JEAN HUDON
CLIMATEGATE
MIKE QUINSEY
FLU UPDATE
11-28-09
Hello everysoul!
I just don't know where to begin with as far as introducing
this 152 pages compilation as there is just so much in it. There are an
interesting thoughts following a critical comment about Mike Quinsey's
channeling work. There is a new inspiring message from Matthew and more from
Hatonn on the announced official disclosure of outer space civilizations'
existence, something which would definitely be a major game-changing event.
There are news about the fragility of the world economy. There is lots of
stuff about what has been billed the 'Climategate' as well as the
upcoming Copenhagen efforts to mitigate the unfolding disaster - if
one believes there is one indeed. There is - inevitably - another update on
the Swine Flu Scam and the mounting concerns over a mutant virus now
manifesting itself in many new locations. There are many inspiring videos and
initiatives to discover, as well as a smorgasborg of various others news. In
short, there is plenty to keep you busy for a while, just as I've been while
reviewing and compiling all this material for you. And as usual, you'll find
the "NOTE from Jean" blurbs interspersed throughout this compilation
Thank YOU for staying aboard for this incredible journey
into our co-created future.
Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
NOTE: A new Meditation Focus will be issued this Saturday
evening.
STATS for this compilation: over 55,000 words and 280 links
provided.
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THE QUOTES
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but
the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he
who conquers that fear."
- Nelson Mandela -- More quotes from him through this
LINK such as "It always seems
impossible until its done."
"We will tell you that your future is in the higher
dimensions, and that is where your true home is amongst the stars. In us you
will see yourselves, and we will encourage you to emulate what we do in
service to you. It is a most enjoyable and rewarding existence, which even for
us is increasing our level of consciousness. You will find that you never stop
learning, and every permutation of whatever you could think exists is there in
reality. There are millions upon millions of planets, and all are at some
dimensional level that supports intelligent life forms. Many will be non-human
but they are nevertheless just like you, born of the Source that you know as
the Creator. Wonders never cease to astound us, and life is astonishing
inasmuch it can be found to exist in the most unusual circumstances, but as
you are aware not all are like your Earth conditions. This is evident in your
own solar system, where there is a vast difference in other planetary
conditions compared to yours."
"What the darkness had not reckoned with was your
reawakening and reclaiming your god and goddess powers that let you shake
loose from its control. This triumph for you is doom for the darkness, but
even with all the evidence that their end is inevitable, the puppets of the
dark forces will not accept defeat as long as they can arouse fear and panic.
We know that many enlightened souls often ponder how best to serve the light.
We say, hold your light steady and send forth beams of unconditional love to
Earth-the energy of love, which is the same energy as light expressed
differently, is far more powerful than the energy of fear! We understand that
when you see your world in turmoil with so many enduring sorrow, hunger,
disease and poverty-and those are the focus of news reports-it is difficult to
always see the love, beauty and goodness that is even more prevalent in your
world. It always is surrounding you in abundance, much of it unseen with your
eyes, but so close to you in spirit. When headlines "are too much with you,"
visualize the world of peace and love that you know awaits in your timing and
already is manifested in universal timing. Allow feelings of joy and love to
flow into and from your heart-love is inestimable in its capacity to uplift
you and all who are around you, and this energy is so powerful that it
radiates into distant lands. (...) Evolving from third density into fourth
does not happen simply because you're on the planet and the planet is
ascending. Your evolution comes with heeding conscience and intuition and the
other wisdom your soul is giving to guide you in alignment with your contract.
It comes with self-introspection, acting with honor, respecting all of
Nature's life forms, discerning truth from falsity, emulating but not copying
persons whom you greatly respect, and not judging others. It comes with
recognizing and feeling grateful for the blessings in your life, with
forgiving yourself and others for perceived injustices. It comes with living
from your heart, the seat of your soul. Never are you alone in your journey
of self-discovery and evolution! Always the infinite arms of God-angels,
spirit guides and free spirits, beloved souls in Nirvana, souls from
spiritually advanced civilizations, and the energy of Christ consciousness
manifested as love and light and unsurpassed in its powers-are with you."
- Matthew - Taken from his
latest message below which is one of
his most important ones in many years. Also included is an important
confirmation by intergalactic fleet commander Hatonn about preparations for a
globally televised program that will present evidence of extraterrestrial
civilizations.
"We recognize that both the shadow and the light are
valuable parts of the divine unfolding. We understand that the outer reflects
the inner, that somehow we are all responsible for everything that happens in
our lives and world. Together, as we lift the veils of illusion for ourselves
and those around us, we are playing key roles in transforming our lives and
world to a place filled with ever more love and joy. We want to expand our
awareness and capacity to love. We want to transform the shadows outside and
within us. And we want to invite others to join us in this exciting
transformation. When we truly treat all people as manifestations of the divine
-- even the power elite of the world -- I know that transformation and
miracles will blossom even more than they are now. I invite you to join me in
being a powerful call and reminder to those around you that we are all in this
together. I invite you to join me in building bridges which bring us all
together. Let us work together helping any and all who are ready to see that
we are all one family, one divine being exploring itself through countless
sets of eyes. To any and all, we invite you to join in the glorious flow and
dance of those of us who are consciously joining our energies in service of
all of us and all beings. When we come together in groups around this shared
intention, magic and miracles abound!!!"
- Fred Burks (fredburks@gmail.com) -
http://www.peerservice.org/ -- Excerpted from his November 27 message of
thanksgiving and invitation to power up
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CONTENTS
1. Quantum message
2. Comment on Mike Quinsey
3. Matthew and Hatonn November 19 message
4. What Obama Is Up Against
5. The bankruptcy of the
United States is now certain
6. No Logo Turns Ten, A New Movement Brewing
+ Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up + MOBILIZE! -
NOVEMBER 30, 2009 + Climate Rage
7. Global temperatures 'could rise 6C'
8. Climate 'tipping points' near
9. Climategate Exposes the Alarmist Machine
10. Cooking the climate change books
11. The Road to Copenhagen part III: A "Planetary
Regime" in the Making
12. China unveils carbon target for Copenhagen deal
13. Unhappy Thanksgiving
14. Our Evolving Solar System: Plasma, Polar Reversals,
and 2012
15. Global Initiation and Multiple Dimensions
16. France Finds Monsanto Guilty of Lying
17. Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not in a Coma-23 Years
Later
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WORTHY OF YOUR ATTENTION
Ancient Human Metropolis Found in Africa - ABSOLUTELY
STUNNING DISCOVERY - TAKE A LOOK!!
They have always been there. People noticed them before.
But no one could remember who made them -- or why? Until just recently, no one
even knew how many there were. Now they are everywhere -- thousands -- no,
hundreds of thousands of them! And the story they tell is the most important
story of humanity. But it's one we might not be prepared to hear. Something
amazing has been discovered in an area of South Africa, about 150 miles
inland, west of the port of Maputo. It is the remains of a huge metropolis
that measures, in conservative estimates, about 1500 square miles. It's part
of an even larger community that is about 10,000 square miles and appears to
have been constructed -- are you ready -- from 160,000 to 200,000 BCE! The
image [top of page] is a close-up view of just a few hundred meters of the
landscape taken from google-earth. The region is somewhat remote and the
"circles" have often been encountered by local farmers who assumed they were
made by some indigenous people in the past. But, oddly, no one ever bothered
to inquire about who could have made them or how old they were. (...) These
circular ruins are spread over a huge area. They can only truly be appreciated
from the air or through modern satellite images. Many of them have almost
completely eroded or have been covered by the movement of soil from farming
and the weather. Some have survived well enough to reveal their great size
[see above] with some original walls standing almost 5 feet high and over a
meter wide in places. Looking at the entire metropolis, it becomes obvious
that this was a well planned community, developed by a highly evolved
civilization. The number of ancient gold mines suggests the reason for the
community being in this location. We find roads -- some extending a hundred
miles -- that connected the community and terraced agriculture, closely
resembling those found in the Inca settlements in Peru. CLIP MAKE SURE TO
CONTINUE IN
Dating the site -
Who made the metropolis? Why? -
The origin of modern humans AND CHECK THIS FASCINATING, MUST
WATCH VIDEO
Adam's Calendar Michael Tellinger, author of "Slave
Species of god" talks about the discovery of the oldest man-made structure
on Earth, around 75,000 years old. A new book by Johan Heine and Michael
Tellinger outlines the events that led to this discovery in South Africa by
explorer/pilot Johan Heine. AND THEN AS A COMPLEMENT WATCH
Pyramids of China Ancient pyramids of China on Google Earth; the first is
over 300 meters in length - which are explained in
this WIKIPEDIA entry. CHECK ALSO THE SIMILAR VIDEOS. FINALLY read
The World's Top 50 Mysterious Places an article about 50 mysterious
places, including the tomb of the 1st Emperor.
Practice Aloha
Dr. Elizabeth Lindsey explains the Hawaiian meaning of
Aloha. Many short and enlightening Aloha stories are featured at
http://www.practicealoha.org/articles.php?content=articles
such as this one from Piero Resta: "Aloha is the welcoming of breath; wishing
our friends to partake in the gift of life. Breathing into each other, sharing
a precious moment of personal attention where nothing else exists but the
sharing." Recommended by Robert Stone (stoneman@maui.netp) who wanted to
"share a wonderful video about Aloha - the Hawaiian practice of Love, Sharing,
Making things right (Pono)." You can listen to this inspiring song - starting
right after the invocation by Clifford Nae'ole - at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bo7ddBRqrn4
10 Days to Touch 10 Million
Every 40 seconds another person commits suicide - you
never know who in your life is in pain, and this will reach them at just the
right time. The World Needs You!
Wisdom of the World - sample (11 November 2009)
It is a new concept in media, combining: Authentic
Spoken Wisdom Inspiring Music and Compelling Images
ONE person can make a difference...what are YOU waiting
for?
We become architects of eternity when we live the
present moment well-- using unselfish hands to share lasting values and to
create timeless memories. Some of life's most enduring and inspiring gifts
will forever bless the lives of others if we will simply remember to pass them
on. It's as easy as giving a hug, a smile, a helping hand. YOU can make a
difference... what are you waiting for?
Great Awakening II - THE SHIFT
2012 and the grand alignment continues. What does this mean
to us in our every day life? This video touches on this question of what we
can do to prepare ourselves for this cosmic event that is unfolding. Sharing
Hopi wisdom and using imagery and music to set the tone for our awakening.
Let's dance ourselves awake!!
Green
Her name is Green. She is alone in a world that doesn't
belong to her. She is a female orangutan, victim of deforestation and resource
exploitation. This film is an emotional journey with Green's final days. It is
a visual ride presenting the treasures of rainforest biodiversity and the
devastating impacts of logging and land clearing for palm oil plantations.
Recommended by Suzanne Ingleton (susoulo@bigpond.com) who wrote: "May I draw
attention to this amazing film, 'GREEN', a free download [-bless the internet]
from a French documentary film maker. Watch, weep and change your life. Note
from Jean: It is nearly impossible to remain unmoved while watching this
visually compelling plea for action to put a stop to the wholesale slaughter
of nature and millions of uniquely precious lifeforms that unrelentingly goes
on around the world while our complacent, greed driven civilization pursues
its headlong rush towards global ecoblivion. It is doubtful that political
leaders who will soon gather in Copenhagen to try to tackle the global warming
crisis (in large part due to human carelessness) will be in any way aware of
the stunning loss of so much natural grace and beauty. Please do whatever you
can to bring this awareness to others through encouraging them to watch this
video and hold the vision that soon this foolish destruction will come to an
end and global environmental regeneration will be allowed to begin. -- If you
read through the long, long, very long list (at
http://www.greenthefilm.com/) under DEFORESTATION OF
INDONESIA IS MADE POSSIBLE BY THE COMPANIES BEHIND THE WOOD INDUSTRY, you will
see it ends with "AND OUR PASSIVITY"... Check also
33rd International Wildlife Film Festival
- Media & the Message: Wildlife Filmmaking in the 21st Century - May 8-15,
2010
NO MORE FAL$E $OLUTION$ - CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! Climate
Change Convention meets in Copenhagen
VERY COMPREHENSIVE! From the World Rainforest Movement Check
also their
November newsletter (to be archived soon) - especially Greenwashing the
green desert in Copenhagen: It seems increasingly likely that no binding deal
will come out of Copenhagen and that the North will attempt to scrap the Kyoto
Protocol. It also seems likely that some sort of deal will be pushed through
on reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD). There
is a serious danger that REDD will act as greenwash for the North's failure to
reduce emissions dramatically. REDD could generate a massive land grab, it
could pour money into some of the most corrupt governments and forestry
ministries in the world, it could trample on indigenous peoples' and local
communities' rights, it could accelerate conversion of forests to plantations
and it could create a massive loophole allowing pollution in the North to
continue. All the while allowing deforestation to continue. But with or
without a REDD deal, the UN climate negotiations have already caused serious
problems for people and forests, through the Clean Development Mechanism's
support of industrial tree plantations. "CDM fraud at its worst," as WRM
described it in August 2009. CLIP
"Farmed Salmon Exposed" - Intro/Excerpt (4 November 2009)
Farmed Salmon Cause Wild Fish Decline
This is an excerpt from a new film by Canadian documentarian
Damien Gillis that visually portrays the damage caused by open-net salmon
farms to marine ecosystems worldwide. The film features firsthand accounts of
the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural problems linked to global salmon
farms. FIND OUT MORE AND
TAKE ACTION THROUGH
http://farmedsalmonexposed.org/ "Currently, it takes the equivalent of
five pounds of fish from the world's oceans to make one pound of farmed
salmon. This is unacceptable! Salmon can be farmed safely and with minimal
ecological damage, if the industry adopts standards that protect the
environment, consumers and local communities."
A Jane Goodall Thanksgiving (26 November 2009)
(...) In 1986, after two and a half decades of quiet
research in the African forest, Goodall's career took a dramatic turn at a
conference of scientists studying chimpanzees. During a session on
conservation, she said that it was "shocking" to learn that across Africa,
because of deforestation, the explosion of human population and commercial
hunting of animals for food, the chimpanzee population had "plummeted from
somewhere between one and two million at the turn of the last century to, at
that time, about 400,000. So I came out - I couldn't go back to that old,
beautiful, wonderful life."She now spends more than 300 days out of the year
traveling, speaking out, rallying people to see ourselves as caretakers of the
natural world, and inspiring us with word that all is not yet lost. Her Jane
Goodall Institute works ceaselessly for the worldwide protection of habitat,
and her program "Roots and Shoots" now has chapters in 114 countries, working
to make young people more environmentally aware. "I could kill myself trying
to save chimps and forests," she said to Bill Moyers. "But if we're not
raising new generations to be better stewards than we've been, then we might
as well give up."The worldwide chimp population is down to fewer than 300,000
now, spread across isolated fragments of forest, Goodall says, in 21 African
nations. Moyers asked, what do we lose if the last chimp goes? "We lose one
window into learning about our long course of evolution," she replied."I've
spent so long looking into these minds that are fascinating, because they're
so like us. And yet they're in another world. And I think the magic is, I will
never know what they're thinking ... And so, it's like elephants and gorillas,
and all the different animals that we are pushing toward extinction ...
There's a saying, 'We haven't inherited this planet from our parents, we've
borrowed it from our children.' When you borrow, you plan to pay back. We've
been stealing and stealing and stealing. And it's about time we got together
and started paying back." That's as good a Thanksgiving wish as I can imagine.
Kevin Richardson - The Lion Whisperer
Kevin Richardson, zoologist and animal behaviouralist,
raises and trains some of the most dangerous animals known to man. To do this
he does not use the common methods of breaking the animal's spirit with sticks
and chains, instead he uses love, understanding and trust. With this unusual
method of training he has developed some exceptionally personal bonds with his
students. He sleeps with lions, cuddles newborn hyenas, swims with lionesses.
Kevin can confidently look into their eyes, crouch to the their level and even
lie down with them - all taboos in the normal world of wild animal handling -
yet he has never been mauled or attacked. Some call him crazy; others shake
their heads at his unique method of interacting with the animals. And Kevin's
secret - get to know the particular personality of each animal, what makes
them angry, happy, upset, irritated - just like a mother with a child.
Italian MEP on Bilderberg and Trilateral nominations for
EU President and foreign minister
Mario Borghezio, Lega Nord (ITALY), Member of the
European Parliament with the group 'Europe of Freedom and Democracy',
questions the nominations of Bilderberg and Trilateral attendees for the posts
of EU President and EU foreign minister.
Croatian Sea Organ
Research confirms that drinking gives you the same
benefits yoga does - HILARIOUS
Bulgarian Academy Scientists Reported to Be in Touch
with Aliens
(...) The Bulgarian Novinar Daily has reported that the
Bulgarian scientists are currently working on deciphering pictograms which are
said to have come in the form of the so called "crop circles" with which the
aliens answered 30 questions posed by the BAS researchers. "They are currently
all around us, and are watching us all the time. They are not hostile towards
us; rather, they want to help us but we have not grown enough in order to
establish direct contact with them. They are ready to help us but we don't
know what to request from them in case of contact,” said Lachezar Filipov,
Deputy Director of the Space Research Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of
Sciences, as quoted by the Novinar Daily. Filipov has said that even the
Vatican had agreed that aliens existed. In his words, the humans are not going
to be able to establish contact with the extraterrestrials through radio waves
but through the power of thought. He has stated that the human race was
certainly going to have direct contact with the aliens in the next 10-15
years. CLIP
Huge UFO Close Up with Sonic Booms
Arizona governor admits on CNN seeing the famous Phoenix
UFO
Mothership Causing Blackout in Argentina? (11-27-9)
(...) This morning we received an urgent call from Tony,
saying that the transit of a "flying cigar" overhead with flashing
intermittent lights and a red beacon on its structure, had caused an enormous
BLACKOUT in the town of Joaquin V. Gonzalez, where he lives, as well as in
adjacent communities, some 20 minutes after having appeared. Practically the
entire department of Anta had "collapsed" as far as its power grid was
concerned. CLIP Check also
Argentina - Giant UFO Causes Huge Commotion
Ufo Landing - Amateur Close Up Video ;-)
Crop Circles - Crossover From Another Dimension - cd1
pt. 1 of 2 Awesome videos on crop circles
Discover the hidden secrets of a timeless mystery in
this award winning film about the greatest Crop Circle formations ever
created. The creators of these paranormal formations still remain a mystery.
After years of painstaking research, scientific evidence still points to alien
influences that are responsible for this phenomena. One thing is certain, what
you are about to see in this amazing film can only be described as miraculous
evidence of a secret art form that continues to defy explanation.Includes
spectacular cinematography of the latest, greatest and most up to date Crop
Circles and a fascinating series of spellbinding interviews with researchers,
experiencers, and the best known, most credible Crop Circle authorities in the
world today. Packed with bonus features, expert analyses and an exclusive
cinematic archive of the latest and greatest Crop Circle formations ever
captured on film.
Scholars Suggest ET-Like DNA Fractals Floating in Human
Gene Pool
The Secret Political Reach of 'The Family"--Audio
Interview of Jeff Sharlet, author of
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power -
Very disturbing details of this demented and powerful fundamentalist religious
organization's grip on American (and international) politics. These admirers
of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao believe Jesus's message was not of love, but of
power and that power is to be dispensed by God-appointed elites. They preach
the "totalitarianism of Christ". Many prominent US politicians are their
devotees. Even the Christian right magazine, "The World", has exposed them. A
most comprehensive look into the influence Evangelicals have in the corporate
and political halls of power.
Make a Wish for 2010
IKEA Commercial - Time to leave home
Challenging Bush-Bama on 9/11
The Iraq War? Swine Flu? Katrina? The Bush-Bama
administration doesn't seem interested in investigating any of them. Charlie
Sheen is keeping up the pressure on what may be the biggest lie and an era of
epic lying: 9/11
UN calls for the ending of violence against women - 25 Nov
09 (Al Jazeera's 7 min report)
Ban Ki-Moon, the secretargy general of the United Nations,
has called on men and boys around the world to help end violence against
women. To mark the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the
Elimination of Violence against Women, Ban Ki -Moon unveiled a newly created
network of men to execute his plan. He wants prominent male leaders to act as
role models, to get more men to condemn violence against women. The UN also
revealed figures from South Africa which say that a woman is killed every six
hours by her husband or partner. In India, at least 22 women were killed every
day over arguments about wedding dowries in 2007. Afghanistan is one of the
most dangerous places to be a woman, almost 90 percent are believed to suffer
from domestic abuse. And in Jordan, the UN says 43 per cent of women are
victims of abuse. Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh met some of them. Also
providing her views on the issue was Hibaaq Osman, the chairwoman of Karama, a
women's rights organisation based in Cairo, the Egyptian capital. Osman says
the reason women have become victims of such abuse is due to their role in the
family, which has remained a private issue most especially in Arab world. MORE
RELATED NEWS REPORTS THROUGH
THIS LINK
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SWINE FLU SCAM UPDATE
CONTENTS
1. Jon Rappoport Interviews a Retired Vaccine Researcher
2. Vaccine-Induced Disease
Epidemic Outbreaks
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OTHER RELATED NEWS AND DEVELOPMENTS
Major Victory with Swine Flu Scandal (November 19 2009)
European scientists and health authorities are facing
angry questions about why H1N1 flu has not caused death and destruction on the
scale first feared, and they need to respond deftly to ensure public support.
Accusations are flying in British and French media that the pandemic has been
"hyped" by medical researchers to further their own cause, boost research
grants and line the pockets of drug companies. Britain's Independent newspaper
this week asked "Pandemic? What Pandemic?" France's Le Parisien newspaper ran
the headline: "Swine flu: why the French distrust the vaccine" and noted a gap
between the predicted impact of H1N1 and the less dramatic reality."Although
some 30-odd people have died....the disease is not really frightening," it
said. "Dangerous liaisons between certain experts, the labs and the
government, the obscurity of the contracts between the state and the pharma
firms have added to the doubt." In response, scientists are walking a fine
line. They say that although the virus is mild, it can still kill, and that
the relatively low fatalities in Europe are in part, the result of official
response to their advice. However, in Britain, health authorities' original
worst-case scenario -- which said as many as 65,000 could die from H1N1 -- has
twice been revised down and the prediction is now for around 1,000 deaths, way
below the average annual toll of 4,000 to 8,000 deaths from seasonal winter
flu. - SOURCE:
Swine flu skepticism demands deft response
(Nov 12, 2009) Dr. Mercola's Comments: There is plenty to be optimistic about
as it seems the tide may be slowly turning on this swine flu debacle, showing
it for the hoax it really is. European scientists are now demanding answers to
the growing inconsistencies.And, while many so-called scientific experts have
criticized me and others who have spoken out about this senseless
mass-vaccination campaign, more of the scientific community is now coming to
the same conclusions we've been talking about for months.It looks as though
the swine flu pandemic of 2009 will go down as one of the biggest government
and pharmaceutical scams ever, renewing a healthy, and necessary, skepticism
about the swine flu vaccine and the dubious dealings behind the implementation
of worldwide mass-vaccination programs. On the upside, it has also created a
more open debate about vaccinations in general.The childhood vaccination
schedule is in dire need of an overhaul, and the swine flu hysteria has
actually opened many people's eyes to the unhealthy practices behind our
vaccine policies. The public is finally starting to wonder and question, en
masse, what's being injected into them and their children. Prominent Doctor
and Health Minister Blast Swine Flu Vaccine and Manufacturers - These healthy
signs are starting to crop up everywhere. CLIP
(...) More and more people are waking up to the fact that
the mainstream media is being used as an instrument by corporations to drive
them to actions that are not in their own interests but in the interests of
those corporations. Making the jabs compulsory in Germany would meet with huge
resistance according to a recent poll by Bild. 90 % of Germans are against
forced swine flu jabs.
Medical Doctor Retracts H1N1 Vaccine Advice After
Reading Insert! (13 November 2009)
Swine Flu Vaccine - Adverse Reactions Roll In Toronto -
From Wednesday's Globe and Mail
B.C. sees spike in severe reactions to flu shot - As
Canadian health officials assured the public that the pandemic H1N1 vaccine is
as safe as the seasonal flu shot, at least one province is reporting almost
double the rate of severe allergic reactions. CLIP
Swine Flu RECALL: H1N1 Vaccine Pulled In Canada
(11/24/09)
LONDON - Canadian doctors have been advised not to use a
batch of 170,000 swine flu vaccines after six reports of serious allergic
reactions among recipients, but there are no similar reports from other
countries, pharmaceuticals company GlaxoSmithKline PLC said
Tuesday.Authorities routinely monitor vaccines for any signals of problems,
such as the allergic reactions that do occur, rarely, every year. Company
spokeswoman Gwenan White said that GlaxoSmithKline advised medical staff in
Canada ast week to refrain from using one batch of the vaccine while they look
into reports that that it might have caused more allergic reactions than
normal.
Canada: The Killer H1N1 Vaccine (November 20, 2009)
Whereas health officials are pushing for an acceleration
of the vaccination program, there is evidence of so-called "unusual adverse
reactions" including three recently recorded deaths directly resulting from
the vaccine.In the meantime, health authorities have called for the withdrawal
of 170,000 (higher risk) doses of the vaccine produced by GlaxoSmithKline. The
initiative, of which the importance is being downplayed, is said to have come
from the manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline, which expressed concern on higher than
normal adverse reactions to the vaccine. CLIP
ARE 'WHO' ADVISERS BEING PAID BY THE VACCINE COMPANIES?
(26 Nov 2009) 3 min 40 sec
World Health Organization 'Manufactured' The Global
Swine Flu Scare - Suspected Of Corruption (November 26, 2009)
The Swine Flu Pandemic which Novye Izvestija has written
about many times, may be the most ambitious scam and corruption of our time.
In any case, the enormous commercial aspect of the "swine flu scare" is
already evident. The same conclusion was reached by Danish journalists who
expertly examined the links between the World Health Organization (WHO) and
the world's leading pharmaceutical companies, who gained wealth by selling
drugs to counter the disease. It turns out, for example, that many scientists
who sit on various committees of WHO, carefully concealed the fact that they
receive money from the giant pharmaceutical companies of the world. (...) "It
is disturbing that many of the scientists who sit on various committees of
WHO, are presented as 'independent experts', but they carefully conceal the
fact that they receive money from pharmaceutical companies", Professor of
epidemiology, Tom Jefferson, who works at the Cochrane Center in Rome, told
reporters. WHO announced the swine flu pandemic under pressure from a panel of
advisers, headed by a Dutch doctor, Albert Ostenhaus, nicknamed 'Dr. Flu'
(from the name 'Tamiflu') because he was active in promoting mass vaccination
of the population through WHO and the Western media. Now the government of the
Netherlands is conducting an emergency investigation into the activities of
'Doctor Flu', as it became known that he receives a salary from several
vaccine manufacturing companies. Many other WHO advisers sit 'on two chairs'
(conflict of interest) like Ostenhaus, and while dealing with the swine flu
pandemic on behalf of WHO, they do not like to advertise that they are paid
advisers to pharmaceutical giants Roche, RW Johnson, SmithKline and Beecham
Glaxo Wellcome, who have received the lion's share of orders for manufacturing
of vaccines. The result of pressure from these experts was the resolution of
WHO on 7th July this year, which called for an unprecedented campaign of mass
vaccination. "The WHO is biased in their recommendations - says Professor Tom
Jefferson. - Normal hygiene measures provide much greater effect than these
little-studied vaccines, and at the same time WHO refers to the use of masks
and hand-washing as a means to combat swine flu only twice in their documents.
Vaccines and other medications are referred to 42 times!" Dr. Jefferson and
several of his colleagues believe that paid advisers of the pharmaceutical
companies should be removed from their positions and not allowed to give
recommendations to the WHO, but the organization itself is in no hurry to
carry out such a reform. WHO spokesperson, Gregory Hertl, commenting on the
article in 'Information' (Danish newspaper) said it is impossible to deny the
services of the world's leading experts on the sole ground that they have a
financial interest in the promotion of a strategy to combat various diseases.
It should be noted that this is not the first year that 'scope for corruption'
in pharmacology has been the focus of the Western media. The New England
Journal of Medicine published 'The Whistleblower' several years ago. In a
series of articles the Whistleblower showed the inside life of the 'medical
mafia'. According to them, only 11-14% of pharmaceutical companies budgets are
spent on research, but 36% of funds are spent on PR. Much of the money ends up
in the pockets of doctors, scientists, and the accounts of various
organizations working in health care.
New reports from Iowa and North Carolina are raising
concerns that the deadly H1N1 swine flu mutations that have been confirmed by
the WHO in Ukraine, Norway and elsewhere have already reached the United
States. In Iowa, a report that doctors are seeing "very heavy, wet
hemorrhagic lungs, lungs with a lot of blood in them" in H1N1 patients is
creating concerns among health experts that the deadly Ukraine H1N1 has
already spread there. In addition, a report of Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 swine
flu in North Carolina is raising questions about the ability of medical
authorities to combat H1N1 if thousands of people do start dying. If deadly
H1N1 swine flu mutations have already reached the United States, what does
that mean? Doctors in Ukraine have been reporting that victims of H1N1 there
are experiencing violent hemorrhaging in their lungs. As the patients near
death, their lungs reportedly become as "black as charcoal" and literally
begin to disintegrate. Will this start happening soon inside the U.S.? (...)
Meanwhile the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention has announced
that swine flu deaths in Europe are doubling every two weeks. Swine flu deaths
in Europe are doubling every two weeks?Perhaps the mainstream media should
start paying attention to this. Posted below is one of the very few mainstream
media video reports we have about the "black lung" flu that is ravaging
UkraineŠ.. CLIP
Ukraine Black Lungs: Fears unknown flu-strain to spread
(17 November 2009)
There are fears that H1N1 has now mutated and resembles
the Spanish flu virus that killed more than 50 million people at the beginning
of the 20th century. Ukrainian doctors say the victims lungs are as black as
charcoal. This prompts fresh concern that the swine flu virus has taken a
deadly new form.
NIH Whistleblower Alexander S. Jones: Deadly Flu Spreads
Across Ukraine (November 18, 2009)
Alexander S. Jones is a former genetic analyst with the
National Institute for Health (NIH) and has been a member of Dr. Bill Deagle's
research team for many months. (...) I am not fond of the World Health
Organization. In my opinion, it is a tool of corrupt billionaire international
financiers with which to achieve their dark global geopolitical objectives in
the area of public health. These objectives are rarely in the public interest.
We could spend paragraphs discussing deep corruption at WHO. One important
point to remember is their obvious complicity and criminal cover-up regarding
MMR vaccine contamination with Avian Leukosis Virus (ALV) , which may induce
cancer.The point here regarding WHO and the potential outbreak Ukraine is
several:-WHO has yet to release the gene sequences of the Ukrainian flu,
despite possessing them for almost two weeks. They have also had a "team" on
the ground in Lviv for a similar period of time. Where are the flipping gene
sequences? The WHO has claimed there are no "big" mutations in the flu strain
(apparently ruling out a viral reassortant), but has so far refused to release
the Ukrainian flu gene sequences to the Internet community for analysis. This
is reprehensible. What are these people doing? The world could know very
quickly what we were dealing with if this genetic data was published, but
instead it's being kept secret for whatever ulterior motives the WHO is
operating under.-WHO issued a press release on Friday which contained the
following astonishing quote, bordering on deception."Because of a sharp rise
in pandemic influenza cases one week ago in Ukraine, the Ministry of Health
requested assistance from WHO European Regional Office to evaluate and
respond. The initial analysis of information indicates that the numbers of
severe cases do not appear to be excessive when compared to the experience of
other countries and do not represent any change in the transmission or
virulence of the virus."Okay, let's see: Ukraine asked WHO to respond. WHO
sent a team to Lviv. So far so good, despite the missing gene sequences. Now
wait, what? The WHO publishes their all-star analysisŠ "The number of severe
cases do not appear to be excessive"? Are you kidding me? Please explain how
75,000 hospitalizations in two weeks is not 'excessive'? And how all the
pharmacies sold out of antivirals? And how Ukraine is under de-facto martial
law? And that Yushenko gave a prime-time speech more or less threatening
political dissidents if they don't follow government orders? Or that school in
Ukraine is canceled for three weeks? Half the country under quarantine?
Hospitals seeing a surge of viral pneumonia patients? What gives? Are these
people at WHO retarded or are they criminals?Oh and of course the gem of this
press release by WHO: That "[ the numbers of severe cases ] do not represent
any change in the transmission or virulence of the virus." Hahahaa! You are
going to tell me that Ukraine went from two cases to 1.3 million cases in 14
days , and that doesn't represent any change in transmission? Is this supposed
to be a joke? These pharmaceutical crooks damn well better explain themselves
if you are going to make claims so obviously contrary to reality. Does the WHO
contend the Ukrainian government just pulling these figures out of the air?
