The economic system is deeply flawed and has served to concentrate money, land and power in the hands of a few. The concentration of economic power and ecological devastation have heralded the collapse of many civilizations and empires. At this time in history, humanity must choose between the health and well-being of our planet, humanity, and other lifeforms, or the further enrichment of the ruling elite. The choice is clear. The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, World Economic Forum, and "Trade Agreements," such as the Multilateral Agreement on Investments (MAI) blatantly favor the rich over all environmental and human rights concerns (see  http://www.tradewatch.org/). Civil society is now engaged in a tremendous struggle against these deadly institutions which value money over life.
 http://communitycurrency.org/

Business executives in Saudi Arabia continue to transfer tens of millions of dollars to bank accounts linked to Osama bin Laden, accused of the U.S. embassy bombings in East Africa.
 http://healthandenergy.com/osamas_money_supply.htm

Why are “America’s Mayor” and FEMA obstructing the investigation of the WTC disaster? Why have they worked so hard to destroy the evidence? Why are they threatening the investigators and preventing them from talking to the media? If you read between the lines of the cautiously-worded NY Times article below and factor in the material at  http://baltech.org/lederman/ you’ll see yet another huge government cover-up unfolding.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2178

A tribal leader in eastern Afghanistan threatened on Sunday to launch a war against Afghan Interim Setup Chairman Hamid Karzai if US jets launched another attack on his area, Afghan Islamic Press reported.  http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/24/top12.htm

Mr. Speaker, we are here now in chapter 11. . . Members of Congress are official trustees presiding over the greatest reorganization of any Bankrupt entity in world history, the U.S. Government. We are setting forth hopefully, a blueprint for our future. There are some who say it is a coroner's report that will lead to our demise.
 http://www.netcolony.com/news/hotwire2000/bankruptcyoftheus.html

In order to keep the government accountable, the people have a right to know the conditions of confinement and whether the detainees are being treated fairly and properly. In late November, Amnesty International sent a 26-page memorandum to the attorney general listing its concerns relating to the treatment of the detainees.
 http://www.iht.com/articles/42297.html

Why risk alienating Russia, China and major US allies in Europe in pursuit of an unproven missile defense system? Why abandon the treaty now when experts have indicated that the current missile defense testing program could go on for years before running up against limits imposed by the agreement?
 http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/commentary/opinion/abm_treaty.htm

"I prefer not to use the word propaganda," says Lt. Col. Glenn Ayers, the 9th PSYOP battalion commander. "It has negative connotations." So it does, but many argue it shouldn't. Dr. Philip Taylor, in his book "Munitions of the Mind," writes that "Propaganda itself is neither sinister nor evil. It is really no more than the organization of methods designed to persuade people to think and behave in a certain way, and in wartime that usually means getting them to fight or to support the fight."
 http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/709vuidh.asp

While it's difficult to quantify PSYOP success, Sun Tzu, whom many consider the original PSYOPer, wrote that "To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it. . . . For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence."
 http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/691yjwkt.asp

Next September Tony Blair will be going to the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg to teach the world about saving the planet, just as his government completes the greatest assault on environmental protection this country has ever known. With his customary messianic zeal, he's said he "wants the UK to lead the world on sustainability". So why is his government trying to hustle through reforms in the planning system which rip away current protections?
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4321990,00.html

Congressional action is being sought in the wake of mounting evidence that insurance firms are exploiting the terrorist attacks to increase costs outrageously at the same time the industry is seeking taxpayer handouts.
 http://www.americanfreepress.net/12_21_01/Insurance_Industry/insurance_industry.html

It has been more than 16 years since a civilian working for the Navy was charged with passing secrets to Israel. Jonathan Pollard pled guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage and is serving a life sentence. At first, Israeli leaders claimed Pollard was part of a rogue operation, but later took responsibility for his work.
 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/589762/posts

Nineteen years later, what was happening then to the Palestinians in Lebanon is happening to them in Palestine. Since the Al-Aqsa Intifada began last September, Palestinians have been sequestered by the Israeli army in no fewer than 220 discontinuous little ghettos, and subjected to intermittent curfews often lasting for weeks at a stretch. No one, young or old, sick or well, dying or pregnant, student or doctor, can move without spending hours at barricades, manned by rude and deliberately humiliating Israeli soldiers.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2228

