From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #81 Reply-To: abolition-usa-digest Sender: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Errors-To: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Precedence: bulk abolition-usa-digest Monday, February 15 1999 Volume 01 : Number 081 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:11:39 -0500 From: Peace through Reason Subject: (abolition-usa) NucNews (US-1) 2/13/99 - Ohio; Pantex etc. Y2K; Tritium/Brookhave; Green Power 1. Public to discuss closing nuclear plant (Ohio: North Perry) http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/c3nrc.ssf 2. 85% Energy Department Critical Systems OK for Y2K [Pantex, etc.] http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb99/1999L-02-10-03.html 3. BROOKHAVEN TRITIUM RELEASES UNDER THE MICROSCOPE http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb99/1999L-02-10-09.html 4. Commonwealth Energy Converts All System Power Customers to Green Power http://ens.lycos.com/ens/archives/1999/feb1999Larchive.html [more NucNews-U.S. next message....] - ------------------------------------- 1. Public to discuss closing nuclear plant (Ohio: North Perry) http://www.cleveland.com/news/pdnews/metro/c3nrc.ssf Saturday, February 13, 1999 By SUSAN JAFFE, PLAIN DEALER REPORTER NORTH PERRY - The federal agency that monitors safety at the nation's nuclear power plants has invited the public to attend a televised hearing on whether to close the Perry nuclear power plant. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is conducting the hearing Feb. 22 to determine if pinhole-sized radiation leaks from fuel rods in the plant are serious enough to shut the plant. In December, the NRC ruled that the recurrent problem did not pose an imminent hazard, in response to a request from the Union of Scientists. But agency officials decided that the watchdog group could present additional information on the issue. There are three leaky fuel rods at Perry, and similar leaks in 1993 closed the plant for 56 days. FirstEnergy Corp., which owns the plant, plans to replace the faulty fuel during a maintenance shutdown starting March 27. The hearing will begin at 1 p.m. at NRC headquarters near Washington, D.C. Proceedings will be broadcast in a video conference to Holden Center at Lake Erie College, 391 W. Washington St., Painesville, and the Forum Conference and Education Center, 1371 E. 9th St., Cleveland. Anyone wishing to speak at the hearing may reserve time by contacting Robert Fretz at the NRC at 1-800-368-5642 or (301) 415-1324 or via e-mail at rxf@nrc.gov. Time will be allotted on a first-come, first-served basis. - ------------------------------------------- 2. 85% Energy Department Critical Systems OK for Y2K [Pantex, etc.] http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb99/1999L-02-10-03.html WASHINGTON, DC, February 10, 1999 (ENS) - Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson has been urging all Department of Energy managers and contractors to work quickly on the Y2Y computer problem. Today he reported that 85 percent of the department's 420 mission-critical systems are now fully Y2K compliant, having been renovated, tested and implemented. This rate is up from the 50 percent compliance reported three months ago due to an incentive-based program launched in December to recognize and reward government and contractor employees and organizations responsible for quickening their Y2K remediation efforts. The targets were January 31 for mission-critical systems, and March 31 for nonmission-critical systems. At midnight on January 1, 2000, some older computer systems may experience problems if they use only two digits to indicate the year. They could interpret "00" as 1900 instead of 2000, initiating a chain reaction of trouble. In Department of Energy facilities where nuclear wastes are stored or treated and experiments with hazardous or radioactive materials are taking place, public safety could be compromised if the Y2K problem is not fully corrected. Richardson said special attention is being given to those safety-related systems that may be affected by Y2K. John Przysucha, the Department of Energy's Y2K program manager told ENS that many of the most environmentally sensitive sites are now fully Y2K compliant. Pantex, America's only nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility, is "all compliant," Przysucha said. Interim storage of plutonium pits at Pantex. A plutonium pit is the plutonium package that is removed from a nuclear weapon. Pantex Plant has enough magazines for 20,000 pits. (Photo courtesy DOE Pantex) Pantex, 17 miles outside of Amarillo, Texas, has a weapons assembly area that covers 80 hectares (200 acres) and contains more than 100 buildings. Nuclear components and other parts received from other DOE