Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
November 2, 2009
Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?
(This document is given to Global Politicians, Banks and Energy stakeholders, Grassroots etc)
Swine flu ’second wave’ begins in Saudi Arabia: minister
(AFP) Oct. 30. 2009
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gOscomcwODGRxDhvnZMfNXbZa1mA
RIYADH — A second wave of swine flu has begun in Saudi Arabia, the health ministry said on Friday, as the death toll from A(H1N1) neared 60 just weeks before the annual hajj brings two million pilgrims to the country.
“The ministry of health said a second wave of the swine flu virus began in early October with the beginning of the fall and cooler weather,” the official SPA news agency reported…
Several schools were closed around the country during the past week and the authorities are girding for the possibility that swine flu cases could rocket with the arrival of more than two million pilgrims in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina for the hajj over the next three weeks. (Officially Nov. 25-29 2009)
FACTBOX-Countries impose restrictions on Mecca pilgrimage
http://www.reuters.com/article/asiaCrisis/idUSLT239445
Oct 29 (Reuters) – Waves of H1N1 flu spread by some three million pilgrims travelling to and from Mecca for November’s haj threaten to pile pressure on healthcare systems around the world, disease experts said on Thursday.
Several Muslim countries have imposed restrictions on the pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia because of worries about a major outbreak of H1N1 flu.
Swine flu fears grow, Obama declares H1N1 a national emergency
OCTOBER 24, 2009 REUTERS
Officials have also declared that Canada is in its “second wave” of the H1N1 pandemic.
British Columbia, Quebec and the Northwest Territories were hit weeks ago, but now there is significant sickness in the rest of the country.
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance is calling for the immediate Shut-down of the Vancouver-Whistler (B.C.) Winter Olympics (Feb. 12-28 2010) And the Annual Al Hajj
Pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina And Urges a Severe Travel Advisory to these regions.
We do so for the following reasons, based on the best interests of the World’s Security:
* The Province of British Columbia, was Ground Zero in the Second Wave of H1N1(Swine Flu) in Canada.
The Vancouver organizers estimate that the Games will be attended by Global Corporate and Political Leaders, some 5,000 athletes and Olympic officials, 10,000 media representatives, over 6,000 out of province law enforcement officers,14,000 volunteers and up to 2.3 million spectators.
* The Port of Vancouver is the Gateway to China, Asia, Russia, U.S., Europe, the Southern Hemisphere and indeed the world for the Winter Olympics 2010.
It is the perfect timing and breeding ground- Vector for Mutating Disease, the H1N1 Swine flu virus and Triggering the Third Wave of Swine Flu of which the lethality(mortality) has the probability to increase as in the case with the original swine flu, the Spanish Flu.
We demand the World Health Organization(WHO), the Centers for Disease Control(CDC) and other pertinent governments and health bodies to Act now, or be held accountable on a personal and professional basis. It is better to err on the side of the world’s safety is it not?
* The arguments are similar for the annual Hajj pilgrimage, with the added danger that
the Swine flu has the potential to devastate economies of Islamic majorities, as well as mortality and sickness. The House of Saud, King Fahd must act now , or it will be held personally accountable.
Prophet Muhammad’s Patterns of Peaceful Communication
By:Ali Zohery
The Prophet Muhammad was assigned the Mission of peace in the world by Allah. The fundamental purpose was to attain peace with the lord, peace with the universe and peace with the people. The Quran, in very plain words, announces the arrival of the prophet of peace in these words: “ O People of the book! Our Messenger has come to you, Light has come to you from Allah and a book which guides to the truth, whereby Allah leads to ways of peace those who seek His pleasure.” ( 5:17-18) These verse stress that the Prophet was sent to guide the people to the way of peace. The west misunderstood Islam and stereotyping it with violence and terrorism.
What does it mean to be a Muslim? Islam literally means submission, and, in Arabic, the root word for Islam (SLM) is peace. To be Muslim, then, is the struggle to peacefully submit to reality, and this implies a perfectly balanced sense of self. Self that is founded on the knowledge of its place in Creation, and that exists in perfect empathy with the rest of Creation.)from an article in Islam online: The Conquering Force of Islam,By Ramzi Kysia, 11/12/2001)
Peace is the most common word on a Muslim’s tongue. Whenever two people meet, they exchange greetings, wishing each other peace: “Peace be upon you.” But peace cannot prevail except through justice. Since the concept of justice may differ from one man to another, or from one society to another, Muslims believe that real justice is that which is specified by Allah (God).
H1N1 detected 13 days after fever onset
New research suggests that those who have come down with swine flu are still infectious many days later
Carly Weeks Last updated on Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009 2:51AM EDT
Researchers with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that elementary school children who contracted the H1N1 virus during an outbreak earlier this year tested positive for the virus up to 13 days after the onset of fever.
The findings, led by researchers at the CDC and the Pennsylvania Department of Health, are being presented at the Infectious Disease Society of America’s annual meeting in Philadelphia.
They raise questions about H1N1’s contagiousness and whether those infected should take steps to avoid infecting others even after they’ve recovered…
It’s a significant finding that may change conventional thinking about the contagious period associated with H1N1.
The Public Health Agency of Canada says that people with H1N1 may be contagious for up to seven days after the onset of symptoms. But as more research emerges suggesting that period could last even longer, it may require public health officials to modify their communication.
WHO Reporting 31 Strains of the H1N1 Virus Resistant to Tamiflu
Sunday October 11, 2009
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting 31 strains of the H1N1 virus which have mutated and are now resistant to the anti-viral drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Since the outbreak of the current H1N1 pandemic Tamiflu has been at the front line of defense. Tamiflu is an antiviral drug which is capable of preventing someone from catching H1N1, (if taken within the first 48 hours after an individual has been exposed), reducing the duration and severity of the illness, and decreasing the risk of passing H1N1 on to others. Many health care workers have been taking Tamiflu to prevent catching H1N1 themselves.
HEALTH OFFICIALS SAY BEWARE TAMIFLU
By Scott Sarvay Story Published: Oct 29, 2009 at 11:39 AM
http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/67227197.html
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana’s NewsCenter) – The Federal Government has been recommending Tamiflu to combat the symptoms of H1N1.
But is it hurting the overall effort of fighting the virus?
Fort Wayne – Allen County Health officials say it is.
They say there are only two forms of medicine that can fight the H1N1 virus, the vaccine they’ve been distributing in the injectable and nasal mist forms and Tamiflu.
And since viruses can mutate and build up resistance to medications, that leaves few options when those two stop working.
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Tamiflu-Resistant Swine Flu Passed Person-to-Person in U.S. |
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/shared-auto/healthnews/flu-/632578.html
THURSDAY, Oct. 29 (HealthDay News) — U.S. researchers say they’ve spotted the first case of a Tamiflu-resistant H1N1 flu virus passing between two people — raising the specter that more widespread resistance will render the antiviral drug less useful in combating the pandemic.
Flu fear
Commentary: Look who’s profiting from this year’s flu season(Donald Rumsfeld)
By Brett Arends, WSJ.com Oct. 19, 2009, 11:19
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/look-whos-profiting-from-the-flu-pandemic-2009-10-19
I put a call into his office, but the former Secretary of Defense doesn’t want to comment. (His staff says Rummy is hard at work on his memoirs. Ominous news for the GOP: The book is penciled in to hit the bookstores next fall — just around the time of the mid-term elections).
Rumsfeld is the highest profile figure associated with Gilead Sciences Inc.(GILD 42.55, -0.40, -0.93%), the California biopharma behind the Tamiflu vaccine. He is the company’s former chairman, and at the last disclosure a few years back still held a stake in the company worth somewhere up to $25 million.
One thing we know for certain: Flu times are good times at Gilead. No stockholders anywhere stand to make as much from flu panic.
“The biggest beneficiary to the world’s dilemma with the H1N1 virus is Gilead Sciences,” says a report from research firm BWS Financial, Inc. Gilead will be in a sweet spot if swine flu turns into mass panic, it says. “We believe (Gilead) remains the true investment on the H1N1 theme.”
Gilead licensed its Tamiflu vaccine to pharmaceutical giant Roche back in 1996, but gets lucrative royalties on sales. Gilead’s revenue from Tamiflu came to about $400 million during the bird flu panic in 2006-2007, BWS estimates.
An analysis by Deutsche Bank predicts Gilead will get about $195 million revenue from Tamiflu just in the fourth quarter of this year, and another $137 million in the first quarter of next year. Deutsche argues that Wall Street has so far underestimated the likely gains. (Deutsche’s analysis is based on results from Roche, which has just reported its third quarter figures. Gilead gets its cut from Roche’s sales one quarter later.)
Tamiflu is only one part of the business. Gilead is a broad biotech company. But Wall Street loves a story, and if the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu, causes a stampede this winter Gilead could get a lot of attention.
The irony about flu vaccines is that they may not even work. A very plausible takedown on the flu vaccine business was published recently in The Atlantic. Read here. But don’t expect that to hurt demand. Everyone and their aunt will probably be crowding into emergency rooms at the first sign of a runny nose this winter, demanding treatments, regardless of any effectiveness.
In the so-called home of the brave, the easiest thing to sell is fear.
Gilead stock was only about $16 four years ago. But in 2005 it took off, after the Bush administration responded to the bird flu panic by ordering large quantities of Tamiflu. It has since tripled to about $46.
On the advice of government counsel at the time, Mr. Rumsfeld recused himself from all decisions about Tamiflu and pandemic preparedness. But the rules should really forbid him, or any Secretary of Defense, from owning shares directly at all.
Gilead’s booming stock price has generated a lot of windfalls at the company. According to the most recent public filings, executives and staff are sitting on share and option awards that may be worth about $1.6 billion at current levels. That would be, remarkably, an average of $400,000 per person for the 4,000-employee firm, although of course the benefits are hardly distributed equally. Chairman and Chief Executive John Martin made $11 million a year in each of the last two years, and booked a personal profit of $28.5 million by exercising stock options just in 2008.
The Tamiflu connection is proving good news for left-wing conspiracy theorists. In his last financial disclosure as defense secretary, more than two years ago, Donald Rumsfeld revealed he still owned a stake in Gilead worth somewhere between $5 million and $25 million. Since then Gilead shares have risen by nearly a half. Of course, we don’t know what — if anything — he holds now.
Is it too late to get in on the action? Maybe. Gilead shares, at around $46, look pretty reasonably priced at 17 times next year’s forecast earnings. But call options offer a leveraged bet on further swine flu hysteria: For $3 a share you can buy a $50 call good at any point between now and next May.
From here on this document reads as a factual narrative ultimate Halloween story:
Second-Class Medicine
Germans Unhappy with Alternative Swine Flu Vaccine for Politicians 10/19/2009
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,656028,00.html
SPIEGEL over the weekend reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel, a number of her ministers and other government officials would receive a vaccine manufactured by the pharmaceutical company Baxter — the same vaccine that the German military opted for, as was reported last week.
The mass-circulation tabloid Bild on Monday plastered the story on its front page on Monday, assuring its readers that “experts are accusing the government” of serving up “second class medicine” to ordinary Germans.
Fevers and Headaches
The controversy centers on an additive included in the vaccine manufactured by pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline. The additive includes an inactive strain of the entire flu virus as opposed to virus fragments. Critics say the additive can increase the risk of side effects from the flu vaccine such as fevers and headaches.
Supporters counter that the additive is safe, and its use allows the drug manufacturer to quickly produce more doses of the vaccine. The SPIEGEL story mentioned that the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine, with the additive, has undergone more testing than the Baxter version.
An Interior Ministry spokesman told SPIEGEL that the Baxter vaccine had been ordered for all ministries and other agencies as well as for the employees of the Paul Ehrlich Institute, the authority responsible for approving vaccines.
Merkel’s spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm on Monday denied that Merkel was taking a different vaccine than the one available to ordinary Germans. He said that the Baxter vaccine had been ordered four months ago as part of a deal hammered out one year ago and has nothing to do with recent concerns surrounding the GlaxoSmithKline vaccine.
‘Second-Class Medicine’
Still, voices have become raised. The Green Party’s health expert Biggi Bender said that the separate vaccines amount to “big risk for the people, little risk for the government. This type of second-class medicine cannot be allowed to exist in a democracy.”
Leading physicians also complained about the planned vaccination. The head of the Institute for Hygiene and Public Health at the University of Bonn, Martin Exner, said: “The fact that politicians and top civil servants in ministries will be vaccinated with a vaccine other than the people is a terrible sign. Today politicians must take what they recommend.”
Virologist Alexander Kekulé Hall of the University Hospital said the fact “that the members of the Federal Government and the authorities have any other vaccine is a scandal.”
The Interior Ministry has also rejected the sharp criticism. A spokeswoman for Interior Minister Wolfgang Schäuble pointed out that at that time the Baxter vaccine was ordered the differences between the two vaccines was not yet an issue. The Paul Ehrlich Institute has repeatedly defended its decision to provide the population with the GlaxoSmithKline version, known as Pandemrix.
The weekend scandal has drowned out a second debate which has been raging in recent weeks in the US and which has also found resonance here in Germany: whether such a massive vaccination program is necessary in the first place.
Wolf-Dieter Ludwig, chairman of the Drug Commission of the German Medical Association, has called the planned vaccination campaign a “scandal.” “The health authorities have fallen for a campaign from the pharmaceutical companies, who simply want to earn money with an alleged threat,” he told SPIEGEL.
Environmentalist and Geneticist David Suzuki on taking the Swine flu Vaccine: “Yes. I’m just astounded at people. Do they think doctors, scientists, and government are out to poison them or something?”
Questions about why Vaccine makers are given blanket legal immunity from government are legitimate. Questions about why hundreds of thousands
of Gulf War Veterans were basically called hysterical and crazy for years by the Pentagon and Sec of Defence Donald Rumsfeld-when in fact a major contributing factor was a vaccine that made them ill, made by Battelle Memorial Institute, in charge of the Joint vaccine Program for the Pentagon. Issues of squalene and aluminum were also involved.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War_syndrome
In the United States in 2008, the federally mandated Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses released a 452-page report,[5] indicating that roughly 1 in 4 of the 697,000 veterans who served in the first Persian Gulf War are afflicted with the disorder.
The report implicated exposure to toxic chemicals as the cause of the illness. The report states that “scientific evidence leaves no question that Persian Gulf War illness is a real condition with real causes and serious consequences for affected veterans.”[5]
About 30 percent of the 700,000 U.S. servicemen and women in the first Persian Gulf War have registered in the Persian Gulf War Illness database set up by the American Legion. Some still suffer a wide range of serious health impairing symptoms.[6]
The tables below apply only to coalition forces involved in combat. Since each nation’s soldiers generally served in different geographic regions, epidemiologists are using these statistics to correlate effects with exposure to the different suspected causes.
U.S. and UK, with the highest rates of excess illness, are distinguished from the other nations by higher rates of pesticide use, use of anthrax vaccine, and somewhat higher rates of exposures to oil fire smoke and reported chemical alerts.
France, with possibly the lowest illness rates, had lower rates of pesticide use, and no use of anthrax vaccine.[7] French troops also served to the North and West of all other combat troops,[8]away and upwind of major combat engagements.
China’s Wen warns of “grim” flu prevention task
Sat Oct 31, 2009 7:06pm IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-43579720091031
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Saturday warned the country faced an “extremely grim” job to prevent the spread of the H1N1 flu strain, calling on more people to be vaccinated and for vaccine production to be raised.
“At present, the flu prevention situation is extremely grim and there may well be outbreaks or it may spread in certain areas,” Wen told officials during a visit to a Beijing children’s hospital, in comments carried on state television.(At present China has inoculated 3.8 million people.)
Vaccine Researcher: Gardasil ‘is a Great Big Public Health Experiment’
Oct.28.2009
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, questioned the effectiveness of the vaccines to reduce cervical cancer and warned of safety issues administering the vaccine to children under the age of 15. She denounced vaccinating girls, as young as 11, as “a great big public health experiment,” which could cause dangerous side effects.
When Harper was asked why she was condemning a vaccine she helped create she responded: “I want to be able to sleep with myself when I go to bed at night.”
Gardasil Researcher Drops A Bombshell
Harper: Controversal Drug Will Do Little To Reduce Cervical Cancer Rates
BY SUSAN BRINKMANN, FOR THE BULLETIN
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2009
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/10/25/top_stories/doc4ae4b76d07e16766677720.txt
Dr. Diane Harper, lead researcher in the development of two human papilloma virus vaccines, Gardasil and Cervarix, said the controversial drugs will do little to reduce cervical cancer rates and, even though they’re being recommended for girls as young as nine, there have been no efficacy trials in children under the age of 15.
Dr. Harper, director of the Gynecologic Cancer Prevention Research Group at the University of Missouri, made these remarks during an address at the 4th International Public Conference on Vaccination which took place in Reston, Virginia on Oct. 2-4. Although her talk was intended to promote the vaccine, participants said they came away convinced the vaccine should not be received.
“I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical cancer, I couldn’t help but question why we need the vaccine at all,” said Joan Robinson, Assistant Editor at the Population Research Institute.
Dr. Harper began her remarks by explaining that 70 percent of all HPV infections resolve themselves without treatment within a year. Within two years, the number climbs to 90 percent. Of the remaining 10 percent of HPV infections, only half will develop into cervical cancer, which leaves little need for the vaccine.
