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Two handlers of mind controlled slaves exposed, more gang stalking tactics revealed

By Stefan Fobes

People have asked in my previous articles why would they devote all these resources for me, just one person. It would take someone extremely abnormal to do something like that, and also like this.

As I’ve said, my mother was mind controlled and perhaps she has passed some programming functions down to me through genetics that I may not know of. I won’t rule that out. The Fobes family claims descent from many British and Scottish royals, such as Robert the Bruce. They are of the Illuminati Bruce bloodline, one of the real 13. So I’m not surprised that so many resources can be deployed in my case.

There is information locked in the minds of programmed people about Illuminati black projects, sexual perversions on their part, and rituals that would blow the agenda sky high if it ever got out. Look at the gigantic military type convoy which was described by CBS News as nearly the size of a football field headed to programming factory UCLA Neuropsychiatric Medical Institute for blatantly programmed Britney Spears when she had what was called her breakdown. Yes, her programming breakdown. If she ever got to a good deprogrammer and publicly talked about what she has been through…..wow. It’d rock this world. This is why they use everything they have. It is a desperate struggle for survival in their part. And with circumstances and the world going the way it is, there is only one inevitable ending now.

Yet, there are several key players in every intelligence agency operation whom without they cannot be truly effective. In this article I will expose one critically important class of agent — the tactical predictor.

As I’ve written in two previous articles, I have been gang stalked for months. After some digging around, I have come up with a name and with that, a photo. This man is Simon Keith Wheeldon. He lives down the hall from the apartment I live in with his partner.

He has multiple functions — pun intended. He is not only fully mind controlled, as is his partner, it seems that he is a handler for a lot of programmed individuals also.

Sad, in pain, hurting inside. Whenever you see people who have this look, you are looking at a mind controlled individual.

Unfortunately, this can only be really written at this point to people who understand what government mind control operations are, but for those who do not, take a look at the pictures included in their books of people who claim to have been subjected to these torturous procedures of them during the time they claimed to be mind controlled. Then take a look at some pictures of schizophrenics, abuse victims, bipolar individuals, murderers, and others with common mental illnesses. For those that have, they will see that people claiming to have been mind controlled have a unique look found nowhere else in the spectrum of mental disorders. Their eyes appear like their spirit has literally been turned into a block of ice.

A handler of mind controlled slaves is inevitably wildly paranoid due to what they do and this Simon Wheeldon is no different. This is how his personality is. A constant expression of rage and/or suspicion on his face and filled with constant fear, a prime one being his fear of his posessions being stolen. His blue car on the block where I and he live has a little sign on one of the windows with NO STEREO in big black caps on it. His female partner, apparently, is deathly afraid of being robbed and raped. These are echoes of the initial abuse that formed their alter system. I do not hate them for what they do, but nor do I pity them for their condition. And I obviously cannot allow them to continue what they have been sent in to do, yet it is my deep wish that they and a skilled deprogrammer do some healing work together.

Daily, this Simon Wheeldon individual clop-clop-clops up and down the stairs, making the arrangements for spotters to be placed at points around the neighborhood, increasing or decreasing numbers depending on their state of desperation on a given day to observe my route and destination. An example from last Tuesday: Six people sitting in cars near no school or event taking place at about 4PM. Since he is aware of the information I reveal here and tactics will change accordingly, I will simply lay out the prime script-program that the intelligence agencies work by.

- Ex-government mind control subject Stewart Swerdlow talks in his Blue Blood, True Blood: Conflict and Creation book of watchful eyes positioned in Black communities to scope out the most amoral individuals who will do anything for profit and get them recruited. These people are actually in every single community in America. In apartment buildings, music schools, public schools, convenience stores, luxury apartment building doormen, hot dog vendors, building superintendents, janitors. Every single ethnicity and race has a minute portion of these spies and these are the people who have been put out to spy on me.

- Two astounding examples I have found are one Black plumber who works at New York’s Central Synagogue and a White woman who works at the Austrian Consulate General’s Office not too far from there. They are all trained and used for a wide array of purposes.

- They try to use a point to point relay system by which they keep one person behind, (to try to keep wise of any doubling back by someone they are spying on) one person ahead. In the intelligence agency spnsored movies, they usually depict operatives as following someone on foot from behind. In reality operatives are instructed to run ahead of the person they are following as this is never known of or expected by anyone, much like 99.9% of people never look up. The person ahead looks over their shoulder quickly and repeatedly to try to make sure of things.

- They are assisted in this by people who look down in their government paid for apartments as backup eyes.

- For burglaries, the general policy is never come in unless they are absolutely sure that it is safe to do so. This isn’t set in stone, though.

- Place at least one person on the block of someone they try to spy on to obtain the exact time they leave, after which their Matrix-style operator is notified and the next person down the line afterwards is robotically activated to keep their eyes open. This occurs assembly line style.

- If you know you are being followed and you think it is just one group of spies with one operator and you can just evade, this is not the case. There are always at least two operators (some are multillingual) and as soon as one spotter notifies their operator as to your position, it is a definite that the spies living on your block all have been notified.

- Use spies working at stores to try to do psychological probes via conversation or try to keep an eye on people they are spying on. An example in my case is a Black woman operative working at the copy department on the first floor of the Staples at 87th and 3rd in New York who were doing some sort of pretend theater involving some pictures that were “to be developed”. When I talked to her she just responded in total agency lingo.

- Openly try to take pictures with mobile devices or cameras. Operatives are instructed to try to use them for intimidation when cognizance of their activities is seen as a concern.

- Paranoid and cowardly as they are, if awareness is reached of their presence they will call backup who are dispatched to observe the situation.

- Increasing the manpower occurs when too many gaps in information gathering capability appear.

- Any form of physical transportation is used to get on scene or off scene.

- Entrapment, through offering of drugs or attempts to trick someone into other criminal endeavors is used.

- Female or male honeypots are used. Some even get jobs at the places where the person they are spying on works at and even try to marry them in cases. Which shows a victim mentality on the Illuminati’s part because they use their own family members for this without hesitation. And a big victim like they are is due to attract a mighty big oppressor.

- Extensive acting and theater is used for operatives to cloak themselves in public. If a spy is living in the same home as someone they are spying on, this can include anything from pretending to type all day to setting up a false business with “payments” from other operatives. It is very sophisticated.

- If a person comes from a background of heavy abuse and/or mind control, extensive psychological probes will be attempted to be used such as asking for directions , openers such as “hi” and “how are you?” by random people will be used to determine how well adjusted socially the person is, their mental, emotional, energetic potency, and most importantly to them, exactly how dissociative they are. Physical strength tests are also used such as asking to a person to help carry items, to see how well the person can handle themselves physically.

- Mobile devices such as TomToms with their map function are used for on the go tracking and navigation across a city or town. If you see a hell of a lot of people in your neighborhood standing around at odd hours, or even not so odd hours with a mobile device just staring at it for a long time — these guys are on duty.

