I have seen no stronger proof that the federal government, CIA, monopoly media are terrifyingly monstrous organized crime

[Everyman]

Michael Meacher MP was UK environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html



This war on terrorism is bogus

The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its
global domination

Michael Meacher
Saturday September 6, 2003
The Guardian

Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why
Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused
on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too. The
conventional explanation is that after the Twin Towers were hit, retaliation
against al-Qaida bases in Afghanistan was a natural first step in launching
a global war against terrorism. Then, because Saddam Hussein was alleged by
the US and UK governments to retain weapons of mass destruction, the war
could be extended to Iraq as well. However this theory does not fit all the
facts. The truth may be a great deal murkier.
We now know that a blueprint for the creation of a global Pax Americana was
drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice-president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence
secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George Bush's
younger brother) and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document,
entitled Rebuilding America's Defences, was written in September 2000 by the
neoconservative think tank, Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the Gulf
region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says "while the
unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need
for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue
of the regime of Saddam Hussein."

The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier document attributed to Wolfowitz and
Libby which said the US must "discourage advanced industrial nations from
challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global
role". It refers to key allies such as the UK as "the most effective and
efficient means of exercising American global leadership". It describes
peacekeeping missions as "demanding American political leadership rather
than that of the UN". It says "even should Saddam pass from the scene", US
bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain permanently... as "Iran may
well prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has". It spotlights
China for "regime change", saying "it is time to increase the presence of
American forces in SE Asia".

The document also calls for the creation of "US space forces" to dominate
space, and the total control of cyberspace to prevent "enemies" using the
internet against the US. It also hints that the US may consider developing
biological weapons "that can target specific genotypes [and] may transform
biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool".

Finally - written a year before 9/11 - it pinpoints North Korea, Syria and
Iran as dangerous regimes, and says their existence justifies the creation
of a "worldwide command and control system". This is a blueprint for US
world domination. But before it is dismissed as an agenda for rightwing
fantasists, it is clear it provides a much better explanation of what
actually happened before, during and after 9/11 than the global war on
terrorism thesis. This can be seen in several ways.

First, it is clear the US authorities did little or nothing to pre-empt the
events of 9/11. It is known that at least 11 countries provided advance
warning to the US of the 9/11 attacks. Two senior Mossad experts were sent
to Washington in August 2001 to alert the CIA and FBI to a cell of 200
terrorists said to be preparing a big operation (Daily Telegraph, September
16 2001). The list they provided included the names of four of the 9/11
hijackers, none of whom was arrested.

It had been known as early as 1996 that there were plans to hit Washington
targets with aeroplanes. Then in 1999 a US national intelligence council
report noted that "al-Qaida suicide bombers could crash-land an aircraft
packed with high explosives into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA,
or the White House".

Fifteen of the 9/11 hijackers obtained their visas in Saudi Arabia. Michael
Springman, the former head of the American visa bureau in Jeddah, has stated
that since 1987 the CIA had been illicitly issuing visas to unqualified
applicants from the Middle East and bringing them to the US for training in
terrorism for the Afghan war in collaboration with Bin Laden (BBC, November
6 2001). It seems this operation continued after the Afghan war for other
purposes. It is also reported that five of the hijackers received training
at secure US military installations in the 1990s (Newsweek, September 15
2001).

Instructive leads prior to 9/11 were not followed up. French Moroccan flight
student Zacarias Moussaoui (now thought to be the 20th hijacker) was
arrested in August 2001 after an instructor reported he showed a suspicious
interest in learning how to steer large airliners. When US agents learned
from French intelligence he had radical Islamist ties, they sought a warrant
to search his computer, which contained clues to the September 11 mission
(Times, November 3 2001). But they were turned down by the FBI. One agent
wrote, a month before 9/11, that Moussaoui might be planning to crash into
the Twin Towers (Newsweek, May 20 2002).

All of this makes it all the more astonishing - on the war on terrorism
perspective - that there was such slow reaction on September 11 itself. The
first hijacking was suspected at not later than 8.20am, and the last
hijacked aircraft crashed in Pennsylvania at 10.06am. Not a single fighter
plane was scrambled to investigate from the US Andrews airforce base, just
10 miles from Washington DC, until after the third plane had hit the
Pentagon at 9.38 am. Why not? There were standard FAA intercept procedures
for hijacked aircraft before 9/11. Between September 2000 and June 2001 the
US military launched fighter aircraft on 67 occasions to chase suspicious
aircraft (AP, August 13 2002). It is a US legal requirement that once an
aircraft has moved significantly off its flight plan, fighter planes are
sent up to investigate.

Was this inaction simply the result of key people disregarding, or being
ignorant of, the evidence? Or could US air security operations have been
deliberately stood down on September 11? If so, why, and on whose authority?
The former US federal crimes prosecutor, John Loftus, has said: "The
information provided by European intelligence services prior to 9/11 was so
extensive that it is no longer possible for either the CIA or FBI to assert
a defence of incompetence."

Nor is the US response after 9/11 any better. No serious attempt has ever
been made to catch Bin Laden. In late September and early October 2001,
leaders of Pakistan's two Islamist parties negotiated Bin Laden's
extradition to Pakistan to stand trial for 9/11. However, a US official
said, significantly, that "casting our objectives too narrowly" risked "a
premature collapse of the international effort if by some lucky chance Mr
Bin Laden was captured". The US chairman of the joint chiefs of staff,
General Myers, went so far as to say that "the goal has never been to get
Bin Laden" (AP, April 5 2002). The whistleblowing FBI agent Robert Wright
told ABC News (December 19 2002) that FBI headquarters wanted no arrests.
And in November 2001 the US airforce complained it had had al-Qaida and
Taliban leaders in its sights as many as 10 times over the previous six
weeks, but had been unable to attack because they did not receive permission
quickly enough (Time Magazine, May 13 2002). None of this assembled
evidence, all of which comes from sources already in the public domain, is
compatible with the idea of a real, determined war on terrorism.

The catalogue of evidence does, however, fall into place when set against
the PNAC blueprint. From this it seems that the so-called "war on terrorism"
is being used largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic
geopolitical objectives. Indeed Tony Blair himself hinted at this when he
said to the Commons liaison committee: "To be truthful about it, there was
no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a
campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11" (Times, July
17 2002). Similarly Rumsfeld was so determined to obtain a rationale for an
attack on Iraq that on 10 separate occasions he asked the CIA to find
evidence linking Iraq to 9/11; the CIA repeatedly came back empty-handed
(Time Magazine, May 13 2002).

In fact, 9/11 offered an extremely convenient pretext to put the PNAC plan
into action. The evidence again is quite clear that plans for military
action against Afghanistan and Iraq were in hand well before 9/11. A report
prepared for the US government from the Baker Institute of Public Policy
stated in April 2001 that "the US remains a prisoner of its energy dilemma.
Iraq remains a destabilising influence to... the flow of oil to
international markets from the Middle East". Submitted to Vice-President
Cheney's energy task group, the report recommended that because this was an
unacceptable risk to the US, "military intervention" was necessary (Sunday
Herald, October 6 2002).

Similar evidence exists in regard to Afghanistan. The BBC reported
(September 18 2001) that Niaz Niak, a former Pakistan foreign secretary, was
told by senior American officials at a meeting in Berlin in mid-July 2001
that "military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of
October". Until July 2001 the US government saw the Taliban regime as a
source of stability in Central Asia that would enable the construction of
hydrocarbon pipelines from the oil and gas fields in Turkmenistan,
Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, through Afghanistan and Pakistan, to the Indian
Ocean. But, confronted with the Taliban's refusal to accept US conditions,
the US representatives told them "either you accept our offer of a carpet of
gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs" (Inter Press Service, November
15 2001).

Given this background, it is not surprising that some have seen the US
failure to avert the 9/11 attacks as creating an invaluable pretext for
attacking Afghanistan in a war that had clearly already been well planned in
advance. There is a possible precedent for this. The US national archives
reveal that President Roosevelt used exactly this approach in relation to
Pearl Harbor on December 7 1941. Some advance warning of the attacks was
received, but the information never reached the US fleet. The ensuing
national outrage persuaded a reluctant US public to join the second world
war. Similarly the PNAC blueprint of September 2000 states that the process
of transforming the US into "tomorrow's dominant force" is likely to be a
long one in the absence of "some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a
new Pearl Harbor". The 9/11 attacks allowed the US to press the "go" button
for a strategy in accordance with the PNAC agenda which it would otherwise
have been politically impossible to implement.

The overriding motivation for this political smokescreen is that the US and
the UK are beginning to run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies. By
2010 the Muslim world will control as much as 60% of the world's oil
production and, even more importantly, 95% of remaining global oil export
capacity. As demand is increasing, so supply is decreasing, continually
since the 1960s.

This is leading to increasing dependence on foreign oil supplies for both
the US and the UK. The US, which in 1990 produced domestically 57% of its
total energy demand, is predicted to produce only 39% of its needs by 2010.
A DTI minister has admitted that the UK could be facing "severe" gas
shortages by 2005. The UK government has confirmed that 70% of our
electricity will come from gas by 2020, and 90% of that will be imported. In
that context it should be noted that Iraq has 110 trillion cubic feet of gas
reserves in addition to its oil.

A report from the commission on America's national interests in July 2000
noted that the most promising new source of world supplies was the Caspian
region, and this would relieve US dependence on Saudi Arabia. To diversify
supply routes from the Caspian, one pipeline would run westward via
Azerbaijan and Georgia to the Turkish port of Ceyhan. Another would extend
eastwards through Afghanistan and Pakistan and terminate near the Indian
border. This would rescue Enron's beleaguered power plant at Dabhol on
India's west coast, in which Enron had sunk $3bn investment and whose
economic survival was dependent on access to cheap gas.

Nor has the UK been disinterested in this scramble for the remaining world
supplies of hydrocarbons, and this may partly explain British participation
in US military actions. Lord Browne, chief executive of BP, warned
Washington not to carve up Iraq for its own oil companies in the aftermath
of war (Guardian, October 30 2002). And when a British foreign minister met
Gadaffi in his desert tent in August 2002, it was said that "the UK does not
want to lose out to other European nations already jostling for advantage
when it comes to potentially lucrative oil contracts" with Libya (BBC
Online, August 10 2002).

The conclusion of all this analysis must surely be that the "global war on
terrorism" has the hallmarks of a political myth propagated to pave the way
for a wholly different agenda - the US goal of world hegemony, built around
securing by force command over the oil supplies required to drive the whole
project. Is collusion in this myth and junior participation in this project
really a proper aspiration for British foreign policy? If there was ever
need to justify a more objective British stance, driven by our own
independent goals, this whole depressing saga surely provides all the
evidence needed for a radical change of course.

· Michael Meacher MP was environment minister from May 1997 to June 2003

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/september11/story/0,11209,1036588,00.html

Meacher sparks fury over claims on September 11 and Iraq war

Fury over Meacher claims

Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor
Saturday September 6, 2003
The Guardian

Michael Meacher, who served as a minister for six years until three months
ago, today goes further than any other mainstream British politician in
blaming the Iraq war on a US desire for domination of the Gulf and the
world.

Mr Meacher, a leftwinger who is close to the green lobby, also claims in an
article in today's Guardian that the war on terrorism is a smokescreen and
that the US knew in advance about the September 11 attack on New York but,
for strategic reasons, chose not to act on the warnings.

He says the US goal is "world hegemony, built around securing by force
command over the oil supplies" and that this Pax Americana "provides a much
better explanation of what actually happened before, during and after 9/11
than the global war on terrorism thesis".

Mr Meacher adds that the US has made "no serious attempt" to catch the
al-Qaida leader, Osama bin Laden.

He also criticises the British government, claiming it is motivated, as is
the US, by a desire for oil.

The US government last night expressed abhorrence at Mr Meacher's views. An
embassy spokesman in London said: "Mr Meacher's fantastic allegations -
especially his assertion that the US government knowingly stood by while
terrorists killed some 3,000 innocents in New York, Pennsylvania and
Virginia - would be monstrous, and monstrously offensive, if they came from
someone serious or credible.

"My nation remains grateful for the steadfast friendship of the British
people and Her Majesty's government as we face, together, the serious
challenges that have arisen since September 11 2001."

Downing Street also distanced itself from the views of an MP who only a few
months ago was in the government. "The prime minister has responded to those
who argue it was about oil," a spokeswoman said, adding that oil profits
from Iraq are to be fed back into the country's development.

Former ministers such as Robin Cook and Clare Short have criticised the
British government for misleading the public over the reasons for going to
war. But Mr Meacher has gone much further in his analysis of US and British
motives.

He says that the plans of the neo-conservatives in Washington for action
against Afghanistan and Iraq were well in hand before September 11. He
questions why the US failed to heed intelligence about al-Qaida operatives
in the US and the apparent slow reaction of the US authorities on the day,
as well as the subsequent inability to lay hands on Bin Laden.

He argues that the explanation makes sense when seen against the background
of the neo-conservative plan.

"From this it seems that the so-called 'war on terrorism' is being used
largely as bogus cover for achieving wider US strategic geopolitical
objectives."

He adds: "Given this, it is not surprising that some have seen the US
failure to avert the 9/11 attacks as creating an invaluable pretext for
attacking Afghanistan in a war that had clearly already been well planned in
advance."

Mr Meacher, who was environment minister, says: "The overriding motivation
for this political smokescreen is that the US and the UK are beginning to
run out of secure hydrocarbon energy supplies."

He is critical of Britain for allegedly colluding in propagating the myth of
a global war of terrorism. He asks: "Is collusion in this myth and junior
participation in this project really a proper aspiration for British foreign
policy?"



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Marine Gen. Anthony C. Zinni Lambastes Bush's Incompetent War in Iraq
and His Treatment of the Armed Forces, Ex-Envoy Criticizes Bush's
Postwar Policy

By Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 5, 2003; Page A16

A former U.S. commander for the Middle East who still consults for the
State Department yesterday blasted the Bush administration's handling of
postwar Iraq, saying it lacked a coherent strategy, a serious plan and
sufficient resources.

"There is no strategy or mechanism for putting the pieces together,"
said retired Marine Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, and so, he said, "we're in
danger of failing."

In an impassioned speech to several hundred Marine and Navy officers and
others, Zinni invoked the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War in the
1960s and '70s. "My contemporaries, our feelings and sensitivities were
forged on the battlefields of Vietnam, where we heard the garbage and
the lies, and we saw the sacrifice," said Zinni, who was severely
wounded while serving as an infantry officer in that conflict. "I ask
you, is it happening again?"

Zinni's comments were especially striking because he endorsed President
Bush in the 2000 campaign, shortly after retiring from active duty, and
serves as an adviser to the State Department on anti-terror initiatives
in Indonesia and the Philippines. He preceded Army Gen. Tommy R. Franks
as chief of the U.S. Central Command, the headquarters for U.S. military
operations in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East.

Complete article:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27846-2003Sep4.html

[Everyman]

News for the Peace and Justice Extremist and other Criminologists

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Kent State Professor: 'Compelling Evidence for 9-11 Complicity'

Prof. Walter Davis writes, "In this article, I outline twenty-two items of
evidence and questions, each one sufficient reason to demand an
investigation into why September 11th was not prevented. Together, these
items suggest that the most plausible explanation of events is that the Bush
Administration was complicit in the terrorist attacks. This should be a
national and international scandal. What is being discovered will shock many
people, which is one of the reasons for deliberate corporate media coverup.
But a significant number of people within the U.S. see (or will see) the
consistencies in the events surrounding 9/11 as described below, and what
they know about U.S. foreign policy. Nevertheless, the degree to which this
Administration is pursuing a course of world domination at any cost is
unprecedented. One of the best ways of putting a halt to this destructive
course is to expose the Bush Administration and insist on their
accountability to the American people."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm

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Farah tried to plead with the US troops but she was killed anyway
The death of two innocent Iraqis was thought so unremarkable the US military
did not even report it, but Peter Beaumont says it reflects an increasingly
callous disregard of civilian lives in coalition operations
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1037081,00.html

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KERRY, DEAN, LIEBERMAN,GEPHARDT SUPPORT THE BUSHOCCUPATION OF IRAQ


John Kerry, Howard Dean, Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt All Support the
BushOccupation of Iraq

No American can rightfully call themselves a peace activist if they support
the Bushoccupation of Iraq.

When you support the Democratic candidates who support the Bushoccupation of
Iraq:

*You support sacrificing American lives for nothing at all -- except for the
OILY/GREEDY Bush-Cheney CorporateAgenda;

*You support the killing of Iraqis, period.

*You support paying billions and billions of our tax dollars to the
Bush-Lovin' Corporations "doing business in Iraq"

*You support forcing the Iraqi people to accept a government of your
choosing;

*You increase hatred and terrorism against America, by supporting the
BushOccupation of Iraq;

*You will NEVER SUCCEED IN FORCING THE PEOPLE OF IRAQ TO AMERICANIZE IRAQ!!!


Ron Haroldd

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Britain and the US have combined to come up with entirely new explanations
of why they went to war in Iraq as inspectors on the ground prepare to
report that there are no weapons of mass destruction there.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=441051

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British army admits brutalising Iraqi civilians
5 September 2003
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/sep2003/apol-s05.shtml

The British army has issued a public apology for brutally beating Iraqi
civilians in the town of Majar al Kabir, 120 miles north of Basra.

According to the Daily Mirror newspaper, on August 23 soldiers from the 22nd
Special Air Service (SAS) clubbed and kicked 11 Iraqis they falsely believed
to have been involved in the killing of six British military police officers
in the town on June 25.

The elite troops-which specialise in counterinsurgency operations and
counterrevolutionary warfare-used stun grenades to swoop on three houses in
the town, kicking in doors and lashing out with boots and rifle butts
against the occupants. A woman was amongst those injured.

The owner of one house in which nine men who were watching TV were arrested,
butcher Moayad Jabar, told the newspaper: "It was about 11 p.m. when
suddenly I heard an explosion and the door was kicked open.

"Lots of soldiers rushed in pointing rifles at us and screaming 'Down! Down!
Down!' Others came into the back at the same time. They made us lie down on
the ground and wouldn't let us speak. I was very afraid because I didn't
know what was happening.

"They started to pull my cupboard doors off and empty all my possessions on
the floor. The women and children were frightened and crying. Then the men
dragged us to armoured cars putting their boots on our heads all the way to
the army base."

Basim Hasan, also a butcher, received a black eye and cuts to his face. He
told the Mirror's reporter Tom Newton Dunn: "When I was lying down one of
the soldiers stamped on my head. My face hit the ground so hard I lost
consciousness."

