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      1. Meeting Agenda, Ithaca-Palestine Fair Trade
Initiative: Tues. 
Jan 6th 7PM
           From: Jim Semp <jimsemp@yahoo.com>
      2.
N.Korea/NatEmerPolicy-FEMA/Wellstone/PatActII/VehTrack
           From: Stephen Calkins
<ecstacy2@earthlink.net>
      3.
OilWar/Hallibur/Cheney/$Deval/GMO's/StemCell/911/ToxicRecycle
           From: Stephen Calkins
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Message: 1
   Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 11:17:21 -0800 (PST)
   From: Jim Semp <jimsemp@yahoo.com>
Subject: Meeting Agenda, Ithaca-Palestine Fair Trade
Initiative: Tues. 
Jan 6th 7PM

Hi Palestine and Middle East Activists, (apologies for
any multiple
posts, please forward to anyone we missed)

Happy New Year, a year to bring new ideas and
leadership to Washington,
Jerusalem and Ramallah: ideas and leadership towards
achieving peaceful
coexistence and acceptance within political boundaries
for the people
of Palestine and Israel.

We kick off the new year with our first meeting of
2004 of the
Ithaca-Palestine Fair Trade Initiative.  The meeting
will be held on
Tuesday, January 6th, at 7PM, at 522 Linn St. in
Ithaca, NY.  Call
607-277-8190 or 607-227-4727 for directions.

Even if you cannot attend the meeting, please read
below: we need
commentary and commitment to work in the following
areas:

1.  Sale of fairly traded Palestinian made olive oil,
arriving in
Ithaca late Feb. 2004.  We need marketing pamphlets,
logistical help,
and donations of seed money.  We need to raise $1100
in seed money to
pay for the shipment in full and then turn it over as
consignment to
resellers such as Greenstar, Oasis, ABC CAfe and
Ithaca Bakery. 

2. Sale of fairly traded Palestinian made embroidery
from Shira's
cooperative near Bethlehem.  Deb Hyams just returned
from the West Bank
with a large sampling.  We need help with a marketing
brochure and
sales logistics.  

3.  Import and sale of fairly traded Palestinian made
handcrafts from
the Women's Economic Cooperative of Bani Zeid, West
Bank Palestine. 
Najwa Siksek, our contact there, needs logistical help
with importing
this material.  We have $600, and need to raise about
another $600 in
seed money to import the items and pay for shipping,
if necessary.

4.  Logistics and support of a talk(s) by Deborah
Hyams while she is in
the Ithaca area during January on current life in
Palestine and her
work there, particularly with the women at Shira'a
cooperative near
Bethlehem. We hope that Deborah will talk and present
on topics often
not/mis-reported in the mainstream news media. 

So, we have a lot of work to do.  If you cannot come
to the meeting,
please respond by email or phome to let us know what
you can lead, work
in subcommitee, or simply contribute to financially.

Thank you for your continued efforts for peace and
justice in Palestine

Salaam

Jim Semp


Ithaca-Palestine Fair Trade Initiative
522 Linn St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607-277-8190



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Message: 2
   Date: Sun, 4 Jan 04 19:56:07 -0500
   From: Stephen Calkins <ecstacy2@earthlink.net>
Subject:
N.Korea/NatEmerPolicy-FEMA/Wellstone/PatActII/VehTrack

North Korea has reportedly agreed to let a group of US
experts visit 
its top nuclear facility at Yongbyon. 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3362389.stm
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National Emergency was declared On Sept. 14th, 2001.
   President George W. Bush declared a state of
national emergency, 
enumerated the statutes under which he would now be
operating, and began 
issuing numerous Executive orders.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010914-4.html