plants and explosive and metal parts fabricated at the Pantex Plant are assembled into nuclear weapons in this zone. Nuclear weapons are also disassembled there. But the giant Hanford Nuclear Facility in Richland, Washington is not finished ensuring that all its mission-critical systems are Y2K compliant, according to Przysucha. "But Hanford has made significant progress, a large amount of work progress in the last three months," he said. The Savannah River Site (SRS) is not yet Y2K compliant, Przysucha acknowledged. Owned by DOE and operated under contract by the Westinghouse Savannah River Company, the complex covers 310 square miles, bordering the Savannah River between western South Carolina and Georgia for 27 miles.v SRS was constructed during the early 1950s to produce the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, such as tritium and plutonium-239. Five reactors were built on the site that are now shut down. The site has chemical separations plants, a heavy water extraction plant, a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility and radioactive waste management facilities. Weapons material production at SRS has produced intensely radioactive waste. The high-level radioactive waste, about 35 million gallons, is stored in waste tanks on site. There is also storage for a spectrum of other radioative, hazardous and non-hazardous wastes. The waste treatment systems at SRS, "although not done, they are terribly production oriented," said Przysucha. "They have fixed the system but cannot implement the fix until their scheduled downtime. They have specific schedules that do not allow them to finish by March 31." If some unscheduled downtime occurs at SRS, personnel will replace the old computer systems with the new Y2K compliant ones, Przysucha explained. "We've spent a lot of time looking at these systems from a health and safety point of vies, Przysucha said. "Production would just cease. Nothing would happen except that there would be a significant dollar loss to the DOE if the system was not running." Rocky Flats is located just outside of Denver, Colorado. (Photo courtesy Rocky Flats) As an example of accelerated Y2K compliance, Secretary Richardson singled out the department's Rocky Flats site in Colorado for its dramatic improvements. Rocky Flats is a former nuclear weapons plant outside of Denver, Colorado that is now in the process of environmental remediation and management of stored plutonium and radioactive wastes. On October 31, 1998, Rocky Flats reported three of 36 mission-critical systems as Y2K compliant. Increased priority by the site manager, restructuring of year 2000 project management at the site, an assistance visit from headquarters, and what Richardson called "the total commitment and dedication of the Rocky Flats site government and contractor staff" achieved 100 percent compliance for 36 of 36 mission-critical systems as of January 31, 1999. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) which handles the National Transuranic Waste Program is also fully Y2K compliant with mission critical systems 100 percent tested, said Przysucha. Located near Carlsbad in southeastern New Mexico, it is the depository for transuranic waste - clothing, tools, rags, and other such items contaminated with trace amounts of radioactive elements - mostly plutonium. These elements are radioactive, man-made, and have an atomic number greater than uranium - transuranic, beyond uranium. The DOE is responsible for a group of 50 national laboratories, research centers and other facilities across the country, some, like the Stanford Linear Accelerator, and the Lawrence Berkely Laboratory, handling highly sensitive experiments. At both of these facilities all mission-critical systems are fully compliant, Przysucha said. - ------------------------------------------- 3. BROOKHAVEN TRITIUM RELEASES UNDER THE MICROSCOPE http://ens.lycos.com/ens/feb99/1999L-02-10-09.html An antinuclear group, Standing for Truth Against Radiation (STAR), has received the green light from Energy Secretary Bill Richardson to conduct its own safety review into the possible restart of an idled research reactor at the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, New York. STAR's spokesman, movie star Alec Baldwin, went on the Montel Williams talk show to describe how Brookhaven National Laboratory is poisoning the surrounding populace. But STAR's critics say the Department of Energy (DOE) appears to be going a long way to accommodate the group. David Kramer, editor of Science & Government Report complained, "While the question of whether DOE will pay for the review hasn't been decided yet, the agency has agreed to open its books on its own review and make its own experts available to STAR. Richardson has also agreed to hold a workshop with STAR to