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abolition-usa-digest       Tuesday, May 4 1999       Volume 01 : Number 124




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Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 23:45:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Timothy Bruening <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 3 To The 5th Days Left Until 2000!

There are just 3 To The 5th Days Left Until 2000, just 243 days left in
which to achieve a nuclear abolition treaty.


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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 02:08:03 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) NATO air strikes could cause a second Chernobyl

Subject: NATO air strikes could cause a second Chernobyl


> SUNDAY HERALD
>
> 27 April 1999
>
> NATO air strikes could cause a second Chernobyl
>
> By Felicity Arbuthnot
> [e-mail]
> Publication Date: Apr 25 1999
>
> EUROPE'S most dangerous nuclear power plant could be just 30 minutes fr=
om
> a
> catastrophic meltdown due to Nato air strikes on Serbia, a British expe=
rt
> has claimed.
>
> Oil from bombed refineries has seeped into the River Danube, causing 13
> huge slicks which are now threatening Bulgaria's Kozloduy plant's cooli=
ng
> system, prompting environmentalists to warn of a "very real danger" of =
a
> second Chernobyl.
>
> One British expert said workers at Kozloduy, which has around five mill=
ion
> people within its blast danger zone, would have just half an hour to sh=
ut
> down the reactors if cooling water from the river becomes contaminated
> with
> the thick oily sludge.
>
> But John Large, a London-based nuclear safety consultant who has
> investigated Kozloduy for the British government, claimed the plant has
> been staffed by little more than farmers since Russian technicians went
> home after the break-up of the Soviet Union.
>
> Large confirmed the thick oil slicks could jam machines which pump wate=
r
> 6km from the Danube to cool the reactors. He warned sparking could caus=
e
> fires, but his main fears concern overheating reactors due to a prolong=
ed
> absence of coolant, which may lead to the explosive release of a
> radioactive cloud.
>
> Large said: "The people at Kozloduy would have perhaps 30 minutes to cl=
ose
> down the reactors."
>
> He claimed there would be ample opportunity for inexperienced operators=
 to
> make mistakes. "How shall I put it? This is a high-tech plant which is =
now
> run by agrarian labourers. After the break-up of the Soviet Union, the
> Russian technicians who ran the plant went home, taking the instruction
> manuals with them."
>
> Large said that in the worst case scenario, loss of coolant combined wi=
th


> operator error could result in an accidental release of a cloud of
> radioactive gas. The reactors were so old, he warned, that their pressu=
re
> vessels could have become brittle and liable to catastrophic failure.
>
> Kozloduy takes water from the Danube at a point just 100km from the
> Serbian
> border. One of the 13 slicks approaching it is 24km long.
>
> An emergency shutdown on one of the plant's six reactors would plunge m=
uch
> of Bulgaria into darkness.
>
> But it is the fear of catastrophe which has caused worldwide alarm. A
> coalition of Bulgarian environmental groups has warned the country's
> government that there is "a very real danger" of a disaster similar to
> that
> caused by the blast at Chernobyl in April, 1986.
>
> Bulgarian authorities are refusing to release details of how the risk i=
s
> being dealt with. However, environmentalists have warned that the 24km
> slick, which eyewitnesses claim is a "thick, oily gunge", will pass the
> cooling pumps in "a matter of days".
>
> Campaigner Rasitsa Panayotova from Za Zemiata (Bulgarian for For the
> Earth), claimed oil contamination could cause reactors at Kozloduy to
> explode.
>
> "Another danger is that oil in the vicinity catches fire, also threaten=
ing
> the complex," she warned. The site also houses a substantial stockpile =
of
> nuclear waste.
>
> Four of Kozloduy's aging six reactors have no secondary containment to
> prevent radiation from escaping in the event of an accident.
>
> Most western experts regard them as unsafe and the European Union has b=
een
> trying to persuade the Bulgarians to close them for years. The Bulgaria=
n
> government has resisted because the reactors supply 35% of the country'=
s
> electricity.
>
> A detailed investigation earlier this month by the official nuclear
> regulatory agencies from 10 countries, including Britain, concluded
> Kozloduy could never be made safe.
>
> "The existing and planned safety upgrading programmes will not be
> sufficient to bring these units up to acceptable safety standards," the=
y
> said.
>
> Another study by the US Department of Energy revealed the plant failed =
on
> six out of seven accident indicators and concluded that "operation of t=
he
> Kozloduy nuclear power plant is truly a high-stakes gamble."
>
> Last week Bulgarian environmental groups demanded the closure of Kozlod=
uy
> after their government gave Nato planes permission to make emergency
> landings 50km away at Gabrovnica.
>
> The Bulgarian committee on the uses of atomic energy for peaceful purpo=
ses
> also warned a plane crash at Kozloduy could cause an "uncontrolled
> disaster".
>
> Talent develops in tranquillity,
> character in the full current of human life.
>
=CD



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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 11:35:21 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Tornados as Weather Weapon?