Abdule Amer, a chemistry teacher, explained: "We didn't offer any
resistance. I asked one soldier 'Do you speak English?' But he kicked me in
the face, giving me a black eye and nose bleed."

The home of vegetable seller Choban Jasem was raided at the same time. His
sister-in-law had begged the soldiers not to hurt her children and was
struck over the head with a rifle butt in response.

Jasem, who is 62, said: "While I was on the ground, a soldier kicked me hard
on the nose. I started bleeding heavily.

"Then they dragged me to an armoured car outside through rocks on the
street, which gave me a big cut on my knee. I didn't know why they were
taking me and thought I was going to die. I kept asking them 'Why, why?' But
they told me to shut up."

The 11 were handcuffed and removed to the headquarters of the King's Own
Scottish Borderers regiment, where they were beaten again. Only after 18
hours, when it had been established from photographs and a list of names
that the wrong men had been arrested, were the group released.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) in London claimed to know nothing of the
savagery of the SAS, despite the incident occurring almost two weeks before
the Mirror broke the story. A spokesman claimed it would investigate the
allegations but said it was unaware that any of the civilians had been
mistreated. Yet just one day later it was reported that the MoD has agreed
to pay a few hundred pounds in compensation to each of those arrested
because they were innocent.

However, a spokesman said the payments still did not mean the MoD accepted
allegations that SAS soldiers had abused the men during the raid. A
spokesman claimed, "Some people received minor injuries, but that is part of
the nature of this kind of operation."

He added that there is not likely to be any further investigation into the
matter.

Within Majar al Kabir itself, however, the armed forces were forced to issue
an unprecedented public apology for the troops behaviour, such is the
outrage amongst local people.

Town leaders warned the Mirror that British soldiers were now in danger.
Council leader Sadek Al-Hul warned, "I've told the British that people are
very angry with them over what they did. The next time soldiers come to
arrest anyone here I expect they'll be shot at." And Basim Hasan complained:
"My father and brother were hanged by Saddam Hussein because all my family
fought him. We welcomed the British. Now they've done this to us.

"The way we were treated is how Saddam's people would have treated us. They'
ve made a very bad mistake. I don't want to have to fight them like I fought
Saddam."

Like Basra, Majar al Kabir is a Shia town, and had been one of the centres
of opposition to Saddam Hussein's regime. But the increasing arrogance and
brutality of British forces, whose intrusive weapons searches of homes over
the last months have made the colonial character of their occupation clear,
has inflamed popular resentment.

The death of the six military police officers following one such raid was
the largest British loss of life in a hostile incident to date.

Fearing similar retaliatory action, Major Stuart Irvine of the British army
distributed an open letter offering his "humblest apologies" for the
incident, and pledging a full investigation and compensation for injuries
and wrongful arrest.

The letter accepted that "Eleven townsfolk were arrested and treated very
badly. All were arrested without reason.

"The incident happened as we are still trying to bring those people who
killed our six military police colleagues to justice."

The letter attempted to dissociate troops based in Majar from the SAS unit
responsible for the raid, stating, "The operation was conducted by a small
group of coalition forces. These people were not from Camp Abu Najir nor
were they the soldiers stationed in Majar."

The revelations of events in Majar came just one day after British army
officer, Colonel Tim Collins, was cleared by an internal investigation of
charges of committing war crimes in Iraq.

Collins had been lionised by the British press after he made a speech to his
unit on the eve of the war telling them: "We go to liberate, not to conquer.
If you are ferocious in battle, remember to be magnanimous in victory."

The colonel had been accused by a US army reservist of ill-treating Iraqi
POWs and civilians, but the MoD said no criminal proceedings or internal
disciplinary action would be brought against Collins who is now tipped for
promotion.

The colonel's investigation hit the headlines because he was cleared. There
have been numerous other charges against British soldiers for brutalising
Iraqi civilians, however, including photographs apparently taken by troops
showing them engaged in the torture of their captives. News of such
incidents is barely reported, and little details given of the outcome of any
investigations.

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"The Americans have put themselves in such grave dangers and none of their
enemies would have been able to impose such dangers on them."

---
http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-09/06/article06.shtml
Abbas Maddani, an Islamic leader recent release by Algerian authorities
after 12 years under house arrest, underlined that the United States has
become a threat not only to itself but also to the entire world.

In an exclusive interview with IslamOnline.net Saturday, September6 , Manani
said the world super power had put itself in a dangerous situation.

"The U.S. is now in grave danger, a danger that it has created for itself
and by itself.

"The Americans have put themselves in such grave dangers and none of their
enemies would have been able to impose such dangers on them."

The vibrant political leader, who would have been at the helm of his country
's power had he not been placed under house arrest after winning the
1982general elections in Algeria while heading the Front du Salut de L'
Islam(FIS), said : "I am sad with this situation but the U.S. has become a
danger to the world and to itself."

He expected that : "The American consciousness will take over; the people of
America will wake up."

Terrorism

Speaking of terrorism, Madani clearly said that it was just a game of words
used by those who wanted to tarnish the image of Islam.

"I do not like to use the word terrorists; it does not qualify the Muslims
fighting for their freedom. Terrorism is a slogan used by the enemies of
Islam," he said.

"With great piety, I would say yes I am a terrorist if terrorism means the
struggle for freedom of the people against the crimes and injustices of some
oppressive regimes. Then yes I would be a "terrorist."

"The same would apply to Nelson Mandela, the South African leader jailed for
32 years because he was struggling against apartheid and the same would also
apply to the Algerians who fought against French colonialization. Then we
all would be terrorists who fought for our freedom."

"If the fight for freedom, for liberation and for salvation of the people
means 'terrorism' then let it be known that we are all 'terrorists'," said
the respectable leader with force.

Speaking in Arabic and in French he said the Muslim Ummah will be united if
it went back to the practice of Islam, to the respect of the holy Qura'n and
the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad.

"Then only the Muslims would be able to practice Islamic brotherhood, which
is complimentary in Islam. Rasulullah (prophet) has said Muslims must give
an example in unity, like one single body and if one part of the body is
wounded the entire Ummah suffers,

"He said Muslims are like a construction. It is interlinked and holds
together firmly. The time for this unity is here and the Muslims must be up
to the heights to grab this great occasion, " Madani said.

"The Palestinian people are one example in the struggle for the liberation
of Muslims against oppression. The problem in Palestine is the core of the
problem that is affecting the entire Ummah.

"The people of Palestine has all my respect and they are the winners in this
struggle because oppression is not something of the present, it belongs to a
dark past. Colonialism is not the future, the future is in the camp of
Justice, " he said.

Reactive

Maddani, who remains an authority in the Muslim world, said time is ripe for
Muslims to wake up or it may be too late.

He earlier told the Muslims in South East Asia, where he is on a private
visit and is being treated for his weak health, that unity is important and
that it was time to put aside the differences, both political and religious,
in order to achieve brotherhood.

"The enemy is at the gates, please let us not squabble, let us unite and be
one as ordered by the Prophet of Islam," was Madani's message to the Muslims
of Asia and of the world.

"The recent events in Afghanistan and Iraq have opened the eyes of the
Muslims. These and the events in Palestine are altogether an awakening of
the consciousness of the Muslim Ummah, the people are now aware of the
dangers that is overlooking it," he underlined.

"The world is now a smaller place and all the elements such as communication
and other means of reaching each other are favorable to the Muslims.

"The people are ready, yet the problem now remains with the leadership, the
Ulama (scholar) and the elite of the Islamic world," added the Muslim
leader.

He said scholars were a clear example which showed that events are taking
them by surprise and they are unable to react swiftly to prevent outbursts
and negative reactions against Islam.

The same goes for the leaders of the Muslim communities around the world,
who instead of creating the events around them, were effectively being
overtaken by such events.

"The leaders of the Muslims are too slow to react to what is happening
around them, they are not up to the task and they are overwhelmed in a
sense," Madani said.

"The leaders do not understand the needs of the people anymore, the people
of Islam are not understood by the leaders and this can explain the
situation in the world of today," he added.

"There is a complete miscomprehension of the potential and capacity of the
Muslim population by the leaders of the Muslim world, " insisted the leader.

The Algerian opposition leader told IOL that events around the world showed
that the Muslims were now being given fresh opportunities to regain their
legitimacy.

"It's an occasion, a chance that Muslims have not had since the fall of
Spain - which was in the hands of the Muslims for 800 years - and this woke
the Muslims from a long slumber."

Copyright ©1999 -2003 Islam Online

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America will tomorrow demand that the United Nations takes urgent action to
prevent Iran acquiring the atom bomb
http://tinyurl.com/miog


Sending extra British troops 'pushes Army to break point'
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=440955


What is the secret deal Israel and India against "Islamic terrorism?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/07/international/asia/07INDI.html


Seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a
role in the 11 September 2001 attacks, even though the Bush administration
and congressional investigators say they have no evidence of this.
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1036959,00.html



British commanders in Iraq are to adopt Ulster-style security measures in an
effort to limit attacks on troops. Police stations and buildings where
troops are billeted will be protected by anti-rocket screens, bullet-proof
glass and blast walls. Closed circuit television cameras will also be used
to provide all-round security for military bases from attack by former
Ba'ath Party supporters and al-Qaeda units operating inside Iraq.
http://tinyurl.com/mioc



Despite prewar assurances by the White House, President George W. Bush
acknowledged on Friday that the United States cannot count on Iraqi oil
revenues in the short-term to cover the country's reconstruction needs.
Bush, in an interview with CNBC, said he would ''look at'' one congressional
proposal under which Washington would be paid back with future Iraqi oil
revenues. "But first of all, the oil revenues in Iraq really aren't as
steady as they will be in the future. I mean I don't think we can count on
much in the short term," Bush said.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters09-05-192625.asp?reg=MIDEAST


Bush seeks an exit strategy as war threatens his career
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1037015,00.html


We have a Prime Minister so focused on presentation that there is
inadequate consideration of the merits of policy. At the same time, there
has been a massive centralisation of power into No 10. And beneath the
smiling demeanour, a ruthlessness that is accompanied by a lack of respect
for proper procedure, and a willingness to be "economical with the
actuality". -- It is untrue that Labour was unelectable before Tony Blair
and Campbell took over. Most of the hardest reforms had been taken forward
by Neil Kinnock and many of us who served on the National Executive
Committee. Expulsion of the Militant MPs and revision of much of the policy
on which we fought the 1983 election, including unilateralism, was complete
before Blair joined the National Executive. It was also clear that the party
was ready for power, and was determined to be united and disciplined. I have
no doubt that Blair and Campbell's ruthless focus on presentation increased
our majority, but it is untrue that they were responsible for preparing the
party for power.
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=440932


The Globalist (Rockefeller through the AL From, Bruce Reed, the Clintons)
wing of Democratic seeks to boot Dean and Kucinich from true particiaption
in party power, relegating them to outsider status like democrat Lyndon
LaRouche gets.
---------
The Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) is at it again. They're trying to
boot the only two Democratic presidential candidates whom voters will be
able to differentiate from, and elect over, George W. Bush come 2004.
Instead of supporting Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean, who they without fact
or substance have branded and dismissed as the "activist wing" of the party,
the DLC is once more interested in preserving its repetitive and politically
destructive presence.

The Council, in control of the party and made up primarily of its
moderate-conservative leadership since 1985, has already noticed that Dean
(a political moderate by conventional standards) is making sizable campaign
finance and popularity gains.

Raising over $2.5 million and rapidly pulling ahead of Council-favored
Democrats, the former Vermont Governor has a lot of tactically-focused "New
Democrats" nervous. U.S. Congressperson Kucinich, meanwhile, has done the
same by breaking the $1 million dollar fundraising mark, and garnering wide
support from many left-leaning members within two of America's five major
third parties: the Greens and Natural Law Party.

The so-far and unanticipated success of a moderate-Democrat like Dean and a
traditionalist liberal-Democrat like Kucinich is not boding well, of course,
for conservative-Democrats sickly towing the party-swamping DLC line.
Candidates like Dick Gephardt, John Kerry, Joseph Lieberman and John Edwards
are all trailing and, not surprisingly, losing steam fast!

DLC bigwigs Bruce Reed and Al From are so nervous about this, they put out a
memo last week attempting to downplay the two progressive, and thereby
relevant, Democratic candidates by claiming their linkage as being merely
with "elitist, interest-group liberalism." If only the party were so lucky!
The reality is that codgers like Reed and From would rather have candidates
subscribing to DLC interests; that is, big oil, chemical manufacturers,
insurance companies and military contractor's interests!

Despite this, the Council already knows that most of the
below-the-Mason-Dixon-line-Democrats will never allow for
conservative-Lieberman's presidential nominating because he is Jewish. (Yes,
anti-Semitism still runs deep in the Deep South, folks!) This would
ultimately leave hardy-party established and DLC-backed
conservative-Democrats Gephardt, Edwards and Kerry to fight for the role of
Walter Mondale circa 1984.

The result of Gephardt, Edwards or Kerry versus Dubya, inevitably, would
continue four more years of the Bush crime syndicate leading wars for
empire, rising unemployment, stolen elections and corporate hijacking of
positions of power in government. In addition, Americans would continue to
witness the decline of a party already pegged for at least the past 20 years
as "GOP lite": the Democratic Party. The reality is that it's more than "any
Democrat in 2004."

With the DLC continually driving the head of the party so far up the rears
of pundits, polling, conservative PR pandering and corporate interests, the
average Joe and Jane is now being both ignored and stomped on by the
Republican and Democratic Parties. Inasmuch, the Democratic candidates who
would best serve these same everyday people have to contend with
counterproductive and unnecessary opposition from their own organizational
"leadership."

Speaking in terms of both electoral strategy and political principles, if
the Democratic Party wants another 2002 all it need do is continue to allow
the hijacking Council to hammer-away at their only truly viable candidates:
Dennis Kucinich and Howard Dean. After all, voters have shown time and time
again that when presented with fascist Republicans and fascist Republican
wannabes, they will choose the former not the latter.

Overall, the problem is not Kucinich or Dean, but simply with the
regressive, controlling conservative wolf in progressive's clothing known as
the DLC (Democrats Leaning Conservative). At this point, the only solid
alternatives for the Democratic Party are to expunge itself of such control
and develop into a genuine, watchdog opposition party ... or sadly
assimilate into the GOP.
http://www.westernherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/07/09/3f0b9ad3b5784



As the alcoholic George Bush approached his 40th birthday in 1986, he had
achieved nothing he could call his own. He was all too aware that none of
his educational and professional accomplishments would have occured without
his father. He felt so low that he did not care if he lived or died. Taking
a friend out for a flight in a Cessna aeroplane, it only became apparent he
had not flown one before when they nearly crashed on take-off. Narrowly
avoiding stalling a few times, they crash-landed and the friend breathed a
sigh of relief - only for Bush to rev up the engine and take off again.

Not long afterwards, staring at his vomit-spattered face in the mirror, this
dangerously self-destructive man fell to his knees and implored God to help
him and became a teetotalling, fundamentalist Christian. David Frum, his
speechwriter, described the change: "Sigmund Freud imported the Latin
pronoun id to describe the impulsive, carnal, unruly elements of the human
personality. [In his youth] Bush's id seems to have been every bit as
powerful and destructive as Clinton's id. But sometime in Bush's middle
years, his id was captured, shackled and manacled, and locked away."

One of the jailers was his father. His grandfather, uncles and many cousins
attended both his secondary school, Andover, and his university, Yale, but
the longest shadow was cast by his father's exceptional careers there.

On the wall of his school house at Andover, there was a large
black-and-white photograph of his father in full sporting regalia. He had
been one of the most successful student athletes in the school's 100-year
history and was similarly remembered at Yale, where his grandfather was a
trustee. His younger brother, Jeb, summed the problem up when he said, "A
lot of people who have fathers like this feel a sense that they have
failed." Such a titanic figure created mixed feelings. On the one hand, Bush
worshipped and aspired to emulate him. Peter Neumann, an Andover roommate,
recalls that, "He idolised his father, he was going to be just like his
dad." At Yale, a friend remembered a "deep respect" for his father and when
he later set up in the oil business, another friend said, "He was focused to
prove himself to his dad."

On the other hand, deep down, Bush had a profound loathing for this perfect
model of American citizenship whose very success made the son feel a
failure. Rebelliousness was an unconscious attack on him and a desperate
attempt to carve out something of his own. Far from paternal emulation, Bush
described his goal at school as "to instil a sense of frivolity".
Contemporaries at Yale say he was like the John Belushi character in the
film Animal House, a drink-fuelled funseeker.

He was aggressively anti-intellectual and hostile to east-coast preppy types
like his father, sometimes cruelly so. On one occasion he walked up to a
matronly woman at a smart cocktail party and asked, "So, what's sex like
after 50, anyway?"


A direct and loutish challenge to his father's posh sensibility came aged
25, after he had drunkenly crashed a car. "I hear you're looking for me," he
sneered at his father, "do you want to go mano a mano, right here?"

As he grew older, the fury towards his father was increasingly directed
against himself in depressive drinking. But it was not all his father's
fault. There was also his insensitive and domineering mother.

Barbara Bush is described by her closest intimates as prone to "withering
stares" and "sharply crystalline" retorts. She is also extremely tough. When
he was seven, Bush's younger sister, Robin, died of leukaemia and several
independent witnesses say he was very upset by this loss. Barbara claims its
effect was exaggerated but nobody could accuse her of overreacting: the day
after the funeral, she and her husband were on the golf course.

She was the main authority-figure in the home. Jeb describes it as having
been, "A kind of matriarchy... when we were growing up, dad wasn't at home.
Mom was the one to hand out the goodies and the discipline." A childhood
friend recalls that,"She was the one who instilled fear", while Bush put it
like this: "Every mother has her own style. Mine was a little like an army
drill sergeant's... my mother's always been a very outspoken person who
vents very well - she'll just let rip if she's got something on her mind."
According to his uncle, the "letting rip" often included slaps and hits.
Countless studies show that boys with such mothers are at much higher risk
of becoming wild, alcoholic or antisocial.

On top of that, Barbara added substantially to the pressure from his father
to be a high achiever by creating a highly competitive family culture. All
the children's games, be they tiddlywinks or baseball, were intensely
competitive - an actual "family league table" was kept of performance in
various pursuits. At least this prepared him for life at Andover, where
emotional literacy was definitely not part of the curriculum. Soon after
arriving, he was asked to write an essay on a soul-stirring experience in
his life to date and he chose the death of his sister. His mother had
drilled it into him that it was wrong when writing to repeat words already
used. Having employed "tears" once in the essay, he sought a substitute from
a thesaurus she had given him and wrote "the lacerates ran down my cheeks".
The essay received a fail grade, accompanied by derogatory comments such as
"disgraceful".

