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Someday (Revolution Song) Lyrics
0diggsdiggVERSE I
They were on the march then
In 1978
They filled our minds with hate
They deceived the nation
In the name of religion
And soon it was too late
When the soldiers came
We were on the run
Our lives forever changed
That was no solution
Regressive Revolution
Together we must stand
CHORUS
Someday
We will find a way
Someday
Someday
Someday
Someday
The darkness fades away
Someday
Someday
VERSE II
I'm calling all the children
Now that were all grown up
Is it time to make a change?
Take this old oppression
With a new aggression
Redeem our rightful place
REPEAT CHORUS
BRIDGE (SPOKEN)
I have a new solution
Its called Progressive Revolution
And someday is right now
CHORUS
Someday
We will find a way
Someday
Someday
Someday
Someday
The darkness fades away
Someday
Someday
CHORUS
Someday
We will find a way
Someday
Someday
Someday
Someday
The darkness fades away
Someday
Someday
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Someday (Revolution Song) lyrics in Farsi/Persian
لینک باکس داغ داغ ایران
نقاشی روی شکم زنای حامله!
زندگی روی دیوار خونه!
باغ وحشی در فلسطین خر رو رنگ کرد جای گورخر نمایش داد!
فَشِن دخترای ایرانی چند ده سال پیش!
عکس های پورشه ساخته شده از طلا!
عکس های عجیب ترین زوج های جهان!
کوچکترین کتابخانه جهان در یک باجه تلفن در انگلیس!
احمقانه ترین اختراع های جهان!
New York's 'day of rage' youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojpqv_WqVNA
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Rage
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/03/2011328111314767851.html Excerpt:
New York's 'day of rage' against cuts
Thousands protest against plans to slash education and healthcare budgets in state with highest income inequality.
Kanya D'Almeida Last Modified: 31 Mar 2011 07:00
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Many New Yorkers blame Wall Street for the state's crippling budget deficit [GALLO/GETTY]
In the shadow of towering colonial-style office buildings of the world's most powerful financial district, a crowd over 5,000-strong amassed outside Manhattan's City Hall last Thursday, chanting "the people united will never be defeated!"
As the contagious effects of democratic uprisings radiate from North Africa to North America, New York City's exploited workers and students are not about to let the opportunity for mass struggle pass them by.
The "Day of Rage Against the Cuts" has been in the works for over four months, ever since New York's recently appointed Democrat governor Andrew Cuomo openly declared his intention to slash spending on public education and healthcare and lacerate the budget previously allocated to state agencies by over half a billion dollars in order to close an estimated budget gap of $10 mn.
"I am fed up with Bloomberg and Cuomo taxing students and hiking tuition," said Sarah Anees, a graduate student at the City University of New York (CUNY).
"Passing a 100-dollar million budget cut on CUNY means less financial aid assistance, fewer professors, more decrepit buildings and no daycare services for student-parents," Anees said.
"Working class students can no longer shoulder the brunt of a budget deficit that we did not create," she added. "We didn't start this crisis – Wall Street did."
In a risky, and unapologetically conservative, move, Cuomo announced in February that the budget for Medicaid services and local school aid would be cut by $2.85 bn each, closing half the supposed state deficit.
Following his presentation of the new budget, the New York Times reported in early February that as a result of the truncated spending, potential losses of federal matching funds would roughly double the Medicaid cut, bringing spending on those programs down by a projected three billion dollars more.
Additionally, Cuomo shamelessly laid bare his intentions to delay the 1.93 billion-dollar allocation for local schools, mandated by a 2006 ruling from New York's highest court following tireless lobbying from the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, an immense coalition of education groups in the city.
The court-authorised expenditure was designed largely to serve schools in low-income communities where the standard of education has been in sharp decline for decades.
Said a spokesperson for the South Bronx Community Congress, "this is the beginning of unity between people of colour, immigrant communities and white working class people in New York."
"We have allowed many factors to divide us in the past," he said, "but now Bloomberg and Cuomo have accomplished what their predecessors failed to do – bringing together all these different forces. Today marks the birth of a new, multi-ethnic alliance."
Dismal disparity, bona fide rage
As thousands of protesters poured onto Wall Street chanting "When they say cut back, we say fight back", flayers and leaflets, detailing the stark contradictions in Cuomo's budgetary policies, rained over demonstrators' heads.
According to the department of Economics at the University of Berkley, California, New York State rebates 15 billion dollars annually in stock transfer taxes to Wall Street.
This potential revenue to the state is lost in the hands of the richest one percent of New York's population, whose income share is currently 44 per cent of total New York State income.
Additionally, Cuomo and senate majority leader Dean Skelos proposed a termination of the Millionaires' Tax that brings in 1.5 billion dollars, and refused to reinstate the 50 per cent tax on bankers' bonuses, which would bring in 10 billion dollars in state revenue.
Small wonder, then, that the bulk of some 4,000 banners and placards read "Tax the Rich", a spectacle that drew scores of police barricades and state security personnel to the scene. As the enormous line of bodies moved through the streets, workers from nearby offices – some in suits, others in janitors' uniforms – ran outside to join the protesters.
"New York City has the greatest income inequality in the whole country and this is a disgrace," said a representative of the Socialist Alternative.
"What is particularly scandalous is that we don't impose even a basic transfer tax, or a sales tax, on the tycoons on Wall Street – if they were forced to pay a penny for every sales transaction they made, that money would more than cover the budget shortfall," he added.
Sándor John, a faculty member at CUNY, chastised the union leadership for its collaboration with the architects of what he calls a "bipartisan assault" on the working class in the United States.
"Ever since Roosevelt's New Deal, the union leadership has been politically subordinate to the Democratic Party," he said. "But now we must acknowledge that none of us here today can hope to achieve anything by remaining in an alliance with the people who are carrying out this campaign."
"The attack on public education is not being spearheaded by the Tea Party," continued John. "The people at the forefront of the campaign for 'merit pay' and charter schools is Barack Obama and the Democratic Party," he added.
"What we are facing as workers, as students, as fighters, is a bi-partisan attack, which has chained the power of the working people to capitalism for decades – if we are going to defeat this, we are going to have to defeat capitalism and this requires a break from both the Republicans and Democratic parties that are part of this coalition."
As the march petered out two hours after the initial gathering, many protesters expressed their commitment to an ongoing fight.
"As long as lay-offs continue, the struggle will continue," a member of the Freedom Party said. "People's anger might not yet be perfectly organised – but the fury exists and it's here to stay."
Kanya D'Almeida is a US activist on human rights issues. She writes on a wide range of topics - including homophobia, immigration, environmental issues and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
This article was first published by IPS.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
http://www.thejewishstar.com/stories/Halpern-Virtual-warfare-is-real-The-first-victimIran,2035?content_source=&category_id=226&search_filter=&event_mode=&event_ts_from=&list_type=&order_by=&order_sort=&content_class=&sub_type=&town_id=
I'm thinking
by Micah Halpern
The future is online and it is virtual.
Virtual news, virtual shopping, virtual education — even virtual, online, war.
Want proof? Look no further than the Spuxnet, the computer virus that is burning through headlines and news stories as fast as it is infecting the computer programs of Iran.
The first real virtual cyberspace battle has been in play since June when the Spuxnet virus was released. The past few weeks have signaled to the world-at-large that this new form of warfare has the potential to be an enormously effective tool, especially against certain types of enemies and certain types of offensive weapons — weapons like nuclear technology.
October 8, 2010
Halpern: Virtual warfare is real. The first victim? Iran
by Micah Halpern
Issue of October 8, 2010/ 30 Tishrei 5771
The future is online and it is virtual.
Virtual news, virtual shopping, virtual education — even virtual, online, war.
Want proof? Look no further than the Spuxnet, the computer virus that is burning through headlines and news stories as fast as it is infecting the computer programs of Iran.
The first real virtual cyberspace battle has been in play since June when the Spuxnet virus was released. The past few weeks have signaled to the world-at-large that this new form of warfare has the potential to be an enormously effective tool, especially against certain types of enemies and certain types of offensive weapons — weapons like nuclear technology.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
http://www.whatreallyhappened.org/content/nuclear-power-plants-shut-down-germany
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
Nuclear power plants shut down in Germany
Ed note–Ostensibly, the reason for the nuclear reactors in Japan going into meltdown mode was an earthquake followed by a tsunami. No such dangers exist in Germany, yet they are shutting down their reactors–Do they know something the rest of us don’t, perhaps dealing with a computer worm known as Stuxnet designed to destroy reactors such as these?
Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear reactors while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.
Was the helicopter incident a warning?
Germany to close nuclear power plants provisionally CCTV News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SaFHvkXDBs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Excerpt:
Stuxnet is a Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment.[1] While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems,[2] it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems,[3] and the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit.[4][5]
The worm initially spreads indiscriminately, but includes a highly specialized malware payload that is designed to target only Siemens Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that are configured to control and monitor specific industrial processes.[6][7] Stuxnet infects PLCs by subverting the Step-7 software application that is used to reprogram these devices.[8]
Different variants of Stuxnet targeted five Iranian organisations,[9] with the probable target widely suspected to be uranium enrichment infrastructure in Iran;[10][11] Symantec noted in August 2010 that 60% of the infected computers worldwide were in Iran.[12] Siemens stated on November 29 that the worm has not caused any damage to its customers,[13] but the Iran nuclear program, which uses embargoed Siemens equipment procured clandestinely, has been damaged by Stuxnet.[14][15][16][17] Kaspersky Labs concluded that the sophisticated attack could only have been conducted "with nation-state support"[18] and it has been speculated that Israel may have been involved.[19]
Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear reactors while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.
