October 31, 2005
Grieving for Parks, Rights Leaders Ponder
Future
By FELICIA R. LEE
The body of Rosa Parks lay in the Capitol Rotunda this morning, on view for
thousands of Americans who wanted to honor the woman known as the mother of
the civil rights movement. Her death last week has created a moment, many
African-Americans engaged in political struggle say, to take stock of what
that movement accomplished and whether it is still alive.
With the deaths this year of other major figures from a movement that once
galvanized a mass following over issues like the right to vote, segregated
lunch counters and a seat in the front of the bus, some say that not enough
has been done to share that history with the young or to shape future
leaders to carry on the cause. That movement has been replaced, in large
part, by more dispersed struggles over issues like housing and employment,
health care and incarceration.
"In the absence of dogs and hoses there is no immediate, obvious enemy
before us, so it's harder to mobilize a sense of outrage," said Senator
Barack Obama, an Illinois Democrat who is the only black member of the
United States Senate. "Rosa Parks did not just sit down on her own
initiative. She was part of a movement."
The reflection on the earlier civil rights movement and the next phase, if
there is to be one, is occurring at an extraordinary time.
Hurricane Katrina exposed fault lines of race and class in America. The case
of Emmett Till, the black teenager who was killed in the Mississippi Delta
in 1955 supposedly for whistling at a white woman, has been reopened. Edgar
Ray Killen, a former Klansman, was convicted in the 1964 killings of three
civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Miss.
Just last weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice focused international
attention on the civil rights struggle when she took Jack Straw, the British
foreign secretary, on a visit to the Birmingham, Ala., church where four
black girls died in a bombing 42 years ago. Ms. Rice used the visit to link
the civil rights struggle there to an international quest for democracy.
And last month, the Senate approved a measure that would create a Justice
Department office to investigate and prosecute unsolved killings from the
civil rights era.
"I do think there is a movement building," said Malika Sanders, 32,
president of the 21st Century Youth Leadership Movement with headquarters
near Selma, Ala., which trains young people to be human rights workers.
"If you look from California to Wyoming and from Maine to the furthermost
tip of Alabama, you find people working on human rights issues," Ms. Sanders
said. "It's a major challenge to this generation to put forth a vision that
makes connections between those issues."
The echoes of the past come as many of the figures and chroniclers of the
early fight are dying, leaving behind a black population with a median age
of 30 - many born after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated
in Memphis in 1968 and after legal barriers to voting, public accommodations
and education were toppled.
"We are at a crossroads," said Representative John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat
who is a former associate of Dr. King's. "We can either go forward or stand
still."
"It seems every other day we are losing somebody and we have not done enough
to inform, to educate another cadre of leaders," said Mr. Lewis, who once
led the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. "I am thinking not only
of the death of Rosa Parks but of Constance Baker Motley, Vivian Malone
Jones, C. DeLores Tucker."
Ms. Motley was a politician and lawyer who defended civil rights workers,
and became the first black female judge on the federal bench. Ms. Jones was
the first black graduate of the University of Alabama, and Ms. Tucker
marched with Dr. King and founded the National Political Congress of Black
Women.
Since the beginning of the year, other prominent leaders in the civil rights
movement have died, including John H. Johnson, the founder and publisher of
Ebony and Jet magazines; Ossie Davis, the actor and activist who eulogized
Malcolm X; and Arthur A. Fletcher, known as the father of affirmative
action.
It was the recent death of Mrs. Parks, though, that reawakened the desire to
reflect, say some leaders from her era and young leaders of grass-roots
organizations across the country.
While many struggles continue, they do not approach the drama of the march
on Washington in 1963 when Dr. King gave his "I Have a Dream" speech or of
Montgomery, Ala., in 1955, when Mrs. Parks refused to give up her bus seat
to a white man, setting off the bus boycott that brought Dr. King to
national prominence.
"A lot of people are gone," said Julian Bond, chairman of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "You lose that witness,
that personal testimony."
Mr. Bond was once one of the Young Turks of the movement. "Civil rights
today has to fight the false belief that all those problems were solved in
the Martin Luther King era," he said.
In some ways, the success of the earlier civil rights leaders is daunting,
said Van Jones, the 37-year-old executive director of the Ella Baker Center
for Human Rights in Oakland, Calif., an organization named in honor of the
first executive director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
They helped repair American democracy, integrated the mainstream and created
a template for other movements, he said.
But a failing of that generation, Mr. Jones and some other young leaders
said, was that it had no plan to nurture and hand off responsibility to
younger leaders.
"The older generation did not realize fast enough it that it wasn't going to
fix all the problems," Mr. Jones said.
Still, he says he remains hopeful. People are rallying behind campaigns like
that of the colorofchange.org Web site, a kind of African-American
equivalent to MoveOn.org, Mr. Jones said, and he sees a hunger for more
unity. "We've got a lot of issues but not a lot of coherence," he said.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said the civil rights movement was alive and well but
just looked different.
"The movement today is more Northern, more urban and more centered around
police brutality and racial profiling," Mr. Sharpton said, adding that it
was also less likely to be covered by a national news media that
romanticized the Southern confrontations of the past.
Farai Chideya, a journalist and founder of PopandPolitics.com, an online
opinion journal, said: "At this point, there's work to do on defining a
movement as opposed to following a movement. If this generation wants to
mount a challenge to the earlier generation's leadership they have to raise
their own money and start their own organizations."
The earlier generation's success in helping remove a legal color line, those
interviewed said, means only that racism can be subtler. Blacks continue to
lag behind whites on every socioeconomic index. The new movement, they said,
will focus not only on explicitly "black" issues but also on wider societal
problems like joblessness and failing schools that affect blacks
disproportionately.
"I eschew this idea that only sees civil rights as being about protest and
litigation," said Marc H. Morial, the president of the National Urban League
and a former mayor of New Orleans. "Those were tactics used in the 60's
because we didn't have the right to vote and weren't sitting in the
boardroom."
Others, too, say there is a much broader focus now.
"Our struggle has gone from civil rights to human rights," said Martin
Luther King III, president of the King Center in Atlanta, created to
preserve his father's legacy.
The Rev. Markel Hutchins, a 28-year-old minister in Atlanta, said: "The
paradigm in America has shifted from black and white to the haves and
have-nots." His group, the National Youth Connection, works to end poverty
and to fight police brutality, among other things.
Many saw a catalyst to bring people together in the Hurricane Katrina
aftermath, in which a slow local and federal response to the disaster left
mostly poor and black residents stranded in New Orleans.
"What happened with Katrina took the cover off," Mr. Lewis said. "It said
we've traveled a long distance but many of us have been left behind."
These days, said many of the political leaders and activists interviewed,
problems like a lack of quality health care and joblessness are more complex
than desegregation and can be solved only through a series of potentially
expensive long-term initiatives and not just legislation.
"Today you can eat at a lunch counter but you can't get an education that
allows you to go the next level," said T. J. Crawford, the 29-year-old
chairman of the National Hip-Hop Political Convention and its Chicago local.
"We build upon the intellectual capital, but there's not enough community
building or institution building on a mass level, so you're forced to repeat
the struggles of your parents and grandparents."
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Las Vegas TRIBUNE
Headlines June 3, 2005
Duped By The IRS?
Schiff: When Will The Government PROVE
that the IRS is Authorized to Collect Taxes?
http://www.lasvegastribune.com/headline1.html
Important. This article from the "Las Vegas Tribune" confirms and
exposes
what Irwin has been saying all along. There is no law that makes anyone
"liable" for the payment of income taxes, and IRS agents have no
authority
to seize property or do anything at all to enforce the payment of income
taxes. Irwin is kicking himself for not raising this jurisdictional
argument earlier in this case, and in connection with the government's
$2.3 million dollar civil lawsuit and in connection with the Preliminary
Injunction - however he will raise the issue now in those cases since
they
are still pending. It's not that he was unaware of this argument,
since
he discusses it in pages 264 - 265 of "The Federal Mafia." He can't
believe he overlooked it in these law suits against him and is kicking
himself for having done so. He says that's what he gets for not reading
his own books more often.
The issue is really quite simple, and can be used in any situation where
the IRS is attempting to extort money for the payment of income taxes;
from CDP hearings to petitions to Tax Court. Irwin believes this
issue,
if forcefully used, should stop all criminal income tax prosecution
and
civil law suits seeking to extort income taxes - but since we are still
dealing with a corrupt federal judiciary, we can't tell how they will
try
to get around it. But, the simplicity of this issue should make it
difficult for them to do so - especially if we can publicize it.
Obviously, if we had to pay income taxes the two documents would exist,
but
they don't. Las Vegas' local, main stream media have refused to touch
the story. (However Irwin tells me that the AP told him "we're still
looking at it." We'll wait and see what they will do with it.) In any
case, you should pass this story on to everybody in your address book.
Bring the story to the attention of your local media. Call in local and
national talk shows and talk about it. The issue is simple and
uncomplicated - and is all explained in the "Tribune" article. For a
more
detailed understanding read Irwin's Motion and his Reply as posted to
his
website, www.paynoincometax.com
So, if you want to help expose and end
the destructive and illegal enforcement of the income tax which is
rapidly
converting the United States into a 3rd world country - get moving on
this
story. How can you find a simpler issue?
Angela
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ABORIGINES VOW TO WIPE PIONEER SCOT OFF
THE MAP
BY Kurt Bayer
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=672952005
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=672952005
A SCOTTISH pioneer revered as one of Australia's foremost explorers
faces
being erased from maps amid accusations that he was responsible for the
cold-blooded murder of hundreds of aborigines.
The aborigines are calling for the electoral district of McMillan in the
southern state of Victoria to be renamed out of respect for the men,
women
and children they say were slaughtered by Angus McMillan and his
'Highland
Brigade' in the massacre of Warrigal Creek.
The 1843 massacre was one of several attributed to McMillan, originally
from
Glenbrittle, Skye, and his band of Scottish settlers, who styled
themselves
the 'Highland Brigade'. They are accused of carrying out a genocidal
campaign against the aborigines for a decade.
Generations of Australian schoolchildren have been taught that McMillan
was
a trailblazing settler, the first to cross the Snowy Mountains, opening
up
the fertile lands beyond. In 1841, McMillan founded Port Albert,
Victoria's
oldest sea port and the first European settlement in Gippsland, the rich
agricultural territory he discovered.
The official Clan MacMillan society, which boasts thousands of members
throughout the world, hails Angus McMillan as a famous son. Australia's
Presbyterian community have also voted the devout Christian one of the
nation's "greatest Presbyterians".
But the Koori aboriginal people of East Gippsland in southern Victoria
have
altogether different views on the Scottish explorer.
The Koori Heritage Trust says that the number of aborigines slaughtered
by
McMillan and his colleagues is thought to be in excess of 300, with
evidence
of 14 separate massacres, including women and children. The most
notorious
was at the remote settlement of Warrigal Creek, where up to 180
aborigine
adults and children were shot after a native reportedly murdered Ranald
Macalister, nephew of Lachlan Macalister, the Scottish sponsor of
McMillan's
expeditions.
