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abolition-usa-digest      Tuesday, April 11 2000      Volume 01 : Number 286




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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:53:51 -0500
From: Kevin Martin <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Fail Safe Call-In Day today! Let's jam the White House phone lines!

PLEASE RE-POST AND CIRCULATE WIDELY!

Dear Friends:

Last night, activists all around the country gathered at between 150 and
200 Fail Safe watch parties around the country, and  more are happening
today or later this week. Today, we have another opportunity to raise
our voices for peace and disarmament.

ACTION: Call the White House today (202/456-1111 or 202/456-1414) on
National Fail Safe Call-In Day demanding President Clinton get serious
about abolishing nuclear weapons worldwide. We need to jam the White
House phone lines!  If you can't get through (and that's probably a good
sign) try again later, also tomorrow.

If you can make two more calls, call the Bush and Gore campaigns and
demand that they address nuclear disarmament in the presidential
campaign.  Bush HQ: [phone], Gore HQ: [phone].

MEDIA: The watch party campaign generated terrific media coverage around
the country, and we need to track our succesesses. Just off the top of
my head, local CBS affiliates in San Francisco (interviewed former
Senator and Project Abolition co-chair Alan Cranston), Providence, RI
and South Bend, IN covered last night's watch parties, and I'm sure
dozens more.  Newspaper coverage included USA Today, Philadelphia
Inquirer, Scranton, PA Times-Tribune, Goshen News, South Bend Tribune,
and again, dozens more papers we don't yet know about.  The url's for a
few of these articles are below. Our media consultants, Rabinowitz Media
Strategies in DC, did a great job and are working to track coverage
around the country. Please let us know of any media coverage of watch
parties in your area. Email me and send copies of clippings to Project
Abolition, Fourth Freedom Forum, 803 N. Main St., Goshen, IN, 46528.

http://www.usatoday.com/usatonline/20000410/2128214s.htm

http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2000/04/09/entertainment.20000409-sbt-MICH-E1-Activist_hopes_drama.sto

http://www.nepanews.com/stories/04082000/news/368.htm

In Peace,

Kevin Martin
Director, Project Abolition



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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 22:52:49 EDT
From: Charles F Hilfenhaus <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Oops

    In a reverse biblical action the sharks at the CIA have thrown
seven small fishes to the masses.  In military circles there is an
aphorism that once is accident, twice is coincidence, but three times is
enemy action.  Let us examine the number of coincidences the CIA wants
the world to believe were accidents:
1) The Chinese Embassy was the only target designated by the CIA in the
whole bombing campaign!!! This is prof of intent to many people without
any other evidence.
2) The Chinese Embassy was an accidental  target!!!  Either the CIA was
acting like the Keystone Cops or??
3) The most sensitive area of the Embassy was targeted
4)  The strike involved the B2 bomber and the most accurate next
generation cruise missiles
5)The strike involved a nuclear weapons delivery system.
    Given the CIA habit of not letting the right hand know what the
left hand is doing who can ever believe the latest denial.  All I
personally believe is that the false evidence was planted on the seven
small fish or in their files before the strike took place.
    One more thing, they probably told the same lie to President
Clinton, and the most damning thing I can say about him is he believed
it.
Charlie Hilfenhaus
Alliance of Atomic Veterans
Director, Atomic Workers Division
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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 16:09:13 +1000
From: FoE Sydney - Nuclear Campaign <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) 'Heads of State' letter re NPT Canberra Launch

John Hallam
Friends of the Earth Sydney,
17 Lord Street, Newtown, NSW, Australia, 2042
Fax [phone]  ph (61)(2)9517-3903
[e-mail]
http://homepages.tig.com.au/~foesyd


The following contains the press releases issued by NGOs for the Canberra
release of the 'Heads of State' NPT letter, the release issued by Senator
lyn Allison, and extracts from AAP newswire and the Age reports.

The letter was released yesterday in Canberra, Christchurch NZ, New York,
The Hague, Moscow, and London.