obtain their input. In return, STAR was asked to serve as a liaison between DOE and other local citizen's groups." One of two major U.S. reactors capable of producing highly intense neutron beams for research purposes, the High Flux Beam Reactor at Brookhaven National Laboratory has been shut down since late 1996, when it was discovered that tritium from its spent fuel basin had been seeping into the ground for a dozen years. - ------------------------------------ 4. Commonwealth Energy Converts All System Power Customers to Green Power http://ens.lycos.com/ens/archives/1999/feb1999Larchive.html E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE E-WIRE PRESS RELEASE TO BUSINESS AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS: TUSTIN, Calif., Feb. 1 -/E-Wire/-- Commonwealth Energy Corporation, California's largest Electric Service Provider (ESP), announced today that it will convert its over 38,000 residential and small business customers from system power to the company's GreenSmart program. The GreenSmart program is Commonwealth's environmentally friendly power program that utilizes California based, renewable energy sources, otherwise known as green power. All residential and small business customers will be switched to the green power program at no charge and will remain green power customers while still receiving a guaranteed discount versus their old utility company. Commonwealth began selling system power at a discount over a year ago and has acquired more than 45,000 customers on their discounted system power program, of which the majority are residential and small business accounts. Since deregulation began April 1, 1998, customers who have chosen green power have had to pay more money each month in order to receive the environmentally friendly power. However, through Commonwealth Energy's GreenSmart program, consumers can now receive green power at a discount from what they're currently paying to their local utility for system power. Commonwealth Energy's CEO Fred Bloom said, "By converting our system power customers to green power, we are providing them with a service that no other ESP can. They will continue to save money each month on their electric bills and have the satisfaction of knowing they are helping the environment by using renewable energy sources. Since we are increasing the demand for green power, the amount of electricity that has to be produced by highly polluting fossil fuels will be reduced-and that's good for everyone." Commonwealth Energy Corporation is licensed by the Federal Regulatory Commission as a power marketer and is registered with the California Public Utilities Commission as an energy services provider (Lic. #1092). The company is also registered as a renewable energy provider by the California Energy Commission as well as being Green-e certified. With headquarters in Tustin, California, Commonwealth Energy is a privately owned company delivering electricity to over 45,000 end-users in California, or approximately one-third of all consumers who have switched away from the incumbent utilities. The company also markets energy efficiency products and provides performance contracting services. Annual revenues for fiscal year 1999 are expected to exceed $50 million. SOURCE Commonwealth Energy Corporation -0- 02/01/99 /CONTACT: Brian Gale, Director of Communications, Commonwealth Energy Corporation, 714-259-2547, gale@powersavers.com / www.powersavers.com/ _____________________________________________________________ * NucNews - to subscribe: prop1@prop1.org - http://prop1.org * Say "Please Subscribe NucNews" NucNews Archive: HTTP://WWW.ONELIST.COM/arcindex.cgi?listname=NucNews since January 13, 1999; for earlier editions - write prop1@prop1.org --------------------------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment, to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: _____________________________________________________________ - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 05:02:18 -0500 From: News Subject: (abolition-usa) Russia Abolishes Capital Punishment! FWD from (please reply to): John Wilmerding, CERJ General Secretary Russia Abolishes Capital Punishment! In Moscow, all Russia's death-row convicts will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment or lengthy prison terms by June, the head of the Kremlin appeals panel, Anatoly Pristavkin, said Thursday [February 11, 1999]. Pristavkin, who heads the presidential pardons commission, told a press conference, "their sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment or 25 years in prison." President Boris Yeltsin commuted 250 death sentences last year, Pristavkin said, adding that some 580 people are living on death row in Russia. The Constitutional Court on Feb. 2 banned Russia's courts from imposing death