From: owner-abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com (abolition-usa-digest) To: abolition-usa-digest@lists.xmission.com Subject: abolition-usa-digest V1 #124 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 Tuesday, May 4 1999 Volume 01 : Number 124 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:45:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Timothy Bruening Subject: (abolition-usa) 3 To The 5th Days Left Until 2000! There are just 3 To The 5th Days Left Until 2000, just 243 days left in which to achieve a nuclear abolition treaty. - - 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, 4 May 1999 02:08:03 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) NATO air strikes could cause a second Chernobyl Subject: NATO air strikes could cause a second Chernobyl > SUNDAY HERALD > > 27 April 1999 > > NATO air strikes could cause a second Chernobyl > > By Felicity Arbuthnot > eddie.gibb@sundayherald.com > Publication Date: Apr 25 1999 > > EUROPE'S most dangerous nuclear power plant could be just 30 minutes fr= om > a > catastrophic meltdown due to Nato air strikes on Serbia, a British expe= rt > has claimed. > > Oil from bombed refineries has seeped into the River Danube, causing 13 > huge slicks which are now threatening Bulgaria's Kozloduy plant's cooli= ng > system, prompting environmentalists to warn of a "very real danger" of = a > second Chernobyl. > > One British expert said workers at Kozloduy, which has around five mill= ion > people within its blast danger zone, would have just half an hour to sh= ut > down the reactors if cooling water from the river becomes contaminated > with > the thick oily sludge. > > But John Large, a London-based nuclear safety consultant who has > investigated Kozloduy for the British government, claimed the plant has > been staffed by little more than farmers since Russian technicians went > home after the break-up of the Soviet Union. > > Large confirmed the thick oil slicks could jam machines which pump wate= r > 6km from the Danube to cool the reactors. He warned sparking could caus= e > fires, but his main fears concern overheating reactors due to a prolong= ed > absence of coolant, which may lead to the explosive release of a > radioactive cloud. > > Large said: "The people at Kozloduy would have perhaps 30 minutes to cl= ose > down the reactors." > > He claimed there would be ample opportunity for inexperienced operators= to > make mistakes. "How shall I put it? This is a high-tech plant which is = now > run by agrarian labourers. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, the > Russian technicians who ran the plant went home, taking the instruction > manuals with them." > > Large said that in the worst case scenario, loss of coolant combined wi= th > operator error could result in an accidental release of a cloud of > radioactive gas. The reactors were so old, he warned, that their pressu= re > vessels could have become brittle and liable to catastrophic failure. > > Kozloduy takes water from the Danube at a point just 100km from the > Serbian > border. One of the 13 slicks approaching it is 24km long. > > An emergency shutdown on one of the plant's six reactors would plunge m= uch > of Bulgaria into darkness. > > But it is the fear of catastrophe which has caused worldwide alarm. A > coalition of Bulgarian environmental groups has warned the country's > government that there is "a very real danger" of a disaster similar to > that > caused by the blast at Chernobyl in April, 1986. > > Bulgarian authorities are refusing to release details of how the risk i= s > being dealt with. However, environmentalists have warned that the 24km > slick, which eyewitnesses claim is a "thick, oily gunge", will pass the > cooling pumps in "a matter of days". > > Campaigner Rasitsa Panayotova from Za Zemiata (Bulgarian for For the > Earth), claimed oil contamination could cause reactors at Kozloduy to > explode. > > "Another danger is that oil in the vicinity catches fire, also threaten= ing > the complex," she warned. The site also houses a substantial stockpile = of > nuclear waste. > > Four of Kozloduy's aging six reactors have no secondary containment to > prevent radiation from escaping in the event of an accident. > > Most western experts regard them as unsafe and the European Union has b= een > trying to persuade the Bulgarians to close them for years. The Bulgaria= n > government has resisted because the reactors supply 35% of the country'= s > electricity. > > A detailed investigation earlier this month by the official nuclear > regulatory agencies from 10 countries, including Britain, concluded > Kozloduy could never be made safe. > > "The existing and planned safety upgrading programmes will not be > sufficient to bring these units up to acceptable safety standards," the= y > said. > > Another study by the US Department of Energy revealed the plant failed = on > six out of seven accident indicators and concluded that "operation of t= he > Kozloduy nuclear power plant is truly a high-stakes gamble." > > Last week Bulgarian environmental groups demanded the closure of Kozlod= uy > after their government gave Nato planes permission to make emergency > landings 50km away at Gabrovnica. > > The Bulgarian committee on the uses of atomic energy for peaceful purpo= ses > also warned a plane crash at Kozloduy could cause an "uncontrolled > disaster". > > Talent develops in tranquillity, > character in the full current of human life. > =CD - - To unsubscribe to abolition-usa, send an email to "majordomo@xmission.com" with "unsubscribe abolition-usa" in the body of the message. 