- ----- Original Message -----
From: Goat Sucker <[e-mail]>
Newsgroups:
alt.politics.british,alt.politics.europe.misc,alt.politics.usa.congress,a=
lt.
politics.usa.misc,alt.politics.yugoslavia,soc.culture.russia,alt.news-med=
ia
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 1999 5:41 AM
Subject: Re: T O R N A D O S


Gnocci's Tornado wrote:

    It seems that the Kosovo crisis is taking an unexpected turn. There a=
re
    indications that a meteorological weaponry that Russians call  MTVR-1=
 is
    currently in use to create atmospherics disturbances over the U.S.

    It seems that the Pentagon is panicking, and Clinton is even talking
about
    halting the air strike against Yugoslavia!? There was a web site abou=
t
this
    weapon, I can't speak Russian but [what] I understood is that it does
not need to
    be applied over the region one wants to attack and that [it] is not
controllable.

  It is tornado season in the united states of medium tactical vehicle
replacements (MTVR)

http://www.house.gov/hasc/billsandreports/105thcongress/hr3616committeere=
por
t/title1.htm

  Secret Rulers Control America's Weather

  A weather modification Grid System has been set up by the Elite One
  World Government of an astonishingly advanced nature. The Grid System
  consists of three enormous underwater cables laid along the continental
  shelf of our East, West and Gulf Coasts (the latter from Florida to
Texas.)
  Each cable is powered by an underground nuclear power plant and can be
  made positive or negative relative to Earth. The power plants act like =
a
  giant battery; one pole grounded to Earth and the other to the cables.

  The effect of these three grid cables along the coasts is to create
electrical
  fields which span the continent of the United States. These power field=
s
  control electrical charges in the upper atmosphere producing jet-stream
  shifts. Experiments are conducted with the cable set at either a positi=
ve
or
  a negative potential, and also alternating from positive to negative. W=
hat
  is going on now is weather warfare, and the era of weather strategy is
  underway. The Russians also have weather control, making use of their
  formidable cosmospheres (massive antigravity spacecrafts), which is mor=
e
  localized, but much of what has been happening more recently has been
  due to the secret government. These two factions are in competition for
  control of America's weather with the purpose of world domination.
  http://www.esotericworldnews.com/weather.htm

  --------------

  HAARP, Weather War, And EMF Mind Control
      From James Shannon
        Author Uncertain
          Dec. 23, 1997

  In May of 1988, I wrote an article for the Canadian Intelligence
  Service headed "Weather War?"

  The preamble written by the editor said this: "Her story, indeed, is
  'stranger than fiction.' And it's only the beginning, the first glimpse=
 of
  a new and uncertain factor in human affairs, opening up unimagined
  physical possibilities - but also threatening our very survival."

  Those words were indeed prophetic. Advanced technology based on
  the original works of Nikola Tesla is being developed at an alarming
  rate. This discoverer of alternating current power source and
  transmission system (among other accomplishments was a genius
  before his time. In spite of this, his name is unfamiliar to most
  because soon after his death in 1943 his data was removed from
  libraries and his only claim to fame now is the Tesla Coil. He hoped
  his discoveries would be used for peaceful, life-enhancing purposes.)

  While traveling in Alaska in the summer of 1994, we visited the
  Copper Valley area hoping to explore the old mines. A large
  intimidating sign blocked all access to this region. I didn't think too
  much of it at the time, however I later learned of a highly secret
  project being constructed there and was able to locate a book
  published in Alaska discussing the HAARP system, that being an
  acronym for High-frequency Active Auroral Research Project.

  The authors of "Angels Don't Play This HAARP" base their
  information on documents they were able to view which came out of
  secret meeting of the U.S. Government and the U.S. Military.
  HAARP is a ground-based "Star Wars" weapon which has the
  capability to manipulate the environment in such a way as to change
  weather patterns, disrupt global communications systems, disrupt
  human mental processes, negatively affect health, and impact the
  Earth's upper atmosphere in an unnatural and damaging way. By
  interfering with the Earth's magnetic field there is no assurance that
  damage on an irreversible global scale will not occur.