An account of the massacre from George Dunderdale, who collected local
stories and published them in The Book of the Bush in 1898, said: "The
blacks were found encamped near a waterhole at Gammon Creek, and those
who
were shot were thrown into it."
Richard Frankland, founding member of Australia's pro-indigenous
political
party, Your Voice, has called on Prime Minister John Howard to launch an
investigation into McMillan's shrouded past.
Last night, Frankland said: "Australia has a nursery version of history
in
its head. All of these people who committed these war crimes, including
McMillan, should be outed publicly and I urge our prime minister to set
up a
select committee to make a judicial investigation into these atrocities.
"If there are statues or commemorations pronouncing them as wonderful
men,
then they should be torn down or renamed to reflect what they commonly
are.
There also needs to be a massive renaming of any town or area that is
named
after these explorers, who in some cases were drunks, rapists and
murderers.
"You can't go on ignoring history and making heroes of someone like
McMillan, it is blatantly wrong."
Greta Jubb, research officer for the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service,
said: "We're not going to stand by and let these events in history go
past
without notice. We're going to kick up a fuss."
Last night, Clan MacMillan International Centre refused to comment.
In Commemoration Of The 40th Anniversary
Of Malcolm X's Death, Go-Kart
Films Will Release This Startling Expose on DVD
Sure to Incite a Firestorm of Debate, The DVD Also Features a
Never-Before-Seen, Exclusive Interview with James 67X, Secretary and
Close Friend of Malcolm X, Talking About the Assassination for the
First Time
NEW YORK, NY, September 23, 2005 -- For nearly forty years, the murder
of one of America's most controversial leaders, Malcolm X, has remained
a mysterious tangle of lies and confusion. On October 25, an explosive
and critically-acclaimed documentary will finally shed light on one of
the darkest moments in American history. More than ten years in the
making, Brother Minister: The Assassination Of Malcolm X, is a
painstakingly in-depth documentary examining the swirl of events
surrounding the death of this cultural icon through interviews with
friends and felons, scholars and collars, de-classified government
intelligence and more.
Narrated by actor Roscoe Lee Browne, directed by Jack Baxter and
co-written by Baxter and Jefri Aalmuhammed (a consultant on Spike Lee's
Malcolm X) Brother Minister is an exhaustive inquiry into the extremely
tangled web that surrounded the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X.
Digging deeply, the highly compelling film implicates some unlikely
suspects, including Louis Farrakhan, the FBI, the CIA, the New York
police, the Nation of Islam and founder Elijah Muhammad, members of the
FOI - the Nation's security force - various body guards, and even, in
an act of martyrdom, Malcolm X himself.
Over the course of a decade, the filmmakers unearthed archival footage
and stills, old newsreels of the aftermath of the assassination, TV
news clips and numerous interviews with close friends and associates of
Malcolm X, up to recreating the very assassination itself. Fascinating
interview subjects include Dr. John Henrik Clarke, who helped Malcolm X
with historical research; assassination witness Robert Higgins; author
Baba Zak A. Kondo; lawyer William Kunstler, and convicted killer Thomas
15X Johnson, who served 23 years, despite ultimately being found
innocent of Malcolm X's assassination.
Focusing not only on the actual assassination but on the turbulent
context of the murder, Brother Minister examines the origin and history
of the Nation of Islam, and countless other organizations and
individuals that shaped the life, and death, of Malcolm X. What role
did Louis Farrakhan and J.Edgar Hoover play in the assassination? Did
the real assassins escape? Did two innocent men go to prison for a
crime they did not commit? Brother Minister sets out to answer the
questions that many have been afraid to ask.
The only documentary that deals exclusively with the assassination of
Malcolm X, Brother Minister is a must-have for anyone looking to
explore the reality beyond the lines of history books. Brother Minister
proves, ultimately, that it's never too late for the truth.
BMI JOINS FIGHT AGAINST FILE SHARING
BMI Senior VP Government Relations Fred Cannon hotly debated Consumer
Rights
Association activist Michael Petricone on the steps of the U.S. Supreme
Court building (Reuters photo receiving nationwide circulation) as the
Court
held a hearing that will decide whether or not Grokster -- a company
that
provides peer-to-peer file-sharing software -- will be "contributory
infringers"
or "vicariously liable" for the infringement activities of the users of
its software. BMI has joined with many others in the creative community
in urging the Supreme Court to render a judgment that protects
intellectual
property.
http://bmi.com/musicworld/musicpeople/200503/grokster.asp
BMI, MOBZILLA IN LICENSING PACT
BMI and La Jolla, CA-based wireless media company mobZilla, LLC have
announced
an agreement covering the performing rights for BMI musical works for
mobZilla's
mobile phone streaming music service. MobZilla is a monthly subscription
service that gives users unlimited access to streaming commercial-free
music
both online and on select mobile phones across most major U.S. carriers.
MobZilla subscribers nationwide can listen to a mix of music
personalized
from over 30 content genres through their mobile phone or on the
Internet.
http://bmi.com/news/200503/20050304a.asp
“Future True Humanity: The necessity for the African AIDS
Holocaust”
by Boyd Ed Graves, J.D.
www.boydgraves.com
January 21, 2005
To the people of the
world:
Somewhere
in time and at some point, Aryan men and women have been living
under a directive to eliminate the Black race in the name of
future true humanity. The historical development of the medical
and science proof is overwhelming. It is unfortunate, very
unfortunate, but true. The guarantee of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness is disingenuous. . In my world my
government is not above or beyond my Constitution. It is a
Constitution I have believed in all my life. The U.S.
development and proliferation of HIV/AIDS violates every tenant
of any true humanity or society. A society that seeks to
eliminate,… eliminates itself. A world where everyone looks the
same before and after their tanning lotion.
If the Negroid race
is to be eliminated, and certainly with your early viral work as
far back as 1902, then I pray your manipulated future yearns for
your brother and sister.
It is truly
unfortunate that many of us are centralized in our intelligence.
However, these are your government’s documents, because
you choose to be ‘told’ information, and lack the fortitude
required to attempt to at least try to make a difference, you’ll
wave your hand away from accessing any of the documents, the
truth and facts, on your own. You will wonder and ponder until
you no longer exist, nor any of your antecedents.
There is comfort,
strength and solace in truth. This path that we have taken down
the “center of the double yellow” has been the correct one. If
there is unbiased science and medical evidence, there is. If
there were not, we would not have the 1971 “research logic”
flowchart (blueprint) of HIV/AIDS.
www.boydgraves.com/flowchart. If there were not documents,
we would not have the 1969 sworn Congressional testimony of the
coming AIDS weapon. Oddly enough, the testimony is similar to
that of the May 1946 Appropriations hearing where the June 4,
1946 TIME magazine wrote “Better Than The Bomb”. Although the
1957 Appropriations hearing with Gerald Ford was “off the
record”. It is widely believe that appropriation funded,
“Special Operations-X”. It also is important to note that
“visna” disease isolated in 1957, although he had been
identified as early as 1932..
The U.S. Special
Virus program should be reviewed and investigated for the true
future of all humanity.
See and read, U.S.
Public Law 91-213, March 16, 1970
Boyd Ed Graves is a
2005 (unofficial) nominee for a Nobel prize. I am grateful to
the international effort being made on my behalf. Thank you in
particular to Ms. Gina Rydland and her group in Norway
www.uprootmedia.org
Hoteph My Beloved Sisters and
Brothers:
Beloved, if such become true about Aids could kill 80 millions
Afrikans
by
2025 and I might add or before, such become a testimony to how
complacence
we are as Afrikans and serve as testimony that as I said, Afrikans
have
the
inability to respect the profoundness of other Afrikans and in this
case,
the other Afrikan is Dr.Boyd Graves.
May I ask, where is Dr. Graves, the Afrikan in america who warned us
about
this devilish virus and how we Afrikans just gave him our behind to
kiss
because he was brave enough to point a condemning finger at america
and
others who participated in creating this devilish virus call Aids.
You know my beloved, the Afrikan has evolved to become our biggest
obstacle
to our life joy, peace, pristine health, justice and independence.
You who are for Truth will have to agree with me, we did not show
Brother
Graves the respect we should have shown to him, but hell, we were on
cue
and
ready to show all sort of doubt about what he was telling us about
this
devilish Virus call Aids and the sad part about it is, Afrikans in
Afrika
refused to embrace this brother and invite him to Afrika so the
Afrikan
pathologist could confer, or question him about what he was claiming
about
Aids being a man made Virus, knowing full well who will suffer the
most
from
such a killer virus that operate as it does.
Where is Dr, Graves, has america caused something to happen to him
health
wise, that will be damaging to his life?
I desire nothing has happen to him in that regard or is it that
they did
not need to, because we Afrikan took care of that for them in the
way we
ignored this brother and criticized him, questioning his
qualification to
be
able to make such a charge against such a clandestine Nation,
capable of
doing everything Dr Grave accused them of doing but us Afrikans
chose to
doubt and ignore this brother and now here we are making prediction
of
how
many more Afrikans will die from this devilish Virus, known as the
HIV/Aids
virus.
So I ask, did anybody prove Dr.Graves to be a shyster, a shenanigan
and
an
imposter?
Did anybody prove that Dr.Graves was making all of this up just for
recognition and using such a claim for a Hustle?
I am raising all of these question because I know how Afrikans have
been
conditioned to think about other Afrikan who point a condemning
finger
toward america.
So I will make an appeal to Dr. Graves, that is if he is not to fed
up
with
Black folks, to appear once again and make your claim and tell us
what
you
need to continue our fight against this devilish Aids virus and the
devil
that manufactured it and as you said, they have the cure to that
which
they
have made but is willing to let Afrikans and others Die in order to
meet
their Afrikan population control quota or to distinguish us out
entirely.
The Afrikan has become a pitiful and sad lot of a people.
It Is Time to Condemn the Lie and elevate The Truth!!!
We Must Cause Trouble ( with the truth ) Until Our Liberation!!!
It Is The Black Fool Who Say I Have Lost Nothing In Afrika!!! (
Osiris )
I Come, I Share, You Either Accept Or Reject, I Move On.
Completely Loving The Black Afrikan Nation
Honor,Respect And Praise To The Honorable Marcus Garvey
Hoteph
Osiris
Afrikan Spiritualist, Hierophant,Political Revolutionary
There exists 20 000
documents that can prove that AIDS is manmade.
Is DATA working to
disclose the truth?
"The
1971 flowchart makes it perfectly clear, the design,
intent and purpose of the U.S. Special Virus program. As
Dr. Peter Piot, Executive Director of UNAIDS says, the
HIV/AIDS virus is the result of many steps in the
laboratory, it was no accident.
The 1971 flowchart provides absolute evidence of the
United States' intent to kill its own citizens and
others."
____________________
There exists a cure for AIDS, that
needs to be tested out!
Has DATA informed
about this?
Send a copy of the text below to
friends, media, politicians and different organisations!
