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"Freedom, Peace, and Brotherhood" *
"Libertad, Paz y Fraternidad" *
TAIPEI MAYOR URGES TAIWAN, CHINA TO STOP PROVOKING EACH OTHER
2005/03/04 18:28:11
Tokyo, March 4 (CNA) Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou called on
Taiwan and China Friday to stop making provocative moves
so as not to intensify cross-Taiwan Strait tension.
Addressing a Tokyo gathering with a group of Taiwanese
expatriates in Japan, Ma said the government in Taiwan
should drop the ideological pursuit of changing the
official name of the country and drafting a new
constitution, which he said will impede the development
of the island. The government should instead concentrate
on efforts to improve the economy, law and order, and
national development, Ma said. He also said he believes
last week's meeting between President Chen Shui-bian and
opposition People First Party Chairman James Soong will
be helpful to Taiwan's political stability. Chen declared
in the meeting that he has no plan to change the country's
name during his term and that his planned constitutional
reforms will not involve changes to national sovereignty,
territory or cross-strait status quo. Ma said it is
incomprehensible as to why Beijing decided to enact an
anti-secession law targeting Taiwan after the victory in
last year's legislative elections of the "pan-blue
alliance" of the opposition Kuomintang (KMT),
People First Party and New Party, which opposes
independence for Taiwan. He suggested that both sides of
the strait stop such provocative moves and enhance
exchanges to build up mutual trust. Meanwhile, the mayor,
who is also a vice chairman of the KMT, said he will
start campaigning for his bid to run for the party's
chairmanship after registering his candidacy in late March.
He said taking part in the chairmanship election is not
necessarily related to the question of whether he will run
for the 2008 presidency. Ma arrived in Japan earlier this
week for a four-day visit. He is scheduled to meet Tokyo
Governor Shintaro Ishihara and Yokohama Mayor Hiroshi
Nakada later in the day. (By Amy Huang and Y.F. Low) END
http://english.www.gov.tw/index.jsp?action=3Dcna&cnaid=3D7372
China Motor aims to sell 200,000 cars in Taiwan, China in 2005
Date: 2005/03/02 12:36:14
SOURCE: CENS
http://news.cens.com/php/getnews.php?file=3D/news/2005/03/02/20050302016.ht=
m&daily=3D1
Taiwan's China Motor Corp. (in partnership with Mitsubishi
Motors of Japan) has set a combined annual sales goal of
200,000 automobiles in Taiwan and China this year.
China Motor's sales goal across the Taiwan Strait involves
cars made and sold by its main subsidiary South East Motor
Corp., a 50-50 venture with the Fujian Automobile Group of
China to produce car models redesigned by China Motor.
China Motor president Huang Wen-cheng said that Mitsubishi
has promised to provide a new car model per year to his firm
to strengthen its competitiveness in Taiwan and make it a
major exporter of Mitsubishi cars.
Mitsubishi has authorized South East to use Mitsubishi logos
on passenger cars and commercial vehicles produced by the
Chinese automaker, which is expected to become Mitsubishi's
largest production/marketing base in China.
According to Huang, China Motor sold 91,300 automobiles in
Taiwan, generating record revenue of NT$56.28 billion
(US$1.79 billion at US$1: NT$31.5). This year, the president
claimed, his company expects to sell over 90,000 automobiles
on the island. China Motor has planned to debut some new
vehicles this year, including a version-change Savrin minivan
with a new 2,400cc engine and a new Freeca commercial van
model with a newly developed chassis derived from Mitsubishi's
Challenger sport utility vehicle (SUV). China Motor also plans
to introduce a popular Mitsubishi mini-car model, the Colt Plus,
for local production in Taiwan in the second half of next year,
thus developing a more comprehensive product line.
China Motor registered pretax earnings of NT$5.76 billion
(US$182.86 million) in 2004, lower than in 2003 as a result of
lower-than-expected profits from South East, whose auto sales
were undermined by the policy adopted by the Chinese central
government to dampen its overheated economy.
South East, however, sold 5,500 cars in China in January this
year, up about 30 percent from a monthly average recorded in
the second half of 2004. South East's production lines currently
are fully occupied to fill orders, with workers required to work
overtime to boost output.
In Mitsubishi's restructuring plan, the Japanese automaker
expressed willingness to strengthen its cooperation ties with
China Motor to jointly develop the huge mainland market and
agreed to allowed South East to use the three-diamond logo on
its products.
According to China Motor, it will introduce the Veryca mini
commercial van and Galant Grunder medium sedan models to South
East for production in the mainland. Huang estimated that South
East would sell 80,000 to 100,000 cars this year.
http://english.www.gov.tw/index.jsp?id=3D12&recid=3D104082&viewdate=3D0
SINGAPORE (Reuters) --
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/01/asia.stox.reut/
Asian stocks rose on Tuesday, defying weakness on Wall Street,
as strong commodity prices lifted resource shares, but
disappointing earnings from bank HSBC dragged Hong Kong's
Hang Seng Index lower.
U=2ES. crude oil futures stayed close to $52 a barrel as more
freezing weather hit the northeast of the United States,
driving up heating oil prices.
Japan's Nikkei stock average rose to an eight-month closing
high and the yen strengthened on unemployment and household
spending data that added to a string of upbeat news on the
economy.
Gains in Japanese trading firm Marubeni Corp., which jumped
4=2E46 percent, and rivals on strength in commodities prices
helped the Nikkei climb 0.34 percent to 11,780.53, its fourth
straight day of gains.
"All the data have come out strong," said Jake Moore, forex
trategist at Barclays Capital in Tokyo. "The numbers have
been better than they have been for a few months, so it looks
like the yen is set for more strength."
By 0637 GMT, the euro bought $1.3194 after skidding briefly to
near $1.3170. The dollar was around 104.60 yen after falling
to around 104.40 after the data.
Japan unemployment steady
Japan's unemployment rate was unchanged at 4.5 percent in
January, its lowest level since 1999, and household spending
surged 2.6 percent, the biggest rise in six months.
Investors were cautious on Japanese fixed income, with yields
on 10-year government debt jumping to a near-four-month high
after a rise in U.S. Treasury yields to their highest level
so far this year.
Traders said a warning to the market from the Bank of Japan
on Monday that the era of free money would not last for ever
was pushing up yields.
The yield on the 10-year cash JGB rose to 1.505 percent,
a level last hit in early November.
The dollar's climb against the euro gathered pace after data
showed a swelling in Australia's current account gap.
The record gap sent the Australian dollar tumbling more than
half a percent to $0.7871 and sparked broader buying of
the U.S. currency.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng Index lost 1.11 percent in morning
trade, led by a 2.62 percent slide in HSBC, the biggest
stock on the index.
HSBC, the world's second-biggest bank, posted 2004 profit at
the low end of forecasts and ruled out big deals in the
United States and South Korea to focus on expanding its
own business.
Taiwan stocks jumped 0.84 percent to a fresh 10-month high on
hopes for easing political tensions with China. Australian
stocks gained 0.3 percent as strong crude and gold prices
lifted resource shares. Singapore was up 0.4 percent.
Other Asian markets were mixed, with the MSCI index of
non-Japan Asian shares slipping 0.21 percent from 7-year
highs hit on Monday. Markets in Seoul were closed.
The decline in the MSCI index followed falls of around
0=2E7 percent on both the Dow Jones industrial average
and the Nasdaq Composite Index in New York.
NYMEX crude oil was down 14 cents at $51.61 a barrel on thin
volume and spot gold traded at $434.25, off a 2005 high of
$437.55 hit on Monday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/01/asia.stox.reut/
US fury over EU weapons for China
"=2E..The US sees China as its main long-term rival for global
dominance and is worried about possible military conflict
over China's declared desire to re-assert control over Taiwan,
which America has vowed to defend.
