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Can't Bye a home...Well why not try and win one...
After trying to sell and having no success; Michael & Maren Suber came up with another way to find a new owner for it, a contest. What a wonderful concept I wish I had thought it up. So here is what they are doing; they are giving it away! I know I was shocked when I read about it myself, but is it true. Mr. and Mrs.Suber have decided that their home which is located at 2640 D Street, Springfield Oregon, should be a prize in a contest of skill and creativity!
The house worth a whopping $195,000.00 could be yours if you are the winner.
This is an actual photo of the house from the contest site....None to shabby!
I bet you are all saying sign me up...
Here is how it all works; go to the website http://WWW.win- our-home. com,
they are the nice people sponsoring this contest.
What I think is really great is that it is a writing contest. Write a
100-500 word essay on any topic of your choosing and submit it, along
with the entry fee of $100, and your creativity and originality could
win you one of three top prizes. 1st place: a 1700 square foot, 4
bedroom, 2 bath home in Springfield, Oregon. 2nd place: $3,500. 3rd
place: $1,000. For more details, please visit http://www.win- our-home. com
This contest does meet all the rules and regulations put down by the
Oregon Gaming Commission. Steps have been taken to ensure the utmost
fairness in judging, and a portion of the proceeds go to benefit St.
Jude's Children's Research Hospital.
Good luck Michael & Maren Suber
Death by cold medicine
This email message has been sent into us, credit for all of us having this valuable information goes to Donald C. of Florida.
Thank you Donald for taking a stand
I am passing this email forwarded to me this morning.
It's about a medication that is familiar to many of us.
Note also:
The FDA 'S comments at the end of the message.
I received this information from a friend whose mother
Recently passed away.
Apparently, this was caused by a medication that is deadly.
Here are the details and I suggest you pass it on to your
Loved ones and others.
Subject: Phenylpropanolamine (PPA)
I would like to thank those of you who expressed condolences
On the recent passing of my mother. She suffered a hemorrhagic
Stroke while she was driving home from my house on 7/30 and
Passed away on 8/3. My mother's stroke and passing was an
Enormous shock to my family because she did not have any
Symptoms or risk factors for a stroke. Just the week before
She had gone to her doctor for a check up and received a clean
Bill of health. She did, however, develop a cold while she was
Visiting me and had taken Alka Seltzer Cold Plus for 3 days.
Since her passing, we have learned that Alka Seltzer is one of
The many cold medicines that contains Phenylpropanolamine (PPA)
Which can cause hemorrhagic stokes or cerebral bleeding even
With the first use. I am forwarding a list of other medications that
Currently use PPA. These medicines are supposedly being recalled
But my mother just purchased this medication less than two weeks ago.
Pharmaceutical companies have known about this danger for years,
We unfortunately, did not.
I urge you to review the list of medicines with PPA and avoid
These medications. All drugs containing PHENYLPROPANOLAMINE
Are dangerous. You may want to try calling the 800 number
Listed on most drug boxes and inquire about a REFUND. Please
Read this CAREFULLY. Also, please pass this on to everyone you
Know. STOP TAKING anything containing this ingredient. It has
Been linked to increased hemorrhagic stroke (bleeding in
Brain) among women ages 18-49 in the three days after starting
Use of medication. Problems were not found in men, but the FDA
Recommended that everyone (even children) seek alternative
Medicine.
The following medications contain Phenylpropanolamine:
Acutrim Diet Gum Appetite Suppressant
Acutrim Plus Dietary Supplements
Acutrim Maximum Strength Appetite Control
Alka-Seltzer Plus Children's Cold Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold medicine (cherry or or ange)
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold Medicine Original
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Cough Medicine Effervescent
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Flu Medicine
Alka-Seltzer Plus Cold & Sinus Effervescent
Alka Seltzer Plus Night-Time Cold Medicine
BC Allergy Sinus Cold Powder
BC Sinus Cold Powder
Comtrex Flu Therapy & Fever Relief
Day & Night Contac 12-Hour Cold Capsules
Contac 12 Hour Caplets
Coricidin D Cold, Flu & Sinus
Dexatrim Caffeine Free
Dexatrim Extended Duration
Dexatrim Gelcaps
Dexatrim Vitamin C/Caffeine Free
Dimetapp Cold & Allergy Chewable Tablets
Dimetapp Cold & Cough Liqui-Gels
Dimetapp DM Cold & Cou gh Elixir
Dimetapp Elixir
Dimetapp 4 Hour Liquid Gels
Dimetapp 4 Hour Tablets
Dimetapp 12 Hour Extentabs Tablets
Naldecon DX Pediatric Drops
Permathene Mega-16
Robitussin CF
Tavist-D 12 Hour Relief of Sinus & Nasal Congestion
Triaminic DM Cough Relief
Triaminic Expectorant Chest & Head
Triaminic Syrup Cold & Allergy
Triaminic Triaminicol Cold & Cough
I just found out and called the 800# on the container for
Triaminic and they informed me that they are voluntarily
Recalling the following medicines because of a certain
Ingredient that is causing strokes and seizures in children:
Orange 3D Cold & Allergy Cherry (Pink)
3D Cold & Cough Berry
3D Cough Relief Yellow 3D Expectorant
They are asking you to call them at 800-548-3708 with the lot
Number on the box so they can send you postage for you to send
It back to them, and they will also issue you a refund. If you
Know of anyone else with small children,
PLEASE PASS THIS ON. THIS IS SERIOUS STUFF!
DO PASS ALONG TO ALL ON YOUR MAILING LIST so people are
Informed. They can then pass it along to their families.
To confirm these findings please take time to check the following:
Norway
will ban mercury http://www.grist.org/news/2007/12/26/norway/index.html
Posted at 9:31
AM on 26 Dec 2007Come Jan. 1, Norway
will completely ban mercury in manufacturing, imports, and exports.
"Mercury is among the most dangerous pollutants.
Good alternatives to mercury exist
already and it is therefore right to introduce this ban," says Environment
Minister Erik Solheim, with due formality. Norway's standards exceed that of the
European
Union, which will ban mercury in thermometers in the first half of 2009
and in exports by 2011.
Bush,
communism and a new world order…What you need to know!
In the new socialist democracy
of America will you be safe? This is
now a serious question. If President
Bush has his way, banks will be under government control and as this seems like
a good idea to the people who stand to lose money in this failing economy it
could mean disaster for the rest of us.
President Bush announced on
Friday the 19 of September, 2008 that he had a plan to save failing Banks.
This”
700 billion dollar rescue” plan would give the government authority to
purchase bad mortgage-related assets or from U.S. financial institutions
for the next two years.
On
September 24, 2008, he spoke on National TV and talked of this being an
extraordinary period for the American economy.
President Bush speaks of the anxiety of the markets, while most of us
worry weather we will be able to buy and in some cases, i.e. the southern states
even find fuel for our cars.
We
worry about being able to afford the very staples of life with milk in some
states already at $5.00 per gallon and bread over $2.00 per loaf, as prices rise
in accordance to fuel prices which are constantly on the rise.
Here
is my personal anxiety is in a country which announces to me it’s democracy
and war on terror as it precedes to terrorize it’s people and act in a
socialist manor by bailing out the very entity’s that helped to cause the
reception that we are now in.
I
have heard the President say that credit markets are frozen.
So am I to understand that no new credit is being issued any where or is
this another scare tactic such as the “Weapons of mass destruction” upon
which this unholy war we are fighting in Iraq was based.
Honestly
are we so unlearned as to believe that the FBI investigation into these banking
giants will place any real blame on the them or is it another “red herring”
leading us away from the real issue. If
our Government buys these failed Mortgage Bank Securities, than it will own more
land than any of its private citizens. This
my friends, opens up the doors wide to the Socialism that we have been ever
slowly creeping toward.
President
Bush would have you believe that this is a decisive action that is need to save
our economy.
But
this is not true, you can not resolve debt by creating more debt.
To do this action in reality weakens the dollar and in the end could
drive our economy into a depression that would make the depression of the
1920’s look like a calk walk.
No
where in his plan in there help for the thousands of people hurt by these
banking giants. No where does it
offer help to the thousands who no longer have credit and have already lost
homes or will lose them. These
banking giants or predators if you, will go unpunished and will once again reap
the benefits of the Bush Ear of Economics.
Unfair of course it is. Really we need to ask ourselves at what place do we draw the line, at what point do we stand up and say “NO” , let the pieces fall where they may. Today is the day to look forward no backwards.
By
Shekhinah Raziel Golden-Dove Davis
General Mills cries poverty
By Shekhinah Raziel Golden Dove Davis
In June of this year General Mills announced that they would raise cereal prices and match that of the competitors in the cereal market.
I fist remember reading this in an article in USA TODAY NEWS PAPER way back than. Upon reading it I was shocked, after all the economy had been weak to say the least and they had thrown millions of dollars into advertizing the health benefits of their cereal. To think that they would now raise the price and put it out of reach of the consumer market that they had spent so much money to reach.
In an article by Matt Andrejczak, Marketwatch , written on June 18,2008 , the same month as big G’s announcement of raising it’s prices because it was losing money. I have included a copy for your reading below.
By Matt Andrejczak, MarketWatch
Last update: 5:33 p.m. EDT June 18, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- General Mills Inc. will top its fiscal 2008 target for earnings on an adjusted basis, due to strong fourth-quarter sales, the packaged-food company said Wednesday.
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GIS64.70, +3.19, +5.2%) , one of the top performers in the food sector this year, rose 3% to $62.64. The profit pre-announcement prompted Standard & Poor's to upgrade the stock to buy and lift its 12-month target price to $70.
The Minneapolis-based maker of cereal, snack bars, yogurt and soup said earnings will be $3.52 a share for the fiscal year ended May 25, excluding non-cash gains from accounting for the value of commodity hedges and a favorable tax ruling.
Wall Street's consensus forecast calls for a profit of $3.49 a share, according to a FactSet Research analyst survey.
General Mills said full-year sales will be $13.7 billion, or $300 million more than analyst expectations, boosted by a 13% increase in sales during the past three months.
The company is putting up some "real impressive numbers," said Edward Jones analyst Matt Arnold, who rates General Mills shares a buy. "They are keeping volume growth steady."
Maintaining volumes is important for food producers, which have been raising prices to offset surging costs for grains, dairy and fuel.
A fear in the current economy is that consumers, hamstrung by rising gas-pump prices and declining home values, will alter their buying habits and purchase less brand-name food products.
David Driscoll, analyst at Citigroup, said General Mills' earnings pre-announcement is a positive for the packaged food sector. He rates General Mills shares a buy.
"We continue to believe that the branded foods are in a very good environment where a weakened consumer will be driven back to the grocery store, creating a strong environment for (the) food manufacturing sector which continues to demonstrate the ability to raise prices," he wrote in a research report.
When it reports fourth-quarter earnings on June 25, General Mills will likely show solid growth from sales of Nature Valley and Fiber One snack bars, Yoplait yogurt, and Progresso soups, Arnold added.
General Mills said full-year profit including special items would be $3.71 a share, below its target of $3.75 to $3.77 a share.
The company noted that it had to mark down the value of certain commodity positions that it uses to hedge against price fluctuations in grains, fuel and other raw materials. As of May 25, it said, the value of certain hedges fell to $57 million, down from $168 million.
However, Arnold said the market value of those positions has likely increased again with the surge in corn, soybeans, and other commodities this month.
Third-quarter profit at General Mills rose 61% from the year-earlier period, helped by hedging its risk against volatile agricultural commodities.
So far this year, shares of General Mills have advanced 10%, while shares of rivals Kellogg Co. (K:
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For fiscal 2009, General Mills pegged earnings between $3.78 and $3.83 a share; that assumes no impact from mark-to-market accounting for its commodity hedges.
Matt Andrejczak is a reporter for MarketWatch in San Francisco.
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As you can see from this well written article they are not hurting, however we as consumers are. General Mills has announced they will once again raise the cost on their cereal products of the next three weeks.
In this wake of recession where each day more and more hard working Americans are out of work I find it appalling that General Mill’s or any other company would decide to raise the cost of it’s products out of greed and not need. In the case of big G, their raising the price of an item as simple as cereal will in turn impact the entire food market and further disrupt a failing market system. So while we are all being distracted by the auto makers and the lose of jobs paying in the low range of $36.00 per hour before benefits, along with unbelievable bail outs for bad banks and other such scoundrels. We may want to pay better attention the underhanded tactics being perpetrated upon us by other big businesses. The impact of the price rising that big G is planning will impact, corn based fuels, animal feed as well as other items including bread and grain based food items and almost every product that contains some form of the corn, which is over 90% of the foods we buy today. Not to mention those people who use corn to heat with.
I see General Mills in the same way I see big oil. Taking advantage of the hard working people in this country and using unfair marketing to bleed us dry.
Please consider boycotting their products until they come to their senses.
As the book of Job informs us: “ask the earth, and she will teach you.”
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Spinach and the fresh taste of frog...
Don't forget this brand of fresh spinach, folks. What probably happened is, the water the spinach was washed in contained polliwogs and these became fresh new frogs, right in the packages. So if you're looking for a salad with a little more body, then be sure and try this brand. Don't forget, it's the extra care that Mexican companies take that makes the difference.
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Wendy Legarde
550 Elmwood Park Blvd Suite B Harahan, LA 70123 |
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Rosie Witherspoon 52 N. Main St Fairfield, IA 52556 |
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Perfect Package
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Farm Fresh To You Store
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Farm Fresh To You Store
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Black Salt
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c/o:Scott Weinstein-Fish Marke 4883 MacArthur Blvd NW Washington, DC 20007 |
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Kimball Shop
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Aug. 23, 2007 -- Bags of baby carrots sold by King Sooper, Ralphs, Publix, and Trader Joe's have been recalled because of possible Shigella contamination.
The recalled products are:
The carrots were sold in several states:
Shigella are bacteria that cause diarrhea (which may be bloody), fever, nausea, and vomiting. Illness usually lasts from four days to two weeks. The infection may be severe in very young people, very old people, or people with compromised immune systems.
Infection can be passed from person to person.
There have been four cases of food poisoning associated with the carrots, all in Canada. All four patients recovered.
The voluntary recall is a precautionary measure undertaken by the Los Angeles Salad Co., of City of Industry, Calif.
Consumers who have purchased the products may return them to the place of purchase for a full refund. Those with questions may contact Los Angeles Salads at (626) 322-9017.
SOURCES: FDA news release, Aug. 23, 2007.
Well I am forbidden to talk bad about the President or his laws or even his war for a while.
Do to the fact that he signed a Presidential order bring back the sedition act of 1819.
For those of you out there who have no clue about what I am talking about, click here.
This was done during the filibuster in which the hoped to find a way out of the war we are in....
So in lew of this I am going to post about other things that the sedition act does not control.
So I am adding this story about one of my scientific heroes...
John Hutchison the man who discovered that putting sound waves and magnetic waves in the same frequency cause matter to change, too bad the scientific community is not smart enough to understand it all.
John Hutchison, The Wild Scientist From Vancouver
Photo: Dr. John Hutchison in his living room surrounded by a collection of ship instruments. As he has removed furniture and other household items to give room for the multitude of equipment, the feeling is like being inside a submarine.
Photo: John shows the quartz type battery and some drawings of it, taps the battery for a moment and the red LED starts glowing.
John connects battery leads to a LED. Then he starts tapping, bending and
hitting the battery in a way only he masters as the builder of the
experimental power source. After a while the battery comes into life and
lights the red LED. The LED is connected to the battery without series
resistor so the idle voltage stated as 18 volts apparently drops down to the
red LED operating voltage of some two volts with load connected. "I
sold a 55 000 volt type made to Japan. It was very well made. The owner is now
showing it to audience".
Another type of John's batteries is the Electric Crystal which has been baked
from natural minerals. "I like this one - it is so easy to make and
the materials are dirt cheap. I have made honeycombs with 1 cc of material in
each cell to give more voltage and current. Good ones
that I sold for 35 000 USD gave 3 volts and one amp.
I have made prototype for a 55 000 volt battery but it blew up. I have it on
video."
Well, what he then intends to do with them? "Now I would rather get
these batteries out of my hands to concentrate on further experiments with the
Hutchison Effect", he states.
Rotating Ear In Living Room
One of the eye catching apparatus resembles a giant ear. "It is a
direction finding antenna used in ships", John tells. "I
can put it rotating. It does not shake although it is heavy. It just vibrates
a little". John kneels down on the floor to avoid being hit by the
circling aerial and accelerates it to a speed of several rounds per second.
The feeling is so authentic that we have a desire to run to the ship bridge to
check the radio beacon markers from the direction finding screen...
Cold Melted Metals
John Hutchison Raided At
Gunpoint
By Canadian Police -- CLICK
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Reporting From
Shreveport, Louisiana
UNITED STATES
Word has been received this morning, Saturday, 18 March 2000, that John
Hutchison
has been raided at
gunpoint by Canadian Police.
John's apartment in New Westminster, British Columbia, was raided at 2 PM
Friday,
17 March 2000, by
gun-wielding police searching for firearms. An antique gun collection
owned by Hutchison was
confiscated in its entireity.
According to Hutchison, a phone call was received at about 2 PM Friday, stating
that
it was the police, and
asking John to answer his door. Hutchison states that there were
8 to 10 individuals
pointing weapons at him, only two or three of whom were in uniform.
The rest were dressed in
dark clothing.
Hutchison was handcuffed and placed on the outside steps while police searched
the
apartment. No
warrant was claimed or shown at any time. Police stated only that there
had been an anonymous
complaint that firearms were being brought into the apartment.
Police also called in an "electrical inspector" to examine John's lab
equipment. This
is the famous
"Hutchison apparatus" with which John produces the renowned
"Hutchison
Effect."
Additional individuals dressed in suits were brought in who took extensive
photographs
of the Hutchison
apparatus. Hutchison indicates that these persons had an "official
air"
about them, and that they
might be Government agents, especially given the confiscation
of the original Hutchison
lab, which took place while John was out of the country in 1990.
None of these persons
showed any identification.
Those who have followed John's career of invention and innovation will recall
that his
first laboratory was
forcibly seized by the Canadian Government on 24 February 1990 by
the direct order of former
Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. The Government
has retained the lab in
spite of a court order by Judge Paris of the Supreme Court of
British Columbia to return
it.
A
previous raid on John Hutchison's apartment involving his collection of antique
firearms occured in 1978,
and processing took two years. The confiscated antiques were
returned at the order of
Judge Cronin. These events occured under the administration of
former PM Pierre Trudeau.
Former PM Joe Clark, who took over in the 1980s following
the Trudeau
administration, wrote to Hutchison offering help and support.
The present raid follows close on the heels of a recent successful levitation
performed
11 October 1999 which was
videotaped by John. The effect was achieved after six days
worth of attempts.
However, neighbors called local police to complain about Hutchison's experiment.
It
is unclear whether
something in their apartment levitated, although there is no other way
known at this time that
they could have been aware of the levitation experiment that was
in progress. The
neighbors in question live across the street from Hutchison.
The sound of approaching sirens was recorded on the video soundtrack of
Hutchison's
camcorder during the
experiment, and video of some emergency vehicles and personnel
was obtained.
Further updates on the situation will be posted promptly on this website.
Mark A. Solis
Shreveport, LA USA
Webmaster for John
Hutchison
your_neighbor@geocities.com
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TAPPING INTO ZERO POINT
JOHN KENNETH HUTCHISON
"THE HUTCHISON EFFECT"and ZERO POINT ENERGY CONVERTER CELLS Canadian ( British Columbia ) scientist & Director, Advanced Energy Laboratories, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, JOHN KENNETH HUTCHISON is credited with the discovery of a highly-anomalous electromagnetic effect which causes the: Levitation of heavy objects
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AMY GOODMAN: The soft drink giant Pepsi has been forced to make an embarrassing admission: Its bestselling Aquafina bottled water is nothing more than tap water. Last week, Pepsi agreed to change the labels of Aquafina to indicate the water comes from a public water source. Pepsi agreed to change its label under pressure from the advocacy group Corporate Accountability International, which has been leading an increasingly successful campaign against bottled water.
In San Francisco, Mayor Gavin Newsom recently banned city departments from using city money to buy any kind of bottled water. In New York, local residents are being urged to drink tap water. The U.S. Conference of Mayors has passed a resolution that highlighted the importance of municipal water and called for more scrutiny of the impact of bottled water on city waste.
The environmental impact of the country's obsession with bottled water has been staggering. Each day an estimated 60 million plastic water bottles are thrown away. Most are not recycled. The Pacific Institute has estimated 20 million barrels of oil are used each year to make the plastic for water bottles.
Economically, it makes sense to stop buying bottled water as well. The Arizona Daily Star recently examined the cost difference between bottled water and water from the city's municipal supply. A half-liter of Pepsi's Aquafina at a Tucson convenience store costs $1.39. The bottle contains purified water from the Tucson water supply. From the tap, you can pour over 6.4 gallons for a penny. That makes the bottled stuff about 7,000 times more expensive, even though Aquafina is using the same water source.
Gigi Kellett of Corporate Accountability International joins us in Boston, the group spearheading the Think Outside the Bottle campaign. We're also joined by freelance writer Michael Blanding. Last year he wrote an article for Alternet.org called "The Bottled Water Lie." We welcome you both to Democracy Now!
I want to begin with Gigi Kellett. Talk about Pepsi's admission.
GIGI KELLETT: Well, after a couple of years of our Think Outside the Bottle campaign, we have been asking of the bottled water corporations to come clean about where they get their water, what is the source of the water that they're bottling, because most people don't know that Pepsi's Aquafina, Coke's Dasani, come from our public water systems. And so, after thousands of phone calls, thousands of public comments submitted to the corporation, and us taking these demands directly to the corporation's annual shareholder meeting this year, Pepsi last week made the announcement that it would reveal that it gets its water from our public water systems.
AMY GOODMAN: Now, where exactly does Pepsi get it? Which public water supply?
GIGI KELLETT: Well, that is the issue that we're really looking at next, is what cities are they bottling the water in. You know, here in Massachusetts, it's coming from Ayre, Mass. So we want to make sure that on those bottles it says: "Public water source: Ayre, Massachusetts." That way, people know exactly what they're getting when they're buying that Aquafina bottled water.
AMY GOODMAN: Ayre being the name of a town in Massachusetts.
GIGI KELLETT: Ayre is the name of a town, right. Exactly.
AMY GOODMAN: And what happens to the town? They have their public water supply, and they have the plant for Pepsi?
GIGI KELLETT: That's right. We want to make sure that -- you know, Pepsi has certainly taken a lead on this for the bottled water industry, and we want to make sure that Coke and Nestle also follow suit. One of the things that we're finding as we're talking to people about this issue on the street is that they don't know where the water is coming from. And the bottled water corporations have spent tens of millions of dollars on ads that make people think that bottled water is somehow better, cleaner, safer than our public water systems. And in reality, we know that that's not true. And so, we want to make sure that we're increasing our people's confidence in their public water systems once again and knowing that we need to be investing in our public systems.
AMY GOODMAN: Gigi, can you go further on who owns what? You mention Nestle. What does Nestle own?
GIGI KELLETT: Nestle owns several dozen brands of bottled water. The bottled water brand they source from our public water systems is called Nestle Pure Life. They also own Poland Spring, Ozarka, Arrowhead. The list goes on. And regionally, it's distributed across the country. And then we also have Coca-Cola, which bottles Dasani water, and, of course, Pepsi with Aquafina.
AMY GOODMAN: And when it comes to being tap water, what is the difference between plain tap water and distilled water from these public sources.
GIGI KELLETT: Well, there's very little difference. You know, our public water systems go through a very rigorous testing and monitoring system and is tested by the Environmental Protection Agency. So we want to make sure that people know that our public water systems are much better regulated than these bottled water brands, which don't have to go through the same rigorous type of process.
AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Gigi Kellett, associate campaigns director of Corporate Accountability International. Michael Blanding, a freelance writer, has written the piece "The Bottled Water Lie." Michael, what is the lie?
MICHAEL BLANDING: Well, there are actually several lies, I think, that the bottled water companies perpetrate, but I think the main one is exactly what Gigi said, that this image bolstered by, you know, millions and millions of dollars of advertising that bottled water is somehow better for you, it tastes better, it's more pure. And in many cases, that's simply not true. People are paying enormous premiums for bottled water and don't even realize the fact that in many cases not only does tap water taste the same, but that it's actually more tightly regulated and actually healthier for you. There have been, you know, several cases of bottled water that's actually been contaminated and found to contain hazardous chemicals. And tap water, there's actually a rigorous testing and monitoring of the water supply that actually in many cases makes it healthier.
AMY GOODMAN: When we come back from break, I want to talk about some of those cases of contamination, but also talk about the community struggles that are working to take back their water supply. Our guests are Michael Blanding, who wrote "The Bottled Water Lie," and Gigi Kellett of Corporate Accountability International. Stay with us.
[break]
AMY GOODMAN: Now, Michael, you begin your piece by talking about Antonia Mahoney. Talk about who she is.
MICHAEL BLANDING: She was someone who was just walking down the street in downtown Boston when the folks at Corporate Accountability -- Gigi and the folks in her group -- were holding something called the Tap Water Challenge, which was a taste test between tap water and various bottled water brands, Aquafina and Dasani. And I stood there during the afternoon and watched many people come up who were bottled water drinkers and could swear that they could tell the difference and that they could recognize their brand.
And Antonia Mahoney was one of those who -- she actually had given off drinking tap water a few years ago and was drinking only Poland Spring and knew that she
In China, over a million poplar trees have been planted since 2002 to combat deforestation. But the move has not been widely applauded by everyone. The poplars, which are genetically engineered, are China's first foray into the world of transgenic forestry -- or "frankenforests" -- and other countries are not far behind.
As the biotech industry continues to lay the groundwork for genetically engineered crops -- poorly tested, widely debated and yet plugged as a technological wonder -- a potentially greater threat to biodiversity has begun to emerge. Pushed forward by biotech and the multibillion-dollar timber industry, genetically engineered trees are the latest invention.
"The industry has tried very hard to keep it quiet, or tout the technology as benign and beneficial to the environment," says Anne Petermann, co-founder of the Global Justice Ecology Project, a nonprofit established to advance global justice through ecological awareness. "The technology is moving forward very quickly, outpacing regulations. There are no controls in place to properly address or assess the risks -- which are major."
GE trees are planted in monoculture forests, which look more like plantations, and pose serious risks to the ecosystem. Trees live decades or centuries longer than plants, and their seeds can travel hundreds of miles, increasing the likelihood of gene contamination to wild species. The technology was created to optimize the manufacturing process, but environmentalists worry that it will open an ecological Pandora's Box and threaten the health of the forests we depend on for survival.
The world is a test lab
GE forestry research is already alarmingly prevalent across the globe. The United States leads the world in research projects, with 150 tree test plots -- two-thirds of the world's known research areas -- and they are joined by Australia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Despite the prevelance of the practice, GE forestry has remained somewhat obscured by GE crops, which have raised more immediate health concerns, as forestry "doesn't seem to affect the daily shopping trip -- or at least, less visibly," according to Larry Lohmann, a researcher with U.K.-based Corner House, a nonprofit that fights for social and environmental justice.
"But the problems transgenic trees pose are just as severe. Whether it's endangering wild species or pollen drift, the fact is we're in danger of setting off a chain of events that's irreversible. We don't know what we're messing with," he says.
From the perspective of the timber industry, driven by commercial pressure and deforestation to "build" its own resources, the case for GE trees is clear-cut. Uniform, faster-growing species produce more paper or lumber in a shorter period of time, driving down costs. Faster-growing trees also produce greater biomass, which can potentially be converted into a second-generation biofuel -- an important financial incentive in the current gold rush for agrofuels. Biomass furthermore acts as a carbon sink, sucking carbon dioxide emissions from the air, which the industry claims is an environmental plus, though native forests actually absorb more. The industry's outlook is simple: The technology poses minimal risk with maximum return.
"The industry is looking for a way to make more money, damn the consequences. What's driving this is not environmental concern, but mass production -- you can't say that's environmentally friendly," says Lohmann.
Concerns over the technology's long-term impact are serious. "The forests are already under tremendous pressure from climate change and human interaction," says Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, co-founder of the London-based nonprofit science watchdog Eco-Nexus. Steinbrecher, also co-author of "Hungry Corporations: Transnational Biotech Companies Colonize the Food Chain," has a Ph.D. in molecular genetics.
"Compared to crops that have been cultivated for thousands of years, trees are 'wild.' If a GE trait enters a forest species, the implications could be absolutely horrendous. We could see the ecological system weaken and collapse. Without the forests, we're sunk."
Steinbrecher's fears resonate deeply with environmentalists. Given genetic science's infancy, which has been plagued repeatedly by controversy, biotech -- with its thrust towards profit -- has continued to promote its art as a magic bullet solution. But there's always the risk of misfire. And now that trees have been loaded into the barrel, environmentalists, those involved in forestry, indigenous peoples and scientists have worked to raise the alarm.
"Forests are crucial to us," says Alexander Evans, research director at the Forest Guild, which promotes responsible forestry in America, noting how they are one of the most valuable and little-understood ecosystems in the world. "When it comes to GE, the potential risks are not well understood, so why go into it? We're not into the quick-return model -- there are too many hidden costs. There's simply no reason to take the risk."
The risks, in fact, are numerous. Genetically modified trees have been engineered to exhibit unnatural traits such as herbicide tolerance, insecticide production, reduced lignin content, the substance that makes trees strong but must be removed to make paper, and finally, sterility.
Many of these qualities have already proved problematic. For example, herbicide-resistant trees are meant to reduce the quantity of herbicides applied to tree plantations, yet experience shows that farmers who converted to herbicide-resistant, genetically modified crops used just as much herbicide as their counterparts, according to the World Wildlife Fund.
Or take sterility, also known as terminator technology and by far the most controversial. In GE crops, this strategy was used to prevent farmers from saving and replanting seeds, thus compelling them to buy from dealers -- a highly lucrative move for the multinational/agrochemical seed industry. With trees, however, the technology is meant to act as a biosafety control to prevent contamination as trees, large organisms with a long life span, have enormous potential for gene flow.
So far, engineering persistent sterility has been impossible. But its success would be worse, creating sterile trees that would produce no seeds, pollen, fruit or flowers, sources of food for thousands of species of birds, insects and animals. Instead, sterile trees would comprise forests akin to silent green desserts, devoid of life.
"From a scientific perspective, we haven't got a clue what the response (in GE trees) will be. There's real arrogance in saying that we do," says Steinbrecher. "Genome scrambling isn't like moving Lego blocks. It's introducing a number of mutations into the plant's DNA, and the side effects are not something we can predict."
The U.S. approves GE trees
Back in the States, however, major transgenic tree projects are in the works. On July 16, APHIS (Animal Plant Health Inspection Service), a subsidiary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, approved a request by forestry giant ArborGen to let a field of genetically modified eucalyptus trees flower and produce seeds -- a monumental move that has alarmed environmentalists worried about GE trees interbreeding with wild ones.
"The USDA has basically been
May 21-2007
AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMPS
FEMA CAMPS in the U.S.
Oliver North Questioned - Rex 84 Exposed During Iran Contra
BCST 8/27/06
C-SPAN BOOK TV - 9/11 COMMISSION INTERVIEW
9/11 ACCOUNTABILTY Vs. "The Case For Impeachment"
AUDIO (ABOUT 55 MINUTES)
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L002I060827-911-impeachment2.MP3
9/11 ACCOUNTABILITY....WE WHERE VERY UNJUDGEMENTAL
THE 9/11 COMMISSION....THESE GUYS ARE SHOCKING!!!!
AUDIO:
http://www.apfn.net/pogo/L001I060827-911-impeachment1.MP3
FEMA Camp footage - Google
Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8272096722231303649
IT IS WORTH READING THESE
DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS TO SEE A
POSSIBLE REASON SO MANY MILITARY BASES ARE CLOSING
THIS IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE...
IN OTHER WORDS- THIS IS NOT FROM THE 1940'S
America's Prison Camps
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/prison_camps.htm
Army Document Jan. 2005
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/prison_camps.pdf
.pdf file
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/prison_camps.zip
zipped Word file 35mb
Mirrored from Illuminati-News
http://www.illuminati-news.com/pdf/prison_camps.pdf
American
Prison Camps Are on the Way
http://www.alternet.org/rights/42458/
WATCH:
TERROR STORM!!!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4757274759497686216&q=terror+storm
U.S. APPROVES USE OF MILITARY AGAINST
CITIZENS
http://web.archive.org/web/20060112191540/http://www.thewinds.org/1997/02/military_role.html
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and
Executive Orders
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/camps1.htm
Compound / Range 3
This is the site with the latest info & pictures concerning the "Camp
Grayling Range 3 area" speculated by some to be a citizen detention camp
located on a Michigan military reservation.
Surely, this is a very real place...But, what is this place exactly, and does it
serve as a sinister holding area for future government dissidents through Rex
'84, Operation Garden Plot, & FEMA programs?
Decide for yourself...
http://www.geocities.com/stealth_shadow2005/index.html
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's
Hellish Vision
Wed Aug 14 20:09:38 2002
68.98.68.169
Camps for Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish Vision
Attorney general shows himself as a menace to liberty.
By Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley is a professor of constitutional law at
George Washington University.
http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/08.15B.ashcr.camps.htm
Los Angeles Times
Wednesday, 14 August, 2002
Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft's announced desire for camps for U.S. citizens he
deems to be "enemy combatants" has moved him from merely being a
political
embarrassment to being a constitutional menace.
Ashcroft's plan, disclosed last week but little publicized, would allow him
to order the indefinite incarceration of U.S. citizens and summarily strip
them of their constitutional rights and access to the courts by declaring
them enemy combatants.