  All participants involved in designing HAARP are part of a giant
  partnership of government, the military and many private
  corporations which form defense intelligence contractual networks,
  and it is done in secret. Critics of the project believe that large gro=
ups
  of independent scientists should be talking a close look at these
  developments before the project is allowed to continue.

  A biggest "ionospheric heater" in the world is located on the HAARP
  site. Focused energy could be beamed up to the ionosphere where
  the radio-frequency waves would interact powerfully with charged
  particles that are always trapped up there.

  The heating effect of the focused beam would then dramatically push
  a plume - a large section of the ionosphere - up and outward from
  Earth. One critic of the project called it "skybusting."

  The Earth is protected from harmful cosmic rays by the Van Allen
  Radiation Belt in conjunction with the Earth's magnetic field. The
  ozone layer protect us from ultra-violet light. If this dual barrier is
  weakened, allowing these high-energy particles from the ionosphere
  to enter the atmosphere, serve damage could be caused to the DNA
  blueprints of all life on Earth. This is only one of the disastrous
  effects of which the HAARP system capable.

  Co-author Jean Manning, in conversation with a ham operator,
  learned that as early as 1975-76 the Soviet Union was beaming
  radio-frequency signals toward North America. Ham operators were
  picking up the 10-hertz (pulses per second) frequencies which they
  called Woodpecker signals because of the tapping they heard from
  extremely low frequency (ELF) waves. It was speculated that his
  ELF frequency could resonate the neurons in the human brain over
  great distance, resulting in mood changes in a large part of the
  population.

  These ELF waves could cause communication interference, power
  failures, and weather modification designed to have a devastating
  effect on food production.

  HAARP records disclose that when the project is up to full power, it
  will be able to send very low frequency and extra low frequency
  (VLF and ELF) waves at energy levels sufficient to affect entire
  regional populations. What other objective can there be but to control
  people?

  What is even more ominous is the authors' picture of what they refer
  to as the "psychocivilized society." After reviewing HAARP
  documents and Air Force materials, the possibility is there for the
  HAARP transmitting system to be used "inadvertently or
  intentionally to after mental functions." Early research on the brain
  was conducted on animals, using electrodes inserted into the brain to
  produce different kinds of behavior. Dr. Jose M.R. Delgado
  developed his research so that brain-manipulating effects could be
  achieved at a distans, and by changing wave form, could completely
  change the thinking and emotional state of the subject. Even these
  achievements can and are being used to help people with various
  mental dysfunctions, but the potential for abuse appears too easy to
  resist for the "mad scientists" working on HAARP.

  A European leader in alternative medicine, Dr. Reijo Makela has
  developed a technique whereby a patient's chemistry is rebalanced
  by using a combination of low levels of chemicals and the right
  frequency from a properly-tuned transmitter. He has had enormous
  success in treating debilitating diseases.

  However, the military approach can be used for just the opposite
  result. A tiny amount of chemical (below generally accepted levels
  for toxicity) could be introduced to the enemy by some means
  (perhaps water or air supply); then the right frequency could be
  directed toward them, activating the otherwise harmless chemicals.
  This would render the enemy powerless, and international
  agreements regarding chemical warfare would not have been
  violated.

  A radio transmitter carrying a pulsed wave of 6-12 pulses per
  second, acting in resonance with the radio waves which serve as a
  carrier, could it modulated in just the right way disrupt minds and
  cause serious negative health effects on humans and animals. This
  technology is well within the capability of HAARP and they intend to
  use it.

  We are now the age of sophisticated electromagnetic technology
  which can interfere with the Earth's magnetic fields all the way up to
  the ionosphere. The consequences of such aggressive tampering with
  our natural environment are not known, nor to the HAARP designers
  seem to care, brushing aside any attempts to develop a regulatory
  presence. Frustrating those who are anti-HAARP is the veil of
  secrecy and deception which covers the project.

  In order to "prepare" the people to accept these mind-bogging
  advances in technology, little bits of information are "leaked" out,
  like a trial balloon, to test the reaction. However, it seems that basi=
c
  strategy and application remain committed to secrecy.

