How to play chess
  White may cough, sneeze, bleed, burp and fart
— all at the same time if desired — without penalty
 

To the crew and all on board.

A floral tribute is placed outside the RAF Lyneham military base in Wiltshire.

Picture: AFP/Martyn Hayhow
A floral tribute is placed outside the RAF Lyneham military base in Wiltshire.
 “The theme of the party where some jerk snapped Harry was Colonialists and Natives.
I suppose the lad could have gone as Lord Curzon or Lord Kitchener, but most of Harry's male relatives still have to dress like that anyway for formal military occasions.
The Afrika Korps uniform was a nice idea and a lot more original than putting some shoeblack on his face and going as a native.”


14 June 2007
    News
Indigenous Australians life expectancy 17 years lower than non-Indigenous Australia
Issue 131 - 14 Jun 2007
Most of Australia has heard of the shocking statistic that Indigenous Australians have a life expectancy 17 years lower than that of non-Indigenous Australia.
With the publishing of a recent report on Indigenous disadvantage, the state of Indigenous health, education, incarceration and employment have now been placed squarely on the protest agenda.
But how many people know that the accepted mortality rate of sheep is roughly equivalent to the annual mortality rate of Indigenous Australians?
Few people look to the mortality rate of Indigenous people as an indicator of disadvantage.
Maybe it's because the outcomes are so shocking that it could result in a considerable amount of embarrassment for the decade old Howard government.
Or maybe Australians just don't want to face the fact that an entire societal group has a mortality rate almost 1.7 percent higher than that of the general population.
This Big Read feature looks at the less quoted statistics - the mortality rate of Indigenous people as well as the annual avoidable mortality rate.
Click below for CHRIS GRAHAM and AMY MCQUIRE report at how the mortality rates of Indigenous people compare to Australian sheep, while our guest contributor, DR GIDEON POLYA takes a glance at mortality rates around the country and what contributes to the startling figures.
Issue 131        
1.     It is widely known that before the 1967 referendum, Indigenous Australians were under the Flora and Fauna act
2.     Australian politicians have had to face the task of being seen to be doing something to help lower Indigenous disadvantage while not actually providing the substantial funding required to remedy the situation
3.     To equal the number of avoidable Aboriginal deaths each year we would need...      110 Cyclone Tracys
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Judge appeals for calm after jury verdict as Palm trial begins
More police for Indigenous communities: Beattie
A 'constant presence" at court
Land may never be given back: Crossin
Governments 'systematically opposing native title': Dodson
ATSIC a "fraud" : Brough
"Terrible" figures in Aboriginal report: Labor
Fight on to bring remains home from Vienna

Virginia Military Institute students at a VMI 2004 Halloween Party.
CounterPunch Diary
Prince Harry's Travails; John L. Hess Gone at 87 — by Alexander Cockburn
Imagine, in the same month as the death of the muse of high camp, Susan Sontag, we have England in an uproar about Prince Harry and his silly arm band.
All this while The Producers is playing to packed houses in London.
They're even talking of banning the swastika.
That'll be one in the eye for Indian symbols!
The airlines will have to start handing out reminders to the Navajo before they land at Heathrow.
          
Original axis of evil: Colonial empires
  By Dag Herbjornsrud
Tuesday 05 April 2005

Iraq, Kashmir, Palestine, Northern Ireland:  The root causes of the world's hottest conflicts lie in the break-up of Europe's colonial empires.  But who dares admit it?