The proposed camp plan should trigger immediate congressional hearings and
reconsideration of Ashcroft's fitness for this important office. Whereas
Al Qaeda is a threat to the lives of our citizens, Ashcroft has become
clear and present threat to our liberties.
The camp plan was forged at an optimistic time for
Ashcroft's small inner
circle, which has been carefully watching two test cases to see whether
this vision could become a reality. The cases of Jose Padilla and Yaser
Esam Hamdi will determine whether U.S. citizens can be held without charges
and subject to the arbitrary and unchecked authority of the government.
Hamdi has been held without charge even though the facts of his case are
virtually identical to those in the case of John Walker Lindh. Both Hamdi
and Lindh were captured in Afghanistan as foot soldiers in Taliban units.
Yet Lindh was given a lawyer and a trial, while Hamdi rots in a floating
Navy brig in Norfolk, Va.
This week, the government refused to comply with a federal judge who ordered
that he be given the underlying evidence justifying Hamdi's treatment. The
Justice Department has insisted that the judge must simply accept its
declaration and cannot interfere with the president's absolute authority
in "a time of war."
In Padilla's case, Ashcroft initially claimed that the arrest stopped a plan
to detonate a radioactive bomb in New York or Washington, D.C. The
administration later issued an embarrassing correction that there was
no evidence Padilla was on such a mission. What is clear is that Padilla
is an American citizen and was arrested in the United States--two facts
that should trigger the full application of constitutional rights.
Ashcroft hopes to use his self-made "enemy combatant" stamp for any
citizen
whom he deems to be part of a wider terrorist conspiracy.
Perhaps because of his discredited claims of
preventing radiological
terrorism, aides have indicated that a "high-level committee" will
recommend
which citizens are to be stripped of their constitutional rights and sent
to Ashcroft's new camps.
Few would have imagined any attorney general seeking to reestablish such
camps for citizens. Of course, Ashcroft is not considering camps on the
order of the internment camps used to incarcerate Japanese American
citizens in World War II. But he can be credited only with thinking
smaller; we have learned from painful experience that unchecked authority,
once tasted, easily becomes insatiable.
We are only now getting a full vision of Ashcroft's America. Some of his
predecessors dreamed of creating a great society or a nation unfettered
by racism. Ashcroft seems to dream of a country secured from itself,
neatly contained and controlled by his judgment of loyalty.
For more than 200 years, security and liberty have
been viewed as coexistent
values. Ashcroft and his aides appear to view this relationship as lineal,
where security must precede liberty.
Since the nation will never be entirely safe from terrorism, liberty has
become a mere rhetorical justification for increased security.
Ashcroft is a catalyst for constitutional devolution, encouraging citizens
to accept autocratic rule as their only way of avoiding massive terrorist
attacks.
His greatest problem has been preserving a level of panic and fear that would
induce a free people to surrender the rights so dearly won by their ancestors.
In "A Man for All Seasons," Sir Thomas More was confronted by a young
lawyer,
Will Roper, who sought his daughter's hand. Roper proclaimed that he would
cut down every law in England to get after the devil.
More's response seems almost tailored for Ashcroft: "And when the last law
was
down and the devil turned round on you, where would
you hide, Roper, the laws
all being flat? ... This country's planted thick with laws from coast to
coast ... and if you cut them down--and you are just the man to do it--do
you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow
then?"
Every generation has had Ropers and Ashcrofts who view our laws and traditions
as mere obstructions rather than protections in times of peril. But before
we allow Ashcroft to denude our own constitutional landscape, we must take
a stand and have the courage to say, "Enough."
Every generation has its test of principle in which people of good faith can
no longer remain silent in the face of authoritarian ambition. If we cannot
join together to fight the abomination of American camps, we have already
lost what we are defending.
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latimes.com/archives. For information about reprinting this article,
go to LA
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Concentration camps in
US
http://web.archive.org/web/20030325093911/http://gulagamerika.homestead.com/
MILITARY
POLICE INTERNMENT/RESETTLEMENT OPERATIONS
http://web.archive.org/web/20040202213118/http://www.adtdl.army.mil/cgi-bin/atdl.dll/fm/3-19.40/toc.htm
Interament Camps Map
Posted 8/19/01 PDF FORMAT:
http://www.apfn.org/pdf/camps.pdf
Concentration/Detention Camps
UN Equipment Said In Place Around US
http://www.rense.com/political/campsfound.htm
CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS UP FOR REVIEW
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/archive/government/camp9-97.html
CIVILIAN INTERNMENT CAMPS UP FOR REVIEW
http://www.apfn.org/THEWINDS/archive/government/camp9-97.html
Concentration Camp
Locations in Southern California
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/concentration.htm
U.S. CONCENTRATION CAMPS FEMA AND THE REX 84
PROGRAM
"The Rex 84 Program was
established on the reasoning that if a mass exodus of illegal aliens crossed the
Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up and detained in detention
centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to be closed
down and to be turned into prisons"
Heres the full article
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Web site of Concentration Camps made for you! One of the U.S. Plans for NWO
"New world Order"
U.S. CONCENTRATION CAMPS
FEMA AND THE REX 84 PROGRAM
There over 600 prison camps in the United States,
all fully operational and ready to receive prisoners. They are all staffed and
even surrounded by full-time guards, but they are all empty. These camps are to
be operated by FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) should Martial Law
need to be implemented in the United States.
The Rex 84 Program was established on the reasoning that if a mass exodus of
illegal aliens crossed the Mexican/US border, they would be quickly rounded up
and detained in detention centers by FEMA. Rex 84 allowed many military bases to
be closed down and to be turned into prisons.
Operation Cable Splicer and Garden Plot are the two sub programs which will be
implemented once the Rex 84 program is initiated for its proper purpose. Garden
Plot is the program to control the population. Cable Splicer is the program for
an orderly takeover of the state and local governments by the federal
government. FEMA is the executive arm of the coming police state and thus will
head up all operations. The Presidential Executive Orders already listed on the
Federal Register also are part of the legal framework for this operation.
The camps all have railroad facilities as well as roads leading to and from the
detention facilities. Many also have an airport nearby. The majority of the
camps can house a population of 20,000 prisoners. Currently, the largest of
these facilities is just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a
massive mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people.
A person named Terry Kings wrote an article on his
discoveries of camps
located in southern California. His findings are as follows:
Over the last couple months several of us have investigated three soon-to-be
prison camps in the Southern California area. We had heard about these sites and
wanted to see them for ourselves.
The first one we observed was in Palmdale, California. It is not operating as a
prison at the moment but is masquerading as part of a water facility. Now why
would there be a facility of this nature out in the middle of nowhere with
absolutely no prisoners? The fences that run for miles around this large
facility all point inward, and there are large mounds of dirt and dry moat
surrounding the central area so the inside area is not visible from the road.
There are 3 large loading docks facing the entrance that can be observed from
the road. What are these massive docks going to be loading?
We observed white vans patrolling the area and one came out and greeted us with
a friendly wave and followed us until we had driven safely beyond the area. What
would have happened had we decided to enter the open gate or ask questions?
This facility is across the street from the Palmdale Water Department. The area
around the Water Department has fences pointing outward, to keep people out of
this dangerous area so as not to drown. Yet, across the street, the fences all
point inward. Why? To keep people in? What people? Who are going to be it’s
occupants?
There are also signs posted every 50 feet stating: State of California
Trespassing Loitering Forbidden By Law Section 555 California Penal Code.
The sign at the entrance says: Pearblossom
Operations and Maintenance Subcenter Receiving Department, 34534 116th Street
East. There is also a guard shack located at the entrance.
We didn’t venture into this facility, but did circle around it to see if there
was anything else visible from the road. We saw miles of fences with the top
points all directed inward. There is a railroad track that runs next to the
perimeter of this fenced area. The loading docks are large enough to hold
railroad cars.
I wonder what they are planning for this facility? They could easily fit 100,000
people in this area. And who would the occupants be?
Another site is located in Brand Park in Glendale. There are newly constructed
fences (all outfitted with new wiring that point inward). The fences surround a
dry reservoir. There are also new buildings situated in the area. We questioned
the idea that there were four armed military personnel walking the park. Since
when does a public park need armed guards?
A third site visited was in the San Fernando Valley, adjacent to the Water
District. Again, the area around the actual Water District had fences logically
pointing out (to keep people out of the dangerous area). And the rest of the
adjacent area which went on for several miles was ringed with fences and barbed
wire facing inward (to keep what or who in?) Also, interesting was the fact that
the addition to the tops of the fences were fairly new as to not even contain
any sign of rust on them. Within the grounds was a huge building that the guard
said was a training range for policemen. There were newly constructed roads, new
gray military looking buildings, and a landing strip. For what? Police cars were
constantly patrolling the several mile perimeter of the area.
From the parking lot of the Odyssey Restaurant a better view could be taken of
the area that was hidden from site from the highway. There was an area that
contained about 100 black boxes that looked like railroad cars. We had heard
that loads of railroad cars have been manufactured in Oregon outfitted with
shackles. Would these be of that nature? From our position it was hard to
determine.
In searching the Internet, I have discovered that
there are about 600 of these prison sites around the country (and more literally
popping up overnight do they work all night). They are manned, but yet do not
contain prisoners. Why do they need all these non-operating prisons? What are
they waiting for? We continuously hear that our current prisons are overcrowded
and they are releasing prisoners because of this situation. But what about all
these facilities? What are they really for? Why are there armed guards yet no
one to protect themselves against? And what is going to be the kick-off point to
put these facilities into operation?
What would bring about a situation that would call into effect the need for
these new prison facilities? A man-made or natural catastrophe? An earthquake,
panic due to Y2K, a massive poisoning, a panic of such dimensions to cause
nationwide panic?
Once a major disaster occurs (whether it is a real event or manufactured event
does not matter) Martial Law is hurriedly put in place and we are all in the
hands of the government agencies (FEMA) who thus portray themselves as our
protectors. Yet what happens when we question those in authority and how they
are taking away all of our freedoms? Will we be the ones detained in these camp
sites? And who are they going to round up? Those with guns? Those who ask
questions? Those that want to know what’s really going on? Does that include
any of us? The seekers of truth?
When first coming across this information I was in a state of total denial. How
could this be? I believed our country was free, and always felt a sense of
comfort in knowing that as long as we didn’t hurt others in observing our
freedom we were left to ourselves. Ideally we treated everyone with respect and
honored their uniqueness and hoped that others did likewise.
It took an intensive year of searching into the
hidden politics to discover that we are as free as we believe we are. If we are
in denial, we don’t see the signs that are staring at us, but keep our minds
turned off and busy with all the mundane affairs of daily life.
We just don’t care enough to find out the real truth, and settle for the
hand-fed stories that come our way over the major media sources television,
radio, newspaper, and magazines. But it’s too late to turn back to the days of
blindfolds and hiding our heads in the sand because the reality is becoming very
clear. The time is fast approaching when we will be the ones asking "What
happened to our freedom? To our free speech? To our right to protect ourselves
and our family? To think as an individual? To express ourselves in whatever way
we wish?"
Once we challenge that freedom we find out how free we really are. How many are
willing to take up that challenge? Very few indeed, otherwise we wouldn’t find
ourselves in the situation that we are in at the present time. We wouldn’t
have let things progress and get out of the hands of the public and into the
hands of those that seek to keep us under their control no matter what it takes,
and that includes the use of force and detainment for those that ask the wrong
questions.
Will asking questions be outlawed next? Several instances have recently been
reported where those that were asking questions that came too near the untold
truth (the cover up) were removed from the press conferences and from the
public’s ear. Also, those that wanted to speak to the press were detained and
either imprisoned, locked in a psychiatric hospital, slaughtered (through
make-believe suicides) or discredited.
Why are we all in denial over these possibilities? Didn’t we hear about prison
camps in Germany, and even in the United States during World War II? Japanese
individuals were rounded up and placed in determent camps during the duration of
the War. Where was their freedom?
You don’t think it could happen to you? Obviously
those rounded up and killed didn’t think it could happen to them either. How
could decent people have witnessed such atrocities and still said nothing? Are
we going to do the same here as they cart off one by one those individuals who
are taking a stand for the rights of the citizens as they expose the truth
happening behind the scenes? Are we all going to sit there and wonder what
happened to this country of ours? Where did we go wrong? How could we let it
happen?
Archived: http://web.archive.org/web/20001019053553/http://www.abovetopsecret.com/camps.html
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The Coming American Holocaust? 9-22-98
Note - The following is an interview with 'Mr. Sea' regarding alleged New World Order plans for the U.S. and its citizens. This is being posted as a point of information. We have seen video of the Indiana facility mentioned and it does appear to accurately fit the description in this interview.
[NOTE: odds are you won't believe this source, so I have included an alternative source including admissions from the Director of Resource Management for the U.S. Army and from Congressman Henry Gonzales (D,Texas). Read it and get very angry. - W.A.C.]
In the spring of 1997, Senior Editor, Professor Ian Stewart, met with "Mr. Sea" (real name known but withheld) to discuss what he has learned first-hand about the coming persecution at the hands of the New World Order operatives.
With a seven-inch thick portfolio filled with photographs, news articles, correspondence, etc., Mr. Sea revealed disturbing information about New World Order efforts to destroy and enslave America.
The following are some of Mr. Sea's comments. But first, let's take a look at the man who made the comments.
Mr. Sea, a committed Christian, is a former inspector for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Department of Defense, with 31 years of federal service: 22 in the military, nine with the Department of Defense, including two years with the Air Staff. He's a holder of the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal, three awards of the Joint Service Medal, all of the Vietnamese awards, as well as the Joint Meritorious Unit Medal.
When he retired a few years ago, he was awarded the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Medal. He's been around the world to 31 countries on four continents, and speaks five languages.
Mr. Sea spoke of the coming American Holocaust of the Government's plans for dealing with the non-New World Orderites. He spoke of the infrastructure that has already been set up to incarcerate and execute Americans, and the locations of the facilities that will be used for these purposes all with photographs, leaving little to the imagination.
"The infrastructure is set up. There are at least 130 concentration camps quietly modified facilities which have sprung up and continue to spring up across the country, seemingly devoid of activity, yet requiring strange accoutrements such as barbed wire-topped fencing (with the tops turned inward) and helicopter wind socks. Most have good logistical supportability, with major highways and railroad transport facilities adjacent to the sites.
"These facilities, many in remote areas across our country, are set up to become concentration/detention camps, complete with gas chambers, for resisters and dissidents. Generally speaking, they're set up for dissenters who will not go along with the New World Order. The 'resisters' are gun owners who refuse to give up their weapons; the 'dissidents' are Christians, Patriots and Constitutionalists. These camps are set up. I've seen many of them.
"On August 6, 1994, I toured the Amtrak Railcar Repair Facility at Beech Grove, Indianapolis, Indiana. There are at least ten maintenance barns at this facility, covering 129 acres, with two separate fences with the tops leaning inward. The windows of several buildings have been bricked up. Hence, you have three levels of security for Amtrak repair barns!
"There are three helicopter 25-knot aviation wind socks (which aren't the correct ones to use for chemical spills which require 10-knot wind socks). There are high security NSA-style people turnstiles, and high intensity/security lighting for 24-hour operation. The box car (gas chamber) building fence is marked with special 'RED/BLUE Zone' signs [visible in the photo ]. This corresponds to the 'mission' of the RED/BLUE Lists which surfaced in June and July of 1996.
[NOTE: that is approx. when I became convinced that rumours of similar compounds here in Canada had a basis in fact.- W.A.C.]
"Under martial law, this will become a death camp. They're only going to handle category one and two (RED and BLUE) people there. This box car facility will be used for execution.
"One of the barns is large enough to put four box cars into. There are powered vents on the top of the barn to vent the gas out of the building after the box cars have been fumigated. All of the buildings have newly installed six-inch gas pipes and furnaces installed in all 'railroad barns.'
"Since the photo [snipped] was taken in August 1994, FEMA has allocated $6 million to make the walls and roofs of the buildings 'airtight' (see article below). Under martial law, this facility could be immediately used as an SS-style 'termination' gas chamber.
"On January 27, 1995, The Indianapolis News ran an article titled, 'Amtrak Lays off 212 at Beech Grove: 170 Lose Jobs at Maintenance Center Today.' Why perform $6 million worth of renovations, and then lay off 212 people? Because the people doing the final executions will not be Americans. Thus, the 'slots' of the 212 will be filled with non-Americans.
"They'll hire foreigners for this 'cappo' task. Cappo ('chief' in Italian) was the title of the trustee prisoners who actually killed many Jews for the SS butchers at Dachau, and at other Nazi crematoria across Europe.
"The news article also said, '...hopes the yard may be able to solicit work repairing private train cars, and perhaps subway cars from Washington, DC, or other urban areas.' The repairing of private trains is a dead giveaway to death cars!
"The article went on to say, 'Late last year, Congress ordered Amtrak to spend at least $5.9 million patching holes in the roof and fixing masonry on the walls of the giant machine sheds at Beech Grove.' These buildings have been 'sealed.' They're airtight. The facility is constructed to allow gas to be blown into all the buildings via the newly installed, two-story, hot air heating furnaces."
Next, Mr. Sea elaborated on the two categories the 'RED and BLUE Lists' and what they mean: "The RED List is for pick-up and execution before unobtrusive preparations for martial law are initiated. The BLUE List is also for execution, but at a later date 'within six weeks of martial law declaration. There are no 're-education' plans for either category' just execution.
"When you get picked up on a RED pick-up, they'll take you from your home at night...probably around 4 a.m. and put you in a black van, then drive you to a helicopter waiting to fly you to an intermediate point. There, you'll be loaded onto a big 64-passenger CH-47 Chinook helicopter...all black, unmarked and illegally operating under the Treaty on Open Skies.
"Then they'll fly you to one of 38 cities where you'll board a 747, 737, or 727. "You may be taken straight to a temporary detention facility. When you're RED listed, you'll be taken to a red camp. Then you'll be executed.
"At some point, martial law will be declared. (Martial law is when the writ of Habeas Corpus to have a trial by jury is suspended. Instead, of going to the judge, you go straight to jail for a limited time,) I suspect there will be a major outage, or some other crisis which will be the reason to declare martial law. At this point, the BLUE listed people will be picked up. At that time, the country will be regionalized into ten regions, which are already designated by FEMA.
"Be advised that it has been proven (in Wyoming and at least one other location) that the black choppers have state-of-the-art radio (RF) frequency wideband jammers, and can jam cell phones and CBs while they're executing black operations missions (i.e., in your area). This means that your cell phone could be jammed just before and/or during any action against you.
"In June of 1996, an FBI agent got hold of the Region Three BLUE List (from a CIA agent), and found his own name on it, and those of several others he knew in Virginia. The Regional BLUE List stated that the names on the BLUE List would be picked up 'within six weeks of the actual martial law declaration.'
"This parallels the Nazi RED/BLUE List policy almost to the letter. The parallel Nazi plan was published by Heinz Hohne in his 1966 book, The Story of the Nazi SS: The Order of the Death's Head. (I've read this book and sent it to Jack McLamb.)
"People say, 'It won't work.' But it will work if the 300,000 Soviet troops which are ALREADY HERE can get the guns. The name of the game is to blackball the people to get the guns . . . make the militia look bad, make guns look bad, make everybody give up their guns. Once they get your gun, they've got you, UNLESS you've got the angel of the Lord at your door. If you've got the angel of the Lord out there protecting you, it's another story. "The ones doing all of this are operating out of the highest places in the Federal Government. They're cooperating with 'spirit guides and mediums' and using astrology and numerology. The spirit guides are telling them what to do, and the entire thing is being orchestrated at the highest spiritual levels. Every base has been covered. They've thought of everything.
"If you notice, they often do things on the 13th of the month. Mr. Clinton does a lot of things on the 13th. On September 13, 1993, the brokered Israeli-PLO peace accord was signed. He waited 14 days, until September 13, 1994 to sign the Crime Bill. On June 13, 1995, he stated he'd veto the national debt authorization ceiling. On November 13, he did veto it. On January 13, 1996, he made a speech to Bosnia.
"Amos 3:7 says that God doesn't do anything without first revealing His secrets to His servants the prophets. God is giving His people warnings. There are people who go to prophecy conferences to see when the rapture is going to take place and listen to all the peaceful prophets prophesying good news and glad tidings. But if we'll listen to God, He is warning us of the times that are coming. We need to prepare.
"There will be an interim of probably just days from the time they launch the RED List, to the declaration of martial law when they'll start coming after those on the BLUE List. It'll work the same way it did with the Nazis who had a list of people to pick up, on June 30, 1934, before they declared their 'mobilization.'
"It's the same blueprint being used because it's the same spirit leading the Fourth Reich as led the Third Reich. In Germany, they used trains, here it will be helicopters and 747s.
"When Hitler was villainizing the Jews, he hired thugs and dressed them in black uniforms (our whole country is not going to black uniforms). He was building concentration camps and setting up a transport system. In this country, they're now in the process of villainizing Christians, Patriots, Constitutionalists, and outspoken talk-show hosts, etc.
"Who will be doing the actual picking up? Foreign 'cops' (United Nations Internal Security Forces). Over 30 foreign military bases under the United Nations flag are already set up in the US., all with the approval of special appointees in high Federal positions. These bases are already manned with over ONE MILLION troops from Russia, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Great Britain, Nicaragua, and Asian countries.
"Why are they here? Because unlike our own troops many of which along with the Guard and Reserve of 24 states are being deployed overseas will have no qualms about firing on U.S. citizens when the time comes.
"There are more than 2,000 Russian tanks, military trucks and chemical warfare vehicles just outside Gulfport, Mississippi. They began arriving in January of 1994.
"There are 180 foreign troops at Fort Reilly which was confirmed to me by a Brigadier General. There are 300 who came into the Birmingham, Alabama airport on a big white Russian cargo plane on December 13, 1995.
"As of 1995, there were 10,000 plus foreign troops at Fort Chafee, Arkansas reportedly making preparations for 20,000 'detainees.'
"Also in 1995 at Fort Polk, Louisiana (U.S. Army Post), Russian and Eastern European troops were deployed under the U.N. flag. [When questioned about this, the legislative aide of the congressman who resides over Fort Polk, stated, "Yes, they were there undertaking broad, joint training exercises. And, yes, the U.N. flag was flying. There may still be some there today."]
"At the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, there are many Russian tanks. One of the NCOs told his father that he'd been maintaining them.
"This is going on all over the country. German troops are known to be at Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, and Fort Hood, Texas. Chinese troops are known to be at the Long Beach Naval Station in California.
"There's not going to be some future event when the invading troops are going to show up. They're already here. When martial law is implemented, these foreign U.N. troops will be policing our country, carrying out the plans of the New World Order.
"God is warning His people. There isn't much time before these events begin to take place. God's people need to prepare themselves in every way possible. It's not a time for fear. It's a time for prayer, preparation and sharing our faith with a lost world.
"We must always remember Ephesians 6:12 which states: 'For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.'"
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U.S. Policy
Congress of the United States
March 24, 1997 "Enclosed is the information you requested pertaining to the Army's policy and guidance for establishing civilian inmate labor programs and civilian prison camps on Army installations. This information has not yet been published (it is currently at the printers), however, it has been funded, staffed, and does reflect current Army policy."
-- Bill Hefner
Member of Congress
A U.S map which details the locations of detention centers, MJTF Police Bases and U.N. Combat Groups. The Picture of this map came from, "70th Week Magazine" P.O. Box 771, Gladwater, Tx. 75647. This is a 1994 photo.
This is another U.S. map, that contains the markings, for the different camps.
This shows the North Eastern section of the U.S., and shows a closer look, where U.N. troops are located in North Western Montana, and a few other states as well.
This is a view of the South Eastern U.S. on a map. The map is named, Region 4, 15 August 1994, "Phase III Operation". The legend shows a black star symbol, where Russian troops/Armor are. U.N. symbol, for United Nations (foreign battle groups). The map also has markings for "Ports of Entrys" into the U.S., by sea.
This is a photo copy view, of the Wilcox Correctional Institution. It also has exact details on location, and other information about the camp.
Another view of Wilcox Correctional Institution.
Here is a photo blowup, of the directions of where Wilcox is, as well as other important information of the institution.
There are over 100 primary and secondary concentration camps across the US. Each houses about 20,000 prisoners. Currently the largest of these facilities is the just outside of Fairbanks, Alaska. The Alaskan facility is a gigantic mental health facility and can hold approximately 2 million people. The majority of these facilities have no prisoners but are currently staffed by military personal. The camps all have have railroad facilities, as well as roads, coming and going out of them, to get there. Also quite a few are closed down military bases and are adjacent to airport facilities.
PHOTOS:
FORT DEVENS, MASS.:
This prison has factory facilities and a water reservoir that has been built around the camp. It was constructed in 1999 and the railroad had to lay tracks into the prison from Canada and Boston. Note the extensive use of razor wire with the fences.MASSACHUSETTS
Camp Edwards / Otis AFB - Cape Cod - This "inactive" base is being
converted to hold many New Englander patriots. Capacity unknown. Ft. Devens
- Active detention facility. More data needed.
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/co.general/msg/3ec54e34a6739833CAMP GRAYLING, MICHIGAN:
This facility is also very well-known to patriots but we include these photos here, as all photos are, to show that it is not a conspiracy theory. The detention center has markers pointing to it from the highways in the surrounding area.
Subject: Camp Grayling Range 3 area...
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 23:51:00 +0000
From: John Smith stealth_shadow2005_92@hotmail.com
To: apfn@apfn.orgCamp Grayling Range 3 area...
Webmaster:
The Range 3 area of the Camp Grayling Michigan National Guard military
reservation has long been rumored to be a civilian 'detention' camp
compound, though the documenting photos of this area are quite outdated that gives evidence of its existence. I thought that a fresh look is long overdue.
Since I live somewhat nearby I have undertaken to get some new photos & some fresh insights of this area.
I have recently posted my findings with fresh photos & info on a Geocities
website
http://www.geocities.com/stealth_shadow2005/index.html
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/04-25-05/discussion.cgi.30.html
FORT DIX, N.J.:
This facility is familiar to veteran patriots. The camp at Ft. Dix is larger than before and can hold many thousands more than when these photos were taken!!
Ft. LEONARD WOOD, MISSOURI:
This facility is part of the "Stem Village" Urban Warfare Training Center. This facility has a very small capacity at present, but is certainly capable of major future expansion. Most alarming is that this "urban warfare" center is modeled after a generic small town in the USA!
NASHVILLE, TENN.:
This facility is on state property. Note the high fences with the inward-curving tops and barb wire. This facility can only serve one purpose: to hold people!
Some pre-made prison cells on the back of a truck
Subject: In support of your exposure of concentration camps
Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2001 23:36:23 -0400
From: "Gene" ekvk66@nycap.rr.com
In support of your exposure of concentration camps, I have come across the following links. It would be interesting to know their validity. The last two may explain the reason of the camps are are most frightening if true:
Phil Schneider Lecture - UFOs and Cattle Cars Phil Schneider's warning:
PHIL SCHNEIDER VS - Phil Schneider's warning
Underground Bases: A Lecture by Phil Schnieder: May 1995 - another site of Phil's warning
http://web.archive.org/web/20010805172624/http://www.gemini.org.uk/Twins/ufo/april97/schneider.htm - another site offering Phil's warning
The OMEGA File : ATTENTION: CIVIL WAR IS ABOUT TO BEGIN IN THE UNITED STATES!
http://www.uforanks.com/chapter_nineteen.htm
ThincBiz.com-Clinton's Carnage - a must read
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR - a bit on the edge, but
still shows a pattern
GOA Texas: Political Prisoners in America - a very sad, but authentic ligitimate
looking story -- doesn't offer evidence of black box cars with shackles, but
does offer evidence of deliberate elimination of rightous politicians
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shadowlands/6583/bases004.html -After reading
this, you probably won't want anything to do with the "MARK OF THE BEAST"
chip -- There are a lot of web references to DULCE, but this one makes the
Revelation look like it can be taken literally.
http://www.totse.com/en/fringe/flying_saucers_from_andromeda/omegafl.html --
makes Hitler look pale=====================================================
US Has been preparing to turn America into a military dictatorship
US Has been preparing to turn America into a military dictatorship
http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/Evils%20in%20Government/Police%20State/garden_plot.htm======================================================
White House Briefing Room
February 24, 2000
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
I have just signed a Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) that will improve America’s ability to strengthen police and judicial institutions in countries where peacekeeping forces are deployed. The PDD directs the Departments of State, Defense and Justice to undertake a series of critical enhancements in the areas of police-military coordination, as well as in police, penal and judicial training and development.
In peacekeeping missions from the Balkans to East Timor, establishing basic law and order has been among the most important - and formidable - challenges. Developing effective local police forces, establishing credible court and penal systems, and reforming legal codes can make the crucial difference between building a just future and lapsing back into conflict.
When fully implemented, this PDD will help overcome major obstacles that currently confront international peacekeeping operations. By enhancing cooperation between police and military peacekeepers, we will better ensure public security during these operations. By more effectively training and fielding international police monitors, we will better ensure that local police fairly and effectively prevent the breakdown of law and order in post-conflict societies. And by improving our ability to provide assistance to local judicial and penal institutions, we will better ensure accountability, as well as confidence among local populations often traumatized by the conflicts they have endured.
We must do everything possible to improve our ability to help countries in transition to get the job done - and to encourage other governments and the United Nations to be deeply engaged in these efforts.
http://www.newswatchmagazine.org/UNpolice/index.shtml========================================================
Federal Detention Center in
Honolulu Hawaii, next to Honolulu
Airport and Hickum Air Base.
Completed May 2001 with 670 beds.Special Housing Unit for
high-risk inmates Hawaii
A Tour of the Facility
Federal Detention Centers
by Sterling D. Allan, Manti, Utah
December 17, 1999
I was with a friend last night who related to me and several others a great deal of information about the state of the pending police state in this country. I plan to relay in a future post additional revelations he made. He is a very careful researcher, seeking original source information. The following is conveyed from his first-hand experience.
He showed us several photographs which he took of a "Federal Detention Center" in Seattle. He said he would allow me to publish the photos on my web site when he can get some time to make copies of them and send them to me next month. They will be published to the same URL mentioned above.
The building looks like a cross between a prison and a hospital. It is huge -- about the height of the Federal Murrah Building but twice the depth -- square rather than rectangular with a gray concrete facade punctuated with small, vertical slit windows. The lower two or three stories are decorated with red brick. The marquee out in front of the building reads "Federal Detention Center" with a UN insignia above it and address number 2425 below it, which piqued my interest, inasmuch as word number 2424 in the New Testament lexicon is the word "Iesous" (Jesus). Words of opposite meaning are very often found next to each other in alphabetic sequence.
When he was in Seattle recently, my friend drove with a friend of his to this "Federal Detention Center." They parked in a spot marked for "visitors," went into the reception area and asked when tours were held. After being told of some time slots, they then proceeded outside and started taking pictures of the facility.
As they were doing so, a burly security guard-looking guy came up to them and said that he was taking them into custody for (I can't remember what he said the charge was, but it was something like trespassing on Federal property).
My friend replied that they were waiting for a tour to begin and noted that they were on a public sidewalk.
This did not seem to impress the officer. He said that there are no tours, and that he was superior in rank to the person at the desk where they had received that information.
After taking them inside for a lengthy interrogation, which made my friend's companion tremble for fear, they were finally released.
When my friend told a physician acquaintance of his about the incident, the physician, who is extremely rich and well known in the community, replied, "I will get you a tour."
And that he did. He and the chief of police, and a representative of the media, and my friend were given a tour of the entire facility, minus the medical area -- which was an interesting omission inasmuch as the personnel at the facility had promised an exhaustive tour.
My friend said that every one of the detention center personnel he saw was black and very large in stature.
The Law library, which every prison is required to have, was present, but the shelves were bare of any books. Outside the Medical area was a long line of waiting inmates. They were also shown the internment labor facility and were told that the inmates were kept busy there for eight hours a day.
Though they had some inmates, the center was largely vacant considering its occupancy capacity of several thousand.
Outside the facility were parked five or six unmarked busses and several white semi trailers. Upon looking closer, my friend could see that behind the dark tinted windows of the bus were bars. He showed us photos of two of the buses. They were like brand new Greyhound Busses, minus any writing on the thick white line background running the length of the bus with a thin red line above it.
When they asked what a "Federal Detention Center" was for and how it differed from a State or Federal Prison, they were told that these centers were built under the direction of President Clinton for those who committed federal crimes which fit into three basic categories:
(1) Gun Violations
(2) Crimes crossing state borders
(3) Crimes committed on Indian Reservations
Apparently there are eight such structures in the U.S. My friend showed us a photo of another Detention Center under construction in Oklahoma.
Each one of these are located at the ends of runways of the major airports of the cities in which they are located, where inmates could be loaded and unloaded aboard large transport aircraft. My friend called them "Transfer Centers," guessing that they were designed for the future movement of dissident citizens from one concentration camp to another after Martial law has been imposed and confiscation of guns enforced.
Any questions about the details of this information may be confirmed in person by going to Seattle, or may be conveyed through me to my friend.
sterlingda@greaterthings.com
http://www.greaterthings.com/News/Martial_Law/fed_detention.htm======================================================================
Concentration Camps Websites {2-10-02}
TAMHA archives -- March 2002 (#7)======================================================================
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMPS: Locations and Executive Orders
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1062
Tennessee IndyMedia: Fema Concentration Camps Ready
http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2047
AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH OF OVEN SITE
The place is located in Ohio, NNW of Zanesville.
Of course, this is in no way definitive of much, except that, I did see the tape at one point, and it matches the site -- with "ovens" built into the hillside.