The U.S. corporate and banking establishment seeks to maintain U.S. domination throughout the globe for their own benefit. It is these corporate and banking elites who profit from the exploitation of oil and natural gas resources in the Middle East and South Asia, from bloated military contracts and from Bush administration bailouts and tax breaks. With skyrocketing unemployment, evictions, foreclosures, and slashing of welfare and healthcare benefits at home, people in the U.S. need billions to create jobs, improve our schools, and provide quality health care. Instead the Bush administration is spending billions on bombing civilians and military aggression.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2233

Please don't tell Mom I'm a CEO.....she thinks I play piano in a
whorehouse.
- Jerry Crawford
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crimgov/message/8099

When the United States pummels tiny states like Grenada and Panama, the U.S. media and public have no apparent embarrassment at the imbalance of power and the bully-boy aspect of the incursions; in fact, there is pride at super-Goliath beating up the mini-Davids.
 http://www.zmag.org/sustainers/content/2001-12/23herman.cfm

Sima Samar, a veteran of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) and a doctor who worked for years in the Pakistan refugee camps, has been appointed one of four deputy prime ministers in the new interim government. She ran a hospital and a school for refugee girls in Quetta, Pakistan, and helped coordinate non-fundamentalist education efforts within Afghanistan. She is serving in the same government with Northern Alliance leaders she had harshly criticized for years.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2142

In 1997 high-flying Enron found itself in a pitched battle in Oregon, where it planned to acquire Portland General Electric, Oregon's largest public utility. Warning that Enron's motives were of a highly predatory nature, the staff of the state's Public Utility Commission (PUC) opposed the merger. They warned that an Enron takeover would mean less ability to protect the environment, increased insecurity for PGE's workers and, in all likelihood, soaring prices. Other critics argued that Enron's actual plan was to cannibalize PGE, in particular its hydropower, which Enron would sell into California's energy market.
 http://www.counterpunch.org/enrongreens.html

Catching criminals in modern capitalism is like the labours of Sisyphus, a never-ending task. This is because crime is overwhelmingly committed by the poor, the disenfranchised, and the cynical, in short the people without a stake in society. And it is capitalism – the system which commands the unwavering support of Blair and Hague alike–which creates such people by the bucketload.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2144

As the clock ticks toward Christmas Eve and Midnight a grand game of
political brinksmanship is underway between the two old protagonists, Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat. The Israeli govermnent is itself divided over what to do; but Sharon has personally manuevered to the situation of the moment forcing Arafat to remain under a kind of town imprisonment in Ramallah.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2146

India and Pakistan have increased deployments of troops and military equipment along their shared border in recent days as the Indian government considers whether to strike at Pakistan-based militant groups that officials here hold responsible for a recent attack on Parliament.
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A19180-2001Dec23.html

America will be attacked whenever the World Bank Group, the
Bilderberg Group, the Federal Reserve Corporation, their various
subsidiaries, and their henchmen in the CIA and Mossad decide we
should be attacked.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2149

Project Echelon is a multinational government venture between the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. The purpose is to be able to gather ALL information and process it via using computers, satellites, and all telecommunication equipment. France has tried to build their own system, and CHINA has one now. We can understand the reason why countries desire such a system...to protect their soveignity. Danny Casolaro found out that Project ECHELON was going private, and that a listening post, an underground base, was set up on the tiny Island of Dominica. The builders of such a system included the "OCTOPUS COMPANIES" plus the power Elite of the world. (See an earlier post about the Octopus companies.) In the new millenium, it is the direction of control of information that will rule the world...this is accomplished by the "NEW" Private (non USA) Echelon Project, and one of the KEY locations exist on the Island of Dominica.
 http://wine-storage.com/dominica.html

NEW YORK'S MAYOR Giuliani spoke by telephone this week to a right-wing rally here at which speakers called for the dissolution of the Palestinian Authority and several speakers urged the mass expulsion of Palestinians from Israel's occupied territories.
 http://www.webshells.com/adlwatch/news27.htm

As socialists, we argue that we should stop being the helpless victims in society, prey to the mercenary forces of the market, and instead get up off our knees.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2151

One of the first questions asked when discussing socialism is "who's going to clean the sewers?" This apparently simple question contains so many actual problems and mistaken ideas about not only socialism but our lives now that it is effectively unanswerable in that form. So let's look at the actual situation, of sewers and work in them.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2153