The White House Office of the Press Secretary
September 14,2001
Declaration of National Emergency by Reason Of Certain
Terrorist 
Attacks
By the President of the United States of America -  A
Proclamation
   A national emergency exists by reason of the
terrorist attacks at 
the
World Trade Center, New York, New York, and the
Pentagon, and the
continuing and immediate threat of further attacks on
the United 
States.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the
United States of
America, by virtue of the authority vested in me as
President by the
Constitution and the laws of the United States,
I hereby declare that the national emergency has
existed since 
September
11, 2001, and, pursuant to the National Emergencies
Act (50 U.S.C. 1601
et seq.), I intend to utilize the following
statutes:sections 123, 
123a,
527, 2201(c), 12006, and 12302 of title 10, United
States Code, and 
sections 
331, 359, and 367 of title 14, United States Code...
----------------------------
>From The OMEGA File The following are some of the
National Emergency 
related Executive Orders: 
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take
over all modes of
transportation and control of highways and seaports.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize
and control the 
communication media.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997 allows the government to take
over all electrical
power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to take
over all food 
resources and farms.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to
mobilize civilians into
work brigades under government supervision.
| EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take
over all health,
education and welfare functions.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster
General to operate a
national registration of all persons.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take
over all airports
and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance
Authority to
relocate communities, build new housing with public
funds, designate
areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for
populations.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take
over railroads,
inland waterways and public storage facilities.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of
the Office of
Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all
Executive Orders
in to effect in times of increased international
tensions and economic 
or financial crisis.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310 grants authority to the
Department of Justice to
enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to
institute industrial
support, to establish judicial and legislative
liaison, to control all
aliens, to operate penal and correctional
institutions, and to advise 
an assist the President.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness
function to 
federal
departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative
Executive Orders
issued over a fifteen-year period.
EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921 allows the Federal Emergency
Preparedness Agency
to develop plans to establish control over the
mechanisms of production
and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries,
credit and the
flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any
undefined national 
emergency.
It also provides that when a state of emergency is
declared by the
President, Congress cannot review the action for six
months.
    All of the above executive orders were combined by
President NIXON 
into Executive Order 11490, which allows all of this
to take place if 
a national emergency is declared by the President.
    Executive Order 12919: "National Defense
Industrial Resources 
Preparedness" 
signed by CLINTON June 3, 1994, delegates authorities,
responsibilities 
and allocations of F.E.M.A.'s Executive Orders [last
entry] for the 
confiscation of ALL PROPERTY from the American people,
and their 
re-location and assignment to 'labor' camps. The
Executive 
Order also supersedes or revokes eleven (11) previous
Executive 
Orders [from 1939 through 1991] and amends Executive
Order 10789 and 
11790. 
Public Law 100-690 banned almost ALL RELIGIOUS
GATHERINGS [not yet 
enforced..]. 
    This act also coordinates activities through 
F.E.M.A. and the 
Department of the Army, Commanding General, U.S.
Forces Command, Fort 
McPherson, GA which is the executive and 
implementing agency upon initiation of many of these
acts. The 
responsible agency within U.S. Army Forces Command was
what used to be known as 
the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations, Plans
Division [DCSOPS, 
Plans], which was changed several years ago to J-3
after the 
Headquarters became a joint headquarters. 
Authorized National Emergency Executive Orders and
Actions:
    ----------                    -----------
National Emergencies and F.E.M.A. [Federal Emergency
Management Agency]
    F.E.M.A. has been authorized for the past 15 years
by Presidential 
Executive 
Orders to confiscate ALL PROPERTY from the American
People, separate 
families 
in the current 43 internment camps  The largest can
confine somewhere 
on the 
order of 100,000 American citizens]. Two of the state
prisons here in 
Georgia are 
currently empty, although manned by a minimal number
of staff, have 
been setup and intentionally unpopulated by prisoners
just to support this 
political policy. 
   An Executive Order signed by then President BUSH in
1989 authorized 
the 
Federal Emergency Management Agency [F.E.M.A.] to
build 43 primary 
camps 
[having a capacity of 35,000 to 45,000 prisoners EACH]
and also 
authorized hundreds of 
secondary facilities. 
   In addition, there have been documented over 60
secret, underground 
virtual cities, 
build by the government. Some of these under-ground
areas can be seen 
in Kansas City, 
Missouri and Kansas City, Kansas... Clip..
---------
Subject: What Cheney Told Wellstone 
http://www.liberalslant.com/jt123003.htm
By: Jackson Thoreau 12/30/03
"I'm for the little fellers, not the Rockefellers." --
Sen. Paul 
Wellstone
    Shortly before he died in a mysterious airplane
crash 11 days prior 
to
the 2002 elections, Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone met
with Vice
President Dick Cheney, probably the Bush
administration's most evil 
public 
face.
    Cheney was rounding up Senate support for the
October 2002 vote on
giving the administration carte blanche to invade
Iraq, with or without
blessing from the United Nations. Cheney strong-armed
opposing
politicians like the most vindictive of mafioso
leaders, and opponents 
usually gave in.
    But not Wellstone. Whatever you thought of his
progressive brand of
politics, he wasn't a wimp. And that's what made him
more than 
dangerous
in the eyes of people like Cheney.
    At a meeting full of war veterans in Willmar,
Minn., days before 
his
death, Wellstone told attendees that Cheney told him,
"If you vote
against the war in Iraq, the Bush administration will
do whatever is
necessary to get you. There will be severe
ramifications for you and 
the 
state of Minnesota."
Wellstone cast his vote for his conscience and against
the Iraq
measure, the lone Democrat involved in a tough 2002
election campaign 
to
do so. And a few weeks later on Oct. 25, as he
appeared to be winning
his re-election bid, Wellstone, his wife, Sheila, his
daughter, Marcia
Markuson, three campaign staffers, and two pilots died
in a plane crash 
in Minnesota.
Talk about "severe ramifications."
     My first hunch upon hearing about the tragedy was
that the Beech 
King
Air A-100 was tampered with by right wingers, possibly
the CIA, either
directly or through electromagnetic rays or some
psychic mind games.
And nothing I have heard or read since then has made
me drift from that 
hunch.
    I'm not alone. The Duluth News Tribune featured a
column by Jim 
Fetzer,
a University of Minnesota-Duluth philosophy professor
and author, in
November 2003. Fetzer wrote that an FBIÝ "recovery
team" headed out to
investigate the Wellstone plane crash BEFORE the plane
went down. "I
calculate that this team would have had to have left
the Twin Cities at
about the same time the Wellstone plane was taking
off," Fetzer wrote.
That apparent prior knowledge was similar to Dallas
police putting out
an all-points bulletin for accused John F. Kennedy
assassin Lee Harvey
Oswald at 12:43 p.m. in 1963 for shooting a police
officer. The problem
was the officer was not shot until 23 minutes later.
    Fetzer also noted that Wellstone's plane was
"exceptional, the 
pilots
well-qualified, and the weather posed no significant
problems." He 
wrote
that "we have to consider other, less palatable,
alternatives, such as
small bombs, gas canisters or electromagnetic pulse,
radio frequency or
High Energy Radio Frequency weapons designed to
overwhelm electrical
circuitry with an intense electromagnetic field. An
abrupt
cessation of communication between the plane and the
tower took place 
at
about 10:18 a.m., the same time an odd cell phone
phenomenon occurred
with a driver in the immediate vicinity. This suggests
to me the most
likely explanation is that one of our new
electromagnetic weapons was 
employed."
    Michael Ruppert, publisher of From the Wilderness,
wrote that the 
day
after the crash he received a message from a former
CIA operative who
was familiar with those kinds of assassinations. The
message read, "As 
I
said earlier, having played ball [and still playing in
some respects]
with this current crop of reinvigorated old white men,
these clowns are
nobody to screw around with. There will be a few more
strategic
accidents. You can be certain of that."
    Ruppert also interviewed two Democratic Congress