This incident may be an insight into Bush's strange tendency to find the
wrong words in making public pronouncements. "Is our children learning?" he
once famously asked. On responding to critics of his intellect he claimed
that they had "misunderestimated" him. Perhaps these verbal faux-pas are a
barely unconscious way of winding up his bullying mother and waving two
fingers at his cultured father's sensibility.

The outcome of this childhood was what psychologists call an authoritarian
personality. Authoritarianism was identified shortly after the second world
war as part of research to discover the causes of fascism. As the name
suggests, authoritarians impose the strictest possible discipline on
themselves and others - the sort of regime found in today's White House,
where prayers precede daily business, appointments are scheduled in
five-minute blocks, women's skirts must be below the knee and Bush rises at
5.45am, invariably fitting in a 21-minute, three-mile jog before lunch.

Authoritarian personalities are organised around rabid hostility to
"legitimate" targets, often ones nominated by their parents' prejudices.
Intensely moralistic, they direct it towards despised social groups. As
people, they avoid introspection or loving displays, preferring toughness
and cynicism. They regard others with suspicion, attributing ulterior
motives to the most innocent behaviour. They are liable to be superstitious.
All these traits have been described in Bush many times, by friends or
colleagues.

His moralism is all-encompassing and as passionate as can be. He plans to
replace state welfare provision with faith-based charitable organisations
that would impose Christian family values.

The commonest targets of authoritarians have been Jews, blacks and
homosexuals. Bush is anti-abortion and his fundamentalist interpretation of
the Bible would mean that gay practices are evil. But perhaps the group he
reserves his strongest contempt for are those who have adopted the values of
the 60s. He says he loathes "people who felt guilty about their lot in life
because others were suffering".

He has always rejected any kind of introspection. Everyone who knows him
well says how hard he is to get to know, that he lives behind what one
friend calls a "facile, personable" facade. Frum comments that, "He is
relentlessly disciplined and very slow to trust. Even when his mouth seemsto
be smiling at you, you can feel his eyes watching you."

His deepest beliefs amount to superstition. "Life takes its own turns," he
says, "writes its own story and along the way we start to realise that we
are not the author." God's will, not his own, explains his life.

Most fundamentalist Christians have authoritarian personalities. Two core
beliefs separate fundamentalists from mere evangelists ("happy-clappy"
Christians) or the mainstream Presbyterians among whom Bush first learned
religion every Sunday with his parents: fundamentalists take the
Bibleabsolutely literally as the word of God and believe that human history
will come to an end in the near future, preceded by a terrible, apocaplytic
battle on Earth between the forces of good and evil, which only the
righteous shall survive. According to Frum when Bush talks of an "axis of
evil" he is identifying his enemies as literally satanic, possessed by the
devil. Whether he specifically sees the battle with Iraq and other "evil"
nations as being part of the end-time, the apocalypse preceding the day of
judgment, is not known. Nor is it known whether Tony Blair shares these
particular religious ideas.

However, it is certain that however much Bush may sometimes seem like a
buffoon, he is also powered by massive, suppressed anger towards anyone who
challenges the extreme, fanatical beliefs shared by him and a significant
slice of his citizens - in surveys, half of them also agree with the
statement "the Bible is the actual word of God and is to be taken literally,
word for word".

Bush's deep hatred, as well as love, for both his parents explains how he
became a reckless rebel with a death wish. He hated his father for putting
his whole life in the shade and for emotionally blackmailing him. He hated
his mother for physically and mentally badgering him to fulfil her wishes.
But the hatred also explains his radical transformation into an
authoritarian fundamentalist. By totally identifying with an extreme version
of their strict, religion-fuelled beliefs, he jailed his rebellious self.
From now on, his unconscious hatred for them was channelled into a fanatical
moral crusade to rid the world of evil.

As Frum put it: "Id-control is the basis of Bush's presidency but Bush is a
man of fierce anger." That anger now rules the world.

Oliver James

[Everyman]

AMERICANS ARISE! HERE ARE YOUR REASONS! US military deaths to date only a
down payment on price of folly -- we are turning our sons, husbands,
brothers into mental basket cases, drug addicts -- mentally scared for life

----- Original Message -----
From: Dick Eastman
To: PeaceMovement
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 5:33 PM
Subject: [apfn-1] forget US military deaths -- we are turning our sons,
husbands, brothers into mental basket cases, drug addicts -- mentally scared
for life


forget US military deaths -- we are turning our sons, husbands, brothers
into mental basket cases, drug addicts -- mentally scared for life

World War One made the organized crime figures of the 1920's, with machine
guns in violin cases

Viet Nam according to Zhou Enlai's strategy made tens of thousands of US
soldiers into drug addicts -- a habit which they brought home with them

The occupation of Iraq will create of our sons, husbands, brothers and
fathers no brutalized men, new addicts, new mental cases -- with a "shell
shock" all its own

If you do nothing about this it is because you merely want to talk and
pose -- not save these precious lives or the country's future.

Dick Eastman

-------------------------

Secret slaughter by night, lies and blind eyes by day In the suburbs of
Baghdad and the Sunni cities to the north the American military policy of
'recon-by-fire' and the breakdown of law and order is exacting a heavy toll
on a war-torn people,

Robert Fisk -- dispatch from Iraq


14 September 2003
[Premium article - fee required]
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/

In the Pentagon, they've been re-showing Gillo Pontecorvo's terrifying 1965
film of the French war in Algeria. The Battle of Algiers, in black and
white, showed what happened to both the guerrillas of the FLN and the French
army when their war turned dirty. Torture, assassination, booby-trap bombs,
secret executions. As the New York Times revealed, the fliers sent out to
the Pentagon brass to watch this magnificent, painful film began with the
words: "How to win a battle against terrorism and lose the war of ideas..."
But the Americans didn't need to watch The Battle of Algiers.

They've already committed many of the French mistakes in Iraq, and the
guerrillas of Iraq are well into the blood tide of the old FLN. Sixteen
demonstrators killed in Fallujah? Forget it. Twelve gunned down by the
Americans in Mosul? Old news. Ten Iraqi policemen shot by US troops outside
Fallujah? "No information," the occupation authorities told us last week. No
information? The Jordanian embassy bombing? The bombing of the UN
headquarters? Or Najaf with its 126 dead? Forget it. Things are improving in
Iraq. There's been 24-hour electricity for three days now and - until two US
soldiers were killed on Friday - there had been five days without an
American death.

That's how the French used to report the news from Algeria. What you don't
know doesn't worry you. Which is why, in Iraq, there are thousands of
incidents of violence that never get reported; attacks on Americans that
cost civilian lives are not even recorded by the occupation authority press
officers unless they involve loss of life among "coalition forces". Go to
the mortuaries of Iraq's cities and it's clear that a slaughter occurs each
night. Occupation powers insist that journalists obtain clearance to visit
hospitals - it can take a week to get the right papers, if at all, so
goodbye to statistics - but the figures coming from senior doctors tell
their own story.

In Baghdad, up to 70 corpses - of Iraqis killed by gunfire - are brought to
the mortuaries each day. In Najaf, for example, the cemetery authorities
record the arrival of the bodies of up to 20 victims of violence a day. Some
of the dead were killed in family feuds, in looting, or revenge killings.
Others have been gunned down by US troops at checkpoints or in the
increasingly vicious "raids" carried out by American forces in the suburbs
of Baghdad and the Sunni cities to the north. Only last week, reporters
covering the killing of the Fallujah policemen were astonished to see badly
wounded children suddenly arriving at the hospital, all shot - according to
their families - by an American tank which had opened up at a palm grove
outside the town. As usual, the occupation authorities had "no information"

But if you count the Najaf dead as typical of just two or three other major
cities, and if you add on the daily Baghdad death toll and multiply by
seven, almost 1,000 Iraqi civilians are being killed every week - and that
may well be a conservative figure. Somewhere in the cavernous marble halls
of proconsul Paul Bremer's palace on the Tigris, someone must be calculating
these awful statistics. But of course, the Americans are not telling us.
It's like listening to Iraq's American-run radio station. Death - unless
it's on a spectacular scale like the Jordanian or UN or Najaf bombings -
simply doesn't get on the air. Even the killing of American troops isn't
reported for 24 hours. Driving the highways of Iraq, I've been reduced to
listening to the only radio station with up-to-date news on the guerrilla
war in Iraq: Iran's "Alam Radio", broadcasting in Arabic from Tehran.

It's as if the denizens of Mr Bremer's chandeliered chambers do not regard
Iraq as a real country, a place of tragedy and despair whose "liberated"
people increasingly blame their "liberators" for their misery. Even when US
troops on a raid in Mansour six weeks ago ran amok and gunned down up to
eight civilians - including a 14-year-old boy - the best the Americans could
do was to say that they were "enquiring" into the incident. Not, as one US
colonel quickly pointed out to us, that this meant a formal enquiry. Just a
few questions here and there. And of course the killings were soon
forgotten.

What is happening inside the US occupation army is almost as much a mystery
as the nightly cull of civilians. My old friend Tom Friedman, in a break
from his role as messianic commentator for the New York Times, put his
finger on the problem when - arranging a meeting with an occupation
official -- he reported asking an American soldier at a bridge checkpoint

Enemy. That's how the French came to see every native Algerian. Talk to the
soldiers in the streets here in Baghdad and they use obscene language - in
between heartfelt demands to "go home" - about the people they were
supposedly rescuing from Saddam Hussein. A Polish journalist in Karbala saw
just how easily human contact can break down. "The American guards are
greeting passers-by with a loud 'Salaam aleikum' [peace be with you]. Some
young Iraqi boys with a donkey and cart say something in Arabic and
suddenly, together, they run their fingers across their throats.

"'Motherfucker!" shout the Marines, before their translator explains to them
that the boys are just expressing their happiness at the death of Saddam
Hussein's sons ..." Though light years from the atrocities of Saddam's
security forces, the US military here is turning out to be as badly
disciplined and brutal as the Israeli army in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Its "recon-by-fire", its lethal raids into civilian homes, its shooting of
demonstrators and children during fire-fights, its destruction of houses,
its imprisonment of thousands of Iraqis without trial or contact with their
families, its refusal to investigate killings, its harassment - and
killing - of journalists, its constant refrain that it has "no information"
about bloody incidents which it must know all too much about, are sounding
like an echo-chamber of the Israeli army.

Worse still, their intelligence information is still as warped by ideology
as was the illegal Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. Having failed to receive
the welcome deserved of "liberators", the Americans have to convince
themselves that their tormentors - save for the famous Saddam "remnants" -
cannot be Iraqis at all. They must be members of "al-Qa'ida", Islamists
arriving from Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Pakistan ... Among its
1,000 "security" prisoners at Baghdad airport - the total number of
detainees held without trial in Iraq is around 5,500 - about 200 are said to
be "foreigners". But in many cases, US intelligence cannot even discover
their nationalities and some may well have been in Iraq since Saddam invited
Arabs to defend Baghdad before the invasion.

In reality, no one has produced a shred of evidence al-Qa'ida men are
streaming into the country. Not a single sighting has been reported of these
mysterious men, save for the presence of armed Iranians outside the shrines
of Najaf after last month's bombing. Yet President Bush and Donald Rumsfeld
have talked up their supposed presence to the point where the usual
right-wing columnists in the US press and then reporters in general write of
them as a proven fact. With powerful irony, Osama bin Laden's ominous 11
September tape suggests that he is as anxious to get his men into Iraq as
the Americans are to believe that they are already there.

In practice, fantasy takes over from reality. Thus while the Americans can
claim they are being assaulted by "foreigners" - the infamous men of evil
against whom Mr Bush is fighting his "war on terror" - they can equally
suggest that the suicide bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad was the
work of the Iraqi security guards whom the UN had kept on from the Saddam
regime. Whatever the truth of this - and the suicidal expertise of the UN
attack might suggest a combination of both Baathists and Islamists - the
message was simple enough: Americans are attacked by "international
terrorists" but the wimps of the UN are attacked by the same Iraqi killers
they helped to protect through so many years of sanction-busting.

There are foreign men and women aplenty in Baghdad - Americans and Britons
prominent among them - who work hard to bring about the false promises
uttered by Messrs Bush and Blair to create a decent, democratic Iraqi
society. One of them is Chris Woolford, whose account of life in Bremer's
marble palace appeared only in the internal newsletter of the UK regulatory
Office of Telecommunications, for whom he normally works. Mr Woolford
insists that there are signs of hope in Iraq - the payment of emergency
salaries to civil servants, for example, and the reopening of schools and
administrative offices.

But it's worth recording at length his revealing description of life under
Bremer. "Life in Baghdad can only be described as bizarre," he writes. "We
are based within a huge compound... in Sadam (sic) Hussein's former
Presidential Palace. The place is awash with vast marble ballrooms,
conference rooms (now used as a dining room), a chapel (with murals of Scud
missiles) and hundreds of function rooms with ornate chandeliers which were
probably great for entertaining but which function less well as offices and
dormitories ... I work in the 'Ministries' wing of the palace in the
Ministry of Transport and Communications. Within this wing, each door along
the corridor represents a separate ministry; next door to us, for example,
is the Ministry of Health and directly across the corridor is the Finance
Ministry. Behind each door military and civilian coalition members (mainly
American with the odd Brit dotted about) are beavering away trying to sort
out the economic, social and political issues currently facing Iraq. The
work is undoubtedly for a good cause but it cannot but help feel strange as
our contact with the outside world - the real Iraq - is so limited." Mr
Woolford describes how meetings with his Iraqi counterparts are difficult to
arrange and, besides, "key decisions are still very much taken behind the
closed doors of the CPA (the Coalition Provisional Authority), or for the
most significant decisions, back in Washington DC". So much, then, for the
interim council and the appointed Iraqi "government" that supposedly
represents the forthcoming "democracy" of Iraq. As for contacting his Iraqi
counterparts, Mr Woolford admits that Iraqi officials are sometimes asked to
"stand outside in their garden between 7pm and 8pm so that we can ring them
on satellite phones" - a process that is followed by the departure of CPA
staff for their meeting with "bullet-proof vests and machine-gun mounted
Humvees (a sort of beefed-up American Jeep) both in front and behind our own
four-wheel drive..." Thus are America and Britain attempting to
"reconstruct" a broken land that is now the scene of an increasingly cruel
guerrilla war. But there is a pervading feeling - among Iraqis as well as
journalists covering this conflict - that something is wrong with our
Western response to New Iraq. Our lives are more valuable than their lives.
The "terrible toll" of the summer months - a phrase from a New York Times
news report last week - referred only to the deaths of Western soldiers.

What is becoming apparent is that we don't really care about the Iraqis. We
may think we want to bring them democracy but, on an individual level, we
don't care very much about them or their lives. We liberated them. They
should be grateful to us. If they die now, well, no one said democracy was
easy.

Donald Rumsfeld - who raged away about weapons of mass destruction before
the invasion - now admits he didn't even discuss WMD with David Kay, the
head of the US-led team looking for these mythical weapons, on his recent
visit to Baghdad. Of course not. Because they don't exist. Mr Rumsfeld is
equally silent about the civilian death toll here. It's the followers of his
nemesis Bin Laden that now have to be publicised.

Bin Laden must be grateful. So must the Palestinians. In the refugee camps
of Lebanon last week, they were talking of the events in Iraq as a form of
encouragement. "If Israel's superpower ally can be humbled by Arabs," a
Palestinian official explained to me in one of the Beirut camps, "why should
we give up our struggle against the Israelis who cannot be as efficient
soldiers as the Americans?" That's the lesson the Algerians drew when they
saw France's mighty army reduced to surrender at Dien Bien Phu. The French,
like the Americans, had succeeded in murdering or "liquidating" many of the
Algerians who might have negotiated a ceasefire with them. The search for an
interlocuteur valable was one of de Gaulle's most difficult tasks when he
decided to leave Algeria. But what will the Americans do? Their
interlocuteur valable might have been the United Nations. But now the UN has
been struck off as a negotiator by the suicide bombing in Baghdad. And the
Bin Ladens and the adherents of the Wahabi sect are not interested in
negotiations of any kind. Mr Bush declared "war without end". And it looks
as though Iraqis - along with ourselves -- are going to be its principal
victims.

© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd

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Iraqi police slaughtered by American soldiers who do not want their drug
supply interfered with, illegal narcotics deemed necessary for coping with
unpleasant duty



US troops ignored pleas as they cut down Iraqi police
http://tinyurl.com/n7yp

Iraqi town seethes as US withholds bodies, information in deadly shootings
http://www.prolog.net/webnews/wed/aq/Qiraq-fallujah-scene.RjfX_DSC.html



A hail of bullets, a trail of dead, and a mystery the US is in no hurry to
resolve
Robert Fisk in Fallujah
13 September 2003
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/

A human brain lay beside the highway. It was scattered in the sand, blasted
from its owner's head when the Americans ambushed their own Iraqi policemen.

A few inches away were a policeman's teeth, broken but clean dentures, the
teeth of a young man. "I don't know if they are the teeth of my brother - I
don't even know if my brother is alive or dead," Ahmed Mohamed shouted at
me. "The Americans took the dead and the wounded away - they won't tell us
anything."

Ahmed Mohamed was telling the truth. He is also, I should add, an Iraqi
policeman working for the Americans.

United States forces in Iraq officially stated - incredibly - that they had
"no information" about the killing of the 10 cops and the wounding of five
others early yesterday morning. Unfortunately, the Americans are not telling
the truth.

Soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division fired thousands of bullets in the
ambush, hundreds of them smashing into the wall of a building in the
neighbouring Jordanian Hospital compound, setting several rooms on fire.

And if they really need "information", they have only to look at the 40mm
grenade cartridges scattered in the sand near the brains and teeth.

On each is printed the coding "AMM LOT MA-92A170-024". This is a US code for
grenades belt-fired from an American M-19 gun.

And out in Fallujah, where infuriated Iraqi civilians roamed the streets
after morning prayers looking for US patrols to stone, it wasn't difficult
to put the story together. The local American-trained and American-paid
police chief, Qahtan Adnan Hamad - who confirmed that 10 died - described
how, not long after midnight, gunmen in a BMW car had opened fire on the
mayor's office in Fallujah.

Two squads of the American-trained and American-paid police force - from the
local Fallujah constabulary established by US forces last month and the
newly constituted Iraqi national police - set off in pursuit.

Since the Americans will not reveal the truth, let Ahmed Mohamed, whose
28-year-old brother, Walid, was one of the policemen who gave chase, tell
his story.