People do yearn for salvation, and never so strongly as at Christmas time. The hectic and desperate attempts to inject some meaning, sense, and humanity into his cold and materialistic existence that modern western man makes at this time every year, are sad to behold. He ought to break out his mold. Get his priorities straight. Choose Eros over Thanatos! Put feeling,
compassion etc. before materialism and not use Christmas as a sorry
replacement for correct action and sober reflection.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2154

Two Indian troopers of the Border Security Force were killed by Pakistani Rangers and a key commander of the Lashkar-i-Taiba was shot dead by Indian troops in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday as New Delhi said its forces were being kept on a very high alert although a war with Pakistan did not look imminent as of now.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/24/top2.htm

Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said on Sunday that New Delhi would decide on a "final response" to Pakistan after Christmas.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/24/top5.htm

President Pervez Musharraf said on Sunday his country and China enjoyed "total unanimity of views on all international affairs," and stressed the need for strengthening their trade ties.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/24/top7.htm

Afghanistan's new leader Hamid Karzai said on Sunday that the US forces would be welcome to stay in Afghanistan until all "terrorists" have been eliminated from the war-torn country.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/24/top10.htm

JAPAN's armed forces sank their first ship since the Second World War at the weekend, opening fire on a mystery vessel believed to be a North Korean spy ship. The Japanese Coast Guard yesterday recovered three bodies from the East China Sea, apparently crew members from the vessel with Korean letters on their lifejackets.
 http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=873&mode=thread&order=0

The haven all memes depend on reaching is the human mind, but a human mind is itself an artifact created when memes restructure a human brain in order to make it a better habitat for memes.
 http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=875&mode=thread&order=0

High School Sued For Not Having Enough Flags
 http://www.memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=876&mode=thread&order=0

The Bonn agreement consolidates the American control over Afghanistan
and lays the basis for uprooting Islam from it.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2163

Fort Detrick Mad Scientists Make Stronger Anthrax
 http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/custom/attack/bal-te.md.detrick23dec23.story?coll=bal%2Dlocal%2Dheadlines

Armando Perez, lawyer for the community of Tabaco in Colombia, has been released from detention at the office of the Fiscalia in Riohacha and is now under house arrest in his own home. No further action is requested for the moment. Many thanks to all who protested against his arbitrary imprisonment.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2165

Under cover of darkness, members of Congress let their third pay increase in four years go through.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2166

The Lashkar-i-Taiba, recently declared a terrorist organization by the United States, has shifted its offices from Pakistan to Jammu and Kashmir, rededicating itself to the liberation of Kashmir from Indian occupation.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/25/top6.htm

The spokesman for the US-led coalition on Monday indicated that Osama bin Laden might have been killed in the intense bombing of Tora Bora.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/25/top8.htm

President General Pervez Musharraf on Monday, announced certain incentives for Chinese businessmen inviting them to invest in Pakistan.
 http://www.dawn.com/2001/12/25/top14.htm

Anti-Taliban troops arrested Awal Gul, a top Afghan commander in eastern Afghanistan, for alleged ties to Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terrorist network, officials said Tuesday.
 http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/202201p-1964053c.html

Almost imperceptibly, medicine has taken on a saving, or messianic role, the characteristics of which we must examine. Looking back through history, there is a sense in which medicine can be said to have displayed characteristics that have at various times characterised the Roman Catholic Church: autocracy, centralization, the control and manipulation of people, censorship, propaganda, total obedience, infallibility, the destruction of heretics, the stamping out of individuality. All this, of course, has been done in the name of public health and the general good, just as the church acted for mankind’s salvation.
 http://www.continuummagazine.org/issue6_3/article3.html

We live within cultures in which victimhood is as natural as breathing, and has been so for hundreds of years. Hitler's hyperbole over German victimisation led to a world war. Palestinian victimhood today justifies murderous suicide bombers. Israelies might look like oppressors right now, but they hasten to remind themselves and the world that they too come from a holocaust victim heritage. It's all like some bizarre international league table of victimhood.
 http://www.eionews.addr.com/articles/victimhood.htm

Democrats began making plans Tuesday to fight President Bush's decision to prosecute suspected terrorists before secret military tribunals.
 http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/ap/20011127/us/military_tribunals_2.html

As many as 100,000 Afghan children could die from cold, hunger and disease within weeks if they do not receive vital aid, the U.N. Children's Fund said Monday.
 http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/180629p-1742525c.html