Let them know!
Inventors: Antelman; Marvin S.
(Rehovot, IL)
Assignee: Antelman Technologies Ltd.
(Providence, RI)
Appl. No: 658955
Filed: May 31, 1996
United States Patent: 5,676,977. Oct 14, 1997
__________________________-
(And don`t say it isn`t true! The NSA had it`s own
protocol to get their hands on the 20 000 documents in
Africa.)
| NSA protokoll: TRUCKERS JOURNAL,
HARTS/NSA v/LARA JOHNSTONE.
http://www.uprootmedia.org/truckersjournal.html
D.O.B: 04 DECEMBER 1966 US INS A# A77 177 281,
DRIVERS LICENCE: CA: B9644585 SOC-SEC:
620-06-3225 aka Lynn Johnstone (UK/MI5), aka
Kelly Haigh (Al Queda/Taliban), aka Lara
Johnstone McVeigh.
OFFICIAL US GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS IN HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES (1969): 'AIDS: The
Manufactured Virus', transcript taken from the
June 9, 1969 Senate testimony of Dr. Donald
MacArthur, a high-level Defense Department
biological research administrator,....
THABO MBEKI President Thabo Mbeki's
Spokesperson: Mr. Bheki Khumalo: Cell: (083) 256
9133, 05 April 2002, Conversation Recorded by
Echelon, Inc. 'Yes, President Thabo Mbeki Is
Well Aware of Who Lara Johnstone Is. The
President has Received Your Hundreds of Emails
For the Past Eight Months That There Are Over
20,000 US Government Documents substantiating
that AIDS is A Black Depopulation Program,....
DESIGNER DISEASES AIDS as Biological &
Psychological Warfare By Waves Forrest Despite
repeated denials from Defense Department
officials, allegations persist that AIDS is a
genetically altered virus, which has been
deliberately released to wipe out homosexuals
and/or non-whites in the U.S. and reduce
populations in third world countries. At first
glance it seems like the epitome of paranoia to
accuse the military of conspiring to exterminate
citizens of their own country, and even some of
their own troops. However, the vast majority of
military personnel could be completely unaware
of such a plot in their midst, while a relative
handful of traitors in key positions could
conduct it under cover of classified operations.
And the circumstantial evidence is actually
quite compelling, that the AIDS virus was
artificially engineered, and planted in several
different locations at about the same time
through vaccination programs, and possibly blood
bank contamination. At a House Appropriations
hearing in 1969, the Defense Department's
Biological Warfare (BW) division requested funds
to develop through gene-splicing a new disease
that would both resist and break down a victim's
immune system,....
Ms. Lara Johnstone: AYE: Biological &
Chemical Warfare Military Scientists created A
Synthetic Biological Agent, named AIDS to Attack
Blacks Immune Systems, for Depopulation
Purposes. The US Special Virus Program has over
20,000 Scientific US Government Documents
Verifying that the "creation," "production" and
"proliferation" of AIDS was INTENTIONAL,....
Bulletin of the W.H.O., vol. 47, p 257-
274.) This is a clinical description of the
function of the AIDS virus. The incidence of
AIDS infections in Africa coincides exactly with
the locations of the W.H.O. smallpox vaccination
program in the mid-1970's (London Times, May 11,
1987). Some 14,000 Haitians then on UN
secondment to Central Africa were also
vaccinated in this campaign. Personnel actually
conducting the vaccinations may have been
completely unaware that the vaccine was anything
other than what they were told. A striking
feature of AIDS is that it's ethno-selective.
The rate of infection is twice as high among
Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans as among
whites, with death coming two to three times as
swiftly. And over 80% of the children with AIDS
and 90% of infants born with it are among these
minorities. "Ethnic weapons" that would strike
certain racial groups more heavily than others
have been a long-standing U.S. Army BW
objective. (Harris and Paxman, p 265),....
October 2002:
In Addition to a list of approximately 100
covert intelligence operatives, assassins, bomb
explosives experts, terrorists, etc, who
categorically state that: AIDS IS A BLACK
DEPOPULATION VIRUS, HARTS CONFIRMS FOLLOWING
INDIVIDUALS TO THE STATEMENT:
Mr. Wouter Basson, Former Head of South Africa's
Biological & Chemical Warfare Program, on 06 Oct
2002 at 21:09 hrs - Mr. Ron Pandolfi, Deputy
Director of Science & Technology, Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA), on 09 Oct 2002 at
09:11 hrs President George W. Bush, President of
the United States of America, on 16 Oct 2002 at
09:11 hrs - Former United States Presidents: W.J.
Clinton, G.H.W. Bush Snr., J. Carter, R. Reagan,
& G. Ford; on 17 Oct 2002 at 09:11 hrs - United
States of America: Ambassador in Pretoria: HE
Mr. Cameron Hume, on 18 Oct 2002 at 17:00 hrs
Republic of South Africa: Ambassador in
Washington, DC: HE Ms. SVM Sisulu on 18 Oct 2002
at 17:00 hrs,....
Mr. D'Oliviera to FOLLOW MY INSTRUCTIONS
TO HIM were unsuccessful. My instructions to my
attorney as dated on 17 October 2002, also
stated briefly: I have been informed by the NSA
(National Security Agency), as well as my friend
in the White House (Tim McVeigh), that the U.S.
Special Virus Program authors who 'created Aids'
as a 'depopulation program for blacks' are
willing to release all their documentation to
that fact to the South African Department of
Defense, SA Military Health Services, c/o Major
Ali. Their request is that the charges against
Lara Johnstone are dropped in their entirety,
and that all complaints written by Lara
Johnstone be immediately addressed, investigated
and where relevant the appropriate official
apologies are made. President George W. Bush
would kindly appreciate a response on this
matter by the latest at 17:00 hrs South Africa
time (GMT + 2), as would I, Lara Johnstone.
President Bush can be contacted via the White
House Press Office (202) 456 2580,....
The "discovery" of the AIDS virus (HTLV3)
was announced by Dr. Robert Gallo at the
National Cancer Institute, which is on the
grounds of Fort Detrick, Maryland, a primary
U.S. Army biological warfare research facility.
Actually, the AIDS virus looks and acts much
more like a cross between a bovine leukemia
virus and a sheep visna (brain-rot) virus,
cultured in a human cell culture, than any virus
of the HTLV group. The closest thing in this
case to a "smoking test tube" so far is the AIDS
virus itself. If it was possible for such a
monstrosity to occur naturally it would have
done so ages ago and decimated mankind at that
time. Some other life form would presently be in
control of this planet (assuming that is not
already the case). The Hepatitis B vaccine study
in 1978 appears to have been the initial means
of planting the infection in New York City. The
test protocol specified non-monogamous males
only, and homosexuals received a different
vaccine from heterosexuals. At least 25-50% of
the first reported New York AIDS cases in 1981
had received the Hepatitis B test vaccine in
1978. By 1984, 64% of the vaccine recipients had
AIDS, and the figures on the current infection
rate for the participants of that study are held
by the U.S. Department of Justice, and
"unavailable." The AIDS epidemic emerged
full-blown in the three U.S. cities with
"organized gay communities" before being
reported elsewhere, including Haiti or Africa,
so it is epidemiologically impossible for either
of those countries to be the origin point for
the U.S. infections. Another indication AIDS had
multiple origin points is that the 14-month
doubling time of the disease cannot nearly
account for the current number of cases if we
assume only a small number of initial infections
starting in the late 1970s. Before dismissing
the possibility that a U.S. Army BW facility
would participate in genocide, bear in mind that
hundreds of top Nazis were imported into key
positions in the U.S. military- intelligence
establishment following WW II. U.S. military
priorities were then re-oriented from defeating
Nazis to "defeating" communism at any cost, and
strengthening military control of economic and
foreign policy decisions (See - Project
Paperclip by Clarence Lasby, Atheneum 214, NY,
and Gehlen: Spy of the Century by E.H. Cookridge,
Random House.),....
The first detailed charges regarding AIDS
as a BW weapon were published in the Patriot
newspaper in New Delhi, India, on July 4, 1984.
It is hard to say where the investigations of
this story in the Indian press might have led,
if they had not been sidetracked by two major
domestic disasters shortly thereafter: the
assassination of Indira Gandhi on Oct. 31 and
the Bhopal Union Carbide plant "accident" that
killed several thousand and injured over 200,000
on Dec. 3. The Soviet press picked up the story
on October 1985, making it easy for U.S. Defense
Department spokesmen to dismiss the charges as
"Soviet propaganda," even though many other
countries carried it. The Soviets recently
retracted the charges, in the new spirit of
US-USSR cooperation,....
At approx 13:18 hrs (GMT + 2), FAXED TO:
US EMBASSY PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICE AT (012)342
2090, from 13:10 to 13:14 hrs, Job # 630, from
Wizard, Inc. Offices in CapeTown, and at 13:07
hrs, faxed to 09-1-202- 456-2461, from same
office.
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Office, Fax: (202) 456 2461. FROM: Lara
Johnstone, HARTS, RSA: Cell: (072) 589 7086 RSVP
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DECEMBER 2002. NSC Press Office: Please
IMMEDIATELY copy to the following Offices, for
their response to your Office: (i) USA Embassy
in Pretoria, RSA, (ii) White House Press Office,
(ii) President Bush's Office, (iii) Vice
President Cheney's Office, (iv) Mr. Nicholas
Calio, Dir. Of Legislative Affairs Office, (v)
Secretary of State: Mr. Powell's Office, (vi)
Secretary of Defense: Mr. Rumsfeld's Office,
(vii) Ms. Condoleeza-Rice's Office, (viii)
Office of the First Lady, Ms. Laura Bush, (ix)
US Congress & Senate, (ix) US Marine Corp
Officers doing service in the White House, who
previously served with Gunnery Sgt. Jon Michael
Dye (x) Derrick, Public Liaison Office. URGENT:
FINAL WRITTEN CONFIRMATION REQUESTED: This fax
to the National Security Council Press Office,
REQUESTS that if any of the above offices would
like a deletion, change of date and/or time of
statement (below), or a correction of title (AS
INDICATED BELOW), to please contact the National
Security Office, IMMEDIATELY with these
changes/additions/deletions. Additionally this
is the FINAL CONFIRMATION to ALL THE ABOVE
OFFICES, that YOU ARE AWARE THAT THESE
STATEMENTS WILL BE GOING INTO PRINT.