"We have been told that the BMW opened fire on the mayor's office at
12.30am. The police chased them in two vehicles, a Nissan pick-up and a
Honda car and they set off down the old Kandar road towards Baghdad.

"But the Americans were there in the darkness, outside the Jordanian
Hospital, to ambush cars on the road. They let the BMW through, then fired
at the police cars."

One of the policemen who was wounded in the second vehicle said the
Americans suddenly appeared on the darkened road.

"When they shouted at us, we stopped immediately," he said. "We tried to
tell them we were police. They just kept on shooting."

The latter is true. I found thousands of brass cartridge cases at the scene,
piles of them like autumn leaves glimmering in the sun, along with the
dark-green grenade cartridges. There were several hundred unfired bullets
but - far more disturbing - was the evidence on the walls of a building at
the Jordanian Hospital. At least 150 rounds had hit the breeze-block wall
and two rooms had burnt out, the flames blackening the outside of the
building.

Therein lies another mystery that the Americans were in no hurry to resolve.
Several Iraqis said a Jordanian doctor in the hospital had been killed and
five nurses wounded. Yet when I approached the hospital gate, I was
confronted by three armed men who said they were Jordanian. To enter
hospitals here now, you must obtain permission from the occupation
authorities in Baghdad - which is rarely, if ever, forthcoming.

No one wants journalists prowling round dismal mortuaries in "liberated"
Iraq. Who knows what they might find?

"The doctors have gone to prayer so you cannot come in," an unsmiling
Jordanian gunman at the gate told me.

On the roof of the shattered hospital building, two armed and helmeted
guards watched us. They looked to me very like Jordanian troops. And their
hospital is opposite a US 3rd Infantry Division base. Are the Jordanians
here for the Americans? Or are the Americans guarding the Jordanian
Hospital? When I asked if the bodies of the dead policemen were here, the
armed man at the gate shrugged his shoulders.

So what happened? Did the Americans shoot down their Iraqi policemen under
the mistaken impression that they were "terrorists" - Saddamite or
al-Qa'ida, depending on their faith in President George Bush - and then,
once their bullets had smashed into the hospital, come under attack from the
Jordanian guards on the roof?

In any other land, the Americans would surely have acknowledged some of the
truth.

But all they would speak of yesterday were their own casualties. Two US
soldiers were killed and seven wounded in a raid in the neighbouring town of
Ramadi when the occupants of a house fired back at them.

It gave the impression, of course, that American lives were infinitely more
valuable than Iraqi lives.

And had the brains and teeth beside the road outside Fallujah been American
brains and teeth, of course, they would have been removed. There were other
things beside the highway yesterday.

A torn, blood-stained fragment of an American-supplied Iraqi policeman's
shirt, a primitive tourniquet and medical gauze and lots and lots of dried,
blackened blood. The 3rd Infantry Division are tired, so the story goes
here. They invaded Iraq in March and haven't been home since. Their morale
is low. Or so they say in Fallujah and Baghdad.

But already the cancer of rumour is beginning to turn this massacre into
something far more dangerous.

Here are the words of Ahmed, whose brother Sabah was a policeman caught in
the ambush and taken away by the Americans - alive or dead, he doesn't
know - and who turned up to examine the blood and cartridge cases yesterday.
"The Americans were forced to leave Fallujah after much fighting following
their killing of 16 demonstrators in April. They were forced to hire a
Fallujah police force. But they wanted to return to Fallujah so they
arranged the ambush. The BMW 'gunmen' were Americans who were supposed to
show there was no security in Fallujah - so the Americans could return. Our
police kept crying out: 'We are the police - we are the police'. And the
Americans went on shooting."

In vain did I try to explain that the last thing Americans wanted to do was
return to the Sunni Muslim Saddamite town of Fallujah. Already they have
paid "blood money" to the families of local, innocent Iraqis shot down at
their checkpoints.

They will have to do the same to the tribal leader whose two sons they also
killed at another checkpoint near Fallujah on Thursday night.

But why did the Americans kill so many of their own Iraqi policemen? Had
they not heard the radio appeals of the dying men? Why - and here the story
of the Jordanian Hospital guards and the policemen's relatives were the
same - did the Americans go on shooting for an hour and a half? And why did
the Americans say that they had "no information" about the slaughter 18
hours after they had gunned down 10 of the very men that President Bush
needs most if he wishes to extricate his army from the Iraqi death trap?

© 2003 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd
================


Troops dig into own pockets to pay for gear -- no better than current
Russian army in provisions provided to US soldiers
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=TROOPS-GEAR-09-11-03&cat=AN

Wounded US troops are being billed for hospital meals
http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=17483

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Follow the money --Neo-liberalism/Neo-conservatism is war by and for global
private interests, controlling governments and their militaries like zombies
for the profit of a few and the expense of all the rest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1040412,00.html

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9-11 site:

http://www.freedomfiles.org/war (Neils Groenveld et al.)
http://www.freedomfiles.org/war/pentagon.htm
http://www.cosmicpenguin.com/911/
http://www.911dossier.co.uk/ (Ian Henshaw et al.)
http://www.the-movement.com/Hijackers/Agents.htm (Frank Levin)
http://www.communitycurrency.org/pi.html

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ericbart/index.html
http://www.waronfreedom.mediamonitors.net/index.html
http://www.911timeline.net/
http://amigaphil.planetinternet.be/PentagonCrash.html

http://www.tomflocco.com/bush_may_invoke_9.htm
http://disc.server.com/Indices/149495.html
http://www.etherzone.com

http://www.antiwar.com
http://www.serendipity.li/wtc.html#preface
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/

=====================

No one who has looked at each the following photo-evidence presentations
continues to believe the Administration's and monopoly media's version of
the 9-11-01 attack on the Pentagon.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/message/10

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagon911/message/7

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagon911/message/3

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/9-11-demonstrative-evidence-of-frameup/message/46

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagon911/message/4

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/77_deastman1.htm

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I (DIck Eastman) operate as a criminologist on the internet -- the term
conspiracy theoriest does not apply to me -- so if you came here looking for
conspiracy theory let me offer this, written by someone else:

In Remembrance of the September Dead!

It is foolish to think that an infinitesimal desert state and its partisans
in America could overthrow the sovereignty of the American government, take
control of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, and such
agencies as the Federal Reserve, IMF, CIA, and embark US on a global war
against the Arab world. It takes a vast and very rich Conspiracy and a
century. The Conspiracy was described exactly more than a century ago in
Europe and by President Wilson, long before this evil little state and its
partisans were born.

The world is under siege by a European hierarchy of banking families, at the
top largely Jewish, the money changers and money lenders of history. They
are already the richest people on earth but it is not enough. They have a
Faustian Grand Plan. They mean to own or control everything of value on
earth. Their weapons: MONEY and DEBT-and Washington.

The rise of the Conspiracy over the last two centuries parallels the rise of
zionism. This is not a coincidence. Early on, the Conspiracy realized that
it needed a strong political agency, zionism, and its own country where it
would be free from all governmental oversight and create the murderous rogue
state (israel) that menaces the world today through Washington. (The two
were joined at the hip decades ago by the Conspiracy.)

The Conspiracy is invisible. It functions through its network of global and
central banks and their many subsidized agents, organizations and fronts
around the world. It financed the Morgans and the Harrimans. Even the
haughty kingpin of the American Petroleum Cartel, David, is its lackey just
like his ancestors. It controls the currency of all the major nations
including Russia and China. It "takes" hundreds of billions from the
American people every year. It has no regard for human life except as a
resource for labor, taxes and armies. It has no god; money is its messiah.

A century ago, the Conspiracy had bankrupt Europe with its many wars (the
lifeblood of the Conspiracy). A peaceful America, protected by two oceans,
was on the verge of becoming the most powerful and prosperous nation on
earth and the Conspiracy did not "own" it. This was "unacceptable". A
naïve President Wilson was surrounded by zionists: Baruch, Untermeyer,
Warburg, Schiff, Brandeis, Meyer and House. The Conspiracy wished to take
control of American money, "mobilize its credit" to finance World War I and
overthrow the Czar (for Russian money). And it needed America to assure
victory over Germany (its hated enemy even before WWI). Wilson was
pressured into signing the Federal Reserve Act and to declare war on
Germany. Later he was to say, "I have involuntarily ruined my government".
Ominously, he warned,

"Some of the biggest men in the United States.are afraid of something. They
know there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so
interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above
their breath when they speak in condemnation of it." (And it has grown
enormously from a century of war.)

The Conspiracy mandated that Capitalism become the "state religion" of
America and the world (cheap resources and labor and freedom from taxes and
regulations). A Red Scare began the century long war on Communism. It was
as phony as the "war on terrorism" of today, all bugaboos and demagoguery.
Every politician had to pledge his/her allegiance to Capitalism. Communists
were purged from government, communications, education, industry; tens of
millions died for it in the Conspiracy wars. Today it's still the same:
"globalization", "deregulation" "privatization" and "tax exemption for the
rich".

The Conspiracy financed massive donations to two of the most prestigious
universities in America, turning them into centers of zionist politics and
activities. One has supplied an extraordinary number of officials to the
Washington government. The other created the ultimate terror weapon mostly
by Jewish/zionist scientists to use on Germany. It financed the
Jewish/zionist purchase of entire niche industries: merchandizing, movies,
real estate, television, national magazines and newspapers, jewelry, and now
professional sports from which they have amassed a vast wealth in the
trillions, sheltered from taxes in many foundations and offshore havens.
Cash businesses seem to be preferred.

After World War II, the Conspiracy corrupted American elections with money
and subverted Washington officials with threats of heavily financed
opponents. Truman said that zionist pressure for israel was the greatest
political pressure he had ever encountered. Anyone who resisted was
threatened with ruin or eliminated (JFK?). The Senate was purged of all but
zionist sycophants. In the 60's when Washington docilely surrendered to
israel's murder of American sailors on the USS Liberty the Conspiracy knew
it was in political control of America. But what about the American people?

In the 70's when the destruction of the Savings Banks and Savings & Loans
was planned, the Conspiracy recognized that it needed an epochal event like
the Reichstag Fire and/or Pearl Harbor to subdue the independent American
people. Washington and zionist media would orchestrate a mass hysteria.
They would bombard the American people, just as they had for decades with
anti-German and "holocaust" propaganda, with demagoguery, pathos, ethnic
hatred, patriotism, heroism, glorification, pageantry, flag-waving and
symbolism to create a false war climate and impose martial law under the
pretense of "national wartime security". FEMA concentration camps were
built and are ready.

It all came together in September 2001 just as planned by the Conspiracy.
The buildings were purchased by a Jewish syndicate and demolished. And it
is seeking the greatest insurance windfall in history. The American people
are shocked and all evidence and investigations quashed. But the pieces are
coming together anyway on the internet; Washington and media accusations are
a complete fraud. The buildings were assuredly not destroyed by aircraft.
The obvious suspects are the agents of the Conspiracy, israel and
Washington. There are reports that the Conspiracy timed this catastrophe to
destroy the personnel and accumulated evidence in a major investigation and
lawsuit involving a zionist gold cartel in Wall Street and the Federal
Reserve, selling the Reserve gold stock at bargain prices which would have
unveiled the Conspiracy. This was "unacceptable". The Conspiracy seeks to
corner the world's gold supply (its Rheingold). Washington has since
diverted all such investigations to "terrorism".

The Conspiracy has bankrupt America just like Europe. America is on the
brink of chaos: environmental disaster, global war, and economic, societal,
and financial collapse. America floats on the accelerating expansion of
debt by the Federal Reserve. But credit is not inexhaustible. Annual
interest on the debt is rapidly rising; approaching a half trillion dollars
or a quarter of national revenues. The dollar is under global attack in
favor of the Euro. The economic future of America is bleak yet rosy
economics pours out of Washington and the media, lulling the people. For
most of US, the cost of living rises and the standard of living declines;
there will be giant corporate bankruptcies, millions more unemployed,
healthcare, education, retirements trashed, all the more for the
Conpiracy's zionazi war machine (and its satanic weapons) and for israel.

In debt-ridden nations, the Conspiracy through the IMF will demand lower
wages and no social programs, higher taxes and interest rates and will
foreclose on vast expanses of the natural resources by its World
"Conservation" Bank for exploitation, freed from the sovereign control of
those countries and the interests and welfare of their people. Our children


America exists in a state of Constitutional chaos. There is no lawful
government in Washington. All three branches are in gross violation of the
Constitution. It is the most evil and criminal government in history. It
is a collection of Enron types, stuffing their pockets. These criminals
will gladly wage the Conspiracy's wars just to stay in power. Any force
with the means to do so may lawfully oust them and fill the vacancies.
.
We see a popinjay president surrounded, once again like Wilson, by zionists:
Wolfowitz, Perle, Feith, Kristol, Kagan, and Podhoretz as well as the
zionist fronts AIPAC and JINSA, all with a single mind. Washington,
shepherded by israel, shall "take" the Middle East resources and holocaust
its people and their religion. And the American people are its foil.
Americans can no longer be intimidated by accusations of anti-Semitism. It
is a ploy of the Conspiracy and its Zionist agents. Many, many religious
Jews in America are anti-zionist but are repudiated by zionists and
marginalized by the zionist media.

The fundamental right to vote is being attacked by numerous political
schemes. The Conspiracy controls both parties. (A common ploy of the
Conspiracy is to "own" both sides of a controversy and promote superficial
differences while both sides support a common hidden agenda.) The voting
machines are "fixed". The Republican majorities in Congress are more
suspect every day. So what's the cure? It's really simple.

Vast concentrated wealth is dangerous to any republic and must be
redistributed through a "Peace Tax" of fifty percent of all personal wealth,
income and property in excess of Five Million Dollars and the elimination of
all taxation of wages for any purpose.

All government obligations paid by money issued by the Treasury freed from
the Federal Reserve and the hundreds of billions in interest paid to the
Conspiracy annually.

Political reform including elections purged of private monies, term limits
for all public officials, and representative government for all minorities
according to their numbers.

The Conspiracy and its use of the American people to achieve their evil
Grand Plan would be ended. Within a few years the national debt would be
paid with peace and prosperity instead of endless wars, inflation and
depressions. This is always what has occurred when the people issued their
own money instead of the Conspiracy. But the Conspiracy controls both of
the major parties; so the Cure is simply not possible without a coup by real
American patriots. We should remember the words of Jefferson:

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of
their currency.the banks and the corporations which grow up around them will
deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on
the continent their fathers conquered.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for
misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

Acknowledgements:
Eustace Mullins, Secrets of the Federal Reserve,
(www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm)
Carmack & Still, The Money Masters (www.themoneymasters.com)


REMEMBER RACHEL CORRIE
REMEMBER THE USS LIBERTY
REMEMBER THE SEPTEMBER DEAD

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Open scientific research in controlling hurricanes ended in the 1950's after
successful efforts demonstrating the technology's feasibility. Since then
the research has been militarized and continued in secret -- along with
other weather modification technologies.

Slight energies applied at the right time and at the right moment can modify
spin and direction of these huge systems.

I suspect, the timing and the "perfectness" and the course of hurricane
Isabel

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weather.com - Storm Track
http://www.weather.com/maps/news/atlstorm13/index_large.html

The Unrecognized Weapon: Clandestine Weather Modification
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weather_ops/message/1

Pete Wagner:
Isabel is a Cat. 5 storm on a slow and steady course for warmer Gulf Stream
waters. I cannot remember in my lifetime a hurricane this well-structured,
headed on such a ominous course toward the American Eastern Seaboard. This
may well turn out to be the storm of the new century, at least decade. It
could easily wipe out entire shoreside communities, from the Carolinas up to
the Jersey Shore. My projections have the storm sweeping along Cape Hatteras
and running up the coast. I think there is a chance that Hatteras could
experience 200+ mph winds and 40 foot storm surges. The whole outer banks
could realistically end up under water. ... there is still about a week left
to see what will actually happen.
http://www.rense.com/general41/storm.htm

[Everyman]

The British-based pilot falsely accused by the United States of being the
"chief instructor" of the September 11 suicide hijackers began a
multimillion-pound damages claim against the US Department of Justice and
the FBI yesterday. Lotfi Raissi, 29, is claiming $10 million in damages
from each of the two institutions.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,171-818668,00.html

For Iraqi p[olicemen it is like the loyalty of firemen for the dead heros of
the WTC on Sept. 11, 2001. (Actually the real killers -- organized-crime
Zionism in control of US policy driven amuck -- were responsible in both
cases of deliberate murder.) Iraqi police ready to turn guns on US troops
in the town where ten police and a security guard were killed on Friday in
the worst "friendly fire" incident of the Iraq conflict. "I am full of
hatred for the Americans and I am ready to kill them," said Arkan Adanan,
who was injured in the shoulder early on Friday morning when US troops
poured rifle and machinegun fire into three police vehicles that were
chasing suspected drug dealers.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-817444,00.html


Avraham Burg: Israel must shed its illusions and choose between racist
oppression and
democracy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1041960,00.html


Space is already privitized and they don't have to tell you what they have
already sent out there. In 1967, the internationally agreed Outer Space
Treaty forbade governments from claiming any celestial bodies as their
property. But the committee that worded the treaty forgot to include private
firms or individuals and, though the 1979 Moon Treaty would have prevented
the exploitation of space for private profit, not enough countries signed.
Opponents complained that it would bog down space exploration in "a 'common
heritage of all mankind' morass".
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscoverstory.htm


Federal Appeals Court Halts Recall of anti-globalist-power-corportation
Governor until "discredited" punch voting machines can be replaced with new
computerized systems
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=443802


Fisk: Powell draws a veil over killings as he tours Iraq
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/story.jsp?story=443808


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Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it
deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are,
the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer
be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it
wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey
lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

I disagree. The stimulus with first and last letters correct and the same
letters in-between in different order has to occasion some response -- and
the appropriate response is still the most probable response it occasions --
thus stimulus "oredr" is only reinforced by responding as though it said
"order" -- and almost immediately that response is reinforced by the reward
of that "interpretation" making sense. It is the same behavioral
operations that go on when we identify "typos" -- the Cambridge people
have correctly identified our ability -- but their interprettion is
rong -- every letter is, in fact, relevant stimuli -- each adds strength
to a particular response/interpretation -- because it doesn't work when you
put the wrong letter in there or an extra letter. What is this word:
chesopwnromen ???
-- Dick Eastman
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With the American public increasingly anxious for a lower American profile
in Iraq, Powell said Sunday the US will reject a French proposal to speed
return of sovereignty to Iraqis.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0916/p01s04-woiq.html

It Was the Oil and It Is Like Vietnam
http://www.counterpunch.org/goff09152003.html


A member of Iraq's Governing Council Monday accused U.S. troops of regularly
mistreating Iraqi civilians so that the population had come to regard
American forces as an army of occupation.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=


Under Blair, Britain has ceased to be a sovereign state -- At last we see
the consequences of our country's abject thrall to the US
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1042798,00.html




All zionist council to be voted in as Tikrit region ruling interim
council -- participants and results vetted by U.S. officers and a
U.S.-appointed governor retains ultimate decision-making power.
http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters09-15-100329.asp?reg=MIDEAST



U.S. forces are not occupiers says Colin Powell
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/14/sprj.irq.main/index.html



Israel Shamir -- voice of sanity:


"But ordinary Jews, or Russians of Jewish origin - and there are millions of
such people - are a different story. I meet them, music teachers,
journalists, economists; they are normal people, and they reject the New
World Order and regret the fall of the Soviet Union. ...
If I were younger, maybe I would join the fighters of Jenin standing fast at
assault of the armoured monsters. But writing is also a form of warfare. A
writer can emulate a fighter by disregarding mortal danger, by putting his
goal above self-preservation. Later I discovered that this war of words is
good not only for Palestine, but for my soul as well. Thus, the struggle for
Palestine became a spiritual quest for me and for many others.
-- Israel Shamir (his full interview statements at bottom of this
posting)




Yasser Arafat wants to reach a truce with Israel, his national security
adviser said Tuesday, but Israeli officials brushed aside the offer and
demanded that the Palestinian Authority crack down on militant groups.
Arafat himself struck a conciliatory tone, but stopped short of making a
specific cease-fire offer. "We say to the peace supporters in Israel that we
extend our hand to you to revive peace," Arafat said in a speech to about
2,500 Palestinians at his battered West Bank headquarters.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AntiTerrorismCoalition/message/4243
also:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030916/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_741




From: "Walter Mueller" <***@yahoo.com>
To: "Walter F. Mueller" <***@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 11:25 PM
Subject: Patriot Letter: 9/11 - Bush - and other nonsense

Dear Fellow Patriot!

