War as an Entertaining Sport
Rodrique Tremblay
The New American Empire
The U.S. is so often involved in armed conflicts, war is beginning to be seen as a sports event. For many Americans, starting with George W. Bush, the former owner of a baseball team, a war is a bit like a baseball or football game; the aim of this game is simply to be the strongest and to win. In doing so, the people are entertained and the media are occupied with subject matter to fill their pages and airtime. In the U.S., war is part of the entertainment industry.

An anology can also be drawn between bloody war and virtual video games. There is a plethora of warlike video games that children play on their computer, games where the good guys win over the bad guys by exacting justice themselves through violence. Do video games make war and violence easier and more acceptable? Hollywood also does its part in promoting and banalizing violence. In the 25 most popular films of all times, there are more than nine billion deaths! Are modern electronic wars just a transposition in real time of movies and electronic video war games?

The media also played a central role in the country's war psychosis before the onset of the 2003 war against Iraq. In December of 2002, for example, on the eve of the war, some neo-conservative media gave "pre-game shows". They openly discussed how American forces could or should use anti-personnel mines to secure certain Iraqi territories, or how the threat of using tactical nuclear arms could dissuade Iraq from using arms of mass destruction. They didn't seem to be preoccupied by the fact that the victims of land mines are overwhelmingly civilians and especially children. As for nuclear weapons, it is too easily forgotten that the U.S. remains to this day the only country that has used them to destroy civilian populations. Morality doesn't seem to count for some people when it comes to the game of war.

Extracted from the book The New American Empire by Rodrique Tremblay.

The continued madness of King George

By DOUG THOMPSON
Mar 28, 2006, 07:40


With all the public furor over his use of the National Security Agency to spy on Americans, and the near-mutiny in the Republican party over his high-handed approach to the Presidency, you'd think George W. Bush might have learned a thing or two about the dangers of arrogance.
Nah, not our despot-in-chief, King Dubya. When he signed the extension of the USA Patriot act into law, he added his own "addendum" to the law that says he doesn't have to tell Congress a damn thing about what he and his storm troopers are up to when it comes to abusing the expanded police powers included in the bill.

After the public ceremony, Bush issued a "signing statement" that reiterated, in effect, Bush's belief that the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper" and he does not feel constrained by law or obligated by provisions of the act that require he inform Congress in a timely manner on just what the Federal Bureau of Investigation and other parts of his American Gestapo are up to when it comes to snooping into the private lives of Americans.

''The executive branch shall construe the provisions that call for furnishing information to entities outside the executive branch in a manner consistent with the president's constitutional authority to supervise the unitary executive branch and to withhold information (from Congress and, of course, the public," Bush said.

Bush says he will withhold information if he, and only he, decides disclosure would ''impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative process of the executive, or the performance of the executive's constitutional duties."

The President's latest display of "I am above the law" arrogance might have gone unnoticed because most of the media concentrated on the public pomp and circumstance and ignored the real story. Charlie Savage of The Boston Globe, was one of the few who reported on the signing statement.

Yet Savage's story fell off the media landscape with a resounding thud as the rest of the mainstreamers, apparently kowtowed by Bush's threats to haul reporters and editors in front of grand juries if they dare write about his abuse of the Constitution and use of U.S. spy agencies to snoop on Americans, stuck with reporting on the President's latest road show to sell the failed Iraq war.

"Frankly, I'm surprised," says political scientist George Harleigh, who worked in the Nixon and Reagan White Houses. "I thought the story would have legs and get much more attention. After all the debate in Congress over the need for the President to keep them in the loop he simply signs away one of the key provisions of the revised act."

The revised USA Patriot Act emerged from Congress with a number of oversight provisions requiring the President to report to the Hill on a strict timetable. One of those provisions said the White House had to tell Congress just how the FBI used the expanded wiretap and surveillance powers granted under the act.

Some in Congress, like Senator Patrick Leahy, are pissed as hell at the President's claim that he is above the law.

''The president's signing statements are not the law, and Congress should not allow them to be the last word," Leahy says in a statement issued by his office. ''The president's constitutional duty is to faithfully execute the laws as written by the Congress, not cherry-pick the laws he decides he wants to follow. It is our duty to ensure, by means of congressional oversight, that he does so."

Constitutional law professors say Bush could be bluffing but history shows that Bush bluffs first and then goes ahead and does what he wants if nobody calls the bluff.

David Golove, a New York University law professor and expert on presidential power issues, told the Boston Globe that Bush's actions display a ''mind-bogglingly expansive conception" of his power and the White House's blatant disregard for the role of Congress.

''On the one hand, they deny that Congress even has the authority to pass laws on these subjects like torture and eavesdropping, and in addition to that, they say that Congress is not even entitled to get information about anything to do with the war on terrorism," Golove said.

Bush's actions are just another example of a madman who appears determined to destroy the Constitution and a country called America. Unfortunately, this madman will continue to wreak havoc until somebody puts a stop his insanity.

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War Making 101

WAR MAKING 101 - A USER'S MANUAL

WAR MAKING 101 - A USER'S MANUAL - by Stephen Lendman

I've lived through seven decades and can remember the late 1930s before WW II began. In fact, I began my formal education in kindergarten within days of when Hitler sent his Wehrmacht across the Polish border in an act of illegal aggression and began that near six year horror. I was too young to understand it then, and I can barely remember that fateful "first Pearl Harbor" on December 7, 1941. Franklin Roosevelt wanted in on that fight and did all he could to goad the Japanese to attack us. He knew with enough prodding they would, and when it came, we knew about when and where it would happen. We were ready to mobilize and join the battle, we did it, and nothing's been the same since.

FDR at least took the country to war as the Constitution says we must. On December 11,1941 he asked the Congress to make that declaration against Japan and also Nazi Germany in response to Hitler's declaring it against us. It was the last time a US Congress would ever use the constitutional authority it alone is allowed in Article I, Section 8 of that sacred document. The Founding Fathers thought that authority so important they codified it. They believed that on what is the single most important issue a nation ever faces, that awesome power should never placed in the hands of a single person. They wanted only the Legislative Branch to have it and only exercise it after careful, deliberative debate. That Branch still has it if it so wishes, but for the last 65 years it decided in its infinite indifference to abrogate it's authority and allow the President to usurp it and use it at his pleasure and choice. We've seen the result - a mess without end. We've had war after war after endless war (including the ones fought by others we encouraged and financed plus all the CIA covert mischief and abuse) with no end in sight and in every instance since WW II against designated "enemies" that never threatened or attacked us or had any intention to. Doing that by direct intervention based on no provocation, as we have, is called illegal aggression, which is exactly the crime the Nazis were tried for at Nuremburg. In the words of the Tribunal: "To initiate a war of aggression....is not only an international crime, it is the supreme crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." The worst of those found guilty in that Tribunal were hanged. Think any of our leaders will ever meet the same fate as they should, of course? Fat chance, even though the worst of ours are as guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity as were the worst Nazis.

THE RESULT OF THE CONGRESS SCRAPPING THE MOST IMPORTANT CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY IT ALONE HAS

Here's one definition of a dictator or at least one practicing to become one. It's a head of state able to decide alone with unchallengeable authority whether or not to take a nation to war for any reason. Here's an add-on to that definition. If a leader does it for any reason other than to respond to an attack by another nation or clear evidence an attack is coming, that leader is also a war criminal. Noam Chomsky believes every US president since WW II was and is a war criminal. Ditto, so do I.

This essay will concentrate on the current "war criminal in charge." With some background for the historically uneducated, I'll then fast forward to the present and take you into the heart of the beast we better get to know well and quickly before it eats us alive. I'll lay out what I call a war maker's manual, step by step or rule by rule, from when we were new at this ugly business and still learning to the present. Ready? Here we go.

I can't match the famous Chinese general Sun Tzu who wrote his masterful Art of War 2400 years ago and won't even try. But I've seen the modern day script played out enough times and think I've gotten the hang of it now. First, some basic rules:

A. Get the language right. It's not enough to say Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan or Venezuela are threats to our national security. We have to say or imply it's the new Hitler Saddam, the "crazed Arabs and mullahs" running Iran (sorry - they're Persians, not Arabs, and only changed the country's name to Iran in 1934......you can call them "crazed Arabs" though, who'll know the difference besides the Iranians), the demonic Taliban who beat up on defenseless women, or the "demagogue" Hugo Chavez "awash in oil money and trying to destroy democracy and destabilize the region"........he happens to have the most vibrant democracy in the Western Hemisphere and is selling the country's oil at a discount to poor nations and poor US communities in need. Think Exxon-Mobil would do that?Now you're getting it.

B. Always pick on a much weaker target country, the weaker the better, preferably defenseless and unable to fight back. It's then best to soften them up in advance by stealth bombing or sabotaging their strategic infrastructure. It's also best to pick on a weak nation of color (we almost always do - Yugoslavia was a rare exception), and best of all is to pick on a Muslim nation of color. Arab nations (and Persia/Iran) qualify as they're not quite white enough, not at least the "crazed Arab ones."

C. When you "pull the trigger", strike the target with overwhelming force. You know the new "Militaryspeak" language - "shock and awe." Who dreams up this stuff? You can bet it's a big PR firm, ad agency or something out of a Hollywood bad dream factory. The target country may be defenseless, and likely is, but you gotta hit 'em like a using a howitzer to kill a gnat even though a strong wind will do the trick. The reason for the "blitzkrieg" approach is it not only grinds your enemy to dust and fast, it also scares hell out of all other nations worried they may be next or in the queue and moving up.

D. There's one other element peculiar to today in the US that's not a rule but a resurrection of sorts from the First Crusade 900 years ago. Back then Pope Urban II, who no doubt believed he got his marching orders from the Almighty, launched his assault against Islam and Muslims in his holy Crusade to regain control of the sacred city of Jerusalem. When his forces finally got into the city they weren't very nice to the Muslims, Jews and even Eastern Christians living there.

It's timely for this essay to note that the Vatican has begun to rehabilitate the Crusaders by sponsoring a late March conference that portrays those holy wars as having been fought with the "noble aim" of regaining the Holy Land for Christianity. I'm sure all Muslims around the world will understand, forgive and forget.

Students of Western Civilization might also recall that Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798 for "glory" (that's French for empire) and to restore Islam to its genuine teachings (I guess meaning to bring those misguided souls back to their Christian roots). The Little Corporal didn't fare much better there than he did at Waterloo or that a latter day Napoleon wannabe is now doing in Iraq. It's a shame he's not still around to explain that to our current "head dreamer of empire." But I doubt it would do much good as below I explain the only authority our warrior president listens to.

The point from my brief history lesson is to connect it to our own present situation. For the first time ever, we now have a president, at least the first one admitting it publicly, who also believes the Almighty speaks to him, tells him what to, and he's just following orders from that higher authority. I don't think he's kidding when he says God told him to invade Afghanistan and Iraq. I wonder if that same God told him to steal from the poor and give to the rich. I also wonder what God he's referring to. It's not the one I was brought up to believe in and the principles I was taught to think are pretty sacred in the Ten Commandments, especially the core "golden rule" one.

NOW LET'S GO THROUGH THE STEPS/RULES

Rule No. 1- Develop a tradition of militarism over time. It takes many years of practice to hone skills and perfect them. The US has followed this practice and incredibly has been at war (real war with mass slaughter) internally and/or abroad every year without exception with one or more adversaries since its inception.

No other nation today is more addicted to war than the US. It seems like it's always been that way, and it has. Of course, you'd never know it from the sanitized history we're taught up to the highest levels in all our schools - even the best of them like the two esteemed universities I was lucky enough to attend. I later understood their mission was to program my mind, teach me acceptable doctrine to "make me a good citizen." It's part of the package called "The American Way." Fill their heads with mush and make 'em believe the sun is out when it's really dark and pouring rain. They did teach me how to learn though, and I've tried to use that skill ever since to discover and understand what they should have taught me but never did.

Militarism and empire go way back to our Founding Fathers including the one we call the Father of the country. Some Father. He referred to the nation as a "rising empire", and he helped build it during and after the Revolutionary War. During that conflict he not only dispatched the British (they really just decided it wasn't worth it and left), he waged a second war against our native Indians, all of whom he thought of as subhumans (American Untermenschen). He called for their total annihilation and sent General John Sullivan and 5,000 troops to attack the noncombatant Onondaga people in 1779 with orders to destroy all their villages, homes, fields, food supplies, cattle herds and orchards. He also stole Indian land from the Onieda people who aided him when he was most in need at Valley Forge. I guess it was his way of showing gratitude. The guy we're taught to revere was a racist and genocidist. With that kind of Father what could we expect from the "offspring." I'll bet they're still teaching George's military tactics to the recruits at West Point and telling these impressionable kids that "Father knew best."