FROM THE AIR
The place is located in Ohio, NNW of Zanesville.
http://www.angelfire.com/music2/fullcircle/oven.html
Manzanar War Relocation Center - Owens Valley, California
Manzanar - America's Concentration Camp=======================================================
Georgia: Bill to replace electric chair with guillotine Georgia lawmaker Doug Teper (Democrat) has proposed a bill to replace the state's electric chair with the guillotine. Teper's reasoning? It would allow for death-row inmates as organ donors, he says, since the "Blade makes a clean cut and leaves vital organs intact."In 1995, a move to replace the electric chair with lethal injection (poisoning) failed in Georgia's assembly because legislators feared that prisoners could argue for a new sentencing hearing if the state changed the law.
The Guillotine, invented by the French Dr. Guillotine, was mainly used in the 18th and 19th century and chops off a person's head. It hasn't been used for decades in any country on this planet.
[March 5, 1996; based upon news report]
Watcher comments: There is a group of lawmakers out there who think chopping people's heads off is a good idea. Criminals are a good first step in acclimating the public to the spectacle of death by beheading. The practical application of "organ donation" is a good excuse to implement guillotine production. By the time the antichrist takes control, there should be some very skilled guillotine craftsman out there, and the infrastructure for transporting such apparatus will be fully in place. Isn't that convenient?
Read the Chilling Proposition from Teper et.
HB 1274 - Death penalty; guillotine provisions
SECTION 1.1- 8 The General Assembly finds that while prisoners condemned to
1- 9 death may wish to donate one or more of their organs for
1-10 transplant, any such desire is thwarted by the fact that
1-11 electrocution makes all such organs unsuitable for
1-12 transplant. The intent of the General Assembly in enacting
1-13 this legislation is to provide for a method of execution
1-14 which is compatible with the donation of organs by a
1-15 condemned prisoner.SECTION 2.
1-16 Article 2 of Chapter 10 of Title 17 of the Official Code of
1-17 Georgia Annotated, relating to the death penalty generally,
1-18 is amended by striking in its entirety Code Section
1-19 17-10-38, relating to death sentences generally, and
1-20 inserting in lieu thereof the following:1-21 "17-10-38. (Index)
1-22 (a) All persons who have been convicted of a capital
1-23 offense and have had imposed upon them a sentence of death
1-24 shall, at the election of the condemned, suffer such
1-25 punishment either by electrocution or by guillotine. If
1-26 the condemned fails to make an election by the thirtieth
1-27 day preceding the date scheduled for execution, punishment
1-28 shall be by electrocution.1-29 (b) In all cases in which the defendant is sentenced to be
1-30 electrocuted executed, it shall be the duty of the trial
1-31 judge in passing sentence to direct that the defendant be
-1- (Index)
LC 21 3643
2- 1 delivered to the Department of Corrections for
2- 2 electrocution execution at a state correctional
2- 3 institution designated by the department."SECTION 3.
2- 4 Said article is further amended by striking in its entirety
2- 5 Code Section 17-10-44, relating to death chamber apparatus
2- 6 and related matters, and inserting in lieu thereof the
2- 7 following:2- 8 "17-10-44. (Index)
2- 9 The Department of Corrections shall provide a death
2-10 chamber and all necessary apparatus, machinery, and
2-11 appliances for inflicting the penalty of death by
2-12 electrocution or by guillotine."
http://web.archive.org/web/20020213222816/http://hardtruth.topcities.com/georgia_bill_guillotine.htmGeorgia House of Representatives - 1995/1996 Sessions
HB 1274 - Death penalty; guillotine provisions
HB 1274 - Death penalty; guillotine provisions=======================================================
There is another element to all this. The Airports being built. One particularly in Denver, the Denver International Airport. Here there are murals of NAZI stormtroopers on the walls. Writings from children in the holocaust, and there is a Masonic Symbol of the Interlocked Compass and it says New World Airport Commision. THIS IS AMAZING!! SEE THIS FOR YOURSELF!!
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John Ashcroft's Skeleton Closet
Click on the allegation of your choice:
This self-righteous former Missouri governor considers himself a moral crusader, but he has more than his share of petty corruption scandals from his past as Missouri governor:
- Declared "economic emergency" to push through an 18-mile, $140 million freeway right to a major contributor's property
- Used state employees for his re-election campaign
- Received (and didn't report) a favorable deal on a boat from a contributor who got $1 million in Missouri state contracts
- His attorney general went to prison for converting state property to his own.
Editor's note: we never finished the Ashcroft page because he dropped out so quickly. But here are a couple of sources:
- a web site that is obviously anti-Ashcroft but seems to have a lot of original documents and articles on line. Lot's on the freeway issue.
Ashcroft's Freeway Scandal
- a story in the very liberal though reasonably factual magazine Mother Jones
Mother Jones Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1998Mother Jones Magazine, Nov.-Dec. 1998
http://www.motherjones.com/commentary/power_plays/1998/11/saletan.html
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LOCATIONS
FEMA CONCENTRATION CAMP LOCATIONS
Where are these camps?
ALABAMA
Opelika - Military compound either in or very near town.
Aliceville - WWII German POW camp - capacity 15,000
Ft. McClellan (Anniston) - Opposite side of town from Army Depot;
Maxwell AFB (Montgomery) - Civilian prison camp established under
Operation Garden Plot, currently operating with support staff and small inmate population.
Talladega - Federal prison "satellite" camp.
ALASKA
Wilderness - East of Anchorage. No roads, Air & Railroad access only. Estimated capacity of 500,000
Elmendorf AFB - Northeast area of Anchorage - far end of base. Garden
Plot facility.
Eielson AFB - Southeast of Fairbanks. Operation Garden Plot facility.
Ft. Wainwright - East of Fairbanks
ARIZONA
Ft. Huachuca - 20 miles from Mexican border, 30 miles from Nogales Rex '84 facility.
Pinal County - on the Gila River - WWII Japanese detention camp. May be renovated.
Yuma County - Colorado River - Site of former Japanese detention camp (near proving grounds). This site was completely removed in 1990 according to some reports.
Phoenix - Federal Prison Satellite Camp. Main federal facility expanded.
Florence - WWII prison camp NOW RENOVATED, OPERATIONAL with
staff & 400 prisoners, operational capacity of 3,500.
Wickenburg - Airport is ready for conversion; total capacity unknown.
Davis-Monthan AFB (Tucson) - Fully staffed and presently holding
prisoners!!
Sedona - site of possible UN base.
ARKANSAS
Ft. Chaffee (near Fort Smith, Arkansas) - Has new runway for aircraft, new camp facility with cap of 40,000 prisoners
Pine Bluff Arsenal - This location also is the repository for B-Z nerve agent, which causes sleepiness, dizziness, stupor; admitted use is for civilian control.
Jerome - Chicot/Drew Counties - site of WWII Japanese camps
Rohwer - Descha County - site of WWII Japanese camps
Blythville AFB - Closed airbase now being used as camp. New wooden barracks have been constructed at this location. Classic decorations - guard towers, barbed wire, high fences.
Berryville - FEMA facility located east of Eureka Springs off Hwy. 62.
Omaha - Northeast of Berryville near Missouri state line, on Hwy 65 south of old wood processing plant. Possible crematory facility.
CALIFORNIA
Vandenburg AFB - Rex 84 facility, located near Lompoc & Santa Maria. Internment facility is located near the oceanside, close to Space Launch Complex #6, also called "Slick Six". The launch site has had "a flawless failure record" and is rarely used.
Norton AFB - (closed base) now staffed with UN according to some sources.
Tule Lake - area of "wildlife refuge", accessible by unpaved road, just inside Modoc County.
Fort Ord - Closed in 1994, this facility is now an urban warfare training center for US and foreign troops, and may have some "P.O.W. - C.I." enclosures.
Twentynine Palms Marine Base - Birthplace of the infamous "Would you shoot American citizens?" Quiz. New camps being built on "back 40".
Oakdale - Rex 84 camp capable of holding at least 20,000 people. 90 mi. East of San Francisco.
Terminal Island - (Long Beach) located next to naval shipyards operated by ChiCom shipping interests. Federal prison facility located here. Possible deportation point.
Ft. Irwin - FEMA facility near Barstow. Base is designated inactive but has staffed camp.
McClellan AFB - facility capable for 30,000 - 35,000
Sacramento - Army Depot - No specific information at this time.
Mather AFB - Road to facility is blocked off by cement barriers and a stop sign. Sign states area is restricted; as of 1997 there were barbed wire fences pointing inward, a row of stadium lights pointed toward an empty field, etc. Black boxes on poles may have been cameras.
COLORADO
Trinidad - WWII German/Italian camp being renovated.
Granada - Prowers County - WWII Japanese internment camp
Ft. Carson - Along route 115 near Canon City
CONNECTICUT, DELAWARE
No data available.
FLORIDA
Avon Park - Air Force gunnery range, Avon Park has an on-base "correctional facility" which was a former WWII detention camp.
Camp Krome - DoJ detention/interrogation center, Rex 84 facility
Eglin AFB - This base is over 30 miles long, from Pensacola to Hwy 331 in De Funiak Springs. High capacity facility, presently manned and populated with some prisoners.
Pensacola - Federal Prison Camp
Everglades - It is believed that a facility may be carved out of the wilds here.
GEORGIA
Ft. Benning - Located east of Columbus near Alabama state line. Rex 84 site - Prisoners brought in via Lawson Army airfield.
Ft. Mc Pherson - US Force Command - Multiple reports that this will be the national headquarters and coordinating center for foreign/UN troop movement and detainee collection.
Ft. Gordon - West of Augusta - No information at this time.
Unadilla - Dooly County - Manned, staffed FEMA prison on route 230, no prisoners.
Oglethorpe - Macon County; facility is located five miles from Montezuma, three miles from Oglethorpe. This FEMA prison has no staff and no prisoners.
Morgan - Calhoun County, FEMA facility is fully manned & staffed - no prisoners.
Camilla - Mitchell County, south of Albany. This FEMA facility is located on Mt. Zion Rd approximately 5.7 miles south of Camilla. Unmanned - no prisoners, no staff.
Hawkinsville - Wilcox County; Five miles east of town, fully manned and staffed but no prisoners. Located on fire road 100/Upper River Road
Abbeville - South of Hawkinsville on US route 129; south of town off route 280 near Ocmulgee River. FEMA facility is staffed but without prisoners.
McRae - Telfair County - 1.5 miles west of McRae on Hwy 134 (8th St). Facility is on Irwinton Avenue off 8th St., manned & staffed - no prisoners.
Fort Gillem - South side of Atlanta - FEMA designated detention facility.
Fort Stewart - Savannah area - FEMA designated detention facility
HAWAII
Halawa Heights area - Crematory facility located in hills above city. Area is marked as a state department of health laboratory.
Barbers Point NAS - There are several military areas that could be equipped for detention / deportation.
Honolulu - Detention transfer facility at the Honolulu airport similar in construction to the one in.Oklahoma (pentagon-shaped building where airplanes can taxi up to).
IDAHO
Minidoka/Jerome Counties - WWII Japanese-American internment facility possibly under renovation.
Clearwater National Forest - Near Lolo Pass - Just miles from the Montana state line near Moose Creek, this unmanned facility is reported to have a nearby airfield.
Wilderness areas - Possible location. No data.
ILLINOIS
Marseilles - Located on the Illinois River off Interstate 80 on Hwy 6. It is a relatively small facility with a cap of 1400 prisoners. Though it is small it is designed like prison facilities with barred windows, but the real smoking gun is the presence of military vehicles. Being located on the Illinois River it is possible that prisoners will be brought in by water as well as by road and air. This facility is approximately 75 miles west of Chicago. National Guard training area nearby.
Scott AFB - Barbed wire prisoner enclosure reported to exist just off-base. More info needed, as another facility on-base is beieved to exist.
Pekin - This Federal satellite prison camp is also on the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. It supplements the federal penitentiary in Marion, which is equipped to handle additional population outside on the grounds.
Chanute AFB - Rantoul, near Champaign/Urbana - This closed base had WWII - era barracks that were condemned and torn down, but the medical facility was upgraded and additional fencing put up in the area. More info needed.
Marion - Federal Penitentiary and satellite prison camp inside Crab Orchard Nat'l Wildlife Refuge. Manned, staffed, populated fully.
Greenfield - Two federal correctional "satellite prison camps" serving Marion - populated as above.
Shawnee National Forest - Pope County - This area has seen heavy traffic of foreign military equipment and troops via Illinois Central Railroad, which runs through the area. Suspected location is unknown, but may be close to Vienna and Shawnee correctional centers, located 6 mi. west of Dixon Springs.
Savanna Army Depot - NW area of state on Mississippi River.
Lincoln, Sheridan, Menard, Pontiac, Galesburg - State prison facilities equipped for major expansion and close or adjacent to highways & railroad tracks.
Kankakee - Abandoned industrial area on west side of town (Rt.17 & Main) designated as FEMA detention site. Equipped with water tower, incinerator, a small train yard behind it and the rear of the facility is surrounded by barbed wire facing inwards.
INDIANA
Indianapolis / Marion County - Amtrak railcar repair facility (closed); controversial site of a major alleged detention / processing center. Although some sources state that this site is a "red herring", photographic and video evidence suggests otherwise. This large facility contains large 3-4 inch gas mains to large furnaces (crematoria??), helicopter landing pads, railheads for prisoners, Red/Blue/Green zones for classifying/processing incoming personnel, one-way turnstiles, barracks, towers, high fences with razor wire, etc. Personnel with government clearance who are friendly to the patriot movement took a guided tour of the facility to confirm this site. This site is located next to a closed refrigeration plant facility.
Ft. Benjamin Harrison - Located in the northeast part of Indianapolis, this base has been decomissioned from "active" use but portions are still ideally converted to hold detainees. Helicopter landing areas still exist for prisoners to be brought in by air, land & rail.
Crown Point - Across street from county jail, former hospital. One wing presently being used for county work-release program, 80% of facility still unused. Possible FEMA detention center or holding facility.
Camp Atterbury - Facility is converted to hold prisoners and boasts two active compounds presently configured for minumum security detainees. Located just west of Interstate 65 near Edinburgh, south of Indianapolis.
Terre Haute - Federal Correctional Institution, Satellite prison camp and death facility. Equipped with crematoria reported to have a capacity of 3,000 people a day. FEMA designated facility located here.
Fort Wayne - This city located in Northeast Indiana has a FEMA designated detention facility, accessible by air, road and nearby rail.
Kingsbury - This "closed" military base is adjacent to a state fish & wildlife preserve. Part of the base is converted to an industrial park, but the southern portion of this property is still used. It is bordered on the south by railroad, and is staffed with some foreign-speaking UN troops. A local police officer who was hunting and camping close to the base in the game preserve was accosted, roughed up, and warned by the English-speaking unit commander to stay away from the area. It was suggested to the officer that the welfare of his family would depend on his "silence". Located just southeast of LaPorte.
Jasper-Pulaski Wildlife Area - Youth Corrections farm located here. Facility is "closed", but is still staffed and being "renovated". Total capacity unknown.
Grissom AFB - This closed airbase still handles a lot of traffic, and has a "state-owned" prison compound on the southern part of the facility.
UNICOR.
Jefferson Proving Grounds - Southern Indiana - This facility was an active base with test firing occuring daily. Portions of the base have been opened to create an industrial park, but other areas are still highly restricted. A camp is believed to be located "downrange". Facility is equipped with an airfield and has a nearby rail line.
Newport - Army Depot - VX nerve gas storage facility. Secret meetings were held here in 1998 regarding the addition of the Kankakee River watershed to the Heritage Rivers Initiative.
Hammond - large enclosure identified in FEMA-designated city.
IOWA
No data available.
KANSAS
Leavenworth - US Marshal's Fed Holding Facility, US Penitentiary, Federal Prison Camp, McConnell Air Force Base. Federal death penalty facility.
Concordia - WWII German POW camp used to exist at this location but there is no facility there at this time.
Ft. Riley - Just north of Interstate 70, airport, near city of Manhattan.
El Dorado - Federal prison converted into forced-labor camp, UNICOR industries.
Topeka - 80 acres has been converted into a temporary holding camp.
KENTUCKY
Ashland - Federal prison camp in Eastern Kentucky near the Ohio River.
Louisville - FEMA detention facility, located near restricted area US naval ordnance plant. Military airfield located at facility, which is on south side of city.
Lexington - FEMA detention facility, National Guard base with adjacent airport facility.
Manchester - Federal prison camp located inside Dan Boone National Forest.
Ft. Knox - Detention center, possibly located near Salt River, in restricted area of base. Local patriots advise that black Special Forces & UN gray helicopters are occasionally seen in area.
Land Between the Lakes - This area was declared a UN biosphere and is an ideal geographic location for detention facilities. Area is an isthmus extending out from Tennessee, between Lake Barkley on the east and Kentucky Lake on the west. Just scant miles from Fort Campbell in Tennessee.
LOUISIANA
Ft. Polk - This is a main base for UN troops & personnel, and a training center for the disarmament of America.
Livingston - WWII German/Italian internment camp being renovated?; halfway between Baton Rouge and Hammond, several miles north of Interstate 12.
Oakdale - Located on US route 165 about 50 miles south of Alexandria; two federal detention centers just southeast of Fort Polk.
MAINE
Houlton - WWII German internment camp in Northern Maine, off US Route 1.
MARYLAND, and DC
Ft. Meade - Halfway between the District of Criminals and Baltimore. Data needed.
Ft. Detrick - Biological warfare center for the NWO, located in Frederick.
MASSACHUSETTS
Camp Edwards / Otis AFB - Cape Cod - This "inactive" base is being converted to hold many New Englander patriots. Capacity unknown.
Ft. Devens - Active detention facility. More data needed.
MICHIGAN
Camp Grayling - Michigan Nat'l Guard base has several confirmed detention camps, classic setup with high fences, razor wire, etc. Guard towers are very well-built, sturdy. Multiple compounds within larger enclosures. Facility deep within forest area.
Sawyer AFB - Upper Peninsula - south of Marquette - No data available.
Bay City - Classic enclosure with guard towers, high fence, and close to shipping port on Saginaw Bay, which connects to Lake Huron. Could be a deportation point to overseas via St. Lawrence Seaway.
Southwest - possibly Berrien County - FEMA detention center.
Lansing - FEMA detention facility.
MINNESOTA
Duluth - Federal prison camp facility.
Camp Ripley - new prison facility.
MISSISSIPPI
These sites are confirmed hoaxes.
Hancock County - NASA test site
De Soto National Forest.
"These two supposed camps in Mississippi do not exist. Members of the
Mississippi Militia have checked these out on more than one occasion beginning back when they first appeared on the Internet and throughout the Patriot Movement." - Commander D. Rayner, Mississippi Militia
MISSOURI
Richards-Gebaur AFB - located in Grandview, near K.C.MO. A very large internment facility has been built on this base, and all base personnel are restricted from coming near it.
Ft. Leonard Wood - Situated in the middle of Mark Twain National Forest in Pulaski County. This site has been known for some UN training, also home to the US Army Urban Warfare Training school "Stem Village".
Warsaw - Unconfirmed report of a large concentration camp facility.
MONTANA
Malmstrom AFB - UN aircraft groups stationed here, and possibly a detention facility.
NEBRASKA
Scottsbluff - WWII German POW camp (renovated?).
Northwest, Northeast corners of state - FEMA detention facilities - more data needed.
South Central part of state - Many old WWII sites - some may be renovated.
NEVADA
Elko - Ten miles south of town.
Wells - Camp is located in the O'Niel basin area, 40 miles north of Wells, past Thousand Springs, west off Hwy 93 for 25 miles.
Pershing County - Camp is located at I-80 mile marker 112, south side of the highway, about a mile back on the county road and then just off the road about 3/4mi.
Winnemucca - Battle Mountain area - at the base of the mountains.
Nellis Air Force Range - Northwest from Las Vegas on Route 95. Nellis AFB is just north of Las Vegas on Hwy 604.
Stillwater Naval Air Station - east of Reno . No additional data.
NEW HAMPSHIRE / VERMONT
Northern New Hampshire - near Lake Francis. No additional data.
NEW JERSEY
Ft. Dix / McGuire AFB - Possible deportation point for detainees. Lots of pictures taken of detention compounds and posted on Internet, this camp is well-known. Facility is now complete and ready for occupancy.
NEW MEXICO
Ft. Bliss - This base actually straddles Texas state line. Just south of Alomogordo, Ft. Bliss has thousands of acres for people who refuse to go with the "New Order".
Holloman AFB (Alomogordo)- Home of the German Luftwaffe in Amerika; major UN base. New facility being built on this base, according to recent visitors. Many former USAF buildings have been torn down by the busy and rapidly growing German military force located here.
Fort Stanton - currently being used as a youth detention facility approximately 35 miles north of Ruidoso, New Mexico. Not a great deal of information concerning the Lordsburg location.
White Sands Missile Range - Currently being used as a storage facility for United Nations vehicles and equipment. Observers have seen this material brought in on the Whitesands rail spur in Oro Grande New Mexico about thirty miles from the Texas, New Mexico Border.
NEW YORK
Ft. Drum - two compounds: Rex 84 detention camp and FEMA detention facility.
Albany - FEMA detention facility.
Otisville - Federal correctional facility, near Middletown.
Buffalo - FEMA detention facility.
NORTH CAROLINA
Camp Lejeune / New River Marine Airfield - facility has renovated, occupied WWII detention compounds and "mock city" that closely resembles Anytown, USA.
Fort Bragg - Special Warfare Training Center. Renovated WWII detention facility.
Andrews - Federal experiment in putting a small town under siege. Began with the search/ hunt for survivalist Eric Rudolph. No persons were allowed in or out of town without federal permission and travel through town was highly restricted. Most residents compelled to stay in their homes. Unregistered Baptist pastor from Indiana visiting Andrews affirmed these facts.
NORTH DAKOTA
Minot AFB - Home of UN air group. More data needed on facility.
OHIO
Camp Perry - Site renovated; once used as a POW camp to house German and Italian prisoners of WWII. Some tar paper covered huts built for housing these prisoners are still standing. Recently, the construction of multiple 200-man barracks have replaced most of the huts.
Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus - FEMA detention facilities. Data needed.
Lima - FEMA detention facility. Another facility located in/near old stone quarry near Interstate 75. Railroad access to property, fences etc.
OKLAHOMA
Tinker AFB (OKC) - All base personnel are prohibited from going near civilian detention area, which is under constant guard.
Will Rogers World Airport - FEMA's main processing center for west of the Mississippi. All personnel are kept out of the security zone. Federal prisoner transfer center located here (A pentagon-shaped building where airplanes can taxi up to). Photos have been taken and this site will try to post soon!
El Reno - Renovated federal internment facility with CURRENT population of 12,000 on Route 66.
McAlester - near Army Munitions Plant property - former WWII German / Italian POW camp designated for future use.
Ft. Sill (Lawton) - Former WWII detention camps. More data still needed.
OREGON
Sheridan - Federal prison satellite camp northwest of Salem.
Josephine County - WWII Japanese internment camp ready for renovation.
Sheridan - FEMA detention center.
Umatilla - New prison spotted.
PENNSYLVANIA
Allenwood - Federal prison camp located south of Williamsport on the Susquehanna River. It has a current inmate population of 300, and is identified by William Pabst as having a capacity in excess of 15,000 on 400 acres.
Indiantown Gap Military Reservation - located north of Harrisburg. Used for WWII POW camp and renovated by Jimmy Carter. Was used to hold Cubans during Mariel boat lift.
Camp Hill - State prison close to Army depot. Lots of room, located in Camp Hill, Pa.
New Cumberland Army Depot - on the Susquehanna River, located off Interstate 83 and Interstate 76.
Schuylkill Haven - Federal prison camp, north of Reading.
SOUTH CAROLINA
Greenville - Unoccupied youth prison camp; total capacity unknown.
Charleston - Naval Reserve & Air Force base, restricted area on naval base.
SOUTH DAKOTA
Yankton - Federal prison camp
Black Hills Nat'l Forest - north of Edgemont, southwest part of state. WWII internment camp being renovated.
TENNESSEE
Ft. Campbell - Next to Land Between the Lakes; adjacent to airfield and US Alt. 41.
Millington - Federal prison camp next door to Memphis Naval Air Station.
Crossville - Site of WWII German / Italian prison camp is renovated; completed barracks and behind the camp in the woods is a training facility with high tight ropes and a rappelling deck.
Nashville - There are two buildings built on State property that are definitely built to hold prisoners. They are identical buildings - side by side on Old Briley Parkway. High barbed wire fence that curves inward.
TEXAS
Austin - Robert Mueller Municipal airport has detenion areas inside hangars.
Bastrop - Prison and military vehicle motor pool.
Eden - 1500 bed privately run federal center. Currently holds illegal aliens.
Ft. Hood (Killeen) - Newly built concentration camp, with towers, barbed wire etc., just like the one featured in the movie Amerika. Mock city for NWO shock- force training. Some footage of this area was used in "Waco: A New Revelation"
Reese AFB (Lubbock) - FEMA designated detention facility.
Sheppard AFB - in Wichita Falls just south of Ft. Sill, OK. FEMA designated detention facility.
North Dallas - near Carrolton - water treatment plant, close to interstate and railroad.
Mexia - East of Waco 33mi.; WWII German facility may be renovated.
Amarillo - FEMA designated detention facility
Ft. Bliss (El Paso) - Extensive renovation of buildings and from what patriots have been able to see, many of these buildings that are being renovated are being surrounded by razor wire.
Beaumont / Port Arthur area - hundreds of acres of federal camps already built on large-scale detention camp design, complete with the double rows of chain link fencing with razor type concertina wire on top of each row. Some (but not all) of these facilities are currently being used for low-risk state prisoners who require a minimum of supervision.
Ft. Worth - Federal prison under construction on the site of Carswell AFB.
UTAH
Millard County - Central Utah - WWII Japanese camp. (Renovated?)
Ft. Douglas - This "inactive" military reservation has a renovated WWII concentration camp.
Migratory Bird Refuge - West of Brigham City - contains a WWII internment camp that was built before the game preserve was established.
Cedar City - east of city - no data available.
Wendover - WWII internment camp may be renovated.
Skull Valley - southwestern Camp William property - east of the old bombing range. Camp was accidentally discovered by a man and his son who were rabbit hunting; they were discovered and apprehended. SW of Tooele.
VIRGINIA
Ft. A.P. Hill (Fredericksburg) - Rex 84 / FEMA facility. Estimated capacity 45,000.
Petersburg - Federal satellite prison camp, south of Richmond.
WEST VIRGINIA
Beckley - Alderson - Lewisburg - Former WWII detention camps that are now converted into active federal prison complexes capable of holding several times their current populations. Alderson is presently a women's federal reformatory.
Morgantown - Federal prison camp located in northern WV; just north of Kingwood.
Mill Creek - FEMA detention facility.
Kingwood - Newly built detention camp at Camp Dawson Army Reservation. More data needed on Camp Dawson.
WASHINGTON
Seattle/Tacoma - SeaTac Airport: fully operational federal transfer center
Okanogan County - Borders Canada and is a site for a massive concentration camp capable of holding hundreds of thousands of people for slave labor. This is probably one of the locations that will be used to hold hard core patriots who will be held captive for the rest of their lives.
Sand Point Naval Station - Seattle - FEMA detention center used actively during the 1999 WTO protests to classify prisoners.
Ft. Lewis / McChord AFB - near Tacoma - This is one of several sites that may be used to ship prisoners overseas for slave labor.
WISCONSIN
Ft. McCoy - Rex 84 facility with several complete interment compounds.
Oxford - Central part of state - Federal prison & staellite camp and FEMA detention facility.
WYOMING
Heart Mountain - Park County N. of Cody - WWII Japanese interment camp ready for renovation.
Laramie - FEMA detention facility
Southwest - near Lyman - FEMA detention facility
East Yellowstone - Manned internment facility - Investigating patriots were apprehended by European soldiers speaking in an unknown language. Federal government assumed custody of the persons and arranged their release.
OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE UNITED STATES
There are many other locations not listed above that are worthy of consideration as a possible detention camp site, but due to space limitations and the time needed to verify, could not be included here. Virtually all military reservations, posts, bases, stations, & depots can be considered highly suspect (because it is "federal" land). Also fitting this category are "Regional Airports" and "International Airports" which also fall under federal jurisdiction and have limited-access areas. Mental hospitals, closed hospitals & nursing homes, closed military bases, wildlife refuges, state prisons, toxic waste dumps, hotels and other areas all have varying degrees of potential for being a detention camp area. The likelihood of a site being suspect increases with transportation access to the site, including airports/airstrips, railheads, navigable waterways & ports, interstate and US highways. Some facilities are "disguised" as industrial or commercial properties, camouflaged or even wholly contained inside large buildings (Indianapolis) or factories. Many inner-city buildings left vacant during the de-industrialization of America have been quietly acquired and held, sometimes retrofitted for their new uses.
CANADA
Our Canadian friends tell us that virtually all Canadian military bases, especially those north of the 50th Parallel, are all set up with concentration camps. Not even half of these can be listed, but here are a few sites with the massive land space to handle any population:
Suffield CFB - just north of Medicine Hat, less than 60 miles from the USA.
Primrose Lake Air Range - 70 miles northeast of Edmonton.
Wainwright CFB - halfway between Medicine Hat and Primrose Lake.
Ft. Nelson - Northernmost point on the BC Railway line.
Ft. McPherson - Very cold territory ~ NW Territories.
Ft. Providence - Located on Great Slave Lake.
Halifax - Nova Scotia. Dept. of National Defense reserve.... And others.
OVERSEAS LOCATIONS
Guayanabo, Puerto Rico - Federal prison camp facility. Capacity unknown.
Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - US Marine Corps Base - Presently home to 30,000 Mariel Cubans and 40,000 Albanians. Total capacity unknown.
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FEMA
SECRET CONCENTRATION CAMPS
The September issue of THE OSTRICH reprinted a story from the
CBA BULLETIN which listed the following principal civilian concentra-
tion camps established in GULAG USA under the =Rex '84= program:
Ft. Chaffee, Arkansas; Ft. Drum, New York; Ft. Indian Gap, Penn-
sylvania; Camp A. P. Hill, Virginia; Oakdale, California; Eglin
Air Force Base, Florida; Vendenberg AFB, California; Ft. Mc Coy,
Wisconsin; Ft. Benning, Georgia; Ft. Huachuca, Arizona; Camp
More [Y]es,N)o,C)ont,A)bort,J)ump!
Krome, Florida. The February OSTRICH printed a map of the expanding
Gulag. Alhough this listing and map stirred considerable interest,
the report was not new. For at least 20 years, knowledgeable Patriots
have been warning of these sinister plots to incarcerate dissidents
opposing plans of the =Elitist Syndicate= for a totalitarian
=New World Order=. Indeed, the plot was recognized with the insidious
encroachment of "regionalism" back in the 1960's. As early as 1968,
the "greatest land steal in history" leading to global corporate
socialism, was in a ="Master Land Plan"= for the United States
by =Executive Orders= involving water resource regions,
population movement and control, pollution control, zoning
and land use, navigation and environmental bills, etc. Indeed,
the real undercover aim of the so-called "Environmental Rennaissance"
has been the abolition of private property.
All prelude to the total grab of the =World Conservation Bank=,
as THE OSTRICH has been reporting. The map on this page and
the list of executive orders available for imposition of an "emergency"
are from 1970s files of the late Gen. =P. A. Del Valle's= ALERT,
sent us by =Merritt Newby=, editor of the now defunct AMERICAN
CHALLENGE.
=Wake up Americans!= The Bushoviks have approved =Gorbachev's=
imposition of "Emergency" to suppress unrest. =Henry Kissinger=
More [Y]es,N)o,C)ont,A)bort,J)ump! c
and his clients hardly missed a day's profits in their deals with
the butchers of Tiananmen Sqaure. Are you next?
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SUBJECT: Executive Orders
APPLICABLE EXECUTIVE ORDERS
The following =Executive Orders=, now recorded in the Federal
Register, and therefore accepted by Congress as the law of the
land, can be put into effect at any time an emergency is declared:
10995--All communications media seized by the Federal Government.
10997--Seizure of all electrical power, fuels, including
gasoline and minerals.
10998--Seizure of all food resources, farms and farm equipment.
10999--Seizure of all kinds of transportation, including your
personal car, and control of all highways and seaports.
11000--Seizure of all civilians for work under Federal supervision.
11001--Federal takeover of all health, education and welfare.
11002--Postmaster General empowered to register every man, woman
and child in the U.S.A.
11003--Seizure of all aircraft and airports by the Federal
Government.
11004--Housing and Finance authority may shift population from
one locality to another. Complete integration.
11005--Seizure of railroads, inland waterways, and storage facilities.
11051--The Director of the Office of Emergency Planning authorized
to put Executive Orders into effect in "times of increased
international tension or financial crisis". He is also to
perform such additional functions as the President
may direct.
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A Dangerous Fact Not Generally Known
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THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE ARTICLE 4 SECTION 4 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES. "THE UNITED STATES SHALL GUARANTEE TO EVERY STATE IN THIS UNION A REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT, AND SHALL PROTECT EACH OF THEM AGAINST INVASION; AND ON APPLICATION OF THE LEGISLATURE, OR OF THE EXECUTIVE (WHEN THE LEGISLATURE CANNOT BE CONVENED) AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE." "REGIONAL GOVERNMENT IS NOT A REPRESENTATIVE REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT!"
When Government gets out of hand and can no longer be controlled
by the people, short of violent overthrow as in 1776, there are
two sources of power which are used by the dictatorial government
to keep the people in line: the Police Power and the Power of the
Purse (through which the necessities of life can be withheld).
And both of these powers are no longer balanced between the three
Federal Branches, and between the Federal and the State and
local Governments. These powers have been taken over, with the
permission of the Federal Legislature and the State Governments,
by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government and all attempts
to reclaim that lost power have been defeated.
