FW: Bizarre!! [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- Bad taste perhaps,but hilariously insensitive!! Date: Sun, 27 May 2001 12:27:30 +0200 From: Mario Profaca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Storm brewing over hurricane named Israel Storm brewing over hurricane named Israel http://www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/05/25/News/News.26925.html By Elli Wohlgelernter JERUSALEM (May 25) - As if Israel does not have a big enough public relations problems in the world, the name Israel is set to be used this summer on a UN agency's list of typhoons and hurricanes. The consequence of a devastating storm named Israel causing massive destruction and death - with the accompanying headlines - has enraged Jewish leaders, who called it bizarre, stupid, and insensitive. In addition to Israel, the name Adolph is on the same alphabetized list of Eastern North Pacific Names for 2001, further fueling the indignation of Jewish groups. Max Mayfield, director of the National Hurricane Center in Miami and chairman of the UN's hurricane naming committee, told The Jerusalem Post that no one on the committee thought about the implications of the name Israel. We have four billion people on the planet, and you are the only person I've ever had express a concern about the name Israel, which he called a good Spanish name. Adolph, added Mayfield, is not the German spelling, and there are a lot of good people with the name Adolph, too. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, expressed outrage over the use of either name. How about Jesus? Foxman asked. That's another good Spanish name. They wouldn't name a hurricane Jesus, would they? If there were a headline that said 'Jesus hits Philippines,' a lot of people would be upset. It is totally insensitive. One would have hoped that people who have the responsibility of picking names would have a greater sensitivity about what names reflect. Adolph, in the lifetime of people still alive, to name anything after [that] by an international body is offensive and hideous. There are 10 regional storm areas with lists of tropical storm names. Other first names that are also countries, for example Jordan and Chad, do not appear on any list. I understand that there may have been a lack of understanding in terms of Israel, but there, too, one should look at every name that they pick from 14 views, and test them out in 14 ways, Foxman said. Names for hurricanes are provided by a 25-man international naming committee under Regional Association IV of the World Meteorological Organization, a Geneva-based UN agency. The committee, which meets once a year, approved of the list at the last meeting in April. There is a certain terrible irony to naming a hurricane Israel, given that the Nazis forced Jewish males who did not have what they considered to be a distinctly Jewish name to add the name Israel as a middle name, said Efraim Zuroff, Israel director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. It was done in order to make sure that they were clearly identified as Jews, and therefore subject to the racial laws and other discriminatory measures. With all our current security problems and the concurrent struggle over Israel's image in world opinion, a killer hurricane named Israel is the last thing we need, said Zuroff. I shudder to think how terrible it would be in Muslim countries in the Far East if they found themselves suffering from a storm by that name. All we can hope is that if a hurricane is named Israel, it will be the least destructive one in recent history. Mort Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America, mused whether the use of both names wasn't intentional hatred against Jews. It's funny that in an era when almost no one names their children Adolph, for them to name a hurricane Adolph forces one to question their motive, Klein said. It seems likely that this group has employed this name, which brings up ugly memories, simply to show hostility toward the Jewish people. With the UN's record of anti-Israel policy, it does not seem far-fetched that they have now come up with a new method to bash Israel. The WMO states on its Web site that not all names are used: The use of people's names for this purpose is, however, not done everywhere. The practice of naming storms, which usually bring destruction, after persons appears to run counter to Oriental sensibilities. Thus, Asians, like the Japanese and Chinese, prefer to name their storms after other living things and also after inanimate objects like flowers, rivers, etc. Both Mayfield and Arthur Dania, president of Regional Association IV, said there was no possibility this year of removing the names from the list. There is no mechanism to change it, and we certainly would not consider