Additionally, a lack of written response stating
otherwise from your offices, to the NSC Press
Office: OFFICIALLY INDICATES YOUR OFFICE'S
"OFFICIAL APPROVAL, SANCTION
AND APPRECIATION THAT A PRINT PUBLICATION
IS WILLING TO PRINT THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT":
`AIDS IS A BLACK DEPOPULATION VIRUS' MADE BY THE
FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS (i) Timothy James McVeigh,
National Alliance, US Army Special Forces & NSA,
(convicted of bombing Oklahoma City Federal
Building, sentenced to execution, given
unconditional Presidential Pardon by President
G.W. Bush), Terre Haute Federal Prison, Indiana,
May 2001. (ii) Jon Michael Dye, Sgt. US Marine
Corps (saved Steve Biko's life), Berkeley
Marina, CA, Aug 2001 (iii) Nicholas Calio,
Assistant to President G.W. Bush, Dir of
Legislative Affairs, 06 Sep 2001. (iv) General
R.E. Eberhart, Commander in Chief NORAD, 11 Sep
2001. (v) Senator's: Thurmond & Clinton; Rep's:
Tancredo & McKinney, 13 Nov 2001 at 09:11 hrs
(vi) Sgt. Michael "Bossman" Martin, Blue-Eyed
Seminole Indian, US Army Special Forces, (aka
John Doe # 3 of the OK City Bombing, requested
by the Army to disappear after the bombing),
Truck Stop, Phoenix, AZ, 15 Dec 2001, at 09:11
hrs. (vii) Mr. Ron Pandolfi, Dep. Dir of
Technology, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA),
09 October 2002 at 09:11 hrs; (viii) President
George W. Bush, President: United States of
America, 16 Oct 2002 at 09:11 hrs; (ix) Former
US Presidents: Clinton, Bush Snr., Carter,
Reagan & Ford; 17 Oct 2002 at 09:11 hrs; (x) US
Ambassador in Pretoria: Mr. Cameron Hume, 18 Oct
2002 at 17:00 hrs. Mr. Johan de Jongh, former
SAP bomb explosives expert, and Bodyguard to
Prime Minister P.W. Botha, and Mr. Wouter Basson,
former Head of RSA Biological & Chemical Warfare
Program, have OFFICIALLY CONFIRMED THEIR
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THEIR NAMES TO THE ABOVE
STATEMENT IN PRINT. For further information on
the other individuals mentioned `final
confirmations', contact Mr. Ron Pandolfi, Deputy
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International finance facility
In January 2003 HM Treasury and the Department for International
Development (DFID) launched a proposal for an International Finance
Facility (IFF). The IFF is designed to frontload aid to help meet
the Millennium Development Goals.
Estimates suggest that development assistance must be doubled and
focused on the poorest countries if the Millennium Development Goals
are to be met - an increase of at least $50 billion a year. At the
UN's International Conference on Financing in Monterrey in 2002,
donors pledged to provide an additional $16 billion a year from
2006. But this means a significant resource gap must be bridged if
the Millennium Development Goals are to be reached.
The Millennium Development Goals represent different indicators of
the same basic poverty. Investments in different sectors must take
place simultaneously to ensure sustainable progress. Education,
health, access to water, roads and other infrastructure for growth
must be tackled at the same time to ensure a lasting exit from
poverty. Funding for debt relief should reinforce, not replace,
funding to build a skilled work force and the infrastructure and
capacity to trade. The IFF, as a stable financing vehicle, could
provide the critical mass of additional and predictable funding
needed to make lasting progress in all these areas.
The IFF:
is a financing mechanism which would provide up to an additional
$50 billion a year in development assistance between now and 2015;
would leverage in additional money from the international capital
markets by issuing bonds, based on legally-binding long-term donor
commitments;
would be responsible for repaying bondholders using future donor
payment streams; and
would disburse resources through existing multilateral and
bilateral mechanisms.
Since the proposal for the IFF was launched, it has received broad
interest and support from emerging markets, developing countries,
international institutions, faith communities, NGOs and business.
Many Filipino children poisoned
Wednesday 09 March 2005 1:23 PM GMT
Initial results show the victims ate snacks made from cassava
Up to 28 primary school children have died from apparent poisoning after
eating the tropical food crop cassava in the central Philippine province of
Bohol, officials said. The students from the San Jose Elementary School in
the town of Mabini had eaten snacks made from cassava roots in their
mid-morning break before falling ill, officials said on Wednesday. Philip
Fuderanan, a spokesman for the mayor of Mabini, said 25 of 60 children who
had fallen ill and been taken to various nearby hospitals had died.
"As of 4pm, the number of casualties has reached 25," Fuderanan told local
GMA television. Eutiqio Bernales, mayor of the neighbouring town of Ubay
where most of the children were taken for treatment, said medical workers
were numbering those dead at 28.
"In fact, I borrowed a dump truck to take back (to Mabini) the more than 20
bodies here," Bernales said, adding that shocked and grieving relatives of
those who died were being properly looked after.
Critical condition
Fuderanan said municipal health workers had rushed to the hospitals to carry
out tests on the surviving children, many of whom were in critical
condition.
"They had eaten food with cassava as an ingredient," Fuderanan said after
the initial results of an investigation by doctors.
"As of 4pm, the number of casualties has reached 25"
Municipal health authorities were investigating the incident, and radio
reports said two vendors who had sold the children the snack were being
questioned.
"We are trying to account for all the children who had eaten (the root
crop). We are checking them up to make sure that they are all right," vice
mayor of Mabini Ester Tabigi said. "Twenty-five did not make it and
expired," she said.
Cassava or manioc is a tropical food crop widely grown around the Asian
region. In many impoverished Philippine towns, it is a substitute to rice,
the staple food.
Toxic varieties
Cassava is traditionally boiled, or processed as ingredients for native
cakes and delicacies in the Philippines. Experts say that certain types of
cassava may contain substances that produce cyanide and are toxic to humans
if unprocessed. Doctor Nenita Po, who heads the state hospital in Bohol's
capital city Tagbilaran, about 100km east of Mabini, said doctors there took
in 13 patients. Two of those later died. A 68-year-old woman who reportedly
prepared the food that the children ate was among those still sick in the
Tagbilaran hospital, Po said. "When they arrived here they were vomiting,
complaining of abdominal pains and LBM (Loose Bowel Movement or Diarrhoea),"
she said.
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Afrika Bambaataa
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New York's Hot 97 was the setting for
two recent high-profile shootings, and now the radio
station has become a target itself -- of artists and
activists who charge that it promotes violence in the
hip-hop community. On Friday, in the wake of the
much-hyped February 28th shootout between associates of
50 Cent and the Game and the beginning of the Lil' Kim
perjury trial involving a 2001 shootout, rappers Afrika
Bambaataa, M1 of Dead Prez, Roxanne Shante and other
members of the newly formed Hip-Hop Coalition held an
anti-Hot 97 rally in New York's Union Square Park.
"Hot 97 actively promotes conflict within our
communities and among our artists," journalist and rally
organizer Rosa Clemente told Rolling Stone. "We
have to target [Hot 97's parent company] Emmis
Communications, because they're fueling controversy
between artists to get ratings."
"The violence is sensationalized," added M1, "and I
think more than anything they intend to benefit from
it."
The typically cryptic Afrika Bambaataa saw the rally
as a chance to address a broader issue. "Many people are
still being blind, deaf and dumb to what's going on due
to the mind control of the masses of people," the Bronx
rapper said before launching a diatribe aimed at
corporate media.
The Coalition contends that the recent incidents
could have been prevented instead of promoted by the
station's employees. The "Tsunami Song," Hot 97's parody
of the December tragedy in South Asia, also drew
criticism at the rally, with Queens councilman John Liu
accusing the station of "insensitivity" to its
listeners. The Coalition also voiced its list of demands
-- which include the station airing anti-violence public
service announcements and having its employees attend
town hall meetings with community educators, parents and
youth.
A spokesman for Hot 97 refused to address the
demands, telling Rolling Stone that the station
is being targeted unfairly. "It's interesting that they
single out Hot 97," he said. "Why not the artists that
make the music, the record labels that produce the
records, the record stores that sell them and then the
consumers that buy them? . . . Hot 97 has been number
one in the eighteen-to-thirty-four-year-old demographic
for close to ten years, so obviously there are a whole
lot of people that enjoy the station and feel
differently. We only play what's out there: If the
violence didn't exist in the song, they wouldn't hear it
on Hot 97."
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NEW YORK — Protesters were on the street outside the office of
Hot 97 here Feb. 14, the second day back on the job for suspended
morning show deejays.
The “Miss Jones in the Morning” crew on WQHT-FM sparked outrage last
month when it played the “Tsunami Song,” a racist parody of “We Are
the World” that made fun of the victims of last December’s South
Asian tidal wave that killed almost 300,000 people. “We Are the
World” had brought an array of stars together in the 1980s to aid
victims of famine in Africa.
“This is something that we’re just getting started with,” City
Council member John Liu told the World. Referring to the Hip Hop
station’s owner, Emmis Communications, Liu said, “Emmis needs to
come clean because people are united against the kind of hatred that
is put over our airwaves.”
The company issued an apology and fired several people, including
one disc jockey who said on the air he would start “shooting
Asians.” Although Emmis also donated one week’s worth of paychecks
of the suspended staff members to tsunami relief, many believe this
was mere lip service and more needs to be done to seriously address
the problem.
The Coalition Against Hate Media (CAHM), organizers of the rally,
includes dozens of elected officials and community groups, among
them the NAACP, the National Hip-Hop Convention, American Federation
of State, County and Municipal Employees District Council 1707, and
the teachers union.
Although the people killed by the tsunami were mainly South Asian,
Indonesian, and African, the song’s racial hatred is directed
primarily at Chinese people. However, the anger and indignation has
spread far beyond the Chinese community. The multiracial rally
included representatives of the Latin American Integration Center,
the gay and lesbian community, and several city council members. Out
in full force were members of the area’s hip-hop community. Many
speakers say they came to let the city and the world know that while
Hot 97 claims to represent New York’s Hip Hop scene, racism and hate
are not part of that movement.
“I am here today protesting … as a young adult I’m speaking up,”
said Jessica Edraza, a student from Vanguard High School. “They
think that this is what young people want to hear and I honestly say
this is not what I want to hear … not this negativity.”
To drive home the point that hip-hop is about unity and respect for
all races, the “godfather of Hip Hop,” Afrika Baambaata, took to the
stage. “Hip Hop is for peace, unity, love and having some fun, and
to organize many of the communities throughout the world,” said
Baambaata.
“This is just the first step. We are going to organize, organize,
organize. First it’ll be Emmis, and any other stations that try to
keep talking this hate or any type of disorder against any people on
the planet,” he said. “We must stand against anybody that preaches
hate, that teaches hate … [we must] try to make a change … and never
give up the fight.”
The rally had four demands of Emmis: termination for anyone involved
in the song; donation of a week’s worth of corporate revenues to
tsunami relief and local community organizations; establishment of
clear, written corporate guidelines against racism and hate; and an
ongoing dialogue with the community to implement long-term solutions
to prevent hate speech from recurring.
After an earlier protest (immediately after the incident), a number
of companies, including New York Newsday and Sprint, withdrew their
ads from Hot 97.
“This is just one station and they’ve been doing this for a while,
so we’re going to keep the pressure on here,” Baambaata told the
World after the rally. But, he stressed, it’s a nationwide problem
and plans are to continue “organizing people around the country
about stopping this type of program that’s going on our airwaves and
coming mainly to our youth.”