US officials argue that any easing of European arms control
exports poses a threat to its soldiers.
But EU officials point out that Israel, one of America's
closest allies, sells large amounts of weaponry to China. ..."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&q=3DUS+fury+over+EU+weapons+for+China
[][][]
THE COMING WARS
by SEYMOUR M. HERSH
What the Pentagon can now do in secret.
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact
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Regarding "The Emporer's New Torture Czar" in another thread:
John Dimitri Negroponte
http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/negroponte/eng.html
[Congressional Record: September 14, 2001 (Senate)
Page S9431-S9433] EXCERPT:
And, as I mentioned earlier, based upon an
extensive review of U.S. intelligence information by
the CIA Working Group in 1996, the CIA is prepared to
stipulate that "during the 1980-84 period, the Honduran
military committed most of the hundreds of human rights
abuses reported in Honduras. These abuses were often
politically motivated and officially sanctioned."
Moreover, Mr. Negroponte should have been forewarned to
look for signs of government sponsored human rights
abuses in light of concerns that his predecessor
Ambassador Jack Binns, a career foreign service officer,
had raised with the State Department concerning the mind
set of the architect of Honduras' domestic
countersubversion program with respect to a willingness
to extrajudicial means in the context of such programs.
Ambassador Binns was speaking about General Gustavo Alvarez
who became Commander in Chief of the Honduran Armed Forces
in 1982, and who had been Commander of Honduran Public
Security Forces, FUSEP, from 1980-82.
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_cr/s091401.html
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"Controversial" Negroponte Nominated to Be First Director
of National Intelligence
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/17/171120/554
Use the CIA's own search engine to find out about
John Dimitri Negroponte.
Here's the CIA document search engine.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/
Type "Negroponte". Only two documents come up.
Pick the "CIA Activities in Honduras in the 1980's"
document and go to page 22 of 238. It says "Gustavo
Alvarez Martinez ... attended an Argentine military
academy and various U.S. sponsored military courses
at Fort Benning, Georgia and Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, during the 1950s and 1960s." (Blacked Out)
--
"=2E.. Alvarez was heavily involved in, and strong
supporter of, CIA programs in Central America.
After his ouster from the position of CINC, Alvarez
resettled in the United States". [...]
The other parts of the report, that aren't blacked out,
describe human rights violations. I believe this old
1995 Balitmore Sun report was one of the first newspapers
to break the story and talk about Negroponte's role.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-negroponte1a.story
posted originally by thoreau247365 at:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/2/17/171120/554/135#135
on Thu Feb 17th, 2005 at 22:13:12 PST
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/17/171120/554
What are Negroponte's qualifications?
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From 1981 to 1985 Negroponte was US ambassador to Honduras.
During his tenure, he oversaw the growth of military aid to
Honduras from $4 million to $77.4 million a year. According
to The New York Times, Negroponte was responsible for
"carrying out the covert strategy of the Reagan
administration to crush the Sandinistas government in
Nicaragua." Critics say that during his ambassadorship,
human rights violations in Honduras became systematic.
Negroponte supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air
base where the US trained Nicaraguan Contras, and which
critics say was used as a secret detention and torture
center during the 1980s. In August 2001, excavations at
the base discovered 185 corpses, including two Americans,
who are thought to have been killed and buried at the site.
Records also show that a special intelligence unit (i.e. a
fascist death squad) of the Honduran armed forces,
Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA and Argentine military,
kidnaped, tortured and killed hundreds of people, including
US missionaries.
Critics charge that Negroponte knew about these human
rights violations and yet continued to collaborate with the
Honduran military while lying to Congress.
In May 1982, a nun, Sister Laetitia Bordes, who had worked
for ten years in El Salvador, went on a fact-finding
delegation to Honduras to investigate the whereabouts of
thirty Salvadoran nuns and women of faith who fled to
Honduras in 1981 after Archbishop Oscar Romero's
assassination. Negroponte claimed the embassy knew nothing.
But in a 1996 interview with the Baltimore Sun, Negroponte's
predecessor, Jack Binns, said that a group of Salvadorans,
among whom were the women Bordes had been looking for, were
captured on April 22, 1981, and savagely tortured by the
DNI, the Honduran Secret Police, and then later thrown out
of helicopters alive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
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2001-2004 US ambassador to the United Nations ...
2004-US ambassador to Iraq (and replacement to Paul Bremer
as American in charge of US actions in the country)
Torturers.net: John Negroponte
http://www.torturers.net/us/admin/negroponte/
--
The 'Salvador Option' may put death-squad-like kidnapping and
assassination teams in Iraq.
http://www.soaw.org/new/
* Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)
Fort Benning, GA 31905-5000
http://tinyurl.com/5pz9a
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),
located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, is the U.S. Army's
principal Spanish-language training facility for Latin American
military personnel. It is the successor to the School of the
Americas (SOA), a facility established in 1946 and legally closed
in 2001.
The WHINSEC is located in the same building, and offers many of
the same courses, as the school it replaces. Along with the
U=2ES. Air Force's Inter-American Air Forces Academy (IAAFA)
http://www.ciponline.org/facts/iaafa.htm , WHINSEC attracts
the largest number of Latin American military students.
http://www.ciponline.org/facts/soa.htm
http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/GA3142/
http://www.coldsteelinfantry.com/Links.htm
http://www.ai.sri.com/~fua/rcvw/Benning.html
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)
[formerly: School of the Americas]
http://www.benning.army.mil/WHINSEC/
A Welcome from the Commandant
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/about.asp?id=3D33
Thank you for visiting the Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation. Chartered by the U. S. Congress, WHINSEC
provides professional education and training for civilian,
military and law enforcement students from nations throughout
the Western Hemisphere.
Our Web site introduces you to WHINSEC's many dimensions, from
its fine academic and training programs, to its students and
faculty. It's designed to provide you with a greater understanding
of our mission http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/about.asp?id=3D13
and dedication to promoting peace, democratic values, and respect
for human rights through inter-American cooperation.
The rich diversity of our student body -- about 800-1000 a
year -- reinforces our efforts to address the future challenges
of strengthening democracy in this region. Our commitment to
Democracy and Human Rights is interwoven
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/democracy.asp?id=3D95
throughout the entire WHINSEC program.
As you explore this Web site, you can learn the details
of the various courses we offer. Academicians may want
to consider the Fellows program
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/academics.asp?id=3D39 ;
undergraduates may apply to be Interns
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/academics.asp?id=3D43 .
For students, check out the John B. and Elena Amos Library pages
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/amoslibrary.asp?id=3D24 ,
to learn more about this excellent reference, research, and
information facility. The library's collection contains
approximately 21,000 volumes, with 90 percent in Spanish.
It covers subjects in the major disciplines of foreign affairs,
national defense, human rights, and Latin American studies.
You can even check out books via an interlibrary loan to your
own library.
I invite you to check back often to see upcoming events,
or to get a look at our latest news. Don't hesitate to use
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if you have any questions or comments you'd like to share.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Remember that your visit to WHINSEC is not limited to the Web.
We invite you come to our campus, meet our students and faculty,
and see our programs in action.
Please contact the Public Affairs Office
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on setting up a visit.
Our motto is "Libertad, Paz y Fraternidad," which means
Freedom, Peace, and Brotherhood. Together we will make a
difference in the region -- and the world.
Col. Gilberto R. P=E9rez, Commandant
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/about.asp?id=3D33
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This is about Washington reviving and gaining the upper hand
in the arms race, presumably to position itself well for what
it sees as its eventual superpower showdown with China.
Washington sees gaining control of space as key to maintaining
global military dominance, and missile defence is part of the
strategy. The U.S. plans to eventually have missile defence
systems based in space (as well as on land, air and sea).
