Fw :ZIONIST TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA.. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Original Message - From: The Infamous Vinnie Gangbox Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:15 PM Subject: Fwd : ZIONIST TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN CALIFORNIA.. IRV RUBIN AND EARL KRUGEL WERE ALLEGEDLY GOING TO BOMB A MOSQUE AND AN ARAB AMERICAN CONGRESSMAN'S OFFICE from COMPUSERVE.COM NEWS : EDITOR'S NOTE : THESE GUYS STARTED OUT 30 YEARS AGO BY BEATING UP BLACK KIDS AT BROOKLYN COLLEGE, ATTACKING RUSSIAN BALLET DANCERS AT LINCOLN CENTER AND BURNING DOWNEGYPTIAN TRAVEL AGENCIES HERE IN NEW YORK.I SEE THAT THE SO CALLED "JEWISH DEFENSE LEAGUE" HAS COME UP A BIT IN THE WORLD...NOW THEY USE BOMBS.BUT, IT'S KINDA FUNNY..IF THEY HAD BEENARABS THEY'D BE CALLED TERRORISTS..BUT, SINCE THEY ARE JEWISH..THEY'RE CALLED "MILITANTS". I WONDER WHY THAT IS??? THE ARTICLE :JDL Chairman Accused of Bomb PlotBy LINDA DEUTSCH LOS ANGELES (AP) - The chairman and another member of the militant JewishDefense League have been arrested on suspicion of plotting to blow up a Los Angeles mosque and the office of an Arab-American congressman, federalauthorities said Wednesday. JDL chairman Irv Rubin, 56, and Earl Krugel, 59, were arrested Tuesday night after the last component of the bomb - explosive powder was delivered to Krugel's home, U.S. Attorney John Gordon said. Other bomb components andweapons were seized at the home. Authorities said the two planned to bomb the King Fahd Mosque in Culver City and the office of freshman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.Investigators were tipped off by a government source about a series of meetings where the plot was worked out, Gordon said.It was not immediately clear when the alleged plot began or what prompted it. In court papers, authorities quoted Krugel as saying during a meetingthat Arabs ``need a wake-up call.'' Rubin and Krugel were booked on charges of conspiracy to destroy a building by means of an explosive, which carries up to five years in prison, and possession of a destructive device related to a crime of violence, which carries a 30-year mandatory sentence. They were expected to appear in court later Wednesday. Issa, 46, the grandson of Lebanese immigrants, serves on the House Committee on International Relations and supports Israeli-Palestinian peacenegotiations. His spokesman did not immediately return calls. Mosque director Tajuddin Shuaib said no threats had been received by the mosque. He noted that the alleged plot came during the holy month of Ramadan, when as many as 1,000 people attend the mosque to pray."I can't understand why people would do such a thing," he said. "We arenot against Jews. We are not against anybody. We are like any church or synagogue or temple." Gordon said the original target was to be the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles,but the target was changed during a meeting last weekend. Rubin's attorney, Peter Morris, said his client had nothing to do with theexplosives. "It seems to us that, given the timing ... the government's action is part of an overreaction to the Sept. 11 events,'' he said. Rubin's wife, Shelley, said her husband and Earl ``are completely innocent of anything. They are law-abiding, good people.'' Originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York, the JDL gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings in the United States, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jews. Kahane left the JDL in the 1980s. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership. Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting. The JDL claims to have 13,000 members, but experts say it may have only fewdozen active members. Rubin has made a career out of confrontation, challenging whitesupremaciststo fistfights, or burning a Confederate flag outside a courthouse. By hisown count he has been arrested more than 40 times. In 1980, he was triedandacquitted of soliciting the murders of Nazis in the United States. A lawsuit filed by Rubin resulted in a court decision last year banningprayer during Burbank City Council meetings. Maher Hathout, a senior adviser for the Los Angeles chapter of the MuslimPublic Affairs Council, said the arrests sent an encouraging message to theMuslim community."We can easily develop an attitude that (federal authorities) are out to get us,'' he said. `"But it seems they are out to get anyone who breaks thelaw." ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register
Re: Billical phrase A plague on both your houses! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- At 02:53 2001-12-12 +, Bill Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [RM:] I was trying to show some erudition, you know, and besides, I've long found this to be a pretty good phrase, considering some elements in the political situation in our time. Any other good examples? Enticingly, Bill. I meant above all the houses of traditional capitalism and imperialism, on the one hand, and revisionism, as represented not least by the social-imperialist Soviet Union and its adherents from the 60s on. There are many onther examples too of how the people has been put between two fires, or caught in a kind of pncer attack, but I shall leave it at that for now. This phenomenon, of two reactionary rivals', or semi-rivals' and also partners', saying they are each others' only enemies, so that if you don't want the pest, then you must choose the cholera - indeed, you're a cholera advocate - at any rate is one which people should look out for, in many respects today. Rolf M. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: US delays release of bin Laden 'evidence' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- In a message dated 12/12/2001 2:42:04 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WASHINGTON -- Translators are going over a videotape of Osama bin Laden talking about the Sept. 11 terror attacks to ensure accuracy "before anything is released to the world," President Bush's spokesman said Wednesday. Haven't they had this tape for weeks? LOL!! I can't wait for it to roll. Cynthia ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fw: Chavez Proposes a 'Bolivarian Alternative' to FTAA [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Forward from mart. Please distribute widely. - Original Message - From: NY Transfer News To: NY Transfer News Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:43 AM Subject: [Chavez Proposes a 'Bolivarian Alternative' to FTAA Via NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fitsource - Granma International Digital - December 12, 2001http://www.granma.cuChávez proposes a Bolivarian Alternative for the AmericasIN contraposition to the U.S. annexationist project known as the FreeTrade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Venezuelan President Hugo Chávezhas proposed the adoption of a Bolivarian Alternative for theAmericas (ALBA).On the first day of the 3rd Summit of the Association of CaribbeanStates (AEC), Chávez insisted, "those of us from Latin America andthe Caribbean should think of an alternative," because the FTAA -which he termed a "disintegrating government" - "is not what is goingto unite us."Cuban President Fidel Castro, speaking at the plenary sessionattended by 18 heads of state and government from the CaribbeanBasin, referred to the need to achieve preferential treatmentquickly, to protect the small economies in the region.He cited the example of the European Union's interregionaldevelopment and its projects for balancing the small and largeeconomies within its membership.President Castro warned about the dangers of the FTAA, which is nowbecoming more concrete and could destroy all of Latin America'sunifying efforts.The first session of the summit, held in Isla de Margarita,Venezuela, witnessed a broad debate on economic themes, including thepossibility of creating an oil company of the Americas, reportedPrensa Latina.Chávez suggested that a gas pipeline be constructed which wouldbenefit all the AEC member states, noting that several of thosecountries have large petroleum deposits.Another problem examined by the dignitaries was the propagation ofAIDS in the region, which comes in second worldwide, in terms of thenumber of cases, surpassed only by sub-Saharan Africa.Other issues discussed were regional food production and the need toovercome the shortage of these products among the Caribbeanpopulation.Copyright (c) 2001 Granma International Digital. All rights reserved.= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] = ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