Stated simply: the dictatorial power of the Executive rests primarily
on three basis: Executive Order 11490, Executive Order 11647, and
the Planning, Programming, Budgeting System which is operated
through the new and all-powerful Office of Management and
Budget.
E. O. 11490 is a compilation of some 23 previous Executive Orders,
signed by Nixon on Oct. 28, 1969, and outlining emergency functions
which are to be performed by some 28 Executive Departments and
Agencies whenever the President of the United States declares
a national emergency (as in defiance of an impeachment edict,
for example). Under the terms of E. O. 11490, the President
can declare that a national emergency exists and the Executive
Branch can:
* Take over all communications media
* Seize all sources of power
* Take charge of all food resources
* Control all highways and seaports
* Seize all railroads, inland waterways, airports, storage facilities
* Commandeer all civilians to work under federal supervision
* Control all activities relating to health, education, and welfare
* Shift any segment of the population from one locality to another
* Take over farms, ranches, timberized properties
* Regulate the amount of your own money you may withdraw from
your bank, or savings and loan institution
All of these and many more items are listed in 32 pages incorporating
nearly 200,000 words, providing and absolute bureaucratic
dictatorship whenever the President gives the word.
--> Executive Order 11647 provides the regional and local mechanisms
--> and manpower for carrying out the provisions of E. O. 11490.
--> Signed by Richard Nixon on Feb. 10, 1972, this Order sets up Ten
--> Federal Regional Councils to govern Ten Federal Regions made up
--> of the fifty still existing States of the Union.
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This lays out exactly what the "New States" are.
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Book Title - The Emerging Constitution
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Note Chapter 14
The 10 Federal Regions
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
REGION I: Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode
Island, Vermont.
Regional Capitol: Boston
REGION II: New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico, Virgin Island.
Regional Capitol: New York City
REGION III: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West
Virginia, District of Columbia.
Regional Capitol: Philadelphia
REGION IV: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi,
North Carolina, Tennessee.
Regional Capitol: Atlanta
REGION V: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin.
Regional Capitol: Chicago
REGION VI: Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas.
Regional Capitol: Dallas-Fort Worth
REGION VII: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
Regional Capitol: Kansas City
REGION VIII: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Utah, Wyoming.
Regional Capitol: Denver
REGION IX: Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada.
Regional Capitol: San Fransisco
REGION X: Alaska, Oregon, Washington, Idaho.
Regional Capitol: Seattle
Supplementing these Then Regions, each of the States is, or is to
be, divided into subregions, so that Federal Executive control
is provided over every community.
Then, controlling the bedgeting and the programming at every
level is that politico-economic system known as PPBS.
The President need not wait for some emergency such as an impeachment
ouster. He can declare a National Emergency at any time, and freeze
everything, just as he has already frozen wages and prices. And
the Congress, and the States, are powerless to prevent such an
Executive Dictatorship, unless Congress moves to revoke these
extraordinary powers before the Chief Executive moves to invoke
them.
THESE EXECUTIVE ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE INTENT AND
PURPOSE OF ARTICLE 4 SECTION 3. THERE IS NO PROVISION IN THIS
SECTION OR THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR FORMING A
REGIONAL STATE OUT OF A GROUP OF STATES! FURTHER, THESE EXECUTIVE
ORDERS GROSSLY AND FLAGRANTLY VIOLATE THE 9TH AND 10TH
AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION!
By Proclaiming and Putting Into Effect Executive Order No. 11490,
the President would put the United States under TOTAL MARTIAL LAW
AND MILITARY DICTATORSHIP! The Guns Of The American People Would
Be Forcibly Taken!
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Bushie-Tail used the Gulf War Show to greatly expand the powers of the
presidency. During this shell game event, the Executive Orders signed
into "law" continued Bushie's methodical and detailed program to bury
any residual traces of the constitutional rights and protections of U.S.
citizens. The Bill of Rights--[almost too late to] use 'em or lose 'em:
|| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to ||
|| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of ||
|| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial ||
|| executive. ||
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From "Covert Action Information Bulletin," Number 37, Summer, 1991 (see
bottom 2 pages for subscription & back issues info on this quarterly):
Domestic Consequences of the Gulf War
Diana Reynolds
Reprinted with permission of CAIB. Copyright 1991
Diana Reynolds is a Research Associate at the Edward R. Murrow Center,
Fletcher School for Public Policy, Tufts University. She is also an
Assistant Professor of Politics at Broadford College and a Lecturer at
Merrimack College.
A war, even the most victorious, is a national misfortune.
--Helmuth Von Moltke, Prussian field marshall
George Bush put the United States on the road to its second war in
two years by declaring a national emergency on August 2,1990. In
response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, Bush issued two Executive
Orders (12722 and 12723) which restricted trade and travel with Iraq
and froze Iraqi and Kuwaiti assets within the U.S. and those in the
possession of U.S. persons abroad. At least 15 other executive orders
followed these initial restrictions and enabled the President to
mobilize the country's human and productive resources for war. Under
the national emergency, Bush was able unilaterally to break his 1991
budget agreement with Congress which had frozen defense spending, to
entrench further the U.S. economy in the mire of the military-
industrial complex, to override environmental protection regulations,
and to make free enterprise and civil liberties conditional upon an
executive determination of national security interests.
The State of Emergency
In time of war a president's power derives from both constitutional
and statutory sources. Under Article II, Section 2 of the
Constitution, he is Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Although
Congress alone retains the right to declare war, this power has become
increasingly meaningless in the face of a succession of unilateral
decisions by the executive to mount invasions.
The president's statutory authority, granted by Congress and
expanded by it under the 1988 National Emergencies Act (50 USC sec.
1601), confers special powers in time of war or national emergency.
He can invoke those special powers simply by declaring a national
emergency. First, however, he must specify the legal provisions under
which he proposes that he, or other officers, will act. Congress may
end a national emergency by enacting a joint resolution. Once invoked
by the president, emergency powers are directed by the National
Security Council and administered, where appropriate, under the
general umbrella of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).[1]
There is no requirement that Congress be consulted before an emergency
is declared or findings signed. The only restriction on Bush is that
he must inform Congress in a "timely" fashion--he being the sole
arbiter of timeliness.
Ultimately, the president's perception of the severity of a
particular threat to national security and the integrity of his
appointed officers determine the nature of any state of emergency.
For this reason, those who were aware of the modern development of
presidential emergency powers were apprehensive about the domestic
ramifications of any national emergency declared by George Bush. In
light of Bush's record (see "Bush Chips Away at Constitution" Box
below) and present performance, their fears appear well-founded.
The War at Home
It is too early to know all of the emergency powers, executive
orders and findings issued under classified National Security
Directives[2] implemented by Bush in the name of the Gulf War. In
addition to the emergency powers necessary to the direct mobilization
of active and reserve armed forces of the United States, there are
some 120 additional emergency powers that can be used in a national
emergency or state of war (declared or undeclared by Congress). The
"Federal Register" records some 15 Executive Orders (EO) signed by
Bush from August 2,1990 to February 14,1991. (See "Bush's Executive
Orders" box, below)
It may take many years before most of the executive findings and
use of powers come to light, if indeed they ever do. But evidence is
emerging that at least some of Bush's emergency powers were activated
in secret. Although only five of the 15 EOs that were published were
directed at non-military personnel, the costs directly attributable to
the exercise of the authorities conferred by the declaration of
national emergency from August 2, 1990 to February 1, 1991 for non-
military activities are estimated at approximately $1.3 billion.
According to a February 11, 1991 letter from Bush to congressional
leaders reporting on the "National Emergency With Respect to Iraq,"
these costs represent wage and salary costs for the Departments of
Treasury, State, Agriculture, and Transportation, U.S. Customs,
Federal Reserve Board, and the National Security Council.[3]
The fact that $1.3 billion was spent in non-military salaries alone
in this six month period suggests an unusual amount of government
resources utilized to direct the national emergency state. In
contrast, government salaries for one year of the state of emergency
with Iran[4] cost only $430,000.
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| |
| Bush Chips Away at Constitution |
| |
| George Bush, perhaps more than any other individual in |
| U.S. history, has expanded the emergency powers of |
| presidency. In 1976, as Director of Central Intelligence, |
| he convened Team B, a group of rabidly anti-communist |
| intellectuals and former government officials to reevaluate |
| CIA inhouse intelligence estimates on Soviet military |
| strength. The resulting report recommended draconian civil |
| defense measures which led to President Ford's Executive |
| Order 11921 authorizing plans to establish government |
| control of the means of production, distribution, energy |
| sources, wages and salaries, credit and the flow of money |
| in U.S. financial institutions in a national emergency.[1] |
| As Vice President, Bush headed the Task Force on |
| Combatting Terrorism, that recommended: extended and |
| flexible emergency presidential powers to combat terrorism; |
| restrictions on congressional oversight in counter- |
| terrorist planning; and curbing press coverage of |
| terrorist incidents.[2] The report gave rise to the Anti- |
| Terrorism Act of 1986, that granted the President clear-cut |
| authority to respond to terrorism with all appropriate |
| means including deadly force. It authorized the |
| Immigration and Naturalization Service to control and |
| remove not only alien terrorists but potential terrorist |
| aliens and those "who are likely to be supportive of |
| terrorist activity within the U.S."[3] The bill superceded |
| the War Powers Act by imposing no time limit on the |
| President's use of force in a terrorist situation, and |
| lifted the requirement that the President consult Congress |
| before sanctioning deadly force. |
| From 1982 to 1988, Bush led the Defense Mobilization |
| Planning Systems Agency (DMPSA), a secret government |
| organization, and spent more than $3 billion upgrading |
| command, control, and communications in FEMA's continuity |
| of government infrastructures. Continuity of Government |
| (COG) was ostensibly created to assure government |
| functioning during war, especially nuclear war. The Agency |
| was so secret that even many members of the Pentagon were |
| unaware of its existence and most of its work was done |
| without congressional oversight. |
| Project 908, as the DMPSA was sometimes called, was |
| similar to its parent agency FEMA in that it came under |
| investigation for mismanagement and contract |
| irregularities.[4] During this same period, FEMA had been |
| fraught with scandals including emergency planning with a |
| distinctly anti-constitutional flavor. The agency would |
| have sidestepped Congress and other federal agencies and |
| put the President and FEMA directly in charge of the U.S. |
| planning for martial rule. Under this state, the executive |
| would take upon itself powers far beyond those necessary to |
| address national emergency contingencies.[5] |
| Bush's "anything goes" anti-drug strategy, announced |
| on September 6, 1989, suggested that executive emergency |
| powers be used: to oust those suspected of associating |
| with drug users or sellers from public and private housing; |
| to mobilize the National Guard and U.S. military to fight |
| drugs in the continental U.S.; to confiscate private |
| property belonging to drug users, and to incarcerate first |
| time offenders in work camps.[6] |
| The record of Bush's fast and loose approach to |
| constitutionally guaranteed civil rights is a history of |
| the erosion of liberty and the consolidation of an imperial |
| executive. |
| |
| 1. Executive Order 11921, "Emergency preparedness Functions, |
| June 11, 1976. Federal Register, vol. 41, no. 116. The |
| report was attacked by such notables as Ray Cline, the |
| CIA's former Deputy Director, retired CIA intelligence |
| analyst Arthur Macy Cox, and the former head of the U.S. |
| Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Paul Warnke for |
| blatantly manipulating CIA intelligence to achieve the |
| political ends of Team B's rightwing members. See Cline, |
| quoted in "Carter to Inherit Intense Dispute on Soviet |
| Intentions," Mary Marder, "Washington Post," January 2, |
| 1977; Arthur Macy Cox, "Why the U.S. Since 1977 Has |
| Been Mis-perceiving Soviet Military Strength," "New York |
| Times," October 20, 1980; Paul Warnke, "George Bush and |
| Team B," "New York Times," September 24, 1988. |
| |
| 2. George Bush, "Public Report of the Vice President's Task |
| Force On Combatting Terrorism" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. |
| Government Printing Office), February 1986. |
| |
| 3. Robert J. Walsh, Assistant Commissioner, Investigations |
| Division, Immigration and Naturalization Service, "Alien |
| Border Control Committee" (Washington, DC), October 1, |
| 1988. |
| |
| 4. Steven Emerson, "America's Doomsday Project," "U.S. News |
| & World Report," August 7, 1989. |
| |
| 5. See: Diana Reynolds, "FEMA and the NSC: The Rise of the |
| National Security State," "CAIB," Number 33 (Winter 1990); |
| Keenan Peck, "The Take-Charge Gang," "The Progressive," |
| May 1985; Jack Anderson, "FEMA Wants to Lead Economic |
| War," "Washington Post," January 10, 1985. |
| |
| 6. These Presidential powers were authorized by the Anti- |
| Drug Abuse Act of 1988, Public Law 100-690: 100th |
| Congress. See also: Diana Reynolds, "The Golden Lie," |
| "The Humanist," September/October 1990; Michael Isikoff, |
| "Is This Determination or Using a Howitzer to Kill a |
| Fly?" "Washington Post National Weekly," August 27-, |
| September 2, 1990; Bernard Weintraub, "Bush Considers |
| Calling Guard To Fight Drug Violence in Capital," "New |
| York Times," March 21, 1989. |
| |
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Even those Executive Orders which have been made public tend to
raise as many questions as they answer about what actions were
considered and actually implemented. On January 8, 1991, Bush signed
Executive Order 12742, National Security Industrial Responsiveness,
which ordered the rapid mobilization of resources such as food,
energy, construction materials and civil transportation to meet
national security requirements. There was, however, no mention in
this or any other EO of the National Defense Executive Reserve (NDER)
plan administered under FEMA. This plan, which had been activated
during World War II and the Korean War, permits the federal government
during a state of emergency to bring into government certain
unidentified individuals. On January 7, 1991 the "Wall Street Journal
Europe" reported that industry and government officials were studying
a plan which would permit the federal government to "borrow" as many
as 50 oil company executives and put them to work streamlining the
flow of energy in case of a prolonged engagement or disruption of
supply. Antitrust waivers were also being pursued and oil companies
were engaged in emergency preparedness exercises with the Department
of Energy.[5]
Wasting the Environment
In one case the use of secret powers was discovered by a watchdog
group and revealed in the press. In August 1990, correspondence
passed between Colin McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for
Production and Logistics and Michael Deland, Chair of the White House
Council on Environmental Quality. The letters responded to
presidential and National Security Council directives to deal with
increased industrial production and logistics arising from the
situation in the Middle East. The communications revealed that the
Pentagon had found it necessary to request emergency waivers to U.S.
environmental restrictions.[6]
The agreement to waive the National Environmental Policy Act (1970)
came in August. Because of it, the Pentagon was allowed to test new
weapons in the western U.S., increase production of materiel and
launch new activities at military bases without the complex public
review normally required. The information on the waiver was
eventually released by the Boston-based National Toxic Campaign Fund
(NTCF), an environmental group which investigates pollution on the
nation's military bases. It was not until January 30, 1991, five
months after it went into effect, that the "New York Times," acting
on the NTCF information, reported that the White House had bypassed
the usual legal requirement for environmental impact statements on
Pentagon projects.[7] So far, no specific executive order or
presidential finding authorizing this waiver has been discovered.
Other environmental waivers could also have been enacted without
the public being informed. Under a state of national emergency, U.S.
warships can be exempted from international conventions on
pollution[8] and public vessels can be allowed to dispose of
potentially infectious medical wastes into the oceans.[9] The
President can also suspend any of the statutory provisions regarding
the production, testing, transportation, deployment, and disposal of
chemical and biological warfare agents (50 USC sec. 1515). He could
also defer destruction of up to 10 percent of lethal chemical agents
and munitions that existed on November 8, 1985.[10]
One Executive Order which was made public dealt with "Chemical and
Biological Weapons Proliferation." Signed by Bush on November 16,
1990, EO 12735 leaves the impression that Bush is ordering an
increased effort to end the proliferation of chemical and biological
weapons. The order states that these weapons "constitute a threat to
national security and foreign policy" and declares a national
emergency to deal with the threat. To confront this threat, Bush
ordered international negotiations, the imposition of controls,
licenses, and sanctions against foreign persons and countries for
proliferation. Conveniently, the order grants the Secretaries of
State and the Treasury the power to exempt the U.S. military.
In February of 1991, the Omnibus Export Amendments Act was passed
by Congress compatible with EO 12735. It imposed sanctions on
countries and companies developing or using chemical or biological
weapons. Bush signed the law, although he had rejected the identical
measure the year before because it did not give him the executive
power to waive all sanctions if he thought the national interest
required it.[11] The new bill, however, met Bush's requirements.
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| |
| BUSH'S EXECUTIVE ORDERS |
| |
| * EO 12722 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and |
| Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 2, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12723 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property," Aug. 2, |
| 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12724 "Blocking Iraqi Government Property and |
| Prohibiting Transactions With Iraq," Aug. 9, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12725 "Blocking Kuwaiti Government Property and |
| Prohibiting Transactions With Kuwait," Aug. 9, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12727 "Ordering the Selected Reserve of the Armed |
| Forces to Active Duty," Aug. 22, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12728 "Delegating the President's Authority To |
| Suspend Any Provision of Law Relating to the Promotion, |
| Retirement, or Separation of Members of the Armed Forces," |
| Aug. 22, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12733 "Authorizing the Extension of the Period of |
| Active Duty of Personnel of the Selected Reserve of the |
| Armed Forces," Nov. 13, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12734 "National Emergency Construction Authority," Nov. |
| 14, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12735 "Chemical and Biological Weapons Proliferation," |
| Nov. 16, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12738 "Administration of Foreign Assistance and Related |
| Functions and Arms Export Control," Dec. 14, 1990. |
| |
| * EO 12742 "National Security Industrial Responsiveness," |
| Jan. 8, 1991. |
| |
| * EO 12743 "Ordering the Ready Reserve of the Armed Forces |
| to Active Duty," Jan. 18, 1991. |
| |
| * EO 12744 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace |
| and Adjacent Waters as a Combat Zone," Jan. 21, 1991. |
| |
| * EO 12750 "Designation of Arabian Peninsula Areas, Airspace |
| and Adjacent Waters as the Persian Gulf Desert Shield |
| Area," Feb. 14, 1991. |
| |
| * EO 12751 "Health Care Services for Operation Desert |
| Storm," Feb. 14, 1991. |
| |
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Going Off Budget
Although some of the powers which Bush assumed in order to conduct
the Gulf War were taken openly, they received little public discussion
or reporting by the media.
In October, when the winds of the Gulf War were merely a breeze,
Bush used his executive emergency powers to extend his budget
authority. This action made the 1991 fiscal budget agreement between
Congress and the President one of the first U.S. casualties of the
war. While on one hand the deal froze arms spending through 1996, it
also allowed Bush to put the cost of the Gulf War "off budget." Thus,
using its emergency powers, the Bush administration could:
* incur a deficit which exceeds congressional budget authority;
* prevent Congress from raising a point of order over the
excessive spending;[12]
* waive the requirement that the Secretary of Defense submit
estimates to Congress prior to deployment of a major defense
acquisition system;
* and exempt the Pentagon from congressional restrictions on
hiring private contractors.[13]
While there is no published evidence on which powers Bush actually
invoked, the administration was able to push through the 1990 Omnibus
Reconciliation Act. This legislation put a cap on domestic spending,
created a record $300 billion deficit, and undermined the Gramm-
Rudman-Hollings Act intended to reduce the federal deficit. Although
Congress agreed to pay for the war through supplemental appropriations
and approved a $42.2 billion supplemental bill and a $4.8 billion
companion "dire emergency supplemental appropriation,"[14] it
specified that the supplemental budget should not be used to finance
costs the Pentagon would normally experience.[15]
Lawrence Korb, a Pentagon official in the Reagan administration,
believes that the Pentagon has already violated the spirit of the 1990
Omnibus Reconciliation Act. It switched funding for the Patriot,
Tomahawk, Hellfire and HARM missiles from its regular budget to the
supplemental budget; added normal wear and tear of equipment to
supplemental appropriations; and made supplemental requests which
ignore a planned 25% reduction in the armed forces by 1995.[16]
The Cost In Liberty Lost
Under emergency circumstances, using 50 USC sec. 1811, the
President could direct the Attorney General to authorize electronic
surveillance of aliens and American citizens in order to obtain
foreign intelligence information without a court order.[17] No
Executive Order has been published which activates emergency powers to
wiretap or to engage in counter-terrorist activity. Nonetheless,
there is substantial evidence that such activities have taken place.
According to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the
FBI launched an anti-terrorist campaign which included a broad sweep
of Arab-Americans. Starting in August, the FBI questioned, detained,
and harassed Arab-Americans in California, New York, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, and Colorado.[18]
A CIA agent asked the University of Connecticut for a list of all
foreign students at the institution, along with their country of
origin, major field of study, and the names of their academic
advisers. He was particularly interested in students from the Middle
East and explained that the Agency intended to open a file on each of
the students. Anti-war groups have also reported several break-ins of
their offices and many suspected electronic surveillance of their
telephones.[19]
Pool of Disinformation
Emergency powers to control the means of communications in the U.S.
in the name of national security were never formally declared. There
was no need for Bush to do so since most of the media voluntarily and
even eagerly cooperated in their own censorship. Reporters covering
the Coalition forces in the Gulf region operated under restrictions
imposed by the U.S. military. They were, among other things, barred
from traveling without a military escort, limited in their forays into
the field to small escorted groups called "pools," and required to
submit all reports and film to military censors for clearance. Some
reporters complained that the rules limited their ability to gather
information independently, thereby obstructing informed and objective
reporting.[20]
Three Pentagon press officials in the Gulf region admitted to James
LeMoyne of the "New York Times" that they spent significant time
analyzing reporters' stories in order to shape the coverage in the
Pentagon's favor. In the early days of the deployment, Pentagon press
officers warned reporters who asked hard questions that they were seen
as "anti-military" and that their requests for interviews with senior
commanders and visits to the field were in jeopardy. The military
often staged events solely for the cameras and would stop televised
interviews in progress when it did not like what was being portrayed.
Although filed soon after the beginning of the war, a lawsuit
challenging the constitutionality of press restrictions was not heard
until after the war ended. It was then dismissed when the judge ruled
that since the war had ended, the issues raised had become moot. The
legal status of the restrictions--initially tested during the U.S.
invasions of Grenada and Panama--remains unsettled.
A National Misfortune
It will be years before researchers and journalists are able to
ferret through the maze of government documents and give a full
appraisal of the impact of the President's emergency powers on
domestic affairs. It is likely, however, that with a post-war
presidential approval rating exceeding 75 percent, the domestic
casualties will continue to mount with few objections. Paradoxically,
even though the U.S. public put pressure on Bush to send relief for
the 500,000 Iraqi Kurdish refugees, it is unlikely the same outcry
will be heard for the 37 million Americans without health insurance,
the 32 million living in poverty, or the country's five million hungry
children. The U.S. may even help rebuild Kuwaiti and Iraqi civilian
infrastructures it destroyed during the war while leaving its own
education system in decay, domestic transportation infrastructures
crumbling, and inner city war zones uninhabitable. And, while the
U.S. assists Kuwait in cleaning up its environmental disaster, it will
increase pollution at home. Indeed, as the long-dead Prussian field
marshal prophesied, "a war, even the most victorious, is a national
misfortune."
FOOTNOTES:
1. The administrative guideline was established under Reagan in Executive
Order 12656, November 18,1988, "Federal Register," vol. 23, no. 266.
2. For instance, National Security Council policy papers or National
Security Directives (NSD) or National Security Decision Directives
(NSDD) have today evolved into a network of shadowy, wide-ranging and
potent executive powers. These are secret instruments, maintained in
a top security classified state and are not shared with Congress. For
an excellent discussion see: Harold C. Relyea, The Coming of Secret
Law, "Government Information Quarterly," Vol. 5, November 1988; see
also: Eve Pell, "The Backbone of Hidden Government," "The Nation,"
June 19,1990.
3. "Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on the National Emergency
With Respect to Iraq," February, 11, 1991, "Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents: Administration of George Bush," (Washington,
DC: U.S. Government Printing Office), pp. 158-61.
4. The U.S. now has states of emergency with Iran, Iraq and Syria.
5. Allanna Sullivan, "U.S. Oil Concerns Confident Of Riding Out Short Gulf
War," "Wall Street Journal Europe," January 7, 1991.
6. Colin McMillan, Letter to Michael Deland, Chairman, Council on
Environmental Quality (Washington, DC: Executive Office of the
President), August 24, 1990; Michael R. Deland, Letter to Colin
McMillan, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Production and Logistics
(Washington, DC: Department of Defense), August 29,1990.
7. Keith Schneider, "Pentagon Wins Waiver Of Environmental Rule," "New York
Times," January 30, 1991.
8. 33 U.S. Code (USC) sec. 1902 9(b).
9. 33 USC sec. 2503 l(b).
10. 50 USC sec. 1521(b) (3)(A).
ll. Adam Clymer, "New Bill Mandates Sanctions On Makers of Chemical Arms,"
"New York Times," February 22, 1991.
12. 31 USC O10005 (f); 2 USC O632 (i), 6419 (d), 907a (b); and Public
Law 101-508, Title X999, sec. 13101.
13. 10 USC sec. 2434/2461 9F.
14. When the Pentagon expected the war to last months and oil prices to
skyrocket, it projected the incremental cost of deploying and
redeploying the forces and waging war at about $70 billion. The
administration sought and received $56 billion in pledges from allies
such as Germany, Japan and Saudi Arabia. Although the military's
estimates of casualties and the war's duration were highly inflated,
today their budget estimates remain at around $70 billion even though
the Congressional Budget office estimates that cost at only $40
billion, $16 billion less than allied pledges.
15. Michael Kamish, "After The War: At Home, An Unconquered Recession,"
"Boston Globe," March 6, 1991; Peter Passell, "The Big Spoils From a
Bargain War," "New York Times," March 3, 1991; and Alan Abelson, "A
War Dividend For The Defense Industry?" "Barron's," March 18, 1991.
16. Lawrence Korb, "The Pentagon's Creative Budgetry Is Out of Line,"
"International Herald Tribune," April 5, 199l.
17. Many of the powers against aliens are automatically invoked during a
national emergency or state of war. Under the Alien Enemies Act (50
USC sec. 21), the President can issue an order to apprehend, restrain,
secure and remove all subjects of a hostile nation over 13 years old.
Other statutes conferring special powers on the President with regard
to aliens that may be exercised in times of war or emergencies but are
not confined to such circumstances, are: exclusion of all or certain
classes of aliens from entry into the U.S. when their entry may be
"detrimental to the interests of the United States" (8 USC sec. ٱ182(f));
imposition of travel restrictions on aliens within the U.S. (8 USC sec.
1185); and requiring aliens to be fingerprinted (8 USC sec. 1302).
18. Ann Talamas, "FBI Targets Arab-Americans," "CAIB," Spring 1991, p. 4.
19. "Anti-Repression Project Bulletin" (New York: Center for
Constitutional Rights), January 23, 1991.
20. James DeParle, "Long Series of Military Decisions Led to Gulf War News
Censorship," "New York Times," May 5, 1991.
21. James LeMoyne, "A Correspondent's Tale: Pentagon's Strategy for the
Press: Good News or No News," "New York Times," February 17, 1991.
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An excellent book which deals with the REX 84 detention plan is:
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``Guts and Glory: The Rise and Fall of Oliver North,'' by Ben
Bradlee Jr. (Donald I. Fine, $21.95. 573 pp.)
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Reviewed by Dennis M. Culnan Copyright 1990, Gannett News Service All
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laws
[Oliver] North managed to network himself into the highest levels of
the CIA and power centers around the world. There he lied and
boastfully ignored the constitutional process, Bradlee writes.
Yet more terrifying is the plan hatched by North and other Reagan
people in the Federal Emergency Manpower Agency (FEMA): A blueprint
for the military takeover of the United States. The plan called for
FEMA to become ``emergency czar'' in the event of a national emergency
such as nuclear war or an American invasion of a foreign nation. FEMA
would also be a buffer between the president and his cabinet and other
civilian agencies, and would have broad powers to appoint military
commanders and run state and local governments. Finally, it would
have the authority to order suspect aliens into concentration camps
and seize their property.
When then-Attorney General William French Smith got wind of the plan,
he killed it. After Smith left the administration, North and his FEMA
cronies came up with the Defense Resource Act, designed to suspendend
the First Amendment by imposing censorship and banning strikes.
Where was it all heading? The book's answer: ``REX-84 Bravo, a
National Security Decision Directive 52 that would become operative
with the president's declaration of a state of national emergency
concurrent with a mythical U.S. military invasion of an unspecified
Central American country, presumably Nicaragua.''
Bradlee writes that the Rex exercise was designed to test FEMA's
readiness to assume authority over the Department of Defense, the
National Guard in all 50 states, and ``a number of state defense
forces to be established by state legislatures.'' The military would
then be ``deputized,'' thus making an end run around federal law
forbidding military involvement in domestic law enforcement.
Rex, which ran concurrently with the first annual U.S. show of force
in Honduras in April 1984, was also designed to test FEMA's ability to
round up 400,000 undocumented Central American aliens in the United
States and its ability to distribute hundreds of tons of small arms to
``state defense forces.''
Incredibly, REX 84 was similar to a plan secretly adopted by Reagan
while governor of California. His two top henchmen then were Edwin
Meese, who recently resigned as U.S. attorney general, and Louis
Guiffrida, the FEMA director in 1984.
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This is the front-page article of the Jan. 16 issue of "The
Guardian," which describes some of the U.S. government's planning
for martial law in the event of the Gulf war. This is truly a
scary scenario that should concern all civil libertarians and
patriots.
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WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME?
by Paul DeRienzo and Bill Weinberg
On August 2, 1990, as Saddam Hussein's army was consolidating control
over Kuwait, President George Bush responded by signing two executive
orders that were the first step toward martial law in the United
States and suspending the Constitution.
On the surface, Executive Orders 12722 and 12723, declaring a
"national emergency," merely invoked laws that allowed Bush to freeze
Iraqi assets in the United States.
The International Emergency Executive Powers Act permits the president
to freeze foreign assets after declaring a "national emergency," a
move that has been made three times before -- against Panama in 1987,
Nicaragua in 1985 and Iran in 1979.
According to Professor Diana Reynolds, of the Fletcher School of
Diplomacy at Boston's Tufts University, when Bush declared a national
emergency he "activated one part of a contingency national security
emergency plan." That plan is made up of a series of laws passed since
the presidency of Richard Nixon, which Reynolds says give the
president "boundless" powers.
According to Reynolds, such laws as the Defense Industrial
Revitalization and Disaster Relief Acts of 1983 "would permit the
president to do anything from seizing the means of production, to
conscripting a labor force, to relocating groups of citizens."
Reynolds says the net effect of invoking these laws would be the
suspension of the Constitution.
She adds that national emergency powers "permit the stationing of the
military in cities and towns, closing off the U.S. borders, freezing
all imports and exports, allocating all resources on a national
security priority, monitoring and censoring the press, and warrantless
searches and seizures."
The measures would allow military authorities to proclaim martial law
in the United States, asserts Reynolds. She defines martial law as the
"federal authority taking over for local authority when they are
unable to maintain law and order or to assure a republican form of
government."
A report called "Post Attack Recovery Strategies," about rebuilding
the country after a nuclear war, prepared by the right-wing Hudson
Institute in 1980, defines martial law as dealing "with the control of
civilians by their own military forces in time of emergency."
The federal agency with the authority to organize and command the
government's response to a national emergency is the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA). This super-secret and elite agency was
formed in 1979 under congressional measures that merged all federal
powers dealing with civilian and military emergencies under one
agency.
FEMA has its roots in the World War I partnership between government
and corporate leaders who helped mobilize the nation's industries to
support the war effort. The idea of a central national response to
large-scale emergencies was reintroduced in the early 1970s by Louis
Giuffrida, a close associate of then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan and
his chief aide Edwin Meese.
Reagan appointed Giuffrida head of the California National Guard in
1969. With Meese, Giuffrida organized "war-games" to prepare for
"statewide martial law" in the event that Black nationalists and
anti-war protesters "challenged the authority of the state." In 1981,
Reagan as president moved Giuffrida up to the big leagues, appointing
him director of FEMA.
According to Reynolds, however, it was the actions of George Bush in
1976, while he was the director of the Central Intelligence Agency
(CIA), that provided the stimulus for centralization of vast powers in
FEMA.
Bush assembled a group of hawkish outsiders, called Team B, that
released a report claiming the CIA ("Team A") had underestimated the
dangers of Soviet nuclear attack. The report advised the development
of elaborate plans for "civil defense" and post-nuclear government.
Three years later, in 1979, FEMA was given ultimate responsibility for
developing these plans.
Aware of the bad publicity FEMA was getting because of its role in
organizing for a post-nuclear world, Reagan's FEMA chief Giuffrida
publicly argued that the 1865 Posse Comitatus Act prohibited the
military from arresting civilians.
However, Reynolds says that Congress eroded the act by giving the
military reserves an exemption from Posse Comitatus and allowing them
to arrest civilians. The National Guard, under the control of state
governors in peace time, is also exempt from the act and can arrest
civilians.
FEMA Inspector General John Brinkerhoff has written a memo contending
that the government doesn't need to suspend the Constitution to use
the full range of powers Congress has given the agency. FEMA has
prepared legislation to be introduced in Congress in the event of a
national emergency that would give the agency sweeping powers. The
right to "deputize" National Guard and police forces is included in
the package. But Reynolds believes that actual martial law need not be
declared publicly.
Giuffrida has written that "Martial Rule comes into existence upon a
determination (not a declaration) by the senior military commander
that the civil government must be replaced because it is no longer
functioning anyway." He adds that "Martial Rule is limited only by the
principle of necessary force."