representatives 
who
said they believed Wellstone was murdered. One said,
"I don't think
there's anyone on the Hill who doesn't suspect it.
It's too convenient,
too coincidental, too damned obvious. My guess is that
some of the less
courageous members of the party are thinking about
becoming Republicans 
right now."
    Even National Transportation Safety Board
officials found aspects 
of
Wellstone's accident puzzling. An article in the
Duluth News Tribune a
few days after the tragedy said that "for some still
unexplained
reason - [the plane] turned off course and crashed."
It quoted Carol
Carmody, the NTSB's acting chair and reportedly a
former CIA employee,
as saying, "We find the whole turn curious."
NTSB blames pilots
    But in November 2003, the NTSB blamed the two
pilots of Wellstone's
plane, Richard Conry and Michael Guess, for the crash.
The pilots flew
too high and too fast when they began a left turn
toward the runway,
then let it slow to dangerous levels, the NTSB said.
    The NTSB also accused Conry and Guess of not even
monitoring the
instruments. "One of them should have been monitoring
the instruments,"
said Bill Bramble, a human performance investigator
for the NTSB.
     Still, NTSB board member Richard Healing called
the conclusion
"speculative," pointing out that the report did not
say how the pilots
missed the red flags or why they failed to make
adjustments.
"We don't know why," Healing said.Ý "It's quite
speculative."
The conclusion was especially disturbing considering
the NTSB's own
simulations, which included flying a plane at
abnormally slow speeds 
and
being unable to bring it down. That by itself should
have forced
consideration of other possible causes.
     The NTSB said that Conry made mistakes on
previous flights that 
were
covered by his co-pilots and was convicted of mail
fraud related to a
home-building business in 1990. But Wellstone had used
Aviation Charter
since 1992 and had flown numerous other times with
Conry, with whom he
was reportedly comfortable. Conry passed a proficiency
test just two
days before the tragedy, and some attorneys said
regulations did not
require revocation of a pilot's license because of a
criminal 
conviction
unless it involved drugs or alcohol.
    While the NTSB said some fellow pilots questioned
the skill levels 
of
Conry and Guess, Conry had more than 5,000 hours of
flying time,
according to his management company, Aviation Charter
Inc. of Eden 
Prairie, Minn..
    Family members of Wellstone reached a $25 million
settlement in
mid-2003 with Aviation Charter.
    Several pilots said the NTSB was just looking for
scapegoats. "It 
is
hard to believe that two experienced pilots would fail
to monitor 
airspeed," one said.
    As in the case of JFK, the scapegoats who took the
blame were 
conveniently dead. And many questions remained.
Electromagnetic pulse device suspected
     More people than Fetzer and I believe that
Wellstone's plane could 
have
been hit with an electromagnetic pulse [EMP] device
that caused the
aircraft to suddenly turn off course.
    Electromagnetic pulses from military craft may
have been 
responsible for
several civilian airline disasters in the late 1990s,
according to an
article in The London Observer. In particular,
Swissair 111 in 1998 and
TWA 800 in 1996 both took the same route over Long
Island, experienced
trouble in the same region, suffered catastrophic
electrical
malfunctions, and were flying at a time when military
exercises
involving submarines and U.S. Navy P3 fighter planes
were being 
conducted.
      Experts have even testified before Congress
about concerns that
terrorists may use EMPs, which they said were capable
of
short-circuiting computers, satellites, radios, radar,
and traffic
lights. An EMP shockwave can be produced by a device
small enough to 
fit
in a briefcase, they said. Stanley Jakubiak, senior
civilian official
for nuclear command, control, communications, and EMP
policy for the
Defense Department, admitted in 1999 Congressional
testimony that the
feds have studied EMPs for years.
     U.S. Marine Corp Major M. CaJohn went farther
than that in a 1988
report, writing that officials had sought remedies for
the effects of
EMPs at least since the early 1960s. The Air Force
built an EMP testing
facility called TRESTLE in 1980 at Kirkland Air Force
Base in New
Mexico. The Navy also erected an EMP testing facility
called EMPRESS I
at Point Patience on the Patuxent River in Maryland.
Other agencies 
have
their own EMP facilities.
     Fetzer also reports on other instances and
reports, including 
nuclear
tests by Soviets and Americans in the 1960s resulting
in gigantic
releases of electromagnetic energy. There is also this
1998 U.S.
Department of Justice document describing these
devices:
http://www.ncjrs.org/txtfiles/sl298.txt.
     First developed in the 19th century, EMPs now are
relatively easy 
to
obtain. Anyone can acquire an EMP generator through
the Internet....
Theoretically, a person a few miles from the runway
could bombard the
aircraft with an intense electromagnetic pulse, which
could cause an
electrical failure, instantly knock out radio
communication, disrupt
normal engine ignition, and cause loss of steering
control. The 
steering
control surfaces on these airplanes are controlled by
individual
electrical actuators that are mechanically linked to
the rudder,
ailerons, and flaps.
     This type of sabotage would leave no physical
evidence on the 
aircraft,
although it's possible that people at the airport or
in the general
vicinity might have noticed electrical anomalies like
radio noises, a
crashed computer, telephone disruption, and so on.
     A Texas software engineer wrote me that EMPs
damage systems by
generating an electrical pulse in the system wiring.
Therefore, a
component would not have to be directly exposed to an
EMP to be 
damaged.
     An aircraft struck by an EMP pulse would not
likely die, unless 
the
plane was hit by an extremely powerful EMP pulse.
    "More likely, an EMP strike would disable delicate
electronic 
systems,
leaving electrical systems intact," the engineer
wrote. "After being
struck by an EMP, the aircraft would likely function
more or less
normally, but without any control systems,
instruments, or radios. This
would account for the assertion that the Wellstone
plane's engines were
still running when the plane hit the ground."
     Another electrical engineer wrote, "You don't
need anything as
elaborate as an EMP generator. Standard issue radio
transmitters can
screw up a landing."
      Lawrence Judd, an Illinois attorney, wrote the
NTSB to ask 
whether it
has or will investigate the possibility that EMF
weapons were used to
bring down the planes of Senators Wellstone and
Carnahan. Robert Benzon
wrote him back, thusly, "The NTSB is unaware of any
mobile EM force or
EM pulse weapon system capable of disabling an
aircraft at the
ground-to-air ranges that existed in either of the
accidents you
mention in your email."
     But Fetzer noted that what the NTSB may or may
not beÝ "aware of"
depends on its state of actual or feigned ignorance.
"In this day and
age, there is no excuse for any such lack of knowledge
about
increasingly familiar weapons," Fetzer wrote me in an
email. "It 
reminds
me of the Warren Report's conclusion that there was
ìno credible
evidenceî of conspiracy in the death of JFK. It all
depends on what you
are willing to consider
îcredible.î Today, such a statement would be
considered laughable - similarly that of the NTSB."
Weird cell phone interference reported
     John Ongaro, a Minnesota lobbyist, wrote to
Fetzer about his 
experience
the day Wellstone died. Ongaro said he was driving to
the same funeral
that Wellstone and his party were flying to in
Eveleth, Minn. While
traveling north on Hwy. 53 near the Eveleth-Virginia
Municipal Airport
in the same area as Wellstone's plane, he received a
call on his cell
phone at precisely the same time Wellstone's King Air
veered off 
course.
     "This call was in a league of its own," Ongaro
said.Ý "When I 
answered
it, what I heard sounded like a cross between a roar
and a loud humming
noise. The noise seemed to be oscillating, and I could
not make out any
words being spoken. Instead, just this loud,
grotesque, sometimes
screeching and humming noise."
    What he heard may very well have been electronic
interference from 
an
EMP or microwave weapon.
    One writer to talk show host Jeff Rense suggested
a scenario 
involving
"black op specialists" in a van or truck full of
radio/instrument
landing jamming equipment. "As Wellstone's plane
approaches the 
airport,
the VOR/ILS jamming equipment is activated, and a
'decoy' VOR signal is
sent to the plane, thus tricking the plane's
instruments [and the 
pilot]
into believing the airport is somewhere several
degrees off
the true course to the runway," S.H. wrote. "The pilot
follows that
signal straight into the ground. The non-descript van,
full of covert
electronic jamming equipment, casually leaves the
area, looking just
like any other TV repair truck or moving van."
Witnesses hear an explosion, see a flash of light
    One witness of Wellstone's crash, Megen Williams,
who lived near 
the
Eveleth airport, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that
she heard "a
diving noise and then an explosion" as she prepared
for work as a nurse
in her home near the crash site. At first, she thought
it was blasting
at a nearby iron ore mine, and she didn't call
authorities.
Another local resident, Rodney Allen, said the plane
flew right over 
his
house. "It was so close the windows were shaking,"
Allen said. He added
that the craft was "crabbing to the right," then less
than a minute
later, he felt an impact and heard what he thought
sounded like a loud
rifle shot. St. Paul Pioneer Press, Oct. 26, 2002