URGENT - ISREALI INVASION! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- CBC radio news in Canada is reporting that the Israeli's have cut off all ties and contacts with Yasser Arafat, claiming he is now "irrelevant". They have attacked with missiles and destroyed his personal offices, home and helicopter pad and have forbidden him to leave the occupied Palestinian territory. Further, Israel is launching a full scale military invasion of Palestinian territory to in their words "take out the terrorists themselves" and "bring them to justice"! ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fw: More AP goofiness on the FTAA Carribbean summit [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Original Message - From: Jose G. Perez Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 8:22 AMSubject: [CubaNews] More AP goofiness on the FTAA Caribbean summit[There they go again! The AP keeps on pretending that what the Caribbeansummit supported is the US proposals for what a free trade area of theamericas, and thus finds a contradiction between the statements of Fidel andChávez, on the one hand, and the summit statement, on the other. In fact,there is no contradiction. Moreover, the report lapses from mere confusionto total fiction when it starts talking about "the proposed treaty." Thereis in fact no such treaty, proposed or otherwise. One would have to benegotiated. What the summit did is present in a positive way some of theCaribbean's goals in such a negotiation. And what Chávez and Fidel are doingis educating people about what this means vis-a-vis what imperialism wants,which is the opposite of what the countries of the Thrd World want, althoughit would be impolitic to say so in an official summit declaration.]* * *Castro Warns on Americas Trade PlanBy FABIOLA SANCHEZ, Associated Press WriterPORLAMAR, Venezuela (AP) - After signing a summit declaration that supportsa U.S.-sponsored Free Trade Area of the Americas, Cuban President FidelCastro (news - web sites) warned that the proposed treaty could lead to U.S.domination of Latin America.``There is a plot to impose by economic force ... not only an economic, buta global political order,'' Castro said after Wednesday's conclusion of theAssociation of Caribbean States summit.``One day, all of our countries - excepting Cuba because (Washington),luckily, doesn't want it - could be involved in a large deal in whicheveryone is compromised'' by developed nations' might, Castro said.Cuba, which has faced four decades of U.S. economic sanctions imposedbecause of its communist rule, is excluded from negotiations to establishthe free trade zone from Alaska to Argentina in 2005.An ACS declaration signed by Castro expresses support for the FTAA - as longas developed nations' barriers to products such as agricultural and textileimports from developing nations are eliminated. That would provideimpoverished Latin nations a better chance to compete.But Castro later said millions of Latin Americans are heading for ``adestination they know nothing about.'' Accusing leaders of keeping detailson treaty negotiations secret, he urged the region's governments to educatetheir citizens about the deal.U.S. workers know more about FTAA than their Latin counterparts becausethousands of them lost jobs to cheaper Mexican labor when the North AmericanFree Trade Agreement was enacted, Castro said.Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez supported Castro's criticism. He suggestedthat the region consider an alternative. And he pledged to put any FTAA to apopular vote in Venezuela.Another dissenting voice was Guyanese President Bharrat Jagdeo, who said hisgovernment wouldn't sign a deal without ``preferential and distinguishingtreatment'' for Latin and Caribbean economies.``If these conditions don't meet with our satisfaction ... we simply will beignored,'' Jagdeo said.During the two-day summit on Margarita Island, Caribbean leaders called forFTAA negotiations to end by January 2005 and the free trade zone be openedby December 2005.They denounced the U.S. economic sanctions against Cuba, but pledged theircontinuing support for the fight against terrorism. They also vowed tojointly promote Caribbean tourism, a vital industry that has suffered sincethe Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. ===To subscribe to CubaNews, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
EU summit rally begins [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- BBC. 13 December 2001. Thousands march ahead of summit. The first demonstrations ahead of this weekend's European Union summit in Belgium have got under way, with tens of thousands of trade unionists marching through Brussels. Thursday's march was to demand greater involvement of Europe's trade unions in the development of social and employment legislation. This is an appeal for a more social Europe, said Waltraud Etz, a spokeswoman for the European Trade Union Confederation, which organised the march. We want more jobs and better quality jobs, she said. There is anger among the Belgian workforce at rising unemployment and the collapse of the national airline, Sabena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
WHAT THEY WON'T LET US SEE: THOUSANDS KILLED BY U.S. BOMBERS [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.U
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Dec. 20, 2001 issue of Workers World newspaper - WHAT THEY WON'T LET US SEE: THOUSANDS KILLED BY U.S. BOMBERS By Deirdre Griswold The planned and deliberate brutality of the Pentagon war in Afghanistan is a closely guarded secret. People in the United States are being told practically nothing about the war's effects on the Afghan people. What images are we allowed to see on television? Explosions that produce nothing but clouds of dust. Fuzzy objects in the crosshairs of bombers that are always identified as military targets. Grateful refugees receiving generous handouts from the West. And the smooth-talking boys of the Pentagon who make it all sound like a heroic game that will end when the evil enemy has been taken. But the truth is there have been massive civilian casualties. The military no longer produce a body count at the end of each day as they did during the Vietnam War. However, as of Dec. 10, more than 3,500 civilians had died in the U.S. bombing, according to Prof. Marc W. Herold of the University of New Hampshire. Herold has been keeping tabs on casualty reports since the bombs began falling on Oct. 7. He has done a meticulous job of tabulating, day by day and place by place, all the reports of civilian casualties to be found in the world press. Herold released the results of his study on Dec. 10 in a discussion with Amy Goodman, producer of Democracy Now! An Excel spreadsheet containing the information can be found at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold/. I was concerned that there would be significant civilian casualties caused by the bombing, and I was able to find some mention of casualties in the foreign press but almost nothing in the U.S. press, he said. These were poor people to begin with, he added. And, on top of that, they had absolutely nothing to do with the events of September 11. Herold lists the date, number of