  Perhaps the most ominous aspect of the HAARP technology is the
  connecting of the military non-lethal research with civilian law
  enforcement agencies. This means that law conforcement can use
  this technology against the government's domestic "adversaries" -
  one can only surmise who these adversaries might be. We are given
  a clue in the policy for non-lethal weapons which states: The term
  'adversary' is used .. in its broadest sense, including those who are
  not declared enemies but who are engaged in activities we wish to
  stop... Bear in mind that these weapons are "invisible" - when used
  to alter thinking and behavior the victims is unaware of an "attack."

  The authors provide a brief history of discoveries relating to the fiel=
d
  of electromagnetic, beginning with Tesla's inventions in 1886 and
  ending with HAARP. Since 1994 HAARP has been testing its
  equipment, with 1998 being the projected date for a fully-operating
  system. The authors also warn us that it is not just the United States
  citizens who are in jeopardy - the HAARP system is a universal tool.

  As early as 1975, the Canadian government was aware of the use of
  weather modification as a weapon. Are they also aware of the
  expanded technology of the HAARP system? Since this use of
  electromagnetics will affect every one of us in some way, perhaps it
  would be appropriate to question your MP.

  Will this be the modus operandi to bring in the New World Order?

  (Angels Don't Play This HAARP" - Advances In Tesla Technology,
  by Jean Manning and Dr. Nick Begich).

  and, what in the HELL could be next.... by HAARP?

  -A Volcano eruption? -Earthquakes? -A hundred feet high wave?
  -Ebola virus? -or the beginning of "The New World Order" with
  micro-computer under your skin?
  http://www.sightings.com/earthchanges/emfmind.htm

On the Fourth of July, 1976, the former Soviet Union began broadcasting
huge, pulsed electromagnetic fields from three gigantic 40-million watt
transmitters which beamed those signals halfway around the world to the
U.S. This electronic assault disrupted and jammed radio and television
broadcast signals, enraged the FCC, and irritated ham radio operators, wh=
o
quickly dubbed the signals 'The Russian Woodpecker,' because of their
pulsed cadence.

To date, the Russians have completed nearly 30 of the huge transmitters
which emit signals primarily in the very dangerous 10-Hertz range, otherw=
ise
known as Extreme Low Frequency (ELF). The technology is based on the
brilliant work of the peerless electrical genius, Nikola Tesla. So, what
exactly
does the 'Russian Woodpecker' do and how does it do it?
Consider the following:

These 'Tesla' transmitters create massive 'standing' ELF waves that form
major high pressure 'blocking systems' that change the normal high altitu=
de
jet stream pattern, force it to the north, and actually retard the normal
flow
patterns of incoming weather systems. Ever notice the television weather
satellite pictures showing the jet stream pushed north and a big stationa=
ry
high pressure blocking nearly every major rain system that approaches the
southern half of California?...

Regarding the 7-year drought, which appears to be rearing its arid head
again, the 1/13/93 edition of Discovery Magazine stated:

     Scientists would be happy if they learned one thing from this
     (seven year) drought: What causes the massive high pressure
     system to build up just off the California coast and stay
     there, like a double-parked delivery truck in rush-hour traffic,
     pushing storms to the north?

Odd things were also being reported back in the winters of the early 1980=
's:

     A ridge of high pressure has hovered nearly 800 miles off the
California
     Coast for the past two months, blocking the usual flow of moist air
from
     the Pacific.

             --Time 1/1981

     For the past four months, a single weather pattern...causing the
drought
     is one of the most unusual national patterns ever recorded...such lo=
ng
     lasting (high pressure) centers were unheard of until 1977 (when the
     Soviets began the 'Woodpecker' transmissions --ed.)

             --Washington Post 2/2/81

It is important to note that the end of the 7-year California drought in =
the
winter of 1992-93 coincided exactly with the well-documented period of
intense
solar magnetic storms that disrupted all electromagnetic transmissions he=
re
on
Earth including the 'Woodpecker.'

Last summer's Midwest flooding was probably no accident, either.

     An unusual shift in the jet stream, acting as a barrier (is causing =
the
     floods)...

             --Newsweek 7/26/93

     The stagnant high pressure zone acted like a barrier, preventing the
normal
     flow of weather patterns from west to east...

             New York Times 7/29/93

     It is extremely unusual for weather patterns to persist for so many
weeks.
     The reasons for the weather patterns to become fixed...are unclear.

