a term of art that means a serious abuse of power,whether or not it is also a crime, that endangers our constitutional system of government, or an abuse of public trust. (See Constitutional Grounds for Presidential Impeachment: Report of the House
Judiciary Committee, 1974, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wpsrv/politics/special/clinton/stories/watergatedoc_3.htm, articles by Elizabeth Holzman who served on the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment hearings of Richard Nixon in
1974 http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060130/holtzman;
and
http://www.thenation.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20070212&s=holtzman,
and the book, The Impeachment of George W. Bush, by Elizabeth Holtzman)

Whereas each of the above listed acts meets or exceeds that standard; and

Whereas impeachment is the only constitutional method to protect Americans from a president intent on abusing power, violating the constitution, violating the laws, and breaching public trust; and

Whereas Bush and Cheney threaten further crimes, including launching a war of aggression against Iran, and whereas sufficient time remains in their term of office for them to commit those crimes so allowing either or both of them to remain in office for that remaining time will facilitate these crimes, and

whereas pretexts for attacking Iran have been issued, as described by
a former CIA Middle East field officer and current Time Magazine columnist
http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1654188,00.html; and

Whereas failing to hold Bush and Cheney accountable not only condones their crimes but acilitates a future president committing similar or greater crimes; and

Whereas members of Congress swear an oath to "support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic," and no part of this oath permits exception for partisan advantage, the next election, political expediency, whether it is distracting from other issues, or how much time they have left in office; and

Whereas failure by Congress to initiate the one remedy--impeachment--provided by our founding fathers to protect the constitution from such serious abuses has put that constitution, the rule of law, civil liberties, our democratic form of government, the separation of powers, the lives of our men and women in uniform, and the lives of countless civilians at severe risk; and

Whereas citizen pressure led the Vermont State Senate and 87 cities and towns around the nation to pass impeachment resolutions; and

Whereas a poll conducted by http://www.americanresearchgroup.com/
on July 5, 2007 found that 54% of American adults want the US House of Representatives to begin impeachment proceedings against Vice President Dick Cheney while only 40% oppose, and whereas the poll also found that 45% are in favor of the same thing for President George W. Bush while 46%
oppose; and

Whereas in view Congress' ongoing complicity with the war, the torture, the lies, the warrantless wiretapping, and the imprisonment without trial, and its failure to protect rights and civil liberties, it is up to the people themselves to defend the constitution and our civil liberties by building larger grassroots movements, including a movement for impeachment;

Therefore be it resolved that the National Lawyers Guild calls upon the U.S. House of Representatives to immediately initiate impeachment proceedings, to investigate the charges, and if the investigation supports the charges, to vote to impeach George W. Bush and Richard B.Cheney as provided in the Constitution of the United States of America; and

Be it further resolved that the National Lawyers Guild will establish an NLG Impeachment Committee open to all members to coordinate action by the NLG in support of impeachment, to work with national and grassroots impeachment organizations, and to provide legal assistance for those efforts to strengthen the national campaign for impeachment; and

Be it further resolved that the NLG Impeachment Committee will help organize and coordinate events at the local, state, and national level to build public participation in the campaign to initiate impeachment investigation, impeachment, and removal of Bush and Cheney from office
without further delay; and

Be it further resolved that the National Lawyers Guild calls on NLG members to ask their respective member of Congress to support H. Res. 333 to impeach Cheney and to introduce or support other impeachment resolutions; and

Be it further resolved that the National Lawyers Guild calls on all other state and national bar associations, state and local government bodies, community organizations, labor unions, and all other citizen associations to adopt similar resolutions and to use all their resources to build the campaign demanding that Congress initiate impeachment investigation, impeach, and remove
Bush and Cheney from office without further delay; and

Be it further resolved that the National Lawyers Guild will forward a copy of this resolution to the Speaker and the Clerk of the US House of Representatives, to Representative John Conyers, Chair of the House Judiciary Committee, to the various state and federal bar associations, to other peace and justice organizations, and to the news media.

Implementation: By the NLG Impeachment Committee established by this resolution, by interested local chapters, and by national officers. "

(Emphasis added by B.M.)