EMBARGOED TO 1PM MON,APRIL 10, (CANBERRA TIME)

ROOM 1 S 5, MONDAY APR 10 PARLT HOUSE CANBERRA

WORLD ORGANIZATIONS SAY 'TIMES UP' FOR N-WEAPONS - WORLDWIDE RELEASE OF
LETTER TO HEADS OF STATE

On the eve of the Review Conference of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty,
374 citizen organisations and parliamentarians have said time is up for
nuclear weapons.

Groups and parliamentarians from all over the world representing millions
of people have written to all the signatories of the Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) to ask that they fulfill article VI of the
treaty, which calls for the elimination of nuclear weapons stockpiles.

Will the worlds leaders be able to respond to the hopes of their publics,
who are asking for a Review Conference that will allow the NPT to work as
it was intended?

The NPT has been signed by 187 countries, with only India, Pakistan, Israel
and Cuba not signed up. The letter has been sent to these countries also.

The letter is being released internationally on 10 April in Canberra, New
York, Christchurch, Moscow, the Hague  and London.  It emphasizes that
under the terms of the NPT, in force since 1970, the nuclear weapons states
are legally obliged to eliminate their nuclear arsenals 'at an early date'.

The NPT Review Conference will take place at the United Nations in New York
from 24April to May 19th. It will help determine whether or not the world
will move towards the elimination of nuclear weapons or their further
proliferation. The conference is widely expected to be 'difficult'.

Issues that will help make the conference difficult include the testing of
nuclear weapons by India, and Pakistan, the refusal of the US Senate to
ratify the Comprehensive test Ban treaty, the failure of the Russian Duma
to ratify the START-II agreement, and the destabilizing effect of US plans
to deploy a ballistic missile defence system. The letter notes that even
ten years after the supposed end of the cold war, some 5,000 nuclear
warheads are on permanent 'hair trigger' alert.

The letter has been signed by 42 parliamentarians including 13 members of
the European Parliament, by 17 Australian MPs, and members of the
parliaments of the UK, Belgium, Canada, NZ, and Germany. Groups that have
signed the letter include Friends of the Earth International, Greenpeace
International, International Peace Bureau, IPPNW, British-American Security
Information Council and Green Cross International.

Contact:
Sydney - John Hallam 61-2-9517-3903 h61-2-9810-2598
Canberra - Clare Henderson, 61-2-6262-9345
New York - Felicity Hill,   1 212 682 1265
London - Claire Poyner, Abolition 2000 UK  44-171-281 4281
Christchurch NZ - Commander Rob Green,  ([phone]
Russia: Alisa Nikoulina,  [phone]



Press release from Senator Lyn Allison

N-disarmament 'gone backwards'

On the eve of a conference reviewing the historic Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Treaty, Australian Democrats nuclear spokesperson, Senator Lyn Allison, said
it was disturbing to note Australia's retreat from involvement in
disarmament.

Speaking at the Australian launch of a 374-signatory letter calling for
disarmament, Senator Allison said, "The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty
(NPT) was signed back in 1968, but I think it is fair to say we've gone
backwards since that time."

Senator Allison echoed the UN Secretary-General.

"The nuclear disarmament agenda is in a state of deplorable stagnation," she
said.

"Hopefully, this letter will help break the deadlocked progress in pursuit
of nuclear non-proliferation. The vast majority of Australians want to see
disarmament and an end to nuclear weapons.

"The possession of nuclear weapons by any state is a constant stimulus for
other states to acquire them.

"Currently, 5000 nuclear missiles are pointed at major cities around the
world. More worryingly, these missiles are on hair trigger alert.

"Russia and the US have, between them, 30,000 nuclear weapons and there are
still no disarmament negotiations in relation to tactical weapons.

"Today I want to say that Australia could take a much stronger role in
persuading nuclear weapons states to disarm.

"We want Australia to take a stronger role in this review. It is an
opportunity to put pressure on the US and Russia. New Zealand, Ireland and
Sweden have spoken out. We can't argue that Australia is too small and too
inconsequential to make a difference," Senator Allison concluded.

The NPT Treaty Review Conference commences in New York on the 24th of this
month and goes through until May 19.  Seventeen Australian MPs signed the
letter distributed at today's launch.