This is part of America achieving "space superiority," a goal
unabashedly described in the 2004 U.S. Air Force document
'Counterspace Operations,' which argues the U.S. must have
"space control" and be ableto "deny an adversary freedom of
action in space." The prospect of the arms race moving into
space may thrill Washington strategic planners, but it's long
been dreaded by most of the world. In 1967, ninety-seven
nations signed the Outer Space Treaty banning weapons from space.
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C H I N A ? [1997] http://pweb.netcom.com/~mthorn/basin_qa.htm
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BRIAN LAMB, HOST:
Thomas P.M. Barnett, what is "The Pentagon's New Map"?
THOMAS BARNETT, AUTHOR,
THE PENTAGON'S NEW MAP
"Well, what the book tries to do, really, is nothing less than
to enunciate a successor to the cold war strategy of
containment, in effect, to define the true sources of mass
violence and terrorism within the global community, so as to
facilitate, at first, their containment through diplomatic and
military means, but ultimately, their eradication through
economic and social integration.
"And the mantra I use in the book is that it's disconnectedness
that defines danger. If you think about globalization as a
process of integration, then the definitions of crisis we now
face, like a 9/11, are instances where connectivity is disrupted.
And when you think about it in those terms and you start casting
what it means to wage a global war on terrorism within this
larger process of globalization spread, you begin to see how a
Bush administration can say, in effect, to take down a Saddam is
to be part of -- logically, is located within a larger
globalization -- or, excuse me -- global war on terrorism
because, in effect, what we're dealing with is those instances
where you're going to find very disconnected societies.
"And it's in that disconnectedness that we tend to find the
violence and the bad treatment. And in many ways, what you're
waging war against with a bin Laden is a guy who looks to
take a big chunk of humanity off line from the globalization
process and in stall authoritarian regimes based on his
particular definition of what a -- a good life is led." [...]
The Pentagon's New Map: War and Peace in
the Twenty-First Century
http://www.booknotes.org/Program/?ProgramID=3D1782
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN: 0399151753
000
The Thomas P.M. Barnett Web Files at the U.S. Naval War College
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/
The NewRuleSets.Project
Dr. Thomas P.M. Barnett, Director
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/
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http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp?content=3D20050307_1015=
41_101541
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David Walker, comptroller general of the United States,
can see the future, and it scares the hell out of him:
the United States of America's public finances are a
shambles. They're getting rapidly worse. And if
something major isn't done soon to solve the country's
intractable budget problems, the world will face an
economic shakeup unlike anything ever seen before.
[=2E..]
He cringes when he hears prominent economists warning
about a financial "Armageddon," but he makes no bones
about the fact the situation is dire. "I don't like
using words that are overly inflammatory," he says,
leaning forward in his chair. "At the same time,
I think it is critically important that the American
people, as well as their elected representatives, get
a better understanding of just how serious our
situation is."
THE NUMBERS are staggering -- a US$43-trillion hole
in America's public finances that's getting worse
every day. And the stakes are almost inconceivable
for a generation of politicians and voters raised in
relative prosperity, who've never known severe
economic hardship. But that plush North American
lifestyle to which we've all grown accustomed has
been bought on credit, and the bill is rapidly
nearing its due date. If the United States can't
find a way to pay up, the results will spill beyond
national borders, spreading economic misery far and
wide. In Canada, the country whose financial
well-being is most tightly tied to trade with the
U=2ES., there wouldn't be a single region or industry
left untouched by a fiscal shock south of the border.
[=2E..]
HOW DID THE U.S. GET INTO THIS MESS?
In January 2001, George W. Bush took over leadership
of a nation that was on its most solid financial
footing in decades, thanks to years of strong
economic growth and a booming stock market.
That very month, the Congressional Budget Office
projected that the federal government could expect
US$5.6 trillion in surpluses over the coming 10 years.
The key political issue of the day was how to spend
the windfall. Bush's team was determined to return the
money to the voters in the form of massive and
widespread tax relief. What the world didn't know was
that this surplus cash was largely illusory, the
result of faulty bookkeeping. [...]
[=2E..]
Stephen Roach, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, is an
outspoken critic of U.S. fiscal policy and has long warned
that America's increasing reliance on foreign lending puts
it at risk of a major economic shock. A sudden drop in the
dollar could trigger, among other things, a stock market
crash, a plunge in the real estate market, a deep recession,
or all of the above. "There's nothing stable about America's
dependence on the kindness of strangers," Roach wrote in a
report last summer. "The funding of America is an accident
waiting to happen."
At a recent meeting with fund managers in Boston, Roach
said he believes there is a 90 per cent chance the country's
rampant borrowing will eventually lead to a disaster for the
economy. Others, including former U.S. treasury secretary
Lawrence Summers and former president Bill Clinton, use less
inflammatory language but have also warned that the size of
U=2ES. deficits could compromise the nation's foreign policy
and trade and security goals. For example, how long can
Washington stick to its commitment to defend Taiwan against
Chinese aggression when it borrows so heavily from China to
support the American economy?
[=2E..]
March 02, 2005
Is America going broke?
Record deficits, colossal debt and no clear plan for
digging itself out. If the U.S. sinks, it will take
Canada down with it.
by STEVE MAICH
http://www.macleans.ca/topstories/world/article.jsp?content=3D20050307_1015=
41_101541
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Commentary: The buck, one day, may stop at Asian central banks
By William Pesek Jr. Bloomberg News
Thursday, March 3, 2005
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/02/bloomberg/sxpesek.html
Asian countries are rolling the dice with an enterprise that
may alter the complexion of the global financial system,
affecting powerful central banks on the other side of
the world.
It's called the "Asian Bellagio Group," a name that is
borrowed from the European Bellagio Group, a gathering of
academics started in the 1960s. The Asian group includes
officials from Japan, China, South Korea and Southeast Asian
nations who met in Bangkok last week to discuss the
U=2ES. dollar's slide.
The group is a formidable crowd, considering that it holds
well in excess of $1.1 trillion of U.S. Treasuries. In fact,
if the Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan, is wondering
why his recent rate increases are not working out as planned,
he need only look to the East.
Greenspan recently referred to a "conundrum," whereby
U=2ES. Treasury yields fell in the face of rising official rates.
Trends here explain why: Asia's vast purchases of Treasuries,
which reduce U.S. yields, are rendering the mighty Fed impotent
in its efforts to cool the U.S. economy.
[=2E..]
Well, the idea has come full circle. Asia is getting fed up
with its reliance on the dollar. Besides, economies here are
becoming more and more exposed to Chinese demand, and less
so to that of U.S. consumers. Leaders in Asia are also
concerned about their lack of clout in Western circles.
And so, Asia now seems ready to create such an institution
to serve its interests.
What does that mean for Greenspan? Asian central banks are
already making things difficult for the Federal Reserve as
it tries to slow U.S. growth. There are two ways in which
Asian efforts at monetary cooperation could complicate
things even further.
One, massive sales by the region's monetary authorities
could cause chaos in the U.S. economy as the dollar
plunges and Treasury yields surge. Two, Asian cooperation
could keep the current global system in place, hampering
the Fed's efforts to cap U.S. inflation.
Asian citizens are increasingly aware that their governments
are funding the U.S. way of life. Capital flowing from East
to West reduces incentives for the United States to address
its worsening current account and budget deficits.
The previously symbiotic relationship between the United
States and Asia is looking more like unhealthy and
unsustainable co-dependence. Asia worsens its own addiction
to export-led growth by feeding the U.S. appetite for
imported capital to finance its economy, and vice versa.
Asian leaders are justifiably concerned that they are
getting the short end of the arrangement.
[=2E..]
