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A Day in the Life: 6/15/6

Posted by: "President, USA Exile Govt." prez@usa-exile.org

Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:43 am (PST)

GOVERNMENT OF THE USA IN
EXILE
Free Americans
Reaching Out to Amerika's Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free

Via <prez@usa-exile.org>

June 15, 2006

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US, Global Arms & Huge Infant Deaths

by Gideon Polya
June 14, 2006

MWC News

IN WORLD WAR ONE young men of the British Empire were exhorted to “join
up to fight the Hun” ( “Hun” or “Boche” being the popular names for a
“German” at the time). We are all familiar with the famous recruitment
poster in which a stern Lord Kitchener points and declares “Britain
needs you”. However an additional impetus for enlistment was given by
propaganda about “the Boche bayoneting Belgian babies”), a line that
was also used to get America into the war (see: CounterPunch ). Indeed
a version of this canard was used during the 1991 Gulf War, with the US
promulgating utterly false propaganda about Iraqi soldiers murdering
hundreds of Kuwaiti babies by tipping them out of humidicribs
(see: here ). However these lies of commission have given way to lies
of omission – lying, racist, Anglo-American Mainstream Media will
simply NOT report the horrendous avoidable infant mortality that is
ACTUALLY occurring in the Occupied Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan
Territories because of gross Israeli, US, Coalition and NATO violation
of the Geneva Conventions for the Protection of Civilians in Time of
War.

The latest Yearbook of the Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute, the SPIRI Yearbook 2006, has reported the latest data on
global military expenditure (and here ). The US remains the world’s
biggest military spender, accounting for 48% of the 2005 global
military expenditure of $1.1 trillion. The world’s 15 biggest military
spenders in descending order are United States, Britain, France, Japan,
China, Germany, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Russia, India, South Korea,
Canada, Australia, Spain and Israel (the details and MWC News ). THE
IMPORTANT QUESTION is simply: what are the consequences of global arms
expenditure? This question can be answered in various ways as set out
below, but the short answer is simply that global arms expenditure is
linked to horrendous AVOIDABLE INFANT MORTALITY.

1. $1 trillion per annum would largely eliminate global avoidable
mortality.

Avoidable mortality (technically, excess mortality) is the difference
between the actual deaths in a country and the deaths expected for a
peaceful, decently-run country with the same demographics. Using UN
data it can be calculated that the post-1950 global avoidable
mortality has totaled 1.3 billion (of which about 60% have been
avoidable under-5 infant deaths). The annual avoidable mortality is
ZERO (0) in First World countries but is also ZERO in some very poor
countries with annual per capita incomes (2003 figures) of only about
$1,000 - notable examples being Cuba, Paraguay, Syria and Sri Lanka, in
which such modest incomes coupled with good governance, good primary
health care and relatively high literacy has enabled this excellent
outcome. The annual cost of lifting ALL countries up to an annual per
capita income of $1,000 is about $1.4 trillion. The annual global
avoidable mortality is about 16 million.

2. The dozen US-linked “biggest military spenders” are involved in war
criminal mass murder in Occupied countries.

Of the 15 “biggest spenders”, only 3, namely Russia, China and India,
are NOT involved in the illegal, criminal military occupation and
violation of other sovereign nations; the remainder have been
intimately involved in such gross violations in recent years. Thus the
United States, Britain, Japan, Italy, South Korea, Australia, and Spain
have all been involved in the illegal military occupation of Iraq
(Saudi Arabia has been a key accessory); the United States, its
Coalition partners Britain and Australia, and its NATO allies France,
Germany and Canada have supplied forces for the war criminal occupation
of Afghanistan (Saudi Arabia has been a key accessory through provision
of facilities); and Israel has been variously involved in the illegal
occupation of neighbouring countries (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and
the Occupied Palestinian Territories) for nearly 40 years – and is
still illegally occupying the Occupied Palestinian Territories and part
of Syria. The post-invasion avoidable mortality in the Occupied
Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan Territories totals 0.3, 0.5 and 1.8
million, respectively (about 60% are avoidable under-5 infant deaths).

3. European “biggest military spenders” are linked to huge colonial
and neo-colonial global avoidable mortality

Since liberation in the mid-1940s from the Japanese and the British,
respectively, China and the India have made huge inroads on reducing
avoidable mortality. Thus the “annual death rate” in British India was
a genocidal 3.5% in 1947 and is now only about 0.9% (still about 2-3
times higher than it should be but a vast improvement). While “annual
avoidable mortality” is about 3.7 million in India, it is ZERO (0) in
China, which has been much more successful than post-colonial India in
reducing endemic poverty. India and China, while having big military
budgets, have ESCHEWED imperialism and concentrated on improving life
for their citizens. South Korea and Japan have had minor involvements
in US Asian wars, specifically in Vietnam (South Korea) and in Iraq
(Japan) and have outstandingly good annual avoidable mortality outcomes
(zero) and under-5 infant mortality figures that are among the best in
the world. In contrast, using UN data one can calculate the “post-1950
avoidable mortality” (60% being avoidable under-5 infant deaths) in
countries that have been partially or completely occupied in the
post-WW2 era by the following 7 European “biggest military spenders” as
MAJOR occupiers: 82 million (United States), 727 million (Britain),
142 million (France), 37 million (Russia), 2 million (Australia), 9
million (Spain) and 24 million (Israel).

The former Axis powers Germany, Italy and Japan resolved to eschew
militarism and imperialism in 1945 but are nevertheless on the list of
the “top 15 biggest military spenders” and have been persuaded to DIRTY
their international reputations through involvement in US wars in Asian
countries, namely Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively. Italy proposes
to withdraw from Iraq, but Germany and Japan are still up to their
necks in war crimes AGAIN – the annual under-5 infant mortality in the
Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories totals 0.5 million (1,300 daily,
1 per minute – and 90% avoidable), largely due to gross Coalition
violation of the Geneva Conventions.

What can decent people do about this horrendous, war criminal, US-led
passive genocide, mass murder, mass paedocide (pedocide) and mass
infanticide? Decent people are obliged to (a) inform everyone and (b)
behave ethically in all their personal and business dealings with
US-linked countries involved in the continuing passive mass murder of
nearly half a million infants every year in the Middle East and Central
Asia.

Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130
works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge
pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive
Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and
is currently writing a book on global mortality --- Contact Dr.Polya By
E-mail

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From: Henri the Celt <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Date: June 15, 2006 12:51:10 AM EST
To: AAAHenri <henrithecelt@gci.net>
Subject: Fw: [UrukNet] - [Daily Information from Occupied Iraq] -
[newsletter 14 Jun 2006]

uruknet.info
:: information from occupied iraq
:: informazione dall'iraq occupato

Depleted Uranium - An American War Crime That Has No End
EuroYank

The use of depleted uranium weaponry by the United States, defying all
international treaties, will slowly annihilate all species on earth
including the human species, and yet this country continues to do so
with full knowledge of its destructive potential. Since 1991, the
United States has staged four wars using depleted uranium weaponry,
illegal under all international treaties, conventions and agreements,
as well as under US military law...

Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23973

Outrage of the day
Stan Goff

A Marine corporal has apologized — after he was busted by the Council
on American-Islamic Relations — for making a video of his musical
performance, before his company of Marines, who are cheering wildly
when the lyrics refer to killing Iraqi children… especially the lyrics
"I grabbed her little sister and put her in front of me. As the bullets
began to fly, the blood sprayed from between her eyes, and then I
laughed maniacally. . .I blew those little fuckers to eternity . .
.They sho! uld have known they were fucking with the Marines." Of
course, the Marine Corps made an official statement that they did not
condone this kind of language and behavior, which is a great big
goddamn lie. They don’t condone publicity about it. They followed
orders like good Germans when they massacred Fallujah; the term "hadji"
is as universally used as "gook" was in Vietnam; and when you see and
hear the video, it is apparent that everyone is showing loud, vocal
approval of it. That means it is a cultural NORM, y’all. Bad apples, my
dyin’ ass!...

Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23976

Mr. PRESIDENT WE DO NOT BELIEVE YOU
Ibrahim Ebeid, Al-Moharer

President Bush never set foot in Baghdad. He does not dare because
Baghdad and all of Iraq are under the control of the Resistance. He
went to the Green Zone to instruct his stooges confined to a four
square miles around the Palace of the Republic of Iraq. This Palace,
which is the symbol of Iraq and its sovereignty was robbed by the
United States and became the residence of Khalilzad, the true ruler of
occupied Iraq. Maliki and the other stooges are n! o more than puppets
controlled when instructed and to repeat Bush's words when needed.
These puppets live in the Green Zone and do not dare to mix with the
Iraqi people (...) The secular government was replaced by a sectarian,
very fanatic and a reactionary one cornered in four square miles
protected by more than a quarter million foreign troops. The Iraqi
members of the legitimate government that built Iraq and made it
flourish are suffering in the occupation concentration camps; they
might be executed to satisfy the ego of the neo-cons in Washington
D.C., and their allies in the Zionist entity...

Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23957

Another Cover-Up? U.S. Troops Kill Two Iraqi Women, One of Them
Pregnant, in Samarra
Democracy Now!

...Nabiha Nisaif Jassim, a 35-year-old mother of two children, a
3-year-old boy named Ali and a 4-year-old daughter named Hashmiya, were
shot by a U.S. sniper in Samarra while Nabiha was being raced to the
hospital in order to give birth. Her brother, Redam Nisaif Jassim, was
driving the car and the two women were in the back seat when they were
fired upon. And I spoke with an Iraqi human rights investigator about !
the situation. This investigator went and investigated it firsthand
after they obtained news about what happened there. And it was very,
very clear that the car was shot from actually behind by a U.S. sniper.
There was no warning in the area. There was no sign put up by the U.S.
military; nothing marking the area that showed that it was prohibited
or that these people should not have been there...

Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23970

The war on children
John Pilger

... As in Palestine, the war in Iraq is against civilians, mostly
children. According to Unicef, Iraq once had one of the highest
indicators for the well- being of children. Today, a quarter of
children between the ages of six months and five years suffer acute or
chronic malnutrition, worse than during the years of sanctions. Poverty
and disease have risen with each day of the occupation. In April, in
British-occupied Basra, the European aid agency Saving Children from
War reporte! d: "The mortality of young children had increased by 30
per cent compared with the Saddam Hussein era." They die because the
hospitals have no ventilators and the water supply, which the British
were meant to have fixed, is more polluted than ever. Children fall
victim to unexploded US and British cluster bombs. They play in areas
contaminated by depleted uranium; by contrast, British army survey
teams venture there only in full-body radiation suits, face masks and
gloves. Unlike the children they came to "liberate", British troops are
given what the Ministry of Defence calls "full biological testing"...

Read the full article / Leggi l'articolo completo:
http://www.uruknet.info/?p=23969

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From: Kevin Hammond <sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com>
Date: June 13, 2006 2:25:59 PM EST
To: 911truthaction@yahoogroups.com, wethepeople_united@yahoogroups.com,
impeach-bush@egroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] Fwd: One Nation Under Siege
Reply-To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com

From: "Director William Lewis" <william@bridgestonemediagroup.com>
Date: June 12, 2006 1:13:43 PM EST
To: sir_oglaigh@yahoo.com
Subject: One Nation Under Siege

A few years ago I released my first feature length film, “911 In Plane
Site.” Many of you who saw it had honest questions that deserve
truthful answers, but very few people were willing to come forward and
tell their stories on camera.

In an effort to not let these questions die on the altar of silence, I
began planning a new film that would allow respected experts, authors,
and researchers the opportunity to speak to the American people and
attempt to respond to some of these important issues.

Say hello to Dave vonKleist, Jim Marrs, Joyce Riley, Dr. Stan Monteith,
General Albert Stubblebine, Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, Joan Veon, Derry
Brownfield, Liz McIntyre, Charlotte Iserbyt, and a few other
internationally respected experts as they introduce you to a very
special circle of friends where everyone has their very own Big Brother
24/7

“One Nation Under Siege” will instantly propel you into a world
dominated by spying, tracking, and control as you go behind enemy lines
drawn in our own backyards.

Through the education system, the mainstream media, and corporate
America it will become strikingly clear that the US Constitution and
the American way of life have been sacrificed on the all-mighty altar
of Corporatism by the very people that we have entrusted with their
protection.

Is it too late to rise to the occasion?

Do we have any hope of defeating this rapidly growing Big Brother
society?

If we fail, what will the U.S. look like five years from now?

Please join us...

--

...and as always, thank you for helping us to spread the word. Keep it
up!!!

Sincerely,
William Lewis
Producer/Director: BridgeStone Media Group

--
Official website: UnderSiegeMovie.com

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From: Cathy Garger <savorsuccesslady@yahoo.com>
Date: June 14, 2006 10:49:22 PM EST
To: 911truthaction@yahoogroups.com, wethepeople_united@yahoogroups.com,
libertyundergroundtalk@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [911TruthAction] 9/11 Disease in rense
Reply-To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com

Some might be pleased to know that this 9/11 Disease is the #3 listed
story on www.rense.com .

http://rense.com/general72/911dis.htm

Cathy

If the crazies and the psy ops aren't after you, then you're barking up
the wrong tree.

~ S.P. ~

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From: Ecological Options Network <eon3@earthlink.net>
Date: June 14, 2006 8:42:48 PM EST
Subject: Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway

http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?print=yes&id=15497

"A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may
be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for
Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the
heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union
workers on the docks or in the trucks".

by Jerome R. Corsi
Posted Jun 12, 2006

Quietly but systematically, the Bush Administration is advancing the
plan to build a huge NAFTA Super Highway, four football-fields-wide,
through the heart of the U.S. along Interstate 35, from the Mexican
border at Laredo, Tex., to the Canadian border north of Duluth, Minn.

Once complete, the new road will allow containers from the Far East to
enter the United States through the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas,
bypassing the Longshoreman's Union in the process. The Mexican trucks,
without the involvement of the Teamsters Union, will drive on what will
be the nation's most modern highway straight into the heart of America.
The Mexican trucks will cross border in FAST lanes, checked only
electronically by the new "SENTRI" system. The first customs stop will
be a Mexican customs office in Kansas City, their new Smart Port
complex, a facility being built for Mexico at a cost of $3 million to
the U.S. taxpayers in Kansas City.

As incredible as this plan may seem to some readers, the first Trans-
Texas Corridor segment of the NAFTA Super Highway is ready to begin
construction next year. Various U.S. government agencies, dozens of
state agencies, and scores of private NGOs (non-governmental
organizations) have been working behind the scenes to create the NAFTA
Super Highway, despite the lack of comment on the plan by President
Bush. The American public is largely asleep to this key piece of the
coming "North American Union" that government planners in the new
trilateral region of United States, Canada and Mexico are about to
drive into reality.

Just examine the following websites to get a feel for the magnitude of
NAFTA Super Highway planning that has been going on without any new
congressional legislation directly authorizing the construction of the
planned international corridor through the center of the country.
NASCO, the North America SuperCorridor Coalition Inc., is a "non-
profit organization dedicated to developing the world's first
international, integrated and secure, multi-modal transportation system
along the International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation
Corridor to improve both the trade competitiveness and quality of life
in North America." Where does that sentence say anything about the
USA? Still, NASCO has received $2.5 million in earmarks from the U.S.
Department of Transportation to plan the NAFTA Super Highway as a
10-lane limited-access road (five lanes in each direction) plus
passenger and freight rail lines running alongside pipelines laid for
oil and natural gas. One glance at the map of the NAFTA Super Highway
on the front page of the NASCO website will make clear that the design
is to connect Mexico, Canada, and the U.S. into one transportation
system.

Kansas City SmartPort Inc. is an "investor based organization supported
by the public and private sector" to create the key hub on the NAFTA
Super Highway. At the Kansas City SmartPort, the containers from the
Far East can be transferred to trucks going east and west,
dramatically reducing the ground transportation time dropping the
containers off in Los Angeles or Long Beach involves for most of the
country. A brochure on the SmartPort website describes the plan in
glowing terms: "For those who live in Kansas City, the idea of
receiving containers nonstop from the Far East by way of Mexico may
sound unlikely, but later this month that seemingly far-fetched notion
will become a reality."

