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abolition-usa-digest    Thursday, October 21 1999    Volume 01 : Number 199




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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 07:38:06 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: Raytheon Peacemakers sentenced to 30 days in jail

>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 14:16:27 -0400
>Subject: Raytheon Peacemakers sentenced to 30 days in jail
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>>>From: "Jane Cadarette" <[e-mail]>
>>>To: "J. Cadarette" <[e-mail]>
>>>Subject: Breaking news-Sean's letter to be published
>>>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 13:03:20 -0400
>
>>>by Jane Cadarette, North Andover, MA 01845  tel: [phone]
>>>Subject: Raytheon Peacemakers -focus the latest trial
>
>
>>> In Lawrence, Mass. Oct. 13, 6 Raytheon Peacemakers calling
>>>themselves the Bread and Roses Affinity Group -   Jonathan
>>>Leavitt, 32, Sean Donahue, 24,  Kateri M. McCarthy, 18, all of
>>>Lawrence; Eddy Dyer, 26, Medford; Lauren Cannon, 29,
>>>Portsmouth, N.H.and Scott Kenji Warren, 27, Washington, D.C.
>>>were on trial for trespassing for their nonviolent act of civil
>>>resistance at  Raytheon/ Andover last May. Jurors found them
>>>guilty and Judge Wm. E. Melahn gave them harsh sentences- five
>>>received 30 days and one 45days in the house of correction.  Men
>>>are being held in the Essex County House of Correction,
>>>Middleton, Mass-women in MCI Framingham, Framingham,
>>>Mass.
>
>>> In contrast to a similar case held in the state of Washington
>>>last June where Judge Jas. Riehl instructed jurors that International
>>>treaties govern over federal, state and local laws, Judge Melahn
>>>refused to have International Law discussed in his courtroom.
>>> It seems as though news of the Constitution of the U.S.
>>>Article VI, Sec. 2 has not reached the Merrimack Valley.
>>> The judge accepted the motion of prosecutor Murat Erkan to
>>>deny defendants recourse to the Massachusetts necessity defense
>>>which they had planned to use while invoking International Law.
>>>The necessity defense says that such an action as these people took
>>>is not illegal if there is imminent danger; there is probability of
>>>success; all other avenues have been tried; and the authorities have
>>>not moved to correct the situation. That plus International Law,
>>>according to the peacemakers, would have shown the court that
>>>they not only had the right to be at Raytheon in May but the duty.
>
>>> The Bread and Roses Affinity Group is part of a larger
>>>campaign. Arizona and Mass. Raytheon Peacemakers joined
>>>forces last Feb. to share information and support each other in
>>>their ongoing efforts of education, vigils and civil resistance.
>>> Massachusetts peacemakers campaign began Mar. 3, æ98
>>>with a civil resistance action. Three trials have resulted from
>>>separate actions. Two more actions await court disposition. Prior
>>>to Oct. 13, defendants were sentenced to community service.
>
>>> The next civil resistance at Raytheon/Andover is scheduled
>>>for Dec. 8, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception and BuddhaÆs
>>>Enlightenment Day.
>>>----30----
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
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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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 08:58:45 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: NW: [Fwd: Radiation Alert-Comments due Oct 24 on NAS BEIR VII]

>Date: Wed, 20 Oct 1999 19:39:53 -0400
>Subject: NW: [Fwd: Radiation Alert-Comments due Oct 24 on NAS BEIR VII]
>To: [e-mail]
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>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>**RADIATION ALERT-BEIR VII**  COMMENTS DUE OCTOBER 24
>(Sign-on letter coming soon.)
>
>The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has again only slightly altered
>the membership on its Radiation Committee: Biological Effects of
>Ionizing Radiation or BEIR VII. The changes have done nothing to balance
>the committee. THE PANEL IS STILL WEIGHTED HEAVILY IN FAVOR OF SAVING
>THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY MONEY AT THE EXPENSE OF HEALTH AND SAFETY. The BEIR
>VII Committee members are mainly scientists who claim low-dose radiation
>is less harmful than currently presumed. We have not completed our
>review of the work of Dr. Daniel Krewski, the sole addition to the
>panel, but it is clear that he is not of the school that indicates
>current risk estimates understate actual risks from ionizing radiation.
>Thus, the panel remains as imbalanced as before.
>
>The National Academy of Sciences still refuses to include any of a
>number of credible scientists who have shown low-dose radiation to be
>even MORE HARMFUL than current official estimates. The NAS still refuses
>to release CONFLICT OF INTEREST forms or more complete resumes for the
>panel members. At the last BEIR VII "public" meeting an appeal was made
>to the panel members themselves to submit these documents voluntarily.
>Only ONE panel member who was present at that meeting has given over a
>more complete resume. Not one member has publicly revealed their
>conflicts of interest.
>
>THE PUBLIC HAS UNTIL OCTOBER 24, 1999 TO COMMENT TO THE NAS.
>To do so, paste this link in your address browser location:
>
>http://www4.nas.edu/webcr.nsf/open+for+comment/?OpenView
>
>and select the BEIR VII Committee (about 11th on the list). You comment
>directly on their web site. Include in your email message the BEIR VII
>project # BRER-K-98-02-A.
>
>The membership list  (sixteen permanent, one provisional) with
>incomplete biographies (and no conflict of interest forms), can also be
>found at this web address.
>
>SEND IN YOUR COMMENTS:
>
>1)  Tell them to DISSOLVE THE BIASED PANEL and start over in order to
>COMPLY WITH THE LAW.
>
>2)  Tell them you know the panel DOES NOT HAVE scientists whose work
>shows radiation is more dangerous than currently assumed; and the panel
>IS HEAVILY WEIGHTED with scientists who believe that radiation is less
>dangerous than currently assumed.
>
>3)  Request a 3-week extension of the comment period, release of
>complete CVs and conflict of interest forms, so adequate review is
>possible.
>
>***We will be circulating a sign-on letter in a few days, but please
>also comment separately to the NAS web site.***
>
>The decision of these committee members will affect radioactive disposal
>and cleanup sites, recycling of radioactive waste into consumer
>products, nuclear power and weapons facilities' emissions,
>decommissioning and a whole host of other radiation issues which affect
>human health, not only in the United States, but overseas as well.  The
>industry hopes that the BEIR VII panel will recommend relaxed radiation
>standards, permitting more radioactive contamination to be left in place
>at contaminated sites, more radioactivity to be released into our air,
>water and consumer products. The industry can save billions of dollars
>if this panel is left unchecked by reputable scientists whose research
>shows radiation is more damaging than is currently recognized.
>
>THANK YOU
>Cindy Folkers ([e-mail]) or Diane D'Arrigo ([e-mail])
>Nuclear Information and Resource Service; www.nirs.org; 202-328-0002.
>
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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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:08:02 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fwd: WPC on non-ratification of CTBT

>Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 03:38:45 -0400
>Subject: WPC on non-ratification of CTBT
>Priority: non-urgent
>X-FC-MachineGenerated: true
>To: [e-mail]
>From: [e-mail] ([e-mail])
>
>Dear frineds,
>
>Please find following a statement of World Peace Council/WPC/ on the US
>Sena
>te's refusal to ratify CTBT.
>
>Tadaaki Kawata
>on behalf of WPC Secretariat
>
>========================================================
>
>STATEMENT
>on the US Senate's refusal to ratify
>the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT)
>
>The U.S. Senate on October 13 refused to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear
>Te
>st Ban Treaty (CTBT), with the Republican majority opposing it. The World
>Pe
>ace Council expresses its strong protest and great concern against this
>act
>which was totally against peoples' aspiration for a nuclear free and
>secure
>21st century.
>
>The CTBT was signed thanks to the broad support of international opinion
>cal
>ling for a total ban on nuclear tests and the elimination of nuclear
>weapons
>, and has been signed by 154 nations. Therefore the U.S. Senate decision
>run
>s counter to a demand of international community. It opens up the real
>dange
>r of a new nuclear arms race and renewed proliferation.
>
>Furthermore this contradicts the public commitment of the US
>administration
>for CTBT repeatedly stated in the international disarmament forums as
>well a
>s in the various international agreements including a final document of
>the
>Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non Proliferation of Nuclear
>Weapons
>in 1995, New York.
>
>The Republicans opposed the CTBT on the ground that it would be harmful
>to m
>aintain the reliability of nuclear weapons. On the other hand Clinton
>admini
>stration refuted this, saying that the U.S. could maintain its nuclear
>capab
>ility even without nuclear explosions. The U.S. has actually conducted
>subcr
>itical nuclear tests.
>
>This shows that, in order to make a step forward to a world without
>nuclear
>weapons, the urgent need for clear signal of nuclear weapon states in
>favor
>of nuclear disarmament, in particular to stop all forms of nuclear tests
>inc
>luding subcritical ones and laboratory testing. As peace movements, we
>will
>further strengthen our voice and actions to make them abandon a policy
>cling
>ing to nuclear weapons and to maintain nuclear monopoly.
>
>We call upon each national peace movements to join its effort to
>reinforce i
>nternational public opinion for a total ban on all forms of nuclear
>weapon t
>ests and for the abolition of nuclear arms, particularly using the
>opportuni
>ty of ongoing UN General Assembly. Nuclear weapon states could decide to
>sup
>port the resolutions for nuclear abollition proposed by Malaysia and NAC
>cou
>ntiries.
>
>As far as the WPC is concerned, we propose to all peace movements, in
>partic
>ular in nuclear weapons states, to come together to Hiroshima in August
>2000
>, for a millenium abolition conference.
>
>World Peace Council
>
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
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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:10:12 -0400
From: ASlater <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Egyptian reaction to CTB defeat

From: "Bahig Nassar" [e-mail]

The Biggest Rouge State
Responding to the demand of Suzy Pearce , coordinator of the Middle
Power Initiative, seeking our reaction  to US Senate refusal to ratify
the CTBT, we had already issued a Statement in Arabic language on the
basis of the following themes which reflect the general feelings of the
public in Egypt and possibly in other NNWSs :