Do you want to know the real scandal of the year 2005?
According to The Sun in England and the world press, the scandal occurred when Prince Harry (son of British Crown Prince Charles) in January showed up at a party in Wiltshire, wearing a German Nazi uniform.
The picture of the 20-year-old wearing a swastika armband and a Wehrmacht badge with a cigarette and drink in hand, shocked the world.
Rightfully, the prince's flirting with Adolf Hitler's killing of six million Jews, Gypsies, and homosexuals was strongly condemned.
But here's the real conundrum:  Do you know what Harry's older brother Prince William wore at the same party celebrating their friend's 22nd birthday with 250 guests in attendance?
Native Africa dress
The answer is "native African" dress.  Prince William proudly wore a Zulu outfit with black tights and a leopard skin robe.
The reason?  The theme of this upper class birthday party was "native and colonial".  The English prince was celebrating his country's brutal colonial rule by dressing in the traditional clothes of one of its conquered peoples — the Zulus of South-Africa.
Not only did Prince William and the elite with their native-mocking costumes pay homage to the military atrocities of their ancestors, but so few in Europe today question the deaths of millions of Africans, Asians, and American Indians.
The real scandal is that nobody views this celebration of colonial brutality as a scandal!
If we don't know about the mistakes of the past, on all sides, we are doomed to repeat them.  It's about time that Europeans also accept historic facts about their former occupation of the world
But if one opposes Prince Harry's Nazi outfit, one should also question Prince William's colonial outfit.  Hitler did, after all, have the British colonial empire as a main inspiration for his wars for more Lebensraum — living space.
Norwegians and Irish
The only media pundit I have seen questioning the royal party's events is columnist Simon Woolley.  Commenting on the theme Native and Colonial, Woolley wrote:
"A more appalling theme would be difficult to find unless you were ignorant and/or arrogant.  For black people around the world there was no frivolity within colonialism, only degradation and dehumanisation."
Exactly.  But tell that to any average European, and what you get back is a blank stare.  Citizens of former colonial empires are actually taught to be proud of their glorious colonial past.
The present European celebration of the colonising of "the natives" seems to be caused less by pure arrogance than by pure ignorance.  Or, as the motto is for the famous Where is Raed blog of the Iraqi Salam Pax, quoting Samuel Huntington:
Superiority in applying organised violence
"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion ... but rather by its superiority in applying organised violence.  Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do."
I have dedicated the latest decade of my life fighting Huntington's false Clash of Civilisations claims, but this one sentence at least has some truth in it.
Huntington only forgets that Europeans were also victims of colonial occupation.  Just ask the Irish.  Thousands of Catholics from Ireland were sent aboard slave ships to the Caribbean by the invading protestant Englishmen.
Ask Norway's two greatest authors — Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun — who were full of bitterness against the British empire because of its colonial actions in the 19th century.
In order to understand the present conflict in Northern Ireland — as in Iraq, Palestine, Rwanda, and Kashmir — we need to acknowledge the effects of the unjust European occupations.
In order to understand the present conflict in Northern Ireland — as in Iraq, Palestine, Rwanda, and Kashmir — we need to acknowledge the effects of the unjust European occupations
Actions of the past have influenced our present world situation.  Just as our present actions will influence our common future.  Thus, in order to create justice in the future, we need to acknowledge the injustice of the past.
Axis of Evil
I am not bringing up this colonial theme to excuse the problems of the present.  We should never point to former crimes in order to not improve our own societies.
Rather the opposite:  Basic knowledge of the brutalities both of the Nazi regime and of the colonial regimes are necessary in order to prevent similar atrocities again.
If we don't know about the mistakes of the past, on all sides, we are doomed to repeat them.  It's about time that Europeans also accept historic facts about their former occupation of the world.
The Axis of Evil has become a popular phrase.  Well, here is the original Colonial Axis of Evil:  The empires of Britain, France, and Belgium.
And here is how these former empires now treat the suppression of their past:
1. Regret in Belgium:
  In 1885, King Leopold II received Kongo as his private gift.  Belgium's king ravaged the country, chopped off Congolese arms and legs, killed millions, and provided inspiration for Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness in 1899.
This year, as the Belgium state celebrates its 175th year, the country is about to confront its brutal past.  That's much thanks to the American Adam Hochschild, who recently documented the atrocities.  Official exhibits now acknowledge the colonial crimes in Congo.
Soon the Belgians might also admit their responsibility for the tragedy in Rwanda:  The racial identity cards of Hutus versus Tutsis which Belgium imposed in the 1930s — and the recent French Hutu support — paved the way for the Rwandan killing fields in 1994.
2. Silence in France:
  A new film is confronting French brutality during Morocco's fight for independence in the mid-1950s.  The magnificent film is called Le Regard (The Return), the first of its kind.
The film is not made in France, but rather supported by Norway and Morocco.  The film director's name is Nour-Eddine Lakhmari, a Moroccan Norwegian.
The French still haven't faced their terrible "civilisation project".  They are suppressing the memories of their suppression.  While the Americans for decades have made films about their wars, and exported Vietnam-critical films like Platoon, France has refused.
The French public still do not realise how gruesomely their soldiers behaved during la sale gerre, the dirty war, in Algeria in late 1950s.  Maybe as much as one million Algerians were killed, not to mention raped and wounded, just because France did not want to leave the illegally occupied country.
3. Pride in England:
  While France refused to leave their colonies in Vietnam, Algeria, and Morocco, Britain could not have left faster in countries like India and Palestine.
The French public still do not realise how gruesomely their soldiers behaved during "la sale gerre", "the dirty war", in Algeria in late 1950s.
After growing rich on India for almost 200 years, the British empire in 1947 left the continent in just 72 days:  Britain did not work either for a unified India, or for a non-violent division, or for a peaceful future in Kashmir with its foggy borders.
The same empire was responsible for the hands-off-policy towards the guerrilla war during the fatal, last days of the British Palestine Mandate in 1947-1948.
Proud of their colonial times
So, what is the British attitude towards its former crimes against Indian, Chinese, African and Arab peoples?  They are actually proud of their colonial times, as Prince William's party outfit signals.
Prime Minister Tony Blair boasts that the British empire was "a remarkable achievement".   Recently, Gordon Brown, chancellor of the exchequer, said "Britain should stop apologising for colonialism and be proud of its history".
They are backed by Niall Ferguson's Empire.  How Britain Made the Modern World (2003).  A bestseller which mocks Mahatma Gandhi and the UN declaration against racism.
Britain's Gulag
He hails the former British empire as a necessity, and does not question its legitimacy.  The Times declared Ferguson "the most brilliant British historian of his generation".
So what happened when Harvard Professor Caroline Elkins published in March, Britain's Gulag: The Brutal End of Empire in Kenya?   Her work was ridiculed in papers such as The Independent.
Elkins documents how the British imprisoned 1.5 million Kenyans and killed tens of thousands of them during the Mau-Mau uprising in the 1950s.  But Britain does not answer Kenya's demands for an apology.
The European empires are still the black man's burden.
Yet, we should forgive, we must move on.  Maybe we should even forget about the past, so we can focus more on the future.  But we should never let the European colonisers forget, nor let them be proud of their brutal suppression.
This is the main problem: They still don't know what they have done
Dag Herbjornsrud is a Norwegian author, journalist and historian of ideas.
                  Aljazeera
The UN Charter, Under Arrest in the New World Order

image: www.aljazeerah.info/Khaldoun Gharaybeh, Alrai, 2/5/05
The UN Charter, Under Arrest in the New World Order