The U.S. government has housed within the Department of Commerce (DOC)
an "SPP office" that is dedicated to organizing the many working groups
laboring within the executive branches of the U.S., Mexico and Canada
to create the regulatory reality for the Security and Prosperity
Partnership. The SPP agreement was signed by Bush, President Vicente
Fox, and then-Prime Minister Paul Martin in Waco, Tex., on March 23,
2005. According to the DOC website, a U.S.-Mexico Joint Working
Committee on Transportation Planning has finalized a plan such that
"(m)ethods for detecting bottlenecks on the U.S.- Mexico border will be
developed and low cost/high impact projects identified in bottleneck
studies will be constructed or implemented." The report notes that new
SENTRI travel lanes on the Mexican border will be constructed this
year. The border at Laredo should be reduced to an electronic speed
bump for the Mexican trucks containing goods from the Far East to
enter the U.S. on their way to the Kansas City SmartPort.

The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is overseeing the
Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) as the first leg of the NAFTA Super Highway.
A 4,000-page environmental impact statement has already been completed
and public hearings are scheduled for five weeks, beginning next
month, in July 2006. The billions involved will be provided by a
foreign company, Cintra Concessions de Infraestructuras de Transporte,
S.A. of Spain. As a consequence, the TTC will be privately operated,
leased to the Cintra consortium to be operated as a toll-road.

The details of the NAFTA Super Highway are hidden in plan view. Still,
Bush has not given speeches to bring the NAFTA Super Highway plans to
the full attention of the American public. Missing in the move toward
creating a North American Union is the robust public debate that
preceded the decision to form the European Union. All this may be for
calculated political reasons on the part of the Bush Administration.

A good reason Bush does not want to secure the border with Mexico may
be that the administration is trying to create express lanes for
Mexican trucks to bring containers with cheap Far East goods into the
heart of the U.S., all without the involvement of any U.S. union
workers on the docks or in the trucks.

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EON
the Ecological Options Network
"What's Working Where, Worldwide"
www.eon3.net

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Trying Times for Palestinians
by Ramzy Baroud
June 14, 2006

GlobalResearch.ca

The political and ideological division separating Palestinian society
in the Occupied Territories has metamorphosed into a formidable chasm,
despite the urgent need to consolidate Palestinian national unity in
this current crisis.

And a time of crisis it is. Never since the concoction of the Israeli
state and the subsequent ethnic cleansing of nearly one million
Palestinians in 1947-48, has an Israeli government been as determined
as that of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to settle its account with the
Palestinians, in so vile and careless a way.

There is a growing realization among Israeli politicians that mirrors
a sense of fear and anxiety from a possible relegation of the political
hegemony and import of the United States. The US has served – and
paradoxically inconsistently with its own interests – the role of the
protector and provider, leaving Israel emancipated of any regional and
international accountability, free to pursue its own agenda –
imperialistic and violently racist, as it were – at the expense of the
Palestinians and its Arab neighbors. The Israeli heyday may be over
soon, due to growing predictions that the American project – for
various reasons, notwithstanding the disaster-prone Iraq war –is likely
to diminish in coming years. And without US patronage, Israel is much
less capable of serving as the region’s bully.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon seemed fully aware of such
a reality. As one of Israel’s last pioneers and also the last of its
great Zionist elks, he wished to ‘secure’ Israel, by unilaterally
claiming whichever territories he found strategic - based on military
logic, access to water aquifers and fertile lands – and ditching
smaller pockets of land that were a demographic liability and were
strategically irrelevant.

Sharon’s unexpected incapacitation didn’t mean the end of his historic
mission. To the contrary, his sudden absence helped his successor,
Olmert to rally overwhelmed Israelis around Sharon’s Kadima party –
established precisely to carry out Sharon’s vision of a secured Israel.
Olmert has acquired three significant mandates to follow with what
Sharon has already started in his ‘disengagement’ from the Gaza Strip:
that of the Israeli voters through the country’s recent elections,
another of a subtle understanding among the Knesset’s major political
parties, not withstanding his Labor partners and a less convincing nod
from President George W. Bush, which was understood by the Israeli
media as a ‘green light’ to carry out his ‘convergence’ plan.

The term ‘convergence’ is another Israeli newspeak and is as deceiving
as Sharon’s ‘disengagement’. It’s aimed at usurping the West Bank’s
most fertile land in the west and the inclusion of major Jewish
settlements blocks – all illegal under international law – to become
part of so-called ‘Israel proper’. Moreover, Olmert’s plan also intends
to seize large swathes of Palestinian land in the east – parallel to
the fertile Jordan valley – estimated by some 40 percent of the total
size of the West Bank. The remaining Palestinian ‘controlled’
territories of the West Bank will be carved up into several major
pockets, very populated, some completely fenced and movement in and out
of such enclaves necessitates an Israeli permit. Such a system has
already been put into practice, especially between Occupied East
Jerusalem and surrounding areas. With the conversion of the Israeli
military check point at Qalandia – adjacent to Jerusalem – into an
‘international border’ point, Palestinians in the West Bank are treated
like foreigners wishing to enter alien territories. In other areas,
Palestinian farmers are urged to acquire permits to farm their own
land, as school kids queue up everyday, sometimes for hours in front of
Israeli fences, walls, and checkpoints just to be allowed passage to
their schools and back.

One need not be a world-class economist to deduce that such physical
restrictions will make it impossible for any economy to thrive in the
Palestinian territories, even after the Israeli unilateral
disengagement from the West Bank, expected within two years. Needless
to say, the Israeli scheme in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a
violation of international law and represents the most obscene
disregard for human rights, as it aims to imprison an entire
population, holding its hopes and aspirations hostage to the decisions
of some Israeli boy soldiers manning hundreds of checkpoints dotting
the West Bank.

To achieve its grand design, Israel needs time and money; the latter
has been provided with enthusiasm and in abundance - courtesy of Uncle
Sam, who is, ironically broke. But to acquire time, Israel is relying
more than ever on Palestinian divisions and infighting.

The internal Palestinian strife preceding the advent of Hamas’ rise to
power, resulted in numerous gangs uniting under the Fatah party
umbrella. The gangs are largely managed by rich war profiteers, who
were affiliated with the PA and served as Israel’s allies in the
region. (Through their VIP cards, they traveled around, in and out the
Occupied Territories without any hindrances.) Neither the profiteers,
nor their clan-based gangs held to any ideological preference, nor did
they seem wary of the encroaching Israeli danger and what it means to
the Palestinian people and their enduring struggle for freedom.

Through their privileges – with the Israelis, the PA and outside
‘donors’ –they knitted an intricate system that is based on nepotism
and corruption. While the PA’s top echelons turned a blind eye to the
belligerence of this crowd, both Israel and the US fully supported
them: Israel with free travel access and often weapons, and the US with
political validation and cash.

The results were devastating and pushed ordinary Palestinians to the
brink. The March Parliamentary elections in Palestine were a reflection
of the bitterness that followed. Palestinians from all walks of life
voted for what they perceived as the only viable political alternative:
Hamas. They did not vote for Islamic governance, nor did they wish to
see a rise in suicide bombings. (It’s unfortunate that the media’s
inane understanding of the conflict insists on seeing Palestinian
politics within these unrepresentative parameters).

The Hamas win was perceived as dangerous, yet embodied an opportunity
of sorts for Israel. It was an opportunity in the sense that it would
absolve Israeli completely from ever engaging in any sort of dialogue
with Palestinians; it was dangerous, because if the elected Palestinian
government managed to moderate its position, it would heap pressure on
Israel to engage Palestinians, which could slow down the ultimate
Israeli project in the Occupied Territories. To use the opportunities
and avoid any possible repercussions, Israel schemed to isolate the
Palestinian government internationally – through cutting funds and any
diplomatic contacts – and internally, by using its Palestinian allies
to create wide disturbances, instability and a state of chaos.
Ironically, Palestinian security forces have been sent on a mission
aimed at ensuring the opposite of both. The fact that a wider conflict
has been averted thus far is, in my opinion, a wonder.

Time is running out. Palestinians are under total isolation, aside
from friendly but superficial gestures from some Arab and Muslim
countries. Coupled with their failure to transcend above factional
divides and, pitiful and untimely quarrels, Palestinians are allowing
Israel the time and the pretense to carry out Sharon’s racist vision to
the last letter. The Israeli wall – in its most literal and figurative
senses – is closing in, and ordinary, defenseless Palestinians are
feeling the brunt of the siege and the inhumanity of the Israeli
occupation more than ever before. It’s time fore Palestinian factions,
and those who still posses the wisdom and the courage to unite, to
speak out and to divert their energies to serve their nation’s
honorable fight for freedom. Indeed, Palestinians are living in one of
the most critical and historic times. Let it not be the most shameful
as well.