     Investigators from the National Transportation
Safety Board said 
the
plane was last seen on air traffic control radar at
10:21 am, flying at
an elevation of 1,800 feet. Radar tapes indicate
Wellstone's plane had
descended to about 400 feet and was traveling at only
85 knots near the
end of its flight.
    Another person saw a blond-haired man on CNN
saying he observed a 
flash
of light at the rear of the plane.
Don Sipola, a former president of the Eveleth Virginia
Municipal
Airport Commission, said "something" caused
Wellstone's plan to veer 
off
course at low altittude. "This was a real steep bank,
not a nice, 
gentle
don't-spill-the-coffee descent," Siploa said. "This is
more like a 
space
shuttle coming down. This was not a controlled descent
into the 
ground."
The pilots of Wellstone's plane radioed that they were
two miles out,
clicked up the runway lights, and had the airstrip in
sight, said Traci
Chacich, the airport's office manager. That was the
last that airport
employees heard from them.
    Weather not that bad
    Some officials and media reports blamed bad
weather, but witnesses 
said
conditions were not that bad at the time of
Wellstone's accident. It 
was
cloudy with a little ice, but there was little wind.
Other pilots
landed without problem during that same time and said
the conditions
were not bad. Airport visibility was about 3 miles at
the time the 
plane
went down, which was adequate.
Another pilot who landed a slightly larger twin-engine
plane at the 
same
airport that same day a couple of hours before
Wellstone's plane
crashed, told the St. Paul Pioneer Press that he
experienced no
significant problems. There was very light ice, "but
nothing to be
alarmed about," pilot Ray Juntunen said.Ý "It
shouldn't have been a 
problem."
     According to the NTSB, Wellstone's pilots
received warnings of 
icing at
9,000 to 11,000 feet and were allowed to descend to
4,000 feet. 
Juntunen
said he was able to see the airport from five miles
out, and another
pilot landed 30 minutes later and said the clouds were
a little lower,
but still not bad.
    Frank Hilldrup, lead investigator for the NTSB,
said the landing 
gear of
Wellstone's plane appeared to be down.
The King Air had a reputation as one of the safest
turboprops around,
many manufacturers and pilot said. Some 50 accidents
involving King Air
A100s had occurred between 1975 and 2002, according to
the FAA. Five
were fatal, but three of those weren't the plane's
fault.
Wellstone was target of apparent assassination in 2000
Wellstone was the target of an apparent assassination
plot before. In
2000, as he visited Colombia to survey conditions
there, a bomb was
found along his route from the airport. He was also
sprayed with the
herbicide glyphosate by a helicopter above him while
watching the
Colombian police demonstrate its fumigation of coca
plants. Officials
called the incident an accident.
    Wellstone was a vocal opponent of military aid to
the Colombian
government. While there, he visited human rights
activists who said the
government did not protect civilians. Wellstone told
reporters he
thought his Colombian hosts created the bomb story to
dissuade him from
traveling to certain areas of the country. "I don't
know whether I was
targeted, but I certainly know that the human rights
activists are
targeted," Wellstone said.
Among the weird events since Wellstone's death was
that his successor 
in
the U.S. Senate, Republican Norm Coleman, was named
chairman of the
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. As
Fetzer said, that's
a practically unheard of position for a freshman
senator with no
previous experience. Could that be why Congress has
not opened a formal
investigation into Wellstone's death?
    For my part, I'm not a big conspiracy nut who
worries about this 
kind of
thing all the time - just an average one like Oliver
Stone who knows
there's something sinister and weird going on in our
world. I have done
extensive research into the JFK assassination in
Dallas. The right wing
of the CIA was heavily involved in that, from Oswald's
CIA connections
to the Dallas mayor at that time being the brother of
the former CIA
deputy director who lost his job after the Bay of Pigs
fiasco and 
blamed
that on JFK. The Dallas mayor may even have approved
the change in the
parade route on that fateful day so it would go right
by the
grassy knoll and building where Oswald and probably
other snipers were,
where JFK met his death.
    I have interviewed numerous people who reported
weird things that
occurred during that time, such as key witnesses dying
in strange ways
like mysterious plane crashes and being run over by
trains in the 
middle
of the night. I have written numerous stories on this
and covered it in
my book on Dallas history - and have received my share
of threatening
phone calls, mail opened, and the like to know I was
stepping on some
powerful toes.
   There were also numerous JFK murder witnesses
committing suicide in 
the
months after that tragedy. The CIA has done extensive
mind control work
for decades - I know at least one psychic personally
who started 
working
for the CIA in the 1980s - and could possibly convince
someone through
such mind games to commit suicide. Could they
psychically work on 
making
a plane crash? Who knows? Anything is possible.
Similarities with Carnahan, Kennedy crashes
What about Democratic Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, who
was killed during
a close Senate race when his small plane crashed right
before the 2000
election? What about John F. Kennedy Jr., who had
intelligence,
political ambitions, charisma, and the name, dying in
a 1999 plane 
crash?
    In both of those cases, the planes were already
descending towards 
their
landing and then suddenly wandered off their approach
paths and 
crashed,
similar to Wellstone's craft. In all three cases,
radio contact appears
to have been cut off while the planes were still in
the air, possibly
indicating electrical failures on board.
    In Kennedy's case, at least one witness saw a
flash in the sky and 
heard
an explosion before the plane went down, as in
Wellstone's situation.
Kennedy's plane was also left unguarded at
Teeterborough Airport in New
Jersey, and almost anyone could have placed something
inside it.
The list of high-profile Democratic politicians killed
in plane crashes
goes on - Commerce Secretary Ron Brown in 1996, Rep.
Mickey Leland of
Texas in 1989, Rep. Jerry Litton of Missouri in 1976
[who was also
involved in a hard-fought election at the time], House
Majority Leader
Hale Boggs of Louisiana and Rep. Nick Begich of Alaska
in 1972.
High-profile Republicans have died in crashes,
including SenJohn Heinz
of Pennsylvania and Sen. John Tower of Texas in 1991,
but not as many 
as Democrats.
    In fact, of 22 air crashes involving state and
federal officials,
including one ambassador and one cabinet official,
>From the Wilderness
found that 14 - 64 percent - were Democrats and eight
- 36 percent - 
were 
Republicans.
    Add to that Raytheon Co., one of the biggest U.S.
military 
contractors
and manufacturer of the plane that crashed with
Wellstone in it, being 
a
huge donor to Republicans, and the mind continues to
wonder. U.S. House
Republican Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, for
instance, received
$48,201 alone from Raytheon in 1997-98. The Republican
National
Committee received at least $170,000 from Raytheon
since 1999. Raytheon
donates to Democrats, too, but more than twice as much
money
goes to Republicans.
     Raytheon has all kinds of CIA connections, as
does Bush, whose 
father,
remember, was once director of the CIA. One of the
more intriguing
discoveries that emerged from the NTSB's own
investigation of this case
was that Raytheon not only not only manufactured EM
force and EM pulse
weapons, but also manufactured the King Air A100. No
other entity would
have been better positioned to have taken it down.
See:
http://www.ntsb.gov/publictn/2003/AAR0303.htmfor more
details.
     Bush, for his part, issued some strange comments
immediately after
Wellstone's crash, even for him. He called Wellstone -
who was an
articulate, energetic, intelligent political science
professor for 21
years before he was a senator - a "plain-spoken
fellow." He said he
wanted to issue hisÝ "condolences for the loss of the
Senate." Did he
mean the Democrats' sudden loss of the Senate, which
occurred the day
Wellstone died? Did he know something more than he let
on?
Bush once called Wellstone a 'chicken sh*t'
    There was no love lost between the Bush clan and
Wellstone. In 
1990, as
Wellstone challenged the Persian Gulf War
preparations, Bush Sr. even
referred to Wellstone as a "chicken sh*t." When
Wellstone first met 
Bush
Jr. in 2001, the latter disrespectfully called him
"Pablo."
    As The Nation said in May 2002, getting rid of
Wellstone was a 
passion
for Bush, Karl Rove, and Cheney. "There are people in
the White House
who wake up in the morning thinking about how they
will defeat Paul
Wellstone," a senior Republican aide told The Nation.
"This one is
political and personal for them."
    No senator had a more consistent record of voting
against Bush
administration proposals in 2001. Wellstone voted
against the Homeland
Security Act and many of Bush's judicial nominees. He
pushed for
stronger environmental programs, for genuine measures
to counter
corporate fraud, and for investigations into Sept. 11
and $350 million
that was missing from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
[...snip...]
    There are many [other] stories on the Wellstone
crash out there. 
Those include:
http://www.assassinationscience.com/FuturisticWeaponry.pdf
http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/news/opinion/