- On the web, they resort to connecting directly through to the servers and intercepting emails that way. I have stefobes@gmail.com,  stefobes@yahoo.com, and dukecrass@yahoo.com where I cannot send anyone emails because they are not recieved. Even emails sent to myself take an hour to be recieved on these accounts. Forging email addresses, spambots, the tactic is to interfere with clean electronic communication flows. Simon Wheeldon is pretty proficient with those computers he has. I wonder what type of software he has on them, eh?

- Kidnapping is also attempted for young children. When I was in the second grade, a man came up to me while I was sitting on the steps of the apartment building I live in now and tried the old “you wanna make three bucks and help me carry this painting?” These are the people who do this. Kidnappers, thieves, burglars, cold blooded killers, rapists, terrorists.

- Physical attacks are used, but if they cannot sucessfully beat a person down physically, they then switch to guile and subtlety, such as trying to spread rumors such as guns, drug involvement, anything to discredit. Strangely enough, at least in my case, they only try to spread rumors around saying that I do what they themselves are doing. This can backfire though.

- There was a man called John Todd back in the 80s who talked about his experiences with the Illuminati. who claimed he was from the Collins bloodline, and one of the most remarkable things he said was that they had a special computer system whereby they could run a check and see whether they have operatives placed at certain areas in certain positions or not. Judging by the manner and speed at which certain dirty trick attempts have happened in my life, such as messing around with a birth certificate application (this is documented) as well as deleting my “father’s” name from my birth certificate permanent record from the computer system itself, I believe that this computer system does exist — and needs to be brought to light fast.

Another person has also been involved in this who is another handler. His name is Ronald Zeck. He is another handler who has been around for a long while. I remember always thinking, this guy looks like he’s CIA. And it turns out he is a fed. He is also mind controlled with deep abuse issues from childhood which causes him to drink. He is very emotionally unstable.

From all the handlers I have seen it seems to be a constant that they are always filled with rage. I suppose this is intentional, the better to keep their handlees in line. Sitting in a public atrium near the Lehman Brothers Bank building I observed one handler with a look of barely suppressed rage on his face and the mind controlled woman he was handling just sitting there looking at me, her with her frozen eyes.

The Satanic network and the secret government are one and the same, and members even work together regularly on missions with zero discomfort on their part whatsoever.

This Simon Wheeldon and his female partner are responsible for the prediction aspect, where they use deductive reasoning based on where I’ve been in the past to make a guess when I’ll be out and make the call to put the spotters out in advance of the guessed time. They just sit there in that apartment, reclining with their mobiles and computers. Due to their programming, sleep is not really much of an issue and in Robert Fobes’s case, his alter system has been programmed to keep the body awake for, except for a few minutes, nearly 24/7. These other two, will be up as early as 6AM and as late as 3AM. Yet there is one thing they can never predict, even if they do have psychics. Consciousness. The real, all-knowing power even beyond what the energetic computer known as the mind can ever access.

20 Things the Illuminati Can Teach You

By Stefan Fobes

Today I again, write here about a vast, sprawling movement which comprises a dedicated part of the population who work day in, day out to bring great changes to this world. In this arena, the majority does not see intelligence, courage, honor, decency, skill, as great things. They speak of these in glowing terms, yes, but the reality is just the opposite. Your worth is decided strictly, by most people comprising this “underground”, by the resources you have at your beck and call, and how many worshippers, clones and mindless thralls you have sloshing saliva in your path at the moment. The naive neophytes are fed upon by hungrier, slicker fish who lie, and think of nothing other of their own self-aggrandizment, no matter what the cost to anyone else. Who will take them for everything they are worth and go home and eat fabulous dinners and sleep quite well. Independently creative thought is generally at a minimum. Raw recruits sit back, read their prepared daily briefs, and follow the included orders from the bigger fish. The reptilian brain by and large, runs the show here.

I’m talking about the malevolent, cutthroat world of Illuminati rituals and their secret society network?

No. I write of the conspiracy research arena.

I see this grotesque attitude permeating what should be the nexus point for the kindest, the wisest, the toughest. What really should be a gathering place for the best of the best. But instead I see constant desperate struggles, by the so-called awakened just as in the world of so-called sheeple, to try to grab power over others and see themselves as better than everyone else around them. The reptilian brain rules.

I see instead of dynamic individual minds who are so in speech and in deed, joining ideas instead of easily infiltratable groups, just innocent lambs waiting to be eaten by the next Illuminati agent with a fancy, cleverly worked out website and a loud enough voice booming with fake intensity.

I see penis measuring contests on who has the biggest hits on Alexa instead of brainstorming on what actually works and then simply going out and doing it.

And so, from a guy who comes from an Illuminati family himself, here are 20 things the Illuminati can teach you. This is not an endorsement of them.

1. They are voracious in their infoseeking. If it takes all night long, or weeks, or years, they will look and look till they get what they have been looking for.

2. Whenever one of their associates or slaves needs something for a mission, Illuminati members make sure this person or persons get the material resources they need to get the job done, whether it be by contributions or whatever. Even if the person is disliked, all that is necessary is that the person has the skills for the job and the plan be workable. No whining on forums, no silly speeches, just gets done.

3. They know how to conserve their resources. They do not throw out all their chips all in on one go.

4. They trust their instincts.

5. If they see an opening, they do not hesitate to take advantage and exploit it.

6. They do not go into deep dark depressions just because they had one minor setback. They use everything they have to find out exactly what went wrong, and correct the problem.

7. They know how to organize themselves.

8. Among them, concepts of color, sexual orientation, and fame are meaningless. The goal goes first.

9. They know what TV is and does — they introduced it, you know! The goal comes before the TV or any of their other mind control devices, such as video games. Watching all those hours every day and being “awake” are like matter and anti-matter. They cannot be in the same place at the same time.

10. They know to not let anyone take what they have. If someone tried to CPS their kids there’d be hell on all involved in trying, even the person who made the call. Literally.

11. You can insult them all you want, call them anything, and they do not take it like Joe and Jane Public would. This is because they have absolutely no pride or morals, but anyone who does with intelligence can easily integrate this into their minds.

12. They would NEVER, under any circumstances, sell out themselves out by giving their family secrets out to the public for peanuts, like so many of the commoners do by selling out their countries and spying on and black opping their fellow humans.

13. In the public eye, wanting a lot of material resources is seen as something to be ashamed of. It is a damn good thing! Everyone should have all the material items they need to do everything they need to do, and should feel pride in having the self-love for holding that perspective and moving with it. This is the mindset the leadership of the Illuminati hold.

14. When information is placed before them that is obviously a threat to their well-being, they immediately take action about it and do not go rushing to drown life circumstances in a TV or bag of takeout, even if they do not know precisely what to do at the moment.

15. Even if all hope seems lost, and the odds are against them, they still keep on working at it 110%.

16. They know the value of building up networks.

17. They feel no guilt about defending themselves from legal, physical, or other attacks. At times I read about people I see acting nice to their agents, saying sorry to them, when it was the agent who had infringed upon their rights. Never be sorry and apologetic to them. It’s a clear cut sign of victim mentality and is asking for trouble.

