OCTOBER 2005
STOPPRESS STOPPRESS STOPPRESS
The Rossport five speak: Monday October 24th 7.00pm
ATGWU Hall,
Middle Abbey St.DUBLIN
.....PROTEST AT THE FOUR COURTS Tuesday 25th
October 9.45am
"in event of a leak, anyone within a mile would be
killed and anyone within 1.6 miles would be irreparablt
injured" David Aldridge, USNavy Engineer,
Shell, Statoil and Marathon with
the assistance of the Irish Government, are building one
of Europe's biggest gas refineries on sensitive bogland
in a North Mayo Gaeltacht. Five men from Rossport spent
94 days in jail for peacefully protesting against the
construction of the experimental gass pipeline bringing
odourless gass to this refinery acrross their land from
the Corrib gasfield. they are due to appear back in court
on this date to find out whether they will be returned to
prison.
The Corrib field alone is conservatively estimated to
contain 20 billion Euro worth of gas, but under a deal
signed by the disgraced former Fianna Fail Minister - Ray
Burke - the Irish people will have to buy baqck their iwn
gas at market prices, and only the multi-national
companies will benefit from our natural resources.
The Shell to Sea Campaign want to see the refinery
situated offshore and the deal negotiated for the benefit
of the Irish people. Also the criminalisation of peaceful
protest must end atonce. We think there should be a
public enquiry into how the government have allowed a
private consortium to use compulsory purchase orders to
force a dangerous development onto a small rural
community.
www.shelltosea.com
DO WE WANT FACILITIES THAT WILL BE REGARDED AS TERRORIST TARGETS ON OUR LAND, WITHOUT ANY POLITICAL OR PUBLIC DEBATE? NO WE DO NOT !
Date: Friday,
October 21
Topic: --
Bush—Cheney
indictments released this morning
Bush
orders Fitzgerald fired and espionage indictments quashed
by
Tom Flocco
Washington, DC—October 21,
2005—12:00 EST—TomFlocco.com exclusive—Today
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald handed over 22
indictments to Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez,
accusing President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard
Cheney and others of espionage, obstruction of justice,
perjury and a variety of other charges in the matter of
the CIA/Valerie Plame leak-gate case.
According
to intelligence sources who spoke with federal
whistleblowers Thomas Heneghan and Stewart Webb, Bush
then ordered Gonzalez to fire Fitzgerald and have the
indictments quashed and sealed.
Gonzalez refused to release the indictments which have
been handed down by the grand jury and ordered served by
a judge, subjecting the Attorney General to additional
charges of obstruction of justice, the sources said.
The indictments confirm our original
“Bush-Cheney indicted” report on August 2,
2005. (Tom
Flocco.com)
Gonzalez was Bush’s former personal White House
counsel before receiving a presidential appointment as
U.S. Attorney General.
The move is reminiscent of the “Saturday night
massacre” when President Nixon fired Watergate
Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox in an attempt to save
his presidency and obstruct justice.
Intelligence sources added that Bush tried to delay
publicity about his attempt to fire Fitzgerald and quash
the indictments this afternoon by ordering a diversion
regarding a “Capitol Hill police attempt to disrupt
a suspicious package in a car near the U.S.
Capitol.”
The move to distract attention from the indictments
occurred not long after the receipt of process by
Gonzalez, according to intelligence sources with
knowledge of the events.
While Gonzalez received the service of indictments, Bush
was in California this morning and was scheduled to speak
at the dedication of the new Air Force One pavilion at
the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.
It
can be assumed that Bush’s orders for Gonzalez to
refuse receipt of process and fire the prosecutor in the
CIA leak case were discussed over the telephone since
Bush was to speak at the Reagan Library just a few hours
after the indictments were served.
Bush should have finished his speech at approximately
2:30 pm Eastern time, and it is probable that
presidential strategy sessions regarding how to prevent
the indictments and their criminal contents from becoming
public have already commenced.
It is open to conjecture whether Bush could be arrested
in California before even returning to Washington, given
the criminal nature of the indictments.
An attempt to quash indictments and to fire Fitzgerald
may also cause a constitutional crisis if Bush and
Gonzalez continue to obstruct justice and defy U.S. law
and constitutional legal process.
military or U.S. marshals should arrest Bush, Gonzalez,
Cheney and others immediately for their criminal acts in
keeping explosive espionage, obstruction and perjury
indictments hidden from the American people, all of which
affects U.S. national security.
Developing………………
www.tomflocco.com
14th October 2005: Refco Sends Tremor Through Financial
World
Author: Jim Sinclair
Refco's position as the largest independent derivative
dealer with billions of dollars in customers' money,
declared a moratorium on withdrawing assets or funds
today. That's analogous to a run on the bank with your
once friendly banker slamming the front door in your
face. This is a very serious situation, not so much
because of the run but rather because the missing money
has been replaced. What makes this aspect of the
situation so serious - and why Refco must be rescued - is
because it is the principle of many over-the-counter,
unregulated, unfunded, unlisted and non-Clearing House
guaranteed derivatives. If Refco folds up its tent, then
the financial world folds. You can take
that to a real bank.