MDs set to endorse HPV vaccinations(Gardasil)
BY CANWEST NEWS SERVICEAPRIL 16, 2007
The group representing Canada’s 2,500 pediatricians and other specialists who care for children is set to endorse having little girls vaccinated against the sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer.
One in four U.S. teen girls got Gardasil vaccine
Lobbyists boosted vaccine program
Ex-government advisers worked on drug firm’s campaign to push immunization program
By Tanya Talaga Health Reporter
Published On Thu Aug 16 2007
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/246824
The speed with which the HPV vaccine Gardasil got onto both the federal and provincial(Ontario) political agendas was no accident.
Only eight months after Gardasil was approved for sale in Canada, Ottawa agreed in March to fund $300 million over three years for a human papillomavirus vaccination program. And on Aug. 2, Ontario announced that all Grade 8 girls will have free access to Gardasil.
Merck Frosst Canada Ltd., the maker of Gardasil, hired public relations giant Hill & Knowlton to push the immunization strategies using some well-connected lobbyists: Ken Boessenkool, a former senior policy adviser to Prime Minister Stephen Harper; Bob Lopinski, formerly with Premier Dalton McGuinty’s office; and Jason Grier, former chief of staff to Health Minister George Smitherman.
According to Ontario consultant registration documents, Lopinski and Grier’s lobbying activities include: “Proposed policy decision to support a childhood immunization program for HPV and funding related thereto.”
Combine that with a catchy TV ad campaign urging young women to “Tell Someone,” as well as backing from medical groups like the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada and a national vaccine program was born.
The medical community has largely lauded Gardasil…
Why Girls Shouldn’t Be Guinea Pigs
Quebec’s dispensation of the HPV vaccine is making a new generation of lab rats out of its young girls.
http://www.themarknews.com/articles/118-why-girls-shouldnt-be-guinea-pigs
Francoise Baylis
Canada Research Chair, bioethics and philosophy, Dalhousie University.
First published May 05, 2009
Grandmother Blames Gardasil In Granddaughter’s Death
Posted by Eddie Farah
September 20, 2009 11:30 PM
Jessie Ericzon was 17-years-old and about to graduate from high school.
Like many girls her age, she was given the first of the three-shot series of Gardasil, the Merck drug that is supposed to protect young girls from the human papillomavirus, or HPV, that causes two types of cervical cancer and two types of warts.
That was 19 months ago.
Jessie had no health problems, but after the second shot in September 2007 she started to get bad headaches, as well as muscle aches, and joint pain, says her grandmother, Denise Melton. Last February she got the third shot in the series, two days later she was dead.
Her grandmother said after the final shot Jessie said she had a headache and went to bed. That next morning her mother found her on the bathroom floor. “Without a shadow of a doubt, I know that Gardasil is what killed her,” says Melton.
Erin Brockovich preparing to help – Gardasil adverse events
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=222×39645
Gardasil
August 6, 2008
We have been spending our days getting all our ducks armed for bear and in a row–all of our anti-Gardasil ducks, that is. From checking my various areas on the internet, to finding moderators to listening to the tragic and painful stories of victims of the Gardasil vaccine, it has been a very busy time for me and my team.
Gardasil, as you should know by now, is an HPV vaccine sold by MERCK, a vaccine with a flawed marketing campaign targeting young girls…
Gardasil: extreme side effects and death(CBS Investigative report sept 13 2009) youtube Katie Kouric
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXXuFKC0k4g
H1N1 Vaccine Questioned – Autism
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
http://www.autisable.com/710097071/h1n1-vaccine-questioned—autism/
NutriMedical Report – Dr. Deagle with Dr. Chris Shaw of UBC – Aluminum in Vaccines Causing Nerve Damage Oct-22-2009
DR CHRIS SHAW PhD – NEUROPLASTICITY EXPERT ON VACCINE ADJUVANT TOXINS ALUMINUM, SQUALENE, ETC. IN SEASONAL, GULF WAR AND H1N1 FLU VACCINES (this is an open source audio interview)
http://www.archive.org/details/NutrimedicalReport-Dr.DeagleWithDr.ChrisShawOfUbc-AluminumIn
DAVOKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 29, 2009
H1N1 Families Face Financial Challenges
Update: Parents of Children Who Were Seriously Sick Tackle Massive Hospital Bills and Possible Insurance Caps By Mark Strassmann
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/29/eveningnews/main5453206.shtml
ID SUZUKI, environment alist: “I will when my turn comes up. I’m just astounded at people. Do they think doctors, scientists and government are out to poison them or something? I just don’t get what the objections are to this. What does that imply they think about the health experts?” oes that imply they think about the health experts?”
We Warn Scientific Models on Global Warming are Grossly Inadequate.
The Role of Bacteria, Viruses and Fungi are not known and represent “Black Swans” of immense proportions. Their rate of frequency will, without a doubt increase dramatically due to Global Warming and the continued Depleting(Use) of Fossil Fuels.
It is they that can be said that are the true masters of this Earth not the human species. They(bacteria) are of course ubiquitous in the human body and in all life. They are the first life and beyond the wisdom of the human species. You can be assured, they will also be the last life on Earth.
The human species in the Biotech-Nano sector are attempting to enslave bacteria for example in the work of nano factories and the Cleantech sector, it is a grave error. Life must not be Patented or Enslaved.
The Ultimate Judas to our beloved Earth, Al Gore is the Keynote Speaker
for the 2010 Annual International BIO summit. Major BIO sponsors and participants always include Big Pharma, Monsanto, Syngenta, Dupont etc They have promised to Save the Earth, their newest motto is Heal, Fuel, Feed the World-they are big pushers of Biofuels and Patents on All Life
http://biotech.indymedia.org/or/
Advanced biofuels will stoke global warming -study Thu Oct 22, 2009
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN2225048
Nanotech’s “Second Nature” Patents
http://www.voyle.net/Nano%20Debate%202005/Nano%20Debate%202005-0011.htm
Twenty-five years after the biotech industry got the green light to patent life, nanotech goes after the building blocks of life.
On the 25th anniversary of Diamond vs. Chakrabarty,* the US Supreme Court’s landmark decision (June 16, 1980) that opened the floodgates to the patenting of living organisms, ETC Group releases a new report, “Nanotech’s ‘Second Nature’ Patents.”
Since Chakrabarty, the biotech industry has worked hand-in-hand with governments to allow for the patenting of all biological products – the first monopoly grab over life. Chakrabarty set the stage for today’s nanotechnology patents, where the reach of exclusive monopoly is not just on life – but the building blocks of life – nanotech’s ’second nature’ patents,” explains Hope Shand, Research Director of ETC Group…
Lessons learned from Diamond v. Chakrabarty: Despite all the hype about Mr. Chakrabarty’s patented oil-eating microbe and how it would gobble up oil spills, the patented microorganism never worked. Instead of curing environmental ills, the biotech industry has introduced its own contamination problems – unwanted gene flow from genetically modified crops, a particularly serious problem for centres of genetic diversity in the developing world.
Unlike 25 years ago, today’s nanotech-related patents have not required major rule changes. As a result, many governments are unaware of the nanotech patent rush
Microbe thrives in ocean ‘dead zone’
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Microbe+thrives+ocean+dead+zone/2134819/story.html
BY MARGARET MUNRO, CANWEST NEWS SERVICEOCTOBER 23, 2009
There is life in the planet’s expanding dead zones, say researchers, who have uncovered a remarkable microbe thriving in toxic waters off the B.C. coast.
The bacteria take up carbon dioxide like a plant, consume sulphide that is deadly to most other life forms, and exhale nitrous oxide which is a potent greenhouse gas.
The microbe may be small but it appears to be an important global player affecting the chemistry of both the atmosphere and the oceans, says lead researcher Steven Hallam, of the University of British Columbia, who likes to point out that it is microbes that “really rule the world.”
“We don’t see them so we don’t notice the effects,” Hallam says. “Except we can breathe, nutrient cycles work, the oceans stay productive. They’re key to our survival.”
Hallam describes it as a “paradoxical” organism, which appears to have both positive and negative impacts on the ecosystem, at least from a human point of view.
(To look upon microbes is like looking upon the face of God-it is beyond the Wisdom of the human species-we must stop depleting their food source -fossil fuels-or they will
deplete ours-it deepens the meaning of Love thy Neighbour as you love yourself-microbes are of course immune to rhetoric, power , economics, philosophy, religion, and politics-but if humans cause harm, they will and are reacting-we are if you will on a collision course with our Maker. Charles Darwin would be flabbergast, for Evolution begins and ends with microbes.
We must avert this collision, and rise above ourselves, before it is too late. As the human species, we must put away our childish ways, and mature as a species. This does not mean that we can not be childlike-the benign qualities. Greed, Power and Selfishness must pass away. Witness the Global Climate Treaty talks-the treaty is in fact the “easy” part. Greed, Power and Selfishness are it’s true enemy,for it’s success. Nature, Our Beloved Earth will not wait anymore for the human species to resolve it’s issues.
Climate Chaos which was once thought to be happening in the decades to come, is happening now. In fact Time has stopped for the human species. We must live every day now as if it were our last.
What is it that really matters to the human species in Life? Is it Gold? Weapons? Hate?
If one does not care about their life in this world: Perhaps one should care about it in the next
Fatalism, Time, Commerce, Power, Religion and Philosophy are but abstractions. If this were your last day would you kill anything? How would you see the Miracle of Life?
The human species is not living on borrowed finances, it is living on borrowed time.)
http://infao5501.ag5.mpi-sb.mpg.de:8080/topx/archive?link=Wikipedia-Lip6-2/156331.xml&style
Thomas Gold ( May 22 , 1920 â June 22 , 2004 ) was an Austrian astrophysicist , a professor of astronomy at Cornell University , and a member of the USNational Academy of Sciences . Gold was one of three young Cambridge scientists who advanced the scientific understanding of cosmology in the 1950s by proposing the controversial ’steady state’ hypothesis of the universe . Gold had the unusual ability to cross academic and scientific boundaries, into biophysics ,astrophysics , space engineering , or geophysics , to challenge longstanding dogma with his profound insights.
Origins of petroleum
Gold achieved fame for his 1992 paper “The Deep Hot Biosphere” in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , which presented a controversial view of the origin of coal , oil , and gas deposits, a theory of an abiogenic petroleum origin . The theory suggests coal and crude oil deposits have their origins innatural gas flows which feed bacteria living at extreme depths under the surface of the Earth; in other words, oil and coal are produced through tectonic forces, rather than from the decomposition of fossils. Gold also published a book of the same title in 1999 , which expanded on the arguments in his 1992 paper and included speculations on the origin of life . He has been accused of stealing the abiogenic theory outright from Soviet geologists who first published it in the 1950s . Although he later credited Soviet research, it is claimed that he first published a paper on the abiogenic theory in 1979 without citing any of the Soviet literature on the subject . Gold’s defenders maintain that these charges are unfounded: they say that, after first formulating his views on petroleum in 1979, he began finding the papers by Soviet geologists and had them translated. He was both disappointed (that his ideas were not original) and delighted (because such independent formulation of these ideas added weight to the hypothesis). They insist that he always credited the Soviet work once he knew about it.
According to Gold and the Soviet geologists who originated the abiogenic theory, bacteria feeding on the oil accounts for the presence of biological debris inhydrocarbon fuels , obviating the need to resort to a biogenic theory for the origin of the latter. The flows of underground hydrocarbons may also explain oddities in the concentration of other mineral deposits.
Most western geologists and petrologists consider petroleum abiogenic theories implausible and believe the biogenic theory of ’fossil fuel’ formation adequately explains all observed fossil fuel deposits. Most geologists do recognize the geologic carbon cycle includes subducted carbon which returns to the surface, with studies showing the carbon does rise in various ways. Gold and geology experts point out the biogenic theories do not explain phenomena such as helium in oil fields and oil fields associated with deep geologic features.
However, recent discoveries have shown that bacteria live at depths far greater than previously believed. Whilst this does not prove Gold’s theory, it certainly lends support to its arguments.
Oil-eating microbes give clue to ancient energy source September 9, 2008
http://www.physorg.com/news140204719.html
“Hydrocarbons like oil and natural gas are made up of carbon and hydrogen, they are among the most abundant substances on Earth,” said Dr Friedrich Widdel from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen, Germany. “Even though we use them as fuel sources, they are actually very unreactive at room temperature. This makes them difficult to use as a biological energy source, particularly if there is no oxygen around.”
For over 100 years scientists have known that microbes such as bacteria can use hydrocarbons like oil and gas as nutrients. But this process usually requires supplies of oxygen to work at room temperature. “Scientists were always fascinated by the microbes that do this because hydrocarbons are so unreactive,” said Dr Widdel. “But it is even more surprising to find an increasing number of microbes that can digest hydrocarbons without needing oxygen.”
“The striking diversity of micro-organisms that can break down hydrocarbons may reflect the early appearance of these compounds as nutrients for microbes in Earth’s history; Bacteria and archaea living with hydrocarbons therefore may have appeared early in the evolution of life,” said Dr. Widdel
Orson Welles War of the Worlds (part 7)Ending
War Of The Worlds (2005) Tribute(In final scene microbes save the Earth)
The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art at Tate St Ives
Brian Dillon on the occult influence on modern British art
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/24/dark-monarch-exhibition-tate-review
In 1966, the British Museum acquired a curious object of convoluted provenance and sinister reputation. It is a black disc of highly polished stone, 1.3cm thick and 18.9cm in diameter, with a small handle-like protrusion to one side, pierced with a tiny hole. The thing is plainly a mirror of sorts, small enough to be held in the hand, and carved – so the museum established, after centuries of confusion – from obsidian: the glassy stone from which the Aztecs fashioned their ritual implements. It is usually exhibited alongside a desiccated and much-repaired flat leather case to which are attached two labels. The first, dating from 1842, when the “wondrous speculum” was sold at auction, simply says “Lot 48″. The second inscription is from the late 18th century, and likely quickens the hearts of serious scholars and New Age occultists alike: “The Black Stone into which Dr Dee used to call his spirits.”
The handwriting belongs to its former owner, Horace Walpole. The politician and collector seems to have chanced upon the enigmatic slab (which he thought was made of marble) in the collection of Lord Frederic Campbell, who was at a loss to say just what it was for. But Walpole was well apprised of the life of John Dee, the Elizabethan astronomer and conjurer who fell in and out of favour with the Queen, and was said to have communed regularly with the angels Gabriel and Raphael. Indeed, an excitable legend concerning his ink-black mirror or “scrying stone” states that it was given to him by one of these angelic interlocutors. The more plausible story has it that Dee bought the stone from a member of the Spanish court, and that it is an Aztec artefact of the late middle ages.
Dee’s black mirror does not appear in The Dark Monarch, the current show at Tate St Ives that posits hitherto unheeded links between “magic and modernity” in British art of the past century or so. It has in fact been restored to its historical and cultural context as part of the British Museum’s Moctezuma exhibition. But avatars of the mysterious and depthless stone are everywhere in the St Ives show, which seems, like the magician himself, to be in thrall to the spirited seductions of gleaming black objects and darkly reflective planes…read more
President Obama delivers remarks at signing of National Defense Authorization Act (Pentagon) , October 28, 2009; 3:23 PM Transcript
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102803319.html
Now, this bill isn’t perfect. This bill is an important step forward, but it’s just a first step. There’s still more waste we need to cut. There is still more fights that we need to win. Changing the culture in Washington will take time and sustained effort. And that’s why Secretary Gates and I will continue waging these battles in the months and years ahead.
But I will say that when Secretary Gates and I first proposed going after some of these wasteful projects, there were a lot of people in this town who didn’t think it was possible, who were certain we were going to lose, who were certain that we would get steamrolled, who argued that the special interests were too entrenched and that Washington was simply too set in its ways.
And so I think it’s important to note today we have proven them wrong. Today, we’re putting an end to some wasteful projects that lawmakers have tried to kill for years. We’re doing this because Secretary Gates and I both know that we can’t build the 21st century military we need unless we fundamentally reform the way our defense establishment does business.
The Government Accountability Office, the GAO, has looked into 96 major defense projects from the last year and found cost overruns that totaled $296 billion, an amount of money that would have paid our troops’ salaries and provided benefits for their families for more than a year.
And we all know where this kind of waste comes from: indefensible, no-bid contracts that cost taxpayers billions and make contractors rich, special interests and their exotic projects that are years behind schedule and billions over budget, entrenched lobbyists pushing weapons that even our military says it doesn’t want and doesn’t need, now, the impulse in Washington to win political points back home by building things that we don’t need at costs we can’t afford.
This waste would be unacceptable at any time. But at a time when we’re fighting two wars and facing a serious deficit, it’s inexcusable. It’s unconscionable. It’s an affront to the American people and to our troops, and it has to stop.
Here is an oddly true halloween story
House of War (Hardcover)
~ James Carroll (Author)
Book Reviews
From The New Yorker
Carroll was born the same week in January, 1943, that the Pentagon was dedicated, the Manhattan Project got under way, and Roosevelt declared that the goal of the war was the enemy’s “unconditional surrender.” In this “biography” of the Pentagon, he extends these moments into a fuguelike history of American military power from Hiroshima to Iraq. The dominant theme is personal: growing up, Carroll, whose father, a high ranking general, worked in the Pentagon, saw the building both as his “twin” and as “a kind of dark woods.” On the practical side, he argues that “in the nuclear age, civilian oversight of American military policy had become largely mythical,” that the Pentagon had “Congress in its thrall and presidents at its mercy.” And yet his most fascinating stories involve moments—as in the Berlin crisis and the Vietnam War—when civilians successfully opposed the Pentagon’s monolithic power.