2007-03-19T03:13:00.000-07:00

Chianciano conference: NATO troops out of Afghanistan!
Mon, 19 Mar 2007

International Conference
With the Resistance, for a Just Peace in the Middle East
Chianciano Terme, Province of Siena, Italy, Saturday 24 / Sunday 25 March,
2007

While the Chianciano conference "With the Resistance, for a Just Peace in
the Middle East" is focused on Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine, we cannot forget
Afghanistan.

The European NATO powers are operating the occupation of Afghanistan on behalf of their USA partner which thus gets a free hand to carry on its massacres in Iraq. It's only two fronts of the very same war in which the European Union is fully siding with the USA. Therefore we not only call for the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops but support the Afghan people's resistance.

Therefore we additionally have invited Rahim Ramim, a representative of the revolutionary anti-imperialist left forces from Afghanistan, who will report on the struggle against the occupation.
***
Is there a difference between the blood of an Afghan or anAmerican-European?!
Declaration by the Left Radicals of Afghanistan (LRA)
www.iraqiresistance.info/news.php?n=43&l=en
***
Programme & Speakers
www.iraqiresistance.info/speak.php?l=en
How to go there
www.iraqiresistance.info/venue.php?l=en
Call & Endorsers
www.iraqiresistance.info/call.php?l=en
Registration
www.iraqiresistance.info/register.php?l=en
***
www.iraqiresistance.info

2007-03-19T01:49:00.000-07:00

open letter to the anti-war movement
By Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty
Global Research, March 18, 2007

The national popular resistance in Iraq, in defending the whole of humanity against a culture of force, deserves our recognition and support, writes Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty.

The illegal invasion and destruction of Iraq is not only the biggest crime of recent history, it is the original sin of the 21st century, a depravity. In its war on Iraq, the United States has sought to destroy Iraq as both a state and a nation.

It decimated an entire class — the progressive middle class of Iraq that had proven its capacity to manage Iraqi resources independently and to the benefit of all; it killed nearly a million while sending millions more into exile; it orchestrated death squads and looting and invented new horrors in torture and rape; in the name of bringing democracy, it brought material destruction on a mass scale to a people, aiming also to erase their identity, memory, culture, social fabric, institutions and forms of administration, commerce, and everyday life; it even attacked Iraq’s unborn generations with the 4.7 billion-year death of depleted uranium. It has engaged in civilisational genocide as well as its own moral suicide.

Force, however, does not dictate right. The brutality of power and imperialism has been definitively exposed while the project for a new American century has utterly failed. The consequences for American and international history are conclusive. The world order that formed around erstwhile US liberal values has evaporated.

The US invasion and occupation of Iraq is a military, economic, political, moral and cultural disaster for Americans and the world. US military failure has been demonstrated by the inability of the best funded and most sophisticated armed force in the world to defeat the resistance of a small country and its poor people tired of 13 years of sanctions, exposing war as useless. While the Americans may attempt to secure their presence in Iraq, they cannot destroy the belief of Iraqis that they have the right to live as any other people in the world, free and independent and sovereign in their land and over their resources.

Occupying Iraq is an economic disaster because the costs of the war for the United States have increased beyond any economic gain it could have from controlling Iraqi oil. Politically, the occupation is a disaster for the United States because no one in the world can argue that it is playing a progressive role. The occupation is also a moral and cultural disaster for the US. Following the enormous human suffering of World War II, the world — Americans included — established international law and human rights law that set the standard for civilised societies. US neoconservatives and imperialists are trying to destroy this civilisation, refusing to be subject to international law and replacing it with the law of the jungle.

How can the world — Americans included — be identified with such a savage enterprise as the war on and occupation of Iraq?

Arabs are not strangers to neo-imperial attempts to prevent their development. They recall the systematic demonisation of their popular movements: the attempted toppling of the democratically elected Syrian government in 1956 for being “communist”, the characterisation of Nasser as a “fascist” when he nationalised the Suez Canal, the criminalisation of the Iraqi Baath Party, referred to as “Nazis”, when it refused to surrender control over Iraq’s resources. Even the Palestinian and Lebanese people who heroically struggle against occupation are considered “terrorists”. We know well what are colonial policies in general and in this region in particular. The US always pretends to defend the rights of a minority — whether its demands are justified or not — in order to control the majority. In Iraq, since 1991, the US appealed to Kurds and Shias to rebel, trying to insinuate that those who govern them are Sunnis. Anyone with intellectual honesty knows that the Baath Party was neither sectarian in its thinking nor in its membership.