Re: FW: [TW] Dando bullet's 'Serbian markings' [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- On 20 Jun 2001, at 12:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is most common in ammunition made by the Soviet Union, the eastern bloc and Yugoslavia because of the environment of the gun's use. Considering that Soviet-era light weapons are perhaps the easiest and most available thing on the black market for weapons this finding is completely insignificant. In fact I would be suprised if the assassin didn't use a gun made in the former Soviet-bloc as these are much much harder to trace to their original sources. Furthermore the racist title calling these Serbian markings should be entered into a textbook for ethnic-stereotyping and how demonization is carried out as the title taken with the article as a whole suggests a forensic meaning for the adjective Serbian. cheers! k Sure, Kole. You know, this time is better not to blame the Oglaigh na hEireann bogeyman... Salud, Javier __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NATO to Send Troops to ____________ [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- NATO Reluctantly Prepares to Send Troops to _ By ROBERT BLAWHAARD .c The Dis-Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (June 20) - NATO agreed Wednesday to send troops to all countries in the world, in order to disarm ethnic rebels equipped with weaponry recently supplied to them by NATO. Intervention will take place only if negotiations between rebels and their respective government leaders are successful. Otherwise, invasion will be deemed inevitable. Prospects for an agreement, however, appeared doubtful in one location on Wednesday, as Macedonia's president, Boris Trajkovski, said talks between Slav and ethnic Albanian representatives had stalled. He accused the ethnic Albanians of trying to carve up the country. NATO officials expressed skepticism, saying that the rebels' function was only to destabilize matters sufficiently to justify NATO occupation, and subsequently to disband and prepare to compete with each other in regional mines for the race to the bottom dinar. NATO officials, wearing ski masks and speaking on condition of anonymity, said in a statement that alliance members agreed on a ''concept of confiscation'' to enable NATO to attack swiftly on all fronts. They said the alliance agreed to send brigade-sized forces to supervise the disarming of all Ultra-National Liberation Army fighters anywhere who agree to give up their weapons voluntarily. Although there have been no such offers, one official estimated that 3,000,000 NATO troops would be sufficient to effect the voluntary disarmament program. The troops would remain in the countries ''something like six weeks, or perhaps until the coming of the messiah, one official said. He said the alliance must now prepare a plan to determine the type of force required, and the precise number of truncheons involved. American and British troops would naturally predominate, since their home populations maintain a glazed stupor, reacting with happy gurgles in renewed anticipation of seeing the green trajectory lines of NATO ordinance splayed out on CNN screens. In the Balkans, ethnic Albanian rebels, citing the right to depopulate the region of Slavs, Jews, and Roma, have seized control of several villages in northern Macedonia, beating back government offensives. A shaky cease-fire has been in effect since last week. NATO spokesmen were at a loss to explain why NATO had thus far not employed the traditional response of destroying Macedonia's infrastructure and strafing lines of stragglers. However, this possibility has not been dismissed, since NATO members have ''reaffirmed the urgent need for a successful outcome of the political dialogue, a statement which invariably prefaces full scale NATO hostilities. ''This is a crucial week, Javier Solana told the foreign affairs committee at the European Parliament, as he examined a target map of strategic hospitals, schools and nursing homes. ''We must continue to do the utmost to avoid war in Macedonia,'' he said, unable to stifle his shark-like smile. Copyright 2001 The Dis-Associated Press. The information contained in this DP news report may be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise shredded without the prior written authority of The Dis-Associated Press. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
UNICEF: fall of wall has harmed children [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . - Original Message - From: Downwithcapitalism [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 1:06 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] UNICEF: fall of wall has harmed children Radio Habana Cuba. 19 June 2001. Transition from socialism means suffering for children. STOCKHOLM --Crushing poverty, the rapid spread of AIDS and overwhelming unemployment that reaches over 50% in some regions has affected some 150 million children and youth in 27 countries in transition across Eastern and Central Europe, reports the United Nations Childrens Fund. In a conference entitled A Generation in Peril organized in Stockholm to address the issue, UNICEF reported that 60 million children live in poverty, 18 million young people are without employment, 1.5 million children are housed in public institutions, and 700,000 suffer from HIV/AIDS. Of this last group, a full 50% contracted the virus before the the age of 25. Millions of children are displaced by conflicts occurring in their regions and are thus especially vulnerable to sexual exploitation, extreme violence, crime, drug and alcohol abuse, and suicide. The radical reforms that have come in the wake of major transitions since the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 have had a major negative impact on those living beneath the poverty line across the former Eastern block and Baltic countries. One of the greatest problems has been the inequality of schooling based on ethnic origin, class and gender. After more than a decade of transition it has become clear, says UNICEF, that many of these nations are simply unable or unwilling to care for the millions who fall through the cracks in their weakened social systems. The UNICEF conference is designed as a precursor to the special UN session in September that will address the objectives set forth in the World Children's Summit ten years ago. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Vieques: activism works [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . - Original Message - From: Downwithcapitalism [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 12:55 AM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] Vieques: activism works Associated Press. 19 June 2001. Vieques Protesters Credit Tactics. VIEQUES -- Some sneak onto the bombing range by boat. Others don camouflage and use the cover of night to cut through fences. The idea is to halt bombing practice on Vieques island and being arrested is part of the deal, even for the nephew of President Kennedy and the wife of the Rev. Jesse Jackson. We are not violent criminals even though we have endured the act of shackles and have been treated as common criminals, an indignant Jacqueline Jackson told a federal judge Tuesday. She was jailed because she refused to pay $3,000 bail. Activists working to end the U.S. Navy's six decades of bombing exercises on Vieques claim their peaceful guerrilla tactics succeeded in repeatedly pausing the military maneuvers and contributed to President Bush's surprise announcement last week that the Navy must withdraw in two years. The people of Vieques have defeated the most powerful military apparatus in the history of humanity, activist leader Robert Rabin said Tuesday. Another protest leader, Ismael Guadalupe, said the Navy wasn't bombing Tuesday because protesters were on its prized firing range -- a claim the Navy quickly disputed. Our courage has turned Vieques into a world stage of peaceful protest, Guadalupe said. On Monday, as Navy jets dropped dummy bombs, Jackson walked through a quarter-mile of thick underbrush and woods to breach a Navy fence. She was arrested soon afterward. Protesters say they want to reach the 900-acre beachside bombing range that is on 12,000 acres the Navy owns on the eastern end of the island. The Navy land is protected by a nine-mile arc of fencing that is regularly cut and then repaired. Seven protesters were arrested near the firing range Monday night, said Navy spokesman Lt. Cmdr. Katherine Goode. She said they were caught after they launched several flares, an hour before the Navy began its bombing runs. Protesters use flares to alert the Navy to their presence, and then retreat to avoid arrest, said Luis Angel Torres, a spokesman for the Socialist Movement of Workers. More Navy exercises were scheduled for Tuesday. But Goode said they had not started by late afternoon because fighter jets were performing defensive maneuvers. Vieques Commissioner Juan Fernandez, who observes the exercises for the Puerto Rican government, said the maneuvers were delayed as Navy security rounded up activists. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
US recession worsens [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- [Via Communist Internet... http://www.egroups.com/group/Communist-Internet ] . . - Original Message - From: Downwithcapitalism [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 6:35 PM Subject: [downwithcapitalism] US recession worsens Associated Press. 20 June 2001. Debt pinches consumers. Excerpts. NEW YORK -- Personal debt is at an all-time high, and the amount of income Americans [meaning: citizens of the U.S.] are dedicating to making payments on it is at levels unseen in 15 years. Mortgage delinquencies and write-offs by credit card companies are rising, and personal bankruptcy filings could hit a record this year. That translates to serious financial pain for families that are overextended at a time when unemployment is rising, experts say. It also means that just when the cooling U.S. economy needs spending by consumers to sustain growth, they're hard-pressed to do so. Consumer debt isn't a problem unless and until people lose their jobs, and that has started to happen, said David Orr, chief economist at the First Union Corp. in Charlotte, N.C. It's not the cause of the economy's problems, but it can make the snowball roll downhill faster. Durant Abernethy, president of the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, a nonprofit organization that helps families with debt problems, says the number of people seeking assistance is rising rapidly. Our average client is carrying more debt than they've ever carried, and they're in trouble, Abernethy said. If their overtime is cut back or a husband or wife is laid off, they have virtually no savings, so they go over the edge. The national balance on credit cards, auto loans and other consumer loans rose to a record $1.58 trillion in April, according to the Federal Reserve. Mortgage debt totals about $5.2 trillion. Americans are spending 14.3 percent of their take-home pay on debts -- the highest percentage since 1986, Fed figures show. Credit card delinquencies -- accounts at least 30 days past due -- have been hovering at about 5 percent, up from 4.3 percent a year ago. In April, credit-card issuers wrote off uncollectible balances at an annual rate of 6.7 percent, according to Standard Poor's. That was the highest loss rate since February 1997. Mortgage delinquencies rose to 4.5 percent of outstanding loans in the final quarter of 2000, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association of America. That was the highest since 4.6 percent in the third quarter of 1992. There was a slight improvement in the first quarter this year. Perhaps the strongest measure of American debt distress is the rise in bankruptcies. The number of bankruptcy cases filed in the first quarter rose to about 367,000, up 17.5 percent