AAP Newswire:

(This is reproduced word for word in the AGE of Monday Apr 11)

Fed: Push for renewed committment to nuclear disarmament

Canberra, April 10 AAP- An international summit may be the worlds last
chance to break the nuclear disarmament deadlock.

Several Australian politicians warned today that the nuclear
nonproliferation treaty (NPT) may break down unless committment to
disarmament is renewed at this months review conference in New York.

"The NPT Review Conference will help determine whether or not the world
will move towards the elimination of nuclear weapons, or their further
proliferation' they said in a statement.

The warning came at the launch of an international petition calling on the
187 treaty signatories to fulfil their committment to ending the nuclear
age.

Of the 374 government and non-government signatures, 17 were from
Australian MPs.

The petitions release was presided over by signatories lyn Allison
(Australian Democrats) Carmen Lawrence (ALP) and Bob Brown (Australian
greens)

They were joined by lobbyists from non- govenmental organisations in urging
the Australian government to take a strong stance on the issue.

Senator Allison re- stated UN Secretary general Kofi Annans warning that
the disarmament movement was in a 'state of deplorable stagnation'.

She told journalists 5000 nuclear missiles were pointed at major cities
around the world, while the US and Russia had 30,000 warheads between them.
........

.....Her views were echoed by Dr Carmen Lawrence, who said the govrnment
had surrendered Australias leading role - as shown duribg the 1996 Canberra
Commission - to other middle powers such as Ireland and New Zealand.
.......Foreign minister Alexander Downer would attend the conference, a
spokesperson said.





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Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 04:49:39 -0700
From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
Subject: (abolition-usa) Ethics & DOE Strategic Plan2000, a White House Paper, public input

From: "David Crockett Williams" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ethics & DOE Strategic Plan2000, a White House Paper, public input
Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 3:20 AM

<http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/strategy.html>
          This is a Global Emergency Alert Response:


Ethics & DOE Strategic Plan2000, a White House Paper, public input by


David Crockett Williams  --  April 10, 2000
Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CSUN 1969)
Chartered Life Underwriter (ACLU 1971)
Coordinator, UN 50&55th anniversary Global Peace Walk '95 & 2000
Independent Candidate for United States President 1996 & 2000

Strategic Plan2000 addresses issues of energy production, global climate
change, U.S. National Security, advances in science, and interagency global
problem solving coordination, but it is severely hampered in its present
form by its failure to properly integrate available insights into ethics
errors whose correction is essential for the future of The Nation and The
Globe.

Over the past two years significant under-reported advances have been made
in fundamental science and new Clean-Energy applications availing previously
esoteric knowledge of the nature of consciousness along with technologies to
replace contemporary energy systems and to neutralize radioactive wastes
while invigorating a more robust sustainable global economy.

A wise teacher once said, "At the deepest level of Mind, everyone knows The
Truth but to survive and prosper in the material world we have all been
conditioned since birth to pretend that we can invent it."

Errors in perception of the very nature of truth itself are the basis for
ethics errors which may only be corrected by higher levels of understanding.

This paper also mentions solutions to fundamental misunderstandings rooted
in the historical progression of human thought from the "reasonable", to the
"objective", to the present "relative" view of the nature of truth itself
which is the basis of modern societies and which is at the root of the US
DOE as the contemporary incarnation of the Manhattan Project of 1942 that
used the "equations of relativity" to produce the atomic bomb that is still
foolishly considered the cornerstone of "US National Security".

Sections of this paper include:  (1) Background;  (2) Immediate Focus;  (3)
Delineation of Manifestations of Ethics Errors;  (4) Page-by-Page Specific
Comments on DOE Strategic Plan2000 Draft;  (5) Conclusion and Action Plan;
(6) Author references.