Two years ago, we all watched the incredible maneuver of four airplanes,
supposedly kidnapped by Arabs, accomplish one miracle after another one. In
these crazy maneuvers, almost 3,000 people lost their lives. Today, the
survivors of these dead ones are millionaires, thanks to you, the taxpayer.
Ever since, life in America has become Orwell 1984.

Patriot Act I and Patriot Act II in the making, supposedly to bring more
security to you and me, have actually taken away most of our freedoms and
liberties, to please a crazed puppet of Israel. Washington is now the
Capital of Israel. Today, when you enter the airport, you shockingly realize
that security isn't really the issue. Every security guard, in fact every
airport worker, has turned into a third world immigrant. The constitutional
amendments are void. Nevertheless, yesterday evening, cocaine-brain-damaged
George W. Bush asked for more power to fight terrorism.

In addition, Attorney General John Ashcroft is proposing a color system to
pin-point the level of danger. People with red tags are immediately
detained. Orange tags severe cavity search and green you are free to go. Now
and those are the same people who want to talk about Hitler.

He wants the hands of our law enforcement officials untied. He wants bail
revoked. Subpoenas revoked, etc. etc. And this all after the American people
have been spoon-fed one lie after another one.

First Afghanistan, and then Iraq. We were assured that Iraq was hording an
incredible amount of weapons of mass destruction. We never got to see them,
though. Because it never was about terrorism.

It's all about eliminating the enemies of Israel. Congress is preparing to
take up a request from the President for $87 billion in extra financing to
keep the violence in Iraq and Afghanistan down. And by coincidence,
television networks yesterday afternoon were showing a new video tape
"allegedly of Osama bin Laden" in which he urged his followers to bury
American troops in Iraq.

The mighty US is not capable to capture those who they blame to be
responsible for 9/11. As a matter of fact, we experience the same methods of
the victors that were used at the end of WWII.

Remember, after the murder of the two sons of Saddam Hussein by the
Americans, the US military destroyed the building where the two sons had
found refuge. Excuse: We don't want this to turn into a point of worship
for the Iraqis.

Wow, doesn't that sound familiar? Similar actions were taken after the war
in Germany. Berghof, Hitler's place of relaxation, was destroyed to the last
brick. Several cemeteries, which were the last resting place for the
murdered Germans under the "Sieger Rechts Hinrichtungs Gesetz" (Victors
Rights Execution Law), had been flattened.

Rudolf Hess, prisoner of peace, was murdered in Spandau Prison, and shortly
thereafter, Spandau Prison was destroyed. Again, the powers to be said they
didn't want this to become a Mecca for neo-Nazis.

On June 22nd 1958, the Austrian government unveiled a honor grave at the
Vienna Central Cemetery for WWII hero and Luftwaffen Pilot Walter Nowotny.
Major Nowotny was one of the very few pilots who received the ultimate honor
from the German Reich: the "Eichenlaub mit Schwertern und Brillianten zum
Ritter Kreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes" Oakleaf with swords and diamonds to the
Knights Cross of the Iron Cross). His gravestone read: Forever is the deads
heroism. 60 years after, the powerful Jewish community finally convinced the
Vienna City Council to remove the honor grave from the Vienna Central
Cemetery, because it had become a destination for neo-Nazis.

In Berlin, Adolf Hitler's bunker will now be the foundation of Germany's
biggest holocaust museum.

You see, the US and British war criminals are trying hard to destroy
everywhere the living and brick and mortar witnesses to cover up their war
crimes.

9/11 - yes, we should remember the victims, but don't ever believe for a
minute that this was not an Israel initiated tragedy and that the government
is doing again what they do best - they are making the evidence disappear as
well as the witnesses.

When you think of 9/11 - especially we European Americans - think of prison,
gag orders, and internment camps. Joe Six-pac and Soccer Mom are having a
good time in their SUV, green lawn and their trac home. And boy, don't
expect any help from the minorities. This is heaven for them. They could
care less about constitutional rights. Where they come from they had no
rights, heck, they didn't even have a toilet. America offers them
everything. Whether or not they have a freedom of speech, they right to
bear arms, etc. etc., they don't care. All they care is that stupid whitey
is paying the education for their children and the rent for their homes and
for the food on the table. Think about that when you think about 9/11.

Walter F. Mueller
"The truth is back in business"

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In a similar vein:

Old Friend,

To anyone who might be unsure of what this administration really values
it's constituens at, I submit the following.

Sunday night in one of my irregular TV times, I was flipping through the
"MEDIA" channels, CNN, FOX, and so on. Lo and BEHOLD, here's DICK CHENEY
talking about "security", thee host asks a VITAL Question, "With growing
fears of the use of shoulder fired heat seeking missiles against civilian
aircraft (COMMERCIAL), why not install anti-missile devices to every
aircraft?"

CHENEY'S typically verbose response basically is this, "It's too
exspensive," he adds "We could do that, but it would just cost too much."

Besides taking away our "freedom" what concrete things have these power-mad
money grubbers done to help the American people? Hav e they offered
discount gas masks or chemical suits? HAve they even offered basic survival
technique pamphlets?

Very interesting that 80+BILLION dollars isn't "too exspensive" to continue
the OCCUPATION of IRAQ. I guess we're not worth saving.

Does it really peeve anyone else or am I all alone in my hatred for
politicians in general?

Meanwhile jobs dissapear overseas, the country is sliding down a path to
decadence, our youth are being taught almost nothing of value in school.

And how much more squeezing will the American People take before they lash
out?

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Israel Must Be Declared A Terrorist State
Patrick Johnston
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4721.htm

09/16/03: (Information Clearing House) The United Nations General Assembly
must pass resolutions declaring Israel to be in violation of the UN Charter
of Member States and suspend Israel from the United Nations effective
immediately. Further, both the General Assembly and the Security Council
must pass resolutions imposing the harshest yet sanctions and complete
international isolation against Israel for continued reckless and wanton
violations of numerous resolutions concerning the criminal treatment of the
Palestinian people and mandates on Palestine.

ISRAEL MUST END THE OCCUPATION ... AND THE VIOLENCE!

1.) Israel Must Be Declared A Terrorist State

2.) Zionism Must Be Declared A Terrorist Movement and Followers Terrorists

3.) War Crimes Tribunals Must Be Sought Against Appropriate Israeli Leaders

4.) UN Must Impose Harsh Sanctions and Isolation Against Israel

The United States must wake up to the fact that Israel is not a good ally.
Nor is Israel a good friend to the American people. What ally and what
friend would demand of a nation and its people to continuously support
without challenge, or explanation, their nefarious plans and calculated
deeds to wipe out an entire population of largely defenseless people?

The American people must demand an immediate and uncompromised end to the
blind and insane U.S. support of Israel and its reprehensible and vile
destruction of the Palestinian people before it is too late. The mandate and
requisite road map for peace is very simple: Demand full implementation of
all United Nations General Assembly and Security Council Resolutions
relevant to the conflict in the Middle East and stop this inhumane and
heinous carnage by the Israeli government aimed at and inflicted against the
hapless and defenseless Palestinian people.

The criminally insane Israeli government now claims it plans to expel Yasser
Arafat from Palestine, or to kill him. This announcement by the Israeli
government hasn't indicated which option it will choose. But make no mistake
about it, it most assuredly will happen. The Israeli government has a habit
of broaching its most controversial, aka unlawful, plans in the media to
head off and dilute any possible -- no matter how weak and ineffectual --
U.S. government opposition and to a lesser degree international opposition
and to establish how ever weak of a claim that they forewarned the
international community of their plans and therefore are absolved of any
wrongdoing.

What right does Israel have to expel Yasser Arafat into exile? What
international law and precedent allows such a move? A more odious plan of
action by Israel would be the assassination -- the murdering -- of Arafat.
President Arafat has been held virtual captive in his destroyed Ramallah
compound for over two years, imprisoned, under full scrutiny and observation
of the IDF, unable to set a foot past his confines. So what precisely grants
Israel impunity to do as it wishes, to whom it wishes, in complete
contravention of international law, to elected leaders within the boundaries
of their own land? And while under virtual house arrest, how can Arafat
rightfully be held responsible for not being able to stop Hamas, or any
other act of armed resistance by any Palestinian faction?

This is another in a long list of mischievous and devious Israeli tauntings
and calculated schemes of out of control spin and manipulation of on the
ground facts to give credence and legitimacy to their belligerent and
dastardly policies and military brutality against the Palestinians in the
guise of fighting Palestinian terrorism instigated by Arafat and the
Palestinian Authority.

How can the elected leader of Palestine possibly be responsible for the
actions of the armed Palestinian resistance? The justification for every bit
of what the Israelis has thrown at the Palestinian Intifadah has been laid
at the feet of a besieged and captive duly elected President. Bush keeps
demanding that Arafat dismantle the Palestinian terrorist infrastructure.
Sharon, the yet to be indicted war criminal, insists that Arafat dismantle
every bit of the armed Palestinian resistance and until he does, he, as the
elected Prime Minister of Israel, will continue these most sickly and
despicable acts of cowardice against this small group of Arabs.

How pathetic and prophetic.

Bush, with a vast military and arsenal financed by a defense budget larger
than the rest of the planet combined, cannot find one man in Osama Bin Laden
and after a year of continuous military action still cannot claim the
dismantling of Al Qaeda.

Ariel 'The Butcher of Sabra and Shatilla and Qibya and Beirut and Jenin and
many other places and loathsome deeds' Sharon has tried in vain to prevent
the martyr operations and all to no avail -- so just what is expected of
Arafat? Nothing! It's all another ploy intentionally conceived and concocted
to allow certain failure and another lame and predictable excuse for the
Israelis to kill more innocent Arabs and perhaps this time President Arafat
included.

Hamas, whose very existence and material backing comes at the hands of the
Israeli government. The same which can be said of the U.S. and Saddam
Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and myriad others and regimes before them.

Whatever plan Israel chooses would be a criminal act. But criminal acts are
nothing new to Israel, its government, or many of its citizens.

And what will be the reaction of the Bush administration to either of these
options? Why should we, the American people, or for that matter the entire
international community, expect any other response than what we are
accustomed to by Bush in response to the crimes committed by Arik 'The Man
of Peace' Sharon and his supporters? Nothing.

If the Sharon regime proceeds with either of their plans, the response needs
to bury Israel, AIPAC, the ZOA, the CPMJO, JINSA and all similar
organizations and extremist Israeli support structures under a relentless
fusillade and barrage of condemnation. Israel needs ostracized and isolated
by sanctions from the rest of the entire international community of nations
until it falls into line and stops this intentional decimation of Palestine.

Because Bush and his aides have staked a clear and visible dislike of German
Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac; because
they would not fall into lock step with British Prime Minister Tony Blair,
perhaps it is then acceptable to Bush to exercise the right to send them
into exile and to forcefully do so? And to do so by sending a belligerent
military force into France and Germany to extract those leaders for
expulsion under heavy gunfire without conscience, or concern for the
citizens of either country? There is no difference. It is just as
preposterous and criminal for the Israelis in their proposition concerning
Yasser Arafat.

While we are on the subject of criminality:

It is a violation of U.S. laws to provide material support for criminal and
corrupt governments. Israel is in violation of near seventy UN General
Assembly and Security Council Resolutions in regards to the Middle East
conflict.

Under numerous scenarios, Israeli PM Ariel Sharon and numerous other Israeli
officials are guilty of multitudes of violations of the Geneva Convention
and other international laws, covenants and treaties. Some punishable by
death.

The entirety of the House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate and the
Executive Branch, including President Bush, are guilty of aiding and
abetting Israel in its flagrant, intentional and willful commitment of
crimes against the Palestinian people. Including but not limited to
violations of the Leahy Amendment and the Arms Control Export Act.

The U.S. government has also violated numerous laws in regards to certain
forms of military and financial aid provided to Israel in contravention to
money laundering laws and laws regarding the structuring of all aid and the
repayment/obligations of the recipient country concerning how the aid is
used and the reporting requirements/accountability of all aid -- military,
or otherwise.

Both Israel and the United States are guilty of violations of numerous UN
Resolutions concerning the treatment of Palestinian citizens and the illegal
occupation of Palestinian territory.

How can anything out of the mouth of the Israeli government, or any of its
politicians, or any of the supporters of the Zionist campaign, or any others
who support or bless the Israeli apartheid against the Palestinian people be
believed in any regard, on any matter?

For that matter, how can any U.S. politician?

Patrick Johnston
VoxRx.org

VoxRx.org ~ A United Nations/UNESCO, Culture of Peace, peace and
conciliations NGO. Providing communications links and lobbying services for
people at risk in regions of conflict and hostility with the goal of peace,
hope, freedom and equal rights for every man, woman and child, regardless of
culture, religion, nationality, or socio-economic circumstance. Sovereignty
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Iraq council chief urges US to cede sovereignty

http://news.google.com/url?ntc=0L1C0&q=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/c/a/2003/09/11/MN255685.DTL

San Francisco Chronicle - 55 minutes ago

As U.S. authorities investigated a suicide car bombing that killed three
Iraqis -- including the driver -- and seriously wounded four American
intelligence officers, the president of the Iraqi Governing Council called
Wednesday for the most rapid possible restoration of sovereignty.

Also Wednesday, two American soldiers were killed by bombs in separate
incidents and U.S.-led forces pressed operations across the country in
search of supporters of deposed President Saddam Hussein.

Council President Ahmad Chalabi, in an apparent bid to strengthen the
fledgling civilian authorities' nationalist credentials with skeptical
citizens, said at a news conference here that the U.S.-appointed Governing
Council would not invite additional foreign troops to Iraq but instead
looked forward to foreign troops leaving.

"The stance of our council is to restore sovereignty on our land," declared
Chalabi, who is seen by critics as having little political backing within
Iraq, depending instead on his ties to Washington. "We will not invite
troops to come. Our ultimate aim is complete sovereignty of Iraqis over
Iraq."

When asked about the apparent conflict with the goals of the Bush
administration, which is seeking troops from other countries such as Turkey,
he responded that "we understand the coalition is in charge of security
within the country." Still, the comments by Chalabi, who holds the rotating
presidency for a month, marked a backing off from an earlier welcome he
indicated for a Turkish force.

The question of a Turkish force in Iraq is sensitive because of the large
Kurdish population in the north near the border with Turkey. Given the
history of a 15-year Kurdish rebellion in Turkey, some observers fear there
could be clashes between Kurdish and Turkish forces in Iraq.

In Baghdad, a U.S. soldier was killed while trying to disarm an improvised
roadside bomb, the military said. The team first attempted to detonate the
bomb by shooting at it with a .50-caliber weapon; the device exploded as the
soldier went forward to investigate. The soldier's name was withheld pending
notification of next of kin.

The soldier's death was the second in as many days after an eight-day
stretch when no American deaths were reported.

About 5 p.m. Tuesday, another soldier was killed and one was wounded when a
homemade bomb exploded on a supply route northeast of the capital, the U.S.
Central Command said Wednesday.

Two Iraqis and the car bomber were reported killed in Tuesday night's attack
on a U.S. military headquarters in the northern city of Irbil. Fifty-three
people, including four American officers of the Defense Human Intelligence
Service and a Kurdish guard, were wounded when the front of the two-story
building collapsed. The attack occurred about 8:50 p.m. when a Toyota sport
utility vehicle laden with TNT exploded near the building.

Maj. James Bullion, civil affairs executive officer of the 404th Civil
Affairs Battalion, Special Operations, said two children were among the dead
in Irbil, the largest Kurdish-controlled city in northern Iraq. He said one
child was a 12-year-old boy. Al-Jazeera TV said the other child was 2.

Early Thursday, attackers fired a rocket-propelled grenade at the Mosul
Hotel in Mosul. U.S. civilian workers are based in the hotel. There were no
immediate reports of injuries, and the U.S. military in Baghdad had no
information on the attack.

The Irbil bombing was the first major terrorist attack in the Kurdish region
since President Bush declared the end of major combat. There was no
immediate claim of responsibility. But the blast came on the heels of a
recent threat by Ansar al Islam, a militant group that U.S. officials say
has ties to the al Qaeda terrorist network.

At a military briefing in Baghdad on Wednesday, U.S. Army Lt. Col. George
Krivo said that U.S.-led forces "continue offensive operations throughout
Iraq to identify, detain or kill Saddam Fedayeen, former regime loyalists,
Baathists and their supporters." Troops seized a variety of ammunition and
weapons at sites around the country, he said.

"During the last 24 hours, coalition forces have conducted 62 raids, 1,498
patrols and detained 69 people," Krivo said.

At his news conference, Chalabi praised the acceptance Tuesday of the new
Iraqi foreign minister at a meeting of the Arab League, calling it "a very
good development."