casualties, location, type of weapon used and sources of information for each incident. Here is one such listing for Oct. 11: Two U.S. jets bombed the mountain village of Karam, comprised of 60 mud houses, during dinner and evening prayer time, killing 100-160 people. Sources: DAWN (English-language Pakistani daily newspaper), the Guardian of London, the Independent, International Herald Tribune, the Scotsman, the Observer and the BBC News. That was at the beginning of the bombing campaign, when the Taliban were still believed to be strong. But what happened after they began to flee south and eventually abandoned Kabul? BOMBING OF BIBI MAHRU The bombing continued unabated. In an article entitled U.S. Planes Rain Death on the Innocent, Rory McCarthy wrote in the Guardian of Dec. 1 that the village of Bibi Mahru near Kabul had been hit several times by U.S. bombers, even though they destroyed the only military target in the area, a radar and anti-aircraft position on a hill above the town, on the first night. McCarthy saw the damage caused by bombs dropped 10 days after the radar position had been destroyed. The deep craters and pieces of shrapnel indicate that America's weapon of choice in Kabul was the Mark 82 500-lb. bomb, which is designed to be guided to its target by the pilot, a nearby observation plane or a spotter on the ground. But there was nothing accurate about the 500-lb. bomb which fell on Bibi Mahru. It killed Gul Ahmad, 40, a Hazara carpet weaver, his second wife Sima, 35, their five daughters and his son by his first wife. Two children living next door were also killed. ... 'My husband was thinking before this incident that the Americans would bring peace in our country,' said Arafa, who lost eight members of her family. 'Now I am left with my five daughters and two sons and no one to look after them.' McCarthy also visited a neighborhood in Kabul of workers' apartment buildings built by the Soviet Union during the period of the Afghan Revolution, which was overthrown in a war financed by the U.S. CIA. On Nov. 12, wrote McCarthy, the last day the Taliban spent in Kabul, American planes targeted a military garrison close to the densely populated Soviet-built Microrayon housing district. Four 50-lb. bombs hit the area. Only one hit the garrison. One landed at the corner of apartment block 33, where a crowd of children were playing. Nazila, six, was crushed to death by a concrete block. 'She couldn't run away in time,' said her father, Abdul Basir. 'We believed because this was a residential block they wouldn't hit it. We thought they were hitting their targets accurately.' A second landed in the road, a third landed on two houses, killing five people, including a 15-year-old girl. The Pentagon keeps denying civilian casualties in its press briefings. The corporate media here--the newspaper and television bosses who control what gets aired--accept whatever the military says. They kill
Sorting Through the Lies of the Racak Massacre [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Title: Message HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Sorting Through the Lies of the Racak Massacre and other Myths of Kosovo Posted: February 15, 2001 by Stephen Gowans Remember why NATO spent 78-days bombing Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999? There was the ethnic cleansing. The atrocities. The refugees chased out of Kosovo by the Serb army. The mass graves. The heaps of bodies tossed into vats of sulphuric acid at the Trepca mines. NATO spokesman Jamie Shea said there were 100,000 Kosovars unaccounted for. Remember? If you're like most people, you have at least a vague recollection of something that seemed to approach a modern-day Holocaust. Problem is, none of it happened. NATO's original estimate of 100,000 ethnic Albanians slaughtered, later revised downward to 10,000, turns out to be considerably exaggerated. Dr. Peter Markesteyn, a Winnipeg forensic pathologist, was among the first war crimes investigators to arrive in Kosovo after NATO ended its bombing campaign. "We were told there were 100,000 bodies everywhere," said Dr. Markesteyn. "We performed 1,800 autopsies -- that's it." Fewer than 2,000 corpses. None found in the Trepca mines. No remains in the vats of sulphuric acid. Most found in isolated graves -- not in the mass graves NATO warned about. And no clue as to whether the bodies were those of KLA fighters, civilians, even whether they were Serbs or ethnic Albanians. No wonder then that of all the incidents on which Slobodan Milosevic has been indicted for war crimes, the total body count is not 100,000, not 10,000, not even 1,800 -- but 391! That's 109 lives fewer than the 500 Yugoslav civilians Human Rights Watch estimates were killed by NATO bombs -- and far fewer than what the death toll will eventually be once those who have yet to die from cancers induced by the terrible environmental devastation of the war are finally carried off as late -- and unaccounted for -- casualties. And it's equal to the number of Palestinians who have been killed so far by the IDF -- the Israeli army -- in the latest Palestinian uprising. The difference is that the IDF, under the direction of Ehud Barak and now Ariel Sharon, is an occupying army, while the Yugoslav security forces, under Slobodan Milosevic, were conducting an counterinsurgency operation within their own borders. But Barak, mistakenly portrayed as a peace-nik, and Sharon, the architect of a long string of atrocities, including the infamous Sabra and Shatila massacres, aren't under indictment for war crimes. Nor are they ever likely to be -- not as long as the United States wields a veto at the UN. What's more, there's some question as to whether at least one of the war crimes Milosevic is accused of ever happened. And then there's the revealing issue of when they happened. It seems that all of Milosevic's war crimes, but one, happened after the bombing -- highly curious, since the bombing was said to be necessary to stop a genocide, that, it seems now, NATO had no evidence of. (If they did, why haven't they brought it forward?) Moreover, the one pre-bombing incident, the Racak massacre -- which the United States cited as a major reason for the bombing campaign -- is more likely to have been faked by the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), the guerilla army the Serbs were ensnared in a bloody civil war with, than to have represented the cold-blooded killing of ethnic Albanian non-combatants, as the KLA, and Washington's man in Kosovo at the time, William Walker, alleged. It was Walker, at the time head of the Kosovo Verification Mission (KVM) who, on the morning of January 16, 1999, led the press to the Kosovar village of Racak, a KLA stronghold. There some 20 bodies were found in a shallow trench, and 20 more were found scattered throughout the village. The KLA, and Walker, alleged that masked Serb policemen had entered the village the previous day, and killed men, women and children at close range, after torturing and mutilating them. Chillingly, the Serb police were said to have whistled merrily as they went about their work of slaughtering the villagers. It was a horrible tableau, sure to whip up the indignation of the world -- and it did. Clinton's Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as eager to scratch her ever itchy trigger finger as her boss was to scratch his illimitable sexual itches, demanded that Yugoslavia be bombed immediately. Albright, like a kid agonizingly counting down the hours to Christmas, would have to wait until after Milosevic's rejection of NATO's ultimata at Rambouillet to get her wish. Bill Clinton, not to be surpassed in expressing indignation, said, "We should remember what happened in the village of Racak...Innocent men, women, and children were taken from their homes to a gully, forced to kneel in the dirt, sprayed with gunfire -- not because of anything they had done, but because of who they were."