According to Reynolds, it is possible for the president to make
declarations concerning a national emergency secretly in the form of a
Natioanl Security Decision Directive. Most such directives are
classified as so secret that Reynolds says "researchers don't even
know how many are enacted."
DOMESTIC SPYING
Throughout the 1980s, FEMA was prohibited from engaging in
intelligence gathering. But on July 6, 1989, Bush signed Executive
Order 12681, pronouncing that FEMA's National Preparedness Directorate
would "have as a primary function intelligence, counterintelligence,
investigative, or national security work." Recent events indicate that
domestic spying in response to the looming Middle East war is now
under way.
Reynolds reports that "the CIA is going to various campuses asking for
information on Middle Eastern students. I'm sure that there are
intelligence organizations monitoring peace demonstrations."
According to the University of Connecticut student paper, the Daily
Campus, CIA officials have recently met there to discuss talking with
Middle Eastern students.
The New York Times reports that the FBI has ordered its agents around
the country to question Arab-American leaders and business people in
search of information on potential Iraqi "terrorist" attacks in
response to a Gulf war.
A 1986 Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) document entitled
"Alien Terrorists and Other Undesirables: A Contingency Plan" outlines
the potential round-up and incarceration in mass detainment camps of
U.S. residents who are citizens of "terrorist" countries, chiefly in
the Middle East. This plan echoed a 1984 FEMA nationwide "readiness
exercise code-named REX-84 ALPHA, which included the rehearsal of
joint operations with the INS to round up 40,000 Central American
refugees in the event of a U.S. invasion of the region. One of the 10
military bases established as detainment camps by REX-84 ALPHA, Camp
Krome, Fla., was designated a joint FEMA-Immigration service
interrogation center.
Recently, FEMA has been criticized in the media for inadequate
response to the October, 1989 San Francisco earthquake. What the
mainstream press has failed to cover is the agency's planned role in
repressing domestic dissent in the event of an invasion abroad.
Source: The Guardian, Jan 16 1991
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Social commentary by the owner of Ruthless
from the Truth
Accidental pet food
contamination or mass murder of our aged poor. Quite the question to pose is it
not. Just think of it; what a way to
cover up a large mass murder of epic proportions that even Rames2, Herod or
Hitler would envy. Unseen by most and no reporter has even remotely touched it,
interesting isn’t it?
Today
in
Think of it what the
toxins in this food do to the poor little animals; kidney failure and of course
death. In the aged poor who would
notice….Just for your consideration.
Shekhinah
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April 27, 2007
NAIS AROUND THE COUNTRY
We're up to 13 states that have introduced anti-NAIS bills! Some of them have already died in the political process, but others are still alive and kicking hard! Simply getting the bills introduced is an important step, and the courageous activists and legislators who have made these bills reality deserve a lot of credit. Unfortunately, at the same time, other states continue to move forward aggressively with implementing NAIS. The federal level is also heating up, with both pro- and anti-NAIS bills being introduced and considered in Congress.
Information on the federal issues and individual states is at the end of this update. Please email us if you know of legislation or regulations in other states, so we can share that information with other people. As always, if you have any questions, you can contact us at noah@libertyark.net.
SUPPORT THE FIGHT AGAINST NAIS
On April 19, Liberty Ark celebrated its one-year anniversary. Here's a partial list of what we have done:
We've done all of this through the hard work, all volunteer, of Individual Supporters of the Coalition, our State Coordinators, the Steering Committee, and special contributors such as the volunteer who donated his time for our CD. The website is maintained at no cost to the Coalition.
But it also takes cold, hard cash to do some things. We've had to pay for printing the brochures, telephone calls, postage, and services to publicize press releases. So far, we've spent $5,838.45, which is $1,307 more than has been contributed. $2,590 of that went to the brochures. We have been, and will continue to be, careful with your money. If each supporter contributed $10, we would have over three times what we've spent so far! As you can see, much can be achieved with very little. Please contribute what you can to the Liberty Ark Coalition. It will go toward:
Whether it's $10, $100, or $1,000, you will be helping this important fight continue.
ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO JOIN
And, consider growing the Coalition. If each Supporter urged 10 others to join us, we would grow our ranks. When we lobby, it's important that can show we represent many people. Send your friends and family this link: libertyark.net/pledge.dyn.
FEDERAL UPDATE
A Safe Food Act has been filed in both the House and the Senate by Congressmen Delauro, Kaptur, McDermott, Miller (CA), Matsui, Berkley, Grijalva, Woolsey, and McCollum (Minn) and Senators Durbin and Schumer. The bills would create a new Food Safety Administration. Section 210 of HR1148/ S654 would require the new Administration to "establish requirements for a national system for tracing food and food producing animals from point of origin to retail sale." The section specifically covers "food production facilities," and the definition of those includes farms and ranches. We need to get this changed or stopped!!! We will do a more thorough analysis of the bills soon, and provide a full action alert on this issue, including detailed talking points and sample letters to help people take action.
Congresswoman JoAnn Emerson introduced HR 1018 to bar USDA from implementing or funding a mandatory NAIS. The bill is co-sponsored by Congressman John Duncan and Congresssman Ron Paul. We are working with Congressmen and Senators to get additional bills and amendments to oppose NAIS introduced.
On the other side of the fight, Congressman Colin Peterson, Chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture, has announced that he supports combining a mandatory NAIS with Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). Read Randy Given's article, "Linking COOL With NAIS Means Trouble for Consumers and Small Farmers," at www.libertyark.net/articles/givens-040907.html.
STATE UPDATES
ARKANSAS: HB 1761 would bar state and local governments from requiring premises registration, electronic identification, licensing and permits, or reports of sales, "unless a law or rule to the contrary was in effect before January 1, 2007." Two unsuccessful attempts were made to approve it in Committee and it will not be voted on this session.
ARIZONA: Arizona currently has a law that allows the agency to implement NAIS on a mandatory basis at any time. SB 1428 initially would have barred NAIS completely, but was amended to bar a mandatory program. Slightly different versions of SB 1428 have been approved by both the House and the Senate, and we do not expect any problems in the reconciliation process. So it looks like Arizona will be the first state to send an anti-NAIS bill to its Governor for signature!
INDIANA: SB 486, as originally filed and approved by the Senate Committee, was very similar to the Liberty Ark model bill and would have barred NAIS completely. But it was amended on the floor of the Senate to bar only the mandatory animal ID and tracking phases of NAIS. The amended bill was passed by the full Senate, and went to the House Committee on Technology, Research and Development. The Committee did not consider the bill, and it is effectively dead for this session.
KENTUCKY: As discussed in previous alerts, in December, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture proposed regulations that would make premises registration and animal identification mandatory, and require a Certificate of Veterinary Inspection for almost every movement, exhibition (including trail rides) and sale. These proposed regulations were withdrawn in January. A revised informal proposal has been circulated that retains many of the same provisions.
LOUISIANA: SB 246, the Livestock Farm Freedom Act, is very similar to the Liberty Ark model legislation, and prohibits the state from participating in NAIS, terminates the cooperative agreements, and even limits private voluntary programs to prevent abuses. It has been assigned to the Senate Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development Committee.
MASSACHUSETTS: The two bills discussed in last update now have bill numbers: HB 757 and SB 475. HB 757 forbids the MDAR from accepting federal funds for NAIS in 2007, requires MDAR to stop uploading data to the federal database, and seeks removal for people who were involuntarily enrolled. SB 475 includes all of those provisions and also precludes MDAR from using other existing programs as a means to implement NAIS, and prohibits any person, whether private or governmental, from discriminating against people who do not participate in NAIS or programs like it. Both bills have been assigned to the Joint Committee on Natural Resources, Agriculture and the Environment, and a hearing scheduled for July 9.
MICHIGAN: Michigan's mandatory RFID tagging of cattle went into effect on March 1. If a person wants to move a cow anywhere in the state, that animal must be tagged with a Radio Frequency Identification Device that is NAIS-compliant - and which can only be bought if one has a premises registration number. Some farmers have refused to comply, while anecdotal reports indicate that others are simply selling out in large numbers. Efforts are continuing to get the Governor or Legislature to stop the program.
MISSOURI: Of the five bills that were filed in the Missouri Legislature, the leading one is SB 428, which would bar any government-run NAIS in Missouri. SB 428 was approved by the Senate Committee and almost unanimously approved by the Senate. In the House, HB 478 would initially have barred any government-run NAIS, but was amended by the House Committee to allow a voluntary government program. Because of that, activists are focusing efforts on SB 428 in the House.
OKLAHOMA: HB 1842 initially provided an exemption for premises that sold less than $10,000 in agricultural products. A committee substitute version would absolutely have barred any government NAIS program. The Agriculture Committee did not hold a hearing on the bill, and it appears to be dead for this session.
SOUTH DAKOTA: No change since the previous update. South Dakota already has legislation that authorizes that State vet to implement NAIS on a mandatory basis. A bill was introduced to limit the program to a voluntary program only, but it died in committee.
TENNESSEE: Four bills have been introduced to stop NAIS, with companion bills in both the House and Senate: HB764/SB655, HB 976/SB1274, HB977/SB1273, and HB978/SB1272. These bills take a variety of approaches, based on what other states have been introducing. Two other bills have been introduced that would limit NAIS to a voluntary program, but without any protections against coercion: HB899/SB1202 and HB1855/SB1996. In March, the House Committee heard testimony from a few pro-NAIS and anti-NAIS representatives. On April 24th, the Committee heard testimony on an amended version of HB 976 that would bar mandatory or coercive programs. The Committee is expected to vote on the bill on May 1.
TEXAS: Texas currently has a law that allows the state agency to implement NAIS on a mandatory basis at any time. HB 461 would remove the agency's authority to make NAIS mandatory and the civil and criminal penalties that are in the current statute. The Texas House amended it to include additional protections, namely: (1) a bar on discrimination or coercion; (2) to require full disclosure before anyone is enrolled; and (3) to provide the right to withdraw. HB 461 was approved by the House by a vote of 88-51, and it will now go to the Senate.
VIRGINIA: No change since the previous update. HB 1990 in Virginia initially consisted of just one sentence, barring the state agency from "participat[ing] in or provid[ing] any assistance to the establishment of the National Animal Identification System or any substantially similar program." After a January hearing, the subcommittee agreed to amend the bill to allow for a voluntary program and to allow the agency to remain involved in the USDA discussions on the program. The bill died when the full Agriculture committee voted on it.
WASHINGTON: HB 1151, as initially introduced, would have barred any government NAIS in Washington. A committee substitute version replaced all of the original language with provisions for a Livestock Identification Advisory Committee to study the issue for a year, and this version was approved by the House and was sent to the Senate Committee on Agriculture & Rural Economic Development. It does not look like it will be heard by the Committee this session.
WISCONSIN: The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture adopted regulations making premises registration mandatory back in 2005. However, until now, there have been no reports of enforcement actions. But in March, dairy farmers received letters informing them that they had to register in the NAIS database, or they would lose their license to do business. Farmers are seeking legislative action to stop the implementation of the regulations, as well as considering filing a lawsuit.
This is going to be long, complicated, and difficult fight, at both the federal level and in all 50 states! We have materials in our Citizens Action Center to help you educate others about NAIS and contact your legislators. We have made wonderful progress in the last year, and we will keep fighting!
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Cheap Tomatoes?
This should certainly make everyone think twice From a
California
school teacher - - -"As you listen to the news about the student
protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you
should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a- second-language department at a
large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1
school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and
income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate
High, Bell Gardens, Huntington Park, etc., where these students are
protesting, are also Title 1 schools.
Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When
I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and roll -- but
a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make
a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and
trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT
WORK)
I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least
moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The
school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant
girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the
inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family
watch their kids. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing
funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for
anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new
computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month
later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who
obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in
America. (OUR TAX DOLLARS AT WORK)
I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute
teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students here
in the country less than 3 months who raised so much hell with the
female teachers, calling them "Putas" whores and throwing things
that
the teachers were in tears.
Free medical, free education, free food, day care etc., etc., etc. Is
it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to
demand rights, privileges and entitlements?
To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants
contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and
housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in
the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs.
Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs,
more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding,
new diseases etc., etc, etc. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes.
We need to wake up. The guest worker program will be a disaster
because we won't have the guts to enforce it. Does anyone in their
right mind really think they will voluntarily leave and return?
There are many hardworking Hispanic/American citizens that contribute
to our country and many that I consider my true friends. We should
encourage and accept those Hispanics who have done it the right and
legal way.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: A third-world
culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting
pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to
assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and
worried about "politically correct" that we don't have the will to
do
anything about it.
If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to
everyone you know.
CHEAP LABOR?
Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about?
Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage
Consumers don't want expensive produce Government will tell you
Americans don't want the jobs
But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a
myth, a farce, and a lie. there is no such thing as "cheap labor."
Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He
takes a job for $5.00 or $6.00 / hour. At that wage, with six
dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he
files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up
to
$3,200 free:
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent
He qualifies for food stamps
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school
He requires bilingual teachers and books
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills
If they are or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI.
Once qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicare. All of this is
at taxpayer's expense.
He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners
insurance.
Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed
material.
He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00 / hour in
benefits.
Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6.00 / hour left after
paying their bills and his.
The American taxpayer's also pay for increased crime, graffiti and
trash clean-up.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT! Wake up people!
Skip Wigmore
Light of Life Ministries
Smithfield, NC
lolministries@
netzero.net
Rev. 18:4
May 10-2007
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years later through an anonymous source. The movie exposes a pedophile network
run by Lawrence King to serve the wealthy and powerful elite, and the following
cover-up. Over 20 high ranking military, intelligence, government,
corporate and scientific witnesses came forward at the National Press Club in
Washington, DC to establish the reality of UFOs or extraterrestrial vehicles,
extraterrestrial life forms, and resulting advanced energy and propulsion
technologies. The weight of this first-hand testimony, along with supporting
government documentation and other evidence, will establish without any doubt
the reality of these phenomena, according to Dr. Steven M. Greer, director of
the Disclosure Project which hosted the event. The Disclosure Project is a
nonprofit research project working to fully disclose the facts about UFOs,
extraterrestrial intelligence, and classified advanced energy and propulsion
systems. We have over 400 government, military, and intelligence community
witnesses testifying to their direct, personal, first hand experience with UFOs,
ETs, ET technology, and the cover-up that keeps this information secret . Phil Schneider was an extraordinarily brave man who knew that
he was going to be killed because of the information he was revealing to the
American public in the Spring/Summer of 1995.He was murdered on or about January
10, 1996 in Oregon. His ex-wife, Cynthia Drayer, was notified about a week after
his death. Local police originally called it a natural death by stroke, but
later changed it to suicide when an autopsy (insisted upon by Phil's ex-wife)
revealed marks around his throat-indicating death by strangulation. Apparently,
according to the Sheriff's report of "suicide", Phil was able to
remove the garroting used to strangle him, prior to the police discovering his
body-since they claim they couldn't find anything 'suspicious' about his death. William Cooper, a former military intelligence officer and
world renowned lecturer and writer, was killed in a suspicious 2001 police
shootout in his Arizona home. Author of the best selling underground book of all
time, "Behold A Pale Horse," his top secret intelligence document
discoveries provide proof positive the Illuminati intends mass destruction of
half the world's population, reaching its diabolical goal in what the author
terms 'the age of deception. Martial Law: 9/11 Rise of the Police State was filmed
primarily during the Republican Party's 2004 national convention in New York
City. The Republican Party's choice to hold the event there drew both strong
praise and strong criticism. Alex Jones' clear intent was that the people who
were truly guilty of planning and carrying out the events of September 11, 2001
were coming back to the scene of the crime. In the film, Jones shows what he
believes are signs of a growing police state: constant surveillance, a defined
military presence, a militarized civilian police force, mass roundups and
arrests of protesters, detention in a makeshift facility laden with asbestos
which one interviewee called a "concentration camp", and threats of
arrest for constitutionally legal activities. Many different views are
presented, including one semi-humorous confrontation with a group of American
communists. Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land Segment from the film "We.." where Arundhati Roy
speaks about the Israeli / Palestinian conflict in the middle east. Historic
references, who funds it, and more. It is one of the ill-kept secrets of America's intelligence
agencies--for decades, they have worked virtually non-stop to perfect means of
controlling the human mind. But while many have suspected the existence of these
projects, the details have long been preserved. 9/11, Fear, and the Selling of American Empire. This documentary produced by chemtrail researcher Clifford
Carnicom is a must see and an excellent research tool. Five plus years into the
operations has provided ample evidence in this 90min DVD that covers many
topics. Over the years aerosol/chemtrail research has provided some leads but
even more questions as to who and why the spraying occurs. It is clear jets are
deliberately spraying the sky's and it will not stop until enough people are
aware and willing to stand up for the operations exposure and termination Five years after the fall of the Taliban, western intervention
has produced a mafia-style state. Reporter Kate Clark and director Tom Porter
discover a fractured country and an economy dominated by the drugs trade.
Commanders from the old Northern Alliance, some of whom have been accused of
human rights abuses, are in positions of power everywhere – in the police, the
parliament and controlling districts and provinces. This is the country that
British soldiers are now dying to defend against the Taliban. Unreported World -
Broadcast 12/01/06 - Channel 4 - Runtime 25 Minutes This video was captured and
compressed by The Dossier .. A Documentary Film By John Pilger Pilger uncovers the shocking
complicity of the US and Great Britain governments in the East Timor genocide -
the same governments who were willing to go to war with Saddam Hussein for his
invasion of Kuwait, but who stood aside as Indonesia broke the exact same UN
regulations to rape and pillage East Timor using Western arms. Former wall street broker, Max Keiser, investigates the US
economy and reveals how the American officials have maintained the image of a
strong dollar since coming off the Gold Standard. We hear from authors and
leading economists who claim that central banks have been helping to manipulate
the gold markets and keep the prices down. "The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends" takes an
unflinching look at the training and dehumanization of US soldiers, and how they
struggle to come to terms with it when they come back home. This film overrides
familiar images of heroic soldiers in battle and their overjoyed returning faces
as they reunite with their families with one effortless stroke. Instead, we see
a scenario that includes illness, amputation and injury, depression and
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), of which Iraq has become a fertile
breeding ground. While America's poor treatment of veterans is not news to most,
"The Ground Truth" makes it so personal and real, it is impossible to
dismiss its characters simply as war statistics. The Future of Food offers an in-depth investigation into the
disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods
that have quietly filled grocery store shelves for the past decade International award-winning filmmaker Kevin P. Miller of Well
TV announced the release of a new documentary about the threat to medical
freedom of choice. 'We Become Silent: The Last Days of Health Freedom' details
the ongoing attempts by multinational pharmaceutical interests and giant food
companies — in concert with the WTO, the WHO and others — to limit the
public’s access to herbs, vitamins and other therapies. Michael Parenti is one of America's most astute and engaging
political analysts. In this talk, he describes how divisions of race and gender
have played into -- and often against -- struggles for economic justice and
human rights. He calls on progressive activists to focus on fighting the
oppressive power structures that are at the base of wars and economic injustices
rather than on differences among ourselves. America's post-9/11 war on terror is a logical impossibility.
The U.S. government has been, and continues to be, a major supporter of
state-supported terrorism, favoring retaliatory or preemptive aggression over
mediation in the world court, and avoiding accountability by excluding itself
from the globally accepted definition of terrorism. The hypocrisy of the U.S.
government is powerfully scrutinized in Distorted Morality, a scathing thesis
presented by renowned scholar Noam Chomsky. A documentary film by John Pilger. 'Global economy' is a
modern Orwellian term. On the surface, it is instant financial trading, mobile
phones, McDonald's, Starbucks, holidays booked on the net. Beneath this gloss,
it is the globalisation of poverty, a world where most human beings never make a
phone call and live on less than two dollars a day, where 6,000 children die
every day from diarrhea because most have no access to clean water. The Federal Reserve, or the Fed as it is lovingly called, may
be one of the most mysterious entities in modern American government. Created
during Wilson's presidency to protect the economy in times of financial turmoil,
its real business remains to be discovered. During the Wilson presidency, the
U.S. government sanctions the creation of the Federal Reserve. Thought by many
to be a government organization maintained to provide financial accountability
in the event of a domestic depression, the actual business of the Fed is
shrouded in secrecy. Many Americans will be shocked to discover that the
principle business of the Fed is to print money from nothing, lend it to the
U.S. government and charge interest on these loans. Who keeps the interest? Good
question. Find out as the connective tissue between this and other top-secret
international organizations is explored and exposed. This is an extraordinary film about the creation of the
American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic
dominance and its psychopathic tendencies, and its incredible ambition to
influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit. Bill Moyers, the respected TV journalist, analyzes the threats
to constitutional government posed by an illegitimate network operating from
within the government but using secrecy to set itself up outside of the
government / peoples oversight. All this back in 1987. This documentary gives a
fascinating overview of what has actually happened in the last 50 years
regarding the CIA and the Cold War (including Iran, Guatamala, Cuba, Vietnam and
Chile). The foundation for the massive push towards greater secrecy in
government going on today. Posted by Robert Carrillo Cohen producer
"HACKING DEMOCRACY." John Perkins is interviewed by DemocracyNow.org. Mr. Perkins
was recruited by the NSA to strongarm countries into doing the bidding of the
U.S. If he was unable to convince the country's leader to comply, then that
leader would be assassinated. Hugo Chavez has been unwilling to comply with the
leverage or bribery tactics of the U.S. We simply ask you the viewer, "Who
is the bigger threat to world peace and stability?" Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the
Media "Could a media system, controlled by a
few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be
able to turn lies into truth?..." Whatever you think you know about our election systems or
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, this film will make you question further why the
news media fails to accurately inform the public. Directed by GNN's Ian Inaba,
creator of Eminem's "Mosh" music video, American Blackout critically
examines the contemporary tactics used to control our democratic process and
silence voices of political dissent.
Dylan Avery, Korey Rowe, and Jason Bermas bring you a powerful
9/11 Documentary. Updated!!!! Released September 8th - a video from the families who fought
to create The 9/11 Comission -- and succeeded
Video & Photographic evidence of the largest cover-up in
modern history If you watch no other film about 9-11 watch this one! "Deception is a state of mind and the mind of the
State" - James Jesus Angleton, Head of CIA Counter Intelligence
1954-1974 Originally aired on BBC2 in 1992, 'Operation Gladio' reveals 'Gladio',
the secret state-sponsored terror network operating in Europe. This BBC series
is about a far-right secret army, operated by the CIA and MI6 through NATO,
which killed hundreds of innocent Europeans and attempted to blame the deaths on
Baader Meinhof, Red Brigades and other left wing groups. Known as 'stay-behinds'
these armies were given access to military equipment which was supposed to be
used for sabotage after a Soviet invasion. Instead it was used in massacres
across mainland Europe as part of a CIA Strategy of Tension. Gladio killing
sprees in Belgium and Italy were carried out for the purpose of frightening the
national political classes into adopting U.S. policies. Director Allan
Frankovich Aaron Russo joins Alex Jones for a fascinating sit-down in
depth video interview on a plethora of important subjects. Aaron begins by
describing how the draconian and mafia tactics of Chicago police woke him up to
the fact that America wasn't free after his nightclub was routinely raided and
he was forced to pay protection money. Aaron and Alex then cover a broad range
of topics including the private run for profit federal reserve, Aaron's
experience in the late 80's with the IRS when they retroactively passed laws to
punish silver and gold traders, the real meaning of the word
"democracy," what really happened on 9/11 and Aaron's relationship
with Nick Rockefeller, who personally tried to recruit him on behalf of the CFR.
Aaron also relates how Rockefeller told him that the elite created women's
liberation to destroy the family and how they want to ultimately microchip and
control the entire population. Rockefeller also told before 9/11 Russo that an
unexpected "event" would catalyze the U.S. to invade Afghanistan and
Iraq. Marcella Brooks served as foreman of the jury in the trial of
Whitey Harrell detailed in "Aaron Russo's America: From Freedom To
Fascism" (see above). Her account of the deliberations of this jury is both
powerful and stirring due to the facts of the situation, combined with her
tremendous personal credibility. The scariest film you'll see this year. It will leave you
slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After
watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what
it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered. Producer/director Aaron
Russo and the folks at Cinema Libre Studio deserve to be heralded as heroes of a
post-modern New American Revolution. This is shocking stuff. You'll be angry,
you'll be disgusted, but you may actually break out in a cold sweat and feel a
sickness deep in your gut. A 3 1/2 hour non-fiction, historical documentary that traces
the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the world
today. The modern political power structure has its roots in the hidden
manipulation and accumulation of gold and other forms of money. The development
of fractional reserve banking practices in the 17th century brought to a cunning
sophistication the secret techniques initially used by goldsmiths fraudulently
to accumulate wealth. With the formation of the privately-owned Bank of England
in 1694, the yoke of economic slavery to a privately-owned "central"
bank was first forced upon the backs of an entire nation, not removed but only
made heavier with the passing of the three centuries to our day. Nation after
nation, including America, has fallen prey to this cabal of international
central bankers. In Debt We Trust is the latest film from Danny Schechter,
"The News Dissector," director of the internationally distributed and
award-winning WMD (Weapons of Mass Deception), an expose of the media's role in
the Iraq War.
The Emmy-winning former ABC News and CNN producer's new
hard-hitting documentary investigates why so many Americans are being strangled
by debt. It is a journalistic confrontation with what former Reagan advisor
Kevin Phillips calls "Financialization"--the "powerful emergence
of a debt-and-credit industrial complex."
News for the common man because the
elite already know!
Please pass it on.The War For Oil
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Secrets of the CIA
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The Myth of the Liberal Media
The Propaganda Model Of News
With Noam Chomsky, Edward Herman and Justin Lewis
The Killing Zone
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Bushs Global Warming Coverup
One of them believes the publication of his report, which catalogues the
unprecedented rate of ice melt in the Arctic, was delayed as Americans prepared
to vote in 2004.
The scientists claim that when Bush came to power in 2000 his administration
selected advice which argued that global warming was not a result of human
activities and that the phenomenon could be natural.
But one of the people who suggested the president adopt that position explains
to Panorama how he has changed his point of view: "It's now 2006. I think
most people would conclude that there is global warming taking place and that
the behaviour of humans is affecting the climate. I am not the administration.
What they want to do is their business. it has nothing to do with what I
believe."
In the last six years most industrialised nations have cut greenhouse gas
emissions but under Bush America's emissions have increased by an average of one
per cent a year.
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Bush's Family Fortune
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Bush Dynasty
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Why We Fight
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Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers
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PETA - Meet your Meat
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The Naked Truth
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TerrorStorm
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The Century of the Self (Parts 1-4)
Please Feel Free To Repost This Series Wherever You Can So As To Inform Others
Of The History & Foundations Of Our Inner And Outer Environments Of
Consumerism, The Violently Oppressive & Disrespectful Facades Of Democracy,
As Well As Redefining The Rotten Roots Of The Present Systematic
Psychopathologies Ruling Over Us In The Form Of Governments, Organized
Religions, Educational Institutions, Pop-Culture, And Corporations.
Part 1:
Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes
controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and
the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose
interests? Freud provided useful tools for understanding the secret desires of
the masses. Unwittingly, his work served as the precursor to a world full of
political spin doctors, marketing moguls, and society's belief that the pursuit
of satisfaction and happiness is man's ultimate goal.
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Part 2:
The Century of the Self part 2 The programme explores how those in power in
post-war America used Freud's ideas about the unconscious mind to try and
control the masses. Politicians and planners came to believe Freud's underlying
premise - that deep within all human beings were dangerous and irrational
desires and fears. They were convinced that it was the unleashing of these
instincts that had led to the barbarism of Nazi Germany. To stop it ever
happening again they set out to find ways to control this hidden enemy within
the human mind.
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Part 3:
In the 1960s, a radical group of psychotherapists challenged the influence of
Freudian ideas in America. They were inspired by the ideas of Wilhelm Reich, a
pupil of Freud's, who had turned against him and was hated by the Freud family.
He believed that the inner self did not need to be repressed and controlled. It
should be encouraged to express itself. Out of this came a political movement
that sought to create new beings free of the psychological conformity that had
been implanted in people's minds by business and politics. This programme shows
how this rapidly developed in America through self-help movements like Werber
Erhard's Erhard Seminar Training - into the irresistible rise of the expressive
self: the Me Generation.
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Part 4:
This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America,
turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfil the inner
desires of the self. Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led
by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by
psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies
to people's inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with
products. The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of
democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But
what they didn't realise was that the aim of those who had originally created
these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of
controlling them.
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Conspiracy of Silence - US Politicians Pedophile Ring
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The Disclosure Project - US government staff confirm UFOs are
real
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The Ufo lecture by Philip Schneider that got him murdered
Phil was a geologist, structural engineer, and underground tunneling expert who
participated in the construction of many deep underground cities and bases in
North America and abroad for the government. In May of 1995, suffering from
terminal cancer, he began giving talks in Las Vegas describing in detail the
underground cities, the government's secret deal with negative aliens, high
alien technology being employed by the government-including "corbamite"
(element 140), mining on the moon, FEMA and martial law, the coming New World
Order takeover, the Alien/ NWO genocide agenda to reduce the earth's population
by 85% before 2029, and a host of other stunning revelations. Al Bielek and
other insiders who knew Phil Schneider well, have always confirmed that Phil's
info came from very high sources, was deep black, and highly accurate.
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Behold a Pale Horse
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The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror
Martial Law
9-11: Rise of the Police State
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U.S. Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
How Israel manipulates and distorts American public perceptions
Through the voices of scholars, media critics, peace activists, religious
figures, and Middle East experts, Peace, Propaganda & the Promised Land
carefully analyzes and explains how--through the use of language, framing and
context--the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza remains hidden in the
news media, and Israeli colonization of the occupied terrorities appears to be a
defensive move rather than an offensive one.
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Arundhati Roy on the Israeli / Palestinian Conflict
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Mind Control: America's Secret War
MIND CONTROL blows the lid off years of chilling experiments, drawing on
documents reluctantly released through the Freedom of Information Act and
interviews with some of the victims, including a woman whose past was literally
taken away. Hear from John Marks, the author of In Search of the Manchurian
Candidate, who broke the story of the CIA's abuses by unraveling the mysteries
contained in financial records. All the other records pertaining to the
experiments were destroyed by the agency in an attempt to prevent the details
from ever being known.
After viewing this important program, you'll have reason to wonder about your
own thoughts...
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Bush Highjacking Catastrophy
Hijacking Catastrophe is powerful, understated, straightforward and
educational. In a single meticulously organized hour of evidence and analysis,
viewers are treated to a thoughtful explanation of modern American empire,
neo-conservatism as a driving force for the current Bush administration.
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Aerosol Crimes 1st Edition
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Never Mind The Taliban
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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
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Death Of The Dollar
How will all this unravel? Max looks at the current US debt levels, the shift
away from the dollar as a reserve currency and the move to price oil in Euros
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The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends
For more information go to: thegroundtruth.net.
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The Future Of Food - The Truth About Genetically Modified
Foods
Learn all about Monsanto's latest shenanigangs, from patenting whole species of
life forms, creating GMO crops that pose hazards to human health, threatening
farmers with lawsuits if one of their patented gene sequences makes it into
their crops, and much, much more. Monsanto is a truly evil company that has
brought us everything from Agent Orange to DDT to Aspartame, and now they want
control of all the vegetables on your kitchen table.
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We Become Silent - The Last Days Of Health Freedom
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Michael Parenti: Race, Gender and Class Struggle
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Distorted Morality: America's War on Terror?
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New Rulers of the World
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The Truth About The Federal Reserve
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The Corporation - Intent on World Domination
After viewing this film, it becomes all too evident that these large
corporations have too much power, whose mandate is not the common good of the
people, and who will go to any lengths,legally and otherwise, in the pursuit of
profit and the bottom line.
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Secret Government By Bill Moyers
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Confessions of an Economic Hit Man
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Manufacturing Consent
Required Viewing for every citizen in the Free World.
How government and big media businesses cooperate to produce an effective
propaganda machine in order to manipulate the opinions of the United States
populace.
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Orwell Rolls In His Grave
This chilling documentary film examines the relationship between the media,
corporate America, and government. In a country where the "top 1% control
90% of the wealth", the film argues that the media system is nothing but a
"subsidiary of corporate America."
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American Blackout 2006
Many have heard of the alleged voting irregularities that occurred during the
presidential elections of 2000 and 2004. Until now, these incidents have gone
under- reported and are commonly written-off as insignificant rumors or
unintentional mishaps resulting from an overburdened election system.
American Blackout chronicles the recurring patterns of voter disenfranchisement
from Florida 2000 to Ohio 2004 while following the story of Georgia
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney. Mckinney not only took an active role
investigating these election debacles, but has found herself in the middle of
her own after publicly questioning the Bush Administration about the 9/11
terrorist attacks.
Featuring: Congressional members John Conyers, John Lewis, Stephanie
Tubbs-Jones, Bernie Sanders and jounalists Greg Palast and Bob Fitrakis.
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Hacking Democracy
This documentary exposes the vulnerability of computers - which count
approximately 80% of America's votes in county, state and federal elections -
suggesting that if our votes aren't safe, then our democracy isn't safe either.
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Loose Change 2nd Edition
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9/11: Press for Truth
This documentary presents the many-faceted events that led up to, and then
scrutinizes, the 9/11 Comission hearings. Massive injustices and mis-representations
are brought to light and "exposed" by respected members of the
mainstream American media, and from the families themselves in the narrative of
events that shaped most greatly our world today.
The families present their 2 1/2 year struggle to create an investigation and
inquiry into the events of 9/11 -- which was at first heavily resisted and even
explicity prohibited by the President and Vice-President. For an example of
contrast in funding; the internal disruption of a Clinton-Lewisnki "sex
scandal" the event was awarded a budget of 100 million dollars in total.