What of the case reports of rapidly deteriorating viral pneumonia in Belarus,
Ukraine, and Romania? What is causing this? What about the statements from
Ukrainian health officials that we have a new flu strain? On what data are WHO
basing these preposterous claims, which fly in the face of reality and common
sense? Why not release the Ukrainian gene sequences? There is an obvious spike
in mortality and pneumonia - why? Does WHO contend this is another pathogen
besides influenza? If so, what? Honestly, this statement issued Friday
November 13th from WHO is so obviously full of lies I really don't even have
to comment; anyone with a brain can see they are not telling us the truth.
CLIP - MUCH MUCH MORE REVELING INFO THERE WITH MANY GRAPHS
Ukraine Dead Approach 400 (November 24, 2009)
ALL FATAL UKRAINE CASES AT GISAID HAVE RBD D225G~LINK
- UKRAINE PLAGUE SPREADING TO POLAND?~LINK
- OFFICIAL NUMBERS OF UKRAINE FOR 11/19/09: 1,540,514 SICK - 88,744
HOSPITALIZED - 354 DEAD - 58,143 RELEASED FROM HOSPITAL -- Note from Jean:
For some perspective here, let us consider that although the situation in
Ukraine looks worrisome and lots of allegations are flying around, the
official number of deaths (354) is still within the acceptable margin and
relatively small (remember on average, every year between 250,000 and 500,000
people die worldwide from the seasonal flu - depending if 354 is the true
number of course - but the flu bug they have there seems to be more contagious
than elsewhere indeed as 1.5 million people got infected - or believed they
are - in about 2 weeks out of a
total population of 46 million people... so it is not the end
of the world... There are far more (4000) H1N1 related deaths in the US (and
52 in Canada) as of Nov 19... And so far (Nov 19) the H1N1
virus is known to have killed 6,250 people worldwide since emerging in North
America last April, according to the WHO. More details
HERE
Gripes about swine flu vaccine abound
(...) The new swine flu, also called 2009 H1N1, has not
turned out to be the deadly global disaster that experts have long feared. But
it has sickened an estimated 22 million Americans, hospitalized about 98,000
and killed 4,000. It has proved to be similar to seasonal flu but a much
bigger threat to children and young adults. CLIP
AMERICAN COVERAGE OF THE SWINE FLU IN UKRAINE (on FOX)
The report lasts 26 seconds. They say 3 viruses mutated
into a single plague.
Could WHO announce the "return" of the Spanish Flu any day?
(November 18, 2009)
WHO has said that there are not enough samples of the
Ukrainian pandemic virus to make an identification, according to a report in
the Daily Express. However, many observers expect WHO to announce soon that
the swine flu has mutated into the more virulent strain of the Spanish Flu of
1918 in the Ukraine.Professor Victor Bachinsky from the Ukraine has reported
that the plague is not responsible for the many deaths seen there recently,
but a virus strain that is "very toxic, and, if the immune system of the sick
is low, it creates a bleeding in the lungs.""Thus, once the virus enters the
lungs, hemorrhage begins immediately. oxygen circulates in no more normally in
the pulmonary alveoli, which creates a insufficient cardio-pulmonary and does
involve a shock response, and then the death," he reports. The German news
magazine Der Spiegel reported in 2005 that US bioweapons researchers led by
Jeffrey Taubenberger had reconstructed the Spanish Flu virus from genetic
material extracted from the lung of victim found preserved in Alaska's
permafrost in 1995. CLIP
Patent: "Genetically Engineered Swine Influenza Virus and
Uses Thereof" Document at 2 min. 37 sec.
Ukraine plagues and now heavy supply and personnel
movement in and out of US Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBs) (November
18, 2009)
[I have a vast number of photographs posts and related
links pertaining to DUMBs which I plan to include here on this site very soon.
For those who do not know, there exists worldwide an interconnected network of
underground military bases, some more than two miles deep into the ground,
connected by vacuum-tube mag-lev highspeed german-made train systems, called
TerraNet. Some of these locations are veritable underground cities, the
largest of which in the US is underground just east of Colorado Springs. Much
of the missing 2.3 trillion announced by Rumsfeld the day before 9/11 has gone
into building these bases, along with much of the black-op DOD congressional
budget. This is where the so-called "shadow government" is headquartered, and
underground at Falcon, Colorado is located the Cray-5 Artificially Intelligent
supercomputer array connected by very thick ultraviolet fiberoptic cable
called "The Beast" which went online in 2003 and has ever since been grabbing
every piece of available data from every available source and building a giant
TIA database on every human being on the planet ever since. More on this
later. -ed] CLIP
For the NON believer in tunneling technologyŠ
Pictured in the photo at the above website (unannounced
to it's author) is from a late 1950? Jane's publication.
http://www.janes.com There are other photos
floating around from this rare publishing of these machines, ALL with U.S. Air
Force markings. Just because the UFO crowd got a hold of them don't think for
a second this technology doesn't exist and isn't being used.Note the U.S.
Airforce markings. These early atomic tunneling machines were used to
facilitate N.O.R.A.D in it's early construction phase.Note: These 'early'
machines as impressive as they were are outdated today, never the less you
will NEVER see them being used in 'commercial' applications, i.e. the Big Dig.
Which really wasn't that big compared to 'black op' military projects over the
years. Also, SOME training of 'NEW' personnel takes place from time to time
for maintaining and improving these underground facilities at the Colorado
School Of Mines in Golden, Colorado.
THIS COULD BE A LIFE-SAVING TREATMENT...
(...) People with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS),
SARS, and cytokine storms, do best when treated with a variety of
antioxidants. Nathens et al showed that critically ill patients treated with
vitamin C and E antioxidants suffered fewer multi-organ failures than others
treated without these vitamins. According to Heyland et al, antioxidants,
particularly selenium, lowered death rates among critical care patients.
DeFlora et al., showed that nutritional supplementation with N-Acetyl-Cysteine
(NAC), a precursor of the antioxidant glutathione, significantly reduced flu
patients'symptoms. Lock and other medical doctors published that acetaminophen
or paracetamol (Tylenol, Panadol) depletes glutathione in the body, while
ibuprofen (motrin) does not. Taking fish oil containing Eicosapentaenoic acid
(EPA) (and gamma-linolenic acid [GLA]), is a powerful immune suppressant that
can reduce vaccine-adjuvant-triggered cytokine storms. These oils are
recommended by vaccination intoxication expert and neurosurgeon Russell
Blaylock.High doses of EPA make you more susceptible to infections, but
because it is a natural immune suppressant, it can tame a deadly adjuvant
reaction or cytokine storm. Pontes-Arruda et al showed that death rates, organ
failure, need for mechanical ventilation, and length of stay in intensive care
units was reduced in patients given a diet high in EPA and gamma-linolenic
acid (GLA), compared to those who were not supported this way. Coupling EPA
and NAC nutritional supplementation with flavonoids along with silver
hydrosols can dramatically reduce the risk of infections and cytokine storms.
CLIP
The Swine Flu Conspiracy
This 11-minute video is a pretty good compilation of
media clips on the flu, including some 1976 ones, and some of the most
blatantly propagandistic current ones. In the last part, they show army and
national guard soldiers being trained to assist civilian authorities in crowd
control, in case people become so eager to get a flu shot that they turn
violent, they say!!!
Croatian Priest Says Vaccine for Destruction of Humanity
Controversy in Croatia after famous Croatian priest
Miroslav Bustruk appealed to Croatians not to get vaccinated against the Swine
flu vaccine. In a church ceremony dedicated to St Martin, father's Bustruk
statement caused an avalanche of reactions in Croatia. What is it that he
said? "I appeal to you, to not get vaccinated for the so called Swine Flu
under any circumstance. There is a plan for massive destruction of humanity
worldwide. For this purpose we will see new diseases springing up everywhere"
reports Croatian daily "Jutarnji List", quoting father Bustruk. "The H1N1
vaccine itself is a very sophisticated weapon whose implanted microchip will
control the health of the human being" added the Croatian priest which
prompted a great deal of disagreement by Croatian officials. In defense of his
colleague stood Don Jure Zubovik who said father Bustruk's statement only
defended the Church, adding - "certain people who have spoken out or warned
against the vaccine are already in jail". More will be known in few weeks when
the Vatican is expected to issue a press release addressing all World's
Governments.
US Air Force Set To Inject Untested Swine Flu Vaccine
Into 25,000 Children Without Consent
About 25,000 children in on-base Air Force daycare
centers will be forced to receive the H1N1 vaccine or face being barred from
school, Truthout has learned following reports from concerned parents. When a
number of Air Force parents opened the November Child Development Center
newsletter, they were outraged to learn that their children must receive the
H1N1 vaccine. A parent at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, FL, speaking on
condition of anonymity out of concern for reprisal against herself and her
husband, was disturbed by the complete lack of confidence and answers from the
center's administrators. Dr. Meryl Nass, a vaccine expert at Mount Desert
Island Hospital in Bar Harbor, Maine, who is critical of the development of
the H1N1 vaccine and its surrounding policies, said that although "soldiers
are subject to mandatory vaccinations, mandatory medical examinations and
potentially even mandatory medical procedures - their families did not sign up
for this!
Strong lobbying behind the WHO resolution on mass
vaccination (15 November 2009)
Several of the WHO's influenza advisers are paid by the
pharmaceutical industry. Thus, with the industry to influence the decision
that influenza A is a pandemic - and that the vaccine is necessary. Since the
same companies received vaccine orders for up to 55 billion kronor -- On 11
June 2009 stated WHO Director General Margaret Chan, swine influenza, a
pandemic. It meant a huge economic benefit for the pharmaceutical industry.
Many member countries - including Denmark - have for contracts with major
pharmaceutical companies and are therefore obligated to purchase vaccines in
the event of a pandemic. Investment bank JP Morgan estimates that the
pharmaceutical industry this year will receive the vaccine orders for up to 55
billion kroner. Much of the turnover is due to the WHO's decision. Many of the
apparently impartial researchers, the WHO uses, however, are paid by the
companies that produce vaccines.The many double roles are problematic,
believes Professor Tom Jefferson, who is epidemiologist at the Cochrane Center
in Rome:"It is worrying that many members of WHO committees, signing himself
with other titles, although they actually represent the pharmaceutical
industry," he said to Information. One of the experts in the WHO H1N1-specific
advisory group, Dr. Albert Ostenhaus, has just been a point on the Dutch
government's agenda. The Government has convened a crisis meeting because of
an article in Science has emerged that Albert Ostenhaus have economic
interests in several pharmaceutical companies. Meanwhile, Dr. Albert Ostenhaus
in the Netherlands known as' Dr Flu 'vaccine because he promotes as the
solution to epidemics.Dr. Frederick Hayden is outside expert in WHO's advice
SAGE (strategize Advisory Group of Experts), which advises WHO on vaccines. He
appears in the official papers as flu-research coordinator from the
anonymous-sounding 'The Welcome Trust in London.But in a Google search shows
that Dr. Hayden has many other employers. He has particular 'paid adviser' for
pharmaceutical companies Roche, RW Johnson, SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo
Wellcome.Dr. Arnold Monto, who also appears as invited expert on SAGE's member
list paid consultant in firms MedImmune, which produces inhalable flu vaccine,
Glaxo Wellcome and ViroPharma. At SAGE 's list says he is only listed as the
head of a department at the University of Michigan. Besides the experts in
SAGE sits at more of the major vaccine manufacturers as GlaxoSmithKline,
Novartis and Baxter with as 'observers' when SAGE meeting in WHO: "It is a
Lord's meeting people," says specialist in community medicine, and former
employee at the university Mauri Johansson." There are more pharmaceutical
industry people in the room than there are makers. It shows everything about
the confusion going on. They are called 'observers'. But one can wonder that
they are supposed to be here, "says Mauri Johansson.He believes that it makes
it hard to see through what is up and down:'There is a quilt of the
pharmaceutical lobby in the WHO, and it has run so long. It is hard to see
through what is the industry's interest and what is factual information, he
says. The minutes from the SAGE meeting, held on 7 July, stipulates inter alia
that: "It will probably be necessary to give two doses of vaccine to ensure
protection," although several researchers have pointed out that a single
vaccine should be enough. The minutes also recommends that all health
professionals and all pregnant women be vaccinated. Furthermore field, there
is a need for "a better understanding of the global vaccine demand 'and
member' is invited to consider the use of vaccine as part of their pandemic
preparedness." CLIP
Homeostasis Model of Autism Causation - Is Autism
Triggered By Glutamite and Glycine Imbalance? (Nov 19 2009)
http://stanford.wellsphere.com/autism-autism-spectrum-article/homeostasis-model-of-autism-causation-is-autism-triggered-by-glutamite-and-glycine-imbalance/888649
In a press release from PR Newswire, a New Jersey based
business oriented think tank, The Center for Modeling Optimal Outcomes® LLC,
outlines what it believes is a model of autism causation discovered while
researching neuroscientific principles in business. (...) "According to The
Center's founder, William McFaul, a retired business person and not a member
of the scientific community, "Because of its universal applicability, our Life
Sciences group has already used the model as a tool to identify highly
probable causal paths for several illnesses and disease entities. Autism was
one of most difficult illnesses The Center had attempted to analyze. If it
hadn't been for so many parents insisting that vaccines were responsible for
the condition, we might never have found the fact that the stabilizer in MMR
and a few other vaccines is hydrolyzed gelatin; a substance that is
approximately 21% glycine. It appears that, based on readily verifiable
science, the use of that form of glycine triggers an imbalance between the
amino acid neurotransmitters responsible for the absorption rate of certain
classes of cells throughout the body. It is that wide-spread disruption that
apparently results in the systemic problems that encompass the mind and the
body characterized in today's 'classic' autism." He also added, "The use of
our model indicates each of the disorders within Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
is attributable to different disruptions in homeostasis. We look forward to
sharing our findings relative to each disorder with the scientific community."
(...) The homeostasis model looks interesting. Hopefully it will be considered
seriously by researchers actually trying to discover causes of, and cures for,
autism disorders before it gets trashed by the Vaccine Cult defenders who have
declared vaccines off limits for scientific inquiry as possible causes of
autism disorders.
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From: http://drbenkim.com/articles-vaccine-risks.htm
Jon Rappoport Interviews a Retired Vaccine Researcher
Q: In your years working in the vaccine establishment,
how many doctors did you encounter who admitted that vaccines were a problem?
A: None. There were a few who privately questioned what they were doing. But
they would never go public, even within their companies.
Q: What was the turning point for you?
A: I had a friend whose baby died after a DPT shot.
Q: Did you investigate?
A: Yes, informally. I found that this baby was completely healthy before the
vaccination. There was no reason for his death, except the vaccine. That
started my doubts. Of course, I wanted to believe that the baby had gotten a
bad shot from a bad lot. But as I looked into this further, I found that was
not the case in this instance. I was being drawn into a spiral of doubt that
increased over time. I continued to investigate. I found that, contrary to
what I thought, vaccines are not tested in a scientific way.
Q: What do you mean?
A: For example, no long-term studies are done on any vaccines. Long-term
follow-up is not done in any careful way. Why? Because, again, the assumption
is made that vaccines do not cause problems. So why should anyone check? On
top of that, a vaccine reaction is defined so that all bad reactions are said
to occur very soon after the shot is given. But that does not make sense.
Q: Why doesn't it make sense?
A: Because the vaccine obviously acts in the body for a long period of time
after it is given. A reaction can be gradual. Deterioration can be gradual.
Neurological problems can develop over time. They do in various conditions,
even according to a conventional analysis. So why couldn't that be the case
with vaccines? If chemical poisoning can occur gradually, why couldn't that be
the case with a vaccine which contains mercury?
Q: And that is what you found?
A: Yes. You are dealing with correlations, most of the time.Correlations are
not perfect. But if you get 500 parents whose children have suffered
neurological damage during a one-year period after having a vaccine, this
should be sufficient to spark off an intense investigation.
Q: Has it been enough?
A: No. Never. This tells you something right away.
Q: Which is?
A: The people doing the investigation are not really interested in looking at
the facts. They assume that the vaccines are safe. So, when they do
investigate, they invariably come up with exonerations of the vaccines. They
say, "This vaccine is safe." But what do they base those judgments on? They
base them on definitions and ideas which automatically rule out a condemnation
of the vaccine.
Q: There are numerous cases where a vaccine campaign has failed. Where people
have come down with the disease against which they were vaccinated.
A: Yes, there are many such instances. And there the evidence is simply
ignored. It's discounted. The experts say, if they say anything at all, that
this is just an isolated situation, but overall the vaccine has been shown to
be safe. But if you add up all the vaccine campaigns where damage and disease
have occurred, you realize that these are NOT isolated situations.
Q: Did you ever discuss what we are talking about here with colleagues, when
you were still working in the vaccine establishment?
A: Yes I did.
Q: What happened?
A: Several times I was told to keep quiet. It was made clear that I should go
back to work and forget my misgivings. On a few occasions, I encountered fear.
Colleagues tried to avoid me. They felt they could be labeled with "guilt by
association." All in all, though, I behaved myself.I made sure I didn't create
problems for myself.
Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?
A: First of all, there is no "if." They do harm. It
becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those
people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of
research which should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be probing to
discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in
the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to
why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the
reasons. As you've said many times, at different layers of the system people
have their motives. Money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie
points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and
so on. But, at the highest levels of the medical cartel, vaccines are a top
priority because they cause a weakening of the immune system. I know that may
be hard to accept, but it's true. The medical cartel, at the highest level, is
not out to help people, it is out to harm them, to weaken them. To kill them.
At one point in my career, I had a long conversation with a man who occupied a
high government position in an African nation. He told me that he was well
aware of this. He told me that WHO is a front for these depopulation
interests. There is an underground, shall we say, in Africa, made up of
various officials who are earnestly trying to change the lot of the poor. This
network of people knows what is going on. They know that vaccines have been
used, and are being used, to destroy their countries, to make them ripe for
takeover by globalist powers. I have had the opportunity to speak with several
of these people from this network.
CLIP - please go at http://drbenkim.com/articles-vaccine-risks.htm
to read this whole interview.
Pour la traduction française de cette entrevue:
Vaccins : témoignage d'un repenti
http://www.alternativesante.com/gazette/sections/section.asp?NoArticle=1000&NoSection=60
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Forwarded by Mark Graffis (mgraffis@gmail.com) on 16 Nov
2009
From: http://educate-yourself.org/cn/trueottvaccineinducedepidemics24aug09.shtml
Vaccine-Induced Disease Epidemic Outbreaks
By A. True Ott, PhD, ND
August 24, 2009
The Engineering of "Pandemics"
The year was 1921. America was entering a decade of
robust prosperity. Later called "The Roaring Twenties", it was a time of
unparalleled economic expansion. Debt money from Wall Street banks was
plentiful and easy to obtain. The "Great War" was over. America was flexing
her industrial muscles. Factories were being built and expanded in every major
city. Automobiles began rolling off Detroit assembly lines in record numbers.
The stock market began making millionaires. People were HEALTHY and HAPPY -
largely because the dreaded "world mystery disease" (which decades later
became known as the "1918 Flu Pandemic") had disappeared. Two entire years had
passed with no dreaded "mystery deaths" being reported. America had cause to
celebrate, and celebrate they did!
As a matter of fact, the American Public in general was
so optimistic and HAPPY in 1921, that relatively few people were unhealthy as
well. For the first time in decades, hospital beds were empty. The fledgling
American Medical Association, formed by John D. Rockefeller just a few years
earlier, was worried. Business was sagging. Profits from vaccines and drugs
were spiraling. Something had to be done, and done immediately. False, faux
epidemics of smallpox were created to solve the problem, and keep the Medical
Mafia's cash registers ringing.
We know this dastardly plan actually happened, thanks to
a citizen's WATCHDOG GROUP in Kansas City, Missouri named "The Advertiser's
Protective Bureau", who filed, and successfully prosecuted criminal charges
against the Missouri state chapter of the AMA - the Jackson Medical Society.
The 'Protective Bureau's" official report of this cold-blooded plot reads as
follows:
"In the Fall of 1921, the health of the city was
unusually good, but slow for the doctors. So the Jackson Medical Society met
and resolved to make an epidemic in the city. According to the minutes of this
meeting: 'MOTION WAS MADE AND SECONDED, THAT A RECOMMENDATION BE MADE BY THE
COMMITTEE, TO THE BOARD OF HEALTH, THAT AN EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX BE DECLARED IN
THE CITY. (Investigation later revealed that there was NO SIGN OF AN EPIDEMIC
at the time, in the city, or anywhere in the state or region!)
'It was moved and seconded that a day be set aside,
termed VACCINATION DAY, on which physicians would be stationed at ALL SCHOOLS,
clinics, public buildings and hospitals to vaccinate "free of charge".
(Vaccinations are never "free". The taxpayers are always forced to pay for
every one of the "free" vaccines.)
"IT IS FURTHER RECOMMENDED THAT WIDE PUBLICITY BE GIVEN,
STATING THAT VACCINATION IS A PREVENTIVE OF SMALLPOX, AND URGING THE ABSOLUTE
NECESSITY OF VACCINATION FOR EVERY MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD IN THE CITY."
The Protective Bureau proved in court that there WAS NO
EPIDEMIC before the vaccinations!! The court records show that the Medical
Society manufactured vast amounts of posters, fliers, newspaper stories and
ads featuring horrific and lurid pictures of diseased children covered with
massive smallpox sores and open wounds. Some pictures actually showed
children's corpses covered with the same ugly sores. The PANIC-DRIVEN message
was clear --- VACCINATE EVERYONE, or face a deadly public disease. There was a
"sweeping epidemic" in the city; the disease was "highly contagious" and would
"strike anyone who was not vaccinated" was the bill of goods sold! (Does this
sound at all familiar today - 88 years later??)
The Medical Mafia's propaganda blitz was successful, and
over a million previously healthy and happy American citizens were hypnotized
and terrorized into placing the vaccine toxins into their bloodstreams. All
public school children in the region were vaccinated while at school! Parents
who dared question the vaccination of their children were ostracized and
publicly vilified.
THE COURT RECORD ON THIS CASE IS VERY CLEAR. In the
weeks and months following the "mass vaccinations" - the area's hospital beds
were filled to over-flowing with VACCINE-INDUCED SMALLPOX CASES! Tens of
thousands of people became ill, and many hundreds of innocents died, and many
more were permanently crippled! Of course, THE NEWSPAPERS THEN TRUMPETED HOW
WISE THE MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT WAS TO PROMOTE THE VACCINES - stating how much
worse the death toll would have been without the vaccination campaign!! Untold
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS of profit was generated by this massive "medical" fraud.
Thanks to the ADVERTISER'S PROTECTIVE BUREAU, however;
the massive fraud was exposed and criminally prosecuted to a successful
conviction. During the trial, three amazing facts were proven beyond any
"reasonable doubt".
Fact 1: The poster and advertising pictures showing the
diseased and dying children used so successfully by the "doctors", WERE NOT
EVEN CASES OF LOCAL SMALLPOX CASES AS THEY WERE BILLED TO BE! The Protective
Bureau documented that they were pictures of ENGLISH CHILDREN who were victims
of "court-proven" cases of SMALLPOX VACCINE POISONING!! One of the pictures
was of a 5-week-old baby named Mona Stevenson, of Humphrey Street, Burnley,
England. A previously healthy and happy baby, Little Mona had been vaccinated
for smallpox at 5 weeks of age. Four weeks later, her pox-ridden little body
was placed in a tiny coffin and buried. The horrific photos of Little Mona and
others in England had previously been published in British newspapers where
details of the resulting CRIMINAL TRIALS were also given. The full details of
the trials, as well as the pictures, were also included in a comprehensively
large medical boot titled "THE HISTORY AND PATHOLOGY OF VACCINATION" by Edgar
M Crookshank, MD - professor of Bacteriology at the ultra-elite Kings College,
London England.
Fact 2: Vaccines containing LIVE VIRUSES, weakened (i.e.
attenuated) or otherwise universally causes more diseases than the vaccine
ever could prevent.
Fact 3: Vaccine-Induced-Disease (VID) is an extremely
effective socio-economic tool. It has the potential to generate BILLIONS OF
DOLLARS OF WINDFALL PROFITS, while permanently changing the social structures
of large groups of people.
While the Protective Bureau won the criminal court case
- the American People lost. The case should have made front-page headlines
around the nation, showing the Modus Operandi of certain corrupt "medical
practitioners". How, by means of fraud, treachery, and trickery, they made
millions of dollars in windfall profits while thousands of innocent, trusting,
and naïve Americans suffered and died. The entire sordid affair, with all its
damning details, was kept out of the American Press. John D. Rockefeller's
AMA, with its millions of dollars of influence - made sure of that!
Amazingly, even though thousands of people had died or
become crippled by this managed manslaughter, the doctors involved were only
given a light penalty in the form of a token fine. The medical establishment
as a whole was not upset in the least by the exposure - and has continued on
unabated perpetuating the same crimes against humanity - creating
vaccine-induced-diseases while fleecing the people continually until this
present day.
It is a proven (albeit little-known) fact,
EPIDEMIC/PANDEMIC MANUFACTURING IS STANDARD PRACTICE with the world-wide
"Medical Mafia" circles. In order to maximize profits and re-shape
geographical regions, they often manufacture a false-flag "emergency". If
there is an outbreak of mild seasonal virus, they call it an influenza
pandemic, give it a fancy new name, and then actually CREATE THE PANDEMIC by
means of mass vaccinations using ATTENUATED, or LIVE VIRUSES!! Remember the
shocking words of the AMA's Dr. Simon Louis Katzoff who said: " DOCTORS LIVE
BY DISEASE, SO THE PUBLIC CAN EXPECT THE SUPPLY OF DISEASE TO MEET THE DEMANDS
OF THE MEDICAL PROFESSION."
OTHER DOCUMENTED CASES OF V.I.D.E.O.s (Vaccine Induced
Disease Epidemic Outbreaks.)
Case 1: Following the lead of their colleagues in Kansas
City, the exact same events occurred in Pittsburgh, PA under the direction of
Pittsburgh's "Health Director", Dr. C.J. Voux in the autumn of 1924. As in
Kansas City, a group of public watchdogs brought suit against Voux and his
vaccine-promoters. As in Kansas City, the vaccine promoters were found guilty.
The case documented that over 1,000,000 vaccine shots were "sold" to the
residents of Pennsylvania, even though there had been ZERO documented cases of
smallpox in the region. It was successfully proven that ONLY AFTER the million
shots had been given, that a smallpox epidemic began. This vaccine-induced,
manmade "epidemic" resulted in 330 deaths and at least 1,680 cases of severe
smallpox that caused permanent, crippling damage to the survivors. Moreover,
it cost the city a total monetary loss of $3,069,616; although Dr. Voux and
his accomplices had collected more than $10 million in hospital and related
care revenues - they were not forced to pay for damages or reparations. As in
the Kansas City trial, a small, insignificant fine was levied, and the case
was not widely publicized.
Case 2: The initial batches of Dr. Jonas Salk's polio
vaccine produced thousands of cases of poliomyelitis in vaccinated
individuals. (One such case was Franklin D. Roosevelt - who was stricken weeks
after receiving a vaccine.) This was due to an unsafe amount of LIVE VIRUSES
in the vaccine itself. Dr. Sabin then introduced his "improved" vaccine with
"attenuated" or "weakened' live viruses in 1958, and the following year his
vaccine was made to be compulsory (mandatory) in all school-age children in a
number of states. As a result, polio increased a whopping 300% in these
states. For example, Tennessee reported 119 polio cases in 1958, after
"vaccination" this total increased to 386 cases in 1959, Ohio - 17 cases in
1958, 52 cases in 1959, Connecticut - 45 cases in 1958, 123 cases in 1959, and
North Carolina: 78 cases in 1958 compared to 312 cases in 1959 AFTER forcing
compulsory shots in school children. The modern record is equally damning. The
ONLY cases of recorded polio in the modern era is immediately following
vaccinations. Poliomyelitis, you see, is a water-borne virus and is caused by
drinking contaminated water. During the early 60's, water-treatment facilities
became standardized across America - small amounts of CHLORINATION effectively
wiped out polio viruses. The conquering of polio had NOTHING TO DO with the
vaccine needles and swallowing sugar cubes. In fact, as author Ed Haslem
documents so well in his book, HYPERLINK "http://doctormarysmonkey.com/" Dr.
Mary's Monkey, the Sabin vaccines were actually contaminated with mutated
GREEN MONKEY VIRUSES (SV-40 viruses to be specific) which has caused untold
millions of SOFT-TISSUE CANCERS and deaths worldwide. (The cancer "industry"
has reaped BILLIONS of dollars from this "contamination" over the years, of
course.) HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edikv0zbAlU" Dr. Maurice
Hilleman has actually confessed as being a part of this very activity.
Case 3: Knowingly added to "hepatitis" vaccines, HIV
viruses were inoculated into thousands of homosexual men and intravenous drug
users in America's inner cities resulting in the "AIDS epidemic" in the 80's.
Purposefully placed in SMALLPOX VACCINE SYRINGES, HIV was also introduced into
African nations as a tool of ethnic cleansing and GENOCIDE. The covert
development and weaponization of the HIV/AIDS virus and its monkey-virus
origins, along with the amazing story of how the scientists involved are tied
to President Kennedy's assassination is well documented in http://doctormarysmonkey.com/
Dr. Mary's Monkey. The covert biological experimentation labs responsible for
this mayhem are today consolidated into the NIH, the NAIDS, the National
Cancer Institute, and Ft. Detrick, Maryland. The Centers for Disease Control
(CDC) in Atlanta became the centralized hub of pandemic and epidemic creations
and propagation.
Case 4: The 1976 "Swine Flu" Fiasco and Fraud is
perpetrated. A solitary soldier at Ft. Dix collapses and dies following a
reaction to an "experimental" vaccine while completing an intense physical
"forced march" exercise at Ft. Dix. Immediately, the CDC swings into action,
declaring a nationwide SWINE FLU PANDEMIC is pending. Providentially, of
course, the CDC just happens to have 200+MILLION DOSES of Swine Flu vaccine
already stockpiled, prepared with ATTENUATED (live, yet weakened) viruses and
experimental ADJUVANTS. President Gerald Ford, (with proven ties to Big Pharma
and Nixon's covert viral weapons labs - also a key member of the "Warren
Commission's" obfuscation of the JFK murder) rolls up his sleeves on national
TV and dutifully takes the vaccine. 40 million vaccines are given to naïve
American human guinea pigs. A rash of auto-immune disorders (Guillan-Barre
Syndrome GBS, and lupus) as well as a large number of deaths is immediately
attributed to the vaccine, and the mass vaccination campaign is halted. (What
happened to the other 140 million vaccines, one may ask?) In 1979, the
television news magazine 60 Minutes did a documentary investigation on this
travesty-for-money scandal. Against all odds and the threats of Big Pharma,
the OBJECTIVELY FAIR 60 Minutes program aired ONE TIME. There was no follow-up
story, No criminal indictments were ever issued. There was no MASS-
MURDER-FOR-HIRE trial. As a result, America has largely forgotten the 1976
SWINE FLU SCANDAL! Click here for HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lcJt4jX1Vo"
Part I of the 60 Minutes story; and HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4c9Is1T3z4"
Part II.
Case 5: During the first Gulf War - Operation Desert
Storm, an experimental anthrax vaccine was forcibly given to 140,000
rear-echelon support troops. This experimental vaccine included an
oil-in-water adjuvant called squalene (aka MF-59 made by NOVARTIS). Despite
voluminous studies showing dangerous toxicity factors conducted on
"oil-in-water" adjuvants at such prestigious research labs as UCLA - the U.S.
Military brass consented to the experimental injections. As a result, ALL
140,000 troops developed a condition subsequently named "Gulf War Syndrome".
This sordid tale is explained in a very honest and credible book by HYPERLINK
"http://www.vaccine-a.com/" Gary Matsumoto, called, Vaccine-A.
ALL MODERN "PANDEMICS" ARE CAUSED BY VACCINE NEEDLES
As this author has repeatedly declared during many
public radio interviews, the deadly 1918 Influenza Pandemic was the direct
result of live-virus-contaminated Typhus Fever Vaccines mandatorily given to
U.S. and Allied military personnel during World War I. During that era,
viruses were not yet discovered and diseases were thought to be bacterial
only. These deadly typhus fever vaccines were manufactured by John D.
Rockefeller's research labs and Chinese pharma factories. The vaccine "seed
stock" consisted of viruses harvested from human typhoid fever patients,
cross-injected into swine herds to create increased "seed stock", and then
injected into chicken and turkey eggs for further incubation of the pathogens.