Was the helicopter incident a warning?
Germany to close nuclear power plants provisionally CCTV News
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SaFHvkXDBs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuxnet
Excerpt:
Stuxnet is a Windows computer worm discovered in July 2010 that targets industrial software and equipment.[1] While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems,[2] it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems,[3] and the first to include a programmable logic controller (PLC) rootkit.[4][5]
The worm initially spreads indiscriminately, but includes a highly specialized malware payload that is designed to target only Siemens Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems that are configured to control and monitor specific industrial processes.[6][7] Stuxnet infects PLCs by subverting the Step-7 software application that is used to reprogram these devices.[8]
Different variants of Stuxnet targeted five Iranian organisations,[9] with the probable target widely suspected to be uranium enrichment infrastructure in Iran;[10][11] Symantec noted in August 2010 that 60% of the infected computers worldwide were in Iran.[12] Siemens stated on November 29 that the worm has not caused any damage to its customers,[13] but the Iran nuclear program, which uses embargoed Siemens equipment procured clandestinely, has been damaged by Stuxnet.[14][15][16][17] Kaspersky Labs concluded that the sophisticated attack could only have been conducted "with nation-state support"[18] and it has been speculated that Israel may have been involved.[19]
http://www.whatreallyhappened.org/content/nuclear-power-plants-shut-down-germany
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
Nuclear power plants shut down in Germany
Ed note–Ostensibly, the reason for the nuclear reactors in Japan going into meltdown mode was an earthquake followed by a tsunami. No such dangers exist in Germany, yet they are shutting down their reactors–Do they know something the rest of us don’t, perhaps dealing with a computer worm known as Stuxnet designed to destroy reactors such as these?
Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear reactors while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.
Was the helicopter incident a warning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SaFHvkXDBs
Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear reactors while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.
Was the helicopter incident a warning?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SaFHvkXDBs
http://www.whatreallyhappened.org/content/nuclear-power-plants-shut-down-germany
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
Nuclear power plants shut down in Germany
Ed note–Ostensibly, the reason for the nuclear reactors in Japan going into meltdown mode was an earthquake followed by a tsunami. No such dangers exist in Germany, yet they are shutting down their reactors–Do they know something the rest of us don’t, perhaps dealing with a computer worm known as Stuxnet designed to destroy reactors such as these?
Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear reactors while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.
Was the helicopter incident a warning?
Germany has temporarily shut down seven of its nuclear reactors while it reconsiders its nuclear strategy.
Was the helicopter incident a warning?
http://www.mrc.org/bmi/commentary/2011/Unreported_Soros_Event_Aims_to_Remake_Entire_Global_Economy.html
Excerpt:
On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conference and Soros's goal for such an event is to "establish new international rules" and "reform the currency system." It's all according to a plan laid out in a Nov. 4, 2009, Soros op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order."
Alex Jones UN a Nazi movement (back in the day ...cal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eh8609zteQ
Excerpt:
Unreported Soros Event Aims to Remake Entire Global Economy
Left-wing billionaire's own experts dominate quiet push for 'a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order.'
Two years ago, George Soros said he wanted to reorganize the entire global economic system. In two short weeks, he is going to start - and no one seems to have noticed.On April 8, a group he's funded with $50 million is holding a major economic conference and Soros's goal for such an event is to "establish new international rules" and "reform the currency system." It's all according to a plan laid out in a Nov. 4, 2009, Soros op-ed calling for "a grand bargain that rearranges the entire financial order."
Alex Jones UN a Nazi movement (back in the day ...cal)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Eh8609zteQ
 03-24-2011 • slatest.slate.com Read Full Story Organized Religion Will Go "Extinct" in Western CountriesOrganized religion will go the way of the dinosaurs in nine Western democracies, reports CNN. "Religion will be driven toward extinction" in Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Netherlands, researchers conclude in a new paper. It will also fade in Austria, the Czech Republic, Finland, and Switzerland, they predict. "If you look at the data, 'unaffiliated' is the fastest-growing group," said the paper's lead author. The U.S. could not be included in the study, because unlike the other countries, census data on religion was not available. The study began with two sociological assumptions. First, people want to be part of the majority rather than the minority, making it increasingly desirable to avoid church rather than to attend. "Just a few connections to people who are [religiously] unaffiliated is enough to drive the effect," said the lead author. Also, there are social, economic, and political benefits to not being religious in these countries. "The utility of being unaffiliated seems to be higher than affiliated in Western democracies," he said. Despite the lack of U.S. data, other studies suggest people who identify as "unaffiliated" are the fastest-growing belief group in the United States. | ||||||
Reported by Sierra Hancock |
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1334533/Toothpaste-fear-unborn-babies.html
Excerpt:
Last updated at 3:38 PM on 14th January 2011
A chemical in toothpastes and soaps has been linked with brain damage to babies in the womb.
Scientists fear pregnant women who are exposed to high levels of the chemical, called triclosan, may be putting their babies at risk.
New findings suggest triclosan may disrupt the flow of blood to the uterus, starving a baby’s brain of the oxygen it needs to develop properly.
Last night researchers involved in the study called for urgent investigations into the dangers to unborn babies.
Professor Margaret James of the University of Florida said: ‘We know it’s a problem. But we just don’t know how much of a problem.’
Triclosan is a powerful anti-bacterial that was developed nearly 50 years ago.
It is now commonly used in everything from toothpastes, deodorants and handwashes to washing-up liquid, anti-bacterial chopping boards and even some toys.
However, it has been dogged by concerns over its safety and earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. announced it was carrying out a major review on its safety.
In the latest study, tests on sheep showed it interferes with an enzyme that allows the hormone oestrogen to circulate in the womb.
Oestrogen helps to keep open the main artery carrying oxygen-rich blood to the foetus.
If there is too little, this artery narrows and oxygen supplies are depleted.
In the UK, the chemical’s use is covered by the EU Cosmetics Directive, which says it is safe to use but only in small doses. The maximum content allowed in any product is 0.3 per cent.
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has phased out the use of triclosan in its Aquafresh and Sensodyne toothpaste and Corsodyl mouthwash. It is still used in brands such as Colgate Total.
Elizabeth Salter-Green, director of the ChemTrust, which lobbies for responsible use of man-made chemicals, urged pregnant women to avoid triclosan.
‘They should absolutely avoid anything with triclosan listed in its ingredients,’ she said.
‘We don’t all need to be using anti-bacterial soaps if we wash our hands properly.
‘It has been on our radar for many years and I’m not surprised at these latest findings.’
But a spokesman for the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Perfumery Association said the study in sheep did not prove the same effects would be seen in humans.
She added: ‘Much research on human and environmental safety has been done on triclosan over the years.
‘To date, it has been shown to be safe.
‘Our industry’s number one priority is consumer safety and we work with the regulatory authorities to ensure that all new research is taken into consideration.
‘In 2009, the Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety, an independent body of experts reporting to the EU Commission, confirmed the safety of triclosan as a cosmetic ingredient, as commonly used, at a limit of 0.3 per cent.’
Triclosan wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/infoservices/pesticidesandyou/Fall%2005/triclosan%20petition.pdf
Excerpt:
Toothpaste fear for unborn babies
By Pat HaganLast updated at 3:38 PM on 14th January 2011
Research suggests triclosan might pose a danger of brain damage to children
Scientists fear pregnant women who are exposed to high levels of the chemical, called triclosan, may be putting their babies at risk.
New findings suggest triclosan may disrupt the flow of blood to the uterus, starving a baby’s brain of the oxygen it needs to develop properly.
Last night researchers involved in the study called for urgent investigations into the dangers to unborn babies.
Professor Margaret James of the University of Florida said: ‘We know it’s a problem. But we just don’t know how much of a problem.’
Triclosan is a powerful anti-bacterial that was developed nearly 50 years ago.
It is now commonly used in everything from toothpastes, deodorants and handwashes to washing-up liquid, anti-bacterial chopping boards and even some toys.
However, it has been dogged by concerns over its safety and earlier this year the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. announced it was carrying out a major review on its safety.
In the latest study, tests on sheep showed it interferes with an enzyme that allows the hormone oestrogen to circulate in the womb.
Oestrogen helps to keep open the main artery carrying oxygen-rich blood to the foetus.
If there is too little, this artery narrows and oxygen supplies are depleted.
In the UK, the chemical’s use is covered by the EU Cosmetics Directive, which says it is safe to use but only in small doses. The maximum content allowed in any product is 0.3 per cent.
Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has phased out the use of triclosan in its Aquafresh and Sensodyne toothpaste and Corsodyl mouthwash. It is still used in brands such as Colgate Total.
Elizabeth Salter-Green, director of the ChemTrust, which lobbies for responsible use of man-made chemicals, urged pregnant women to avoid triclosan.
‘They should absolutely avoid anything with triclosan listed in its ingredients,’ she said.
‘We don’t all need to be using anti-bacterial soaps if we wash our hands properly.
‘It has been on our radar for many years and I’m not surprised at these latest findings.’
But a spokesman for the Cosmetics, Toiletry and Perfumery Association said the study in sheep did not prove the same effects would be seen in humans.
She added: ‘Much research on human and environmental safety has been done on triclosan over the years.
‘To date, it has been shown to be safe.
‘Our industry’s number one priority is consumer safety and we work with the regulatory authorities to ensure that all new research is taken into consideration.
‘In 2009, the Scientific Committee for Consumer Safety, an independent body of experts reporting to the EU Commission, confirmed the safety of triclosan as a cosmetic ingredient, as commonly used, at a limit of 0.3 per cent.’