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From The Washington Post
Has America become the new Sparta? Although the Soviet Union collapsed more than a decade and a half ago, the United States will spend roughly $561 billion this year on national defense — in real terms, more than in any year of the Cold War except 1952, the height of the Korean War buildup. In the wake of 9/11, have we become a bomb-first, ask-questions-later superpower — a threat to world peace, as a majority of Europeans polled in 2003 saw us? For James Carroll, the answer is an anguished yes. His weighty House of War aims to explain the mechanics of this spiritual decline and show how what he sees as a consuming paranoia and vengefulness became lodged in the national soul.
For Carroll, who won the National Book Award in 1996 for his memoir An American Requiem, the central dynamic is a familiar one: The wildfire growth of the military-industrial complex, the perpetual refocusing of foreign policy through a military lens and a mindless reliance on nuclear weapons have led to America’s moral fall.
Carroll begins his story with the groundbreaking to construct the Pentagon building at a site called “Hell’s Bottom,” on the Virginia side of the Potomac, on Sept. 11, 1941
The Pentagon Building is an inverted Pentagram on land known as Hell’s Bottom
http://www.ecauldron.net/pentagram.php
The use of the "inverted" pentagram to denote evil is a quite recent usage, and first appears in the works of Eliphas Levi. He is also the source of the "goat's head" glyph. Before this, neither orientation had evil connotations per se.
THE MEN WHO STARE AT GOATS – TRAILER 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4nzXt4QaYk&feature=channel
GOATS DECLASSIFIED: The True Story Behind The Men Who Stare At Goats (meet the real pentagon people behind Men who Stare at Goats)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbbtiCbPPts&feature=channel
Note: To the Pentagon, it’s time to transfer your budget to peaceful and civilian purposes-what would a few hundred billion mean to the American people? The Days of War making are numbered.
Network(movie 1976) – “There is no democracy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzSj1yNZdY8
George Carlin -”Who Really Controls America”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYIC0eZYEtI
Matrix – Wake Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–Wpz4NAHtY
Eyes Wide Shut- The Black & Red Ritual(Stanley Kubrick)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsKX5RO_OMA&feature=related
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Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
Please also see:
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Afghan war, oilsands
http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Dalai+Lama+sounds+Afghan+oilsands/2055170/story.html
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Flu-Related Telecommuting Could Clog Web Traffic, Feds Warn
By Pam Baker
TechNewsWorld
10/29/09 2:22 PM PT
Internet Failure, Homeland Insecurity
The U.S. government seems to think the scenario is not only possible, but probable.
Mythical stories
In one of the Aztec accounts of creation, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca joined forces to create the world. Before their act there was only the sea and the crocodilian earthmonster called Cipactli. To attract her, Tezcatlipoca used his foot as bait, and Cipactli ate it. The two gods then captured her, and distorted her to make the land from her body. After that, they created the people, and people had to offer sacrifices to comfort Cipactli for her sufferings. Because of this, Tezcatlipoca is depicted with a missing foot.
Another story of creation goes that Tezcatlipoca turned himself into the sun, but Quetzalcoatl couldn’t bear his enemy ruling the universe, so he knocked Tezcatlipoca out of the sky. Angered, Tezcatlipoca turned into a jaguar and destroyed the world. Quetzalcoatl replaced him and started the second age of the world and it became populated again. Tezcatlipoca overthrew Quetzalcoatl when he sent a great wind that devastated the world, and what people who survived were turned into monkeys. Tlaloc, the god of rain, became the sun, but Quetzalcoatl sent down fire which destroyed the world again, except for a few humans who survived who were turned into birds. Chalchihuitlicue the Water Goddess became the sun, but the world was destroyed by floods, with what people survived being turned into fish.
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
October 15, 2009
WAR DECLARED ON WHITEHOUSE BY BANKS, KING COAL, GAS, AND NUCLEAR
Oct.15.2009 
(This document is given to global politicians, bank and energy stakeholders, Grassroots etc)
China’s Hu meets Russia’s Putin, painting rosy future
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/14/content_12233939.htm
BEIJING, Oct. 14 2009 (Xinhua) — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday met with visiting Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, hailing fresh development of bilateral relationship and vowing closer collaboration.
“Russia is one of the top agenda on China’s diplomacy as we pay much attention to relations with Russia,” Hu told Putin in their half an hour meeting in Diaoyutai State Guesthouse.
Hu said this year was significant for China-Russia relations as both countries celebrated their 60th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties.
Russia was the first country to establish diplomatic relations with China, days after the People’s Republic of China was founded on Oct. 1, 1949.
As an important milestone in deepening relations, both countries established strategic partnership of coordination in 1996.
Hu said this partnership had reaped substantive benefits to both peoples and worked for the world peace, stability and prosperity.
China’s Hu calls for more ‘big’ projects with Russia
(AFP) – 3 hours ago
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hi_G92kTGK0jJh1ey8i1pj7UAS0w
BEIJING — Chinese President Hu Jintao on Wednesday hailed Sino-Russian ties, telling Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin that Beijing hopes to engage Moscow in more “big” economic and trade projects.
The two leaders met ahead of Putin’s departure following a three-day visit that cemented the burgeoning trade relationship between the two sides with billions of dollars in new deals signed Tuesday.
“Sino-Russian strategic partnership is currently at a new historic starting point and wider prospects are opening up before us,” China National Radio quoted Hu as telling Putin in a meeting.
“China is willing to make efforts with the Russian side to further strengthen strategic consultations in international politics, economics, security and other areas and push forward cooperation on big projects in trade, energy and high technology.”
The neighbours signed several cooperation agreements, including one committing each country to notifying the other of the launch of ballistic missiles from its territory..
Putin warns against Iran sanction threats
Russian PM makes statement while meeting with China, other Asian nation
Last Updated: Wednesday, October 14, 2009 | 1:43 PM
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/14/russia-iran-sanctions-nuclear-putin.html
China Lauds Ties With Iran
OCTOBER 15, 2009 By SHAI OSTER
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125560022256987089.html
BEIJING – China praised its growing energy and trade ties with Iran in remarks that further diminished hopes that China will support efforts by the U.S. and its allies to line up sanctions over Iran’s nuclear program.
“The Sino-Iran relationship has witnessed rapid development, as the two countries’ leaders have had frequent exchanges, and cooperation in trade and energy has widened and deepened,” China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said Thursday in a meeting with visiting Iranian Vice President Reza Rahimi, according to the state-controlled Xinhua news agency. Mr. Rahimi is in Beijing along with the heads of Russia and Central Asian countries who are members of the regional Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Warmer ties for Russia, China with big gas deals
By VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV The Associated Press
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/warmer-ties-for-russia-162730.html
BEIJING — Russia and China are closing in on a mammoth energy deal which could insure that Beijing has the fuel to run its factories and cities and Moscow has a vast new market for its natural gas empire.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Wednesday wrapped up a three-day visit to the Chinese capital, during which Russia signed dozens of commercial pacts worth $3.5 billion and set the framework for a separate, multibillion-dollar agreement to build two natural gas pipelines to China from gas fields in Russia’s Far East.
Together, those pipelines would be capable of supplying China with 68 billion cubic meters (2.4 trillion cubic feet) of natural gas annually, representing a whopping 85 percent of the gas China currently consumes.
Once the energy partners agree on a final price and the pipelines are built, China could become Russia’s single biggest customer for natural gas.
The agreement highlights the determination of both nations to diversify their economies and seek new customers and vendors. It also reflects a political desire by both to steer a course independent of Western powers and especially the United States.
Analyst: Gas shale may be next bubble to burst(AP-Houston Chronicle)
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/6664313.html
By JUDITH KOHLER Associated Press
Oct. 12, 2009, 6:33PM
DENVER — The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale formations could be the country’s next speculative bubble to burst, a speaker warned Monday at a conference exploring the notion that the world’s oil and gas are diminishing rapidly.
Arthur Berman, a Texas-based geological consultant, likened the optimistic projections for production from gas shale fields across the country to banks buying into mortgage securitizations, which spurred the housing market crisis and economic meltdown.
“In the midst of a boom or a bubble, it’s hard to sit on the sidelines,” Berman said during the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas conference. “If you’re not in one of these plays, then Wall Street says, ‘Well, what’s the matter with you guys?’”
That was the psychology leading into the current financial crunch, Berman said. Analyses show that gas shale fields in Texas and elsewhere aren’t as profitable and likely don’t contain as much retrievable gas as the industry and others portray, he added.
Based on the experience in the Barnett Shale in Texas, Berman said he doesn’t expect the yields from the wells to be high enough or last long enough to make the gas shales that profitable, even when current low gas prices rise.
Insurance Dispute Heats Up Before Vote
Industry Group, White House Spar Over Premiums
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/12/AR2009101203108.html?hpid=topnews
Tensions between the White House and insurers exploded into open warfare Monday, with the two sides arguing over what the financial impact of comprehensive health-care legislation moving through Congress would be for average Americans…
The Obama administration said the industry analysis was deeply flawed, and its allies lambasted the industry for hypocrisy and an “11th-hour attack” intended to rob President Obama of a victory on his top domestic priority.
“Health insurance companies have been laughing all the way to the bank for generations while people suffer,” said Sen. John D. RockefellerIV (D-W.Va.) “The industry stands today as the greatest impediment to real health-care reform.”
“CHESHIRE CAT. He grins like a Cheshire cat; said of any one who shows his teeth and gums in laughing.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHmyd6KPIqE
HSBC(Europe’s largest Bank) sees tipping point of Western decline
Commentary: But is rise of East more than a bubble?
Craig Stephen’s This Week in China Oct. 5, 2009
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/hsbc-sees-tipping-point-of-western-decline-2009-10-04
HONG KONG (MarketWatch) — Last month’s decision by HSBC Holdings to relocate its group chief executive officer from London to Hong Kong sent a strong signal about where the bank sees its future.
Now it looks as if new research from its economics team explains this move in report titled, “The Tipping Point — The rise of the East and Demise of the West.”
HSBC to Sell New York Building for $330 Million
By Calev Ben-David and David M. Levitt Oct. 5 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=aX9snPdHfLeI
Oct. 5 (Bloomberg) –HSBC Holdings Plc, Europe’s largest bank, agreed to sell its New York City headquarters for $330 million in cash to a company controlled by Israeli businessman Nochi Dankner,,,
HSBC said last month that Chief Executive Officer Michael Geoghegan will move to Hong Kong from London as the global bank increases its focus on emerging markets such as China..
Geoghegan told the Financial Times in an interview published today he expects the economic recovery to be ‘W’ shaped. “I’m not as convinced we’re through the worst as others are,” the FT cited him as saying. HSBC shares gained 3.4 pence to 689.9 pence in London Stock Exchange trading today.
HSBC chairman: Banking industry “owes an apology”
http://www.financemarkets.co.uk/2009/10/07/hsbc-chairman-banking-industry-“owes-an-apology”/
In an interview with the BBC, Mr Green who is also a Church of England priest, said: “I think the change in the public perception of the industry is entirely understandable. The banking industry has not covered itself in glory to say the least, and indeed the industry collectively owes the real world an apology for what has happened.
“It also owes the real world a commitment to learn the lessons. Some of them are about governance and ethics and culture within the industry,” added Mr Green.
While the world cannot do without banks, said Mr Green, bankers need to learn the lessons of the financial crisis that has had a devastating affect on the global economy.
(Trust Bankers? As much as a Bishop from Nova Scotia)
Vatican arranged ‘get away’ for bishop facing child porn charges: abbot
BY GARY DIMMOCK, THE OTTAWA CITIZEN; WITH FILES FROM CANWEST NEWS SERVICEOCTOBER 5, 2009
The Vatican’s diplomatic office in Rockcliffe Park arranged plans for disgraced Bishop Raymond Lahey, 69, to “get away” to a remote monastery in rural New Brunswick on the eve of his abrupt resignation from his diocese and the laying of child pornography charges by the Ottawa police last week, the Citizen has learned.
HSBC to curb palm oil lending, review oil sands
Tue Dec 2, 2008 8:22am By Gerard Wynn
http://www.reuters.com/article/GCA-GreenBusiness/idUSTRE4B143620081202
HSBC will cut ties with a third of forestry clients in Malaysia and Indonesia, including palm oil, soy and timber, said Francis Sullivan, the bank’s adviser on the environment.
The bank was criticized recently by a development group, the Forest Peoples Program, for not disclosing the names of its palm oil banking clients.
Monday October 5, 2009 Malaysian Star
Asian banks set sights on Malaysia
http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/10/5/business/4836636&sec=business
“There is room for a big Chinese and Indian bank each,” HSBC Bank (M) Bhd treasurer Piyush Kaul told StarBiz.
ANZ (Australian Bank) seals tie with Chinese banking giant
Michael Sainsbury, China correspondent | September 30, 2009
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26143928-643,00.html
ANZ has sealed a world-first partnership to help the powerful China Development Bank achieve its goal of amassing a $25 billion portfolio of Australian assets by the end of the year and dramatically boosting its presence across the Asia-Pacific region.
China’s giant banks storm top 10
Clifford Coonan
- http://www.silobreaker.com/chinas-giant-banks-storm-top-10-5_2262644263584006155
Foreign Corresponden Last Updated: October 03. 2009 7:03PM UAE / October 3. 2009 3:03PM -
The current economic crisis has seen widespread change at the top table of global banking and now four Chinese banks have been ranked among the top 10 biggest banks in the world in terms of market values.
“Many of China’s major banks made big profits last year, hundreds of billions of yuan each. But most of them are state-owned big banks, said Dr Miao Rong from the research department of the China Enterprise Confederation.
Hong Kong May End Hands-Off Government as Shanghai Threat Looms
By Sophie Leung Oct, 13, 2009
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601080&sid=a.9roq1TTkn4
China’s government has said it wants to develop Shanghai as the country’s international financial and shipping center, and that Hong Kong should find new sources of revenue. Tsang may set out policies to develop six pillar industries that will help Hong Kong diversify away from financial services and trade.
Bank Of Montreal To Incorporate In China
September 23, 2009
Beijing, China (AHN) – The China Securities Regulatory Commission gave the Bank of Montreal preliminary approval to incorporate in the People’s Republic of China.
If the BMO would get the CSRC’s final okay by mid-2010, it would be able to offer a wider range of banking services from accepting deposits in yuan to selling investment products. BMO would then be the first Canadian bank to incorporate in China…
BMO chief executive Bill Downe said in a statement during the bank’s branch opening in Shanghai, “BMO’s ties with China go back to 1818 – the year after our founding – when we undertook our first foreign exchange transaction in support of trade with China.”
CIBC banking machines to take China bank card
September 28, 2009
http://www.cbc.ca/consumer/story/2009/09/28/cibc-china-bank-card.html
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce said Monday its automated banking machines will begin accepting China’s largest bank card.
Customers holding one of the 1.9 billion China Unionpay cards will be able to engage in financial transactions in any of CIBC’s 3,800 ABMs across Canada, CIBC said.
“It’s a first,” said Doug Maybee, CIBC’s media relations director.
CHINA: ROTHSCHILD BANK SETTING UP AN OFFICE IN SHANGHAI.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-140959168.html
PR Strategic Business Information Database |January 17, 2006
According to fdi.gov.cn: The French private banking corporation Edmond de Rothschild Bank recently set up its Shanghai representative office. It marked the first family-owned private bank to have gained approval from the China Banking Regulatory …
War breaks out between Fox News and the Obama administration
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/13/fox-news-obama-white-house
Fox News gave great prominence to opposition to Obama’s plans for healthcare reforms, heavily promoting meetings at which the president was characterised as a Nazi and a communist…
“I want to show you right where the enemy is located,” Beck added as he circled Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News headquarters in green ink on a map of New York. “This is the enemy, America!”
The Berlusconi-Murdoch war continues
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Posted by George Eaton
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09 October 2009 15:41
- http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/fourth-estate/2009/10/murdoch-war-berlusconi-italian
Who will win this billionaire smackdown?
Among those who will relish Silvio Berlusconi’s present woes is Rupert Murdoch. The media mogul has reserved a special enmity for the Italian premier ever since he doubled the rate of VAT on satellite television to 20 per cent.
The subtle response of Murdoch’s Sky Italia was to screen the film Killing Silvio, which depicts a man’s quest to assassinate Berlusconi.
EU draws up plans to establish itself as ‘world power’
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/6266147/EU-draws-up-plans-to-establish-itself-as-world-power.html
Published: 7:00AM BST 07 Oct 2009
The European Union has drawn up secret plans to establish itself as a global power in its own right with the authority to sign international agreements on behalf of member states…
Can Europe and China Shape a New World Order?
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
Grant, the director of London’s Center for European Reform, argues for a “strategic partnership” between the EU and China to confront global problems that affect them both.
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Published by Council on Foreign Relations
The Nazis are rightly better remembered for their capacity to wage war than for their ability to consolidate peace. In this impressive work, Mazower demonstrates just how incompetent they were at the latter task…
There were not enough ethnic Germans to rule the vast conquered regions by an iron fist alone, yet the Nazis’ tactics made any alternative to such rule impossible. “Germany,” Mazower points out, “could have racial purity or imperial domination, but it could not have both.”