The final, harvested "vaccine material" then was injected into HUNDREDS OF
MILLIONS OF HUMAN VEINS. The result was a massive 'pandemic' that claimed the
lives of as many as 50 million people worldwide.
In 1918, the viral pandemic was an honest mistake - the
result of a combination of a very bad vaccine and gross ignorance about
viruses and the diseases they cause. However, the continued denial of these
FACTS, and the subsequent REVERSE ENGINEERING OF THE KILLER VIRUS in Ft.
Detrick labs (1997-2003) is inexcusable and constitutes a veritable crime
against humanity.
Moreover, the ONLY WAY a modern "SWINE FLU PANDEMIC" can
actually materialize is by injection of certain LIVE VIRUSES via vaccine
needles. Make no mistake, the world is NOT experiencing a true pandemic
explosion at this time - but it most assuredly WILL when and if the planned
mass influenza vaccinations are completed worldwide.
THE DANGERS INHERENT IN "DUPLEX" VACCINES FROM DESIGNER
VIRUSES
"Modern Medical Practitioners", including some well-meaning
"osteopaths", would have the world believe the MYTH that vaccines containing
attenuated (weakened) live viruses cannot cause the viral disease conditions
they are targeting. This is a most dangerous misconception for the following
SCIENTIFIC reasons.
Traditional "common" vaccines targeting measles, mumps and
rubella for instance, contain small amounts of "attenuated" live viruses which
have been "weakened" but not 100% killed outright. Research has shown that
these weakened "live" viruses create a very mild form of the disease in the
human that has been vaccinated, which in turn creates a cellular immunity from
that pathogen. The science behind this is correct, and valid for the most
part. To keep the targeted viral pathogen in a perpetually weakened state,
specific amounts of formaldehyde and ether are typically added, and in some
formulations, mercury in the form of thimerasol is added as a preservative to
keep the egg albumin cells from decaying and dying prematurely. The
established theory behind all of this 'vaccination' is the "protect the herd"
theory which originated with Pasteur in the late 19th century. As in all
vaccines, a certain small percentage of the herd will develop severe, 'full
blown' disease states CAUSED by the attenuated viruses in the vaccine itself,
and another percentage will exhibit side effects from the chemicals added to
the vaccine - but if the vast majority of the herd is "protected" from the
disease condition - the vaccine is approved and stamped "safe and effective".
Science has also proven that each viral pathogen has its own
unique characteristics that produce its own set of symptoms in the human
hosts. Thus, each viral pathogen has its own unique fingerprints of
replication and reproduction as well. Each virus also has a different level of
effectiveness in its attenuated (weakened) state. Moreover, some viruses have
shown the ability to "drift" and acquire additional genetic alterations over
time. THIS IS ESPECIALLY TRUE OF THE SO-CALLED "NOVEL" RECOMBINATION VIRUSES
that have been "reverse engineered" in the world's weapons laboratories! When
the RNA of the virus is spliced with other viral genes, the resulting
"Franken-virus" is very unpredictable. Studies conducted (yet currently
unpublished) by Terrence Tumpey, Jeffrey Taubenberger, and others at the NIH
and CDC show that these 'resurrected pandemic viruses' do not exhibit the
NORMAL tendencies of traditional, NATURAL influenza viruses such as seasonal
H3N2 human strains. They are best described as "Viral Wild Cards".
This is just one problem with the headlong, mad rush to
vaccinate Americans with a series of reverse-engineered lab-created viruses,
attenuated or otherwise, in an UNTESTED, UNTRIED, EXPERIMENTAL VACCINE that
has not been subjected to LONG-TERM CLINICAL TRIALS TO DETERMINE THE LEVELS OF
"DRIFT" or even ATTENUATED TENDENCIES OVER TIME.
To supposedly minimize this "safety" issue, the CDC is now
recommending a DUPLEX vaccination, of all things. A "duplex" vaccination
basically involves a two-shot series. The first shot consists of a VERY WEAK,
HIGHLY ATTENUTATED dose of the live virus. This is intended to create an
initial immune response patterning the specific virus injected. Within a
couple of weeks of the 1st shot, a BOOSTER SHOT is given. The booster shot has
only lightly attenuated, or even FULL STRENGTH VIRUSES in the injection. This
2nd shot is then intended to create a full-strength immune system response in
the human subject.
This is, at the very least, BAD SCIENCE and borders on
insanity for self-evident and fairly obvious reasons. By their own admissions,
the NIH scientists in their various writings have declared that the level of
potency of these REVERSE ENGINEERED VIRUSES show abnormal, almost RANDOM
tendencies in their attenuated states. Nobody really knows what will happen
over time as the inevitable "genetic drifts" occur. It is a literal crap
shoot. It is highly probable that even the HIGHLY ATTENUATED FRANKEN-VIRUSES
can swiftly regain their FULL POTENCY even in the presence of ether and
formaldehyde. (See Addendum Below) Secondly, the full-strength BOOSTER shot
viruses could just as easily "DRIFT" into something much more deadly than the
"original' recombinant virus that it is targeting.
I submit that the scientists responsible for this "pandemic"
are not stupid. They have to know these facts as well as I do.
Therefore, I can only conclude that this entire affair is
following the Modus Operandi of the medical elite since the 1920 engineered
smallpox epidemics. It is all being ORCHESTRATED first and foremost for MONEY,
and secondly, for social and geographical restructuring of the "human herd".
Also, it must be understood that this "Novel 2009 Influenza"
is not easily nor readily transmissible between humans. (See published study
in the addendum). If this report is accurate, how then did the "Pandemic"
begin, and why the need for mass vaccinations at all?? Like the "study" shows,
the only way the test ferrets could contract or transmit the 2009 "Novel Swine
Flu" was by and through INOCULATION OF THE DISEASE!! Humanity demands an
answer, and demands it NOW!!!
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2009) IRAN AND MUCH OF THE WORLD ARE ON A COLLISION COURSE WHICH COULD LEAD TO
DIRE CONSEQUENCES...
The U.N. nuclear watchdog's board censured Iran on Friday,
with 25 nations backing a resolution demanding that Tehran immediately freeze
construction of its newly revealed nuclear facility and heed Security Council
resolutions to stop uranium enrichment.Iran remained defiant, with its chief
representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency declaring that his
country would resist "pressure, resolutions, sanction(s) and threat of
military attack."Delegate Ali Asghar Soltanieh of Iran shrugged off the
vote."Neither resolutions of the board of governors nor those of the United
Nations Security Council ... neither sanctions nor the threat of military
attacks can interrupt peaceful nuclear activities in Iran, even a second," he
told the closed-door meeting, in remarks made available to reporters.Iran
argues that its nuclear program is aimed at creating a peaceful nuclear energy
network to serve its growing population. The United States and other nations
believe Iran's nuclear program has the goal of creating nuclear weapons. The
IAEA resolution criticized Iran for defying a U.N. Security Council ban on
uranium enrichment - the source of both nuclear fuel and the fissile core of
warheads.It also censured Iran for secretly building a uranium enrichment
facility and demanded that it immediately suspend further construction. It
noted that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei cannot confirm that Tehran's nuclear
program is exclusively geared toward peaceful uses, and expressed "serious
concern" that Iran's stonewalling of an IAEA probe means "the possibility of
military dimensions to Iran's nuclear program" cannot be excluded.British
Prime Minister Gordon Brown called the resolution "the strongest and most
definitive statement yet made by the countries who are very worried about
nuclear ambitions on the part of Iran."Nations were "absolutely clear that
Iran has misled the international community," Brown said at a Commonwealth
summit in Trinidad. "(They are) sending the clearest possible signal to Iran
that they should desist from their nuclear plans, that the world knows what
they are doing and trying to do, and that they should accept the offers that
have been made."The resolution - and the resulting vote of the IAEA's
35-nation decision-making board - were significant on several counts.The
resolution was endorsed by six world powers - the U.S., Russia, China,
Britain, France and Germany - reflecting a rare measure of unity on Iran.
Previously, Moscow and Beijing have acted as a traditional drag on efforts to
punish Iran for its nuclear defiance, either preventing new U.N. Security
Council sanctions or watering down their potency. CLIP
Iran 'expects Russian missiles within 2 months'
http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=DEF&artid=171029
Iran expects Russia to deliver powerful S-300 air-defence missile systems
within two months despite fierce objections from the United States and Israel,
Tehran's ambassador to Moscow has said. Moscow missed its initial deadline to
deliver the S-300s, which could defend Iranian nuclear facilities against an
Israeli strike, but has reassured Tehran that they will arrive soon,
Ambassador Mahmoud Reza Sajadi said. (...) The truck-mounted S-300PMU1, known
in the West as the SA-20, can shoot down cruise missiles and aircraft. It can
fire at targets up to 150 km (90 miles) away. Analysts say it could seriously
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Iran army to hold air defence drills (21 Nov 2009)
Iran plans to hold air defence manoeuvres involving both its
elite Revolutionary Guards and the regular armed forces, the official IRNA
news agency reported on Saturday. It said the war games would be staged during
the Iranian week that started on Saturday but did not give any further
details.Iran often holds defence drills and announces advances in military
capabilities in a bid to show its readiness to counter any military threats
over its disputed nuclear programme. The United States and Israel - Iran's
arch enemies - have not ruled out military action if diplomacy fails to
resolve the row over nuclear work that the West suspects is aimed at making
bombs. Iran, which says its nuclear programme is a peaceful drive to generate
electricity, has threatened to hit back at Israel and US bases in the Gulf if
it were attacked.
Afghan women will be forgotten when troops withdraw
(November 28, 2009)
(...) Yes, atrocious acts of war have killed innocent
civilians. The cluster bombings in Farah province in May massacred at least
150, mostly women and children. It was a shocking act - for which the US later
apologised. But women are dying across Afghanistan in much bigger numbers from
basic neglect. They're dying because there is no government system that
provides basic care and protection to help them when they're sick, when
they're beaten, abused, or even when they're hungry.The Karzai Government is
criminally negligent in its failure to support its people. The UN's 2009 Human
Development Index ranks Afghanistan at 181 out of 182 countries: almost the
worst place in the world in which to live. By the time you've finished reading
today's newspaper, another woman will have died from reproductive
complications, due to a lack of health care. One dies every 30 minutes; that's
17,376 women a year. According to the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights
Commission, 80 percent of those deaths are preventable. This is a human rights
scandal, and yet the Karzai Government has not built a single hospital for
women.More than 70 percent of women submit to forced marriages, and according
to UNIFEM more than half the female population marry before the legal age of
16. Female depression is widespread and the rate of self immolation has
skyrocketed. Domestic violence is endemic, with one UK report suggesting it
affects 80 percent of households. Yet the Karzai Government has not built a
single shelter or welfare centre for women. (...) Loosely networked, there is
a plethora of small internationally supported women's advocacy groups doing
vital work across Afghanistan. Should foreign troops withdraw, even Malalai
Joya has conceded there will be civil war, before a new regime is established.
With such instability and lack of security, it's most doubtful international
NGOs and donors will stay the course. As the world pulls away from
Afghanistan, the support funds will dry up. Then, as history has proven, the
women of Afghanistan will be forgotten - again. MUCH MORE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS
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UN Says Violence Against Women 'Most Pervasive' Rights
Violation (11/26/09)
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UN says has reached pandemic proportions. The
UN Development
Fund for Women estimates that one in three women around the world has been
beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused. It describes domestic violence
against women as perhaps the most pervasive human rights violation known
today. Women are more at risk of death or disability from violence than from
cancer, road accidents, war, or malaria.And there is a growing link between
such violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS. A survey conducted in South Africa
revealed that women who are beaten by their partners are 48 percent more
likely to be infected with HIV than those who are not. (...) One way to focus
attention on the problem of domestic violence is the international White
Ribbon Campaign, which urges men to wear a white ribbon on their lapel to show
that they oppose violence against women and children.Started in Canada, the
campaign has spread to 50 countries, including Russia, Georgia, Armenia, and
Azerbaijan. Campaign organizers are particularly eager to recruit the support
of leading athletes from such "macho" sports as rugby, on the grounds that
they can set a positive example for young men to follow.In comments marking
the day, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the masculine side of society
must learn that a true man does not oppress women and children.Coinciding with
the day against violence, the London-based human rights organization Amnesty
International has issued a report on the plight of women in Tajikistan.Amnesty
expert Andrea Strasser-Camagni says women in Tajikistan are beaten, abused,
and raped within the family, even as Tajik authorities take the attitude that
the woman is to blame for domestic violence.She says married women are treated
like servants or as the property of their in-laws, and the violence and
humiliation they suffer drive many to suicide. CLIP
UN peace mission fuelling violence in Congo, report say (25
November 2009)
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world's biggest UN peacekeeping mission has been branded a failure by experts
who say it is fuelling a surge of murders and rapes in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo.The UN security force of 25,000, estimated to cost more than $1bn
a year, has proved unable to defeat Rwandan Hutu rebels or to halt the plunder
of lucrative minerals in the east of the country, according to a scathing
report.Among the most damning findings of the UN-mandated Group of Experts is
the free rein given to a military commander and war crimes suspect known as
"The Terminator", which the UN mission has previously denied. (...) This month
the UN suspended its support to army units it believed were responsible for
killing about 60 civilians in operations. The group of experts suggested this
may not be enough. "The Group Š underlines the possible contradiction within
Monuc's mandate to protect civilians on a priority basis, and that of
providing logistic support to the [army], while the latter continues to commit
abuses against the civilian population," the report said.The findings support
the claims of NGOs that the UN military operations have inflamed the violence
in eastern Congo, resulting in the displacement of 1 million villagers. This
month Human Rights Watch said it had documented the deliberate killing by
Congolese soldiers of at least 270 civilians in one area - mostly women,
children and the elderly. They were decapitated, chopped to death by machete,
beaten to death with clubs or shot as they tried to flee. Human Rights Watch
called on the UN to suspend its support to the military operation or risk
being implicated in further atrocities.
UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women Announces
US$10.5 Million in Grants for 13 Projects in 18 Countries (24 November 2009)
United Nations, New York - The United Nations Trust Fund in
Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women (UN Trust Fund) will
award nearly US$10.5 million in 2009 to 13 projects and initiatives that are
addressing gender-based violence in 18 countries. Resources for the UN Trust
Fund fell drastically short to meet the vast demand. A total of 1,643 concept
notes were received with grant requests totalling US$857 million. These
figures reflect a sharp increase from previous years, both in terms of the
number of applications received and the amount of funding requested. However,
only 1.2 percent of the record amount requested could be met. CLIP
NY Times Blows The Whistle On Drug Industry's Dirty Tricks
(November 26 2009)
As a sobering example of how members of Congress can be
spoon-fed the views and even the exact words of high-powered lobbying firms,
consider remarks inserted into the Congressional Record after the debate and
vote on health care reform in the House. Statements by more than a dozen
lawmakers were ghostwritten, in whole or in part, by Washington lobbyists
working for Genentech, one of the world's largest biotechnology companies.E-mail
messages obtained by The New York Times show that the lobbyists drafted one
statement for Democrats and another for Republicans. The lobbyists, employed
by Genentech and by two Washington law firms, were remarkably successful in
getting the statements printed in the Congressional Record under the names of
different members of Congress.The apparent goal was to show that, even though
there were sharp divisions between the parties on the overall reform bill
(only one Republican voted for it), there was bipartisan support for
provisions relating to drugs produced by the biotechnology industry. One
provision, for example, would allow generic competition to expensive
biological drugs but only after the original manufacturer had enjoyed 12 years
of exclusive use, a generous period by anyone's standards.Asked about the
Congressional statements, a lobbyist close to Genentech said: "This happens
all the time. There was nothing nefarious about it." --
In House, Many Spoke With One Voice: Lobbyists' (November 14, 2009) -
Puppets in Congress (November 16, 2009) -- The two New York Times'
articles above provide a powerful commentary about health care "reform," and
the true power behind the US health care system in general. They document the
level of influence, corruption, and conflict of interest that affects your
health.There should be no doubt about the power the drug industry wields in
shaping the US health care system.Big pharma has been the driving force behind
conventional medicine, and the beneficiaries of exploding health care costs
for well over a century, and there are no signs that the current health care
reform will change any of this.
Ron Paul: The Fed Will Self Destruct When It Destroys the
Dollar (with a video)
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Reserve continues. In a CNBC interview this morning he reiterated again his
firm position against the activities of the Federal Reserve being conducted in
secret. Paul believes there are many questions which Fed legitimately needs to
answer on its activities. He thinks the public should have the right to know
how, when, and to whom the nation's central bank lends its money. According to
Paul, whose basic premise in his fight against the Fed is Einstein's "Don't
expect the people who caused a problem to solve it," 75% of people want to see
the Fed audited. "The Fed will self destruct when it destroys the dollar",
Paul said. Last week a key House panel approved the Paul-Grayson Amendment by
an overwhelming 43-26, giving watchdogs new authority to audit the Federal
Reserve. Paul insists that accusation that proposal would politicize Fed is
wrong.
A paradox of plenty - hunger in America (November 24th,
2009)
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country, home to more obese people than anywhere else on earth, almost 50
million Americans struggled to feed themselves and their children in 2008.
That's one in six of the population. Millions went hungry, at least some of
the time. Things are bound to get worse.This the bleak picture drawn from an
annual survey on "household food security" compiled by the U.S. Department of
Agriculture (USDA) and released in mid-November. It showed the highest level
of food insecurity since the government started the survey, in 1995, and
provided a graphic illustration of the effect of sharply rising
unemployment.This year's picture will be even bleaker - the unemployment rate
more than doubled from the beginning of 2008 to now, at 10.2 percent the
highest in a quarter century. It is still climbing, and for many the distance
between losing a job and lack of food security is very short. (...) Vicki
Escarra, head of Feeding America, a hunger relief charity that runs 200 food
banks in the U.S., has likened the growing difficulties of those on the lower
rungs of the socio-economic ladder to conditions in the Third World. She is
right in more ways than one.The USDA report reflects inequality of Third World
proportions. While the Great Recession has culled the ranks of American
millionaires - by 22 percent according to a September study by the Boston
Consulting Group - the gap between rich and poor is not shrinking.Last year,
according to a report by the census bureau, the wealthiest 10 percent of
Americans made 11.4 times more than those living on the poverty line. The year
before, the ratio was 11.2. At the far end of the economic scale, America's
six largest bank holdings have set aside $112 billion in salaries and bonuses
during the first nine months of the year. By year's end, bonuses might exceed
the almost $164 billion paid in 2007, before the credit bubble banks had
helped to inflate burst and millions of Americans lost their jobs and savings.
CLIP
Mankind Destroys Food (12.11.2009)
In Russia, about 44 percent of citizens throw their food out
after it becomes too late to eat it. About 37 percent feed excessive food to
pets, ten percent try to eat bad food anyway, and about two percent of
Russians give away the food that they don't need to those in need. Moscow
annually produces up to eight million tons of domestic refuse. According to
Greenpeace, edible wastes make about 40 percent of domestic refuse. It just so
happens that Muscovites throw out about 2.7 million tons of food
annually.Moscow's Food Resources Department said that the daily consumption of
food in the city in 2008 was measured at 32,500 tons, which made 11.68 million
tons a year. Therefore, about a quarter of the purchased food finds itself in
garbage bags in Russia's capital - over 23 percent.In Britain, the situation
is similar. About 5.3 million tons of food evaluated at 12 billion pounds
sterling ($20 billion) is utilized in Britain annually, The Guardian wrote
with reference to a new report from Wrap agency.Liquid food - milk, soups,
soft drinks - make most of food garbage. A British family throws out 480
pounds every year, and the figure grows to 680 pounds a year in case there are
children in a family. Wrap's experts previously said that one-tenth of all
discharged foodstuffs is quite edible. People do not even unpack about 60
percent of the food that they throw out as garbage. The food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations said that the number of undernourished
people in the world had increased to 1 billion by October of the outgoing
year. Most of these people live in developing states. The production of food
has to be increased by 70 percent by 2050 to feed the planet's population.
Otherwise, the UN said, mankind will have to face massive hunger.
Giving Thanks for America's Good Food Movement (26 November
2009)
What better day than Thanksgiving to celebrate our country's
food rebels!I'm talking about the growing movement of small farmers, food
artisans, local retailers, co-ops, community organizers, restaurateurs,
environmentalists, consumers and others -- perhaps including you. This
movement has spread the rich ideas of sustainability, organic, local control
and the Common Good from the fringes of our food economy into the mainstream.
It began in earnest in the 1980s and 1990s as an "upchuck rebellion" --
ordinary folks rejecting the industrialized, chemicalized, corporatized and
globalized food system. Farmers wanted a more natural connection to the good
earth that they were working, just as consumers began demanding edibles that
were not saturated with pesticides, injected with antibiotics, ripened with
chemicals, dosed with artificial flavorings and otherwise tortured. These two
interests began to find each other and to create an alternative way of
thinking about food. Today, more than 13,000 organic farmers produce
everything from wheat to meat, and organic food sales top $23 billion a year.
Some 4,800 vibrant farmers' markets operate in practically every city and town
across the land, linking farmers and food-makers directly to consumers in a
local, supportive economy. Also, restaurants, supermarkets, food wholesalers
and school districts are now buying foodstuffs that are produced sustainably
and locally. No one in a position of power -- corporate or governmental --
made any of these changes happen. Instead, the movement percolated up from the
grassroots, and it has become a groundswell as ordinary people inform
themselves, organize locally and assert their own democratic values over those
of the corporate structure. Family by family, town by town, this movement has
changed not only the market, but also the culture of food. CLIP
Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life
(November 10, 2009) THEY ARE SO FUNNY!
Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for
challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the
Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial
alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church. "The questions of
life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very
suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes,
an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory. Funes, a Jesuit priest,
presented the results ... of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers,
physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of
astrobiology - the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in
the cosmos. The Church of Rome's views have shifted radically through the
centuries since Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake as
a heretic in 1600 for speculating, among other ideas, that other worlds could
be inhabited. Funes told Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano that believing
the universe may host aliens, even intelligent ones, does not contradict a
faith in God. "How can we rule out that life may have developed elsewhere?
Just as there is a multitude of creatures on Earth, there could be other
beings, even intelligent ones, created by God. This does not contradict our
faith, because we cannot put limits on God's creative freedom." Funes
maintained that if intelligent beings were discovered, they would also be
considered "part of creation."
9/11's delayed legacy: cancer for many of the rescue
workers (November 11, 2009)
A spate of recent deaths of New York police and fire
officers who took part in the emergency operation at Ground Zero after the
9/11 attacks has heightened fears that it could be the start of a delayed
epidemic of cancer-related illness. Five firefighters and police officers, all
of whom were involved in the rescue and clear-up at the site of the collapsed
Twin Towers, have died of cancer in the past three months, the oldest being
44. Three died last month within a four-day period. Up to 70,000 people took
part in the massive operation at Ground Zero, including police, firefighters
and construction workers who came to New York voluntarily from all over the
US. Many worked for months amid a toxic soup of dust and chemicals. Amid the
pollutants within the giant pile of 1.8m tons of debris and the surrounding
air were ... about 1,000 tons of asbestos that was used in the construction of
the Twin Towers, pulverised lead from computers, mercury and highly
carcinogenic by-products from the burning of plastics and chlorinated
chemicals. No official tally is available for the number of those who have
died as a result of the 9/11 clear-up. The New York state health department
has recorded 817 deaths of emergency workers. Claire Calladine, a campaigner
who runs the organisation
9/11
Health Now, said the fear was that the
recent rise in cancer cases was just the start. "We have only seen the tip of
the iceberg. How bad will it get - that is the big question."
Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around
U.S. (November 23, 2009)
Approval for medical use expands alongside criticism of
prohibition - The same day they rejected a gay marriage ballot measure,
residents of Maine voted overwhelmingly to allow the sale of medical marijuana
over the counter at state-licensed dispensaries. Later in the month, the
American Medical Association reversed a longtime position and urged the
federal government to remove marijuana from Schedule One of the Controlled
Substances Act, which equates it with heroin. A few days later, advocates for
easing marijuana laws left their biannual strategy conference with plans to
press ahead on all fronts -- state law, ballot measures, and court -- in a
movement that for the first time in decades appeared to be gaining ground.
"This issue is breaking out in a remarkably rapid way now," said Ethan
Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Public opinion is
changing very, very rapidly." The shift is widely described as generational. A
Gallup poll in October found 44 percent of Americans favor full legalization
of marijuana -- a rise of 13 points since 2000. Gallup said that if public
support continues growing at a rate of 1 to 2 percent per year, "the majority
of Americans could favor legalization of the drug in as little as four years."
CLIP
First marijuana coffee shop opens in America (20 Nov
2009)
The first marijuana coffee shop in the US has opened,
posing an early test of the Obama administration's move to relax the policing
of medical use of the drug. The Cannabis Cafe in Portland, Oregon, is the
first to give people who have been prescribed marijuana by a doctor a place to
get hold of the drug and smoke it, although they have to remain out of public
view. CLIP
EMF-Omega-News 14. November 2009
EMF-Omega-News 28. November 2009
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From: Geraldine Helwing (ghelwing@earthlink.net)
Subject: Quantum message
Date: 24 Nov 2009
Greetings, Jean!
Just thought I'd share a recent quantum intuitive
message and understanding received on Monday, Nov 2, 09.
It was a combination vision, message and quantum
message. I saw the "walls of Jericho" (all forms of institutionalized/ power,
destruction of our planet and humanity) come tumbling down with the "trumpet
of truth." I saw how there will be a mass awakening of those who have been
asleep seduced by the powers of millennia. They will be asking themselves,
"Do I really want to do this?" "How could I/we have done this? " What can I
do to atone?" "How can we prevent this from ever happening again.?" "What can
I do to create a world that works for all?" The awakening will be very, very
painful for many. It will be soul-searching. A time for personal and
collective responsibility. Healing through accountability, integrity,
responsibility, and compassion. This will be necessary to heal the sins of
the fathers. It will be part of the cleansing, purging of our planet. The
process is similar to what I went through when I awoke and needed to heal (it
took many years) from my Collective German Shame (I was born in the US after
WWII).
I also saw that the Swine flu vaccine H1N1 is the Emperor's New Clothes of the
Pharmaceutical/government/medical/media symbiosis that will contribute to
these walls tumbling down. It heralds the new era as people wake up and think
independently, see through the manipulations, destructive intentions and
actions of organized forms of power. It will be very difficult for those
within health care who have been asleep to wake up, ask the above questions,
give up ego, power, and control, and take personal and collective
responsibility for true healing. The purging will be very intense.
My heart panged, knowing full well the difficult soul
journey that lay ahead for many. I felt nauseated, wanted to vomit. My body
was remembering my recent journey with a Shaman when I wrestled with the heart
of evil, purging the evil and negativity out of myself, humanity, and our Holy
Earth Mother. I knew in that experience what Christ went through in the
desert when he wrested with the devil. It was like I was on a shamanic
journey for the collective on planet Earth. The devil and evil is not what we
think it is.
In my Shamanic journey, the ONLY way I made it through
wrestling with the heart of evil was to repeatedly ask God for help. I kept
saying, "I cannot do this myself. I need your help." There were times when I
felt totally helpless. My experience was that I had 3 choices: to die, be
possessed, or victorious. I chose to be victor. It took all of my
strength. Over, and over during the journey I repeatedly asked God for help.
I could not have done it alone. This was an experience that was far beyond
me.
Do with this information as you choose.
In peace, transformation and healing,
Geraldine Helwing
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From: Bill Cain (bpcain@hughes.net)
Subject: Comment on Mike Quinsey
Date: 18 Nov 2009
Jean,
Why do you include messages from those like Mike Quinsey
in your compilations? Mr. Quinsey has a direct connection to Blossom
Goodchild, the channeler who incorrectly predicted an ET event about a year
ago that was supposed to initiate UFO Disclosure. His recent message on your
compilation is more of the same.
If predictions like this that never materialize aren't
enough to cast doubts of credibility on those who profess them, then can those
like yourself who continue to give these people a platform be trusted?
I was suckered into the Planet X scare of 2003 by a site
called Zetatalk, and the channeler who compiles the garbage on that site,
Nancy Leider. She and the site have since been revealed as government
disinformers. Yet, there are those still gullible enough to follow what that
site spews.
The best way to lose one's internet credibility is to
embrace predictions that never materialize. The disinformers work 24/7.
Bill Cain
AND MY REPLY WAS
Hi Bill!
This is a good question indeed. Usually when I stop to
read one of his channelings it is because a subscriber emailed it to me. Of
course, I don't include everything I read in my compilations but if the
material I read holds my attention to the end or seems rather important to
pass on - like some recent scientific discoveries about the state of the
planet or any of the many environmental crises and ills we face - then I'm
inclined to include it.
In the case of channelings, much of which often
stretches the "credibility" tolerance of most people, there may be elements
that are hard to consider as true or even possible from a rational standpoint,
while others in the same channelings have an inspirational quality -
encouraging people to think positively about the future and not get
discouraged by the tons of dispiriting information available on the Web - that
I find appealing for the relative balance they can help bring to my
compilations. So instead of cutting out the harder to believe stuff and
cherry-pick only what I like, I leave the whole thing there except when I
decide to just quote a short excerpt for the Quotes section.
Regarding the aspect of those annoying predictions that
never seem to materialize like the whole Blossom Goodchild story - an BTW when
you say that Quinsey is connected with her (which I didn't know), would that
imply that anybody somehow connected to her loses all credibility by the
simple fact of such a connection?... Dubious... I guess that a part of me is
curious about such a possibility as I believe it will finally happen some day
and so I think many others may also be curious to hear about it... I mean, if
it finally happens wouldn't it be nice also to think I had been able to
mention it somewhere in my compilations well ahead of it - but granted this is
a trivial reason - I'm just thinking aloud here to clarify for you why I
include such stuff...
It is true that I may walk on thin ice when I network
that kind of stuff because there is little chance it will come true within the
predicted time period... But networking it without any word from me endorsing
clearly the stated predictions does not mean that I "embrace" them as you
say... There is worst stuff than that to be "concerned" about anyway, for
instance the material I've sometimes networked about the alleged underground
bases where reptilian and grey ETs are allegedly doing horrible experiments on
captive humans or about the network of concentration camps in the US, or any
of the numerous top secret stuff like the idea of a shadow government being
behind 9-11, that for most people is just as hard to believe in as the
scenario of advanced civilizations' ships decloaking in the skies and coming
to assist us in getting rid of the infamous cabal and fixing the global
environment ...
Which is more far-fetched?... or so improbable that it
shouldn't even be mentioned?...
Aside from that -- and it is worth reminding ourselves
that millions and millions of people have seen space crafts (some of earthly
origin granted), that tons of pictures and films can be seen of the web,
including from recently released governmental databases... heck! even Larry
king often invites people to talk about this on CNN!... so the presence of
advanced ET civilizations is quite obvious to me -- perhaps the role of such
continuing predictions that never seem to materialize fully is to acclimatize
people with the notion that we can indeed one day get such assistance but only
when some critical conditions are met - like psychological preparedness of the
population, non interference from a full fledged military attack against their
decloaked ships, etc., and most importantly people being generally strong
enough emotionally and psychologically to not put them on any kind of pedestal
so as to interact with them in a dignified manner while retaining their
freewill to make the decisions for themselves based on the best information
available and not merely because someone from these civilizations said so...
Just as for the Amazonian tribes whose culture
experienced a blow when they first got in touch with the rest of the world,
there will be lots of adapting and up-to-speeding to do for us all when global
first contact will take place. Like many of the aboriginal cultures that have
managed to adapt quite well to the modern realities and to have their rights
and territories respected, the same will likely happen over time for all of us
regarding the new realities brought by actual global contact with space-faring
civilizations offering their assistance to enable us to pass through the
perilous times we are in...
In conclusion, it comes down to a matter of feeling: if
my "shit detector" doesn't scream "watch out, smells fishy!" and I sense that
some stuff can play some positive role in some way, then I usually decide to
include it - and as you know I've included lots of wild stuff in my
compilations... so why not that too?...
But in the end the choice and variety of views and
material offered in my compilations is so vast that every subscriber gets a
chance to exercise his/her own discernment ability and make up his/her own
mind as to what to trust or not... and that too is important... as this is not
about trusting me or anyone else about anything. What matters is what
resonates or not as true for each one of us, and that is the only litmus test
that needs to be passed in that regard.
Concerning the Planet X scare your mention, I just
googled the ERN archives and see that it comes up 19 times in
my compilations,
the first one in 2001 being a quote
from a letter debunking the rumors of an alleged "Planet X"... but I'm sure
that through the lot you'll find stuff that is questionable in retrospect and
should not have been included...