 


 Issue 72

Opinion

How to play chess... with a vengeance
Issue 72
Rules are important in any sport, but never more so than in the Sport of Dispossession.
So, in the interests of ensuring that ‘Yorta Yorta-type people’ can’t claim they didn’t know the rules before they ‘sat down at the table’, our very own Graham Ring has gone to the trouble of outlining The Rules for all.
1. White moves first
2. White moves again if it wants to.
3. White may move to any square.
4. Black may move to any square — provided a ‘continuous connection’ to the square can be clearly demonstrated.
(Demonstration of Continuous Connection: This is a relatively straightforward process that requires only a full written genealogy, detailed anthropologist’s report, certification of validity from a left-handed tram conductor, and a note from the player’s mum.   Final approval of ‘continuous connection’ will be the prerogative of White.   During the assessment period, Black will not be permitted to make any further moves.  White may continue the game unhindered.   Black may choose to appeal against a determination by White in the matter of ‘continuous connection’ (See ‘Appeals’ below.)
5. If black has a runny nose or dirty face, coughs, sneezes, scratches or breathes loudly they will be deemed to be ‘unhealthy and irresponsible’ and must miss a turn.
6. White may cough, sneeze, bleed, burp and fart — all at the same time if desired — without penalty.
7. White may at anytime ‘dispossess’ Black.   In practice, this means that white may simply remove any Black piece — or pieces — from the chessboard.    (NB. There is no requirement for White to offer prior warning of this move, or to provide any kind of compensation afterwards.
8. White may designate a Black piece as being ‘subject to mandatory detention’.  Pieces so designated may not be moved by Black until White agrees to lift the restriction..
9. White may take Black pieces from the board provided Black has received an assurance that this action is ‘for their own good’.
10. Appeals
a) Black may at any time appeal against any decision taken by White in respect to the conduct of the game.
b) Any such appeal is to be heard at the discretion of White.
c) Black must purchase expensive legal representation for the appeal — which is to be conducted in a foreign language.
d) White shall be prosecutor, judge and jury.
e) Appeals may not be upheld.
11. Black shall not be permitted to win
Checkmate.
Graham Ring is based in Melbourne.   He's a part-time, award-winning writer and a fortnightly NIT columnist.
 
How bitterly Harry must regret not dressing up as Captain Cook.
Then he could have had an enjoyable Tour of Contrition to the Antipodes and the Pacific region, apologizing to the Maoris and Hawai'ians for insensitivity to genocide.
Who wants to go to Auschwitz at this time of year?
Of course the leaders of major Jewish organizations have had a field day, broadcasting their shock and dismay on an hourly basis and telling Harry to jog round the Auschwitz perimeter another couple of times.
Moral reprobation from these folk about fancy dress looks threadbare in an age when Israeli soldiers force a Palestinian to play his violin at a border crossing.
How come Sharon didn't send those soldiers to Auschwitz to apologize for having forgotten that it's only sixty years since Jews with fiddles in Eastern Europe were being told by genuine Nazi murderers to hop about and play a few tunes.
How come Sharon doesn't have to apologize for anything?