Central banks leaving greenback in the lurch
YE XIE AND ANCHALEE WORRACHATE
October 13, 2009
http://www.smh.com.au/business/central-banks-leaving-greenback-in-the-lurch-20091012-gu2i.html
Central banks flush with record reserves are increasingly snubbing US dollars in favour of euros and yen, further pressuring the greenback after its biggest two-quarter rout in almost two decades.
Policymakers boosted foreign currency holdings by the equivalent of $US413 billion ($A457 billion) last quarter, the most since at least 2003, to $US7.3 trillion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Nations that reported the currencies in which those reserves were held put 63 per cent of the new cash into euros and yen in April, May and June, the latest Barclays Capital data show.
That is the highest percentage in any quarter, with an increase of more than $US80 billion.
World leaders are acting on threats to dump the US dollar..
‘Secret plan’ to dethrone the U.S. dollar boosting gold
Jason Simpkins October, 13 ,2009
http://www.stockhouse.com/Columnists/2009/Oct/13/-Secret-plan–to-dethrone-the-U-S–dollar-boosting
May serve as a transitional currency in the shift
Gold prices surged to record high $1,045 an ounce a week ago after a report surfaced that global oil producers are planning to stop using the U.S. dollar for oil trade.
“There’s no telling the veracity of these reports, but the general trend has been going in this direction anyway: a weaker dollar and rising gold,” Brien Lundin, editor of the Gold Newsletter told MarketWatch.
Finance ministers and central bank governors from China, Russia, Japan, Brazil, and Middle Eastern oil producers met to discuss plans to stop using the U.S. dollar for oil trade,The Independent reported. The dollar would be replaced by a basket of currencies that includes gold, which could be a big reason behind the precious metal’s recent run-up in price..
Energy
U.S. advocates for oil sands tout security of supply
Group fires back at ‘dirty oil’ opponents, citing Canadian output as critical source
Shawn McCarthy
OTTAWA—From Monday’s Globe and MailPublished on Monday, Oct. 12, 2009 12:00AM EDTLast updated on Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2009 7:33AM EDT
The Houston-based Consumer Energy Alliance has a grim message for those who propose to restrict U.S. access to Canada’soilsands
production to cut greenhouse gas emissions: If the U.S. doesn’t buy the Alberta crude, China will. (Note: See above-China has powerful
axis fossil fuel friends in Russia-Iran–Central Asia-Really doesn’t need Alberta Tar sands oil or gas)
As a result, such measures would not advance the global fight againstclimatechange, it says. But the U.S. would be more dependent on Middle East oil, “Communist China” would be siphoning off secure North American crude supplies, and motorists would face higher prices, the alliance warns in a campaign aimed at supporting expansion of imports from the oil sands.
As the U.S. moves to adopt climate change legislation and prepares for negotiations in Copenhagen toward a new global treaty, environmentalists have stepped up their attacks on Canada’s oil sands as emblematic of the world’s reliance on “dirty” fuels.
With the U.S. Senate set to take up debate on climate change legislation this week, the American oil industry is fighting back, both directly and through proxy groups like the Consumer Energy Alliance.
When Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited Washington recently…
Houston we have a problem-it is you.
Behold! Canada’s most disgusting export
Nothing like Alberta’s’s revolting oilsands to destroy your optimism
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/10/07/notes100709.DTL#ixzz0U1P5Zhja
Have you heard? Have you taken even a cursory peek lately into the oversized eco nightmare that is Canada’s monstrous, pollutive, disgusting hellholes of rapacious greed and pollution and destruction and sheer capitalistic joy? I bet you have.
They are, you might say, the finest example we currently have of a massive, soulless industry and a major first-world government shoving a giant middle finger in the face of all notions of progress and environmental integrity. They’re not the only ones, to be sure — the coal industry’s middle finger is downright callused from flipping everyone off so aggressively — but for sheer gall, for shamelessly stomping a greasy black boot heel into the face of environmental progress right now, the oilsands simply can’t be beat.
They are true wonders, testaments to mankind’s remarkable power to continue — against every hunk of knowledge and common sense — to rape, maul and utterly devastate everything we supposedly hold dear, all in the name of filthy profit.
Despite whatever good vibes you might’ve been feeling from all those rumors of a healthy global push toward sustainability and alternative energy, the oilsands remind you: no one really gives a flying f–k. Not when hundreds of billions of dollars are at stake. You cannot help but be perversely impressed…
But that’s not the ugliest part. The ugliest part is, the oilsand project is expanding as fast as inhumanly possible. It is already, according to various reports, the largest energy project in the world. Bigger than Saudi Arabia. Bigger than Wal-Mart. Bigger than Jesus…
Meanwhile- that other Symbol of All that has gone wrong with Western Civilization-Global Civilization The Olympics Marches forth from Berlin 1936- to Beijing 2008 to Beijing-Vancouver 2010.
The Olympics- have become the Symbol of Greed-Excess-Multi-Billion Dollar Industry-Turning Athletes into Products-Environmental Destruction-Abuse of Human and Civil Rights-Sweeping Away of the Made Homeless-the Triumph of War over Peace(see Beijing Olympics-Russia-Georgia-see Canada Host of 2010 Vancouver Olympics-at War in Afghanistan during Games-exempted from the Corrupt IOC-for being in contravention of the IOC Rules-
The Olympics was Civilization’s Symbol of Peace-Harmony-Amateurism(free from financial exploitation)and the Best Civilization could be-We have Fallen Greatly-We are on the Abyss of Destruction-Environmental-War and the lowest point of Humanity-We are on the Path to Collective Suicide-We must Rise above Ourselves before it is too late
Lord Mandelson and Nat Rothschild share Brazilian ambitions By Richard Eden
Published: 10:56PM BST 10 Oct 2009 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/6292214/Lord-Mandelson-and-Nat-Rothschild-share-Brazilian-ambitions.html
When Lord Mandelson pays tribute to President Lula of Brazil at the Banqueting House in Whitehall on Bonfire Night, his Brazilian-born boyfriend, Reinaldo da Silva, will not be the only one hoping for friendships to sparkle. The Business Secretary’s holiday host Nat Rothschild has decided to expand massively his interests in Brazil.
Nat, from whose villa in Corfu Peter Mandelson reportedly ran Britain while Gordon Brown was on holiday in August, is expected to take a seat on the board of BR Properties. His father is the chairman of the RIT Capital investment group, which is also taking a minority stake in the company…
Nat’s previous property interests centred on Montenegro, where he is investing with another of Mandelson’s chums, (and Peter Munk of world’s largest Gold Miner Canada’s Barrick Gold) Oleg Deripaska, the controversial Russian oligarch.
Mandelson’s relationship with Nat became a major talking point when Mandrake disclosed last year that the former European trade commissioner had, while staying with Nat in Corfu, been entertained aboard the yacht of Deripaska, an aluminium tycoon, whose businesses benefited from tariffs the commission set.
Nat, who is the co-chairman of the hedge fund Atticus Capital, has been linked to the son of the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, Saif al-Islam Muammar al-Gaddafi. In 2009, Saif threw his 37th birthday party at the Splendid Hotel in Becici, Montenegro…
Brazil Companies to Step Up Overseas Takeovers, Rothschild Says
By Telma Marotto and Francisco Marcelino
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=aybCxyNnunkQ
Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) — Brazilian companies are prepared to step up international takeovers as the domestic economy recovers from a recession and the local currency gains, according to Rothschild, the country’s top mergers and acquisitions adviser.
“The mood is for more growth and consolidation,” Luiz O. Muniz, 47, the head of investment banking in Brazil, said in an interview in Sao Paulo. “Business leaders stopped worrying about economic problems to think of their own business.”
Rothschild surpassed Morgan Stanley this week as the biggest adviser on Brazilian takeovers after helping JBS SA acquire Pilgrim’s Pride in the U.S
Keeping eyes on those who want to burst the bubble zone
BY PETE MCMARTIN, VANCOUVER SUNOCTOBER 12, 2009
What, I wonder, would the Vancouver Olympic organizing committee have made of Rosa Parks?
Parks, after all, was a troublemaker. Back in 1955, when she refused to give up her seat to a white person (and Parks, incidentally, was not the first black person in Montgomery, Ala. to do so), she was committing an act of civil disobedience.
She committed that act — to borrow Vanoc’s blandly disturbing term — in “a bubble zone.” It happened to be on a seat at the front of a bus, but it was a bubble zone, nonetheless. The status quo of white racism inhabited that zone, and Parks became renowned by daring to trespass against it.
Brave stuff, to be sure. But her elevation to civil rights sainthood is hindsight talking. In 1955, Parks was not an icon. She was a pain in the ass…
Vanoc wants the Winter Olympics to run on time, too. It is asking that we act nice, speak softly and smile for the cameras.
Toward that end, it and its willing partners in the City of Vancouver and the provincial government have created bylaws and bubble zones where certain behaviours will not be tolerated. For example:
No distribution of advertising material, or the carrying of any sign “unless licensed to do so by the city.”
No display of signs other than those of a “celebratory” or directional nature.
No causing of “any disturbance . . . interfering with the enjoyment of entertainment on city land by other persons.”
No “voice amplification equipment” on city property for the duration of the Games.
As for anti-Olympic marches or protests, they will be relegated to “safe assembly areas”…
As for the provincial government, it jumped in last week with the introduction of Bill 13, which would allow authorities in Vancouver, Richmond and Whistler to enter residences and private property with only 24 hours notice to remove or cover up signs during the Olympics period. Violators could be fined $10,000 per day and face imprisonment for up to six months.
Previously, the fine was $2,000 a day. Your home is your castle, unless you happen to displease the IOC.
The defenders of these laws — politicians, pro-Games enthusiasts, those who argue that a multi-billion-dollar worldwide advertisement for Vancouver trumps the temporary suspension of a few marginal freedoms –
B.C. government wants to jail the homeless(Bill 13 in time
For the Vancouver Olympics)
BY HARSHA WALIA, SPECIAL TO THE SUNSEPTEMBER 27, 2009
http://www.vancouversun.com/opinion/government+wants+jail+homeless/2042166/story.html
Mr. President, the Nobel Committee is in Collusion with the Bankers etc., in there support
for the China Global Model-the leading contenders as you well know were political Chinese dissidents imprisoned for struggling for Human Rights, Dignity and Democracy. They had nowhere to run for cover except you. They could have jointly given it to you and them. (Note the Chair of Nobel committee is the Secretary-General of the Council of Europe)
Mr. President soon you will make a critical decision- on a scale larger than former British PrimeMinister Neville Chamberlain. Soon you will visit China-if you endorse the China model-they will have succeeded. It is a line you must not cross. It will be the equivalent of a world-wide cope d’etat. Banks, Big Oil, King Coal, Gas, Nuclear Power will of won the battle. Mainstream Environmentalists have been
seduced by the Fatherland Germany as it once again leads Europe down a very dark path-EcoFascism-United with China a Hybrid Three Headed Dragon-Stalinism-Fascism-with a Capitalist Economy. Al Gore has cheered on China recently as a “Green” SuperPower.
In our best Henry Kissinger voice we say -this is a line you must not cross Mr. President.
And Henry Kissinger should know- he won a Nobel Peace Prize(Gandhi never did) and many call him like Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld a War Criminal. Henry Kissinger was an Architect and christened the China Model. He is of course a Protege of that captain of Titanic Industries David Rockefeller. You are called on Mr. President to uphold the US Constitution and defend the people and freedom. George Washington and Abraham Lincoln compell you.
At this point all indications are the Climate Treaty slated for December 2009 will collapse completely. We are dangerously moving to something the world has never seen -A Global Civil War-it will lead to the Extinction of the Human Species- this is not theory or conjecture-it is a certainty. Love-Compassion-Freedom-Truth and Justice are at the center of the Spirit of Humanity- to snuff out these Flames is to snuff out our own Existence. The paths to Global Civil War are numerous-we must all step back from this Abyss-before it is too late. If the Captains of Titanic Industries mortally harm this President -that also is a path to Global civil war…
The World has entered into the mortally dangerous Realm of Smoke and Mirrors. This is a term used by Intelligence
Agencies when an Agent can no longer tell what is Real, what is truth and what is a lie -then they must leave.
There are Rogue elements in the Pentagon and Intelligent Agencies that are actively supporting the Banks etc China Global model coup d’etat. The Others are hamstrung-they are fenced in by a over-arching Systemic problem-created for this very purpose. Busy catching mice and rats, while the “wolves” are in the henhouse.
We are calling on all Law enforcement, Intelligence Personnel, Military Personnel and Syndicates of All stripes to do all you can for Freedom and Democracy. Expose them-hinder them-do all you can. We have a Golden opportunity like that time just before WW2 when the world if it had the where withall could have choked of Hitler’s Fascists eg stop the bankrolling of his Party. And avoid War. Once again the Captains of Titanic Industries who were great Admirers and supporters of Hitler’s and Mussolini’s Fascism are at it again…
The Office of the President must hold the line-while there is a soldier on the ground, a homeless person on the streets, dirty oil or a coal stack burning-you must not relent.
The Origins of All underground Syndicates and Intelligent Agencies- has always been the Protection of the People and the Land. Hermes was the Patron of Thieves, Shepherds, and Civilization.
Far from your origins you have travelled but Return to it you must.
If you do not, they will come for you still- like a Pirate ship of the coast-all the major militaries and navies including China for the first time in 400 years, came together-it is symbolic and heralds what is to come-if you do not act now…
Chinese dissidents let down by Obama Nobel
by Shaun Tandon – Fri Oct 9, 2009
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091010/wl_asia_afp/nobelpeaceuschinarights
WASHINGTON (AFP) – China’s dissidents are voicing unease about President Barack Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, saying that the award could have been effective in promoting human rights in their country.
Some in China’s democracy movement are outraged at what they see as a weak stance on rights by Obama, who the same week as Friday’s announcement avoided a meeting with Tibet’s exiled Dalai Lama that would have upset Beijing.
Chinese activists had been tipped as Nobel contenders on this year of anniversaries, when China marked 60 years of communist rule, 50 years since the Dalai Lama’s flight and 20 years since the crushing of the Tiananmen Square democracy uprising.
Al Gore praises China’s climate leadership updated: 2009-09-24 11:39
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2009-09/24/content_8734716.htm
“I think that China has provided impressive leadership,” Gore told reporters.
Should Al Gore (or Anyone Else) be Praising Green China?September 25th, 2009
http://www.cleanergreenerchina.com/2009/09/25/should-al-gore-be-praising-green-china/
Master Developer for Redevelopment of Historic Bund in Shanghai
http://www.rockgroupdevelopment.com/shanghai/shanghai.html
The Rockefeller Group is the official Master Developer for a portion of a historic area in Shanghai, China, known as The Bund, once the home of the city’s financial and trade industries
The Bund in Shanghai was home to foreign trading settlements beginning in the mid 19th-century. Shanghai grew rapidly since then as an economic center for China and Asia. Shanghai’s financial market became the third largest in the world, behind London and New York.
The Rockefeller Group’s first redevelopment phase encompasses 1,011,808 square feet of mixed-use buildings on a block of approximately four acres. It includes luxury residences and retail shops, a hotel, office space, and facilities for cultural attractions.
(Note Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection was Originally a Philanthropy Project of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund -seen with our own eyes on there original website on front page -no longer exists)
WRITTEN BY WARREN MAS MONDAY, 23 FEBRUARY 2009
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/world-mainmenu-26/asia-mainmenu-33/821
In her first trip abroad since becoming secretary of state, Hillary Clinton traveled to four Asian countries including China, the world’s most populous country, where human-rights concerns were trumped by global economic concerns during Clinton’s February 20-22 visit. China is still an openly communist nation and has a dismal human-rights track record. But it also has the world’s fastest-growing major economy and is the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasury securities.
How Bill Clinton Turned U.S. Intelligence Into a Cash Cow
Charles R. Smith Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2001/10/17/213623.shtml
The Clinton emphasis on commercial espionage became public in 1994 when then CIA Director John Deutch announced that electronic intercepts of a Saudi prince gave Boeing a major contract…
“I understand that our National Security Agency is aware of this change in GCHQ’s position and would support our request for a change in US requirements for export licenses for China. The NSA has agreed that there should be a ‘level playing field’ in regard to China.” …
If any single person is responsible for the sad state of our NSA and CIA today, it is Bill Clinton.
Year of the Rat —
How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash
http://www.jpands.org/hacienda/yearrat.html
Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett, II
(275 pp., ISBN: 0-89526-333-5, Regnery Publishing, Washington, DC, 1998.)
Something is rotten in Washington’s corridors of power. And we aren’t talking about lying about sultry sex (and alleged private matters that may or may not be high crimes and misdemeanors), but corruption in the highest circles of our government — the Departments of Navy, Justice, Defense, Commerce, culminating with bribery and potential treason involving the President and Vice President of the United States.
In their new book, Year of the Rat, national security experts, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett, II, outline in graphic detail the selling of U.S. innermost national security secrets to a hostile foreign power, Red China, for illegal and treasonous campaign contributions. Consider this is tainted blood money from the butchers of Tiananmen Square where upwards of 3,000 to 4,000 students were killed in cold blood. The implications of the Clinton-Gore administration welcoming those responsible to Washington, D.C. with 19-gun salutes does not pass unnoticed by the authors. Clinton-Gore would do anything for money to gain power in 1992 and retain power in 1996. Chinese spy John Huang working for Lippo moguls Mochtar and James Riady (also Chinese intelligence agents) played pivotal roles as did Arkansas triad member Charlie Trie and Macau criminal syndicate and prostitute ring leaders Ng Lapseng and Ted Sioeng.