I can also understand that because of you feel you've
been suckered into this hoax, you now have a kind of allergic reaction to all
other similar stuff such as Quinsey's risky predictions. I would probably feel
just the same...
Finally, although it is clear to me as well that there
is much disinformation going around, I fail to see who in the shadowy figures
of this world could benefit from the generally spiritually uplifting
information Mike Quinsey writes about in the messages he claims to receive. To
me it all seems pretty innocuous. For this to be disinformation there has to
be stealthy reasons for spreading such claims. One of the possible goals that
I can think of regarding this disinformation source you seem to say he is
could be to maintain its readers in a demobilizing wait-and-see stance because
there would seem to be no need to do anything to save ourselves from our own
mess since ET saviors will soon come to make everything right for us... But
frankly I doubt anyone is holding his/her breath about such ET
intervention... It is nice to know about such a possibility but to me and to
any reasonably sane person it is clear that, if any such hypothetical help is
overtly extended - and I'm thoroughly convinced it has already been covertly
extended a great numbers of times since the beginning of the nuclear age,
notably to prevent an accidental full-scale nuclear war - we must be somehow
prove ourselves worthy of it and thus do our utmost best to help shift the
world towards peaceful coexistence - and I'd say we are gradually getting
there - environmental sustainability - we still have a long way to go but we
have made huge progress as compared to a mere decade ago - and spiritual
maturity as well as emotional balance - this is hard to objectively gage but
my gut feeling is that we are also making significant progress there as well.
So I hope that more or less answers your question on
this.
"You all have a lot to thank each other for as nothing
is really happening by chance. Therefore, think carefully of the
responsibility you have undertaken, and always try to see a situation from all
angles. Do not judge another soul who crosses your path, as you know no more
about their level of consciousness or life plan, than they know about yours.
Do what is necessary to help anyone in need and you will gain through such
acts. Compassion is vital regardless as to who requires your help, and do not
let an opportunity go by where you can express your own Light and Love.
Evolution comes with finding your spiritual self and exercising your love for
all other life."
I totally concur with this as I do with most of what
Mike disseminates... I think he is doing a great job and is providing a useful
service like so many other souls selflessly serving the highest good of all...
Have a great day Bill ;-)
Jean
3.
Message from Matthew and Hatonn - November 19, 2009
Energy of anticipation; ET disclosure TV program,
background; "V," "2012" and other fear tactics; illness in Ukraine; power of
love; god/goddess soul essence; children's bodies 3D to 4D; intuition,
thoughts; duality's challenges; soul contract, pre-birth agreement
This is Matthew to extend loving greetings from all
souls at this station and to share with you our observations. In this moment
"anticipatory" may be the best word to describe the collective feelings of
enlightened souls-not exclusively pertaining to an announcement of our
universal family's presence, but that is where a great deal of anticipation
energy is being directed. Some of you are waiting calmly, yet with excited
certainty; others who feel excitement also have a large measure of "get this
show on the road" impatience; and in some of you the energy of eagerness is
overshadowed by "show me" doubtfulness. Then there are the majority of
peoples, those who have no idea whatsoever that official recognition of other
civilizations is imminent.
Hatonn has agreed to speak about what is happening behind the scenes
pertaining to the public announcement, and we turn over this forum to him.
HATONN: Thank you, Matthew, my friend. As an
intergalactic fleet commander and director of multidimensional communication,
I am knowledgeable about preparations for a globally televised program that
will present evidence of extraterrestrial civilizations.
Official recognition can't be further delayed because
much has to be accomplished during this phase of universal activity. It's
essential to repair the severe damage that has been done to Earth so she can
regain her health and restore well being to her inhabitants, and there's no
time to waste. We're here by Earth's request and God's authorization because
we have the capacity and desire to help you, but your representatives are
responsible for making decisions because this is your world.
The program announcing our presence is a complex undertaking. The numbers of
folks who are expecting us and will greet us wholeheartedly are very few, and
the program is being designed for the multitudes. It has to be presented
without creating fear or undue backlash. There's formidable opposition to any
recognition of our very existence, and the security of all persons involved in
the program is a foremost consideration. When I say "security," I also mean
the emotional security of all witnesses and other participants and their
families, not only their physical safety-we have that well in hand.
The program can't be just film clips of spacecraft sightings. In some areas
these are so numerous that it's ho-hum, they're back. There has to be solid
evidence about our presence and that's where personal accounts come in.
Testifying before a panel that pledges witnesses to secrecy is quite different
from letting the world know their identities, and the same goes for the people
who have been working with us or at least know why we are here. Some have been
blackballed in their professions or declared delusional or crazy. In some
cases families have been threatened and individuals killed by factions that
don't want you to know we exist, especially not right here with you. Those in
charge of the program want everyone who's willing to speak about personal
experiences to feel emotionally secure doing it.
This is an international action and it's important that there is agreement
among the governments involved. Major decisions have been made, but some
details are still being discussed. Some of your representatives favor keeping
the initial program brief and releasing information in increments so people
won't feel overwhelmed. They propose a brief statement that many spacecraft
seen during the past several years are from other civilizations, there's no
reason to think any harm is intended, and more information will follow as it's
compiled. Others want the program to answer all logical questions and some of
our representatives tell how they've been to helping the planet through what
you call the shift or cleansing. Some think it would be frightening to see us
as we appear in our native lands-not all of us look like you. Others say it's
necessary to show ourselves as we are to prove that we aren't from your
civilization. Some think including live coverage of a mother ship decloaking
is a good idea, others think it could be more threatening than reassuring.
What kinds of information to present on the program and
how much can be covered without overload is being debated. Would it be helpful
or overkill to explain that Earth is moving out of her regular orbit by
intention and needs our help off and on the planet? Would that involve
explaining that Earth is a soul? How much can be said about our technologies
without alarming folks about how we might use it? Would it be foolish or
comforting to say that our presence has prevented other civilizations from
trying to invade Earth? To what extent should the cover-up be disclosed? What
about admitting that your governments refused our offers of technology in
exchange for ending weaponry development and wars that could annihilate you
all? How would it affect your population to know that both dark and light
beings from other civilizations have been living among you and influencing
your way of life? Should the program include personal accounts of both
positive and negative abduction experiences? What to say about the "little
grays" that have been living for many years in underground cities? What
mixture of scientific, political and religious spokespersons should be in the
program?
There are differing opinions about when to air it. The United States
government, once the most vocal in denying our existence, now favors the most
extensive disclosure with maximum speed. A few of your representatives want
more polls and strategic interviews to determine how much information your
world is ready for. Some in both camps want every national leader to be
personally told what will be in the program prior to show time and others
think sending each one the program outline is enough diplomatic courtesy.
This vital decision-making process that started off slowly a year ago has
reached the point that within a couple of months at the outside, this
"Earth-awakening" program will be on the air. The movers and shakers with
integrity, wisdom and spiritual conviction will not be swayed by threats,
bribes, even assassination attempts by the ones who oppose them. You can call
them Illuminati or the Elite, the cabal, New World Government or Secret
Government, New World Order or the darkness, it's all the same. It's the
disparate groups that are operating under the heavy influence of the dark
forces, that vast force field of negative thought forms. That is too esoteric
to give out on the program, but the full truth about this vast populated
universe will be revealed as Earth progresses into higher energy planes.
I think that covers everything. Thank you, Matthew.
MATTHEW: Thank you, Hatonn. This is a good place for
timely questions that are combined as, Will proof of extraterrestrial life
make it easier for all of humanity to awaken spiritually to the Oneness of All
with God? As greatly as we wish this for all Earth's peoples, we have to say
that it is not likely. Proof of intelligent life beyond Earth does not
automatically impart spiritual clarity to a third density civilization, and
the majority of your world's population still is at that level. Of the many
other long-hidden truths that will be revealed, the most difficult for many to
accept is the origin and purpose of religions, and there will be strong
resistance to accepting that truth regardless of how solid the evidence is.
Without understanding that greedy, power-hungry individuals devised religious
dogmas to control and divide the masses, to make God a fearful supreme being
whose rules must be obeyed and that those self-serving individuals themselves
made those rules, and that much of the information given by God's true
messengers was distorted or omitted in religious books, there can be no
spiritual clarity or growth of the soul.
Hatonn spoke of the formidable opposition to
acknowledging the existence of extraterrestrial life. This includes creating
fear about the motives of other civilizations, and the dark ones have been
doing that through entertainment venues. While it may appear that the
television show "V" was strategically planned after initial discussions a year
or so back about officially recognizing other civilizations, producing that
kind of viewing is just another means whereby seeds of fear have been planted
throughout the ages. The same is true of the movie "2012," designed to evoke
fearful thoughts that the world really may come to the kind of end that some
fundamentalist religions are expecting. With "entertainment" catering to that
belief and refreshing the fear about aliens, not to mention the many other
popular entertainment forms based in violence, you can see why all aspects of
the announcement program must be so carefully considered.
Fear is the dark ones' most powerful weapon against the light because the
energy of fear not only forms a barrier between the consciousness and the
soul, it refuels the darkness to keep it thriving. Another means of achieving
that two-way objective as well as reducing the world's population was
developing various strains of "flu" viruses. An important part of this
diabolical scheme to create plagues, which during your history have caused
massive fear and death tolls, was the conditioning of Earth's peoples to
regard death as the ultimate in fear.
The mysterious illness striking in the Ukraine and spreading beyond its
borders is a continuation of the dark ones' biowarfare. After failure to
produce the intended global fear and death toll with the SARS, avian flu, and
swine flu/N1H1 viruses, which were neutralized by our space family's
technology, the darkly-inclined ones developed a combination of strains whose
virulence cannot be destroyed with the same high degree of success as with
those three lesser toxic laboratory-designed viruses.
The intended pandemic and death toll will not happen, but not all who become
sick will recover. While some souls are dying in accordance with the longevity
part of pre-birth agreements, others are leaving prior to contract
fulfillment. In Nirvana those souls will find that completing their chosen
third density karmic lessons is easier than in a physical lifetime because all
learning-it is not learning new information, it is remembering what you know
at soul level-is facilitated by the powerful love energy in Earth's spirit
world. This is true of all souls who left or will leave prior to contract
completion or whose petition to amend the original terms was or will be
honored.
Another widespread fear is lack of the essentials that sustain life-clean air,
food, and water-and the dark ones have been relentless in their efforts to
befoul Earth's natural elements as well as deny billions of her residents even
subsistence living conditions. Through long ages of instilling fear through
mental conditioning and devising circumstances that engender fright, illness,
suffering and death, the darkness has controlled Earth's peoples.
I want to address my statement in a previous message that several readers
interpreted as my saying that genetically modified foods are not harmful. No,
I was not saying that. I was giving those foods and one-season seeds as
examples of the many ways the darkness conceives to adversely impact your
lives and keep fear flourishing. Mother, please copy the part I am referring
to.
"Other information in circulation also is designed specifically to create
fear. For example, grains, fruits and vegetables produced by grafting have
been consumed for decades with no adverse health effects, so from whence came
the idea that "genetically modified foods" are harmful? The more recent
production of seeds that cannot produce future crops is another matter-like
other developments devised with dark intent, it also will be short-lived. Time
is fast running out for anything and everything born of darkness!"
Thank you. In retrospect I see that my words did not clearly convey that
genetically modified foods and non-reproductive seeds come from dark intent to
create fear, but since my mother understood my meaning, neither of us realized
that it should have been stated more clearly. I shall repeat that excerpt's
last sentence, which has no ambiguity whatsoever: Time is fast running out for
anything and everything born of darkness!
What the darkness had not reckoned with was your
reawakening and reclaiming your god and goddess powers that let you shake
loose from its control. This triumph for you is doom for the darkness, but
even with all the evidence that their end is inevitable, the puppets of the
dark forces will not accept defeat as long as they can arouse fear and panic.
We know that many enlightened souls often ponder how best to serve the light.
We say, hold your light steady and send forth beams of unconditional love to
Earth-the energy of love, which is the same energy as light expressed
differently, is far more powerful than the energy of fear!
We understand that when you see your world in turmoil with so many enduring
sorrow, hunger, disease and poverty-and those are the focus of news reports-it
is difficult to always see the love, beauty and goodness that is even more
prevalent in your world. It always is surrounding you in abundance, much of it
unseen with your eyes, but so close to you in spirit. When headlines "are too
much with you," visualize the world of peace and love that you know awaits in
your timing and already is manifested in universal timing. Allow feelings of
joy and love to flow into and from your heart-love is inestimable in its
capacity to uplift you and all who are around you, and this energy is so
powerful that it radiates into distant lands.
Yet not everyone will choose to embrace this energy because it entails opening
minds to many truths, and paramount among them is the Oneness of All, the
inseparability of all souls with God and Creator. Please do not be saddened if
persons very dear to you cannot "see the light," and please do not feel it is
your responsibility to urge them. Everyone will awaken in his or her own
timing-if not in this lifetime, then in another with the same opportunities to
grow spiritually. At whatever station you and souls you love may be, eternal
love bonds forever unite you-life is eternal, the soul is immortal!
If I'm having trouble seeing myself or anyone else as a
god or goddess, will this reduce my chances of ascending with Earth? Anyone
whose self-identity is based on a perception of a "godly" appearance is
looking outside instead of knowing inside. According to the gender each of you
chose for this lifetime, you are designated as either a god or a goddess, but
that differentiation is not important-knowing that every one of you is a part
of God IS! God is androgynous, the balance of feminine and masculine energies,
and those have nothing at all to do with gender, but rather soul essence.
It could be helpful and equally accurate to think of humanity as that essence
instead of individual gods or goddesses, which only signifies the gender
choice of each soul for this lifetime. Because this could give rise to
questions about transsexual persons, I repeat that it is essence-not form and
features or sexuality or gender-that constitutes a soul. It is the choices
each of you makes in using that essence that constitutes living in "godly"
ways or not. Everything in our universe is eternally interconnected with and
inseparable from God, by whatever name, and every soul is a part of that
Oneness. Knowing this, feeling this, is part of the spiritual growth that
enables ascending into higher densities.
Will babies and children make the ascension journey with
Earth? Unless these souls chose very short incarnations to benefit themselves
and all others in the pre-birth agreement, yes, indeed they will go along with
Earth.
What physical changes will children undergo as they shift into 4D bodies? Some
souls who recently came in have bodies with crystalline cellular structure,
and those who don't will experience less upsetting physical and emotional
symptoms than adults whose bodies also are changing from carbon-based to
crystalline. Part of adults' adjustment is the uprooting and discarding of
thought patterns that form belief systems and behavior patterns burdened by
cellular memory. Children simply have not lived long enough to be as heavily
indoctrinated and they respond more quickly and positively to the higher
vibrations than most adults. Many souls who embodied during the past few years
consciously know their God connection and are aware of their rightful place in
our universal family-that innate knowledge did not get "lost" in their third
density bodies. It is devoutly hoped that the parents chosen by these infants
and youngsters will preserve rather than thwart their children's unusual
degree of curiosity that is born of ancient wisdom.
How can we know what is intuition and what is our own thoughts? Intuition is
an instantaneous reaction to a new situation or new information and is a
sensation more than a "full blown" thought. What you call a "fleeting thought"
may be intuition, but if your impression of the situation or information comes
after a pause and has clear mental focus, then it is a thought. Pondering or
analyzing any issue is your own thoughts about it. You could think of
intuition as the signal that motivates you to take instant action in
accordance with your spontaneous reaction or to seriously think about why you
had that reaction-perhaps a lifesaving measure or a job change, respectively.
"We seem to be confronted more than ever with our 'dark'
issues. Is there a 'deadline' on dealing with those feelings, attitudes,
emotions, addictions, etc. or should we just acknowledge them and we will
simply outgrow them as we evolve into 4D existence?" This contemplation goes
directly to the core of third density's duality-the spectrum of human
emotions, characteristics and behavior-and souls' multiple lifetimes to
experience and overcome duality's pitfalls.
Although you could say there is the deadline of mortality for completion of
chosen experiencing in each incarnation, there is no such deadline within the
timeless continuum where multiple lifetimes-the soul's experiencing
personages, each its own independent and inviolate self-are happening
simultaneously. It is difficult to comprehend something that cannot be
remembered as personally experienced and for which there is no conscious frame
of reference, like life without linear time and a soul comprising many
independent soul-personages, but we shall do our best to explain what you do
know at soul level.
In your galaxy, Earth is one of the best schoolhouses for learning to deal
with duality-that's why you are there. Graduation, so to speak, is mastering
duality's many challenges and evolving into fourth density, where duality
doesn't exist. It may require only a few lifetimes or many hundreds for a
soul's personages to have thoughts, emotions, motives and activities with
positive, or light, vibrations rather than those with negative, or dark,
vibrations.
Each lifetime in Earth's spirit world is in preparation for the next
incarnation, the soul's next personage. The soul reviews its most recent
physical life and in the process, not only sees every moment throughout the
lifetime, but feels all of its own emotions and the emotions of everyone with
whom it interacted. Depending on how closely the soul adhered to its pre-birth
agreement with the other souls who participated in the lifetime, you could say
that this review process is the "heaven" and "hell" of religions.
However, the review, like karma, is neither reward nor punishment. It is
evaluating the immediate past lifetime in the context of all personage
lifetimes and determining what is needed to fill gaps or strengthen weaknesses
in the collective experiencing. Because the goal of every soul is spiritual
evolvement, one who is lagging may request advice from an "old soul" with
advanced awareness, and a soul whose life review was lax will be guided by
more experienced souls in selecting what it needs in its next personage life.
In spirit worlds the Oneness of All is known, and advice and guidance are
given with unconditional love. That also is the basis on which souls agree to
share a lifetime, including those who accept the "heavy" roles that give
others the chance to experience what they need for spiritual growth. Because
souls are inseparable yet function independently as personages, the evolution
of one contributes to all. The reverse, devolvement, is just as true, so it is
in all souls' best interests to assist each other. That "motivation"
explanation is only to show souls' willing cooperation, because unconditional
love is much more than the basis for pre-birth agreements and guidance, it is
the very makeup of the soul.
With love abounding, it is logical to wonder how any soul can become dark. It
is by being weak-willed and giving over godself's powers to an entity that
holds forth rewards of fortunes and control in return for greedy, ruthless,
dishonorable, dictatorial actions. That entity is known as the dark forces,
the vast force field of negative thought forms, and a soul who is lured by
those rewards aligns itself and its actions with those thought forms, drops
from its Beginnings in the light, and sinks into darkness.
Now then, a soul's selection for each physical lifetime starts with parents
for genetic, cultural and environmental reasons and it chooses specific
skills, talents, interests, personality traits-everything that makes an
individual unique. That composite along with intended interactions with all
who will be sharing the lifetime becomes the new personage's soul contract,
its part of the pre-birth agreement.
A newborn has full awareness of the contract provisions, but they fade as the
baby adjusts to the needs of a dense body and to parental conditioning. As the
child grows, influence from peers, teachers and other authority figures comes
into the lifetime. Not only has everything in the soul contract been
forgotten, but there is pressure to conform to others' standards and
expectations. The soul keeps in touch with its personage through conscience,
intuition, instinct, inspiration and aspirations to "nudge" the personage
along the course of the contract. But the desire to express one's free will is
strong indeed and therein lie duality's challenges: To which end of the
spectrum are the personage's interests, desires and goals heading, into the
light or the darkness?
Now let us put all of you and all of that background into this moment that is
unprecedented on Earth, indeed in the universe. In brief-because this has been
extensively covered in various previous messages-Earth chose to leave third
density, but because she was too weakened by negativity to do it alone, she
asked for help. One form of assistance is the in-pouring of feminine, or
goddess, energy to balance the long-dominant masculine energy that was the
source of negativity. The "mingled" energy is magnifying all emotions and
characteristics, and the differences between light and dark tendencies are
increasingly noticeable. This "wheat and chaff" situation lets you more
clearly see yourself -the conduct of others provides a mirror for you.
There is a universal "window" for Earth's ascension and the linear clock is
ticking. She is assured of reaching her destination in good time, but if you
want to physically go along, you must wind up third density karmic lessons,
just as you chose in your soul contract. Remembering that the soul nudges your
consciousness in accordance with that contract, uncomfortable feelings about
self are important messages. So far from this being a time of merely
acknowledging discomfort with your attitudes or behavior, it is an opportunity
with time limits to change them.
Evolving from third density into fourth does not happen
simply because you're on the planet and the planet is ascending. Your
evolution comes with heeding conscience and intuition and the other wisdom
your soul is giving to guide you in alignment with your contract. It comes
with self-introspection, acting with honor, respecting all of Nature's life
forms, discerning truth from falsity, emulating but not copying persons whom
you greatly respect, and not judging others. It comes with recognizing and
feeling grateful for the blessings in your life, with forgiving yourself and
others for perceived injustices. It comes with living from your heart, the
seat of your soul.
Never are you alone in your journey of self-discovery
and evolution! Always the infinite arms of God-angels, spirit guides and free
spirits, beloved souls in Nirvana, souls from spiritually advanced
civilizations, and the energy of Christ consciousness manifested as love and
light and unsurpassed in its powers-are with you.
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4.
Recommended by Suzy Ward (suzy@matthewbooks.com) who
wrote: "Emails from readers in other countries are filled with praise for
Obama, and I can only wonder about the folks here who are so critical of him
-- who else do they think could do a better job as our president with the same
formidable foes anyone in the White House is up against? I'm a Kucinich
loyalist, but I don't think he could have managed everything that Obama has."
What Obama Is Up Against
by Russ Baker truthout News Analysis - November 2, 2009
The first anniversary of Barack Obama's historic election finds many of his
supporters already grousing. Fair enough: Obama has been more vigorous in some
areas than others. But one essential question goes unasked: How much can any
president accomplish against the wishes of recalcitrant power centers within
his own government?
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a
government that eagerly awaits his next command. Like an orchestra conductor
or perhaps a football coach, he can inspire or bludgeon and get what he wants.
But that's not how things work at the top, especially where "national
security" is concerned. The Pentagon and CIA are powerful and independent
fiefdoms characterized by entrenched agendas and constant intrigue. They are
full of lifers, who see an elected president largely as an annoyance, and have
ways of dealing with those who won't come to heel.
Compound that with the Bush-Cheney administration's aggressive seeding of its
staunch loyalists throughout the bureaucracy, and you have a pretty tough
situation. Obama, then, has to contend not only with the big donors and
corporate lobbies. His biggest problem resides right inside his "team."
The internal battles between American presidents and their national security
establishments are not much reported. But if it is an invisible game; it is
also a devious and even deadly one. Our civilian leaders end up mirroring the
chronically nervous chiefs of state of the fragile democracies to our south.
Those who do not kowtow to the spies and generals have had a bumpy ride. FDR
and Truman both faced insubordination. Dwight Eisenhower, who had served as
chief of staff of the US Army, left the White House warning darkly about the
"military industrial complex." (He of all presidents had reasons to know.)
John Kennedy was repeatedly countermanded and double-crossed by his own
supposed subordinates. The Joint Chiefs baited him; Allen Dulles despised him
(more so after JFK fired him over the Bay of Pigs fiasco), and Henry Cabot
Lodge, his ambassador to South Vietnam, deliberately undermined Kennedy's
agenda. Kennedy called the trigger-happy generals "mad" and spoke angrily to
aides of "scattering the CIA to the wind." The evidence is growing that he
suffered the consequences.
In the 1950s, the late Col. L. Fletcher Prouty, a
high-ranking Pentagon official, was assigned by CIA Director Allen Dulles to
help place Dulles's officers under military cover throughout the federal
government. As a result, Dulles not only knew what was happening before the
president did, but had essentially infiltrated every corner of the president's
domain. One Nixon-era Republican Party official told me that in the early
1970s, there were intelligence officers everywhere, including the White House.
Nixon was unaware of the true background of many of his trusted aides,
particularly those who helped drive him from office. Remember Alexander
Butterfield, the so-called "military liaison," who told Congress about the
White House taping system? Years later, Butterfield admitted to CIA
connections.
In December 1971, Nixon learned of a military spy ring, the so-called Moorer-Radford
operation, that was piping White House documents back to the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. The Chiefs were wary of secret negotiations the president and Henry
Kissinger were conducting with America's enemies, including North Vietnam,
China and the USSR, and decided to keep tabs on this intrusion upon their
domain. Jimmy Carter came into office as revelations of CIA abuses made
headlines. He tried to dismantle the agency's dirty tricks office, but wound
up instead a victim of it - and a one-term president.
Those who avoided problems - Johnson, Reagan, Bush Sr. and Jr. - were chief
executives that made no problems for the Pentagon and intelligence chiefs. All
embraced military and covert operations, expanded wars or launched their own.
The agile Bill Clinton was a special case - no babe in the woods, he focused
on domestic gains and pretty much steered clear of the hornets' nest.
As for the Bushes, their ascension represented a seizure of power by the
national security state itself. Their family had profited from arms
manufacturing for decades. The patriarch, Prescott Bush, monitored US
assassination plots against foreign leaders as a senator; and records indicate
that the elder George Bush had been a secret agency operative for decades
before he became CIA director - and then, 12 years later, president.
Obama seems to understand his narrow range of movement, and to be carefully
picking his fights. He retained many of Bush's top military brass, and even
Bush's Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who himself had served as a CIA
director for Bush's father. He has trod very carefully with the spy agency,
and has declined to aggressively investigate Bush administration wrongdoing on
torture and wiretapping. Obama's campaign rhetoric about disengaging from Iraq
seems a long time ago, and the war in Afghanistan is taking on the hues of
permanency.
The old boys' network is very much in place, and it is
hard at work to force Obama's hand, a la Vietnam. Witness the leaking of Gen.
Stanley McChrystal's supposedly "confidential report" calling for escalation
in Afghanistan. The leak was, not surprisingly, to the reliable Bob Woodward.
The reporter was himself in Naval Intelligence shortly before he went to work
at the Washington Post, where he soon built a career around leaks from the
military and spy establishment. The White House was furious at the McChrystal
release. But what could it do? Presidents come and go, and the security folks
have ways to hasten the latter.
Covert alliances and payments to corrupt foreign allies continue, making
creative diplomacy more difficult. In late October came a front-page story
that the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, suspected of being a major
figure in that country's opium trade, has been on the CIA's payroll for eight
years. Anyone who finds this shocking should go back and read about the CIA
and the drug trade in Southeast Asia.
Throughout its six-decade history, the CIA has resisted accountability, with
even some of its own nonspook directors kept in the dark about the agency's
most troubling activities. As for the public's elected representatives, Nancy
Pelosi is the most recent in a long line of legislators to accuse the CIA of
deliberately misleading Congressional overseers.
None of this is likely to change soon, and not without a huge fight. Half a
century after Ike's famous admonition, conflict and intrigue remain the engine
of our economy, and everyone from private equity firms to missile makers to
car and truck manufacturers count on that to continue. The homeland security
industry, the most recent head to grow on this hydra, is now seeking
permanency.
So Barack Obama is boxed in. But so are the American people, and so, really,
is democracy itself. Bringing this inconvenient truth out in the open is the
essential first step toward taking back control of our government - and our
future. For all the reasons laid out here, Obama will need help. He may, in
the rote formulation, hold "the most powerful office in the world." However,
the extent to which he controls the government he heads, is another matter.
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Related articles:
Psy-ops and the fascist takeover (Nov 21, 2009)
THE FOLLOWING PERSPECTIVE ILLUSTRATES WELL A VIEW MANY SHARE
AND HOW TOUGH HIS CHALLENGE IS
The fascist takeover is being facilitated by a particular
psy-ops strategy. The right-wing is being hyped up with all sorts of nonsense
about Obama being a socialist, along with other disinformation, and so we have
one segment of society that hates Obama, and opposes his programs, for all the
wrong reasons. Simultaneously, we have what appears to be a strong
conservative resistance in Congress to Obama's legislative agendas. Meanwhile
the left, those at whom the mainstream propaganda is aimed, are presented with
an ongoing snow job regarding Obama, portraying him as a modern saint, a Nobel
Peace Prize winner, spreading reconciliation and sober wisdom everywhere he
goes. Those on the left look at the right, and they see a reactionary force, a
popular constituency plus conservative representatives who are together
preventing Obama from realizing his visions. They see a battle between good
and evil, between wisdom and ignoranceŠ Obama may not be perfect, and his
agendas may be flawed, but he is clearly our standard bearer in this battle.
Without him on the front lines, we'd be deluged by a conservative backlash.
Reality, on the other hand, is quite different than either of the propaganda
lines. For example, there is no battle happening on Capital Hill over
healthcare. The healthcare bill was finalized long ago by the insurance and
pharmaceutical companies, and we're simply being presented with theater, whose
final act will be the unveiling of thatbill, and whose purpose is to make us
think that is the best we could get. More generally, the perceived battle
between good and evil, a perception created by the effect of the psy-op
campaigns aimed at left and right, is itself just theater, the final act of
which will be outright fascism, and whose purpose is to distract us from the
real course of events. To the extent those on the left blame the right, or
those on the right blame the left, they are participating in that theater, and
thereby being herded like sheep toward fascism. Obama has been groomed over
the years for one particular job, he has embraced that job, and he is carrying
it out with enthusiasm and skill. That job is to be the point man for ushering
in global fascism, to play a key role in the transition to a world government
controlled by the global financial mafia, the same folks who funded Hitler and
Mussolini. His role is to project a persona of global leadership, a wise,
friendly face that can make the establishment of global tyranny appear to be
the onset of global harmony and reconciliation. A bit like Woodrow Wilson,
whose job was to usher in the Federal Reserve, and make it appear to be to be
the onset of financial stability. -- Check the 18 tenets at What is COTO?
http://cotocrew.wordpress.com/about/
Obama's Plans to Increase Afghanistan Troop Levels Would
Leave US With No Reserve (24 November 2009)
President Barack Obama intends to announce next week
that he will deploy tens of thousands of additional US troops to Afghanistan,
according to numerous published reports citing unnamed administration
officials, to fight an eight-year-old war that a majority of Americans do not
support and numerous Democratic lawmakers say is no longer worth waging.Leaks
coming out of the White House following Obama's final meeting Monday evening
with top military officials, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, National Security Adviser Jim
Jones, US. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and 12 other senior
members of his administration, indicate that the president will send 34,000
additional troops to the region over the next nine months, far short of the
80,000 troops Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal recommended last August. Still, the
surge would bring the total number of US soldiers in Afghanistan to about
100,000 and would severely strain an already stretched military.Indeed, as
Spencer Ackerman noted last week in an investigative report published in The
Washington Independent, "If President Obama orders an additional 30,000 to
40,000 troops to Afghanistan, he will be deploying practically every available
US Army brigade to war, leaving few units in reserve in case of an unforeseen
emergency and further stressing a force that has seen repeated combat
deployments since 2002. CLIP
Obama's Profile in Courage, or Cave-In? (27 November 2009)
"It took a lot of courage on Kennedy's part to defy the
Pentagon, defy the military - and do the right thing," (...) The good news for
today comes from press reporting that top officials of the Obama
administration, including the President, have read Goldstein's book. Applying
Kennedy's challenge on Vietnam to Obama's on Afghanistan, a Wall Street
Journal report of Oct. 7 noted, "For opponents of a major troop increase Š
'Lessons in Disaster' encapsulates their concerns about accepting military
advice unchallenged." Obama Must Decide - There are hints that Obama is more
Chicago than Harvard - and that, like Kennedy, he carries casualty figures
around in his conscience. His late-night, early-morning appearance at Dover
Air Force Base to salute what the Washington Post calls "transfer cases"
coming home from the war is, I believe, a telling sign. Obama knows they are
not just "transfer cases." This young President, too, is a "clever lad;" he is
also a politician. Intellectually, he is surely equipped to understand the
March of Folly that would be involved, were he to send substantial additional
forces to Afghanistan. Moreover, Obama is surely aware that the majority of
Americans are no longer deceived by the pundits at Fox News. Recent polls show
broader and broader popular opposition to sending more troops. The choice, in
my view, is between courage anchored in a determination to do the right thing
and cowardice cloaked in the politics of the possible. Let me guess what
you're thinking - "But that's asking too much of a young President; cowardice
is too strong a word; Obama cannot possibly face down the entire military
establishment."John Kennedy did. So the question is whether Barack Obama is
"no Jack Kennedy," or whether he will summon the courage to stand up to the
misguided military brass of today. We are talking, after all, about thousands
more being killed - and for what? CLIP
5.
The bankruptcy of the United States is now certain
November 24, 2009
From Porter Stansberry in the S&A Digest:
It's one of those numbers that's so unbelievable you have to actually think
about it for a while... Within the next 12 months, the U.S. Treasury will have
to refinance $2 trillion in short-term debt. And that's not counting any
additional deficit spending, which is estimated to be around $1.5 trillion.