Triclosan wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/infoservices/pesticidesandyou/Fall%2005/triclosan%20petition.pdf
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environmental groups, led by Beyond Pesticides, petitioned
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
on October 25, 2005 to pull from the market widely used
household products that contain the germ fi ghting chemical
triclosan. Scientifi c studies dispute the need for the chemical
and link its widespread use to health and environmental effects
and the development of stronger bacteria that are increasingly
diffi cult to control. “The failure to regulate triclosan as the
law requires puts millions of people and the environment at
unnecessary risk to toxic effects and elevated risk to other
bacterial diseases,” said Jay Feldman, Executive Director of
Beyond Pesticides.
The groups are asking FDA to recognize the urgency of
the problem and expedite action to ban household triclosan
use after an FDA advisory panel found in October 2005 that
the chemical provides little benefi t for healthy consumers
but could carry environmental and public health risks. The
Nonprescription Drugs Advisory Committee, a group made of
scientists and experts in the fi eld, voted 11-1 that antibacterial
soaps and washes were no more effective than regular soap and
water in fi ghting infections—both work equally well.
Retired senior National Institutes for Health scientist in
microbiology and immunology, Cecil Fox, Ph.D., said, “I am
troubled that governmental review of triclosan has failed to
scrutinize the development of resistant microorganisms and the
by-product, antibiotic-resistant microbial populations, and the
transport and accumulation of triclosan residues through skin
and mucosal absorption. FDA’s failure is a national scandal.”
Triclosan is found in hundreds of common everyday products,
including deodorants, toothpastes, cosmetics, fabrics,
plastics and nearly half of all commercial soaps. Triclosan is
used so commonly that it has made its way into the human
body, with studies showing residues in the umbilical cord blood
of infants and in breast milk of mothers. A growing body of
research fi nds that triclosan promotes the emergence of bacteria
that are resistant to antibiotics and antibacterial cleaners.
Triclosan has also been linked to the formation of dioxin, a
highly toxic, carcinogenic substance included in the United
Nation’s list of twelve persistent organic pollutants (POPs) and
the formation of chloroform, which is classifi ed by EPA as a
probable human carcinogen
The petition points out that the household use of triclosan
results in contamination of the nation’s waterways. Triclosan is
among the most prevalent contaminants not removed by typical
wastewater treatment plants, and is commonly detected in
streams and other waterways. This creates the conditions that
could lead to the formation of dioxin. William Arnold, Ph.D.
iting health concerns, a coalition of public health and Groups Ask FDA To Ban Antibacterial
Products Containing Triclosan
By Aviva Glaser
Associate Professor, University of Minnesota, Department
of Civil Engineering, explains, “Upon triclosan exposure to
sunlight, two of the products generated are 2,8-diclorodibenzodioxin
and 2,4-dichlorophenol. If triclosan was exposed
to chlorine (from water treatment) and then sunlight, there
is the potential for more highly chlorinated products to be
produced.”
“With enormous medical concern about antibiotic resistant
disease, doctors will tell you that nothing beats good old soap
and water,” said Michael Green, Executive Director of the Center
for Environmental Health. “FDA’s inaction on triclosan is
short-sighted; the agency needs to take a longer view towards
protecting public health and the environment.”
The petitioners include Beyond Pesticides, Center for
Environmental Health, Advocates for Environmental Human
Rights, Alaska Community Action on Toxics, Breast Cancer
Action, Breast Cancer Fund, Campaign for Safe Cosmetics,
Citizens Environmental Coalition, Environmental Health
Fund, Indigenous Environmental Network, Natural Resources
Defense Council, Maryland Pesticide Network, Northwest
Indiana Toxics Action Project, San Diego Oceans Foundation,
Women’s Voices for the Earth, and the organic retailer Seventh
Generation, Inc.
For more information, contact Beyond Pesticides and see the
ChemWatch factsheet and article in the Fall and Winter 2004
issues of
is also available at
Pesticides and You. The full petition and press releasewww.beyondpesticides.org. Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
Page 18 Pesticides and You Vol. 25, No. 3, 2005
Monday, March 21, 2011
http://www.boozallen.com/media-center/press-releases/48399320/49136123
Excerpt:
The partnership connects Booz Allen to one of the largest recruiting organizations in the world, providing access to a database that matches the firm’s job needs to job skills that soldiers learn in the Army. The Army PaYS program, developed by the U.S. Army Recruiting Command in 2000, involves more than 375 other major corporations, and provides a direct opportunity for soldiers to prepare for a long-term career after serving.
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Individualcompanies/B/BoozAllenHamilton
Excerpt:
Visit: [PDF] full report: "Corporate Mercenaries - The threat of private military and security companies"
http://www.catchfence.com/2011/sprintcup/03/21/newmans-chevrolet-will-pay-tribute-to-armys-partnership-for-youth-success-at-california-nascar-race/
Excerpt:
FORT KNOX, Ky. (March 21, 2011) – Ryan Newman’s No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet at this weekend’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Fontana, Calif. will pay tribute to the Army’s Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS), a program which gives Soldiers from the Army and Army Reserve a leg up on civilian employment.
Under the PaYS program, when a Soldier leaves active-duty or Initial Entry Training (IET) for the Army Reserve, they will receive a guaranteed job interview with the civilian employer they chose as part of their enrollment in the program. Currently, there are approximately 400 companies participating in PaYS, more than 50 of which are Fortune 500 companies.
http://www.catchfence.com/tag/no-39-u-s-army-partnership-for-youth-success-chevrolet-impala-ss/
Excerpt:
Under the PaYS program, when a Soldier leaves active-duty or Initial Entry Training (IET) for the Army Reserve, they will receive a guaranteed job interview with the civilian employer they chose as part of their enrollment in the program. Currently, there are approximately 400 companies participating in PaYS, more than 50 of which are Fortune 500 companies.
“The PaYS program demonstrates not only the commitment of the Army to powerful, life-long training, but also the commitment of American businesses in employing leaders,” said Col. Derik Crotts, Director of Strategic Marketing, Communications and Outreach, U.S. Army Accessions Command. “Army Strong Soldiers are leaders who possess a strength like no other. They are disciplined, dependable employees who understand and embrace teamwork, integrity and selfless service. We are honored Haas Automation has joined the ranks of American companies participating in PaYS.”
The logos for PaYS and Haas Automation, a new partner to the PaYS program, will be featured on the hood of Newman’s Chevrolet. Haas Automation, which is based in Oxnard, Calif., is America’s leading builder of CNC machine tools and co-owner of the Stewart-Haas Racing team. The company was founded by Gene Haas in 1983. Haas Automation will receive its PaYS certification during an Army ceremony at Auto Club Speedway.
“Haas Automation is proud to be a new member of the U.S. Army’s Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) program,” said Kurt Zierhut, director of research and development, Haas Automation. “We look forward to interviewing members of the Army who are interested in joining Haas Automation’s team of skilled workers. This program will allow Haas to support members of the military who risk their lives every day to protect our country.”
More than 18,000 Soldiers are enrolled in the PaYS program for fiscal year 2011 and more than 120,000 Soldiers have taken part in PaYS since the program’s inception in 2000.
“This is my third year representing the U.S. Army in NASCAR and it’s been quite an educational experience to learn about the unique programs the Army has to offer to America’s youth,” said Newman. “Our Army Chevrolets in the past have showcased the Army ROTC, Army Reserve and Army Medicine. This weekend we will feature the Army PaYs program, a partnership with companies – like Haas Automation — to assist our Army Strong Soldiers once they enter civilian life in search of employment. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to help convey these Army programs vocally and through our U.S. Army race car.”
About U.S. Army Accessions Command
The U.S. Army Accessions Command (USAAC), a subordinate command of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, meets the human resource needs of the Army by transforming volunteers into officers, warrant officers, and enlisted Soldiers. In providing the force, the 18,391 men and women of Accessions Command prepare these future Soldiers and leaders for their initial military training. Commanded by Lt. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, USAAC is located at Fort Knox, Ky.
About Haas Automation
Haas Automation, Inc., is America’s leading builder of CNC machine tools. Founded by Gene Haas in 1983, Haas Automation manufactures a complete line of high precision CNC machining centers, lathes, and rotary tables. All Haas products are built in the company’s 1 million square-foot manufacturing facility in Oxnard, Calif., and distributed through a worldwide network of Haas Factory Outlets that provides the industry’s best sales, service and support while offering unparalleled cost-to-performance value. For more information, please visit http://www.haascnc.com/.