28 April 2005
    News
Honouring the memory
Issue 79
Thursday, 28 April 2005
When it comes to the theatre of war, man’s inhumanity to man is bad enough.
But for most of the estimated 15,000 Aboriginal veterans who served in overseas conflicts, the inhumanity didn’t stop when the fighting did.
Of those who made it home, most died paupers without any of the benefits that other returned veterans enjoyed.
But a small group in Western Australian are trying to rectify that past imbalance, albeit in a small way.
The ‘Honouring The Memory’ program has been in operation for several years and its aim is to identify the graves of Aboriginal returned servicemen and women from World Wars I and II, and then rebuild their headstones to acknowledge their service to this nation.
The program is funded through a grant from Lotterywest, a state government department, of sorts (see story below) and it also recently received assistance from the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination.
Shelley Taylor, began the Honouring The Memory program in 2003 with Aboriginal Vietnam veteran, John Schnaars.    Shelley now serves as the community researcher.    She estimates that in Western Australia alone, there’s upwards of 400 Aboriginal servicemen from the two wars who are buried in graves that don’t acknowledge any military service.
“It really tugs at the heart strings to think that the white community could treat another culture with so much disrespect,” Shelley says.    “Each story is different, but pretty much deals with the same sorts of issues.
“They’re all pretty bad [stories].    Most of them died a very lonely and quiet death.”
One of the stories is that of Victor Nelson.    His grave was the first to be renovated by Honouring the Memory.    Victor hailed from Merredin, in the West Australian wheat belt, 300kms east of Perth.    He signed up for WWII in 1942 and served as a Rat of Tobruk, before finishing the war as a rifleman in New Guinea.
Victor made it to the rank of Lance Corporal, but just a few days after the war officially ended, he was inexplicably busted back to the rank of private.    There is nothing in his war records to explain why, which was not unusual for Aboriginal soldiers, says Shelley.    “You only had to look sideways and you lost it [your rank],” she says.
Reducing the ranks of black soldiers when the war ended saved the government a lot of money.    Not that they weren’t already making savings on the back of black soldiers.    During his service, Victor earned a little over half the wage white soldiers earned, and he also received a smaller monthly ‘allotment’ payment (a payment to his family back home).  
But if Victor was treated poorly in the army, things got a lot worse for him on his return home.
Because he was black, Victor was not considered an Australian citizen.    So he wasn’t entitled to a land grant, a pension, any medical assistance or repatriation.    He was refused membership of, and entry to, the Merredin RSL.
Even so, Victor’s family says he was a proud digger.    Every year, in the week leading up to Anzac Day, Victor would begin polishing his medals and his boots.
The Merredin RSL agreed to let him march, provided he stayed at the back of the line.    Once the march was over, Victor was allowed a few beers — they were passed out to him through the window of the club.
When Victor eventually died he was buried at the local cemetery in a pauper’s grave, with two other Aboriginal people in the same plot.
The saddest part of Victor’s story is that it’s not exceptional.    In the context of how Aboriginal war veterans have been treated, it’s very run-of-the-mill.    “If [Aboriginal soldiers] were charged with some misdemeanor — and they only had to look sideways — they lost half their pay,” says Shelley.    “Sometimes they lost all their pay... they could go for weeks or months without any pay, and their families at home weren’t getting an allotment sent to them either.”
Victor’s son, Fred Spratt, recently told ABC’s Encounter program the story of his father’s war service.    “All other vets who come back, the non-Indigenous vets who came back, there were recognised, and they were granted some part of the land for serving this country, and I think my father thought that he was in that line too, as being equal with them when they fought in the war... it wasn’t to be,” Fred said.
“I think he thought that when he got into the army that he was secure.    But also when he came home, he thought he had the same privilege as white veterans, but that wasn’t so, and I think when he came back, it all started from then.”
What ‘started’, is not exclusive to Aboriginal veterans, but it certainly was common.    “...the ending of the war drove him to being a boozer, an alcoholic, or whatever people like to give that term to; when he came back the effects of war still had some problems on him,” Fred said.    “He was just driven to drink and other veterans usually did too.
“... when they came home they couldn’t have a married life with their wives, and their children, because of experiencing flashbacks and whatever.
“It did affect my father, and I think it affected my mother too, because at that stage dad and mum weren’t getting on too well, and I think that at that time we were all taken away to be put into a home, to the mission.”
Another veteran who has had his grave restored is Herbert Hill.    Herbert served in the Navy for 12 years and later the army.
After his second spell of service — cut short because of malaria he contracted in the Navy — he returned home to find his children had been removed by Aboriginal ‘protectors’.    He wasn’t united with his daughters and son until the final years of his life.
Issue 79        
John Schnaars, one of the original driving forces of the project, was asked by Encounter why he had worked so hard to restore the graves of Aboriginal servicemen.    “The will, I suppose, to try to right a small wrong from many years ago that happened to these veterans,” John said.
“I believe it was the veterans who went away to war then, who had no rights in this country to vote or anything.    And I believe it was those men and women, the few women who went away, that changed the course of history on the way Australia felt towards Aborigines.
“So in my view, they were the people who led the change of history in Australia, towards Aboriginals being able to vote and have rights.
“And so for that, I think we owe them a lot...”
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    Newsday
    Most shootings aren't publicized — by Dionne Searcey
    MOSUL, February 7, 2005 — The shootings rarely make news — outside the towns where they occur.
    The military does not make a practice of publicizing cases of "collateral damage" unless by chance reporters are embedded with units and write about the events they witness.
    And no one at the Pentagon nor at the U.S. Central Command keeps a comprehensive tally of the incidents, according to senior officials in both locations, who say that all operations in general are periodically reviewed.
    The examples that follow are a sampling.
    From April to October a unit of Arkansas infantrymen was involved in at least eight shootings at roadblocks or in convoys that ended in civilian deaths, according to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
    In one instance, the paper reported, a driver was killed and his pregnant wife wounded; in another a girl died after being struck by bits of metal from a shot intended to disable the car engine.
    In mid-November, a family driving across battle-weary Fallujah encountered a company of Marines that opened fire, wounding a 23-year-old woman and killing her mother, media accounts reported.
    In Baghdad the following month, a young man drove up to an Army base with his dead mother and two siblings, said Airborne Capt. James Shaw.    Americans had shot up the car, the man said, and didn't even stop.    Airborne officers from the 2nd Battalion, 325th Infantry, who were not responsible for this shooting, have been working to compensate the family.
    And about three weeks ago, a nervous National Guard unit rolled into Mosul for the first time after patrolling calmer outlying areas.    Soldiers came under mortar attack when they stepped out to investigate a body on the street.    The onslaught had just ended when a car sped toward them with a 55-gallon drum in its opened trunk.    It failed to slow despite warning shots, according to a soldier who was there.
    Worried the vehicle was packed with explosives, troops peppered it with bullets, killing the driver.    The drum, however, was empty and the driver was not armed.
    Minutes later, another vehicle swung around the corner and headed toward the scene.    Soldiers immediately shot it up, too.    A mother got out of the car, her hand severed by bullets.    In her arms was her dead 7-year-old girl.    Her young son also was injured.
    "She was sitting on the curb, holding her daughter, rocking, not crying, just in shock," the soldier said.
    Troops told their superiors they fired warning shots at the second vehicle, but the soldier disputed that.    "The shots were into the cab" of the car, he said.    "They were well-placed."
    ESTIMATED NUCLEAR WARHEADS, STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL
    Map showing declared, suspected and potential nuclear nations.