Put the two numbers together. Then ask yourself, how in the world can the
Treasury borrow $3.5 trillion in only one year? That's an amount equal to
nearly 30% of our entire GDP. And we're the world's biggest economy. Where
will the money come from?
How did we end up with so much short-term debt? Like most entities that have
far too much debt - whether subprime borrowers, GM, Fannie, or GE - the U.S.
Treasury has tried to minimize its interest burden by borrowing for short
durations and then "rolling over" the loans when they come due. As they say on
Wall Street, "a rolling debt collects no moss." What they mean is, as long as
you can extend the debt, you have no problem. Unfortunately, that leads folks
to take on ever greater amounts of debtŠ at ever shorter durationsŠ at ever
lower interest rates. Sooner or later, the creditors wake up and ask
themselves: What are the chances I will ever actually be repaid? And that's
when the trouble starts. Interest rates go up dramatically. Funding costs
soar. The party is over. Bankruptcy is next.
When governments go bankrupt it's called "a default." Currency speculators
figured out how to accurately predict when a country would default. Two
well-known economists - Alan Greenspan and Pablo Guidotti - published the
secret formula in a 1999 academic paper. That's why the formula is called the
Greenspan-Guidotti rule. The rule states: To avoid a default, countries should
maintain hard currency reserves equal to at least 100% of their short-term
foreign debt maturities. The world's largest money management firm, PIMCO,
explains the rule this way: "The minimum benchmark of reserves equal to at
least 100% of short-term external debt is known as the Greenspan-Guidotti
rule. Greenspan-Guidotti is perhaps the single concept of reserve adequacy
that has the most adherents and empirical support."
The principle behind the rule is simple. If you can't pay off all of your
foreign debts in the next 12 months, you're a terrible credit risk.
Speculators are going to target your bonds and your currency, making it
impossible to refinance your debts. A default is assured.
So how does America rank on the Greenspan-Guidotti scale? It's a guaranteed
default. The U.S. holds gold, oil, and foreign currency in reserve. The U.S.
has 8,133.5 metric tonnes of gold (it is the world's largest holder). That's
16,267,000 pounds. At current dollar values, it's worth around $300 billion.
The U.S. strategic petroleum reserve shows a current total position of 725
million barrels. At current dollar prices, that's roughly $58 billion worth of
oil. And according to the IMF, the U.S. has $136 billion in foreign currency
reserves. So altogether... that's around $500 billion of reserves. Our
short-term foreign debts are far bigger.
According to the U.S. Treasury, $2 trillion worth of debt will mature in the
next 12 months. So looking only at short-term debt, we know the Treasury will
have to finance at least $2 trillion worth of maturing debt in the next 12
months. That might not cause a crisis if we were still funding our national
debt internally. But since 1985, we've been a net debtor to the world. Today,
foreigners own 44% of all our debts, which means we owe foreign creditors at
least $880 billion in the next 12 months - an amount far larger than our
reserves.
Keep in mind, this only covers our existing debts. The Office of Management
and Budget is predicting a $1.5 trillion budget deficit over the next year.
That puts our total funding requirements on the order of $3.5 trillion over
the next 12 months.
SoŠ where will the money come from? Total domestic savings in the U.S. are
only around $600 billion annually. Even if we all put every penny of our
savings into U.S. Treasury debt, we're still going to come up nearly $3
trillion short. That's an annual funding requirement equal to roughly 40% of
GDP. Where is the money going to come from? From our foreign creditors? Not
according to Greenspan-Guidotti. And not according to the Indian or the
Russian central bank, which have stopped buying Treasury bills and begun to
buy enormous amounts of gold. The Indians bought 200 metric tonnes this month.
Sources in Russia say the central bank there will double its gold reserves.
So where will the money come from? The printing press. The Federal Reserve has
already monetized nearly $2 trillion worth of Treasury debt and mortgage debt.
This weakens the value of the dollar and devalues our existing Treasury bonds.
Sooner or later, our creditors will face a stark choice: Hold our bonds and
continue to see the value diminish slowly, or try to escape to gold and see
the value of their U.S. bonds plummet.
One thing they're not going to do is buy more of our debt. Which central banks
will abandon the dollar next? Brazil, Korea, and Chile. These are the three
largest central banks that own the least amount of gold. None own even 1% of
their total reserves in gold.
I examined these issues in much greater detail in the most recent issue of my
newsletter, Porter Stansberry's Investment Advisory, which we published last
Friday. Coincidentally, the New York Times repeated our warnings - nearly word
for word - in its paper today. (They didn't mention Greenspan-Guidotti,
however... It's a real secret of international speculators.)
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Related articles:
U.S. bankruptcies rise 33 percent in third quarter (Nov
25, 2009)
NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. bankruptcy filings rose 33
percent in the third quarter to the highest number since 2005, government data
show, as rising unemployment and tight credit made it more difficult for
consumers and businesses to stay current on their debts."With unemployment
surpassing 10 percent and credit to businesses remaining tight, consumers and
businesses are increasingly turning to the financial relief of bankruptcy,"
said Samuel Gerdano, executive director of the nonpartisan American Bankruptcy
Institute, in a statement.There were 388,485 filings in the July-to-September
period, up from 292,291 a year earlier and up 2 percent from the second
quarter's 381,073, according to data released Wednesday by the Administrative
Office of the U.S. Courts.Consumer filings rose 33 percent to 373,308 from
280,787 a year earlier, while business filings increased 32 percent to 15,177
from 11,504.For the first nine months of 2009, there were 1,100,035 bankruptcy
filings, up 35 percent from a year earlier. The 45,510 business bankruptcies
in that period surpass the 43,546 total for the entire 2008 year. CLIP
This time, the gold bugs might be right (Nov. 26, 2009)
(...) The dollar printing presses are running flat out,
increasing the buck glut like never before. The so-called M1 supply - cash in
circulation and banks' transaction deposits - is almost $2-trillion, about
double the level of early 2008. A graph comparing gold prices with M1 would
show the two roughly track each other and both have gone nearly straight up
this year. If you think the money supply in the United States, Europe, Russia,
China and Japan will soon contract, gold might not be the best investment.
There is no indication this will happen in the near future. Gold buyers seem
convinced that the soaring levels of debt in the United States, the record
fiscal and monetary stimulus, the rock-bottom interest rates and the tsunami
waves of government bond sales will help to push the dollar ever lower, making
gold increasingly attractive. In the United States, total gross public debt as
a percentage of GDP will exceed 97 per cent next year, up from about 61 per
cent in 2006. Total consolidated debt (government, corporate and personal),
excluding the liabilities of the financial sector, are 350 per cent. This is
not a healthy balance sheet. Deficits are more likely to rise than fall,
because politicians are under pressure to keep the stimulus taps open as
unemployment rates rise. Low bond yields make the spending all the more
attractive. The big industrialized countries will need to sell more than
$12-trillion worth of government bonds this year and next to fund the fiscal
spending, the Financial Times reported.Governments may try to inflate the debt
away. If it doesn't work, they will have only two choices - service the debt
or default. The chances of a default are very slim, of course. But note that
the volume of credit default swaps linked to the United States, Japan and
Britain, which measure the cost of insuring against bond defaults in those
countries, has doubled in the past year. Defaults, real or potential, are not
kind to currencies. The rise in gold prices may be just getting started.
How to predict the price of gold (November 25, 2009)
Long-term readers know that gold moves inversely to the
dollar, meaning if the dollar drops, gold tends to rise (and vice versa). This
happens with about 80% regularity. But what many gold writers haven't
acknowledged is the leveraged movement our favorite metal has demonstrated
this year to the world's reserve currency. The U.S. dollar index, a
six-currency gauge of the greenback's value, has dropped 7.1% so far this
year. Meanwhile, gold is up 34% year-to-date. In other words, for every 1%
drop in the dollar index, gold has risen 4.7%. If that approximate percentage
holds over time, one can begin to estimate what the gold price might be if you
know what the dollar might do. CLIP
Is this bye-bye Dubai? (27 Nov 2009) BIG DOMINO ABOUT TO
FALL...
Dubai dazzled the world with its extravagance and
excess. Now it wants to defer its debts. What went wrong, asks Richard
Spencer. (...) In a nutshell, the government was asking banks to let two of
Dubai's most famous companies hold off on their mortgage payments. Since they
are state-owned, the announcement suggested the city itself was in trouble:
governments aren't supposed to default on their debts, and when they do - as
Argentina did in 2001 - it causes chaos around the world.Yesterday, the
creditors didn't know whether to laugh or cry. On the one hand, this is an
undoubtedly serious situation. Western banks, and the construction firms that
built those castles in the sand, are exposed to serious amounts of money.
Dubai's total government owings are officially $80 billion, unofficially twice
that, and the cash flow to pay that back is a mystery. More to the point,
confidence had returned to the city's dealings, its companies were rehiring,
precisely on the same assumptions that have seen rising property prices in
London and rising stock markets everywhere. The crisis was over, meltdown
averted, and growth was back.But if Dubai's revival turns out to be fake,
perhaps the rest is, too? Yesterday, share prices around the world fell as the
news was absorbed. One analyst asked whether this was the "new Lehman
brothers". CLIP
Dubai debt worries grip financial markets (27 Nov 2009)
Asian shares slumped on Friday and government bond
prices jumped as fears that Dubai could default on its debt gripped investors.
Markets across the world have been rattled since Dubai World, the government
investment company behind some of the emirate's most ambitious projects, said
on Wednesday it was seeking to delay repayment on a tranche of its debt. (...)
Traders feared that the request for a six-month standstill was a sign that the
Dubai Government was struggling with its other debts - and that the full
impact of the financial crisis globally may not yet be over. (...) Dubai has
been among the most dramatic victims of the credit crunch, with property
prices halving from their highs in September 2008, leaving a huge overhang of
debt. Dubai borrowed $80bn in a four-year construction spree designed to turn
its economy into a Middle Eastern powerhouse of finance and tourism. CLIP
MANY MORE RELATED STORIES THROUGH
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Stocks slide on concerns about Dubai debt fallout (November
27, 2009)
Stocks skidded Friday as concern swept world markets that
financial trouble in the Middle Eastern city-state of Dubai will upend a
global economic recovery.
Dubai crisis: European stocks dip most in 7 months (27
November 2009)
European stocks plummeted the most in seven months amid
concern Dubai's proposal to delay debt payments may trigger the biggest
sovereign default since Argentina in 2001. (...) The cost of protecting
government notes from Qatar to Saudi Arabia rose the most since June as Dubai
World, with $59 billion of liabilities, sought a "standstill" agreement from
creditors. Dubai borrowed $80 billion in a four-year construction boom that
reduced its reliance on falling oil supplies and created the region's tourism
and financial hub. (...) World's more than 70 creditors face the prospect of
writedowns on as much as $60 billion of debt if they haven't unloaded their
holdings and the state-owned company fails to win additional support from Abu
Dhabi. Lenders include Credit Suisse Group AG, HSBC Holdings Plc, Barclays
Plc, Lloyds Banking Group Plc and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, according
to a person familiar with the situation.
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A MUCH NEEDED EYE-OPENING NON-GOVERNMENTAL, GRASS-ROOT
PERSPECTIVE ON WHAT TO DO ABOUT THE CLIMATE CHANGE THAT THREATENS TO SOON MAKE
MUCH OF THIS PLANET INHABITABLE.
Forwarded by Zackoree Harrison (zackoree@gmail.com) who
wrote: "Naomi has a few things to say about the upcoming United Nations summit
on climate change in Copenhagen. I think the thing that comes to mind is that
"the people united will never be defeated". I can see people all over the
world "Standing in their Light" as this summit convenes, with the intention
that that light will be overarching those who are on the front lines of
Planetary change."
From: Naomi Klein's Newsletter (newsletter@naomiklein.org)
Date: Nov 16, 2009
Subject: No Logo Turns Ten, A New Movement Brewing
Revisiting No Logo: A message from Naomi
Ten years ago, on November 30, 1999, tens of thousands of protestors shut down
a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. The activists were not
against trade or globalization, despite the many misleading claims in the
mainstream media. They were against a system of deregulated capitalism that
was spreading around the world.
At the time of the Seattle protests, my first book, No Logo: Taking Aim at the
Brand Bullies, was at the printer. The book tracked the ascendency of the "superbrands"
as well as the first signs of a new fight back against corporate power. It was
good timing for an author-activist: I had the rare privilege of watching my
book become useful to a movement I believed could change the world.
On the ten-year anniversary of the Seattle protests, with anger mounting at
the open collusion between corporations and governments, I am rereleasing No
Logo with an extended new introduction. Among other developments, the new
essay looks at the unprecedented bailout of Wall Street, as well as the rise
of the Obama Brand (the most powerful brand in the world right now) and
examines the troubling gaps between its marketing and reality.
But I don't think this is a time for nostalgia. A new wave of exciting
"climate justice" activism is underway in the lead up to the UN climate summit
in Copenhagen, one that builds on many of the networks born in Seattle. As I
write in Rolling Stone (full article below), for activists, Copenhagen
"represents a chance to seize the political terrain back from
business-friendly half-measures, such as carbon offsets and emissions trading,
and introduce some effective, common-sense proposals-ideas that have less to
do with creating complex new markets for pollution and more to do with keeping
coal and oil in the ground."
Please take a look at the articles below, as well as a "from the archives"
op-ed on Seattle, and follow the links to the many incredible climate action
campaigns underway.
Happy Anniversary!
Naomi
The 10th Anniversary edition of No Logo will be
available in the US and Canada on mid-November and in the UK in January.
You can pre-order your copy.
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Scroll to the end of this newsletter for more updates
including: a documentary from the streets of Honduras, filmed only days after
Zelaya smuggled himself back into the country.
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Copenhagen: Seattle Grows Up
By Naomi Klein,
The Nation, November 12, 2009
The other day I received a pre-publication copy of
The Battle of the Story of the Battle of Seattle, by David
Solnit and Rebecca Solnit. It's set to come out ten years after a historic
coalition of activists shut down the World Trade Organization summit in
Seattle, the spark that ignited a global anticorporate movement.
The book is a fascinating account of what really happened in Seattle, but when
I spoke to David Solnit, the direct-action guru who helped engineer the
shutdown, I found him less interested in reminiscing about 1999 than in
talking about the upcoming United Nations climate change summit in Copenhagen
and the "climate justice" actions he is helping to organize across the United
States on
November 30. "This is definitely a
Seattle-type moment," Solnit told me. "People are ready to throw down."
There is certainly a Seattle quality to the Copenhagen mobilization: the
huge range of groups that will be there; the
diverse
tactics that will be on display; and the
developing-country governments ready to bring activist demands into the
summit. But Copenhagen is not merely a Seattle do-over. It feels, instead, as
though the progressive tectonic plates are shifting, creating a movement that
builds on the strengths of an earlier era but also learns from its mistakes.
The big criticism of the movement the media insisted on calling
"anti-globalization" was always that it had a laundry list of grievances and
few concrete alternatives. The movement converging on Copenhagen, in contrast,
is about a single issue-climate change-but it weaves a coherent narrative
about its cause, and its cures, that incorporates virtually every issue on the
planet. In this narrative, our climate is changing not simply because of
particular polluting practices but because of the underlying logic of
capitalism, which values short-term profit and perpetual growth above all
else. Our governments would have us believe that the same logic can now be
harnessed to solve the climate crisis-by creating a tradable commodity called
"carbon" and by transforming forests and farmland into "sinks" that will
supposedly offset our runaway emissions.
Climate-justice activists in Copenhagen will argue that, far from solving the
climate crisis, carbon-trading represents an unprecedented privatization of
the atmosphere, and that offsets and sinks threaten to become a resource grab
of colonial proportions. Not only will these "market-based solutions" fail to
solve the climate crisis, but this failure will dramatically deepen poverty
and inequality, because the poorest and most vulnerable people are the primary
victims of climate change-as well as the primary guinea pigs for these
emissions-trading schemes.
But activists in Copenhagen won't simply say no to all this. They will
aggressively advance solutions that simultaneously reduce emissions and narrow
inequality. Unlike at previous summits, where alternatives seemed like an
afterthought, in Copenhagen the alternatives will take center stage. For
instance, the direct-action coalition
Climate Justice Action has called on activists to storm the
conference center on
December 16. Many will do this as part of the
"bike bloc," riding together on an as
yet unrevealed "irresistible new machine of resistance" made up of hundreds of
old bicycles. The goal of the action is not to shut down the summit,
Seattle-style, but to open it up, transforming it into "a space to talk about
our agenda, an agenda from below, an agenda of climate justice, of real
solutions against their false onesŠ. This day will be ours."
Some of the solutions on offer from the activist camp are the same ones the
global justice movement has been championing for years: local, sustainable
agriculture; smaller, decentralized power projects; respect for indigenous
land rights; leaving fossil fuels in the ground; loosening protections on
green technology; and paying for these transformations by taxing financial
transactions and canceling foreign debts. Some solutions are new, like the
mounting demand that rich countries pay
"climate debt" reparations to the poor.
These are tall orders, but we have all just seen the kind of resources our
governments can marshal when it comes to saving the elites. As one
pre-Copenhagen slogan puts it: "If the climate were a bank, it would have been
saved"-not abandoned to the brutality of the market.
In addition to the coherent narrative and the focus on alternatives, there are
plenty of other changes too: a more thoughtful approach to direct action, one
that recognizes the urgency to do more than just talk but is determined not to
play into the tired scripts of cops-versus-protesters. "Our action is one of
civil disobedience," say the organizers of the December 16 action. "We will
overcome any physical barriers that stand in our way-but we will not respond
with violence if the police to escalate the situation." (That said, there is
no way the two week summit will not include a few running battles between cops
and kids in black; this is Europe, after all.)
A decade ago, in an op-ed in the New York Times published after Seattle was
shut down, I wrote that a new movement advocating a radically different form
of globalization "just had its coming-out party." What will be the
significance of Copenhagen? I put that question to John Jordan, whose
prediction of what eventually happened in Seattle I quoted in my book
No Logo. He replied: "If Seattle was
the movement of movements' coming-out party, then maybe Copenhagen will be a
celebration of our coming of age."
He cautions, however, that growing up doesn't mean
playing it safe, eschewing civil disobedience in favor of staid meetings. "I
hope we have grown up to become much more disobedient," Jordan said, "because
life on this world of ours may well be terminated because of too many acts of
obedience."
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Related article:
Rebels in Search of Rules
Read Naomi's original op-ed about the WTO Shutdown in
Seattle in 1999, published in the New York Times, December 2, 1999
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Seattle+10 = Copenhagen
The
Mobilization for Climate Justice invites communities,
organizations and activists across North America to join them in organizing
mass action on climate change on November 30, 2009 (N30). N30 is significant
because it both immediately precedes the upcoming UN Climate Conference in
Copenhagen (COP-15) and is the ten-year anniversary of the successful shut
down of the WTO in Seattle, when activists worldwide came together to
demonstrate the power of collective action. The Copenhagen climate meetings
will be a major focus for international mass actions this November and
December. If you want to learn more about the N30 activist campaign, about the
anniversary of Seattle and linking it to Copenhagen, please see the links on
Climate Justice Action's website.
MOBILIZE! - NOVEMBER 30, 2009
As the world's biggest companies and their friends in government continue to
fight a transition to more just and sustainable ways of living, climate change
threatens to turn our world upside down with water shortages, crop failures,
sea level rise and ecosystem collapse. A million species face extinction by
the end of the century, and the people who have contributed least to the
problem will continue to be the hardest hit. What can be done at this
critical juncture, with our future at stake?
Throughout history, social change has come about when
regular people get fed up with business as usual, get organized, and take to
the streets. If we leave climate solutions up to politicians and
corporations, then we will lose - not just a political battle, but the
life-support systems of the planet. Time is running out to avert the worst
impacts of climate change: the time to act is now.
A broad coalition of organizations working for social,
ecological, racial and economic justice has come together under the banner of
the Mobilization for Climate Justice. Join us as we organize mass action on
climate change on November 30, 2009! November 30 (N30) is significant both
because it immediately precedes the upcoming UN Climate Conference in
Copenhagen and is the ten-year anniversary of the protests that shut down of
the World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle, demonstrating the incredible
power of collective action.
Every indication is that any agreement that emerges from
Copenhagen will be nothing more than business as usual-sacrificing real
emissions reductions in favor of market-based approaches that enhance
corporate profits while delaying a transition away from fossil fuels. The
current approach to climate change in the UN, and in the US Congress, is based
on the creation of a new market in carbon emissions. Carbon trading (aka "cap
and trade") and carbon offsets do not address the root causes of global
warming, nor do they reduce emissions. They are designed by and for
corporations, and are a dangerous distraction that should be abandoned.
We urgently need to implement real solutions like ending excessive
consumption, keeping fossil fuels in the ground, re-localizing production and
consumption, and drastically reducing greenhouse emissions. We must also
protect the rights of workers, displaced peoples, and others affected by the
transition.
In recent months, people of the world have taken valiant action for climate
solutions. On Oct. 24th, people in 181 countries staged over 5,200 actions
calling for global action on climate change. And on November 4, African
delegates walked out of pre-Copenhagen negotiations in Barcelona - demanding
that rich countries commit to deeper and faster emissions cuts - while
European activists used civil disobedience to disrupt the talks.
And now, we're asking you to join us in taking the next
step - a global day of action for climate justice on Monday, November 30,
2009. Take the day off, get together with friends, and take a stand for real,
just and effective solutions to the climate crisis!
WHAT YOU CAN DO ON N30:
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Climate Rage
By Naomi Klein, November 11, 2009
The only way to stop global warming is for rich nations
to pay for the damage they've done - or face the consequences.
One last chance to save the world-for months, that's how the United Nations
summit on climate change in Copenhagen, which starts in early December, was
being hyped. Officials from 192 countries were finally going to make a deal to
keep global temperatures below catastrophic levels. The summit called for
"that old comic-book sensibility of uniting in the face of a common danger
threatening the Earth," said Todd Stern, President Obama's chief envoy on
climate issues. "It's not a meteor or a space invader, but the damage to our
planet, to our community, to our children and their children will be just as
great."
That was back in March. Since then, the endless battle over health care reform
has robbed much of the president's momentum on climate change. With Copenhagen
now likely to begin before Congress has passed even a weak-ass climate bill
co-authored by the coal lobby, U.S. politicians have dropped the superhero
metaphors and are scrambling to lower expectations for achieving a serious
deal at the climate summit. It's just one meeting, says U.S. Energy Secretary
Steven Chu, not "the be-all and end-all."
As faith in government action dwindles, however, climate activists are
treating Copenhagen as an opportunity of a different kind. On track to be the
largest environmental gathering in history, the summit represents a chance to
seize the political terrain back from business-friendly half-measures, such as
carbon offsets and emissions trading, and introduce some effective,
common-sense proposals- ideas that have less to do with creating complex new
markets for pollution and more to do with keeping coal and oil in the ground.
Among the smartest and most promising-not to mention controversial-proposals
is "climate debt," the idea that rich countries should pay reparations to poor
countries for the climate crisis. In the world of climate-change activism,
this marks a dramatic shift in both tone and content. American
environmentalism tends to treat global warming as a force that transcends
difference: We all share this fragile blue planet, so we all need to work
together to save it. But the coalition of Latin American and African
governments making the case for climate debt actually stresses difference,
zeroing in on the cruel contrast between those who caused the climate crisis
(the developed world) and those who are suffering its worst effects (the
developing world). Justin Lin, chief economist at the World Bank, puts the
equation bluntly: "About 75 to 80 percent" of the damages caused by global
warming "will be suffered by developing countries, although they only
contribute about one-third of greenhouse gases."
Climate debt is about who will pick up the bill. The grass-roots movement
behind the proposal argues that all the costs associated with adapting to a
more hostile ecology-everything from building stronger sea walls to switching
to cleaner, more expensive technologies-are the responsibility of the
countries that created the crisis. "What we need is not something we should be
begging for but something that is owed to us, because we are dealing with a
crisis not of our making," says Lidy Nacpil, one of the coordinators of
Jubilee South, an international organization that has staged demonstrations to
promote climate reparations. "Climate debt is not a matter of charity."
Sharon Looremeta, an advocate for Maasai tribespeople in Kenya who have lost
at least 5 million cattle to drought in recent years, puts it in even sharper
terms. "The Maasai community does not drive 4x4s or fly off on holidays in
airplanes," she says. "We have not caused climate change, yet we are the ones
suffering. This is an injustice and should be stopped right now."
The case for climate debt begins like most discussions
of climate change: with the science. Before the Industrial Revolution, the
density of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere-the key cause of global
warming-was about 280 parts per million. Today, it has reached 387 ppm-far
above safe limits-and it's still rising. Developed countries, which represent
less than 20 percent of the world's population, have emitted almost 75 percent
of all greenhouse-gas pollution that is now destabilizing the climate. (The
U.S. alone, which comprises barely five percent of the global population,
contributes 25 percent of all carbon emissions.) And while developing
countries like China and India have also begun to spew large amounts of carbon
dioxide, the reasoning goes, they are not equally responsible for the cost of
the cleanup, because they have contributed only a small fraction of the 200
years of cumulative pollution that has caused the crisis.
In Latin America, left-wing economists have long argued that Western powers
owe a vaguely defined "ecological debt" to the continent for centuries of
colonial land-grabs and resource extraction. But the emerging argument for
climate debt is far more concrete, thanks to a relatively new body of research
putting precise figures on who emitted what and when. "What is exciting," says
Antonio Hill, senior climate adviser at Oxfam, "is you can really put numbers
on it. We can measure it in tons of CO2 and come up with a cost."
Equally important, the idea is supported by the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change-ratified by 192 countries, including the United
States. The framework not only asserts that "the largest share of historical
and current global emissions of greenhouse gases has originated in developed
countries," it clearly states that actions taken to fix the problem should be
made "on the basis of equity and in accordance with their common but
differentiated responsibilities."
The reparations movement has brought together a diverse coalition of big
international organizations, from Friends of the Earth to the World Council of
Churches, that have joined up with climate scientists and political
economists, many of them linked to the influential Third World Network, which
has been leading the call. Until recently, however, there was no government
pushing for climate debt to be included in the Copenhagen agreement. That
changed in June, when Angelica Navarro, the chief climate negotiator for
Bolivia, took the podium at a U.N. climate negotiation in Bonn, Germany. Only
36 and dressed casually in a black sweater, Navarro looked more like the
hippies outside than the bureaucrats and civil servants inside the session.
Mixing the latest emissions science with accounts of how melting glaciers were
threatening the water supply in two major Bolivian cities, Navarro made the
case for why developing countries are owed massive compensation for the
climate crisis.
"Millions of people-in small islands, least-developed countries, landlocked
countries as well as vulnerable communities in Brazil, India and China, and
all around the world-are suffering from the effects of a problem to which they
did not contribute," Navarro told the packed room. In addition to facing an
increasingly hostile climate, she added, countries like Bolivia cannot fuel
economic growth with cheap and dirty energy, as the rich countries did, since
that would only add to the climate crisis-yet they cannot afford the heavy
upfront costs of switching to renewable energies like wind and solar.
The solution, Navarro argued, is three-fold. Rich countries need to pay the
costs associated with adapting to a changing climate, make deep cuts to their
own emission levels "to make atmospheric space available" for the developing
world, and pay Third World countries to leapfrog over fossil fuels and go
straight to cleaner alternatives. "We cannot and will not give up our rightful
claim to a fair share of atmospheric space on the promise that, at some future
stage, technology will be provided to us," she said.
The speech galvanized activists across the world. In recent months, the
governments of Sri Lanka, Venezuela, Paraguay and Malaysia have endorsed the
concept of climate debt. More than 240 environmental and development
organizations have signed a statement calling for wealthy nations to pay their
climate debt, and 49 of the world's least-developed countries will take the
demand to Copenhagen as a negotiating bloc.
"If we are to curb emissions in the next decade, we need a massive
mobilization larger than any in history," Navarro declared at the end of her
talk. "We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth. This plan must mobilize
financing and technology transfer on scales never seen before. It must get
technology onto the ground in every country to ensure we reduce emissions
while raising people's quality of life. We have only a decade."
A very expensive decade. The World Bank puts the cost that developing
countries face from climate change-everything from crops destroyed by drought
and floods to malaria spread by mosquito-infested waters-as high as $100
billion a year. And shifting to renewable energy, according to a team of
United Nations researchers, will raise the cost far more: to as much as $600
billion a year over the next decade.
Unlike the recent bank bailouts, however, which simply transferred public
wealth to the world's richest financial institutions, the money spent on
climate debt would fuel a global environmental transformation essential to
saving the entire planet. The most exciting example of what could be
accomplished is the ongoing effort to protect Ecuador's Yasuní National Park.
This extraordinary swath of Amazonian rainforest, which is home to several
indigenous tribes and a surreal number of rare and exotic animals, contains
nearly as many species of trees in 2.5 acres as exist in all of North America.
The catch is that underneath that riot of life sits an estimated 850 million
barrels of crude oil, worth about $7 billion. Burning that oil-and logging the
rainforest to get it- would add another 547 million tons of carbon dioxide to
the atmosphere.
Two years ago, Ecuador's center-left president, Rafael Correa, said something
very rare for the leader of an oil-exporting nation: He wanted to leave the
oil in the ground. But, he argued, wealthy countries should pay Ecuador-where
half the population lives in poverty-not to release that carbon into the
atmosphere, as "compensation for the damages caused by the out-of-proportion
amount of historical and current emissions of greenhouse gases." He didn't ask
for the entire amount; just half. And he committed to spending much of the
money to move Ecuador to alternative energy sources like solar and geothermal.
Largely because of the beauty of the Yasuní, the plan has generated widespread
international support. Germany has already offered $70 million a year for 13
years, and several other European governments have expressed interest in
participating. If Yasuní is saved, it will demonstrate that climate debt isn't
just a disguised ploy for more aid-it's a far more credible solution to the
climate crisis than the ones we have now. "This initiative needs to succeed,"
says Atossa Soltani, executive director of Amazon Watch. "I think we can set a
model for other countries."
Activists point to a huge range of other green initiatives that would become
possible if wealthy countries paid their climate debts. In India, mini power
plants that run on biomass and solar power could bring low-carbon electricity
to many of the 400 million Indians currently living without a light bulb. In
cities from Cairo to Manila, financial support could be given to the armies of
impoverished "trash pickers" who save as much as 80 percent of municipal waste
in some areas from winding up in garbage dumps and trash incinerators that
release planet-warming pollution. And on a much larger scale, coal-fired power
plants across the developing world could be converted into more efficient
facilities using existing technology, cutting their emissions by more than a
third.
But to ensure that climate reparations are real, advocates insist, they must
be independent of the current system of international aid. Climate money
cannot simply be diverted from existing aid programs, such as primary
education or HIV prevention. What's more, the funds must be provided as
grants, not loans, since the last thing developing countries need is more
debt. Furthermore, the money should not be administered by the usual suspects
like the World Bank and USAID, which too often push pet projects based on
Western agendas, but must be controlled by the United Nations climate
convention, where developing countries would have a direct say in how the
money is spent.
Without such guarantees, reparations will be meaningless-and without
reparations, the climate talks in Copenhagen will likely collapse. As it
stands, the U.S. and other Western nations are engaged in a lose-lose game of
chicken with developing nations like India and China: We refuse to lower our
emissions unless they cut theirs and submit to international monitoring, and
they refuse to budge unless wealthy nations cut first and cough up serious
funding to help them adapt to climate change and switch to clean energy. "No
money, no deal," is how one of South Africa's top environmental officials put
it. "If need be," says Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, speaking on
behalf of the African Union, "we are prepared to walk out."
In the past, President Obama has recognized the
principle on which climate debt rests. "Yes, the developed nations that caused
much of the damage to our climate over the last century still have a
responsibility to lead," he acknowledged in his September speech at the United
Nations. "We have a responsibility to provide the financial and technical
assistance needed to help these nations adapt to the impacts of climate change
and pursue low-carbon development."
Yet as Copenhagen draws near, the U.S. negotiating position appears to be to
pretend that 200 years of over-emissions never happened. Todd Stern, the chief
U.S. climate negotiator, has scoffed at a Chinese and African proposal that
developed countries pay as much as $400 billion a year in climate financing as
"wildly unrealistic" and "untethered to reality." Yet he put no alternative
number on the table-unlike the European Union, which has offered to kick in up
to $22 billion. U.S. negotiators have even suggested that countries could fund
climate debt by holding periodic "pledge parties," making it clear that they
see covering the costs of climate change as a matter of whimsy, not duty.