US-Israeli plans, based on creating divisions among Arabs in one country, or between countries, have failed. In Iraq, the policy of charming some groups of the Iraqi Resistance or their supporters in order to divide them and isolate the resistance has failed completely. Despite repeated declarations made by war criminal Jalal Talabani, resistance groups are united in their position. Second, the policy of dividing Iraqi movements into Shia, Sunni and Kurd, is disintegrating: large movements of opinion insist on the unity of Iraq and the common interest of its people. Ever more groups in the south enter the struggle against the occupation and its local puppet government. The unity of Turkomen, Assyrians and Arabs on the fate of Kirkuk is an example of underlying unity, as is the deepening of tribal solidarity, spreading demands for a large political national front, demonstrations in the north, and ever unifying positions concerning the future of Iraq’s oil wealth.

Iraq has been a socio-economic and geopolitical entity for more than 4000 years, it cannot be divided. It is the cradle of several civilisations. When united this entity has proven able to enhance human civilisation and be an engine for progress. Where the Sumerians invented writing, the Babylonians invented law, followed by the Abbasid who introduced the idea of a state of all its citizens and of social solidarity in society, opening the path for the unifying Arab-Muslim civilisation that survives proudly to this day. The Iraqi people are the expression of this heritage, regardless of their religion or ethnicity. Never in history could two states cohabitate the area that is now Iraq. It has always been in the interest of the peoples who settled in the Iraq basin to organise together a common geopolitical future.

There have been many unsuccessful imperial attempts to divide this natural entity. No form of aggression, regardless of how criminal or vengeful, can destroy the Arab-Muslim identity of Iraq or Iraq’s geopolitical unity. In its attempts to destroy this civilisation and reality, the US administration has thrown the entire idea of the so-called West into disarray. Definitively exposed are all the racist and condescending attitudes that had remained latent or covert.
The “West” — and the United States in particular — stands naked as a culture of force. The moral accounting, which will develop inexorably, will change world history. It is the resistance of the Iraqi people that demands it.

Attempts to choke Arab development cannot but fail. The three main socio-economic and political currents developed by Arab societies — nationalists, Islamists and leftists — are intrinsically anti-imperialist and therefore opposed to US-Israeli regional designs. For nationalists, retaining control of national resources to serve the general interest is sacrosanct. For leftists, opposing the international chains of imperialism and globalisation is a baseline. For Islamists, resistance to foreign occupation, as written in the Quran, is a duty. Their interest lies currently in achieving unity in struggle. They are united by their Arabo-Muslim identity. They share common principles and values as follows: natural resources, material heritage, and the riches of culture and civilisation are the property of the totality of the people; the totality of citizens constitutes the people; the people are the sole source of sovereignty and of constitutional, political and judicial legitimacy; government is responsible for and accountable to all citizens; solidarity between citizens — between generations, the able and ill, the elderly and young, the orphan and every human being who finds himself in a state of weakness — should form the basis of any government’s social policy. The general interest is the justification and basis for the operation of the state, with every citizen, free of all forms of discrimination, sharing in the fruits of national wealth and social development.

The United States established a collision course confrontation with Iraqi society when it liquidated the Iraqi state, destroying its accomplishments and erasing its memory. It was oblivious to the simple truth that society is not a political movement or head of state that can be conquered, apprehended, bribed or killed; rather, it is all the living people in a given country. Like other live societies, Iraqi society possesses huge capabilities — a sophisticated legacy based on ancient civilisations and an experienced patriotic movement.