The US is also said to have some 3,000 warheads in reserve, while Russia has about 11,000 in non-operational stockpiles.

Israel declines to confirm it has nuclear weapons.

North Korea — 1 test underground, October 2006.

Iran is accused by the US of ambitions to build nuclear arms.

The United states had drawn up a battle plan for the potential use of nuclear weapons in Iraq and the United States has been involved in planning potential nuclear use scenarios for Iran.

The United States is now involved in a massive program to overhaul its nuclear arsenal.

In fact they're working to replace every nuclear warhead and all of the existing delivery systems in the arsenal to ensure prompt precision global strike capabilities.

Jackie Cabasso — Western States Legal Foundation
    The United States has conducted 1,127 nuclear and thermonuclear tests — 217 in the atmosphere.
    The Soviet Union/ Russia conducted 969 tests — 219 in the atmosphere.
    France, 210 tests, 50 in the atmosphere.
    The United Kingdom, 45 tests — 21 in the atmosphere.
    China, 45 tests — 23 in the atmosphere.
    India and Pakistan — 13 tests underground.
    Israel — possible 1 test atmosphere South Africa 1979.
    North Korea — 1 test underground, October 2006.
    “The United states had drawn up a battle plan for the potential use of nuclear weapons in Iraq and the United States has been involved in planning potential nuclear use scenarios for Iran.”
    “The United States is now involved in a massive program to overhaul its nuclear arsenal.   In fact they're working to replace every nuclear warhead and all of the existing delivery systems in the arsenal to ensure prompt precision global strike capabilities.”
    Jackie Cabasso — Western States Legal Foundation
    Western Elite militarism
    Western Elite Terror States
    Western Elite War Crimes
    'Oh!   You don't believe the 9-11 official version,' they say.
    'You mean where they want you to accept the buildings were not blown up from below.
    'Plane fuel!   Substance never burns higher then a gas stove!   That it caused the inner core steel to melt!
    'Steel melting!
    'Concrete vaporizing!
    ' 'No!   I don't believe that conspiracy theory.
    'Cheney!   Bush!   Rudy Giuliani!   HA!  HA!
    'Tower 7 that never had a plane hit — just came tumbling down!
    'You believe that, eh!
    'Ever think it had to be blown up because the plane scheduled to fly into it was off getting shot down.
    'Thermite in Tower 7's walls, you see — incriminating evidence — impossible to get out without people watching!
    Had to be blown up!
    'Next you'll be saying Obama is not a Wall Street Illuminati banker stooge?
    'Take your pick:   The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedians.
    'Him who allows himself to be used.
    'Oh!   I can't really blame you,   Television it turns minds to pulp.
    'Turn off the television.   It's the only way.'
    'Turn off the television?'
    'Get rid of it really.   I mean what else is there to do!'
    'Get rid of the television?'
    'Don't forget all radio garbage is propaganda, even the songs.
    'Then those five minute propaganda hits they send you every hour!
    'The ones they refer to as News
    'Get rid of all the propaganda from your brain, the only way to do it.'
    'Stop being hooked on those Hollywood movies — even those that make you think they are making you think'
    'All paid performers to make your brain dead.
    'You turn the brainwashing off, you'll begin to become yourself.
    'It really is the only way!'
    'Oh!'
    Kewe — TheWE.biz
     
     
      Protests around world every 11th of month
    Danish scientist Niels Harrit on nano-thermite in the WTC dust.

Niels Harrit, you and eight other researchers conclude in this article that it was nano-thermite that caused these buildings to collapse.

We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center.

One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later.

The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.

The carbon content of the red material indicates that an organic substance is present.

This would be expected for super-thermite formulations in order to produce high gas pressures upon ignition and thus make them explosive.

Photo: agenda911.dk
    Danish scientist Niels Harrit on nano-thermite in the WTC dust
    ITALIAN SAYS 9-11 SOLVED
    It’s common knowledge, he reveals
    CIA — Mossad behind terror attacks
    By the Staff of American Free Press
    Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy’s oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies.
    In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
    “All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe… know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq [and] Afghanistan.”
    Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992.
    Cossiga’s tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio.
    This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and ’80s.
    Gladio’s specialty was to carry out what they termed 'false flag' operations — terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition.
    In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony:
    “You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game.
    The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”
    Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcher Webster Tarpley saying:
    “The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel.
    I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.”
    Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga’s assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating.
    It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America’s propaganda machine in print or on TV.
    Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot.
    Free to redistribute as long as credit given to American Free Press
    We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center.

One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later.

The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).

The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.

The carbon content of the red material indicates that an organic substance is present.

This would be expected for super-thermite formulations in order to produce high gas pressures upon ignition and thus make them explosive.

Photo: Bentham-Open.org
    Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
    Photo: Bentham-Open.org
    Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe
    We have discovered distinctive red/gray chips in all the samples we have studied of the dust produced by the destruction of the World Trade Center.
    One sample was collected by a Manhattan resident about ten minutes after the collapse of the second WTC Tower, two the next day, and a fourth about a week later.
    The properties of these chips were analyzed using optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy (XEDS), and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC).
    The red portion of these chips is found to be an unreacted thermitic material and highly energetic.
    The carbon content of the red material indicates that an organic substance is present.
    This would be expected for super-thermite formulations in order to produce high gas pressures upon ignition and thus make them explosive.
     