But shunning the high price of climate change carries a cost of its own. U.S.
military and intelligence agencies now consider global warming a leading
threat to national security. As sea levels rise and droughts spread,
competition for food and water will only increase in many of the world's
poorest nations. These regions will become "breeding grounds for instability,
for insurgencies, for warlords," according to a 2007 study for the Center for
Naval Analyses led by Gen. Anthony Zinni, the former Centcom commander. To
keep out millions of climate refugees fleeing hunger and conflict, a report
commissioned by the Pentagon in 2003 predicted that the U.S. and other rich
nations would likely decide to "build defensive fortresses around their
countries."
Setting aside the morality of building high-tech fortresses to protect
ourselves from a crisis we inflicted on the world, those enclaves and resource
wars won't come cheap. And unless we pay our climate debt, and quickly, we may
well find ourselves living in a world of climate rage. "Privately, we already
hear the simmering resentment of diplomats whose countries bear the costs of
our emissions," Sen. John Kerry observed recently. "I can tell you from my own
experience: It is real, and it is prevalent. It's not hard to see how this
could crystallize into a virulent, dangerous, public anti-Americanism. That's
a threat too. Remember: The very places least responsible for climate
change-and least equipped to deal with its impacts-will be among the very
worst affected."
That, in a nutshell, is the argument for climate debt.
The developing world has always had plenty of reasons to be pissed off with
their northern neighbors, with our tendency to overthrow their governments,
invade their countries and pillage their natural resources. But never before
has there been an issue so politically inflammatory as the refusal of people
living in the rich world to make even small sacrifices to avert a potential
climate catastrophe. In Bangladesh, the Maldives, Bolivia, the Arctic, our
climate pollution is directly responsible for destroying entire ways of
life-yet we keep doing it.
From outside our borders, the climate crisis doesn't look anything like the
meteors or space invaders that Todd Stern imagined hurtling toward Earth. It
looks, instead, like a long and silent war waged by the rich against the poor.
And for that, regardless of what happens in Copenhagen, the poor will continue
to demand their rightful reparations. "This is about the rich world taking
responsibility for the damage done," says Ilana Solomon, policy analyst for
ActionAid USA, one of the groups recently converted to the cause. "This money
belongs to poor communities affected by climate change. It is their
compensation."
And if you missed Naomi's October column in The Nation,
it's here:
"Obama's Bad Influence," in which she
deconstructs the myth that America has embarked on a new era of enlightened
multilateralism.
Note from Jean: Among the many comments posted there,
two stood out to me:
"An interesting article, but how do we calculate how
much we owe, and how do we value the contributions the developed world has
made to the undeveloped world (see kmalloy's comments, preceding). And reading
the preceding comments, one can see the difficult politics that would be
involved with paying reparations. And if we paid reparations, how would we
insure that the money wouldn't just go into the plutocrat's pockets? A much
better use of the money is to utilize what got us into this mess to get us out
of it: technology. Capturing and sequestrating CO2 at power plants, and
scrubbing it out of the atmosphere are technologies that could be developed
with the 100's of billions of dollars mentioned in this article. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
for an overview article. And as for that $7 billion dollars of oil beneath
the park in Ecuador? It's only worth $7 billion if the price of oil is high.
Cheap solar energy could change that and make the world a better place, while
allowing us to thumb our noses at the oil barons of the Middle East.
Development of these technologies is how we should pay reparations to the
undeveloped world."
"Retrofitting coal plants is a waste of time and energy
- just shut them down and use the reparation aid to finance the construction
of solar and wind power, sustainable local biofuel/biomaterial projects that
would complement food production (hedgerows, etc), water systems that don't
rely on fossil fuels, and so on. What Naomi Klein leaves out here, in her
otherwise excellent piece, is the ability of large-scale renewable energy
projects to provide demand for communities as big as Nairobi and Mexico City -
as well as all of Europe.You might view these as exploitative megaprojects ill
suited to local needs - but for many regions, it's a great option. It requires
something new, though - cooperation between environmentalists and renewable
energy industrialists."
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Watch Avi Lewis's Documentary on the Crisis in Honduras
Avi Lewis traveled to Honduras only days after Zelaya
smuggled himself into the country and only 100 days after the country
experienced only the second coup in Central America since the end of the Cold
War. In this Fault Lines program for Al Jazeera English, he chronicles how
social movements are mobilizing in the streets, standing up to repression not
just to bring their president back, but to re-found their nation on more equal
terms. You can watch the show on YouTube:
Part I and
Part 2.
Note from Jean: I checked some of her many Facebook
entries and discovered this most interesting video interview of her...
Naomi on The Rachel Maddow Show
Check also:
Pap and Naomi Klein on Climate Debt (Nov 12, 2009)
While industrialized countries like the United States,
China, and India continue to argue over the best way to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions, small, underdeveloped countries are already starting to feel the
effects of global climate change. The worst part is that these countries have
done very little to contribute to the problem, yet they're the ones who are
paying the price. Ring of Fires next guest says that the US and other carbon
emitting countries need to be footing the bill to protect these areas, by
what's known as climate debt. Mike Papantonio talks about this concept with
Naomi Klein, author of the best-selling book "The Shock Doctrine."
Many other videos with Naomi Klein
HERE
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U.S., China revive hopes of deal at climate talks (Nov
18, 2009)
Hu, Obama for pact that will include binding emission
cuts for developed countries, mitigation activities for others -- BEIJING: The
United States and China have lent their support to achieving a legally-binding
agreement at the Copenhagen climate talks next month, reviving hopes of a deal
being reached. After talks between U.S. President Barack Obama and Chinese
President Hu Jintao, the two countries said in a joint statement they would
support a deal that would include binding reduction targets for greenhouse gas
emissions for developed countries, and "nationally appropriate" mitigation
activities for developing countries."Our aim there... is not a partial accord
or a political declaration, but rather an accord that covers all of the issues
in the negotiations and one that has immediate operational effect," Mr. Obama
said.Chances of reaching a deal that will impose binding emission targets
appear to have receded in recent weeks. Lowering expectations, many countries
have suggested that a political statement, and not a binding agreement, was
the more likely outcome. On Sunday, leaders at the Asia-Pacific Economic
Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Singapore, including Mr. Obama and Mr. Hu, played
down chances of a deal. But the two leaders on Tuesday struck a different
note, voicing strong support for a "comprehensive" agreement that would "rally
the world." CLIP
Africa agrees on secret climate damages demand (Nov 17,
2009)
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 17 (Reuters) - African leaders agreed
on Tuesday on how much cash to demand from the rich world to compensate for
the impact of climate change on the continent but kept the figure secret ahead
of next month's Copenhagen talks. The United Nations summit in Denmark will
try to agree on how to counter climate change and come up with a post-Kyoto
treaty protocol to curb emissions. "We have set a minimum beyond which we will
not go," Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who will represent Africa at
the talks, told reporters. "But I am not in a position to tell you what that
minimum figure will be."Exhaustive preparatory talks since 2007 have failed to
solve splits between rich and poor countries or find extra funds to help
developing nations to pay for expensive technology to ensure they do not over
pollute as their economies grow." There are many calculations including up to
the $100 billion (a year) mark that has been set by some experts. We will be
very flexible," Meles said.Poor nations want rich countries to cut emissions
by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020. But some in the West complain that
such cuts are not realistic, especially so soon after the global economic
downturn. So far, promises by the rich fall short, at cuts of about 11 to 15
percent. THREATENED WALKOUT -- Fearing that the talks may fail, Denmark last
week said it would ask world leaders to come for the final two days of the
Dec. 7-18 conference to push for a deal at the meeting, originally meant for
environment ministers. Meles -- who has threatened a walkout of the 52 African
nations he will represent -- said his priorities at the talks would be to
ensure carbon emissions are reduced and to secure a fair yearly compensation
amount for Africa.The Ethiopian leader was speaking in Addis Ababa at a
meeting of an African Union (AU) committee of 10 nations charged with agreeing
a common position.Aid workers say a five-year drought, worsened by climate
change, is afflicting 23 million people in east Africa, with Ethiopia worst
affected.Kenya's President Mwai Kibaki and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni
also attended the last session the AU group will have before next month's
talks. Meles said Africa wanted a treaty to be agreed in Copenhagen but could
accept a "binding political agreement" as a steppingstone to a treaty being
agreed later. The Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum says poor nations
bear more than nine-tenths of the human and economic burden of climate change.
The 50 poorest countries, however, contribute less than 1 percent of the
carbon dioxide emissions that scientists say are threatening the planet, it
says.
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Global temperatures 'could rise 6C'
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
Scientists have warned that global temperatures could
rise by six degrees Celsius by the end of the century, four degrees higher
than previously predicted and at a level that could wipe out species and
cause widespread natural disasters.
In addition, the study by the Global Carbon Project (GCP) said on Wednesday,
that the ability of the world's forests and oceans to absorb carbon emissions
was declining.
The paper, published in the journal Nature Geoscience, comes in the run up to
UN talks in Copenhagen, Denmark, aimed at crafting a pact to combat climate
change from 2013.
It said pollution "continued to track the average of the most carbon-intensive
family of scenarios" put forward by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC).
Extreme scenario
Professor Corinne Le Quéré, the lead author of the study from the British
Antarctic Survey, said: "The projections of climate that have been made before
are always based on scenarios of climate change, so they tell that if the
emissions are such and such you get 2C, if they are such and such you get six
or seven.
"What our study is doing is identifying that the trend
in the CO2 emissions, particularly from fossil fuels in the past decades, is
so large it is at the higher end of the emissions scenario and this is why I
am saying that we are on the scenario for a 6C warming," she told Al Jazeera.
Under the IPCC's most extreme scenario, the Earth's surface will warm by
around four degrees Celsius by 2100 compared with 2000 - a rise consistent
with a wipeout of species, widespread hunger, flooding, drought and
homelessness.
The new report highlighted the situation in emerging
economies, such as China and India, where emissions have more than doubled
since 1990 and now emit more greenhouse gases than developed countries.
"The emerging economies in developing countries are getting out of poverty and
that is associated with more CO2 emissions," Le Quéré said.
"We have also analysed why that is the case and of their growth one quarter of
it is due to the production and international trade of goods that are consumed
in the West.
"There is an issue of equity. The actual emissions that have been put in the
atmosphere, 80 per cent of them are from rich countries, but if other
countries are allowed to emit as much CO2 as the rich countries have in the
past we are going to go to this six degrees warming.
Emissions commitments
Sarah Clifton of Friends of the Earth told Al Jazeera: "This is yet more
evidence, if any more was needed, of a strong and fair deal at Copenhagen in
December in order to help us reduce emissions and avoid catastrophic climate
change.
"Politicians are hiding behind each other, no one wants to step up and take
the action, and what we actually need to see is political leadership by the
rich countries. We need emission reductions, commitments from the the rich
countries of at least 40 per cent by 2020.
"We also need to see the rich countries committing the finance to developing
countries so they can grow cleanly, tackle emissions and adapt to the
challenges of climate change."
Le Quéré's team of researchers also warned that the
world's natural carbon absorbing "sinks" - the oceans and forests - were
failing to keep up with the amount of emissions being pumped into the
atmosphere. In the last 50 years, the proportion of CO2 pumped into the
atmosphere that remains there has risen from about 40 to 45 per cent, fuelling
the greenhouse effect.
"This is of concern, as it indicates the vulnerability of the sinks to
increasing emissions and climate change, making natural sinks less efficient
'cleaners' of human carbon pollution," Pep Canadell, GCP Executive Director,
said.
C02 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels increased
by 29 per cent from 2000 to 2008, and 41 per cent between 1990 and 2008, the
GCP said. It added that despite the global economic downturn, emissions
increased by two per cent during 2008.
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NOTE from Jean: What is now happening in Haiti, Kenya,
Bangladesh and Kazakhstan (see below) and scores of others environmentally
stressed areas on Earth is a mere foretaste of what is soon coming for much of
the rest of the planet if governments don't act quickly to stop the global
environmental train wreck we have all
contributed to set in motion. Despite their many statements admitting to the
enormity of the problem and their commitment to do something, they are still
being hold back by powerful oil and coal lobbies - to name just those - and by
the knee jerk reaction of most everyone against any kind of stringent measures
that would cost them something or force them to change some of their
unsustainable bad habits -- despite some significant progress in acquiring
saner recycling habits, excessive consumption by the privilege few of this
world continues to drive us all down the ecosuicidal drain. And of course,
most media don't help much with their obsessive focus on GDP growth and their
business-as-usual economic and political reporting. In short, and considering
the dim hopes that anything significant can be accomplished in Copenhagen this
December with political posturing being the order of the day so far, it can be
said that our global political class is fiddling around aimlessly while our
planet burns and millions are dying, with billions more soon to be in the grip
of a global catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions. This is not the time to
circle the wagons and try to save only oneself. Everyone on Earth must wake up
for real to the ominous threats hanging over our heads, stop listening to the
dimwit deniers, and unite to not only get - through forceful means if
necessary - that a serious course correction is swiftly implemented, doing
whatever it takes to make it happen through loophole-proof global binding
agreements, much stricter environmental regulations, and a complete
reorientation of human ingenuity and financial resources away from all forms
of military spending and taxpayer's propping up of the usual cast of villains
chiefly responsible for the mess we are in, and towards retooling our energy
production, transportation means, and usage of all environmental commons in a
manner that is truly sustainable and respectful of the rights of future
generations to inherit from us a planet that is back to its previous state of
balance, rejuvenated and fully alive, for the highest good of all.
Haitians face climate despair (OCTOBER 17, 2009)
INCLUDES A DISHEARTENING VIDEO
The people of Haiti have reason to fear the hurricane
season; every time such a powerful weather system strikes their island, it
leaves death and devastation in its wake.Their fears have been compounded by
extreme poverty and massive deforestation which have left the population
vulnerable to strong winds, mudslides and flooding.Last year, the city of
Gonaives was hit by four consecutive tropical storms that killed some 800
people and caused $1bn of damage.The city was completely under water because
the deforested mountains no longer acted as a natural barrier to severe rain
water flowing down. Thousands of Haitians were left seeking refuge on their
rooftops."We are afraid because the area gets completely submerged in water.
The mudslides collapsed on top of our houses and there wasn't much we could
do," a woman from Gonaives tells Al Jazeera. Experts say that the situation is
likely to worsen as hurricanes strengthen and ocean temperatures rise due to
global warming.Haiti is the western hemisphere's poorest country with nearly
80 per cent of the population living in poverty and the government unable to
deal with the chaos caused by natural disasters.United Nations peacekeeping
troops are in charge of maintaining security after years of violence but they
will not be there forever."The hurricanes and floods... put pressure on the
population and institutions," says Mark Schneider, senior vice-president of
the International Crisis Group and an expert on Haiti. "The continued removal
of trees complicates the situation more. Even when there are mild storms,
Haiti is exposed to major flooding. People get frustrated because they don't
have resources to respond."Formerly known as the "Pearl of the Carribean"
because of its natural resources - chiefly sugar cane and wood - Haiti's
deforestation began during the colonial era and only two per cent of its trees
now remain.These days Haitians, most of whom have no access to electricity or
gas, use the few remaining trees as charcoal. (...) Haiti is heavily dependent
on international aid; donor countries have vowed to contribute $320m but, so
far, Haiti has received only a small percentage of what was promised and the
global financial crisis has further hindered aid distribution. Many donor
nations have also grown frustrated by the failure of aid money to reach those
who need it most; while billions of dollars have been poured into the country
over the years, most of the population continue to live on a dollar a day, and
widespread corruption and mismanagement is considered to be partly to blame.
CLIP
Kenya drought 'has spared no one' (OCTOBER 14, 2009 )
(...) The relentless drought across East Africa is
worsening because of global climate change and the continued destruction of
forests, grasslands, wetlands and other critical ecosystems, the United
Nation's Environment Programme (UNEP) is warning. The Kenyan government says
nearly four million people are now close to starvation after the rains have
failed for three straight years.Aid appealMwai Kibaki, the Kenyan president,
has declared the drought a national disaster and appealed for $150 million to
feed the hungry.Rural areas like northern Kenya, which have suffered decades
of neglect and under-development, are most affected, with livestock herders
particularly at risk. These are areas with little access to education,
healthcare, water and sanitation - making them even more vulnerable.Cattle and
goats - the weakest of the livestock species reared here, began dying a long
time ago. In some places, livestock grazers have already lost entire herds to
drought and disease. (...) A group of women driving a donkey laden with
containers of water told us they had been on the road for more than 15 hours
in search of water."We have weak livestock at home. We are forced to provide
them with water by such means. We will have to come back again after a few
hours rest," they said. The drought situation is so bad in northern Kenya that
the herdsmen have been forced to share what little food they receive from aid
agencies with their weak animals. (...) But people here don't understand
climate change - the cause of their predicament. "How can man change the
climate or stop rain? It is God's will that we are facing a drought. And we
pray to him to alleviate our suffering." Halima Hassan, a 30-year-old mother
of three whose livestock was wiped out by the drought, tells us.As conditions
worsen, conflict is breaking out between human beings and wildlife. Wild
animals often come to settlements in search of water and attack herdsmen
villages on an almost daily basis.Frequent fights by nomads over dwindling
resources have caused much destruction in this desolate region.Yet there is
little respite in sight for these people. Weather experts are predicting that
floods caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon will follow the drought.If
that occurs the suffering we are now witnessing will pale in comparison to
what will come.
The 'ground zero' of climate change (OCTOBER 10, 2009 )
In the middle of the world's largest delta, an island is
disappearing. Bhola Island is the "ground zero" of climate change, and home to
what have been called the world's first climate refugees. Bangladesh's largest
island is located where one of the country's mightiest rivers, the Meghna,
meets the Indian ocean at the Bay of Bengal.Caught between rising sea levels
and the increased water pressure of the river, which has its source in the
melting Himalayan glaciers, the island is rapidly being eroded. (...) "As
climate change intensifies, part of the coastal area will be inundated with
salt water, and therefore we will lose agricultural land. If action is not
taken to reverse the effects of climate change, up to 30 per cent of
agricultural productivity may be lost in South Asia."Bangladesh is one of the
most densely populated countries on earth, and food security is already
precarious. (...) With a sense of impending doom, Bangladeshis are adamant
that something must be done to reverse the climate change which threatens to
swallow the country's islands and shoreline, irrevocably changing the lives of
the millions who have their homes there.
Central Asian lake under threat (SEPTEMBER 02, 2009 )
Balkhash is partially saline and comparatively shallow
at around six metres deep on average. Given its large surface area of 18,000sq
km, it is extremely sensitive to reduced inflow of fresh water which is vital
to balance the effects of evaporation. Stretching for over 500km in an
east-west arc, the lake is home to hundreds of bird and fish species. Upstream
extraction -- Balkhash belongs to a string of lakes which play an important
role in helping to regulate Kazakhstan's largely arid climate. It is the end
point of a river system known as the Ile Balkhash Basin that is home to more
than three million people. The Ile river is fed by rainfall, snow and glacial
melt from the mountain ranges which straddle China, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
Without Balkhash, warns Renato Salo from the Laboratory of Geoarchaelogy in
Almaty, desertification could follow. "This water is moisturising the climate,
so the climate would change of course," Sala says. (...) A legal specialist
who consults with the Chinese and the Kazakhs - but who asked not to be named
- criticised the lack of binding agreements, despite regular consultations
between both sides. "There's a need to introduce an integrated river basin
water management which requires a much higher degree of collaboration between
all interested parties. It's not clear at the moment whether there has been
any progress in terms of attaining these overall objectives," the legal
specialist said.Central Asia has already experienced catastrophic loss of a
water system. The Aral Sea is considered one of the greatest environmental
tragedies of the 20th Century. Soviet irrigation led to its irreversible
decline. Even today, vast quantities of water are drawn from the rivers that
feed it and used for cotton cultivation by Kazakhstan and its neighbours,
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Aral Sea is now a tenth of its original size.
Where there was once water, there is now desert. Fertiliser and pesticide
residues have contaminated the local population, and salt particles are
believed to accelerate glacial melting in mountains thousands of kilometres
away. Scientific evidence looks certain to demonstrate that the same
conditions of unsustainable water use that destroyed the Aral now threaten
Balkhash. What is less clear is whether it will be enough to persuade the
Chinese and the Kazakhs to co-operate and compromise in order to ensure the
lake's survival. CLIP
UN Warns of Environmental Train Wreck (10/26/2007)
Dangerously declining amounts of drinking water,
over-fished lakes and seas, a warming planet, plus a rising population: A
large-scale report by the UN says the world is living beyond its environmental
means. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) released its first
environmental report card in 20 years on Thursday, and the grades are jarring:
Despite some praise for certain treaties and reductions, the report blasts the
world community for "woefully inadequate" measures and "a remarkable lack of
urgency." In particular, the 550-page report entitled "Global Environment
Outlook" (GEO-4) warned that climate change, species extinction, dwindling
fresh water supplies and other threats will drastically -- and irreversibly --
alter life on Earth, if global action is not taken. The program's Executive
Director Achim Steiner praised some government and NGO action so far as
"courageous and inspiring." But he also said most nations had failed to
"recognize the magnitude of the challenges facing the people and the
environment of the planet." He summarized the report by saying the world had
seen a rise in demand for natural resources over the past twenty years --
coupled with a dramatic loss of them. "That equation cannot hold for much
longer," he said. "Indeed, in parts of the world it is no longer holding." A
Tipping Point in Awareness? The report took five years and 388 scientists to
produce and comes 20 years after the last report in 1987. CLIP
Peter Taylor - Climate Change Or Climate Confusion?
(10/12/2008)
Former UN Environmental Advisor, Peter Taylor, talks
about the conflicting science regarding climate change and the ensuing
confusion.Filmed at the Alternative View Conference in Totnes, May 2008.
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Climate 'tipping points' near
23 November 2009
The world is dangerously close to reaching temperature
thresholds - or 'tipping points' - that can unleash devastating environmental,
social and economic changes, according to a new report released by WWF and
Allianz. It highlights the urgent need for world leaders to agree ambitious
targets to cut the greenhouse gas emissions that fuel global warming.
WWF's head of climate change, Keith Allott, says: "Our new Tipping Points
report shows how quickly the world is approaching dangerous and irreversible
levels of global warming.
"Reaching a tipping point means losing something forever. Global leaders need
to recognise how close we are to tipping the scales toward climate disaster,
and take immediate steps to ensure we get a strong and binding climate deal in
Copenhagen in December."
Economic risks of climate change
Hurricanes like Andrew (1992), Ivan (2004) and Katrina
(2005) have shown the potential cost of natural disasters, which are likely to
increase due to climate change.
"The economic consequences of passing the climate tipping points are
absolutely overwhelming," says Keith Allott.
The new research, carried out for us by the Tyndall
Centre, reveals the consequences may affect hundreds of millions of people and
cost hundreds of billions of dollars. These include:
* a more arid climate in California - wildfire damage
could be ten times today's costs, up to $2.5 billion per year by 2050
* changes to summer monsoon in India and Nepal - 70% of
the working population in India may be at risk from droughts, the costs of
which are likely to rise to $40 billion per decade
* drying and dieback of the Amazon rainforest - up to
70% by 2100, with drastic loss of biodiversity and massive carbon release.
Costs could reach $9,000 billion.
Global emissions still rising
Another new and authoritative report released this week, from the European
Climate Foundation (ECF) and ClimateWorks (with analysis by McKinsey and Co),
concludes that current global policies don't show any prospect of controlling
emissions.
In fact, according to their calculations, global emissions will still be
rising in 2020 - which means the world is heading for a temperature rise of at
least 3°C, and potentially far more.
Keith Allot says: "The EU urgently needs to rediscover its leadership on
climate change. Ed Miliband and other environment ministers need to accept
that the current EU target to reduce emissions by 20% by 2020 is
embarrassingly weak.
"The EU needs to step up to a 40% reduction - this is necessary and
achievable, and would be the key to unlocking international gridlock."
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Earth Hour lights the way... (with video)
The impact of WWF's Earth Hour has been acknowledged by
world leaders meeting for crucial climate talks this year. On Saturday 28
March 2009, hundreds of millions of people across the planet switched off
lights for one hour to send a visual and symbolic message to all those in
power. Earth Hour was a stunning start to our campaign to persuade global
governments to agree on drastic cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, to minimise
the effects of climate change - while there's still a chance.During Earth
Hour, iconic international landmarks like Sydney Opera House, the Acropolis,
the Bird's Nest stadium in China, the pyramids of Giza, the Eiffel Tower, the
Empire State Building and Big Ben were all plunged into darkness for 60
minutes as part of the largest global action of its kind ever. CLIP
40 leading scientists call for 40% emissions cuts (17
September 2009)
Forty of the world's leading climate scientists have got
together to demand global leaders take bolder action against climate change.
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The joint statement - initiated by WWF and endorsed by
recognised climate luminaries such as Sir John Houghton, former chair of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - calls for industrialised
countries to make a commitment, at the UN Climate summit in Copenhagen, to cut
carbon emissions by at least 40% below 1990 levels by 2020.
Read the full statement Saleem Huq, one
of the signatories, IPCC author and Senior Fellow in Climate Change at the
International Institute for Environment and Development, says: "The scientific
evidence now indicates that even a rise in temperature of 2°C will entail
considerable hardships for poor and vulnerable people around the world,
especially those living on low-lying islands and coasts. "So a 40% reduction
in emissions is the very least required to provide a better chance of avoiding
devastation for these countries and communities." CLIP
Sea level rise could cost port cities $28 trillion
(November 23, 2009)
London, England (CNN) -- A possible rise in sea levels
by 0.5 meters by 2050 could put at risk more than $28 trillion worth of assets
in the world's largest coastal cities, according to a report compiled for the
insurance industry. The value of infrastructure exposed in so-called "port
mega-cities," urban conurbations with more than 10 million people, is just $3
trillion at present. The rise in potential losses would be a result of
expected greater urbanization and increased exposure of this greater
population to catastrophic surge events occurring once every 100 years caused
by rising sea levels and higher temperatures. The report, released on Monday
by WWF and financial services Allianz, concludes that the world's diverse
regions and ecosystems are close to temperature thresholds -- or "tipping
points."
Climate Change Puts Trillions of Dollars in Assets at
Risk Along U.S. Coasts (23 NOVEMBER 2009)
WASHINGTON, DC--(ENEWSPF)--November 23, 2009 - World
Wildlife Fund (WWF) and the leading insurer Allianz SE released a report today
warning that sea level rise could dramatically increase risks to buildings,
transportation infrastructure and other assets exposed to severe storm surges
in coastal areas of the U.S. The study estimates that current assets at risk
to a 1-in-100-year storm surge amount to $1.4 trillion. A mid-century global
sea level rise of 0.5 meters (20 inches), with an additional 0.15 meter (6
inches) localized rise along the northeast U.S. coast, could jeopardize assets
worth close to $7.4 trillion."With each new study, the alarm bells become
deafeningly clear that climate change will have devastating consequences for
our economy and way of life," said David Reed, senior vice president of policy
at WWF. "Time to address this issue is growing short. Recognizing the
increased threats this report raises for our domestic economy, the President
must go to Copenhagen in December to unite with the rest of the world and
avert the worst consequences of climate change."Among the U.S. cities with the
greatest risk exposure in mid-century are Miami ($2.8 trillion), New
York-Newark ($1.8 trillion), New Orleans ($753 billion), Boston ($463
billion), Virginia Beach ($462 billion) and Tampa-St Petersburg ($414
billion).The report examined more closely the potential costs of a Category 4
hurricane landfall for New York City. In a comprehensive analysis that
included more than just storm surge impacts, the authors estimated current
assets at risk from a strong hurricane at $1 trillion. With sea-level rise
and further development in the region, this could exceed $5 trillion by
mid-century. CLIP
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NOW HERE IS A STUNNING DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL CERTAINLY
REINVIGORATE THE SKEPTICISM OF THOSE WHO ADAMANTLY REFUSE TO BELIEVE THAT
GLOBAL WARMING IS FOR REAL... BUT IS IN FACT YET ANOTHER SCHEME HATCHED TO RIP
OFF TRILLIONS OF TAXPAYERS' MONEY FOR THE BENEFIT OF A SMALL CLIQUE OF GLOBAL
CROOKS. THIS STORY IS FOR REAL - IT IS
ALL OVER THE NEWS - AS YOU CAN VERIFY FOR INSTANCE IN THIS
NOVEMBER 26 ARTICLE FROM THE GUARDIAN ...
Climate scientists' hacked emails damage global warming case
.WHERE THE FOLLOWING IMPORTANT POINT IS MADE: "As a meteorologist, I am
saddened by the damage inflicted by the release of illegally accessed emails
between climate scientists. But it is the arrogance and lack of understanding
of communication among some scientists which is to blame. The illegally
obtained emails provided the media with a bowling ball to knock down the
climate change "celebrity", doing great damage to climate science for years to
come. Many already confused members of the public will now have strong
evidence not to believe climate scientists, despite evidence to the contrary."
Climategate Exposes the Alarmist Machine
James Corbett - The Corbett Report - 24 November, 2009
In 2006, just as global cooling was beginning to make things uncomfortable for
people who believed that manmade CO2 was warming the earth, the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation ran a documentary that was meant to bring an
increasingly skeptical public back on board with the idea of manmade global
warming. Airing on The Fifth Estate, an influential and respected
investigative journalism program, "The
Denial Machine" attempted to throw mud at
any scientist who dared to question the so-called 'consensus' on manmade
global warming by implying all such scientists were secretly funded by oil
companies.
As the recent exposure of the UK's Climate Research Unit
(CRU) and its
decidedly unscientific research demonstrates, the truth is
almost exactly the opposite. Rather than a vast, oil company-funded
conspiracy, skepticism about climate fearmongering appears to have been quite
correct: the CRU's bluster was hiding the fact that even they
couldn't understand their own climate models or data.
However, as their internal documents show, they were being well-funded for
making up scare stories about the CO2-induced end of the world. This was part
of a process where public grants would routinely go to the researcher with the
most dire predictions about the ravages of global warming. Call it The
Alarmist Machine.
The archive of
emails and documents leaked out from behind the academic
Berlin wall of the
highly-secretive CRU sheds light on the vast sums of money
these researchers were playing with. As
this hacked spreadsheet demonstrates CRU Director Phil Jones
himself received a mind-boggling 22 million dollars in grants for his work
over the past 20 years. Sadly, the leaked data also shows just how willing
these scientists were to lie and cheat in the pursuit of those funds.
One of the most outrageous emails (1056478635) features one CRU scientist
openly advising a colleague to cook the books from their last research grant
in order to receive more money from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration):
"Ninh
NOAA want to give us more money for the El Nino work with IGCN.
How much do we have left from the last budget? I reckon most has been spent
but we need to show some left to cover the costs of the trip Roger didn't make
and also the fees/equipment/computer money we haven't spent otherwise NOAA
will be suspicious. Politically this money may have to go through Simon's
institute but there overhead rate is high so maybe not!
Best wishes
Mick"
The contempt shown for the taxpayers who are funding and supporting these
research efforts through institutions like the NOAA is appalling. Certainly
any researchers who are found to have participated in such duplicity should
never receive another cent of taxpayer money again.
But the chicanery does not end there. In a
well-researched article on American
Thinker, Marc Sheppard points out that while the alarmists imply that the
skeptics are being secretly funded, it is in fact the climate scientists who
are being funded by the energy companies. The fact that CRU members received
significant funding from renewable energy companies, however, and not Big Oil,
presumably puts their motives beyond reproach.
Of course, this is not to say that these practices are confined to a few 'bad
apples' in the scientific community. As skeptical scientists have been
pointing out for years, scientific studies about doomsdays and catastrophes-no
matter how unlikely the predictions or how shakey the underlying
assumptions-tend to get greater funding and grant money than studies that show
there is no such disaster on the horizon. This is the inherent bias toward
alarmist science and the inherent danger of The Alarmist Machine: not that
there is some vast, secret conspiracy funding these alarmist scientists, but
that this is a natural and predictable result of the funding process itself.
Even rational people can be stampeded into throwing money hand over fist at a
team of scientists who are promising to save the world from disaster,
especially when those rational people are blatantly misled by an unquestioning
media that unproblematically reports on highly problematic science. And all
the while the scientific economy is shifted until the entire process becomes
one of scientists competing to come up with the most panic-inducing findings.
As someone who spent his entire scientific career fighting the alarmists-first
the ones who were whipping up hysteria over the coming ice age and then the
ones (sometimes the same ones) who were whipping up hysteria over global
warming-Dr. Tim Ball is no stranger to the "Denial Machine" smear. In fact, he
was one of the scientists singled out in the CBC documentary. He doesn't tow
the global warming line, therefore he must be funded by Big Oil. It doesn't
seem to bother the producers of the documentary that they offer not one shred
of evidence for that assertion: the logic of the situation demands it, so it
must be true.