The downfall of Afghanistan's ruling Taliban and the rise of Northern Alliance forces have led to a resumption in opium cultivation in the country. The shift in control over the drug trade will alter trafficking patterns, bolstering the opium trade through Central Asia to Russia and increasing the quantity of heroin and morphine destined for Europe and the United States.
 http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=25511

Israeli authorities have confined Mr Arafat to Ramallah and have prevented the Palestinian leader, for the first time in seven years, from attending the Midnight Mass in Bethlehem.
 http://www.abc.net.au/news/2001/12/item20011225000414_1.htm

So, one fact is now apparent. If those who hijacked those airplanes were using stolen identities, then we don't know who they were or who they worked for. We can't. It's impossible.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2170

Should I say plainly, ‘I am not a Muslim’, occurred to me. It did not seem fair. In occupied Denmark of 1940, Germans ordered the Jews to wear the yellow Star of David. The king of Danes wore such a star as a sign of his solidarity with his Jewish subjects. Would I fail this test of common humanity and proclaim my non-Muslim kosher origin? It would feel like sacrificing a Muslim in my stead. I tried to compromise: ‘I do not read Koran a lot’, said I. The officer Gomez, a big dark man, did not relent. ‘But you read Koran?’ ‘Occasionally’, I tried again.
 http://www.israelshamir.net/maidens_warriors.htm

To make interstellar travel believable NASA was created. The Apollo
Space Program foisted the idea that man could travel to, and walk upon, the moon. Every Apollo mission was carefully rehearsed and then filmed in large sound stages at the Atomic Energy Commissions Top Secret test site in the Nevada Desert and in a secured and guarded sound stage at the Walt Disney Studios within which was a huge scale mock-up of the moon.
 http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/text/nasax.htm

Following are excerpts from the written statements to the Senate Commerce Committee of former employees of Enron, many of whom had worked for Pacific Gas & Electric (PGE) for over twenty years before that company was purchased by Enron in 1997. Excerpts are also taken from C.E. Andrews, Global Managing Partner, Assurance and Business Advisory, Andersen, Enron's accountant, Scott Cleland, CEO, Precursor Group, an independent research broker-dealer, and Professor John C. Coffee, Jr., Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University Law School, and Joseph Flom Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard University Law School.
 http://www.truthout.com/12.24A.Victims.Enron.htm

The Israeli government of Ariel Sharon and the present Israeli Defense Force command is the most significant asset of the Anglo-American faction pressing the "Clash of Civilizations" war-plan, as evidenced by Sharon's persistent efforts to provoke a new religious war in the Middle East against the Palestinian Authority and a range of other Arab targets.
 http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2001/2850megaspies_story.html

By forging passports and identity documents of Arab and western countries and providing sound background legends and cover, Mossad has successfully sent into Egypt and other Arab countries Israelis disguised and documented as Arabs or citizens of European countries. . . . These persons are also useful for their ability to pass completely for a citizen of the nation in question. The Israeli talent for counterfeiting or forging foreign passports and documents ably supports the agent’s authenticity.
 http://www.americanfreepress.net/12_16_01/9-11_Hijackers/9-11_hijackers.html

On 22 April, this website broke the news that Skull and Bones, the Yale secret society that claims both George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush as members, might be falsely claiming to be a public charity and not just a social club. Not just Skull and Bones, but at least seven other well-heeled Yale organizations also appear to be falsely claiming charitable status. Eight of the most exclusive organizations all have over $1 million in assets, all pay either no or very little income on their substantial annual earnings, and all claim tax-exempt status as charitable organizations contrary to guidance from the Internal Revenue Service. On most universities, fraternities and sororities engage in essentially the same activities, yet they qualify as social clubs and not as charities. Yale should not be in a class of its own, at least in the eyes of the IRS.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2172

U.S. officials insisted the convoy had opened fire on U.S. aircraft
just before it was bombed and had been carrying leaders of Osama bin
Laden's al Qaeda network.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2176

One ought to consider, in the first place, the matter of the timing of the Times’ editorial. Walker was arrested in Mazar-i-Sharif in early December. He was thereupon interrogated by CIA agents, an episode captured on videotape, during which he was taunted and threatened with death. Walker survived the subsequent massacre carried out by Northern Alliance and US forces at Jala-i-Qanghi prison, at one point standing in freezing water in a cellar for perhaps 20 hours. The video of his interview with CNN shows a young man filthy, wounded and seemingly half-dead.
 http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/dec2001/walk-d22.shtml