Business this week [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Title: Message HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Business this weekDecember 13th 2001From The Economist print edition Downward march America's Federal Reserve responded to continuing signs of economic weakness with its eleventh interest-rate cut of the year. A reduction of a quarter-point brings rates down to 1.75%, the lowest for 40 years. See article: Don't bet on a swift recovery The value of global merger and acquisition activity in 2001 was $1.6 trillion, half what it was worth the previous year, according to data from Dealogic. In 2000, the inflated value of high-tech shares fuelled many a deal that now looks unwise. CSFB is to hand over some of the cash it had made from the dotcom boom. The investment bank has reportedly agreed to pay $100m to settle an investigation by America's regulators into claims that it had rigged initial public offerings of high-tech shares by allocating big tranches to favoured customers in return for a slice of the profits in the form of inflated commissions. Zurich Financial Services reshuffled its top management yet again. Dinos Iordanou, who had been promoted to head of group operations last year and was tipped to take over the top job, left to run an insurance start-up. Perhaps as a result, Converium, a reinsurance business Zurich has spun off, made a quiet stockmarket debut. The weak economy claimed more victims at American Express. It announced that up to 6,500 more jobs would go, on top of the 7,700 announced in the past 12 months, a total of 15% of its workforce. Compaq's merger with Hewlett-Packard seemed doomed after the Packard foundation rejected the deal. Hewlett family members had already dismissed the merger; together they own 18% of the company. Compaq shares sank, but both it and HP optimistically insisted that the deal would succeed with the aid of institutional shareholders. See article: Carly Fiorina of Hewlett-Packard Telecom troubles The global telecoms slump hit Eastern Europe. Telekomunikacja Polska announced that it would get rid of 12,000 employees next year, some 20% of its workforce. France Telecom, which acquired 35% of the former state monopoly from the Polish government last year, had said that job cuts would come but had agreed with powerful unions that it would wait four years. Struggling British Telecom appointed Ben Verwaayen, a Dutchman from struggling Lucent Technologies, as its new chief executive, to replace Sir Peter Bonfield, who recently said he would depart from BT a year ahead of schedule. Nokia provided some relief from the gloom surrounding high-tech companies. The Finnish mobile-phone behemoth announced that fourth-quarter profits were likely to be better than previously forecast after handsets sold in greater quantities than expected. But fourth-quarter profits will not match last year's; and its infrastructure business still languishes. Consignia, once known as Britain's Post Office, may have to lay off some 30,000 workers over the next year and a half, twice previous estimates for redundancies needed to save costs as postal growth slips. Unions reacted to the state-owned company's announcement with outrage and threatened to strike. Yahoo!, the world's biggest Internet portal, made an unsolicited offer of $436m for HotJobs, a careers website that was planning to merge with its rival, TMP Worldwide. Drug culture Corporate Japan suffered its biggest foreign intrusion with the purchase by Roche of a controlling interest in Chugai, a large drug company, for up to ¥198 billion ($1.59 billion). The Swiss drug firm assuaged Japanese sensitivities by dressing the deal up as an alliance with Roche as an invited partner. Pfizer threatened to stop supplying France with new medicines in protest at the country's drug-pricing policies. It hopes competitors will join the struggle to squeeze extra cash from France's government; it would go to research and developing better cures, says Pfizer. Merck shocked investors and sent its shares reeling with the news that profits would not grow in 2002. The American drug firm blamed the expiry of patents and slowing sales. Fixing the car maker Fiat unveiled plans for a restructuring that would see the loss of 6,000 jobs, the sale of non-core assets and the possible demise of up to 18 of its factories. The head of its car-making division, Roberto Testore, resigned. See article: Fiat's problems Five German banks felt the wrath of the European Commission. In its latest round of cartel-busting, the commission levied fines of euro101m ($90.4m) for fixing commissions on the exchange of the 12 euro-area currencies since 1997. Three banks said they would appeal. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here:
Arab world calls video a fraud [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- AP; Reuters. 13 December 2001. Poor Sound Quality Fuels Suspicions in the Arab World of a U.S. Scheme; Many in Arab World Call Bin Laden Video a Fake. CAIRO -- Poor sound quality and reliance on U.S. government translations significantly lessened the impact of the latest Osama bin Laden videotape in the Arab world and fueled suspicion of a U.S. scheme to blame Muslims for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Is that possible! I can't believe bin Laden did it. The translation is wrong and we hardly heard his voice. America just wants to implicate Muslims, said Nadia Saqr, an Egyptian mother of two. In the tape released Thursday by the Pentagon, there was no finger-waving or grandiose threats and bin Laden referred to the Sept. 11 attacks in a casual tone. Over dinner with his aides in the tape released Thursday, bin Laden recited a poem about freedom and struggle and teased his spokesman, Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, because he had known nothing about the Sept. 11 attacks. Not everyone knew, bin Laden said in the tape. It was a striking contrast to previous tapes. Coupled with poor sound quality and U.S. government translations, the tape released by the Pentagon instead of the Al-Jazeera station, left many Arab skeptics. In Jordan, political analyst Labib Kamhawi said, at most, the video shows bin Laden praising the attacks, but does not prove that bin Laden was responsible for them. In a recruiting video released after the October 2000 suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden, bin Laden praised the deadly bombing but did not claim responsibility. I think this recording is forged ... I don't believe this tape is authentic, said Sheikh Mohammad Saleh, a Saudi cleric. Ali, a Saudi civil servant, concurred. The picture is real but the voice is not. It could be a voice over, he said. He had to watch the videotape on a regional satellite station as Saudi state television failed to broadcast it. Do the Americans really think the world is that stupid to think that they would believe that this tape is evidence? asked Abdul Latif Arabiat, head of Jordan's mainstream Islamist party the Islamic Action Front. In my view this tape has been fabricated by Washington to condemn bin Laden and conceal America's ugly crimes in Afghanistan, said Yousef Abdul Hamid, an Amman taxi driver. A less skeptical Bahraini man said: If the recording was real, it only adds that bin Laden was aware of the incident but not necessarily that he had planned it.'' It is possible that another group was behind it but had informed bin Laden about their plan, he concluded from the muffled tape, which was accompanied by an official U.S. translation which some Arabs described as inaccurate. U.S. forces are bombing an area in Afghanistan where bin Laden and followers are believed holed up. If the tape says anything it says the Americans are still looking for evidence, but evidence should come before and not after, a Gulf academic said. The whole thing seems far-fetched. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fw: [CubaNews] Miami 5: Herald Recounts Bizarre Scene in Courtroom [WWW.STOPNATO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Forward from mart. Please distribute widely. JUSTICE FOR THE MIAMI 5! FREE THE CUBAN PATRIOTS! JAIL THE GUSANO TERRORISTS!! - Original Message - From: NY Transfer News Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:33 PMSubject: [CubaNews] Miami 5: Herald Recounts Bizarre Scene in CourtroomVia NY Transfer News * All the News That Doesn't Fit[The Brothers to the rescue thugs present a "plea" but GerardoHernandez offers a "diatribe." The words "patriot" and "extremist"are in quotation marks when Cuban say them, etc., etc... And ofcourse, no one on whom Uncle $am smiles can ever be a terrorist.Without further comment, we present the weird article produced by theMiami Herald, which promulgates the myth that Gerardo Hernandez wassentenced to life in prison for killing gusanos in Brothers tothe Rescue Planes in February, 1996. Apparently the judge was underthe same delusion, if the coverage of her statements is accurate.She also seems to think that the Cuban military could have simplyordered the planes to land and taken the gusanos into cuwstody! Whatplanet is this woman living on? Guess that's what the US should havedone on September 11th, also, and saved everyone a lot of grief.Unlike Isabel Garcia-Sarza's Reuter's report just posted, the Heraldavoids emphasizing the word 'conspiracy' which of course was theactual charge. The obviously hysterical atmosphere in the Miamicourtroom, during the trial and during sentencing arguments, shouldbe sufficient evidence alone for the convictions to the thrown out onappeal. The arrests themselves were patently political, but evengranting the legitimacy of the arrests and charges -- a big leap --there was absolutely no excuse for denying a change of venue andtrying these people in the 3-ring circus that is Miami. ]source - JosePertierra@aol. comThe Miami Herald - December 13, 2001Cuban spy gets life for 1996 shoot-down [sic]Maximum penalty for "patriot"by Gail Epstein NievesIn front of his mother and his Cuban compatriots, spymaster GerardoHernandez a convicted murderer in the United States but a patriot-- in his homeland -- was sentenced Wednesday to two life terms, themaximum possible punishment and the outcome sought by tearful relatives of four men killed in the 1996 Brothers to the Rescue shoot-down. U. S. District Judge Joan Lenard meted out the sentence after hearinggruelingly emotional pleas from the Brothers relatives and a40-minute diatribe from Hernandez, 36, a career Cuban intelligenceagent who supervised other South Florida-based spies.Hernandez's speech defiantly condemned his prosecutors, jurors,Brothers' founder Jose Basulto, U. S. foreign policy and -- most ofall -- the Cuban exile community, but acknowledged no guilt forhimself.Lenard disagreed, finding that despite several "wrongful andprovocative" violations of Cuban airspace by Brothers, asearch-and-rescue group, Cuba's act of blasting two Cessnas from thesky was not a reasonable response and deserved to be fully punished.Hernandez conspired with his bosses in Havana to murder the fliers,the jury found.JUDGE'S COMMENT"What more could they have done?" Lenard said, repeating a questionthat Hernandez's lawyer, Paul McKenna, posed about the Cubanresponse. "They could have brought the planes down and taken thosepersons into custody. "The actions of the planes in February 1996were much less extreme than the actions taken by this defendant andothers in executing a conspiracy to commit murder," she said.Fliers Carlos Costa, Armando Alejandre, Mario de la Pena and PabloMorales perished in the shoot-down over international waters. Theirbodies were never recovered -- "pulverized up in the air," Morales'frail mother, Eva Barba, cried to the judge, prompting snifflesaround the courtroom.NOT A MARTYRMichael Mendez, Costa's nephew, told the judge that while some peoplecall his uncle a martyr, he disagrees. The dictionary, he said,defines the word as someone who chooses to die. "He never chose todie. Mr. Hernandez made that choice for him," Mendez said.Outside the courtroom, relatives of the dead men said they were happywith the sentence and the trial but they hope the government willcontinue to pursue Cuban President Fidel Castro and others who gaveorders or fired missiles in the attack. "We have a life sentence ofour own," said Maggie Khuly, Alejandre's sister. "We will never stopour fight for justice until every person responsible for the murders"is held accountable. U. S. Attorney Guy Lewis, as is his policy,wouldn't say whether an indictment against Castro is contemplated.But he said Hernandez's life sentences send a message to other spiesthat they will be punished if they're caught. The case wasprosecuted by Caroline Heck Miller, John Kastrenakes and DavidBuckner."FAIR TRIAL"Two jurors who watched the sentencing also applauded the sentence. Eugene Yagle and David G. Buker said that
80,000 at EU summit demo [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- AP. 13 December 2001. 80,000 Hold Peaceful Demonstration Ahead of EU Leaders Summit. BRUSSELS, Belgium -- Some 80,000 people marched through the Belgian capital Thursday, demanding the European Union give labor unions a larger role in shaping social policy and do more to cut unemployment. The march came on the eve of a two-day summit of EU leaders that is expected to draw anti-globalization activists from across Europe for three other planned demonstrations. Police have stepped up security, fearing a repeat of the violent protests that have accompanied gatherings in recent years. However, Thursday's march was peaceful. This is an appeal for a more social Europe, we are not against Europe, said Waltraud Etz, spokeswoman at the European Trade Union Confederation, which organized Thursday's march. We want more jobs and better quality jobs as the economic situation isn't great, she said. The group, which represents 60 million European workers from 25 countries, demands quality public services, more workers rights, improved safety conditions at the workplace and an EU commitment to tone down today's unbridled globalization. Unions and other groups presented Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, who is hosting the summit, with a declaration setting out their demands. A separate declaration was handed over by a group of 45 activist organizations calling on EU leaders to send a strong signal that the EU is firmly committed to the eradication of poverty. Meanwhile Belgian police detained 43 anti-globalization protesters near the city center, after they chained themselves to an abandoned building, protesting the lack of housing in Brussels for visiting demonstrators. City police Commissioner Christian De Coninck said the protesters were apprehended as a precaution. This was an action by people that are well organized. We are ready for them, he said. Thirty of the detained activists came from France, five from Greece, two from Ireland, and two from Australia, police said, adding that all non-Belgian nationals detained were told to leave the country after being released. The other activists detained were Belgian. Wary of a repeat of violent summit protests in recent years, Brussels police are taking tough security measures and deploying 3,000 police officers for the summit. Police helicopters and water cannons were deployed alongside riot police and horse patrols on the streets, officials said. Belgian air force F-16 fighters were also to be placed on alert as the threat of a possible terrorist attack looms large after the events of Sept. 11. Large areas around the wooded grounds of the royal palace of Laeken - the summit venue - were off-limits to demonstrators as well as the downtown houses of parliament and the Grand' Place, Brussels' historic central square. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews with photo attachments of the demo ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Fw: [FreeTitoKayak] Situación de Tito Kayak [WWW.STOPNATO
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- U.S. NAVY OUT OF VIEQUES! FREE TITO KAYAK! NOW!!- Original Message - From: freetitokayak To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 4:40 PMSubject: [FreeTitoKayak] Situación de Tito Kayak(English summary below)Tito Kayak continua recluido en solitaria desde el 30 de noviembre. Nadie ha podido visitarlo desde entonces ya que se le retiraron las visitas como parte del castigo adicional que le han impuesto. Es importante que le *escriban* al alcaide de la prisión, Gregory Park, pidiendo información las razones por las cuales Tito se encuentra en solitaria. Además, pregúntenle sobre el traslado de Tito a Puerto Rico. El número de fax que habíamos enviado anteriormente no está funcionando así que es necesario enviar las cartas por correo. Puedes escribir o llamar a:Gregory ParkWardenMetropolitan Correctional Center- Manhattan150 Park RowNew York, NY 10007(212)240-9656--Tito Kayak continues to be in solitary confinement. It is important that we write to the warden asking for Tito's removal from that area, besides inquiring about the status of Tito's return to Puerto Rico.You may send your letters to:Gregory ParkWardenMetropolitan Correctional Center- Manhattan150 Park RowNew York, NY 10007(212)240-9656===To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://TOPICA.COM/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: BBC: Osama Bin Laden transcript excerpt [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Interesting. They even got Bin Laden to make his estimate on tape, with his vast experience, that the fire would melt the iron structure. I seem to remember the BBC saying soon after 9/11 that the fire would have reached 800 degrees celsius. The fact that the melting point of iron is 1538 degrees celsius is neither here nor there. Bin Laden, the mastermind, has surely swotted for his Evil Science exams and knows his stuff. From: Barry Stoller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BBC: Osama Bin Laden transcript excerpt [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:10:38 -0500 HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Bin Laden 'surrounded' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- CNN (with additional material by Reuters). 