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/03/02/bloomberg/sxpesek.html
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ETs Live Among Us Says Ex-China Foreign Ministry Official
Rosanne Lin - Shanghai Star - ChinaDaily.com, 7-20-2002
Summary: Considering the recent rash of UFO sightings
over China, it is worth noting the opinion of Sun Shili,
a retired foreign ministry official who is now president
of the Beijing UFO Research Society - he believes
waixingren (extraterrestrials) are living among us.
http://www.ufoevidence.org/documents/doc524.htm
China to build 3rd station in Antarctica
(Xinhua) 2004-10-14
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/14/content_382140.htm
DRAGON SPACE
http://www.spacedaily.com/dragonspace.html
China Keeps Its Sight On Long-Term Mars Exploration
by Wei Long
Beijing - Jun 25, 2003
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-03q.html
SpaceDaily
http://www.spacedaily.com/
China Makes Strides In Space Technology
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-04zzo.html
Beijing, China (XNA) Oct 06, 2004
The model of the carrier rocket CZ-2 F, and its
launch pad, recently erected in Tiananmen Square
in central Beijing, has been an attraction for
local residents and tourists from other parts
of China.
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-04zzo.html
Beijing Aerospace Command and Control Centre (BACC)
[Project 921]
http://www.sinodefence.com/space/921/921.asp
China Great Wall Industry Corp.
http://www.cgwic.com
China's Space Launch Center
http://www.cgwic.com/launch/center1.html
Janes Aerospace
http://www.janes.com/aerospace/
Kai Tuozhe-1, Taiyuan launch site, China [Long March]
http://www.astronautix.com/lvfam/lonmarch.htm
North Korea Musudan-ri Test Range (Pekdosan)
http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/dprk/facility/nodong.htm
Oberg's Pioneering Space
http://www.jamesoberg.com
Shenzhou
http://www.astronautix.com/craft/shenzhou.htm
Sino Defence Today
http://www.sinodefence.com/space/facility/ttc.asp
Traversing Singularity Barriers ^ Aeronautics
http://pw1.netcom.com/~mthorn/travel04.htm
Xichang Space Launch Center
http://www.cgwic.com/launch/center1.html
<> "There are none so enslaved as those who falsely
<> believe they are free." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Sun Worship!
http://umbra.nascom.nasa.gov/eit/images/Sun_and_earth.jpg
Where did Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism,
and others like Zorostrianism, etc., etc., all emerge from?
The Middle and Near East, the vast region ruled from Sumer at
one time and still dominated by that knowledge base and belief
system in the thousands of years that followed Sumer's demise.
The Sumerian story of King Sargon is a classic case.
They said that his mother floated him in a basket of rushes on
the river and he was found by a member of the Sumerian royal
family who brought him up as their own. The Hebrews, or rather
their manipulating priests, the Levites, later stole this
ancient story from the Sumerian accounts and used it in the
fable of their invented character known as Moses.
The Old Testament is founded on Sumerian accounts, edited and
rewritten as required, to create a manufactured history and
religion called Judaism. The New Testament is based on symbolic
stories repeated over and over in the thousands of years before
its creation and based on the Sumerian (and Golden Age) religion
of Sun worship. The New Testament texts, in turn, created a
manufactured religion and history called Christianity.
Two prison-religions and two make-believe histories for the
price of one book. What more do you want? Great deal. Sold by
the billion. King Sargon was a major Sun worshipper and these
rulers of the Sumer Empire were given the title, "Son of the
Sun." To the Sumerians, the Sun was a symbol of "God" and from
this title Son of the Sun later came the idea of a Son of God.
Sumerian emporers were also often known as "The One Lord." [--D.I.]
What About the Anunnaki?
by Acharya S**
http://www.truthbeknown.com/anunnaki.htm
Mesopotamia
http://www.gatewaystobabylon.com/introduction/start.htm
<> Who is going to secure the oil fields for the world's energy
<> consumption after The House of Saud falls into theocratic
<> darkness? Then there's the 50 million 'free' souls courtesy
<> of the U.S. AdMiNiStRaTiOn... Where is the same concern for
<> freeing souls in... let's say, Africa, for instance.... As far
<> as my left nostril is concerned, every sentient being on this
<> planetoid is Guilty, GUILTY, GUILTY!!! Of WHAT? You ask,
<> welllll... It's all those poor innocent microbes we destroy
<> with each breath, they're getting EVEN, our karmuppance is
<> at hand. All those insects WE drive into with OUR gas-eating
<> carbon-monoxide-generating life-killing vehicles are to blame.
<> EARTH FIRST!!
<> http://tinyurl.com/38uax http://www.earthfirst.org/
<> http://www.earthliberationfront.com/
<> Let's all go totally insane and start eating our young!
<> Sterilize the humanoids!
<> IMPEACH DNA!!!!!!!
<> JOIN THE PEACECORP!
<> TAKE UP KNITTING!!!
<> TAKE A CLASS IN REVERSE-ENGINEERING THE LOOOOOVE MACHINE!!
<>
<> ((({< Okay... just kidding. >})))
** The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold
http://www.truthbeknown.com/excludedmiddle.htm
by Acharya S
Reviewed by Adam Gorightly
Excluded Middle, #9
In The Christ Conspiracy, classical scholar Acharya S takes
aim at perhaps the most touchy target of them all:
the historical accuracy of Jesus Christ, and the resultant
ripples that have manifested themselves through the legend
of his alleged birth, crucifixion, resurrection, and
subsequent commercialization. In her treatise, Acharya
asserts that it's all just one big monumental hoax
perpetrated down through the years by politically motivated
Christians - and other agenda-driven charlatans of yore - as
a method of mass human control. Her thesis, of course, is
nothing new; what makes this book unique is the manner in
which the argument is conclusively laid out, leaving the
reader either completely convinced, or totally shaken in their
previous convictions. Of course, those who need to read
this book the most will probably never have the courage to
do so, continuing, as is their wont, to wallow in the mire
of blind faith. ... http://www.truthbeknown.com/excludedmiddle.htm
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Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
Gen. Romeo A. Dallaire
http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/viewMedia.php/prmTemplateID/8/prmID/848
Lt.-Gen. (Ret.) Romeo Dallaire
Conflict Resolution, Leadership and Human Rights
http://www.nsb.com/speakerbio.asp?i_speakerid=3D232
General Dallaire's account of Genocide in Rwanda
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679311718/104-0560592-965513=
6?v=3Dglance
Genocide warning in Sudan
"An estimated two million people, mostly civilians,
have died in Sudan and four million have been
displaced in the past 17 years as the result of
civil war. Primary responsibility for this
devastation belongs to the Sudanese government,
a military regime based in the north. The principal
victims include the Dinka and Nuer peoples in
southern Sudan and the Nuba of central Sudan."
http://www.ushmm.org/conscience/sudan/sudan.php
Geography - note: largest country in Africa;
dominated by the Nile and its tributaries
Population: 38,114,160 (July 2003 est.)
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/su.html
Internal Displacement:
A Global Overview of Trends and Developments in 2003
http://www.idpproject.org/global_overview.htm
With nearly 25 million people uprooted within their own
country by conflicts and human rights violations, internal
displacement is one of the great human tragedies of our time.
Yet the global crisis of internal displacement, which affects
52 countries across all continents, has unfolded largely
unnoticed by the general public. International public attention
continues to focus on refugees, i.e. people who crossed
international borders after fleeing their homes.
In comparison, internally displaced people (IDPs) have
received much less attention, although their number is nearly
twice as high, and their plight is often even worse than that
of refugees.
Among the millions of people newly displaced in 2003, many
were deliberately targeted by their own governments. In several
cases, the protection of displaced people was undermined in the
context of counter-insurgency campaigns intensified under the
guise of the "war on terror". Others became victims of attacks
by rebel groups or were forced to flee communal violence.