18. They are flexible, to an extent, and do not work with the controlled by them mainstream science and know the reality and value of homeopathy, energy and herbal healing, and do not hesitate to take full advantage of these using all the resources they have at their disposal.

19. They have always understood that they have their livelihood to defend, which is their pyramidal control system and all the luxury that comes with it. Humanity will learn from this,  whether it be gently through information like this article, or the hard way. Everyone must understand that their livelihoods are also being threatened, and act upon this via exposure of the agenda.

20. They know to set aside their petty differences when business needs to be taken care of.

The Iranian soft coup, under the microscope

By Stefan Fobes

If anyone wants to understand how it’s all done, a five minute walk in a big city will do. With the instant just about everything now available, the way people are packed like sardines in a can in the cities, it just knocks people into a “get the hell out of my way!” mode and results in people seeing instead of other people, just too many bodies that are in the way. Such a state creates a mind programmer’s paradise. Just send the stress machine into spin cycle and it’s a walk in the park as far as the control system is concerned. This is but one of many of the basic tools and causes for why the so called sheeple are so “dumb”. It isn’t necessarily an issue of dumb or smart, but actually degrees of programming. Otherwise the hypocritical way the Iranian elections have been covered would have been met with a bullshit call day one. So yes, focus is the beginning of the way out.

As soon as I heard a newsdroid say the first couple of sentences about the Iranian presidential elections and what was supposedly going on there I was calling it.

It is laughable to paint the Iranian system as anything resembling democracy. By law, Mr. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei’s twelve member Guardian Council has the exclusive right to select candidates, and then the people place their ballots. That this has not even been addressed when it is a matter of public record, is suspect. Will of the people, schmeple. Last year during the American presidential election it was reported that Barack Obama got no votes in New York’s Harlem and other historically Black American districts. This was quickly marginalized in the mainstream media and has never been brought up again since, just as the obvious Bush election steal was before it.

In Iran, the heist is of the country and of minds. Chris Floyd of Empire Burlesque writes:

Similarly, the Iranian opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi is universally depicted as a “moderate.” Yet, as Professor As’ad AbuKhalil points out, when Moussavi was Iran’s prime minister under Ayatollah Khomeini, he “presided over a regime far more oppressive than Ahmadinajad’s.” AbuKhalil’s take on the hypocrisy of the Western media coverage on Iran is worth quoting more fully:

…there is so much hypocrisy in the Western coverage and official reactions to the developments. Most glaring for me was the statement by the secretary-general of the UN who insisted on the respect of the will of the Iranian people. Would that US designate utter such words, say, about Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and other dictatorships that are approved by the US? …I am in no way sympathetic to Moussavi. He is a man who suddenly discovered the virtues of democracy. When he was prime minister back in the 1980s, he presided over a regime far more oppressive than Ahmadinajad’s. And why has no Western media really commented on his rhetoric during his own campaign: the man kept saying that he wants a “return” to the teachings of Khomeini. I in no way support a man who wants a “return” to the teachings of Khomeini.

Of course, Moussavi — like some other politicians we could mention — has now become, for millions of people, an emblem for genuine changes and reforms that he probably has no desire or intention to enact, even if given the chance. Like Barack Obama, he is of the power structure, and would, in end, no doubt act for the power structure. (Albeit with minor mitigations which, as we’ve often noted in regard to American politics, can also mean real differences in the lives of many individuals, and thus are not to be airily dismissed — although such an acknowledgement in no way requires an endorsement or acceptance of the overall power structure in which these mitigations occur, or of any particular mitigator in that system.)

Whenever the mainstream newsdroids keep on repeating go give to this organization or do this, I always sit up in my seat. For example, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and the levees breaking, it was, give to the Red Cross, a great place to give is to the Red Cross. And Bush said to give cash donations. On the Northern Vermont Red Cross chapter’s website, it is stated:

The Board of Governors of the American Red Cross delegates authority and responsibility to the Board of Directors of each chapter for governance of the chapter; delivery of authorized serv-ices in the chapter’s jurisdiction; and meeting corporate obligations to comply with corporate regulations.

The Board of Governors is composed of fifty people selected from volunteers affiliated with lo-cal chapters across the United States. The President of the United States, who acts as honorary chairman of the Red Cross, appoints eight of the Board’s members and selects the chairperson. Thirty members are elected by local chapters. Twelve members are chosen by the Board of Governors.

The IRS classes it as a government instrumentality, which means that it is run by a branch of the US government. A big scandal broke out after 9/11 when the Red Cross kept hundreds of millions of dollars of donations meant for families. They blamed Bernadine Healy, the American Red Cross President, but who was really responsible for handling the instrument then? Somehow I think it a no-brainer.

And now Twitter and social networking sites are also being promoted. Paul Joseph Watson of PrisonPlanet.com in his MySpace Is The Trojan Horse of Internet Censorship, says of MySpace:

MySpace has been caught shutting down blogs critical of itself and other Murdoch owned companies. They even had the audacity to censor links to completely different websites when clicking through for MySpace. When 600 MySpace users complained, MySpace deleted the blog forum that the complaints were posted on. Taking their inspiration from Communist China, MySpace regularly uses blanket censorship to block out words like ‘God’.

Earlier this week Rupert Murdoch sounded the death knell for conventional forms of media in stating that the media elite were losing their monopoly to the rapid and free spread of new communication technologies. Murdoch stressed the need to regain control of these outlets in order to prevent the establishment media empire from crumbling.

MySpace is Rupert Murdoch’s trojan horse for destroying free speech on the Internet. It is a foundational keystone of the first wave of the state’s backlash to the damage that a free and open Internet has done to their organs of propaganda. By firstly making it cool, trendy and culturally elite for millions to flock to establishment controlled Internet backbones like MySpace, Murdoch is preparing the groundwork for the day when it will stop being voluntary and become mandatory to use government and corporate monopoly controlled Internet hubs.

This is supported by this well done short video showing the links between Facebook, the CIA, and DARPA. Facebook, Digg, reddit, Wikipedia, and MySpace have faced devastating blows to their credibility over the past few years, and now here’s the chance to slap the blinkers back on the herd once again and put them back in the “trendy” pen where their minds can be picked and programmed. Barack Obama and his wrecking crew took a big gamble admitting the CIA’s role in overthrowing the Iranian government in 1953. So covert ops are now being taken to a whole new level of subtlety. It has always come out every time that these social networking sites are owned by the people at the hidden tables. I have no doubt that the same is the case with Twitter.

Playing on the public’s lack of knowledge and overloaded memory queue, this Mir Hussein Moussavi is being cast somewhat in the mold of a Middle East Martin Luther King Jr., a dogged man fighting against the odds, trying to rise up against a tyrannical, primitive, repressive regime when in fact he represents the very continuance of such.