Initially the 9/11 Comission was only alotted 3 million dollars and their
time-limit was severly cut beyond the expecations of those who brought it into
existence.
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911 IN PLANE SITE Director's Cut
The official story of 9/11 was told on TV by field reporters, rescue workers,
and on-the-scene eyewitnesses. However, that footage was shown once on live
television in the first hours of the attacks and then it was never repeated. The
stories changed, information was enigmatically omitted, and what can only be
described as officially prescribed propaganda took the place of indisputable
reality. You will never look at September 11th in the same way again.
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9-11 Mysteries
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Operation Gladio - One of the most secret progams that ever
existed
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Aaron Russo: The Architecture of the Prison Planet
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Marcella Brooks Talk - Legality of Income Tax Conference -
June 29, 2000
These fourteen minutes are the most powerful accounts anyone could show to those
who doubt the legitimacy of issues raised by the Tax Movement.
A complete copy of the June 29, 2000, Legality of Income Tax Conference video
may be obtained at the We the People Foundation Web site, by email at acta@capital.net
or by telephone at (518) 656-3578.
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Aaron Russo's America: From Freedom To Fascism
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The Money Masters
Several short-lived attempts to impose the central banking scheme on the United
States were defeated by the patriotic efforts of Presidents Madison, Jefferson,
Jackson, Van Buren and Lincoln. But with the passage of the Federal Reserve Act
of 1913, America was firmly lashed to the same yoke, so that a small number of
very rich men have been able to lay upon the masses a yoke little better than
slavery itself. That yoke inevitably grows heavier with ever-compounding
interest, and totals over $20 trillion of debt owed by the American people today
($80,000 per American) ultimately to these bankers.
This vast accumulation of wealth concentrates immense power and despotic
economic domination in the hands of the few central bankers "who are able
to govern credit and its allotment, for this reason supplying, so to speak, the
life-blood to the entire economic body, and grasping, as it were, in their hands
the very soul of the economy so that no one dare breathe against their
will." A worldwide tyranny is gradually being imposed, hidden to most, by
THE MONEY MASTERS.
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In Debt We Trust - America Before the Bubble Bursts
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05/07/07
The
IRS, Amero And The Battleground For Liberty
How
Corporate Media Censorship Shapes Election Choices
The
Deserter's Tale
Grassley
Demands Answers on Ethanol From Oil Execs
S1082
- What Is Really Going On At The FDA
05/06/07
America's
Deadly "Love" Embrace
When
will American people be told the truth about Iraq?
US
And EU Agree 'Single Market'
EU/US
Merger: New Global Order By Stealth
Rights
groups: Shin Bet torturing jailed Palestinians
With
New Clout, Antiwar Groups Push Democrats
Zinn
calls for activism
Foreclosures
surge on mortgage woes
A
Slowdown or a Recession in the U.S. in 2008?
Hitler's
Carmaker: The Inside Story of How General Motors Helped Mobilize the Third Reich
Soldiers
admit: 'Iraq war is lost'
Forget
the meat! Why an animal-based diet is hazardous to your health
Social
justice at stake in Mumia Abu-Jamal case
The
Ongoing Iraq Intel Fraud
"Operational
Security"
Anti-U.S.
Uproar Sweeps Italy
The
"No Mercy" Doctrine Strikes Again in Afghanistan
Oil
company accused of dumping waste in Amazon
Beyond
the Green Zone's 'Gated Community,' Bush's Surge Is Failing
Hillary's
Mother-F'ing Tour Business
Scientists
Have Found the Gene That Decides How Long We Live
America's
Coming Dictatorship
Weapons
of Mass Deception
One
day you’re gonna wake up, America.
5-03-07
Sometimes you just have to be Ruthless....
We are pleased to be able to post this small amount of postings from the common man.
Who is the common man, he is a tireless crusader in a world of fakes, phony's and hooligans, for the truth and only the truth....
This man has been censored for doing this in a country where freedom of the press is thought to be paramount.
I have been censored by Lycos/Angelfire and that is why we moved this site to a out of the country location. Truly it is sad that I could not offer people the right to free medications being provided by Wal-Mart because of censorship issues as well as them having an issue with a shirt that I was selling that said" Some where in Texas a village is missing it's idiot". If I pay my money for a site or belong to a group like Facebook, MySpace or the like and I am not swearing or being vulgar in any way, who should have the right to censor me? Feel free to email me and let me know how you feel about this. raziel133@yahoo.com
05/02/07
Administration
Pulls Back on Surveillance Agreement
Bush's
Farewell Tantrum
Airing
Gonzales' Dirty Laundry
Police
State in Action -- Los Angeles MayDay Demonstration
We've
Changed the Iraq War Agenda in Congress -- Help Us Finish the Job
Spying
on Americans
FDA's
Letter To Ron Paul- Requests Oversight Hearing
Post
Mortem for the Stock Market
Enter
the Empire
Why
there was no exit plan
The
War Party
Coalition
statement in support of impeachment
H
a r l a n C o u n t y USA
Military
Wife Tells off Neocon Kristol
How
Rumsfeld Micromanaged Torture
Drug
Lobbyists Fight Pill, but Want the Bill
Bush
vetoes Iraq spending bill
A
Saudi Prince Tied to Bush Is Sounding Off-Key
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4-27-07
My, my, my, what is the world coming too,
when we have to have a website to show us what schools in the Nation are on lock
down status. The worst part is that
at any one given time we have over 100 schools on lock down across the
At a certain point you have to ask you’re self whether your kids will be safe at all.
I faced the lock down deal in
Parents who protested the abuse of the school we banned from school grounds and spoke to as if it was there fault that any of this had taken place to begin with.
In the end four parents lost jobs over this incident, 12 parents were banned from school grounds. Many, many children were scared for life.
I am providing the link to the site that tells you where and when schools are locked down. Guard your child and speak up in your community about such things and don’t let them tell you it’s not your business. It takes a tribe to raise a child, stand tall , speak out and demand changes be made to protect our kids from the bad and the good guys…
Be Blessed
4-24-2007
Finally
a solution for eco friendly moms.
Moms like me who struggle between using cloth diapers and disposables.
Well there great news, Eco-friendly diapers.
They are even flushable.
These new flushable eco friendly diapers are being marketed in the United
as gDiapers. They
can be flushed away but even if they are dropped in the trash,
they biodegrade in 150 days compared to 500 years for
a plastic diaper. Even better than that for those of us on farms ,the wet
diapers can also be used for compost.
The
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette the first paper we know of other than us to post this
wonderful story said gDiapers consist of outer pants with a Velcro closure,
snap-in nylon liners and flushable pads. The used pads
are removed from the liner and flushed. The outer pants
and nylon liners are washed and reused. The gDiapers
system has been in use in
18 years, the newspaper said. The company said the
product made its
had sold a million diapers. You can find these diapers by going to
http://www.gdiapers.com
Click on the achieves button to view any of the stories listed below.
Come on read some really great stuff....go on try it now!
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March 14-2007
The Fundamental Laws of Human Ecology
1. We're all in it together.
Everything is connected to everything
else. You can't do just one thing.
2. The Earth and its resources are finite. or
You can't get something
for nothing.
3. As energy and other resources
are used, there is an overall
decrease in the amount of usefulness. (Second Law of
Thermodynamics>
4. Everything must go somewhere-there is now away.
5. Up to a point, the bigger the better; beyond
that point, the bigger
the worse. or To everything there is an
optimum size.
6. Everything is becoming something else.
7. In most cases, the greater the
diversity of a system, the greater
its stability.
8. Nature frequently but not always "knows"
best. Note: People use
antibiotics to counter nature.
9. We shape our buildings and afterwards our
buildings
shape us. - Winston Churchhill
10. As human beings, one of our inalienable rights is
the right to live
in a clean environment.
11. Our environment does not belong to us alone. It
was used by our
forefathers, passed on to
us, and we are charged with
the
responsibility of passing it undamaged to all future
generations.
12. All persons must be held responsible for their
own pollution.
13. All persons are created with an equal right to
live in dignity and
peace and to work out a meaningful existence.
Everyone is entitled to a
fair share of the world's resources-provided
one is carrying one's own
share of the responsibilities for
maintaining an orderly world.
14. Comfortable living, in
harmony with nature, should be each
society's goal.
15. Our dependence on technology is, today, so
strong and widespread,
that we are compelled to use technology as
a means for getting out of
our environmental dilemma.
16. No national purpose however
urgent, no political or economic
necessity however pressing can possibly
justify the risk of bringing
all human history to an end.
--
Many blessings to you and your hearth.
Morgan
February 08-07-----20 Shevat 5767
Terror of Pediatric Medicine
IMVA Publications
Dear IMVA,
I am very pleased to announce the free e-book "The Terror of Pediatric
Medicine" (350 pages), which is the first of a series of books on medical
truth from the newly formed publishing company inside the IMVA. Anyone who wants
to read about the dangers of vaccines and other horrific medical practices aimed
at the very young will find this book medically and scientifically informative
as well as inspirational. Early on I say in the book "by the time you
finish reading this book, you will understand the title." I was on the
radio tonight speaking in no uncertain terms about the terrorism of the Federal
Drug and Food Administration (FDA) and the big pharmaceutical companies who are
into the culture of poisoning people and calling that medicine.
Helping children by poisoning them is not a viable option or even medically sane
though the medical community thinks so. Pediatrics is in general inhumane. It's
a group of men and woman specially trained to terrorize newborns and young ones
and their families and to feel good about it in the process. If that is not the
truth I would like to hear about it! Of course I would concede the many
exceptions, the courageous ones that step out from the herd but that is almost
impossible for an American pediatrician to do unless he or she retires.
This is an updated version of my early work in the vaccine field, a widely
published mini book: "Cry of the Heart." The new book covers in-depth
the vaccine controversy, pediatric dentistry, oncology as well as childhood
psychiatry and psychology. The book format is in beautiful html and offers us
hope and solutions for a world of medicine gone mad and is especially timely
considering the recent information on the state legislators, backed heavily by
the pharmaceutical companies and political groups, who are attempting and
succeeding in making mandatory the new and unproven HPV vaccine against cervical
cancer for all girls at age 11.
Link to the book download: http://www.imva.info/books.shtml
You have to send in your name and email address to access the download but I
will make sure that you do not receive duplicates of our newsletter.
I am off tomorrow into the interior of Brazil for two weeks to my retreat center
that I hope to turn into a sanctuary for my friends. Also I want to open up
options for my family's future. With massive climate changes in the offering I
want to have two entirely different environments to choose from. I presently
live in a modern city on the coast but want my hands in a pristine area at the
far end of the world in the interior highlands. Drinking the water as it comes
out of the mountain side is highly appealing to me.
I have been getting a few letters in protest against my political writings and
some people just do not get it. In a world of separation we have become terribly
fragmented in our thinking when in reality everything converges and has an
effect on every other thing. Principles of Oneness translate into the reality
that global warming will greatly impact our health. It is already killing many
people and will kill millions and millions more in the coming years. So will the
insanity of the president of the United States if he starts yet another war.
Medicine and health are not separate from politics or even economics as many
millions will soon learn. Even the housing bubble http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article303.html
will affect the health and happiness of millions. The economics of medicine as
well as the financial fundamentals of the world, especially the United States,
are on incredibly shaky grounds.
Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Director International Medical Veritas Association
http://www.imva.info
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It
pays to read labels but tricks are used to hide MSG's presence. Hydrolyzed
protein, textured vegetable
protein are two ways to hide the MSG. MSG is a neurotoxin. It is commonly found
in kimshi and I suspect
it is why Koreans have an inordinate number of strokes and stomach cancers.
Peace, D. Mindock
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With special thanks to: Wayne Erickson MSG Information Center
Extracted from: <http://www.msgmyth.com/brochure.pdf>What
is MSG?
Current research links MSG to neurodegenerative
diseases like Alzheimer's, Huntington's,
Parkinson's, and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS).
FDA records show that MSG was never actually
tested, but it was given an automatic GRAS
(generally regarded as safe) status as were salt and pepper in the 1950s.
Children and elderly are most vulnerable to the degenerative effects of MSG.
Here is a brief list of common effects of MSG and
some curious statistics published by national organizations.
Heart maladies- More than 70 million Americans
have one or more forms of cardiovascular disease
and 43% of all deaths in the U.S. are related to
these problems. The number of cardiovascular
operations went up 287% from 1980-1990.
Alzheimer's disease, not an identifiable
healthcare cost in 1980, now ranks third after
cancer and heart disease among the most costly
health problems in America. Four million people
afflicted at a cost of $47,000/person/ year, is
$188 billion/year in healthcare costs.
Headaches & Migraines- $2.2 billion/year are
spent on drugs to treat headaches, with a 74%
increase in these chronic conditions between 1980-1990.
Asthma, which was on the decline until the
mid-eighties, now shows a 100% increase in the
death rate among children and seniors. Incidence
has increased 600% in the last 10 years. The FDA
recognizes that uncontrollable asthma" can be
caused by MSG, but stops there, unfortunately.
Tumors- There has been an 88% increase in tumors since 1982.
Birth Defects and Reproduction Disorders - MSG is
a known mutagen" (mutates fetuses) and causes
significant damage to intellectual development,
growth patterns, reproduction and gonadal functions.
Neurological/Emotional Disorders - Lab studies
show devastating effects on brain development
including dyslexia, autism, attention deficit
disorder, hyperactivity, schizophrenia, violent
episodes (rage), panic attacks, seizures,
paranoia, depression, and cerebral palsy. Humans
are 5 times more sensitive to MSG than rats which were used in tests.
Obesity is one of the most consistent effects of
excitotoxin exposure and is a growing problem,
nationwide, that knows no age or sex boundaries.
In fact, scientists feed glutamate to young
laboratory animals as a reliable way of inducing
obesity. MSG triggers an insulin/adrenalin/fat
storage/food craving response. This depletes
seratonin levels which trigger headaches,
depression, fatigue, and leads to more food cravings.
Fibromyalgia is a growing epidemic. Fibromyalgia
patients who eliminated MSG and aspartame during
a study conducted by the University of Florida
reported complete relief of symptoms (2001).
Parkinson's, ALS, MS, and Huntington's diseases,
like Alzheimer's, are all progressive neurogenic
diseases showing brain/nerve cell damage.
Other symptoms of MSG sensitivity include:
swollen throat and tongue, racing heart, joint
pain, vertigo, skin disorders, sleeping
disorders, burning, tightness or redness on face,
and gastrointestinal complaints.
Tests and Misinformation Dr. Adrienne Samuels
(Ph.D. in Research) in a 1999 industry journal
("Accountability in Research") stated that human
tests of MSG, . were often poorly designed,
included inaccurate data and came to misleading
conclusions." She wrote, "flawed research,
suppression of facts and dissemination of
inaccurate information are all tools that are
used by special interest groups to misle ad the
public and government agencies." Her research
showed that all tests to date have been funded by
or had ties to the food industry. These lobby
groups are comprised of the largest food
companies in America who profit from MSG use.
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When all else fails...Blame G-d...
Bayer
defends genetic contamination as "Act of God"
06 February 2007
"http://www.greenpeace.org/international/news/act-of-god-060207You
Yes folks it seems that according to Bayer, God hasn't been
dealing with the big issues lately. Instead of answering
millions of prayers, stopping wars or ending famines, God
has left all the important things to gather dust in the
heavenly inbox whilst ensuring Bayer's unapproved variety of
genetically engineered (GE) rice goes forth and multiplies
around the world instead.
According to documents submitted to the court by Bayer, last
year's massive contamination of US rice with an unapproved,
experimental variety of rice called LL601 was due to 'acts
of God' or the rice farmers themselves.
Pushing the blame onto the rice farmers is no surprise as
the farmers are the ones suing Bayer for millions of dollars
of lost income. The price of US rice plummeted last year,
immediately following the discovery of the GE contamination
in rice exported to Europe and Japan, where consumer
resistance to Bayer's less-than-divine intervention in
their food is strong.
The LL601 rice was originally grown as an experimental field
trial all the way back in 1999-2001. The trial ended with no
approval for growing the strain commercially.
That should have been the end of LL601 for good. But five
years later, testing of US rice imports across Europe and
Japan showed the experimental LL601 very much alive and
contaminating.
"Bayer is aggressively pursuing commercial approvals for its
GE rice globally, including in Europe and Brazil, yet
refuses to accept responsibility for the major financial
damage its unauthorized GE rice has caused in the US and
elsewhere."
"Indeed, Bayer is blaming hardworking farmers or 'acts of
God' for these problems when all signs point to Bayer being
at fault," said Adam Levitt, a partner in the law firm of
Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz - one of the law firms
leading the prosecution of these cases against Bayer.
Shifting the blame isn't new for big business trying to
avoid responsibility for their mistakes. But God as
scapegoat? That's probably a new low in the GE industry's
pursuit of the almighty dollar.
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Jan 05-2007
Sheep, Goats and CL
Some things I just learned about Sheep and Goats.
As most of the members already know I raise Jacob Sheep and Dairy Goats.
Where I live here in
In my humble opinion by the time you see these abscesses it’s already to late as this can be one of the two forms of this disease. One being internal abscesses and on visible on the out side of the animal.
I decided a while back to vaccinate the all of my herds against this disease as it has no known cure at this time and the most vet prescribed way of treating it is culling the animal maybe even the whole herd.
Well after waiting weeks and weeks for the vaccine to get here it finally came. The Vaccine in made by Colorado Veterinary Products. It of course says for Sheep…only aghhh. So I ask the feed store person about this and he says it should be ok. I roll my eyes go home and of course call the company. I do find out that there are coming out with a goat vaccine latter this year and they say it is ok although off label to use this vaccine on goats.
I also found out that if your animal be it goat or sheep has this disease in hiding it will bring it up to the top so to speak. You will know he said within the first two weeks but for sure by eight weeks if an animal has it. A cheap fool proof test.
The cost where I live for the Corynebacterium Pseudotuberculosis Bacternin-Toxoid is $8.95 for 10 doses. He told me there would be no missing the sign of external lesions on infected animals and because it is a dead vaccine there is no risk of the animal getting it from the shot.
In the future as I buy new sheep and goats I will use this and quarantine for a period of two months to help prevent adding potentially sick animals to my herd.
I do separate and treat sick animals and maybe close to a break though cure for this disease…time will tell and I will help anyone who has this in their herd if I can.
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Nov 06-2006
All 84 Giant Eagle's pharmacies in Ohio are now offering generic antibiotics for kids free with valid prescription.
Well done let's hope all drug stores step up and help provide medicine for children.
Oct 27-2006
Update for Wal-mart
1,008 more stores under the program, as Wal-Mart announces the addition of Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Virginia to the list of places where you can receive their $4.00 deal on over 314 generic drugs for 30 day scripts. States already with the program were: Alaska, Arkansas, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Vermont.
The company said in a news release that it accelerated the launch of the low-priced prescriptions because of customer demand.
and that's the story....
Oct 26-2006
Meijer's unveils a plan to help American children in need of Antibiotics
Meijer's has announced that they will give these 7 anitbiotics in a 14 day dose away free: Amoxicillin, Cephalexin, SMZ-TMP, Ciprofloxacin, Ampicillin, Penicillin, VK, Erythromycin.
They say they are doing this because they are concerned by the rising health care costs and it's dramatic impact on families across the country.
In reality it is a well thought out money making deal that is taking place almost one full month after Wal-Mart announced that it will offer certain generic forms of several low cost antibiotics for just $4.00 for a full 30 days worth.
Now of course you need a doctors script to get either of these after all they are by prescription only and a few other little catchers apply...so click on the links I have included to see if this does really help you before you get to excited.
So I have to say way to go Meijer's!!!! Ride the coat tails of the great and powerful Wal-Mart and bless you for doing so as it will help a lot of families this year.
Now if you are wondering how Wal-Marts offer works. It's pretty simple. They are offering a 30 day supply of one of 314 generic drugs including many common antibiotics for just $4.00. Currently they are doing this in about 128 of their stores in 28 states. They will expand it soon to cover even more stores and help even more people. Another thing Wal-Mart is currently doing is to offer Gerber baby foods at half off for a limited time. So I guess they are making a good effort to help working families.
So kudos to Wal-Mart and Meijer's for stepping up to give us all a little break...
If you want to learn more I have enclosed two links at the bottom of this page. One is to Wal-Mart the other for Meijer's.
Happy free shopping....
http://www.meijer.com/Pharmacy/antibiotics.asp
The Ten Commandments of Mother Earth
I. Thou shalt love and honour the Earth for it blesses thy life and governs thy survival.II. Thou shalt keep each day sacred to the Earth and celebrate the turning of its seasons.III. Thou shalt not hold thyself above other living things nor drive them to extinction.IV. Thou shalt give thanks for thy food, to the creatures and plants that nourish thee.V. Thou shalt educate thy offspring for multitudes of people are a blessing unto the Earth when we live in harmony.VI. Thou shall not kill, nor waste Earth's riches upon weapons of war.VII. Thou shalt not pursue profit at the Earth's expense but strive to restore its damaged majesty.VIII. Thou shalt not hide from thyself or others the consequences of thy actions upon the Earth.IX. Thou shalt not steal from future generations by impoverishing or poisoning the Earth.X. Thou shalt consume material goods in moderation so all may share the Earth's bounty.
~Author Unknown
It's easy to get rid of
those pesky fruit flies that come in
on the vegetables and fruit. Fill a lid from any jar with
cider vinegar or red wine. Put two drops of any liquid dish
soap. Change daily. When you don't see any more fruit flies,
leave it for three days in case any haven't hatched.
The
World's Best Ant Poison
by Jan Jensen of WELLthy Choices
We live in the woods and carpenter ants are a huge problem. We have
spent thousands of dollars with Orkin and on ant poisons trying to keep
them under control but nothing has helped. So when I read somewhere
that Aspartame (Nutrasweet) was actually developed as an ant poison and
only changed to being considered non-poisonous after it was realized that
a lot more money could be made on it as a sweetener than as an ant
poison, I decided to give it a try. I opened two packets of aspartame
sweetener, and dumped one in a corner of each of our bathrooms. That was 2
yrs ago and I have not seen any carpenter ants for about 9 - 12 months.
It works better than the most deadly poisons I have tried. Any time
they show up again, I simply dump another package of Nutrasweet in a
corner, and they will be gone for a year or so again. Since posting this
information I have had many people tell me of their success solving ant
problems with this substance, when nothing else worked.
We found later that small black ants would not eat the aspartame. It
was determined that if you mixed it with apple juice, they would quickly
take it back to the nest, and all would be dead within 24 hours,
usually. I have found that sometimes it will kill them, and sometimes it does
not. Not sure why, may be slightly different species of ants or
something.
Fire Ants: We got our first fire ant hill about 2 weeks ago. Poison did
not work. We tried aspartame and the ants ignored it until we got a
light rain. It was just a sprinkle, enough to moisten the Nutrasweet and
ground, but not enough to wash it away. They went crazy, hundreds of
them grabbing it and taking it back into the mound. When I checked the
mound 2 days later, there was no sign of the fire ants. I even dug the
mound up some, and still saw none of them. How does it Work: Aspartame is
a neuropoison. It most likely kills the ants by interfering with their
nervous system. It could be direct, like stopping their heart, or
something more subtle like killing their sense of taste so they can't figure
out what is eatable, or smell, so they can't follow their trails, or
mis-identify their colonies members, so they start fighting each other.
Not sure what causes them to end up dying, just know that for many
species of ants it will kill them quickly and effectively. As with any
poison I recommend wearing gloves and washing any skin areas that come in
contact with this poison, and avoid getting it in your mouth, despite
anything the labeling may indicate.
More information on this fantastic poison can be found at:
http://www.dorway.com
( this is an excellent website on the subject - - Martha )
The Truth About Aspartame...
Aspartame is NOT a natural substance!
Aspartame is NOT a Diet Enhancement product!
Aspartame is NOT safe - for ANYONE!
Aspartame is NOT a food "additive"
Aspartame is an UNREGULATED and UNSAFE DRUG!
(It was originally slated to be a peptic ulcer drug!)
Aspartame in liquids turns to FORMALDEHYDE above freezing!
Aspartame is even worse for DIABETICS!
Aspartame poisoning is cumulative (it adds up IN YOUR BODY!)
Aspartame byproducts get stored in your FAT!
Aspartame has 92 "Official" Side Effects (the worst is DEATH!)
Aspartame MIMICS a wide range of problems
Aspartame side effects are USUALLY MISDIAGNOSED! (By 21 doctors, in My
Case!)
Aspartame is unfit for human consumption!
Aspartame's approval by the FDA is a SHAMELESS tragedy!
Aspartame's approval for use in EVERYTHING is far worse!
Who are the culprits? FDA, Searle, Monsanto, NutraSweet and more!
The ONLY "CURE" is total exclusion from the diet!
TOTAL recovery may not be possible!
Only an irate and active PUBLIC can rid the world of this POISON!
If YOU have been affected, REPORT IT! GET INVOLVED!
FDA Audit - The Bressler Report
Jerome Bressler is now retired from the FDA but he was an employee when
all the shenanigans were going on. In a conversation with Dr. Betty
Martini, Dr. H. J. Roberts and Dr. Russell Blaylock, he admitted the
studies on aspartame were so bad that when his report was retyped, the FDA
removed the worst 20 percent. So, as bad as this report is, it was
originally worse. Dr. Roberts wrote his congressman demanding the FDA
release the other 20 percent, but they refused saying it was confidential.
Read the FDA report.
ABSTRACT: The level of aspartame in a can of Diet Coke was found to be
0.06% by a food testing laboratory. The remaining cans from one case
of Diet coke were stored under three different heat conditions for 10
weeks.
Seven cans were stored in an incubator (104 degrees Fahrenheit), seven
cans were stored at room temperature (68-70 degrees Fahrenheit). At
the end of 70 days samples were tested for levels of aspartame,
formaldehyde
and DKP (diketopiperazine). The refrigerated sample contained 0.058
percent aspartame, 0.001 percent DKP and 53.5 parts per billion of
formaldehyde. The room temperature sample contained 0.051 percent
aspartame,
0.002 percent DKP and 231 parts per billion of formaldehyde. The
incubator sample contained 0.026 percent aspartame, 0.010 percent DKP and
76.2 parts per billion of formaldehyde. In addition 10 human subjects
tasted each soda sample plus a new can of Diet Coke and rated each sample
for taste on a 1-4 scale with 1 being the best and 4 being the worst.
The new can of Diet Coke received an average rating of 2.0. The sample
stored in the refrigerator received an average rating of 2.6. The
sample stored at room temperature received an average rating of 2.5. The
sample stored in the incubator received an average rating of 3.8. The
effects of heat on Diet coke produced the worst taste and the highest
amount of loss of aspartame as well as the greatest increase in levels of
DKP. The most pleasing taste was for the new can of Diet Coke. The
room temperature sample and the refrigerated sample scored almost the
same in the taste test. All samples revealed a presence of formaldehyde.
However, the highest level of formaldehyde occurred in the room
temperature can. There was also formaldehyde present in the refrigerated
sample.
BACKGROUND: Aspartame was discovered in l965 by Searle chemist, Jim
Schlatter. He was developing this drug for another use and after
accidentally licking his finger found that aspartame was sweet. Today
aspartame is consumed by more than 100 million people in the United States.
This chemical (aspartame) has been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) who said that an individual can safely consume 97 packets
of aspartame every day. Aspartame is in many products including some
that children use such as diet soda, light yogurt, Flintstone Vitamins,
baked goods, puddings, and Winterfresh gum. It has been known
to cause headaches, nausea, vision problems, seizures and cancer in its
users.
The ingredients in aspartame are aspartic acid, phenylalanine, and
methyl alcohol. Methyl alcohol is a chemical that breaks down in high
temperatures and turns into formaldehyde and DKP (diketopiperazine), two
chemicals known to cause problems in the nervous system. Aspartame's
life is 262 days at 77 degrees Fahrenheit, or 25 degrees Celsius. The FDA
gets more complaints about aspartame than any other food or drink.
The symptoms of aspartame are a lot like the symptoms of multiple
sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease. Ever since aspartame was approved in
l985, there has been an increase in brain tumors. There is no direct
proof that aspartame caused the brain tumors, but there is enough reason to
suspect that, and the television show, "60 Minutes" recently did a
report linking the increase in brain cancer to aspartame use.
The FDA reviewed Searle's studies of this artificial sweetener in which
rats were fed aspartame daily with their meals for one year. There
were 12 brain tumors in the 320 rats that were fed aspartame and no brain
tumors in the 120 rats that were not fed aspartame.
There was also a study done at the University of Wisconsin on rhesus
monkeys. they were fed aspartame daily. After day 200 of a one year
study the monkeys developed epileptic seizures. After the study ended,
the aspartame was discontinued and the monkeys were fully watched for 60
days. The monkeys had no more seizures.
~ Keith & Susana Byron
Did you know ...
The ancient Teutons believed that on Easter, rabbits laid eggs. Thus the beginning of the Easter bunny.
Eggs were buried under foundations of buildings to ward off evil.
French Brides stepped upon an egg before crossing the threshold of their new homes.
In days of old, it was said that any egg laid on Friday would cure a stomach ache.
Easter eggs planted in vineyards were supposed to guard vines against thunder and hail.
Nov-07-2006
Notice to anyone buying a seal-a-meal from Rival at Wal-Mart.
Wal-Mart is currently carrying a least one absolute Rival Seal-a-meal.
The Item number is VS106.
It is no longer supported by Rival and several pulled off the shelf did not work.
Rival is offering to replace these free. Well it is the very least they can do, after fours hours of discussions and me telling them that I would post there response here on Ruthless for the Truth. On the brighter side they do not use a call center in India to answer their calls, so they win on that note.
Originally they asked me to take it back to Wal-Mart, but I explained I live one whole hour for a Wal-Mart so it would have been quit a task to return it and such.
The nice Manager (Bob) at Wal-Mart in West Plains, Missouri offered to bring one down to Thayer, Missouri which is much closer to where I live, an act of kindness, who knew it was possible from Wal-Mart...lol
So I will let everyone know how the new one works out for me…
The acts of the leader are the acts of the nation.
If
the leader is just, the nation is just; if he is unjust, the nation too is
unjust and is punished for the sins of the leader.
- Zohar
Non-Christians
need not apply
By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, Times Perspective Columnist
Published August 13, 2006
____________________________________
Thanks to President Bush and his plan to Christianize the nation's provision
of social services, one's relationship with Jesus Christ has become a real
resume booster. As author Michelle Goldberg reports in her new book, Kingdom
Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, Bush has ushered in affirmative
action for the born- again.
In 2005 alone, more than $2-billion in federal tax money went to faith-based
programs for such services as job placement programs, addiction treatment
and child mentoring. Overwhelmingly, this money went to groups affiliated with
Christian religions.
This reallocation of social service money from secular agencies to
religiously affiliated programs has also resulted in shifting employment
opportunities. But some of these new employers have a shocking job requirement -
only
Christians need apply.
Goldberg cited the publicly funded Firm Foundation of Bradford, Pa., as a
blatant example. The group provides prison inmates with job training, something
one would think any trained professional could do. Well, think again.
According to Goldberg, the group posted an ad for a site manager. It said that
the
applicant must be "a believer in Christ and Christian Life today, sharing
these ideals when the opportunity arises." Apparently, experience and
qualifications are secondary.
Transforming social welfare into conversion therapy was Bush's design when
he made faith-based initiatives the priority of his administration's domestic
agenda. And his success has been astounding.
Before Bush upended things, religious groups had always been enlisted by
government as providers of social services. They just had to wholly separate
their religious mission from their government-funded services. Under Bush, there
has been substantial blurring of the line.
As to hiring, the law always allowed religious groups to discriminate on
religious grounds - so that the Catholic Church could hire Catholic priests, for
example - but that exemption did not extend to employees hired with public
funds to provide social welfare. It was a simple, clear rule. If you took
public money, you hired on the basis of merit, not piety.
But Bush wiped away this calibrated distinction by issuing a series of
executive orders early in his presidency approving taxpayer financed religious
discrimination.
Some of the resulting collateral damage has been tragic. Just talk to Anne
Lown. She worked for 24 years for the Salvation Army in New York City before
resigning due to the hostility she felt toward her non-Christian beliefs. The
office she ran had hundreds of employees with an annual budget of
$50-million, almost all of which came from public sources. Lown oversaw foster
care
placements, day care services, residential services for the developmentally
disabled and many other programs.
In Lown's experience, the Salvation Army had always in the past been
meticulous about keeping its evangelical side from mingling with its provision
of
social services, but all that changed in 2003. She attributes the change
directly to Bush's policies. A lawsuit filed by Lown and another 17 current and
former employees of the Salvation Army alleges that religion suddenly pervaded
the agency's personnel decisions.
Lown says she was handed a form that all employees were expected to
complete, asking for list of churches she attended over the last 10 years and
the
name of her present minister. Lown says she was told that indicating "not
applicable" was not an option. A lawyer for the Salvation Army says the
form was
modified after complaints were received.
But Lown said that atmosphere was fear-inducing for the professional staff.
She pointed to a mission statement that all employees were required to
support as a condition of employment. It stated that the organization's mission
"is to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ."
Margaret Geissman, who is also part of the lawsuit, claims that she was
asked by a supervisor to point out gay and non-Christian employees, with the
overt suggestion that there would eventually be a purge of sorts. The Salvation
Army denies this.
Despite the Salvation Army's disclaimers, Goldberg cites an internal
Salvation Army document describing a deal struck in 2001 with the White House.
In
exchange for the administration passing regulations protecting faith-based
groups from state and local antidiscrimination regulations relative to gays, the
Salvation Army agreed to promote the administration's faith-based agenda.
Forget the proverbial wall. Here it is, church and state working
hand-in-glove, with tax money and the government-sanctioned intolerance as the
prize.
Meanwhile, money is flowing into religious coffers without anyone watching.