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Do not use quotes in your message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:35:21 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) Tornados as Weather Weapon? - ----- Original Message ----- From: Goat Sucker Newsgroups: alt.politics.british,alt.politics.europe.misc,alt.politics.usa.congress,a= lt. politics.usa.misc,alt.politics.yugoslavia,soc.culture.russia,alt.news-med= ia Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 5:41 AM Subject: Re: T O R N A D O S Gnocci's Tornado wrote: It seems that the Kosovo crisis is taking an unexpected turn. There a= re indications that a meteorological weaponry that Russians call MTVR-1= is currently in use to create atmospherics disturbances over the U.S. It seems that the Pentagon is panicking, and Clinton is even talking about halting the air strike against Yugoslavia!? There was a web site abou= t this weapon, I can't speak Russian but [what] I understood is that it does not need to be applied over the region one wants to attack and that [it] is not controllable. It is tornado season in the united states of medium tactical vehicle replacements (MTVR) http://www.house.gov/hasc/billsandreports/105thcongress/hr3616committeere= por t/title1.htm Secret Rulers Control America's Weather A weather modification Grid System has been set up by the Elite One World Government of an astonishingly advanced nature. The Grid System consists of three enormous underwater cables laid along the continental shelf of our East, West and Gulf Coasts (the latter from Florida to Texas.) Each cable is powered by an underground nuclear power plant and can be made positive or negative relative to Earth. The power plants act like = a giant battery; one pole grounded to Earth and the other to the cables. The effect of these three grid cables along the coasts is to create electrical fields which span the continent of the United States. These power field= s control electrical charges in the upper atmosphere producing jet-stream shifts. Experiments are conducted with the cable set at either a positi= ve or a negative potential, and also alternating from positive to negative. W= hat is going on now is weather warfare, and the era of weather strategy is underway. The Russians also have weather control, making use of their formidable cosmospheres (massive antigravity spacecrafts), which is mor= e localized, but much of what has been happening more recently has been due to the secret government. These two factions are in competition for control of America's weather with the purpose of world domination. http://www.esotericworldnews.com/weather.htm -------------- HAARP, Weather War, And EMF Mind Control From James Shannon Author Uncertain Dec. 23, 1997 In May of 1988, I wrote an article for the Canadian Intelligence Service headed "Weather War?" The preamble written by the editor said this: "Her story, indeed, is 'stranger than fiction.' And it's only the beginning, the first glimpse= of a new and uncertain factor in human affairs, opening up unimagined physical possibilities - but also threatening our very survival." Those words were indeed prophetic. Advanced technology based on the original works of Nikola Tesla is being developed at an alarming rate. This discoverer of alternating current power source and transmission system (among other accomplishments was a genius before his time. In spite of this, his name is unfamiliar to most because soon after his death in 1943 his data was removed from libraries and his only claim to fame now is the Tesla Coil. He hoped his discoveries would be used for peaceful, life-enhancing purposes.) While traveling in Alaska in the summer of 1994, we visited the Copper Valley area hoping to explore the old mines. A large intimidating sign blocked all access to this region. I didn't think too much of it at the time, however I later learned of a highly secret project being constructed there and was able to locate a book published in Alaska discussing the HAARP system, that being an acronym for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project. The authors of "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" base their information on documents they were able to view which came out of secret meeting of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Military. HAARP is a ground-based "Star Wars" weapon which has the capability to manipulate the environment in such a way as to change weather patterns, disrupt global communications systems, disrupt human mental processes, negatively affect health, and impact the Earth's upper atmosphere in an unnatural and damaging way. By interfering with the Earth's magnetic field there is no