Little tangible progress was made in 2003 with regard to the
provision of protection and assistance to internally displaced
people. With few exceptions, national authorities continued to
be unable or unwilling to fully meet their obligation under
international law to protect and assist people displaced within
their countries. Neither has the international humanitarian
community made the necessary resources available to address the
needs of IDPs; nearly a third of IDPs are fully or partially
ignored by the UN. The UN system has yet to create the capacity
needed for the effective coordination of its response to internal
displacement.
Millions of newly displaced people
In 2003, more than three million people were newly displaced, the
majority by civil wars and inter-communal violence in Africa. Some
700,000 people were uprooted in the east of the Democratic Republic
of Congo (DRC) alone, following a flare-up of violence in the power
vacuum left by the withdrawal of foreign occupation troops from
neighbouring countries. Intensified fighting in Uganda's civil war
forced an equally high number of people to flee their homes. And as
Sudan was heading towards a peace agreement between the government
and the rebel-controlled south, a new conflict broke out in the
western Darfur region, displacing more than half a million people.
Other countries with major new displacements include Liberia,
Colombia, the Central African Republic, the Philippines
and Indonesia.
At the end of 2003, Sudan was the country hosting the largest
internally displaced population, some 4 million people.
The Democratic Republic of Congo (3 million), Colombia (2.9 million),
Uganda (1.2 million), Iraq (1.1 million) and Burma (up to one million)
are also among the countries with the highest numbers of internally
displaced people. ...
[Continued at: <http://www.idpproject.org/global_overview.htm>]
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The Fog Of War [2003]
Robert Strange McNamara's 11 lessons from his life in politics.
Lesson # 1. Empathize with your enemy.
Lesson # 2. Rationality will not save us.
Lesson # 3. There's something beyond one's self.
Lesson # 4. Maximize efficiency.
Lesson # 5. Proportionality should be a guideline in war.
Lesson # 6. Get the data.
Lesson # 7. Belief and seeing are both often wrong.
Lesson # 8. Be prepared to reexamine your reasoning.
Lesson # 9. In order to do good, you may have to engage in evil.
Lesson #10. Never say never.
Lesson #11. You can't change human nature.
The Fog Of War:
http://www.sonyclassics.com/fogofwar/
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Dissociation Dynamics, the Alice Miller Finding and the Social
Organization of Torture: http://www.alice-miller.com/
See also:
Pentagon competing with private security companies for
skilled commandos to offer extra pay of up to $150,000.
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3D11803
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"... While those who do not feel pain and suffering might not
think that others do feel and experience them, the awakening, for
example, of the superpowers of vibe-sensing, empathy, and
telepathy, etc., tends to put one more in touch with the
unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."--Ingo Swann 2002
http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/speciesguildrevisited.html
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ALEX GREY's Caduceus:
http://www.bluehoney.org/Images/Caduceus/alex-grey.jpg
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"Freedom, Peace, and Brotherhood" *
"Libertad, Paz y Fraternidad" *
NYMEX crude oil was down 14 cents at $51.61 a barrel on thin
volume and spot gold traded at $434.25, off a 2005 high of
$437.55 hit on Monday.
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/01/asia.stox.reut/
US fury over EU weapons for China
"...The US sees China as its main long-term rival for global
dominance and is worried about possible military conflict
over China's declared desire to re-assert control over Taiwan,
which America has vowed to defend.
US officials argue that any easing of European arms control
exports poses a threat to its soldiers.
But EU officials point out that Israel, one of America's
closest allies, sells large amounts of weaponry to China. ..."
http://www.google.com/search?hl=3Den&q=3DUS+fury+over+EU+weapons+for+China
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Eve, the earthworm sez: "If yer not forest, yer against us."
Under current definitions, a 'Champion Tree' is
the biggest specimen--the giant of their species
http://www.championtrees.org/champions/index.htm
American Forests, a not-for-profit association
based in Washington, has maintained the National
Register of Big Trees for over 50 years.
American Forests uses a three-part formula--based
on girth, height and crown spread--to rate a tree
by size and determine which is the champion, the
biggest. The current National Register lists over
800 tree species with a recognized
National Champion. http://www.americanforests.org
Eastern Native Tree Society is an interest group
of foresters, arborists and ecologists with a
complex database of wooodland trees that ranks
champions by height, volume, ecotone, and
latitude. ENTS has developed reliable measurement
methods accurate to one foot.
http://www.uark.edu/misc/ents/
American Tree Farm System website:
"The term "tree farming" was first used in the
1940's to introduce the public to sustainable
forestry terminology they could easily understand.
Farming implies continual stewardship and
production of goods year after year. By linking
the term "farming" with trees, foresters could
communicate the concept of sustainable production
of forest products over time. Tree Farming implies
commitment to the land and was the philosophical
opposite of the 'cut-out and get-out' philosophy
of the early 20th century."
http://www.treefarmsystem.org/
American Forest Foundation
http://www.forestfoundation.org/index.shtml
JAPAN - Hokkaido Forestry Research Institute
http://www.hfri.bibai.hokkaido.jp/e_default.htm
A solution for Japan's declining rice consumption:
BREAD: <http://tinyurl.com/3ol8r>
"Palatable, delicious and economical rice flour bread
production by the use of trehalose will change food
culture---large expectations for large scale rice
consumption and self sufficiency in food are
sighted---Hayashibara Biochemical Labs and Fukumori
bread Institute has jointly developed a genuine
fermented rice bread production method."
http://www.hayashibara.co.jp/english/press/2002/main.html
Forest information Office
http://www.hfri.bibai.hokkaido.jp/english/e_johou.htm
Access to the homepage of our Institute Collecting
various information about trees and forests,
publicizing our research activities through internet,
and library management.
Development of forest resource management with
remote sensing technology and geographic information
systems (GIS).
http://www.hfri.bibai.hokkaido.jp/english/e_johou.htm
The Amazon Conservation Association is a non-profit
organization legally incorporated in the United
States, Peru and Bolivia. The directors and staff
are experienced tropical ecologists and
conservationists. Our goal is to conserve
biodiversity through development of new scientific
understanding, sustainable resource management and
rational land-use policy for the Amazon Basin.
http://www.amazonconservation.org/home/index.html
(N,N-dimethyltryptamine)(C12H16N2)
collected information advisories and
WARNINGS
at The Deoxyribonucleic Hyperdimension
http://deoxy.org/warnings.htm
C H E M I C A L E X P E R I E N C E S O F
A H Y P E R S P A T I A L N A T U R E
http://www.deoxy.org/hs_cehn.htm
The Tykes...
http://www.deoxy.org/timemind.htm
Erowid DMT Vault
http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/dmt/
DMT
Dimethyltryptamine
http://fusionanomaly.net/dmt.html
"Uniao do Vegital"
http://www.udv.org.br/english/
JOHN HORGAN wrote in 'Between Science and Spirituality
The Chronicle of Higher Education, 2.11.29'
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v49/i14/14b00701.htm
"=2E..But we should view even the most fact-laden
mystical texts ironically when they turn to ultimate
questions. Some mystical writers, notably the
psychedelic raconteur Terence McKenna, supply their
own irony, but we readers can supply it even if the
author intended none. We can read the Upanishads,
Genesis, Dionysius the Areopagite, and the
neurotheological suppositions of Andrew Newberg just
as we read Blake or Borges or Emily Dickinson.
Viewed ironically, even the most fantastical ghost stories,
including the old stories of religion, can serve a purpose.
Whether they postulate superintelligent clouds of gas,
insectoid aliens in hyperspace, a demiurge with
multiple-personality disorder, or a loving God who for
inscrutable reasons makes us suffer, well-told ghost stories
can remind us of the unfathomable mystery at the heart of
things. Our creation myths and eschatologies, our imaginings
of ultimate beginnings and ends, can also help us discover our
deepest fears and desires. But even the most sophisticated
theologies and theories should never be mistaken for ultimate
truth. What Voltaire said centuries ago still holds, and will
always hold: 'It is truly extravagant to define God, angels,
and minds, and to know precisely why God defined the world,
when we do not know why we move our arms at will. Doubt is not
a very agreeable state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.'"