- DMF Communications for U.S. Army Racing, Press Release
FORT KNOX, Ky. (March 21, 2011) –
Excerpt:
Booz Allen Signs Agreement with U.S. Army to Recruit Soldiers After Military Service
February 14, 2011
Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) Matches Military Skills to Job Openings
McLean, Virginia – Booz Allen Hamilton (NYSE:BAH) has signed a partnership with the U.S. Army Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) program that will offer Army soldiers a chance to pursue a job with the firm after their military service.The partnership connects Booz Allen to one of the largest recruiting organizations in the world, providing access to a database that matches the firm’s job needs to job skills that soldiers learn in the Army. The Army PaYS program, developed by the U.S. Army Recruiting Command in 2000, involves more than 375 other major corporations, and provides a direct opportunity for soldiers to prepare for a long-term career after serving.
http://www.business-humanrights.org/Categories/Individualcompanies/B/BoozAllenHamilton
Excerpt:
Visit: [PDF] full report: "Corporate Mercenaries - The threat of private military and security companies"
Author:
Dated: 30 Oct 2006
Dated: 30 Oct 2006
The following pages examine the rapid expansion of private military and security companies (PMSCs), particularly as a result of the occupation of Iraq. As well as providing information on the activities of these companies, the report urges all readers to call on the UK government to introduce legislation as a matter of urgency in order to bring PMSCs under democratic control. [refers to Aegis Defence Services, Airscan, Alpha Firm (part of ArmorGroup), AMEC, American Airlines, Anvil Mining, ArmorGroup, Aviation Development Corporation, BHP Billiton, Blackwater, Booz Allen Hamilton, BP, Branch-Heritage, CACI, Chevron, Control Risks, Custer Battles, De Beers, Defence Systems Colombia (DSC) [a subsidiary of DSL (now ArmorGroup)] , DynCorp, Erinys International, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Hart Group, Intercon Security, L-3 Communications, L-3 Titan (part of L-3 Communications), Military Professional Resources (MPRI) (part of L-3 Communications), Northbridge, Northrop Grumman, O’Gara, Ranger Oil (part of Canadian Natural Resources), Raytheon, SAIC, Schlumberger, Shell, Siemens, Silver Shadow, Texaco, Triple Canopy, Vinnell (part of Northrop Grumman)] [If any of the other companies mentioned in the War on Want report wish to send the Business & Human Rights Resource Centre a response to the report, we will post any responses on our website, alongside the report.]
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Visit: Corporate Mercenaries
Visit: Corporate Mercenaries
Author:
Dated: 30 Oct 2006
Dated: 30 Oct 2006
The British government today comes under attack for its growing use of mercenaries in conflict zones while failing to introduce legislation to tackle their human rights abuses. A new report launched today by War on Want reveals that no prosecutions have followed hundreds of accounts of personnel from private military and security firms committing abuses in Iraq. [refers to Aegis Defence Services, Sandline International, DSC (part of ArmorGroup).]
http://www.catchfence.com/2011/sprintcup/03/21/newmans-chevrolet-will-pay-tribute-to-armys-partnership-for-youth-success-at-california-nascar-race/
Excerpt:
FORT KNOX, Ky. (March 21, 2011) – Ryan Newman’s No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet at this weekend’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Fontana, Calif. will pay tribute to the Army’s Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS), a program which gives Soldiers from the Army and Army Reserve a leg up on civilian employment.
Under the PaYS program, when a Soldier leaves active-duty or Initial Entry Training (IET) for the Army Reserve, they will receive a guaranteed job interview with the civilian employer they chose as part of their enrollment in the program. Currently, there are approximately 400 companies participating in PaYS, more than 50 of which are Fortune 500 companies.
http://www.catchfence.com/tag/no-39-u-s-army-partnership-for-youth-success-chevrolet-impala-ss/
Excerpt:
Mar 21
Monday
Newman’s Chevrolet will Pay Tribute to Army’s Partnership for Youth Success at California NASCAR Race
Haas Automation joins unique program designed to assist retired Soldiers in civilian job search
Ryan Newman’s No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet at this weekend’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race in Fontana, Calif. will pay tribute to the Army’s Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS), a program which gives Soldiers from the Army and Army Reserve a leg up on civilian employment. Under the PaYS program, when a Soldier leaves active-duty or Initial Entry Training (IET) for the Army Reserve, they will receive a guaranteed job interview with the civilian employer they chose as part of their enrollment in the program. Currently, there are approximately 400 companies participating in PaYS, more than 50 of which are Fortune 500 companies.
“The PaYS program demonstrates not only the commitment of the Army to powerful, life-long training, but also the commitment of American businesses in employing leaders,” said Col. Derik Crotts, Director of Strategic Marketing, Communications and Outreach, U.S. Army Accessions Command. “Army Strong Soldiers are leaders who possess a strength like no other. They are disciplined, dependable employees who understand and embrace teamwork, integrity and selfless service. We are honored Haas Automation has joined the ranks of American companies participating in PaYS.”
The logos for PaYS and Haas Automation, a new partner to the PaYS program, will be featured on the hood of Newman’s Chevrolet. Haas Automation, which is based in Oxnard, Calif., is America’s leading builder of CNC machine tools and co-owner of the Stewart-Haas Racing team. The company was founded by Gene Haas in 1983. Haas Automation will receive its PaYS certification during an Army ceremony at Auto Club Speedway.
“Haas Automation is proud to be a new member of the U.S. Army’s Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) program,” said Kurt Zierhut, director of research and development, Haas Automation. “We look forward to interviewing members of the Army who are interested in joining Haas Automation’s team of skilled workers. This program will allow Haas to support members of the military who risk their lives every day to protect our country.”
More than 18,000 Soldiers are enrolled in the PaYS program for fiscal year 2011 and more than 120,000 Soldiers have taken part in PaYS since the program’s inception in 2000.
“This is my third year representing the U.S. Army in NASCAR and it’s been quite an educational experience to learn about the unique programs the Army has to offer to America’s youth,” said Newman. “Our Army Chevrolets in the past have showcased the Army ROTC, Army Reserve and Army Medicine. This weekend we will feature the Army PaYs program, a partnership with companies – like Haas Automation — to assist our Army Strong Soldiers once they enter civilian life in search of employment. It gives me a great deal of pleasure to help convey these Army programs vocally and through our U.S. Army race car.”
About U.S. Army Accessions Command
The U.S. Army Accessions Command (USAAC), a subordinate command of U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, meets the human resource needs of the Army by transforming volunteers into officers, warrant officers, and enlisted Soldiers. In providing the force, the 18,391 men and women of Accessions Command prepare these future Soldiers and leaders for their initial military training. Commanded by Lt. Gen. Benjamin C. Freakley, USAAC is located at Fort Knox, Ky.
About Haas Automation
Haas Automation, Inc., is America’s leading builder of CNC machine tools. Founded by Gene Haas in 1983, Haas Automation manufactures a complete line of high precision CNC machining centers, lathes, and rotary tables. All Haas products are built in the company’s 1 million square-foot manufacturing facility in Oxnard, Calif., and distributed through a worldwide network of Haas Factory Outlets that provides the industry’s best sales, service and support while offering unparalleled cost-to-performance value. For more information, please visit http://www.haascnc.com/.
- DMF Communications for U.S. Army Racing, Press Release
Ryan Newman's No. 39 U.S. Army Chevrolet which will pay tribute to Army's Partnership for Youth Success (PaYS) at this weekend's Auto Club 400 in Fontana, Calif.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Go Away, Stop, Turn Around, Comeback Steve Martin youtube
To my soulmate ...cal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2pYLWk4m8
http://earthfirst.com/cow-crap-from-illinois-caused-jersey-sized-dead-zone-in-gulf/
Excerpt:
The Mississippi has become a deadly river of shit and fertilizer, carrying the chemicals and waste from farms along its banks down into the Gulf of Mexico, where they have caused a giant oxygen-deprived ‘hypoxic zone’. Commonly known as a ‘dead zone’, this swath of the gulf is unable to support life and its size is increasing by the day.
Now, researchers say they’ve identified where some of regions responsible for releasing the most phosphorous and nitrogen into the Mississippi River basin.
From GreenBiz.com:
Now that the causes have been pinpointed, it’s time for the government to start addressing this problem. States need to start focusing their pollution-reduction efforts to prevent the dead zone from killing even more sea life.
GreenBiz.com reports that the EPA has announced three grants to Iowa State University researchers that would focus on reducing pollution runoff into the Mississippi River – it’s a start.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2010/10/kent_knudson_leader_of_911_tru.php
Excerpt:
To my soulmate ...cal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke2pYLWk4m8
http://earthfirst.com/cow-crap-from-illinois-caused-jersey-sized-dead-zone-in-gulf/
Excerpt:
Cow Crap from Illinois Caused Jersey-Sized Dead Zone in Gulf
Now, researchers say they’ve identified where some of regions responsible for releasing the most phosphorous and nitrogen into the Mississippi River basin.
From GreenBiz.com:
The report, available at http://water.usgs.gov, follows on an earlier report that narrowed the culprits for 70 percent of the pollution leading to the dead zone to nine states: Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Arkansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio and Mississippi.Last year, the NOAA predicted that the dead zone will increase to 8,800 miles – about the size of New Jersey. [Insert joke about shit and New Jersey here. I'm too lazy.]
From the report:
Almost all of the top 150 watersheds are in the Corn Belt or near the Mississippi River, with the highest yields of TN [total nitrogen] being in northern Illinois and central Indiana and highest yields of TP [total phosphorus] being from watersheds along the Mississippi River, and in northern Kentucky, and distributed through Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. [...] Therefore, if one were interested in placing management efforts only in a specified number of the highest contributing watersheds, the watersheds to place efforts could be readily identified.
Now that the causes have been pinpointed, it’s time for the government to start addressing this problem. States need to start focusing their pollution-reduction efforts to prevent the dead zone from killing even more sea life.
GreenBiz.com reports that the EPA has announced three grants to Iowa State University researchers that would focus on reducing pollution runoff into the Mississippi River – it’s a start.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/2010/10/kent_knudson_leader_of_911_tru.php
Excerpt:
Kent Knudson, Leader of 9/11 Truth AZ, Commits Suicide (1949 - 2010)
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Categories: News
Kent Knudson, best known locally for shooting and killing someone else's cow on his property as well as his role in 9/11 Truth AZ, committed suicide on September 25.
"Kent had been suffering from depression over yet another traumatic legal difficulty and facing two felony charges, on top of his 'Cowcrap' conviction," writes friend Sham Rao.