13 December 2001. Official: Bin Laden surrounded in caves. WASHINGTON -- The United States believes opposition fighters and U.S. troops have surrounded Osama bin Laden in a cave complex near Tora Bora, a senior military official told CNN Thursday. The official would not be specific about the size of the area bin Laden was believed to be in. While acknowledging bin Laden could still slip out of the Tora Bora area, the official said, Wouldn't it be a great Christmas gift if we can get him before Christmas? We think he's in Afghanistan, we are chasing him, he is hiding, he does not want us to know where he is, we are asking everyone we can to help, said Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld earlier on Thursday. The Afghan Islamic Press said U.S. special forces landed overnight in Tora Bora and that U.S. helicopters had increased their flights between Tora Bora and an airport in Jalalabad. Meanwhile, anti-Taliban and U.S. forces continued to hunt for Taliban ruler Mullah Mohammed Omar and his supporters. The best U.S. intelligence indicated Omar was in Helmond province, to the west of Kandahar, a senior military official said. Eastern Alliance commanders had given al Qaeda fighters until noon local time to surrender bin Laden and his inner circle. After the deadline passed, al Qaeda fighters told CNN in a radio conversation they would not end their holy war until the United States is destroyed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Barry Stoller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ProletarianNews ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
CARLA DEL PONTE'S STRATEGY REJECTED IN MILOSEVIC TRIAL [WWW.STOPN
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- CARLA DEL PONTE'S STRATEGY REJECTED IN MILOSEVIC TRIAL Chief Prosecutor of the Hague Court sees her strategy fail as judge rejects plan to join three charges into one case. Milosevic calls accusations absurd, claiming he should be given credit for his part in peace. Carla del Ponte, the Chief prosecutor of the International Court of Justice, at The Hague, one which the United States of America does not recognise, tried to tie three accusations against Slobodan Milosevic together into one case. She claimed that the case was the same, namely the attempt to create a Greater Serbia at the expense of ethnic cleansing in Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. The ex-President of Yugoslavia called this accusation monstrous and stated that Serbia was a multi-ethnic state in which there has never been discrimination founded on an ethnic or religious criterion. Furthermore, he accused Carla del Ponte of trying to cover up the connections between the Clinton administration and the Albanian terrorists, connected to Al-Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden's terrorist movement. Slobodan Milosevic called the attempt to blame him for genocide in the Balkans supremely absurd because being one of the signatories of the Dayton agreement, he had been instrumental in signing an end to the conflict. He claimed he should be given credit for the peace in Bosnia and not for the war. The British judge presiding over the case, Brian May, refused to allow Carla del Ponte's strategy to be adopted and declared that two charges would be brought in two separate cases. The first will be tried on January 12th, on Slobodan Milosevic's role during the Kosovo conflict, 1999. The second, regarding the conflicts in Croatia and Bosnia between 1991 and 1995, will be judged later, due to the need for more time to collect the data. Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY PRAVDA.Ru ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Russia would regret US withdrawal [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Title: Message HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Russia would regret US withdrawal BRASILIA - Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said on Wednesday his country would "very much regret" if the United States withdrew from the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) treaty. The White House told congressional leaders the United States plans to withdraw from the pact viewed by Russia, European allies and Democrats as a cornerstone of international arms control, Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle said. Daschle, a South Dakota Democrat, said congressional leaders were informed of the decision at a meeting with President George W. Bush and other White House officials. A formal announcement could come as early as Thursday, a U.S. official said. Kasyanov, who was visiting Brazil, said his government's position on a possible U.S. withdrawal from the treaty is well known. "We would very much regret if they left the treaty," Kasyanov told journalists in Brasilia. "What worries us is strategic stability." The Bush administration has said the time is near to move beyond the ABM treaty, which bars the kind of multibillion-dollar national missile defense system it wants to develop to protect the country and its allies from states such as North Korea and Iraq. In Moscow on Wednesday the Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian Foreign Ministry official as saying Moscow was aware of the U.S. intention and that it was "not dramatizing this situation and will keep an attentive eye on the development of events." A formal U.S. move to withdraw requires six months' notice, so any announcement would signal the start of this period. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Russia and the United States "still have disagreements" on ABM after talks in Moscow this week. -Reuters ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Two Jewish Defense League Leaders Arrested In LA Terror Bomb Plot [WWW.STOPNATO.
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Two Jewish Defense League Leaders Arrested In LA Terror Bomb Plot http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495article=13323 LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) - Two leaders of the Jewish Defense League were arrested by federal authorities Wednesday in an aborted plot to blow up an unidentified Los Angeles institution, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Los Angeles. Irv Rubin and Earl Krugel were taking into federal custody Wednesday following early morning raids by members of an anti-terrorism task force, said spokesman Thom Mrozek. We are working on a complaint charging Rubin and Krugel to blow some type of target based on an inside informant, said Mrozek. The plot was not carried out. Rubin is identified as the group's chairman on the Web site. The Jewish Defense League is a militant Los Angeles-based group that advocates use of all necessary means -- even strength, force and violence to defend the interests of Jews, as well as the return of all Jews to Israel, according to its Web site. Its logo contains a silhouette of a clenched fist over the Star of David. The organization was originally formed by Meir Kahane to mount armed response to anti-Semitic acts in New York City. It gained notoriety when its members were linked to bombings, most of them aimed at Soviet targets in retaliation for the way that country treated its Jewish population. Kahane left the JDL and moved to Israel. A power struggle ensued, with Rubin among the contenders for its leadership. Kahane was assassinated in New York in 1990. El Sayyid Nosair, 36, an Egyptian-born Muslim, was convicted in connection with the shooting. http://www.rense.com/general17/lead.htm ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Re: Billical phrase A plague on both your houses! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- - Original Message - From: Rolf Martens [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 7:09 AM Subject: Re: Billical phrase A plague on both your houses! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- I meant above all the houses of traditional capitalism and imperialism, on the one hand, and revisionism, as represented not least by the social-imperialist Soviet Union and its adherents from the 60s on. And the two are as bad as each other, then? Plaguingly, Bill. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Iran Slams Western Double Standard on Palestine Issue [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Iran Slams Western Double Standard on Palestine Issue. Iran on Wednesday slammed the West for its double standard on Palestinian crisis, saying that double standard and discrimination against the Palestinians will further exacerbate the situation in the Middle East. Iran on Wednesday slammed the West for its double standard on Palestinian crisis, saying that double standard and discrimination against the Palestinians will further exacerbate the situation in the Middle East. The big mistake the Westerners have made is that they do not differentiate between the occupier and those under occupation, and the oppressors and the oppressed, Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi said during a meeting with German Deputy Foreign Minister Jurgen Chrobog. He expressed concern about the Zionist (Israel ) regime's aggressions and crimes against Palestinians, saying that putting pressure on the Palestinian resistance groups and labeling them as terrorist organizations are unacceptable and unjustified. On Monday, European Union (EU) foreign ministers issued a communique labeling the Palestinian resistance groups as terrorist networks and called on Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to dismantle them. If certain states see themselves indebted to the Zionist regime, why should the Palestinians pay the price? Kharazi questioned. They should not urge the Palestinians to give up the legitimate rights on their behalf, he stressed. Iran, which does not recognize Israel, firmly supports Palestinians' struggles to restore their legitimate national rights. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Korean Central News Agency Dec 12 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 10:02 AM Subject: Korean Central News Agency Dec 12 TODAY'S NEWS (December.12.2001 Juche 90) [CONTENTS] * U.S. denounced for suppressing Jeju uprising * Chongryon's struggle supported * Japanese authorities urged to halt their crackdown upon Chongryon * End to Japan's political suppression of Chongryon demanded * Lifting of emergency alert measure urged in S. Korea * Japanese reactionaries hit for suspected kidnapping racket * Anguk temple, one of architectural heritage * DPRK ambassador to Bulgaria appointed For Spanish-speaking people * rodong sinmun condena a autoridades japonesas por represion sobre chongryon * declaracion de vocero de cc de union juvenil de corea U.S. denounced for suppressing Jeju uprising Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The solidarity for the implementation of the south-north joint declaration released a statement on December 8 denouncing the U.S. for commanding the operation to suppress the uprising of Jeju islanders in 1948, according to a news report. The South Korean newspaper Hangyore carried the testimonies made by the then U.S. military advisors who were active on the island to prove that the U.S. was chiefly responsible for putting down the popular uprising on Jeju Island. The recent disclosure is just part of the many testimonies that the U.S. military government commanded the massacre of civilians on the island, the statement said, and continued: GIs have killed so many innocent Koreans since the time they landed in South Korea. All the Koreans in the south, the north and overseas will pool their strength to force the U.S. to pay for its bestial atrocities and drive GIs out of Korea without fail. Chongryon's struggle supported Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The council of the National Movement Organization of Koreans in the U.S. and the Association of Koreans in the Eastern U.S. sent letters of solidarity to the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon) and compatriots in Japan. They expressed belief that Chongryon would emerge victorious in its struggle to shatter the Japanese reactionaries' moves to crack down upon Chongryon and defend its organization. The council in a letter sent to Chongryon on Dec. 6 said that the council and Koreans from all walks of life in the U.S. extended with warm compatriotic feelings firm solidarity to the Chongryon officials and compatriots in Japan in their just struggle to foil the Japanese authorities' repressive campaign. The letter expressed the conviction that the Koreans in Japan would unite close under the banner of patriotism lifted high by Chongryon and surely check the Japanese government authorities' repressive moves and overcome the present ordeals. The Association of Koreans in the Eastern U.S. in a letter sent to Chongryon on Dec. 5 said: The Japanese authorities are cracking down upon Chongryon, a legitimate organization of the DPRK, far from apologizing for Japan's crime-woven past. This is an unpardonable criminal act and a vicious challenge to the dignified DPRK which regards its sovereignty as its life and soul. The letter urged the Japanese authorities to halt the political suppression of Chongryon at once, apologize for it and unconditionally and immediately release those unreasonably arrested. Japanese authorities urged to halt their crackdown upon Chongryon Pyongyang, December 12 (KCNA) -- The Asian Regional Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification, the All-India Indo-Korean Friendship Association and the Indian Committee for Supporting Korea's Reunification issued a statement on Dec. 4 condemning the Japanese authorities' suppression of the General Association of Korean Residents in Japan (Chongryon). The statement said: The Japanese authorities searched the central and local headquarters of Chongryon, a dignified overseas citizens' organization of the DPRK, after pulling up Chongryon without any clear legal ground, and arrested the former director of the financial department of its central standing committee. This was a high-handed political suppression of Chongryon and the Koreans in Japan and a wanton violation of the dignity and sovereignty of the DPRK. The Japanese authorities should immediately stop their anachronistic anti-DPRK moves to mislead the world public opinion by craftily taking advantage of the recent complicated international situation and fish in the troubled waters
China Concerned over US Planned Withdrawal from ABM [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . . FM Spokeswoman: China Concerned over US Planned Withdrawal from ABM. China is opposed to the buildup of a national missile defense system by the United States,and is concerned over its plan to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. China is opposed to the buildup of a national missile defense system by the United States ,and is concerned over its plan to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Zhang Qiyue made the remarks at a press conference here Thursday. She said it is a matter of great importance to maintain the international system of arms control and disarmament and the world's strategic balance and stability. China hoped that the U.S. will listen to the advice from the international community, and take careful steps on the issue of the ABM treaty, she said. Zhang said that the United Nations General Assembly has adopteda resolution calling for joint efforts to strengthen and preserve the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty for consecutive three years. On November 29, the United Nations General Assembly once again passed the resolution, which fully demonstrated that the world hoped to keep the resolution and its function of maintaining worldpeace and stability, said Zhang. She pointed out that China and the United States are important countries in the world, sharing same responsibilities and interests in maintaining the global peace. She added, China is always ready to join hands with the international community for the issue concerned, and hopes that the countries concerned could find solutions through constructive dialogue. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Report: Hunger, Homelessness Rise in U.S. [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] [Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] . .Report: Hunger, Homelessness Rise in U.S. Requests for emergency food and shelter assistance are on the rise in American cities this year as the nation slipped into recession, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Requests for emergency food and shelter assistance are on the rise in American cities this year as the nation slipped into recession, according to a survey released on Wednesday by the U.S. Conference of Mayors. Twenty-five out of 27 large cities surveyed reported an increase in request for emergency food assistance. Those requests climbed an average 23 percent in the last year, the survey found. The survey also found that 19 cities reported increases in requests for emergency shelter compared to last year. Those requests rose an average of 13 percent in the last year. This survey underscores the real impact of the economic slowdown on real people, New Orleans Mayor Marc Morial, the conference's president said at a news conference in Washington. Two thirds of the cities said they were unable to provide an adequate amount of food for those in need and 85 percent said they had cut either the size of the meals they provided or the number of times people could come to get food. In Santa Monica, California, food requests are up 50 percent, the mayors said. Other cities reporting large increases in hunger include Phoenix, Arizona, 44 percent; Charlotte, North Carolina, 42 percent, Salt Lake city, Utah, 35 percent, and Portland, Oregon, 34 percent. The report cited the economic effects of the September 11 attacks and the recession as reasons for the surge in hunger and homelessness. All cities surveyed said they expected the trend to continue into next year. ==^ This email was sent to: archive@jab.org EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^