For someone who supposedly receives secret backdoor money from the Exxon
bigwigs, Dr. Ball lives a remarkably low-key life. When I met him for an
interview in Victoria earlier this year, he was neither lighting cigars with
Big Oil-supplied $100 bills nor driving a gas-guzzling SUV. Instead he was on
foot and he took me on a walking tour of the beautiful B.C. capital, regaling
me with stories about the town's history and demonstrating a genuine
enthusiasm for the local tradition and culture of his adopted hometown. We
passed several hours talking about the history and philosophy of science, and
what strikes one about him when engaged in such a conversation is that he has
read, researched, and retained a voluminous amount of material, not just on
his specialty of climatology, but of scientific history generally. It is not
surprise, then, that his take on the climategate scandal is one of the most
thoughtful (and damning) yet:
It is still too early to say what the ultimate fallout from this scandal will
be, but unless the scientists who have been implicated in this stop dismissing
all criticism as out of context and start addressing the real issues raised in
these documents, the backlash is likely to be massive. And as Dr. Ball points
out, that backlash (rightly or wrongly) will not be merely directed at this
group of researchers, but on the very scientific processes and institutions
that they have so shamefully abused. From their private expressions of doubt
over science that they publicly touted as unassailable to their use of data
that they themselves did not seem to understand to their collusion to keep
skeptics out of the peer reviewed literature, how can the public simply put
blind faith in blanket statements about 'scientific consensus' and 'listening
to the experts' again, especially when there are literally trillions of
dollars hinging on the science skewing towards the alarmists?
"The Denial Machine" ends with the words: "Not
everything in life is about politics." If only that were the case.
Related articles and video:
The emails that reveal an effort to hide the truth about
climate science.
In the trenches on climate change, hostility among foes
(November 22, 2009)
Stolen e-mails reveal venomous feelings toward skeptics
- Electronic files that were stolen from a prominent climate research center
and made public last week provide a rare glimpse into the behind-the-scenes
battle to shape the public perception of global warming. While few U.S.
politicians bother to question whether humans are changing the world's climate
-- nearly three years ago the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
concluded the evidence was unequivocal -- public debate persists. And the
newly disclosed private exchanges among climate scientists at Britain's
Climate Research Unit of the University of East Anglia reveal an intellectual
circle that appears to feel very much under attack, and eager to punish its
enemieSs. CLIP
Scientist in Climate Change 'Cover-up' Told to Quit (25th
November 2009)
The scientist at the heart of the climate change scandal
was under growing pressure to quit last night. George Monbiot, a leading
environmentalist, said Phil Jones should resign from the Climatic Research
Unit over leaked emails that appear to show researchers suppressed scientific
data. More emails came to light yesterday, including one in which an American
climatologist admitted it was a travesty that scientists could not explain a
lack of global warming in recent years. Leading environmentalist George
Monbiot (left) has said Professor Phil Jones should resign over the e-mail
debacleIn another note, UK researchers dismissed the work of scientists
challenging global warming as 'crap'.Another appeared to call for pressure on
the BBC after a reporter suggested that evidence for rising temperatures since
2001 was thin.In one of the most damning messages, Professor Jones appeared to
respond to the death of a climate sceptic with the words 'in an odd way this
is cheering news!'. The leak has been a huge embarrassment to the climate unit
at the University of East Anglia, which is a global leader in its field.
Although there is no hint of evidence that climate change is not real, the
emails appear to show researchers manipulating raw data and discussing how to
dodge Freedom of Information requests. (...)
Yesterday, Professor Jones refused to quit and denied that researchers had
altered evidence to bolster the case for man-made climate change. He added:
'We absolutely stand by the science we produce here at the University of East
Anglia and it has been peer reviewed and published. 'Some of the emails
probably had poorly chosen words and were sent in the heat of the moment, when
I was frustrated. I do regret sending some of them. We've not deleted any
emails or data here at CRU. CLIP
Climate Centre hacked
CLIMATE BOMBSHELL: Hacker leaks thousands of emails
showing conspiracy to "hide" the real data on manmade climate change
Climategate: Dr. Tim Ball on the hacked CRU emails
Concerted effort to silence dissenters revealed in
Climategate messages (November 24, 2009)
Swimming against the tide is never an easy task.
Scientists that disagreed with the manmade climate change theory have learned
that if you're swimming against the 'consensus' of global warming, it can not
only be hard, it can be a nasty business. For years those who believe other
factors beyond man drive the planet's climate have said they were blocked from
publication and been the target of a concerted effort to silence them. Their
complaints were largely ignored but with the release of the Climategate
documents and emails, the proof shows their claims were not unfounded.An
analysis of the emails from a veritable who's who in climate science show that
some of the world's top scientists worked directly against dissenting
scientists. The scientists worked to discredit other's work, oust them from
professional organizations, exerted pressure on scientific publications and
went so far as to consider pushing an educational institution to review the
doctorate of a scientist. The moves appear to go far beyond a scientific
debate and read more like a vendetta against dissenting opinions. CLIP
Climategate: The Whitewash Begins (27 Nov 2009)
Climategate: five Aussie MPs lead the way by resigning in
disgust over carbon tax
(...) The ETS is Australia's
version of America's proposed Cap and Trade and the EU's various carbon
reduction schemes: a way of taxing business on its CO2 output. As Professor
Plimer pointed out when I interviewed him in the summer, this threatens to
cause enormous economic damage in Australia's industrial and mining
heartlands, not least because both are massively dependent on Australia's vast
reserves of coal. CLIP
Obama's Science Czar John Holdren Involved in "Climategate"
Scandal (November 24, 2009)
Lift up a rock and another snake comes slithering out from
the ongoing University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit (CRU) scandal, now
riding as "Climategate". Obama Science Czar John Holdren is directly involved
in CRU’s unfolding Climategate scandal. In fact, according to files released
by a CEU hacker or whistleblower, Holdren is involved in what Canada Free
Press (CFP) columnist Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball terms "a truculent
and nasty manner that provides a brief demonstration of his lack of
understanding, commitment on faith and willingness to ridicule and bully
people".CLIP
US Congress investigates Climategate e-mails: this could
be the beginning of the end for AGW (November 26th, 2009)
Australia is leading the revolt against Al Gore's great big
AGW conspiracy - just as the Aussie geologist and AGW sceptic
Professor Ian Plimer predicted it would. (...) The Liberal Party is in
turmoil with the resignations of five frontbenchers from their portfolios this
afternoon in protest against the emissions trading scheme.
(...) At this most sensitive moment the whole climate scare is threatening to
unravel with literally immeasurable consequences. The seriousness with which
the Americans are treating this has highlighted just how pivotal the CRU at
East Anglia is to the global warming hype. As American newsmen are pointing
out, East Anglia claims the world's largest temperature data set and its
findings and mathematical models were incorporated into the IPCC's 2007
report, which the US Environmental Protection Agency admits it "relies on most
heavily" in deciding that carbon dioxide emissions must be curbed.Now these
e-mails are being read on the CBS site, revealing a farcical Carry On
Researching scenario at East Anglia: "Apply a very artificial correction for
decline!!" "Low pass filtering at century and longer time scales never gets
rid of the trend - so eventually I start to scale down the 120-yr low pass
time series to mimic the effect of removing/adding longer time scales!" And so
on. Codes were erratic, the baffled researchers had no idea what was going on.
Joe Public is now reading this stuff, courtesy of CBS, and wondering just what
the heck has been happening. Republicans will be asking Obama's people how the
Environment Protection Agency came to rely on the CRU's projections. They will
also be asking questions about e-mails referring to grants from the US
Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to East
Anglia. One of them allegedly says: "We need to show some left to cover the
costs of the trip Roger didn't make and also the fees/equipment/computer money
we haven't spent otherwise NOAA will be suspicious." Unless and until that
e-mail is authoritatively denied (and none of them so far appear to have
been), many will conclude that those sentiments encapsulate the ethos of the
climate alarmist industry. Contrast, too, the speed with which American
legislators have concerned themselves with this scandal and the indifference
of our own parliamentarians and mainstream media. America may not have
Beefeaters, historic stately homes, or the Queen; but when our Transatlantic
cousins suspect they have been shafted by a bunch of wide boys in white lab
coats they do not hang around. While the British public has heard only
whingers from East Anglia shouting that hacking into e-mails is a crime, it is
the American media that are pointing out that deleting e-mail messages to
conceal them from a FOI request in the United Kingdom is also a criminal
offence. Congress, seeing an opportunity of derailing Obama, Al Gore and an
attempt to cripple America to the tune of countless billions of dollars, is on
the case. This is global news now.Meanwhile, the CBS News website is running
the George Monbiot quote: "It's no use pretending that this isn't a major
blow. The e-mails extracted by a hacker from the climatic research unit at the
University of East Anglia could scarcely be more damaging." Too right.
Chill - A Reassessment of Global Warming Theory
Does climate change mean the world is cooling, and if so
what should we do about it? -- "Do you believe the earth is warming? Think
again, says Peter Taylor, a committed environmental analyst with the unusual
gift of following scientific evidence ruthlessly wherever it may lead. Taylor
has done groundbreaking work on issues ranging from ocean pollution and
biodiversity through renewable energy. Now he turns his relentless searchlight
on climate change. His work has the ring of passion and the clarity of
intellectual honesty. We can be certain his conclusions are the product of a
fearless, unbiased, and intelligent intellectual journey by a remarkable mind,
all the marks of genuine science. Taylor challenges us to look beyond our
biases to whatever conclusions the evidence may justify. Believers in global
warming such as myself may not find comfort here, but they will without
question find a clear challenge to examine all the evidence objectively. At
the very least, Taylor raises issues and questions that must be addressed
conclusively before global warming can be genuinely regarded as "truth",
inconvenient or otherwise. This book is a must-read for everyone on all sides
of the climate change issue." - W. Jackson Davis, professor emeritus,
University of California, and author of the first draft of the Kyoto Protocol
- Although the world's climate has undergone many cyclical changes, the term
"climate change" has assumed a sinister meaning, implying catastrophe for
humanity, ecology, and the environment. We have been told that we are
responsible for the threat and that we should take immediate action to prevent
it. However, the widespread scientific consensus of opinion about the causes
and effects of climate change is not what it seems. Chill offers a critical
survey of the subject by a committed environmentalist and scientist. Based on
extensive research, the author reveals a disturbing collusion of interests
responsible for creating a distorted understanding of changes in global
climate. Scientific institutions, basing their work on critically flawed
computer simulations and models, have gained influence and funding. In return
they have allowed themselves to be directed by the needs of politicians and
lobbyists for simple answers, slogans, and targets. CLIP
Banksters Love Cap-and-Trade (2 July, 2009)
The well-placed and well-connected are set to make
trillions off new climate bill; economic collapse about to accelerate -- The
sweeping new bill which just passed the House last Friday, the Clean Energy
and Security Act of 2009, is ostensibly about climate change, but it is in
fact a bill of staggering economic ramifications that is going to accelerate
the takeover of the economy by the well-placed financiers who have already
plundered the Treasury and the Fed of $12+ trillion and counting. It was
rushed through the House in the tradition of such nightmarish legislation as
the Patriot Act and the banker bailout of last October: hundreds of pages were
added to it at the last minute and it was humanly impossible for anyone to
have read it before they voted on it. This, of course, is exactly what Obama
promised his administration would never allow to happen, and for good reason;
bills passed in this manner are always the result of fear and panic and
inevitably results in legislation that would never be passed upon sober second
thought.In this case, the rush to pass this new bill was an attempt to stop
any scrutiny of a plan that is going to utterly transform the American
economy, further centralize control of citizens' lives in the hands of
unaccountable federal bureaucrats and complete the transfer of the American
economy from Main Street to Wall Street. And all of this in the name of
fighting a threat which itself is a demonstrable fraud. In short, the
banksters and bureaucrats are sharpening their knives, preparing to butcher
what's left of the carcass of the United States, and a good portion of the
public are not only willing to allow it but are actually clamoring for it.The
first thing that needs to be understood about the brand new trillion dollar
carbon-trading commodities market that will be brought into existence if this
bill passes the Senate is that it is a ripoff designed by and for the very
corporate interests the environmentalists claim to be fighting. For an
historical precedent of what is being proposed under this cap-and-trade scam
one can look to Enron, which immediately found ways to plunder billions of
dollars from new energy market legislation passed by the Clinton
Administration in 2000.
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Cooking the climate change books
by Lorne Gunter - November 25, 2009
Last Friday it was revealed that someone as yet unknown
had hacked into the computers of the Climate Research Unit (CRU) in Hadley,
U.K. The CRU - or Hadley as it is often referred to - is the source of one of
the four main temperature records used by the United Nations and
environmentalists to claim that the Earth is on the verge of a global
meltdown. It is also home to some of the most prominent climate researchers in
the world.
Stolen and then released were over 1,000 emails and 3,000 research files that
appear to show that those at the CRU and other equally well-known climate
scientists around the world have been working together for years to "cook" the
data about climate change. The emails seem to suggest that much of what the
UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change claims is "settled science" is
based on data manipulated to confirm assertions that man is dangerously
altering our climate. Recent decades may not have been exceptionally warm. The
planet may not be warming as fast as these scientists have claimed publicly -
and it looks as though they may have known it and tried to hide it.
If the emails are correct, CRU scientists also took glee in the death of a
prominent skeptic and did their level best to keep those who disagreed with
them from being published in peer-reviewed journals or invited to contribute
to IPCC reports. There is even one exchange in which some of the CRU
scientists and their colleagues elsewhere tried to have fired the editor of a
peer-reviewed journal that dared publish contrary research.
Okay, I can see where you might not trust me to give you a full perspective on
what is becoming known as Climategate. You may think I'm too biased against
the concept of man-made global warming. So read, then, what George Monbiot of
The Guardian newspaper published on Monday. Mr. Monbiot has been called
"Britain's Al Gore." His books, with titles such as Heat: How to Stop the
Planet from Burning, are bestsellers in Britain and sell well in North
America, too. Among British journalists, he is likely the best-known global
warming adherent.
"It's no use pretending this isn't a major blow," Mr. Monbiot writes. The
emails "could scarcely be more damaging. I am now convinced that they are
genuine, and I'm dismayed and deeply shaken by them.
"Yes, the messages were obtained illegally. Yes, all of us say things in
emails that would be excruciating if made public. Yes, some of the comments
have been taken out of context. But there are some messages that require no
spin to make them look bad. There appears to be evidence here of attempts to
prevent scientific data from being released, and even to destroy material that
was subject to a freedom of information request.
"Worse still, some of the emails suggest efforts to prevent the publication of
work by climate skeptics, or to keep it out of a report by the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. I believe that the head of the
unit, Phil Jones, should now resign."
Mr. Monbiot then goes on to try and cut his movement's losses. He insist this
scandal involves the reputations and work of only "three or four scientists,"
and only calls into question the credibility of "one or perhaps two out of
several hundred lines of evidence" that a man-made climate disaster is upon
us.
That is just so much backfill. He has been for years one of the most visible
and vocal champions for a high-profile cause; of course he has to dismiss the
revelations as ultimately meaningless. Throw three or four overboard to
preserve the many.
That, unfortunately, has been the reaction of far too many other
environmentalists, scientists and journalists, too.
Andrew Revkin of the New York Times - himself a highly visible mouthpiece for
many of the implicated scientists - published a piece Saturday that
essentially consisted of him interviewing the scientists whose emails have
been intercepted and printing their reassurances that the content was harmless
and had merely been misinterpreted or taken out of context. His story may as
well have been titled "Nothing to see here folks, move along."
Except there is something to see.
One of the most prominent environmental icons of the past decade has been the
hockey-stick graph, which claims to show a thousand years of stable
temperatures (the stick), followed by a sharp upward spike in the last 100
years of industrialization (the blade). Such a graph is essential to the
environmentalists' core contention that 20th century temperatures were unusual
and one-directional - upwards.
Two different hockey-stick temperature records were devised by two prominent
scientists in the late 1990s, Michael Mann of the U.S. and Brit Keith Briffa
at Hadley.
The most frequently cited email so far released is from CRU head Phil Jones to
Profs. Mann and Briffa, and others, saying that for an article in Nature
magazine, "I've just completed Mike's Nature trick of adding in the real temps
to each series for the last 20 years (i.e., from 1981 onwards) and from 1961
for Keith's to hide the decline" in late-20th Century temperatures.
But this is not the only highly damaging one.
Just last month, Kevin Trenberth, an IPCC lead author, wrote to Mr. Mann,
admitting "the fact is that we can't account for the lack of warming at the
moment and it is a travesty that we can't. ... Our observing system is
inadequate."
First, these scientists never admit publicly there has been no warming for
years. And second, this is essentially blaming the instruments for the lack of
data supporting the theory. The warming is happening, we just can't detect it.
It's the thermometers' fault.
CRU head Phil Jones on the possibility of skeptics getting possession of his
files and emails back in 2005: "If they ever hear there is a Freedom of
Information Act now in the U.K., I think I'll delete the file rather than send
[it] to anyone." That note was followed last year by this one: "Can you delete
any emails you have with Keith ... Keith will do likewise. Can you also email
Gene and get him to do the same?... We will be getting Caspar to do likewise."
There is page upon page like this. It goes way beyond the frank and candid
exchanges colleagues have when no one is listening.
Does this "drive a nail in the climate change coffin," as some skeptics have
asserted? No.
But it should do two important things: raise doubt that
climate science is settled and cause the public to question the need for any
expensive, big-government solutions such as Copenhagen, Kyoto, cap-and-trade,
carbon tax or carbon capture and sequestration.
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The Road to Copenhagen part III: A "Planetary Regime" in
the Making
Jurriaan Maessen
November 22, 2009
"It is the sacred principles enshrined in the United
Nations charter to which the American people will henceforth pledge their
allegiance." George H.W. Bush addressing the General Assembly of the U.N,
February 1, 1992
The machine of mass media is working overdrive now that
the Copenhagen summit is approaching. All major media outlets have by now
obviously received their talking-points which have an strangely similar ring
about them all across the board. Even a superficial comparative study in the
overall reporting reveals not only a stunning disregard for national
sovereignty, but a willingness to support carbon-taxes imposed by a- as John
P. Holdren puts it- "planetary regime".
Oxford professor Dieter Helm: "I'm in favor of quite a
low carbon tax to start with - for political economy reasons, to get it in
place."
Last month experts
told the Second Committee Panel
Discussion of the UN General Assembly that "a new regime of governance was
under way in the global financial system." The same is being said about global
climate measures, global resource management and global development.
The mass media is not only setting the agenda
themselves, they more often than not simply parrot the globalists that are
being shoved in our face on a daily basis. Many of whom have a Ph.D. behind
their name. Under the header 'Carbon
Tax' is sensible, and perhaps inevitable, advocate says',
the Los Angeles Times quotes Oxford professor Dieter Helm stating:
"(..) I'm in favor of quite a low carbon tax to start
with - for political economy reasons, to get it in place, (Š). Across Europe,
my guess is within five years everybody will have a carbon taxŠ"
This, according to Helm, will make sure that the United
States will eventually be forced into the global carbon tax policy as well:
"(Š) is everybody else doing it? That's a very good
protection for politicians. The answer is yes, they are."
Back in December of 2001, the Africa division of the UN
Development Programme apparently already seriously
considered such a tax:
"The main energy sources that would be affected by a
carbon tax include coal, petroleum, kerosene and natural gas. The tax would be
reflected in an increase in their price, at a level based on the capacity of
each type of fuel to emit carbon dioxide."
Answering the question who would collect the taxes and
enforce such a global tax policy, the UN panel was quite clear:
"The panel said a new international tax organization
should be created to assume all functions performed by existing institutions.
It would serve as a global intergovernmental forum for international
cooperation on all tax issues. It would also help resolve conflicts between
countries and help them to increase tax revenue by fostering information
exchanges and measures that could reduce tax evasion on investment and
personal income earned at home and abroad."
This sounds a lot like John P. Holdren doesn't it,
exclaiming in Ecoscience that "a Planetary Regime- sort of an international
superagency for population, resources, and environment" could impose global
policy and enforce it. "Such a comprehensive Planetary Regime", said Holdren,
"could control the development, administration, conservation, and distribution
of all natural resources, renewable or nonrenewable, at least insofar as
international implications exist."
"We thus endorse the Commission's proposal to create a
global council at the highest political level to provide leadership on issues
of global governance. The proposed council would be more broadly based than
the G7 or the Bretton Woods institutions."
In 2007, Reuters quoted Mr. Global Warming Himself, Al
Gore as
saying that a global carbon trading scheme could be "quite
efficient if the world's top polluters, the United States and China, fully
joined." Gore also stated that a direct tax on carbon would certainly be "an
even simpler and more direct measure."
It was the Bilderberg-appointed Herman Van Rompuy- the
new EU-president- who
stated recently that "The Climate Conference in Copenhagen is
another step towards the global management of our planet." He also
announced that 2009 would be the "first
year of global governance." And he's not the first to call for such global
management. All people who occupy a position of power in the infrastructure of
the New World Order have called for it since its very conception shortly after
World War II.
As a preface to the coming Copenhagen summit in
December, the United Nations Population Fund in a recently published ' State
of the Population 2009' is pushing for
global reproductive health services. This means not only universal access to
'family planning' but also better access to abortion facilities. Humans, after
all, are supposed to be the prime driver of climate change and therefore: less
humans means honouring Mother Earth.
In the foreword, the executive director of the UNFPA,
Thoraya Obaid addresses the fake global warming hype, saying that "floods,
storms and rising seas" will soon envelope the planet if not for quick,
decisive and global efforts to combat these calamities.
"A Copenhagen agreement that helps people to reduce
greenhouse-gas emissions and adapt to climate change by harnessing the insight
and creativity of women and men would launch a genuinely effective long-term
global strategy to deal with climate change."
Global strategy. That's the talking point we hear over
and over again from all agencies, UN or otherwise, who have an interest in
profiting from the deal they are proposing. Never mind that all nation-states
who sign on to the Copenhagen treaty will effectively forfeit their
representative systems to this global authority, deciding which taxes will be
paid by which nation-state. In the end, all roads seem to lead to a "planetary
regime" envisioned by the elite long before "global warming" was even heard
of.
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THOSE WHO ARE AFRAID THAT THE NOBLE GOAL OF CURBING MAN-MADE
POLLUTION IS BEING USED AS A PRETEXT TO ESTABLISH A WORLD GOVERNMENT
STEALTHILY CONTROLLED BY THE BILDERBERG CROWD OR THAT THERE IS STILL NO PROOF
THAT HUMAN ACTIVITIES CAN AFFECT THE CLIMATE WILL BE HAPPY TO READ THAT
EFFORTS TO CUT A GLOBAL DEAL TO REACH ANY SUCH GOALS IS STILL A LONG WAY OFF.
THOSE WHO ARE CONVINCED IT IS WAY PAST TIME TO GET SERIOUS ABOUT THIS PROBLEM
WON'T FOND CAUSE FOR ANY COMFORT IN THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS WHERE
POLITICAL POSTURING AND SHORTSIGHTEDNESS ARE STILL THE ORDER OF THE DAY
China unveils carbon target for Copenhagen deal
Nov 26, 2009
By Emma Graham-Harrison and Chris Buckley
BEIJING (Reuters) - China unveiled its first firm target to
curb greenhouse gas emissions on Thursday, a carbon intensity goal that
Premier Wen Jiabao will take to a summit in Copenhagen next month hoping to
aid a global climate deal.
The announcement came a day after the United States, the second biggest
emitter of greenhouse gases behind China, unveiled a plan to cut emissions by
2020 and said President Barack Obama would attend the U.N.-led talks in
Copenhagen.
China said Wen would go to the December 7-18 talks and pledged to cut the
amount of carbon dioxide produced for each yuan of national income 40-45
percent by 2020, compared to 2005 levels.
It was hailed as a vital commitment toward rekindling talks to fix a new
framework for tackling global warming, although analysts cautioned it was
technically quite modest for China.
"The U.S. commitment to specific, mid-term emission cut targets and China's
commitment to specific action on energy efficiency can unlock two of the last
doors to a comprehensive agreement," said Yvo de Boer, head of the U.N.
Climate Change Secretariat.
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen praised Wen's decision to attend
and said China was "very active and constructive."
Even so, China's emissions were still likely to double by 2020 with the new
target, said Frank Jotzo, deputy director of the Australian National
University Climate Change Institute.
Without a goal "under a business as usual scenario, China's emissions might
increase over two and a half times," he said.
"China has taken what is universally expected to happen, and dressed it up as
a new and ambitious policy decision," said Bjorn Lomborg, a Danish
statistician and author of "The Skeptical Environmentalist."
The U.N. talks have run out of time to settle a legally binding deal after
arguments between rich and poor nations about who should cut emissions, by how
much and who should pay. But hopes are growing that a substantive political
pact can be agreed at the December meeting instead.
China's target comes after big emitters Brazil and Indonesia announced tough
2020 reduction targets. Wednesday's 2020 target from the United States and
Obama's attendance are also expected to help the Copenhagen talks, analysts
say.
But in a reminder of the serious disputes that still shadow the summit,
China's top climate envoy took aim at developed nations he said were slacking
in their efforts to cut emissions and said the new Chinese target was only
"domestically binding."
"So far we have not seen concrete actions and substantive commitments by the
developed countries," Xie Zhenhua, deputy head of the planning body the
National Development and Reform Committee, told a hastily arranged news
conference in Beijing.
TOUGH GOAL?
China's cabinet said its goal, which allows greenhouse gas emissions to grow
as the economy expands, was a demanding one for the developing country. It
will unveil new policies including taxes and financial steps to reach it.
The target does not include carbon sinks, Xie said, and will be calculated
based on energy consumption and "production processes" -- probably industrial
output. Extra cuts could therefore come from forests, which absorb carbon
dioxide.
Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei said the plan "shows China's highly responsible
attitude toward the future of mankind."
A five-year drive to boost energy efficiency and renewables by 2010 will take
Beijing around half-way to meeting the carbon intensity goal by the end of
this decade.
But the country's still-rapid industrialisation, and its efforts in recent
years, meant harder work for smaller gains in future, said Dai Yande, deputy
head of the Energy Research Institute under the National Development and
Reform Commission.
"It's an arduous task for China, as everybody knows energy intensity tends to
rise during industrialisation and thus it's difficult to cut down emissions,"
Dai said.
NEGOTIATIONS AHEAD
China said the intensity goal was a "voluntary" one that would only be binding
domestically, leaving room for negotiation about what international
commitments Beijing will sign up for.
"I think the question that will immediately follow this is the favorite three
initials that the United States keeps talking about, M, R, and V, how China is
going to measure, report and verify these cuts," said Chris Raczkowski, China
managing director for Ecofys, a renewable energy consulting company.
As a developing country, China is not obliged by current treaties to accept
binding caps on its emissions, and it and other poor countries have said that
principle should not change in any new deal that emerges from Copenhagen.
The United States will pledge to cut its greenhouse gas emissions roughly 17
percent below 2005 levels by 2020, a drop of about 3 percent below the 1990
benchmark year used in U.N. treaties -- and far below the 25-40 percent cut
outlined by the U.N. climate panel.
Australia's troubled carbon trade scheme was thrown into confusion on Thursday
after several opposition lawmakers resigned their party positions and promised
to ignore a deal to support the government's planned laws.
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Unhappy Thanksgiving
by William Rivers Pitt, 26 November 2009
The calendar has come around again to Thanksgiving, and
families all over the country will be gathering around dinner tables to
celebrate. Or try to, anyway. With unemployment above ten percent, and with
actual unemployment closer to twenty percent, with foreclosures all over the
place, with wages dropping and food prices rising, with the economy improving
only for those who have lots of money, there will be millions of people
without a whole hell of a lot to feel thankful for.
Ten months after the inauguration of Barack Obama, those "Yes We Can" and
"Hope" slogans have begun to ring more than a little hollow. Of course, the
man inherited a vast array of ongoing catastrophes from his predecessor, and
it is a dead-bang certainty that ten months under a McCain administration
would have left us in far worse shape than we find ourselves in today, but the
realization that matters are only slightly better than they would have been
under the worst-case scenario doesn't go very far anymore. Some things are
better, but the fact of the matter is that some things are worse, and most
things are exactly the same.
The news on Tuesday was filled with reports that Obama intends to announce his
decision regarding America's ongoing war in Afghanistan on December 1, and the
early word is "expansion." McClatchy News reported, "President Barack Obama
met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to
dispatch some 34,000 additional US troops over the next year to what he's
called 'a war of necessity' in Afghanistan. Obama is expected to announce his
long-awaited decision on December 1, followed by meetings on Capitol Hill
aimed at winning congressional support amid opposition by some Democrats who
are worried about the strain on the US Treasury and whether Afghanistan has
become a quagmire, the officials said."
So, there it is. The US military is in terrible shape after two wars, and
sending more troops into the Afghan conflict will only add to the damage. The
cost of sending additional troops will further undermine our economy and make
Obama's domestic agenda all the more difficult to achieve. The Afghan people,
already deeply resentful after eight years of American occupation and warfare,
will not greet a new investment of troops gladly. We can all hold hands around
the Thanksgiving table and pray to whatever God may be listening that Obama
will provide some sort of coherent exit policy, but the fact remains that no
occupying force in more than a century has employed any effective exit
strategy from Afghanistan beyond utter defeat.
Speaking of domestic policy, the much-ballyhooed push to reform America's
health care system has gone completely sideways in the hands of Congress
people bought off by insurance and pharmaceutical industries, and in the hands
of a president who demanded change but has taken three steps back for every
one step forward. The result looks to be a watered down farce of a bill that
could very well make matters even worse than they already are. Economist
Robert Reich recently wrote about the current state of affairs in the health
care debate:
So the compromise that ended up in the House bill is to have a mere public
option, open only to the 6 million Americans not otherwise covered. The
Congressional Budget Office warns this shrunken public option will have no
real bargaining leverage and would attract mainly people who need lots of
medical care to begin with. So, it will actually cost more than it saves.
But even the House's shrunken and costly little public option is too much for
private insurers, Big Pharma, Republicans and "centrists" in the Senate. So,
Harry Reid has proposed an even tinier public option, which states can decide
not to offer their citizens. According to the CBO, it would attract no more
than four million Americans.
It's a token public option, an ersatz public option, a fleeting gesture toward
the idea of a public option, so small and desiccated as to be barely worth
mentioning except for the fact that it still (gasp) contains the word
"public."
Our private, for-profit health insurance system, designed to fatten the
profits of private health insurers and Big Pharma, is about to be turned over
to ... our private, for-profit health care system. Except that now private
health insurers and Big Pharma will be getting some 30 million additional
customers, paid for by the rest of us.
Upbeat policy wonks and political spinners who tend to see only portions of
cups that are full will point out some good things: no pre-existing
conditions, insurance exchanges, 30 million more Americans covered. But in
reality, the cup is 90 percent empty. Most of us will remain stuck with little
or no choice - dependent on private insurers who care only about the bottom
line, who deny our claims, who charge us more and more for co-payments and
deductibles, who bury us in forms, who don't take our calls.
Pretty much says it all right there.
With public attention focused on the economy, Afghanistan and health care, the
White House is moving in stealth to renew some of the worst Patriot Act
provisions enacted by the Bush administration. Specifically, the
administration seeks to renew three parts of the Act that are set to expire on
December 31, according to the Inter-Press Service:
National Security Letters (NSLs)
The FBI uses NSLs to compel Internet service providers, libraries, banks, and
credit reporting companies to turn over sensitive information about their
customers and patrons. Using this data, the government can compile vast
dossiers about innocent people.
The 'Material Support' Statute
This provision criminalizes providing "material support" to terrorists,
defined as providing any tangible or intangible good, service or advice to a
terrorist or designated group. As amended by the Patriot Act and other laws
since Sep. 11, this section criminalizes a wide array of activities,
regardless of whether they actually or intentionally further terrorist goals
or organizations.
FISA Amendments Act of 2008
This past summer, Congress passed a law that permits the government to conduct
warrantless and suspicion-less dragnet collection of US residents'
international telephone calls and e-mails.
All we as Americans can do is work to push these elected
officials away from the abyss they have us teetering over, and hope that there
will be something to be thankful for next year. For now, however, just about
everything before us is either worse or exactly as bad as it was before. Not
much to be thankful about here.
14.