Knudson was 60 years old.
(more after the jump)
In 2007, Knudson, self-proclaimed "chief cook and bottle washer" for the 9/11 Truth AZ movement, caused a stir as organizer of the 9/11 Accountability: Strategies and Solutions Conference. Soon after the schedule was announced, everything fell apart once speakers and participants found out that Holocaust denier Eric Williams, author of The Puzzle of Auschwitz, played a significant role in coordinating the convention. This, on top of his cow-killing conviction, earned Knudson a Best of Phoenix award in 2007.
According to his friend Rao, Knudson, who is survived by his partner Sarah Fox and his sister Cathy Leavitt, was also a photographer who licensed his work commercially.
Memorial services will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. tonight at the Arizona Biltmore Resort. For more information, call 623-229-4754.
http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2007/02/1480_kphxs_jeff_farias_coward.php
Excerpt:
Finally, 1480 KPHX has been running deceptive ads for the conference. I heard one today on Farias' show which claimed that Alex Jones would be present and that there would be "dialogue with debunkers." What debunkers? Is Knudson going to produce a sock monkey to be the conference's straw man? (I wouldn't put it past him.) And Jones has been out of the conference almost a week now. That ad is more than misleading. But of course, Knudson, et al. have no choice but to run ads like these. Otherwise, who's gonna pay $129 to go to this joke of a convention? ScrewLooseChange's Pat Curley has a post up right now that features some bitching from one prospective conference-goer. Check this quote from some cat named "Alfons":
"Kent had been suffering from depression over yet another traumatic legal difficulty and facing two felony charges, on top of his 'Cowcrap' conviction," writes friend Sham Rao.
Knudson was 60 years old.
(more after the jump)
In 2007, Knudson, self-proclaimed "chief cook and bottle washer" for the 9/11 Truth AZ movement, caused a stir as organizer of the 9/11 Accountability: Strategies and Solutions Conference. Soon after the schedule was announced, everything fell apart once speakers and participants found out that Holocaust denier Eric Williams, author of The Puzzle of Auschwitz, played a significant role in coordinating the convention. This, on top of his cow-killing conviction, earned Knudson a Best of Phoenix award in 2007.
According to his friend Rao, Knudson, who is survived by his partner Sarah Fox and his sister Cathy Leavitt, was also a photographer who licensed his work commercially.
Memorial services will be held from 7 to 10 p.m. tonight at the Arizona Biltmore Resort. For more information, call 623-229-4754.
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2007/02/1480_kphxs_jeff_farias_coward.php
Excerpt:
Finally, 1480 KPHX has been running deceptive ads for the conference. I heard one today on Farias' show which claimed that Alex Jones would be present and that there would be "dialogue with debunkers." What debunkers? Is Knudson going to produce a sock monkey to be the conference's straw man? (I wouldn't put it past him.) And Jones has been out of the conference almost a week now. That ad is more than misleading. But of course, Knudson, et al. have no choice but to run ads like these. Otherwise, who's gonna pay $129 to go to this joke of a convention? ScrewLooseChange's Pat Curley has a post up right now that features some bitching from one prospective conference-goer. Check this quote from some cat named "Alfons":
Sunday, March 13, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20110314/wl_time/08599205866000
http://honestreporting.com/baby-killers-bbc-butchers-the-real-story/
Excerpt:
As the JPost reports:
Note some of the following headlines:
The BBC, however, virtually buried the Fogel family’s massacre, once again demonstrating its obsession with the settlement issue above all other issues relating to the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
http://honestreporting.com/baby-killers-bbc-butchers-the-real-story/
Excerpt:
Baby Killers: BBC Butchers the Real Story
March 13, 2011 15:42 by Simon Plosker
Only days after HonestReporting’s Managing Editor wrote about the thread that links Palestinian incitement to inevitable acts of terror, Israel has suffered a shocking and brutal terrorist attack carried out by baby killers. Yet the BBC has still managed to turn this into a story about settlements.As the JPost reports:
A mother, father and three of their children were stabbed to death late Friday night by at least one suspected terrorist who infiltrated the Itamar settlement southeast of Nablus.Clearly, those who are capable of the premeditated murder of babies and children are driven by something far deeper than an aversion to the existence or building of Israeli settlements. There is nothing more innocent than a three-month old. Yet, many media outlets still chose to politicize the horrific slaughter of innocents by focusing less on the despicable act itself and more on making an issue of the location of the attack and dehumanizing the victims as “settlers”.
The killings occurred shortly after 10 p.m., when one or two attackers jumped the fence that surrounds Itamar and broke into the home of Ruth and Udi Fogel, aged 35 and 36, respectively. The attackers went room to room, stabbing the parents, a three-month-old girl, Hadas, and two boys, Elad, three, and Yoav, 11.
Note some of the following headlines:
- Suspecting Palestinians, Israeli Military Hunts for Killers of 5 West Bank Settlers – New York Times
- Israeli troops scour West Bank villages for killers of 5 Jewish settlers – Washington Post
The BBC, however, virtually buried the Fogel family’s massacre, once again demonstrating its obsession with the settlement issue above all other issues relating to the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
http://www.beatworld.com/news/16.html
Excerpt:
1897
Marconi experiments with radio telegraphy.
1920
KDKA-Pittsburgh broadcasts the Harding-Cox election returns and inaugurates a daily schedule of programs.
1926-27
The first permanent networks put their first programs on the air.
1927
The Radio Act of 1927 divides radio spectrum, reserving portions for public broadcasting, as well as aircraft, police, defense, etc.
1930
About 12 million homes have radios. Five years later that number increases to 22 million, about 2/3 of the population.
1934
The Communications Act of 1934 results in licensees being assigned specific broadcast frequencies.
1943
Supreme Court rules that, in view of the limited number of frequencies, First Amendment rights do not include the right to broadcast.
1945
Advertising revenues increase to a total of $310 million, up from $180 million in 1941.
1952
Radio time sales total $473 million. Profit is minimal, though. The number of stations going into operation at the end of WW II triples; but most new AM stations and virtually all the FM stations operate at a loss.
1959
The “payola” scandal hits radio, revealing that bribes to play certain records were paid to DJs.
1960
Radio networks no longer pay their affiliates for carrying their programs. They allow stations to carry programs for the right to sell commercial time within those programs.
1961
Stereo approved for FM broadcasts. FM in 1957 accounted for only 2 percent of radio sales.
By 1965, it was 15–20 percent.
1965
Total revenues from the sale of radio time reach more than $800 million.
1967
Congress creates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private, nonprofit corporation, to promote noncommercial public telecommuni-cations services for the American people.
1978
KFAI, after long battle, obtains license for 10-watt station in Minneapolis.
That same year, the FCC stops licensing stations under 100 watts.
1985
National radio revenues are at $6,563 billion.
1995
National radio revenues reach $11,240 billion.
1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 passes, eliminating the one-station-per-local-market limit and replacing it with limits of five to eight stations per market, depending on the market’s size.Disney purchases Cap Cities/ABC.In Minneapolis, the FCC shuts down unlicensed Beat Radio, broadcasting from a downtown apartment building.
1996-97
Ownership of commercial radio shrinks 12 percent, according to the FCC, even as the number of stations grows. The number of African American–owned FM stations drops 26 percent in that time frame; Hispanic-owned stations decline 9 percent.
1997
An unprecedented 22.6 percent revenue increase has radio execs salivating for record 1997 results. While radio execs credit the economy and the personalities, some ad executives who purchase broadcast time say a recent concentration of station ownership is helping drive prices up.
1998
Radio Free Berkeley is ordered off the air.
1999
FCC adopts a NPRM (notice of proposed rulemaking) on the low-power radio issue
Mitt Romney buys Clear Channel
http://mydd.com/2006/11/16/mitt-romney-buys-clear-channel
Excerpt:
Excerpt:
 | A Brief History of Radio |
1897
Marconi experiments with radio telegraphy.
1920
KDKA-Pittsburgh broadcasts the Harding-Cox election returns and inaugurates a daily schedule of programs.
1926-27
The first permanent networks put their first programs on the air.
1927
The Radio Act of 1927 divides radio spectrum, reserving portions for public broadcasting, as well as aircraft, police, defense, etc.
1930
About 12 million homes have radios. Five years later that number increases to 22 million, about 2/3 of the population.
1934
The Communications Act of 1934 results in licensees being assigned specific broadcast frequencies.
1943
Supreme Court rules that, in view of the limited number of frequencies, First Amendment rights do not include the right to broadcast.
1945
Advertising revenues increase to a total of $310 million, up from $180 million in 1941.
1952
Radio time sales total $473 million. Profit is minimal, though. The number of stations going into operation at the end of WW II triples; but most new AM stations and virtually all the FM stations operate at a loss.
1959
The “payola” scandal hits radio, revealing that bribes to play certain records were paid to DJs.
1960
Radio networks no longer pay their affiliates for carrying their programs. They allow stations to carry programs for the right to sell commercial time within those programs.
1961
Stereo approved for FM broadcasts. FM in 1957 accounted for only 2 percent of radio sales.
By 1965, it was 15–20 percent.
1965
Total revenues from the sale of radio time reach more than $800 million.
1967
Congress creates the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), a private, nonprofit corporation, to promote noncommercial public telecommuni-cations services for the American people.
1978
KFAI, after long battle, obtains license for 10-watt station in Minneapolis.
That same year, the FCC stops licensing stations under 100 watts.
1985
National radio revenues are at $6,563 billion.
1995
National radio revenues reach $11,240 billion.