Quest to figure out why mammals are warm-blooded led to new theory
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe Correspondent | February 22, 2005
In the still unsolved mystery of how the dinosaurs died, there's
a new suspect -- fungus.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2005/02/22/were_th=
e_dinosaurs_done_in_by_fungus/
After a meteor slammed into the Earth 65 million years ago,
"the great dying" began, decimating life in the oceans and
killing off the dinosaurs -- with mysteriously little effect
on mammals. Conjecture over what did in the reptiles has
long fascinated everyone from school children to
paleontologists, but a new theory suggests that a less
earth-shaking possibility could have played a role.
"The forests went out. The fungi proliferated, and the
Earth became a giant compost pile. An enormous number
of spores were released," said Dr. Arturo Casadevall,
an infectious disease researcher who proposed last
month that air thick with fungal spores after the meteor
hit could have overwhelmed animals' immune systems,
causing sickness and death. If he's right, the large
numbers of warm-blooded mammals and birds that survived
the mass extinction might have had a natural
advantage -- body temperatures too hot for fungal
infections to take hold.
"It's just a beautifully creative suggestion,"
said Nicholas Money, a mycologist, or mold
expert, from Miami University of Ohio and author
of "Carpet Monsters and Killer Spores:
A Natural History of Toxic Mold."
Casadevall, of Albert Einstein College of New York,
laid out his suggestion in this month's issue of
Fungal Genetics and Biology when considering a much
larger question: "I ask you, why are we so hot?"
He has long been troubled by the lives of warm-blooded
animals, who must live a virtual food-finding mission
because they burn so many calories each day just
heating their bodies. Cold-blooded animals, on the
other hand, need only eat once every few days.
Where, he wondered, is the advantage in a life of
constant scurrying, foraging, and saving up food
for the winter?
That question coincided with another puzzling trend:
Fungal infections rarely give mammals more than a
mildly irritating case of athlete's foot or a yeast
infection but are often deadly to plants, fish,
and insects.
At a crucial time in natural history, the world's
1=2E5 million species of molds, yeasts, rusts, and
mushrooms, also might have been a vehicle for
natural selection.
In the aftermath of the meteor that carved out the
Chicxulub crater on the Yucatan Peninsula, the
Earth probably was a cool, shady place.
Researchers last year discovered fossil evidence
of a post-collision "fungal spike," and in a
world dense with potentially pathogenic fungi,
warm-blooded animals might have had a
unique advantage.
In such a situation, "every warm-blooded
generation has a little advantage, and when
the dust settles and the sun comes out again . . .
the warm-blooded find themselves in a world with a
lot more space," Casadevall said.
Other evidence shows that the mass die-off didn't
occur immediately after the collision, but about
300,000 years afterward -- raising the possibility
that an intermediary factor, like fungi, could
have played a part.
The trouble with the theory, experts said, is
that no one is sure whether the dinosaurs were
warm- or cold-blooded. Smaller cold-blooded
animals like turtles, lizards, snakes, and frogs
were able to weather the mass extinction,
indicating that size, not body temperature, may
have been a deciding factor.
And, while there is wide agreement that a massive
meteor struck the Earth 65 million years ago,
other theories suggest that increased volcanic
activity could have played a role in
the extinction.
Stephen McLoughlin, a geologist from Queensland
University of Technology in Australia who
discovered evidence of the long-ago fungal
explosion, said the spores that his group
studied, which were preserved in a layer of
coal in New Zealand, probably did not
harm animals.
He stated in an e-mail that he finds Casadevall's
idea "intriguing" but, "while this may have been
the case, it is virtually impossible to test."
Nonetheless, the main idea behind Casadevall's
research -- that deadly fungi could have helped
establish the age of the mammals -- is timely.
Fungal infections are now emerging as an
important force in nature again: Fungal diseases
also may be contributing to the worldwide decline
of the coral reefs, and appear to play a poorly
understood role in the steady decline
of amphibians.
A study last year reported that a third of all
amphibian species worldwide are facing
extinction -- and while climate change,
pollution, and habitat loss are all thought
to play a role, many of the extinct and
endangered frog species have been infected
with the chtyrid fungus, which may interfere
with their delicate, breathable skin, produce
a toxin, or something else.
"Like everything in life, it wasn't just
one thing" that killed the dinosaurs,
Casadevall said. In the case of the amphibians,
"you can imagine [the culprit] could be a
weakening of their immunity caused by a fungus."
Carolyn Y. Johnson can be reached at <cjohnson@globe.com>.
(c) Copyright 2005 Globe Newspaper Company.
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Mount St. Helens bubbling and boiling
http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=3D20050223-015306-6230r
MOUNT ST. HELENS, Washington -- Mount St. Helens has
shown an upswing in volcanic activity over the past
two days, U.S. volcano scientists reported.
Small collapses of hot rock from the south end of the
lava dome -- which is growing at a rate of about
15 feet per day -- have sent several ash clouds upward
and over the rim of the mile-wide crater, according to
U=2ES. Geological Survey scientists at Johnston Ridge
Observatory, about five miles northeast of the volcano.
Mount St. Helens VolcanoCam
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
http://einstein.atmos.colostate.edu/~mcnoldy/msh/
The USGS estimates that the Pacific Northwest has at
least 12 volcanoes that could become active.
These include Mt. Rainier, outside of Washington;
Mt. Hood, near the Columbia River in Oregon; and
Mount Shasta, in northern California.
Recent Mount St. Helens Earthquakes:
http://www.ess.washington.edu/SEIS/PNSN/HELENS/helensep_mo.html
For additional information, background, images,
and other graphics: http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/MSH/Eruption04/
For seismic information: http://www.pnsn.org/HELENS/welcome.html
For a definition of alert levels:
http://vulcan.wr.usgs.gov/Volcanoes/Cascades/CurrentActivity/volcano_warnin=
g_scheme.html
For a webcam view of the volcano:
http://www.fs.fed.us/gpnf/volcanocams/msh/
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Gamma Ray Bursts, Gravity Waves, and Earthquakes
Was the December 26, 2004 Indonesian Earthquake and Tsunami
Caused by a Stellar Explosion 45,000 light years away?
http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/GRB.html
On December 26, 2004 a magnitude 9.3 earthquake occurred
in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Malaysia.
It caused a powerful tsunami which devastated coastal
regions of many countries leaving over 240,000 people
either dead or missing. It was the worst tsunami to
affect this area since the explosion of Krakatoa.
The earthquake that produced it was so strong that
it exceeded by a factor of 10 the next most powerful
earthquake to occur in the past 25 years.
Indonesian 9.3 Richter earthquake:
December 26, 2004 at 00 hours 58 minutes (Universal Time)
It is then with some alarm that we learn that just 44.6 hours
later gamma ray telescopes orbiting the Earth picked up the
arrival of the brightest gamma ray burst ever recorded!
Gamma ray burst arrival:
December 27, 2004 at 21 hours 36 minutes (Universal Time)
=2E.... gravity waves would very likely be associated with
gamma ray bursts, and they would be expected to precede them.
In his 1983 Ph.D. dissertation
http://www.etheric.com/LaVioletteBooks/EUF-CD.html ,
Paul LaViolette called attention to terrestrial dangers
of Galactic core explosions, pointing out that the arrival
of the cosmic ray superwave they produced would be signaled
by a high intensity gamma ray burst which would also generate
EMP effects (e.g., see Page 3:
http://www.etheric.com/GalacticCenter/Galactic3.html ).