1. The refusal of the US Senate to ratify the CTBT should be condemned
Its impact is detrimental, particularly in NNWSs where many  will
question the credibility of the current non-proliferation system .
Practically, this refusal has leveled a blow at non-proliferation.
2. Doubts about the validity of non-proliferation system has been
further evolved in the Middle East (ME) where US Administration is
pursuing against Iraq and other countries of the region the policy of
counter proliferation by using or threatening to use military force
coupled with nuclear deterrence to prevent proliferation instead of
implementing in good faith article six of the non-proliferation Treaty.
3. Moreover, the people of the region are also concerned over the Lab
Tests  conducted by US Administration to produce new types of nuclear
warheads including mini-nukes which could be used in regional and local
theaters in the ME and other regions.
4. With  these policies together with the new plans to weaponise the
space US is becoming The Biggest Rouge State posing nuclear threats at
all peoples.
5. While the decision of the Senate differs from the current policy of
the Administration, yet it is actually and practically the net result of
all nuclear policies and strategies officially laid down by US , Senate,
Administration and both political parties .
6. Therefore, all efforts should be made to change the Senate decision
as a part of a package of measures leading to the elimination of all
nuclear weapons . Yes, the urgency to change the Senate decision should
be stressed while the dispute between the Senate and the Administration
should be intensively utilised to put an end to US nuclear policies,
otherwise the Clinton Administration,  which is pursuing horrible
nuclear policies, will be turned (by NGOs) into a champion of nuclear
disarmament.

Bahig Nassar,
Coordinator , Arab Coordination Centre of NGOs.

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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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:07:10 -0500
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) HOPE: Complete Victory for Ploughshares Three!

A message of HOPE for the entire World!
fab

- -----Original Message-----
From: David Mackenzie [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:46 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Complete Victory for Ploughshares Three


Angie, Ellen, and Ulla walked at 11 a.m. this morning. Sheriff directed jury
to acquit on all charges.
David


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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 11:32:29 -0500
From: "Boyle, Francis" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) TRIDENT2 CONDEMNED IN SCOTLAND!Sheriffs decision

                           Please forward.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Scottish CND [mailto:[e-mail]]
Sent: Thursday, October 21, 1999 11:18 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Sheriffs decision on Trident


Greenock Sheriff Court 2.08 pm Wednesday 20th October 1999

Sheriff Margaret Gimblett:

The defence is based on two matters:

Firstly the three accused consider Trident was being used illegally
based on an understanding on what international law said and on advice given
to them;
if they were right that the use and threat of nuclear weapons was illegal,
not just
possession, then they had a right given the enormity of the risks of nuclear
weapons
to try and do something to stop that illegality.

Secondly they had an absolute necessity, in which case it didn't matter
whether
Trident is illegal or not, the necessity was there.

In considering this I have really not a great deal to go on other than what
the
ICJ said in 1996 and their opinion, which although advisory, acknowledges in
words
what is authoritative and agreed by all.  On the face of it
very careful consideration should be given to its terms.

In reaching their opinion the ICJ based the opinion on all the body of law
that
went before it which was carefully outlined. That law was canvassed in
court.
The opinion did not say possession of nuclear weapons was illegal,
nowhere does any law say that.

Even our own High Court of Judiciary has said that possession of nuclear
weapons is not itself illegal.  They did not consider the law except
as far as it related to possession.  The Helen John case can be
distinguished. Here there is a defence of international law and
necessity, but the whole defence hinges on the use made of nuclear
weapons now and the percieved threat or threats made by the nuclear
state.  The use or threat of use, I would conceed that the ICJ did
not say that in all circumstances threat or use of nuclear weapons
was universally prohibited.  Equally there no conventional law that
authorises
the threat or use of nuclear weapons.

They issued what may be considered an enigmatic decision which has been read
on a number of occassions "the threat or use of nuclear
weapons would be generally contrary to the rules and principles of
international law applicable in armed conflict and in particular the
principles and rules of humanitarian law.  However, in view of the current
state
of international law and of the elements of fact at its disposal, the Court
cannot
conclude definitively whether the threat or use of nuclear weapons
would be lawful or unlawful in an extreme circumstance of
self-defence, in which the very survival of the State would be at
stake."

The last words are important.  We do not know what they meant by generally,
but their final
conclusion implies that the use or threat could only apply in very
tight circumstances of sefl defence the very survival of the state.
The President of the ICJ said "I cannot overemphasise that the inability
of the court to go further than the formal pronouncement at which it has
arrived cannot in any way be interpreted as a half-open door to recognition
of the legality of the threat or use of nuclear armaments."

Also the way in which the judges voted showed that a majority voted
against the use of nuclear weapons.  Lord Murray quote on this very helpful
given the status of Lord Murray:

"Turning to the central matter the judges were divided until the President's
casting
vote.  The court decided that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is
unlawful under all
circumstances except last resort self-defence to avoid annihilation.  Three
of the
judges dissenting took the opposite view to the other four dissenters.  Four
said that
nuclear threat or use in not unlawful.  The other three considered that
nuclear threat
or use is always unlawful.  It follows that an absolute majority of 10 out
of 14 judged
that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is either entirely illegal or
generally
illegal subject to one possible exception.  A two thirds majority rejected
the general
lawfulness of nuclear weapons."

I have the ividious task of deciding on international law as it relates to
nuclear weapons.
I am only a very junior sheriff without the wisdom or experience of those
above me. I have
a knowledge of the repercussions which could be far reaching.  As a sheriff
I took an oath
to act without fear or favour in interpreting the law.

A point of international law has been raised here and I have to answer it.
I take comfort from the fact that there are other higher courts which can
rectify any
mistake.

In the absence of anything other than the ICJ and having regard to the
article by Lord
Murray, in particular the part relating to treaties and conventions  ...