George's tradition was handed down and became more robust over time. Along the way to the present day, we expanded the frontier west and south and slaughtered about 18 million of our native people in the process. Their only offense was they happened live on the land we wanted, so we stole it from them. It didn't matter that they'd been there for about 20-30,000 years. How could we let a "little tradition" stand in the way of "progress" and "development." Once we had it all from coast to coast (including the half of Mexico we also stole), we set our sights offshore for conquests and easily found a few. In our beneficence to our southern "neighbor" we let the Mexicans keep half their country, but only because the majority population was in the southern half, and we didn't want all those dark-skinned people "diluting" our white Anglo-Saxon majority.

As fate would have it we spared Canada. But it was touch and go for our northern neighbor as we coveted their land too, and it may only have been our attention diverted to other "adventures" plus a few cooler heads that kept us from taking it. During our so-called War of 1812, there were those in the US more interested in annexing territory in "British North America" than fighting the British over their naval blockades, interception of our ships and impressment of our seamen. We were humming "O Canada" again in the 1920s, when the "Canucks" as now were friendly allies with no hostile intention toward us or anyone else. We actually drew up serious war plans to invade the country and occupy it. I'm not kidding. Why? The same reason we invaded Iraq or at least one of them. To steal their oil, and back then we had plenty of our own and lots more we'd find. We also had a similar war plan approved in 1919 to attack Mexico and steal their oil too. We want everyone's oil and most everything else they have as well. One day we may change our mind and just declare both countries and all others (or just their resources, markets and cheap labor) US property by an act of Congress or a Presidential directive or decree. Our neighbors (and all other nervous nations) shouldn't worry though. Whenever we conquer or colonize we make it clear we come as friends to help them. In the old days it was to bring them civilization. Now that "help" comes in our special style of "friendship" at the barrel of an M1A1 tank or sights of a cruise missile or nuclear bomb. But "it's for their own good, to bring them democracy and freedom" and the rest of the tired old rhetoric. It was shameless bunk back then just as now.

Fast forward a bit to WW II and its aftermath when the US emerged as the only nation left standing as the world's sole superpower. The Soviets may have developed "the bomb", but the war so devastated them (along with most of Europe and East Asia) it took about 15 years of redevelopment for them to regain even a semblance of normalcy. The US was now free to run amuck and took full advantage. What "amuck" we've run since needs much more space than I have here. So fast forward again to the current era and let Nobel Laureate Harold Pinter explain more recent US policy and its incurable addiction. He did it eloquently when he said "US foreign policy can be defined as follows: kiss my arse or I'll kick your head in." He said that during the Clinton years. He had a lot more to say about the Bush administration in his 2005 Nobel lecture and acceptance speech when he called the invasion of Iraq "a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law." He went on to say the US "quite simply doesn't give a damn about the UN, international law or critical dissent, which it regards as impotent and irrelevant."

YOU GOTTA SHOW YOU MEAN BUSINESS

That brings us to Rule No. 2 - When you're the meanest, toughest, baddest guy in the neighborhood, you gotta show it by beating up on a weakling occasionally. Otherwise no one will take you seriously, and someone else might try to challenge your supremacy. That's how a local godfather does it in my city of Chicago. It works the same on the global stage as it does on the South Side here.

I can hardly improve on Harold Pinter's eloquence so I'll just add to it by calling the Bush-Cheney administration an unchallengeable practioner of reckless and outrageous policies at home and abroad and being the most reactionary, statist and psychopathic
administration in our history. It stands alone in its brazen uncompromising methods, fanatical extremism, bold and deceptive rhetoric and almost pathological insistence on secrecy. In sum - they're crazy and out-of-control. How's that Harold? It all came out after 9/11 that we now know was an event much different than the official explanation we were given. On that fateful day, the mask came off, the ugly face of a threatening tyranny could be spotted, and the bombs began falling.

So what's going on with us? Was this warped proclivity always there but never understood or quite so visible as now? Or is there something in our DNA that makes us like a modern day out-of-control Sparta? Is it a "bad seed?" Is it curable? Not a chance with the crowd running wild in Washington now declaring they'll throw nuclear bombs around like hand grenades in future wars and are already doing it below the radar in the two we're now fighting - that's right two ongoing wars, the other one being in Afghanistan which in case you hadn't noticed is still "hot" and killing US and other occupying forces. And that one has no end in sight either.

THEY PUT THEIR PLANS IN WRITING AND WE CAN ALL READ THEM - AND SHUDDER

Rule No. 3 - Write it all down clearly and in detail. That way everyone can read it and understand you mean business. What better way to scare shaky allies and intimidate and deter other nations thinking about defying us to forget about it or we'll beat up on them. It works most of the time.

The Bush-Cheney crowd try to make it work every time and since 9/11 have kept practicing to let everyone know they're not kidding. We believe 'em. But just to make sure no one forgets they just updated their September, 2002 National Security Strategy with more belligerent language than the original. The original, in case you didn't know or forgot, lays out an "imperial grand strategy." It's nothing less than a declaration of "preventive war" (the term "pre-emptive" is used incorrectly as that can only apply in a defensive action against a known impending attack) against any nation or force this administration decides is a threat to our national security. It doesn't mean it is, just that we say it is. That threat includes any nation we label "unstable" or a "failed state" (whatever that is). And a little add-on to the original NSS was their FY 04 Air Force Space Command Strategic Master Plan. It laid out a plan to "own outer space" (think the Martians will buy it), weaponize it with the most advanced and destructive weapons and technology including nuclear ones, and develop and place out there unmanned space vehicles to surveille the entire planet.

And there are two more gems everyone should know about. One is the May, 2000 DOD Joint Vision 2020 that outlined a plan for "full spectrum dominance." That's code language ("Militaryspeak" again) meaning total control over all land, sea, air and space and using any means including nuclear war to achieve it and keep it. The other jewel is the Nuclear Policy Review of December, 2001 that claims a unilateral right to declare and wage future wars using first strike nuclear weapons. Anyone nervous? You'd better be because the Bush administration declared a permanent state of war against "bad guys" we call "terrorists." I have my own definition of what each of those terms means and it's lots different from theirs. Dick Cheney gave us his message when he declared a "global war on terrorism" that may last for decades and may include in our target queue dozens of countries (the number keeps changing, but they have plenty in mind and don't plan to run out).

THEY'RE NOT KIDDING AND IT JUST GOT WORSE

Rule No. 4 - Just in case anyone still misunderstands, ratchet up the rhetoric, make it even meaner and tougher and start beating the war drums to announce you're planning to demonstrate your seriousness. That should get everyone's full attention.

If all this doesn't scare you, then you didn't read the morning papers right after the ides of March (amazing they didn't choose that day when another noted warning was made, went unheeded and led to a bad ending for a guy whose initials were JC - no, the other one). On March 16 we learned that an updated National Security Strategy outlined the first full statement of US strategic goals since the original 2002 document written in the run-up to the Iraq war and which, in fact, was a declaration of war against that country six months before it began. The new Strategy identifies Iran as the "single country" that may pose the biggest threat to the US and reaffirms our unilateral right to take preventive military action against them. It denounced Tehran as an "ally of terror" and "enemy of freedom" along with daily accusations they're trying to acquire nuclear weapons and even use them. It also audaciously claims "we may face no greater challenge from a single country than from Iran."

Iran never attacked any other nation or even threatened to. It endorses a negotiated settlement (didn't we use that ploy with Saddam) but warns of "confrontation" if that effort fails. Sound familiar? Haven't we heard that song before? The clincher will be when we call the Iranian mullahs and/or President Ahmadinejad "Hitler." And haven't we overdone that one too? Can't we let the old brute stew in his special hell without degrading his ignominy by equating all our other designated "bad guys" with him? And shouldn't the public have caught on to this snake oil sales pitch by now? You're giving them too much credit. They never get it or understand in this nation the renowned author and social critic Gore Vidal calls the "United States of amnesia." The equally renowned author and my fellow Chicagoan, Studs Terkel, calls our malady a "national Alzheimer's disease." Sadly, it's true. The public can't recall last week's headlines let alone the events of months or years past or heaven knows any knowledge or sense of history - the real kind, that is, not the mythology we're fed in school or through the corporate media.

The updated document goes further and claims the right to take preventive action against any nation we designate an enemy state or any undefined terrorist group we say seeks to acquire WMD. Again, it doesn't matter if it's true, only that we say it's true. And we never explain what WMD is, so I will. Only nuclear weapons so qualify, not chemical or biological. The war hawks want you to think all three types do, but all weapons experts know otherwise. The latter two types can only cause havoc over a small area while only the former can really cause mass destruction not only on its target but over a vast area affected by deadly toxic radiation fallout that can never be remediated.

The report goes on to warn us that while al-Qaeda has been "significantly degraded" since the Afghan war it's also been dispersed and decentralized which now poses new challenges. And it claims the "fight in Iraq has been twisted by terrorist propaganda as a rallying cry." I wish someone would explain what that means.
And there's more:

Besides Iran, clearly number one in the target queue, the document also lists North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Belarus, Burma and Zimbabwe as "despotic systems." It specifically labels Syria an ally of terror and enemy of freedom - meaning Israel wants us to do their dirty work by ousting their leader and replacing him with someone more subservient to Israeli and Western interests.

It says the US must "isolate enemy elements" but engage those willing to give up violence (read: they're violent because we say they are, but we'll forgive them if they surrender their national sovereignty to the "Godfather").

It specifically singles out Venezuela and Hugo Chavez as "a demagogue awash in oil money (who is) undermining democracy and seeking to destabilize the region." This stuff is breathtaking, and allow me to translate it. First, though let me thank and commend President Chavez for being one of the few world leaders with the courage and backbone to respond to the reckless US policy and vicious lies about him and all else by pointing his finger at the real king of destabilizers and state terrorists. In comments he made on March 19 during his regular Sunday TV program, Hello, President, for ordinary Venezuelans to call and speak to him directly, ask a question and get his response, he called George Bush "Mr. Danger", the world's greatest terrorist, a coward, murderer, immoral and sick among other things. The man's very perceptive.

Now the translation of the NSS comments on President Chavez. What they're saying is that the Chavez extraordinary reforms bringing the Venezuelan people vital social benefits like free health care and education they never had before; his most vibrant democracy in the Americas; his innovative trade agreements that are fair to all participating countries and his opposition to the US promoted exploitive ones; and his beneficent policy of helping his neighbors, other developing countries, and some poor communities in US cities like selected neighborhoods in my own city of Chicago by selling them discounted oil (or heating oil to US cities - again, think Exxon-Mobil would do that?) are not in the interests of the US or the giant transnational corporations who want the right to exploit the country and every other developing one as well for their own benefit. That means no social programs for the people, just opportunities for US giant transnationals to have open and free access to plunder for profit. We call that "free trade." I call it "the American way." Hugo Chavez and the great majority of Venezuelans justifiably want no part of it. Neither should we.

It also emphasizes the need to enhance the administration's post-conflict capabilities and to create a "civilian reserve corps" to rebuild countries after a war ends - meaning after we destroy them by illegal aggression we'll award big no-bid contracts to the likes of Halliburton and Bechtel to rebuild them......shoddily..... and steal the US taxpayers blind while doing whatever it is they're doing. We do know Halliburton is expert at building US military bases and "torture-prisons."

Finally, it states a policy to promote nuclear power abroad to provide "reliable, emission-free energy." I love this one too. This is a sales pitch for General Electric and all other US corporations that will profit big time if we can convince other countries to let US corporations build nuclear power plants for them and all the rest that goes with them. And, oh yes, these plants most definitely are not emission-free. Where I live in Chicago is testimony to that. I'm surrounded by 11 nuclear power plants, many of them aging (as are most others) and all of them have a disturbing history of safety violations caused by aging and shoddy maintenance (another common problem in many other cities). Even without a serious accident (which will happen one day), these facilities (and all others everywhere including any newly built ones) discharge enough deadly toxic radiation daily in their normal operations to contaminate the food we eat (even organic food), the water we drink and the air we breathe into our lungs. And if one of these plants ever has a core meltdown and metropolitan Chicago is downwind from the fallout, the city and suburbs alone will become uninhabitable for the next 4.5 billion years (forever) and would have to be evacuated quickly with all possessions left behind and lost (including our homes) except for what we could carry in suitcases or in the trunks of our cars if we own one which I don't. This is the kind of madness our government is trying to sell the US public and the world. But no matter. They'll do that and anything else to help their corporate friends......even if it kills us.