sentences on convicts until a jury-based court system is created throughout the country. "We have secured a suspension for several years. The creation of new assizes courts (with juries) requires fresh financial resources, which means we will not have any death sentences passed for 2 or 3 years," said Pristavkin. Russian officials say that no death sentence has been carried out here since 1996 following a moratorium imposed by President Boris Yeltsin after Moscow's admission to the Council of Europe on Feb. 28, 1996. Russia pledged to scrap the death penalty by the end of February this year to secure Council membership. Yeltsin was forced to impose the execution ban after the Duma refused to abolish capital punishment. The death penalty can be meted out for, among other crimes, high treason and aggravated murder. Pristavkin said capital punishment continues to be carried out in Russia's rebel republic of Chechnya, which won de-facto independence from Moscow following a 21-month war of independence which ended in 1996. (source: Agence France Presse) With the USA's former nemesis 'Evil Empire' abolishing state-homicide, the stage is set for the commencement of intense international pressure upon the self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Superpower" to do the same. Of those states which have resumed state-killing since the US Supreme Court's ban on it was overturned, which state will be the hero? Which recidivist state will be the first to commence this global Restorative Justice process by owning responsibility for its transgressions? John Wilmerding, CERJ General Secretary _______________________________ To subscribe to the CERJ E-Mail distribution list, simply send an E-mail message to . Please include your name and your state, province, or country of residence. Thank you! - -------------------------------------------------------------- John Wilmerding, Gen'l Secretary | E-Mail: =================================| Web: http://www.cerj.org *CERJ* International Secretariat | ICQ Number: 18723495 - ---------------------------------+============================ Campaign | 217 High Street | For | A for | Brattleboro, VT | Justice | AR Equity- | 05301-3018 USA | that | ART Restorative | Telephone & FAX | Restores | EAR Justice | [802] 254-2826 | Equity | HEAR ================================================= HEART Work together to reinvent justice using methods | EARTH that are fair; which conserve, restore and even | HEARTH create harmony, equity and good will in society | >>>|CERJ|<<< ============================================================== We are the prisoners of the prisoners we have taken - J. Clegg - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:37:37 -0600 From: "Boyle, Francis" Subject: RE: (abolition-usa) Russia Abolishes Capital Punishment! Yet once again Russia beats America to the punch on a matter of protecting basic human rights. 130 years ago or so, the Great Liberator Tsar Alexander II freed the Russian serfs. By comparison, around the same time, Abraham Lincoln freed our slaves and turned them into serfs. Think about it. fab. - -----Original Message----- From: News To: gathering@cygnus.com; abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com Cc: John V. Wilmerding Sent: 2/14/99 4:02 AM Subject: (abolition-usa) Russia Abolishes Capital Punishment! FWD from (please reply to): John Wilmerding, CERJ General Secretary Russia Abolishes Capital Punishment! In Moscow, all Russia's death-row convicts will have their sentences commuted to life imprisonment or lengthy prison terms by June, the head of the Kremlin appeals panel, Anatoly Pristavkin, said Thursday [February 11, 1999]. Pristavkin, who heads the presidential pardons commission, told a press conference, "their sentences will be commuted to life imprisonment or 25 years in prison." President Boris Yeltsin commuted 250 death sentences last year, Pristavkin said, adding that some 580 people are living on death row in Russia. The Constitutional Court on Feb. 2 banned Russia's courts from imposing death sentences on convicts until a jury-based court system is created throughout the country. "We have secured a suspension for several years. The creation of new assizes courts (with juries) requires fresh financial resources, which means we will not have any death sentences passed for 2 or 3 years," said Pristavkin. Russian officials say that no death sentence has been carried out here since 1996 following a moratorium imposed by President Boris Yeltsin after Moscow's admission to the Council of Europe on Feb. 28, 1996. Russia pledged to scrap the death penalty by the end of February this year to secure Council membership. Yeltsin was forced to impose the execution ban after the Duma refused to abolish capital punishment. The death penalty can be meted out for, among