-American-Arab journalist Ramzy Baroud is the author of The Second
Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press,
London).

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From: Peter Myers <myers@cyberone.com.au>
Date: June 15, 2006 4:05:51 AM EST
To: clem clarke <oscarptyltd@ozemail.com.au>
Subject: Mearsheimer & Walt get warm reception at US Naval College

(6) Israel says it didn't cause deadly blast on beach - Washington Post

Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2006 19:50:48 -0700 From: Jeff Blankfort
<jblankfort@earthlink.net>

{Comment - JB} If this article was not written by a Zionist for a
pro-Israel publication, the article would have been with the
confirmation by the Human Rights Watch professional investigator on the
scene that Israel was in fact responsible for the Gaza attack. Instead
the story begins with Israel's denial and contains a comment that the
HRW inspector and battle damage expert Marc Garlasco held "open the
slim possibility that it was planted there by Palestinian militants,
although fragment patterns did not back that." I heard two interviews
with Garlasco and he was firmly convinced that it was an Israeli 155 mm
shell. Clearly, he was asked by this reporter if there wasn't a slim
possibility that it was a Palestine mine, although in his interviews he
said there is no evidence of a blast from below that a mine would make.

This denial of responsibility which appears to be as inherent in zionism
as is its contempt for non-Jews follows a similar pattern that we saw
in their killing of 12-year old Mohammed Dura at the beginning of the
intifada in which they claimed to have scientific proof that he had
been killed by Palestinian fire and then, of course, their complete
denial of the circumstances of the murder of Rachel Corrie and their
continuing campaign to besmirch her memory. {end Comment}

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/13/AR200-
6061300806_pf.html ==

Israel Says It Didn't Cause Deadly Blast

By MARK LAVIE

The Associated PressTuesday, June 13, 2006; 6:52 PM

JERUSALEM -- Defense Minister Amir Peretz said Tuesday that Israel was
not responsible for a blast that killed eight Gaza beachgoers,
rebuffing Palestinian accusations that blamed an Israeli artillery
round.

An Israeli inquiry concluded the blast was caused by an explosive
buried in the sand, not from Israeli shelling on the afternoon of the
Palestinian family's beach picnic.

It was not clear how the explosive got there, or whether it might have
been an unexploded Israeli shell from an earlier military barrage.
Peretz did not address that issue in his remarks. Israel has been
claiming that Hamas militants planted a device to set off against
Israeli commandos.

Maher Makdad of the Palestinians' Fatah movement rejected the Israeli
claims. "I only heard lies," he said. "I also heard an insistence on
continuing these practices, because if they admitted their mistake, we
could understand that they are ready to change their policies."

Peretz denied all responsibility.

"We have enough findings to back up the suspicion that the intention to
describe this as an Israeli event is simply not correct," Peretz said
at a Tel Aviv news conference on the inquiry's findings. "The
accumulating evidence proves that this incident was not due to Israeli
forces."

The bloody images of dead Palestinian civilians and wailing survivors
on the beach kindled anger against Israel that has swept around the
world.

The seaside carnage contributed to a sudden spike in
Israeli-Palestinian violence. After the beach blast _ and Israeli
forces' killing of a top Gaza militant _ Hamas called off a 16-month
cease-fire that had significantly reduced casualties on both sides.

Human Rights Watch battle damage assessment expert Marc Garlasco said
he examined the shrapnel on the beach, saw the civilians' injuries and
concluded the blast was caused by an Israeli shell. He held open the
slim possibility that it was planted there by Palestinian militants,
although fragment patterns did not back that.

Unexploded ordnance left over from the current conflict as well as from
wars over the past century has been a problem in Gaza, where there are
several incidents a year of Palestinians wounded in blasts.

"Our information certainly supports, I believe, an Israeli shell did
come in," Garlasco said, ruling out a land mine. Garlasco, formerly of
the U.S. military, was the first neutral specialist to inspect the
scene. Israel is often critical of the human rights group's findings.

According to Israeli findings, shrapnel taken from two wounded
Palestinians who were evacuated to Israeli hospitals showed that the
fragments were not from the 155-millimeter shells used by Israeli
artillery.

Showing aerial photographs and film, the head of the Israeli inquiry,
Maj. Gen. Meir Klifi, declared: "There is no chance that a shell hit
this area. Absolutely no chance."

Israel has been pounding northern Gaza with hundreds of artillery
shells for weeks, trying unsuccessfully to stop Palestinian militants
from setting up and launching homemade rockets at Israel.

In recent days, Israeli commando forces have entered Gaza to ambush
rocket squads.

Palestinians replied that militants were unlikely to plant bombs at a
beach teeming with hundreds of people every weekend.

"This is a false allegation, and the Israeli occupation state is trying
to escape from shouldering its responsibility by accusing Palestinians
without evidence or any proof," said Ghazi Hamad, a spokesman for the
Hamas-led Palestinian government.

"The eyewitnesses and the evidence that we have confirm that the
massacre is the result of Israeli shelling, and the allegation about
land mines planted by Palestinians is baseless," he said.

Palestinian lawmaker Saeb Erekat, who is close to President Mahmoud
Abbas, a Hamas rival, called for an international inquiry. He
complained that Israel was trying to blame the Palestinians and warned,
"this means that this crime could re-occur."

Klifi said the explosion took place between 4:47 p.m. and 5:10 p.m.,
and no Israeli shells were fired then.

The blast occurred on the outskirts of the town of Beit Lahiya, at the
edge of the area where Palestinian militants frequently fire rockets
toward Israel. The shore is frequented by hundreds of Palestinian
beachgoers on Fridays, a rest day in Gaza.

The army has accounted for five of six of the shells that it fired in
the area Friday evening before the beach explosion, Klifi said. None of
them exploded nearby. The one shell that is not accounted for was fired
before the five others _ more than 10 minutes before the blast that
killed the Palestinians, he said.

© 2006 The Associated Press

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The General, the New York Times and the Gitmo
Suicides: The Evil of Banality

by Anthony Alessandri
June 15, 2006

uruknet.info

There are moments that require us to stop everything and take stock of
the time in which we are living. This is one such moment. Listen:

"They are smart, they are creative, they are committed," Admiral Harris
said. "They have no regard for life, neither ours nor their own. I
believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical
warfare waged against us."

This is Rear Admiral Harry B. Harris, commander of the Guantanamo Bay
prison. His words appeared, without comment, in the first news reports
about three men, detained indefinitely and subjected to systematic
torture at the prison, who committed suicide on Saturday by hanging
themselves in their cells.

Take a moment to dwell on the admiral's words. Look especially at the
first sentence, at the adjectives used to describe the dead men:
"smart, creative, committed." There is a perverse compliment being paid
by the torturer to the tortured.

This attitude is also implicit in the follow-up article printed by the
New York Times the next day, with the headline: "Prisoners' Ruse Is
Suspected at Guantanamo." This, we learn from the article, should be
the focus of inquiry: not the circumstances that drove three men to
their deaths, but the question of how, given the fact that one of the
elements of their confinement was constant monitoring by their captors,
these men could have managed their "ruse."
The point of systematic torture, of course, is to force the tortured to
acknowledge, every minute of every day, that his life is in the hands
of his torturer. No wonder, then, that the prison's commanders and
their willing mouthpieces in the press are alarmed. In the most macabre
and tragic sense, these are the first escapees from Guantanamo.

Of course these were acts of despair, no matter what the torturers may
claim. Of course the many attempts by prisoners at Guantanamo to use
their bodies-all that is left to them-to protest against their
systematic and agonizing dehumanization have been acts of desperation.
Many of their ongoing efforts-for example, the hunger strikes that have
been violently broken through force-feedings-have been the tactics of
resistance used by other political prisoners: Irish prisoners held by
the British in Northern Ireland, South Africans in apartheid jails,
Palestinians in Israeli prisons.