SELLING WAR - IT'S NOT HARD TO DO

Rule No. 5 - After putting your intentions clearly in writing and showing you mean business, the next step is scaring the public by choosing a "target country" and convincing them it threatens our security and welfare. You explain you're trying to reason with it, but if it won't listen, force may be necessary as a last resort. But not to worry. We'll only do this for our own safety and security. If you do this well enough (and these guys are experts, they've had so much practice), you hope the public will go along with your madness even if things don't go well and despite what your real objectives are.

With two out-of-control wars on their hands, why would they ever want to start another one? We don't have enough troops to handle Iraq and Afghanistan, there's growing discontent in the ranks including desertions in the thousands, and our military spending is off the charts and running up massive budget deficits even the new Fed chairman is alarmed about. He and other experts know they're only sustainable by "the kindness of strangers" that one day may become less kind as well as the wholesale shredding of our social safety net to fund wars. For me that's a clinical definition of insanity, but that doesn't deter this crowd. The war drums are beating loudly and the demonizing of our new number one public enemy is clearly Iran. In mid-February Secretary of State Rice told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the US would "actively confront" Iran and asked for an extra $75 million in funding for anti-Tehran propaganda and support for opposition groups outside the country. And she just turned up the heat a notch or two more by accusing Iran of lying about its (nuclear) activities and calling the country "a central banker to terrorism" - an overused false, deceptive and demonizing line she and others have used before.

Of course, this is all part of "the big lie" and prepping of the public for the "fun and games" they have in mind. What's never mentioned and what the sleepwalking public doesn't understand is there's only one "king" and undisputed world champion of "terrorism" (the state-sponsored most deadly kind of all) and central banker of terrorism. There may be a few other bit players around that come and go, but the US for at least many decades has been financing the most widespread and egregious terrorist activities on the planet - mainly its own, but it spreads it around when it can get other willing co-conspirator nations to join in. I'll let some of the worst of them go unnamed, but the reader need only check what nations have become part of our "coalitions of the willing" in victim countries now under the heel of the oppressive US boot. And then they can add a few more to that list like our closest of all allies in the Middle East and a few more in South and East Asia.

The issue with Iran has nothing to do with the furor over that country's wanting to develop its commercial nuclear industry, having the right to enrich its own uranium and even the right to develop weapons to defend itself against really hostile enemies. They'd be crazy and irresponsible not to want to want an adequate defense. Iran is a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), is in full compliance with it, and has every legal right to enrich its uranium. But that doesn't cut it with the "Godfather" because Iran won't sell out its sovereignty to the US and our oil and other corporate interests. India, Pakistan and Israel, on the other hand, are nuclear outlaws, have known stockpiles of nuclear bombs, and have not signed the NPT. But they know "who's boss", show proper deference, can build and stockpile nuclear bombs (maybe even use a few) and they're valued and trusted strategic allies. It follows that attacking Iran is quite acceptable because the "Godfather" tolerates no disobedient "outliers", and such behavior must be severely punished to oust their leaders, replace them with more "friendly" ones, and deter other nations from showing the same independence or notion of moving that way.

WELCOME TO THE MODERN NUCLEAR AGE UNMASKED

Rule No. 6 - First the rule and then the message from it. The rule is: when you've got 'em, use 'em. Of course, that means using whatever most destructive or high tech weapons you have, especially if the target country only has lesser ones. It also means: what's the point of having 'em if you can't or don't use 'em. The message then is: toxic radiation is good for you. That must be what they're selling because the US has now stated its intent to use industrial strength nuclear bombs in any future wars if it chooses to. Can they really sell this line of sheer madness? They're trying, and I don't hear anyone screaming about it yet.

Waging war by illegal aggression is bad enough, but doing it recklessly in another so-called "shock and awe" attack with so-called "bunker-buster mini-nukes" that aren't mini is reckless and insane. The rhetoric about them is false and deliberately deceptive. These bombs are industrial strength and can be made to any potency and likely would be from one third to two thirds as powerful as a Hiroshima bomb. They're designed to penetrate a designated target and explode underground for supposed protection. The DOD falsely claims this fantasy. They deceptively state that these weapons are safe to use because only the protected target is destroyed while the toxic radiation from the detonation is contained underground. Baloney. This is just another shameless lie. Some of it will be contained, but any bomb this powerful will release most of its toxic and lethal radiation into the atmosphere contaminating a vast area depending only on how many targets are struck, where they are, and by how many nuclear bombs. Let's be clear what will happen if this attack goes ahead as planned or any other like it they may have in mind. It will likely be Hiroshima and Nagasaki x you pick the multiple - anywhere from double to infinity. And the result will be many thousands of innocent people murdered, many more thousands poisoned by toxic, lethal radiation and a vast area irremediably contaminated for the next 4.5 billion years. Think it's worth it, never mind unjustified, egregious and a gross breach of international law.

Should this administration be insane enough to do this (and after the announcement of March 16 it looks more likely than ever), the entire Middle East may boil over, and the US will have descended even deeper into its hellish sinkhole of endless (and now full-scale) nuclear war, massive destruction and killing, and nation bankrupting levels of endless spending with no end in sight. Doesn't this crowd understand this? They must, but that doesn't deter the damn fools. They're often wrong but never in doubt. Haven't they ever heard the great lyrics to folk singer Pete Seeger's Vietnam era ode to the damn fool of that period - "Waste deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says push on." And don't they remember the memorable Stanley Kubrick 1964 film, Dr. Strangelove, that even I saw back then, and I dislike movies. Kubrick portrayed a nuclear Doomsday Machine. The film's subtitle was "how to stop worrying and love the bomb." Anyone believing that then or now can only love great suffering and large-scale death and destruction instead of life. But you can bet these guys will convince a lot of people it's worth it - for what and whom. Them maybe, but not us.

AND NOW THE NEXT STEP - THE MOVE FROM A REPUBLIC TO TYRANNY

Rule No. 7 (the last one) - Your manual is almost complete, and you're about to become as expert at this game as the big boys actually playing it. The only step left is to do at home everything you want to do abroad without having to nuke the public to sell it. Scaring hell out of them should do the trick.

We may find out and sooner than we think if it'll work. But this time we may be getting in over our heads and headed for the abyss if the alarm sounded by retired General Tommy Franks proves true. A few months after he retired he gave an interview to Cigar Aficionado magazine (a most unlikely venue - maybe he envisioned the world going up in smoke) and made what to some was an astonishing statement. He said if another terrorist attack occurs in the US "the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government." He went on to say such an attack will result in our losing our "freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years......(and that Bush)..... will likely declare martial law......."

Have I ruined your day? Fasten your seat belt, it gets worse. For some time now, a number of US government officials and private "terrorism" experts are on record predicting it's just a matter of when, not if, the US will be struck again. Some say it will be worse than 9/11. And on June 6, 2003, the AP quoted a US government report that "there is a high probability that al-Qaida will attempt an attack with weapons of mass destruction in the next two years." Now I'd never advise anyone believe anything said by any government official. But those of us, including myself, convinced our own government was behind or complicit in the first 9/11 attack, should take this warning very seriously. It means if that conclusion is true (and again, I believe it is) this warning and General Franks' grim assessment may, in fact, be advance word of what's ahead. We should heed that warning and be prepared as best we can. One astute observer I heard comment said in all seriousness that for anyone with enough resources a prudent option today would be to have "a second passport and a little property in Vancouver." He added we should think out our escape route in advance and be ready to take it.

HERE'S THE NIGHTMARISH SCRIPT YOU CAN PRACTICE LOSING SLEEP OVER

Rule (or reality) No. 8 - The script is written and the plans are ready to go. Here's how it's likely to play out.

I've discussed this scenario before in another essay, but it deserves repeating here with some added embellishment to scare you even more. I began by suggesting we're being set up (as well as being given fair warning if we can read the tea leaves) for a planned major strike against us. I then went on to say.......You know the drill by now. A major attack happens on US soil, the Bush administration and complicit corporate media hype what happened, scare the public and get them mad enough to demand retribution. If they haven't yet attacked Iran, they blame this on them so they now have public and outside support to do it claiming secret intelligence they can't reveal and it's (nuclear) bombs away - and George Bush's approval rating skyrockets just like after 9/11, and the Republicans keep control of both houses of Congress in November. Karl Rove couldn't plan it any better.

And there's one more thing I didn't write before but will add here. Tommy Franks' assessment and vision will become reality, the Constitution will be suspended, martial law will be declared and we'll have crossed the Rubicon and passed from a republic (what's left of it) to tyranny just as it happened in ancient Rome and more recently in Weimar Germany. We're no different or safer than they were. It works the same in every country, and we should understand nothing is more fragile than our sacred freedom and liberty. It can easily be taken from us without our knowledge or with our compliance when we think it guarantees us security. The reputed old Chinese proverb and curse (likely derived from another source) said "May he (or you) live in interesting times." It didn't mean "let the good times roll and all is well in the world." Whether of Chinese origin or not, I'll settle for the curse and say it surely applies to today in this country like never before in our history.

I've tried to use this essay to warn everyone reading it how deadly serious the times we're now living in are. We must understand that, spread the word, enlist the support of others, and desperately try to head off the impending disaster I think lies ahead if we all don't act in time. It's really that serious.

I could end this a lot of ways. I usually do it either inspirationally or with a warning. This time it's the latter because the situation is grave, and the time is short. What's at stake is nothing less than saving the republic (again what's left of it) and our sacred Constitutional rights. Unless enough of us are willing to fight for both and do it soon, there may be nothing left to fight for. Understand the threat, get mad, energized and heed Pogo's advice and wisdom that "we've met the enemy and it's us." Now what are we gonna do about it?" It's our move next.

Stephen Lendman lives in Chicago and can be reached at lendmanstephen@sbcglobal.net. Also visit his blog address at sjlendman.blogspot.com.

Beneath the Radar

March 22, 2006 -- According to informed sources in Washington, former Panamanian President Manuel Noriega, considered a legal "prisoner of war" by the United States, will be released from a Federal prison in Miami in May. Noriega is presently serving a 98-year sentence for homicide, drug trafficking, and corruption. He has also been sentenced in absentia in Panama to a 60-year sentence. In 2004, the Federal judge who sentenced Noriega recommended that due to his advancing age and conversion to Baptist, he be paroled. However, informed sources report that negotiations are taking place between Panama, the United States, and France to have Noriega extradited to face criminal charges in France. Panama reportedly has agreed to allow the United States to extradite Noriega to France. The primary supporters of Noriega's continued imprisonment are President Martin Torrijos, the son of Panama's pre-Noriega dictator Omar Torrijos; First Vice President Samuel Lewis Navarro; and Panamanian ambassador to the U.S. Federico A. Humbert Arias. All three are reportedly close to right-wing GOP circles in the Bush administration, including the Cuban-American rightists in the GOP, as well as Bush-connected businesses, including Halliburton and Wachovia Bank.



Noriega: If he is exiled to to Venezuela, he will spill the beans on the Bush Crime Family. If he is extradited to France, he will get the "Milosevic treatment."

The word is that Panama and the United States would prefer to have France give Noriega, who is now 72, a ten-year sentence with the hope that he will die in a French prison thus extricating the Bush administration from having the ex-president, jailed by Bush's father, from dying on U.S. soil -- a potential embarrassment to the U.S. in a Latin America that is now awash in anti-American fervor. In 2004, Noriega suffered a minor stroke.

However, there are also those in Panama and Latin America who are pressing for Noriega to be allowed to go into exile in Venezuela, where President Hugo Chavez wants to permit the former Panamanian President and one-time close ally of the United States and CIA to freely reveal everything he knows about the involvement of President George H. W. Bush and leading Reagan and Bush I officials in drug and weapons trafficking and money laundering involving the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) and other corporate entities.

Smoking Mirrors
As long as certain twisted souls feel the need to lie, cheat and murder to achieve their ends some of us need to keep pointing it out.



by BlogRolling
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
We Hold These Truths and These LIES to be Self Evident
In the midst of the chaos and the greed; the mismanagement and the incompetence, the fascism and suppression of rights and the general loss of legal dissent and self-expression- which has been the hallmark of this illegal American administration- it is easy to be distracted and confused by the machinations of the press and the government in their efforts to convince us that all is good in this best of all possible worlds; cue Dr. Pangloss.