Lord Murrays article concludes "there then are the principles on which
the lawfulness of the proposed use of a particular weapons are to be
assessed .. to be noted that in so far as they consist of international
customary law they are part of the domestic laws of this country."

I listened carefully to Professor Boyle and have taken into account all the
evidence in this case from him and the other experts and in the
absence of any expert contradictory
evidence from the crown, I have to conclude that the three accused in
company with many others were justified in thinking that Great
Britain in their use of Trident, not simply possession, the use and
deployment of Trident allied with that use and deployment at times of
great unrest, coupled with a first strike policy and in the absence
of indication from any government official then or now that such use
fell into any strict category suggested suggested in the ICJ opinion
.. the threat or use of Trident could be construed as a threat, has
indeed been construed by others as a threat and as such is an
infringement of international and customary law.

The three took the view that if Trident is illegal, given the horrendous
nature
of nuclear weapons, they had the obligation in terms of
international law to do whatever little they could to stop the deployment
and use of nuclear weapons in situations which could be construed as
a threat.

It follows, if I consider that Angie Zelter, Ulla Roder and Ellen Moxley
were justified in the first leg of their defence and having given that
as the principle reason the crown has a duty to rebut that defence.
They have not done so and so I uphold the three defence submitions
in so far as they refer to malicious and willful damage.

I uphold the comments of Mr McLaughlin with regard to malice. Gordon
says "no act is punishable unless it is committed with a criminal
mind ..."  I have heard nothing which would make it seem to me that
the accused acted with criminal intent  Therefore I will instruct the
jury that they should acquit all three accused on charges 1 to 3
which leaves only the alternative in charge 4, they should also be
acquited on the first alternative in charge 4.

I anyone else takes such action they do so at their peril.  The law
is not clear on nuclear arms.  I may be totally wrong.  If it goes to
appeal I may not be upheld and every case depends on whatever
circumstances.  What I have said is with regard to the very special
circumstances of this trial and in the light of international tension
around June 8th.





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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 09:37:01 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) .Oct24 Capitol Internetwork Events -- 48 line info release, plus references and links

David Crockett Williams  661-822-3309  Oct21'99
General Agency Services [48 line release +ref]  [e-mail]
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/genagency.html


Two rallies in Washington, DC, this Sunday, October 24, 1999, will offer New
Energy Policy and "New Paradigm for The Next Millennium" information and
internetworking opportunities to mark the coincidence of the 54th United
Nations anniversary and the 26th anniversary of the beginning of the
"energy crisis" OPEC oil embargo:

12-1PM:  Rally to End Secrecy @ West Capitol Steps
http://www.endsecrecy.com

12:30-4PM:  March for Peaceful Energy (MFPE) @ Lincoln Memorial
http://www.peacefulenergy.org

This year's March for Peaceful Energy speakers will discuss serious
environmental problems related to the present nuclear and fossil fuel
energy economy and offer some valuable ideas for their solutions
related to increased use of presently available alternative "green"
energy technologies.  MFPE rally begins 12:30PM @ Lincoln Memorial.

Since before last year's MFPE event, a controversy has been brewing because
of its final speaker's message (Global Emergency Alert Response) for a
global-scale environmental emergency campaign to grow industrial hemp for
biofuels, and to preserve forests by using this more prolific source of
cellulose, to thereby help ameliorate global warming;  and because of his
appeal for a $108 million per year "New-Energy Manhattan Project II"
emergency research and development project to complete engineering and
manufacturing of new devices to harness the Zero Point Energy properties of
the quantum vacuum as mentioned in DOE's 1998 new National Energy Policy
Plan (Comprehensive National Energy Strategy CNES) due to his public
comments on CNES, devices which some experts say will entirely replace
nuclear and fossil fuel power as well as most presently available
alternative energy technologies, some even offering methods to neutralize
radioactive wastes.

This controversy has lead to the decision, on behalf of scientists and
activists maligned by MFPE, to file a $108 million lawsuit against the
University of Maryland and its key MFPE organizers for libel and defamation
of character in connection with their thirteen month efforts to suppress
this New-Energy research information and to prevent the success of this
appeal.

Another result of this controversy is the (MFPE "spinoff") Rally to End
Secrecy calling for relaxation of government secrecy restrictions on this
New-Energy research and development, especially as regards its "reverse
engineering" and the apparent US Government coverup of related information
about the UFO phenomena, whether associated with covert military research
operations or Extra-Terrestrial contacts, as suggested earlier this week on
the A&E TV Investigative Report segment featuring actor Dennis Weaver,
former US Web CEO Joe Firmage, and former NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper.