"We want the best relations with other Arab countries," he said. "We want to
cooperate in every field."

Asked whether the new Iraqi authorities could take a stance in the Arab
League that conflicted with U.S. views, for instance on Israel, Chalabi
replied: "The U.S. is not a member of the Arab League. . . . We want to work
in cooperation with the United States to achieve full sovereignty for
Iraqis. We are working as friends and allies rather than adversaries. So
contradictions, should they arise, are resolvable by very friendly means."

The Associated Press contributed to this report




Success and Failure

By Israel Shamir

(An Interview given to Mr Kostas Karaiskos, editor of the Greek weekly
<Antifonitis> on Partition, the Rise of Jews in Russia, and the duty to
resist Zionism)

Q: Dear Mr. Shamir, after working for so many years as a writer and
journalist, a day came and you surprised all people by your daring, heretic
point of view. What had really happened? How can an established Jewish
writer speak openly about racist Israel, the right of the Palestinians to
resist and return, the American crimes in Iraq etc?

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A: It is not strange that in the critical moment I stood by my adoptive
country, the living temple of God, the Holy Land, this delightful and
charming sister of Hellas, so similar to Peloponnesus or Crete, for it was
destroyed before our eyes by the mad forces of Sharon. It is strange I kept
quiet until recently. But the instinct of self-preservation makes cowards of
us all, and besides, Man is optimistic by nature. As long as the child does
not cry, we do not pay much attention to his discomfort. As long as the
native Palestinians were quiet, one thought: "Well, probably they can
manage, and the country can manage".

But the Intifada was a sign that these extremely peaceful and patient people
are pushed into slow death, and with them Palestine is going for good. I
felt that every bullet shot by the Israeli Army kills my brothers, and every
torched olive tree, every razed house, every demolished Church damage the
very fabric of our existence. It does not make sense to live if our earth is
destroyed, and that is true everywhere. Just objections or critique were not
sufficient anymore.

If I were younger, maybe I would join the fighters of Jenin standing fast at
assault of the armoured monsters. But writing is also a form of warfare. A
writer can emulate a fighter by disregarding mortal danger, by putting his
goal above self-preservation. Later I discovered that this war of words is
good not only for Palestine, but for my soul as well. Thus, the struggle for
Palestine became a spiritual quest for me and for many others.

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Q: Your thesis about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that it can be
ended only by the construction of a unified state, with equality for all its
citizens. Do you believe that this is more realistic than the two states
framework? Which could be the steps for the solution you propose?

---------------------------------------------------------------


Judging by your question, there are separate Israel and Palestine, while
Shamir wishes to unite them. But it is not the case. We have 'one state' and
practically always had it. Palestine was partitioned for a very short time,
from 1948 to 1967, but before and after this break we - the different
communities of Palestine - live together in one beautiful country between
Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. It can't be divided, for it is too
small and people live in close quarters with each other. Moreover, without
Palestinians, Palestine dies.

Like Cyprus before 1974, we are still one country, and the idea of partition
of Palestine is as wrong as that of Cyprus partition. Now, when the
communities of Cyprus try to reconcile, we should not promote partition of
Palestine. We must learn from others' errors: the partition of Cyprus
brought no blessing to the Cypriots, and we should not try it here. The
enormous tragedy of Greek - Turkish partition and transfers is a living
proof it was a wrong way to solve the problem.

Whenever I travel in the Eastern Mediterranean, I deeply regret that there
are no Greeks in Smyrna, no Turks in Thessalonica. In Constantinople, Hagia
Sophia and Hagia Irini still remember their Orthodox Past, and the mosques
in Rhodes bewail their glory. This tragedy is still with us, for the Greeks
were an important and leading element in the Ottoman Empire, this successor
of the Byzantines. The Turks were soldiers and shepherds, the Greeks
represented state and trade. There is a coin minted in 1455 in
Constantinople; its one side is inscribed with legend 'Mehmet, Sultan of the
Faithful' in Arabic, and the reverse side is inscribed in Greek, 'Mehmet,
the Emperor of the Orthodox'. The Ottoman Empire was like this coin, and
under the Turkish warriors and Greek ministers it kept peace and prosperity
of the Mediterranean. The West envied its successes and undermined it.

From the Sack of Constantinople in 1204 to Smyrna in 1921, the imperialist

West tried to disintegrate our beautiful Eastern Mediterranean and
eventually they made it. Out of Greek-Turkish partition, came Mustafa
Ataturk, and his policies (for a while) broke the spirit of the Turks,
turned them into an American tool, forbade them to worship God and even wear
national dress. Greece was subjugated by the British forces for many years.
Greeks were the real force in the Empire, while in their independent state
they serve Western tourists.

Looking back, one understands that the partition of the Empire was a costly
mistake that we all still pay for. Partition of Cyprus, partition of
Ireland, partition of India - so many partitions promoted by the imperialist
West, and all of them lead to perdition. It is enough. In my view, partition
of Palestine should be avoided, while the real problems attended by
promoting equality, democracy, love of our country and its spirit. Maybe
non-partition of Palestine will be the turning point for mankind.

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Q: Vladimir Guzinski, the Russian media baron, was arrested in Athens and is
expected to be deported to Russia. Other fabulously rich members of Jewish
community are also prosecuted (Berezovsky, Khodorkovski) and others continue
to keep good relations with Putin and authorities (Abramovich, Chubais). You
have been born and you have worked in Russia, you know the country and its
culture. How do you explain the unrestricted power which was gathered in
Jewish hands after 1989? Do you believe that Putin is trying to put some
limits to their power or he is just rearranging the scene?

--------------------------------------------------------

A: Rise of the Jews in post-Soviet Russia is one of the most bewildering
phenomena. Six out of seven wealthiest men of Russia are Jews, and they are
influential in media, banking, in control over natural resources. It is not
easy to explain why a Jewish accountant from Tashkent, Chernoy, with monthly
salary of one hundred Rouble, became the owner of Russian aluminium
industry.

One explanation lies in the religious sphere. The Orthodox Christians are
ashamed of being rich. They remember the comparative size of a needle and a
camel. They understand that riches rarely come to honest men. They are
ashamed of power, for they were told: the last ones here will be among the
first there. This quality of Orthodox Christianity was partly inherited by
Communism, and that is why Communism was successful in Russia. (It would
succeed in Greece, too, but England crushed Communists in post-war Greece).

The unreconstructed Jews and the Calvinists have no such misgivings. They
seek power for the Old Testament says, "be a master to your brothers, and
they will bow to you". They believe wealth is a sign of being blessed. That
is why they are ready to grasp all there is. On a less religious note, I
shall quote Victor Pelevin, a modern Russian writer:

"In tumultuous times, an unscrupulous and cunning man manages better than an
honest one for he quickly adapts to the changes. At a certain level of
dishonesty and cunning, the man foresees the oncoming changes well in
advance, and thus he adapts even faster. The worst rogues adapt themselves
to the changes before these changes actually occur. These worst rogues are
the engine of change, for they do not foresee the future, but they form it.
These unscrupulous, shameless, pushy rogues convince the rest that their
forecast is correct, and thus the change occurs"[i].

In other words, 'success' of a group at the expense of others is a sign of
their lack of scruples. But in more pragmatic way, the Russian Jews own
their success to their close relations with the American Jews. When the US
Jews entered the big game of sharing the spoils of Russia, they needed local
allies, and the Russian Jews were available for this role. Thus, this
prominence of Russian Jews is even worse than it appears, for the prominent
ones are extremely pro-American and pro-capitalist. They support Western
domination, fight the Russian Orthodox Church, and promote 'modernity', this
poisonous mix of CNN, MTV and IMF.

They enjoy support of the important American Jews. Khodorkovsky is defended
by such differing and mutually hostile Jewish players as Richard Perle and
George Soros. The NY Times (July 23, 2003) reported from Moscow: "When key
Washington policy advisor Richard Perle sat down this week for a meeting
with leading Russian political analysts, he had an unsolicited word of
advice: Lay off Yukos Oil Co., the Russian energy giant locked in a showdown
with criminal prosecutors." (Yukos is Khodorkovsky). Charles Grant, a Soros'
man, wrote: "today, in strict utilitarian terms, Khodorkovsky is a force for
good in Russia. He gives direct and indirect support to a range of
organisations and individuals that are trying to raise the standards of
Russian capitalism, civil society and democracy. He wants to make Russia
more western, which in my view is exactly what it needs".

When Putin moved against Gusinsky, NY Times of Sulzberger called to 'defend
freedom of independent press', another code-word for the Jewish-owned one,
as the NY Times did not defend Zavtra and other opposition media.

But ordinary Jews, or Russians of Jewish origin - and there are millions of
such people - are a different story. I meet them, music teachers,
journalists, economists; they are normal people, and they reject the New
World Order and regret the fall of the Soviet Union. Even oligarchs are only
human: Berezovsky was received in the Russian Orthodox Church, married a
Russian woman, he supports the national opposition, and who knows? Maybe he
changed his ways. The Manichaean approach should be rejected - reality is
more complicated than any scheme.

[Everyman]

US admits holding 10,000 Iraqi prisoners
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s947282.htm


Iraq never revived its secret nuclear weapons program
after it was dismantled by U.N. inspectors in the 1990s, a senior Iraqi
scientist at Iraq's new Ministry of Science and Technology said Tuesday.
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3452610&from


Hans Blix: Iraq Destroyed WMD 10 Years Ago
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/reuters20030916_626.html


Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Tuesday he had no reason to
believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a hand in the Sept. 11, 2001,
terrorist attacks on the United States.
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20030916_1592.html

Vice President Dick Cheney, anxious to defend the White House foreign policy
amid ongoing violence in Iraq, stunned intelligence analysts and even
members of his own administration this week by failing to dismiss a widely
discredited claim: that Saddam Hussein might have played a role in the Sept.
11 attacks.
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2003/09/16/cheney_link_of_iraq_911_challenged/

Seeking honesty in U.S. policy EX-U.S. DIPLOMAT SAYS WHITE HOUSE IS IN FULL
RETREAT FROM IRAQ REALITY
http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/editorial/6778084.htm

[Everyman]

From: "John Kaminski" <***@comcast.net>
To:
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 8:33 AM
Subject: [Quigs_Fight] ARREST THE PRESIDENT NOW!


Arrest the president now!

Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison thousands. Will the
U.S.A. survive this crisis?

By John Kaminski


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On September 11, 2001, the most infamous day in American history, the
tallest buildings in New York were not knocked down by airplanes hijacked by
Arabs - they were destroyed by demolition charges.

This is no longer wild conspiracy theory - it is a series of provable
facts, deftly presented on a website that every American should not only
read but possibly memorize, so they can repeat it verbatim to every law
enforcement officer in the country. The web site is located here.

http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers/

Briefly synopsized, the site outlines a terrifying proposition: if the
collapse of the Twin Towers were caused by demolition, the entire official
story about that sad day collapses like the house of evil cards so many
Americans and people around the world already suspect it is.

The site, WTC7.net, backs up its conclusions with a devastating
play-by-play of what actually happened on 9/11, and what could not possibly
have happened according to universally accepted engineering principles.

The official story collapses under scrutiny, the site insists. It lists
five stunning assertions:

1. Fires have never destroyed steel buildings.
2. The collapses were not investigated.
3. The physical evidence was destroyed.
4. The official explanations are ludicrous.
5. The evidence indicates demolition.
6. Demolition is provable.

No steel high-rise building has ever collapsed due to fire, the site
insists. And on 9/11, three of them collapsed in a matter of hours at the
World Trade Center complex.

The total collapses of the Twin Towers and Building 7 were (based on
the official story) the three largest engineering failures in the history of
the world, yet no federal investigation was ever funded.

The evidence of the collapses was quickly destroyed. A series of
explanations was promoted to explain the collapses, but each is ridiculed
and debunked on the site, including killer fires, column failure, and truss
failure. The site's conclusion: official explanations cannot explain any
kind of total collapse.

Other curious phenomena examined were the fires that burned for 100
days, that concrete was curiously pulverized in mid-air, and that the
buildings fell so quickly despite following the path of most resistance,
among other suspicious aspects.

After presenting its evidence, the site concludes the towers were
deliberately demolished. Which means the disaster could not possibly have
been the work of Osama bin Laden.

The implications of the story on this site are enormous. They mean that
the official story told by George W. Bush's American government is a total
fabrication. There is no evidence against Osama bin Laden if the buildings
were demolished. It has all been a lie.

What this means is that George W. Bush is guilty of complicity to the
most heinous crime in American history, the willful murder of more than
3,000 people and the destruction of a significant part of America's biggest
city. And of course treason. There is no space to delineate here all the
other charges of mass murder and obstruction of justice against this vain
little demagogue who stole the U.S. presidency and now is raping the world.

Also guilty are Vice President Cheney and the entire Cabinet, the chiefs
of staff of the armed forces, and many other members of the legislative,
executive and judicial branches of the government, plus many other federal
and military employees, plus many state and federal regulatory officials and
private citizens who were either friends of the Bush conspiracy or
conspired in its coverup.

And perhaps the biggest problem is that also guilty of complicity in
this tangled mess is the federal Justice Department, whose leader John
Ashcroft was appointed by the principal defendant in this case.

America and the world have never faced such a colossal crisis, and that
is no overstatement.

The entire American government is now a criminal defendant in the mass
murder of its own citizens at the very moment the entire world is cringing
in fear at America's new policy of preemptive war that threatens every
sovereign nation on the planet.

It's true, my friends, although it's something you already knew -
outlaws rule the world, and they own the cops, the army and the courts, not
to mention all the legislatures.

How can America and the world possibly deal with this?

Well, for starters, the state of New York must assume the lead role,
because all federal agencies, including the FBI, CIA and FEMA, are now all
possible defendants in what will be the most amazing trial in history. Of
course, state officials are as likely to be corrupted as federal officials,
but this still seems to be the logical solution, at least to begin with.

What is at stake here, among so many other items, is the relationship of
the states to the federal government. To say this is a profound
Constitutional crisis is a severe understatement.

And the larger question becomes, can the people ever trust its
government again. The quick answer, at least, is ... not this government -
ever again.

But first, everyone must get the word out. Every American, or as many
possible who aren't immediately felled by terminal apoplexy as they
confront this material, should read the sequence of events as presented on
this site.

Then, responsible people in many professions should confer as to the
best way to deal with prosecutions on these charges, including how to
suspend the functional legal legitimacy of the Bush adminstration,
especially since this group seems intent on blowing up the world. Then it
will have to be one step at a time with some sort of calmly constructed
provisional government, with the current Congress most likely having
absolutely no role in its creation.

This is a great and necessary opportunity for the individual states to
regain some of the power that has been usurped by Washington when they
create a new federal government without any help from the old one.

OK. I know this is all mind-boggling. Unfortunately for all of us, it
happens to be reality. Shake off your stunned silence and incredulity. We
have to deal with it, and we have to deal with it now.

Proper articulation of the offenses, machinery to effect remedies and
prosecutions - and doing both of things in the proper venues - are of
critical importance at this moment. Not being a lawyer, I don't know what
they are. Somebody knows. That person or persons needs to speak,

Because if Bush knows his crimes are exposed and he is allowed to remain
in power, God knows what will happen.

I know you've taken in a crushing amount of information just now, but I
would beg you to try and digest a little bit more, this time from the mind
of Kent State professor Walter Davis, who has articulated in a very
coherent way the argument against George W. Bush continuing as
the commander of the most deadly arsenal ever seen on this planet.

Read the whole piece at some point at

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm

It's titled "Compelling Evidence for Complicity." Davis points out the
government has tried to cop a plea of ineptitude in failing to prevent the
9/11 disaster, but the professor concludes this excuse is "not consistent
with the known facts."

With flawless logic and perfect professorial prose, Davis outlines and
elaborates 22 reasons why he thinks Bush not only knew but helped plan and
execute the tragic 9/11 deception. Davis's items range from the fact that
the entire U.S. intelligence community knew the attack was going to happen
and the American air defenses were "stood down" ... to historical precedents
of leaders who lied about attacks in history. In between is the definitive
version of the charges that should be laid upon Bush and all the criminal
functionaries who participated in this profound crime against the American
people.

I seldom say things are a "must read," but this is one of them, simply
for its articulation of the basic crimes of 9/11 and the completeness of the
magnitude of the atrocity and its implications.
Read the damn thing. Try not to cry. ...

I'm running out of time, as some of you know, and may not be able to do
too many more of these missives. But this one is important, so I'm going to
stay up til dawn punching in the addresses. Because you're running out of
time, too. We're all running out of time, and we better do something fast.

The information contained in here is a critical step in the right
direction. Take it and run with it.

Fasten your seatbelts, ladies and gentlemen. As you probably already
know, with the Saudis reportedly aiming weapons at Israel and China and
Russia viewing the pathetic U.S. military performance in Iraq and
Afghanistan with an eye toward maybe taking a cheap but well-deserved shot
at the U.S. for its insane and murderous policies of late, all of us are
going to be in for a very rough ride. In fact, you can be assured that many
of us are not going to make it through these next few months and years, but
we have no choice but to try and fix this problem as best we can if anybody
is to have any hope of surviving.


John Kaminski is the author of "America's Autopsy Report,"
http://www.johnkaminski.com/

(Note: the vehicle is Citizens Arrest to indict and detain and proscute
these traitors. More on this at www.avoiceforchildren.com NEWSWIRE.
The PEOPLE ARE the authority in the states, and removing the traitors, full
disclosure NOW, opening the CAFR of the funding streams in the states
we see where the bodies are buried and clean this up..... NOW .....THIS IS
NOT AMERICA - RIGHT NOW NO REPUBLIC EXISTS FOR THE FREEBORN NATURAL
PEOPLE TO BE HEARD OR BRING FORTH REMEDY.... WE HAVE TO DO THIS, RIGHTLY,
FOR OURSELVES !! It is our "duty, obligation, responsibility and right"
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Comment:

The strategy of making citizens arrests against all known accomplices whose
arrest does not require prior impeachment from high office, e.g., Paul
Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Gen. Meyer, Condoleza Rice etc. is so obvious, it
is a wonder that no one has suggested it before.


Comment:

Mr. Kaminski calls for immediate law-enforcement on the basis of evidence in
the attack at the World Trade Center. Others, Leslie van Straten, Dick
Eastman, Fernando Martillo have taken pictures and witness statements
regarding the plane sightings, explosions, damage and debris at the Pentagon
to establish the same conclusion of official guilt.
http://www.encoderboy.com/pentagon/martillo
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pentagon911/messages/1
http://www.againstbombing.org/ The only question is who will step forward
first so the rest of us can follow? Certainly not Wesley Clark, Howard
Dean, Lieberman, Gebhardt, Sharpton, Graham, Kerry, or Kucinich. And how is
surprised -- see 2004 Candidate Skeleton Closet I look for a nobody from
out of nowhere and a few who will quickly follow his cue to start the ball
rolling.