7306797.htm
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/110102_wellstone.html
http://news.mpr.org/features/2003/03/03_zdechlikm_wellstone/
http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=14399
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0210/S00206.htm
http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/
channel.cfm?channelid=78&contentid=652&page=2
Jackson Thoreau, a contributing writer for Liberal
Slant, is co-author
of "We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate
White House". The
110,000-word electronic book can be downloaded at
http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html or at
http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html
Thoreau also
co-authored a book on Dallas history from the
perspective of
African-Americans, civil rights advocates, and others.
His articles can also be found at:
www.americaheldhostile.com
Thoreau can be emailed at: jacksonthor@justice.com or 
jacksonthor@yahoo.com
LIBERALSLANT Web Publications. All rights reserved. 
liberalslant@entermail.net
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By Alex Jones Patriot Act II (excerpt)
www.infowars.com
     Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington
Times that no 
member of 
  Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act
that was passed by 
the 
  House on October 27, 2001. 
  On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity,
a non-partisan 
public 
  interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of
the Domestic 
Security 
  Enhancement Act of 2003. (Patriot Act II) The
classified document had 
been 
leaked to them by an unnamed source inside the Federal
government. The 
document 
consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of
the accompanying 
87-page bill.
    On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only
was there a house 
  version that had been covertly brought to Hastert,
but that many 
provisions of the 
  now public Patriot Act II had already been
introduced as pork barrel 
riders on other bills.
  The Justice Department had said that bill in the the
House was only 
for study, and 
that at this time there was no intention to try and
pass it. Now upon 
reading S. 22, 
it is clear that the leadership of the   Senate is
fully aware of the 
Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of
their committees 
into the full bill. I spent two hours scanning through
S.   22 and, let me 
tell you, it is a nightmare for anyone who loves
liberty. It 
even contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers
all gun owners. 
It bans the private 
sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics
database, and much 
more.
      There are other bills in the Senate that grant
the Federal 
government 
  sweeping powers. S.45 states in section one that the
office for State 
and local 
  government coordination for Homeland Security will
no longer just 
oversee, but that 
  now local cities critical functions will be headed
by a Federal 
director.  Another 
  interesting bill is S. 16. S. 16 is a smorgasbord of
Federal funding 
  and control over local police departments and needs
to be examined 
closely.
       S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of
2003 is the 
hallmark of an 
  authoritarian society. The description of the bill
is, "To provide 
for the common 
  defense by requiring that all young persons in the
United States, 
including 
  women, perform a period of military service of
civilian service in 
furtherance of 
  the national defense and homeland security, and for
other purposes." 
      The Patriot Act II bill itself is stamped
"Confidential -Not for 
  Distribution." Upon reading the analysis and bill, I
was stunned by 
the scientifically 
  crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The
Justice Department 
Office of 
  Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed
covertly transmitted 
a copy of 
  the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis
Hastert, (R-Il) and 
the Vice 
  President of the United States, Dick Cheney as well
as the executive 
heads of 
  federal law enforcement agencies.
        The secretive tactics being used by the White
House and Speaker 
Hastert to 
  keep even the existence of this legislation secret
would be more at 
home in 
  Communist China than in the United States. The fact
that Dick Cheney 
publicly 
  managed the steamroller passage of the first Patriot
Act, insuring 
that no one 
  was allowed to read it and publicly threatening
members of Congress 
that if 
  they didn t vote in favor of it that they would be
blamed for the 
next terrorist 
  attack, is by the White House s own definition
terrorism. The move to 
  clandestinely craft and then bully passage of any
legislation 
  by the Executive Branch is clearly an impeachable
offence.
       Whereas the First Patriot Act only gutted the
First, Third, 
Fourth and Fifth 
  Amendments, and seriously damaged the Seventh and
the Tenth, the 
Second Patriot Act reorganizes the entire Federal
government  as well as 
many areas of state government under the dictatorial
control of the 
Justice Department, the Office of Homeland Security
and the FEMA NORTHCOM  
military command. The Domestic Security Enhancement
Act 2003, also known 
as the 
 Second Patriot Act is by its very structure the
definition of 
dictatorship. Clip..
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Post at MutliDNews@yahoogroups:
    This year, Michelin began implanting match head
sized chips in 
tires that can be read remotely. The company started
using the chips to 
provide manufacturing information that could help spot
failure trends and 
to comply with a federal law requiring close tracking
of tires for 
recalls. But privacy activists fear that the chips,
which can be loaded 
with a car's vehicle identification number, would
allow yet another form 
of automated vehicle tracking. 