The severe Internet and freedom of speech restrictions are also ripe for classic good cop/bad cop MSM theater, and of course, this is what we have here. The Iranians are seen as even more naive because of these overt restrictions. To add in an extra layer of manipulation agents are no doubt being activated, like in so many South and Central American nations with Communism, to try and steer their emotions in a way that they themselves give the consent for yet another round of dictatorship. Paul Craig Roberts, writing for Infowars.com notes:

Today the street demonstrations in Tehran show signs of orchestration. The protesters, primarily young people, especially young women opposed to the dress codes, carry signs written in English: “Where is My Vote?” The signs are intended for the western media, not for the Iranian government.

More evidence of orchestration is provided by the protesters’ chant, “death to the dictator, death to Ahmadinejad.” Every Iranian knows that the president of Iran is a public figure with limited powers. His main role is to take the heat from the governing grand Ayatollah. No Iranian, and no informed westerner, could possibly believe that Ahmadinejad is a dictator. Even Ahmadinejad’s superior, Khamenei, is not a dictator as he is appointed by a government body that can remove him.

The demonstrations, like those in 1953, are intended to discredit the Iranian government and to establish for Western opinion that the government is a repressive regime that does not have the support of the Iranian people. This manipulation of opinion sets up Iran as another Iraq ruled by a dictator who must be overthrown by sanctions or an invasion.

On American TV, the protesters who are interviewed speak perfect English. They are either westernized secular Iranians who were allied with the Shah and fled to the West during the 1978 Iranian revolution or they are the young westernized residents of Tehran.

And no one would ever think that here in America, independent inventors, doctors and scientists who work so hard to bring ways of health and life freedom to the public are being viciously raided by the FDA. That elderly and pregnant women aren’t being tasered by some of the more bloodthirsty cops who should be sitting with the criminals they bust. You’d think that vote fraud didn’t happen with the Bushes. You’d think that the Obama administration wasn’t trying to introduce legislation that was opposed by pretty much everyone. It only happens in countries with guys with names you can barely pronounce, right?

Obama is the fresh shill on the block, the perfect guy to sweet talk the Iranians. Dark skin coloration just like them, Arab middle name for the ambiguous “he’s probably a secret Muslim that needs to lay low” cover. Just as in feudal Japan or China, there are factions of the hidden hand as well. One is the Zbigniew Brzezinski/Barack Obama/global warming group, and the other seems to be the war on terror/Zionist/neocon group. The information in this article seems so on the mark, especially in light of recent events, such as John Kerry and Obama coming out and saying it’s ok for Iran to have nuclear power.

According to investigative researcher Webster Tarpley, power in Washington has shifted away from the neocon “rogue” faction of the elite to the Trilateral faction that stands behind Obama (”US Policy Shift On Iran-Iraq Again Shows Brzezinski Rules In Washington”). This faction seeks to redirect the American Empire’s hostilities away from Iran and focus them on Russia and China (ibid). Such a plan requires that Iran be transformed into an asset, which means that Tehran’s efforts to procure nuclear weapons may even be tolerated, so long as Iran is willing to act as a nuclear proxy of the American Empire (ibid). Iran has long desired to revive the Persian Empire, and Trilateralists such as Carter’s former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski believe that they can insure that a revived Persian Empire is merely an extension of the American Empire.

Unless the Iranians wake up and start seeing that West is not always best, I see myself shaking my head in sorrow for the millionth time.

Russian President Medvedev shows off “possible future world currency” sample at G8 summit

Medvedev Shows Off Future World Money

7.13.09 / Alexandra Odynova / Moscow Times

After months of pushing for a new world currency, President Dmitry Medvedev had more than an idea to tout at his G8 news conference. He had the real thing.

With a broad grin, Medvedev held aloft a shiny gold coin Friday that he said represented a “symbol of unity” and a possible “future world currency.”

“I have some supranational currency in my pocket that I got as a souvenir. This is a test sample of a currency unit under the Unity in Diversity motto,” Medvedev said, holding the coin between two fingers.

“It is called the United Future World Currency. It can already be seen and touched,” he said, according to a transcript posted on the Kremlin’s web site.

Examples of the coin, worth $3,900 and produced by the United Future World Currency, a group backing the idea of a global currency, was presented to all world leaders attending the Group of Eight summit in L’Aquila, Italy.

The coin was made by Belgian Luc Luycx, who also designed one side of the Euro coins, and are called “eurodollars” in a symbolic call for a common currency to unite Europe and the United States.

Medvedev pulled out his coin when reporters asked him about new reserve currencies at the news conference that closed the three-day summit. “This is a symbol of our unity and our desire to solve such issues,” Medvedev said.

Russia and China have called for a “super currency” to replace the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said at the summit that the dollar’s supremacy as a reserve currency is outdated.

“This has become a regular theme now,” Medvedev said Friday. “We are discussing the creation or, to be more correct, the appearance of new reserve currencies, including the possibility of making the Russian ruble such a currency unit.”

US federal contractors, stimulus fund recipients to have employees checked against Big Brother E-Verify system

U.S. to require contractors to use E-Verify

Starting Sept. 8, only those firms that use the online program, which checks whether employees are in the country legally and are authorized to work, will be eligible for federal contracts.

7.9.09 / Anna Gorman / LA Times

The Obama administration continued its push for a legal workforce Wednesday with an announcement that federal contractors and subcontractors would soon be required to verify that their employees are eligible to work in the U.S.

Beginning Sept. 8, the government will award contracts only to companies that enroll in E-Verify, an online program that uses federal databases to check whether employees are in the country legally and authorized to work. Businesses receiving money under the federal stimulus program also will be subjected to the rule, adopted under President George W. Bush but never implemented.

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced plans to throw out a rule that would have allowed the federal government to use mismatched Social Security data to find illegal immigrants in the workplace.

The “no-match” rule had been on hold since October 2007, when a federal judge in San Francisco decided that punishing companies that didn’t clear up discrepancies between names and Social Security numbers would cause “irreparable harm to innocent workers.” Groups that filed the lawsuit against the government argued that some mistakes are just mistakes and not proof of fraud.

“The idea is to make sure that we are providing employers with a system of employee verification that is accurate, respects the laws of privacy and is truly a good and strong model to maintain a legal workforce,” said Homeland Security spokesman Matt Chandler.

Separately, the Senate passed an amendment Wednesday that would mandate the use of E-Verify by federal contractors and subcontractors.

Napolitano’s move comes one week after her department notified more than 650 businesses nationwide of pending audits of their employment records. The department also recently issued guidelines for immigration agents to go after employers rather than just workers.

Supporters of E-Verify said the expansion of the effort to federal contractors and subcontractors would help crack down on illegal immigrants in the workforce and could help stem the flow of migrants across the border. Critics said mandating the program for federal contractors would only slow the country’s economic recovery.

Randel Johnson, vice president of labor, immigration and employee benefits for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said Wednesday that although some employers hadn’t had any problems with E-Verify, others had received inaccurate information from the government’s database.

“It should be rolled out slowly and tested rather than being applied to the employer community immediately,” he said.