He also noted that a strong gravity wave might be expected to
travel forward at the forefront of this superwave and might be
the first indication of a superwave's arrival. He pointed out
that such gravity waves could induce substantial tidal forces
on the Earth during their passage which could induce earthquakes
and cause polar axis torquing effects.
In his book Earth Under Fire
http://www.etheric.com/LaVioletteBooks/Book-EUF.html
(as well as in his dissertation), he presents evidence showing
that the superwave that passed through the solar system around
14,200 years ago had triggered supernova explosions as it swept
through the Galaxy. Among these was the Vela and Crab
supernova explosions whose explosion dates align with this
superwave event horizon. He points out that these explosions
could be explained if a gravity wave accompanied this superwave,
producing tidal disturbances which triggered unstable stars as
it passed through.
He wrote at a time when gamma ray bursts had just begun
to be discovered, and when no one was concerned with them as
potential terrestrial hazards. In recent years scientific
opinion has come around to adopt LaViolette's concern, as
can be seen in news articles discussing the SGR 1806-20 gamma
ray outburst, e.g., see Space.com news story. They note that
if this gamma ray burst had been as close as 10 light years
it would have completely destroyed to ozone layer.
By comparison, the Galactic superwaves LaViolette has
postulated to have been generated as a result of an outburst
of our Galaxy's core and to have impacted the Solar system
during the last ice age would have impacted the solar system
with a cosmic ray electron volley having an energy intensity
100 times greater than this hypothetical 10 light year
distant stellar gamma ray burst. SGR 1806-20 has been
estimated to have a stellar progenitor mass of 150 solar
masses, whereas our Galactic core has a mass of 2.6 million
solar masses. In its present active phase, SGR 1806-20 is
estimated to have a luminosity 40 million times that of the
Sun, whereas during its active phase the Galactic center
could reach luminosities of 400 trillion times that of the
Sun. So it is understandable that if the Galactic center
were to erupt, it would produce a gamma ray burst and a
gravity wave far more intense than the outburst from
this star.
If anything, the December 27, 2004 gamma ray burst
shows us that we do not live in a peaceful celestial
environment. And if the December 26th earthquake was
in fact part of this same celestial event, we see that
this stellar eruption has claimed many lives. For this
reason, it is important that we prepare for the
possibility of even stronger events in the future,
the arrival of superwaves issuing from the core of
our Galaxy. Like the December 26th earthquake and the
December 27th gamma ray burst, the next superwave
will arrive unexpectedly. It will take us by surprise.
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Is Most of Mankind Living on Borrowed Time?
http://www.etheric.com/Superwave/Superwave.html
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Averting Impending Extinction of Our Civilization
by a Recurrent "Superwave" from the Galactic Center
http://www.etheric.com/Superwave/SuperwavePage2.html
by John H. Bloomer,
President, Discraft Corp.
(advanced aerospace science & technology)
1990 S.E. 157th Drive, Portland, Oregon 97233
(503) 251-6914
..=2E... superwave-induced changes in the Sun will cause
some of the worst damage to the human species....
Solar flares could increase by factors of many
hundred times, covering the Sun, as cosmic dust invades
the solar system and the Earth's atmosphere, initiating
a permanent, everyday, day-long darkness along with
great heat from dramatically increased infrared radiation.
This heat will initiate great drying, conflagrations,
sweeping the planet -- grass, trees, homes and forests
will be burned -- while great ocean evaporation proceeds
to return as torrential downpours then the snow and ice
of a New Ice Age (this in fact seems to be the mechanism
initiating Ice Ages -- they begin with, are precipitated
by, cosmic dust brought in by Galactic Core superwave
volleys). In the heating period preceding the Ice Age,
mountain glaciers and the ice caps will undergo
drastically increased melting rates, possibly initiating
devastating floods.
Clearly drastic advances in the sciences of aeronautics
and astronautics are not only desirable, but they are
absolutely urgent and imperative.
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"The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party
a public information project from TheocracyWatch.org"
http://www.theocracywatch.org
http://www.cresp.cornell.edu/projects/theocracy_watch.php
Ashcroft vs. O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/docket/04a469.htm
http://www.kscourts.org/ca10/cases/2004/11/02-2323.htm
"The Bush administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court on
Thursday [February 10, 2005] to block a New Mexico church from
using hallucinogenic tea imported from Brazil that the government
contends is illegal and potentially dangerous.
"The appeal from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales argues that a
lower court was wrong to allow the Brazil-based
O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal
to import and use ... hoasca [Ayahuasca] tea as part of
its religious services.
http://www.sccba.com/lawpractice/view_newsitem.cfm?id=3D5099
"The Centro Esp=EDrita Beneficente Uni=E3o do Vegetal, is a
non-profit religious society, whose objective is to
contribute to human development through the improvement
of intellectual qualities and moral and spiritual virtues,
without discrimination on the basis of color, creed or
nationality. The General Headquarters of the UDV is in
Brasilia, Brazil. The UDV holds Light, Peace and Love
as a symbol of peace and human fraternity."
http://www.udv.org.br/english/
http://whitehousedrugpolicy.org/about/index.html
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/about/clearingh.html
http://www.whitehousedrugpolicy.gov/links/index.html
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/375/drugbudget.shtml
"A cognitive-psychological study of Ayahuasca"
http://www.maps.org/news-letters/v07n3/07313sha.html
by: "Benny Shanon Ph.D." <msshanon@mscc.huji.ac.il>,
Dept. of Psychology Hebrew University
http://psychology.huji.ac.il/segel.htm
"First they came for the Snail Darter, but I was not a Snail Darter
so I did not speak out. Then they came for the Spotted Owl and the
Newts,
but I was neither, so I did not speak out. Then they came for the
Polar Bears, but I was not a Polar Bear so I did not speak out.
And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for me."
[With apology to 'Martin Niemoeller']
With insect colonies, like Bees, one could say that the
individual members are programmed: "Service To Others",
while collectively, the hive as a single unit is unwavering:
"Service To Self." Red Ants don't particularly care much
for Black Ants, and neither is particulary invested in the
evolutionary welfare of the Termites. Vegetation, on the
other hand, seems to be entirely "Service To Self", so much
so that a plant will choke out other plants for the choice
real estate. And yet they all co-exist in spite of their
programming for the greater good, which in this case is
simply defined as being a continuity in fauna and flora.
Then there are the Higher Mammals.... and then the Humans....
Everybody is eating everybody else, a mishmash of energetic
enfoldments and entanglements. How in the world could there
possibly be ANY Free Will in any of this?! Are we Humans not
insect-like, exhibiting a degree of quasi-individual
"Service To Others" to collectively facilitate a
"Service To Self" greater continuity of
socio-bio-technological function?
________________________________________________
March 24, 1999:
"...we don't actually have any 'Free Will'.
The notion of Free Will was implanted in us ages ago by
religious mindcontrolling zealots, who also had no Free Will.
It's an exponential kind of illusion. Don't worry too much
about it... but considering you have no Free Will, you'll
worry about it just as much as the slow inexorable evolution
of the universe deems it appropriate according to a near
infinite set of preexisting precursors, and so on...
[Naturally, I could be completely wrong, and no doubt am
wrong, though, at best, 'Free Will' is very limited and
tightly bound within 'yes-no/off-on' type of choices.
The endocrine system, interfaced with cerebral mentations
and stored memories pretty much calls the shots on most of
those choices though.]"
The Magazine of Future Warfare
http://www.g2mil.com/Spring2005.htm
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)
[formerly: School of the Americas]
http://www.benning.army.mil/WHINSEC/
Regarding "The Emporer's New Torture Czar" in another thread:
John Dimitri Negroponte
http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/negroponte/eng.html
[Congressional Record: September 14, 2001 (Senate)
Page S9431-S9433] EXCERPT:
And, as I mentioned earlier, based upon an
extensive review of U.S. intelligence information by
the CIA Working Group in 1996, the CIA is prepared to
stipulate that "during the 1980-84 period, the Honduran
military committed most of the hundreds of human rights
abuses reported in Honduras. These abuses were often
politically motivated and officially sanctioned."