Every time you rescue a financial entity, you pour more
fuel on the fire that will ultimately consume the dollar.
We are so battered by economic misconduct and flagrant
abuses in the business world these days that there are
few if any rescue options for what is approaching in the
financial world.
Even with "stabilization" activities in world
dollar markets today, the US dollar did not make the
desired technical breakout but in fact closed on its low
- portending perhaps what's in store for tomorrow.
CONGRATULATIONS to
Harold Pinter, he has won the Nobel
Prize for Literature
Pinter, who celebrated his 75th birthday this week, has had a long and acclaimed career as a dramatist. But he has made his mark too as an outspoken critic of government and the recent war in Iraq. Theatre critic Michael Billington, in his biography of Pinter, wrote: "Pinter remains to his credit, a permanent public nuisance, a questioner of accepted truths, both in life and art. In fact the two persistently inter-act."
UPDATEs FROM Kashmir further down page
guatemala
Some 90 Guatemala villages remain
cut off by mudslides with rescue workers unable to get
in, the authorities say.
El-Baradei and the IAEA
share the Nobel Peace Prize
UPDATE KASHMIR
THE SHAME
OF WESTERN NATIONS: Only 8 helicopters from the 100-odd
available in Afghanistan to USA and Nato troops were sent
to Kashmir but the USA took care to have a spokesman on
television announce their welcome presence........NO
EARTHMOVING VEHICLES WERE SENT OF WHICH THERE ARE ALSO AN
ABUNDANCE IN AFGHANISTAN.
* * * * *
Relief operations in the earthquake-hit
Pakistan-controlled Kashmir have moved into top gear with
the help of US and German helicopters, but hundreds of
thousands of survivors were still desperate for help. The
city of Muzaffarabad bore the brunt of the 7.6-magnitude
earthquake which struck on Saturday, killing at least
23,000 people in Pakistan and making some 2.5 million
homeless. A UN report on the international aid operation
estimated that about 1,000 hospitals were
"completely destroyed" by the quake. Aid is
pouring into regions affected by the earthquake, after
relief efforts were temporarily suspended because of bad
weather, but correspondents say there is concern about a
lack of co-ordination, with supplies yet to reach remote
areas.
* * * * *
The Muslim Council of Britain in one day yesterday collected 3 million pounds from donations at its affiliated mosques throughout the country. One of its affiliates, Islamic Relief is acting as a lead agency on behalf of other humanitarian organizations including Muslim Aid and Islamic Hands.
Islamic Relief,
cooperating with other UK charities such as OXFAM and
Save the Children, has already sent a team of 65
emergency personnel including doctors and nurses to help
with the rescue and aid effort. It has launched an urgent
emergency appeal to help the victims of the Asian
earthquake. “Over 200 volunteers from Aberdeen to
Southampton are out today collecting money for this
appeal. The destruction has been devastating. We need to
start rebuilding the lives of the survivors and those
affected as soon as possible,” said an Islamic
Relief spokesperson.
* * * * * * * *
One by one, their cries stopped and 1,500 students died
By Justin Huggler in Bagh, Kashmir
Published: 12 October 2005
In Kashmir, they are beginning to give up hope. In the pile of rubble that was Bagh sixth-form college, more than 1,500 students lie entombed. For four days after Saturday's terrible earthquake struck, the people here heard the trapped teenagers crying out for help from the ruins of the college. They dug for them with their bare hands, but they could not move the debris. They prayed for the government relief effort, but it never came.
Yesterday, the last of the teenagers trapped inside fell silent. They are all dead now.At the sixth-form college, the townspeople had laid the exercise books and diaries they found in the rubble out reverentially alongside the ruins, a sort of makeshift memorial. An exercise book bore the name Anees Shah, and had the notes from his English class, written in halting, unfamiliar Western script. "Language: the way we express our thoughts", it read. It was all that was left of the students, all their families had left to grieve over.
The people had gathered around a body they had pulled from the ruins. The face was turning black as it decomposed. "We don't know who he is or where he's from," said Syed Hassan Ali, an English teacher and one of the few survivors from the college. "No one recognises him."Although nobody knew who he was, they gathered around the body, almost as a substitute for the bodies of their own loved ones that they could not recover from the ruins. "No one was helping us, we had only God," shouted one man, then broke down in tears. The earthquake struck just as the first class of the day was beginning.For the students, it is too late, but for the survivors the situation is still desperate. Most have no shelter. There are not enough tents to go round, and many are forced to sleep in the open, in the rain, in the cold, in streets and fields that have turned into mud. "The Pakistani government has abandoned us," said Azhar Mushtaq Kasher. "They say that Kashmir is part of Pakistan, but when we are in need they are doing nothing for us.""Look at the private houses still standing," said Mr Ali. Many were, though most were so badly damaged they were uninhabitable. "But this college just collapsed completely. The government buildings are the worst-built here."