from a year earlier, according to federal figures. Most of the debtors were consumers. If the trend continues, filings this year will exceed the record 1.44 million in 1998. * * * * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NATO to Send Troops to ____________ [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- This is brilliant. Les, what I wouldn't do to sneak you into the rewrite desk at one of the major press wire services for a week. Could turn the world on its head. I can imagine a few choice headlines already --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- NATO Reluctantly Prepares to Send Troops to _ By ROBERT BLAWHAARD .c The Dis-Associated Press BRUSSELS, Belgium (June 20) - NATO agreed Wednesday to send troops to all countries in the world, in order to disarm ethnic rebels equipped with weaponry recently supplied to them by NATO. Intervention will take place only if negotiations between rebels and their respective government leaders are successful. Otherwise, invasion will be deemed inevitable. Prospects for an agreement, however, appeared doubtful in one location on Wednesday, as Macedonia's president, Boris Trajkovski, said talks between Slav and ethnic Albanian representatives had stalled. He accused the ethnic Albanians of trying to carve up the country. NATO officials expressed skepticism, saying that the rebels' function was only to destabilize matters sufficiently to justify NATO occupation, and subsequently to disband and prepare to compete with each other in regional mines for the race to the bottom dinar. NATO officials, wearing ski masks and speaking on condition of anonymity, said in a statement that alliance members agreed on a ''concept of confiscation'' to enable NATO to attack swiftly on all fronts. They said the alliance agreed to send brigade-sized forces to supervise the disarming of all Ultra-National Liberation Army fighters anywhere who agree to give up their weapons voluntarily. Although there have been no such offers, one official estimated that 3,000,000 NATO troops would be sufficient to effect the voluntary disarmament program. The troops would remain in the countries ''something like six weeks, or perhaps until the coming of the messiah, one official said. He said the alliance must now prepare a plan to determine the type of force required, and the precise number of truncheons involved. American and British troops would naturally predominate, since their home populations maintain a glazed stupor, reacting with happy gurgles in renewed anticipation of seeing the green trajectory lines of NATO ordinance splayed out on CNN screens. In the Balkans, ethnic Albanian rebels, citing the right to depopulate the region of Slavs, Jews, and Roma, have seized control of several villages in northern Macedonia, beating back government offensives. A shaky cease-fire has been in effect since last week. NATO spokesmen were at a loss to explain why NATO had thus far not employed the traditional response of destroying Macedonia's infrastructure and strafing lines of stragglers. However, this possibility has not been dismissed, since NATO members have ''reaffirmed the urgent need for a successful outcome of the political dialogue, a statement which invariably prefaces full scale NATO hostilities. ''This is a crucial week, Javier Solana told the foreign affairs committee at the European Parliament, as he examined a target map of strategic hospitals, schools and nursing homes. ''We must continue to do the utmost to avoid war in Macedonia,'' he said, unable to stifle his shark-like smile. Copyright 2001 The Dis-Associated Press. The information contained in this DP news report may be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise shredded without the prior written authority of The Dis-Associated Press. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nonviolent Action (Nov.9) Against Space Weapons Research in Ottawa [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb -- Current plans for missile defense and militarization of space are threatening and ominous, and are so understood throughout much of the world. It is a serious responsibility of people concerned with human welfare, even survival, to find ways to stop them before they cause too much harm. Noam Chomsky, endorsing the Nov. 9 Ottawa action PLEASE FORWARD FAR AND WIDE A PROPOSAL FOR AN ONTARIO NONVIOLENT DIRECT ACTION NOVEMBER 9 AS THE WTO MEETS IN QATAR === Homes not Bombs - Because Canada should build homes, not blow them up PO Box 73620, 509 St. Clair Ave. West Toronto, ON M6C 1C0 (416) 651-5800; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kitchener-Waterloo: (519) 584-7556, Guelph: (519) 836-2409 Hamilton: (905) 528-5925, 627-2696, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Windsor: (519) 258-1555; Ottawa (613) 237-0730; [EMAIL PROTECTED] London: (519) 675-9600, Peterborough: (705) 742-7621 JUNE 5, 2001 Dear Friends As the WTO prepares to meet in the relatively isolated and secure spot of Qatar Nov. 9-13, many are no doubt wondering about an appropriate symbol around which we as Canadians and Quebecois can demonstrate our opposition to the violence of global capitalism. We apologize at the outset for the length of this letter, but feel it is necessary to lay out the political framework for this proposal, as well as the philosophical and tactical basis of the action, so that anyone wishing to join is clear about exactly what we propose. LINKING ANTI-GLOBALIZATION AND ANTI-MILITARISM It is in the spirit of trying to bridge the gaps between various social movements that Homes not Bombs would