Day by day the engine of malicious dysfunction rolls on. Day by day the catamite Soviet-model press chugs out an altered reality that bears no resemblance to the actual events that it reports on. Day by day people are tortured in secret prisons in the name of freedom and a democracy long gone. Day by day neo-con think tanks draft new plans for the control and enslavement of the human race. Day by day, inch by inch under a Niagara of lies we are led into a new world of fear and confinement under the watchful eye of the formerly farcical Big Brother. Big Brother the Reality Show has become real. And the contestants who compose the collective humanity within the enclosed environment match their television counterparts in stupidity and complacency. What time is dinner? Guess who’s coming to dinner as the main course; you and everything you ever held dear.

Let me go on record as a former resident and citizen of the once free and seemingly democratic United States of America and say, “George W. Bush, you are a lying murdering sack of shit and I oppose you to my last breath. Dick Cheney, you are a murdering lying sack of shit and I oppose you to my last breath. Members of the American Congress and Senate, you are a pack of cowardly, murdering, lying shitbags and I oppose you to my last breath. Zionists of the world- casual, indifferent murderers of Palestinian children and oppressors by extension of the whole of the physical Earth, you are Nazi’s, you are hegemonic pigs, you are murdering lying sacks of shit embarked on an agenda of new world disorder and I oppose you to my last breath.”

Let me say to the disinfo mass media. “I see through your bullshit. I declare you liars and willing accomplices of murder worldwide.” To every soulless hack who writes what he is told, without regards for the results; who writes from ambition, for the sake of a paycheck, who have no conscience, who know that they are lying and do not care- who will blame others for their lies afterwards- I call you liars and cowards and accomplices to murder.

Tony Blair; “You are a lying murdering cowardly sack of shit.” Jack Straw; you are a lying, murdering cowardly sack of shit.” To every suck ass Iraqi politician and every bought off Arab mouthpiece who justifies with lies and excuses for lies and murders done for a proclaimed greater good; “You are all lying sacks of shit.”

May you be damned as you surely are; all ministers of bogus religions, all sold out entertainers, all writers and artists and statesmen; “may you be damned for your silence.” May history record your names with the names of the despicable collaborators and traitors and cowards of history.

May you be damned Hillary Clinton and all of the rest of the spineless, opportunistic Democrats who greased the wheels of fascism with your consent. May you have a special place in history among the ugly twisted specimens of treachery to the human race.

To all of the corporate slugs who turn the wheels of industry to their own profit and never mind the consequences of their actions and back door dealings, which doors swing open to the screams of your victims and are greased with the blood of their victims; “May you burn in Hell.” To the rock musicians who showed up to play for money at a ten million dollar Bat Mitzvah thrown by a man who made his profits from body armor for the Iraqi war, “May the world know and hold you in the contempt that you deserve.” Halliburton; “May it please the coming destiny of the world that all of your officers and representatives be hung from lampposts and stoned by the populace.”

My heart and my support are with the insurgents. I actively wish for American defeat in the Middle East. I celebrate each setback. I cry out against you as do the mothers who have lost their children, the husbands who have lost their wives, the wives who have lost their husbands and their families, the children with no parents, the common Iraqis with missing limbs… blinded and burned- the widespread fear and anguish that fills the air throughout that tormented country…. “May the fat assed, indifferent Americans who support this war of lies and murder have the same come upon them with a vengeance!”

Goddamn the British and American and Israeli mercenaries and black-op specialists who set car bombs in camouflage and blow up mosques in order to orchestrate civil war among the population. “May you reap the whirlwind. May your lives reflect some greater portion of the misery you bestow.”

Damn every selfish, indifferent man and woman who goes on about their business of pleasure and profit and does not question and speak out against the outrages of our time. May the whole of the rest of the world rise up against you and may your shame be recorded for generations to come.

I would rather die in a prison myself than live as a willing or silent supporter- or a supporter by default as a result of my silence- of this carnage, this ugly, ugly consistency of machine like murder and torment of others for the sake of a wasteful lifestyle.

No American or Israeli life is worth any more that the meanest or impoverished Palestinian and Iraqi life. Wealth and status do no confer a greater value to one life over another.

You are not like us, you stinking and depraved swine. You are not human. You have shit upon the espoused ideals of your own country. You have sold out your soul and your conscience for profit. You have swallowed convenient lies that justify anything and everything you desire to be proven true. You orchestrated an attack on your own country and blamed it on those you would subjugate and eliminate. There seems no limit to what you will do. There seems no limit to the blood you will spill. There seems no limit to the lies you will tell. There seems no limit to the selfish and evil ends to which you give your attentions and energy.

I know you intend another fraudulent terror attack against yourself to justify the coming assault on Iran. I know you intend to attack Syria. I know that you will do anything to convince the stupid and selfish and frightened among us that you are right in your actions and your course. I am not deceived. Others are not deceived. You are murdering, lying scum and you will go down. I know that you will go down and the spirit of what is free and good and noble in all of us will dance on your grave.

May we never forget what our ignorance; our fear, our selfishness, our greed, our ambition and our lack of conscience has cost the world. We must never again let men and women such as this any where near the corridors of power. I oppose them with every breath in my body and I do not count the cost.

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Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Killers as avengers: US troops investigated over Iraqi massacres
FPF letter to the International Criminal Court in The Hague - The Netherlands - s.v.p. click on the title above or use this Url.: http://tinyurl.com/p4lxz

The US 'Coalition of the Killing' as inhuman avengers:
they have nor show any decency, or civilization!

FPF - March 22, 2006 - Nor has any of the people anywhere in the world any decency left who supports this. The PNAC Group* at the origin of all misery, and their lying and faking 'front men' - war criminals like Tony Blair, Berlusconi(It), Howard (Aus) and JP Balkenende - the 'Christian' PM fronting for the 'management', with his killing clique in Holland - all of those criminals must be stopped in any way and as soon as is possible.

They are a deadly danger to all mankind and must be locked up. Like all criminals in the propaganda media machine - the propagandists - without whom the genocides never ever would have been possible. They are the murderous media menace, having cowardly sold their soul to become the malevolent 'Master's Voices'.

I've lived and worked for ten years in the area, and can guarantee that this never - not in centuries - will ever be forgiven nor forgotten. Anything or anybody connected to those killing avengers will be an outcast to the rest of us in the humane world. And killed if possible in the areas where there war crimes took place, because they deserve it.

For every child, woman or man killed by the Coalition of the Killing, there will be at least fifty people wanting revenge for the deadly injustice. - And they'll get it. Mark my words. - HR

US troops investigated over Iraqi massacres

By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil - Published in The Independent - 22 March 2006

The US military is investigating two incidents in which American soldiers killed at least 26 Iraqi civilians and then claimed that they were either guerrillas or had died in cross fire.

The growing evidence of retaliatory killings of unarmed Iraqi families, often including children, by US soldiers seemingly bent on punishing Iraqis after an attack, will spark comparisons with the massacre of Vietnamese villagers at My Lai in 1968.

US troops have been notorious among Iraqis for their willingness to shoot any Iraqi they see in the aftermath of an insurgent attack. But it is only now that convincing and detailed information is becoming available about the killings.
In the most recent incident, in the town of Ishaqi north of Baghdad last week, Iraqi police said that US troops had shot 11 people, including five children, in their home.

US SOLDIERS WENT ON A RAMPAGE

The local police chief, Colonel Farouq Hussein, said that all the dead had been shot in the head, according to autopsies. "It's a clear and perfect crime," he said. In an incident in the town of Haditha in western Iraq on 19 November last year, US soldiers went on a rampage in a village after a bomb attack and killed at least 15 civilians, according to witnesses and local officials cited by Time magazine in an investigation.

The US military first claimed a roadside bomb had killed a US Marine, Miguel Tarrazas, along with 15 Iraqi civilians caught in the blast. Later, a military statement said "gunmen attacked the convoy with small-arms fire" and in returning fire the Marines killed eight insurgents.

But after Time presented the US military with what Iraqis said had happened, an official investigation found that 15 of the civilians had been deliberately killed by US soldiers.

The bomb attack on the US Humvee took place at 7.15am. Eman Waleed, a nine-year-old child, lived in a house 150 yards from the explosion. "We heard a big noise that woke us all up," she recalled later. "Then we did what we always do when there's an explosion: my father goes in to his room with the Koran and prays the family will be spared harm."

The Marines claim they heard shots coming from the direction of Waleed's house. They burst in to the house and Eman heard shots from her father's room. They then entered the living room, where the rest of the family was gathered. She said: "I couldn't see their faces very well - only their guns sticking in to the doorway. I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny."

TRIED TO PROTECT THE TWO CHILDREN WITH THEIR BODIES

The US soldiers started shooting in to the corner of the room where Eman and her eight-year-old brother, Abdul Rahman, were cowering. The other adults in the room tried to protect the two children with their bodies and were all shot dead. Eman and her brother were both wounded.

THE AMERICANS DID IT

"We were lying there, bleeding and it hurt so much. Afterwards some Iraqi soldiers came. They carried us in their arms. I was crying, shouting, 'why did you do this to our family?' And one Iraqi soldier tells me, 'we didn't do it. The Americans did it'."

The Marines' explanation is that they heard the sound of a Kalashnikov being readied to shoot and had then fired their weapons. The Marines say they were fired at from a second house, where they broke down a door, threw in a grenade and opened fire. The eight who died in the second house included the owner, his wife, the owner's sister, a two-year-old son and three young daughters.

In a third house the Marines searched four young men were shot dead. A military investigation decided these were insurgent fighters, along with four others killed in the stree
t.
The Marines later delivered 24 bodies to a hospital in Haditha, claiming they had been killed by shrapnel from a bomb. Dr Wahid, the director of the hospital, said: "It was obvious to us there were no organs slashed by shrapnel. The bullet wounds were very apparent. Most of the victims were shot in the head and chest - from close range."

AN US MILITARY INVESTIGATION DECIDED THE DEATHS WERE "COLLATERAL DAMAGE".

RELATIVES WERE PAID $2,500 (£1,400) FOR EACH OF THE DEAD.

Patrick Cockburn

Independent story at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rnp6j

Patrick Cockburn is an Irish journalist based in Jerusalem as a correspondent for the Independent, and has been filing reports on the US-led occupation of Iraq.

Dr. Roberts is Chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and Research Fellow at the Independent Institute. He is a former associate editor of the Wall Street Journal, former contributing editor for National Review, and a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Treasury.

Related to the ongoing US murder machine:

* Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq: "WE THINK THE PRICE IS WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* PNAC HOLOCAUST: UNICEF reports that the under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan. Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - December 23, 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx

* ANOTHER HOLOCAUST: THIS IS ONE OF MANY BY THEIR CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg

* Who - for centuries already - has been doing this to the rest of us, the world's population? - The Global Elite: Who are they? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c5xv5

* Their murdering media - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q72v2

* Who's financing and profiting from all the wars and the killing of millions of people in wars based on lies and greed? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* YANKEES GO HOME! - Tomdispatch Interview with Chalmers Johnson - The Empire: "Iraq before we invaded had a GDP the size of the state of Louisiana and Afghanistan was certainly one of the poorest places on the planet. And yet these two places have stopped us." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/nshjd

* This is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The through taxes extorted $billions, squandered on the sick dreams of 'world power' - killing millions of people and filling the PNAC pack's pockets - The number is based on US Congressional appropriations. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc

* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, killing Americans to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/r5sx4

* White Haus drive to cover-up leaks concerning their crimes: one of the PNAC Group's propaganda sheets, the stenographers at the war mongering Washington Post: ''White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e7t6o

* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

* US War & Propaganda machine: Rumsfeld Declares War on Bad Press - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/loxqy

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned 'false flag' terror, to 'trigger' their own global war of terror now ravaging the world - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Tuesday, March 21, 2006
They Kill Us For Sport - Depleted Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide
They Kill Us For Sport - Depleted Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide
http://www.rense.com/general70/deple.htm

The nuclear Holocaust: This is the way the world ends:

Not with a bang but your whimper...