1996
The Telecommunications Act of 1996 passes, eliminating the one-station-per-local-market limit and replacing it with limits of five to eight stations per market, depending on the market’s size.Disney purchases Cap Cities/ABC.In Minneapolis, the FCC shuts down unlicensed Beat Radio, broadcasting from a downtown apartment building.
1996-97
Ownership of commercial radio shrinks 12 percent, according to the FCC, even as the number of stations grows. The number of African American–owned FM stations drops 26 percent in that time frame; Hispanic-owned stations decline 9 percent.
1997
An unprecedented 22.6 percent revenue increase has radio execs salivating for record 1997 results. While radio execs credit the economy and the personalities, some ad executives who purchase broadcast time say a recent concentration of station ownership is helping drive prices up.
1998
Radio Free Berkeley is ordered off the air.
1999
FCC adopts a NPRM (notice of proposed rulemaking) on the low-power radio issue
Mitt Romney buys Clear Channel
http://mydd.com/2006/11/16/mitt-romney-buys-clear-channel
Excerpt:
by Chris Bowers , Thu Nov 16, 2006 at 08:44:50 AM EST
Rochester Turning finds this disturbing nugget on the 2008 Presidential race:Clearchannel just recently went up for auction. Mitt Romney's Bain Capital bought it along with Thomas H Lee Partners, but I'm not sure who owns them. The rumor on the Street was that there might be regulatory problems because the firms own positions in other media companies, but I'm not sure which ones. Article is here and Wikipedia for Bain Capital is here. To prepare for their 2008 runs, most potential candidates stock up on staff, a Leadership PAC, and support from party leaders, advocacy organizations, and grassroots groups. Mitt Romney buys a media empire. I can't argue with what will probably be an effective strategy, but I can fear for American Democracy. Maybe Romney did this in order to match Giuliani's defacto news organization, Bloomberg. Maybe he did it to try and counter Rupert Murdoch's hold over the Bush administration via Tony Snow.
For a long time, many progressives have dismissed much established media as corporate and pro-right wing. However, with the difference between rulers of vast media empires and Republican Presidential candidates quickly disappearing, hopefully that will be a problem that the entire country will start to notice as well. While it may not be possible with Bush in the White House, we have to end media consolidtion and reinstate the fairness doctrine ASAP. Rochester Turning describes just how bad the situation is in the Flower City (that's Rochester, for you non-Upstaters):One of the most distressing political topics of the day is the state of our media. Did you know that of the four major television channels here, one is owned by Sinclair (FOX 31 WUHF, which comes in as Channel 7 on cable) and another (ABC 13 WHAM) is owned by Clear Channel? Sinclair, you may recall, was set to run an anti-John Kerry documentary a few days before the 2004 election until a sponsor boycott forced them to do otherwise, while Clear Channel reportedly led campaigns against the Dixie Chicks following their comments about George Bush a few years ago. Clear Channel also owns seven local radio stations I am sure that cities around the country are facing similar problems--posibly even worse. News Corps, Sinclair, Clear Channel, Bloomberg--tough times ahead for the So Called Liberal Media.
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Bain-amp;-Company-Company-History.html
Excerpt:
In 1984, it created Bain Capital, a limited partnership headed by W. Mitt Romney, son of politician George Romney, which invested in start-up companies and buyouts that could be readily improved.
http://www.informationweek.com/747/hologix.htm
Excerpt:
Rajski says business-to-business online markets, such as MetalSite, E-Steel, PaperExchange and Chemdex, have raised E-commerce awareness in Hologix's target industries.
http://baincapitalprivateequity.com/Team/TeamMember.aspx?id=323&viewtype=byalpha
Excerpt:
Sandeep Acharya
Insight Venture Partners and a consultant at Bain & Company. While at Bain & Company, Mr. Acharya focused on companies in financial services, consumer products, and healthcare.
http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2001-February/001646.html
Excerpt:
Jim Musso Hologix Inc.
System Administrator 4250 E. Camelback Suite K220
jam at hologix.com Phoenix, Az. 85018
jamusso at home.com 602-718-3171 cell 602-684-7217
Developers of AttriCom(TM)
"Where Attributes Come to Order"(TM)
http://pulse2.com/category/insight-venture-partners/
Excerpt:
Twitter will raised $50 million to receive the $1 billion valuation. In the past Twitter had already raised $35 million from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. The $35 million round gave them a valuation of $250 million. Thus far Twitter has raised $55 million in funding. That should keep them going for a while despite not having a revenue model. The rumored investor in the upcoming round is expected to be New York based venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners.
http://www.enigma.com/about/sobiloff.cfm
Excerpt:
For a long time, many progressives have dismissed much established media as corporate and pro-right wing. However, with the difference between rulers of vast media empires and Republican Presidential candidates quickly disappearing, hopefully that will be a problem that the entire country will start to notice as well. While it may not be possible with Bush in the White House, we have to end media consolidtion and reinstate the fairness doctrine ASAP. Rochester Turning describes just how bad the situation is in the Flower City (that's Rochester, for you non-Upstaters):One of the most distressing political topics of the day is the state of our media. Did you know that of the four major television channels here, one is owned by Sinclair (FOX 31 WUHF, which comes in as Channel 7 on cable) and another (ABC 13 WHAM) is owned by Clear Channel? Sinclair, you may recall, was set to run an anti-John Kerry documentary a few days before the 2004 election until a sponsor boycott forced them to do otherwise, while Clear Channel reportedly led campaigns against the Dixie Chicks following their comments about George Bush a few years ago. Clear Channel also owns seven local radio stations I am sure that cities around the country are facing similar problems--posibly even worse. News Corps, Sinclair, Clear Channel, Bloomberg--tough times ahead for the So Called Liberal Media.
http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Bain-amp;-Company-Company-History.html
Excerpt:
In 1984, it created Bain Capital, a limited partnership headed by W. Mitt Romney, son of politician George Romney, which invested in start-up companies and buyouts that could be readily improved.
http://www.informationweek.com/747/hologix.htm
Excerpt:
Rajski says business-to-business online markets, such as MetalSite, E-Steel, PaperExchange and Chemdex, have raised E-commerce awareness in Hologix's target industries.
http://baincapitalprivateequity.com/Team/TeamMember.aspx?id=323&viewtype=byalpha
Excerpt:
Sandeep Acharya
Senior Associate
Experience:
Mr. Acharya joined Bain Capital in 2009. Prior to joining Bain Capital, he was an associate atInsight Venture Partners and a consultant at Bain & Company. While at Bain & Company, Mr. Acharya focused on companies in financial services, consumer products, and healthcare.
Education:
Mr. Acharya received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He graduated magna cum laude with a BAS in Computer Science and a BS in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania.http://www.sunmanagers.org/pipermail/sunmanagers/2001-February/001646.html
Excerpt:
Jim Musso Hologix Inc.
System Administrator 4250 E. Camelback Suite K220
jam at hologix.com Phoenix, Az. 85018
jamusso at home.com 602-718-3171 cell 602-684-7217
Developers of AttriCom(TM)
"Where Attributes Come to Order"(TM)
http://pulse2.com/category/insight-venture-partners/
Excerpt:
Twitter will raised $50 million to receive the $1 billion valuation. In the past Twitter had already raised $35 million from Benchmark Capital and Institutional Venture Partners. The $35 million round gave them a valuation of $250 million. Thus far Twitter has raised $55 million in funding. That should keep them going for a while despite not having a revenue model. The rumored investor in the upcoming round is expected to be New York based venture capital firm Insight Venture Partners.
http://www.enigma.com/about/sobiloff.cfm
Excerpt:
Peter Sobiloff, Managing Director, Insight Venture Partners
Prior to Think Systems, Peter was the President of Datalogix, where he led a financial turnaround that eventually resulted in its successful sale to Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL). Earlier in his career, Peter was EVP of Sales of Ross Systems (Nasdaq: ROSS), where he propelled the company to record growth. Peter currently serves as a director of Xelus, Inc., DWL Incorporated and Nistevo Corporation and is Chairman of Greenfield Online. |
Greg Biltz
I2 Technologies Inc
http://www.interop-solutions.com/MeetInterop.htm
Greg Biltz
CTO and Managing Partner
Prior: hide
Consultant, i2 Technologies
Assigned to work with General Dynamics (prime) and IBM (sub) to design and develop a WEB based order capture for National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), now known as U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on contract to NSA.
Director of Development, Hologix
Designed and developed web enabled attribute based order capture system (Home Depot)
Director of Development, MBA Technologies
Designed and developed Enterprise Management System for Major Steel Producer
Director of Development, Transform Logic
Designed and Developed application generators for IBM mainframe products
Newman University, BS, Mathematics
I2 Technologies Inc
http://www.interop-solutions.com/MeetInterop.htm
Greg Biltz
CTO and Managing Partner
Prior: hide
Consultant, i2 Technologies
Assigned to work with General Dynamics (prime) and IBM (sub) to design and develop a WEB based order capture for National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), now known as U.S. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency on contract to NSA.
Director of Development, Hologix
Designed and developed web enabled attribute based order capture system (Home Depot)
Director of Development, MBA Technologies
Designed and developed Enterprise Management System for Major Steel Producer
Director of Development, Transform Logic
Designed and Developed application generators for IBM mainframe products
Newman University, BS, Mathematics
Saturday, March 12, 2011
http://the-diplomat.com/2010/10/06/time-to-rethink-us-bases-in-asia/
Oct. 6, 2010 Japan rethinking bases...