We learn about intriguing (and determined) women, four Asian (all Chinese or of Chinese decent) who also had what could be characterized as “improper relations” with the President (and Vice President), only this time the relations were not sexual but treasonous. One of the women, princeling Lt. Col. Liu Chaoying, a PLA intelligence agent, insisted on and met Bill Clinton, placed money in the Democratic coffers, and thereafter (helped by the President’s lobbying) obtained concessions for COSCO in the leasing of the naval base at Long Beach, California.
Most egregiously, while Clinton was preaching draconian gun control for law-abiding American citizens, he was entertaining Chinese gun runners, like Wang Jun of the Red Chinese firm Polytechnologies, with White House coffees and a Democratic National Committee (DNC) fund raising event. Mr. Wang himself (now indicted) manned COSCO’s ship the Empress Phoenix which was intercepted by U.S. Customs bringing to the port of Oakland, California 2,000 automatic weapons destined for Los Angeles gangs! Undaunted, in May 1998, Clinton approved the launching of a satellite by Lockheed Martin and a Red Chinese firm in a joint venture with Polytechnologies.
But not all of the characters in this nefarious story are communist Chinese, but American capitalists who placed corporate profits ahead of America’s national interest, and so the businesses they headed donated millions of dollars to the DNC to help the Democrats regain Congress in the 1996 and 1998 elections. In return, the Clinton-Gore team signed waivers allowing these companies to transfer our most sensitive satellite (i.e., missile launching) technology to Red China, obliterating the safety margin and technological edge we previously had on our sworn and potential enemies. (China then transferred sensitive U.S. technology to Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea.) As a result, according to American intelligence and the Cox Report, China now has 20 reliable ICBMs targeted at U.S. cities and although not à la par with the U.S., China poses a serious threat to our national security. In fact, during the 1996 Taiwan Strait crisis in which China attempted to intimidate Taiwan and the U.S. sent its 7th Fleet to discourage a communist invasion, a leading Chinese general threatened to nuke Los Angeles adding, with great assurance, that the U.S. would not endanger Los Angeles to defend Taiwan.
We now live in a more dangerous world and the people who have endangered the lives of Americans are still leading this nation! It’s beyond human understanding. Given what we now know, President Clinton was lying when in April 1996 he stated: “For the first time since the dawn of the nuclear age, there is not a single solitary nuclear missile pointed at an American child tonight. Not one. Not a single one.”
The selling out of our national security secrets to the Red Chinese, as thoroughly documented in this book, is such a dastardly presidential deed as to defy comprehension by ordinary Americans. These acts are so inimical and evil that their disbelief provides the greatest cover to those involved. After all, who wants to believe that bribery and treason in the very pinnacle of our republic might just be true — particularly in this great era of national prosperity?
In an exclusive interview with newsletter editor David Bossie, Rep. Dan Burton (R-IN), Chairman of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, corroborates: “We had 79 people involved in fund-raising for the Democratic party take the Fifth to avoid incriminating themselves. And there are another 23 witnesses, like James Riady of the Lippo Group and Liu Chaoying of China Aerospace, who live in other countries and we have been unable to interview them. I have asked FBI director Freeh if he had ever been involved in any investigation in which so many witnesses took the Fifth or fled. He said the only time he remembered such a situation was during an investigation of organized crime in New York.”
The recent revelations coming out of the Cox Committee (one third of which was censored by the administration as deemed “too sensitive” for public consumption) reveals the frightening extent of Red Chinese espionage and the loss of our most sensitive nuclear secrets. Just recently, in fact, the Red Chinese announced they had built a neutron bomb (which, along with multiple nuclear warhead technology, we now know was part of their stolen espionage loot).
Can we believe the president when he holds his arm to his chest, looks us directly in the eye, and pleads as he did on March 19 of this year: “I can tell you that there is no espionage at the [nuclear weapons] lab since I have been presidentno one has reported to me that they suspect such a thing has occurred?”
Truth is indeed stranger than fiction — and more frightening too!
Reviewed by Miguel A. Faria, Jr., MD
Macon, GA
Editorial Review
Year of the Rat (Paperback)
http://www.amazon.com/Year-Rat-Edward-Timperlake/dp/0895262495
Amazon.com Review
While many political journalists largely considered the second term of Bill Clinton’s presidency in terms of his romantic interludes, Edward Timperlake and William C. Triplett II follow up on one of the more controversial scandals of the 1996 reelection campaign. The Democratic National Committee was eventually forced to return $2.8 million in illegal contributions, much of it from foreign nationals, and much of it brought to the party by fundraising executive John Huang.
Huang originally represented U.S. interests for the Riady family, a powerful family of Indonesian businessmen with close ties to the Communist Chinese government. James Riady had been a “Friend of Bill” since 1977, and the two authors all but insinuate that the Riadys “scouted” Clinton–whether as an unwitting dupe, a sleeper agent, or merely an exploitable opportunist is never quite clear–and helped underwrite his bid for the White House. Why? So they could get John Huang a Commerce Department appointment… one that came with a top-secret security clearance.
Timperlake and Triplett gather together an astonishing–and largely convincing–mass of evidence that the Clinton-Gore administration “has made a series of Faustian bargains and policy blunders that have allowed a hostile power to further its aims in Washington.” In addition to the potential security breach represented by Huang, they document numerous policy decisions that risk strengthening the technological and military power of Communist China, power that might well be used against the United States in the future. –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Review
Year of the Rat is a sharp polemic that does what Sen. Fred Thompson’s hearings failed to do: show Chinese penetration of the American political elite. — The Wall Street Journal, Michael Ledeen
America’s survival in the coming Century in the shadow of China’s rapid nuclear and space-based weapons modernization program, built largely with Western technology and know-how, has yet to be fully understood by American policy-makers and the general public. A clarion call to action is clearly documented in the YEAR OF THE RAT, a thoroughly documented and important new book by Congressional investigators and former Defense Department officials, Edward Timperlake and William Triplett. They describe in painstaking detail how members of the American business community and foreign agents of the Chinese military-industrial vanguard have used massive political donations to facilitate the build-up China’s first-strike capabilities through influencing White House policies on export controls and other national security safeguards.
While Capitol Hill and the American media was transfixed on the Presiden t’s dalliances with young women, Timperlake and Triplett, who have a combined fifty years of service in American national security agencies, collected information from recently declassified U.S. Government documents and traveled to China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, combing through records and documents related to key Donor-Gate personalities. In colorful description, they describe how they used undercover techniques to interview numerous sources with first-hand knowledge of illegal links between the Chinese military- industrial establishment and the Clinton-Gore political campaigns. The tragic consequence is the rapid escalation of China’s military into a world-class nuclear, space and information-warfare power.
The influence of the President’s Chinese friends on American foreign policy is illustrated by an incident involving the down-and-out “Little Rock restauranteur” Charlie Trie during the March, 1996 crisis involving Chinese communist missiles fired toward Taiwan. Following the deployment of U.S. aircraft carriers to the region, Trie showed up in Washington, delivering $460,000 to the President Clinton’s Legal Defense Fund — and a letter, delivered to the White House, regarding the Taiwan crisis. The provocative letter stated, in part [verbatim], “Any negative outcomes of the U.S. decision in the China issue will affect your administration position, especially in the campaign year… If the U.S. recognizes “one China” policy, don’t such conduct will cause a conflict for intervening in China’s internal affairs?…”
In response, the Clinton National Security Council drafted a letter to Trie, assuring the communist Chinese that the aircraft carriers were simply a “redeploymnet,” and “not intended as a threat to the PRC.”
Charlie Trie, as the authors found in Asia, is member of a Chinese Tria d crime gang that has close ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Trie’s money contact in Macau, who wired more than $1 million to Trie’s U.S. account, most of which is believed to have ended up in Clinton Defense Fund and Democratic Party campaign coffers, is Ng Lapseng, a Triad mobster and Chinese communist official. In fact, Ng visited the White House and attended a number of Democratic Party fund-raisers in Washington, sitting next to President Clinton at some events.
In some respects, Clinton owes his presidency to his closest Asian frien ds, ethic-Chinese
Indonesian bankers Mokthar and James Riady have billions of dollars in investments in China. In 1992, with the Clinton campaign broke and reeling from the Jennifer Flowers scandal, the Riady’s persuaded the Arkansas-based Worthen Bank, of which their Lippo Bank was a part owner, to issue a $3.5 million letter of credit to the Clinton campaign. In addition, James Riady and his wife donated $450,000 that year, making them the largest private donors to the Clinton-Gore campaign.
Who are the Riady’s? The authors cite a CIA report to the U.S. Senate , that states, in part: “James and Mochtar Riady have a long-term relationship with a Chinese intelligence agency. The relationship is based on mutual benefit… the Chinese intelligence agency seeks to locate and develop relationships with information collectors particularly those with close association to the U.S. government.” Within months of Clinton’s election, a Riady executive and Democratic party fund-raiser, John Huang, had a Top Secret security clearance, with access to the most sensitive CIA information on China. Huang was issued the security clearance five months before working for Ron Brown at the Commerce Department. Incredibly, Huang maintained the clearance after he left the Administration to do full time fund-raising at the Democratic National Committee.
Timperlake and Triplett further describe how other influential American and foreign corporate donors to the Democratic Party, some of whom are directly or indirectly linked to Chinese military and intelligence networks, have influenced Clinton-Gore policies that decimated national security export controls — despite protests by Pentagon arms-control experts. Citing testimony by highly respected American aeronautical experts, the improvement of Chinese missile performance is shown to be a direct product of negligent Administration oversight of joint U.S.-China high technology programs and satellite launches, that have dramatically improved Chinese nuclear missile accuracy and reliability.
The critical premise of the authors has been validated by the recent rel ease of an explicit Pentagon report to the Congress illustrating how the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is developing a range of high technology weapons to destroy American satellites and establish “capability to establish control of space and to deny access and use of military and commercial space systems in times of crises or war.” Equally troubling, the Chinese are ready to test fire a new generation of mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles that can hit the entire Western area of the United States. According to the U.S. National Air Intelligence Center the new DF-31 missiles give China a major first-strike capability, “that will be difficult to counterattack at any stage of its operation, through terminal flight phases.” The rocket-motor of the DF-31 was first tested in July 1998, while President Clinton was visiting Beijing. Although U.S. intelligence was fully aware of incident, citing it as a “political test,” the Clinton Administration failed to raise the issue. YEAR OF THE RAT is must-reading to understand why the betrayal of American national security is the most dangerous and tragic legacy of the Clinton-Gore era. – Al Santoli, Author of Everything We Had and Leading The Way. Editor of the weekly “China Reform Monitor,” for the American Foreign Policy Council –This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
This President is Hemmed in by Clintonites and Bushites-do all that you can to help, in the name of Democracy, Freedom and Justice…
Guns N’ Roses – Civil War (Music Video)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9VhD4SccSE
Charlie Chaplin speaks on Greed and Fascism as an alternate reality Adolph Hitler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcvjoWOwnn4
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Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
The Collider, the Particle and a Theory About Fate
ESSAY 
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/science/space/13lhc.html?bl
Please see:
Abolition of King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons(update Friday Feb 13. 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weaponsupdate-friday-feb-13-2009/
(Original PSEA Document) Abolition of King Coal Everywhere!(Update Friday March 13 2009)
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Dalai Lama sounds off on Alberta oilsands
http://news.mining.com/2009/10/01/dalai-lama-sounds-off-on-oilsands/
The Unofficial Spokesperson for the Republican Party is Rush Limbaugh here is a direct quote:
Here’s Our Top 10 Racist Rush Limbaugh Quotes
1. I mean, let’s face it, we didn’t have slavery in this country for over 100 years because it was a bad thing. Quite the opposite: slavery built the South. I’m not saying we should bring it back; I’m just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.
http://newsone.com/obama/top-10-racist-limbaugh-quotes/
A Question if you might say everything is kosher: Why is there a statue
of the only Confederate Officer to be publicly honored in the Nation’s Capital, Washington D.C.- steps from the Capitol and the Supreme Court-a head of the Ku Klux Klan, a 33degree mason and personally pardoned by President Andrew Johnston after the Civil War-it’s right under our noses. Numerous city councils and congress elected officials have attempted to get the statue removed -claiming it is an offense against humanity-to absolutely no avail.
I have been made aware of attacks on me, in your purported rebuttal of the documentation showing that Gen. Albert Pike was the spiritual and actual founder or co-founder of the original Ku Klux Klan, in addition to his functions as an intelligence officer of the treasonous Confederacy, and in addition to his close liaison with Lord Palmerston’s Italian collaborator, Giuseppe Mazzini (Founder of the modern Mafia-where the M comes from)
http://www.schillerinstitute.org/fid_91-96/932_lyn_pike.html
http://www.onewal.com/maf-chr1.html (history of Mafia)
Giuseppe Mazzini the prophet of the idea of the United States of Europe.
Mazzini argued that through coordinated uprisings, the people could drive the Italian princes from their thrones and oust the Austrians from dominance of the Italian Peninsula.
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569951/Mazzini.html
Giuseppe Mazzini (June 22, 1805 – March 10, 1872), the “Soul of Italy,”[1]was an Italianpatriot, philosopher, Freemason and politician. His efforts helped bring about the modern Italian state[2] in place of the several separate states, many dominated by foreign powers, that existed until the 19th century. He also helped define the modern European movement for popular democracy in a republican state.
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
September 22, 2009
Protesting Vancouver Peace Summit and Spiritual Dream Team
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against Poverty and Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics?
Will the Dalai Lama Speak Out against the Alberta Tar Sands in Calgary?
(This document is given to global politicians, bank and energy stakeholders, Grassroots etc)
9.22.2009
On Sept 26-29, the so-called “spiritual dream team” of Nobel Peace Laureates, new age gurus and maybe even Oprah Winfrey will be in Vancouver according to organizers to “be a catalyst for change in the world.” It is headlined by the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Eckhart Tolle with special guest entertainers the Blue Man group.
http://dalailamacenter.org/conference/vancouver-peace-summit-2009
It is in our opinion an elitist non-inclusive, patrician affair of old failed ways of doing and acting. Tickets are between $200 – $1000 for the major events at UBC’s Chan Centre for the Performing Arts and the Orpheum Theatre where the Vancouver Symphony orchestra normally plays.
An invitation-only dialogue with the Dalai Lama with people from corporate finance, philanthropy and spirituality will affect real change in the world, is the hope. Did we mention that the host hotel for the “spiritual dream team” is Vancouver’s most elite hotel the Pan Pacific with basic rooms starting at over $300 a night.
If the spiritual dream team wanted to affect real change, shouldn’t they have put the spotlight on Vancouver’s east side, south side or Little Mountain, First Nations not the Pan Pacific, Orpheum or the Chan Centre?
We ask where would Jesus or Buddha have gone, the DTES(downtown eastside), or UBC’s Chan Centre for Performing Arts?
We ask why were Nobel Peace Laureates Al Gore and the Dalai Lama completely silent on the Gaza and Sri Lankan slaughters?
Think about this – the Blue Man group is a known anti-union multi-media corporation, which ran afoul of Toronto unions in 2005 and also in Las Vegas. “The spiritual dream team” endorses this by not speaking out.
Blowing in the wind
Local politicians and labor leaders urge Blue Man Group to unionize its show
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2006/04/06/local_news/news02.txt
http://www.bluemanboycott.com/
SCREEN ACTORS GUILD SUPPORTS AFL-CIO BOYCOTT OF BLUE MAN GROUP
http://www.sag.org/content/screen-actors-guild-supports-afl-cio-boycott-blue-man-group
We have a message for Archbishop Tutu. Did you know that your church, the Anglican cathedral (seen with our own eyes) in Victoria, BC is part of the campaign against the homeless in Victoria with many businesses and churches hanging signs on their front lawns or windows stating “No Camping, No Loitering, No Trespassing and No Soliciting.” Why? Last Spring, a BC court ruled the homeless in Victoria have a right to camp on public property including parks. Will you speak out against your church and support the homeless in Victoria?
Judge throws out Victoria city rules for campers on public property
The Dalai Lama goes directly to Calgary afterwards for similar events. Will the Dalai Lama speak out against the Alberta oil sands – China has recently invested big time in the tar sands.
China’s Move into (Alberta)Oil sands Irks Washington
http://www.cippe.net/en_news/8242.htm Global Petroleum Net
PetroChina Co. Ltd.’s (PTR-N119.82-0.78-0.65%) $1.9-billion investment in the oil sands is raising alarms in Washington, with the head of a congressionally-appointed China watchdog saying the company is clearly a vehicle of Beijing’s Communist government.
Carolyn Bartholomew, chairwoman of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said Tuesday that Ottawa should subject the proposed investment to a thorough review that would include sensitive national security issues.
And she rejected the contention by PetroChina and its supporters that the state-owned enterprise acts like any other commercial oil company in its international operations, professing concern about a growing Chinese presence in America’s “backyard.”