FPF: The nuclear war with it's radioactive radiation Holocaust of the whole world by the US - with deadly fall-out from the use of depleted uranium - goes on. Logically the radioactive fall-out reaching Alderston in England has poisoned many other countries too. Countries where all collaborators and cowards - including all scientists - shut up and let the people get cancer and die.* - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/q8nnk

Some of you may some time ago have seen the movie 'On the Beach' based on the book by Nevil Shute, and will remember the ending: ''The first important film treatment of nuclear holocaust, it premiered all around the world just thirteen years ago last November. I sat through it to the bitter end—everyone dead and a banner flying across the screen: THERE'S STILL TIME, BROTHER.* - Alas: Time's up! Reason: the group behind most wars.*

Depleted Uranium In India, Spreading Worldwide

The following was sent to me by one of the email list members and the author of the article below granted me (and you) permission to spread this far and wide. They are working in India to document the extent of DU pollution that has come out of Afghanistan and fallen upon the people of India. They are working along the same lines we are here in the United States to first prove it, and then put a stop to it and get medical care for the abandoned and neglected.

This recent - Urgent Deal - between Bush and India might be a Pre-emptive Strike to shut down the efforts in India to prove that DU has bit them in the butt, too.

We are still waiting to see if any of the nations in Europe wake up to the fact that they got "peppered" with DU too, since the Aldermaston DU would have to have come across them to have made it to the UK.

This is the article from India and then I'll return at the end with comments and additional information. It is interesting to see how people of other nations view the United States and the Bush-Cheney cabal's use of DU weapons. - Begin article:

They Kill Us For Sport - By Arun Shrivastava CMC

Depleted uranium is a deadly toy in the hands of the ruling bloodlines. A particle of DU ingested or inhaled can cause one or more of the 90+ seriously debilitating diseases, fatal or temporarily non-fatal.[1] [see list of 91 diseases, Annex 1] The half life of DU is 4.5 billion years, and it can destroy living things and the environment; most importantly it can destroy perfectly healthy lives. [2]

Depleted uranium has been used in at least the last four wars by the United States and its allies: Gulf War 1, Bosnia and Kosovo in the Balkans, Afghanistan and Gulf War 2. The last two of the four wars, all illegal, took place in 2001 (Afghanistan) and 2003 (Iraq). Effects of the contamination can manifest from within a few hours to five years.

Evidences clearly indicate that depleted uranium is blowing in the wind all over the world. [3] Its effects on health are showing up in distant lands. Earlier, gulf war veterans and local civilians were affected; now, of all the places, the US is showing six-fold increase in just lung cancer cases.[4]

THE EMERGING RATIO

The population of the USA was 298, 298,906 on March 14, 2006, say 298 million.[5] The recorded 172,000 lung cancer cases for January and February 2006 equates to 34 cases per 10,000 persons-men, women and children- up from the previously normal trend line of 5.8 per 10,000 persons per annum, implying that additional 28.2 cases per 10,000 persons have been added and recorded in a short time. It certainly can't be due to more Americans smoking cigarettes and certainly not due to "other unexplained factors" such as lifestyle changes, which do change but over decades, not a few years. The most plausible one is that the air we breathe is contaminated with depleted uranium and it is killing healthy people all over the world.

If the population of the United States of America shows such an explosive growth of lung cancer what does it imply for the rest of the world? The world population on the same day and time was 6,503,376,192. Assuming the same ratio as that of the United States, i.e. additional 28.2 cases per 10,000 persons, the world would see, or is probably already facing, an additional 18.34 million cases of untreatable cancer per year, or 1.52 million cases per month. Do they know it?

TOBACCO AND LUNG CANCER

"In the 20th century, approximately 100 million people died world-wide from tobacco-associated diseases (cancer, chronic lung disease, cardiovascular disease and stroke)," says a WHO report. [6] This means about one million deaths per year, although it is understandable that there were fewer cases early on in the 20th century as compared to later when the numbers reached nearly 1.5 million. In 2001, there were 1.5 million lung cancer deaths worldwide, or 125,000 per month.[7]

Now, if the US data shows 172,000 new cases in January-February 2006, an average of 86,000 cases per month, something terrible has happened. Nuclear radiation induced cancers are peculiar: with right facility and correct testing protocol, the murderers can't hide. With care, all the 91radiation induced illnesses, identified by Leuren, can be traced to depleted radiation poisoning.

THE MAP SAYS SOMETHING - (Picture in article at Url.: http://tinyurl.com/n7wkz)

The worst contamination would of course occur at and around the theatres of war, but region within 1000 mile radius would face serious depleted uranium contamination. [1]

1000-mile radius means a total area of 3.14 million square mile. The two circles in the map represent an area of 6.28 million square miles and, deducting say 20% for the overlapping area, the net affected area is just over 5 million square mile. The total land area of earth is about 57.3 million square mile, which implies that roughly 8% of total land area of the earth is now severely contaminated. And I am not including Bosnia and Kosovo theatres of war, which has seriously affected the Balkans as well as the NATO troops.[8]

(Karl W B Schwarz comment: I wonder if the people of Israel are aware that the desired policy of their government to have the US attacking Arab nations has polluted their nation with DU? Also, you can draw the same such circles around US target ranges, test ranges and military bases where US citizens have been exposed. Additionally, the air flow from Iraq to the UK would have taken the DU contamination across much of Europe. -KS)

Referring to the map, with Afghanistan's capital Kabul as the centre, depleted uranium affected region includes Pakistan, entire northwest India, parts of Nepal, parts of China, major regions of Central Asian Republics, Iran, and the Gulf countries, including Dubai and Abu Dhabi, two major financial and trading centres. Taking Baghdad as the centre, the regions affected includes the entire West Asia, parts of Egypt, parts of Greece, Cyprus, regions around the Caspian Sea and islands in the eastern Mediterranean.

It should be noted that Iran and some littoral states of Caspian Sea have been hit twice (see the overlapping area of the two circles) within two years: in 2001 and again in 2003. Thus the severest effect would be felt in Iran, a few gulf countries, and a few Central Asian states.

POPULATION AFFECTED

The total estimated population within the two circles was about 857 million (See Table) in July 2005. If the US is showing a sharp six-fold rise in incidence of lung cancer alone, what will be the fate of these 857 million+ people in the core zones? Washington is exactly 6193.94 miles from radioactive Baghdad; and Kabul is just a bit further, about 6922.93 miles away, also highly radioactive.[9] The capitals of 19 countries are within 1000 mile radius and include New Delhi (621 miles), Islamabad (232), Bishkek (651), Beirut (515), Cairo (806), Ankara (785), Jerusalem (546), Damascus (468), Kuwait City (347), Nikosia (643), Teheran (429), Abu Dabi (856), Aman (503), Riyadh (615), Ashqabat (645) and so on. And Americans are catching lung cancer by the thousands?

Countries like India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iraq, and some Central Asian States do not even have well established, dependable cancer screening facilities, let alone determining whether the illness is due to depleted uranium contamination or careless handling of toxic pesticides in the farms.

GOVERNMENTS WILL CONTINU TO MISLEAD

THE REST OF THIS ALARMING ARTICLE, HOW YOUR AND THE HEALTH RISKS FOR FAMILY AND FRIENDS ARE IN THIS WORLD, YOU CAN READ HERE:

URL.: HTTP://WWW.RENSE.COM/GENERAL70/DEPLE.HTM

References:

''THERE'S STILL TIME, BROTHER'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/n9xfl

* Further information concerning this malignant global holocaust by the PNAC group is available from the American Gulf War Veterans Association - Url.: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/index.html

* UN report on DU poisoning - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/be7aa

* A death sentence here and abroad - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4p3qh

* Deutsche Welle - US war is cancer article/English - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57cqp

* Iraq / DU-disaster Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6o4na

* Professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki report - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6ljxa

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on the at least half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* A crime against humanity is an act of persecution against a group, so heinous as to warrant punishment under international law: Please scroll - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6rphj

* FPF - The US: Making Dead Friends? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8sswk

* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* Independent & FREE press in Kansas - Pls. read the 'Fightin' Cock Flyer' - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools
We all are supposed to 'endure' this cruel and many times deadly US-made 'freedom'; even knowing that the expression 'to endure' stands for: 'to suffer, undergo or be subjected to'. How right the definition is: just look at Iraq after three years of enduring US freedom.

Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools - Greg Palast, with a comment.

'ENDURING FREEDOM' MEANS TO SUFFER, UNDERGO OR BE SUBJECTED TO IT

THERE IS NO 'CONSPIRACY' - IT'S ONLY FACTS WE DON'T HAVE YET...

FPF - March 21st 2006 - We - the livestock of the global 'Animal Farm' - just need to look around us. Because, from a profit point of view, that's how the Shylocks of this world always have done it: create a scarcity and: up the prices go! If you don't build enough houses, you keep the prices and loans high. If you artificially keep a bigger than normal 'unemployment rate', the wages will be kept low, sliding to a minimum level, as is shown at present again in the PNAC planned labor laws for the people in all countries of the European Union.

Something millions of people in France (74%) are protesting against now, with some of the big and infiltrated so called 'unions' for their 'masters' trying to stop a general strike coming Thursday, to further control their damage. - [http://tinyurl.com/ppxuk]

And like this PNAC plan too, as described below by Greg Palast: if you control the oil, and most certainly via OPEC - you decide the price. In case you feel like an extra couple of $billions or so in profit, you just pull one of the usual tricks and for instance in a 'false flag' operation block the street of Hormuz, all the while - via all own propaganda channels - blaming 'Arab terrorists' or some of the CIA paid and faked 'groups of al Quaida' for it.

Upping the price of crude per barrel to a $100 or more: whatever 'The Group' feels like, and what they think we creatures on our 'Animal Farm' can endure. For those who remember: 'The Seven Sisters' have always done this - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/f47gq

PNAC: 'PROJECT FOR A NEFARIOUS AMERICAN CENTURY'

That's why the US/PNAC's global war of terror is called "Enduring Freedom": we all are supposed to 'endure' this cruel and many times deadly 'freedom', knowing that the expression 'to endure' stands for: to suffer, undergo or be subjected to. How right the definition is: just look at Iraq.* Growing millions are understanding and protesting against the perilous PNAC policy, their 'Project for a Nefarious American Century' and 'The Group' malignantly managing the global 'Animal Farm'. Even Martin Luther in the 15th century saw this. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hiv9

It's a pleasure forwarding Greg Palast: he's a journalist with a hammer, knowing who, what, why - and where the nails are. And then, like in this article, he hits the nails on the head: "Bush Didn't Bungle Iraq, You Fools: Get off it. All the carping, belly-aching and complaining about George Bush's incompetence in Iraq, from both the Left and now the Right, is just dead wrong.

On the third anniversary of the tanks rolling over Iraq's border, most of the 59 million Homer Simpsons who voted for Bush are beginning to doubt if his mission was accomplished.

But don't kid yourself - Bush and his co-conspirator, Dick Cheney, accomplished exactly what they set out to do. In case you've forgotten what their real mission was, let me remind you of White House spokesman Ari Fleisher's original announcement, three years ago, launching of what he called:

"Operation
Iraqi
Liberation."

O.I.L. How droll of them, how cute. Then, Karl Rove made the giggling boys in the White House change it to "OIF" -- Operation Iraqi Freedom. But the 101st Airborne wasn't sent to Basra to get its hands on Iraq's OIF.

"It's about oil," Robert Ebel told me. Who is Ebel? Formerly the CIA's top oil analyst, he was sent by the Pentagon, about a month before the invasion, to a secret confab in London with Saddam's former oil minister to finalize the plans for "liberating" Iraq's oil industry. In London, Bush's emissary Ebel also instructed Ibrahim Bahr al-Ulum, the man the Pentagon would choose as post-OIF oil minister for Iraq, on the correct method of disposing Iraq's crude.

And what did the USA want Iraq to do with Iraq's oil? The answer will surprise many of you: and it is uglier, more twisted, devilish and devious than anything imagined by the most conspiracy-addicted blogger. The answer can be found in a 323-page plan for Iraq's oil secretly drafted by the State Department. Our team got a hold of a copy; how, doesn't matter. The key thing is what's inside this thick Bush diktat: a directive to Iraqis to maintain a state oil company that will "enhance its relationship with OPEC."

ENHANCE ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH OPEC???

How strange: the government of the United States ordering Iraq to support the very OPEC oil cartel which is strangling our nation with outrageously high prices for crude.

Specifically, the system ordered up by the Bush cabal would keep a lid on Iraq's oil production -- limiting Iraq's oil pumping to the tight quota set by Saudi Arabia and the OPEC cartel.

