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(article by space weapons and environmental activist Bruce Gagnon on new US military strategy for corporate globalization and oil grabs, posted on the Centre for Research on Globalisation
http://www.globalresearch.ca/ web site)
----------------------------------------------------- Thomas Barnett is a professor at the Navy War College in Rhode Island - he predicts that U.S. unilateralism will lead to the "inevitability of war." In order to implement this new military vision," Barnett maintains that the U.S. military must move away from its often-competing mix of Air Force-Navy-Army-Marines toward two basic military services. One he names Leviathan, which he defines as the kick ass, wage war, special ops, and not under the purview of the international criminal court. Give us your angry, video game-playing 18-19 year olds, for the Leviathan force, Barnett says. Once a country is conquered by Leviathan, Barnett says the U.S. will have to have a second military force that he calls Systems Administration. This force he describes as the "proconsul" of the empire, boots on the ground, the police force to control the local populations. This group, Barnett says, "will never come home."
with all the "theories" being presented as to the cause of the massive
Earthquake and Tsunami that hit on December 26th, it sometimes pays to read something besides "official" stories as to what happened. Here is an excellent article from December 30th's COUNTERPUNCH...
Programa radial que busca expresar el pensamiento de varios jóvenes de México y otras partes del mundo. Se renueva cada semana y toca temas distintos con buena música rock.
another excellent valenzuela thought provoking read
Embitterment is a compound emotion that includes despair, aggression against oneself, against another person, hopelessness and mental blocks. Embitterment is a far wider and more comprehensive emotion than depression or fear.. Embitterment seizes everything.
These predictions, based on Actual Astrology, are rather like a weather report. They relate how things will be based on the information recorded by the inventors of this art. No matter what your sun sign, these are the things that will be. Yours is the obligation to figure out what you're going to do in light of them.
Examples: Iraq, Burma, Sudan, Palestine/Israel
In the dark humor that has become so popular in Baghdad these days, one recently released Abu Ghraib detainee I interviewed said, "The Americans brought electricity to my ass before they brought it to my house!"
Social justice decays to mere equal opportunities.. Demography often serves economic circles, established parties and the media as a tool for social-political demigogues in legitimating neoliberal reconstruction or dismantling the welfare state.
In their continued attempts at the commodification of Life and their sustained assault on global food security, St. Louis based Monsanto corporation scoffs integrity by bribing an Indonesian official.
(paraphrased from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4153635.stm (so it hopefully doesn't get composted for being a copy of corporate news, which it is, but still good fodder for pdximc)
Mr Mbeki recently accused white Aids campaigners of racism.
An email from a dive instructor in Thailand. It is the best - and most harrowing - description of the tsunami I've seen. Incredible.
Sufi Islam returns the peaceful mystic to the center stage, the militant Wahhabist fundamentalist becomes a distant memory..
A Cuban Perspective on Gary Webb
The Journalist Who Exposed the Crimes of Luis Posada Carriles
It seems strange that the 'gestapo-type' laws which were recently passed in the Patriot Act II are not being exposed to the American public by organizations who have the money to air national commercials.
A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba.
The Empire has built several permanent detention camps
(prisons)abroad........as well as camps set up through- out the Empire, for detaining "domestic 'terrorists'".
Magnetic Pole Flip, Magnetic Field disappearing - latest news : among the facts that are now revealed to the public : the magnetic field over the South Atlantic Ocean is now so weak that planes and satelites have now been forced to change their routes. Among the facts that are withheld : Beryllium 10 analysis in polar ice cores in Alfred-Wegener-Institut in Bremerhaven , Germany, shows human life a few thoudand years was IMPOSSIBLE on earth.
Radio Bronka, pirate radio station broadcasting for over 18 years, was surprised to find its signal covered up by National Spanish Radio
breakthechains02@yahoo.com and be sure to include a brief self-description [for instance, you can mention what organizations you belong to or books you have authored]. The goal of the statement is draw attention to the case of Mr. Luers, and to positively affect his appeal. For more info on the case of Jeff "Free" Luers, visit www.freefreenow.org Questions, comments, or concerns may be addressed to breakthechains02@yahoo.com or freefreenow@mutualaid.org
The outgoing Secretary of State says he's shaken and horrified by the tsunami's destructive power, yet has nothing to say about the far greater destruction and death wreaked in Iraq by the U.S. military that he was so instrumental in sending over there. The difference isn't the degree of destruction and death, it's what caused it.
an essay expressed by Croatians... for the world to read
"A small country for great holidays ... But a small country for great cruelty!"
There's a good reason new, strange, and puzzling data have been recorded there, and it has nothing to do with HAARP.
violent revolution inevitable"
A good article by Gwynne Dyer, but filled with naivete
and misconceptions. My "remarks" in quotations.