“I think that an acquisition like this should raise national security questions both for the government of Canada and for the government of the United States,” Ms. Bartholomew said in an interview from Washington..
www.library.ubc.ca/archives/hdcites/hdcites13.html
Note Just below Newell’s name on the ubc website were the names of the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu also getting theirs.-note student and faculty mobility and civil rights will be greatly restricted at UBC from Jan-March 2010 because of the Beijing-Vancouver 2010 Olympics-UBC got 50million to build a sports facility for the Games
THE TITLE AND DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF LAWS, UBC(honoris causa) CONFERRED AT CONGREGATION, MAY 27, 2003ERIC PATRICK NEWELLMR. CHANCELLOR, when UBC alumni take their place in the world of business, they carry with them not only a degree but also a commitment to education and research.UBC alumnus Eric Newell is Chairman and CEO of Syncrude Canada Limited.… England.Under his leadership, Syncrude has become a key player in the Western Canadian economy. It is an increasingly significant source of energy supply for the country, and is a model of a reliably operated, environmentally efficient, socially responsible corporation….He has also become a leading spokesperson for the Canadian oil sands industry. He served as president of the Alberta Chamber of Resources, where he spearheaded the creation of the National Oil Sands Task Force, which developed a comprehensive new energy vision for Canada in 1995. That vision is being realized today..
Syncrude pleads not guilty over 2008 duck deaths
By Jeffrey Jones
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14509127
CALGARY, Alberta, Sept 14 (Reuters) – Syncrude Canada Ltd pleaded not guilty on Monday to charges in the deaths of more than 1,600 ducks in a toxic waste pond in 2008, a case that heightened international concern about the environmental impact of developing Canada’s vast oil sands.
After a brief court appearance in St. Albert, Alberta, just outside Edmonton, Syncrude officials declined to divulge details of the company’s defense in the high-profile case, in which the waterfowl got coated in oil and sank.
Syncrude, the largest oil sands miner and processor, faces charges under Canada’s Migratory Birds Convention Act and Alberta Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act. The trial is slated to begin March 1 in Alberta Provincial Court…
Syncrude’s partners include Canadian Oil Sands Trust (COS_u.TO), Imperial Oil Ltd (IMO.TO), Suncor Energy Inc (SU.TO), Nexen Inc (NXY.TO), ConocoPhillips (COP.N) Murphy Oil Ltd (MUR.N) and Nippon Oil Corp (5001.T) unit Mocal Energy. (Reporting by Jeffrey Jones; editing by Peter Galloway)
NOW: His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s Visit to Calgary
His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama will address Calgarians for the first time in almost 30 years on September 30, 2009. His Holiness, spiritual leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is the honoured guest of the University of Calgary and keynote speaker for NOW – a three day event and conference from September 30 – October 2, 2009.
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In the run-up to the crucial U.N. Climate Treaty Conference in Copenhagen in December 2009, the Declaration that follows will present to the world’s media a unique spiritual view of climate change and our urgent responsibility to address the solutions. It emerged from the contributions of over 20 Buddhist teachers of all traditions to the book A Buddhist Respose to the Climate Emergency. The Time to Act is Now was composed as a pan-Buddhist statement by Zen teacher Dr David Tetsuun Loy and senior Theravadin teacher Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi with scientific input from Dr John Stanley. The Dalai Lama was the first to sign this Declaration. We invite all concerned members of the international Buddhist community to study the document and add their voice by co-signing it at the end of this page.
Today we live in a time of great crisis, confronted by the gravest challenge that humanity has ever faced: the ecological consequences of our own collective karma. The scientific consensus is overwhelming: human activity is triggering environmental breakdown on a planetary scale. Global warming, in particular, is happening much faster than previously predicted…
…Many scientists have concluded that the survival of human civilization is at stake. We have reached a critical juncture in our biological and social evolution. There has never been a more important time in history to bring the resources of Buddhism to bear on behalf of all living beings… … Both as individuals and as a species, we suffer from a sense of self that feels disconnected not only from other people but from the Earth itself. As Thich Nhat Hanh has said, “We are here to awaken from the illusion of our separateness.” We need to wake up and realize that the Earth is our mother as well as our home—and in this case the umbilical cord binding us to her cannot be severed. When the Earth becomes sick, we become sick, because we are part of her…
…Individually, we must adopt behaviors that increase everyday ecological awareness and reduce our “carbon footprint”. …and reduce meat consumption in favor of a healthy, environmentally-friendly plant-based diet. These personal activities will not by themselves be sufficient to avert future calamity. We must also make institutional changes, both technological and economic. We must “de-carbonize” our energy systems as quickly as feasible by replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy sources that are limitless, benign and harmonious with nature. We especially need to halt the construction of new coal plants, since coal is by far the most polluting and most dangerous source of atmospheric carbon. Wisely utilized, wind power, solar power, tidal power, and geothermal power can provide all the electricity that we require without damaging the biosphere. Since up to a quarter of world carbon emissions result from deforestation, we must reverse the destruction of forests, especially the vital rainforest belt where most species of plants and animals live. It has recently become quite obvious that significant changes are also needed in the way our economic system is structured. Global warming is intimately related to the gargantuan quantities of energy that our industries devour to provide the levels of consumption that many of us have learned to expect. From a Buddhist perspective, a sane and sustainable economy would be governed by the principle of sufficiency: the key to happiness is contentment rather than an ever-increasing abundance of goods. The compulsion to consume more and more is an expression of craving, the very thing the Buddha pinpointed as the root cause of suffering. Instead of an economy that emphasizes profit and requires perpetual growth to avoid collapse, we need to move together towards an economy that provides a satisfactory standard of living for everyone while allowing us to develop our full (including spiritual) potential in harmony with the biosphere that sustains and nurtures all beings, including future generations. If political leaders are unable to recognize the urgency of our global crisis, or unwilling to put the long-term good of humankind above the short-term benefit of fossil-fuel corporations, we may need to challenge them with sustained campaigns of citizen action. Dr James Hansen of NASA and other climatologists have recently defined the precise targets needed to prevent global warming from reaching catastrophic “tipping points.” For human civilization to be sustainable, the safe level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is no more than 350 parts per million (ppm). This target has been endorsed by the Dalai Lama, along with other Nobel laureates and distinguished scientists. Our current situation is particularly worrisome in that the present level is already 387 ppm, and has been rising at 2 ppm per year. We are challenged not only to reduce carbon emissions, but also to remove large quantities of carbon gas already present in the atmosphere. As signatories to this statement of Buddhist principles, we acknowledge the urgent challenge of climate change. We join with the Dalai Lama in endorsing the 350 ppm target. In accordance with Buddhist teachings, we accept our individual and collective responsibility to do whatever we can to meet this target, including (but not limited to) the personal and social responses outlined above.
We have a brief window of opportunity to take action, to preserve humanity from imminent disaster and to assist the survival of the many diverse and beautiful forms of life on Earth. Future generations, and the other species that share the biosphere with us, have no voice to ask for our compassion, wisdom, and leadership. We must listen to their silence. We must be their voice, too, and act on their behalf.
http://www.ecobuddhism.org/350_target/350_target/buddhist_declaration_on_climate_change___read_an/
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We say let the new foundational number be Zero (0) as in Zero Carbon Footprint, Zero Emissions,Zero Growth Economy, Zero Wars, Zero Homelessness and Poverty, Zero Violence and Zero Suffering… The Dalai Lama supported the Beijing Olympics
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Dalai+Lama+Tickets+sale+spiritual+dream+team+Vancouver/1698385/story.html Note the Dalai lama is Guest Editor Sept 26 The Dalai Lama is an honorary Canadian citizen, bestowed upon him by PM Stephen Harper and Canada’s Parliament. Dalai Lama can not claim Alberta Tar Sands is an internal matter-this would be classic Chinese Authority statement. China’s Authorities need to Stop Ecocide and Cultural Genocide of Tibetan People-if you do not bend, you will snap. This is a Wind that you can not endure. Tar Sands 101http://oilsandstruth.org/tar-sands-101 AnimalsAnimal habitats and health are affected by tar sands production, whether from loss of habitat to any of the infrastructure developments across the continent, or through changes in the atmosphere such as melting polar ice caps in the Arctic brought on by out of control C02 emissions. Poisoning waterways, the food supply and the air in the immediate and not-so immediate surroundings has led to drops and even disappearances of species near pipelines, platforms and other infrastructure of the tarsands. Two mouthed fish discovered near Alberta Tar Sands (2 Articles) Climate Change/EmissionsClimate Change is caused by greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon. 40% of Canada’s emissions already come from Alberta alone, not counting the entire tar sands infrastructure across North America nor counting the projected increase in tar sands production or the infrastructure built across the continent to accommodate such increases in production. Factor it all in and you get the picture. You haven’t even burned the petrol yet. “Big Greens Holding Back Anti-Warming Movement” 2010 OlympicsThe 2010 Olympics in Vancouver (& Whislter) are threatening human well-being and self-determination as well as ecological devastation in many of the same ways as the tar sands gigaproject. The corporate sponsors include many of the same, from Royal Bank of Canada through to TransCanada Pipelines, Petro-Canada and Bell Canada. “Will Oil Sands Tar The Olympic Games?” CorruptionConscious efforts to subvert or otherwise corrupt organizations and individuals who are concerned about social issues is a sadly long tradition. The environmental movement is no exception. Through many front groups, financial wranglings through contributions and outright blackmail, industries have tamed or corrupted many of the organizations who were once among their greatest critics and opponents. The corrupting influence on the politics of the environment has left us with, at times, a movement that has yet to address the needs of fighting climate change immediately– instead, calling for the slow changing of emissions from various parts of industrial life– and protecting the biggest contributions to their myriad organizations. When budgets and mainstream appearances with politicians become the order of the day, effective protest is muted and rendered toothless… EnergyEnergy and how it is captured and consumed is barely viable in tar sands production. While the amount of oil in places such as the tar sands in Alberta or the Orinoco Belt in Venezuela may have deposits of similar size to the reserves of countries such as Saudi Arabia or Iraq, the return of new energy after expending energy in production is not even close. In Iraq, the process of using one barrel of oil generates 100 new barrels. In the tar sands, estimates of 3 to 1 and even as low as 1.5 to 1 have been made. Canadian Energy Policy: Made in the USA ForestsForests lose more trees and habitat to pipeline “right of way” cuts and tar pit building than to clearcuts. With minor variation, pipelines go the direct route. Through the strip mining of the land that contains tarsand petroleum and through pipeline construction to accomodate, only the Amazon Basin in Brazil would see larger rates of deforestation than the Boreal forest cover surrendered to the tarsands. Roads often accompany pipelines, as do various other developments. Tar Sands Boom Swamps Canadian Wilderness GenderGender impacts are often completely ignored within the hollow social impact assessments often conducted in the modern era. Oil patches and natural gas operations are overwhelmingly operated by young men who naturally go into small towns nearby after weeks in the bush. Alcohol and/or drug fuelled violence and rape often increase in communities dealing with such an influx, as do drug use, alcoholism and sexual exploitation. Sex Workers Cashing in on Alberta’s Oil Boom HealthThe Health implications in terms of these projects are vast, and not just the deadly explosions and industrial accidents that happen in production-—from reported increases in rare forms of cancer downstream from tar sands production to the pollution of fresh water leading to poisoned diets (fish, moose and plant toxicity)—-direct links are hard to establish but impossible to either rule out or ignore, especially where tarsand operations constitute overwhelmingly the greatest change to the environment in most corners of the continent effected directly by tarsand infrastructure… IndigenousIndigenous nations have protected the earth on their territories for thousands of years. With the government of Canada ignoring their sovereignty, nations not only see massive theft of resources that could help alleviate social problems, but their exacerbation through their further alienation from their own lands, often accompanying being overrun by development and southern workers, while having no self-determination during this process. In the south of Canada industrial farming displaced many nations with often genocidal results. Law Suit a Possible Tar Sands Stopper Labour & MigrationIt is falsely assumed that big projects equal lots of jobs and, by extension, labour peace if not outright satisfaction. The size and scope of the tarsands means for incredibly dangerous work conditions– some fatalities at the plants have already occurred. The products seldom get their “value added” in union-run locations, instead the heavy bitumen can be shipped to many different locations across North America for refining, denying benefits to the union. However, the Union does not represent the “guest worker”, now being imported in increasing numbers as legislation is changed to make access easier, the term of exploitation last longer, without any new efforts or pathways to deciding to stay after helping tear up the earth. Increase of Migrant Workers in Canada Opens Door to Abuses LandLand, regardless of whether covered by forests, tundra or grasslands, is threatened by mining operations such as Alberta’s vast open tar pit operations, or through incredible networks of “right of way” cuts for pipelines that extend in the hundreds of thousands of miles, all told, and across the continent in four directions and to three oceans—either through feeding the tarsand operations with fossil fuel energy or through feeding energy markets from tarsand operations after production. In the case of pipeline right of ways, they can blast directly through mountains or be buried in permafrost if needed, to get the energy to move. Dehcho Land Use Plan revisions increase development NuclearA category all its own, despite being a form of energy. The until-now primarily dormant energy form of nuclear power is getting a new lease on construction life in the wake of the astronomical energy needs of the tarsands. The tarsands need a vast and growing energy supply, almost requiring half of what it will produce at the point of consumption. As a means of both feeding that “need” and using the thin-wedge of “thirsting for energy” that is “not greenhouse gas emitting” for the tarsands, this highly dangerous and discredited form of energy is making a slow and speeding up comeback. Jail Time: A Clear Message to those who would oppose uranium mining Peak OilPeak Oil is starting to be understood across a broad spectrum, but the direct connection between peak oil, climate change and the American market-led attempt to squeeze all energy out of Alberta cannot be overstated. The smaller the global supply of oil gets, the more CO2 has been emitted and the more climate change will have advanced. This leads to more interest in the tar sands—because the profit margin goes ever higher the fewer alternatives there are for petroleum. Understanding Energy Return on Energy Investment-EROEI Social ImpactsSocial Impacts. Overnight injections of migrant workers will not build healthy communities and can have severely adverse impacts on existing communities, especially those of indigenous nations on their traditional lands. Such development brings vices and long term displacement too often. Drugs, alcohol and associated violence spreads. Hunting becomes difficult when the land is threatened, leading to a further loss of culture and tradition. In towns like Fort McMurray there is no planning for the future, but merely consumption in the present. Calgary: Rental crisis fund hits $43.5M War and SecurityThe tarsands are only economical at a certain price per barrel. The attacks on Iraq and Somalia, along with threats against Venezuela, Iran and elsewhere all combine to drive that price up. This significantly leaves the US economic structures able to tighten their control on oil distribution around the world as they de-diversify their oil imports to heavy reliance on tarsand (mock) oil, growing in percentage at a incredible pace. Canada is ever more integrating this (mock) oil into the North American grid, at the behest of both Canadian and American corporations. Iraq Signs Oil Deal With China Worth Up to $3 Billion/a> Oilsandstruth.org is not associated with any other web site or organization. Please contact us regarding the use of any materials on this site. |
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Message by His Holiness the Dalai Lama on the Beijing Olympicshttp://www.dalailama.com/news.286.htm I would like to offer my greetings to the People’s Republic of China, the organizers and the athletes participating in the forthcoming Olympic Games in Beijing. Right from the time of China’s application to hold the Olympic Games, I have supported China’s right to host the Games. This is a moment of great pride to the 1.3 billion Chinese people. These Games should contribute to promoting the Olympic spirit of friendship, openness and peace. I send my prayers and good wishes for the success of the event. THE DALAI LAMA 6 August 2008 |
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Beijing’s Bad Faith OlympicsNew York Times Editorial August, 22, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/opinion/23sat1.html The Beijing Olympics still have one more day to run. But the final gold medal — for authoritarian image management — can already be safely awarded to China’s Communist Party leadership. Beijing got what it wanted out of this globally televised spectacular. It reaped a huge prestige bonanza that it will surely use to promote its international influence and, we fear, further tighten its grip at home. It pocketed these gains without offering any concessions in return. When it increased repression — rather than loosening up — a supine International Olympic Committee barely offered a protest. Most world leaders, including President Bush, were nearly as complicit. In Beijing for the opening ceremony, Mr. Bush seemed eager to play the role of the apolitical sports fan, instead of publicly pressing China’s leaders on the ongoing Olympics crackdown. That nicely fit into the Chinese script of talking up sports while shutting down politics. To win the right to host these Games, China promised to honor the Olympic ideals of nonviolence, openness to the world and individual expression. Those promises were systematically broken, starting with this spring’s brutal repression in Tibet and continuing on to the ugly farce of inviting its citizens to apply for legal protest permits and then arresting them if they actually tried to do so. Along the way, government critics were pre-emptively rounded up and jailed, domestic news outlets tightly controlled, foreign journalists denied full access to the Internet and thousands of Beijing’s least telegenic residents were evicted from their homes and out of camera range. On Friday, the Chinese police confirmed that six Americans protesting China’s rule in Tibet had been sentenced to 10 days of detention. Surely one of the signature events of these Games was the sentencing of two women in their late 70s to “re-education through labor.” Their crime? Applying for permission to protest the inadequate compensation they felt they had received when the government seized their homes years ago for urban redevelopment. A year ago, the I.O.C. predicted that these Games would be “a force for good” and a spur to human-rights progress. Instead, as Human Rights Watch has reported, they became a catalyst for intensified human-rights abuse. Mr. Bush has taken some note of China’s appalling human-rights record this summer — privately meeting with Chinese dissidents in Washington just before his visit to the Games and gently nudging his hosts on religious freedom while in Beijing. With these repression-scarred Olympics now drawing to a close, Mr. Bush and other world leaders must tell Beijing that its failure to live up to its Olympic commitments will neither be ignored nor forgotten. The medal count and DVD sales cannot be the last word on the Beijing Game
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Millions of Poor, Oppressed Han Chinese were abused, lost their homes-shown no
Compassion- and all the while babies in Heartland China were given toxic milk by the
China’s Authorities.