assurance that damage on an irreversible global scale will not occur. All participants involved in designing HAARP are part of a giant partnership of government, the military and many private corporations which form defense intelligence contractual networks, and it is done in secret. Critics of the project believe that large gro= ups of independent scientists should be talking a close look at these developments before the project is allowed to continue. A biggest "ionospheric heater" in the world is located on the HAARP site. Focused energy could be beamed up to the ionosphere where the radio-frequency waves would interact powerfully with charged particles that are always trapped up there. The heating effect of the focused beam would then dramatically push a plume - a large section of the ionosphere - up and outward from Earth. One critic of the project called it "skybusting." The Earth is protected from harmful cosmic rays by the Van Allen Radiation Belt in conjunction with the Earth's magnetic field. The ozone layer protect us from ultra-violet light. If this dual barrier is weakened, allowing these high-energy particles from the ionosphere to enter the atmosphere, serve damage could be caused to the DNA blueprints of all life on Earth. This is only one of the disastrous effects of which the HAARP system capable. Co-author Jean Manning, in conversation with a ham operator, learned that as early as 1975-76 the Soviet Union was beaming radio-frequency signals toward North America. Ham operators were picking up the 10-hertz (pulses per second) frequencies which they called Woodpecker signals because of the tapping they heard from extremely low frequency (ELF) waves. It was speculated that his ELF frequency could resonate the neurons in the human brain over great distance, resulting in mood changes in a large part of the population. These ELF waves could cause communication interference, power failures, and weather modification designed to have a devastating effect on food production. HAARP records disclose that when the project is up to full power, it will be able to send very low frequency and extra low frequency (VLF and ELF) waves at energy levels sufficient to affect entire regional populations. What other objective can there be but to control people? What is even more ominous is the authors' picture of what they refer to as the "psychocivilized society." After reviewing HAARP documents and Air Force materials, the possibility is there for the HAARP transmitting system to be used "inadvertently or intentionally to after mental functions." Early research on the brain was conducted on animals, using electrodes inserted into the brain to produce different kinds of behavior. Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado developed his research so that brain-manipulating effects could be achieved at a distans, and by changing wave form, could completely change the thinking and emotional state of the subject. Even these achievements can and are being used to help people with various mental dysfunctions, but the potential for abuse appears too easy to resist for the "mad scientists" working on HAARP. A European leader in alternative medicine, Dr. Reijo Makela has developed a technique whereby a patient's chemistry is rebalanced by using a combination of low levels of chemicals and the right frequency from a properly-tuned transmitter. He has had enormous success in treating debilitating diseases. However, the military approach can be used for just the opposite result. A tiny amount of chemical (below generally accepted levels for toxicity) could be introduced to the enemy by some means (perhaps water or air supply); then the right frequency could be directed toward them, activating the otherwise harmless chemicals. This would render the enemy powerless, and international agreements regarding chemical warfare would not have been violated. A radio transmitter carrying a pulsed wave of 6-12 pulses per second, acting in resonance with the radio waves which serve as a carrier, could it modulated in just the right way disrupt minds and cause serious negative health effects on humans and animals. This technology is well within the capability of HAARP and they intend to use it. We are now the age of sophisticated electromagnetic technology which can interfere with the Earth's magnetic fields all the way up to the ionosphere. The consequences of such aggressive tampering with our natural environment are not known, nor to the HAARP designers seem to care, brushing aside any attempts to develop a regulatory presence. Frustrating those who are anti-HAARP is the veil of secrecy and deception which covers the project. In order to "prepare" the people to accept these mind-bogging advances in technology, little bits of information are "leaked" out, like a trial balloon, to test the reaction. However, it seems that basi= c strategy and application remain committed to secrecy. Perhaps the most ominous aspect of the HAARP technology is the connecting of the military non-lethal research with civilian law enforcement agencies. This means that law conforcement can use this technology against the government's domestic "adversaries" - one can only surmise who these adversaries might be. We are given a clue in the policy for non-lethal weapons which states: The term 'adversary' is used .. in its broadest sense, including those who are not declared enemies but who are engaged in activities we wish to stop... Bear in mind that these weapons are "invisible" - when used to alter thinking and behavior the victims is unaware of an "attack." The authors provide a brief history of discoveries relating to the fiel= d of electromagnetic, beginning with Tesla's inventions in 1886 and ending with HAARP. Since 1994 HAARP has been testing its equipment, with 1998 being the projected date for a fully-operating system. The authors also warn us that it is not just the United States citizens who are in jeopardy - the HAARP system is a universal tool. As early as 1975, the Canadian government was aware of the use of weather modification as a weapon. Are they also aware of the expanded technology of the HAARP system? Since this use of electromagnetics will affect every one of us in some way, perhaps it would be appropriate to question your MP. Will this be the modus operandi to bring in the New World Order? (Angels Don't Play This HAARP" - Advances In Tesla Technology, by Jean Manning and Dr. Nick Begich). and, what in the HELL could be next.... by HAARP? -A Volcano eruption? -Earthquakes? -A hundred feet high wave? -Ebola virus? -or the beginning of "The New World Order" with micro-computer under your skin? http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/emfmind.htm On the Fourth of July, 1976, the former Soviet Union began broadcasting huge, pulsed electromagnetic fields from three gigantic 40-million watt transmitters which beamed those signals halfway around the world to the U.S. This electronic assault disrupted and jammed radio and television broadcast signals, enraged the FCC, and irritated ham radio operators, wh= o quickly dubbed the signals 'The Russian Woodpecker,' because of their pulsed cadence. To date, the Russians have completed nearly 30 of the huge transmitters which emit signals primarily in the very dangerous 10-Hertz range, otherw= ise known as Extreme Low Frequency (ELF). The technology is based on the brilliant work of the peerless electrical genius, Nikola Tesla. So, what exactly does the 'Russian Woodpecker' do and how does it do it? Consider the following: These 'Tesla' transmitters create massive 'standing' ELF waves that form major high pressure 'blocking systems' that change the normal high altitu= de jet stream pattern, force it to the north, and actually retard the normal flow patterns of incoming weather systems. Ever notice the television weather satellite pictures showing the jet stream pushed north and a big stationa= ry high pressure blocking nearly every major rain system that approaches the southern half of California?... Regarding the 7-year drought, which appears to be rearing its arid head again, the 1/13/93 edition of Discovery Magazine stated: Scientists would be happy if they learned one thing from this (seven year) drought: What causes the massive high pressure system to build up just off the California coast and stay there, like a double-parked delivery truck in rush-hour traffic, pushing storms to the north? Odd things were also being reported back in the winters of the early 1980= 's: A ridge of high pressure has hovered nearly 800 miles off the California Coast for the past two months, blocking the usual flow of moist air from the Pacific. --Time 1/1981 For the past four months, a single weather pattern...causing the drought is one of the most unusual national patterns ever recorded...such lo= ng lasting (high pressure) centers were unheard of until 1977 (when the Soviets began the 'Woodpecker' transmissions --ed.) --Washington Post 2/2/81 It is important to note that the end of the 7-year California drought in = the winter of 1992-93 coincided exactly with the well-documented period of intense solar magnetic storms that disrupted all electromagnetic transmissions he= re on Earth including the 'Woodpecker.' Last summer's Midwest flooding was probably no accident, either. An unusual shift in the jet stream, acting as a barrier (is causing = the floods)... --Newsweek 7/26/93 The stagnant high pressure zone acted like a barrier, preventing the normal flow of weather patterns from west to east... New York Times 7/29/93 It is extremely unusual for weather patterns to persist for so many weeks. The reasons for the weather patterns to become fixed...are unclear. --Storm, The World Weather Magazine 9/93 As far back in April, 1969, Spectrum, a publication of the prestigious Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, featured an article by Seymour Tilson which stated: Workers in the field of atmospheric electricity and cloud physics ha= ve accumulated sufficient evidence to suggest that electric fields in t= he Earth=B9s lower atmosphere play a critical role...perhaps the critic= al role...in the development and behavior of clouds that produces precipitation. Mr. Tilson was correct. Exactly one year after the 'birth' of the Russian Woodpecker, July 4, 1978, the U.S. Government