A June report from the Government Accountability Office found that few
government agencies that award grants to faith-based organizations bother to
monitor whether the recipient is improperly mixing religion into their programs
or
discriminating against clients on the basis of religion. A few organizations
contacted by the GAO even admitted to praying with clients while providing
government-funded services. As to kicking out non-Christians on the staff, the
Bush Justice Department says that it is perfectly okay.
Just another example of how, under this president, I hardly recognize my
country anymore.
This letter was in the letter to the editor of the Herald Times newspaper Bloomington, Indiana, this morning, it made me so mad I had to go for
a 2 mile walk to cool down, I am so mad that my finger cant hit the keyboard fast enough so forgive spelling errors.
Eliminate Backyard Flocks
To the Editor
The city of Bloomington is considering allowing chickens to be kept legally in city backyards. Meanwhile, the world is facing a pandemic
of avian flu. Originating in East Asia, avian flu has reached Europe via migratory birds, and the World Health Organization reports that
its only a matter of time before it reaches North America. WHO has also made it clear that the vast majority of cases of avian flu have
been associated with exposure not to large commercial flocks but, rather to small backyard flocks. Now is the time for county and city
governments to eliminate backyard flocks not increase them.
Jean Umiker-Seboek
Bloomington Indiana
Lets find out who she is and write her!! and this paper!!! My reply
was
To the editor
Ms. Umiker-Sebeok, Do you know where your chicken comes from??.
Thousands of poultry are raised in filthy crowded commercial barns. These large companies raise one breed, a limited genetic pool. Ms.
Umiker-Sebeok doesn't realize responsible small flock owners Practice biosecurity, Visitors are not allowed in my turkey pens.
Ms. Umiker-Sebeok should educate herself at Feathersite.com or The American Breeds Livestock Conservancy and see the varieties of
beautiful poultry .
Under the care of responsible flocks enthusiast.
We are safeguarding a very valuable genetic pool of livestock our Ancestors raised that are on the verge of extinction. Why?? They are
no longer considered economical. The public demands a white bird that grows so quickly that many die from cardiomyopathy. Commercial birds
succumb to rickets, fractures, and sores from dragging their Injured, deformed bodies through filthy litter. If uninformed people believe home
flocks should be eliminated, then the very last vestiges of the small farm way of life will disappear forever.
Consider thousands of 4-Hers who will loose their beloved pets and the opportunity to learn responsibility. Most people who raise
poultry are not uneducated with filthy, half feathered disease vectors running around waiting to infect.
Carol K
Stone Branch Farm
Home of rare heritage turkeys
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To
Our Texas Members:
WARNING IF YOU FEED YOUR HORSES PURINA STRATEGY
Dr. Robert Miller, DVM, is the person who began this email alert.
This email from Judy Jamison of Baylor Health Care was sent to Dr.
Hank Miller, Tuesday, July 18, 2006:
Dr. Hank,
Our friends in College station have lost 25 horses in the last two
days. A&M believes it is due to toxin in the grain. They feed Purina
Strategy. Both the Dean at A&M and our vet - Dr. Putnam -recommended
that we stop feeding this brand of feed immediately. Tests are
underway and I will pass on any further information I get.
Sandy at Baylor Health Care wrote Tuesday, July 18, 2006:
Dr. Miller phoned me about this tragic toxin poisoning at College
Station. He asked that we get the word out IN CASE the tests end up
pinpointing the toxin to the grain. Please pass the information on as
you feel appropriate. You can also read more about it on the website
link provided below:
Vets investigate horse deaths
Hopefully this tragic situation ends at this poor farm, but these
vets are recommending that you stop immediately if you are feeding
Strategy.
If you have been experiencing anything similar with your horses,
particularly if you feed them Purina Strategy, please email us at
info@fund4horses.org and we will forward it to the proper parties and
get you help.
PLEASE CROSS-POST THIS MESSAGE TO AREA HORSE OWNERS AND STABLES.
Thank you.
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www.fund4horses.org
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BEVERLY GAINER
Here comes
Big Brother and the Chicken Police
by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom
According to an article by Dr. Mary Zanoni,
PH.D., in the Feb/Mar 2006 issue of "Backyard
Poultry", Big Brother is about to invade the
backyards of every American who owns even one
single animal that could conceivably be used as
food. Even if you are a vegan and never use any
animal products yourself, you should be concerned
about this issue, because, if passed, the new
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations
could spell the end of the animal welfare
movement and the triumph of factory-farm
agribusiness.
For several years now, the USDA has been asking
the big producers in the meat, egg, and dairy
industries to voluntarily register their herds
and flocks under the proposed "National Animal
Identification System" (NAIS). The goal, if the
USDA has its way, is to make this registration
MANDATORY by January 1, 2008 -- and not just for
commercial producers. Even if you have only one
chicken, turkey, goat, goose, duck, sheep, pig,
cow, horse (yes, some people do eat horse meat),
ostrich, emu or whatever -- and even if they are
beloved pets that you never plan to sell or eat,
you will still be required to:
1. Register your farm or backyard flock with the
USDA, including your name, address, telephone
number, and Global Positioning System coordinates
for satellite-assisted location of your home and
farm. You will then receive a 7-digit "premises
ID number" to use in all reports to the USDA.
(By doing this, you are essentially consenting to
be spied upon.)
2. Register each animal individually and receive
a separate 15-digit number for each animal. This
will then be programmed in to a microchip and
implanted the animal at YOUR expense.
3. Report within 24 hours the birth, death, sale,
or any movement of each animal to or from your
property (even to take it to the county fair or
the vet!) -- again at YOUR expense.
If this sounds like some kind of weird conspiracy
theory to you, check it out for yourself at the
official NAIS website (http://www.usda.gov/nais).
There you will find an overview of the plan and
the stages for implementing it, plus updates and
statistics on your own state, including how many
animal owners have voluntarily complied with the
request to register their premises. (The
microchips will come later.) The USDA, in turn,
is using this "voluntary compliance" data as
"proof" that people don't object to this program
-- even though most people with backyard flocks
don't even know about it. At least one state,
Wisconsin, has already made registration
mandatory, with over 100,000 homes and farms
registered. Other states are soon to follow,
unless people wake up to what is happening and
understand the REAL implications of this for the
humane and organic movements.
Although this is being touted by the USDA as a
way to track animals in case of an outbreak of a
disease or pandemic such as Asian bird flu, the
reality is, that it will hit hardest on small
organic and niche farmers, people who want to
raise their own eggs or meat, hobbyists who enjoy
the animals as pets, and anyone who prefers
free-run poultry or eggs to those from factory
farms. There are NO EXCEPTIONS to NAIS, not even
for people like the Amish, who, for religious
reasons, do not use electronic devices. In
short, this could spell the end of the family
farm as we know it. Mary Zanoni writes in her
article:
"The NAIS will drive small producers out of the
market, will make people abandon raising animals
for their own food, will invade Americans'
personal privacy, and will violate the religious
freedom of Americans whose beliefs make it
impossible for them to comply. The NAIS will also
encourage increased industrial-scale animal
farming, and discourage the humane, small-scale
production of animal foods." (Source: "The
USDA's proposed 'National Animal Identification
System': A plan for Government Monitoring and
your flock," Backyard Poultry, Feb/Mar 2006, p.
44)
And get this: The big companies, like National
Pork Producers and Cargill Meats, get special
breaks and considerations. Rather than mark each
animal individually, they can register a whole
flock of poultry under a single ID number as the
birds move through the system from chick to
market. But backyard poultry owners, small-scale
farmers, or even classroom incubator projects
will have to individually register EACH CHICK as
it is hatched, as well as keep up with all the
paperwork that will entail. The extra costs of
all this red tape in time, labor, and equipment
(including the microchips and the computer with
internet access needed for the "within 24 hours"
reports) will NOT be funded by the government.
Even the USDA admits this on their site. For
small-scale family farms already on the edge
economically, this additional bureaucratic burden
will be the death knoll.
So I ask myself: Are the USDA and the meat
industry using the "mad cow" and "bird flu"
scares to get this plan implemented without
public protest? Quite possibly. It is no
accident that recent news stories about bird flu
show free-run birds being hauled off by workers
in anti-contamination suits, while, at the same
time, touting the 'safety" of poultry raised
under roofs or in cages in the commercial [read
"factory farm"] industry. Even though Asian bird
flu is difficult to catch unless you are actually
slaughtering birds, people are now panicking over
it. To the general public, the NAIS plan
probably sounds like a nice, modern, efficient
way to protect the food supply. But people in
the organic, vegetarian, and animal welfare
movements know that meat produced in factory
farms and feedlots is MORE likely to pose a
threat to public health. "Mad cow" disease, for
example, is not caused by free-run cattle grazing
in a field. It is caused by feeding cows
commercial feeds contaminated with the virus from
ground-up animal parts -- something a cow would
never choose to eat in its natural diet. As
Zanoni explains:
"The NAIS is touted by the USDA and
agricorporations as a way to make our food supply
'secure' against diseases or terrorism. However,
most people instinctively understand that real
food security comes from raising food yourself or
buying it from a local farmer you actually
know... Ultimately, if NAIS goes into effect,
more consumers will have to buy food produced by
the large-scale industrial methods which multiply
the effects of any food safety and disease
problems. (Ibid, p. 45)
What can you do? Zanoni recommends that
small-scale farmers and backyard animal owners
should NOT participate in any so-called
"voluntary" NAIS registration programs. I agree.
Instead, we should get organized and create an
effective movement against this unholy marriage
between the USDA and the argricorps. Here are
some activist suggestions:
1. Educate yourself on this issue by going to
the NAIS site (http://www.usda.gov/nais).
Then
Read up on the realities of factory farms,
disease control, family farm economics, etc.
2. Work to make the public, and especially those
in the animal welfare movements, aware of this
well-kept secret that Big Brother has not been
telling us about. Write letters to the editors
of your local papers, email your contacts, etc.
3. Talk to your local farmers, Humane societies,
animal activist groups, hobbyists, etc. and make
them aware of this program and its negative
impact on farms and farm animals. Hand out info
at farmers' markets, coops, organic food stores,
etc.
4. Write to your Congresspersons and tell them
you are opposed to this plan. Suggest that money
be spent instead to develop a bird flu vaccine,
as has been done with other poultry diseases in
the past.
5. As an act of civil disobedience on behalf of
the animals, REFUSE to cooperate with this
program, on the grounds that it violates your
beliefs about kindness to animals by forcing them
to be raised under factory farm conditions.
6. Organize public protests whenever a USDA
representative comes to your area to speak on
behalf of the program. Challenge him/her with
your questions during the discussion period. You
won't convince the speaker, but the audience is
listening.
7. Join "Farm for Life," an organization formed
to combat NAIS and promote healthier, more
sustainable agriculture. For more info on "Farm
for Life," contact Mary Zanoni at mlz@slic.com,
or call 1-315-265-2800.
And remember -- the NAIS is not yet law -- but it
soon will be, unless people speak out and prevent
it.
The time to act is now!!!
Rabbi Gershom
P.S. feel free to pass this email around, post it
to discussion groups, newsletters and blogs, etc.
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May 19-2005
Can you trust a Kosher label
By Shekhinah Raziel Golden-Dove Davis
A few weeks back while watching the evening news I learned about a natural colorant called Carmine.
What’s Carmine and why is it important you might ask, well I will tell you. First of it is made from the dried bodies of a female Coccus Cacti. A Coccus Cacti is a bug (Yes I said bug) that lives on many different forms of Cacti. Carmine a derivative of this little red bug.
Many well know products caring the kosher mark on their label, such as many yogurt products, some ice cream products and few other weird things (email me at: raziel133@yahoo.com and I will send you the list). Most people have no idea that this is what they are eating; this would include me, believe me I was surprised.
My first complaint with any company selling a “kosher food” with this or any insect based food color should Labeled it as insect derived; to do other then this could and should be viewed as deceptive. I would rather at least have the choice to eat it or not.
The second is that I know that since it is not a cricket or locust (not that I would eat either) that there is no way it could be Kosher.
I have talked with many Rabbis’ on the subject of whether this is Kosher or not just to hear there take on this. One of those was Rabbi David Sheinkopf, He is the Rabbi that certifies Dannon Yogurt products as Kosher with a K. I have enclosed a copy of the letter he sent me for your viewing…
I am sure after reading this you may conclude as I did that under these terms animal poop properly dried could also be Kosher by Rabbi Sheinkopf’s standards.
In my view after only reading from the Torah I would have to say no it’s not kosher and this guy with his many degrees is incorrect and needs to re think the whole thing. The rules of what is kosher and what is not can be found in the Torah or in the Christian bible’s books of Moses. Orthodox Rabbi’s who study Torah and Talmud have said no…that eating these little red bugs are not Kosher and thus the reason that the food or other item that bear a K and not the U or OU of true Kosher foods should be avoided. Rules on what they deem truly Kosher and why can be found at www.OUKOSHER.org.
From my own view and because of this I and many others are now boycotting companies that bear the questionable K = Kosher mark. I offer to you the thought of you are what you eat, garbage in and well I guess you get the idea…..
April 10-2005
Quote:
"Our
government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous
stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power
that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it ..."
General Douglas Mac Arthur, 1957
January 10-2005
Today we wish a speedy recovery to a wonderful lady, Champ.
Champ has been diagnosed with Metastatic brain cancer and is receiving treatment in one of the finest places in America, Cancer clinic in Dodge City.
So
cheer her up, click on the butterfly and post a happy thought or favorite pray
and make her day!
Sometimes when I get up in the morning I feel very peculiar.
I feel like I just have to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy!
But then I take a deep breath and forget about.
That's what known as real maturity.
Snoopy
Why and how Freecycle works
"
Recycling seems to be an after-thought in our world. There is
little respect for the foot soldier recycler, for that person who
just does it because it feels right and good. The Master Recycler
relishes in this knowledge. Yes, a master recycler has a heart of
pure aluminum. It gives me goose bumps just to say it.
My message is: You are not alone, my geeky fellow recycling friends.
The masses are gathering for a worldwide recycling / freecycling
revolution. A movement is a foot saving 33 tons a day from landfills
every day. Perfectly good stuff is being saved from brush & bulky
trash in 30 countries across the globe. And, people are giving each
other stuff with absolutely no strings attached, just because it
feels good. Rise up! Join together. United we are strong!
The drive of the freecycle network helped to save recycling in Tucson
from the chopping block of reduced budgets and lack of foresight.
Yes, my friends, I tell you there is power in numbers.
Hold your head high as you pull out that aluminum can that was so
callously thrust into the waste bin, crush it in your bare hands as
you let out your mighty battle cry and hold it high for all to see.
I AM A MASTER RECYCLER!!!!
Yes, we are indeed master recyclers and we're coming out of the
foxholes and recycling bins and we're taking it to the masses!
Keep on freecycling, brothers and sisters. It is WE who know the true
value of number one and number two High Density Poly Ethylene. It is
we who have seen the scourge of polystyrene packing peanuts blowing
across our prairies -- and as we bring this wisdom to the masses it
is we who shall be the agents of change in a new millennium. A
millennium that WE shall define with less waste and a cleaner brighter
future for our children and our children's children.
STAND TALL MASTER RECYCLERS. YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
Deron Beal
Freecycle Founder, Recycle Geek and, yes, Master Recycler....
http://www.freecyle.org/
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Palestinian
Media Watch
TV Archives -Video Library
Children are Combatants in PA Ideology
http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html
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INTRODUCTION:
Short indoctrination clips and music videos for children, promoting
violence as an ideal that is expected of them, were broadcast daily on
PATV, often for several hours a day, during the period of conflict,
Oct.
2000 - mid 2003.
The following are several examples from among many:
(Windows Media Player series 9 required to view videos:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp)
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Song and Dance to Violence:
This MTV style music video from PA TV calls upon children to attack
Israelis with stones: ´You will not be saved, Oh Zionist, from the
volcano of my countries stones¡ and is sung to scenes of children
throwing stones and participating in frenzied "war dances¡. [PA TV Mar.
2002- June 2003, repeatedly]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_AllahAkbar_7.asx
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Music Video to Children: Fight and "Don't be Afraid"
This PA TV music video instructs children to attack soldiers with
stones
and attempts to allay their fears. "Don't be Afraid" the 10 year old
sings to the 5 year old repeatedly. "The stone in their hand turns into
a rifle..."
This was broadcast repeatedly 2000 - 2003.
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_noFear_7.asx
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Teaching Children they can Destroy Israeli Symbols
.
One of the most frequently broadcast PA music videos over 3 years
teaches children that throwing stones at Israelis defends mother's
honor. In one scene young boys throw stones at a glass window -
smashing
Jewish symbols and extinguishing the flames on a Menorah [Jewish
Traditional Candelabra], teaching children that their stones are
stronger than Judaism.
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_MotherNotHumiliate_7.asx
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PA Teaches Young Children to Replace Toys with Rocks:
Young Palestinian boys and girls taught to replace their trucks and
dolls with rocks [PA TV May 2, 2001]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_toys_7.asx
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Kill all the Jews - Words of Palestinian Teenager on TV:
A teenage girl calls for the killing of Jews: ´We won't leave a single
Jew here.¡ [PA TV Oct. 22, 2000]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_girl_7.asx
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PA Children Taught to be Combatants - Visual Messages
In the very same week that the Palestinian Journalists Union ´banned
journalists from photographing Palestinian children carrying weapons
...
[because] the pictures harm the Palestinian cause¡ [AP, Jerusalem Post
Aug. 26, 2002] PA TV interviewed a child in his home - and for the
purpose of the interview - he held a Kalatchnikov automatic rifle. The
media regularly shows pictures of children with weapons.
[PA TV Aug. 23, 2002]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_kidKalach_7.asx
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Children
Groomed in Hatred
The Sydney Morning Herald
October 22, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/21/1098316785885.html
Childhood is short and bloody for youngsters growing up in the
middle of
a war zone, writes Ed O'Loughlin.
A Friday afternoon in Gaza City and a Palestinian militant group is
staging a passing out parade for its newest recruits.
On a dirt soccer pitch 24 masked recruits of the Popular Resistance
Committees (PRC) go through a program of singing, marching and very
ragged foot drill. Some clutch real rifles, others wooden cut-outs.
There are wanted men present, and two Israeli attack helicopters are
circling nearby.
Out on the pitch a masked fighter tiger-crawls to the halfway line,
pushing a homemade bomb. As a show of force someone throws a hand
grenade into a rubbish tip, but he gets the cue wrong and no one was
looking when it went off. "Allahu Akbar," he shouts anyway.
The trainees have a strange way of moving. During a simulated hijacking
the gunmen crouch and swivel like Spider-Man, brandishing their rifles
in stiff, formal movements.
When the masks come off, one reason for the play-acting becomes
apparent: several of these would-be "fighters" are barely 12 years
old.
"I want to be a fighter against the Jews," said Ahmed, 12. "The
Israelis
have no right to be on our territory. This territory is our own - all of
Palestine, not just Gaza and the West Bank."
Like all the young trainees, Ahmed wears a black T-shirt bearing the
name of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). It also shows a
Kalashnikov rifle over a silhouette of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque and
the slogan, "Kill them where you find them".
"I'd like to carry out a martyrdom attack [suicide bombing] for the sake
of God," says another recruit, also called Ahmed, 14. "The Israelis
hate
us deeply."
Up on the dunes, a crudely painted Star of David represents a dummy
Israeli position which the trainees are planning to storm as the climax
to the ceremony. But then one of the Israeli helicopters swoops towards
the soccer pitch, the crowd scatters in panic and the program is cut
short. Besides, some blokes have turned up in soccer kit, and say
they've booked the pitch.
It would be tempting to dismiss the boys' words as rhetoric and their
training as shambolic. But a few days later on that same football pitch
14 militants were killed and 40 people injured when Israeli helicopters
fired missiles into a training session for the larger militant group,
Hamas.The raid was a response to a double Hamas suicide bombing in the
southern city of Beersheba the week before that claimed the lives of 16
Israelis, and the two bombers.
The PRC may be one of the smaller groups in Gaza, but it has shown
itself capable of destroying Israeli tanks, attacking Jewish settlements
and persuading young people to die for it.
Early last year three Palestinian boys, aged 15 and 16, were shot dead
as they attempted to cut through the fence of a Jewish settlement
equipped with wire cutters and a knife. The PRC sent them.
Nothing, apart from the suicide bombing of innocent civilians, has done
more to tarnish the Palestinian cause in the eyes of the world than the
use of teenagers as fighters/terrorists.
And for every minor who is handed a bomb or a gun, thousands more go out
into the streets of the West Bank and Gaza to participate in "clashes"
-
confrontations between well-armed Israeli soldiers and boys and youths
armed with slingshots and stones.
A week seldom goes by without one or two of these boys dying - shot, the
Israeli army usually claims, in a crossfire, or by their own side, or
while about to throw a petrol bomb, or while acting as human shields for
"terrorists", or for acting suspiciously.
Itamar Marcus, an Israeli activist and former government adviser, says
the Palestinian Authority and the militant groups are exploiting an
Islamic cult of martyrdom to incite young people to hate Israel, to kill
Jews, and to throw away their lives.
His Jerusalem-based Palestine Media Watch monitors Arabic broadcasts,
newspapers and even school textbooks for evidence of incitement of
hatred.
One propaganda clip, repeatedly aired on the Palestinian Authority's TV
channel, shows a young boy heading off to meet his death in a "clash".
In saccharine slo-mo, to the accompaniment of an aching patriotic song,
the child writes his farewell letter to his parents and then gets shot
in the act of throwing a stone.
Other crudely dramatised clips falsely depict Israeli troops
machine-gunning soccer-playing children, executing an old man - even
blowing up a football. Many of the sporting teams and leagues in the
West Bank are named after "terrorists", says Marcus. So are many
Palestinian Authority schools.
Palestinian schoolbooks also encourage hatred against Jews and
delegitimise Israel, says Marcus. For example, maps in the books do not
show Israel by name.
"You have a whole society that is giving the message to kids that Israel
is your enemy and the whole land is yours - not just the West Bank and
Gaza," says Marcus.
For many Israelis and their foreign supporters, such incitement is not
something that contributes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is its sole
cause. Without incitement, claims Marcus, Palestinians would have no
reason to dislike Israel. Before 1987, he says, the Palestinians in the
West Bank and Gaza liked Israel and lived happily and relatively
prosperously under its benevolent rule. Then came the first intifada, in
which Israelis killed about 1000 Palestinians - many of them
stone-throwing boys - and suffered about 100 losses in return.
"The first intifada was a few thousand people in a population of a few
million," says Marcus. "This was something that wasn't spontaneous. It
was very carefully directed. There was money coming in, people inciting
the kids, paying the kids and giving them candy."
The Palestinians - and indeed many Israelis - take a different view of
race relations in the Holy Land.
"We don't have to deny the hatred," says Dr Iyad Sarraj, a leading
child
psychiatrist in the Gaza Strip. "The Israelis are full of hatred for us
too. We have reasons and so do they."
Direct experience of raids and assassinations has left a third of Gaza's
children with the full symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder,
according to Sarraj's studies. Another third are well on their way.
"At school they are restless. They are aggressive, violent. Gaza has the
highest rate of bed-wetting in the world. They don't sleep well and they
have nightmares. They have flashbacks of things they have seen. And when
you tell them to draw, everything you see is blood and violence and
Apache helicopters and tanks and F16s and dead bodies.
"When you ask these children what they'd like to be when they are older,
36 per cent of 12-year-old boys say they want to be a martyr. Death is a
way out for them. To them it is a source of hope."
Although he sees Israel's occupation as the primary cause of the
problem, Serraj also accuses militant groups and Palestinian Authority
leaders of taking advantage of the violence and the poverty of daily
life to recruit children as young as eight into their "summer camps".
Raed Othman, director of the non-governmental Palestinian network Maan
TV, has produced discussion programs on incitement and related issues,
often featuring Israeli journalists.
He claims that much of what Israeli pressure groups call incitement is
merely reporting of Palestinian realities - little different from the
wall-to-wall reporting that follows every major terrorist atrocity in
Israel. But he concedes that there are problems with the highly
emotional style and rhetoric that seeps into Arabic news writing.
"We are trying to give Palestinian journalists the idea that it is not
right to exaggerate the issues," he says. "It's not necessary to use
big
or strong words in your articles. The occupation itself is incitement
enough."
Many Palestinians also complain of the crude bias and propaganda of the
Arafat-controlled Palestinian Authority TV channels. Few still watch
them. Instead, the most popular sources for news are now Arab satellite
channels like Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, Western sources like the BBC
and even Israeli Army Radio. Not that the Israeli media is perfect, says
Othman.
"The Israeli media is full of propaganda by the Government - their news
reports take whatever the Israeli Defence Force spokesmen say as
completely true. The result is that Israelis who live right beside
Bethlehem, close enough to hear the loudspeakers when they impose a
curfew, have no idea of what really goes on here. How can they know in
Tel Aviv?"
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10-20-04/5 Heshvan 5765
"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things,
nor
opposites at all without opposites."
- Plato
Race to the White House
By Shekhinah Raziel Golden-Dove
It has been brought to my attention that many people would like to hear my little take on who should win the seat of President of the United States of American. I must say I am full of words, some of which are nice and some not so nice. Many people are doing the whole mud throwing game but for me it comes down to not who I want in the White House as much as who I do not wish to see in there.
I guess when you tear away the ads, the news media and the like you see two men, much like any other men, fighting for what they believe in, wrong or right.
I myself could care less whose Grandfather was Jewish, or whose Grandfather sides with Nazis. These Men are not their Grandfathers and a lot of the world has changed since there Grandfathers were around. I myself hold no man or woman accountable for the past transgressions of their parents, grandparents and the like. Seeing as I believe one creates their own way in the world and comparing them to those who came before them is dangerous, and fool hardy. We in America all come from various backgrounds, yet the only time they seem to care about this is if you are running for a political office.
Please don't pick the President, by his smile, as we are not buying a horse, (refer to the comment above on I don't care who your Grandfather was).
I don't care about what kind of clothes they wear, only that they wear some...
All I care is if they are up to the thankless task at hand.
I think we make far too much of who they worship, or what kind of family life they had or have. None of these things make them a good or bad person, I myself know Sabbath only Jews as well as Sunday only Christians. I don't believe that playing on religion is wise or even should merit consideration, unless you own a Greeting Card company... So far me it does not credit a man to say I am this or that, I prefer to watch and see for my own self what kind of person they are.
We place to much on who voted for what with out researching the why, how and where....
I am less concerned with the draft, war and health care and more with instability.
I want to know for myself will this guy break down under pressure or will he rise graceful to any occasion.
Lets face a little truth here, no one man makes a war or makes peace, its more of a team effort either way, there are no good wars...you never hear any one say, " World War Two, now that was a war you could sink your teeth into", or we could use another Vietnam. There's a reason for that. No one really likes war, but sometimes one must have war to have peace...it says so in all the books.
Do I believe in a terrorist threat, sure...Every country in the world has good guys and bad guys living in it. Should we protect ourselves, perhaps?
I think first one must understand what and who they are, and not hide behind a name or threat. In the past I am sure as even in the now we are not prepared for terrorists...that's why the first part of the word terrorist is terror and the last part ists, meaning more than one.
Do I think either Bush or Kerry know or understand the meaning of the word, no.
Americans were the first Terrorist on American soil, just ask the British and the American Indians.
So with that said I would would ask anyone voting, to consider doing there research carefully, think wisely, and ignore all the trash and look for treasure. Do not expect any one person to be a miracle worker, there is no fast fix and if we want to end war, poverty, health care issues, education issues, and lack of livable wage jobs, then we must get up off our couches, pull up our pants help in our communities.
In reality we can expect the President to be a miracle worker, we will often be disappointed, but in reality we are are the miracle workers, so instead of wasting time and money blaming others for why the world is the way it is, change it. It's sort of like it says in the movie Bruce Almighty, It's a miracle when a single mom can hold down a full time job and still finds time to take her child to soccer practice, or a teenager who grows up not addicted to drugs. The point is the world changes when we take charge, when we decide we have made enough wars. When we decide not to let children go to bed hungry. We no longer chose to hear the excuses made by huge drug companies as well as other health care providers ( no one should have to chose between medicine and food).
As far as education, parents need to become more responsible, if you can't fix the school system, bring your children home and home school them. For one its safer, you always know where they are. They get a great education and you at that point know where they picked up that language, plus the time you spend with them will be priceless.
In regards to jobs, we need to take a closer look at the world before we decide on the truth of the American job situation..
In closing I would like to say "Hail to the Chief" and his job, there is not enough money in the world for me to want it, and since he seems to be doing it rather nicely and has not succumbed to a nervous breakdown yet, I say let him keep his Job, hell, give the man a raise for all I care. As for me, I will be out feeding the poor, fighting drug companies, HMO's, and the like. protecting the endangered lands and animals, finding and using alternative fuels, working and home schooling my children....
If you would like to respond to this or any article on this site just send your email to raziel133@yahoo.com
9-21-04/ 1-06-5765
By Wendy Bridges 2000
I may not be able to clothe the naked, but I can lend you my coat.
I may not be rich enough to feed the starving masses, but I can make you a sandwich.
I may not be able to stop air pollution, but I can stop blowing smoke in your face.
I may not be able to clean up the environment of the planet, but I can help you rake your yard.
I may not be smart enough to end illiteracy, but I can read you a story and walk you to school.
I may not be able to eliminate war or stop violence, but I can be peaceful and kind to you right now.
I may not be able to end world poverty but I can share what I have with you.
I may not be able to end pain and suffering, but I can hold your hand and lend you a shoulder. I may not be able to save humanity, but I can nurture a child. I may not be able to turn the world back into a garden, but I can plant a seed.
10-24-04/9 Heshvan 5765
Palestinian
Media Watch
TV Archives -Video Library
Children are Combatants in PA Ideology
http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html
Main Menu
INTRODUCTION:
Short indoctrination clips and music videos for children, promoting
violence as an ideal that is expected of them, were broadcast daily on
PATV, often for several hours a day, during the period of conflict,
Oct.
2000 - mid 2003.
The following are several examples from among many:
(Windows Media Player series 9 required to view videos:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/download/default.asp)
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Song and Dance to Violence:
This MTV style music video from PA TV calls upon children to attack
Israelis with stones: ´You will not be saved, Oh Zionist, from the
volcano of my countries stones¡ and is sung to scenes of children
throwing stones and participating in frenzied "war dances¡. [PA TV Mar.
2002- June 2003, repeatedly]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_AllahAkbar_7.asx
Music Video to Children: Fight and "Don't be Afraid"
Main Menu
This PA TV music video instructs children to attack
soldiers with
stones
and attempts to allay their fears. "Don"t be Afraid" the 10 year
old
sings to the 5 year old repeatedly. "The stone in their hand turns into
a rifle..."
This was broadcast repeatedly 2000 - 2003.
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_noFear_7.asx
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Teaching Children they can Destroy Israeli Symbols
.
One of the most frequently broadcast PA music videos over 3 years
teaches children that throwing stones at Israelis defends mother's
honor. In one scene young boys throw stones at a glass window -
smashing
Jewish symbols and extinguishing the flames on a Menorah [Jewish
Traditional Candelabra], teaching children that their stones are
stronger than Judaism.
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_MotherNotHumiliate_7.asx
PA
Teaches Young Children to Replace Toys with Rocks:
Young Palestinian boys and girls taught to replace their trucks and
dolls with rocks [PA TV May 2, 2001]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_toys_7.asx
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Kill all the Jews - Words of Palestinian Teenager on TV:
A teenage girl calls for the killing of Jews: ´We won't leave a single
Jew here.¡ [PA TV Oct. 22, 2000]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_girl_7.asx
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PA Children Taught to be Combatants - Visual Messages
In the very same week that the Palestinian Journalists Union ´banned
journalists from photographing Palestinian children carrying weapons
...
[because] the pictures harm the Palestinian cause¡ [AP, Jerusalem Post
Aug. 26, 2002] PA TV interviewed a child in his home - and for the
purpose of the interview - he held a Kalatchnikov automatic rifle. The
media regularly shows pictures of children with weapons.
[PA TV Aug. 23, 2002]
Transcript: http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part3.html#
Play Video: http://pmw.org.il/asx/PMW_kidKalach_7.asx
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Children
Groomed in Hatred
The Sydney Morning Herald
October 22, 2004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/21/1098316785885.html
Childhood is short and bloody for youngsters growing up in the
middle of
a war zone, writes Ed O'Loughlin.
A Friday afternoon in Gaza City and a Palestinian militant group is
staging a passing out parade for its newest recruits.
On a dirt soccer pitch 24 masked recruits of the Popular Resistance
Committees (PRC) go through a program of singing, marching and very
ragged foot drill. Some clutch real rifles, others wooden cut-outs.
There are wanted men present, and two Israeli attack helicopters are
circling nearby.
Out on the pitch a masked fighter tiger-crawls to the halfway line,
pushing a homemade bomb. As a show of force someone throws a hand
grenade into a rubbish tip, but he gets the cue wrong and no one was
looking when it went off. "Allahu Akbar," he shouts anyway.
The trainees have a strange way of moving. During a simulated hijacking
the gunmen crouch and swivel like Spider-Man, brandishing their rifles
in stiff, formal movements.
When the masks come off, one reason for the play-acting becomes
apparent: several of these would-be "fighters" are barely 12 years
old.
"I want to be a fighter against the Jews," said Ahmed, 12. "The
Israelis
have no right to be on our territory. This territory is our own - all of
Palestine, not just Gaza and the West Bank."
Like all the young trainees, Ahmed wears a black T-shirt bearing the
name of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). It also shows a
Kalashnikov rifle over a silhouette of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque and
the slogan, "Kill them where you find them".