June 9th, 2009 by orn Vancouver Winter Olympics 2010
Olympic Police Harassing Activists: Joint Intelligence Group visit 14 activists
More than a dozen anti-Olympic activists and critics were contacted by intelligence officers from the Vancouver Integrated Security Unit (VISU) for the 2010 Olympic Games, from June 3 – 5, 2009. The Olympic Resistance Network and other groups are again asking VISU to stop harassing individual members and are preparing a legal letter to VISU to cease such intimidating visitations. The visits and phone calls were carried out by at least 8 members of the Joint Intelligence Group of VISU who asked activists about specifics around anti-Olympics activities. The plain clothes intelligence officers conducted surprise visits at people’s homes and workplaces, or in public places. “This is a clear effort to intimidate and monitor people who have concerns about the negative impacts of the Games on our communities,” explains Cara Fisher.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1424093-native-youth-movement-no-2010-winter-olympics-on-stolen-land
International Campaign
Carnegie Community Action Project
International Media Release
http://ccapvancouver.wordpress.com/international-media-campaign/
February 9, 2009
Poverty Olympics bulletin #1
2009 Poverty Olympics provides hilarious and serious preview for Vancouver Olympics 2010
(Vancouver, BC, Canada) – 2009 Poverty Olympics provides hilarious and serious preview of what international media will see when they come to Vancouver for the 2010 Olympics.
About 400 people from Vancouver, Canada’s poorest neighbourhood took advantage of the one year countdown to the 2010 Olympic Games with a message about poverty in Canada.People in Canada live in shocking poverty, Wendy Pedersen told the crowd gathered for the Poverty Olympics. Her neighbourhood, the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, has an HIV rate the same as Botswana’s.Street homelessness increased 373% between 2002 and 2008, and British Columbia has had the highest rate of child poverty in Canada for 5 years in a row (21%).
Pedersen said the government could have ended poverty and homelessness with the $6 billion they are wasting on the Olympics.
The rest of the Poverty Olympics was a humorous and blunt satire of the real Olympics, with a Torch relay, opening and closing ceremonies and “games.” One game was Sweeping Poverty Aside (curling) which featured Team Vanoc against Team Poverty. Team Vanoc (Vancouver Olympic Committee) swept away objects on the ice with “bailout” brooms, while blocking Team Poverty with sand on the ice and an actual rope labeled rent increases and evictions.
The Poverty Olympic Mascots, Itchy the Bedbug, Creepy the Cockroach, and Chewy the Rat, danced through the opening ceremonies singing Money makes the World Go Round and flinging fake money labeled “Olympics 2010, blank cheque” throughout the audience.
The Poverty Olympics was endorsed by Raise the Rates, Carnegie Community Action Project, Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House, BC Persons with Aids Society, Power to Women, and Streams of Justice.
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Who are we?
Poverty Olympics Bulletins are brought to you by the Carnegie Community Action Project (CCAP), a project of the 5000 member Carnegie Community Centre Association in the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. To read previous bulletins please go to CCAP’s blog. For information about the Poverty Olympics, check out www.povertyolympics.ca.
These are some of the reasons for protesting at the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts on September 26 2009 at 8:30 AM. Come on out, it’s free and you may even catch a glimpse of the spiritual dream team. (This is not about numbers but it is about Speaking, Doing Truth to Power & Initiating and Sustaining Change)
Note: We fully expect the Authorities to respect Freedom of Protest, Assembly, and
Free Speech. Especially being that the site of Protest-Vigil-Info Picket is at the University of British Columbia-where these freedoms are to be held in highest regard
A shorter version of the above PSEA document can be viewed in the current Carnegie Newsletter of Vancouver’s Downtown East Side Sept 15 2009
http://carnegie.vcn.bc.ca/newsletter
The Conservative Party of Canada need to redirect away from Environmental Areas
such as British Columbia’s NE and NW -in general away from natural gas, coal, fossil fuels and nuclear. Our future prosperity depends on it.
The Alberta Tar Sands need to be shuttered in a responsible way-it is a war zone much like Afghanistan or Iraq-it must be done sooner rather than later. Canada has two major economic engines presently Ontario-essentially the Automotive sector -and we know how that is doing. The other is The Alberta Tar Sands…
Failing to understand this reality-quicker than you can say Wildwood Alliance and Brian Mulroney-the Conservative Party will be a shadow of what it was.
In BC Premier Campbell needs to stand down against the Homeless. Do not underestimate a snowball on a Mountain Peak, Mr Olympic Taxman-Rhetoric is not our game.
In the United States, Republicans and Democrats need to be United in their support for President Obama’s Universal HealthCare for All. President Obama is assisting Middle–Class and Corporate America- very little is offered-the same is with Climate Change-If the Republican Party will deny even these grave inadequacies-and be led by Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and Joe Wilson-the Republican Party will go the way of the federalist party-exposing a one party system.
Listen to the Office of the President-the Recovery is Far from certain..
You do not want to face what is behind the Office of the President. Some call it Democracy.
A Life in Africa-Russia-India-China etc is worth the same if it were America-Canada-Germany-Japan etc
Big Oil needs to turn off the taps off King Coal, Natural gas and Nuclear.It’s dog eat dog time-if not we turn your Big Tap off
Let Earth have Peace and Life or it shall have War and Pestilence to End all Wars and Life
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.) psea does not do media interviews since july 2007,we thank all media for their enquires. Please feel free to use anything on this site.
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
The Great Struggle Continues….
Woody Guthrie – Tom Joad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWGAGPy_kw
Pete Seeger – American War Songs Medley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhxjqM4y5f4
BATTLE HYMN OF THE US REPUBLIC 2009 AD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cMxJBenigY
CONFEDERATE SONG ~ TO ARMS IN DIXIE—lyrics Albert Pike
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd1oA47Ti0I&feature=related
GIANT (1956) Yellow Rose of Texas-Fight-Rock Hudson,Elizabeth Taylor,
James Dean
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ptm6F2KHQ
Giant Trailer (1956) Written by John Steinbeck(Grapes of Wrath)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot1PmYwdXq8&feature=related
John Brown’s Body
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuucLP3KrM4&feature=related
Lord Of The Rings – Opening scene
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr_i2w0W-ZM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlghYpDx0f4
Please see:
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/original-psea-document-abolition-of-king-coal-everywhere/
What war teaches us is that there is no Jew, Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Secularist, Atheist, Sikh etc. What matters is how we relate to each other and our beloved Earth. This is prayer in action. This is love and compassion in action. We are all healers and physicians, we should never do harm.
PEACE ENERGY
May 24, 2009
VIGIL ANTI-CORRUPTION & $40 BILLION FOR NUKES IN THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO
Vigil Ante: CHALK IT!!!- (colorful chalk provided)
STOP OMNIDESTRUCTION currently underway in ONTARIO BY:
1. Types of fuels* – COAL^GAS^NUKES
2. Types of ownership: PRIVATE OWNERSHIP OF OUR POWER*
3. Types of government: FALSIFICATION OF PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS* and WEAKENING OF PUBLIC POWER* Public subsidies for shareholders of private nuclear and gas power generators in Ontario* Exports of energy to the highest bidder*
*Energy cut-offs for the poor and fight for “affordability rates”, no universal energy-efficient infrastructure, no universal power from local sun, wind, water, soil and compost;
*Instead private nuclear and gas power generators, omnidestructive uranium (nuclear) and gas shale mining for fuel and its long-distance transport, smart meters, mercury toxic lightbulb, misleading “conservation” agendas, and terms such as “sequestration” used for transfers of subsidies for renewable fuel into, shale, oil and gas,
*Ontario government corruption and blind eye to tritiated water in our shower, cooking and drinking water, rise of cancer, heart attacks, asthma and developmental disabilities*
*Use of tritium and other deadly byproducts of nuclear power in nuclear weapons; blind eye to nuclear waste;
*Blind eye to drastic and fatal changes in climate begging for environment and people friendly types of fuels, energy ownership and governance
Thursday – JULY 2, 2009
11AM-12NOON
ONTARIO POWER GENERATION
S/W CORNER COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY
PSEA4EARTH@GMAIL.COM
VIGIL INFO PICKET
May 1, 2009
Today’s punchline tomorrow
Earth Day Every Day
VIGIL INFO PICKET
MAY 21, 2009 – 11AM-12Noon
ONTARIO POWER GENERATION (COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY)
TORONTO, ONTARIO
MAKE THE SIDEWALK CHALKFULL WITH MESSAGES OF GREEN PUBLIC POWER – 100% – (materials provided)
Stop spread of nuclear power AND fossil fuel burning in Ontario AND privatization of Ontario power
Keep Ontario Energy Public
Rebuild it 100% local public complementary renewable and energy efficient!
Tags: democracy, planning, pro-public regulation, free and infinite sources of energy, inexpensive technologies fast to bring on-line in collaborative complementary ways, good for economy, vertical and horizontal spread of green jobs everywhere in Ontario, good for health, good for environment,
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public, universal, accessible to all, efficient – renewable energy systems with no need for the conservation propaganda of Ontario’s government’s brainwashing the poor and the kids in our public schools, no “change the light bulb” trick and treat, no begging for affordability rates, no cut-offs, no subsidies to nuclear and fossil fuel smokestacks in the name of the poor (affordability rates).
We can fight together against the same thing, but hope for different outcomes.
PSEA fights against nuclear and fossil types of fuels used for Ontario Energy and privatization of Ontario Power
PSEA fights for 100% local, public, complementary renewable energy systems and 100% infrastructure energy efficiencies. How about you?
| ENSURING OUR safety IN THE NUCLEAR WINTER IN ONTARIO IS:
THE NEWLY APPOINTED CEO OF ONTARIO POWER GENERATION THE KING OF NUKES Tom Mitchell Ontario utility’s new CEO implies nuclear focusOntario Power Generation’s chief of nuclear operations is taking over as the Crown corporation’s chief executive, who carries the distinction of being the …
Tom Mitchell appointed OPG President and CEO Canada NewsWire (press release)
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http://www.opg.com/about/governance/executive.aspParadigm Shift Environmental Alliance
psea4earth@gmail.com
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
Vigil Info Picket
April 10, 2009
STOP SITHE GLOBAL-BLACKSTONE AND THE SouthWest Greater Toronto Area Gas Power Plant
Vigil/Info Picket
Wednesday, April 22, 2009 – 11am-12noon
Ontario Power Generation Bldg
intersection University and College in Toronto
http://stoptheswgtapowerplant.com/
STOP Privatized Natural GAS Plants PLUNDERING Pristine Ontario Lands, Water and Air
Sacrificing water for energy – natural gas – the last straw.
The Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the new privatized gas power plants going up in GTA exceed Pollution and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the recently torn down Lakeview coal fired plant in Mississauga. Protect the health and wellbeing of your loved ones and planet earth; say NO MORE.
We can do better say YES to 100% energy efficiencies, local public complementary renewable energy systems. Write Premier Dalton McGuinty Tel: 416-325-1941 Fax: 416-325-3745
Email: dmcguinty.mpp.co@liberal.ola.org
Write your MPP and send your support to Mississauga Mayor Hazel McCallion Phone: (905) 896-5555
Fax: (905) 896-5879 E-mail: mayor@mississauga.ca
CC Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance psea4earth@gmail.com
SAY NO TO NUCLEAR DISEM-POWER
STOP PRIVATIZATION of ONTARIO POWER
Vigil-Info picket
Thursday April 23, 2009 – 11-12 noon
Ontario Power Generation
intersection College and University in Toronto
Vigil/Info Picket Against Nuclear Power and Call for Resignations of Public Energy CEOs in Ontario
NUCLEAR WASTE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YUCCA-NEVADA:GOOD ENOUGH FOR WHO? ONTARIO…
Say No to
Ontario Power Authority Disempowerment
Nuclear Power, Gas and Coal plants
$40 Billion for Nukes
Privatization of Ontario Power
Say Yes to
Green Jobs, Social Safety Net,
Anti-Poverty Programs, Ending Child Poverty etc.
100% Public Power
100% Energy Efficient Infrastructure (old and new)
100% Renewable Energy
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons Everywhere!
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance Email: psea4earth@gmail.com
The Great Struggle Continues….
www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
Vigil / Info Picket
February 28, 2009
Vigil / Info Picket Against Nuclear Power and Privatization of Ontario Power
GET “REAL” McGUINTY – VIGIL!
Herr McGuinty, Premier of Ontario: “more nukes, less minimum wage!”
Thursday April 23, 2009
11AM-12Noon
Ontario Power Generation building (University/College intersection)
Toronto, Ontario
Vigil/Info Picket Against Nuclear Power and Call for Resignations of Public Energy CEOs in Ontario
Nuclear waste
Nuclear arms
Nuclear warheads
Go around . Go around . Go around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkRIbUT6u7Q&feature=related
It’s irreversibly deadly affair
Mein Herr
You should have known by now
You had every cause to doubt it
Mein Herr
It’s time to leave Mein Herr
Our children need it green,
Reliable, affordable
Accessible, universal
Livable
Absolutely Not radioactive
Absolutely Not privatized
Absolutely Not pro-war
Absolutely Not to the highest bidder
On the Continent
Feed the lives of our children
Our collectivity
Our unity in
Clean environment
Bustling inclusive economy
And
Pride of a healthy
Happy
Independent and Renewable Energy-Sufficient People
…
Bye Bye Mein Lieber Herr!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX-24Zm0bjk&feature=related
“…the OPG boss earned a total compensation package of $3,451,946″ in 2008
Herr McGuinty, Premier of Ontario “defends it”
http://www.thestar.com/News/Ontario/article/611324
enersource, omers, borealis, bruce privatization, nuclear
Areva Nuclear Plant and Sunflowers
Areva Nuclear Plant and Sunflowers
Reid Celebrates Obama’s Yucca Mountain Decision
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid reports in a message to Nevadans that President Obama has ended the government’s bid to store nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain and that instead, Obama will try to come up with another plan. On his Senate website, Reid reports:
USN.load(‘Loomia’);
Today was an extremely important day in our fight against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Yucca Mountain. In his budget request for 2010, President Obama will announce plans to devise a new strategy to find another solution to deal with the nation‘s nuclear waste that does not include storing it in Nevada .
As Nevadans know, I have been successfully fighting the proposed Yucca Mountain nuclear waste dump since I began my career in the Senate. I have had tremendous help from our state‘s leaders and thousands of Nevadans along the way. President Obama joined the fight against the nuclear waste dump in his Presidential campaign, and I am proud that now he will deliver on his promise.
President Obama has made a critical first step towards fulfilling his promise to end the Yucca Mountain project, and I could not be happier for the people of Nevada. Make no mistake: this represents a significant and lasting victory in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country‘s toxic wasteland. I have worked for over two decades with help from our state‘s leaders and thousands of Nevadans to stop Yucca Mountain. President Obama recognizes that the proposed dump threatens the health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans, and his commitment to stop this terrible project could not be more clear.
HARRY REID
United States Senator for Nevada
The Ontario Liberal McGuinty government, the Toronto Star newspaper, and Ontario Power Generation say nuclear power is CLEAN, GREEN AND SAFE. OPG says they are great at and very proud of their nuclear waste management. We say President Obama bring it on. We’ll take all of your lethal nuclear waste, and will split it with the Alberta Tar Sands.
And upstream from his hometown and Canada’s capital, Ottawa, Ontario Premier McGuinty is promoting uranium mining and says it’s safe for the whole Ottawa/Gatineau watershed. http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/beautiful-ottawa-and-uranium-mining/
http://www.uraniumcitizensinquiry.com/submissions/submission160.html
So hey, New York State, Ottawa-Gatineau is ready to take all your nuclear waste.
As Ontario’s provincial Tourism song says:
“Good things groooow in On-tarr-io!”
Reader Comments( to “Harry Reid” article)
NUCLEAR WASTE NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR NAVADA:GOOD ENOUGH FOR WHO?
Wonderful! But what about all this extreme toxic waste?
There are two choices- reprocessing which is much more dangerous and increases the threat of nuclear profileration-there goes homeland security or some other state can take it as they see themselves not as worthy as Nevada.
Or nuclear waste can be dumped in the Alberta TarSands; alternatively they can be dumped in Ontario, Canada which wants to go Nuclear bigtime with the McGuinty government.
But maybe we’re all Nevadans-none of us deserve this nuclear toxic waste. We must and we can do better- 100% Renewable and public power-or bust.
google Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance for more
On October 31, 2007, dozens of energy and nuclear experts wrote the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/global_security/Community-letter-GNEP-Congress_Final.pdf
“We write to oppose the Department of Energy (DOE), Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) plan for reprocessing spent nuclear fuel because it undermines U.S. nonproliferation policy, would cost taxpayers $100 billion dollars or more … We urge you to eliminate funding for the program… Proposed enrichment or reprocessing programs in other countries create similar dangers. Clearly GNEP is fostering the spread of reprocessing technology and dangerous nuclear weapons-usable materials, undermining U.S. nonproliferation goals.