other crimes, high treason and aggravated murder. Pristavkin said capital punishment continues to be carried out in Russia's rebel republic of Chechnya, which won de-facto independence from Moscow following a 21-month war of independence which ended in 1996. (source: Agence France Presse) With the USA's former nemesis 'Evil Empire' abolishing state-homicide, the stage is set for the commencement of intense international pressure upon the self-proclaimed "World's Greatest Superpower" to do the same. Of those states which have resumed state-killing since the US Supreme Court's ban on it was overturned, which state will be the hero? Which recidivist state will be the first to commence this global Restorative Justice process by owning responsibility for its transgressions? John Wilmerding, CERJ General Secretary _______________________________ To subscribe to the CERJ E-Mail distribution list, simply send an E-mail message to . Please include your name and your state, province, or country of residence. Thank you! - -------------------------------------------------------------- John Wilmerding, Gen'l Secretary | E-Mail: =================================| Web: http://www.cerj.org *CERJ* International Secretariat | ICQ Number: 18723495 - ---------------------------------+============================ Campaign | 217 High Street | For | A for | Brattleboro, VT | Justice | AR Equity- | 05301-3018 USA | that | ART Restorative | Telephone & FAX | Restores | EAR Justice | [802] 254-2826 | Equity | HEAR ================================================= HEART Work together to reinvent justice using methods | EARTH that are fair; which conserve, restore and even | HEARTH create harmony, equity and good will in society | >>>|CERJ|<<< ============================================================== We are the prisoners of the prisoners we have taken - J. Clegg - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 08:36:12 -0800 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: Y2K Nuke Standdown?? I have not heard of one although I suggested the idea to the Nuclear Abolition 2000 group which is having a national meeting this weekend with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation in Santa Barbara. I got on the abolition-usa list to collaborate on this. - -----Original Message----- From: Carol Moore To: David Crockett Williams Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 7:01 AM Subject: Y2K Nuke Standdown?? >I've read some group was organizing one...at least a partial step towards >abolition. Do you know who? Thanks. Carol > - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 13:46:03 -0800 From: Jan Harwood Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Re: Fwd: draft memo on stranded costs Thanks for the wonderful, warm, tender, and funny article. No wonder the Trib published it; it's rare to see such clear, colorful writing, and of course, the subject touches most of us. Good work! - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:54:01 -0800 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Global Crisis Solutions and the Global Peace Walk 1999-2000 The upcoming Global Peace Walk events have received proclamations of support from the Mayors of Berkeley and Oakland. This is a continuing effort to unite all survival issues for "Global Peace Now!" as a universal human resolve. http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/berkproc.html http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/oakproc.html Experts will be speaking about these issues to awaken public and media interest in solving today's global social and environmental crises by revealing and examining little known solutions to problems of the environment, government/corporate secrecy, crime, illegal drugs, and the violence rampant in our communities and around the world. Leading scientists, traditional spiritual practitioners, and peace/justice activists will come together for three days of events from February 26 to March 1st 1999 by offering practical messages which will be carried by the Global Peace Walk to the United Nations and Washington, DC, this Fall, and next year's Global Peace Walk2000 from San Francisco. There will be a local Global Community Peace Walk on Friday, February 26, from Oakland City Hall after a 9AM press conference to a Noon Rally at UC Berkeley's Upper Sproul Plaza in conjunction with the Campus Greens and other student groups. On Saturday, February 27, at People's Park in Berkeley, an afternoon Global Peace and Love Festival will take place starting with a circle of hands ceremony at noon, music and speakers from 1-5PM, followed by a Global Peace Prayer Vigil & Council. On Monday, March 1st, from 10AM-4PM a Global Crisis Solutions Conference will take place at the UC Berkeley Alumni House hosted by two prominent Cal PhD