Supporters of the Rally to End Secrecy will gather at Noon, front and center
on the West Steps of the US Capitol building, to deliver their written
messages for Congress to Stephen Bassett of Paradigm Research Group,
lobbyist and executive director of X-PPAC, the first political action
committee in history to directly target the politics of UFO/ET phenomena.
www.paradigmclock.com  &  www.x-ppac.org

The March for Peaceful Energy rally begins 12:30PM @ Lincoln Memorial
1999 Speakers list at http://www.peacefulenergy.org/speakers.html
1998 Speakers list at http://www.peacefulenergy.org/mfpe98.html

Many of the above "survival issue messages" will be carried by
Global Peace Walk2000 from San Francisco to Washington, DC,
and to the United Nations to mark its 55th anniversary.
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html


David Crockett Williams  [e-mail]
General Agency Services   661-822-3309
Global Emergency Alert Response
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000


                                                        -30-


- --------------------------------
References:


Some background regarding new-energy info, DOE interactions and
acknowledgement letter, and MFPE suppression of same, at Energy "button"
link on website of Proposition One for Global Nuclear Disarmament and
Economic Conversion to apply nuclear weapons funding to peaceful uses
http://www.prop1.org


United States Department of Energy's 1998 Comprehensive National Energy
Strategy document (first new National Energy Policy Plan since 1992) basis
for US energy policy to fulfill mandates of Kyoto Protocol.  See Summary of
Public Comments, page 57, for above reference to ZPE
http://www.hr.doe.gov/nesp/cnes.html


Project Earth;  discussion of critical environmental problems and the
potential of Zero Point Energy solutions, Adam Trombly of the Institute for
Advanced Study in Aspen, Colorado, internationally acknowledged expert in
the fields of Physics, Atmospheric Dynamics, Geophysics, Rotating and
Resonating Electromagnetic Systems, and Environmental Global Modeling.
Inventor of the internationally patented Trombly-Kahn Closed Path Homopolar
Generator and the proprietary solid-state Trombly-Farnsworth electromagnetic
resonance Zero Point Energy electric generator.  http://www.projectearth.com


Home of Primordial Energy;  philosphical and technical discussions of
experiments by the late Bruce E. DePalma regarding implications of his
paradigm-shattering discoveries documenting anomalous gravitational,
inertial, and electromagnetic properties of rotating objects due to
rotational interactions with the primordial energy field "medium" of Zero
Point quantum vacuum fluctuations as relate to his n-Machine homopolar
generator device to potentially harness Zero Point Energy as mentioned in
1998 DOE CNES summary of public comments.   http://www.depalma.pair.com


Institute for New Energy;  articles, networking, conferences, links,
regarding the research and development of many types of new-energy
technologies including cold fusion, Low Energy Nuclear Transmutation
(LENT) devices to neutralize radioactive wastes; publishes New Energy
News and Journal of New Energy under the guidance of Dr. Hal Fox
of Fusion Information Center and Trenergy, Inc.  http://www.padrak.com/ine


Infinite Energy Magazine;  edited by former Massachusetts Institute of
Technology science writer Dr. Eugene Mallove, publishing articles and
networking with new energy researchers offering documention on various
discoveries including ten years of increasing verification and applications
of the Low Energy Nuclear Reactions phenomena first called Cold Fusion in
1989.  http://www.infinite-energy.com


International Space Sciences Organization;  new network to apply available
science and technologies transferable from UFO data and possible secret
advanced US military research, as well as new discoveries and inventions,
for space travel, new energy devices, and for remediation of global social
and environmental problems, President is Joseph Firmage, former CEO of US
Web and "UFO Celebrity" featured on A&E TV Investigative Reports
http://www.isso.org


Internet Science Education Project, state-of-the-art internet collaboration
organization for development of new-energy technologies and advanced
theoretical physics research "to make Star Trek real" by application of, and
stimulation by, the post-quantum physics of consciousness work of Dr. Jack
Sarfatti, former University of California physics professor and for decades
a leading figure in mind/consciousness research now being applied towards
conscious nanocomputers and Zero Point quantum vacuum propulsion systems for
space travel  http://www.stardrive.org


Books:

"The Coming Energy Revolution", by Jeane Manning, from Avery Publishing, the
New-Energy Primer, contains an overview of dozens of inventors of new-energy
technologies with photos and a comprehensive bibliography with contact
information for many researchers and networkers in this "new-energy" or
"free-energy" technology field.  Foreword by Dr. Brian O'Leary.


"Miracle in the Void", is a psychological handbook for scientists not only
to introduce understand this new "free-energy" science but to help guide
them through the process by which this information, after they try
vigorously to fight its truth for some time, destroys their previous mind
and then they learn how to adjust to their new mind expanded beyond
normal science to "New-Science", by Dr. Brian O'Leary, astronomer,
lecturer/speaker on new-energy, UFO's, and the "consciousness factor"
bridging physics and metaphysics, former NASA Mars Mission
scientist/astronaut and physics teacher, co-founder of the Institute for New
Energy, paranormal researcher and spiritual practitioner.  Other O'Leary
books include "Exploring Inner and Outer Space", "The Second Coming of
Science", and coming soon "Twelve Ways to Reinherit The Earth" which
discusses, in its chapter on forestry and agriculture policies, how and why
hemp must be relegalized and grown widely around the world to save the
trees, reoxygenate the air, and reduce global warming before it is too late.
From his experience with NASA and the aerospace industry Dr. O'Leary put
forth the idea in 1994 that we need a "crash program" analogous to the
Manhattan Project, adequately funded on the order of only $100 million per
year to urgently, rapidly, openly, and globally coordinate research and
development of these new-energy technologies to replace fossil fuel
combustion and nuclear power and ameliorate increasingly critical and life
threatening environmental problems.  In relaying this proposal to the US DOE
in my public comments input (oral and written) on CNES last year, I adjusted
that figure upwards considering inflation to the $108 million per year as
the goal being sought since mid-1998.   As these funds become available Dr.
O'Leary has agreed to help establish this project with a qualified
professional network of researchers and adminstrators.
http://www.maui.net/~oleary