Bush’s Nuclear Reprocessing Plan Under Fire
Miles A. Pomper July/August 2008
http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2008_07-08/BushNuclear.asp
The Bush administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) program, already under siege, has been further imperiled after recent action by several congressional panels and an April report from the congressional watchdog agency.
Utah Nuclear Waste Company Wants to Accept Italy’s Atomic Debris
Wednesday, February 25, 2009 
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,500446,00.html
“In a nutshell, we do not believe that under the Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act that the Clive facility is a quote, ‘regional disposal facility’, and therefore if we’re not a regional disposal facility then we are not under the jurisdiction of the Northwest Compact,” said EnergySolutions spokeswoman Jill Sigal.
Congress created regional compacts in 1985 to provide states with a way to dispose of their own low-level radioactive waste. However, only two regional facilities were ever built — at Richland, Washington and Barnwell, South Carolina. EnergySolutions’ site is America’s largest low-level radioactive waste dump and the only one available to 36 states.
The company wants to import up to 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from Italy’s shuttered nuclear power program through the ports of Charleston, South Carolina, or New Orleans.
If the Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants the company an import license, it would be the largest amount of nuclear waste ever brought into the country.
After processing in Tennessee, the remaining waste would be shipped to Utah…
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance (a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.)
blocking sunshine in ontario
February 4, 2009
POWER UP ECONOMY POWER DOWN GLOBAL WARMING New Energy Economy 100% Public 100% Renewable-A Prototype World Economy
November 23, 2008
POWER UP ECONOMY POWER DOWN GLOBAL WARMING
New Energy Economy 100% Public 100% Renewable-A Prototype World Economy
(This document is given to global politicians, energy stakeholders, grassroots networks etc.)
Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) – a not for profit entity established by the Government of Ontario to manage the province’s power system produced a glossy booklet called “The Bottom Line on Energy Management: Making Ontario’s electricity market work for your business” and exhibited it at the 20th Canadian Power Producer conference hosted by the Association of Power Producers of Ontario on November 19, 2008 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre.
Here’s a little insight into how these energy Czars think. The following is a quote from page 1 of the IESO glossy booklet:
If you were looking for ways to increase your company’s profitability, chances are the first place you’d go to trim unnecessary waste would be your operating expenses – in areas such as wages, benefits, taxes and raw materials.
The following is the pamphlet handed out over the lunch hour 400 of them.
A century ago, Liberal “Government corruption emanating from the Premier’s office attempted to kill the prospect of public power once and for all… Fortunately, this attempt to thwart public power failed.” (p.34) [Hampton, Howard. (2003). Public Power. Toronto: Insomniac Press]
“In 1906, a 1,500-strong power deputation from 70 cities marched up University Avenue and into the legislature, chanting: ‘We want cheap power and we want it now.’” (p.42)
“…[T]he passionate supporters of public power in every city went from door-to-door… all hammering away at the fundamental idea that power should be provided at cost.” (p.46)
Power at cost excludes bloated executive salaries, hidden fees, hi interest loans and stakeholder profits, characteristic of privately built and operated power. In a private energy system, all the money collected through high electricity rates go out of the system and into the shareholders’ pockets. People and their elected officials do not have control or oversight over such a system. It is a runaway train which will crash our now frail energy system. After one hundred years of public power, it is time to rejuvenate the system rebuilding it according to our present-day economic and environmental needs.
People of Ontario need to rebuild their energy system 100% RENEWABLE. To do this, People of Ontario need to keep their energy system 100% PUBLIC. It is the most inexpensive to invest in the system. It is also the best framework for democratic involvement of People of Ontario in the business of their energy. Ontario’s energy system must support Ontario’s environment and Ontario’s economy. 100% PUBLIC AND 100% RENEWABLE energy system in Ontario accomplishes this extremely important goal.
Privatizers of Ontario’s energy system were a century ago called “a band of robber barons who would put the people of Ontario in perpetual economic bondage.” (p.33)
A century ago, Ontarians asked, “Why should a handful of avaricious men reap huge profits from energy system that rightly belong to people?” (p.33)
They also asked why would their environment be “given away to ‘predatory and parasitical’ promoters who provide bad service at high cost.” (p.33) A century ago, People of Ontario knew that their Liberal Premier Ross has rejected public power to enrich himself and his friends. (p.34)
Present day Ontario Liberal Premier Dalton McGuinty, promised to keep Ontario energy system in public hands. He broke that promise. Ontario’s energy system is given away to largest multinational private equity-owned corporations such as Sithe Global – owned by Blackstone equity group and fossil fuel and radioactive nuclear multinational corporations.
Ontario Premier McGuinty broke his promise twice over the last decade to phase out coal-fired plants in Ontario (an outdated and dangerous type of fuel, which puts our collective survival in question). He also decided that burning natural gas (also an outdated fossil fuel) should replace coal burning. As a result, Ontario is stuck with a lot more fossil fuel burning than in the past. Coal burning is not being phased out and natural gas is being burnt more and more. This natural gas burning is locked into 20-year contracts given to multinational corporations which build and operate these new plants. Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty does not care about People of Ontario, Ontario’s economy or Ontario’s environment. People of Ontario need to take energy business into their own hands and make it 100% PUBLIC AND 100% RENEWABLE.
PARADIGM SHIFT ENVIRONMENTAL ALLIANCE – PSEA www.floodiceorfire.wordpress.com
NO TO NUCLEAR-COAL-GAS PLANTS YES TO 100% PUBLIC AND RENEWABLE POWER
- * Note: Premier Dalton McGuinty’s economic plan for Ontario’s future was laid out when he was both premier and special minister for research and innovation where his pet-project was Toronto’s biotechnology hub known as MaRS (medical and related sciences). He believed that this is where the jobs and Ontario’s future would be. As of November 19, 2008, MaRS phase II went belly up.We warned back in 2006 that MaRS was a white elephant that would just suck taxpayer dollars into a black hole. To date, that figure would be over $100 million dollars. Now that venture capitalists dollars have shriveled up MaRS is once again going with cap in hand to try and suck some more Canadian tax payer dollars into its black hole.
“The suspension is disappointing but not surprising, according to Ilse Treurnicht, MaRS CEO. ‘MaRS is a magnifying glass of what is going on in the global economy,’ she said. ‘We are clearly dealing with an unprecedented and unpredictable set of global circumstances.’ … The current “pause” will give MaRS the opportunity to develop a new strategy for implementing its plans, according to Ms. Treurnicht. Without asking for a bailout, she held out hope for future government partnerships.” [BIOTECH INDUSTRY – Barber, John. (November 20, 2008) "Recession gives pause to innovation centre." Globe and Mail]
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20081120.BARBER20/TPStory/TPComment/
See also PSEA link “Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons” section on Battelle Memorial Institute indy media articles
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/abolition-of-king-coal-fossil-fuels-nuclear-power-and-weapons/
On November 19, 2008, People of Ontario came out to Metro Toronto Convention Centre to voice their opposition to
Association of (Privatizing, Fossil Fuels and Radioactive Nuclear) Power Producers in Ontario – APPrO
20/20 Vision – Maximizing shareholders’ profits tomorrow by privatizing “Ontarians’ Hydro Birthright” today
The 20th Anniversary Canadian Power Conference and Networking Centre
George Smitherman, Ontario Minister for Energy and Infrastructure – a keynote speaker
A huge banner in green, red and black read:
NEW ECONOMY = ENERGY
100% PUBLIC
100% RENEWABLE
NO NUKES-COAL-GAS PLANTS
There were familiar friendly faces and new friendly faces even as far away as Bradford, Ontario. There was a regional organizer for The Council of Canadians(*see info below on C of C Exhibit Evidence to Ontario Energy Board) offering solidarity and collaboration, and there was our friends in Boston, Massachusetts Community Labor United wishing us success and collaboration.
The following is from their website:
Community Labor United is a long-term strategic partnership between some of the strongest community organizations and unions organizing low and moderate-income people within our region, the greater Boston area.
Our current campaign –Secure Jobs, Secure Communities–addresses the growing wealth gap between rich and poor. Large commercial property owners in the Greater Boston area, like The Blackstone Group, enjoy many millions of dollars in annual profits, while residents of the communities where most of their service workers live –Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan– can barely make ends meet. This campaign links SEIU Local 615’s organizing of 2,000 low wage security officers working in downtown Boston office buildings with community organizations in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan. The campaign is holding Boston’s large commercial building owners accountable to both investing in their workers and to investing in the communities their workers come from.
We are asking large downtown commercial property owners, including Boston’s largest commercial property owner, The Blackstone Group, to invest $1 per square foot of property they own back into Boston neighborhoods. This investment would support some of Boston’s most pressing community issues – foreclosure prevention, youth opportunities, CORI reform, and access to quality jobs.
In the winter of 2007-2008, we began pulling together the Boston Green Justice Coalition to address the need for leadership in the growing green economy from Boston’s working class communities. We are creating a partnership of community groups, labor unions, environmental organizations and other allied organizations to build a broad-based constituency in support of a sustainable, equitable, and clean energy economy in the Boston region. We are dedicated to ensuring that our region’s growing green economy will create quality jobs, local workforce development opportunities and create healthier and safer communities. In particular low-income communities and communities of color have been overburdened by our unsustainable economy therefore we want to ensure that these communities are at the forefront of the growing green, sustainable economy.
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance fully endorses and supports Boston’s Community Labour United ’s campaign –Secure Jobs, Secure Communities – and Boston Green Justice Coalition.
Blackstone Group and their affiliates such as Sithe Global have shown themselves to be unfriendly community members that disregards local economy, environment and health. It is time that Blackstone Group co-founder and CEO Stephen Schwarzman who was hailed a year ago as the King of Wall Street, to begin to make amends. (Note: Schwarzman is a fraternity Skull and Bones
Brother to George W Bush at Yale.)* Today November 22, 2008 marks the 45th Anniversary of President JFK’s Assassination- Please see JFK’s speech on The Threat of Secret Societies-Criminal Syndicates and Freedom of the Press
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1710662559138481080
Blackstone’s Schwartzman Made Out Like a Bandit
June 20, 2008 by Brandon Clay
Sometimes timing makes you wonder.Think Martha Stewart’s conversations with a junior broker before a certain stock tanked. Or Bear Stearns executives possibly dumping stock before the March implosion.
Rewind to last June. Here in Central Texas, it was rainy. Half-way across the country in Manhattan, it was sunny — especially from the balcony of The Blackstone Group’s co-founder, Stephen Schwartzman’s $37 million apartment. Schwartzman just brought his company public, a business he practiced for a living. That’s what Blackstone does: buys lower valued companies, props them up, and then sells them to the public. This one deal netted Schwartzman a sizeable chunk of $2.6 billion, which he shared with the other co-founder. But, that’s not all. According to NY Daily News, Schwartzman pocketed a cool $5 billion in 2007. That’s billion with a “B”.
Here’s where it gets interesting.
Bloomberg reminded us today this whole thing happened 6 weeks before the subprime fiasco slammed Wall Street. In other words, Schwartzman’s big payday was perfectly timed by Blackstone insiders. A quarter before, he doesn’t make near the payout. A quarter later, the deal may not even go through. A year later, the market thinks they were jilted 41% – quite a discount from the original IPO.
Going back to his business, Schwartzman made it his ambition to know a stock’s “low” and “high” price. Any high school economics student will tell you what to do when you know that. It sure seems Schwartzman and Company saw the top before it was coming.
Now don’t get me wrong. I’m not blaming Schwartzman for a little capitalistic ambition. He’s within his rights, and the law, to make as much money as is humanly possible. If it’s $5 billion one year, then more power to him. But it would be nice to check the paper trail on this deal.
By the way, if you’re wondering how Schwartzman’s is spending his gains, check out the gilded-age opulence of his 60th birthday bash. To celebrate the occasion, Schwartzman dressed the part of James Bond and transformed the Park Avenue Armory into a replica of his apartment — complete with full length portrait of himself. Carousing with Bond girls to the tune of Rod Stewart (in person) and to the jokes of Martin Short, this guy makes Dennis Kozlowski, of Tyco fame, looks like Q.
http://investwithanedge.com/blackstones-schwartzman-made-out-like-a-bandit
Here’s a little something about his co-founder of Blackstone
The Peterson Principle
November 19, 2008
by Matthew Cooper | See Archive
But in these hard times, a billionaire may find it difficult to sell sacrifice to the middle class. Most of the money fueling Peterson’s cause comes from a windfall he received when Blackstone went public in 2007 and he became what he calls “an instant billionaire, which I never expected to be.” Already wealthy, he netted about $1 billion from the initial public offering, and he liquidated before the stock fell. (As of mid-October, Blackstone stock was down 70 percent since its I.P.O.) …
For Peterson, selling the public is in some ways a return to his adman roots. He worked at McCann Erickson in the 1950s before going on to run Bell & Howell in the ’60s, serve as secretary of commerce under Nixon and run Lehman Brothers in the ’70s, and found Blackstone in the ’80s. He’s been poring over ad copy himself, such as a recent New York Times spread that showed how the $53 trillion promised by the government would swamp the country. It’s Mad Men meets the apocalypse.
But can he pull it off? Can Peterson create a public climate in which politicians are able to cut Medicare and Social Security benefits and raise taxes? He’s assembled an impressive team to help him…
TheStar.com | Business | Buyout kings bracing for the blame
Buyout kings bracing for the blame
November 22, 2008
David Olive
Business Columnist
http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/541598
As recently as a year ago, when they were laying out billions of dollars to acquire some of the most familiar names in the corporate world, private equity shops were celebrated for their audacity …
But then came the global economic meltdown that began last fall, and the lush 30 per cent returns to which investors in deals masterminded by buyout giants such as Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Cerberus Capital Management, Blackstone Group LP, Carlyle Capital Corp. and other high-flying acquisitors abruptly dried up. …
The buyout kings, aware of their diminished stature, are girding for the blame when their biggest deals go south…
LINKS TO STORY ON PSEA’S CAMPAIGN AGAINST SITHE GLOBAL, NAVAJO-HOPI CAMPAIGN AGAINST SITHE GLOBAL AND NAVADA TOQUOP
http://floodiceorfire.wordpress.com/gas-water-2/
http://www.desert-rock-blog.com/ (Campaign against Sithe/Blackstone giant coal-fired plant Desert Rock in Navajo Hopi region)
http://www.stoptoquop.org/ (Campaign against Sithe/Blackstone giant coal-fired plant in Nevada opposed by U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid etc.)
* Evidence of the Council of Canadians to Ontario Energy Board August 1, 2008 / pages 37-38
http://www.canadians.org/energy/index.html
http://www.canadians.org/energy/documents/OEBEvidence-CoC.pdf
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Increasing Installed Renewable Capacity 2010
The reliance that Ontario Power Authority (OPA) places on the present 1250MW intertie with Quebec to meet the installed capacity of renewable energy resources target for 2010 fails to take into account FERC and NAFTA rules that preclude Ontario asserting any claim to energy flows from Quebec if that province designates to U.S. markets. This raises a serious question about whether this objective will be met given the absence of a firm commitment by Quebec to provide renewable power to Ontario.
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Renewable Goal 2025
The plan for meeting the objective of increasing the total capacity of renewable energy used by Ontario to 15,700 MW by 2025 fails to take into account that NAFTA and FERC rules prohibiting certain Ontario measures that would reserve such power for use in the province. To the extent that renewable power generators are free to export power from Ontario their respective contributions to meeting the renewables goal for 2025 must be discounted by such export obligations
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The first light-bulbs lit by Ontario’s publicly owned transmission system were those wreathed into a crown on a woman’s head. The power which lit the crown of light-bulbs came from Water. That was October 11, 1910.
Today too, people of Ontario want public power and power from Water, Earth,Wind and Sun.
All eyes were on 18-year-old Hilda Rumpel, dressed in a long white dress and wearing a red sash that read, simply, Ontario. On her head was a crowning wreath of tiny electric bulbs. In her hands was a cushion that held the switch. Everyone in the arena held their breath, mesmerized by the moment. All knew it was a turning point in Ontario history. …[Ontario] Premier [Whitney] reached over to grasp Adam Beck’s hand and, without letting go, used it to press the switch that lit Hilda’s crown and flooded the arena and the surrounding streets with light that began as energy from Niagara, one hundred miles away. The arched banner across King Street also lit up, spelling out these simple, moving and utterly true words: “For the People.” In the speeches that followed, Beck promised to continue the fight for public power ‘until the poorest workingman will have electricity in his
home.’ Hampton, Howard (2003). Public Power: The fight for publicly owned electricity. Toronto, Ontario: Insomniac Press
They “defeated a [Liberal] government, stopped privatization of public assets and set the stage for the development of a public power system that was soon widely imitated throughout North America.” (p.26) Hampton, Howard (2003). Public Power: The fight for publicly owned electricity. Toronto, Ontario: Insomniac Press
Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance(a homeless network of transborder activists, students, academics, Aboriginal etc.)
Abolition King Coal, Fossil Fuels, Nuclear Power and Weapons
The Great Struggle Continues….
Contact: Ivona Vujica, coordinator Paradigm Shift Environmental Alliance – PSEA psea4earth@gmail.com