The chamber filed a lawsuit in 2008 to prevent the government from implementing the contractor requirement, arguing that the president did not have the authority to mandate a voluntary program.

Other business groups praised the administration for Wednesday’s move but said more needed to be done, such as legalizing undocumented workers.

“We believe, of course, that there has to be a mechanism to verify the legal work status of employees,” said Beto Cardenas, executive counsel to Americans for Immigration Reform, a Houston-based coalition of businesses. “But we also believe that immigration reform has to be brought.”

American Civil Liberties Union staff attorney Jenny Chang Newell called the decision to abandon the no-match rule “a victory for all American workers.”

The ACLU was a plaintiff in the suit that prompted the ruling in San Francisco two years ago. But Newell said she had concerns about the E-Verify requirement and its potential to cause discrimination and unlawful firings based on inaccurate databases.

“Rather than punishing American workers for errors in the government’s own databases, the administration should enforce the workplace rights of all workers,” she said.e

Arizona looking to cancel cap and trade legislation

Arizona Looks to Outlaw Global Warming Legislation

6.24.09 / Michael Andrews / Dailytech.com

One state looks to ensure its citizens do not have to pay for climate change efforts

Climate change is a controversial topic.  Some believe man is causing the world to warm.  Others point out that the Earth has undergone solar warming and cooling for millions of years and that current temperatures are well within historic levels.  A recent report challenging AGW theory showed significant support with 31,478 U.S. researchers and scientists, many of whom hold Ph.D’s, signing a statement that they believe that man has not played a part in the current warming trend.

Arizona is now close to becoming the first state to outlaw climate change legislation.  The state Senate voted Monday, 19-10 to approve a bill banning the Department of Environmental Quality from enacting or enforcing measures with language pertaining to climate change.  The bill is now awaiting House approval.

The bill will likely pass and be signed into law thanks to a switch in power.  Formerly, Janet Napolitano (D) was governor of the state, but she left to join Barack Obama’s Cabinet.  Napolitano was replaced by Jan Brewer (R), who has not indicated a strong desire to support AGW theorists.

If Senate Bill 1147 passes it will block rules passed by the DEQ that set harsher emission standards.  The proposed increases were hastily pushed through by the former governor, despite complaints from industry leaders.  It would also end work on “cap and trade” carbon legislation, which has been opposed by the utility industry.  Such a scheme could help to raise power prices for the state’s citizens significantly.

A passage could also give the state means to challenge the federal government in court over the proposed Waxman-Markey bill, which would put over $1,600 in yearly costs on American citizens to cut carbon emissions.  The legislation, which has also received criticism for potentially hurting farmers, is currently making its way through a Democrat controlled House and Senate, awaiting Barack Obama’s approval.

Carbon propaganda: How much carbon does reading this CNN article produce?

Greening the Internet: How much CO2 does this article produce?

7.10.09 / Lara Farrar / CNN

Twenty milligrams; that’s the average amount of carbon emissions generated from the time it took you to read the first two words of this article.

How green is your website? Calculating all the factors involved in a website can be tricky.

Now, depending on how quickly you read, around 80, perhaps even 100 milligrams of C02 have been released. And in the several minutes it will take you to get to the end of this story, the number of milligrams of greenhouse gas emitted could be several thousand, if not more.

This may not seem like a lot: “But in aggregate, if you consider all the people visiting a web site and then all the seconds that each of them spends on it, it turns out to be a large number,” says Dr. Alexander Wissner-Gross, an Environmental Fellow at Harvard University who studies the environmental impact of computing.

Wissner-Gross estimates every second someone spends browsing a simple web site generates roughly 20 milligrams of C02. Whether downloading a song, sending an email or streaming a video, almost every single activity that takes place in the virtual environment has an impact on the real one.

As millions more go online each year some researchers say the need to create a green Internet ecosystem is not only imperative but also urgent.

“It is part of the whole sustainability picture,” Chris Large, head of research and development at UK-based Climate Action Group, told CNN.

“Scientists are saying to us that we have 10 years to take some serious action to avoid the most catastrophic effects of climate change so taking some sort of initiative is absolutely vital.”

A number of studies have highlighted the growing energy demands of computers. A 2007 report from research firm Gartner, for example, estimates the manufacturing, use and disposal of information and communications technology generates about two percent of the world’s greenhouse gases — similar to the level produced by the entire aviation industry.

Anti-virus software firm McAfee reports that the electricity needed just to transmit the trillions of spam emails sent annually equals the amount required to power over two million homes in the United States while producing the same level of greenhouse gas emissions as more than three million cars.

“Most people don’t appreciate that the computer on your desk is contributing to global warming and that if its electricity comes from a coal power plant it produces as much C02 as a sports utility vehicle,” said Bill St. Arnaud of Canarie, a Canada-based internet development organization.

“Some studies estimate the internet will be producing 20 percent of the world’s greenhouse gases in a decade. That is clearly the wrong direction. That is clearly unsustainable,” added St. Arnaud.

What do you include when working out IT’s carbon footprint?

Calculating the carbon footprint of the entire web however is not as easy as measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of a car.

Data centers — massive buildings housing hundreds, if not thousands, of power hungry servers storing everything from Facebook photos and YouTube videos to company web sites and personal emails — are often labeled as the worst offenders when it comes to harming the environment.

In 2002, global data center emissions amounted to 76 million tons of carbon dioxide — a figure that is likely to more than triple over the next decade, according to a 2008 study by the Climate Group and Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI).

The footprint of network infrastructure, which is responsible for transporting information from data centers to personal computers, mobile phones and other devices, is harder to pinpoint.

However the same study estimates fixed broadband accounts for around four million tons of carbon emissions and could account for nearly 50 million tons of emissions by 2020.

The manufacturing, transport and use of personal computers and laptops also has what some say is the most significant impact, producing roughly 200 million tons of emissions in 2002.

As millions of people buy new laptops and computers every year, this figure could triple by the end of the next decade, according to the Climate Group report. And it is also true that, like driving a car compared to taking public transportation, some online activities produce more greenhouse gases than others.

More electricity is needed to store, transmit and download a video compared to a simple email, for example. A single search using Google releases 0.2 grams of C02 into the atmosphere, according to Google.

“And what that includes is the energy that we at Google use to be able to receive your search, process it and then send it back to you,” Erik Teetzel, one of Google’s “green” engineers, told CNN.

“If people are counting things outside the activity that we do, then we don’t have control over that so we don’t factor that into the equation,” said Teetzel.

“We can measure exactly the number of queries that we service and come up with a very accurate estimate and answer from measured results of our actual emissions or energy use per query that we serve.”

The drive for energy efficiency

Citing competitive reasons, Teetzel declined to divulge Google’s annual power bill, yet he said the internet company has been taking steps to make its main six, five megawatt server farms green as well as the other, smaller data centers it has around the world. It is doing this by using more renewable energy, recycled water and efficient software that requires less electricity to run.

“From a business perspective, it makes sense to get the most what you want to call useful work done using the least amount of resources,” said Teetzel.