"The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, primer and original
authoritative comprehensive encyclopedic reference book on the history and
many uses of the hemp/cannabis plant and the true story of how and why it
was outlawed as "marijuana" in 1937 in a fraud on Congress that was
orchestrated by industrialists to preserve monopolies in the petrochemical,
paper, drug, and fossil fuel industries, and a fraud that is perpetuated
today by ignorance of this information and how hemp/cannabis can save the
environment by its widespread cultivation for the overall majority of
Earth's paper, fiber, food, fuel, medicines, chemical feedstocks, to save
the trees and ameliorate global warming.  This book was officially submitted
as written documentation of oral public comments at DOE CNES hearing in
February of 1998 and is now on file somewhere in related files in the bowels
of DOE awaiting digestion of this information.  http://www.jackherer.com


"Hemp:  Lifeline to the Future", by Chris Conrad, single most comprehensive
compilation of data on industrial hemp available written by the original
editor of The Emperor Wears No Clothes who has been instrumental in the
international hemp movement and industrial hemp industries development.
Editor and/or author of many leaflets, magazines and books on related
subjects including the drug law reforms necessary to legalize industrial
hemp because of its confusion with marijuana, and to free nonviolent
American political prisoners victimized by unconscienable draconian law
enforcement policies directed at users of this most important industrial
plant and medicine in human history, the hemp/cannabis plant.
http://www.chrisconrad.com


Hemp Industries Association;  businesses association with member services
and public information and links to companies involved with industrial hemp
products http://www.thehia.org


Thanks very much for reading this information.  Please forward it to
your networks, associates, and friends for their understanding and support,
before and after October 24, 1999.



David Crockett Williams
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New-Energy Technology Designs

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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 12:50:32 -0400 (EDT)
From: Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) GN SPACE NEWSLETTER

Bruce K. Gagnon
Coordinator
Global Network
PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607
Web site:  http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk/
[phone]


Fall 1999


GLOBAL NETWORK SPACE ALERT !
NEWSLETTER # 7


1)  OUR GOAL:  To create an active and well informed global constituency=20
dedicated to protecting space and the Earth from a space based arms race an=
d=20
ecological destruction.

2)  BIG EARS:  Europeans are becoming increasingly angry about the U.S. spy=
=20
base at Menwith Hill in the moors of northern England (Yorkshire).  The bas=
e=20
with it=92s 27 giant golf ball like "radomes" is used to download informati=
on=20
from U.S. spy satellites and intercept communications.  There is growing=20
evidence that the U.S. uses the base to spy on European governments,=20
businesses and citizens.  For years the Menwith Hill Women=92s Peace Camp h=
as=20
had an active and on-going protest presence at the base.  On October 14, 19=
99=20
a writ was issued in the High Court in London to seek an injunction to stop=
=20
the building of two new radomes at the spy base.  In 1997 it was announced=
=20
that Menwith Hill would become the European Ground Relay Station for the=20
U.S.=92s Space-Based Infrared System (SBIRS) which will be part of the=20
Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system.

3)  MILITARY SPACE FUNDING:  The fiscal year 2000 Pentagon budget will brin=
g=20
whopping increases for military space projects.  The House and Senate have=
=20
agreed to give funding hikes to the following programs:  Space-Based Infrar=
ed=20
Satellite (SBIRS); Milstar Satellite; Space-Based Laser Project; National=
=20
Missile Defense Program; and the Navy Theater Missile Defense Project. =20
Overall the Pentagon budget is set to be over $288 billion in 2000.  But=20
there is no money, we are told, for health care!

4)  COMPUTER WARFARE:  The U.S. military has recently acknowledged that it=
=20
used computer warfare against Yugoslavia last spring.  The Space Command wa=
s=20
given the responsibility of coordinating attacks on "enemy" computer=20
networks.  It is widely believed that the U.S. launched cyber attacks on=20
Yugoslavia=92s air defense network.  The U.S. also mounted computer attacks=
 on=20
foreign bank accounts held by Slobodan Milosevic and other Serbian leaders,=
=20
with the goal of draining their assets or altering banking records.  In=20
future wars U.S. cyber warriors will try to disable air defense systems,=20
upset logistics and infect the software of rivals.

5)  RENEGADE PENTAGON:  The United States Congress recently discovered that=
=20
the Pentagon had been breaking the law and the Constitution by spending=20
hundreds of millions of dollars on military projects that lawmakers never=
=20
approved.  Among the illegal projects were several "black," or secret, spac=
e=20
projects.  The Air Force tried to buy an $800 million military satellite=20
without lawful authority and illegally spent millions of dollars on a Star=
=20
Wars missile defense program called "Meads" that Congress had cancelled.  T=
he=20
Air Force said that it had not "misled" Congress and called the whole affai=
r=20
a "misunderstanding."  If this had been a case of food stamp fraud people=
=20
would have gone to jail.  Makes one realize that the Pentagon now has=20
essentially taken over the government.