Occupation forces faced from the first day a resolute resistance, culminating in an uprising by all Iraqi movements and organisations, including those defending women or unemployed youth, human rights organisations, trade unions, professional syndicates, agencies defending Iraq’s environment and the rights of prisoners, and all other cultural and political organisations, side-by-side with provincial and tribal communities and peaceful and armed resistance groups. A national popular movement, opposed to occupation and sectarianism, developed taking various forms, from civil to armed resistance.
In struggling against military-imperial powers, Iraqis fight in defence of values around which a majority in the world gathers in consensus.

In contrast, the sheer level of force to which Iraqis have been subjected by imperial powers — from systematic murder and rape, the desecration of religious and cultural sites and the destruction of Iraq’s historic heritage, the poisoning of Iraq’s landscape and rivers by radioactive weapons that will mark the lives of its future generations for hundreds if not thousands of years, the terrorising of a whole national population and its attempted division along lines leading to all out civil war, the plunder of its resources — prove the decadence and utter immorality of the neoliberal/neoconservative agenda.

The struggle of Iraq is a struggle for civilisation, for culture, for justice, and for not reducing human life to mere production and consumption or the conquest of others. Indeed, the present uprising of Iraqis is not only a part of the wider struggle against savage globalisation and “free” capital, it is its forefront battle.

It is because the Iraqis refuse to surrender their sovereignty to multinational corporations that Iraq is being destroyed so viciously.

While the occupation is a disaster for the United States, for Iraqi society it is a catastrophe. With the aid of its allies, the US has destroyed all that Iraqis built in modern times. It should come as no surprise that Iraqis will continue struggling against the occupation in order to restore their society. The large educated and marginalised middle class, along with the impoverished working class and unemployed youth deprived of state subsidies, have no interest in collaborating with the US policy of creating a class of blood-soaked feudal warlords.

Resistance is the only path for Iraqis to true liberty, democracy, peace, dignity and achieving their interests, both as individuals and as a people. The US administration has succeeded in nothing but destruction, bloodshed and lies. The Iraqi Resistance is by definition democratic as it is the spontaneous expression of a people who took its destiny into its hands, and is by definition progressive as it defends the interests of the people.

While Western societies pose as being democratic, street action and popular consensus over the past four years has proven that Western structures of political governance are impervious to popular will. Despite its failure to solidify our trust in our ability to change history, the anti-war and anti-globalisation movement, in its various forms of expression, proves that the people understand the current divorce between their aspirations and the individuals, parties and institutions that are supposed to represent and defend them and their interests.

New ways of civil struggle must be found, and urgently. While its failure is comprehensive, this US administration shows no sign of changing course. Iraq and the world cannot wait until November 2008, by which time this US administration and its local collaborators could have killed another one million Iraqis on top of the one million killed since 2003. Rigorous action is needed, including the impeachment and prosecution of responsible state leaders and officials for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the crime of genocide.

We should support the call of Tun Dr Mahatir Mohammed to criminalise war as a means of resolving disputes among nations. We should support this call not only because war is a crime, but also because war again has been proven useless. Iraq cannot be broken and cannot be subjugated. The defeat of the United States and the occupation should be a lesson; that never again a military force tries to subjugate the people of another country.

The US did not and cannot achieve its goals, even if it exterminates whole sections of Iraqi society. To succeed in stopping this insanity, the anti-war movement must revise all its terminology and refuse the terms dictated by the occupation. We must condemn the ignorance that accepts the dehumanising of the other. We must refuse the word “insurgency” and substitute it for what exists in reality: legitimate and legal resistance against vicious foreign occupation. Occupation is a de facto condition, not a de jure determination. With around 200,000 foreign forces on Iraqi soil, Iraq cannot be but described as an occupied country. Detainees in Iraq should thus be considered prisoners of war, with all the protected rights the Third Geneva Convention assures them.

We ought all to be humbled by the loses this people has been prepared to endure for our sake and demand the complete, unconditional and immediate withdrawal of occupation forces from Iraqi soil, along with the cancellation of any law, treaty, agreement or contract passed under occupation and the fair payment of reparations and compensations for the tragic human and material loses the Iraqis have suffered in defence of civilisation.

We must refuse in total the culture of the military-imperial state if we are to contribute to the wave of resistance rising worldwide in defence of civilisation, justice, independence and coexistence. We must retrieve recognition from any entity imposed by the United States and that claims to represent the people of Iraq.