            --Storm, The World Weather Magazine 9/93

As far back in April, 1969, Spectrum, a publication of the prestigious
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, featured an article
by Seymour Tilson which stated:

     Workers in the field of atmospheric electricity and cloud physics ha=
ve
     accumulated sufficient evidence to suggest that electric fields in t=
he
     Earth=B9s lower atmosphere play a critical role...perhaps the critic=
al
     role...in the development and behavior of clouds that produces
     precipitation.

Mr. Tilson was correct. Exactly one year after the 'birth' of the Russian
Woodpecker, July 4, 1978, the U.S. Government conducted its own ELF weath=
er
experiment which created an enormous downpour of rain over six counties o=
f
northern Wisconsin. This ELF-generated storm generated winds of 157 mph a=
nd
caused $50 million in damage, levelling Phillips, Wisconsin, and destroyi=
ng
350,000 hectares of forest.

The first published alarm about Soviet weather control warfare came from
Dr. Andrew Michrowski of PACE (Planetary Association for Clean Energy). I=
n
a published paper in 1978, Dr. Michrowski described how he had placed
monitoring stations all across Canada and determined that "the Soviets
managed to establish relatively stable and localized ELF fields (over Nor=
th
America) which were able to hamper or divert the jet stream flow in the
Northern Hemisphere."

Several years later, Michrowski stated in a PACE Newsletter (Vol.4, #4):

     ELF fields...propagate vertically to the ground, creating 'standing
     waves'...that can redistribute energy and momentum in (atmosphere)
     through cumulus convection. It has been consistently noted that
     variance of the (Soviet) ELF transmissions leads to a subsequent
     change in the route of the jet stream flow in the Northern Hemispher=
e
     within 72 hours.

The 2/81 PACE Newsletter reported that the Soviets turned off their ELF
Woodpecker signal for a brief period in 1980: "During the two-week lull,
the Northern Hemisphere's jet stream was NORMAL... ...with the return of
the Soviet ELF transmissions, the jet stream was deflected (again) by a
persistent (high) pressure ridge extending from the Yukon to Arizona."

There is much more, but I think you get the picture. 'Everyone complains
about the weather, but nobody does anything about it,' doesn=B9t function
any more. Nikola Tesla said, in June, 1900, " The time is very near when
we shall have the precipitation of the moisture of the atmosphere under
complete control..." If you have ever read a biography of the great
genius, you'll know he wasn't joking.

Does the U.S. government have its own series of ELF/microwave
transmitters? You bet. Can ELF be used to do more than engineer
and influence just the weather (like human beings, for example)?
Yes, it CAN and IS. But that's another story...

Secret Weapons Technology
http://www.sightings.com/political/weapons/weapons.htm


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Dialogue on assembled chemical weapons assessment

The DOD has committed to meaningful public involvement
in the assessment program, and has stated that such
involvement is critical to its success. In response to this
commitment, a public interest group, known as the Dialogue
on Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment
("the Dialogue") has sought to consult with the DOD to
discuss issues relating to the assessment program. The
Dialogue consists of a diverse group of interested individuals
from the chemical weapons stockpile communities; federal,
tribal, and state environmental regulators; and national
activist organization representatives that regularly work on
chemical weapons issues.

During the committee's consideration of the National Defense
Authorization Bill for Fiscal Year 1999 (H.R. 3616), a concern
was raised that the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public
Law 92-462; 5 U.S.C. App.) (FACA) might apply to the
Dialogue in its consultative relationship with the DOD on the
assessment program. The program's near-term deadline would
make it unlikely that a formal charter process for the Dialogue,
which would be required under FACA, could be completed in
sufficient time to meet the deadline for the assessment program's
final report to Congress and, concurrently, incorporate public
involvement. In response to this concern, the committee
consulted with the House Committee on Government Reform and
Oversight, the committee of jurisdiction on issues related to
FACA. In the opinion of that committee, FACA does not apply to
the Dialogue in its relationship with the DOD on the assessment
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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 12:43:36 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) KLA funding tied to heroin profits