alumni, Drs. Fred Wood and Brian O'Leary. They will discuss new physics discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and the scientific developments in "New Energy" technologies that are capable of replacing nuclear power and fossil fuel power, neutralizing radioactive wastes, and improving human health. This message will be further enriched by comments from Stephen Kaplan, Mark Comings and Cheryl Welsh. Ms. Welsh will offer offer documentation of covert weapons that are utilizing the same new physics in applications to electromagnetic biowarfare. Mark Gimbrere will supply a brief overview on the Y2K-driven Global Sustainability Alliance. Featured speakers will include: Hemp expert Chris Conrad, who will be discussing the need for drug policy reform to ameliorate crime, injustice, the expensive incarceration of cannabis offenders, and the need for a global scale revival of the USDA's 1941 Hemp for Victory program to heal the atmosphere. http://chrisconrad.com Former LAPD narcotics investigator Michael C. Ruppert will be discussing his firsthand and investigative knowledge of 50 years of CIA complicity in smuggling hard drugs into our inner cities, the recent CIA Inspector General's Report, Volume II, acknowledging such complicity, and his perspectives on solving drug crime problems. http://www.copvcia.com Rev. Yusen Yamato, Buddhist Monk, Zen Shiatzu Meditation Practitoner, and initiator of the Global Peace Walk, will be discussing the spiritual reawakening necessary to guide humanity through these times of great change, emphasizing the "emptiness", or "zero-energy" that scientists are finding at the root of new physics. Barry "Plunker" Adams, Sociologist and one initiator of the global Rainbow Family Gatherings, will be discussing this tested social formula for a nonviolent society based on mutual affection and respect as it applies to all of humanity living in harmony as one family of life. http://www.welcomehome.org http://www.worldunity.org Events are open to the public. Donations will be accepted to benefit the Global Peace Walk. For the March 1st conference, advance tickets will be available at the February 26-27 events. Or, to guarantee a conference seat, call 805-822-3309 before February 20th. For more information on events and speakers, messages, see http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 David Crockett Williams Global Emergency Alert Response 805-822-3309 PO Box 147 Tehachapi, CA 93581 Dr. O'Leary bio, on new-energy, UFO's, psychokinesis http://www.maui.net/~oleary Dr. Wood bio, on new-energy math, WWIII warning http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/fwood.html Stephen Kaplan on new-energy technologies http://www.spiritualjourneys.com/Kaplan.html Cheryl Welsh, electromagnetic biowarfare http://www.calweb.com/~welsh Rev. Yamato and Global Peace Walk http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/yyamato.html Global Sustainability Alliance http://www.wenet/~navigate/gsa Some conference exhibitors: Macrocosm USA, online progressive information clearinghouse http://www.macronet.org Electrifying Times Magazine http://www.electrifyingtimes.com - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:25:32 -0500 From: "Chris Davenport" Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: PUHCA sign-on letter This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BE59FB.442CC280 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable What is the PUHCA letter? Chris. - -----Original Message----- From: Peace through Reason To: abolition-usa@lists.xmission.com = Date: Thursday, February 11, 1999 7:33 PM Subject: Re: (abolition-usa) Fwd: PUHCA sign-on letter =20 =20 Please sign us on to the PUHCA letter. Thanks! =20 =20 Ellen Thomas, Director =20 PROPOSITION ONE COMMITTEE P.O. Box 27217, Washington, DC 20038 USA 202-462-0757 (phone) | 202-265-5389 (fax) http://prop1.org | prop1@prop1.org - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BE59FB.442CC280 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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Date:=20 Thursday, February 11, 1999 7:33 PM
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Please sign us on to the PUHCA letter.  Thanks!

Ellen Thomas, Director

