[APR-news] APR -- November 18, 2005

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November 18, 2005

Danger Zones

http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2005/11/18/map/index.html?source=daily
Unnatural Disasters: Which parts of the U.S. have put themselves in nature's
way?

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.11/start.html?pg=20
There are plenty of other disasters - natural and technological - you can
look forward to dealing with

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http://www.altpr.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=527&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0
Washington Post Explains How the Nazi-Created CIA Protects Us
By Kurt Nimmo

The CIA's "central and most successful strategy," as it has remained since
the terror organization was created with implementation of the National
Security Act of 1947, is to align itself with fascists far and wide,
military dictators and the sadistic goons that rise to the surface of the
political cesspool favored by the CIA (a natural occurrence since the CIA
nurtured "extensive relationships" with "former Nazi war criminals,"
including "at least five associates of the notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann"
and "at least 100 officers within the [Reinhard] Gehlen organization" who
were "former SD or Gestapo officers," see The CIA and Nazi War Criminals at
the National Security Archive). Thus "empowering foreign security services"
means allowing various morally repugnant scumbags and bottom-feeders to
wantonly torture and kill, something the CIA has done at the behest of
various presidents since Truman created the agency.

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Other articles of interest

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_198.shtml
World at tipping point; oil peak arrives
Larry Chin, Online Journal

The second largest oil field in the world, situated in Kuwait, is running
dry. The US trade deficit just hit another all-time high. Yet in the US, we
have witnessed the spectacle of rising stocks, in response to temporary and
artificially manipulated low gas prices created only by the tapping (and
possible depletion) of strategic reserves. As Mike Ruppert and the From The
Wilderness team point out, in the course of their continuous tracking of
Peak Oil-related news: "Even today the US media glibly lies and misleads
about falling oil prices while failing to tell the American people that most
of its domestic production is still shut in or that the 'falling' prices are
simply a result of tapping the strategic reserves of this and other IEA
countries. Both of those 'artificial' market influences will end shortly . .
." The Gulf Coast's energy infrastructure is not even close to repaired, and
some damage is permanent. The official data on the impact from Hurricanes
Katrina and Rita flies in the face of denials. How is it possible for energy
prices to fall if supplies are depleted and the infrastructure to bring
supplies to market remains crippled?

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Nov05/Hall1118.htm
Sustainable, Free-Range Farms and Other Tall Tales
Lee Hall, Dissident Voice

Already, most of the landmass of the contiguous United States is taken up by
agriculture --primarily for resource-guzzling animal processing. Worldwide,
the demand of six billion humans for physical space is vastly expanded as
animals are bred into existence to be food commodities. These domestic
animals now outnumber us by an estimated factor of three to one. There is
nothing sustainable, let alone kind, about animal agribusiness. Meanwhile,
as precious time passes, the other animals of the world -- those living on
nature's terms, those who might have a chance to keep their territory and
thus their freedom -- are pushed to the margins of the land.

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/11/18/120.html
Body Politics
Chris Floyd, Moscow Times

The dual amendments are a cynical PR ploy: Torture will be condemned in
public but quietly continued in the former KGB camps and other secret
hellholes that Bush has strung across the world like a barbed-wire necklace.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/8798997?pageid=rs.Home&pageregion=single7&rnd=1132269570292&has-player=true
The Man Who Sold the War: Meet John Rendon, Bush's general in the propaganda
war
James Bamford, Rolling Stone

One of the most powerful people in Washington, Rendon is a leader in the
strategic field known as "perception management," manipulating
information -- and, by extension, the news media -- to achieve the desired
result. His firm, the Rendon Group, has made millions off government
contracts since 1991, when it was hired by the CIA to help "create the
conditions for the removal of Hussein from power." Working under this
extraordinary transfer of secret authority, Rendon assembled a group of
anti-Saddam militants, personally gave them their name -- the Iraqi National
Congress -- and served as their media guru and "senior adviser" as they set
out to engineer an uprising against Saddam. It was as if President John F.
Kennedy had outsourced the Bay of Pigs operation to the advertising and
public-relations firm of J. Walter Thompson.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=STA20051117&articleId=1275
There is a Name for this Government-Corporation we call "the US
Adminstration"
John Stanton, Global Research

There is a name for this kind of government-corporation and the society it
creates and it is Fascism, pure and simple. There just isn't any other way
to describe people like Rumsfeld or Cheney. To that we must add the name
Brent Scowcroft.

http://www.albasrah.net/en_articles_2005/1105/Cindy%20Sheehan_171105.htm
Open letter to Cindy Sheehan
Albasrah.net

Watching your campaign on TV, I felt compelled to get in touch with you, to
extend my condolences, compassion and solidarity. Being a mother myself I
have been following your campaign to pull out the US armed forces from Iraq.
Having lost my son, as yourself, on the same battle-field, IRAQ, but on
opposite sides, I felt both compassion and relief to have an ally on the
other side, we share the same pain, frustration and sorrow to lose our
beloved ones in endless wars, launched by politicians who dream of creating
new empires, without having to suffer the pain of sacrifices that others
pay.

http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/gasper181105.html
Tookie Williams and the Politics of the Death Penalty
Phil Gasper, MR Zine

Stan's story is without doubt in many respects exceptional, and this has
made him San Quentin's best-known inmate. Yet in other respects, his story
is utterly unexceptional and could serve as a near perfect case study of
what's wrong with the death penalty in the United States. The Campaign to
End the Death Penalty lists five reasons to oppose capital punishment.
Stan's case illustrates each one of them.

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NewsWire

http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/2005/11/aclu-challenges-miami-model.html
ACLU challenges the "Miami Model"

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Militarys_recruiting_woes_worse_than_previously_1117.html
Good News: Military's recruiting woes even worse than previously realized

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/111805L.shtml
More good news: Vital military jobs go unfilled

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/17/AR2005111701735_pf.html
Army to Halt Call-Ups of Inactive Soldiers: Thousands requested delays,
exemptions or never showed up

http://villagevoice.com/news/0547,ferguson,70180,2.html
Recruiting woes: An Army of None

http://www.notinourname.net/troops/jashinski.htm
First woman GI to publicly declare resistance to participation in the war

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/mass-n18.shtml
Right-wing smear campaign against antiwar vet Jimmy Massey

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1116-25.htm
Thrill of the Kill: The other tragedy in Iraq

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1836289,00.html
50% of Americans think torture is just dandy

http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20051118/our_monsters_in_iraq.php
Our Monsters in Iraq: 'we've installed a hundred mini-Saddams'

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2005/151105inhands.htm
Prominent Conservative Leader: Government in Hands of Psychopaths

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-oil14nov14,1,4622319.story?page=1&cset=true&ctrack=1
A Combustible Mixture in Nigeria's Oil-Rich Delta

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/nov2005/2005-11-16-03.asp
National Energy Corridors May Impact Navajo Reservation Land

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/16/AR2005111602197.html
Climate Shift Tied to 150,000 Fatalities

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/17/MNG4EFPHK51.DTL
Global warming study forecasts more water shortages

http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=9283
Climate Change Threatens World Fish Stocks

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