Long live the Iraqi people and its sole representative, the Iraqi Resistance.

(Emphasis added - B.M.)

2007-02-21T02:39:00.000-08:00

Newsletter of the Anti-imperialist Camp
<aik_info@listi.jpberlin.de> wrote:

Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:59:27 +0100

Call to action against G8 summit in Heiligendamm, Germany

Stop occupation and war

In June 2007, the eight biggest capitalist powers will meet in Germany, in the city of Heiligendamm. These G8 meetings have assumed a symbolic character representing the imperialist policy all over the world: While the world’s mightiest are enjoying their cheerful get togethers, dinner parties and cocktails, their armies are bombing innocent people, fighting repressing and torturing civilians, crushing legitimate resistance elsewhere in the world. Their corporations are looting resources belonging to other peoples in other parts of the world, their companies are exploiting the world’s poor and undefended to satisfy their masters’ greed. Their diplomacies are pressurizing sovereign countries so as to subjugate them to imperialist interests.

This is what G8 summits stand for. And this is why broad opposition movements have risen all over the world to oppose and protest the G8 summits, ranging from civil society groups in the Western world to popular resistance movements in the oppressed countries. In particular, after September 11, 2001 the imperialist violence and arrogance has assumed unbearable heights with their war on Afghanistan and Iraq, their support to Zionist bloody occupation in Palestine, their proxy war in Somalia, their interference in favour of bloody dictatorships and oligarchies such as in Colombia as well as their instigation of reactionary coups such as in Venezuela.

But not only the oppressed peoples in the South, also in the imperialist countries themselves it is the people, the masses who have to pay the price for the imperialist policy. In Germany, where the next G8 meeting will take place, unemployment and poverty have been rising. In the former GDR, which has been annexed by Western imperialism, the situation is especially dire. They have been promised “blossoming landscapes” but capitalist globalisation brought them industrial deserts. The German government has joined the US bandwagon in its war on terror externally and internally increasing pressure on Muslim people in Germany and steadily cutting basic democratic rights.

The G8 is the symbol for imperialist war and oppression!

Let’s make the voice of the oppressed and wretched audible in order to foil their conspiracy against the peoples of the world!Stop the Euro-American terror war!
Support the popular resistance movements!Anti-imperialist CampThe Anti-imperialist Camp and especially its German affiliates are organising together with others an anti-imperialist bloc within the main demonstration of June 2.

All international participation is welcomed.

(Emphasis added)

2007-02-17T21:17:00.000-08:00

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While World Capitalists Spend Trillions of Dollars on their Wanton Wars, Hunger Kills 18,000 Children Each Day
By Hassan El-Najjar
Al-Jazeerah, February 17, 2007

While world capitalists spend trillions of dollars on their wanton wars, hunger kills 18,000 children everyday, as reported by UN officials below.

These are not children dying only in poor areas in the world, but they are children dying as a result of wars launched on their countries by the world imperialist powers.

On top of these children come those of Palestine, who have been under an Israeli-US-EU financial embargo for more than a year now, for no reason other than their parents exercising their political democratic rights. Their sin was voting for Hamas. They have been punished because of expressing their desire to get rid of the brutal Israeli occupation of their homeland.

Iraqi children have been killed since the US-Led NATO embargo (1990-2003), which resulted in killing more than half a million Iraqi children in the 1990s. The US Secretary of State, Mad Albright, then uttered her infamous announcement that killing them was "worth it." Their plight did not end by the US invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003. More than 650,000 Iraqi civilians were killed by the end of 2006. Most of them were children, women, elders, and innocent civilian men.

In Darfur, suddenly rebel groups emerged when oil and uranium reserves became well-known. These rebel groups have been well supplied with weapons to fight for independence from Sudan. You can guess who is funding them. Again, Darfur children have been victims of this oil-uranium war, just like their fellow Sudanese in the South in the past.