The first thing to realise is that history does not arrive at midnight, like a rabbit out of a magician's hat. History makes nothing, brings nothing, stands for nothing. History is social motion and the speed and texture of that motion is made by men and women. We make it out of the material environment that exists and in making it transform the material environment and our own existence. We make our own future; it does not arrive as hero or demon, but is the product of our own energy.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2173

A newspaper in Pakistan is reporting that Osama bin Laden has died from natural causes.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2179

Even as veteran observers of the Congressional appropriations process, we are shocked, and outraged, by the provision in the Defense Appropriations bill that would have the Air Force lease Boeing 767s at a price dramatically higher than the cost of direct purchase. We are writing to urge you to take to the floor to speak and vote against this specific siphoning of taxpayer money to the Boeing company.
 http://www.pogo.org/mici/c17/boeing.htm

The republic of Kazakhstan prepared a big surprise for Russia, despite the long friendship between the countries. The United States of America and the republic of Kazakhstan signed a contract on crude deliveries from this former Soviet country to the West. The new agreement was signed in Washington as a results of the negotiations between President George W.Bush and his Kazakhstan colleague, Narsultan Nazarbayev.
 http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/25/24430.html

Two other death sentences were handed down for non-violence crimes (as the Western media interpret it) at the end of the year within the framework of the Yan da (Strike Hard) campaign, which was started in China eight months ago.
 http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/25/24409.html

International terrorist number one, Osama bin Laden, died of a lung disease in one of the caves of the Afghan Tora Bora district. This was said by one of the leaders of the Taliban movement in an interview to the Pakistan Observer. According the report, Osama was suffering from a complication after a lung disease and died due to the absence of the requisite medical care. Osama bin Laden’s body, according to the source, was buried in his last shelter. One of the Talibs said that there were some 30 people close to Osama participating in the funeral ceremony, including his family members.
 http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/12/25/24395.html

In a frank admission of the illegitimacy of the Law on Indigenous
Rights and Culture, the Chiapas Secretary of Government, Emilio
Zebadua, called on the state congress to ignore the controversial law because its application in Chiapas would provoke conflicts and affect the social fabric of indigenous communities. "The Law on indigenous rights and culture does not satisfy the political needs, the demands for justice, the demands of an economic character, nor the cultural needs that are required by the indigenous communities of Chiapas," said Zebadua. The law was passed by the federal Congress and signed by President Fox, even though it was opposed by the Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) and almost every other indigenous organization in Mexico.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1zapatista/message/1448

Over the past several years, more than 650 illegal migrants have died trying to cross into Chiapas on their way to the U.S., a church
official said.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1zapatista/message/1449

Jorge Castañeda, Secretary of Foreign Affairs, shocked members of
Mexico's Senate Foreign Relations Committee when he admitted that the Mexican army joined the US army in joint military actions in
Colombia. The actions took place without the approval or knowledge
of the Senate committee.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1zapatista/message/1451

Federal officials said today that the man who tried to ignite explosives in his Nike sneakers on a flight from Paris to Miami on Saturday had no known address, and investigators in the United States and Europe struggled to determine his identity, nationality and motive.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/1zapatista/message/1468

Former Taliban ambassador to Islamabad Abdul Salam Zaeef on Sunday said he had applied for political asylum in Pakistan.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3529

Pat Robertson's resignation this month as president of the Christian Coalition confirmed the ascendance of a new leader of the religious right in America: George W. Bush.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Activist_List/message/3532

Israeli settlers continue to terrorize Palestinian civilians, attacking them in their homes, farmlands, and on main roads on a day-to-day basis. These attacks have included intentionally hit and run drives, shootings, beatings, burning farmland, uprooting trees, poisoning herds, and other forms of terror.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2234

For the last sixteen months my staff has suffered the humiliation of
Israeli checkpoints twice a day, once coming to work and once going
back home. Daily, I'm briefed of the horror stories, which
unfortunately have become part of our 'normal' life, about the events that take place at the checkpoints -- extended delays (at times 4-5 hours to travel what should take 20-30 minutes), shouting matches, walking through mud, climbing mountains, being refused entry, etc, etc, etc.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2242

A Peaceful Intervention - By Zbigniew Brzezinski
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2248