“Our energy efficiency efforts really did stem from us making our business more competitive.”

A number of other companies are also working to take the various pieces that comprise the infrastructure of the internet in a more sustainable direction. Wissner-Gross of Harvard has a company called C02Stats that enables businesses to monitor and manage the environmental impact of their web sites and then purchase renewable energy certificates based on their sites’ monthly carbon footprint.

Netherlands-based Cleanbits lobbies web sites to go green by either by purchasing carbon offsets or switching to green hosting providers, like AISO.net, a solar-powered data center based in California. And, like Google, Yahoo also incorporates renewable power and other efficiency measures in its data centers.

However as more of the world joins an age characterized by global flows of information and communication, some say the role the internet plays in making the lives of millions not only more efficient but also environmentally friendly should not be discounted.

“I don’t think we’ve done a good deal with articulating the fact that IT is inherently an efficiency tool,” said Teetzel. “That is why you and I use the internet now to find out a lot of information that would have previously been found by us getting in a car and driving somewhere.”

“It is a little bit unfair to say that you have this huge carbon cost of the IT industry without articulating the fact that in many, many cases it offsets what I would call heavier, more carbon intense activities that we do in our daily lives,” he added.

“Moving electrons is far more efficient than moving atoms. It is actually a paradigm change.”

Cymatics – The amazing panorama of healing and body rejuvenation by applying vibrational frequencies

Cymatics and The New Age of Miracles

Including an interview with Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D.

Susan Barber / The Spirit of Maat

A Re-Soundingly Successful Experiment

Recently, in Germany, researchers took the DNA of a 17-year-old boy, recorded its sound frequencies, and saved them. The boy was accidentally killed, but the scientists still had his DNA frequency patterns. Later, the DNA frequencies of the 17-year-old were transmitted into the body of a man in his late thirties. And the man almost became the young boy. His skin became youthful, he became slim, his hair went back to its natural color. Today he’s in his forties and he still looks like a much younger man.

–Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D.

Cymatics As Science

In the early 18th century, the German physicist Ernst Chladni, the ”father of acoustics,” covered plates with thin layers of sand, set them vibrating, and observed the patterns that were made in response to different sound stimuli.

In 1967, nearly three hundred years later, Hans Jenny, a Swiss doctor, artist, and researcher, published Cymatics – The Structure and Dynamics of Waves and Vibrations. In this book, published in both German and English, Jenny, like his precursor, showed what happens when one takes various materials like sand, water, or iron filings, and places them on vibrating metal surfaces.

When this is done, shapes and motion-patterns appear. Some of these patterns are nearly perfectly ordered and are stationary. Others develop in a turbulent, organic fashion, and are constantly in motion.

Jenny used crystal oscillators, and invented what he called a ”tonoscope” to set his plates and membranes vibrating. One of the most fascinating discoveries he made was that the vowels of Hebrew and Sanskrit, when toned into his media, formed the actual patterns of the letters themselves! Modern languages did not have this effect. All of which leads to the speculation that there may be some truth in the concept of a ‘’sacred language” — an actual, physical reason why the recitation of sacred mantras and texts may have real healing properties.

Jenny thought that evolution was a result of vibrations, with the vibrations of one level of organization, such as that of cells, each one unique, combining to create glands and organs and so on, each new level being a harmonic of the previous one. Jenny saw that we could heal the body with sound by understanding how different frequencies influence the genes, cells, and organs of the body.

Out of Jenny’s work, and that of other scientists in the late fifties, came the reality of using sound to transmute diseased cells into their healthy counterparts.

Enter the Age of Miracles

It was Sir Peter Guy Manners, British medical doctor, who collated the work that had been done in cymatics research and developed from it the therapy of Cymatics. Stated most simply, Cymatics therapy uses a toning device to transmit into diseased areas of the body the signature vibrations of healthy organs and tissues.

We called Dr. Manners at his academy in Bretforton, England. He told us that he had started off in ordinary medicine, but that a couple years into his training he’d reached a startling realization.

As part of my training, I and my fellow students would observe doctors in the process of treating their patients. And so we are sitting there with this doctor, and some patient comes in with a headache, and the doctor says, ‘Take these two tablets.’ And the patient goes off. But he comes back in a fortnight or so, a couple weeks, and he says, ‘Those tablets did the trick, but now I’ve got a little tummy upset.’ And we watch the doctor give him some different tablets, and he goes off. And then later this same patient is back again, ‘Oh, those tablets were wonderful, but now I’ve got a bit of diarrhea, you see.’

”And I realized, we started out with one patient, and now we’ve got three!”

Knowing that there had to be a better way of healing than what was taught to him in medical school, Dr. Manners traveled all over the world seeking to find out what other options existed for treating patients. He spent time studying with scientists in Germany (”I liked the kind of research they were doing”), Russia, and the United States.

Somewhere in his travels, Manners met up with Hans Jenny. ”He was interested in making forms and shapes with sound, and these coincided with the forms and shapes of anatomy and physiology,” Dr. Manners said. Out of this observation came Cymatics, or Bioresonance, therapy – the use of sound to transform diseased tissue into its healthy counterpart.

Cymatics probes are used to transmit bioresonance energy, in the form of electronic pulses, from the Cymatics instrument directly to human tissue. Another method of application is through fluids. Water or a homeopathic preparation is placed on a Bioresonance Energizer, which imprints the bioenergetic patterns into the solution. Also, there are units which can transmit bioenergy patterns into a bathtub or hydrotherapy unit. Yet another unit combines bioenergetic frequencies with color.

You can see how all of this works by realizing that there is no difference between the energetic pattern of an object and the object itself. We are made of energy. If we transmit a healthy frequency into diseased tissue, we cause it to take on the frequency — and thus, the actuality — of healthy tissue.

When asked what brings people to Cymatics therapy, Dr. Manners said, ”They choose it because a tremendous percentage want to move out of the drug scene.” And he stresses that, at least in the U.K., Cymatics has earned scientific recognition. “Scientists like it because its techniques can be explained and quantified, and the results are predictable. We know scientifically what will happen,” Manners said, ”if we transmit a certain combination of frequencies into the tissue.”

The instrument that is used to transmit sound vibrations into the human body is currently known as the Mark VI. It has replaced Mark I through V. ”This instrument,” Dr. Manners says, ”holds up to 390 commutations of frequencies, sounds which will regenerate organs and tissues in the body.”

Cymatics and the Fountain of Youth

Perhaps the most exciting possible application of Cymatics, as we indicate in the story that leads off this article, is its potential to reverse the aging process.

”When you’re born,” Dr. Manners said, ”every cell multiplies. Then, at puberty, the frequency patterns of the cells change, and instead of multiplying, cell replaces cell. As we age, cells still replace each other, but the tempo slows down.

”Within a few years of time we will be able to prevent this slowing down of cell replacement. And this can all be done with sound. If we take a frequency sample of your DNA at age 18, and save it, then later, if we transmit this frequency to your cells, they will rejuvenate.”

