I'm afraid that with all the non-biofuel post flooding my email, I will have to start kill filing those who can't stay remotely on topic. Enough of the political bs and get back to making fuel. if you want to talk politics and war, go to a group that talks about it as part of their charter.
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Read about Sustainable Technology: http://www.green-trust.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "MH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 1:09 AM Subject: [biofuel] Bush push to silence free speech? > But first a few updates -- > > "They did what?" blurted one State Department official > Turkey's Refusal Stuns US > by Matthew Lee > Published on Saturday, March 1, 2003 by Agence France Presse > WASHINGTON -- US officials appeared stunned by the Turkish parliament's refusal Saturday > to allow the deployment of 62000 US troops for a possible war with Iraq. > http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0301-10.htm > > > Turkish Speaker Nullifies U.S. Troop Vote > By Suzan Fraser > The Associated Press > Saturday, March 1, 2003; 2:42 PM > http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A21613-2003Mar1?language=printer > In a serious blow to U.S. war plans, the speaker of Turkey's parliament > nullified a legislative vote Saturday that would have allowed deployment > of 62,000 U.S. combat troops in Turkey to open a northern front > against Iraq. > > > Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war > Secret document details American plan to bug phones and > emails of key Security Council members > Sunday March 2, 2003 > The Observer > http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,905899,00.html > The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign > against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its > battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq. > > > Buying a Coalition > by William D. Hartung and Michelle Ciarrocca > Published on Friday, February 28, 2003 by The Nation > http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0228-01.htm > Just as his father did, George W. Bush is offering generous packages of aid and arms to nations that > join his drive for war against Iraq. There is so much bargaining going on that arms analyst Ira Shorr > has called the Administration's ad hoc alliance for war the "coalition of the wanting." According to > former Secretary of State James Baker, winning support for the first Gulf War involved "cajoling, > extracting, threatening and occasionally buying votes." This time there is far more buying and > threatening than cajoling going on, and recruiting allies has been far more costly. > Would-be allies are driving harder bargains because Gulf War II is a much shakier proposition. As > John Chipman of the International Institute for Strategic Studies has observed, "Then it was > straightforward. Eject Iraq from Kuwait. Now it's 'regime change,' and that's...hard for many to > swallow." Bush officials are hoping that massive doses of US aid will make unpopular anti-Iraq > positions go down more easily. > > > Why does Bush push to silence free speech? > President's obsession threatens stability around the world > RAMSEY CLARK > SPECIAL TO THE STAR > Mar. 1, 2003. 01:00 AM > http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?GXHC_gx_session_id_=210b124a8 27c4226&pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_PrintFriendly&c=Article&cid=10357784 22643&call_pageid=968332188854 > http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0301-07.htm > Former U.S. attorney-general Ramsey Clark met with Iraqi President Saddam > Hussein last Sunday. He wrote this commentary exclusively for the Toronto Star. > > Should a free person be afraid to meet with a demonized "brutal dictator"? > > If not, how do we hope to learn, understand, act to avoid violence and war? > If our (U.S.) government says, "You will only be deceived and used, a dupe, > if you meet," doesn't this reveal an intention to exercise arbitrary control > over information on which public opinion is formed that might affect > government plans? > > Why did the White House object to the interview with President Saddam > Hussein by Dan Rather, seek to interject rebuttal and rebuke at different > points in the interview, and then complain that a person who lies should not > be allowed to speak in the media? > > Because I believe in individual freedom and that the truth can set us free, > I will never accept the command "thou shalt not" reason together. > > At this moment, U.S. anger over meetings with Saddam Hussein reflects Bush > administration fears that opposition voices might begin to ask, "Who are the > real aggressors, the greater threats to peace, the most dangerous > terrorists?" Once a person is able to hear all sides and is informed, the > answers cannot be controlled by government propaganda. > > During the barely two years of his presidency, George W. Bush has revealed > an unprecedented, uncompromising obsession for war that threatens peace and > economic stability around the world. > > He is the head of government of the sole superpower on earth. Its military > is capable of destroying any nation without ever setting foot on it and, > incredibly, President Bush has threatened to use nuclear weapons. > > The U.S. has less than six per cent of the world's population, with vast > wealth concentrated in corporate control and personal fortunes that have > created the greatest - and growing - gap between rich and poor, and economic > policies that contribute to the same growing gap worldwide. > > Bush proclaimed the right and initiated a war of aggression against > Afghanistan, causing thousands of deaths, many civilian, and installing a > government of his choice in Kabul. > > He has authorized daily military flights over Iraq which have resulted in > frequent, and in the last few months, daily aerial assaults that have killed > hundreds of people in Iraq without a single U.S. plane being hit or > seriously at risk. > > He has proclaimed his intention of "regime change" by military force in Iraq > with an unavoidable consequence of thousands of civilian deaths. U.S. regime > changes in the past brought to power the Shah of Iran, Mobutu in the Congo, > Pinochet in Chile and dozens of other repressive governments subservient to > U.S. interests and power. > > Reverberations from President Bush's bellicosity threatening war, even > nuclear assaults, have been heard from India, Pakistan, North Korea ... > Colombia, the Philippines and occupied Palestine. > > If Bush's promise to make Iraq a paradise of democracy, "liberty plus > groceries." as the Depression-era Texan congressman Maury Maverick defined > it, ask how the people of North Korea, Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Haiti, > Somalia, Sudan and Afghanistan fared after direct U.S. interventions in the > last half-century. > > President Bush has authorized and approved assassinations, summary > executions and murders - and boasted of them, in his State of the Union > message in January. "All told, more than 3,000 suspected terrorists have > been arrested in many countries, and many others have met a different fate > ... let's put it this way, they are no longer a problem for the United > States and our friends and allies." > > He has authorized and condoned bribery, coercion and retaliation to obtain > his war ends. > > Fundamental human rights and civil liberties protected by international law > and the U.S. Constitution have been violated within the United States > against both citizens and aliens and abroad by illegal arrests, secret > detentions, false criminal charges, and interference with rights to > assemble, protest and speak. > > He has drastically undermined U.N. authority, threatening it with > irrelevancy, coercing it to follow his command and acting independently and > in defiance of the U.N. Charter. > > For Iraq, Bush has authorized a plan of attack called "Shock and Awe," a > massive aerial and missile assault in the first hours and days against a > defenceless people. Any one of the 300 to 400 cruise missiles, which will > strike Iraq the first day, is far deadlier than all the alleged > excessive-range missiles - (with ranges) less than 200 kilometres - that > Saddam has been ordered to destroy. > > The world has been told "There will not be a safe place in Baghdad ... The > sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been contemplated > before." > > How are the people of the world to accept these threats? Are they terrorism > as prelude to genocide? > > President Saddam Hussein told Dan Rather, "We will die in Iraq." > > If death is by U.S. violence, what will come after? > > ------------------- > International human rights activist Ramsey Clark was U.S. attorney-general > from 1967-69 under president Lyndon Johnson. > > > > Fallout Seen from White House Nuclear Policy > Plans for Small Bombs, Resumed Tests Could Prompt Other Nations to Follow > by James Sterngold > Published on Saturday, March 1, 2003 by the San Francisco Chronicle > http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0301-01.htm > > > > _____________________________________ > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! 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