    Your life, your children's lives —
    Will you live or die?
    Decided by small group of elite.
    Pure evil
    It doesn't get any clearer than this
     
    Published on Friday, March 2, 2007 by the Los Angeles Times
    US to Develop New Hydrogen Bomb
    by Ralph Vartabedian
    The Energy Department will announce today a contract to develop the nation's first new hydrogen bomb in two decades, involving a collaboration between three national weapons laboratories, The Times has learned.
    The new bomb will include design features from all three labs, though Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area appears to have taken the lead position in the project. The Los Alamos and Sandia labs in New Mexico will also be part of the project.
    Why are the West's elites trying to start a nuclear war?
    Because you pay for it
    BBC — Thursday, 6 September 2007
    UK jets 'chase Russian bombers'
    UK MoD image of Tupolev-95 Bear bomber

An MoD photo shows RAF Typhoon shadowing a Russian Bear-H
    Norway says Russia has increased military flights in the Arctic
    The UK's Royal Air Force has launched fighter jets to intercept eight Russian military planes flying in airspace patrolled by Nato, UK officials say.
    Four RAF F3 Tornado aircraft were scrambled in response to the Russian action, the UK's defence ministry said.
    The Russian planes - said to be long-range bombers - had earlier been followed by Norwegian F16 jets.
    Russia recently revived a Cold War-era practice of flying bombers on long-range patrols.
    A Norwegian officer, Lt Col John Inge Oegland, told the BBC the Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear bombers flew in international airspace from the Barents Sea to the Atlantic, before turning back.
    Two Norwegian F-16s shadowed them on Thursday morning and another two went up later, he said.
    There have been several similar incidents in recent months, Lt-Col Oegland added.
    "Norway is following the increased Russian activity in the far north with interest," he told the BBC News website.
    He said the Russian flights were not causing alarm in Norway.   "Our systems are adequate," he said, when asked whether Norway was bolstering its security in the area.
    If you never see another movie, better watch this: the old original version still allowed on Google video
    For Google video version — click here — it will state this version is old!
    This version is not censored — it is infinitely better then the newer censored version
    To download this version and keep
    http://keepvid.com
    copy and paste
    http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=5547481422995115331
    P.S. The new Zeitgeist movie is loaded with political rhetoric
    It cannot be more opposite of the sense of Zeitgeist — a German word meaning 'Of the time'
    AND don't forget this:
    Pandora's Black Box Chapter Two — click here
    Pilots for 911 truth — click here
    'Oh!   You don't believe the 9-11 official version,' they say.
    'You mean where they want you to accept the buildings were not blown up from below.
    'Plane fuel!   Substance never burns higher then a gas stove!   That it caused the inner core steel to melt!
    'Steel melting!
    'Concrete vaporizing!
    ' 'No!   I don't believe that conspiracy theory.
    'Cheney!   Bush!   Rudy Giuliani!   HA!  HA!
    'Tower 7 that never had a plane hit — just came tumbling down!
    'You believe that, eh!
    'Ever think it had to be blown up because the plane scheduled to fly into it was off getting shot down.
    'Thermite in Tower 7's walls, you see — incriminating evidence — impossible to get out without people watching!
    Had to be blown up!
    'Next you'll be saying Obama is not a Wall Street Illuminati banker stooge?
    'Take your pick:   The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedians.
    'Him who allows himself to be used.
    'Oh!   I can't really blame you,   Television it turns minds to pulp.
    'Turn off the television.   It's the only way.'
    'Turn off the television?'
    'Get rid of it really.   I mean what else is there to do!'
    'Get rid of the television?'
    'Don't forget all radio garbage is propaganda, even the songs.
    'Then those five minute propaganda hits they send you every hour!
    'The ones they refer to as News
    'Get rid of all the propaganda from your brain, the only way to do it.'
    'Stop being hooked on those Hollywood movies — even those that make you think they are making you think'
    'All paid performers to make your brain dead.
    'You turn the brainwashing off, you'll begin to become yourself.
    'It really is the only way!'
    'Oh!'
    Kewe — TheWE.biz
    9/11
    By all accounts, the unprecedented events of September 11th, 2001 changed the way our country functions, and in turn, the world.
    It is therefore critical that conscientious Americans, as well as people around the globe, understand these events in detail.
    Unfortunately the official reports, including The 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST WTC Report, written by those working under the direction of the Bush Administration, have been proven to be elaborate cover-ups.
    Film: 9/11 Revisited
    September 11th Revisited is perhaps the most riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade Center.
    This is a powerful documentary which features eyewitness accounts and archived news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001 but never replayed on television.
    Featuring interviews with eyewitnesses & firefighters, along with expert analysis by Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT Engineer Jeffrey King, and Professor James H. Fetzer.
    This film provides stunning evidence that explosives were used in the complete demolition of the WTC Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.
    For Film: 9/11 Revisited
    — Click Here
    Film: 9/11 Press for Truth
    An excellent documentary about the families of the victims of 9/11 and their fight to uncover and expose the truth about what happened that day.
    For Film: 9/11 Press for Truth
    — Click Here
    Film: 9/11 Mysteries
    90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials.
    Moving from “the myth” through “the analysis” and into “the players,” careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science.
    The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics.   How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?
    Every missile has a home.