From: Sofía Aldunate (zadquiel1965@gmail.com)
Date: 24 Nov 2009
Subject: Our Evolving Solar System: Plasma, Polar
Reversals, and 2012
Dear Jean
I found this discoveries very interesting regarding the
possible behaviour of the sun and our planetary system in 2012. It is very
scientific too, these are discoveries made by a Russian scientist. I am
including just part of the article, which is quite long, but I think, well
worth reading. This has been taken from the website Reality Sandwich and here
is the link http://www.realitysandwich.com/polar_reversals
Our Evolving Solar System: Plasma, Polar Reversals, and
2012
Plasma Changes in the Solar System
The increasing amount of plasma that has been entering
our solar system over the last couple of decades has been receiving a lot of
attention in the run up to 2012. A Russian team of scientists, headed by the
planet physicist Dr. Alexey Dmitriev, has been following this phenomenon.
Their research suggests that this influx of plasma may be responsible for some
of the recent dramatic climate changes.
The Role of Plasma in Recent Solar System Changes
A team from the Siberian Russian Academy of Sciences has
been investigating changes in the heliosphere, the electromagnetic envelope
that surrounds our solar system. The heliosphere acts like a giant protective
sheath surrounding our sun and the entire solar system as we travel through
space. Normally, it functions as a giant deflector, protecting us from a
potentially harmful influx of cosmic radiation and keeping conditions within
the inner solar system relatively stable. However, it is now being bombarded
with so much radiation that an unprecedented amount is breaking through. This
is reaching our sun and all of the planets of the solar system, including our
own.
What is a plasma?
A plasma is a partially ionized gas and is sometimes
called the fourth state of matter. The behavior of plasma is quite unlike
those of solids, liquids, and gases. In nature, plasmas are usually found in
gas-like clouds, as in the case of interstellar nebulae. Other examples of
plasmas include ball lightning and the phenomenon of the aurora borealis.
The increase in incoming interstellar plasma, Dmitriev
suggests, is dramatically impacting the behavior of our sun and its solar
system. "Strong evidence exists that these transformations are being caused by
highly charged material (in) interstellar space which have broken into the
interplanetary area of our solar system," Dmitriev wrote in 1997.
Changes in Interstellar Space
For much of the twentieth century, space was visualized
as a near vacuum. The astronomical reality, it is now being discovered, is
actually quite different. Our solar system moves through something called the
Local Interstellar Space Medium (LISM).
The LISM is not uniformly empty at all, but has greater
and lesser amounts of plasmic flux density created by the presence of highly
charged particles. The amount of energy within empty interstellar space is
actually highly variable. Scientists are now coming to realize that space has
more in common with our terrestrial oceans, with their complex tides and
currents, than was previously recognized.
The quantity of plasma, in the form of ionized hydrogen,
helium, and hydroxyl, that we encounter in the LISM is a critical variable for
what happens in the wider behavior of our solar system. This increased influx
of energy is the fundamental cause of the multiple magnetic and climatic
changes that have recently been observed in the sun and across all of the
planets. Dmitriev even goes as far as to say the consequence of the increase
in this interstellar plasmic energy is far more important, in his opinion,
than human greenhouse gas emissions are in the creation of our planet's
current global warming crisis.
Changes in the Heliosphere
The heliosphere itself has exhibited a dramatic change
in behavior over the last ten years. The transition through this increased
plasma flux has expanded the heliosphere's bow shock wave in front of the
solar system more than ten-fold. Dmitriev gives an extensive catalogue of
changes he claims this has caused within the solar system.
Recent Planetary Changes
-- Significant physical, chemical, and optical changes
observed on Venus; an inversion of dark and light spots detected for the first
time and a sharp decrease of sulfur-containing gases in its atmosphere.
-- The first stages of atmosphere generation on the
Moon, where a growing sodium-based atmosphere that reaches 5,500 miles in
height has been detected.
-- Changes in the atmosphere of Mars, including a cloudy
growth in the equatorial region and unusual growth in ozone concentration.
-- Significant melting of the Martian polar ice caps.
-- A doubling of the magnetic field intensity on Jupiter
after the series of impacts from the fragments of the Shoemaker-Levy comet in
1994; also, the appearance of large auroral anomalies, excessive plasma
generation, and radiation belt brightening.
-- The creation of an ionic flux tube between Jupiter
and the volcanic regions of its moon, Io. This stream of plasma is millions of
miles in length and is 1 million amperes in strength. It is affecting
Jupiter's magnetic field and intensifying its plasma genesis.
-- Reporting of auroras and a visible increase in
brightness on Saturn.
-- Abrupt large-scale growth of magnetosphere intensity
and an increase in brightness on Uranus.
-- A change in light intensity and light-spot dynamics
on Neptune.
-- A growth of dark spots on Pluto.
Dmitriev notes that Uranus and Neptune, which are
magnetically conjugate planets, have both undergone magnetic pole shifts in
recent decades. Earth is magnetically conjugate to Jupiter, so he theorizes
that the dramatic changes on Jupiter could well have consequences for our
planet.
The claim of a direct causal link between the increase
in plasma entering the solar system and recent planetary changes is still very
controversial, but Dmitriev's research is quite comprehensive and is backed up
with extensive scientific references. It seems likely that the increase in
this cosmic energy does have some role to play in influencing climate, but it
may be one of many contributing factors, rather than a sole cause. Dmitriev
himself points out that planetary changes are complex affairs with many
interdependent factors. It is the total sum of all these influences that
actually determines what happens.
Changes to the Sun
There have also been some recent dramatic changes to the
sun. The Ulysses spacecraft sent by NASA to measure the magnetic field of the
sun found the magnetic fields of the poles enormously diminished. The magnetic
poles of the sun usually reverse at the end of an eleven-year sunspot cycle.
At the end of the most recent cycle, the poles only moved to the sun's equator
and did not completely invert. This behavior alters everything that was
previously believed about the sun's magnetic field. Effectively, the sun no
longer has a single north or south magnetic pole; instead, it has four poles
located in the equatorial regions.
The data gathered by the Ulysses spacecraft showed that
the sun's magnetic field interacts with the rest of the solar system in a much
more complex fashion than previously believed. NASA scientists determined that
the polar magnetic field is much weaker than previously observed and the
amount of cosmic dust entering the solar system is thirty times more than
expected.
X-Ray Flares
After the peak of the last eleven-year sunspot cycle in
1999, the sun has had a number of extremely large x-ray flare events. One of
these, on April 2, 2001, was so large that it went off the scale completely.
The previous scale ran to X-20 as the highest category, but this solar flare
had to be categorized as an X-22 event. The x-ray burst was not in the
direction of Earth, but a much smaller x-ray flare in 1989 was responsible for
knocking out the whole Canadian power grid. If the X-22 event had hit Earth,
possible consequences could have included major power outages, interruption of
the Internet, damage to telecommunications and GPS satellites, and even the
wiping of computer hard drives. The most powerful flare observed since then
happened on November 4, 2003. It lasted eleven minutes and produced an x-ray
flux of X-28.
The Carrington Event
These recent events, though very significant, are not
actually the largest solar flares ever recorded. That honor goes to a flare
that happened on September 1, 1859. This has become known as the Carrington
event after Richard Carrington, the young English astronomer who saw the event
as it happened from his private observatory.
It was a remarkable piece of luck that he happened to be
observing the sun at the particular moment that the flare erupted, because the
event lasted for less than five minutes. In that time, a huge knot of sunspots
appeared and generated a plume that was by far the biggest observed in the 160
years records have been kept.
Before dawn on the following day, a huge firework
display of auroral lights bathed Earth, reaching as far south as the
Caribbean. The rainbow-hued lights were so brilliant that it was said to be
possible to read by them as if it were daylight. The Carrington event also
caused major disruption to the telegraph system worldwide.
Conventional astronomy suggests that a flare of this
size may only happen once every 500 years or so, but even greater flares have
been observed on other stars. Some of these stellar megaflares have emitted
quantities of radiation that would be likely to cause major loss of life on
Earth.
The Maunder Minimum
Sunspot activity has been broadly increasing since the
Maunder minimum period from 1645 to 1715, when there were very few sunspots.
At a typical peak of the sunspot cycle, there may be as many as 1,000 spots a
year, but during the Maunder minimum the number of spots dropped as low as one
or two a year for a thirty-year period. This was also the peak of what has
been called the Little Ice Age. This was a period of approximately 400 years,
from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, when the drop in temperature
was so great that the winter mortality rate in Europe increased dramatically.
In London, the river Thames froze over completely every winter. The edge of
the Atlantic ice pack moved southward during the Maunder minimum and glaciers
started expanding.
The Maunder minimum was named after the astronomer
Edward Maunder, who measured and photographed sunspots at the Greenwich Royal
Observatory. It was his studies of this unusual period in history that led to
his discovery of the important eleven-year sunspot cycle.
Cosmic Rays and Climate Change
Dmitriev is not the only scientist who thinks this influx of cosmic rays has a
major part to play in the recent increases in global temperature. Henrik
Svensmark is the head of Center for Sun-Climate Research at the Danish Space
Research Institute. In his book The Chilling Stars: A New Theory of Climate
Change, he suggests that when cosmic radiation, especially protons, hit
Earth's atmosphere, the reaction they cause has the effect of creating clouds.
The more cosmic rays there are the greater the cloud cover.
A shutdown in solar activity and a decrease in the magnetic field of the sun
leave our planet more open to the influx of plasmic energy from outside the
solar system. This then leads to an increase in cloud cover and the kind of
climate change we are now seeing. Svensmark predicts we could be about to
enter a new Maunder minimum-like period and that global temperatures are about
to rapidly cool.
Dr. Nir Shaviv, an astrophysicist, also thinks cosmic rays affect our planet's
climate. By reconstructing the temperature on Earth over the past 500 million
years, Shaviv thinks he has found that changes in the amount of cosmic rays
are responsible for more than two-thirds of Earth's temperature changes,
making it the most important driver of climate change over long periods of
time.
Shaviv hypothesizes that the sun's passage through the spiral arms of the
Milky Way appears to have been the cause behind the major Ice Ages over the
past billion years. He has correlated variations in the cosmic-ray flux to the
solar system's orbit around the center of the galaxy and through its spiral
arms. In the more crowded spiral arms, like our Orion arm, there is a higher
density of cosmic rays. Shaviv agrees with Svensmark that the result of this
increase is that Earth becomes cooler.
The study of meteorites that have hit Earth during its passage through the
arms of the Milky Way have shown up to 10 percent more cosmic-ray damage than
those sustained elsewhere. Shaviv believes that kind of cosmic ray variation
could alter global temperatures by as much as 15 percent. This would be
sufficient to turn the Ice Ages on or off.
Both Svensmark and Shaviv are considered climate skeptics who dispute the
extent to which the creation of greenhouse gases is contributing to the
current climate change. The year 2012 is significant in the context of
research into cosmic rays because:
-- It coincides with the next predicted solar sunspot maximum, and recently
discovered breaches in Earth's magnetosphere make us more vulnerable to
solar-flare events.
-- The effects of increased cosmic dust and radiation entering the solar
system will be likely to accelerate by this point, which coincides with 2012.
According to these scientists, whether the planet cools or heats up depends on
the balance of solar activity and cosmic radiation.
It is not necessary to agree to with their views on climate change to share
their conclusion that an increase of cosmic radiation may cause significant
changes. Svensmark points out that it is actually well established and
uncontroversial that solar activity has a direct influence on the eleven-year
variation of stratospheric pressure levels found in the upper atmosphere. The
electromagnetic fields of our planet are highly sensitive and respond to a
range of influences from solar wind to tropical storms. A tenfold increase in
cosmic radiation is likely to affect these fields and the upper and lower
atmosphere of the planet in ways that may be unpredictable. The debate is to
what extent and how these changes will manifest.
The Impact of Technological Civilization on the
Biosphere
One of the most important and unpredictable variables in the process of rapid
magnetic change that Dmitriev reports is the effect our industrial and
technological civilization is having on our planet. The extent of human impact
on the biosphere is now so great that we are impacting the electromagnetic
skeleton of the planet. More than 30 percent of disturbances in the
magnetosphere are now caused by electricity production, transmission, or
consumption.
For example, the Van Allen radiation belts over the eastern United States have
moved inward from more than 200 miles above the surface of the planet to
slightly more than six miles. This is caused by the massive amount of energy
being transmitted between the power stations around the Great Lakes to the
eastern seaboard. The transmission route runs along one of Earth's magnetic
meridians, and the frequency of electricity transmission in the United States
is at 60Hz, which is resonant with the ionosphere.
What are the Van Allen radiation belts?
These are two belts of plasma surrounding Earth that are
held in place by the planet's magnetic field. The inner belt extends 200-6,000
miles from Earth's surface and has a high concentration of protons. The outer
belt extends 12,000-26,000 miles and is made of electrons.
This is just one of the many ways in which we are changing our electromagnetic
environment, potentially with unforeseen consequences. This may well
dramatically complicate the changes that already appear to be happening as a
result of the extra-solar energy shift. Dmitriev regards these events as
irreversible and fundamental. Possible outcomes, he predicts, may include a
major reorganization of life on Earth. He concludes that the combination of
the manmade technological impact on the planet and the increase of magnetic
saturation coming into the solar system mean we are entering a period of rapid
and unstoppable geophysical change.
Changes in the Magnetic Field Affecting Nature
Some species and habitats are more sensitive than others to the effects of
these changes. Unfortunately, some of those animals and insects that may be
most severely affected occupy key ecological niches in the world's ecosystem.
Bees
The rapid decline in bee population, known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD),
may be a symptom of the change in the earth's magnetic polarity. While some
scientists believe that bees find their hives by following polarized lines of
light in the sky, research at National Tsing Hua University of Taiwan into
magnetic reception in bees has shown the presence of magnetite. This suggests
they have magnetic homing senses.
Changes in Earth's magnetic field and the influence of manmade electromagnetic
pollution are possible causes of the dramatic bee decline. A survey
commissioned by the Apiary Inspectors of America found losses of more than 30
percent in the bee population from CCD. Some scientists estimate that life on
Earth is so dependent on bee pollination that the current human population
would be unable to feed itself just eight years after the collapse of the bee
colonies.
Whales
Whales may also have a biomagnetic sense, which allows
them to navigate by sensing Earth's magnetic fields. Whales following magnetic
field lines could beach themselves in areas where the field lines intersect
with the coast. A study in the United Kingdom by Margaret Klinowska found a
correlation between local magnetic field lines and sites where whales were
stranded on shore. The biomagnetic theory may also explain why there are
multiple-species strandings. The use of underwater sonar has also been
implicated in whale beachings.
Frogs
The weakened magnetosphere allows more ultraviolet light to penetrate through
the atmosphere to the surface. Frogs and other moist-skinned amphibians are
among the species most sensitive to these increases in ultraviolet radiation.
There has been a recent sharp decline in frog and other amphibian populations
in both tropical and temperate climates.
Humans
New Scientist magazine has reported research showing how human behavior is
influenced by changes in Earth's magnetic field. Oleg Shumilov of the
Institute of North Industrial Ecology Problems in Russia looked at activity in
Earth's geomagnetic field from 1948 to 1997 and found that it grouped into
three seasonal peaks every year: one from March to May, another in July, and
the last in October. He also found that geomagnetism peaks matched up with
peaks in the number of emotional disorders such as depression, anxiety, mood
swings, and even suicides in the northern Russian city of Kirovsk.
Responding to the Electromagnetic Crisis
If the rapid increase in manmade electromagnetic emissions is left unchecked,
it seems likely there will be an increase in consequences for human health and
the health of the biosphere. The combination of a number of other geophysical
effects converging in 2012 may mean that this impact is compounded. These
effects include:
-- Weakened magnetosphere.
-- Solar maximum due in 2012.
-- Increase in interstellar plasma and cosmic rays.
-- Movement of the magnetic poles.
One possible scenario is that at the solar maximum around 2012, a massive
solar eruption on the scale of the Carrington event could pass through the
weakened magnetosphere of Earth. This could massively impact our global
communications systems and computer networks and dramatically accelerate the
changing motion of the magnetic poles. If the magnetic flux of the flare event
is of sufficient magnitude to overwhelm the ring main of Earth's magnetic
field, it could theoretically produce a rapid magnetic pole shift.
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Related article and video:
New Solar Cycle Prediction (May 29, 2009)
An international panel of experts led by NOAA and
sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle.
Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of
sunspots."If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak
sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16
peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather
Prediction Center. It is tempting to describe such a cycle as "weak" or
"mild," but that could give the wrong impression."Even a below-average cycle
is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The
great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle
of about the same size we're predicting for 2013." The 1859 storm--known as
the "Carrington
Event" after astronomer Richard Carrington
who witnessed the instigating solar flare--electrified transmission cables,
set fires in telegraph offices, and produced Northern Lights so bright that
people could read newspapers by their red and green glow. A recent report by
the National Academy of Sciences found that if a similar storm occurred today,
it could cause $1 to 2 trillion in damages to society's high-tech
infrastructure and require four to ten years for complete recovery. For
comparison, Hurricane Katrina caused "only" $80 to 125 billion in damage. CLIP
Nasa Warns Of Super Solar Storm 2012
Nasa says super solar storm coming in 2012. It could
knock out all electricity on the planet! *** NEW UPDATE *** NASA has revised
their prediction for solar maximum to now occur around mid-May of 2013.
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Global Initiation and Multiple Dimensions
(...) Hypnotherapist Chet Snow has written a fascinating
book called Mass Dreams of the Future. In this book, rather than regressing
people into past lives, he 'progresses' them into the future, beyond the year
2012, and then catalogues what they seem to have experienced.
Interestingly, their experiences fall into three very distinct categories.
The first group was living on a devastated earth, foraging and living in
hunting and gathering conditions, similar to how it must have been after the
Atlantean catastrophe when humanity had to start over again from scratch.
The second group either lived off-planet in space stations, or on the surface
of an inhospitable planet in future artificial environments. The third group
found themselves on a beautiful green utopian earth, completely restored and
with no crime, wars, hunger, and with very little disease or even death.
Could these be examples of what we are calling Third, Fourth, and Fifth
dimensional timelines? It seems that individuals might be able to choose their
worlds after the Shift, in accordance with what their inner soul choices may
be.
At some point, perhaps immediately for some and more distantly in the future
for others, I imagine that a Sixth dimensional timeline would open up,
representing the 'supramental human' living in bodies of true matter. This
would be a 'physical etheric' rather than 'physical material' density. All
this would be assisted through the supramental power of harmonization that Sri
Aurobindo talks about.
If enough of us are able to ascend to this level soon
enough, perhaps this power of harmonization could bring about Windrider's best
case scenario, a complete and immediate collective transformation of Earth and
humanity into a frequency of matter fully capable of holding the vibrations of
soul! If this works, perhaps this could trigger the 'hundredth monkey'
phenomenon, where we could ascend together as a planetary collective into a
single supramental timeline of human consciousness!
If we are not ready for this, however, I do feel that
the magnetic polar reversal will initiate a splitting of our third-dimensional
spacetime coordinates into several simultaneous timelines, each one vibrating
to a different dimensional frequency, and each person given a choice as to
which of these timelines would best suit their continuing evolution.
Could all this happen in 2012? Although I am not
attached to a historical date, I do see that there are several pointers in
this direction. Along with the Mayan calendar, Aztec, Toltec, and Cherokee
calendars also use a similar end date, while Terrence McKenna's timewave
theory, independently derived on the basis of his psychedelic research into
the I Ching, also provides the same end date for the winding down of our
current civilization. Meanwhile, as we get closer to this date, multitudes of
people, including children, are starting to have dreams, visions, and
intuitions regarding this Shift of the Ages.
Most scientists that I have referred to in this book
will not give specific dates for the manifestation of their respective
scenarios, but do provide windows of time into which 2012 AD would comfortably
fit. Given the current state of affairs, I see the upcoming Global Shift as a
sign of enormous hope. Many informed people around the world intuitively feel
that we simply cannot go on for another ten, twenty or fifty years without
exterminating ourselves and perhaps our precious planet as well. Most have
become quite pessimistic regarding our ability to turn things around in time.
The conclusions that we are making here, therefore, are
not about death and destruction, which would inevitably happen anyway if we
continue on our current course of self-destruction, but rather visions of hope
and beauty beyond imagining. This is especially so once we discover how much
power we hold within our own hands to determine our personal and collective
future.
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Recommended by Marcel Thevoz (marcelthevoz@msn.com)
France Finds Monsanto Guilty of Lying
Posted by: Dr. Mercola -- November 21 2009
France's highest court has ruled that U.S. agrochemical giant Monsanto had not
told the truth about the safety of its best-selling weed-killer, Roundup. The
court confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto had falsely advertised its
herbicide as "biodegradable" and claimed it "left the soil clean." Roundup is
the world's best-selling herbicide.
French environmental groups had brought the case in 2001 on the basis that
glyphosate, Roundup's main ingredient, is classed as "dangerous for the
environment" by the European Union.
In the latest ruling, France's Supreme Court upheld two earlier convictions
against Monsanto by the Lyon criminal court in 2007, and the Lyon court of
appeal in 2008, the AFP news agency reports.
Monsanto already dominates America's food chain with its
genetically modified seeds. Now it has targeted milk production. Just as
frightening as the corporation's tactics, including ruthless legal battles
against small farmers, is its decades-long history of toxic contamination.
Sources:
BBC October 15, 2009
Vanity Fair May 2008
Vanity Fair June 19, 2009
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
Monsanto is a very dark cloud hanging over the future of
health and food safety in the United States. This powerful entity has already
managed so many reprehensible acts it boggles the mind, including:
- Leading the world into a new age of potentially hazardous genetic
modification of seeds.
- Patenting not only their own GMO seeds, but also a huge number of crop
seeds, patenting life forms for the first time -- without a vote of the people
or Congress.
- Not allowing farmers to save their seeds to replant the next year -- a
practice that has been done for generations. Instead, they aggressively seek
out and sue farmers they suspect of doing so.
- Suing farmers who have not been able to prevent the inevitable drift of
Monsanto's GE pollen or seed onto their land for patent infringement!
- Producing two of the most toxic substances ever known -- polychlorinated
biphenyls, known as PCBs, and dioxin (Agent Orange).
Now France's highest court has confirmed an earlier judgment that Monsanto
falsely advertised its Roundup herbicide as "biodegradable" and said it "left
the soil clean" -- claims that could not be further from the truth.
The Reality about Roundup
Monsanto long used the slogans, "It's Safer than Mowing," "Biodegradable," and
"Environmentally Friendly" to describe Roundup -- until the real effects of
this toxic herbicide were revealed and they were forced to discontinue their
deceptive advertising.
Glyphosate, the active ingredient in RoundUp, is the most commonly reported
cause of pesticide illness among landscape maintenance workers in California.
Additionally:
- The surfactant ingredient in Roundup is more acutely toxic than glyphosate
itself, and the combination of the two is even more toxic.
- Glyphosate is suspected of causing genetic damage.
- Glyphosate is acutely toxic to fish and birds and can kill beneficial
insects and soil organisms that maintain ecological balance.
- Laboratory studies have identified adverse effects of glyphosate-containing
products in all standard categories of toxicological testing.
In one animal study, rats given 1,000 mg/kg of glyphosate resulted in a 50
percent mortality rate, and skeletal alterations were observed in over 57
percent of fetuses!
This is very concerning because millions of pounds of Roundup are used every
year on U.S. gardens, lawns and farms, especially on GM crops that are
engineered to be Roundup resistant. Roundup works by inhibiting an enzyme
called EPSP synthase, which is necessary for plants to grow. Without it,
plants are unable to produce essential proteins so they slowly yellow and die.
Monsanto developed a cash cow when they created not only Roundup, but also
their genetically modified "Roundup Ready" crops.
Roundup Ready soybean, cotton and corn crops are the world's largest group of
genetically modified crops. In fact, the GM Roundup Ready gene is part of more
than 75 percent of soybeans, 65 percent of cotton and 10 percent of corn grown
in the United States.
This particular variety of GM crops became so popular because it allows
farmers to spray Monsanto's Roundup herbicide directly onto their fields
without harming the crops. Ordinarily, if you were to spray Roundup, or any
other glyphosate-based herbicide, onto a plant, it would die.
Monsanto's Roundup Ready crops, however, produce an enzyme that has the same
function as EPSP synthase, but is not affected by Roundup.
As you might imagine, the use of Roundup herbicide has increased dramatically
since the GM Roundup Ready crops were introduced, and serious problems have
been reported ever since.
Roundup Residues are Toxic
It's widely known that GM Roundup Ready crops, which are very common in the
United States, contain Roundup residues. A study published earlier this year
even showed, for the first time, just how toxic these residues may be to your
health.
The study found that residues of Monsanto's Roundup herbicide found in GM food
and feed can cause cell damage and death, even at very low levels. The authors
of the study said their research "... points to undesirable effects which are
currently masked or hidden from scientific scrutiny."
Even when researchers tested formulations of Roundup that were highly diluted
(up to 100,000 times or more) on human cells, the cells died within 24 hours.
They also found damage to cell membranes and DNA, along with an inhibition of
cell respiration.
Further, the researchers discovered that the mixture of components used as
Roundup adjuvants actually amplified the action of the glyphosate, making at
least one of its metabolites even more toxic. The researchers wrote:
"This work clearly confirms that the adjuvants in Roundup formulations are not
inert. Moreover, the proprietary mixtures available on the market could cause
cell damage and even death around residual levels to be expected, especially
in food and feed derived from Roundup formulation-treated crops."
With findings like these, you can see just how outrageous Monsanto's claims
really were. Roundup is not "biodegradable," safe or in any way good for
people or the environment.
Not by a long shot.
Monsanto's Sordid Past
It does not come as a surprise that Monsanto lied about Roundup, given their
extremely under-handed track record. There is easily enough "dirt" on Monsanto
to fill an entire book.
Perhaps their biggest assault to your food supply is what's known as
terminator technology. These are seeds that have been genetically modified to
"self-destruct." In other words, the seeds (and the forthcoming crops) are
sterile, which means farmers must buy them again each year.
The implications that terminator seeds could have on the world's food supply
are disastrous: the traits from genetically engineered crops can get passed on
to other crops. Once the terminator seeds are released into a region, the
trait of seed sterility could be passed to other non-genetically-engineered
crops, making most or all of the seeds in the region sterile.
If allowed to continue, every farmer in the world could come to rely on
Monsanto for their seed supply!
Monsanto -- the convicted liar's club -- has also worked its way into varying
high-level positions in the U.S. government, ironically in positions that are
meant to protect your food safety!
The New Senior Advisor for the FDA is a Former Monsanto VP!
Michael Taylor, a former vice president of public policy and chief lobbyist at
Monsanto Company, is the new senior advisor for the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA).
Who is Michael Taylor? He is the person who "oversaw the creation of GMO
policy," according to Jeffrey Smith, the leading spokesperson on the dangers
of GM foods. Smith continues:
"If GMOs are indeed responsible for massive sickness and death, then the
individual who oversaw the FDA policy that facilitated their introduction
holds a uniquely infamous role in human history. That person is Michael
Taylor. He had been Monsanto's attorney before becoming policy chief at the
FDA. Soon after, he became Monsanto's vice president and chief lobbyist."
The FDA policy being referred to is the 1992 GMO policy, which stated:
"The agency is not aware of any information showing that foods derived by
these new methods [genetic engineering] differ from other foods in any
meaningful or uniform way."
In reality, there was major concern among FDA scientists that GM foods were in
fact different than natural foods, and that their creation could prompt
unknown and unpredictable health problems.
Along with being a key player in the initial pushing of GM foods onto
Americans' plates (without any required safety studies), Taylor also oversaw
the policy regarding Monsanto's genetically engineered bovine growth hormone
(rbGH/rbST).
This growth hormone, which has been banned in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia
and New Zealand because of cancer risks and other health concerns, was
approved in the United States while Taylor was in charge at the FDA. Smith
writes:
"Taylor also determined that milk from injected cows did not require any
special labeling. And as a gift to his future employer Monsanto, he wrote a
white paper suggesting that if companies ever had the audacity to label their
products as not using rbGH, they should also include a disclaimer stating that
according to the FDA, there is no difference between milk from treated and
untreated cows."
Taylor's white paper, which again was untrue as even FDA scientists
acknowledged differences in the rbGH milk, allowed Monsanto to sue dairies
that labeled their products rbGH-free.
Unfortunately, the connections do not end there. You can
find out more about all of Monsanto's key players who are now part of the
Obama administration
here.
You Can Fight Back Against Monsanto
By boycotting all GM foods and instead supporting organic (and local) farmers
who do not use Monsanto's GM seeds, you are using your wallet to make your
opinions known. This means abstaining from virtually all processed food
products (most are loaded with GM ingredients) and sticking to fresh, locally
grown, organic foodstuffs instead.
Monsanto reported a fourth quarter loss of $233 million in October 2009,
largely due to a drop in sales of its Roundup brand -- so I am confident that
many are wising up to the underhanded dealings of this evil company.
If you want to help keep Monsanto from expanding their stronghold on the
world's food supply, please also continue to stay informed.
Monsanto is the poster child for manipulation and
corporate greed, so please, forward this article on to your circle of
influence, and make the choice to boycott any product that this unethical
company is associated with.
Related Links:
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Related article:
Increase in GM Crops, Resistant Weeds Lead to Dramatic
Rise in Pesticide Us (November 17, 2009)
The widespread use of genetically modified (GM) crops
engineered to tolerate herbicides has led to a sharp increase in the use of
agricultural chemicals in the U.S. This practice is creating
herbicide-resistant "super weeds" and an increase in chemical residues in U.S.
food, according to a new report released today by The Organic Center, the
Union for Concerned Scientists, and the Center for Food Safety.According to
the report, entitled "Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on Pesticide Use
in the United States: The First Thirteen Years," as more farmers have adopted
variations of corn, soy beans, and cotton bred to tolerate weed killer in
recent years, the use of herbicides has increased steadily, with herbicide use
growing by 383 million pounds from 1996 to 2008, according to the report.
Forty-six percent of that increase occurred during 2007 and 2008. On the plus
side, the report said the use of insecticides has actually decreased by 64
million pounds since 1996 because many genetically modified crops such as
cotton and corn carry traits that make them resistant to insects. The most
popular genetically modified crops are known as "Roundup Ready" for their
ability to survive after being sprayed with the herbicide, Roundup. Officials
with the Biotechnology Industry Organization said herbicide-resistant crops
initially made it easier for farmers to manage weed problems. Over time,
however, an unfortunate consequence has been a growing epidemic of
herbicide-resistant weeds. CLIP
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CAN YOU IMAGINE YOURSELF GOING THROUGH SUCH AN
EXPERIENCE?!!!
Brain Scan Finds Man Was Not in a Coma-23 Years Later
Nov 23, 2009
Rom Houben has been trapped in a series of worst
nightmares, including trying for 23 years to alert those around him that he
was not in a coma. A new report suggests he's not alone in his experience.
In 1983, Belgian engineering student and martial arts enthusiast Houben, then
20, was in a car accident that was thought to have left him in a vegetative
state. Doctors relied on the widely-used Glasgow Coma Scale, assessing his
eyes, verbal, and motor responses. What they failed to notice was that Houben
was actually conscious-but completely paralyzed.
"I screamed, but there was no one to hear," he says in an interview with the
German magazine Der Spiegel. Three years ago, neurologist Steven Laureys used
modern scanning techniques to discover that Houben's cerebral cortex was, in
fact, functioning. (The doctor has only just now made Houben's story public.)
Houben, who communicates via a computer with a special
keyboard activated with the slightest movement of his right hand, is now 46.
He has spent more than half his life trapped in his own body, and says he only
survived this excruciating existence by dreaming himself away. In the
interview, this is what he typed:
I am called Rom. I am not dead. The nurses came, they patted me, they
sometimes took my hand, and I heard them say "no hope." I meditated, I dreamed
my life away-it was all I could do. I don't want to blame anyone-it wouldn't
do any good. But I owe my life to my family. Everyone else gave up.
I studied what happened around me as if it were a tiny piece of world drama,
the bizarre peculiarities of the other patients in the common room, the entry
of the doctors into my room, the gossip of the nurses who were not embarrassed
to speak about their boyfriends in front of "the extinct one." That made me an
expert on relationships.
According to Laureys, Houben's case may be far more common than we'd like to
think. The doctor, who leads the Coma Science Group and Department of
Neurology at Liege University Hospital, says that while Houben's doctors were
"not good," he's not sure better ones using this same coma scale would have
detected brain activity either:
In Germany alone each year some 100,000 people suffer from severe traumatic
brain injury. About 20,000 are followed by a coma of three weeks or longer.
Some of them die, others regain health. But an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 people
a year remain trapped in an intermediate stage-they go on living without ever
coming back again.
In his paper, Laureys writes that in about 40 percent of "vegetative state"
cases he has analyzed, current brain scanning techniques reveal signs of
varying levels of consciousness. A case is being made, it seems, to stop
relying on the Glasgow Coma Scale and start looking more closely at brain
scanning images.
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Jean Hudon
Earth Rainbow Network Coordinator