A peaceful demonstration, in which thousands of Palestinians and around 100 foreigners participated, was met with violence by Israelis when troops in tanks and armoured personnel carriers attacked them with tear gas and rubber bullets.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-News/message/2251

The riots in Argentina are serious. They are food riots. They required no agitation, no manufactured political awakening of the people, and no defining moment. Just hunger. When millions of people starve as food rots on the shelves of supermarkets and warehouses, direct action is no longer a tactic, but the answer to a question of mere survival.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anarchopunk/message/7126

"Israelis need to understand that they're not the 51st state, and they certainly don't want to be treated like America's stepchild. Continued economic assistance when they're doing quite well is demeaning." -- Representative (now speaker of the House) Bob Levigston at a press conference in Jerusalem as part of a congressional delegation to celebrate Israel's 50th birthday (Quoted in Ha'aretz 11/10/1998).
 http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/index_usint.html

A senior Pakistani army officer said on Monday continued border clashes with India could spark an uncontrollable flareup involving nuclear weapons.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/crimgov/message/8207

Mike Ruppert says DC is a ghost town. Cabbies fighting over fares.
Empty buses. He says the capital and the state building are sandbagged and armed. It feels more like they are preparing for a mass uprising than taking precautions against another terrorist attack. Congress is running scared. There are a few congresspeople who are trying to take a stand. Most are afraid and are hoping somebody else will do something. The FBI has divided internally into two camps. Those in charge and those who don't like what is happening and want to do something about it.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2181

A total of 41 prominent people from political and media circles - known for their blind support for Israel - signed an open letter demanding that President George Bush widen the scope of the war to include all Israel's enemies. In particular, they want to see the war machine directed against Iraq, Syria, Iran, Hizbollah and Libya, under the general heading of struggle against terrorism and the punishing of states providing shelter for terrorists.
 http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20011224170355937

History lesson number one: According to the 2001 Macmillan Encyclopedia, Semites are "A group of peoples, including the Jews and Arabs, said in the Bible to be descended from Shem, Noah's eldest son. The Babylonians, Assyrians, Canaanites, and Phoenicians were ancient Semitic peoples."
 http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20011222155656933

Claiming to lead the "only democracy" in the region, the Israeli government gives itself the right to "dismiss" the elected leader of the Palestinian people with the utmost of "chutzpah."
 http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20011219164423664

Mr. Qian Qichen, the Chinese Vice premier, announced on 21 December that his country stands firm in its position to support the rights of the Palestinian People.
 http://palestinechronicle.com/article.php?story=20011224171359973

Welcome to the Los Angeles Anarchist Collective. Our goal is to create a society in which individuals within our communities can freely co-operate together as equals, without a form of government. We oppose all forms of economic, political and social hierarchy.
 http://www.laanarchists.org/

When I am asked to become part of a large and violent body such as the Israeli army, I should ask in what activities this body is engaged and whom does it serve. My parents, teachers and peers might answer that the army of the state is necessary to preserve my own security and the security of the citizens of the State of Israel. I desire very much that there will be security for the citizens of Israel and for me.
 http://www.counterpunch.org/khilou.html

That Walker, 20, was found in the company of the Taliban, without more evidence, is not sufficient, as circumstantial evidence cannot serve as the basis for proving a treasonous act.
 http://www.counterpunch.org/cohnwalker.html

.....on page 15 of Newsweek, we see "smoking gun" Bin Laden writing with his right hand. We know from the FBI's own wanted poster that Bin Laden is LEFT HANDED!
 http://www.fpp.co.uk/Letters/Rightwing/Adepasc231201.html

Early in 1993, Bush the First appointees on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission voted to exempt energy traders such as the now collapsed Enron from anti-fraud regulations. Initiating this Enron- friendly ruling was Wendy Gramm, wife of Texas senator Phil Gramm. Shortly thereafter, Wendy Gramm joined the Enron board of directors.
 http://www.shout.net/~bigred/enrongate

"I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked off about so many things." (William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education)
 http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/meadows/big.htm

First, big is bad - the corollary of Schumacher's small is beautiful. The centralized state, particularly the mass-society state of the 20th century, is inherently a failure: it is authoritarian and anti-liberty, imposing checks and laws on all individual actions; it is hierarchical and arbitrary, with power at the top and subservience for the great majority below; it is bureaucratic in order to function at all, but it functions poorly nonetheless because bureaucracies are always inefficient and clumsy and self-perpetuating; it is undemocratic, because it is too big to allow direct face-to-face decision making and substitutes various forms of representation, all of which take power from the individual.
 http://members.aol.com/efssociety/kirkkey.html