THERE YOU HAVE IT. YES, BUSH WENT IN FOR THE OIL -- NOT TO GET MORE OF IRAQ'S OIL, BUT TO PREVENT IRAQ PRODUCING TOO MUCH OF IT.

You must keep in mind who paid for George's ranch and Dick's bunker: Big Oil. And Big Oil -- and their buck-buddies, the Saudis -- don't make money from pumping more oil, but from pumping LESS of it. The lower the supply, the higher the price.

It's Economics 101. The oil industry is run by a cartel, OPEC, and what economists call an "oligopoly" -- a tiny handful of operators who make more money when there's less oil, not more of it. So, every time the "insurgents" blow up a pipeline in Basra, every time Mad Mahmoud in Tehran threatens to cut supply, the price of oil leaps. And Dick and George just LOVE it.

Dick and George didn't want more oil from Iraq, they wanted less. I know some of you, no matter what I write, insist that our President and his Veep are on the hunt for more crude so you can cheaply fill your family Hummer; that somehow, these two oil-patch babies are concerned that the price of gas in the USA is bumping up to $3 a gallon.

IT'S BEEN A GOOD WAR FOR BIG OIL

No so, gentle souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a litre in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's ticker go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a piddly $34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's been a good war for Big Oil.

As per Plan Bush, Bahr Al-Ulum became Iraq's occupation oil minister; the conquered nation "enhanced its relationship with OPEC;" and the price of oil, from Clinton peace-time to Bush war-time, shot up 317%.

In other words, on the third anniversary of invasion, we can say the attack and occupation is, indeed, a Mission Accomplished.

However, it wasn't America's mission, nor the Iraqis'.

It was an Mission Accomplished for OPEC and Big Oil.

GREG PALAST

[andend] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/za5u5

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FPF/HR -FWD. IN AGREEMENT WITH PALAST:

* Former U.S. PNAC-Secr. of State Madeleine Albright-Korbel, in her comment on the at least HALF A MILLION dead children in Iraq: "WE THINK IT'S WORTH IT" - On CBS '60 Minutes' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* PNAC HOLOCAUST: UNICEF reports that the under-5 infant mortality for 2003 was 110,000 in occupied Iraq, 292,000 in occupied Afghanistan. Gideon Polya: 'Non-reportage of US-linked infant mass mortality' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rb3rx

* ANOTHER HOLOCAUST: THIS IS ONE OF MANY BY THEIR CIA: John Stockwell, former CIA Station Chief in Angola in 1976, working for then Director of the CIA, George Bush. ''How 6 million People Were killed in CIA secret wars against Third World countries'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/gpcg

* Who - for centuries already - has been doing this to the rest of us, the world's population? - The Global Elite: Who are they? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c5xv5

* Who's financing and profiting from all the wars and the killing of millions of people in wars based on lies and greed? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* This is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The through taxes extorted $billions, squandered on the sick dreams of 'world power' - killing millions of people and filling the PNAC pack's pockets - The number is based on US Congressional appropriations. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc

* The 9/11 drama was the 'trigger' used by the PNAC Group, killing Americans to further their inhuman goals: Anybody who after seeing this video - '9/11 revisited' - still believes the version from the 'PNAC pack' - the Washington cabal - is beyond all professional help - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/r5sx4

* White Haus drive to cover-up leaks concerning their crimes: one of the PNAC Group's propaganda sheets, the stenographers at the war mongering Washington Post: ''White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e7t6o

* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

* US War & Propaganda machine: Rumsfeld Declares War on Bad Press - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/loxqy

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned 'false flag' terror, to 'trigger' their own global war of terror now ravaging the world - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

* Do read the independent Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Sunday, March 19, 2006
Why Paris is burning
When the explanation was given that: "When one easily fires working people, it's resulting in more jobs." - all human beings with common sense first shook their heads in disbelief, and now shake their fists at those French ministerial crooks advocating this nefarious nonsense.

EASY HIRED, EASY FIRED? WHO PROFITS FROM NIGHT-SHIFT WORK FOR 15 YEAR OLDS?

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - France - March 19th - 2006 - Millions (74%) of the French people fight the indecent labor laws and have after yesterday's huge demonstrations given the French 'government' an ultimatum. Either de Villepin's inhuman law goes, or the French government is in deep trouble; starting with a country-wide general strike. It's not only in Paris or at the Sorbonne University it's burning, as we are falsely shown on the selected TV-'news': millions of parents, workers and at least 41 universities and over two hundred cities in France are affected. And reacted.

Because - contrary to what the employer's mainstream media* globally report - this is about much more. It's not only back to the last century in Europe with 14 year olds working for free as 'apprentices', and again making it the law that 15 year olds can work night shifts. The main plan within the EU is to reduce - through law and by opening the borders for other low paid workers - all wages to a very low level, resulting in bigger profits for the EU 'managers'. To most observers the growing protests reflect a much broader discontent of the people with their government and the totalitarian direction they are forced in.

EASY HIRED, EASY FIRED

Front man, and because it didn't work yet, now 'fall guy' for the plan - is monsieur de Villepin, who was appointed PM by Chirac, and who has never held an elected office. - [BBC - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rz8nc] - Representing the EU managers is the by Blair and his 'advisers' in London appointed, not elected by the people, EU boss Peter Mandelson, after he fell from grace when in England a 'house loan' by his friends was uncovered. - [http://tinyurl.com/guej9]

People revolt against this umbilical cord to the likewise wage lowering Dutch neocon Bolkestein's Directives*, trying to annul a model that has assisted in providing for nearly 60 years a relative peace and stability across some countries of the European continent.

''The Bolkestein (or services) Directive* epitomises this on-going attack by global capitalism on the long fought for conditions of labor across Europe and indeed the globe, it is the public face of a transnational race to the bottom being waged on workers and citizens alike by a growing right wing rump of liberalising, privatising and deregulating evangelists that have found their way onto the centre stage of European politics.

The Bolkestein Directive proposes to deregulate and liberalise services across Europe, all services except those already subjected to previous acts of deregulation. Health, Education and social welfare services, both public and private as well as local government services, all come under the Directive's provisions that demand the removal of any restriction to the opening up of the market to the cheapest bidder." [end quote] - [http://tinyurl.com/jdgmz]

As many times before, people are very critical of the role of the trade unions as a student explained: “In Jussieu, we’ve been organised for three weeks now, and we’ve closed the university down, but the trade unions have shown little interest. They’ve expressed their support and then waited for us - if we hadn’t got going, the trade unions would have done nothing.” - The infiltration and loss of power within the unions is clearly shown in many EU countries where the workers lost valid weapons. However: the French mixture of mass demonstrations and Molotov cocktails seems to work.

POLITICIANS: IN MY OPINION, THEY ARE ALL MORE OR LESS THE SAME

As she said in a further comment: "de Villepin is making it a personal issue. If he resigns, that might solve the problem, but only in the very short term, because the person who replaces him won’t be any better. I’m talking about politicians in general today. In my opinion, they are all more or less the same.”- [http://tinyurl.com/r8mp6]

The French group behind de Villepin, is headed by the neocon minister for the Interior, police and secret services, Nicolas Sarkozy, who, like Mr. de Villepin, hopes to run for president next year - something which de Villepin now can forget. So Sarkozy at a televized press conference held up a damaged police helmet for the cameras and said: "Those who do this are not demonstrators, they're thugs." But the people know and react against the real thugs which are to be found at the source of the inhuman laws for the labor force, the Villepin-law which must make lower salaries and therefore higher profits in the whole of the European Union possible.

FIRST THEY'LL TRY THE GUILLOTINE OF THE NATIONAL STRIKE

In France, and it's not only the 'students' or 'youngsters' as we're shown, the people know reality and are not accepting the worsening EU fraud.* The people fight for their rights as human beings. And against the devaluation of what once were fairly democratic societies. Knowing 'the other side' has all the weaponry - paid for by extorted tax money - some of the people in desperation will use violence. But first they'll try the guillotine of the national strike.

The dumbing down and those strange laws are mostly and strongly suggested by the man looked upon as 'the manager of the European Union': mr. Peter Mandelsohn.* - Who was named to be the 'Europe director'. He was appointed; not elected by the EU. In France, where many people are aware of this and still know what Justice is, they are marching and fighting for everybody who knows that 'when equals among equals go on the wrong track, the guillotine should be awaiting them.' The crisis is a fact - like the resistance, in French called 'maquis' after a type of foliage in Corsica, behind which resistance fighters on the island used to hide.

NEVER DRINK FROM A SOURCE YOU DON'T KNOW

Day and night now TV, radio sets and papers - wherever you are on this globe in reach of their propaganda channels - will be quoting 'International News Agencies" - propaganda sewers which they themselves own. You'll wake up and at breakfast be told that - contrary to the facts - 'actually very little happened in France', otherwise there's a danger that you might start thinking.

That's why 'The Group' runs all of the international 'news agencies' and 'adjusts' [falsifies] everything as they wish. Like with the start of the illegal war in Iraq the facts are adjusted to the policy of war. In this case including the figures of people taking part in protest marches and especially omitting, spiking and 'killing' every form of protest to their inhuman abberrations.*

THERE ARE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE PROTESTING WORLDWIDE, BUT IN THE PNAC'S 'MESSMEDIA' (PUN INTENDED) THOSE PEOPLE ARE NEVER HEARD, SEEN NOR READ ABOUT.

The people demonstrating in France had many placards reading: Send the Bourgeoisie to the Gulag* - meaning those creatures illogically insisting that the law will actually stimulate job creation by encouraging employers to fire people. In other countries - like EU member and PNAC colony The Netherlands - all shopping centers, offices and/or factories show 'Dutch gold' Bolkestein's results: when reaching eighteen years of age, many youngsters - even those having the simplest of manual jobs - are fired and replaced by a 14 year old 'apprentice' which is 'cheaper'.

And the more unemployed people there are - willing to take any job - the lower the wages get.

And of course, 15 year olds working night shifts are cheap...

Henk Ruyssenaars


REFERENCES:

* The Bolkestein (or services) Directive - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/rdq2k

* The real Danger: Like France, The Netherlands Voted NO To European Superstate and it's illegal horrible wars by the US/NATO/EU Army without UN Mandate or other limitations - Url.: http://www.rense.com/general65/suer.htm

* EU accounting worse than Enron'' - says whistleblower. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/o8hfo

* How does the EU combat fraud by the competitors, infringing on the EU gang's profits? - Url.: http://europa.eu.int/pol/fraud/index_en.htm

* Bolkestein 'Directives' (= Newspeak) - No French Fries for Fritz... - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/656nn
Hit squad cut electricity to punish EU politician. - http://tinyurl.com/8op43

* Who rules America - and the rest? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/evpf

* University of California - Prof. William Domhoff on how 'they' rule: "the short answer is through open and direct involvement in policy planning, through participation in political campaigns and elections, and through appointments to key decision-making positions in government." - Url.: http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/

* The group's information bureau Associated Press, 'guided' by AP Vice President/Managing Editor: Mike Silverman - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/lsogv - as usual falsifies the facts and figures, like the other information bureaus UPI, AFP, UPI and of course all main info-channels for RTV and written press.

* There is however managing Editor Barry Fockler - FPF - France - http://tinyurl.com/6vwxz

* The 'New York Times' - as one of the house organs of the global managers, the PNAC pack - has formulated the disinformation like this: French protests over youth labor law spread - By Elaine Sciolino The New York Times - SUNDAY, MARCH 19, 2006 - International Herald Tribune = NYTimes- Url.: http://tinyurl.com/pkedg

* The PNAC's Google and it's 'news' selection on the demonstrations in France - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/jv8ge

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* The Global Elite: Who are they? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c5xv5

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Saturday, March 18, 2006
International Criminal Court: murder is murder, or?
Att.: mr. Richard Dicker - Email: dickerr@hrw.org - International Justice Program Director,Human Rights Watch. / CC: People & organisations in the ICC press release + others.


Conc.: The ICC has unsealed an arrest warrant for the Democratic Republic of Congo as well as confirmed the arrest and transfer of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo.


Dear mr. Dicker,

MAY I WONDER IF YOU CAN HELP ME SORT THIS OUT?

FPF/The Netherlands - March 18, 2006 - Today we got a press release from the ICC with the following text about the arrival of mr. Thomas Lubanga. Among other crimes concerning the charges against mr. Lubanga, the ICC press release states that he was 'forcing young children to participate in warfare'. It says: "This is a serious crime, but the ICC prosecutor must also press additional charges against militia leaders for massacres, torture and rape." [end quote ICC]

I know that Chief Prosecutor Moreno Ocampo can bring charges only if individual countries are unable or unwilling to prosecute war crimes, genocide or major human rights violations. He can - due to US pressure - also only prosecute crimes committed after July 1, 2002, the official date of the court's inception.