like to extend an invitation to those active in the anti-globalization movement (which includes many of us to begin with) to consider placing a focus on an action around which we have already been building since last January. On Friday, November 9, 2001, we plan to resist the fist of globalization with a major nonviolent direct action focusing on the Ottawa-based federal government research facility where space warfare and star wars research is carried out on a daily basis. The November 9 action-already endorsed by the likes of Noam Chomsky, Philip Berrigan and Elizabeth McAlister, Voice of Women, Nevada Desert Experience, National Union of Public and General Employees, Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space, Country Music Fans Against the Cuts, Toronto Action for Social Change and many others- is as much about peace as it is about stopping the most powerful capitalistic nations on the planet from pursuing global domination through control of outer space. It is also about Canada's unique vision of creating the ultimate in cost-effective Armageddon. Will technology allow us to fit 70 tons of lethality into a 20 ton package? asks a document produced by Defence Research and Development Canada, whose Ottawa facility DREO provides the focus for this direct action. BACKGROUND: SPACE COMMAND AND TOTAL CONTROL The US Space Command document Vision 2020 is very clear that war in space is about protecting U.S. capital from those who want to share the world's resources. Indeed, the document identifies as one of the primary reasons for developing a space-based war fighting capacity the fact that The gap between 'have' and 'have not' nations will widen-creating regional unrest. The report, which forms the basis for the Bush administration's policy in space, continues: Space commerce is increasingly integral to the global economy. Military and commercial uses of space will become vital national interests for the United States. Achieving space superiority during conflicts will be critical to the US success on the battlefield. Because of the explosion in commercial space technology, the U.S. is increasingly wary about who controls the upper atmosphere. Future potential adversaries will challenge the US ability to maintain a comparative advantage. Increasing access to space capabilities will contribute greatly to the leveling of the playing field between the United States and its enemies...Given the huge economic and military importance of space, USSPACECOM must shape the region of space and be prepared to protect and defend the US national interests and investments in space. Star Wars is about the ability to negate [i.e., obliterate] hostile space systems that place US and allied interests at risk...As a recent report states, 'Commercial use of space is rapidly expanding on a global scale. In the next ten years, more than 1,000 satellites are projected to be launched. This represents a total investment of more than one-half trillion dollars.' At the same time, the Tofflers have observed that the 'way a nation makes wealth is the
Anti-DU protest [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- Thought this might interest you, a little late sadly, but a good action and great coverage regionally. The full article is at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/news/2001/06/18/news2/protests.shtml Also another reason for writing, is that this Friday, in Bristol there is the court case of the person who threw a tomato at Tony Blair over the bombing of Iraq, and the continued refusal to acknowlege the plight of DU victims. What will hopefully occur afterwards,(an action) will I expect launch a damaging poster campaign by Gulf War veterans (Bosnia Kosovo Peacekeeper vets also)over uranium posioning. The person organising this down there is Jo Baker at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] who could send you the full story and pics straight away. To watch DU ACTION AT FILTON ABBY WOOD BRISTOL goto http://clients.loudeye.com/imc/uk/ministryofdeath.ram Action to highlight the use of Depleted Uranium weapons which are purchased by the M.O.D. at Filton Abbeywood, Bristol. For further info check out http://www.pandora.project.on.to Voices in The Wilderness UK http://www.nonviolence.org/vitw/voices-uk.html __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NATO MAY JOIN MACEDONIAN QUAGMIRE [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK]
STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --- ListBot Sponsor -- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard -- NATO MAY JOIN MACEDONIAN QUAGMIRE NATO agreed to send several thousand troops to Macedonia to help disarm ethnic Albanian rebels if Slav and ethnic Albanian leaders can reach an agreement to resolve the crisis there, according to the Associated Press. ( http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20010620/ts/nato_macedonia_3.html ) The alliance said in a statement today that NATO members agreed on a concept of operations to enable NATO to act swiftly to secure a peace plan if it can be worked out between the two sides in the southern Balkan country. In the new study Waist Deep in the Balkans and Sinking: Washington Confronts the Crisis in Macedonia, Cato's Ted Galen Carpenter writes that the recent eruption of fighting in Macedonia and in Serbia's Presevo Valley shows the bankruptcy of Washington's Balkan policy. He recommends that the United States disengage and let the European countries grapple with the situation. Miroslav Antic, http://www.antic.org/ __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