Well, let's give Snooper & Blabber what they want.
my predictions
Several hundred people were killed this past year in southern Thailand in the festering insurgency between Islamic separatists and the Thai military. And Aceh, the hardest hit area in Indonesia, is the home of GAM, a separatist group that has been waging a sporadic conflict with the Jakarta government.
Richard Gere has made a TV commercial for the Palestinians to urge them to vote.
Criticizes the Iraqi Resistance from a Left POV and finds them wanting. Poses the Palestinian resistance as a better model for a nationalist resistance against occupation.
Title: HAARP-watch: fake HAARP tremors rock earth deep beneath San Andreas Fault, Author: haarp-watch, Michel Chossudovsky, Date: 2004.12.11 07:02, Description: Mysterious tremors deep beneath the San Andreas Fault near the quake-prone town of Parkfield are shaking the earth's brittle crust, FAR BELOW THE REGION WHERE EARTHQUAKES NORMALLY STRIKE -- and scientists say THEY CAN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING or what the motions mean. Seismic researchers are monitoring the strange vibrations..."..."We see this kind of tremor activity inside volcanoes like Mount St. Helens," Nadeau said, "but that's due to the movement of rising magma, and in the tremors we've recorded there's NO EVIDENCE OF VOLCANISM and NO SEISMIC WAVES TYPICAL OF ORDINARY EARTHQUAKES." "In the US, the technology is being perfected under the High-frequency Active Aural Research Program (HAARP) as part of the ("Star Wars") Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI). Recent scientific evidence suggests that HAARP is fully operational and has the ability of potentially triggering floods, droughts, hurricanes and earthquakes. From a military standpoint, HAARP is a weapon of mass destruction. Potentially, it constitutes an instrument of conquest capable of selectively destabilising agricultural and ecological systems of entire regions." http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/12/305741.shtml
Here it is. TOM BEARDEN QUOTE: "I'm. . .trying to finish my book: Energy from the Vacuum: Concepts and Principles, and get it to the publisher for publication later this year. Hopefully the book will turn all the interested young grad students and post-docs loose in the free-energy area. They will not have to spend 30 agonizing years to get to where I am, and where a few others are, but can simply start here and go forward."
Please note; This is not a repost of the previous article, "Trial by Fire." Those posts were heavily edited for their original appearance on pressaction.org. This new version is the full, uncensored article and deals more heavily with the impacts of the SHAC 7 case on capital, and globalisation. It is available online at
http://www.cala-online.org/Journal/Issue3/Trial%20by%20Fire.htm
Suicide may not be what it appears to be.
HAARP Did It! Aliens Did It! Neutron Bombs Did It! Bush/Cheney Did It!
Unbelievably startling footage of tsunami hitting shore at Phuket
plus Video Shows Suicide Attack on US Convoy
Of course, that wasn't his intent. He was railing about how little Muslim countries were giving compared to the US in tsunami aid. But, in his typical obfuscating style he never bothered to discuss the wealth of the various countries involved. That is, the US has the largest economy in the world, and is the wealthiest country in the world. And the question that should be asked is who is more generous, those that have a lot and give a little of what they have or those that have a little and give a lot of what they have. Here then is the aid given by the countries Limbaugh rails against ordered by aid as a percentage of GDP. As you will see, the US is not the least generous, but far from the most.
The graffiti in the wall of Meubolah, one of the cities that was wiped out the face of the earth : "Be aware, the doomsday is coming "
I recently exchanged email with a libertarian columnist on the Lew Rockwell web site. It was very useful in helping me clarify my complaint with libertarianism.
Without consideration of the natural world, libertarianism is fatally flawed.
As a journalist who writes about AIDS, I am endlessly amazed by the difference between the public and the private face of HIV; between what the public is told and what's explained in the medical literature.
I'm reposting this revised comment as a stand-alone message because it is seriously insane that trolls are now coming to the defense of those most powerful in the world who knew a tsunami was underway and made - effectively - no effort to warn people. If these governments with veto power and special privledges in the UN - the US, the EU, Japan - cannot warn others of impending disasters which they monitor worldwide, they cannot be trusted to warn their own people in times of disaster. They should be dismantled immediately and heads should roll.