These are acts of desperation, but in their tragic way, they are also
attempts to claim back some shred of humanity from the grasp of the
torturers. And so even the capacity to feel despair has to be denied
them by the torturers, at the very moment of their deaths. "I believe
this was not an act of desperation," the admiral assures us, "but an
act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us."

Leave aside "asymmetrical" for the moment, although under different
circumstances a sustained meditation on the abuse of language inherent
in the use of this term would be in order. Go right to this phrase: "an
act of warfare waged against us."

For this is the lynchpin of it all. "They" are being held in
Guantanamo, according to this version of the story, for having waged,
or tried to wage, or plotted to wage, or thought about waging, war
against "us" (thus the invention of the wholly unprecedented but
vaguely legal-sounding term "enemy combatants"). The subsequent charge
of "terrorism" is itself potent enough to preclude any further inquiry,
and, more important, to eliminate any concern for the treatment of the
human beings--human no longer, since they are now of the species known
as "terrorist"--during their confinement. The dehumanization carried
out through the physical acts of torture at Guantanamo (and, it should
be added, at prisons subsidized and run by the U.S. government
throughout the world) is thus both enabled and completed through this
linguistic torture.

When the flesh-and-blood human beings being held captive assert their
humanity through their bodies, whether through hunger strikes or
through suicide attempts, the linguistic torturers have to work
overtime. But they are able to do their work without much worry about
systematic opposition in this country. The White House dutifully
described the three men as "committed terrorists," and in response,
Democrats said nothing, since, as the *Times* reported, they are
"concerned about appearing to be sympathizing with detainees who could
turn out to have significant terrorist connections."

Here we should pause again. Three men at Guantanamo were, in essence,
tortured to death. Their names were Mani bin Shaman bin Turki
al-Habardi, Yasser Talal Abdulah Yahya al-Zahrani, and Ali Abdullah
Ahmedwho.

What is most appalling about the discourse surrounding their suicides
is the banality of the language used to address their deaths. It is as
though nothing out of the ordinary has happened. This is what should
startle us out of our complacency: the thought that a situation in
which three men were literally driven to their deaths by the inhumanity
of their treatment is in fact all in a day's work for our government.

There are of course groups and individuals who have tried to break this
sense of complacency and to place Guantanamo, and the U.S. government's
policies of detainment, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, and
systematic torture more generally, before the eyes of Americans. But
the fact that these men's suicides can be reported as "ruses" and "acts
of war" without provoking outrage reminds us of how much remains to be
done.

One important part of this effort is to combat the specifically
dehumanizing work being done by the word "terrorist." It is not
necessary to prove the innocence of those being held prisoner at
Guantanamo in order to demand an end to their torture. Of course, a
cursory glance at the insane methods used to capture those who are now
detained there suggests that no legal case could be made against the
vast majority of the prisoners.

But the fundamental insistence should be that it simply does not
matter. Allowing the focus to be shifted to the question of innocence
versus guilt, of good and evil, of terrorism and acts of war, avoids
addressing the heart of the matter. Worse, it allows a shift into the
banal language that allows for generalizations about "us" and "them,"
the very language that underwrites the abuses of humanity carried out
by this government through its terroristic "war on terror."

The real focus must be on a place whose sole purpose is to torture
people until the only recourse that remains available to them is to
somehow bring about their own deaths. The focus must be on the fact
that Guantanamo is not simply an anomaly, not just an embarrassing
example of this government's zeal after September 2001 whose closure
will also close that distressing chapter. The focus must be on the
larger set of processes set in motion by this government, of which
Guantanamo is simply the most visible manifestation.

Appeals to the government to close down Guantanamo are not nearly
enough right now. We have to do more to make known the full extent of
the horror. Guantanamo Bay is not simply a place where men are dressed
in orange jumpsuits and placed in cages. It is a place where humanity
is being systematically destroyed. This is no metaphor. Perhaps it is
time to see that the responsibility for closing down Guantanamo
belongs, not to George W. Bush, but to us.

Listening to the admiral, to the most recent _expression of the
banality of evil flowing from his lips, only one conclusion can be
drawn: the United States has absented itself from humanity. Until those
living in this country can find a way to stop this government, the
admiral's phrase should be applied to us: "They have no regard for
life."

Anthony Alessandrini teaches English at Kingsborough Community
College/CUNY in Brooklyn, NY, and is a member of the Action Wednesdays
Against War collective in New York City. He can be reached at
tonyalessandrini@yahoo.com.

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From: "paul illich" <paul_illich@hotmail.com>
Date: June 14, 2006 2:30:06 PM EST
To: bluegreenearth@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [bluegreenearth] fwd: BOLIVIA: Moraless 'agrarian revolution
Reply-To: bluegreenearth@yahoogroups.com

BOLIVIA: Morales’s 'agrarian revolution’
http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2006/671/671p19.htm
Pablo Stefanoni, La Paz

The arrows being fired between President Evo Morales and sectors of the
Bolivian business elite found a new setting on June 2: the city of Santa
Cruz de la Sierra. The heart of this rich area, which has embarked on an
offensive in favour of regional autonomy, was taken over by poor
peasants
who arrived from the most far-flung populations to celebrate the launch
of
the “agrarian revolution” headed by Morales.

“Justice, land and liberty”, exclaimed some of the placards, carried by
inhabitants of the “other Santa Cruz”. Their faces and silhouettes
contrasted with the “tall, white and English speaking” definition of the
people of Santa Cruz recently offered by a Miss Bolivia.

This was the setting chosen by the Bolivian president to respond — in
words
and deeds — to the challenge launched two days before by a group of
business
organisations that had criticised Morales’s economic policies,
including his
projected agrarian reform.

“When did these bosses’ organisations raise their voices against
imperial
ambassadors that acted as viceroys? When did they oppose the entry of
foreign soldiers in order to massacre and humiliate the indigenous
peoples
and peasants in the name of 'zero coca’?”, he asked the peasants that
had
arrived to support him.

On June 2, seven of the nine private business owners’ confederations
published an appeal that denounced the new government for lacking an
economic plan, rejected the nationalisation of hydrocarbons and
denounced
the “ideological adventure” that was creating a strong “dependence on
Cuba
and Venezuela”.

The following day, Morales responded by describing the business owners’
manifesto as “a solicitation of a group of militants from Podemos [the
right-wing opposition] against the nationalisation of hydrocarbons”. At
the
same time, Morales distinguished between “productive and patriotic
business
owners” and those who are “traitors and parasites of the state”. Morales
emphasised his 81% support in recent polls. “Those polls are only taken
in
the cities, in the countryside I feel 100% support”, he said.

The other battlefront that opened up on June 1 was against the large
landowners of the National Agrarian Confederation (CAN), whose
representatives withdrew from dialogue with the government, unhappy
with the
official policy of redistribution of idle and public land. “They say
that
the peasants have taken over land, but the landowners, their parents and
grandparents have subjugated us for more than 500 years and even today
they
continue to take over public lands”, Morales said to applause. “Until
now,
we have been talking of public land, but the next step will be the large
landowners who do not comply with their social and economic function. I
am
not afraid”, Morales roared.

The issue of land is one of the thorniest that the Bolivian government
has
on its hands, as it also converges with the Santa Cruz elite’s claims to
autonomy. It is not a coincidence that one of the main demands of these
elites is that the local government should be able to hand out titles
for
property that cannot be revised by the national government.

On June 3, Morales accompanied his words with action; he signed decrees
envisaging the distribution of public land (around 2.5 million hectares)
among communities and peasant unions as well as revoking the
concessions on
forest areas that had been transformed into the property of dealers by
the
previous government of Carlos Mesa.

Morales explained to his followers that the agrarian reform of 1953 only
distributed land, while the current “agrarian revolution” is about
“lands,
markets and modernisation of farming”.

To round off his challenge to the business elites, Morales launched an
attack against the owner of Unitel, the main television network, which
is
opposed to the government. “I am telling the Monasterios family to
return
their land”, acquired through trafficking, “or else we will take it off
them”.

Morales also referred to one of the government’s successes of that
week: the
tender of the El Mutun iron ore mine, which had generated strong
tensions
with Santa Cruz after the government postponed its tender earlier this
year,
and which has now ended up in the hands of an Indian company, Jindal
Steel
and Power. Morales emphasised that the situation when he came to power
was
“the one the oligarchs wanted — we were only going to export primary
materials without any benefits for the state”, but “now, the resources
will
be industrialised”.