Comment:

IMPEACH BUSH, CHENEY, ASHCROFT, RUMSFELD, RICE, POWELL
Contact Congress Today

Comment:

Most of the ones on this list don't think a 757 hit the Pentagon, i myself
took part in a forum last week, and my topic was the Pentagon, i presented
the no-757 case.


Comment:

I think we've passed the point of critical mass of the evidence that clearly
shows our president and a select group of his top advisors had prior
knowledge and were complicit in carrying out the 911 attacks.

It was sobering to stand next to ground zero on 9/10 with my two friends
from OKCity trying to comprehend the amount of force it took to destroy WTC
towers 1, 2 and 7 while viewing the vast 16 acre expanse of what was once
their foundation, subway and transit stations, etc. We chose not to return
the next day since tens of thousands would be attending the memorial
ceremonies and Mayor Bloomberg chose to close many streets to/from Ground
Zero and Central Park. Almost six miles to the north.

John, I recalled what you and many others have written about this disaster.
I was standing there trying to connect the dots. Reviewing the timetable of
events that led up to the collapse of those towers.... It was a bit
overwhelming.

Furthermore, even two years later, many buildings on all sides of ground
zero remain covered by long, black mesh sheets, hiding the ugly scars from
9/11. Some windows remain open, others boarded up. Some as high as thirty
to forty stories up in the air. The federal courthouse / post office
building on the north perimeter of ground zero remains closed. Still
showing shrapnel and pock marks along with glass and metal imbedded in the
large pillars standing at the top of the steps to its main entrance. Debris
dust sticks to the damaged glass and concrete. Remove the plywood from the
windows and pull aside the mesh covering and one would think it was damaged
yesterday. For a minute I thought I was in Burbank on a back lot set of a
horror movie. The tragedy of 9/11 frozen in time by the architecture that
was destroyed that day.

No wonder the victims families and friends and survivors wept openly at the
memorial service. For God's sake, those attending the services were
standing within thirty feet of the buildings some of their deceased loved
ones walked in and out of the morning of 9/11.

Don't stop the good work you're doing -- the ground is begining to shake.

Comment:

The case for going to war against Iraq was a fraud "made up in Texas," Sen.
Ted Kennedy said Thursday in a rare glimps of common JFK and RFK gene pool
responding. Kennedy also said the Bush administration has failed to
account for nearly half of the $4 billion the war is costing each month. He
said he believes much of the unaccounted-for money is being used to bribe
foreign leaders to send in troops. He called the Bush administration's
current Iraq policy "adrift." The White House declined to comment Thursday.
The Massachusetts Democrat also expressed doubts about how serious a threat
Saddam Hussein posed to the United States in its battle against terrorism.
He said administration officials relied on "distortion, misrepresentation, a
selection of intelligence" to justify their case for war. "There was no
imminent threat. This was made up in Texas, announced in January to the
Republican leadership that war was going to take place and was going to be
good politically. This whole thing was a fraud," Kennedy said. Kennedy said
a recent report by the Congressional Budget Office showed that only about
$2.5 billion of the $4 billion being spent monthly on the war can be
accounted for by the Bush administration. "My belief is this money is being
shuffled all around to these political leaders in all parts of the world,
bribing them to send in troops," he said. Of the $87 billion in new money
requested by President Bush for the war, Kennedy said the administration
should be required to report back to the Congress to account for the
spending. "We want to support our troops because they didn't make the
decision to go there ... [other remarks were usual Ted Kennedy and do not
bear repeating here.

[Everyman]

James Yee, 35, an Army captain, has been held since 10 September at a Navy
brig in South Carolina. Whether he had been charged was not clear from
reports -- The American Army's Muslim chaplain who ministered to so-called
enemy combatants at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba has been arrested
and detained, apparently on suspicion that he provided aid and comfort to
potential terrorists.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=445743



Pietro Cardone is an elegant, discreet man, an Italian diplomat who hates
polemics and who pleaded with me that his story should speak for itself. It
does. Three days ago, he held in his arms his dying Iraqi interpreter, shot
through the heart by an American soldier.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/


Iraq was in effect put up for sale yesterday when the American-appointed
administration announced it was opening up all sectors of the economy to
foreign investors in a desperate attempt to deliver much-needed
reconstruction against a daily backdrop of kidnappings, looting and violent
death.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=445744


When is a hurricane like a war? "Isabel: I say they made her do
." -- Just as there are people who are ready to admit that the globalist
ruling elite knew that the September 11, 2001 attacks were coming yet
purposely let the terror succeed, but who are, for various reasons unrelated
to the power of the evidence, reluctant to admit that our leadership
actually planned and executed a false-flag inside-job mass-murder frameup to
realize the economic and geopolitical goals of the criminal elite, so too
there are people ready to admit that this same ruling elite have sat on
weather modification technologies that could have abated the intensity
and/or redirected the path of recent catastrophic hurricanes that have
created a bonanza for FEMA and FEMA's preferred contractors, not unlike the
wars in Afganistan and Iraq and the domestic war on terror have created
bonanzas for the military-industrial-spook complex, but are not willing to
admit that these same deviant elites may have utilized clandestine weather
modification technologies to intensify and direct these tropical cyclones to
the most destructive courses and energies possible. -- As one who knows
for certain from the evidence that this ruling elite did in fact plan and
execute the 9-11 black-op for the sake of Big Finance, Big Business, Big
Government and Big Zionism and as one who has uncovered the technology and
geo-science of clandestine weather modification, I need to share with you,
and especially the victims in lives (22 souls) and or property of hurricane
Isabel and the patriot-voter-taxpayer, my grounds for suspicion that Isabel
has been as opportune for the criminal ruling elite of the US as was
September 11.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Quigs_Fight/message/939



Following its invasion of Iraq, the United States pledged to take action
against the estimated 5,000 PKK rebels holed up in northern Iraq as part of
its war on terror. -- Turkey, which is contemplating sending thousands of
troops to assist U.S. forces restore order in Iraq, has made it clear that
Washington must stick to its pledge if it wants Ankara to commit its
soldiers.
Toronto Star
http://tinyurl.com/o6y1


The Americans knew the mosque area was off-limits to their troops - so did
the thieves, arms merchants, and drug dealers who frequented the surrounding
marketplace. Still, the situation sounded dire, so they dispatched a dozen
US military police in four Humvees. -- As the American MPs neared the
mosque, which was thronged with evening worshipers, some Iraqis began
shouting at them to leave. Rumors spread that the soldiers would violate the
holy shrine. A hostile crowd of hundreds began pelting the Americans with
rocks and bricks, denting the Humvees and smashing their windshields.
Meanwhile, the 70 Iraqi police fled the scene on foot. -- Surrounded in
their vehicles, the MPs attempted to back down the street. They were still
inching backwards, the soldiers say, when two Iraqis from the crowd opened
fire and hit one MP, Staff Sgt. Carlos Lopez, in his right middle finger.
Sergeant Lopez managed to shoot back with his pistol, killing the gunman.
Firing into the air with a machine gun to keep the crowd at bay, the
soldiers finally turned the Humvees and withdrew. At least one other Iraqi
was wounded in the fray.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0922/p01s03-woiq.html


The U.S. will spend approximately $25 billion to repair Iraq by the end of
next year - and billions will be needed after that. Almost all of that
money will go to private contractors who vie for lucrative government deals
to rebuild Iraq's roads, retrain its police force and operate its airports.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/25/60minutes/main551091.shtml


Last week, Venezuelan officials said they would oppose the admission of the
Governing Council to the Opec oil cartel, which is due to hold a meeting
this week in Vienna. -- Ahmad Chalabi, the head of Iraq's US-appointed
Governing Council, hopes to score a diplomatic victory by taking over Iraq's
seat at the United Nations. Aides said Mr Chalabi would not wait for formal
recognition, instead attempting a fait accompli at the UN General Assembly
on Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/o6xp


This coming week, President Bush will head to the United Nations to try to
rally international support for his Iraq endeavor. After addressing the
General Assembly, he is scheduled to stick around to lobby various heads of
state--particularly France's Jacque Chirac and Germany's Gerhard
Schroeder--in an attempt to win commitments of troops and money. Bush's
targets ought to view this effort warily. For if Bush's last speech to the
UN is any guide, he can be expected to mangle the truth in order to get his
way.
http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=962



"Today, we have sacrificed ourselves to defend our honor and pride," read
the typed statement, embossed with traditional religious invocations in
floral, Arabic script. "We have sacrificed our souls for the sake of Islam,
sacrificed our souls to get rid of the monkeys, pigs, Jews and Christians.
To all our brothers and sisters, we prevail on you to be joyful with
s." -- Fahdawi and the others who died are celebrated as
heroes. Neighbors and relatives call them defenders of faith, not supporters
of former president Saddam Hussein. And in their words, actions and ideas,
relatives say, the men represent a homegrown movement, grounded in a
militant reading of religion, that augurs a new enemy for the occupation.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40725-2003Sep20.html



A nationwide group of law professors, law schools, and students filed suit
yesterday against the US Department of Defense and other government
agencies, charging them with violating the First Amendment by forcing law
schools to allow military recruiters on campus.
http://tinyurl.com/o6xr

[Everyman]

More than enough information for a change of government (removal of
organized-crime ruling elites) follows.
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Iraq weapons and terrorism ties all part of a big lie launched by
neo-consand Rockefeller asset Powell within hours of 911 -- Writing in the
Daily Mirror, John Pilger reveals that both US Secretary of State Colin
Powell and Bush's closest adviser Condaleeza Rice said, in 2001, that
Saddam Hussein was effectively disarmed and no threat - putting the lie to
their own propaganda. -- Pilger: EXACTLY one year ago, Tony Blair told
Parliament: "Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programme is
active, detailed and growing. "The policy of containment is not working.
The weapons of mass destruction programme is not shut down. It is up and
running now."
http://pilger.carlton.com/print also www.mirror.co.uk


Over 1,500 violent civilian deaths in occupied Baghdad -- Compare what Jews
Franks, Meyer, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz are doing in occupied Iraq with Hitler's
pathetic little Krystalhacht (in which no one was killed) -- From April
14th to 31st August, 2,846 violent deaths were recorded by the Baghdad city
morgue. When corrected for pre-war death rates in the city a total of at
least 1,519 excess violent deaths in Baghdad emerges from reports based on
the morgue's records (adjusted for the comparable "background level" of
deaths in Baghdad in recent pre-war harsh-sanctions times.)
http://www.iraqbodycount.net/press.htm


When Israel's finance minister Binyamin Netanyahu was interviewed for the
radio on the morning after the horrific terror attack on Café Hillel in
Jerusalem he was asked whether this was the right time for cutbacks in the
military budget. In answer to this question Netanyahu promised, once again,
that the money set aside for the so-called "separation fence" would not be
affected by the cutback--on the contrary it would be flowing faster so as to
speed up construction. This, he said, would be done to ensure the safety of
the citizens of Israel. It did not even occur to the interviewer to ask whet
her the fence would actually lead to peace and security.
http://www.counterpunch.org/bronner09232003.html


In his speech today to the U.N. General Assembly, President Bush tried to
walk a fine line between defending a war deeply unpopular in much of the
world and looking for help -- Sidestepping direct answers to many of the
questions that have arisen since the administration said it would seek a
Security Council resolution that would expand the United Nations' role in
Iraq and call on countries to contribute more troops and money.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54800-2003Sep23.html

Text Annan speech:
http://www.un.org/webcast/ga/58/statements/sg2eng030923.htm

Text Chirac speech:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/23/international/22TEXT-CHIRAC.html

Text Bush speech:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/09/20030923-4.html


Two Israeli tanks invaded Balata refugee camp Saturday afternoon in Nablus
city. Soldiers fired gunshots at a group of youth who threw stones, wounding
three of them. Medical sources in Rafidiah hospital described the wounds of
Yahia Alkhatib, 15, as serious.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0309/S00285.htm


Air Force airman has been arrested at Guantanamo for trying to ascertain the
true status of the so-called "illegal combatants" (i.e., Afganistan
citizens, Taliban leaders, who know too much about the Bush administrations
dealings in Afganistan prior to the invasion etc. to be allowed freedom to
talk, but who have committed no crime that would stand up in a legitimate
court.) Rumsfeld Pentagon officials said the man, later identified as
Senior Airman Ahmad al-Halabi, 24, of Detroit, was being held for
investigation of possible misuse of classified information.
http://www.msnbc.com/news/969495.asp?0sl=-30&cp1=1


Let's keep it kosher! -- Let's see now, General Wesley (Kanne) Clark comes
from a "long line of Rabbis", Kerry, in the best Madelaine , uh, Magda,
Albright fashion, has just "discovered" his Jewish roots, as did Hilary
Clinton. Researchers have ferreted out the fact Gore's family is of
Sephardic (Marrano) stock--And, let's not forget Lieberman. Gee, is there
anyone in the Democratic party leadership who DOESN"T have a Jewish
"connection"? (LaRouche, maybe? i.e., they guy the Dems never let speak!)
But what about Dean? Check this: WASHINGTON, April 14 (JTA)--On a recent
trek around the U.S. capital seeking support from pro-Israel lobbyists and
Reform movement activists, Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean may
have been the only non-Jew in the room. But Dean, the former governor of
Vermont, should be used to that. It's the same way in his own home. Dean,
a Congregationalist, has a Jewish wife, and both his children, 17-year-old
Paul and 18-year-old Anne, have chosen to identify as Jews.
http://www.interfaithfamily.com/article/issue108/berger.phtml


[Few know that Dwight Eisenhower, the first publically CFR president, was
also a Swedish Jew. -- He was the man who defeated the "old-righters",
namely "Mr. Republican " Robert Taft and Gen. Douglas MacArthur for the
1952 GOP Presidential nomination (Taft died from fast spreading cancer in
1954 after announcing his interest in challenging Eisenhower over Ike's
"internationalism" 1956.) Very interesting that it was only after Ike left
office that he mentioned the threat of the "Military Industrial Complex" in
his farewell speech -- stealing and undercutting Kennedy making the same
his own issue when he took office in 1961. --DE]


"I am the oldest son, of the oldest son, of the oldest son at least five
generations, and they were all rabbis." -- Gen. Wesley Clark speaking at a
Brooklyn yeshiva in 1999.
http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=13221&intcategoryid=3


Three Iraqis were killed and four others seriously wounded in a US air
strike on homes north of Fallujah, hospital officials and witnesses said.
All six victims were members of the same family from the village of al-Jisr,
according to Falljuah Hospital's Dr Ayman al-Ani on Tuesday. Al-Ani
identified the dead as Ali, Saadi and Salim al-Jumaili. Relatives in
al-Jisr said US occupation forces encircled the village about 1:30am (2130
GMT) and began using machine guns before the helicopter missile attack.
http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/News/ArabWorld/US+destroys+family+in+missile+attack.htm


Aljazeera has been banned from covering the US-installed Iraqi Governing
Council's activities - for allegedly inciting violence against US occupation
forces and its supporters. -- Speaking to CNN, Aljazeera spokesperson Jihad
Balout said, "my organisation is dismayed at this decision, and we certainly
believe that there are several victims to the decision, firstly the truth,
because it will be missing ... and the second one is the freedom of the
press."
http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/News/ArabWorld/Aljazeera+banned+again.htm


US forces face daily attacks from guerrilla fighters seeking to drive them
from Iraq. Dissatisfaction with the occupation is aggravated by grave
shortcomings in many basic services such as water and electricity. The
corrective US puppet Governing Council's response? -- Simply shut down the
one Arabic language news agency reporting it. "If it isn't reported, it
didn't happen, it isn't happening, there is no problemo and the natives rest
easy." See, for example:
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=32528&d=24&m=9&y=2003


Arabic reporter of Syrian origin but with Spanish citizenshjip and passport
is being held as hostage in Spain -- officially on suspicion of al Qe'ada
ties -- the message is clear, Tayssir Alluni, 56, a top Aljazeera
commentator, will suffer consequences if Aljazeera chooses to make an issue
of blacklisting and total censorship of the news agency in Iraq.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=32528&d=24&m=9&y=2003



President George Bush was accused at the United Nations yesterday of
undermining the system of multilateral security by going to war in Iraq
without authorisation from the Security Council.
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=446445


"Old Europe" and other Nations Bought Off at UN on Iraq -- Jacques Chirac
and Gerhard Schroeder merely posture with empty criticism (of the word
"liberation") and protest while going along with the US Neo-Con agenda.
Germany will send troops in show of globalization solidarity.
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=7&section=0&article=32515&d=24&m=9&y=

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NO, MR. SECRETARY. THAT'S DEATH! (Rumsfeld quotes)

"If you do something, somebody's not going to agree with it. That's life.
(Feb. 19, 2003)

If you do anything, someone's not going to like it and that's life.
(May 7, 2002)


"[When somebody criticizes that] makes it complicated. Sometimes, it makes
it difficult. That's life.
(Sept. 11, 2003)

LOOKS LIKE RUMSFELD THINKS YOU REALLY ARE "SOMEBODY" AFTER ALL. But now its
time to take so many LIVES out of his dripping-blood hands -- we, who
know the difference between what is really life and what is really
eath. --DE

---------------

Colin Powell Lights Candles at Kurdish Graves, Avoids Visiting America's
Wounded Soldiers

EXCERPT:

Lots of us had highest hopes about Colin Powell. I was one of many who
thought he should be president because I considered he would be a splendid
leader for America. This was the man, after all, who wrote in his
autobiography that he was "angry that so many of the sons of the powerful
and well-placed . . . managed to wangle slots in reserve and National Guard
units" to avoid the draft during the Vietnam war. Yay! Let's hear it for
Colin, the man who speaks his mind and despises the cowardly sons of the
rich who dishonourably wriggled out of serving their country.

But after he decided against running for president he couldn't resist the
offer to work for a man whose daddy had wangled him a non-combat slot in a
National Guard unit during the Vietnam war. OK; so my formerly unqualified
admiration for C Powell took a bit of a hit. But I recollected he had
written that he distrusted those in government who "devote little thought to
who will eventually pay the bills". Good, good; because that was evidence he
would not support trickery and irresponsibility in budget management. Indeed
he declared himself "a fiscal conservative with a social conscience".
Wonderful. Then there was his affirmation that "I am troubled by the
political passion of those on the extreme right who seem to claim divine
wisdom on political as well as spiritual matters". Now you're talking, my
dear sir. What a splendid, candid and damning rejection of extremism. It was
obvious that this man could never be part of an administration that
contained or drew support from right wing zealots obsessed with religious
righteousness.