Excerpt:
While Bergen was tracking down bin Laden and taking the pulse of an increasingly restless Middle East, I was watching growing protests and anti-American anger take hold in another part of the world where US bases had long been situated—Japan and South Korea.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/40502/William_Cooper_Silent_Weapons_for_Quiet_Wars/
William Cooper Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars video
http://www.democrats.com/node/7110
Excerpt:
JFK on Secret Societies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces
NWO (Alan Greenspan, and it will make you angry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g1UtFDytfk&feature=related
Eisenhower 1961 speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8wwMFmCeE&feature=related
http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/#five
Excerpt:
Since energy is the key to all activity on the face of the earth, it follows that in order to attain a monopoly of energy, raw materials, goods, and services and to establixh a world system of slave labor, it is necessary to have a first strike capability in the field of economics. In order to maintain our position, it is necessary that we have absolute first knowledge of the science of control over all economic factors and the first experience at engineering the world economy.
In order to achieve such sovereignty, we must at least achieve this one end: that the public will not make either the logical or mathematical connection between economics and the other energy sciences or learn to apply such knowledge.
This is becoming increasingly difficult to control because more and more businesses are making demands upon their computer programmers to create and apply mathematical models for the management of those businesses.
It is only a matter of time before the new breed of private programmer/economists will catch on to the far reaching implications of the work begun at Harvard in 1948. The speed with which they can communicate their warning to the public will largely depend upon how effective we have been at controlling the media, subverting education, and keeping the public distracted with matters of no real importance.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/silent-weapons.htm
Excerpt:
Security
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of
a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent
weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive
objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery
and genocide.
This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing
must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a
technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any
person or group of persons in a position of great power, and without the
full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and
methodology for economic conquest -- must be understood that a state of
domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the
public.
The solution of today's problems requires an approach which is ruthlessly
candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral, or cultural values.
You have qualified for this project because of your ability to look at human
society with cold objectivity, and yet analyze and discuss your observations
and conclusions with others of similar intellectual capacity without a lose
of discretion or humility.
Such virtues are exercised in your own best interest.
Do not deviate from them.
WELCOME ABOARD
This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called
the "Quite War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought
with 'silent weapons'.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/20/951/Are_We_in_a_HAARP_Earthquake_War.html
Excerpt:
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2011-03/10/content_12148641.htm
Excerpt:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/asia/03japan.html
Excerpt:
Ties to U.S. Played Role in Downfall of Japanese Leader
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/yukio_hatoyama/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Excerpt:
Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the Japanese Democratic Party, announced on June 2, 2010, that he would resign his post as Japan's prime minister. Mr. Hatoyama swept into power in 2009 with bold promises to revamp the country, then faltered over broken campaign pledges to remove an American base from Okinawa.
Since taking office in September 2009, he had come to be seen as an indecisive leader. The image was reinforced by his wavering and eventual backtracking on the base issue, which set off huge demonstrations on Okinawa and drove his approval ratings below 25 percent.
Calls had risen within his Democratic Party for him to step aside before the July 11 elections, which are seen as a referendum on the party's first year in power.
Moving quickly to find a replacement, Mr. Hatoyama's fellow Democrats chose Naoto Kan, a plain-spoken finance minister with activist roots. Mr. Kan was elected prime minister on June 4, 2010, making him the fifth Japanese leader in four years.
Many in Japan see Mr. Hatoyama as having frittered away his party's historic electoral mandate on the seemingly minor issue of relocating a single American military installation.
In truth, his government faltered on a host of issues, including scandals over political financing; an inability to deliver on other campaign promises like eliminating highway tolls; and the party's failure to focus on pocketbook issues affecting voters, like unemployment or Japan's anemic growth rates.
Still, Mr. Hatoyama's handling of the base issue seemed to crystallize all that went wrong with his short-lived government, including what many Japanese saw as its fatal flaw: his own indecisiveness. The prime minister seemed to waffle between appeasing Washington and assuring Okinawans that he would honor his campaign vows.
http://www.rense.com/general69/paper.htm
Excerpt:
"I don't give a goddamn," Bush retorted. "I'm the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way."
"Mr. President," one aide in the meeting said. "There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution."
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face," Bush screamed back. "It's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/books/UN_1976_Weather_Weapon_Treaty.pdf
Oct. 6, 2010 Japan rethinking bases...
Excerpt:
While Bergen was tracking down bin Laden and taking the pulse of an increasingly restless Middle East, I was watching growing protests and anti-American anger take hold in another part of the world where US bases had long been situated—Japan and South Korea.
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/40502/William_Cooper_Silent_Weapons_for_Quiet_Wars/
William Cooper Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars video
http://www.democrats.com/node/7110
Excerpt:
Bush on the Constitution: 'It's just a goddamned piece of paper'
Ted KahlWant to meet our members? Click 'Join' above!
Doug Thompson writes for the conservative Capitol Hill Blue:
Democrats.com's DictatorshipIsEasier.us reports on a changing America under George W. Bush.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator" -- George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
Connie Fogal - Vancouver SPP Rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tes0rcrPffc
http://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102
Excerpt:
GOP leaders told Bush that his hardcore push to renew the more onerous provisions of the [Patriot] act could further alienate conservatives still mad at the President from his botched attempt to nominate White House Counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court.Aside from the below classic quote, don't forget that Bush said back on the 2000 campaign trail, "There oughta be limits to freedom."
“I don’t give a goddamn,” Bush retorted. “I’m the President and the Commander-in-Chief. Do it my way.”
“Mr. President,” one aide in the meeting said. “There is a valid case that the provisions in this law undermine the Constitution.”
“Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,” Bush screamed back. “It’s just a goddamned piece of paper!”
I’ve talked to three people present for the meeting that day and they all confirm that the President of the United States called the Constitution “a goddamned piece of paper.”
Attorney General Alberto [Geneva Convention is "rather quaint"] Gonzales, while still White House counsel, wrote that the “Constitution is an outdated document.”
Democrats.com's DictatorshipIsEasier.us reports on a changing America under George W. Bush.
"If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator" -- George W. Bush, December 18, 2000
Connie Fogal - Vancouver SPP Rally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tes0rcrPffc
http://www.cfr.org/canada/building-north-american-community/p8102
Excerpt:
Overview
Sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations in association with the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales.
North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In response to these challenges, a trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.
When the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States met in Texas recently they underscored the deep ties and shared principles of the three countries. The Council-sponsored Task Force applauds the announced “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” but proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it.
North America is vulnerable on several fronts: the region faces terrorist and criminal security threats, increased economic competition from abroad, and uneven economic development at home. In response to these challenges, a trinational, Independent Task Force on the Future of North America has developed a roadmap to promote North American security and advance the well-being of citizens of all three countries.
When the leaders of Canada, Mexico, and the United States met in Texas recently they underscored the deep ties and shared principles of the three countries. The Council-sponsored Task Force applauds the announced “Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America,” but proposes a more ambitious vision of a new community by 2010 and specific recommendations on how to achieve it.
JFK on Secret Societies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces
NWO (Alan Greenspan, and it will make you angry)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g1UtFDytfk&feature=related
Eisenhower 1961 speech
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8wwMFmCeE&feature=related
http://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/#five
Excerpt:
Summary
Economics is only a social extension of a natural energy system. It, also, has its three passive components. Because of the distribution of wealth and the lack of communication and lack of data, this field has been the last energy field for which a knowledge of these three passive components has been developed.Since energy is the key to all activity on the face of the earth, it follows that in order to attain a monopoly of energy, raw materials, goods, and services and to establixh a world system of slave labor, it is necessary to have a first strike capability in the field of economics. In order to maintain our position, it is necessary that we have absolute first knowledge of the science of control over all economic factors and the first experience at engineering the world economy.
In order to achieve such sovereignty, we must at least achieve this one end: that the public will not make either the logical or mathematical connection between economics and the other energy sciences or learn to apply such knowledge.
This is becoming increasingly difficult to control because more and more businesses are making demands upon their computer programmers to create and apply mathematical models for the management of those businesses.
It is only a matter of time before the new breed of private programmer/economists will catch on to the far reaching implications of the work begun at Harvard in 1948. The speed with which they can communicate their warning to the public will largely depend upon how effective we have been at controlling the media, subverting education, and keeping the public distracted with matters of no real importance.
http://www.illuminati-news.com/silent-weapons.htm
Excerpt:
Security
It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of
a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent
weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive
objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery
and genocide.
This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing
must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a
technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any
person or group of persons in a position of great power, and without the
full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and
methodology for economic conquest -- must be understood that a state of
domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the
public.
The solution of today's problems requires an approach which is ruthlessly
candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral, or cultural values.
You have qualified for this project because of your ability to look at human
society with cold objectivity, and yet analyze and discuss your observations
and conclusions with others of similar intellectual capacity without a lose
of discretion or humility.
Such virtues are exercised in your own best interest.
Do not deviate from them.
WELCOME ABOARD
This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called
the "Quite War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought
with 'silent weapons'.
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/20/951/Are_We_in_a_HAARP_Earthquake_War.html
Excerpt:
Are We in a HAARP "Earthquake War"?