In the absence of government relief, ordinary people have flocked to the worst-hit areas, bringing food and medicine, blankets and shovels to dig for survivors. Mr Kasher and Mr Qamar come from a village on the ceasefire line with India. They have spent many long nights under fire as the Indian and Pakistani armies shelled each other.They were not the only people streaming into Bagh yesterday. All day long they came down from the mountainsides, villagers abandoning the ruins of their homes. For four days they had waited for help to arrive. It never came. Yesterday, they ran out of food, and set off for the towns.
For the students, it is too late, but for the survivors the situation is still desperate. Most have no shelter. There are not enough tents to go round, and many are forced to sleep in the open, in the rain, in the cold, in streets and fields that have turned into mud. "The Pakistani government has abandoned us," said Azhar Mushtaq Kasher. "They say that Kashmir is part of Pakistan, but when we are in need they are doing nothing for us."
Earthquake's terrible toll is
revealed Pakistan's president
calls for international help as the death toll from
Saturday's earthquake
nears, BBC
* * *
SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN ASIA
The U.S. Geological Survey said on its Web site the quake hit at 8:50 a.m. local time and had a magnitude of 7.6. It was centered about 60 miles northeast of Islamabad in the forested mountains of Pakistani Kashmir. Damage was extensive in Kashmir, the disputed Himalayan territory divided between India and Pakistan. Officials in the Indian-controlled portion reported 157 killed, including 14 soldiers who perished in a landslide. At least 600 were injured.
Air force and army soldiers helped civilian authorities rescue people trapped under buildings. Telephone lines were down. Bridges had developed cracks, but traffic was passing over them. At least 100 people died in Mansehra district in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province, and 70 percent of mud-brick homes in quake-hit areas collapsed, said Asif Iqbal, the provincial information minister. Casualty tolls from other districts were being compiled. The quake brought down a 10-story apartment building in Islamabad and dozens of people were feared trapped in the rubble. Rescuers pulled out at least 20 injured people. Some residents were Westerners, a building employee said.
Kudos! Kudos!
Mailman Bulldozes Katrina Red Tape
Born in Bernice, Louisiana, former Utah Jazz all-star
Karl Malone overcame a mountain of red tape placed in his
path by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
and Army Corps of Engineers to do something good.
Both agencies said Malone wasn't authorized to bring his
machinery into the area to clear private property. He
did!
For Malone, a.k.a. Mailman, "Everything about this
just felt right. My mom died two years ago, and in
our last conversation, she told me that one day I would
have to step up on a grand scale and help people. I knew
this was it."
An experienced trucker and logger, Malone brought 18
vehicles, including backhoe, bulldozers and several RVs,
complete with food and water for his crew, from his
Arkansas-based logging company to Pascagoula,
Mississippi. He spent 12 hours a day behind the wheel of
his heavy machinery clearing 114 lots at his expense.
Kudos to the Mailman! (Forwarded to The DISH by DrockSOULJah@aol.com
from
http://eurweb.com)
Sunday, October 2, 2005 8:50 PM EDT
** BREAKING NEWS - URGENT ! **
KEYSTROKE LOGGERS FOUND BUILT-IN TO NEW
LAPTOPS!
http://www.HalTurnerShow.com
HARD-WIRED INSIDE COMPUTER, BETWEEN KEYBOARD AND ETHERNET
CARD;
RECORDS EVERY KEYSTROKE AND SENDS INFO VIA INTERNET
TO. . . . .DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY!
DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY REFUSES FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
ACT REQUEST
TO EXPLAIN WHY THESE KEYSTROKE LOGGERS ARE INSTALLED IN
ALL NEW
COMPUTERS!
DHS says the requested info is "exempt" from
public disclosure. The only items exempt from
public disclosure are law enforcement tools and
national security items!
This means that the United States Government, in
cooperation with computer manufacturers, is
incorporating hardware devices into YOUR new
computers designed to invade your privacy; record your
passwords, web browsing history, online chats,
search terms and anything else you type. This data
is automatically forwarded to Dept. of Homeland
Security, WITHOUT YOUR KNOWLEDGE, CONSENT OR A SEARCH
WARRANT, each time you connect to the internet.
To the Government: I have repeatedly warned you against
putting such devices within my reach. I have
repeatedly warned you that I would find them and
disclose the information to the public. Your
devices have now been found and revealed to the
public. You were warned. You
ignored the warning, now you've been caught and exposed.
Hal Turner
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