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http://prop1.org | = prop1@prop1.org - ------=_NextPart_000_000D_01BE59FB.442CC280-- - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. For information on digests or retrieving files and old messages send "help" to the same address. Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 21:20:16 -0800 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Re: YELTSIN'S RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR I will forward you separately a piece on this topic I already sent to the abolition-usa list. I also posted the Feb8 article mentioned at the end = of this to that list and several others with incredulous responses. In shor= t, the operative motivation described below is that Russia is afraid of the = US, and well it should be. The US is the only country to use nuclear weapons= in war and has never renounced its first strike policy. Daily now the US is launching preemptive strikes against Iraq air defenses in a unilateral undeclared war on Iraq....again. The Russians have had deep experience i= n losses in WWII. It is the United States that must take the first step towards ending the threat of nuclear war by renouncing its first strike policy and really stopping nuclear testing. There was just another "sub-critical" nuclear test in Nevada a few days ago. Dr. Wood's concern is that with the myriad number of secret experiments going on here and in Russia and by other nations who have acquired former Soviet scientists that are far ahead of the US on advanced scalar electromagnetic bioweapons including the so-called "electromagnetic bioweapons" likened to mind control technology, that nuclear war and all = out World War Three may be immiment due to everybody messing with everybody else's head. It has made matters worse that the "democratization" of Rus= sia has plunged them into such economic chaos that they cannot even pay their nuclear weapons technicians for the last six months and I fear that some trigger fingers are getting white knuckles watching what the US is doing right now in Iraq and recently in Afghanistan and Sudan. It is time to worry seriously but also to take strong action towards the = US taking serious lead in abolishing all weapons of mass destruction as a st= ep towards peace. the prerequisite is a spiritual reawakening by humanity t= o the innate relationship of all life as one family, all our relations, aro= und the globe. If you have any outreach connections that can help, please direct media a= nd public attention to our efforts upcoming in the SF Bay area as we need to get the solutions to all this into mainstream American mind. David http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000 - -----Original Message----- From: Evan Soule To: David Crockett Williams Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 8:39 PM Subject: YELTSIN'S RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR David -- I just had the following forwarded to me. I'm all for "global peace". B= ut the ACTIONS of the Russian politicians don't seem to equate with the concept of "global peace", unless they intend for the "peace" of a lifeless, destroyed, nuclear wasteland. WORDS are fine..... but it is ACTIONS which demonstrate _intent_. What do you think of the following???????? Evan Document follows: YELTSIN'S RUSSIA PREPARES FOR WAR by Jeffrey R. Nyquist February 15, 1999 Click her= e: NewsMax.com: Articles http://38.201.154.103/articles/?a=3D1999/2/15/34330 Russia is preparing for nuclear war against America. Though Russia h= as been in economic turmoil, Moscow has been spending billions on vast underground nuclear war bunkers, new biological and chemical weapons, as well as road and rail-mobile ICBMs. Yeltsin's military continues to deploy 10,000 to 12,000 ABMs (Anti-Ballistic Missiles) and 18 battle management radars, even though su= ch deployment violates the 1972 ABM Treaty. At the same time, the Russian Navy continues to improve its surface and submarine forces, deploying the largest ballistic missile cruiser of its kind -- the "Peter the Great". Why is a supposedly bankrupt country spending its precious capital o= n war preparations? A recent defector from the main intelligence directorate of the Russian General Staff, Colonel Stanislav Lunev, says that "Russia remains terrified of the power of America." Lunev points to recent Russian military exercises as evidence of thi= s paranoia. Earlier this year, the Russian Air Force practiced nuclear bombing runs over the Polar icecap. These bombers would take such a route if they attacked the United States in a nuclear war. What is the thinking behind these exercises? According to Colonel Lunev, Russia's military is doing everything it can "to prepare for a war that it considers inevitable." Despite Moscow's military preparations, America continues to bankrol= l the Russian economy. In April of 1996 the U.S. refused to cancel a $1.5 billion aid package to Russia despite Moscow's ongoing -- and expensive -= - - construction of a gigantic underground base in the Urals. Yamantau Mountain, the site of the base, is so deeply buried that it cannot be destroyed by nuclear attack. According to the New York Times, the Yamantau facility is the size o= f metropolitan Washington. Officially, the Russian government refuses to disclose the facility'= s purpose and American officials, including arms