I was wrong. The Bush administration doesn't only draw support from right
wing zealots; it is packed with them. And Colin Powell seems comfortable
with Bush and his ultra-right wing weirdoes. Although he had written "I
distrust rigid ideology from any direction" it appears he can accept
ideological inflexibility, and his bizarre support for the Bush war on Iraq
sits strangely with his former liberal views.

When Powell gave his supposedly definitive speech for war on Iraq to the UN
Security Council on February 5 it was greeted at first with the deference
due to a former general who knew what he was talking about because he had
been thoroughly briefed (we thought). In essence he declared that Iraq
possessed actual weapons of mass destruction; that Baghdad was trying to
deceive UN weapons inspectors and conceal WMD from them; and that Saddam
Hussein was harbouring terrorists, including members of the al-Qaeda
organisation. (He noted specifically that there had been "decades of contact
between al-Qaeda and Saddam". Of course al-Qaeda was not even formed a
decade ago; but we'll have to let that pass.)
http://www.counterpunch.org/cloughley09202003.html


Combat soldier talk -- "We are slowly becoming frantic. I hear people
saying they are going to begin hurting themselves or others if they can't go
home. The helplessness our soldiers are feeling is indescribable, it is past
the point of "suck it up and drive on." We just want somewhere to drive on
to." -- "If retention for the Army National Guard is of any importance,
current members need to have faith in our government and our leaders. Right
now, where we are, we can't see anyone taking a stand for the soldiers (as
it isn't just us being treated this way but many, many soldiers). This
isn't a simple board game of Axis and Allies, this is a game people are
playing with real people - people with families, not robots. You have
college students out here (like me) missing over a year of college to sit
and get yanked around without explanation. It has been told to the officers
I have spoken to that 3rd PERSCOM refers to moving soldiers as "drug deals."
You do this for me and I'll make sure your soldiers go home, etc.
http://www.madison.com/captimes/opinion/column/guest/57361.php


It was an effort to convey to the Iraqis the message that if they used
arson against the occupation, then the fire would certainly be allowed to
spread to their own homes and businesses. -- The war and subsequent
"irrational vandalism and looting destroyed over 165 firehouses. "There
are no tools or equipment in any firehouse," according to the Coalition
Provisional Authority, the U.S.-led organization now running Iraq. -- The
administration wants $100 million for an Iraqi witness protection program
etc. --
http://tinyurl.com/oh24


"A people and culture to damn stupid to deserve freedom or survival" --
Fifty percent of 1,003 people questioned for the poll approved of Bush's job
performance
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/22/elec04.poll.bush.clark/index.html



AUSTRALIAN investigative journalist John Pilger says he has evidence the war
against Iraq was based on a lie that could cost George W. Bush and Tony
Blair their jobs and bring Prime Minister John Howard down with them.
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7350504%5E2,00.html


Palestinian President Yasser Arafat accused Washington of encouraging
Israeli crimes against his people on Tuesday as US President George W Bush
said the Palestinian people's cause had been betrayed by their veteran
leader.
http://jang.com.pk/thenews/sep2003-daily/24-09-2003/main/main15.htm


Palestinian security sources said Israeli troops, stationed at the
illegitimate Jewish settlement of "Dugit", near Beit Lahia, randomly opened
heavy fire at Palestinian houses, killing one citizen.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0309/S00276.htm


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how it is possible for even "left progressives" to see the positive in what
LaRouche offers anti-Neo-con, anti-CFR, anti-plutocratic-organized-crime
citizens.

From: -- a progressive Democrat friend --
To: "Weasels" <***@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:30 AM
Subject: Four Articles About the Neocon DLC

Here are four articles in an attached zip file about the DLC,
exposing its roots (and current connections) with the Neocons.
These are written by people in the Larouche organization, but
are factual, and put together information not generally known.
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3028gingrich_dems.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3028neocon_dems.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3011dlc_wrecker.html
http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2928buckpac.html
Larouche has an insane hatred of (gay) sex, drugs (especially
marijuana), and (believe it or not) rock 'n' roll. He is very
supportive of nuclear power, and claims (wrongly) that nuclear
radiation is good for you. For these reasons I would never
support him for president (he runs every four years). On the
plus side, he condemns "free-market" globalism and the loss
of U.S. industrial manufacturing capability. He's also one of the
few public figures who exposes the Neocon complicity in the
9-11 attacks. His organization does good research.
Mark Bilk

================

With Joost van Steenis of the Netherlands, Boudewijn Wegerif of Sweden
stands as the great light of European populism against the imperialist money
power of finance globalization. These men have lifted us from hopeless by
teaching us, respectively, ) that the deviant ruling elites can be
overthrown; and that 2) better (more just, more common-man lifting, society
enriching, beautiful-future-opening economic arrangments are really
possible and in fact obtainable with the removal and replacement of a few
dysfunctional moral-hazard institutions, laws and practices-- and not just
the pie and the sky central-planning new-class-elite totalitarian
bureaucratic individual-crushing socialism which is the most emphatically
caste/class oppressive system of all -- -- but enough of my
over-intellectual overloaded rhetoric --

here is Wegerif:

from
http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmemails/wmemailsindex.html

WHAT MATTERS-148 --September 24, 2003

I want to have nothing to do with hanging Bush

_______________________

Dear list members,

There is an article being widely distributed: 'Arrest the President Now -
Enough 9/11 evidence exists to hang Bush, imprison thousands. Will the
U.S.A. survive this crisis?'

The article is by John Kaminski. You can read it at
http://www.johnkaminski.com .

"John Kaminski is a writer whose time has come," says Jeff Rense, whose
www.rense.com web site draws 7 million hits a week.

There are now many web sites pointing to the Bush junta's complicity in
9-11. You need go no further than the two sites that Kaminski bases his
article on to know that there is indeed a case to be made against Bush. They
are:

# http://911research.wtc7.net/talks/towers
This dramatic slide show with captions is even more convincing than the
article by Jerry Russell, 'Proof of Controlled Demolition at the WTC', in
What Matters E-letter 146 of September 11. See
http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmeletters32.html#WM-146.

# http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4582.htm
A 6,700 word, carefully considered article by Kent State professor Walter E.
Davis, the accumulative effect of which is - - -

Yes, there is now enough evidence to show that the September 11, 2001,
attacks were self-inflicted wounds on the United States of America and that
the non-elect president Bush allowed them.

But please, I want to have nothing to do with hanging Bush.

Justice, true justice, requires that we recognise:

- Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Ashcroft, and most of the others who are running
the U.S. and the world, have overstepped the mark of what is acceptably
good, self-interested behaviour. They are living out the shadow of everyone
who wants to make it good in the world, in a media supported pseudo
innocence, which sees no harm in self-seeking; no harm in everyone going
their own way, like cancer cells.

- The shadow half to good America has placed Bush where he is, as the
President of the U.S. by a cheat involving just a few hundred thousand
votes. To take out the self-seeking shadow that the Bush junta represents,
we would have to take out half of America, and even beyond the U.S., as much
as half of the rest of the world. It is not possible. The malignant,
cancerous rot is spread too deep in the bones of the global body politic,
too deep in the capitalist, corporate and institutional makeup of our
tearing itself apart, terminally ill world, too deep in the consciousness of
too many of us.

--
I live and am dying with the knowledge that there is a great divide
happening between people who are money addicted and people who have their
heart set on love; and I believe that the divide between the
death dealing money makers and lovers of life will have its correspondence
in an Earth divide.

I have written about this before.

In What Matters E-letter WM-113 of December 8, 2002, I describe the coming
Earth divide, by which there will be a 'new Earth' as part of the
consciousness of those who are ready for it between 2012 and 2017, in this
reality or after 'death'. I write that the "old Earth will become a phantom
Earth descending further and further into an electro-magnetically matrixed,
mind controlled and hellishly 'psycho- civilised' state, while the new Earth
(actually renewed Earth) becomes increasingly divine, in the sense of
heavenly".
(See http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmeletters23.html#WM-113)

And in What Matters E-letter 125 of March 20, I comment on how with the U.S.
invasion of Iraq, "Reason is no more, as kill, overkill, and much more kill
draws a rage of delight from the crazed war farers. Yet in the now upon us
time of death by killings, genocide and famine, people
everywhere are discovering the sweet lunacy of giving. They are being drawn
into giving till it hurts. And so uncovering love - the love that does not
seek gain for itself, but is for giving unconditionally, freely and
vulnerably.
(See http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmeletters26.html#WM-125 )

What Matters E-letters 106 and 110 also relate, off
http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmelettersindex.html

--
There is now an unstoppable groundswell of people who have been awakened to
the possibility of living by a free giving economy of love.

They have picked up on these words by the scientist and priest Teilhard de
Chardin, "When humans truly discover the power of love, it will prove more
important than the harnessing of fire."

Teilhard de Chardin also wrote: "No one can deny that a network (a world
network) of economic and psychic affiliations is being woven at ever
increasing speed which envelops and constantly penetrates more deeply within
each of us. With every day that passes it becomes a little more impossible
for us to act or think otherwise than collectively." The collectivisation
has been a marketing boon for the money makers; that is the shadow side.

In 'Lightning East to West, Jesus, Ghandi and the Nuclear Bomb', Jim (James
W.) Douglass draws out the light side to the globalism (PS2). He
writes that "the only species-sustaining choice open to humanity in our
end-time is a global partnership of peoples, a world community based on a
revolutionary transformation of values." He calls the emerging global
partnership of peoples the 'kingdom of Reality', and he describes the
kingdom of reality as "a non-violent community of justice and love, through
deepening self-sacrifice".

Jesus and Ghandi are, for Jim, the "symbols and prophets" of the kingdom of
Reality. "Their kingdom of non-violent truth-force and love-force if
realized would be a lightning east to west, the energy equivalent and
alternative to a nuclear fire ending the world." - today, the nuclear fire
that Bush and company have the might to ignite in the Middle East.

According to the Gospel of Matthew (24:27), Jesus said, "The coming of the
Son of Man will be like lightning striking in the east and flashing into the
west."

Jim writes: "Jesus' image of the end of the world is like nothing so much as
a nuclear blast in the sky. Yet the positive meaning of Jesus' image of the
end, the victory of Truth and Love in history, is the exact opposite of a
nuclear holocaust, which would be the ultimate human blasphemy against
creation's meaning . . . We live in that final time that offers humans the
clearest choice in history: the kingdom or the holocaust."

The Son of Man is the fully realized human being, both singular and
collective, who has uncovered the power of love as manifest in Jesus, the
seed Son of Man. It does not seem so, on the surface of history, but I
believe that we are as close to uncovering this power of love as we are to
utterly destroying the Earth. The knowledge is now there for it, of a human
relativity greater than the material relativity of Einstein's E=mc2. All
that is lacking is the application.

"It was Albert Einstein at the beginning of the [20th] century who pointed
out the real possibility of a previously inconceivable physical energy, and
thus in effect prophesied nuclear fire," writes Jim Douglass. "More
recently it has been C.G. Jung who indicated the further possibility of an
equally powerful, even more inconceivable (because unconscious) spiritual
energy. Einstein's hypothesis has been tried and proven. Jung's has not been
tried."

The font to the spiritual energy, of love, is in the soul, the psyche.

Toward the end of his life, Jung suggested the possibility of an ultimate
agreement between psychic and physical forms of energy. He wrote:
" . . . Psyche cannot be totally different from matter, for how
otherwise could it move matter? And matter cannot be alien to psyche, for
how else could matter produce psyche? Psyche and matter exist in one and the
same world, and each partakes of the other, otherwise any reciprocal action
would be impossible. If research could only advance far enough, therefore,
we should arrive at an ultimate agreement between physical and psychological
concepts." ('Aion' - Princeton University Press, 1959 - page 261.)

Elsewhere Jung writes: "Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of
the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the
infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche." ('Memories,
Dreams, Reflections' - Vintage, 1963 - page 335.)

In Lightning East to West, Jim Douglass shares his understanding of how we
are to uncover the spiritual energy, of love, in the psyche, by which the
collective shadow that Bush represents is overcome, in the sense of
resolved.

"A key to Jung's model of the psyche is 'the shadow'," Jim writes. "The
shadow is the sum of everything I refuse to acknowledge about myself . . .
By now it is well known that to the extent that the ego ignores the shadow
elements of the psyche, or forces them to remain repressed and
unacknowledged in the unconscious, it is inviting destruction in the world .
. . On the other hand, if a person can acknowledge the shadow and thus make
it conscious, that person can become whole and a source
of great psychic energy. S(he) will have emerged from self-division into a
whole expression of her own truth. The personal goal of Jung's process
evokes Gandhi's description of the 'satyagrahi', or person of truth-force."

A truly enlightened democracy, by which people like Bush would not ever be
elected to high office, requires that all her people have as their priority,
before money making and the good life of personal gain, the acknowledgement
and transformation into love power of their shadow.

This is reflected in each one of us taking responsibility for the whole.

In 'The Brothers Karamozov' by Fyodor Dostoevsky, the saintly monk Zossima
says:

"There is only one means of salvation, then take yourself and make
yourself responsible for all men's sins, that is the truth, you know,
friends, for as soon as you sincerely make yourself responsible for
everything and for all men, you will see at once that it is really so, and
that you are to blame for everyone and for all things. But throwing your own
indolence and impotence on others you will end by sharing the pride of Satan
and murmuring against God."

Mahatma Gandhi said the same, this simply:

"Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself, I have also erred, when
I see a lustful man, I say to myself, so was I once; and in likewise I feel
kinship with every one in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without
the humblest of us being happy."

Jim Douglass, after giving these citations, goes on to write:

"Gandhi believed in 'advaita', in the essential unity of humanity and
of all that lives. He believed that if one person gains spiritually the
whole world gains with her and, if one person falls, the whole world
falls to that extent. The psychic foundations to Gandhi's techniques of
'satyagraha', of truth-force or soul-force, is the union of the individual
psyches in an unconscious Self, which Jung says is experienced as God and
which Gandhi says IS God.

"It is this unifying Self of a collective unconscious that can be
hypothesized as the unexplored source of an inconceivable energy for
change - the psychic equivalent of Einstein's E=mc2."

Jim carries the analogy further, with:

"As the uranium is purified and concentrated for its use in the bomb,
it remains matter but edges closer and closer to that critical mass at which
point its earth-shattering energy will suddenly and overwhelmingly take
over. This enormous degree of energy exists in every particle of matter, as
Einstein showed . . . [However], for the horizon-spanning energy of even
uranium to take over from its handful of matter, a painstaking process of
purification is first necessary.

"It is the equivalent degree of autonomous psychic energy that Gandhi
postulated in every living person as the basis of truth-force. The degree of
energy for transformation present in our psychic or spiritual reality is
normally as unimaginable as the energy in a sub-critical mass. Moreover, to
reach the critical point of a spiritual transformation in humanity, where an
autonomous Reality might take over and fill the horizon, would require an
even more painstaking process of purification in the person or
community seeking that realization, because its possibility has been so
little explored. Gandhi spoke simply on the means of such a purification:
1) through a form of being in prayer in which the person becomes ever-
more-one with Reality in an inner wholeness;
2) through a form of being through service in which the person becomes
ever-more-one with Reality in a communal wholeness . . . In such a way,
through prayer and service at a depth of ultimate sacrifice, a community of
satyagrahis will create the conditions of that critical spirit in which a
self-acting energy of truth and love can transform a whole society."

--
Yes, I do believe that there will be, in Jim Douglass' words, "a final
victory of Truth in history", with "a force of truth and love powerful
enough to fuse billions of individual psyches into a global realization
of essential oneness."

However, I believe that it will happen out of an Earth divide, triggered off
by a cosmic event that Jesus referred to as a lightning flash from east to
west. And I believe that this event could well be linked to the worldwide
realisation that the de facto president of the United States, Mr Bush, is a
traitor of the first order in a treacherous world of self- seekers, who see
no wrong in using whatever, including the state
apparatuses, to their own advantage, at the cost of others.

With the shock of knowing just how sick the man is, and half the world with
him, the people of the world will have to choose: "Self-destruct or
Self-realise".

There will then be only horror and treachery and loss upon loss upon loss
ahead for those who insist on carrying on half dead, half alive, as 'homo
economicus', trying to do well for themselves at the cost of others, their
own integrity and that of the Earth. They are the ones who will lynch Bush,
given half a chance, as the scapegoat for their own self-seeking treachery.

And the lynching will happen in an electro-magnetically matrixed, phantom
Earth, separated out from the emerging new heaven and new earth of those who
are Self-realised into the global oneness that Teilhard de Chardin
anticipated and Jim Douglass describes.

In friendship,

Boudewijn Wegerif
What Matters Programme**
Folkhogskola Vardingeby
150 21 Molnby

PS - With reference to the thanksgiving appeal in What Matters E-letter 143,
it is now possible to send donations by credit card to me at
***@whatmatters.nu, via http://www.paypal.com. To date, following on
the original gift of 200 euros from Peter Koenig, four other list members
have contributed $180 between them, for which I am grateful. Further
donations would be warmly appreciated. For the purpose
see http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmeletters31.html#WM-143

PS2: Lightning East to West, by James W. Douglass, was published by The
Crossword Publishing Company, New York, in 1984, and may now be out of print
. The book reference number is ISBN 0-8245-0587-5.
________________________
This E-letter is posted at
http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmeletters/wmeletters34.html#WM-148

* The What Matters Programme is an initiative by Boudewijn Wegerif, to
spread information about what is happening in the world today, and how
things could be, given a schooling at all levels to free the self and the
world from debt/guilt oppression and money madness - a schooling for
Satyagraha, truth and love force. The trustees of the What Matters Programme
are the collegiate of Folkhögskola Vårdinge By, an adult education
residential college south of Stockholm.

You can read WHAT MATTERS E-letters 1 to 105 at
http://www.whatmatters.nu/wmemails/wmemailsindex.html, and from
WM-106 at
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http://www.whatmatters.nu/LoveinActionE-letters/WM-LoveinActionIndex.html

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I pass on to you the above articles and URL's -- but the big news is, as
always, that it has been
proven by the Pentagon crash evidence that 9-11 was a mass-murder inside-job
false-flag frameup by organized crime affiliated with Big Finance and Big
Business for the purpose of providing a phony pretext for wars of
dominantion and conquest that Americans would otherwise never have stood
for.

Dick Eastman
Yakima, Washington
Every man is responsible to every other man.