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52,000 Deaths Spread Across 11 Nations · Disease
Could Double Death Toll, WHO Says · At Least 12 U.S. Citizens Said Killed ·
More Than 800 Killed on Sri Lankan Train
Relief Effort Under Way as Death Toll Rises
By ANDI DJATMIKO, AP
BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (Dec. 28) - Mourners in Sri Lanka used their bare
hands to dig graves Tuesday while hungry islanders in Indonesia turned to
looting in the aftermath of Asia's devastating tsunamis. Thousands more
bodies were found in Indonesia, dramatically increasing the death toll
across 11 nations to around 52,000.
Emergency workers found that 10,000 people had been killed in a single town,
Meulaboh, in Aceh province at the northern tip of Sumatra island, the
hardest hit region in Indonesia, said Purnomo Sidik, national disaster
director at the Social Affairs Ministry.
Another 9,000 were confirmed dead so far in the provincial capital, Banda
Aceh, and surrounding towns, he said. Along Aceh's hard-hit western
coastline, villages were swamped up to the roofs, still unexplored by
soldiers combing the area for survivors and dead. Refugees fleeing the area
described surviving for days on little more than coconuts before reaching
Banda Aceh.
''The sea was full of bodies,'' said Sukardi Kasdi, who reached the capital
from his town of Surang.
With aid not arriving quick enough, desperate residents in Meulaboh and
other towns in Aceh - a region that was unique in that it was struck both by
Sunday's massive quake and the killer waves that followed - began to loot.
''It is every person for themselves here,'' district official Tengku
Zulkarnain told el-Shinta radio station from the area.
In Sri Lanka, the toll also mounted significantly. Around 1,000 people were
dead or missing from a train that was flung off its tracks when the gigantic
waves hit. Rescuers pulled 204 bodies from the train's eight carriages -
reduced to twisted metal - and cremated or buried them Tuesday next to the
railroad track that runs along the coast.
''Is this the fate that we had planned for? My darling, you were the only
hope for me,'' cried one man for his dead girlfriend - his university
sweetheart
- as Buddhist monks held prayer nearby.
More than 18,700 people died in Sri Lanka, more than 4,400 in India and more
than 1,500 in Thailand, with numbers expected to rise. Scores were also
killed in Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, the Maldives. The giant waves raced
nearly 3,000 miles to east Africa, causing deaths in Somalia, Tanzania and
Seychelles.
And the toll was expected to continue to mount. A police official said 8,000
people were missing and possibly dead in India's remote Andaman and Nicobar
Islands, located just north of Sumatra. So far, only 90 people were
confirmed dead in the archipelago of 30 inhabited islands. The Indonesian
vice president estimated that up to 25,000 could be dead on Aceh's western
coastlines, bringing the country's potential toll up to 50,000.
Europeans desperately sought relatives missing from holidays in Southeast
Asia - particularly Thailand, where bodies littered the once crowded beach
resorts. Near the devastated Similan Beach and Spa Resort, where mostly
German tourists were staying, a naked corpse hung suspended from a tree
Tuesday as if crucified.
A blond two-year-old Swedish boy, Hannes Bergstroem, found sitting alone on
a road in Thailand was reunited with his uncle, who saw the boy's picture on
a Web site.
Luis Enrique Ascui, Reuters
A tsunami wave, triggered by an ocean-floor earthquake, is barely
perceptible as it travels across the water, but its shoreline impact can be
tremendous.
''This is a miracle, the biggest thing that could happen,'' said the uncle,
who identified himself as Jim, after flying from his home country to
Thailand to reach Hannes at the hospital were the boy was being treated. The
boy's mother and grandmother were missing, while his father and grandfather
were reportedly at another hospital.
The vacationing former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl was evacuated by Sri
Lankan military helicopter from the hotel he was trapped by flooding in the
south of the country. In Thailand, Czech supermodel Petra Nemcova, who
appeared on the cover of 2003 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, was injured
and her photographer boyfriend Simon Atlee was missing, Atlee's agent said.
So far, more than 80 Westerners have been confirmed dead across the region -
including 11 Americans. But a British consulate official in Thailand warned
that hundreds more foreign tourists were likely killed in the country's
resorts.
Sunday's massive quake of 9.0 magnitude off the Indonesian island of Sumatra
sent 500-mph waves surging across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal in the
deadliest known tsunami since the one that devastated the Portuguese capital
of Lisbon in 1755 and killed an estimated 60,000 people.
Amid the devastation, however, were some miraculous stories of survival. In
Malaysia, a 20-day-old baby was found alive on a floating mattress. She and
her family were later reunited. A Hong Kong couple vacationing in Thailand
clung to a mattress for six hours.
In Sri Lanka, more than 300 people crammed into the Infant Jesus Church at
Orrs Hill, located on high ground from their ravaged fishing villages.
Families and childres slept on pews and the cement floor.
''We had never seen the sea looking like that. It was like as if a calm sea
had suddenly become a raging monster,'' said one woman, Haalima, recalling
the giant wave that swept away her 5-year-old grandson, Adil.
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Adil was making sandcastles with his younger sister, Reeze, while Haalima
sat
in her home Sunday morning. Haalima said the girl ran to her complaining
that
waves had crushed their castles, then came screams and water entered the
home. ''When we looked, there was no shore anymore and no Adil,'' she said.
Death was so widespread in Sri Lanka that the government waived rules
requiring an autopsy before burial. In Muslim villages in the east of the
otherwise
Buddhist-dominated island, some survivors, lacking shovels, used giant iron
forks used for communal cooking and their hands to scrape out graves for
several
dozen victims, half of them children.
''The toll is going up and I will not be surprised it reaches 20,000 to
25,000,'' said Nimal Hettiarchchi, director of Sri Lanka's National Disaster
Management Center.
Relief workers warned that survivors could face outbreaks of disease,
including malaria and cholera. ''Our biggest fear at the moment is the
shortage of
drinking water,'' said Janaka Gunewardene, a director at Sri Lanka's
disaster
management center, adding that waterways and well across Sri Lanka's
northern,
eastern and southern coasts were contaminated, said.
A new danger emerged Tuesday: the floods uprooted land mines in Sri Lanka -
a
nation torn by a decades-old war with Tamil separatists in the north. The
mines now threatened aid workers and survivors, UNICEF said.
The first international deliveries of food were being delivered to ravaged
areas, as humanitarian agencies - accustomed to disasters in one or two
countries at time - tried to organize to help on an unprecedented geographic
scale,
across 11 nations.
The disaster could be history's costliest, with ''many billions of dollars''
of damage, said U.N. Undersecretary Jan Egeland, who is in charge of
emergency
relief coordination.
A dozen trucks loaded with more than 160 tons of rice, lentils and sugar
sent
by the U.N. World Food Progam, left Tuesday from Colombo for Sri Lanka's
southern and eastern coasts, and a second shipment was planned for
overnight.
UNICEF officials said about 175 tons of rice arrived in Banda Aceh,
Indonesia, and six tons of medical supplies were to arrive by Thursday.
Helicopters in
India rushed medicine to stricken areas. In Sri Lanka, the Health Ministry
dispatched 300 physicians to the disaster zone by helicopter.
HOW TO HELP
* To find out how to donate to World Vision, visit www.worldvision.org or
call 888-562-4453.
* To find out about supporting Northwest Medical Teams, call
800-959-4325 or visit www.nwmedicalteams.org
* To make a donation to Mercy Corps, go to www.mercycorps.org
* Also accepting donations is Seattle-based World Concerns, which plans to
provide water, sanitation and shelter in Thailand. Visit
www.worldconcern.org
* My favorite for all crises is www.Oxfam.org. Effective, and smart use of
money.
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For an updated list of disaster contacts, go to this
URL:
http://voteowens.com/news/newsitem.php?section=ACM&id=2672&showcat=3&seq=6
Chris Owens
718-783-2347
chris@voteowens.com
www.voteowens.com
"A thinking people is a powerful people."
Time to
Show you cAre!!
With the number of deaths struggling to pass a hundred and fifty
thousand mark.
So
many families,
children and parent in disarray
Not
knowing where the other is,
Alive or dead.
So
many will never know, because the burials now are in mass graves and
there is no time for identification as the bodies of human beings and
animals are competing on who can decompose faster.
In
the comfort of your homes,
businesses, travels.
In
places of worship and rest.
Find time to pray
for those suffering now.
Go a step further
and reach out in love with any thing possible to alleviate the
sufferings of the affected people.
The
affected are Nigerians, Africans, Asians, Europeans, Americans, Middle-
Easterners and the World at Large!
Nothing is too small; nothing is too big; a caring heart is what
matters.
Even a widows mite can cause a heavenly Smile.
Lets join the
world NOW..
and show we also
care.
May the Almighty
God, maker of Heaven and Earth, Surprise you this New Year as you reach
out in love to touch somebody,
Somewhere in
distress.
In
Nigeria, Send your crossed checks or Postal/Money Order from the Post
Office of the amount you want to donate and send it to the
Tsumani
Disaster Victims
Through:-
Country
Representative
United Nations
Head Office
Central Business
Area
Abuja Nigeria
Or
The Chairman
African Union
C/o HE Olusegun
Obasanjo
Aso Presidential
Villa
Abuja
Or
The Bush Clinton
Initiative
c/o the Ambassador
The United State
Embassy
Abuja Nigeria
Or your Country of
residence!!
Let us stand up and
initiate an action that will make our Government and people contribute
to the alleviation of the suffering of People in disaster striken areas.
PJ Adamz
Abuja Nigeria
www.abujanig.org
Tsunamis
The time 00:58 UTC
The date December 26, 2004
The place Off the West Coast of Northern Sumatra
Located 3.2670N, 95.8210E
At a depth of 30Km (18.6miles)
The earth roared louder than a lion
Under the Indian Ocean
It trembled,
Was furious,
It yelled!
In anger it cracked!
Shook the land from Indonesia
To Thailand
To India
To Malaysia
To Sri Lanka
To Kenya
As far as Somalia
As it lowered back into the sea
It threw up massive water, produced wave
Washed away a whole generation
Then sank
And there was quietness in the land.
Debris covered the surface of water
Boats seen on land beyond imagination
Human bodies, float in exchange for fishes on land
Children were most hit
Cities sank
Where there was an Island before, two were seen
The earth shook to its very foundation
As Islands at the scene move farther
Still counting the losses
Figures climbing
Thousands still missing
Thousands injured
Foreigners from more than 36 nations confirmed dead
A day when there were no enough living
To bury the dead
In search of peace
In search of harmony
In search of quietness
Man abandoned the hassles of cities
Crawled to remote part on holiday
With children, Wives, Husbands
A whole family
To enjoy the nature
To take bath in the sun
With promises to come back
Only not to come back
As the earth shook
Roared
Furious
Yelled
Cracked
Threw up
Washed away
Sank
Then quietness
Promises gone with it
Tomorrow never came
No time to say good bye
One was left the other was taken
Children looking for parents
Parents looking for children
Dead everywhere
As the earth roared
In its furious she took away loved ones
While she yelled, she dismantled edifice
As it cracked, she cracked structures
As she threw up water she entered cities, buried cities
As she washed away, she took with her men, women, children, animals,
animate, inanimate, things and beings
Then she sank
And there was quietness
Can man sit down for a minute?