Washington Times front-page headline 19980503: May 3, 1999

[ top-billing above 3 soldiers
release by Jesse Jackson in Yugo, Monday May 3rd following Saturday May 1=
st
Mike
Ruppert speech at DC "March on Washington '99" rally in front of White Ho=
use
supported by about 150 MayDay medical marijuana activists (Million Mariju=
ana
March)who from the rally marched around the White House after demonstrati=
ng
against Rep. Bob Barr's scheduled speech, which was cancelled at the last
minute, and in support of Ruppert's efforts to stop CIA confessed
involvement in the hard drug trade, the CIA-KLA connection
http://www.copvcia.com , and to bring out the truth about the medical
marijuana issue in order to stop the drug war subterfuge oppressing
Americans and populations around the world with crime, insurgencies and w=
ars
that could lead to nuclear and environmental catastrophe]




The Washington Times, May 3, 1999

KLA funding tied to heroin profits

By Jerry Seper

The Kosovo Liberation Army, which
the Clinton administration has
embraced and some members of
Congress want to arm as part of the
NATO bombing campaign, is a terrorist
organization that has financed much of its
war effort with profits from the sale of
heroin.

Recently obtained intelligence
documents show that drug agents in five countries, including the
United States, believe the KLA has aligned itself with an
extensive organized crime network centered in Albania that
smuggles heroin and some cocaine to buyers throughout Western
Europe and, to a lesser extent, the United States.

The documents tie members of the Albanian Mafia to a drug
smuggling cartel based in Kosovo's provincial capital, Pristina.
The cartel is manned by ethic Albanians who are members of the
Kosovo National Front, whose armed wing is the KLA. The
documents show it is one of the most powerful heroin smuggling
organizations in the world, with much of its profits being diverted
to the KLA to buy weapons.

The clandestine movement of drugs over a collection of land
and sea routes from Turkey through Bulgaria, Greece and
Yugoslavia to Western Europe and elsewhere is so frequent and
massive that intelligence officials
have dubbed the circuit the "Balkan Route."

Mr. Clinton has committed air power and is
considering the use of ground troops to support
the Kosovo rebels against Yugoslav President
Slobodan Milosevic. Last week, Sen. Mitch
McConnell, Kentucky Republican, and Sen.
Joseph I. Lieberman, Connecticut Democrat,
called on the United States to arm the KLA so
ethnic Albanians in Kosovo could defend
themselves against the Serbs.

Mr. McConnell and Mr. Lieberman
introduced a bill that would provide $25
million to equip 10,000 men or 10 battalions
with small arms and anti-tank weapons for up to
18 months.

In 1998, the U.S. State Department listed the
KLA -- formally known as the Ushtria
Clirimtare e Kosoves, or UCK -- as an
international terrorist organization, saying it had
bankrolled its operations with proceeds from
the international heroin trade and from loans
from known terrorists like Osama bin Laden.

"They were terrorists in 1998 and now,
because of politics, they're freedom fighters,"
said one top drug official who asked not to be
identified.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration,
in a recent report, said the heroin is smuggled
along the Balkan Route in cars, trucks and boats
initially to Austria, Germany and Italy, where it
is routed to eager buyers in France, Germany,
Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain,
Switzerland and Great Britain. Some of the
white powder, the DEA report said, finds its
way to the United States.

The DEA report, prepared for the National
Narcotics Intelligence Consumer's Committee
(NNICC), said a majority of the heroin seized
in Europe is transported over the Balkan Route.
It said drug smuggling organizations composed
of Kosovo's ethnic Albanians were considered
"second only to Turkish gangs as the
predominant heroin smugglers along the Balkan
Route." The NNICC is a coalition of federal
agencies involved in the war on drugs.

"Kosovo traffickers were noted for their use
of violence and for their involvement in
international weapons trafficking," the DEA
report said.

A separate DEA document, written last
month by U.S. drug agents in Austria, said that
while the war in the former Yugoslavia had
reduced the drug flow to Western Europe along
the Balkan Route, new land routes have opened
across Romania, Hungary and the Czech
Republic. The report said, however, the
diversion appeared to be only temporary.

The DEA estimated that between four and
six metric tons of heroin leaves each month
from Turkey bound for Western Europe, the
bulk of it traveling over the Balkan Route.

A second high-ranking U.S. drug official,
who also requested anonymity, said government
and police corruption in Kosovo, along with
widespread poverty throughout the region, had
contributed to an increase in heroin trafficking
by the KLA and other ethnic Albanians. The
official said drug smuggling is "out of control"
and little is being done by neighboring states to
get a handle on it.

"This is the definition of the wild, wild
West," said the official. "The bombing has
slowed it down, but has not brought it to a halt.
And, eventually, it will pick up where it left
off."