[To read Morales’s statement in response to the business owners’
declaration, visit <http://www.greenleft.org.au>.]

From Green Left Weekly, June 14, 2006.

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Re: More crime

Posted by: "Judy Cunningham" drjudyforjustice@yahoo.com   drjudyforjustice

Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:17 am (PST)

Police do not take reports of crime, unless they think, the person is a republican, and do not take reports from those whom they believe to be powerless. I have reported being robbed and mugged, many times, and the police give such ridiculous excuses, as, it was a civil matter, you must sue him to get your stuff, back, when I was being mugged and robbed by a strange unknown shabby appearing man on the street. --or "there has been no crime committed." --or you probably vandalized your car, yourself for the insurance money, although I do not carry full coverage insurance.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote: Bush has always said things one way but does different ,in all things,same with Fighting Crime..more lies...and at the same time as crime is on the rise... Throughout his tenure, President Bush and his staff have bragged about their efforts fighting crime. In his 2006 State of the Union address, Bush claimed, “Violent crime rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1970s.” In May 2006, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the country had “a violent crime rate at its lowest level in three decades.”
But new FBI statistics released Monday show that crime has actually jumped under the Bush administration. Violent crime in 2005 increased at 2.5 percent, the highest rate in 15 years for violent offenses. In his FY 2007 budget, however, Bush proposed cutting local law enforcement funding by a total of 52 percent. Some examples:
– Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Since 1995, COPS has put more than 118,500 new law enforcement officers on the streets. But Bush’s FY 2005 budget proposed cutting funding for the COPS program for the fourth consecutive year, including eliminating all funding for hiring. For FY 2007, Bush is trying to cut COPS by another 76 percent.
– Byrne Justice Assistance Grants: These grants give state and local governments funds to “prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system.” Bush’s FY 2005, 2006, and 2007 budgets proposed eliminating the grants. (Congress hasn’t eliminated them, but has slashed funding each year.)
– COPS Interoperable Communications Grant: Succcessful program awards technology grants to law enforcement and public safety agencies for enhancing communication. Bush proposed eliminating the program in FY 2005, and has again proposed its elimination in FY 2007.
Bush’s motto: Take a bite out of crime (prevention programs).


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Posted by: "Judy Cunningham" drjudyforjustice@yahoo.com   drjudyforjustice

Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:20 am (PST)

Police do not take reports of crime, unless they think, the person is a republican, and do not take reports from those whom they believe to be powerless. I have reported being robbed and mugged, many times, and the police give such ridiculous excuses, as, it was a civil matter, you must sue him to get your stuff, back, when I was being mugged and robbed by a strange unknown shabby appearing man on the street. --or "there has been no crime committed." --or you probably vandalized your car, yourself for the insurance money, although I do not carry full coverage insurance.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote: Bush has always said things one way but does different ,in all things,same with Fighting Crime..more lies...and at the same time as crime is on the rise... Throughout his tenure, President Bush and his staff have bragged about their efforts fighting crime. In his 2006 State of the Union address, Bush claimed, “Violent crime rates have fallen to their lowest levels since the 1970s.” In May 2006, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the country had “a violent crime rate at its lowest level in three decades.”
But new FBI statistics released Monday show that crime has actually jumped under the Bush administration. Violent crime in 2005 increased at 2.5 percent, the highest rate in 15 years for violent offenses. In his FY 2007 budget, however, Bush proposed cutting local law enforcement funding by a total of 52 percent. Some examples:
– Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Since 1995, COPS has put more than 118,500 new law enforcement officers on the streets. But Bush’s FY 2005 budget proposed cutting funding for the COPS program for the fourth consecutive year, including eliminating all funding for hiring. For FY 2007, Bush is trying to cut COPS by another 76 percent.
– Byrne Justice Assistance Grants: These grants give state and local governments funds to “prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system.” Bush’s FY 2005, 2006, and 2007 budgets proposed eliminating the grants. (Congress hasn’t eliminated them, but has slashed funding each year.)
– COPS Interoperable Communications Grant: Succcessful program awards technology grants to law enforcement and public safety agencies for enhancing communication. Bush proposed eliminating the program in FY 2005, and has again proposed its elimination in FY 2007.
Bush’s motto: Take a bite out of crime (prevention programs).


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Re: More crime

Posted by: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net   brawny1946

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:12 am (PST)

Get A PISTOL,that will help a lot one that is not registered.learn to shoot it and that will stop the mugging.I promise..or at home a 12 gauge shotgun with buckshot again not registered..saw the barrel off to about 20 inches long,that will stop who ever is robbing you.Be your own police...
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Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] More crime

Police do not take reports of crime, unless they think, the person is a republican, and do not take reports from those whom they believe to be powerless. I have reported being robbed and mugged, many times, and the police give such ridiculous excuses, as, it was a civil matter, you must sue him to get your stuff, back, when I was being mugged and robbed by a strange unknown shabby appearing man on the street. --or "there has been no crime committed." --or you probably vandalized your car, yourself for the insurance money, although I do not carry full coverage insurance.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote:
Bush has always said things one way but does different ,in all things,same with Fighting Crime..more lies...and at the same time as crime is on the decades."
But new FBI statistics released Monday show that crime has actually jumped under the Bush administration. Violent crime in 2005 increased at 2.5 percent, the highest rate in 15 years for violent offenses. In his FY 2007 budget, however, Bush proposed cutting local law enforcement funding by a total of 52 percent. Some examples:
- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Since 1995, COPS has put more than 118,500 new law enforcement officers on the streets. But Bush's FY 2005 budget proposed cutting funding for the COPS program for the fourth consecutive year, including eliminating all funding for hiring. For FY 2007, Bush is trying to cut COPS by another 76 percent.
- Byrne Justice Assistance Grants: These grants give state and local governments funds to "prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system." Bush's FY 2005, 2006, and 2007 budgets proposed eliminating the grants. (Congress hasn't eliminated them, but has slashed funding each year.)
- COPS Interoperable Communications Grant: Succcessful program awards technology grants to law enforcement and public safety agencies for enhancing communication. Bush proposed eliminating the program in FY 2005, and has again proposed its elimination in FY 2007.
Bush's motto: Take a bite out of crime (prevention programs).

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Re: More crime

Posted by: "amy dalzell" amydalzell@yahoo.com   amydalzell

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:26 am (PST)

Halt. Stop. Lawlessness is not cured with more lawlessness. Police have always been the enemies of the helpless; they represent the privileged. This is not new or even unusual.
Am I the only one who lived through the'60s/'70s - Kent State?
We need to reinstate our common sense of community. We need more civics classes and less hysteria.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote:
Get A PISTOL,that will help a lot one that is not registered.learn to shoot it and that will stop the mugging.I promise..or at home a 12 gauge shotgun with buckshot again not registered..saw the barrel off to about 20 inches long,that will stop who ever is robbing you.Be your own police...
bugs
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Cunningham
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] More crime


Police do not take reports of crime, unless they think, the person is a republican, and do not take reports from those whom they believe to be powerless. I have reported being robbed and mugged, many times, and the police give such ridiculous excuses, as, it was a civil matter, you must sue him to get your stuff, back, when I was being mugged and robbed by a strange unknown shabby appearing man on the street. --or "there has been no crime committed." --or you probably vandalized your car, yourself for the insurance money, although I do not carry full coverage insurance.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote: Bush has always said things one way but does different ,in all things,same with Fighting Crime..more lies...and at the same time as crime is on the decades.”
But new FBI statistics released Monday show that crime has actually jumped under the Bush administration. Violent crime in 2005 increased at 2.5 percent, the highest rate in 15 years for violent offenses. In his FY 2007 budget, however, Bush proposed cutting local law enforcement funding by a total of 52 percent. Some examples:
– Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Since 1995, COPS has put more than 118,500 new law enforcement officers on the streets. But Bush’s FY 2005 budget proposed cutting funding for the COPS program for the fourth consecutive year, including eliminating all funding for hiring. For FY 2007, Bush is trying to cut COPS by another 76 percent.
– Byrne Justice Assistance Grants: These grants give state and local governments funds to “prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system.” Bush’s FY 2005, 2006, and 2007 budgets proposed eliminating the grants. (Congress hasn’t eliminated them, but has slashed funding each year.)
– COPS Interoperable Communications Grant: Succcessful program awards technology grants to law enforcement and public safety agencies for enhancing communication. Bush proposed eliminating the program in FY 2005, and has again proposed its elimination in FY 2007.
Bush’s motto: Take a bite out of crime (prevention programs).