Moreover, Mr. Negroponte should have been forewarned to
look for signs of government sponsored human rights
abuses in light of concerns that his predecessor
Ambassador Jack Binns, a career foreign service officer,
had raised with the State Department concerning the mind
set of the architect of Honduras' domestic
countersubversion program with respect to a willingness
to extrajudicial means in the context of such programs.
Ambassador Binns was speaking about General Gustavo Alvarez
who became Commander in Chief of the Honduran Armed Forces
in 1982, and who had been Commander of Honduran Public
Security Forces, FUSEP, from 1980-82.
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2001_cr/s091401.html
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"Controversial" Negroponte Nominated to Be First Director
of National Intelligence
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/17/171120/554
Use the CIA's own search engine to find out about
John Dimitri Negroponte.
Here's the CIA document search engine.
http://www.foia.cia.gov/
Type "Negroponte". Only two documents come up.
Pick the "CIA Activities in Honduras in the 1980's"
document and go to page 22 of 238. It says "Gustavo
Alvarez Martinez ... attended an Argentine military
academy and various U.S. sponsored military courses
at Fort Benning, Georgia and Fort Bragg, North
Carolina, during the 1950s and 1960s." (Blacked Out)
--
"... Alvarez was heavily involved in, and strong
supporter of, CIA programs in Central America.
After his ouster from the position of CINC, Alvarez
resettled in the United States". [...]
The other parts of the report, that aren't blacked out,
describe human rights violations. I believe this old
1995 Balitmore Sun report was one of the first newspapers
to break the story and talk about Negroponte's role.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-negroponte1a.story
posted originally by thoreau247365 at:
http://www.dailykos.com/comments/2005/2/17/171120/554/135#135
on Thu Feb 17th, 2005 at 22:13:12 PST
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/17/171120/554
What are Negroponte's qualifications?
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From 1981 to 1985 Negroponte was US ambassador to Honduras.
During his tenure, he oversaw the growth of military aid to
Honduras from $4 million to $77.4 million a year. According
to The New York Times, Negroponte was responsible for
"carrying out the covert strategy of the Reagan
administration to crush the Sandinistas government in
Nicaragua." Critics say that during his ambassadorship,
human rights violations in Honduras became systematic.
Negroponte supervised the creation of the El Aguacate air
base where the US trained Nicaraguan Contras, and which
critics say was used as a secret detention and torture
center during the 1980s. In August 2001, excavations at
the base discovered 185 corpses, including two Americans,
who are thought to have been killed and buried at the site.
Records also show that a special intelligence unit (i.e. a
fascist death squad) of the Honduran armed forces,
Battalion 3-16, trained by the CIA and Argentine military,
kidnaped, tortured and killed hundreds of people, including
US missionaries.
Critics charge that Negroponte knew about these human
rights violations and yet continued to collaborate with the
Honduran military while lying to Congress.
In May 1982, a nun, Sister Laetitia Bordes, who had worked
for ten years in El Salvador, went on a fact-finding
delegation to Honduras to investigate the whereabouts of
thirty Salvadoran nuns and women of faith who fled to
Honduras in 1981 after Archbishop Oscar Romero's
assassination. Negroponte claimed the embassy knew nothing.
But in a 1996 interview with the Baltimore Sun, Negroponte's
predecessor, Jack Binns, said that a group of Salvadorans,
among whom were the women Bordes had been looking for, were
captured on April 22, 1981, and savagely tortured by the
DNI, the Honduran Secret Police, and then later thrown out
of helicopters alive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Negroponte
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2001-2004 US ambassador to the United Nations ...
2004-US ambassador to Iraq (and replacement to Paul Bremer
as American in charge of US actions in the country)
Torturers.net: John Negroponte
http://www.torturers.net/us/admin/negroponte/
--
The 'Salvador Option' may put death-squad-like kidnapping and
assassination teams in Iraq.
http://www.soaw.org/new/
* Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)
Fort Benning, GA 31905-5000
http://tinyurl.com/5pz9a
The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),
located at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia, is the U.S. Army's
principal Spanish-language training facility for Latin American
military personnel. It is the successor to the School of the
Americas (SOA), a facility established in 1946 and legally closed
in 2001.
The WHINSEC is located in the same building, and offers many of
the same courses, as the school it replaces. Along with the
U.S. Air Force's Inter-American Air Forces Academy (IAAFA)
http://www.ciponline.org/facts/iaafa.htm , WHINSEC attracts
the largest number of Latin American military students.
http://www.ciponline.org/facts/soa.htm
http://ludb.clui.org/ex/i/GA3142/
http://www.coldsteelinfantry.com/Links.htm
http://www.ai.sri.com/~fua/rcvw/Benning.html
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC)
[formerly: School of the Americas]
http://www.benning.army.mil/WHINSEC/
A Welcome from the Commandant
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/about.asp?id=3D33
Thank you for visiting the Western Hemisphere Institute for
Security Cooperation. Chartered by the U. S. Congress, WHINSEC
provides professional education and training for civilian,
military and law enforcement students from nations throughout
the Western Hemisphere.
Our Web site introduces you to WHINSEC's many dimensions, from
its fine academic and training programs, to its students and
faculty. It's designed to provide you with a greater understanding
of our mission http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/about.asp?id=3D13
and dedication to promoting peace, democratic values, and respect
for human rights through inter-American cooperation.
The rich diversity of our student body -- about 800-1000 a
year -- reinforces our efforts to address the future challenges
of strengthening democracy in this region. Our commitment to
Democracy and Human Rights is interwoven
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/democracy.asp?id=3D95
throughout the entire WHINSEC program.
As you explore this Web site, you can learn the details
of the various courses we offer. Academicians may want
to consider the Fellows program
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/academics.asp?id=3D39 ;
undergraduates may apply to be Interns
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/academics.asp?id=3D43 .
For students, check out the John B. and Elena Amos Library pages
http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/amoslibrary.asp?id=3D24 ,
to learn more about this excellent reference, research, and
information facility. The library's collection contains
approximately 21,000 volumes, with 90 percent in Spanish.
It covers subjects in the major disciplines of foreign affairs,
national defense, human rights, and Latin American studies.
You can even check out books via an interlibrary loan to your
own library.
I invite you to check back often to see upcoming events,
or to get a look at our latest news. Don't hesitate to use
the "Contact Us" button <mailto:whinsec-pao@benning.army.mil>
if you have any questions or comments you'd like to share.
I look forward to hearing from you.
Remember that your visit to WHINSEC is not limited to the Web.
We invite you come to our campus, meet our students and faculty,
and see our programs in action.
Please contact the Public Affairs Office
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Our motto is "Libertad, Paz y Fraternidad," which means
Freedom, Peace, and Brotherhood. Together we will make a
difference in the region -- and the world.
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http://www.benning.army.mil/whinsec/about.asp?id=3D33
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This is about Washington reviving and gaining the upper hand
in the arms race, presumably to position itself well for what
it sees as its eventual superpower showdown with China.
Washington sees gaining control of space as key to maintaining
global military dominance, and missile defence is part of the
strategy. The U.S. plans to eventually have missile defence
systems based in space (as well as on land, air and sea).
This is part of America achieving "space superiority," a goal
unabashedly described in the 2004 U.S. Air Force document
'Counterspace Operations,' which argues the U.S. must have
"space control" and be ableto "deny an adversary freedom of
action in space." The prospect of the arms race moving into
space may thrill Washington strategic planners, but it's long
been dreaded by most of the world. In 1967, ninety-seven
nations signed the Outer Space Treaty banning weapons from space.
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