1)  Background

This position paper is offered for widespread evaluation as a public comment
to the people and governments of America and the world in response to input
request on DOE's Strategic Plan 2000 draft per advice
<[e-mail]> to <[e-mail]>
<http://www.crest.org/renewables/green-power-archive/msg00219.html>
of Friday, April 07, 2000 1:56 PM, Subject: "GP: Your turn to comment on DOE
Energy Strategic Plan", which indicated that the draft copy of "Strength
Through Science: Powering The 21st Century", the Energy Department's
strategic plan, is available on the world wide web for public comment
through today Monday, April 10, at <http://www.doe.gov/stategic_plan> which
indicates public comments are requested by 31March2000.  This position paper
is supplemental to my initial response of April 7th before review of
Strategic Plan Draft <http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier/9.html>
sent to [e-mail] which references my public comments of
two years ago on DOE's Comprehensive National Energy Strategy (CNES)
<http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier/8.html>, and which includes
the appeal for extension of this public comments deadline until 30Apr2000 to
allow time for more adequate public input in light of the global Earth Day
2000 theme of "Clean Energy Now!".   Additional documentation to support
opinions in this paper, and additional attachments submitted with my CNES
comments, will be posted after today at
<http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/doc.html>.

To avoid undue repetition here see my initial response and CNES comments
above for details on this summary, and additional websites below.


2)  Immediate Focus

Today we face a national and global social and environmental emergency as
evidenced by increasing intensity of domestic violence, global climate
change, international terrorism, inter-religious hostilities and
misunderstandings, addictions, wars, and the misdirection of human and
finanical resources to the preparations for war instead of towards solving
critical social and environmental problems before it is too late in this age
of proliferating weapons of mass destruction.

In large part, the daily struggle and methods for acquisition of energy
resources, individually, nationally, and globally, that are required for
ever-more-consumptive lifestyles are linked to the causes of this emergency
because of how energy, food, housing, money, and personal perceptions of
power and self-worth are perceived to be tied to successful vigorous
competition over these presently limited resources.   The forefront new
science mentioned above and discussed below offers harmonization of
conflicting ideologies, and the promise of virtually unlimited low cost
energy resources, which can minimize or eliminate this struggle and resolve
this global emergency with our proper cooperative responses.

In today's edition of my local newspaper, the Bakersfield Californian, wire
service reports are condensed in a brief report of yesterday's conclusion of
talks in Japan by G-8 environmental ministers from the world's
industrialized nations expressing hope for ratification as soon as possible
of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol on global warming, despite U.S. and Canadian
opposition to its fixed deadline for reducing greenhouse gases to 7 percent
below 1990 levels by 2008-2012, largely because of U.S. auto and oil
companies' opposition and the hotly debated emission-trade plan.
The meeting was a prelude to the sixth conference on the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP6), scheduled for
November in The Hague, Netherlands, which is considered crucial in promoting
the early ratification and enforcement of the Kyoto Protocol.

As I detailed in my CNES comments, this Kyoto Protocol goal represents a
decrease from 1998 levels of 13 percent, while the projected change in
carbon emissions from increased fossil fuel usage over this time frame is
projected by DOE to increase by 20 percent -- adding up to a 33 percent
disparity between forecast and goal compared to 1998 levels.   Nothing in
CNES or the Strategic Plan draft addresses how it is possible to accomplish
even this token inadequate commitment which does not reverse the global
warming trend factors but only slows down the rate of increase of climate
changing greenhouse gases.  In order to solve the problem we need to reverse
the present trend -- not just slow it down, i.e., not only move away from
fossil fuels but save the existing trees and regreen the planet and restore
the atmospheric oxygen depletion that is exacerbating the ozone layer
depletion that threatens all the oceanic phytoplankton (over half Earth's
oxygen supply) with destruction (by 2008 according to Project Earth climate
modeling predictions of 1988 deemed by them on target in 1997
http://www.projectearth.com) and accelerating polar ice melting.

What the DOE in its vernacular calls "Stakeholders" from whom "public
comments" are carefully solicited on its various plan documents, while the
general public and the scientific community in general is left to fend for
coincidental last-minute opportunities like this one for public comment,
seem in reality to be special interest groups vested in current high-profit
energy systems and nuclear power/weapons related industries.  Since these
same special interest groups provide the bulk of political fundraising and
lobbying efforts, it is no wonder that regarding global climate change the
US Bureaucratocracy is "fiddling while Rome burns".

If we want to learn how to put out the fire, instead of just having a "good
old time" until we all burn up, it may require a hard cold look at a broader
global view to contrast the myths and legends that Americans have
swallowed hook, line and sinker as US history.