conducted its own ELF weath= er experiment which created an enormous downpour of rain over six counties o= f northern Wisconsin. This ELF-generated storm generated winds of 157 mph a= nd caused $50 million in damage, levelling Phillips, Wisconsin, and destroyi= ng 350,000 hectares of forest. The first published alarm about Soviet weather control warfare came from Dr. Andrew Michrowski of PACE (Planetary Association for Clean Energy). I= n a published paper in 1978, Dr. Michrowski described how he had placed monitoring stations all across Canada and determined that "the Soviets managed to establish relatively stable and localized ELF fields (over Nor= th America) which were able to hamper or divert the jet stream flow in the Northern Hemisphere." Several years later, Michrowski stated in a PACE Newsletter (Vol.4, #4): ELF fields...propagate vertically to the ground, creating 'standing waves'...that can redistribute energy and momentum in (atmosphere) through cumulus convection. It has been consistently noted that variance of the (Soviet) ELF transmissions leads to a subsequent change in the route of the jet stream flow in the Northern Hemispher= e within 72 hours. The 2/81 PACE Newsletter reported that the Soviets turned off their ELF Woodpecker signal for a brief period in 1980: "During the two-week lull, the Northern Hemisphere's jet stream was NORMAL... ...with the return of the Soviet ELF transmissions, the jet stream was deflected (again) by a persistent (high) pressure ridge extending from the Yukon to Arizona." There is much more, but I think you get the picture. 'Everyone complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,' doesn=B9t function any more. Nikola Tesla said, in June, 1900, " The time is very near when we shall have the precipitation of the moisture of the atmosphere under complete control..." If you have ever read a biography of the great genius, you'll know he wasn't joking. Does the U.S. government have its own series of ELF/microwave transmitters? You bet. Can ELF be used to do more than engineer and influence just the weather (like human beings, for example)? Yes, it CAN and IS. But that's another story... Secret Weapons Technology http://www.sightings.com/political/weapons/weapons.htm IMPEACH DNA!* IMPEACH DNA!! IMPEACH DNA!!! "For the sanctity of the individual and the inALIENable rights upon which the Founders created our SpaceTime Contiuum!" InterCongressional Humanoid Rights Caucus http://www.house.gov/lantos/caucus/caucuswebpage.htm Dialogue on assembled chemical weapons assessment The DOD has committed to meaningful public involvement in the assessment program, and has stated that such involvement is critical to its success. In response to this commitment, a public interest group, known as the Dialogue on Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment ("the Dialogue") has sought to consult with the DOD to discuss issues relating to the assessment program. The Dialogue consists of a diverse group of interested individuals from the chemical weapons stockpile communities; federal, tribal, and state environmental regulators; and national activist organization representatives that regularly work on chemical weapons issues. During the committee's consideration of the National Defense Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1999 (H.R. 3616), a concern was raised that the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92-462; 5 U.S.C. App.) (FACA) might apply to the Dialogue in its consultative relationship with the DOD on the assessment program. The program's near-term deadline would make it unlikely that a formal charter process for the Dialogue, which would be required under FACA, could be completed in sufficient time to meet the deadline for the assessment program's final report to Congress and, concurrently, incorporate public involvement. In response to this concern, the committee consulted with the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, the committee of jurisdiction on issues related to FACA. In the opinion of that committee, FACA does not apply to the Dialogue in its relationship with the DOD on the assessment program. * (Not to be confused with "Peach" Recombinant Deoxyribonucleic Acid!) - - 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, 4 May 1999 12:43:36 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) KLA funding tied to heroin profits Washington Times front-page headline 19980503: May 3, 1999 [ top-billing above 3 soldiers release by Jesse Jackson in Yugo, Monday May 3rd following Saturday May 1= st Mike Ruppert speech at DC "March on Washington '99" rally in front of White Ho= use supported by about 150 MayDay medical marijuana activists (Million Mariju= ana March)who from the rally marched around the White House after demonstrati= ng against Rep. Bob Barr's scheduled speech, which was cancelled at the last minute, and in support of Ruppert's efforts to stop CIA confessed involvement in the hard drug trade, the CIA-KLA connection http://www.copvcia.com , and to bring out the truth about the medical marijuana issue in order to stop the drug war subterfuge oppressing Americans and populations around