"I'd like to carry out a martyrdom attack [suicide bombing] for the sake
of God," says another recruit, also called Ahmed, 14. "The Israelis
hate
us deeply."
Up on the dunes, a crudely painted Star of David represents a dummy
Israeli position which the trainees are planning to storm as the climax
to the ceremony. But then one of the Israeli helicopters swoops towards
the soccer pitch, the crowd scatters in panic and the program is cut
short. Besides, some blokes have turned up in soccer kit, and say
they've booked the pitch.
It would be tempting to dismiss the boys' words as rhetoric and their
training as shambolic. But a few days later on that same football pitch
14 militants were killed and 40 people injured when Israeli helicopters
fired missiles into a training session for the larger militant group,
Hamas.The raid was a response to a double Hamas suicide bombing in the
southern city of Beersheba the week before that claimed the lives of 16
Israelis, and the two bombers.
The PRC may be one of the smaller groups in Gaza, but it has shown
itself capable of destroying Israeli tanks, attacking Jewish settlements
and persuading young people to die for it.
Early last year three Palestinian boys, aged 15 and 16, were shot dead
as they attempted to cut through the fence of a Jewish settlement
equipped with wire cutters and a knife. The PRC sent them.
Nothing, apart from the suicide bombing of innocent civilians, has done
more to tarnish the Palestinian cause in the eyes of the world than the
use of teenagers as fighters/terrorists.
And for every minor who is handed a bomb or a gun, thousands more go out
into the streets of the West Bank and Gaza to participate in "clashes"
-
confrontations between well-armed Israeli soldiers and boys and youths
armed with slingshots and stones.
A week seldom goes by without one or two of these boys dying - shot, the
Israeli army usually claims, in a crossfire, or by their own side, or
while about to throw a petrol bomb, or while acting as human shields for
"terrorists", or for acting suspiciously.
Itamar Marcus, an Israeli activist and former government adviser, says
the Palestinian Authority and the militant groups are exploiting an
Islamic cult of martyrdom to incite young people to hate Israel, to kill
Jews, and to throw away their lives.
His Jerusalem-based Palestine Media Watch monitors Arabic broadcasts,
newspapers and even school textbooks for evidence of incitement of
hatred.
One propaganda clip, repeatedly aired on the Palestinian Authority's TV
channel, shows a young boy heading off to meet his death in a "clash".
In saccharine slo-mo, to the accompaniment of an aching patriotic song,
the child writes his farewell letter to his parents and then gets shot
in the act of throwing a stone.
Other crudely dramatised clips falsely depict Israeli troops
machine-gunning soccer-playing children, executing an old man - even
blowing up a football. Many of the sporting teams and leagues in the
West Bank are named after "terrorists", says Marcus. So are many
Palestinian Authority schools.
Palestinian schoolbooks also encourage hatred against Jews and
delegitimise Israel, says Marcus. For example, maps in the books do not
show Israel by name.
"You have a whole society that is giving the message to kids that Israel
is your enemy and the whole land is yours - not just the West Bank and
Gaza," says Marcus.
For many Israelis and their foreign supporters, such incitement is not
something that contributes to the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is its sole
cause. Without incitement, claims Marcus, Palestinians would have no
reason to dislike Israel. Before 1987, he says, the Palestinians in the
West Bank and Gaza liked Israel and lived happily and relatively
prosperously under its benevolent rule. Then came the first intifada, in
which Israelis killed about 1000 Palestinians - many of them
stone-throwing boys - and suffered about 100 losses in return.
"The first intifada was a few thousand people in a population of a few
million," says Marcus. "This was something that wasn't spontaneous. It
was very carefully directed. There was money coming in, people inciting
the kids, paying the kids and giving them candy."
The Palestinians - and indeed many Israelis - take a different view of
race relations in the Holy Land.
"We don't have to deny the hatred," says Dr Iyad Sarraj, a leading
child
psychiatrist in the Gaza Strip. "The Israelis are full of hatred for us
too. We have reasons and so do they."
Direct experience of raids and assassinations has left a third of Gaza's
children with the full symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder,
according to Sarraj's studies. Another third are well on their way.
"At school they are restless. They are aggressive, violent. Gaza has the
highest rate of bed-wetting in the world. They don't sleep well and they
have nightmares. They have flashbacks of things they have seen. And when
you tell them to draw, everything you see is blood and violence and
Apache helicopters and tanks and F16s and dead bodies.
"When you ask these children what they'd like to be when they are older,
36 per cent of 12-year-old boys say they want to be a martyr. Death is a
way out for them. To them it is a source of hope."
Although he sees Israel's occupation as the primary cause of the
problem, Serraj also accuses militant groups and Palestinian Authority
leaders of taking advantage of the violence and the poverty of daily
life to recruit children as young as eight into their "summer camps".
Raed Othman, director of the non-governmental Palestinian network Maan
TV, has produced discussion programs on incitement and related issues,
often featuring Israeli journalists.
He claims that much of what Israeli pressure groups call incitement is
merely reporting of Palestinian realities - little different from the
wall-to-wall reporting that follows every major terrorist atrocity in
Israel. But he concedes that there are problems with the highly
emotional style and rhetoric that seeps into Arabic news writing.
"We are trying to give Palestinian journalists the idea that it is not
right to exaggerate the issues," he says. "It's not necessary to use
big
or strong words in your articles. The occupation itself is incitement
enough."
Many Palestinians also complain of the crude bias and propaganda of the
Arafat-controlled Palestinian Authority TV channels. Few still watch
them. Instead, the most popular sources for news are now Arab satellite
channels like Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, Western sources like the BBC
and even Israeli Army Radio. Not that the Israeli media is perfect, says
Othman.
"The Israeli media is full of propaganda by the Government - their news
reports take whatever the Israeli Defence Force spokesmen say as
completely true. The result is that Israelis who live right beside
Bethlehem, close enough to hear the loudspeakers when they impose a
curfew, have no idea of what really goes on here. How can they know in
Tel Aviv?"
Main Menu
10-20-04/5
Heshvan 5765
"Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things,
nor
opposites at all without opposites."
- Plato
Race to the White House
By Shekhinah Raziel Golden-Dove
It has been brought to my attention that many people would like to hear my little take on who should win the seat of President of the United States of American. I must say I am full of words, some of which are nice and some not so nice. Many people are doing the whole mud throwing game but for me it comes down to not who I want in the White House as much as who I do not wish to see in there.
I guess when you tear away the ads, the news media and the like you see two men, much like any other men, fighting for what they believe in, wrong or right.
I myself could care less whose Grandfather was Jewish, or whose Grandfather sides with Nazis. These Men are not their Grandfathers and a lot of the world has changed since there Grandfathers were around. I myself hold no man or woman accountable for the past transgressions of their parents, grandparents and the like. Seeing as I believe one creates their own way in the world and comparing them to those who came before them is dangerous, and fool hardy. We in America all come from various backgrounds, yet the only time they seem to care about this is if you are running for a political office.
Please don't pick the President, by his smile, as we are not buying a horse, (refer to the comment above on I don't care who your Grandfather was).
I don't care about what kind of clothes they wear, only that they wear some...
All I care is if they are up to the thankless task at hand.
I think we make far too much of who they worship, or what kind of family life they had or have. None of these things make them a good or bad person, I myself know Sabbath only Jews as well as Sunday only Christians. I don't believe that playing on religion is wise or even should merit consideration, unless you own a Greeting Card company... So far me it does not credit a man to say I am this or that, I prefer to watch and see for my own self what kind of person they are.
We place to much on who voted for what with out researching the why, how and where....
I am less concerned with the draft, war and health care and more with instability.
I want to know for myself will this guy break down under pressure or will he rise graceful to any occasion.
Lets face a little truth here, no one man makes a war or makes peace, its more of a team effort either way, there are no good wars...you never hear any one say, " World War Two, now that was a war you could sink your teeth into", or we could use another Vietnam. There's a reason for that. No one really likes war, but sometimes one must have war to have peace...it says so in all the books.
Do I believe in a terrorist threat, sure...Every country in the world has good guys and bad guys living in it. Should we protect ourselves, perhaps?
I think first one must understand what and who they are, and not hide behind a name or threat. In the past I am sure as even in the now we are not prepared for terrorists...that's why the first part of the word terrorist is terror and the last part ists, meaning more than one.
Do I think either Bush or Kerry know or understand the meaning of the word, no.
Americans were the first Terrorist on American soil, just ask the British and the American Indians.
So with that said I would would ask anyone voting, to consider doing there research carefully, think wisely, and ignore all the trash and look for treasure. Do not expect any one person to be a miracle worker, there is no fast fix and if we want to end war, poverty, health care issues, education issues, and lack of livable wage jobs, then we must get up off our couches, pull up our pants help in our communities.
In reality we can expect the President to be a miracle worker, we will often be disappointed, but in reality we are are the miracle workers, so instead of wasting time and money blaming others for why the world is the way it is, change it. It's sort of like it says in the movie Bruce Almighty, It's a miracle when a single mom can hold down a full time job and still finds time to take her child to soccer practice, or a teenager who grows up not addicted to drugs. The point is the world changes when we take charge, when we decide we have made enough wars. When we decide not to let children go to bed hungry. We no longer chose to hear the excuses made by huge drug companies as well as other health care providers ( no one should have to chose between medicine and food).
As far as education, parents need to become more responsible, if you can't fix the school system, bring your children home and home school them. For one its safer, you always know where they are. They get a great education and you at that point know where they picked up that language, plus the time you spend with them will be priceless.
In regards to jobs, we need to take a closer look at the world before we decide on the truth of the American job situation..
In closing I would like to say "Hail to the Chief" and his job, there is not enough money in the world for me to want it, and since he seems to be doing it rather nicely and has not succumbed to a nervous breakdown yet, I say let him keep his Job, hell, give the man a raise for all I care. As for me, I will be out feeding the poor, fighting drug companies, HMO's, and the like. protecting the endangered lands and animals, finding and using alternative fuels, working and home schooling my children....
If you would like to respond to this or any article on this site just send your email to raziel133@yahoo.com
9-21-04/ 1-06-5765
By Wendy Bridges 2000
I may not be able to clothe the naked, but I can lend you my coat.
I may not be rich enough to feed the starving masses, but I can make you a sandwich.
I may not be able to stop air pollution, but I can stop blowing smoke in your face.
I may not be able to clean up the environment of the planet, but I can help you rake your yard.
I may not be smart enough to end illiteracy, but I can read you a story and walk you to school.
I may not be able to eliminate war or stop violence, but I can be peaceful and kind to you right now.
I may not be able to end world poverty but I can share what I have with you.
I may not be able to end pain and suffering, but I can hold your hand and lend you a shoulder. I may not be able to save humanity, but I can nurture a child. I may not be able to turn the world back into a garden, but I can plant a seed.
5-29-04
By Wendy Bridges
Copyright 2004
A far back as I can remember art has been a comfort to me. As a child my crayons and watercolors were close friends of mine. I adored my squishy messy finger paints. Art seemed to be everywhere around me. My brothers and I used to lie on our tummies on cold terrazzo floors and find designs in the little chips of stone. We would lay in the lush grass of a neighbor’s yard and on our backs, with eyes squinting in the Florida sun, shape clouds mystically with our breath. With nature all about, there was always inspiration for sidewalk drawings. Graffiti was short lived, as it was not much appreciated by the larger folk. My first artistic disappointment was when my second grade class laughed at me for using a brown crayon rather than an orange one when we did self-portraits. Well, I knew I wasn’t ORANGE! My cheeks burned red from being ridiculed and something clicked…I decided it didn’t matter. It was my self-portrait, my art and my brown crayon had done just fine by me. It was one of my better decisions.
My mother loved art and took me to see some of the galleries in Miami. We saw art for sale on roadsides, which I wish now we had purchased. She bought a modern oil painting of musical instruments from a small shop. She mounted it over the hi fi and made our living room a special place for me. She put prints in my bedroom. I adored them. One day my father came home with a huge African oil painting. My mother didn’t like the nude female that dominated the canvas, but I was in awe of it. It hung in our upstairs hallway against tangerine painted walls for years and years. Later my father gave it to me and I was heartbroken when it disintegrated one hot humid day. It had been done on a wooden board rather than canvas. It just crumbled and splintered and I mourned.
My great uncles were illustrators and made beautiful greeting cards. My grandmother, also was an artist. She painted in the afternoon on a sunny little porch in W. Englewood, New Jersey, where my father grew up. I didn’t get to know her, because she died when I was very young, but I got to know her through her art and I took crayons to her porch my ninth summer and stood in her footprints. I felt some of the joy and peace that just doing the motions can give you. The delight that seeing the colors blend was amazing and the self esteem that came from producing something I felt was beautiful with my own hands was a gift of self love.
There were encouraging art teachers and harsh family critics. When my father declared that I was an artist like his mother, after I showed him a picture I had done of his coffee cup, I knew it was true. I WAS AN ARTIST! When my grumpy step grandfather didn’t recognize the subject of my paint by numbers creation, I just shook it off. It paled in the presence of my father’s praise. Several years later I borrowed a butane torch from my garage and made my first, explosive, attempt, at glassblowing. After cleaning up the pieces of shattered bottle from all over the neighborhood. I set the glass art aside for a while.
I studied the art of being a teenager for a while. This was all about painting faces and, nails, highly sculpted. It was making clothes out of flowery couch fabrics. It was writing long stories and thousands of short notes. It was listening to music and discovering first love in a purple Renault that was older than I was. Notebooks were covered in drawings and choir was mandatory because the cutest boy was a tenor.
Motherhood, Marriage and the U S Air Force wife thing seemed to hit me like a ton of bricks, burying my art. For a few years my art got lost under diapers and the most chance it got to come out was putting a sprig of parsley on the mashed potatoes. Times were tough. and I went to work part time as a waitress . Destiny intervened.
I never would have become a glass artist if I hadn’t been a waitress at a little barbeque joint in the Florida Panhandle. I never would have been a glass artist if my car hadn’t hit empty upon reaching work one night. My midnight rescue by a Gentleman Glassblower who rented a room from our cook is a story unto itself. It was a miraculous rescue of my art from the clutches of the very, very normal…and I am ever grateful for it.
Bill Stacy let me watch him work for 6 months after I went to thank him for helping me to get gas that night. After much begging, he reluctantly agreed to teach me, but only if I promised to train for at least five years, to teach someone someday to be better than me, and to never give it up, (a vacation from it, yes, But I couldn’t Quit.) He taught me to visualize. When my husband was stationed in Michigan and we had to move from the Emerald Coast, Bill and I had glass making lessons over the telephone, with my phone to my ear, two glass rods in my hands and my eyes closed. We made swans and unicorns and all sorts of things with an imaginary fire and the memories of what I had seen him do. I arranged to apprentice during summers. Bill was an extraordinary teacher. He wouldn’t let me see anyone else’s work for the first two years of my apprenticeship, by which time I had developed my own style. When he passed away in my eighth year of my five-year apprenticeship. The loss was devastating. Had it not been for the art, I would have crumbled totally. I felt alone on the planet and I made glass. I cried and I made glass. I didn’t know what to do so I made glass. The art did its healing work and day by day I survived and grew.
Art evolved into an expression of my emotions and when I would find myself at a point in my life where I was blocked from making glass I would shift my art to another media and it would survive. I turned mud into gold in the Mid-east. Being stationed in a foreign country, without means to make glass, I took up painting again and made clay from mud salt and flour to form enough little sculptures to have a small art show. I took the money from what sold and bought a little gold ring, thereby turning mud into gold via art.
Back in the U.S.A. again, I painted eight old cars in a row before my children made me stop. They couldn’t stand one more time of being driven to school in something that “JUST” said “NO!”, or was full of palm fronds, rainbows, flowers, or angels. They were getting older and it wasn’t as cute anymore, art or not. They thought I should form a support group for obsessive car painters. I gave in reluctantly.
During the good times and the hard times my art has been there for me. When my mother died in my home after a long fight with cancer I went to my little studio and made a sculpture of glass teardrops and leather that said how I felt. When overcoming the affects of a failed love relationship I made a crown of thorns sculpture with a note that said “THIS IS NOT MY HAT!” And it hangs on my wall still. After the deaths of my youngest son and his wife I found it hard to make glass. My glassmaking went on vacation. I switched media and outpoured my grief, into painting, writing, poetry, music, and anything else I could find.
On my coldest and loneliest night when even my grief had been ridicule by the ignorance and prejudice of others I turned to my art. I did a painting, in February ,2003. It is a self-portrait, of someone I would later become. It bears the words from Julia Cameron’s book THE ARTIST'S WAY, “Treating myself like a precious object makes me strong.!” Today, as I do my art, my writing, my pine needle baskets, and glass mustard seed pendants I rejoice in my art. As I fill the internet shops with the designs that seem to be just meant to be there, I find comfort like I did with my crayons and joy of doing the work like I did on my grandmother’s sunny porch.
Each day has its challenges but my art has helped me to get through all that has come so far. I believe that there is art in all of us, that the gift of creativity is our inheritance and that this gift should be brought out, polished up and set in a place of honor in our lives. Art was a gift to me and what I do with it is my gift to the world. I was to do for my children what my father did for me, let them know they are artists like My FATHER and MOTHER.
5-27-04
This was posted on a message board that I belong to, the name of person who wrote this is with held…but below is what he writes and below that my response….
If you study Judaism
or talk with Jewish Arab, they will explain to you that the creation of Israel
is against what’s inside the Torah (In the Torah it’s not allowed for the
Jewish people to have a land until the coming of the Messiah). The people who
create Israel are the people of the holocaust. After the holocaust those people
lost the faith in their religion and believed that they need a land for
themselves. Many of those people went to Palestine and the other part went to
America. Those people are different than the Jewish people in the Arab world.
They are European Jewry, not Arab. Palestine is not their land. They also
don’t represent Judaism they only represent the Zionist movement.
Israel is using the Jewish people
around the world by making connection between Judaism and Israel. Most of the
Jewish people in the Arab world don’t support Israel and refuse to leave their
countries and go to Israel. When we condemn Israel that’s does not mean that
we discriminate the Jewish people. People should understand that as Israel is
not Judaism. The three religions were living in the Arab world side by side with
no problems for many years until the European Jewry came from Europe.
Palestine is the land of the Arab
(Jewish, Christians, and Muslims). Most of the people now are Moslems because
they believed in Mohamed and this does not change the fact that Palestine is
their land.
I hope I would not offend anyone
Reply by Shekhinah Raziel Golden-Dove:
As a Cabbalist Jew, I would have to say not only are you misinformed but completely wrong. I am all for freedom of speech but some how I fear you have crossed a line.
That is not what the Torah says or implies it is true that when the messiah king rules there will be a time of promise for Israel, but it does not in anyway mean that the now Jews are not entitled to Israel. They are, it is, and has been ours for thousands of generations.
Not all of the people who founded the modern state of Israel were holocaust people, some have been in Israel the whole time…You would be aware of this had you picked up a book once in a while.
No Arab has claim to the land of Israel, they may think they have, but they are wrong…The Jews won the six day war, again read a book. We as Jews, as Israelis are being nice, sharing our home land with the Palestinians, they are Arabs and in my view should pick one of the many Arab lands to live in, oh wait history, like the stuff in books tells us they are not welcomed any where else, hmmm I wonder why.
As for the three religions living in peace, history says other wise; Israel has been a war zone almost since the dawn of time, when the humans and Neanderthals joined there millions of years ago. It has always been fought over….
Israel is Jewish and it will remain so as long as people can read and see the lie that other nations would speak.
I once heard some one say in joking that my G-d changed you G-ds dipers..and you know I understand that now…
These other two religions you speak of have one thing in common, they are thieves trying to lay claim to my home land by tying themselves into my culture, and I must say, nothing is ruder then that….
5-19-04
Posted
From
the Four Corners of the Earth
by Tamar Yonah
Arutz-7, Israel National News
May 13, '04 / 22 Iyar 5764
http://www.arutzsheva.com/article.php3?id=3674
We are living in a time of miracles, possibly the 'end of days'
as written about in the Bible. Israel, a tiny little country,
smaller than the state of New Jersey, is a vibrant, thriving
home to millions of Jews from all over the planet. We are coming
home.
The Bible speaks of G-d gathering the Jewish People from the four
corners of the earth and bringing them home on the wings of eagles.
And what are these wings of eagles? The airplanes of today. In the
last 20 years, we have seen airplanes bringing home the exiled Jews
of Ethiopia, India, Russia, Argentina, France, North America and
Jews from other corners of the world. It truly is a miracle seeing
our siblings arriving home and building a new life in the land of
their ancestors.
I made aliyah 25 years ago, when I was 18, from southern California,
where I grew up. I was a Zionist and couldn't wait to graduate high
school so I could come home to the land of the Jews, a place where I
would be in the majority. It was hard growing up in California,
going to public school, being absent on Jewish holidays and having
to explain why I was not at school. I was tired of my house being the
only one in my neighborhood without Christmas lights; I was frustrated
at not being able to eat at friends' homes nor to buy hot lunches at
school because they were not kosher. I wanted to be home.
Don't get me wrong, I loved America, but I always felt "different".
Making aliyah to Israel was a big change (we all face some struggles),
but I also had immense satisfaction in being planted in my native soil
with my own people. Seeing yarmulkes on the bus, knowing that the store
clerk, the postman and the receptionists were all Jewish made me feel
I had found my greater family.
Years into my aliyah, after serving in the Israel Defense Forces,
studying and working in Jerusalem, and then meeting my husband, there
was another change that came.
My husband and I moved from our cramped one-bedroom apartment in
Jerusalem, which we shared with our three children (at that time), and
we moved to a "settlement" ten minutes from Jerusalem. All of a
sudden,
I was labeled a 'settler'. A dirty word to many on the Israeli Left. I
laughed at the irony. I just moved six miles one way, and all of a
sudden I am a hated person! But I found my new neighbors, warm and
friendly, and found myself in a smaller community that really cares
about each person.
Yet, things were strange in our new home. People had just moved in
from cramped apartments and/or tin caravan "trailer homes"; everything
was new and open for opportunity. My husband and I would stand in our
back yard looking at the rocky hilltops, barren of everything except
thorn bushes. It all looked so strange, like something out of the
Twilight Zone. Everything was quiet. Something was 'missing'.
Then, my husband blurted out, "Tamar, I know what is so strange here.
There are no birds here. There are no bees here. There is hardly any
life here!"
I knew he was right. All of the families that moved into their homes
still had no gardens, no grass, no trees and no flowers. The tractors
had smoothed out the rocky hillsides, the builders had built the homes,
people had begun to trickle in, but still something was missing. As
more and more Jewish families arrived, lawns were seeded, fruit trees
and flower beds were planted, and, miracle of miracles, the next year
we saw birds! We saw bees! We saw children playing. We saw families
walking. We saw life. Life had returned to eretz Binyamin, to this
corner of eretz Yisrael.
The land itself seemed to join in with the happy voices of children
playing in the playgrounds and mothers enjoying a cup of tea in their
backyards. I thank G-d that my family had a part in this phenomenon
of bringing this piece of land back to life.
My settlement, or village, is in the Binyamin Region. This is the
portion of the land given to the tribe of Binyamin. Today, the Binyamin
region, as well as the whole of the State of Israel, is vibrant proof
of the future that awaits the Jewish people. Seen from space, as when
Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon orbited over the Middle East, Israel
appears as a small green area amidst a sea of yellow, desert and sand.
Even from space, one sees the miracle!
And yet, with all this accomplishment, Israel is under fire. The last
few years' suffering under terror has had a toll on the average
Israeli. After fighting at least five wars since the state's inception,
the Israelis are tired. The leadership is tired, and much of Jewish
pride and Jewish courage has diminished. Today, our leaders are telling
us we are weak. They are telling us that we cannot hold onto our land,
that we have to surrender to world pressure and downsize in order to be
'stronger'.
Most immigrants from Western countries would disagree. They are the few
who are leaving the 'Rome' of today, the powerful and rich countries of
the West, and choosing to make their lives here. They have decided to
help rebuild the Land of Israel and raise sabra children. They are not
tired. They are educated, they are motivated and they are Zionists. We
here in Israel are tired. We need a blood transfusion. We need new
Jewish immigrants to energize us.
Just this last summer, seven families moved to our community north of
Jerusalem. They came to homes that they could rent to buy. They each
received an adoptive family, were supplied with ulpan ( a Hebrew study
course) and were greeted with hot meals. They also received guidance
throughout their first year here. All the families have integrated
extremely well. All have found their new home to be warm and loving.
They are now real Israelis, living side by side with Jews from all
over the world.
On my street alone, we have Jews from Sephardic, Yemenite and
Ashkenazi backgrounds, as well as from every religious leaning -
Orthodox, charedi-dati-leumi, Breslov, Chabad and other Hassidic
backgrounds. Truly, to see this concentration of Jews with different
style clothes, different mother tongues, different accents, all living
in a once desolate wasteland is a miracle. Each family has strengthened
our community. They have brought new blood. They have strengthened us
culturally as well as financially. They have been a blessing to our
community and Israel at large.
May the State of Israel absorb more and more of our brethren from
around the world. May we merit seeing more and more miracles taking
place before our eyes, and may we merit to take part in these miracles
ourselves.
KUMAH,
Hebrew for ARISE, is dedicated to encouraging and facilitating mass Aliya to
Israel by all Jews in the exile. Kumah believes that the time is ripe for
Neo-Zionism, a Biblical dream being realized today. Through an array of
projects, Kumah seeks to invigorate the Jews in the Diaspora - particularly
young people - with a new vision of Israel and innovative plans for Aliya. We at
Kumah believe that the reunification of the Jewish people in our Land is the
destiny of the Jewish people and the task set before our generation. Let us rise
up and return Home, to Zion.
To learn more visit www.Kumah.org
To Contact us with questions, or to discuss promoting Kumah's message on your
campus and in your community email Arise@Kumah.org
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5-16-04
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein
5-15-04
This article was sent to us by a masked super hero, his or her identity is a mystery to us, but thank you masked person, where ever you are....
It
has been calculated that if everyone in the United States did not purchase a
drop of gasoline for one day and all at the same time, the oil companies would
choke on their stockpiles.
At the same time it would hit the entire industry with a net loss of over 4.6
billion dollars which affects the bottom lines of the oil companies.
Therefore May19th has been formally declared "Stick It Up Their Behind
Day" and the people of this nation should not buy a single drop of gasoline
that day.
The only way this can be done, is if you forward this e-mail to as many people
as you can and as quickly as you can, to get the word out.
What happened to the reduction and control in prices that the arab nations
promised two weeks ago?
Remember one thing, not only is the price of gasoline going up, but at the same
time, airlines are forced to raise their prices, trucking companies are forced
to raise their prices, which affects the prices on everything that is shipped.
Things like food, clothing, building materials, medical supplies, ect.
Who pays in the end? WE DO!
We can make a difference. If they don't get the message after one day, we will
do it again and again.
So do your part and spread the word. Forward this e-mail to everyone you know.
Mark your calendars and make May19th a day that the citizens of the United
States say "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
5-12-04
We are pleased to welcome Rachael Townsend to our venue.
Rachael is a 5th grader and just eleven years old and is our newest poet.
Butterfly babies
1,2,3,4, Baby Butterflies
so cute and so sweet...
Whoooo as they fly above in the sky...
In the clouds or near the ground,
they will fly all around....
By Rachael Townsend
2-27-04
"There are men who have no authority at all when they reveal themselves, but in concealment they rule the generation." -- Rebbe Nachman of Breslov (Tales of Rabbi Nachman, Martin Buber, trans. Horizon Press, 1956, p. 40)
There are times in our lives that so many events take place, that we can hardly deal with just one more thing. It is important at these times not to lose faith in your self and the things that you can accomplish. Nothing is impossible as long as you believe it to be possible. It’s really just a state of mind. So very much of today’s world is over complicated, tiresome and at times overwhelming. Thus the reason it is important to pick your daily battles. Once you pick a focal point, it is easy to accomplish that task. If you are right do not back down, although strategically placed withdraws are sometimes necessary, to regroup or come up with other options. Again if your cause is just you must battle on. When doing this remember to do your personal best. Keep in mind that everything you do effects the entire world around you and that there is no such thing as failure. The word hopeless means to have no hope. There is always hope so long as there is breath left in your body. So take a deep breath, brush the dust off your bum, and go out there and make the world a better place….
Walk with Light
Shekhinah
Grannie Starlight and her musings...
2-17-04
Shekhinah Says:
Dating...
My experience with dating can best be related to having an open casting call. I post an add, express the type of character for the role I need filled, a brief description of what it entails. Then I hold lots of auditions. Granted I run a hard casting call. First I tell them it’s more then just a walk on part. I explain to them that’s it’s a live action documentary, that crosses many comedic lines. I ask if they have had talking parts before, and do they have any examples of this. I think most have had some documentary work, mostly dark, but experience none the less. Some I can tell by the way that they read have done nothing but soaps. So I still have an open casting call once in a while , so if you think you may know some one interested in reading for the part, well give them my
email…raziel133@yahoo.com
Grannie Starlight and her musings…
Grannie Starlight has raised many children and one of them is a military officer stationed in Iraq at this time. Having just heard that there will be another delay in returning home from overseas, disappointment is something she feels today. Moms want their children to be safe. It is an instinct.
Remember that old poster from the sixties about war not being healthy for children and other living things? I do not think many people could argue with the truth of that. I have found myself counting the days until the kid comes home. Having to start counting again is not a pleasant experience, but it is a new opportunity to put my trust back where it belongs.
During Desert Storm, I learned a lesson about letting go of my own personal fears. I had made myself sick with fret and worry. Glued to the tube, I awaited further word. I had not slept right or eaten right for about a week when I had the realization that if I did not change what I was doing, I might not make it to see the kid come home. I realized that even in war, people lay down and sleep. The Big G-d handles it all while they are sleeping. We are constructed to where we are required to butt out of trying to run the universe for a certain number of hours each day. Smart, Huh?
I used to picture a mom of a kid from the other side and I would pray for her to be able to peacefully sleep. Whoever she was, she must have been doing the same for me, because it worked. I have a choice, moment to moment, whether to focus on fear or to have faith. Fear seems to promote an endless stream of negativity, while faith gives comfort to the soul, even in the most trying times. If I were the boss of the universe I would probably tell all the children to play nice. I am not the boss of the universe, thank goodness. I do not think I would like that job, considering that all these folks were going to be all in my business, except for when they were napping.
Love is my only weapon. Everything else is a boomerang. I can disagree, and still love. I can take a stand and still love. I can look inside and see if I am coming from a place of fear or a place of faith. If I can remember to think and act positively today, I will have a better day than if I focus on my fears. Take heart waiting ones. Try just to do today, today. That way, if you are counting the days again, you just count one, this one…and keep doing that. Times come to pass, and they pass. Living well honors those we miss. I suggest prayer and gratitude as a wonderful salve for the disappointed heart.
Love and Kisses from Grannie Starlight.
Grannie on courage to be kind...
Grannie Starlight wishes to thank the kind souls of this world who reach out to help those folks who are in need. It is often the small acts of kindness by strangers and neighbors that make it possible for her to keep a positive attitude in this wacky world. Grannie had the good fortune of having a flat tire. It was good fortune because it occurred in front of the home of one of the nicest gentlemen in the world. This happened on the evening of last Thanksgiving, on the way home from family feasts. With a trunk full of leftovers and a doughnut spare that just wouldn’t jar loose from the holder, she was in a real pickle. A kindly, macho male relative, with a bad back and full tummy, had been called to rescue, but even he couldn’t move the doughnut. A thin twig of a grandpa with a wrench in his hand, appeared from out of the darkness. Hooray for heroes! He made trip after trip back to his home for various tools over the next hour. The last tool, a hacksaw (which was used to cut the rusted nut off of the end of the doughnut holder), did the trick. I told him that people like him are what I give the most thanks for every day. And that ’s that. Every day is a good day for giving thanks for all that we experience. There is always room for gratitude and it chases away the dark clogging goo of dissatisfaction in our brains. Gratitude lets a little reality in there, to lighten and brighten our perspective. I am a very whiny optimist, of course, griping about this and that, but my overall perspective is one of hopeful expectation of some ultimately good coming from it all. It has been my experience that gratitude can be more than a feeling. It can come to life in endless ways by positive action. It starts with a thought and takes a cosmic leap into action…a smile, a kindness, word of encouragement. I do not think I would have survived to be writing this had it not been for the kindness of others. Most folk would have some difficulty perhaps, believing the vast amount of material needs of myself and my family that have been supplied by others without me ever opening my mouth to ask for them. Kind people just show up with stuff, that they think I might be able to use. They have no idea how important they have been, or how many prayers they have been a party to answering. Something just gave them the idea to do a nice thing and they acted on it. I am embarrassed to confess that when the shoe is on the other foot and I get the thought to do something nice for someone, I do not always possess the courage to act upon it. This is something that I am trying to improve. Each time I do act I find it rewarding to my spirit. I don’t necessarily need to get a thank you from the recipient of my attempted kindness, which occasionally meets with a harsh rebuff. When that happens, I try not to take it personally because I figure the person may not be used to anyone being nice. I might have spooked them, you know. It is still good for me to do it. My spirit is always rewarded by the effort to act kindly. I have come to have alarm system, which sends off a silent alert, when anyone starts to tell me how they want to help me. I noticed that really sincere people do not spend a lot of time talking, they just help and be done with it. Unless you shoo them away, they just help you, period. If somebody is yapping about helping, I can usually get a more realistic grip on the situation just by, mentally, substituting the word CONTROL for the world HELP. I am not suggesting manipulation of others. I am suggesting taking the effort to be bravely genuine and taking the risk of acting kindly toward others. As an experiment you can try just doing a couple of nicer things for those around you and note how you feel. I find I have fun and am just a happier person when I exercise my choice to be positive. Check it out! Hugs and kisses from Grannie Starlight.
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