The Future of Advanced Medicine

Sir Peter Guy Manners is an M.D. ”But I don’t administer drugs,” he says. Drugs, he claims, are destructive. The type of medicine he practices is constructive. And although in the United States constructive healing modalities go under the name of ”alternative therapy,” in the United Kingdom they are referred to as Advanced Medicine. And the doctors who practice Advanced Medicine, instead of being hounded by professional and governmental organizations, may even aspire to knighthood.

”It used to be, when doctors didn’t know how to heal an arm or a leg, they just amputated it,” Manners said. ”By the year 2010, medicine as it’s known today will be as out of date as chopping off limbs. Prepare to accept the wonders of technology as established, scientific fact. Miracles will become the natural thing.

”Miracles,” concludes Dr. Manners, ”were simply things people didn’t understand. Today, we can explain miracles. Miracles fit right in with advanced technology.”

There are Cymatics clinics in many countries, and more Cymatics therapists are needed. If you would personally like to pursue Cymatics therapy, as a subject or as a career, Dr. Manners invites you to call or write to him. His contact information, biography, and more information about Cymatics can be found at cymatics.org.uk.

Pope calls for world political authority

 

 

 

Pope calls for a world authority to lead return to ethical values

 

 

7.8.09 / Guy Dinmore / Financial Times

 

 

The Pope yesterday condemned the “grave deviations and failures” of capitalism that have been exposed by the financial crisis, calling on the eve of a summit of rich nations for a “true world political authority” to oversee a return to ethical values.

Benedict XVI made his call for stronger government regulation in his third and eagerly awaited encyclical, Charity in Truth, which the Vatican chose to issue ahead of today’s Group of Eight nations summit in Italy.

His attack on unbridled capitalism and unregulated market forces was accompanied by a critique of some international aid agencies, which he accused of encouraging abortion and imposing contraception.

While the pontiff’s call for a new world authority is unlikely to go down well with the G8 heads of government, his plea for financiers to adhere to stronger ethical standards will be reflected in a G8 communiqué urging stronger and more co-ordinated “global standards”.

Pope Benedict’s emphasis on the need for “forms of redistribution of wealth” is likely to stir debate at the summit, which will be attended by 39 heads of government and international institutions, over the failure of rich nations to honour their aid commitments.

Vatican observers noted that the timing of the encyclical, the most important transmission of papal teaching on key issues, demonstrated the readiness of the Pope to intervene directly in political developments. Within Italy, the pontiff has been attacked by secularists for what they see as his unwarranted interference in domestic affairs.

The Pope said that the “true world political authority” would have to “manage the global economy . . . revive economies hit by the crisis . . . [and] avoid any deterioration of the present crisis and the greater imbalances that would result”.

The authority would be “regulated by law” and “would need to be universally recognised and . . . vested with the effective power to ensure security for all, regard for justice, and respect for rights”.

“Financiers must rediscover the genuinely ethical foundation of their activity so as to not abuse the sophisticated instruments which can serve to betray the interests of savers,” the Pontiff said. Pope Benedict will meet Barack Obama, US president, on Friday at the close of the three-day summit.

AIG seeking government clearance to pay bonuses

Problem-Reaction-Solution. AIG gets trashed by the media, then government has the excuse to do this. AIG is run by crooks of course, but I hope everyone can see where this is going.

 

 

AIG Seeks Clearance to Release Bonuses

 

 

7.10.09 / Liam Pleven & Deborah Solomon / Wall Street Journal

 

 

American International Group Inc. is asking the Obama administration’s new compensation czar whether it should pay previously agreed-to retention bonuses, including about $235 million pending for employees at the insurer’s controversial financial products unit, according to people familiar with the matter.

AIG asked Kenneth Feinberg to weigh in on the bonuses after the last round of multimillion dollar payments in March sparked an outpouring of public frustration amid the financial crisis. Before Mr. Feinberg was appointed, AIG had pledged to try to reduce the overall payments for this year’s performance to a few hundred employees at the financial products unit by 30%.

It had also delayed a much smaller set of payments to 40 high-ranking AIG officials that it is set to begin paying next week — payments for 2008 performance. Mr. Feinberg is expected to issue a decision on the 2008 payments although his primary job with regard to AIG will be to deal with compensation issues going forward, including whether to allow the company to pay bonuses slated for 2009.

The aim of the current negotiations with Mr. Feinberg, according to the people familiar with the matter, is to come to an agreement that lets employees keep enough of the promised bonuses to serve as an effective incentive, but reduces the payments by enough to make them more palatable to the public.

“We have been giving a lot of thought to this,” said an AIG official. “We don’t want there to be any surprises.”

The request from AIG puts Mr. Feinberg and the government in a potentially sensitive position of either having to endorse ongoing payments of whatever amount, or trying to block them and risk setting in motion employee departures that could prove costly to AIG and potentially the broader financial system.

Dealing with AIG is expected to be one of the thorniest tasks for Mr. Feinberg, who has the power to set pay for the top executives and design compensation structures for the most highly compensated 100 employees at seven firms receiving the most aid from the government.

The Obama administration was embarrassed in March after the original AIG bonuses were disclosed. The administration had been looking to rein in excessive pay, at one point proposing a salary cap for top executives.

President Barack Obama pledged to do all he could to recoup the money, but the administration concluded it couldn’t stop the payments because they were contractual obligations. A firestorm ensued, with Congress attempting to tax Wall Street bonuses.

More broadly, compensation has proved one of the most explosive issues amid the financial crisis, with companies scrambling to repay federal aid in part to avoid government scrutiny and control over their pay practices.

Any decision on AIG bonuses — and payments to employees at other firms receiving bailout money — will be scrutinized on Capitol Hill. Indeed, the administration tapped Mr. Feinberg in part to deflect some of the criticism.

The pending $235 million in retention bonuses at AIG’s financial products unit, whose woes were largely responsible for forcing AIG to the brink of bankruptcy court last year, are part of roughly $450 million in retention bonuses for that unit that AIG has previously disclosed. AIG agreed in early 2008 to make those payments, months before it received a government bailout. The first installment of those payments was made late last year, after the bailout.

The second installment came due in March, and it was the preparations to make those payments that set off the prior controversy. The next installment of payments to the financial products unit employees is not due to be paid for months. AIG has argued that it is obligated to make these payments, and that keeping employees in their jobs is crucial to avoiding additional losses on trades that the unit still has in place and is trying to wind down.

The government has said it stepped in to rescue AIG because it feared a collapse of the company could damage the broader financial system. In the bailout, the government has made up to $173 billion in aid available to AIG.

In a statement, Treasury said: “Companies will need to convince Mr. Feinberg that they have struck the right balance to discourage excessive risk taking and reward performance for their top executives. That process is just beginning now, and Mr. Feinberg has begun consulting with those firms about their compensation plans.”