Can man just humble self?
Just for a minute can man pause?
Can man see the damages he is causing his future?
In his greediness man rob himself of tomorrow
Having destroyed his yesterday
With no history of today
Thinking all in all that after all he is smart
With no sensors to warn
Animals detect the signal
The moved before the earth roared
The panicked on the mountain
The watched in amazement
As nature played
Then is man really smart?
As we stole from nature,
Nature is kind by looking away
Waiting quietly for a day of revenge
A day she will show no mercy
A day she will cause pains and agonies
And the day came
The earth roared louder than a lion
It trembled,
Was furious,
It yelled!
In anger it cracked!
As it lowered back into the sea
It threw up massive water, produced wave
Washed away a whole generation
Then sank
And there was quietness in the land.
We build cities from what we stole from earth
We continue pumping oil out of the ground
We engineered food
We engineered human being but nature was quiet
Watching us quietly
Waiting for the day of revenge
A day she will show no mercy
A day she will cause gnashing of teeth
And the day came
The earth roared louder than a lion
It trembled,
Was furious,
It yelled!
In anger it cracked!
As it lowered back into the sea
It threw up massive water, produced wave
Washed away a whole generation
Then sank
And there was quietness in the land.
Whatever we take from nature, shall nature take back.
Not tomorrow, not today but yesterday
Not the quantity taken but in thousands folds
Not where it was taken but somewhere else.
In unleashing its judgment,
It causes pains and agonies among innocents
Sparing the greediest of men
Robbing fathers of mothers
Denying children of parents
Submerging states, swallowing cities
In our greediness to consume all we met here
Nation wage war against nation
Bigger countries invade smaller ones
Millions carted into slavery
The destruction we witnessed today
Started years back
Whatever we take from nature, shall nature take back.
Not tomorrow, not today but yesterday
Not the quantity taken but in thousands folds
Not where it was taken but somewhere else.
In unleashing its judgment,
It causes pains and agonies among innocents
Submarines swimming under the sea
Earth so much disturbed
Under sea nuclear weapon test
Space exploration
As if humanity has more than a world
Or more than a life
Or more than an opportunity
As things will pass away
Whatever we take from nature, shall nature take back.
Not tomorrow, not today but yesterday
Not the quantity taken but in thousands folds
Not where it was taken but somewhere else.
In unleashing its judgment,
It causes pains and agonies among the innocents
Man compresses water
Blocked their path
We dammed denying other species along its path food
Nutrition, Hygiene
We pluck gold
Flaring gas to the atmosphere
With heat melting ice caps
Man should remember that
Whatever man takes from nature, shall nature take back.
Not tomorrow, not today but yesterday
Not the quantity taken but in thousands folds
Not where it was taken but somewhere else.
In unleashing its judgment,
It causes pains and agonies among innocents
May the souls of people killed by tsunami earthquake rest in peace
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Oladele O Olawole
African Information Service Center
www.africaservice.com
Sunami spawns internet scams
by
Wednesday 05 January 2005 11:41 PM GMT
Crooks are seeking to cash in on the tragedy
Tricksters are posing as tsunami victims on the internet in a bid to
siphon some of the millions of dollars flowing to relief efforts.
Online security experts on Wednesday said crudely written appeals for
help have begun to appear in e-mail boxes, asking for donations through
a website or an offshore bank account.
"It's only a matter of time ... we have fully fledged websites that
spoof well-known charities, for example," said Paul Wood, chief
information security analyst at MessageLabs, an internet security
company.
Aid organisations have collected millions of dollars through the
internet since 26 December - the day the tsunami struck several Indian
Ocean nations and claimed about 150,000 lives.
Quick money
"It's a good opportunity for the criminals out for a quick buck, and
it's something that people are going to respond to," said Forrester
Researcher analyst Jonathan Penn.
"We have fully fledged websites that spoof well-known charities"
Paul Wood,
MessageLabs
The fraudulent appeals are patterned after two existing scams: "Phishing"
attacks that direct people to legitimate-looking websites in order to
trick them into giving up their credit card numbers, and 419 scams,
messages that promise great riches in exchange for a bank account
number.
"We have been rendered homeless and have lost all we have in life... We
will be very grateful if you can assist us with any amount of money to
enable us to start a new lease of life," one message said.
Ken Dunham, malicious code intelligence manager for the internet
security company iDefense, said such scams could be very effective.
"It's a get-rich quick thing, and it makes perfect sense in light of the
disaster. Everybody's heard of it, they all know lots of people have
died off, maybe whole families have died off, and monies truly are
available,"
Dunham said.
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IN THE NAME OF THE SUPREME FORCE AMEN RA
The Universal Zulu Nation is wishing each and all of you on this
Great Planet So Called Earth a Peaceful New Years and hope and pray
that the Supreme Force will bless each and everyone of you with good
health, a home, success and Spirituality. We ask that all of your
sometime today or night on your busy schedule, if you can say a
prayer for yourselves as well as for all the Humans who went through
trails and tribulations in this year of 2004. To give a special
prayer to all those Humans who have lost their lives all over Asia,
Africa cause of the Great Tidal Wave Wrath of Mother Nature. We have
taught for years about the disrespect of our Great Planet So called
Earth by Humans, who are becoming a cancer to this great living
entity. Yes Mother Earth is alive and kicking.
All Humans of all colors, races, nationalities ,religions ,ect. Have
better wake up to what is going on this planet as well as with The
Universe. Since that movie The Day After which was a message sent to
all to see, watch, overstand has come out to movie theaters all
around the planet, there has been all type of chaos happening on
Mother Earth. Go back and read all the Great books of knowledge that
has warn you of these days. Go back and seek out the Knowledge of
the Ancients of Ancients from Africa, Asia, Americas, Europe who
have predicted long time ago about these days. See what mistakes was
made back then, that we still do today that will cause destruction
all over this planet without warnings like in the Great days of
Atlantis, Lemura, Babylon, and so forth. All Humans need a check up
from the neck up. All have went against the order of nature and the
God of Nature seeks revenge on all that has got greedy and all who
has cause hell on the planet.
No more times for just fun and games Humans cause Mother Nature is
not playing games with you no more. Either we are going to get back
into spirituality with the planets and Universe or all of us should
get ready for The Wrath of Amen Ra, Allah, Jehovah, Yaweh, Jah, Anu,
Eloheems, and all the other names we call The Supreme Force. As the
saying goes,”It’s Not Nice To Fool With Mother Nature”
Please help out in whatever your can to which ever organization your
can to donate whatever you can to send food and water and money to
all the victims who have felt the Wrath of Mother Nature all over
the planet So called Earth…..
"Mother of the
Matrix" Victorious
By Martha Carter
Monday, October 4th 2004 ended a
six-year dispute
involving Sophia Stewart,
the Wachowski Brothers, Joel Silver and Warner
Brothers. Stewart's
allegations, involving copyright infringement and
racketeering, were
received and acknowledged by the Central District of
California, Judge
Margaret Morrow residing.
Stewart, a New Yorker who has resided in Salt Lake
City for the past five
years, will recover damages from the films, The Matrix
I, II and III, as
well as The Terminator and its sequels. She will soon
receive one of the
biggest payoffs in the history of Hollywood, as the
gross receipts of both
films and their sequels total over 2.5 billion
dollars.
Stewart filed her case in 1999, after viewing the
Matrix, which she felt had
been based on her manuscript, "The Third Eye,"
copyrighted in 1981. In the
mid-eighties Stewart had submitted her manuscript to
an ad placed by the
Wachowski Brothers, requesting new sci-fi works.
According to court documentation, an FBI investigation
discovered that more
than thirty minutes had been edited from the original
film, in attempt to
avoid penalties for copyright infringement. The
investigation also stated
that "credible witnesses employed at Warner Brothers
came forward, claiming
that the executives and lawyers had full knowledge
that the work in question
did not belong to the Wachowski Brothers." These
witnesses claimed to have
seen Stewart's original work and that it had been
"often used during
preparation of the motion pictures."
The defendants tried, on several occasions, to have
Stewart's case
dismissed, without success.
Stewart has confronted skepticism on all sides, much
of which comes from
Matrix fans, who are strangely loyal to the Wachowski
Brothers. One on-line
forum, entitled Matrix Explained has an entire section
devoted to Stewart.
Some who have researched her history and writings are
open to her story.
Others are suspicious and mocking. "It doesn't bother
me," said Stewart in a
phone interview last week, "I always knew what was
true."
Some fans, are unaware of the case or they question
its legitimacy, due to
the fact that it has received little to no media
coverage. Though the case
was not made public until October of 2003, Stewart has
her own explanation,
as quoted at daghettotymz.com:
"The reason you have not seen any of this in the media
is because Warner
Brothers parent company is AOL-Time Warner... this
GIANT owns 95 percent of
the media... let me give you a clue as to what they
own in the media
business... New York Times papers/magazines, LA Times
papers/magazines,
People Magazine, CNN news, Extra, Celebrity Justice,
Entertainment Tonight,
HBO, New Line Cinema, Dreamworks, Newsweek, Village
Roadshow... many, many
more!... They are not going to report on themselves.
They have been
surpressing my case for years..."
Fans who have taken Stewart's allegations seriously,
have found eerie
mythological parallels, which seem significant in a
case that revolves
around the highly metaphorical and symbolic Matrix
series. Sophia, the greek
goddess of wisdom has been referenced many times in
speculation about
Stewart. In one book about the Goddess Sophia, it
reads, "The black goddess
is the mistress of web creation spun in her divine
matrix."
Although there have been outside implications as to
racial injustice
(Stewart is African American), she does not feel that
this is the case.
"This is all about the Benjamins," said Stewart. "It's
not about money with
me. It's about justice."
Stewart's future plans involve a record label,
entitled Popsilk Records, and
a motion picture production company, All Eyez On Me,
in reference to God. "I
wrote The Third Eye to wake people up, to remind them
why God put them here.
There's more to life than money," said Stewart. "My
whole message to the
world is about God and good and about choice, about
spirituality prevailing
over 'technocracy'."
If Stewart represents spirituality, then she truly has
prevailed over the
"technocracy" represented in both the Terminator and
the Matrix, and now,
ironically, by their supposed creators.
Stewart is currently having discussions with CBS about
a possible exclusive
story and has several media engagements in the near
future to nationally
publicize her victory.
The politics of shopping
With the holidays upon us, some of us might wish to be mindful of whom we
patronize relative to their 2000 Election Cycle political donations, as
reported by the Center for Responsive Politics.