The concept of individual liberty is simple: individuals should be free to do whatever they please as long as they don't harm others by using force or fraud. This is the basic ethical tenet or "golden rule" of all religions, one corrupted by layers of theology and ritual and centuries of kowtowing to political authority. Individual consent–not some nationalist, racial, religious, tribal or, ideological construct or “social contract”–is the only legitimate basis of any social, economic and political organization. However, supporting the idea and value of individual liberty is not enough to obtain liberty. We must support institutional structures that make it impossible for public or private entities to crush individual liberty.
 http://secession.net/

Peter Neumann, a senior computer scientist at SRI International and one of the leading authorities on computerized vote counting in the country, was similarly skeptical of precision vote-counting machinery. "The Vote-O-Matic is not accurate enough; there's hanging and floating chad and so on," he said. "But hand counting is substantially more accurate in reporting the true intent of the voters."
 http://notablesoftware.com/Press/Dugger1.html

Oldest Living Participatory Democracy on Earth
 http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/

Organic agriculture is an ecological production management system that promotes and enhances biodiversity, biological cycles and soil biological activity. It is based on minimal use of off-farm inputs and on management practices that restore, maintain and enhance ecological harmony. ‘Organic’ is a labeling term that denotes products produced under the authority of the Organic Foods Production Act. The principal guidelines for organic production are to use materials and practices that enhance the ecological balance of natural systems and that integrate the parts of the farming system into an ecological whole. Organic agriculture practices cannot ensure that products are completely free of residues; however, methods are used to minimize pollution from air, soil and water. Organic food handlers, processors and retailers adhere to standards that maintain the integrity of organic agriculture products. The primary goal of organic agriculture is to optimize the health and productivity of interdependent communities of soil life, plants, animals and people.
 http://ofrf.org/general/about_organic/index.html

The Monetary system of America is actually controlled by a private bank, The Federal Reserve Bank. The majority of its stock is owned by banks that are owned and controlled by a consortium of multinational bankers. These banks and The FED manipulate money supplies and the cost of money as well as its availability. This manipulation in this and other forms controls the destiny of the entire financial system of the United States and the entire World.
 http://kamron.com/economics/economics.htm

Indigenous peoples, undoubtedly, are the ones most adversely affected by globalization and by the WTO Agreements. However, we believe that it is also us who can offer viable alternatives to the dominant economic growth, export-oriented development model. Our sustainable lifestyles and cultures, traditional knowledge, cosmologies, spirituality, values of collectivity, reciprocity, respect and reverence for Mother Earth, are crucial in the search for a transformed society where justice, equity, and sustainability will prevail.
 http://ratical.org/co-globalize/index.html

Human survival depends on a community-based, people-centered alternative beyond the failed extremist ideologies of communism and capitalism. This alternative is already being created through the initiatives of millions of people around the world who are taking back control of their lives and communities to create places where people can live and grow in balance with the living earth. When Corporations Rule the World provides an agenda of national and global reforms by which we may reclaim our power to localize economies while globalizing consciousness.
 http://iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm

When the Exxon Valdez went aground in Prince William Sound in 1989, spilling millions of gallons of oil, it caused grievous environmental damage which will never be fully erased. But Exxon absolved itself of future responsibility with a $1 billion settlement. And because of the current tax laws, Exxon could deduct that settlement as a business expense, sticking taxpayers with $250 million of the cleanup.
 http://www.emagazine.com/march-april_1999/0399feat1.html

Both U.S. and international law recognize the rights of conscientious objectors to refuse military service. It follows, then, that if it is illegal to force individuals to kill, it should also be illegal to force individuals to pay for somebody else to kill.
 http://www.nonviolence.org/archivedsites/nacc/wtr-fly.htm

Cal-Earth is a research and educational institute supported as a non-profit, tax deductible foundation by professionals, the general public, and students. Its scope spans technical innovations published by NASA for lunar and martian construction to housing designs and development for the world's homeless for the United Nations.
 http://www.calearth.org/contribu.htm

When we are alone, we are all militias of one. When together with others in a situation requiring a defensive response, we have the duty to act together in concert to meet the challenge. Those two component duties, of individuals to defend the community, and to act together in concert with others present, when combined with a third component duty to prepare to do one's duty and not just wait until the danger is clear and present, comprises the militia duty.
 http://www.constitution.org/mil/cs_milit.htm