(3)  Delineation of Manifestations of Ethics Errors

Machiavellianism is said to be the quiet behind-the-scenes "realism" of
modern politics where even rules and agreements of law can be intentionally
broken at will, and brutal violence used indiscriminately, for the purposes
of expediently propagating the myth of the sovereign power of the state.

The United States and its Constitution were created on the premise that
individual human beings are the sovereign entities by divine right, and that
they cede a limited authority to the government for the management of the
common good.  In these times the governments of the world, especially
including the United States, have completely taken over by the threat of
violence and imprisonment the sovereignty of the individual and cede back to
him/her limited "rights" "guaranteed by law".   Yet when the public
continually witnesses such rights and laws being deliberately ignored and
disregarded at will by the government, who can have faith in its ethics and
integrity, and in their own divine legacy as sovereign and sacred human
beings?

Is it any wonder that over the last century of witnessing these injustices
that people have become more rebellious of governments around the
world and nonviolence is all but a forgotten teaching?  Is it really any
wonder that crime is such big business in the United States, with such
swelling prison populations of virtually slave laborers, that private
prisons sell stock on Wall Street?!   Is this really a democracy
(self-government) in the United States when such a tiny percentage of the
people actually vote into power, over all of us, the representatives of Our
Republic?

It might be more accurately called an unethical Bureaucratocracy.

Hitler is rightfully criticized for the deaths of millions of people in the
"concentration camps" of WWII, but who in America pays attention to his
claim of inspiration for this kind of atrocity from the United States'
treatment of the American Indian peoples, tens of millions of whom have been
sacrificed over our country's history, a sacrifice which intensified with
the discovery of energy resources on the indigenous people's "reservations"
and which continues today in places like the "National Sacrifice Area" of
northeastern Arizona where the people are still being destroyed by US energy
acquisition policies.   It would be virtually impossible to find one single
nation-to-nation Treaty that the United States has made with the native
American peoples that has not been broken and abrogated by the US
government.   Is it really any wonder that so many people around the world
are furious with the United States and are even threatening the use of
weapons of mass destruction?

The underhanded mechanations behind the 1970's push for uranium mining in
the Black Hills of South Dakota fomented such a high level of violence
against those indigenous peoples who resisted this move that hundreds of
members of the Tribal Nations in that area were murdered over a few years
time which led to such intensity of hostilities that even when two FBI
agents were murdered at Jumping Bull Ranch all of the defendents were
acquitted on the grounds of self defense except American Indian Movement
leader Leonard Peltier who is still imprisoned after 26years, "railroaded"
on ballistics and extradition evidence that the prosecution later admitted
was falsified.  Amnesty International recognizes Peltier as a political
prisoner of the United States Government and mostly our citizens are
largely apathetic to his plight while millions around the world support
his release under executive clemency or parole, including Nelson Mandela,
Bishop Tutu, et. al.

In February of 1945 there was a meeting of the Allied Powers in Europe on
the eve of the expected defeat of Hitler which came in April.  At that
meeting, then-secret agreements were made for dividing up the conquered
countries of the Axis powers among Allied jurisdictions including the Soviet
Union which reportedly agreed would invade Japan to finish the war and
extend its territory.  After the defeat of Nazi Germany the US became
increasingly wary of Stalin and the Soviet postwar communist intentions and
potential threat to western societies.  In this context in June of 1945 in
San Francisco was convened the convention to create the charter for the
United Nations Organization, a charter signed by the founding nations in
agreement to its basic principles to end the scourge of war for the future
generations, to foster respect for human rights, and to enable the people of
the nations to live in peace.  Among those principles was the renunciation
of weapons and practices of mass destruction as were exemplified in the
gruesome freshness of the Nazi gas chambers applied to noncombatant civilian
populations.  The US Manhattan Project had already been underway since 1942
for the express purpose of creating the greatest weapon of indiscriminate
mass destruction that the world had ever known, the atomic bomb, which was
not abandoned in spite of the US signing the UN Charter agreement.