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Message: 3
   Date: Mon, 5 Jan 04 01:27:17 -0500
   From: Stephen Calkins <ecstacy2@earthlink.net>
Subject:
OilWar/Hallibur/Cheney/$Deval/GMO's/StemCell/911/ToxicRecycle

Britain Says U.S. Planned to Seize Oil in '73 Crisis
By LIZETTE ALVAREZ 
Published: January 2, 2004
   LONDON, Jan. 1 ó The United States government
seriously contemplated 
using military force to seize oil fields in the Middle
East during the 
Arab 
oil embargo 30 years ago, according to a declassified
British 
government 
document made public on Thursday.
   The top-secret document says that President Richard
M. Nixon was 
prepared 
to act more aggressively than previously thought to
secure America's 
oil 
supply if the embargo, imposed by Arab nations in
retaliation for 
America's 
support for Israel in the 1973 Middle East war, did
not end. In fact, 
the 
embargo was lifted in March 1974.
    The embargo led to petroleum shortages around the
world and to 
sharp 
increases in the price of gas in the United States.
   As outlined in the memorandum, military action
would be relatively 
straightforward: two brigades were estimated to be
needed to seize the 
Saudi 
oil fields and one each for Kuwait and Abu Dhabi. In
the case of Abu 
Dhabi, 
the Americans might ask for British military
cooperation.
    The greatest threat would arise in Kuwait, the
document said, 
"where the 
Iraqis, with Soviet backing, might be tempted to
intervene."
     The British warned in their assessment that any
occupation of 
Saudi 
Arabia, Kuwait and Abu Dhabi might have to last as
long as 10 years. 
The use 
of force would also alienate Arab countries and
irritate Moscow, 
although a 
military confrontation with the Soviet Union would be
unlikely, the 
document said.
   Discontent among Western allies was also cited as a
possible 
consequence 
of military action. "Since the United States would
probably claim to be 
acting for the benefit of the West as a whole and
would expect the full 
support of allies, deep U.S.-European rifts could
ensue," it said.
    Mr. Heath went so far as to suggest that Mr. Nixon
issued the alert 
in 
an attempt to deflect attention away from Watergate,
which was in full 
swing 
in the fall of 1973.
    "An American President in the Watergate position
apparently 
prepared to 
go to such lengths at a moment's notice without
consultation with his 
allies," Mr. Heath wrote in the second document,
adding that there was 
no 
"military justification" for putting American forces
on a nuclear alert 
at the time.
    The alert was ordered after Leonid I. Brezhnev,
the Soviet leader, 
warned that he might send Soviet troops into the
Middle East after 
Israel 
crossed the Suez Canal.
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/010104B.shtmlÝÝÝ
Halliburton to Lose Iraq Oil Project  By Larry
Margasak
The Associated Press Wednesday 31 December 2003
    WASHINGTON (AP) ó Just weeks after Pentagon
auditors said 
Halliburton 
may have overcharged taxpayers to import oil to Iraq,
the Defense 
Department 
is removing the Army Corps of Engineers from its role
in supervising 
the program.
    The Defense Energy Support Center, which buys fuel
for the military 
throughout the world, will supervise the shipments and
choose new 
contractors to replace Halliburton, Vice President
Dick Cheney's former 
company.
    "We're taking over the mission," the center's
spokeswoman, Lynette 
Ebberts, said Tuesday.
    Democratic lawmakers have criticized the prices
charged the U.S. 
government by Halliburton's KBR subsidiary, which has
been importing 
refined 
petroleum products into Iraq under a mission awarded
without 
competitive 
bids. Cheney headed Halliburton before running for
vice president.
    Earlier this month, the Defense Department's
auditing agency 
supported 
the Democrats' allegations, finding the company may
have charged up to 
$61 
million too much for delivering gasoline to Iraqi
citizens.
    Ebberts would not comment on whether the audit
prompted the change, 
which was ordered Dec. 23.
    President Bush tried to calm the controversy,
saying Halliburton 
should 
repay the government if it overcharged for fuel, which
was imported 
from 
Iraq's neighboring countries.
------------------------------
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/010104F.shtml
Will the French Indict Cheney? By Doug Ireland
The Nation Monday 29 December 2003
    Yet another sordid chapter in the murky annals of
Halliburton might 
well 
lead to the indictment of Dick Cheney by a French
court on charges of 
bribery, money-laundering and misuse of corporate
assets.
     At the heart of the matter is a $6 billion gas
liquification 
factory 
built in Nigeria on behalf of oil mammoth Shell by
Halliburton--the 
company 
Cheney headed before becoming Vice President--in
partnership with a 
large 
French petroengineering company, Technip. Nigeria has
been rated by the 
anticorruption watchdog Transparency International as
the second-most 
corrupt country in the world, surpassed only by
Bangladesh.
    According to accounts in the French press, Judge
van Ruymbeke 
believes 
that some or all of $180 million in so-called secret
"retrocommissions" 
paid 
by Halliburton and Technip were, in fact, bribes given
to Nigerian 
officials 
and others to grease the wheels for the refinery's
construction. These 
reports say van Ruymbeke has fingered as the bagman in
the operation a 
55-year-old London lawyer, Jeffrey Tesler, who has
worked for 
Halliburton 
for some thirty years. It was Tesler who was paid the
$180 million as a 
"commercial consultant" through a Gibraltar-based
front company he set 
up 
called TriStar. TriStar, in turn, got the money from a
consortium set 
up for 
the Nigeria deal by Halliburton and Technip and
registered in Madeira, 
the 
Portuguese offshore island where taxes don't apply.
According to Agence 
France-Presse, a former top Technip official, Georges
Krammer, has 
testified 
that the Madeira-based consortium was a "slush fund"
controlled by 
Halliburton--through its subsidiary Kellogg Brown &
Root--and Technip. 
Krammer, who is cooperating with the investigation,
also swore that 
Tesler 
was imposed as the intermediary by Halliburton over
the objections of 
Technip.
    The suspected bribe money was mostly ladled out
between 1995 and 
2000, 
when Cheney was Halliburton's CEO. The Journal du
Dimanche reported on 
December 21 that "it is probable that some of the
'retrocommissions' 
found 
their way back to the United States" and asked, did
this money go "to 
Halliburton's officials? To officials of the
Republican Party?" These 
questions have so far gone unasked by America's media,
which have 
completely 
ignored the explosive Le Figaro headline revealing the
targeting of 
Cheney. 
It will be interesting to see if the US press looks
seriously into this 
ticking time-bomb of a scandal before the November
elections. Clip..
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The Euro Rises; Anxiety Also By Mathieu Deslandes and
Laurent Mauriac  
Liberation FR  Thursday 01 January 2004
   The European currency hit a record high against the
dollar 
yesterday, 
creating apprehension about the impact on growth.
    Each anniversary has its own anxiety. At the
beginning of 2003, it 
was 
the inflationary euro. Today, two years after the
start of bill and 
coin 
circulation, it's the strong euro. During the past
year, the European 
currency has appreciated by 22% against the dollar and
for the past 
month, 
it has hit one record after another against the
dollar. Yesterday, the 
euro 
crossed the threshold of 1.26 dollars. Numerous
forecasters, moreover, 
judge 
that the dollar's fall will continue for one essential
reason: the size 
of 
American budget deficits panics investors, especially
in Asia. On top 
of 
that, no improvement is on the horizon. These last few
days, 
speculators 
have had a field day, taking advantage of low volumes