198 METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION
 http://secession.net/nv-action-methods.html

For ‘safety’ reasons, the federal government has decided not to bring the general public into the loop about how to prepare for a likely biological- or chemical-weapon attack....
 http://biotechbriefs.com/article1001.html

In the wake of September 11th, special interests have decided that the U.S. Treasury is their personal piggy-bank. And many members of Congress are going along with them, voting for unwarranted bailouts, unnecessary tax breaks and outright boondoggles.
 http://www.howdarethey.org/index2.htm

Sea Power & Associates will offer coastal economies the opportunity to tap into one of their greatest unused resources—ocean wave power—to meet growing energy needs at a lower cost than fossil fuels, avoiding both pollution and environmental hazards such as oil spills.
 http://seapower.cc/

Tree-Free Paper
 http://www.threemountainpapers.com

Two inescapable facts confronted Latin American pastors in the latter half of this 20th century: that most of their parishoners lived in grinding, abject poverty -- and that the Church represented the only viable community organization in their world. Out of this awareness came a new understanding of the very meaning of the Church's work. The movement that came to be called "Liberation Theology" began with the awareness that it is blasphemous to care for people's souls while ignoring their needs for food, shelter and human dignity. As Jesus participated in the suffering of the poor, and proclaimed to them the good news of justice and freedom, so must today's church engage in the struggle for justice in this world.
 http://www.landreform.org/

United States Code
 http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

It's a good question. A masturbatory question if we're just posturing. A necessary question if we ever hope to live peaceably on this planet. But make no mistake about it, a dangerous question if we're serious because it may demand everything we have and then, in the end, reveal us for who we truly are.
 http://futurenet.org/

Guns continued to boom with ferocity, killing at least 13 Pakistani soldiers and destroying 18 of their bunkers in Samba and Hira Nagar sectors along the International Border prompting the state government to put itself on high alert in the last 24 hours. Almost wartime level escalation on borders forced more people to flee their homes. Two more villages Mangoo Chak and Dullian in Hira Nagar belt were evacuated and their 1,000 odd residents shifted to Londi, a village close to the Jammu-Pathankote highway for safety reasons.
 http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/261201/dlnat01.asp

The “hostile actions” by the Chinese in Arunachal Pradesh and Sikkim is, according to strategic experts, part of a well-thought-out move to corner India on two fronts. China has also beefed up its presence in Myanmar’s Coco Islands on the Bay of Bengal and plans to move in two aircraft carriers that are under construction now to the area.
 http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/261201/dLNAT04.asp

Evidence is mounting that a man who allegedly attempted to blow up a trans-Atlantic flight was equipped with explosive devices so sophisticated that it is unlikely he was working alone.
 http://www.hindustantimes.com/nonfram/261201/dlfor11.asp

Down to Earth monitors and campaigns on the social and human implications of environmental issues in Indonesia. We aim to support civil society groups and provide an international voice at the levels of national governments, foreign companies, aid agencies and international funding institutions.
 http://www.gn.apc.org/dte/

There are over 150 million tribal people in the world, and almost all are persecuted relentlessly. Survival is currently working with around 80 tribes.
 http://survival-international.org/

The International Human Powered Vehicle Association is an association of national associations and organizations, dedicated to promoting improvement, innovation and creativity in the use of human power, especially in the design and development of human-powered vehicles.
 http://www.ihpva.org/

Yugoslavia's first year without former president Slobodan
Milosevic in power may be its last, as Montenegro's leaders remain firm in their call for independence from the rump Yugoslav Federation.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2205

Leo Crowley was a more covert CEO of IG Farbin, he was a relative of Aleister Crowley. Leo Crowley was also Alien Property Custodian and friends with Dulles. Crowley was in charge of a resolving the Cyanamid
problem with Farbin's Mexico and US trade to nazi Germany.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2207

Both India and Pakistan in recent days have deployed substantial combat forces to important strategic areas along their borders and with tension continuing to mount the Indian army has ordered residents in border villages to leave.The powerful Indian air force has moved more equipment to the frontier bases both to bring units based there up to full war strength and to further reinforce them with more Fighter units from Central and Eastern Commands. Indian defence ministry officials pointedly say that they are only responding to a massive troop build-up by Pakistan.
 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/agentsmiley/message/2206