6)  BMD TEST & PROTESTS:  On October 2 the Air Force launched it=92s first =
test=20
of the National Missile Defense (NMD) program from Vandenberg AFB in=20
California.  The Global Network (GN) organized two protests at the base pri=
or=20
to the successful test.  Activists from throughout Southern California join=
ed=20
GN Coordinator Bruce Gagnon at the base on September 25 and 29 for vigils. =
=20
There was extensive newspaper and TV coverage of the protests throughout th=
e=20
region.  CBS Radio and CNN also interviewed Bruce about the protests.  (Bru=
ce=20
also traveled to New York, Connecticut, Michigan and Ohio during this recen=
t=20
period on speaking events in opposition to the Star Wars program). =20
Originally there were to be 18 NMD tests from Vandenberg but the Air Force=
=20
recently changed the number to only three.  The next tests are scheduled fo=
r=20
sometime in January and April of 2000.

7)  WHAT IS BMD?:  The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO), the=
=20
Clinton successor to Star Wars, is made up of two key components.  The=20
National Missile Defense (NMD) is the missile program to "protect" the Nort=
h=20
American continent from attack by so-called "rogue" nations.  Once deployed=
,=20
over 100 interceptors will be located in Alaska and/or North Dakota.  The=
=20
second program now underway is Theater Missile Defense (TMD).  TMD is=20
intended to protect troops on the battlefield from missile attacks.  The Ar=
my=20
and Navy are each running testing programs for the TMD system.  The Army=92=
s=20
program, called THAAD, tested at White Sands in New Mexico and has recently=
=20
had two successful tests after a string of six failures.  (A top Pentagon=
=20
official has called the two recent successful THAAD tests "highly scripted.=
")=20
 The Navy program tests the theater missile from ships and is competing to =
be=20
the premier supplier of TMD launching for the Pentagon.  Since there is onl=
y=20
money for one TMD system, a decision will be made in December on either the=
=20
Army or Navy.  (Maybe they will just pick the winner of the annual Army-Nav=
y=20
football game.)

8)  JUNE NMD DECISION:  In June, 2000 President Clinton is expected to give=
=20
the final go-ahead to the Pentagon to begin deployment of the NMD system. =
=20
The deployment of NMD will violate the ABM Treaty of 1972 and the 1967  U.N=
=2E=20
Outer Space Treaty.  The U.S. has already begun negotiations with Russia in=
=20
hopes of "renegotiating" the ABM Treaty.  The Clinton administration is=20
offering to build the Russians a new missile-tracking radar facility if the=
y=20
will "consent" to U.S. BMD deployment.  Pressure must be created globally o=
n=20
Clinton to stop this dangerous step toward a new arms race in space.  With=
=20
the recent rejection of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, and now movement=
=20
toward Star Wars, the peace movement must react strongly and quickly.  Plea=
se=20
help organize people in your community to contact Clinton and Congress befo=
re=20
the June, 2000 deadline.  Protests in your communities would be useful as=
=20
well.

9)  BMD - OFFENSE OR DEFENSE?:  The U.S. sells the BMD system as "defensive=
=2E"=20
 The Space Command, committed to space "control and domination," has other=
=20
plans.  BMD is truly a Trojan horse, a way to get public support for the=20
deployment of offensive weapons in space.  Gen. Lester Lyles, Vice-Chief of=
=20
Staff of the Air Force recently stated that, "Space control and all of its=
=20
capabilities and ramifications, I think, are going to grow=20
exponentially=85Ultimately, you can see the Air Force deploying systems tha=
t=20
can deny space capabilities to our enemies.  Systems like the Space-Based=
=20
Laser, which we are currently trying to develop and demonstrate=85"  The=20
offensive Space-Based Laser now being developed by TRW, Boeing and Lockheed=
=20
Martin will be the follow-on technology to the BMD Trojan horse.

10)  LASER TESTS:  For the first time in the history of military weaponry, =
a=20
laser beam was fired and struck a satellite in space.  On October 16 the=20
MIRCL laser at White Sands Test Range in New Mexico was fired at an Air For=
ce=20
research satellite.  Other space laser tests are on-going at TRW=92s Capist=
rano=20
Test Site, near San Clemente, California.  While calling these tests part o=
f=20
the "defensive" BMD program, it is clear that the intended use of the=20
Space-Based Laser will be for "offensive" war fighting in space.

11)  INT=92L BMD PARTNERS:  Japan and Israel are now deeply involved in the=
=20
U.S. BMD program.  Japan is assisting with funding of the TMD system and is=
=20
reportedly interested in the sea-based missile defense program and has=20
already acquired several Aegis radar-equipped cruisers which are the=20
foundation of the Navy TMD program.  Israel is working with the Army at Whi=
te=20
Sands to develop a laser system for theater defense.

12)  GN APRIL, 2000 EVENTS:  In order to build pressure on President Clinto=
n=20
and Congress (who voted in favor of BMD on May 20 by 345-71), the Global=20
Network will hold four days of protest activity in Washington DC on April=
=20
14-17, 2000.  Events will include a demonstration at the Treasury Departmen=
t=20
to make the point about wasted tax dollars on Star Wars development (April=
=20
14); an International Conference on the Prevention of an Arms Race in Space=
=20
(April 15); a global space strategy meeting (April 16); and a keep space fo=
r=20
peace lobby day (April 17).  We urge local organizations to begin discussin=
g=20
sending delegations from their communities to these events.  A large group =
of=20
activists will be coming to the DC protests from overseas.

13)  ISS PRIVATIZATION:  NASA is now looking for someone in private industr=
y=20
to take over the International Space Station (ISS) within the next 10 years=
=2E =20
NASA administrator Daniel Goldin recently stated that, "The government woul=
d=20
become just one of many tenants and users of the station."  Originally set =
to=20
cost taxpayers $10 billion to construct and deploy, the ISS is now up to $1=
00=20
billion and growing.