the world with crime, insurgencies and w= ars that could lead to nuclear and environmental catastrophe] The Washington Times, May 3, 1999 KLA funding tied to heroin profits By Jerry Seper The Kosovo Liberation Army, which the Clinton administration has embraced and some members of Congress want to arm as part of the NATO bombing campaign, is a terrorist organization that has financed much of its war effort with profits from the sale of heroin. Recently obtained intelligence documents show that drug agents in five countries, including the United States, believe the KLA has aligned itself with an extensive organized crime network centered in Albania that smuggles heroin and some cocaine to buyers throughout Western Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States. The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug smuggling cartel based in Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina. The cartel is manned by ethic Albanians who are members of the Kosovo National Front, whose armed wing is the KLA. The documents show it is one of the most powerful heroin smuggling organizations in the world, with much of its profits being diverted to the KLA to buy weapons. The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land and sea routes from Turkey through Bulgaria, Greece and Yugoslavia to Western Europe and elsewhere is so frequent and massive that intelligence officials have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route." Mr. Clinton has committed air power and is considering the use of ground troops to support the Kosovo rebels against Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Last week, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat, called on the United States to arm the KLA so ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could defend themselves against the Serbs. Mr. McConnell and Mr. Lieberman introduced a bill that would provide $25 million to equip 10,000 men or 10 battalions with small arms and anti-tank weapons for up to 18 months. In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the KLA -- formally known as the Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves, or UCK -- as an international terrorist organization, saying it had bankrolled its operations with proceeds from the international heroin trade and from loans from known terrorists like Osama bin Laden. "They were terrorists in 1998 and now, because of politics, they're freedom fighters," said one top drug official who asked not to be identified. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, in a recent report, said the heroin is smuggled along the Balkan Route in cars, trucks and boats initially to Austria, Germany and Italy, where it is routed to eager buyers in France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and Great Britain. Some of the white powder, the DEA report said, finds its way to the United States. The DEA report, prepared for the National Narcotics Intelligence Consumer's Committee (NNICC), said a majority of the heroin seized in Europe is transported over the Balkan Route. It said drug smuggling organizations composed of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were considered "second only to Turkish gangs as the predominant heroin smugglers along the Balkan Route." The NNICC is a coalition of federal agencies involved in the war on drugs. "Kosovo traffickers were noted for their use of violence and for their involvement in international weapons trafficking," the DEA report said. A separate DEA document, written last month by U.S. drug agents in Austria, said that while the war in the former Yugoslavia had reduced the drug flow to Western Europe along the Balkan Route, new land routes have opened across Romania, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The report said, however, the diversion appeared to be only temporary. The DEA estimated that between four and six metric tons of heroin leaves each month from Turkey bound for Western Europe, the bulk of it traveling over the Balkan Route. A second high-ranking U.S. drug official, who also requested anonymity, said government and police corruption in Kosovo, along with widespread poverty throughout the region, had contributed to an increase in heroin trafficking by the KLA and other ethnic Albanians. The official said drug smuggling is "out of control" and little is being done by neighboring states to get a handle on it. "This is the definition of the wild, wild West," said the official. "The bombing has slowed it down, but has not brought it to a halt. And, eventually, it will pick up where it left off." The heroin trade along the Balkan Route has been of concern to several countries: The Greek representative of Interpol reported in 1998 that Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were "the primary sources of supply for cocaine and heroin in that country." Intelligence officials in France said in a recent report the KLA was among several organizations in southern Europe that had built a vast drug-smuggling network. France's Geopolitical Observatory of Drugs said in the report that the KLA was a key player in the rapidly expanding drugs-for-arms business and helped transport $2 billion worth of drugs annually into Western Europe. German drug agents have estimated that $1.5 billion in drug profits is laundered annually by Kosovo smugglers, through as many as 200 private banks or currency-exchange offices. They noted in a recent report that ethnic Albanians had established one of the most prominent drug smuggling organizations in Europe. Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in March that drug sales could have netted the KLA profits in the "high tens of millions of dollars." The highly regarded British-based journal noted at the time that the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring offensive with the aid of drug money, along with donations from Albanians in Western Europe and the United States. Several leading intelligence officials said the KLA has, in part, financed its purchase of AK-47s, semiautomatic rifles, shotguns, handguns, grenade launchers, ammunition, artillery shells, explosives, detonators and anti-personnel mines through drug profits -- cash laundered through banks in Italy, Germany and Switzerland. They also said KLA rebels have paid for weapons using the heroin itself as currency. The profits, according to the officials, also have been used to purchase anti-aircraft and anti-armor rockets, along with electronic surveillance equipment. Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity --Robert Heinlein, 'Logic of Empire' News -- companies, sectors iNews -- internet companies =8C=1B - - 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, 4 May 1999 13:25:12 -0700 From: "David Crockett Williams" Subject: (abolition-usa) GATHERING May7-12: Love Your Mother Spring 99 Healing Global Wounds Anti-Nuclear camp gathering and protest at Nevada Nuclear Test Site May 7-12, 1999 http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/spring99gath.html - - 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, 04 May 1999 17:08:19 -0400 From: ASlater Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Food Irradiation and You >Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:23:00 -0400 >Subject: Food Irradiation and You >Priority: non-urgent >X-FC-MachineGenerated: true >To: cmep-list@lists.citizen.org >From: hartwich@citizen.org (hartwich@citizen.org) > >============================================================== >Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project >============================================================== > > > Unless you act by May 18, the Nuclear Industry > Will Succeed in Forcing Irradiated Food Down Our Throats! > >*** A new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule would allow manufacturers >to sell irradiated food without any label warning consumers. By nullifying >the chief obstacle to the expanded use of radiation --consumer >opposition-- this rule would pave the way for a significant expansion of >the >sale of irradiated food and give a boost to the nuclear industry. > > This would be a disaster!!! > >*** Over 550 new facilities would need to be built to irradiate various >foodstuffs if irradiation expands to according to industry projections. > >*** Food irradiation facilities have a frightening record of accidents and >other safety incidents. > >*** According to a Carnegie-Mellon study, operating irradiators just to >treat meat and poultry (much less spices, wheat, and other foodstuffs) >would >be extremely risky, with a 99.7% chance of multiple major incidents at >these >facilities (a major incident is defined by the Nuclear Regulatory >Commission >(NRC) as "those that result in a release or spill of radioactive material, >bodily harm, or a long term shut down of the facility"). > >*** The long term health effects of eating irradiated food are unknown. >Irradiation reduces the vitamin content of food and creates new chemical >substances called radiolytic products. Some of these substances are known >carcinogens, like benzene, and others are completely new substances that >have not been tested for toxicity. > > *** ACT NOW!!! *** > ** What you can do today ** > >*** Please write to the FDA and demand that the comment period be extended >past May 18. Tell the FDA that food treated with radiation be indefinitely >labeled with the radura (the international symbol for irradiated food) and >a >statement indicating it was treated with radiation. Say the absence of >such >a statement would be misleading because irradiation destroys vitamins and >causes changes in sensory and spoilage qualities that are not obvious or >expected by the consumer. Please DO NOT write a general statement opposing >irradiation. The powers that be have already approved irradiation, we can >only fight to keep the public informed (A sample letter can be found >below). > >*** Write your Representative and Senators, telling them to oppose the FDA >rule (a sample letter can be found below). > >*** Send this e-mail to as many concerned citizens as possible. > >When writing to FDA, refer to Docket #98N-1038, "Irradiation in the >production, processing, and handling of food". > >Send comments before May 18, 1999 to: >Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) >Food