Afghani children have been suffering continuously since the US encouraged Afghanis to fight the Soviet invasion in 1979. The war devastated the economy and resulted in a failing state. When finally, the Soviets left in mid-1980s, the US left the Afghanis alone fighting a devastating civil war, which destroyed what was left of the countries institutions. Finally, since the 2001 US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, and despite hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the war, Afghanis have not seen improvement in their life, including those related to children. A frequent NATO media propaganda has been expressing intentions for reconstruction, after defeating the Taliban resistance movement!

Then, all over the world, pockets of poverty have been centers of starvation and suffering for children. Wealthy northern hemisphere nations have been spending trillions of dollars on their military spending and wars in the poor southern hemisphere.

Dreams of humanity for peace after World War II have evaporated when US-Led NATO countries have marginalized the UN by starting a neo-imperialist era. Wars and invasions have replaced cooperation and dreams for a better future for humanity.

The capitalist-war curse has not only impacted the poor in the world. It has been sinking the US deep in national debt, which has reached $8.9 trillion. The Bush administration alone has added more than $3 trillion to the US national debt, basically on its wars in the Middle East and around the world.

If not addressed, by stopping US wars and closing all US military bases abroad, the sky-rocketing US national debt will destroy the US economy. The, God forbid, American children will be suffering like children in other continents.

AP Headline: U.N.: Hunger Kills 18,000 Kids Each Day
By EDITH M. LEDERER Associated Press Writer
Feb 17, 2007, 7:43 AM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP) --

Some 18,000 children die every day because of hunger and malnutrition and 850 million people go to bed every night with empty stomachs, a "terrible indictment of the world in 2007," the head of the U.N. food agency said.

James Morris called for students and young people, faith-based groups, the business community and governments to join forces in a global movement to alleviate and eliminate hunger - especially among children.

"The little girl in Malawi who's fed, and goes to school: 50 percent less likely to be HIV-positive, 50 percent less likely to give birth to a low birth weight baby," he said in an interview Friday. "Everything about her life changes for the better and it's the most important, significant, humanitarian, political, or economic investment the world can make in its future."

Morris, an American businessman and former president the Indianapolis-based Lilly Endowment, one of the largest charitable organizations in the U.S., is stepping down as executive director of the Rome-based World Food Program in April after five years of leading the world's largest humanitarian organization.

He said that while the percentage of people who are hungry and malnourished has decreased from a fifth of the world's population to a sixth of the population, the actual number of hungry people is growing by about 5 million people a year because of the rising population.
"Today 850 million people are hungry and malnourished. Over half of them are children. 18,000 children die every single day because of hunger and malnutrition," Morris said. "This is a shameful fact - a terrible indictment of the world in 2007, and it's an issue that needs to be solved."

Morris said the largest number of malnourished children are in India - more than 100 million - followed by nearly 40 million in China.

"I'm very optimistic that India and China are very focused on this issue," he said. "They're making great progress - (but) need to do more. (It) needs to be a top priority."

Elsewhere, there are probably 100 million hungry children in the rest of Asia, another 100 million in Africa where countries have fewer resources to help, and 30 million in Latin America, he said.

As Morris prepares to leave his post, he said the two issues of greatest concern are the increasing number of impoverished people and the "very significant, growing number of natural disasters around the world."

According to the World Bank, natural disasters have increased fourfold over the last 30 years, he said. That means several billion people need instant help over the course of a decade because of disasters such as the tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake, or drought in southern Africa.

The response to these disasters and conflicts such as in Sudan's Darfur region and Lebanon has meant that most development aid has been used to save lives - not to help communities prevent disasters and promote development through agricultural programs, education for children and water conservation, Morris said.

The agency's biggest operation today is in Darfur, where violence and security are major problems and 2.5 million people have fled their homes and now live in camps.
"Our convoys are attacked almost daily. We had a truck driver killed there at the end of last year. Our convoys coming through Chad from Libya are always at risk. When the African Union troops were there, that was very helpful. The U.N. troops will be even more helpful," Morris said.

He was referring to a plan for an AU-U.N. force to be deployed in Darfur, which is awaiting approval from Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir.
American diplomat Josette Sheeran will replace Morris, who plans to head home to Indianapolis.

"I will work as hard as I can every day of the rest of my life to see that more resources are available to feed hungry children," Morris said.

(Emphasis added by Justice Lover)