control inspectors, are no= t permitted to go there. The Russian press has alternately described Yamant= au Mountain as a nuclear waste storage facility, a repository for Russian national treasures, and as an underground warehouse for food. Western specialists speculate that Yamantau Mountain is a secret weapons producti= on plant. Whatever it is, the Kremlin freely spends billions on it. But this = is not all they're spending billions on. In a move that defies Russia's bankrupt image, the Kremlin is upgrading Moscow's civil defense network of underground towns, tunnels an= d bunkers. This network includes a nuclear-proof city built beneath Moscow'= s Ramenki district, capable of housing 30,000 people. According to Richard F. Staar, former U.S. Ambassador to the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction Negotiations in Vienna, the "former" Soviet Union has stored at least 362 million metric tons of grain in nuclear bla= st and fallout shelters. University of North Carolina economist Steven Rosefielde estimated that these supplies could feed the entire population of Russia and its CIS partners for three years. Despite treaty obligations prohibiting the production of biological and chemical weapons, Russia is also spending vast sums to engineer a super-plague which is resistant to antibiotics. Moscow has also been caug= ht manufacturing deceptive new binary chemical munitions, which can be disguised as industrial chemicals. These binary munitions are said to be = as powerful as VX gas, which is 100 to 1,000 times more lethal than sarin ga= s. On 16 February of last year, the Washington Times reported that Russia wa= s violating its chemical arms treaty with the U.S. by manufacturing a new binary nerve agent called A-232. At the same time Russia is developing a nerve gas said to be five times more lethal than VX. In the nuclear missile area, Russia continues to develop and deploy new types of road and rail-mobile ICBMs. Of special interest is the SS-27 Topol-M, or "Sickle" missile. Developed and first tested in 1995, this 45-ton behemoth has an off-road movement capability and a throw-weight sufficient to support multiple warheads. Even more impressive is the rail-mobile "Scalpel" missile. It has a throw-weight and accuracy comparable to the American MX missile, and could be deployed in undergrou= nd rail tunnels or bunkers, like those found at Yamantau Mountain. In response to these Russian moves, the United States has spent no money on missile defenses. But according to William T. Lee, a former American intelligence official, Russia has deployed 10,000 to 12,000 Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABMs), disguising them as Surface to Air Missile= s (SAMs). To assist these missiles in the tough job of intercepting incomin= g American warheads, the Russians have deployed 18 battle management radars. In October of last year the Washington Times reported that several Americ= an supercomputers were illegally shipped to Russia. These machines could be = a vital part of any ABM battle management system. Also, the Russians continue building submarines at a surprising rate. In November of 1992, less than six years ago, Boris Yeltsin promised to halt Russia's production of nuclear submarines. Yet Russia continues to build submarines that are faster and quieter. Though the Russian submarin= e fleet will be smaller than it was ten years ago, it will be more effectiv= e because of qualitative improvements. Even so, it will still be the larges= t nuclear submarine force in the world, with 80 ships. Looking at the big picture, Russian preparations for war appear to b= e deliberate and systematic. Moscow spares no expense in its quest for superiority over America. Evidently, war is an important consideration in the thinking of Russian policy-makers. In fact, the Kremlin is so primed for war that in January of 1995 Russia's nuclear forces were put on alert in response to the launching of a Norwegian weather rocket. According to Peter Vincent Pry, a former CIA official, Russia's military leaders believed the Norwegian launch was the beginning of a nuclear attack on Russia. Bombers and missiles were put on notice, and Yeltsin was said to be within minutes of ordering a crushing attack on th= e West. The facts demonstrate that Russia is preparing for nuclear war. The Kremlin bosses are obviously willing to sacrifice Russia's whole consumer economy to meet the challenge of preparedness. On the American side there is only disarmament. We are slipping behind, day by day. In this context, one Russian dissident has stated: "T= he West believes...there will be a quiet life, but there won't be...." To learn more read: Russia and China Prepare for War February 9, 1999 Defector Reveals War Plans. 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