Shopping:
* Price Club/Costco donated $225K, of which 99% went to democrats;
WalMart, $467K, 97% to republicans;
K-Mart, $524K, 86% to republicans;
Home Depot, $298K, 89% to republicans;
Target, $226K, 70% to republicans;
Circuit City Stores, $261K, 95% to republicans;
Rite Aid, $517K, 60% to democrats;
Magla Products (Stanley tools, Mr. Clean), $22K, 100% to democrat
3M Co., $281K, 87% to republicans;
Hallmark Cards, $319K, 92% to republicans;
Amway, $391K, 100% republican;
Kohler Co. (plumbing fixtures), $283K, 100% republicans;
Warnaco (undergarments), $55K, 73% to democrats;
B.F. Goodrich (tires), $215K, 97% to republicans;
Proctor &Gamble, $243K, 79% to republicans;
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, $153K, 99% to democrats;
Estee Lauder, $448K, 95% to democrats;
Guess ? Inc., $145K, 98% to democrats;
Calvin Klein, $78K, 100% to democrats;
Liz Claiborne, Inc., $34K, 97% to democrats;
Levi Straus, $26K, 97% to democrats;
Olan Mills, $175K, 99% to democrats.
Spirits:
Coors, $174K, 92% to republicans; (also Budweiser - sd)
Gallo Winery, $337K, 95% to democrats;
Brown-Forman Corp. (Southern Comfort, Jack Daniels, Bushmills, Korbel wines
- as well as Lennox China, Dansk, Gorham Silver), $644K, 80% to republicans;
Southern Wine &Spirits, $213K, 73% to democrats;
Joseph E. Seagrams &Sons (includes beverage business, plus considerable
media interests), $2M+, 67% democratic;
Restaurants/food companies:
Pilgrim's Pride Corp. (chicken), $366K, 100% republican;
Outback Steakhouse, $641K, 95% republican;
Sonic Corporation, $83K, 98% democrat;
Tricon Global Restaurants (KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell), $133K, 87%
republican;
Brinker International (Maggiano's, Brinker Cafe, Chili's, On the
Border, Macaroni Grill, Crazymel's, Corner Baker, EatZis), $242K, 83%
republican;
Triarc Companies (Arby's, T.J. Cinnamon's, Pasta Connections), $112K,
96% democrats;
Waffle House, $279K, 100% republican;
McDonald's Corp., $197K, 86% republican;
Darden Restaurants (Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Smokey Bones, Bahama Breeze),
$121K, 89% republican;
Hotels:
Hyatt Corporation, $187K, 80% to democrats;
Mariott International, $323K, 81% to republicans;
Holiday Inns, $38K, 71% to republicans.
Choose Blue
Shop locally and shop BLUE
Use the US Post Office, not Fedex or UPS
Use the corner hardware store -- Home Depot is a huge contributer to the
GOP.
Please send to like-minded friends and urge them to draw a line in the sand.
80% of annual! You can make a difference how retail business is done in the
next three weeks!
M. Kathryn Langworthy
Divisional Manager for Educational Administration
Wildlife Conservation Society
2300 Southern Boulevard
Bronx, NY 10460-1099
718-220-5131
718-220-7968 (direct line)
FDA Approves
Computer Chip For Humans
Oct 13, 2004
By DIEDTRA HENDERSON, Technology - AP
WASHINGTON - Medical milestone or privacy invasion? A tiny computer chip
approved Wednesday for implantation in a patient's arm can speed vital
information about a patient's medical history to doctors and hospitals. But
critics warn that it could open new ways to imperil the confidentiality of
medical records.
The Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites) said Wednesday that
Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip,
an implantable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical
purposes.
The news pleased investors. On Wednesday, Applied Digital shares were up
$1.45, or 68.4 percent, at $3.57 on the Nasdaq Stock Market — near the
middle of their 52-week range of $1.94 to $5.
With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a
procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently
and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific
information when a scanner passes over it.
Think UPC code. The identifier, emblazoned on a food item, brings up its
name and price on the cashier's screen. At the doctor's office the codes
stamped onto chips, once scanned, would reveal such information as a
patient's allergies and prior treatments, speeding care.
The microchips have already been implanted in 1 million pets. But the chip's
possible dual use for tracking people's movements — as well as speeding
delivery of their medical information to emergency rooms — has raised alarm.
"If privacy protections aren't built in at the outset, there could be
harmful consequences for patients," said Emily Stewart, a policy analyst at
the Health Privacy Project.
To protect patient privacy, the devices should reveal only vital medical
information, like blood type and allergic reactions, needed for health care
workers to do their jobs, Stewart said.
An information technology guru at Detroit Medical Center, however, sees the
benefits of the devices and will lobby for his center's inclusion in a
VeriChip pilot program.
"One of the big problems in health care has been the medical records
situation. So much of it is still on paper," said David Ellis, the center's
chief futurist and co-founder of the Michigan Electronic Medical Records
Initiative.
As "medically mobile" patients visit specialists for care, their records
fragment on computer systems that don't talk to each other.
"It's part of the future of medicine to have these kinds of technologies
that make life simpler for the patient," Ellis said. Pushing for the
strongest encryption algorithms to ensure hackers can't nab medical data as
information transfers from chip to reader to secure database, will help
address privacy concerns, he said.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (news - web sites) on
Wednesday announced $139 million in grants to help make real President Bush
(news - web sites)'s push for electronic health records for most Americans
within a decade.
William A. Pierce, an HHS spokesman, could not say whether VeriChip and its
accompanying secure database of medical records fit within that initiative.
"Exactly what those technologies are is still to be sorted out," Pierce
said. "It all has to respect and comport with the privacy rules."
Applied Digital gave away scanners to a few hundred animal shelters and
veterinary clinics when it first entered the pet market 15 years ago. Now,
50,000 such scanners have been sold.
To kickstart the chip's use among humans, Applied Digital will provide $650
scanners for free at 200 of the nation's trauma centers.
In pets, installing the chip runs about $50. For humans, the chip
implantation cost would be $150 to $200, said Angela Fulcher, an Applied
Digital spokeswoman.
Fulcher could not say whether the cost of data storage and encrypted
transmission of medical information would be passed to providers.
Ultimately, the company hopes patients who suffer from such ailments as
diabetes and Alzheimer's or who undergo complex treatments, like
chemotherapy, would have chips implanted. If the procedure proves as popular
for use in humans as in pets, that could mean up to 1 million chips
implanted in people.
The company's chief executive officer, Scott R. Silverman, is one of a half
dozen executives who had chips implanted. Silverman said chips implanted for
medical uses could also be used for security purposes, like tracking
employee movement through nuclear power plants.
Such security uses are rare in the United States.
Meanwhile, the chip has been used for pure whimsy: Club hoppers in
Barcelona, Spain, now use the microchip to enter a VIP area and, through
links to a different database, speed payment much like a smartcard.
On the Net:
VeriChip:
http://www.4verichip.com/index.htm
HHS:
http://www.hhs.gov/
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alerts@truemajority.org>
The
Mark of Doom: Computer-Activated Biological Warfare
In
the not-so-distant future, a new kind of weapon could appear
that would change the balance of political power in the world.
This main principle behind this weapon: seek and destroy
according to genetics.
by Vasili Sychev
American scientists have
declared that in ten years they will succeed in creating a
radically new type of biological weapon. This weapon would be
capable of infecting people according to a genetically
predetermined marker such as skin color or eye shape. Infection
could have a delayed effect or only begin once a certain type of
medicine was taken. A recent closed seminar held by the CIA was
devoted to the topic. The event took place as part of the
Project for the New American Century.
A slow sickness
Scientists have been exploring
the possibilities of selective biological weapons for some time
now. This is roughly how these weapons would work. Genetic
information is implanted into bacteria's "programming,"
reflecting the gene structure or gene combination of a certain
targeted group of people. Once the programmed bacteria enter
someone's system, they "recognize" their target and kill the
person. If the genetic structure of the infected person does not
correspond, the microbe dies without harming him.
Even specialists will have a
hard time differentiating bacterial ethnic cleansing from a
regular epidemic, if only because the countries leading the
development of these weapons could purposefully misinform the
public. There will be few direct clues...
Another difficulty is that this weapon could have a delayed
effect. It could be turned on by a trigger mechanism, meaning it
could target not only specific people but also people under very
specific conditions. This means that illness could be delayed
not just by days but for an indefinite period of time. Yet the
moment the infected person, say, comes down with strep throat
and takes antibiotics, the bacteria begin to multiply, leading
to a severe illness that eludes diagnosis.
"It is already possible today
to create antibiotic resistant cultures," Alexander Prozorov, a
professor in the microorganism genetics lab at the Russian
Academy of Science Institute for General Genetics, told Expert.
The most striking examples of this type of culture are
streptomycin-dependent bacteria that only grow in the presence
of the antibiotic streptomycin. This will make it hard for
doctors to do much, as traditional pharmaceuticals won't help.
On the contrary, treatment will only make the patient sicker.
Political germs
Yet the most terrifying new
possibility is the hypothetical biological weapon that could
infect people according to genetic markers. Not only would it
allow for genocide; it would be created specifically for that
purpose. A recent report by the British Medical Association
stated that "the rapid progress in genetics could become the
basis for ethnic cleansing on an unheard of scale in the near
future."
Three years ago, ideologues
like US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and PNAC
Director William Crystal were already discussing genetic
weapons. They recommended that the Pentagon consider the
possibility for using this type of weapon not only to
successfully wage war, but also to reconfigure world politics.
According to a PNAC report, genetic weapons could completely
change the politics of the entire planet: "cutting-edge
biological warfare targeting a certain genotype could turn the
reign of terrorism into a politically useful tool."
According to information from
PNAC, Israel has also recently begun to work actively on
mutagenic weapons. Israel geneticists confirm that Arabs carry a
unique gene that no one else in the world has. This gene forms
the basis for the Israeli research, believe American experts.
Things look far more
frightening, in fact. Genetic weapons could do more than destroy
an ethnic group. They could kill according to a person's
"usefulness" or "talents." American journalist and bestselling
author Thom Hartmann has argued that it would even be possible
to kill those with the gene for attention deficit disorder. This
means that if you are easily distracted and have a hard time
concentrating (there could be other selection criteria as well),
you could end up marked for destruction.
We will survive
Fortunately, it is not as easy
to create a selective biological weapon as some scientists are
claiming. Though it may be possible to create bacteria that
multiple only when a person takes a specific medication, the
creation of an effective genetic weapon that would not harm the
developers themselves seems unrealistic in the foreseeable
future.
"It is hard to imagine how a
microbe would determine the presence or absence of a certain
gene or its structure. Even a researcher armed with the last
word in scientific technology has a hard time doing this. It
would impossible for bacteria to accomplish such a task,"
believes Prozorov.
And so on. Even if bacteria
could learn how to identify specific genes, how would this
information be transformed into infection? That bacteria
multiply in the presence of certain antibiotics is clear, but
how would information about eye and hair color turn into certain
doom for the world's blue-eyed blonds? For this kind of weapon
to become a reality, its creators would have to stuff the
bacteria with a powerful "computer" to identify genes and at the
same time arm them with the means to begin an infection.
