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----- Forwarded Message Follows ----- Stay Informed Spread Truth Act Daily Fact & Act #08 Friday, 27 September 2002 LMNOP Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace http://lmno4p.org ANALYSIS Well, it's here. WWWIII. Headlines in the past 48 hours: INTERNATIONAL Israel confirmed... an Israeli airstrike... wounded 35 bystanders, including 15 children U.S. Says Jets Hit Iraq Targets South of Baghdad U.S. Hits Iraqi Radar, Ukraine Denies Radar Sale Iraq Condemns Strike on Airport U.S., Britain Lobby for Iraq Resolution Hamas Chief Hurt, Two Dead in Israel Missile Hit French Troops Reach Battle-Torn Ivory Coast City Troops Storm Indian Temple, Backlash Feared India Troops Seek to Prevent Riot Gunmen Kill 7 in Pakistan Israel Unmoved by U.S. Plea to End Arafat Siege U.N. Security Council Calls for End to Siege of Arafat Israel Destroys 3 Palestinian Homes US Adding Patriots to Defend Kuwait Bases Russia, Germany Unmoved as U.S. Makes Case on Iraq World Hawks and Doves Face Showdown over Iraq DOMESTIC Bush, Democrats at Odds on Iraq Daschle Denounces Bush Remarks on Iraq as Partisan Daschle Condemns Bush on Iraq Debate Bush Condemns Senate Homeland Plan Daschle Defends Democrats' Stand on Security Daschle Demands Apology for Bush Comments Ex-WorldCom Executive Pleads Guilty 500 Protesters Arrested in Capital MARKETS Dow Down 121 in Midday Trading Blue Chips Set for 5th Straight Down Week IMF Reveals Precarious Global Economic Prospects Stocks Slump, Dow at 4-Year Low Number of People Living in Poverty Increases in U.S. Recession Cut Incomes and Swelled Poverty Rolls, U.S. Says The stock market is in a free-fall (now at 7600-8000 down from 12000 in 2001 1.5 years ago, a 38% loss in 18 months. That's not a bubble bursting, that's the loss of liquidity as money gets sucked up by a small sector: Defense, Oil, Prisons. Money is fast drying up in all other sectors including research and development (the stuff that brought you the internet). The markets do not want this war. Markets Continue Slide Under Threat of War http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,798558,00.html The international community does not want this war. Where the world stands on Iraq http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/2240570.stm The 22 nation member Arab League does not want this war. Arab League seeks Iraq solution http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/2238183.stm The American and British people do not want this war: Calls are coming into Reps offices sometimes as high as 100 to 1 against the war on Iraq. Democracy Now! Radio/TV 25 Sept 02 http://www.democracynow.org Guardian (London) News poll shows 86% Against the war, 12% for, 1% undecided. http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphics/0,9749,798859,00.html 100-300,000 protestors expected in streets of London tomorrow, Sat, 27 Sep. Tony Blair is isolated in Britain on this issue. ACTION Stop world-wide escalating violence 5 ways: 1). CALL. Call your Congressional Representatives now. Let them know you have reservations about the sudden rush to war and would like Congress to debate the issue more thoroughly. If you are so inclined, tell your REPRESENTATIVE you are vehemently against this unsupported and uniltateral attack by the US on a soveriegn state, prohibited by International Law. If the US breaks international law, there is no international law. http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm http://congress.org/ 2). VISIT. When you've made your calls consider meeting at at least one of your Congressional Rep's local or DC offices whether they support the war or not. Take your lunch and show up even for a moment. Your being at a Rep's office counts more than email, more than a letter, more than a call. Some offices count a physical body as reflecting the will of 100 of their constituents. Our anti-war numbers are very important as the Congress may vote soon. We need to find out who is voting with their constituents and who is not. November elections will reflect. There is an Emergency Lobbying Day Against the War on Monday, 30 September. But any day you can visit will count. Please go. Addresses of local offices: http://www.senate.gov/senators/senator_by_state.cfm http://congress.org/ 3). EMAIL. Email through a web-based form mail at your representative's personal site is the fastest way to get your email counted. LMNOP's Fact & Act strongly suggests you declare your position in the TITLE of the form mail if available; for example, NO TO WAR WITH IRAQ, or IRAQ WAR: AGAINST! http://congress.org/ Enter your zip code. Click "Info" under Rep's photo. Look for "Web site." At their site look for "Contact Us," or similar. 4). FAX ONLINE http://www.truemajority.com/index.asp?action=2174&ms=irqpeace 5). ONLINE PETITIONS: Iraq Peace Pledge http://www.peacepledge.org/ National Iranian-American Council Oppose US attack http://capwiz.com/niacouncil/mail/compose/ Friends Committee on National Legislation Action Alert Oppose Expanded War with Iraq http://capwiz.com/fconl/issues/alert/?alertid=454751&type=CO Common Cause" Petition Calling for Congressional Debate on the Use of Force in Iraq. http://www.commoncause.org/iraq/ Vote No on Congressional War Blank Check http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=13827&afccode=IRQ002 No War on Iraq! http://www.moveon.org/nowar/ Stop The Rush To War http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=13739&afccode=IRQ001 FACT The "Dossier" If these pages of trickery are based on "probably" and "if", we have no business going to war. If they are all true, we murdered half a million Iraqi children. How's that for a war crime? Robert Fisk: The dishonesty of this so-called dossier http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=336404 "The document is a damp squib. It really consists of a reworking of information that was already public. It seems more like a PR stunt than a serious attempt to bring new information forward. Tony Blair will have to do better than this if he wants to convince the British public to go to war." Diane