and Drug Administration >5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 >Rockville, MD 20852 >or >Send e-mail to FDADockets@oc.fda.gov and/or FDADockets@fda.gov >(Put Docket #98N-1038 in the subject line) > >NOTE: E-mail is discouraged because e-mails are often thrown out. A >written >letter is the most effective means of communication. > >SAMPLE LETTER TO FDA: > >Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) >Food and Drug Administration >5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 >Rockville, Maryland 20852 > >Re: Docket No. 98N-1038, Irradiation in the Production, Processing, and >Handling of Food > >To whom it may concern: > > I support the recommendation by the Center for Science in the Public >Interest regarding labeling of irradiated foods: > > "any foods, or any foods containing ingredients that have been treated by >irradiation, should be labeled with a written statement on the principal >display panel indicating such treatment. The statement should be easy to >read and placed in close proximity to the name of the food and accompanied >by the international symbol. If the food is unpackaged, this information >should be clearly displayed on a poster in plain view and adjacent to where >the product is displayed for sale." > > Like other labels, irradiation labels are required by the FDA to be >truthful and not misleading. I believe that the terms "treated with >radiation" or "treated by irradiation" should be retained. Any phrase >involving the word "pasteurization" is misleading because pasteurization is >an entirely different process of rapid heating and cooling. > > I recognize the radura as information regarding a material fact of food >processing. The requirement for irradiation disclosure (both label and >radura) should not expire at any time in the future. The material fact of >processing remains. Even if some consumers become familiar with the radura, >new consumers (e.g., young people, immigrants) will not be. The symbol >should be clearly understandable at the point of purchase for everyone. If >there is no label, consumers will be misled into believing the food has not >been irradiated. > > I urge you to extend the comment period past its current end date of May >18 >to allow more concerned citizens the time to write in about this issue. >Also, please place the comments received on the Internet so that the public >can be informed about who is participating in this comment process. > >Sincerely, > > >SAMPLE LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATORS > >The Honorable [ ] >Washington, D.C. [ ] > >Senator/Representative [ ], > > I have recently been made aware of a frightening development at the Food >and Drug Administration. Under pressure from food manufacturers and >supporters of the nuclear industry, the FDA is considering a rule that >would >remove labeling requirements for foods treated with radiation. The public >only has until May 18 to voice its objections to this rule. Currently, any >food treated with radiation during the production process is labeled with a >symbol known as a radura (the international symbol for irradiated foods) >and >either a statement saying "treated with radiation" or "treated by >irradiation." The rule before the FDA would allow manufacturers to sell >any >and all irradiated foods to the consumer with nary a mention of the use of >radiation during processing. This is bad for consumers. > > Despite the fact that the FDA has determined that radiation is safe for >food, many consumers, including myself, do not want to eat foods treated >with radiation. Radiation changes the texture, taste, nutritional value, >and chemical composition of foods. Radiation creates a heretofore unseen >class of unique radiolytic products that have never been tested for their >possible carcinogenic effects on humans. These are things that I do not >want to put into my body. > > This is a clear cut issue of a consumer being able to know what is in >their >food. We know what the fat, protein, carbohydrate, and vitamin content is >in our food, why can we not know whether our food has been treated with >radiation emanating from some of the most deadly substances known to man? >I >implore you, as a constituent and a friend, to write a letter to the FDA >about this issue and ask them why your constituents should be kept in the >dark about whether their food has been irradiated and why the comment >period >has been so short. Enclosed you will find the letter that I wrote to the >FDA about this issue. I hope it is helpful in formulating your own >comments. > >Sincerely, > > >====================================================== >Questions about the CMEP-list can be directed to cmep@citizen.org >======================================================== > Alice Slater Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE) 15 East 26th Street, Room 915 New York, NY 10010 tel: (212) 726-9161 fax: (212) 726-9160 email: aslater@gracelinks.org GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty to eliminate nuclear weapons. - - 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. 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