Photo: Alaska Image Library
    Every missile has a home
    (No Mortgages to Worry About)
    Image: Natasha Mayers
    It's kind of a fun game
    You see the aim of those inner forces who guide the Elite —
    For them the real agenda is depopulation
    To kill off you
    your children
    your grandchildren
    It is to have fun watching our stupidity as we allow the destruction of our planet
         — but most haven't figured this out yet!
    If we stop them with the nuclear and biological weapons
    then it's the 400+ MPH, KPH wind
    the increase in UVB, UVC, UVA rays due to loss of stratospheric ozone.
    It's the climate!
    It's the reduction and elimination of food coming from all levels of cunning
    World Elite — tools and servants of Lucifer
    The fall of Lucifer, Gustave Doré's illustration for Paradise Lost by John Milton.

Photo: wikipedia.org/
    The fall of Lucifer
    Gustave Doré's illustration for Paradise Lost by John Milton
    Published on Monday, July 4, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
    by Sheldon Drobny
    Justice O'Connor's decision in Bush v. Gore led to the current Bush administration's execution of war crimes and atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places in the Middle East that are as egregious as those committed by the Third Reich and other evil governments in human history.
    US destroyed Fallujah as it tries to destroy the rest of Iraq
    The lesson is clear.
    Those people who may be honorable and distinguished in their chosen profession should always make decisions based upon good rather than evil no matter where their nominal allegiances may rest.
    Justice O'Connor was quoted to have said something to the affect that she abhorred the thought of Bush losing the 2000 election to Gore.
    She was known to have wanted to retire after the 2000 election for same reason she is now retiring.
    She wanted to spend more time with her sick husband.
    Unfortunately, she tarnished her distinguished career with the deciding vote in Bush v. Gore by going along with the partisan majority of the Court to interfere with a democratic election that she and the majority feared would be lost in an honest recount.
    She dishonored herself and the Supreme Court by succumbing to party allegiances and not The Constitution to which she swore to uphold.
    And the constitutional argument she and the majority used to justify their decision was the Equal Protection Clause.
    The Equal Protection Clause was the ultimate basis for the decision, but the majority essentially admitted (what was obvious in any event) that it was not basing its conclusion on any general view of what equal protection requires.
    The decision in Bush v Gore was not dictated by the law in any sense—either the law found through research, or the law as reflected in the kind of intuitive sense that comes from immersion in the legal culture.
    The Equal Protection clause is generally used in matters concerning civil rights.
    The majority ignored their basic conservative views supporting federalism and states' rights in order to justify their decision.
    History will haunt these justices down for their utter lack of justice and the hypocrisy associated with this decision.
    Sheldon Drobny is Co-founder of Air America Radio.
    Unspeakable grief and horror
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                            ...and the circus of deception killing continues...
    He says, "You are quite mad, Kewe"
    And of course I am.
    Why, I don't believe any of it — not the bloody body, not the bloody mind, not even the bloody Universe, or is it bloody multiverse.
    "It's all illusion," I say.   "Don't you know, my lad, my lassie.   The game!   The game, me girl, me boy!   Takes on interest, don't you know.   T'is me sport, till doest find a better!"
    Pssssst — but all this stuff is happening down here
    Let's change it!
    Mother her two babies killed by US
    More than Fifteen million
    US dollars given by US taxpayers to Israel each day for their military use
    4 billion US dollars per year
    Nanci Pelosi — U.S. House Democratic leader — Congresswoman California, 8th District
    Speaking at the AIPAC agenda   May 26, 2005
    There are those who contend that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.   This is absolute nonsense.
    In truth, the history of the conflict is not over occupation, and never has been:  it is over the fundamental right of Israel to exist.
    The greatest threat to Israel's right to exist, with the prospect of devastating violence, now comes from Iran.
    For too long, leaders of both political parties in the United States have not done nearly enough to confront the Russians and the Chinese, who have supplied Iran as it has plowed ahead with its nuclear and missile technology....
    In the words of Isaiah, we will make ourselves to Israel 'as hiding places from the winds and shelters from the tempests; as rivers of water in dry places; as shadows of a great rock in a weary land.'
    Pelosi