May I bring the following war crime with text and picture material to your attention, a gross murder which is committed after July 1, 2002, and were the killers are known?

And in your appreciated answer maybe you can explain what the ICC is going to do about the case: the deliberately shooting in the head of five small children, killing their parents too, two men and four women.

IF THERE'S ANY JUSTICE LEFT IN THIS WORLD, THE MURDERERS MUST BE BROUGHT TO TRIAL, DON'T YOU AGREE?

For your convenience I've pasted the story below, but to see the picture of the five toddlers which were killed, you can use the 'link' given below.

Looking forward to your answer,

I meanwhile remain,


Henk Ruyssenaars


Article which is referred to - and for your and the ICC's documentation:

US raid on home killed 11 family members

By Amer Amery

03/16/06 - TIKRIT, Iraq, March 15 (Reuters) - Eleven members of an Iraqi family were killed in a U.S. raid on Wednesday, police and witnesses said. The U.S. military said two women and a child died during the bid to seize an al Qaeda militant from a house.

SHOT IN THE HEAD

A senior Iraqi police officer said autopsies on the bodies, which included five children, showed each had been shot in the head. Community leaders said they were outraged at the killings and demanded an explanation from the U.S. military.

Television footage showed the bodies in the Tikrit morgue -- five children, two men and four women. Their wounds were not clear though one infant had a gaping head wound.

A freelance photographer later saw them being buried by weeping men in Ishaqi, the town 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad where the raid took place.

The U.S. military said in a statement its troops had attacked a house in Ishaqi early on Wednesday to capture a "foreign fighter facilitator for the al Qaeda in Iraq network".

"Troops were engaged by enemy fire as they approached the building," spokesman Major Tim Keefe said. "Coalition Forces returned fire utilising both air and ground assets.

"There was one enemy killed. Two women and one child were also killed in the firefight. The building ... (was) destroyed."

Keefe said the al Qaeda suspect had been captured and was being questioned.

RUBBLE

Major Ali Ahmed of the Ishaqi police said U.S. forces had landed on the roof of the house in the early hours and shot the 11 occupants, including the five children.

"After they left the house they blew it up," he said.

Another policeman, Colonel Farouq Hussein, said autopsies had been carried out at Tikrit hospital and found "all the victims had gunshot wounds to the head".

The bodies, their hands bound, had been dumped in one room before the house was destroyed, Hussein said. Police had found spent American-issue cartridges in the rubble.

"It's a clear and perfect crime without any doubt," he said.

Police in Salahaddin province, a heartland of the Sunni Arab insurgency and the home region of Saddam Hussein, have frequently criticised U.S. military tactics in the area.

Police officers said the U.S. military had asked for a meeting with local tribal leaders. The Joint Co-ordination Centre in Tikrit which coordinates between U.S. and Iraqi security forces said later the meeting would happen on Friday.

Ishaqi's town administrator, Rasheed Shather, said the town was shocked: "Everyone went to the funeral. We want the Americans to give us an explanation for this horrible crime."

ALL LOOKED UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE

Photographs of the funeral showed men crying as five children, who all looked under the age of five, were wrapped in blankets and then lined up in a row. One man who described himself as a relative said one was just seven months old.

"They killed these innocent children. Are these considered terrorists? Is a seven-month-old child a terrorist?" he said angrily, speaking close to the remains of the house.

LOCAL TEACHER FAEQ NSAEF WAS ALSO OUTRAGED:"AN ENTIRE FAMILY WAS KILLED. IT'S A BARBARIAN ACT."

In January a U.S. air strike on a house in Baiji, further north, killed several members of a family. In December U.S. fighter jets dropped two 500-pound bombs on a village, also in the region, killing 10 people. The U.S. military said the people targeted had been suspected of planting roadside bombs.

[andend] - Additional reporting by Ghazwan al-Jibouri in Tikrit and Aseel Kami in Baghdad

The article, including a picture of the murdered babies, the other victims and comments can be found at Url.: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12379.htm

ICC - COURT INFORMATION: The ICC’s press release on the DRC arrest warrants can be found on the Court’s website at: http://www.icc-cpi.int/press/pressreleases/132.html

The OTP press release is available at http://www.icc-cpi.int/press/pressreleases/133.html.

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Friday, March 17, 2006
US Dep't of Defense officials lie about adverse health effects of DU
FPF-fwd.: Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D. - Former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project is the famous DU expert and it's victim too - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/puwkd

US Dep't of Defense officials lie about adverse health effects of DU

This sheet on depleted uranium is full of misinformation and omits all references to the DU team reports, the DU project, and simply lies about our actual adverse health effects from uranium weapons exposures.

Many of us who are enrolled in the VA DU MEDICAL PROGRAM HAVE SERIOUS DU RELATED- DIAGNOSED MEDICAL PROBLEMS.

HOWEVER, WE HAVE BEEN ABANDONED

VA physicians have only tested a few hundred individuals (Gulf War Review volume 13, #1, page 12; www.va.gov) out of thousands who were supposed to received testing and medical care as required by numerous orders and regulations.

The October 1993 DOD DU medical care directive mandated testing within 24 hours of initial exposure using the radio-bioassay not weeks, months, or years later as done now if done at all. Once this test is done an extrapolation from mesured to actual dose must be done too but that has been ignored.

ADVERSE HEALTH EFFECTS OF URANIUM EXPOSURES

I recommend that everyone read- study the Pentagon's own 2002 staff briefing on adverse health effects of uranium exposures. If you have questions just ask me. - [http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html]

DOD, DA, USAF, USN, USMC, USCG, VA, MOD (British), CND (Canadian), AND (Australian) and NATO officials have for years
continued with delayed and denied care in order to maintain the cover up of the always known serious adverse health and environmental effects and to sustain uranium weapons use while avoiding all liability as specified in the March 1991 Los Alamos memorandum written by LTC Mike Ziehmn (http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html).

The March 1991 memo written by LTC Greg Lyle was also very clear in citing serious health risks.

I am the Army officer who received these two directives. LTC Lyle is correct. However I refused and still refuse to comply with LTC Ziehmn directive in order to sustain uranium weapons use.

As the former director of the U.S. Army Depleted Uranium Project, the U.S. Army health physicist who cleaned up the mess following Gulf War 1, who recommended the initial medical care, and who is a confirmed DU casualty I am fed up with the continued lies and refusals by our leaders to comply with all known provisions of U.S. Army Regulation 700-48, LTG Peake's April 29, 2004 order mandating medical care for all exposed individuals, and refusals to comply with all of the numerous medical orders over the years.

Dr. Doug Rokke

Major, retired/ disabled, USAR

Simply: Depleted Uranium Situation Requires Action By President Bush and Prime Minister Blair

Dr. Doug Rokke, Ph.D. former Director, U.S. Army Depleted Uranium project

January 6, 2006 - While U.S. and British military personnel continue using illegal uranium munitions- America's and England's own "dirty bombs" U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Department of Defense officials continue to deny that there are any adverse health and environmental effects as a consequence of the manufacture, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions to avoid liability for the willful and illegal dispersal of a radioactive toxic material - depleted uranium. They arrogantly refuse to comply with their own regulations, orders, and directives that require United States Department of Defense officials to provide prompt and effective medical care "all" exposed individuals [Medical Management of Unusual Depleted Uranium Casualties, DOD, Pentagon, 10/14/93, Medical Management of Army personnel Exposed to Depleted Uranium (DU) Headquarters, U.S. Army Medical Command 29 April 2004), and section 2-5 of AR 70-48].

CLEAN UP DISPERSED RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION

They also refuse to clean up dispersed radioactive Contamination as required by Army Regulation- AR 700-48: "Management of Equipment Contaminated With Depleted Uranium or Radioactive Commodities" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington, D.C., September 2002) and U.S. Army Technical Bulletin- TB 9-1300-278: "Guidelines For Safe Response To Handling, Storage, And Transportation Accidents Involving Army Tank Munitions Or Armor Which Contain Depleted Uranium" (Headquarters, Department Of The Army, Washington, D.C., JULY 1996).

Specifically section 2-4 of United States Army Regulation-AR 700-48 dated September 16, 2002 requires that:

(1) "Military personnel "identify, segregate, isolate, secure, and label all RCE" (radiologically contaminated equipment).

(2) "Procedures to minimize the spread of radioactivity will be implemented as soon as possible."

(3) "Radioactive material and waste will not be locally disposed of through burial, submersion, incineration, destruction in
place, or abandonment" and

(4) "All equipment, to include captured or combat RCE, will be surveyed, packaged, retrograded, decontaminated and released IAW Technical Bulletin 9-1300-278, DA PAM 700-48" (Note: Maximum exposure limits are specified in Appendix F).

The previous and current use of uranium weapons, the release of radioactive components in destroyed U.S. and foreign military equipment, and releases of industrial, medical, research facility radioactive materials have resulted in unacceptable exposures. Therefore, decontamination must be completed as required by U.S. Army Regulation 700-48 and should include releases of all radioactive materials resulting from military operations.

CONTAMINATION IS NOT LIMITED

The extent of adverse health and environmental effects of uranium weapons contamination is not limited to combat zones but includes facilities and sites where uranium weapons were manufactured or tested including Vieques; Puerto Rico; Colonie, New York; Concord, MA; Jefferson Proving Grounds, Indiana; and Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.

Therefore medical care must be provided by the United States Department of Defense officials to all individuals affected by the manufacturing, testing, and/or use of uranium munitions. Thorough environmental remediation also must be completed without further delay.

ATTEMPT TO JUSTIFY URANIUM MUNITIONS USE

I am amazed that fourteen years after was asked to clean up the initial DU mess from Gulf War 1 and over ten years since I finished the depleted uranium project that United States Department of Defense officials and others still attempt to justify uranium munitions use while ignoring mandatory requirements.

I am dismayed thatDepartment of Defense and Department of Energy officials and representatives continue personal attacks aimed to silence or discredit those of us who are demanding that medical care be provided to all DU casualties and that environmental remediation is completed in compliance with U.S. Army Regulation 700-48.

WILLFUL DISPERSAL OF TONS

But beyond the ignored mandatory actions the willful dispersal of tons of solid radioactive and chemically toxic waste in the form of uranium munitions is illegal (http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf) and just does not even pass the common sense test and according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, DHS, is a dirty bomb.

DHS issued"dirty bomb" responseguidelines, http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html - on January 3, 2006 for incidents within the United States but ignore DOD use of uranium weapons and existing DOD regulations.

These guidelines specifically state that: "Characteristics of RDD and IND Incidents: A radiological incident is defined as an event or series of events, deliberate or accidental, leading to the release, or potential release, into the environment of radioactive material in sufficient quantity to warrant consideration of protective actions. Use of an RDD or IND is an act of terror that produces a radiological incident." Thus the use of uranium munitions is "an act or terror" as defined by DHS.

USE OF URANIUM MUNITIONS CAN NOT BE JUSTIFIED

Finally continued compliance with the infamous March 1991 Los Alamos Memorandum that was issued to ensure continued use of uranium munitions can not be justified.

In conclusion: the President of the United States - George W. Bush and The Prime Minister of Great Britain - Tony Blair must acknowledge and accept responsibility for willful use of illegal uranium munitions- their own "dirty bombs"- resulting in adverse health and environmental effects.

PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRIME MINISTER BLAIR ALSO SHOULD ORDER:

1. medical care for all casualties,

2. thorough environmental remediation,

3. immediate cessation of retaliation against all of us who demand compliance with medical care and environmental remediation requirements,

4. and stop the already illegal the use (UN finding) of depleted uranium munitions.