Wednesday, May 05, 2010 12:55http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/epaper/2011-03/10/content_12148641.htm
Excerpt:
Time for Japan to rethink home policy
Updated: 2011-03-10 07:58
By Li Wei (China Daily)
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan named Takeaki Matsumoto as foreign minister on Wednesday after Seiji Maehara stepped down for receiving a campaign donation illegally. On Monday, Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said that he would maintain good working relations with the next Japanese foreign minister no matter who is named for the post.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/world/asia/03japan.html
Excerpt:
Ties to U.S. Played Role in Downfall of Japanese Leader
By MARTIN FACKLER and MARK LANDLER
Published: June 2, 2010
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/h/yukio_hatoyama/index.html?inline=nyt-per
Excerpt:
Saturday, March 12, 2011
Shizuo Kambayashi/Associated Press
Yukio Hatoyama, leader of the Japanese Democratic Party, announced on June 2, 2010, that he would resign his post as Japan's prime minister. Mr. Hatoyama swept into power in 2009 with bold promises to revamp the country, then faltered over broken campaign pledges to remove an American base from Okinawa.
Since taking office in September 2009, he had come to be seen as an indecisive leader. The image was reinforced by his wavering and eventual backtracking on the base issue, which set off huge demonstrations on Okinawa and drove his approval ratings below 25 percent.
Calls had risen within his Democratic Party for him to step aside before the July 11 elections, which are seen as a referendum on the party's first year in power.
Moving quickly to find a replacement, Mr. Hatoyama's fellow Democrats chose Naoto Kan, a plain-spoken finance minister with activist roots. Mr. Kan was elected prime minister on June 4, 2010, making him the fifth Japanese leader in four years.
Many in Japan see Mr. Hatoyama as having frittered away his party's historic electoral mandate on the seemingly minor issue of relocating a single American military installation.
In truth, his government faltered on a host of issues, including scandals over political financing; an inability to deliver on other campaign promises like eliminating highway tolls; and the party's failure to focus on pocketbook issues affecting voters, like unemployment or Japan's anemic growth rates.
Still, Mr. Hatoyama's handling of the base issue seemed to crystallize all that went wrong with his short-lived government, including what many Japanese saw as its fatal flaw: his own indecisiveness. The prime minister seemed to waffle between appeasing Washington and assuring Okinawans that he would honor his campaign vows.
http://www.rense.com/general69/paper.htm
Excerpt:
http://www.arcticbeacon.com/books/UN_1976_Weather_Weapon_Treaty.pdf
UNGA RES. 31/72, TIAS 9614
CONVENTION ON THE PROHIBITION OF MILITARY OR ANY OTHER HOSTILE USE OF ENVIRONMENTAL MODIFICATION TECHNIQUES
Adopted by Resolution 31/72 of the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1976. The Convention was opened for signature at Geneva on 18 May 1977.
TEXT PUBLISHED IN: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/72, Annex; see Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session, Supplement No. 39 (A/31/39), pp. 37-38. International Legal Materials, Vol. XVI, No. 1, January 1977, pp. 88-94 (Engl.); World Armaments and Disarmament, SIPRI Yearbook 1978, London 1978, pp. 392-397 (Engl.); Shindler & Toman, eds., "The Laws of Armed Conflicts."
The States Parties to this Convention,
Guided by the interest of consolidating peace, and wishing to contribute to the cause of halting the arms race, and of bringing about general and complete disarmament under strict and effective international control, and of saving mankind from the danger of using new means of warfare,
Determined to continue negotiations with a view to achieving effective progress towards further measures in the field of disarmament,
Recognizing that scientific and technical advances may open new possibilities with respect to modification of the environment,
Recalling the Declaration of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment, adopted at Stockholm on 16 June 1972,
Realizing that the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes could improve the interrelationship of man and nature and contribute to the preservation and improvement of the environment for the benefit of present and future generations,
Recognizing, however, that military or any other hostile use of such techniques could have effects extremely harmful to human welfare,
Desiring to prohibit effectively military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques in order to eliminate the dangers to mankind from such use, and affirming their willingness to work towards the achievement of this objective,
Desiring also to contribute to the strengthening of trust among nations and to the further improvement of the international situation in accordance with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations,
Have agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I
1. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to engage in military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques having widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury to any other State Party.
2. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes not to assist, encourage or induce any State, group of States or international organization to engage in activities contrary to the provisions of paragraph 1 of this article.
ARTICLE II
As used in article 1, the term "environmental modification techniques" refers to any technique for changing - through the deliberate manipulation of natural processes--the dynamics, composition or structure of the Earth, including its biota, lithosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere, or of outer space.
ARTICLE III
1. The provisions of this Convention shall not hinder the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes and shall be without prejudice to the generally recognized principles and applicable rules of international law concerning such use.
2. The States Parties to this Convention undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of scientific and technological information on the use of environmental modification techniques for peaceful purposes. States Parties in a position to do so shall contribute, alone or together with other States or international organizations, to international economic and scientific co-operation in the preservation, improvement and peaceful utilization of the environment, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world.
ARTICLE IV
Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to take any measures it considers necessary in accordance with its constitutional processes to prohibit and prevent any activity in violation of the provisions of the Convention anywhere under its jurisdiction or control.
ARTICLE V
1. The States Parties to this Convention undertake to consult one another and to co-operate in solving any problems which may arise in relation to the objectives of, or in the application of the provisions of, the Convention. Consultation and co-operation pursuant to this article may also be undertaken through appropriate international procedures within the framework of the United Nations and in accordance with its Charter. These international procedures may include the services of appropriate international organizations, as well as of a Consultative Committee of Experts as provided for in paragraph 2 of this article.
2. For the purposes set forth in paragraph 1 of this article, the Depositary shall within one month of the receipt of a request from any State Party to this Convention, convene a Consultative Committee of Experts. Any State Party may appoint an expert to the Committee whose functions and rules of procedure are set out in the annex which constitutes an integral part of this Convention. The Committee shall transmit to the Depositary a summary of its findings of fact, incorporating all views and information presented to the Committee during its proceedings. The Depositary shall distribute the summary to all States Parties.
3. Any State Party to this Convention which has reason to believe that any other State Party is acting in breach of obligations deriving from the provisions of the Convention may lodge a complaint with the Security Council of the United Nations. Such a complaint should include all relevant information as well as all possible evidence supporting ItS validity.
4. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to cooperate in carrying out any investigation which the Security Council may initiate, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, on the basis of the complaint received by the Council. The Security Council shall inform the States Parties of the results of the investigation.
5. Each State Party to this Convention undertakes to provide or support assistance, in accordance with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations, to any State Party which so requests, if the Security Council decides that such Party has been harmed or is likely to be harmed as a result of violation of the Convention.
ARTICLE VI
1. Any State Party to this Convention may propose amendments to the Convention. The text of any proposed amendment shall be submitted to the Depositary, who shall promptly circulate it to all States Parties.
2. An amendment shall enter into force for all States Parties to this Convention which have accepted it, upon the deposit with the Depositary of instruments of acceptance by a majority of States Parties. Thereafter it shall enter into force for any remaining State Party on the date of deposit of its instrument of acceptance.
ARTICLE VII
This Convention shall be of unlimited duration.
ARTICLE VIII
1. Five years after the entry into force of this Convention, a conference of the States Parties to the Convention shall be convened by the Depositary at Geneva, Switzerland. The conference shall review the operation of the Convention with a view to ensuring that its purposes and provisions are being realized, and shall in particular examine the effectiveness of the provisions of paragraph 1 of article I in eliminating the dangers of military or any other hostile use of environmental modification techniques.
2. At intervals of not less than five years thereafter, a majority of the States Parties to this Convention may obtain, by submitting a proposal to this effect to the Depositary, the convening of a conference with the same objectives.
3. If no conference has been convened pursuant to paragraph 2 of this article within ten years following the conclusion of a previous conference, the Depositary shall solicit the views of all States Parties to this Convention concerning the convening of such a conference. If one third or ten of the States Parties, whichever number is less, respond affirmatively, the Depositary shall take immediate steps to convene the conference.
ARTICLE IX
1. This Convention shall be open to all States for signature. Any State which does not sign the Convention before its entry into force in accordance with paragraph 3 of this article may accede to it at any time.
2. This Convention shall be subject to ratification by signatory States. Instruments of ratification or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
3. This Convention shall enter into force upon the deposit of instruments of ratification by twenty Governments in accordance with paragraph 2 of this article.
4. For those States whose instruments of ratification or accession are deposited after the entry into force of this Convention, it shall enter into force on the date of the deposit of their instruments of ratification or accession.
5. The Depositary shall promptly inform all signatory and acceding States of the date of each signature, the date of deposit of each instrument of ratification or accession and the date of the entry into force of this Convention and of any amendments thereto, as well as of the receipt of other notices.
6. This Convention shall be registered by the Depositary in accordance with Article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations.
ARTICLE X
This Convention, of which the Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations, who shall send duly certified copies thereof to the Governments of the signatory and acceding States.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned, being duly authorized thereto, have signed this Convention
Done at Geneva, on the 18 day of May 1977.
(Here follows signatures)
Annex to the Convention
Consultative Committee of Experts
1. The Consultative Committee of Experts shall undertake to make appropriate findings of fact and provide expert views relevant to any problem raised pursuant to paragraph 1 of article V of this Convention by the State Party requesting the convening of the Committee.
2. The work of the Consultative Committee of Experts shall be organized in such a way as to permit it to perform the functions set forth in paragraph 1 of this annex. The Committee shall decide procedural questions relative to the organization of its work, where possible by consensus, but otherwise by a majority of those present and voting. There shall be no voting on matters of substance.
3. The Depositary or his representative shall serve as the Chairman of the Committee.
4. Each expert may be assisted at meetings by one or more advisers.
5. Each expert shall have the right, through the Chairman, to request from States, and from international organizations, such information and assistance as the expert considers desirable for the accomplishment of the Committee's work.
UN Weather Weapons Treaty
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