There is one more reason why
this kind of biological weapon is unlikely to be as effective as
the ideologues would wish. As Nazi doctor Josef Mengele put it,
"Scratch a Frenchman and find an African." Humanity has existed
for many millennia. In the context of all our past tribal and
intertribal connections, it is not far from the truth to say
that we are all brothers. "Over the many years of human
existence, ethnics groups have intermingled to such an extent
that the genetic structures determining ethnic identity have
blurred and become difficult to recognize," notes Prozorov
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HIV virus deliberately created:
Wangari MaathaiAdd to Clippings
AFP[ SATURDAY, OCTOBER 09, 2004 10:26:50 PM ]
NAIROBI: Kenyan ecologist Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to
win the Nobel Peace Prize, on Saturday reiterated her claim that the
AIDS virus was a deliberately created biological agent.
"Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because
we have been living with monkeys (since) time immemorial, others say it
was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.
"Us black people are dying more than any other people in this planet,"
Maathai told a press conference in Nairobi a day after winning the prize
for her work in human rights and reversing deforestation across Africa.
"It's true that there are some people who create agents to wipe out
other people. If there were no such people, we could have not have
invaded Iraq,"
she said.
"We invaded Iraq because we believed that Saddam Hussein had made, or
was in the process of creating agents of biological warfare," said
Maathai.
"In fact it (the HIV virus) is created by a scientist for biological
warfare," she added.
"Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did
the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me
suspicious,"
Maathai added.
Africa accounts for 25 million out of the estimated 38 million across
the world infected with HIV, and the vast majority of infected Africans
are women, according to UNAIDS estimates.
The United States on Friday congratulated Maathai on winning the Nobel
Peace Prize, but tempered its praise over her claims about AIDS. "She
said
(HIV/AIDS) was invented as a bioweapon in some laboratory in the West,"
a senior State Department official said. "We don't agree with that."
The official pointed to a report of those comments published in August
in Kenya's daily Standard newspaper, in which Maathai was quoted as
saying that HIV/AIDS was created by scientists for the purpose of mass
extermination.
The Government Won’t Let Us Bring Darfur
Witnesses Here
So We Want to Bring the Cameras to Them
The people of
Darfur need to tell their stories.
Click here to help us send a camera crew with a satellite
uplink directly into the refugee camps.
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We’ve had some big successes in our campaign to save the genocide victims in
Darfur. Most recently, both houses of Congress unanimously passed the
resolutions we supported, calling the atrocities in Sudan “genocide” and
pressing the Bush administration to take any action needed to stop it. This
has really isolated Bush’s position—that this isn’t really genocide
requiring immediate action. Instead, he’s using a “go slow” approach with
the hope that the Sudanese government will do an about-face and save the
millions who are now being starved to death.
To focus the media’s
attention on this, and really put the heat on the President, we tried to
bring some witnesses from Darfur to the United States as “Refugee
Ambassadors,” but the State Department wouldn’t issue them any visas. One
employee actually defended the State Department’s position by saying that
some of the refugees might be terrorists. If it wasn’t so tragic it would
be funny.
Well, if the government
won’t let us bring witnesses to the media, we’ll bring the media to the
witnesses. Working with our friends at FaithfulAmerica.org, we have created
a plan to send a camera crew, complete with a satellite uplink, directly
into the refugee camps on the Chad/Sudan border. From there we’d be able to
get witnesses, aid workers, and human rights activists directly onto talk
shows here in the States. We’d also be able to have local experts appear in
the studios, to comment on how our government can stop this.
Now we just need to raise
the money to pay for this project. We figure the cost, including crew,
equipment, and satellite time, will be about $45,000. If we raise any
additional money, we’ll use it to continue pressing the government to do the
right thing in other ways, such as an ad campaign. But first we need to get
the crew over there.
To help send a camera crew
with a satellite uplink to the Darfur refugees, click here and give whatever
you can:
http://truemajority.kintera.org/darfurdonation
We are all doing what we
can to stop the genocide. TrueMajority founder, Ben Cohen, was even
arrested at a protest in front of the Sudanese embassy. Now please do
whatever you can.
Thanks for helping,
Andrew Greenblatt,
Online Organizer
Here is some background
on what is going on in Darfur:
Over the last several
months, a government-backed Arab militia in Sudan, called the Janjuweed, has
been attacking black Africans. The Janjuweed tactics are crude, but
effective. They enter a village and use terror to force everyone to leave
their homes and crops. Entire populations have fled to distant camps in the
middle of desolate areas. These desert camps are now surrounded and
controlled by the Janjuweed, and anyone who tries to leave is raped or
killed. Unarmed international aid workers are turned away. A total of
370,000 human beings are already dead, or in the late stages of dying, from
starvation in these extermination camps. The death toll could reach one
million within the next few months.
Time is our greatest enemy. Every day one thousand people are dying in
these camps. Currently, starvation is claiming the weakest—70 percent of
the dead are children aged five and under. As time goes on, the death toll
will rise more quickly. The United States needs to ensure that food aid is
brought to the people of Darfur, along with the protection of an
international military force. Both houses of Congress have already passed
resolutions calling this “genocide”, and have called on the President to act
to stop it. The problem is that the Bush administration is unwilling to
take the decisive action needed to make sure that the food aid is safely
delivered to those who need it most. Instead, they are calling on the
corrupt Sudanese government to disarm their allies, the Janjuweed,
and allow food aid in. To pressure the Sudanese government, the Bush
administration is talking about using sanctions, a process that will take
months—long enough to kill everyone currently starving in the camps. That
is why it is crucial that President Bush act now.
You can learn more at
www.darfurgenocide.org.
DR.
MALACHI Z YORK
For two years now Malachi York has been incarcerated unjustly for the
alleged crime of child molestation. Whom they refer to as Malachi Z.
York is none other than the Chief of the Yamassee Native American Moors
of the Creek Nation whose lineage goes back to Ben York of the Louis and
Clark Expedition a fact that has been proven by blood test conducted by
the U.S. government since his illegal incarceration. The key witness for
the prosecution is Abigail Habibah Washington, who at one time ran the
financial office of the group Malachi founded called The United
Nuwaubian Nation of Moors based in Putnam County Georgia since 1993
after relocating from Liberty, New York.
Malachi York was sentenced Thursday April 22, 2004 to 135 years in
federal prison for alleged molesting several children. Jonathan Marks, a
New York attorney who said he had previously represented York on an
unrelated case, said he would file an appeal based on various
discrepancies in the case and, in particular, the fact that key
witnesses against York have recanted their stories, revealing an
intricate conspiracy between the son of Malachi York, Jacob York aka
Yaquwb Abdullah Muhammad aka Yaquwb Johnson, aka Jake York, who
orchestrated this entire case against his father. Jake York [Yorktown
Records] was the force behind the hip-hop group Junior Mafia (Notorious
B.I.G., Little Kim, etc.) along with his partner Lance UnRivera [Untertainment
Records]. Jake asked that Little Kim, in her early solo career, to be
financed by his fathers organization, after which he was turned down.
Various other personal reasons have fueled Jake York and the so-called
victims to create this lie against him also [
http://www.unnm.com/legal/father_vs_son.htm ]
This fact was constantly not admitted into the case, although well
known, because the presiding judge (biased from previous cases against
the Yamassee) Judge C. Ashley Royal called it all hearsay. He is another
conspirator in the plot to keep Malachi incarcerated. It was further
conspired by the FBI, the Sheriffs Department in Putnam County (Howard
Richard Sills), various Lawyers like Ed Garland (a previous lawyer put
on the case by his family), Rob Peecher (Eatonton messenger, Macon
Telegraph) and various news reporters, as well as various other hidden
forces who know the bottom-line facts of why they wanted this innocent
man incarcerated HE IS A NATIVE AMRICAN CHIEF (Maku: Chief Black
Thunderbird Eagle) THAT HAS EXCERCISED HIS RIGHT TO HIS
SOVEREIGNTY AND WAKING HIS PEOPLE UP.
For those who ask, What can you do? Please do not let another injustice
occur. Contact the Media, Public Officials, Family and Friends. Tell
them there is a video taped confession from one of the so-called
victims, Abigail Washington, and it clears Malachi Z. York of any
wrongdoing and actually shows the intricate plot to falsely accuse him
of many crimes. Malachi, in his mercy, has since forgiven his son,
because various people, to further their hatred towards him, used him
also. This is that factual video evidence and confession of Abigail
Habibah Washington, of her own free will and under her lawyers guidance,
in whom Malachi still forgives for her part in the conspiracy also. This
is for all to see what they don't want you to know
Make some noise, SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT, tell them to FREE MAKU!
Hotep
John
Links to Newspaper Articles on Reparations and
Data about Slavery:
Suit Seeks Billions in Slave
Reparations
http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/03/26/slavery.reparations/
Rastas Call for Slavery
Reparations
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1299475,00.html
Federal Judge Dismisses Slave
Reparations Case
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,109509,00.html
The Commission to Study Reparations Proposals for African American
Act (From Congressman John Conyers, Jr)
http://www.house.gov/conyers/news_reparations.htm
Lawsuit Chases Companies Tied to Slavery
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,48781,00.html
President
of Brown Seeks to Fuel Reparations Debate
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/columnist/wickham/2004-03-15-wickham_x.htm
From USA
Today's Money Section
Aetna, CSX, FleetBoston, Face
Slave Reparations Suit
http://www.usatoday.com/money/general/2002/03/25/slave-reparations.htm
Reparations Gain Legal, Academic Interest
; "James Campbell")
There
are thousands of children that will travel 7 - 10 miles by foot tonight
just to sleep in partial safety. Many of them will sleep on the ground.
I went to bed tonight at 10pm only to awake at 2am because I could not
sleep knowing that our babies are going through this hell tonight (and
every night). About 2 months ago, I interviewed some college students
that were sleeping outside to
bring
attention to the "child night commuters” in the northern region of
I
ask that you please: 
Terrified
of being abducted by the LRA at night, as many as 40,000 children leave
their rural homes every evening. Known as "night commuters," these
children walk to neighbouring towns (including Gulu, Pader, and Kitgum).
They sleep on the street or in public buildings. They hope there is
safety in numbers.
Thankfully,
thousands of children have escaped or been liberated by government
forces. However, these children are usually severely traumatized. There
are few social services available to help them recover. Most children
have little education and few vocational skills. They are often rejected
by their families and communities because of the atrocities they have
committed. Many girls who were raped in captivity are now mothers. HIV
rates are high. Although they are free, these children have little hope
for the future.
Stillman has gone whole-hog for radio-frequency technology, which his
year-old Enterprise Charter School started using last month to record
the time of day students arrive in the morning. In the next months, he
plans to use RFID to track library loans, disciplinary records,
cafeteria purchases and visits to the nurse's office. Eventually he'd
like to expand the system to track students' punctuality (or lack
thereof) for every class and to verify the time they get on and off
school buses. 
ding
and wouldn't be ready until at least 2005.
(Apocalypse
Chapter 13: 16-17)
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