Dr. Doug Rokke

Story - PDF - at Url.: http://www.pdhealth.mil/downloads/DU_Clinicians_Guide_09172004.pdf

REFERENCES: these references are copies, the actual regulations and orders and other pertinent official documents:

http://www.traprockpeace.org/twomemos.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/rokke_du_3_ques.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/du_dtic_wakayama_Aug2002.html
http://www.traprockpeace.org/karen_parker_du_illegality.pdf
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/fr-cont.html
http://cryptome.org/dhs010306.txt

Fwd. in agreement with Dr. Rokke by the FPF:

HR - Related item yesterday - NATO/BRUSSELS - ''Fresh NATO cannon fodder: English, Dutch & Canadian Death Sentences'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qpqbw

Google search ''depleted uranium'' +FPF - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/prqax

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* Global Predators - ‘Frauds-R-Us’ - The Bush Family Saga - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/elarx

* This is a running total of the U.S. taxpayer cost of the Iraq War. The number is based on US Congressional appropriations. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cfsrc

* The Global Elite: Who are they? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/c5xv5

* White Haus drive to cover-up leaks concerning their crimes - PNAC-propaganda sheet Washington Post: ''White House Trains Efforts on Media Leaks Sources, Reporters Could Be Prosecuted'' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/e7t6o

* Anti-propaganda: On the Net - Reporters Committee - Url.: http://www.rcfp.org/

* US War & Propaganda machine: Rumsfeld Declares War on Bad Press - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/loxqy

* ABC - US propaganda: "US military will continue to pay Iraqi media to publish reports favourable to American forces" - Url.: http://abcnews.go.com/US/print?id=1683768

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Nobel Literature Prize Laureate and 'Gulag Holocaust' survivor Alexander Solzjenitsyn investigated the origin of the 'Russian Revolution' and the concentration camps: he published and was damned - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/qth6z

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* MSNBC - Live Vote - Concerning the "Project for a Nefarious American Century" (PNAC) - ''Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment?'' - YES: 86% - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

*Read the Fightin' Cock Flyer - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Fresh NATO cannon fodder: English, Dutch & Canadian Death Sentences
Not one word is heard in the complicit 'massmedia' about the present uranium radiation holocaust of millions of human beings. Nothing is heard while NATO is replacing thousands of US troops, mercenaries and heavy arms in illegally invaded Afghanistan for the planned and likewise illegal inhuman US attack on Iran.

Ten thousands of US troops, so called Special Forces, mercenaries, torture experts of different nationalities and heavy arms, napalm and cluster bombs dropping war planes, also Dutch F-16s, Black Hawk helicopters etc. - supporting the US genocides in Iraq and in also illegally invaded Afghanistan - are being replaced for the possible and likewise illegal US attack on Iran. All the people responsible for this global misery have liters of blood and the cancers of the innocents on their hands, but slavishly follow the PNAC's Apostles Credo: 'War is peace' - and profitable! - Well: the War Tribunals await them.

by Henk Ruyssenaars

FPF - Amsterdam, March 16th 2006 - Speaking to Radio Netherlands, as fresh Dutch troops left for the illegal war in Afghanistan, the most senior military commander, General Dick Berlijn - who is the PNAC/NATO errand boy in Holland, and as such also de facto and de jure guilty of all war crimes - referred to the political debate which preceded the 'killing and be killed' mission. Dutch member of parliament Bert Koenders half a year ago had a question: "Why should we take part in the illegal 'US Kill & Destroy" crimes?" - He was made to shut up, and has never been heard of again on the matter.

General Dick Berlijn, and all of these law people, moral, religious, political or 'journalistically' so called 'leaders' - lied as always about ''the broad level of political support.'' - There was only 'newspeak', faked and lied support in the by the warmongers owned propaganda channels and parroted by their brainwashed victims. The PNAC Group* (PG) owns all major forms of communication in Holland, and it's cowardly stenographers (former journalists) are now slaving to advocate the PG's crimes and secure their $billion profits.

INFANTICIDE: THE KILLING OF MORE THAN A MILLION CHILDREN

They all are to blame and guilty of crimes against humanity, including the crime of infanticide: the killing of more than a million children according to the Red Cross and Unicef.* - When a third of them was killed - 500.000 = Half a million toddlers from 0 to 5 years old - the PG's Madeleine Albright-Korbel as US Secretary of State said that ''the price was worth it.''* - The top level war criminals know this, but are sending now again - and against the will of the majority of the Dutch people, who also by the same criminals are forced to pay for those crimes - up to one-thousand-five-hundred (1500) brainwashed Dutch troops. Along with the majority of the local people in the american slaughterhouses they'll be sacrificed on the radioactive battlefields, the PNAC altar. Their blood and lives wasted and down the drain for the PNAC's profit.

"When our government asked parliament to support this mission, there was overwhelming support. That is very important for our soldiers. Whether or not there is strong support in our society when we have the first casualties, is something to be seen." General Berlijn in his role as an active PNAC war criminal said.

''As the general's words suggest, it is now regarded as inevitable that there will be some casualties among the Dutch force during the two years of its operations in Uruzgan", Dutch state international propaganda radio RNW commented. Some casualties? With a proven risk of the 56% disability rate? As the brainwashed and wounded US troops already have? None of those warmongers and their stenographers in the media have any human decency.

DEADLY DANGERS OF DU: URANIUM RADIATION HOLOCAUST

The so called 'governments' - and all politicians from left to right - have been informed a thousand times. In words and in writing. But in the whole dutch debate in the treacherous 'parliament' - and on all state propaganda channels - not ONE word was said aloud about the at present very well known facts and investigations concerning the ongoing uranium radiation holocaust on the PNAC battlefields. Slow death for millions through the globally proliferating abuse of ammunition with so called 'depleted uranium' (DU), a permanent disaster for billions of years for all mankind.

In the media in The Netherlands, the FPF started a debate among 'journalists' on - among other criminal cases - DU radiation, and was 'spiked' 3 years ago by the only one in Holland allowed Journalists Association NVJ, molded by a PNAC figure. Instead of having one of the few senior foreign correspondents still alive and kicking in the PNAC colony - [http://tinyurl.com/qq7r2] - commenting (for free) on the horrible inhuman matter, the 'Netherlands Journalists Association' closed it's Forum web sites! All three of them! Proving they are part of our problem.

Hardly anybody of the 16 million inhabitants of the maltreated country was mentally still capable to react... That's what The Group 'running' The Netherlands has done to the people everywhere: turned them into aliens; not able to understand other human beings or logic anymore. Those people were made to think that a man in a cave with a computer was more clever than the fourty $billion CIA. And unseen by this legion of international 'spooks' in New York can plant all the explosives for a controlled demolition of the WTC skyscrapers on 9/11.*

9/11 WAS A PNAC INSIDE JOB

'Americans' - some with double nationality - killing three thousand other Americans, poisoning the main part of New York and the minds of hundreds of millions, falsely blaming 'the Arabs'. A totally weird story, lacking every trace of logic, but enough for the US 'aliens' - all those not able to think straight anymore- to support the Bush adminstration and it's managers in illegal wars.* - But finally a growing group of scientists and many others in the US and world combined science and commen sense, have the proof and know the truth.*

A truth not spread in PNAC colony Holland, with all state propaganda called 'information' or even 'news', concentrated in the hands of ONE man - Hans Laroes - the #1 politruk of the Netherlands broadcasting Corp's NOS 'newspeak' channel. In The Netherlands 'journalists' have done nothing to stem the tide when they saw the Group destroying the social fabric of a once rather inventive and open society. And when they react is too little and very late. But those brave few who said something critical, have all been declared 'radio-active' - meanig socially and economically 'dead'. And at least one has lately been liquidated, a thousand feet (300 mtrs) from where this written. - [http://tinyurl.com/78ltu] - No good critical journalist has work via a 'normal' paid job. They are all blacklisted. But they'll work full time when all those war criminals with their collaborators and assorted Quislings end their days in front of the War Crimes Tribunals. We're really looking forward to that event.

PROPAGANDA, COMMERCE AND STATE LIES

Many had expected the Journalists Union after a long terminal phase, to shape up; this after the returning to Israel of the former 'chairman' of the Dutch Journalists Union mr. Ron Abrams, who - regrettably - held the reigns for too many years. The effect on what once was journalism, was and is disastrous, turning 90% of the reporting into a pack of propaganda, commerce- and state lies.

But it killed the dutch 'debate', so thanks to 'them' DU will in the future kill a lot of the by the US troops attacked populations, plus of course the ignorant Dutch troops. 56% of them will most probably get cancer, this misled cannon fodder now being radiated, as the usual victims of the pack of lies by the warmongers and the miserable media-miscreants the war profiteers own. And everything is as always totally illegal and under fake NATO 'help/reconstruction' cover. The only thing the collaborators in crime keep alive, contrary to the local people, is the inhuman PNAC Group with their 'Project for a Nefarious American Century'.*

NOWADAYS 'HUMANITARIAN HELP' MEANS EXTERMINATING HUMAN LIFE

The dutch PNAC colony's "Task Force Uruzgan" (TF-U), will replace the illegal american cannon fodder in the radiated war zone - they're on stand-by for the next quagmire, Iran - and the Dutch troops will take along as much as they can of the by the ill informed Dutch taxpayers paid heavy arms, ships, airplanes and helicopters for billions. This includes a number of heavily-armed units, which will operate illegally alongside the fake 'Provincial Reconstruction Team'.

TOO LATE AND TOO MANY WILL DISCOVER THAT THE ONLY THING TO RECONSTRUCT, WILL BE THEIR HEALTH, AT A 56% RISK OF BEING DESTROYED FOREVER.

Comment by the Dutch state radio: "Uruzgan is regarded - and this is unlikely to change in the near future - as a "dangerous" province, with that danger coming in the form of a mixture of Taliban, al-Qaeda followers and drugs barons. [The PNAC's CIA is financed with drugs trade - HR] - This summer, NATO will take over the command of three southern provinces from the United States, and the three NATO countries taking on that role - Canada in Kandahar, the United Kingdom in Helmand and the Netherlands in Uruzgan - will take turns at overall command of NATO's entire operations in the south, taking instructions for a main headquarters in Kabul which, in turn, is led from one of NATO's headquarters outside Afghanistan, namely in the Dutch town of Brunssum."

IN THE WHOLE PROPAGANDA THE EXPRESSION OR WARNING FOR 'DEADLY RADIATION' IS NOWHERE TO BE SEEN OR HEARD

Like in Canada, England, and some other cowardly collaborating colonies, the creatures responsible for the war crimes in The Netherlands are silent, and send those people - never their own children - off to death and destruction. Soldiers/mercenaries which are finishing off themselves and doing it to others. By bombs, bullets or cancer.

THAT IS PREMEDITATED MURDER IN AN ILLEGAL WAR - A WAR CRIME!

The historical disability rate amongst soldiers last century was about 5 PERCENT, although it approached 10 PERCENT DURING VIETNAM. But due to the use of depleted uranium in the battlefield, 56 PERCENT of the 580,400 solders that served in the first Gulf War were on Permanent Medical Disability by 2000.

11,000 GULF WAR VETERANS ARE ALREADY DEAD.

And millions of people like you and me died in the by the US illegally invaded countries and in the worst possible circumstances.

Join the resistance: support all people who want to stop the global US Holocaust.

And remember the murderers in the media without whom this global massacre never would have been possible.

Henk Ruyssenaars


More & Working links at - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/z2k79

[andend]

* FPF/HR - The Netherlands and Afghanistan - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/k4wwx

* APFN - US site with working links - Death sentence story Url.: http://tinyurl.com/z2k79

* Further information concerning this malignant global holocaust by the PNAC group is available from the American Gulf War Veterans Association - Url.: http://www.gulfwarvets.com/index.html

* UN report on DU poisoning - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/be7aa

* A death sentence here and abroad - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4p3qh

* Deutsche Welle - US war is cancer article/English - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57cqp

* Iraq / DU-disaster Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6o4na

* Professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki report - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6ljxa

* Bush interview. ABC: No WMD's but many killed: "It was worth it". - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6bal9

* Former Secr. of State Madeleine Albright in her comment on the at least half a million dead children in Iraq: "We think it's worth it" On CBS 60' Minutes - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2vmc8

* A crime against humanity is an act of persecution against a group, so heinous as to warrant punishment under international law: Please scroll - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6rphj

* FPF - The US: Making Dead Friends? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8sswk

* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* STARTING: The 9/11 WTC drama was by the PNAC criminals planned terror - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b7ygk - It was an inside job - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/7tj9d

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* Independent & FREE press in Kansas - Pls. read the 'Fightin' Cock Flyer' - Url.: http://fightincockflyer.blogspot.com/

* THE ONLY SOLUTION? - Help all the troops - of whatever nationality - to come back from abroad! - AND WITH ALL THEIR WEAPONS, WHICH WE ARE FORCED TO PAY FOR BY TAXES - [http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm] - We need them badly at home in many countries to fight with us against our so called 'governments' and their malignant managers - Url.: http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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