Based on the analysis of the time sequence in which these Governments received information and failed or decided not to act is alarming. --- Indian Military, for example, clearly got the information two hours before the Tsunami hit the India's mainland. An Indian Air Force base was wiped out in Andaman Nicobar island near Sumatra [how convenient, assures U.S. is the "first eco-terrorism responder"]. . .India is notified of loss of its military base TWO HOURS BEFORE tsunami hit mainland India. However, though Indian Military tried to inform the civilian pro-Bush government of India, it did nothing with this two-hour foreknowledge and instead simply waited for the tsunami to stike India without issuing any warnings to its citizens. Thus, many Indians are killed INTENTIONALLY due to purposeful criminal negligence. --- How do you justify that all six Governments failed separately in their own domain one by one. --- The most amazing thing is that United States Geological Survey and Ocean Monitoring agencies came to know about the Tsunhe Tsunami and earthquake but decided not to do anything. --- The whole world decided to fail to do anything together, at the same time. --- In Thailand, some in the Government said they decided not to act because it would just scare people. Really? Are we not supposed to get scared of scary things? U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE, WILLIAM COHEN SAID, ON AN "ECO-TYPE OF TERRORISM": "Others [terrorists] are engaging even in an eco-type of terrorism whereby they can alter the climate, set off earthquakes, volcanoes remotely through the use of electromagnetic waves... So there are plenty of ingenious minds out there that are at work finding ways in which they can wreak terror upon other nations... It's real, and that's the reason why we have to intensify our [counterterrorism] efforts." (1997 QUOTE)
Was the Christmas/Boxing Day 2004 Earthquake-Tsunami Event Seismic (Tectonic) Warfare?
There at least eight (8) "frames" of preliminary alternative analysis or perception regarding cause-effect cycle of the Earthquake-Tsunami Event of Christmas/Boxing Day 2004. Seismic (Environmental) Warfare: One "frame" of analysis or perception places the event in the context of Environmental Warfare, as tectonic (seismic) warfare.
Poetic solution to Peace
Thanks once again for all the letters of support and encouragement. I think about you all quite frequently. This is just a short communique to address the concern or should I say rather the assumption that many of you have expressed that I must be finding it very difficult to be happy given the horrifying political climate of my surroundings. Let me please begin by assuring you that I am doing quite well. If I am depressed at all it is because I have to leave this land in less than 12 days.
Yes, the occupation fills me with a heart-wrenching guttural rage that makes my face twist up involuntarily if I think about it too much. Yes, sometimes I feel like an angst-ridden adolescent, crushed under the weight of the helplessness that I feel towards this madness, this sadistic arbitrary cruelty that I am powerless to stop, wanting to scream until I am hoarse and skin is stained red with hot tears, wanting beat my fists against the wall until they bleed. Yep, the occupation sucks, and it gives you sick, drowning feeling if you let it, but so does everything, if you let it, because I have known that feeling for years. Certainly, I find the political climate inside the United States no less horrifying, and no less aggravating. My palms have known the crescent-shaped fingernail imprints of exasperation for a long time, but you just can't walk around that way forever. The Palestinians don't(and certainly the soldiers don't, they let their tasteless Israeli techno ring loud and clear from every mountainside). You still have to live life.
That bastion of right thinking and reason, the NY Times, has an article making light of all the wacky myths and conspiracy theories about what caused the Tsunami. So for all you believers in HAARP, listen to the New York Times and give up your silly little conspiracy theories. Next thing you know, you will be asserting that 9-11 was actually committed by the American Government. ;)
Riverbend's blog post today on the elections is really good. Her URL is
http://www.riverbendblog.blogspot.com
The economy exists for people, not vice versa. The economy needs a framework offering orientation to economic actors and showing the limits of the tolerable. This framework is not a limitation of freedom but the necessary condition for successful economic conduct.. The market and economic success can become anti-divine principles..
An examination of the nature of US tsunami relief aid and the reasons for the differences in US corporate news coverage of wars and natural disasters.
this is a copy from the Indybay site
http://www.indybay.org/news/2004/12/1712037.php
And was from http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/dec2004/bush-d30.shtml
Grand Coalition
Dear George,
You don't mind if I call you George do you? When you sent me a letter offering your condolences on the death of my son, Spc. Casey Austin Sheehan, in the illegal and unjust war on Iraq, you called me Cindy, so I naturally assume we are on a first name basis.
Tre Arrow, an environmentalist, refugee and political prisoner, has been incarcerated in Canada for over nine months. He's awaiting an extradition hearing which would see him returned to his native country, the United States. While incarcerated, Mr. Arrow's case has gained international attention. The United States Government is seeking Mr. Arrow's extradition in connection with the destruction of logging equipment in Oregon, 2001.
This case is highly political, and Mr. Arrow is repeatedly and constantly referred to in the corporate media as an 'Eco-Terrorist'. Although Judge James Redden, in his ruling on the 2001 arson case against Jacob Sherman, stated that "The term 'terrorist' is not to be used in reference to this case or the defendants," the FBI and the Corporate Media continue to sell news by branding Mr. Arrow as an Eco-Terrorist.
Not sure where the link to these articles went, so I'm posting this one here because it was inspiring to me and I think others would like to see it.
...by still drunken activists in Seoul
Going from the dark 2004 into the bright 2005.
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