on exchange 
markets to 
pound the dollar.
     Company heads are the first to become alarmed.
For groups that 
export to 
the United States, every rise in the euro makes their
products more 
expensive. Some, like Schneider, foresee "relocation"
projects outside 
the 
euro zone of industrial sites to improve
profitability.
    What's new is that for the last month,
politicians, the European 
Central Bank (ECB), and the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and 
Development (OECD), "everyone thinks it's a lot", to
cite Budget 
Minister 
Alain Lambert, as he left the Council of Ministers
yesterday. One ECB 
official went so far as to suggest Monday that the
euro's ascent could 
compromise the European economy's recovery-
anonymously, perhaps so as 
not 
to offend his boss, Jean-Claude Trichet, yesterday's
relentless 
defender of 
the strong franc and today's of the strong euro.
Tuesday, the OECD's 
chief 
economist also observed the euro-dollar exchange rate
approach the 
"danger 
zone": "We expect exports to support the recovery. If
they're checked 
by the 
euro's rapid appreciation, we will have a problem."
    Today everyone asks the same question: how high
can the euro climb? 
"The dollar seems to be engaged in an endless fall,"
one Hong Kong and 
Shanghai Banking Corp economist pronounced. Some
groups, like LVMH or 
Danone, console themselves with their Asian exports.
Others get ready 
for 
the worst. Philippe Camus, joint president of EADS,
Airbus' mother 
company, 
declared in mid-December that his group would have to
adopt "radical" 
measures should the European currency exceed the $1.30
threshold for 
any 
extended period, by increasing the proportion of
suppliers "whose costs 
are 
in dollars." Clip..
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http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2003/Oct/19/ln/ln01a.html
Honolulu Advertiser Sunday, October 19, 2003
Fears grow with genetic crop secrecy By Sean Hao
(excerpt)
   Advertiser Staff WriterCritics contend that
open-field, genetically 
modified crop testing - and biopharmaceutical research
in particular - 
is 
racing ahead of what is known about potential risks to
the nation's 
environment, people and food supply. Holding on to
information about 
what these companies are doing, and where, only makes
it more difficult 
to gauge the risks, said Isaac Moriwake, an attorney
for Earthjustice.
   "Is the proper response to keep the public totally
in the dark about 
where
this is ongoing, or is the response higher security,
or conducting 
these
tests indoors?" he said. "The courts are going to be
presented squarely 
with
this question of, is it confidential business
information?"
Secrecy required
   The federal government has approved 14 permits to
field-test
biopharmaceuticals in Hawai'i since 1998; another
application to 
combine
genes from a human and mouse in corn is pending. In
nine cases, the 
donor of
genes being tested in plants was kept confidential.
For all the 
permits, the
location of the tests are kept secret. Clip..
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Breakthrough in stem cells
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/24/wcells24.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/12/24/ixportal.html
By Roger Highfield(Filed: 24/12/2003)
   Scientists have found a way to turn adult cells
into immature cells, 
offering a way to grow tissues for medical treatments
without needing 
to use 
human embryos.
   Stem cells are being investigated by scientists
because they are 
parent 
cells that can turn into any type in the body and
could form the basis 
for 
new treatments to repair a damaged tissue or organ.
   Applications range from treating heart disease and
strokes to 
Parkinson's 
disease and diabetes. Controversially, the most
reliable source of 
these 
cells, and more mature "precursor" cells, is the early
human embryo.
   A team from the Scripps Research Institute, La
Jolla, California, 
announced an alternative yesterday.
   It has identified a small synthetic molecule that
can induce a cell 
to 
undergo dedifferentiation - to move backwards
developmentally from its 
current state to form its own precursor cell.
   This compound, named reversine, causes cells that
are normally 
programmed 
to form muscles to undergo reverse differentiation -
turn into 
precursor 
cells. These precursor cells have the potential to
become different 
cell 
types in the body.
   Reversine represents a useful tool for generating
an unlimited 
supply of 
such precursors and avoids ethical issues associated
with stem cells.
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http://www.sianews.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=48
Planes of 911 Exceeded Their Software Limits
Submitted by: Anonymous "by Jim Heikkila Saturday
August 17, 2002
   Two of the aircraft exceeded their software limits
on 9/11.
The Boeing 757 and 767 are equipped with fully
autonomous flight 
capability, 
they are the only two Boeing commuter aircraft capable
of fully 
autonomous 
flight. They can be programmed to take off, fly to a
destination and 
land, 
completely without a pilot at the controls.
   They are intelligent planes, and have software
limits pre set so 
that 
pilot error cannot cause passenger injury. Though they
are not 
physically 
capable of high g maneuvers, the software in their
flight control 
systems 
prevents high g maneuvers from being performed via the
cockpit 
controls. 
They are limited to approximately 1.5 g's, I repeat,
one and one half 
g's. 
This is so that a pilot mistake cannot end up breaking
grandma's neck.
   No matter what the pilot wants, he cannot override
this feature.
   The plane that hit the Pentagon approached or
reached its actual 
physical 
limits, military personnel have calculated that the
Pentagon plane 
pulled 
between five and seven g's in its final turn.
   The same is true for the second aircraft to impact
the WTC.
   There is only one way this can happen.
   As well as fully autonomous flight capability, the
767 and 757 are 
the 
ONLY COMMUTER PLANES MADE BY BOEING THAT CAN BE FLOWN
VIA REMOTE 
CONTROL. It 
is a feature that is standard to all of them, all
757's and 767's can 
do it. 
The purpose for this is if there is a problem with the
pilots, Norad 
can fly 
the planes to safe destinations via remote. Only in
this flight mode 
can 
those craft exceed their software limits and perform
to their actual 
physical limits because a pre existing emergency
situation is assumed 
if 
this mode of flight is used.
   Terrorists in fact did not fly those planes, it is
totally and 
completely 
impossible for those planes to have been flown in such
a manner from 
the 
cockpit. Those are commuter aircraft, not F-16's and
their software 
knows it.
   Another piece of critical evidence: the voice
recorders came up 
blank.
   The flight recorders that were recovered had tape
that was undamaged 
inside, but it was blank. There is only one way this
can happen on a 
757 or 
767. When the aircraft are commandeered via remote
control, the 
microphones 
that go to the cockpit voice recorder are re routed to
the people doing 
the 
remote controlling, so that the recording of what
happened in the 
cockpit 
gets made in a presumably safer place. But due to a
glitch in the 
system on 
a 757/767, rather than shutting off when the mic is
redirected the 
voice 
recorder keeps running. The voice recorders use what
is called a 
continuous 
loop tape, which automatically re passes itself past
the erase and 
record 
heads once every half hour, so after a half hour of
running with the 
microphones redirected, the tape will be blank. Just
like the recovered 
tapes were. Yet more proof that no pilot flew those
planes in the last 
half hour. Clip..
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http://physics911.org/net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=19