The heroin trade along the Balkan Route has
been of concern to several countries:

  The Greek representative of Interpol
  reported in 1998 that Kosovo's ethnic
  Albanians were "the primary sources of
  supply for cocaine and heroin in that
  country."

  Intelligence officials in France said in a
  recent report the KLA was among several
  organizations in southern Europe that had
  built a vast drug-smuggling network.
  France's Geopolitical Observatory of
  Drugs said in the report that the KLA was
  a key player in the rapidly expanding
  drugs-for-arms business and helped
  transport $2 billion worth of drugs
  annually into Western Europe.

  German drug agents have estimated that
  $1.5 billion in drug profits is laundered
  annually by Kosovo smugglers, through as
  many as 200 private banks or
  currency-exchange offices. They noted in a
  recent report that ethnic Albanians had
  established one of the most prominent drug
  smuggling organizations in Europe.

  Jane's Intelligence Review estimated in
  March that drug sales could have netted
  the KLA profits in the "high tens of
  millions of dollars." The highly regarded
  British-based journal noted at the time that
  the KLA had rearmed itself for a spring
  offensive with the aid of drug money,
  along with donations from Albanians in
  Western Europe and the United States.

Several leading intelligence officials said
the KLA has, in part, financed its purchase of
AK-47s, semiautomatic rifles, shotguns,
handguns, grenade launchers, ammunition,
artillery shells, explosives, detonators and
anti-personnel mines through drug profits --
cash laundered through banks in Italy, Germany
and Switzerland. They also said KLA rebels
have paid for weapons using the heroin itself as
currency.

The profits, according to the officials, also
have been used to purchase anti-aircraft and
anti-armor rockets, along with electronic
surveillance equipment.




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Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 13:25:12 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) GATHERING May7-12: Love Your Mother Spring 99 Healing Global Wounds

Anti-Nuclear camp gathering and protest at Nevada Nuclear Test Site May
7-12, 1999

http://www.shundahai.org/HGW/spring99gath.html


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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 17:08:19 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Food Irradiation and You

>Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:23:00 -0400
>Subject: Food Irradiation and You
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>==============================================================
>Public Citizen's Critical Mass Energy Project
>==============================================================
>
>
>                 Unless you act by May 18, the Nuclear Industry
>          Will Succeed in Forcing Irradiated Food Down Our Throats!
>
>*** A new Food and Drug Administration (FDA) rule would allow manufacturers
>to sell irradiated food without any label warning consumers. By nullifying
>the chief obstacle to the expanded use of radiation --consumer
>opposition-- this rule would pave the way for a significant expansion of
>the
>sale of irradiated food and give a boost to the nuclear industry.
>
>                    This would be a disaster!!!
>
>*** Over 550 new facilities would need to be built to irradiate various
>foodstuffs if irradiation expands to according to industry projections.
>
>*** Food irradiation facilities have a frightening record of accidents and
>other safety incidents.
>
>*** According to a Carnegie-Mellon study, operating irradiators just to
>treat meat and poultry (much less spices, wheat, and other foodstuffs)
>would
>be extremely risky, with a 99.7% chance of multiple major incidents at
>these
>facilities (a major incident is defined by the Nuclear Regulatory
>Commission
>(NRC) as "those that result in a release or spill of radioactive material,
>bodily harm, or a long term shut down of the facility").
>
>*** The long term health effects of eating irradiated food are unknown.
>Irradiation reduces the vitamin content of food and creates new chemical
>substances called radiolytic products.  Some of these substances are known
>carcinogens, like benzene, and others are completely new substances that
>have not been tested for toxicity.
>
>                    ***  ACT NOW!!!  ***
>                       ** What you can do today **
>
>*** Please write to the FDA and demand that the comment period be extended
>past May 18.  Tell the FDA that food treated with radiation be indefinitely
>labeled with the radura (the international symbol for irradiated food) and
>a
>statement indicating it was treated with radiation.  Say the absence of
>such
>a statement would be misleading because irradiation destroys vitamins and
>causes changes in sensory and spoilage qualities that are not obvious or
>expected by the consumer.  Please DO NOT write a general statement opposing
>irradiation. The powers that be have already approved irradiation, we can
>only fight to keep the public informed (A sample letter can be found
>below).
>
>*** Write your Representative and Senators, telling them to oppose the FDA
>rule (a sample letter can be found below).
>
>*** Send this e-mail to as many concerned citizens as possible.
>
>When writing to FDA, refer to Docket #98N-1038, "Irradiation in the
>production, processing, and handling of food".
>
>Send comments before May 18, 1999 to:
>Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
>Food and Drug Administration
>5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061
>Rockville, MD  20852
>or
>Send e-mail to [e-mail] and/or [e-mail]
>(Put Docket #98N-1038 in the subject line)
>
>NOTE: E-mail is discouraged because e-mails are often thrown out.  A
>written
>letter is the most effective means of communication.
>
>SAMPLE LETTER TO FDA:
>
>Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305)
>Food and Drug Administration
>5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061
>Rockville, Maryland 20852
>
>Re: Docket No. 98N-1038, Irradiation in the Production, Processing, and
>Handling of Food
>
>To whom it may concern:
>
>        I support the recommendation by the Center for Science in the Public
>Interest regarding labeling of irradiated foods:
>
>        "any foods, or any foods containing ingredients that have been
treated
by
>irradiation, should be labeled with a written statement on the principal
>display panel indicating such treatment. The statement should be easy to
>read and placed in close proximity to the name of the food and accompanied
>by the international symbol. If the food is unpackaged, this information
>should be clearly displayed on a poster in plain view and adjacent to where
>the product is displayed for sale."
>
>        Like other labels, irradiation labels are required by the FDA to be
>truthful and not misleading. I believe that the terms "treated with
>radiation" or "treated by irradiation" should be retained. Any phrase
>involving the word "pasteurization" is misleading because pasteurization is
>an entirely different process of rapid heating and cooling.
>
>        I recognize the radura as information regarding a material fact of
food
>processing. The requirement for irradiation disclosure (both label and
>radura) should not expire at any time in the future. The material fact of
>processing remains. Even if some consumers become familiar with the radura,
>new consumers (e.g., young people, immigrants) will not be. The symbol
>should be clearly understandable at the point of purchase for everyone. If
>there is no label, consumers will be misled into believing the food has not
>been irradiated.
>
>        I urge you to extend the comment period past its current end date of
May
>18
>to allow more concerned citizens the time to write in about this issue.
>Also, please place the comments received on the Internet so that the public
>can be informed about who is participating in this comment process.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>SAMPLE LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVE AND SENATORS
>
>The Honorable [  ]
>Washington, D.C. [        ]
>
>Senator/Representative  [ ],
>
>        I have recently been made aware of a frightening development at the
Food
>and Drug Administration.  Under pressure from food manufacturers and
>supporters of the nuclear industry, the FDA is considering a rule that
>would
>remove labeling requirements for foods treated with radiation.  The public
>only has until May 18 to voice its objections to this rule.  Currently, any
>food treated with radiation during the production process is labeled with a
>symbol known as a radura (the international symbol for irradiated foods)
>and
>either a statement saying "treated with radiation" or "treated by
>irradiation."  The rule before the FDA would allow manufacturers to sell
>any
>and all irradiated foods to the consumer with nary a mention of the use of
>radiation during processing.  This is bad for consumers.
>
>        Despite the fact that the FDA has determined that radiation is safe
for
>food, many consumers, including myself, do not want to eat foods treated
>with radiation.  Radiation changes the texture, taste, nutritional value,
>and chemical composition of foods.  Radiation creates a heretofore unseen
>class of unique radiolytic products that have never been tested for their
>possible carcinogenic effects on humans.  These are things that I do not
>want to put into my body.
>
>        This is a clear cut issue of a consumer being able to know what is in
>their
>food.  We know what the fat, protein, carbohydrate, and vitamin content is
>in our food, why can we not know whether our food has been treated with
>radiation emanating from some of the most deadly substances known to man?
>I
>implore you, as a constituent and a friend, to write a letter to the FDA
>about this issue and ask them why your constituents should be kept in the
>dark about whether their food has been irradiated and why the comment
>period
>has been so short.  Enclosed you will find the letter that I wrote to the
>FDA about this issue.  I hope it is helpful in formulating your own
>comments.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>
>======================================================
>Questions about the CMEP-list can be directed to [e-mail]
>========================================================
>
Alice Slater
Global Resource Action Center for the Environment (GRACE)
15 East 26th Street, Room 915
New York, NY 10010
tel:  [phone]
fax:  [phone]
email:  [e-mail]

GRACE is a member of Abolition 2000, a global network working for a treaty
to eliminate nuclear weapons.

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