Peace walk to Washington, DC, starting in Berkeley 1-21-02 [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Lake Merritt Neighbors Organized for Peace walks around Lake Merritt in Oakland each Sunday at 3. These folks seem a little more ambitious than that! The following message arrived today. Please forward hither yon. - Steve -- Peace-by-Peace journey begins in Berkeley on MLK Day, 1-21-02 -- December 4, 2001 Dear Friends, I hope this letter finds you well, healthy and strong in body, mind, and spirit. In about 7 weeks, the Peace-by-Peace journey will begin. We have a lot of preparation ahead of us, and hope you can help in any way you feel moved to do so. The following letter has our updated route, web site, and PO Box, as well as general information. Please feel free to circulate! May peace grow in all our hearts. We are writing to invite you to participate with us in a peace movement. On Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, January 21, 2002, a small group of people from the Bay Area, will begin a walk starting in Berkeley, California, and ending in Washington D.C., on September 11, 2002. We call this walk, peace-by-peace. Inspired by Peace Pilgrim and precipitated by recent global events, this walk is a prayer of and for peace. It is a moving meditation centered in each of our own quests for inner peace, as well as our collective desire to actively participate in creating a world where we can live together equitably and harmoniously. We invite you to join us on our walk, for a mile, an hour, a day, or all the way to Washington DC! Our route will begin in Berkeley California on January 21, 2002 and take us through the California Central Valley. We will then travel through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia arriving in Washington DC on September 11,2002. (Please see the end of this letter for a list of major cities on our route.) We are seeking opportunities to meet in fellowship with: peace organizations, churches, spiritual/intentional communities, student peace groups, schools, labor union groups and any other interested organizations and individuals along the way. We welcome all spiritual/practical/logistical/financial support, especially by way of fellowship, food, lodging, on our journey. We thank you, and whole-heartedly appreciate your participation and support. We who work for peace must not falter. We must continue to pray for peace and to act for peace in whatever way we can, we must continue to speak for peace and to live the way of peace; to inspire others, we must continue to think of peace and to know that peace is possible. Ultimate peace begins within. When we find peace within there will be no more conflict, no more occasion for war. - Peace Pilgrim *Our website is under construction and should be up in a few weeks: http://www.walkforpeace. *If you are local to the Bay Area and would like to be contacted for our upcoming benefit/send-off party, please send your name address and phone number to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. We have a great evening planned at the Black Box Theater at 1932 Telegraph Ave. in Downtown Oakland. Save the date: Saturday January 5th, 2002 (from 5pm to midnight). *If you are unable to participate in the walk, but would like to help: prayers, meditations and thoughts of well wishing are deeply appreciated. *If you would like to send a donation to help with expenses, no amount is too small. All money will go directly to food, camping costs, support vehicle, and some will be given back to the communities which have hosted us along the way. (See the end of this letter for where to send donations). Major cities on our route: Walkers will be needing shelter in all these locations, other than the National Monuments/Parks. (Updates and estimated arrival dates will be on our website once it is up and running). California: Berkeley, Oakland, Hayward, San Jose, Coyote, Morgan Hill, Gilroy, Hollister, Tres Pinos, Paicines, Pinnacles Nat'l Monument, Priest Valley, Parkfield, Cholame, Blackwell's Corner, Lost Hills, Wasco, Shafter, Rosedale, Green-Acres, Edison, Keene, Tehachapi; Willow Springs, Lancaster, El Mirage, Adelanto (alternate route: Mojave, North Edwards, Kramer Junction, Barstow); Victorville, Apple Valley, Lucern Valley, Joshua Tree, Joshua Tree Nat'l Monument, Salton Sea Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, Niland; Calipatria Alamorio, El Centro, Holtville (alternate route: Glamis); Winterhaven; Yuma, Arizona: Phoenix, Blythe, Globe New Mexico: Lordsburg, Alamagordo, Roswell Texas: Amarillo Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, Tulsa Arkansas: Springdale, Harrison, Mountain Home, Janesboro Tennessee: Memphis, Fayetteville, Jackson, Nashville, Chatanooga North Carolina: Silva, Asheville FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: [EMAIL PROTECTED], or call 510-644-9260 SEND DONATIONS TO: Peace-by-Peace 2124 Kittredge St. PMB #250 Berkeley, Ca. 94704 In Gratitude, Peace-by-Peace (Angela, Lisa, Roya, Kasha, Amanda,
US Army Confirms Making Anthrax in Recent Years [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
Title: Message HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- Published on Thursday, December 13, 2001 in the Baltimore Sun US Army Confirms Making Anthrax in Recent Years by Scott Shane The U.S. Army's Dugway Proving Ground confirmed last night that it has produced dry anthrax powder in recent years but said the anthrax has been "well-protected" and is all accounted for. The Dugway statement was issued in response to an article in The Sun yesterday revealing that the Army facility in the Utah desert has produced weapons-grade anthrax identical in important respects to the anthrax used in the postal attacks. The statement is the first admission that any U.S. government program has produced the lethal dry powder since the offensive biological weapons program was closed in 1969. "This is very significant," said Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, a molecular biologist who heads a working group on biological weapons at the Federation of American Scientists. "There's never been an acknowledgment that any U.S. facility had weaponized anthrax." Rosenberg, who has theorized that the anthrax in the letters might have come from a U.S. government program or contractor, said Dugway's assurances about security do not necessarily rule out leakage of the tiny amounts used in the bioterrorist attacks. "The question is, could someone have gotten hold of a very small amount and used it in the letters?" said Rosenberg, of the State University of New York. 5 deaths since October The term "weapons-grade" means that the anthrax particles are tiny enough - 1 to 5 microns - to be readily inhaled and deposited in the lungs. A sufficient dose produces inhalation anthrax, which is blamed for killing five people since October. Some of the anthrax produced by Dugway has matched the fine particle size and extraordinary concentration of the powder mailed to Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, estimated at close to 1 trillion spores per gram, according to a government scientist. In addition, the mailed anthrax is genetically indistinguishable from the Ames strain used by the Army, the most sophisticated test methods show. Neither the physical nor the genetic match proves that the terrorist used anthrax from Dugway. Ames-strain anthrax has been used in numerous laboratories, and a person with microbiology training and access to the right equipment might have been able to concoct the deadly powder. But many experts think it more likely that the attacks are linked to a government program, either in the United States or another country. Staff questioned by FBI The FBI appears to be taking seriously the possibility of a link to Dugway. Personnel working with anthrax, all of whom have been vaccinated against the bacteria, have been questioned at length by investigators. A government official familiar with the Dugway program said about a half-dozen scientists there have the expertise to make dry anthrax. No one with such expertise has left the program in recent years, the official said. The unsigned, two-page Dugway statement e-mailed to reporters last night says scientists there "routinely" make anthrax to test decontamination methods and equipment designed to detect biological agents. It confirms The Sun's report that most experiments use simulants or anthrax spores inactivated by radiation, but certain tests "must be performed with live agents." It gives no details about the strain, production methods or physical qualities of the anthrax made at Dugway for aerosol testing. 'Rigorous tracking' The statement confirms that anthrax in the form of a paste has been shipped for irradiation to the Army's biodefense center at Fort Detrick in Frederick. It says the shipments followed "stringent federal regulations" and never involved dry anthrax powder. "All anthrax used at Dugway has been accounted for," the statement says. "There is a rigorous tracking and inventory program to follow the production, receipt and destruction of all select agents. The facility is well-protected with robust physical and personnel security systems." The statement says the Army is cooperating with the FBI and "will not comment further on any aspect of its bio testing program" until the investigation concludes. The Environmental Impact Statement prepared in 1992 for the Life Sciences Test Facility at Dugway, where much of the work is done, lists some of the biological agents to be used there. They include