911 Warnings (excerpt)
   Newsweek  (September 24, 2001) reported that on
September 10th, ìa 
group of top 
Pentagon officials suddenly canceled travel plans for
the next morning, 
apparently because of security concernsî (p. 26). Yet
this same 
information 
was not made available to the 266 people who died
aboard the four 
hijacked 
commercial aircraft. A significant number of other
selected people were 
also 
warned about flying or reporting for work at the WTC.
These people 
include 
San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, who received a phone
call eight hours 
before the hijacking warning him not to travel by air.
Salman Rushdie 
is 
under a 24-hour protection of U.K. Scotland Yard; he
was also prevented 
from 
flying that day. Ariel Sharon canceled his address to
Israeli support 
groups 
in New York City just the day before his scheduled
September 11th 
address. 
John Ashcroft stopped flying on public airplanes in
July of 2001. 
Clip..
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Who Are the Alleged Terrorists and Why Were They in
U.S. Flight 
Schools?
   There are numerous questions regarding the alleged
terrorists 
including 
who they were, how they were able to board the planes,
and whether in 
fact 
they were even on the planes. (7) The names of the
alleged terrorists 
were 
not on the passenger lists released by the airlines.
Photos of the 
alleged 
hijackers appeared on the FBI website not long after
9/11, but have 
since 
been removed. Both the British and U.S. media reported
that several of 
the 
individuals, identified as hijackers by the FBI, have
been found alive. 
Thierry Meyssan noted that Prince Saud Al-Faisal, the
Saudi Foreign 
Minister, declared to the press that, 'It has been
proven that five of 
the 
persons named in the FBI's list had no connection with
what happened' 
(2002, pp. 54-55, italics in the original). Indeed,
how was it possible 
for 
the FBI to be caught by surprise and then produce the
names of the 
alleged 
hijackers within twenty-four hours following the
attacks? There are two 
possibilities: the FBI made up the names or assisted
the hijackers in 
boarding the planes. Either way, complicity is
implied. Questions about 
who 
were on the planes are prime examples of the kind of
information that 
is 
easily verified or refuted but neither has been done
officially. One 
outrageous claim is that Mohamed Atta's passport was
found at Ground 
Zero. 
The failure to respond to these essential questions
is, in itself, 
incriminating.
   If the nineteen alleged terrorists did board the
planes, the U.S. 
security agencies should have stopped them from
entering this country 
for 
intelligence reasons, prior to 9/11, according to the
testimony of 
Mindy 
Kleinberg during the hearings of The National
Commission on Terrorists 
Attacks. Fifteen of the nineteen hijackers' visas
should have been 
unquestionably denied because their applications were
incomplete and 
incorrect. Most of the alleged hijackers were young,
unmarried, and 
unemployed males. They were, in short, the ìclassic
over-stay 
candidates. A 
seasoned former Consular officer stated in the
National Review 
magazine, 
ìSingle, idle young adults with no specific
destination in the United 
States 
rarely get visas absent compelling circumstances. (8)
   There are several cases damaging to the credibility
of the official 
accounts of 9/11. But the U.S. response to Mohammed
Atta, the alleged 
lead 
hijacker, is most extraordinary. (9) The FBI had been
monitoring Atta's 
movements for several months in 2000. According to
PBS' Frontline, the 
Immigration and Naturalization Service failed to stop
Atta from 
entering the 
U.S. three times on a tourist visa in 2001, even
though officials knew 
the 
visa had expired in 2000, and that Atta had violated
its terms by 
taking 
flight lessons. Furthermore, Atta had already been
implicated in a 
terrorist 
bombing in Israel, with the information passed on to
the United States 
before he was first issued his tourist visa.
   Another important aspect, as Daniel Hopsicker and
Thierry Messyan 
have 
documented, is that many of the alleged terrorist
pilots received their 
initial training in Venice, Florida at one of the
flight schools of 
highly 
questionable credibility and with approval of U.S.
intelligence. 
Mohammed 
Atta attended International Officers School at Maxwell
Air Force Base 
in 
Montgomery, Alabama; Abdulaziz Alomari had attended
Aerospace Medical 
School 
at Brooks Air Force base in Texas; Saeed Alghamdi had
been to the 
Defense 
Language Institute in Monterey, California. These are
all names of 
identified hijackers, but the U.S. government has
denied the match. 
Three 
days after the 9/11 attacks, FBI Director Robert S.
Mueller III claimed 
that 
these findings were new and had not been known by the
FBI previously. 
This 
claim is a lie.
   Zacarias Moussaoui was arrested after his flight
trainers at the 
Minnesota flight school, Pan Am International Flight
Academy, reported 
highly suspicious behavior. He was greatly
unqualified; he wanted to 
learn 
to fly a 747 but was not interested in takeoffs or
landings; he was 
traveling on a French passport and when contacted, the
French said he 
was a 
suspected terrorist connected to al-Qaeda. However, a
special 
counter-terrorism panel of the FBI and CIA reviewed
the case but did 
not 
pursue it.
   There are numerous glaring anomalies, illegalities
and scandals 
connected 
with Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers' Huffman Aviation
School at 
Venice, 
Florida, where other hijackers trained. Dekkers had no
aviation 
experience 
and was under indictment in his native country, The
Netherlands, on 
financial charges. He purchased his aviation school at
just about the 
time 
the alleged terrorists moved into town and began their
lessons. He has 
yet 
to be investigated even though he initially trained
some of the accused 
hijackers.
   According to Hopsicker, Britannia Aviation was
awarded a five-year 
contract to run a large regional maintenance facility
at Lynchburg at a 
time 
when the company virtually had no assets, employees,
or corporate 
history 
and did not possess the necessary FAA license to
perform the 
maintenance. 
Britannia was a company with known CIA connections. It
was operating 
illegally out of Huffman Aviation, the flight school
that trained 
al-Qaeda 
hijackers and was given a ìgreen lightî from the
Justice Department's 
Drug 
Enforcement Administration, and the local Venice
Police Department was 
warned to ìleave them alone.î The CIA is known to be
involved in the 
drug trade.
   One answer to the question of how the accused
terrorists entered the 
U.S. 
with ease is that the Bush Administration made it
possible for Saudi 
visitors to come to the U.S. under a program called
U.S. Visa Express, 
introduced four months before September 11th. This was
at a time when 
the 
U.S. intelligence community was on alert for an
imminent al-Qaeda 
attack. 
Michael Springmann, former head of the Visa Bureau at
the U.S. 
Consulate in 
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia said that he was repeatedly
ordered by high-level 
State 
Department officials to issue visas to unqualified
applicants. His 
complaints to higher authorities at several agencies
went unanswered. 
In a 
CBC interview, he indicated that the CIA was indeed
complicit in the 
attacks. (10)
   As is well known, most of the accused hijackers
were Saudis, as is 
Osama 
bin Laden, and the Saudi Arabian government is known
to give financial 
support to terrorist organizations. Why then is Iraq
and not Saudi 
Arabia a 
target if the U.S. government is concerned about
terrorism? The obvious 
answer seems to be because the Saudi Arabian Monarchy
has a long 
standing 
cooperative business relationship with U.S. oil and
arms industries, 
possibly including a provision to curtail surveillance
on their 
activities. 
(11) Iraq at that time of 9/11 had no such cooperative
arrangement. 
Iraq is 
now forced to cooperate with the U.S., of course.
There is evidence 
that 
Osama bin Laden continues to receive extensive
support, not only from 
members of his own family, but also from members of
the Saudi 
establishment. 
A New Statesman report stated that ìbin Laden and his
gang are just the 
tentacles; the head lies safely in Saudi Arabia,
protected by U.S. 
forces.î 
The hijackers the FBI identified as being responsible
for 9/11 were not 
illiterate, bearded fanatics from Afghanistan. They
were all educated, 
highly skilled, middle-class professionals and not the
typical kamikaze 
pilots they are alleged to have been. Of the alleged
men involved, 
thirteen 
were Saudi nationals.
     The Pentagon is the largest office building in
the world (6.5 
million 
square feet of floor space) housing more than 20,000
people. At the 
time of 
the attacks, its occupation was normal except for the
one section being 
renovated. The story people are expected to believe is
that a large 
commercial plane was piloted by a hijacker
inexperienced in flying, but 
who 
nevertheless circled the Pentagon making a 280-degree
turn, traveling 
approximately 345 mph (555 km/hr), and flew very low
to the ground (the 
Pentagon is 80 feet high) in order to crash
orthogonally into the one 
section being renovated. An aerial view shows that the
only sensible 
way to 
crash into the Pentagon as a kamikaze is to fly
straight on aiming at 
the 
center. Also damaging to the official story is the
fact that on 
September 
14th the Department of Defense announced that
emergency workers had 
found 
the two black boxes, but except for the existence of
small pieces, no 
plane, 
luggage or passenger debris was recovered. The
military first denied 
that 
there were any videos of the crash and then produced
five images after 
French investigator Thierry Meyssan's (2002) book
showed the 
improbability 
of the official account.
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0206/S00071.htm
   Right after 9/11, Gen. Richard Myers was caught in
a lie when he 
claimed 
that no orders were given re: launching aircraft until
AFTER the 
Pentagon 
was hit, "We did scramble fighter aircraft, AWACs,
radar aircraft and 
tanker 
aircraft to begin to establish orbits in case other
aircraft showed up 
in 
the FAA system that were hijacked. That order, to the
best of my 
knowledge, 
was after the Pentagon was struck." However, Marine
Corps Maj. Mike 
Snyder 
of NORAD told a Boston Globe reporter that the command
had been told 
about 
the hijacking 10 minutes before the first plane hit
the first World 
Trade 
Center tower. Snyder said the fighters remained on the
ground until 
after 
the Pentagon was hit, even though "fighters routinely
intercept 
aircraft."
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http://www.carlaemery.com/News.htm
Where Do the Toxics Go? (excerpt)
    Into the Road Tar--A road worker told me that it
was routine to mix 
toxic wastes into road tar for the purpose of
disposing of it. In 
Maine, I encountered a community which was fighting
this policy for its 
local area. 
    Into the Cement--A pretzel company mechanic in
Ohio told me that 
his plants¹ toxic wastes (heavy metal powder, etc.)
were handled by a 
toxic waste specialist. He had toured the facilities
of that company. They 
told him they trucked the toxic wastes to Oklahoma
where they were 
mixed with the foundation material which would be
distributed to become 
cement. A lady told me that she and her husband had
moved into a new home 
which had bare cement basement and walls. She wanted
to know why she 
couldn¹t store food in the basement. She said she put
a bag of flour on 
the basement floor--and it developed a really weird
smell. She said that 
vegetables she put in the basement rotted. It made me
wonder if the 
toxics in the cement might be a factor. I think that
if they¹re going to 
put toxics into house cement, people should at least
be forewarned, 
better yet given a choice whether they want that kind
of cement or not.
    Into the Fertilizer--Federal guidelines allow
industrial producers 
of toxic wastes to pay fertilizer producers to take
the stuff off their 
hands by mixing it in with the fertilizer they sell to
farmers and 
gardeners. Yes, you read that correctly. I heard about
farmers in Eastern 
Washington who developed severe health problems and
whose ground became 
poor for growing crops because of toxics in Cenex bulk
fertilizer which 
they had no warning was there. I personally talked to
an individual in 
Eastern Colorado who had run into the same problem
with Cenex 
fertilizer. In Maine, I heard that toxics also may
turn up in bagged fertilizer 
in garden stores. The lady told me it was supposed to
be on the label 
if the fertilizer had toxics in it. In Missouri, I met
a lady who saw an 
ad for "black dirt" and ordered two truckloads to be
put on her garden. 
After delivery, she realized that the "dirt" she had
paid for was 
actually ground-up municipal garbage, because it was
full of tiny bits of 
ground-up metal, glass, and plastic. (Obviously, you
must now be more 
careful than ever about what you allow onto your
land.)
    Into the "Road Salt"--Drinking beverages out of
aluminum cans is a 
bad habit that the public schools promote. Making the
cans in the first 
place consumes much electricity (usually made by coal
burning). 
Recycling them is a far more polluting industry. The
waste from aluminum can 
recycling is tons of salt laced with heavy metals that
were in the paint 
on the cans: lead, zinc, cadmium. Formerly, the
company had trouble 
finding places to stow some 50 truckloads of this
industrial waste.  Not a 
problem any more. They sell the stuff as "road salt"
to counties and 
municipalities. It¹s the cheapest "road salt"
available, so their 
business is good. The waste water manager of Grand
Rapids, Michigan, told me 
that, because of this "road salt," the storm runoff in
the city is now 
way out of EPA limits for waste water--and a zillion
times, or so, too 
toxic for drinking water. 
    The Seattle Times reported that Northwest Alloys,
an ALCOA 
subsidiary in Addy, Washington, recycled their
smelter¹s "hazardous waste" by 
means of a relationship with another company which
"sold it as a 
fertilizer and road de-icer." It was labeled as
"CalMag" when sold as a 
fertilizer. When sold as a de-icer, it was called
"Road Clear." OLCOA is said 
to have saved more than $17 million in toxic
disdisposal costs by this 
deceitful method of disposal. (This situation came to
light when an 
Oregon farmer¹s red clover crop died after being
"fertilized."Loophole: 
Toxic Wastes Can Be Declared "Products" and Toxic
Waste Laws No Longer 
Apply!
    The Seattle Times, a major West-coast daily, did a
12-page special 
on the subject of toxics turning into "products" such
as "fertilizer" 
and "road salt." They titled it "Fear in the Fields."
(Reprint available 
from Seattle Times, P.O. Box 70, Seattle, WA
98111-0070, $1 for p & h. 
Or view the article on http://www.seattletimes.com.)
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