Israeli forces have abducted Gaza aid ship with ex-Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney on board

ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES

Free Gaza Team / 6.30.09 / FreeGaza.org

For more information contact:

Greta Berlin (English)

tel: +357 99 081 767 / friends@freegaza.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Caoimhe Butterly (Arabic/English/Spanish):

tel: +357 99 077 820 / sahara78@hotmail.co.uk This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

www.FreeGaza.org

[23 miles off the coast of Gaza, 15:30pm] – Today Israeli Occupation Forces attacked and boarded the Free Gaza Movement boat, the SPIRIT OF HUMANITY, abducting 21 human rights workers from 11 countries, including Noble laureate Mairead Maguire and former U.S. Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (see below for a complete list of passengers). The passengers and crew are being forcibly dragged toward Israel.

“This is an outrageous violation of international law against us. Our boat was not in Israeli waters, and we were on a human rights mission to the Gaza Strip,” said Cynthia McKinney, a former U.S. Congresswoman and presidential candidate. “President Obama just told Israel to let in humanitarian and reconstruction supplies, and that’s exactly what we tried to do. We’re asking the international community to demand our release so we can resume our journey.”

According to an International Committee of the Red Cross report released yesterday, the Palestinians living in Gaza are “trapped in despair.” Thousands of Gazans whose homes were destroyed earlier during Israel’s December/January massacre are still without shelter despite pledges of almost $4.5 billion in aid, because Israel refuses to allow cement and other building material into the Gaza Strip. The report also notes that hospitals are struggling to meet the needs of their patients due to Israel’s disruption of medical supplies.

“The aid we were carrying is a symbol of hope for the people of Gaza, hope that the sea route would open for them, and they would be able to transport their own materials to begin to reconstruct the schools, hospitals and thousands of homes destroyed during the onslaught of “Cast Lead”. Our mission is a gesture to the people of Gaza that we stand by them and that they are not alone” said fellow passenger Mairead Maguire, winner of a Noble Peace Prize for her work in Northern Ireland.

Just before being kidnapped by Israel, Huwaida Arraf, Free Gaza Movement chairperson and delegation co-coordinator on this voyage, stated that: “No one could possibly believe that our small boat constitutes any sort of threat to Israel. We carry medical and reconstruction supplies, and children’s toys. Our passengers include a Nobel peace prize laureate and a former U.S. congressperson. Our boat was searched and received a security clearance by Cypriot Port Authorities before we departed, and at no time did we ever approach Israeli waters.”

Arraf continued, “Israel’s deliberate and premeditated attack on our unarmed boat is a clear violation of international law and we demand our immediate and unconditional release.”

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WHAT YOU CAN DO!

CONTACT the Israeli Ministry of Justice

tel: +972 2646 6666 or +972 2646 6340

fax: +972 2646 6357

CONTACT the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

tel: +972 2530 3111

fax: +972 2530 3367

CONTACT Mark Regev in the Prime Minister’s office at:

tel: +972 5 0620 3264 or +972 2670 5354

mark.regev@it.pmo.gov.il This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

CONTACT the International Committee of the Red Cross to ask for their assistance in establishing the wellbeing of the kidnapped human rights workers and help in securing their immediate release!

Red Cross Israel

tel: +972 3524 5286

fax: +972 3527 0370

tel_aviv.tel@icrc.org This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Red Cross Switzerland:

tel: +41 22 730 3443

fax: +41 22 734 8280

Red Cross USA:

tel: +1 212 599 6021

fax: +1 212 599 6009

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Kidnapped Passengers from the Spirit of Humanity include:

Khalad Abdelkader, Bahrain

Khalad is an engineer representing the Islamic Charitable Association of Bahrain.

Othman Abufalah, Jordan

Othman is a world-renowned journalist with al-Jazeera TV.

Khaled Al-Shenoo, Bahrain

Khaled is a lecturer with the University of Bahrain.

Mansour Al-Abi, Yemen

Mansour is a cameraman with Al-Jazeera TV.

Fatima Al-Attawi, Bahrain

Fatima is a relief worker and community activist from Bahrain.

Juhaina Alqaed, Bahrain

Juhaina is a journalist & human rights activist.

Huwaida Arraf, US

Huwaida is the Chair of the Free Gaza Movement and delegation co-coordinator for this voyage.

Ishmahil Blagrove, UK

Ishmahil is a Jamaican-born journalist, documentary film maker and founder of the Rice & Peas film production company. His documentaries focus on international struggles for social justice.

Kaltham Ghloom, Bahrain

Kaltham is a community activist.

Derek Graham, Ireland

Derek Graham is an electrician, Free Gaza organizer, and first mate aboard the Spirit of Humanity.

Alex Harrison, UK

Alex is a solidarity worker from Britain. She is traveling to Gaza to do long-term human rights monitoring.

Denis Healey, UK

Denis is Captain of the Spirit of Humanity. This will be his fifth voyage to Gaza.

Fathi Jaouadi, UK

Fathi is a British journalist, Free Gaza organizer, and delegation co-coordinator for this voyage.

Mairead Maguire, Ireland

Mairead is a Nobel laureate and renowned peace activist.

Lubna Masarwa, Palestine/Israel

Lubna is a Palestinian human rights activist and Free Gaza organizer.

Theresa McDermott, Scotland

Theresa is a solidarity worker from Scotland. She is traveling to Gaza to do long-term human rights monitoring.

Cynthia McKinney, US

Cynthia McKinney is an outspoken advocate for human rights and social justice issues, as well as a former U.S. congressperson and presidential candidate.

Adnan Mormesh, UK

Adnan is a solidarity worker from Britain. He is traveling to Gaza to do long-term human rights monitoring.

Adam Qvist, Denmark

Adam is a solidarity worker from Denmark. He is traveling to Gaza to do human rights monitoring.

Adam Shapiro, US

Adam is an American documentary film maker and human rights activist.

Kathy Sheetz, US

Kathy is a nurse and film maker, traveling to Gaza to do human rights monitoring.

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Are you at risk of getting the deadly new dog flu?

The Dog Flu Virus: Are You or Your Pet at Risk?

6.29.09 / New York Times

In today’s Science Times, health reporter Donald McNeil writes about a new flu virus circulating in dogs. Mr. McNeil writes:

While fears of a flu pandemic among humans have shifted from the lethal H5N1 avian flu to the relatively mild H1N1 swine flu, the H3N8 canine flu has been a quiet undercurrent in the United States, rarely discussed except among veterinarians and dog owners in the few areas where it has struck hard: Florida, New York City’s northern suburbs, Philadelphia and Denver.

Dr. Cynda Crawford, co-discoverer of the dog flu virus.

This week, Dr. Cynda Crawford, one of the discoverers of the virus and a veterinarian at the University of Florida veterinary school, joins the Consults blog to answers readers’ questions about the dog flu and the first vaccine approved for it.

Read Mr. McNeil’s full story, “New Flu Vaccine Approved — for Dogs.”

Do you have a question about canine flu? Post your questions for Dr. Crawford in the “Add your comments” box below. We will be posting Dr. Crawford’s responses in the coming week. Check back for regular updates.