    From the video 'Holes in Heaven' — Brooks Agnew, Earth Tornographer
    In 1983 I did radio tornography with 30 watts looking for oil in the ground.
    I found 26 oil wells over a nine state area.
    100 hundred percent of the time was accurate, which is just 30 watts of power beaming straight into solid rock.
    HAARP uses a billion watts beamed straight into the ionosphere for experiments.
    Picture these strings on the piano as layers of the Earth, each one has its own frequency.
    What we used to do is beam radio waves into the ground and it would vibrate any 'strings' that were present in the ground.
    We might get a sound back like ___ and we would say, that's natural gas.
    We might get a sound back like ____ and we'd say that's crude oil.
    We were able to identify each frequency.
    We accomplished this with just 30 watts of radio power.
    If you do this with a billion watts the vibrations are so violent that the entire piano would shake.
    In fact the whole house would shake.
    In fact the vibrations could be so severe under ground they could even cause an earthquake.
    Download or watch   HAARP Holes in Heaven
    — Complete version available for mp4 download
    Download or watch movie on HAARP — Advanced US Military research weapon on behaviour modification
    weather change, ionesphere manipulation — click here
    Download or watch audio of Dr. Nick Begich talking on HAARP
    — The 2006 update to 'Angels Don't Play This HAARP'.
    'Angels Still Don't Play This HAARP: Advances In Tesla Technology'.
    Planet Earth Weapon by Rosalie Bertell
    ozone, HAARP, chemtrails, space war — click here
    HAARP/Chemtrails/Alien aircraft/Illuminati involvement
    1 hour FreemanTV.com video — click here
    (has 30 second lead in with blank screen and silence)
    Angels Dont Play This HAARP weather manipulation
    1 hour 36 minutes video — click here
    (poor quality to watch but well worth listening)
    Dr. Nick Begich, his book and his articles can be found here
           http://www.earthpulse.com/      
    Article on Chemtrails — unusual cloud formations in the US.
    Published on Monday, July 4, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
    by Sheldon Drobny
    Justice O'Connor's decision in Bush v. Gore led to the current Bush administration's execution of war crimes and atrocities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other places in the Middle East that are as egregious as those committed by the Third Reich and other evil governments in human history.
    US destroyed Fallujah as it tries to destroy the rest of Iraq
    The lesson is clear.
    Those people who may be honorable and distinguished in their chosen profession should always make decisions based upon good rather than evil no matter where their nominal allegiances may rest.
    Justice O'Connor was quoted to have said something to the affect that she abhorred the thought of Bush losing the 2000 election to Gore.
    She was known to have wanted to retire after the 2000 election for same reason she is now retiring.
    She wanted to spend more time with her sick husband.
    Unfortunately, she tarnished her distinguished career with the deciding vote in Bush v. Gore by going along with the partisan majority of the Court to interfere with a democratic election that she and the majority feared would be lost in an honest recount.
    She dishonored herself and the Supreme Court by succumbing to party allegiances and not The Constitution to which she swore to uphold.
    And the constitutional argument she and the majority used to justify their decision was the Equal Protection Clause.
    The Equal Protection Clause was the ultimate basis for the decision, but the majority essentially admitted (what was obvious in any event) that it was not basing its conclusion on any general view of what equal protection requires.
    The decision in Bush v Gore was not dictated by the law in any sense—either the law found through research, or the law as reflected in the kind of intuitive sense that comes from immersion in the legal culture.
    The Equal Protection clause is generally used in matters concerning civil rights.
    The majority ignored their basic conservative views supporting federalism and states' rights in order to justify their decision.
    History will haunt these justices down for their utter lack of justice and the hypocrisy associated with this decision.
    Sheldon Drobny is Co-founder of Air America Radio.
    U.S. Bombing of Fallujah
    — the Third World War continued: Chechnya, North Ossetia, Ingushetia
    More atrocities - Ahmed and Asma, story of two children dying
    al-Sadr City
    Iraq's real WMD crime - the effects of depleted uranium
    World War Two soldiers did not kill Kill ratio Korea, Vietnam. Iraq.
    Afghanistan - Terror?
    Photos over past three months.
    Aid agencies compromised by US actions
          US soldiers sent to Iraq committing suicide      
          NSA coverup - Vietnam - Kerry      
    The Iraq War - complete listing of articles, includes images
    The House of Saud and Bush
           All with U.S. Money:       
           US and Israel War Crimes       
    All with U.S. Money:
    Israel agents stole identity of New Zealand cerebral palsy victim.
    (IsraelNN.com July 15, 2004) The Foreign Ministry will take steps towards restoring relations with New Zealand. New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark today announced she was implementing diplomatic sanctions after two Israelis were sentenced on charges of attempting to obtain illegal passports. Despite Israeli refusal to respond to the accusations, the two are labeled in the New Zealand media as Mossad agents acting on behalf of the Israeli intelligence community.

    Foreign Ministry officials stated they will do everything possible to renew diplomatic ties, expressing sorrow over the "unfortunate incident".
    Projected mortality rate of Sudan refugee starvation deaths — Darfur pictures
    Suicide now top killer of Israeli soldiers
    Atrocities files - graphic images
    'Suicide bombings,' the angel said, 'and beheadings.'
    'And the others that have all the power - they fly missiles in the sky.
    They don't even look at the people they kill.'
           The real Ronald Reagan       
           — Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, South Africa        
    Follow the torture trail...
    Photos August 2004
            When you talk with God        
             were you also spending your time, money and energy, killing people?         
           Are they now alive or dead?       
    Photos July 2004
    US Debt
    Photos June 2004
    Lest we forget - Ahmed and Asma, story of two children dying
    Photos May 2004
    American military: Abu Gharib (Ghraib) prison photos, humiliation and torture
    - London Daily Mirror article: non-sexually explicit pictures
    Photos April 2004
    The celebration of Jerusalem day, the US missiles that rained onto children in Gaza,
    and, a gathering of top articles over the past nine months
    Photos March 2004
    The Iraq War - complete listing of articles, includes images
    Photos February 2004
    US missiles - US money - and Palestine
    Photos January 2004
    Ethnic cleansing in the Beduin desert
    Photos December 2003
    Shirin Ebadi Nobel Peace Prize winner 2003
    Photos November 2003
    Atrocities - graphic images...
    Photos October 2003
    Aljazeerah.info
    Photos September 2003
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