14)  MIR TO FALL BACK:  The 13-year old Russian space station Mir is slated=
=20
for "descent" in February or March of 2000.  Because of its size, parts of=
=20
Mir are likely to survive the fiery fall through the atmosphere and hit=20
Earth.  NASA is closely following the Mir story in hopes of learning how to=
=20
handle the ISS when it is "deorbited" in the future.  Also expected to fall=
=20
back to Earth in coming years are several Russian satellites with nuclear=
=20
power sources on board.

15)  MOON RETURN:  The competition for manned missions to the moon or Mars =
is=20
heating up.  "The moon is our future," says former astronaut John Young. =
=20
Each of the two planetary bodies now has it=92s own lobbying group.  The=20
presence of helium-3 on the moon is creating great interest as a source of=
=20
power for nuclear fusion.  Efforts are now underway to circumvent the U.N.=
=20
Moon Treaty that does not allow for individual or corporate land claims. =
=20
Former astronaut Young and others within the U.S. military, have also state=
d=20
that U.S. bases on the moon will be useful for "planetary defense."

16)  MARS ORBITER LOST:  On September 23 NASA=92s Mars Climate Orbiter, at =
the=20
cost of $123 million, was lost during orbital "injection" due to human=20
failure.  This accident came on the heels of the successful Cassini plutoni=
um=20
fly-by of Earth and made a mockery of NASA=92s claim that orbital fly-by=20
accidents are a 1-in-a-million chance.  In fact at the end of National Publ=
ic=20
Radio=92s (NPR) coverage of the Mars accident, the reporter asked the big=
=20
question.  "What if this had happened with Cassini with its 72.3 pounds of=
=20
plutonium?"  Some researchers suggest that the error is a result of NASA=92=
s=20
policy of "faster, better, cheaper" missions.  NASA=92s previous Mars misha=
p,=20
the loss of the $1 billion Mars Observor in 1993, was instrumental in causi=
ng=20
the switch to more frequent, cheaper missions.  On December 3, 1999 the Mar=
s=20
Polar Lander is set to touch down on the Red planet.  There are growing=20
questions about the total cost of this series of Mars missions.  Recently,=
=20
Space News reported that early estimates begin at $400 billion for the tota=
l=20
Mars program.  In order to promote the Mars series, NASA has begun renovati=
ng=20
their Kennedy Space Center tourist facility (4 =BD million visitors per yea=
r)=20
with a Mars theme.  In addition, a series of Mars movies will be coming out=
=20
in 2000-2001 to sell the program.  Filmmaker James Cameron recently told a=
=20
Mars Society conference that "I want to make humans-to-Mars real in the min=
ds=20
of the viewing public."  He said that he hopes to help create a ground-swel=
l=20
for increased NASA funding.  (And for the aerospace industry, too, we might=
=20
add.)

17)  PIZZA HUT ADVERTISES:  Expecting 500 million TV viewers to witness a=
=20
launch was too much for Pizza Hut to resist.  They are putting their=20
corporate logo on an unmanned Proton rocket that will launch the living=20
quarters of the ISS.  The 200-foot rocket will carry a 30-foot Pizza Hut=20
logo.  "This is one small step for mankind, but one giant leap for our Pizz=
a=20
Hut turnaround," the company said in a statement. =20

18)  UNCOPUOUS:  December will be the 40th Anniversary of the U.N. Committe=
e=20
on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (UNCOPUOUS).  The GN is urging people to=20
contact the UNCOPUOUS office in Vienna to encourage their stronger support =
to=20
halt the nuclearization and weaponization of space..  Please send UNCOPUOUS=
 a=20
message at [e-mail] or via regular mail to : Office of Outer Spac=
e=20
Affairs, Vienna Int=92l Centre, PO Box 500, Room E-0946A, 1400 Vienna, Aust=
ria.=20
 Please check the GN website for more details on this important effort.

19)  ORGANIZING PACKETS:  The Global Network now has space organizing packe=
ts=20
available to activists who wish to become more knowledgeable and more activ=
e=20
on space issues.  Included in the packet is a color copy of the Air Force=
=92s=20
Vision for 2020.  Send $5 to the GN at PO Box 90083, Gainesville, Fl 32607.=
 =20
We also have our new bumperstickers for sale at $1 each.


20)  GN NOW TAX EXEMPT:  The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has recently=20
granted tax exempt status to the Global Network so your donations to our=20
organization are now tax deductable.

21)  AFFILIATES:  Thanks to a great response to our last mailing we now can=
=20
count 81 affiliates to the GN.  Newest groups to join are from Austria,=20
India, Argentina, France, Australia, Canada and throughout the U.S.  We=20
welcome all of you.  Check our website=20
(http://www.globenet.free-online.co.uk) for the full affiliate list. =20
Membership in the GN is open to both individuals and organizations for an=
=20
annual fee of $10 - $100. =20

22)  A POEM:  "Security"

We will not find security
in an endless weapons race,
not in the depths of oceans
nor the voids of outer space.
That high-cost high-tech weapons
can save us is a fable.
Security grows from meeting foes
around a low-tech wooden table.

By David Morgan
Vancouver, Canada






















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