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Re: More crime

Posted by: "Bugs" brawny@twlakes.net   brawny1946

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:45 am (PST)

Amy,I was there too.If the police won't ,you have no other way out.I'm 60 year old...
bugs
----- Original Message -----
From: amy dalzell
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 11:22 AM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] More crime

Halt. Stop. Lawlessness is not cured with more lawlessness. Police have always been the enemies of the helpless; they represent the privileged. This is not new or even unusual.
Am I the only one who lived through the'60s/'70s - Kent State?
We need to reinstate our common sense of community. We need more civics classes and less hysteria.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote:
Get A PISTOL,that will help a lot one that is not registered.learn to shoot it and that will stop the mugging.I promise..or at home a 12 gauge shotgun with buckshot again not registered..saw the barrel off to about 20 inches long,that will stop who ever is robbing you.Be your own police...
bugs
----- Original Message -----
From: Judy Cunningham
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 10:16 AM
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] More crime

Police do not take reports of crime, unless they think, the person is a republican, and do not take reports from those whom they believe to be powerless. I have reported being robbed and mugged, many times, and the police give such ridiculous excuses, as, it was a civil matter, you must sue him to get your stuff, back, when I was being mugged and robbed by a strange unknown shabby appearing man on the street. --or "there has been no crime committed." --or you probably vandalized your car, yourself for the insurance money, although I do not carry full coverage insurance.

Bugs <brawny@twlakes.net> wrote:
Bush has always said things one way but does different ,in all things,same with Fighting Crime..more lies...and at the same time as crime is on the decades."
But new FBI statistics released Monday show that crime has actually jumped under the Bush administration. Violent crime in 2005 increased at 2.5 percent, the highest rate in 15 years for violent offenses. In his FY 2007 budget, however, Bush proposed cutting local law enforcement funding by a total of 52 percent. Some examples:
- Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS): Since 1995, COPS has put more than 118,500 new law enforcement officers on the streets. But Bush's FY 2005 budget proposed cutting funding for the COPS program for the fourth consecutive year, including eliminating all funding for hiring. For FY 2007, Bush is trying to cut COPS by another 76 percent.
- Byrne Justice Assistance Grants: These grants give state and local governments funds to "prevent and control crime and to improve the criminal justice system." Bush's FY 2005, 2006, and 2007 budgets proposed eliminating the grants. (Congress hasn't eliminated them, but has slashed funding each year.)
- COPS Interoperable Communications Grant: Succcessful program awards technology grants to law enforcement and public safety agencies for enhancing communication. Bush proposed eliminating the program in FY 2005, and has again proposed its elimination in FY 2007.
Bush's motto: Take a bite out of crime (prevention programs).

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Our pressure on Congress is working>>>DownsizeDC.org, Inc.

Posted by: "Marsha MCClelland" mofmars3@sbcglobal.net   marshamcclelland

Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:30 am (PST)

Our pressure on Congress is working D o w n s i z e r - D i s p a t c h
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DISCHARGE PETITION FOR DEBATE ON IRAQ GAINS SUPPORT IN CONGRESS: Zaqawri is dead. One down, how many to go? That's the problem isn't it? Our occupation in Iraq has been sold as being somehow part of the "war" on terrorism. But there's a very real question as to whether we may be creating more terrorists than we're killing. One aspect of this relates to how they killed Zaqawri. They did it with a smart bomb, fired long distance. But what if their intelligence about Zaqawri's location had been wrong? It's happened before. Remember all those smart bombs they dropped on reported Sadamm Hussein hiding places? Hussein wasn't hiding in any of them. So who did those bombs kill instead? Friends or foes? And how many new foes (terrorists!) have we created by accidentaly killing the loved ones of those who had previously meant us no harm? Two days ago we listed a series of lessons human beings have repeatedly failed to learn. Surely one such lesson is that armed
conflicts where friends cannot be distinguished from foes often lead to civilian massacres and are very difficult to win. It happened to the U.S. in the Philippines following the Spanish-American War, and again in Vietnam. Then it happened to the Soviets in Afghanistan. And now it's happening to the U.S. yet again in Iraq. The recent massacre in Haditha is the latest example. It seems that the Marines accused of the recent massacre in Haditha may have been seeking revenge for the loss of close friends. But if Americans can react that way, so can Iraqis. How many Iraqis who have lost love ones because of our intervention will now become anti-American terrorists to seek revenge? It's a crucial question. Are we really fighting terrorism in Iraq, or simply creating new terrorists? And can we really afford a policy where the costs are so high, the risks so great, and the benefits so dubious? The federal deficit has risen to nearly half a trillion dollars, largely
because of Iraq. Is it really clear that we're gaining anything from our investment of money and blood? Congress has a Constitutional responsibility to debate these questions, and not just hide and watch as the costs mount. Fortunately . . . The number of Representatives who have signed the discharge petition (H.Res. 543) to permit a floor debate on Iraq has risen from 95 to 122. We need another 96. Many Representatives are feeling the pressure to take some kind of action on Iraq. The pressure from DC Downsizers appears to be making a difference. Congress needs to feel more of it. Please send a message to your Representative asking him or her to sign the H. Res. 543 discharge petition. You can do so here. Thank you for being a DC Downsizer. Perry Willis
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Re: Are we being chemically "altered?"

Posted by: "John Perna" savefreedom2005@yahoo.com   savefreedom2005

Thu Jun 15, 2006 8:55 am (PST)



"President, USA Exile Govt." <prez@usa-exile.org> I found this message
in my "bulk mail folder",
treated as spam,
but it is actually political censorship.
I am trimming out the censored message but you can read it in the archives of this group.
EVEN A REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE,
FROM THE MAIN YAHOO SERVER,
MIGHT TRIGGER THE CAPCHA CENSORSHIP WINDOW.
The message may have been trimmed out to avoid the key word censorship.
CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AND THE ARCHIVES OF THIS GROUP.

Censorship tactics on THE INTERNET
When you are a member of an egroup,
you can watch the censorship happen before your very own eyes.
HERE IS What is SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN:
You send a message to the group, and you get your own message back,
because you are one of the members of the group.
HERE IS what SOMETIMES DOES HAPPEN:
I sent a message to the group, and did NOT get that message back.
I checked to see if it was a moderated group,
and the message HAD not yet been approved.
Sometimes I sent a test message, and the test message was delivered.
Then I found that the censored message had been marked as "spam",
and put into the "spam" folder.
Interestingly enough, every message which
triggered this "glitch" once ; almost always triggered this "glitch" every time that it is sent. Even a REPLY to such a message will trigger the CAPCHA censorship window UNLESS the censored message is trimmed out.
ALMOST ALL of these messages were critical of something that the Department of Homeland Security had done.
Now what about the strange problems in just getting the message OUT?
FIRST I sent a message ANNOUNCING that the censored message was
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I got LOTS of emails back from people;
who got the announcement,
but did NOT get the censored message.

Below you will see a few of the problems,
that I encountered trying to sent the censored message
NONE of the things, that you see below, EVER happened,
while sending the ANNOUNCEMENT.
THESE THINGS HAPPENED ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME,
THAT I TRIED TO SEND
THE CENSORED MESSAGE.
Just a few of the censorship tactics that I saw
1. AFTER SENDING A FEW OF THESE MESSAGES, WHILE TRYING TO GO BACK TO
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups
I GOT THIS:
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Please try again in a few minutes. If you continue to experience trouble, please contact our Customer Care team. We apologize for this inconvenience.

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Also, the filter is installed on
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/2

and

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

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/6

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/8

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/48

Freedom of speech - Use it or lose it

When they took away the 4th Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we didn't deal drugs.

When they took away the 6th Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we were innocent.

When they took away the 2nd Amendment,
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Now they have taking away the 1st Amendment,
and very soon,
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but to be continue to be quiet.

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Re: Are we being chemically "altered?"

Posted by: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com   scotpeden

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:10 am (PST)

I forward a lot of articles that you have difficulty getting through, and I
can see that they get through.