Abbott, the Labour MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington "It does not produce any convincing evidence, or any 'killer fact', that says that Saddam Hussein has to be taken out straight away. What it does do is produce very convincing evidence that the weapons inspectors have to be pushed back into Iraq very quickly ... It is a very clever document. Everybody expected it to outline the case for war on Iraq, but it doesn't even attempt to do that. I think it is designed to be the start of a rolling campaign which will involve trying to get the weapons inspectors back in. Then, if Saddam doesn't allow them in, George Bush and Tony Blair will have the ammunition to do what they consider necessary to disarm Iraq." Major Charles Heyman, editor of Jane's World Armies "This dossier will require close scrutiny. At first glance, this dossier does not appear to show clear evidence of an immediate and imminent threat from Iraq. Nothing in this document should divert us from dealing with these matters through the United Nations." Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman Menzies Campbell "Nothing staggering, is it? It firms up a lot of what is already known. A lot of this ground was covered in the report by the International Institute of Strategic Studies ... It shows Saddam has the means to threaten his neighbours, and this is probably Blair's best shot at selling his plans to the country. I don't think he will get a better chance than this." Thomas Withington, an analyst with King's College, London Political Reaction to Iraq Dossier http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,798046,00.html +=+=+=+=+ "Tony Blair was warned yesterday the 53 Labour MPs who rebelled over Iraq on Tuesday were only "the tip of the iceberg" and he faces a much bigger revolt when the Commons debates the issue again. As the Government dismissed this week's protest vote as "pointless posturing", it emerged Mr Blair narrowly avoided a much more damaging rebellion. It is believed that another 80 Labour MPs were ready to abstain if the Government had mobilised its "payroll vote" in Tuesday's division to crush the anti-war rebels." Eighty more Labour MPs ready to rebel, Blair is warned http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=336700 British dossier is scorned as 'propaganda' http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/story.jsp?story=336701 SOURCES Democracy Now! Radio/TV 25 Sept 02 http://www.democracynow.org http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphics/0,9749,798859,00.html Leaders Yet to be Convinced by Dossier http://www.guardian.co.uk/guardianpolitics/story/0,3605,798388,00.html Fed Holds Firm on Rates. Markets Continue Slide Under Threat of War http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,798558,00.html ADDITIONAL READING Calling the Shots: How Washington Dominates Today's UN Phyllis Bennis, Erskine Childers, 4/2000 9-11 Noam Chomsky, 11/2001 Preventing Violence (Prospects for Tomorrow) James Gilligan, 7/2001 ELSEWHERE Is anyone in the US aware of the abandoned Italian oil tanker that has run aground and is cracked on both sides and leaking oil onto some of the most beautiful beaches in the world in South Africa near the UNESCO-recognized St. Lucia Wetlands Park sanctuary? "Oil continues to wash up on the beaches from the stricken cargo ship MV Jolly Rubino, upper right, lying off St Lucia, 150 miles north-east of Durban, South Africa, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2002. All hope has been abandoned of pulling the ship off the rocks after it ran aground Sept. 12 on reefs off the UNESCO World Heritage Site of St. Lucia on South Africa's east coast. Instead, workers will focus on pumping oil off the ship in an effort to protect an ecologically sensitive estuary nearby before the ship breaks up." Photo 1: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020919/168/2a9iw.html Photo 2: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020917/168/29r51.html Photo 3: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020917/170/29p0a.html Photo 4: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/020915/168/29at6.html SMIT Salvage, which earlier abandoned efforts to refloat the Jolly Rubino, said it would try again Thursday to pump fuel from the Italian-flagged vessel. The ship is beached some five miles south of the entrance to the UNESCO -recognized St. Lucia Wetlands Park, cracked on both sides and leaking oil. The vast coastal area of lagoon, swamp, dune and beach is home to an array of rare plants, animals and birds and is a magnet to ecologists, divers and tourists. Conservationists say the park's fragile ecosystem would be ruined if oil found its way into the wetlands. But the salvage company said water levels in the stricken ship had risen, pushing oil up into the cargo holds, fueling the fire. "The fuel is burning off, so the threat to the environment is greatly reduced," SMIT spokeswoman Clare Gomes told Reuters. She said it was hard to tell how much fuel remained on board the container vessel, which has been on fire for eight days. Salvage workers had attempted to reach the ship's engine room Wednesday to gain access to the systems that would allow them to pump out the some 800 tons of fuel then estimated to be on board. But thick smoke and high temperatures made this "extremely unsafe," Gomes said, adding: "We will reassess Thursday." Officials said a five-mile long slick had formed in the sea near the vessel, but wind and tide were carrying it south, and not threatening the estuary leading to the park. Some oil had washed up on other beaches near the ship. S.Africa Salvage Team Evacuated from Burning Ship http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020918/sc_nm/safrica_ship_dc_4 More in the Resources section at LMNOP http://lmno4p.org/resources.htm +=+=+=+=+ Wm Leslie Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] LMNOP http://lmno4p.org archives of Daily Fact & Acts: http://lmno4p.org/fa/ +=+=+=+=+ ................................................................ 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