The new Yahoo SPAM filter is a bitch though, but only the group owners know
about that.

I hope it is turned off for this group, and even then it will take up to
three days for Yahoo to actually stop dropping legitimate traffic in the
spam folder.

So, change the SPAM service you are using. Change your computer settings,
Yahoo may need cookies and you don’t have them on your approved list. But
since this is your isolated problem, you might look at your settings and the
services you use in addition to thinking that someone is going to censor so
much of your mail ad then let you complain about it on the same groups.

Scott

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[mailto:911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of John Perna
Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 8:54 AM
To: 911TruthAction@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [911TruthAction] Are we being chemically "altered?"

"President, USA Exile Govt." <prez@usa-exile.org>
I found this message
in my "bulk mail folder",
treated as spam,
but it is actually political censorship.
I am trimming out the censored message but you can read it in the archives
of this group.
EVEN A REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE,
FROM THE MAIN YAHOO SERVER,
! MIGHT TRIGGER THE CAPCHA CENSORSHIP WINDOW.
The message may have been trimmed out to avoid the key word censorship.
CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AND THE ARCHIVES OF THIS GROUP.
Censorship tactics on THE INTERNET
When you are a member of an egroup,
you can watch the censorship happen before your very own eyes.
HERE IS What is SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN:
You send a message to the group, and you get your own message back,
because you are one of the members of the group.
HERE IS what SOMETIMES DOES HAPPEN:
I sent a message to the group, and did NOT get that message back.
I checked to see if it was a moderated group,
and the message HAD not yet been approved.
Sometimes I sent a test message, and the ! test message was delivered.
Then I found that the censored message had been marked as "spam",
and put into the "spam" folder.
Interestingly enough, every message which
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time that it is sent. Even a REPLY to such a message will trigger the
CAPCHA censorship window UNLESS the censored message is trimmed out.
ALMOST ALL of these messages were critical of something that the Department
of Homeland Security had done.
Now what about the strange problems in just getting the message OUT?
FIRST I sent a message ANNOUNCING that the censored message was
about to be sent, within five minutes.
THEN I sent the censored message.
I got LOTS of emails back f! rom people;
who got the announcement,
but did NOT get the censored message.

Below you will see a few of the problems,
that I encountered trying to sent the censored message
NONE of the things, that you see below, EVER happened,
while sending the ANNOUNCEMENT.
THESE THINGS HAPPENED ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME,
THAT I TRIED TO SEND
THE CENSORED MESSAGE.
Just a few of the censorship tactics that I saw
1. AFTER SENDING A FEW OF THESE MESSAGES, WHILE TRYING TO GO BACK TO
http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups <http://groups.yahoo.com/mygroups>
I GOT THIS:

We're Sorry...

The database is unavailable at the moment.
Please try again in a few minutes. If you continue to experience trouble,
please contact our Customer Care team
<http://add.yahoo.com/fast/help/us/groups/cgi_feedback> . We apologize for
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Mail Server.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/g! roup/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/2
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/2>

and

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

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/6

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/8

and

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Free! domOfSpeechNow/message/48
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FreedomOfSpeechNow/message/48>
Freedom of speech - Use it or lose it

When they took away the 4th Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we didn't deal drugs.

When they took away the 6th Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we were innocent.

When they took away the 2nd Amendment,
we were quiet,
because we don't own guns.

Now they have taking away the 1st Amendment,
and very soon,
if we continue to be quiet,
we will have no choice,
but to be continue to be quiet.
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9/11 Truth Convention Review on TVNL Radio - 6/15

Posted by: "reggie501" reggie501@optonline.net   reggie501

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:14 am (PST)

TVNL Editor's Comments: The 9/11 Truth Convention Review on TVNL Radio!

Tonight, Thursday, June 15th, on my radio program, I will be reviewing
the 9/11 conference that took place in Chicago this weekend. I will be
sharing my thoughts on the event itself and the direction of the
movement. I will also be analyzing the approach of the truth activists
and I will be making suggestions on how to before more affective truth
sharers.

Tonight's show will be broadcast on Revere Radio at 8:00 ET.

http://tvnewslies.org/html/radio_show.html

I will be taking instant message and e-mail questions and comments.

If the people knew what we know would they really continue to deal
with this government as a legitimate legal entity? Think about it! –
Jesse, Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

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Supreme Court decides   Knocking not needed before police search wit

Posted by: "ranger116@webtv.net" ranger116@webtv.net   ranger116_2000

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:32 am (PST)


Supreme Court decides
Knocking not needed before police search with warrant.

The real police state has arrived.
Now you can not shoot through your door when you hear someone picking
the lock at 4 AM.

Address:http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=5035302&nav=5kZQ

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Bilderberg Meeting 2006

Address:http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/150606Bilderberg.htm

Bush Lied - People Died
Bush Spied - Must Be Tried !

NBC Network TV News Audio: David Gregory Asks Bush If He Should Quit
5/18/08
Address:http://www.rense.com/general71/nbcaud.htm

" Do You think it is possible like Nixon and Watergate, That the
American People have rendered a final judgement of disapproval on You
and Your War in Iraq ?? "

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No person with Dual Citizenship - Should hold any City, County, State or
Federal Elected or appointed Government office or Tax Payer Paid Civil
Service Job !

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A U.S. Congressman a couple years ago said, The Founding Fathers did
not put the 2nd Amendment in the Constitution to guarantee Americans the
Right to hunt for food, But the Right to hunt Elected Officials who try
to take our rights away.

The Bush Administration
They Hate Our FREEDOM !

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"All Laws Which Are Repugnant to The Constitution Are Null And Void "

Marbury Vs. Madison 5 US 137,174,176
http://www.restoringamerica.org/documents/marburyVmadison_text.html

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Give us Liberty or Give us Death --------- - Bring it On ! Let's Roll !
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"We Don't Give Up Our Rights ! --
That's What Makes Us AMERICANS !"
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Hear The TRUTH for a Change !

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Prejudicial speech is just free speech about what a lifetime of
experiences has taught you. "tlb 2001"

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
-- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, It is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new Government, Laying its foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to
effect their Safety and Happiness."
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw
off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
security."
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Did you notice this>>>911 Disease posted on Rense, our friend Cathy

Posted by: "MarshaMcClelland" mofmars3@sbcglobal.net   marshamcclelland

Thu Jun 15, 2006 9:47 am (PST)

Did you notice this>>>911 Disease posted on Rense, our friend Cathy
sends?...Many more will die from this atrocity...Please forward
everywhere

Some might be pleased to know that this 9/11 Disease is the #3 listed
story on www.rense.com .

http://rense.com/general72/911dis.htm

If the crazies and the psy ops aren't after you, then you're barking
up the wrong tree.

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Fw: [ctrl] Undermining Civil Society: David Horowitz's Corrosive Pro

Posted by: "Dick Eastman" olfriend@nwinfo.net

Thu Jun 15, 2006 10:20 am (PST)

From: "Sean McBride" <smcbride2@yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2006 11:50 PM
Subject: [ctrl] Undermining Civil Society: David Horowitz's Corrosive
Projects

<http://www.counterpunch.org/rooij04112005.html>

Excerpt:

Horowitz, a self-declared former Marxist, is now engaged in a variety of
projects ranging from promoting an "academic bill of rights", writing books
[3], a database on "leftists" and "jihadists", and the FrontPage "magazine"
[4]. FrontPage (FP) is primarily a platform for extreme Zionists to smear
leftists, to attack academics who may be critical of Israel or the current
US imperial proclivities, and to hurl ritual abuse against "jihadists" ­ in
reality, a thinly-veiled racist attack on Muslims or Arab people.
Denigrating and insulting labels are flung around in FP, and its writers
often brand anyone near the left with such labels as "racist", "jihadist",
"anti-semite", etc.

Comment:

The Israel lobby, of which FrontPage Magazine is a leading component, has
mastered the art of making enemies in droves. Personal attacks are probably
the least effective way to win the world over to one's cause. Personal
attacks driven by a messianic ethnic, nationalist or religious agenda,
especially a paranoid and xenophobic agenda, are a recipe for certain
self-implosion.

All one really has to do with the neocons is to stand back and watch them
self-destruct. They are their own worst enemies.

They bear no resemblance to the best of either Western or Jewish
civilization.

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