While American history records that the atomic bombs were used against the
civilian noncombatant populations of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (almost entirely
women, children and elderly with most men away at war) to save the lives of
American soldiers, at that time the Soviet Union was reportedly massing
troops on its border preparing according to agreement to invade Japan.  In
addition to saving American soldiers' lives the atomic bombings were
executed in violation of the signed UN charter and were also the first human
test of the uranium and plutonium versions of the atomic bomb, implicitly
conducted to threaten the Soviet Union with a similar fate if it did not
demur to American global dominance and occupation of Japan which has in
effect become a colony of the United States since then, abandoning its
non-rearmament peace constitution under US pressure to create a
"self-defense force" that today has a military capability greater than WWII.

Ten weeks after the atomic bombings, in the context of the dominant American
nuclear threat against any enemies, the UN charter was ratified in New York
on October 24, 1945, by the founding nations including the US which has
continued to violate this charter by the ongoing first-strike threat of the
use of nuclear weapons.  Is it any wonder that the Soviet Union, which lost
so many millions of citizens in the war with Germany, responded in kind to
this threat and built up its own nuclear arsenal?

Today the Soviet Union exists no longer and its threat of communist
domination has ended.  The Japanese-Americans who were interned during WWII
have received apologies and reparations.  But not one American President has
ever apologized or repented the atomic bombings of the civilian populations
of Japan or renounced the threat of their use to further American global
dominance, i.e., "National Security".  Not one American President has yet
recognized as the first step towards true national security the repudiation
of the use of nuclear weapons.

Ample evidence exists that in 1895 Nikola Tesla built an electric power
plant on Long Island in New York, based on his advanced knowledge of
electromagnetism and new energy technology he tested in Colorado, that was
to power all of America with fuel-less electric power wirelessly transmitted
but his backer, J.P. Morgan, decided to scuttle the project in favor of the
more profitable induction-based systems that we still have today with their
expensive but profitable copper mining, electric meters, etc.

From time immemorial until the early part of the 20th Century one of the
most useful plants in human history for food, oil, fiber, medicines, paper,
cloth, canvas, etc., was the hemp plant which has superior qualities in
many of these uses, which grows prolifically without fertilizers or
pesticides on even marginal farmland, and which was made into cheap early
automobile fuels before the fossil fuel industry took over the American
economy.   Hemp was the mainstay of early America yet after it was outlawed
as marijuana in 1937 by a campaign of yellow journalism and an historic
fraud on the US Congress perpetrated by industrial monopolists to protect
threatened profits in the timber-paper, petrochemical, and fossil fuel
industries, et. al., the suppression of the truth about this plant has been
so thorough that it has been essentially erased from our collective memory
and expunged from history.  Yet this plant, now still demonized as a "drug",
is perhaps the single most important plant for the future of humanity
because of its superior applicability for biofuels and the carbon
sequestration needed to ameliorate global climate change while replacing the
need to cut down trees for most of their current uses.

Oil and drugs are the two most powerful addictions of modern societies which
are manipulating people for profit.

With the US now beginning to commit itself to another "Vietnam War", in
Columbia striving for oil resources access and protection while deploying
purportedly ongoing Iran/Contra-style CIA drugwar strategies/skullduggery
http://www.egroups.com/message/global-peace-walk/318 in this year of high
level oil prices & drug war electioneering, all these issues need to be
reexamined carefully in light of hidden history coming to light.  In
Columbia the indigenous U'Wa people are being destroyed by Occidental
Petroleum's planned exploitation of major oil reserves.  Not many people
know that the offshore oil leases around north and south Vietnam were
assigned to the like of Texaco, Royal Dutch Shell, British Petroleum, Amoco,
etc., and that the Mekong Delta had more expected potential for oil than
the Mississippi Delta.   Both Vietnam and Columbia wars involve covert
use of drug smuggling revenues Iran/Contra-style as in the CIA/KLA
collaboration in the Kosovo war to secure the oil pipeline route through the
Balkans from the Middle East to Europe.  <http://www.copvcia.com>   These
wars are somewhat less obviously related to oil than the Gulf War which is a
classic example of how our National Security and oil energy supplies are so
violently linked.


(4) Page-by-Page Specific Comments on DOE Strategic Plan2000 Draft

Due to time constraints on such short notice to read and evaluate the
lengthy Strategic Plan Draft, some comments on various pages of the draft
may be out of page [#] order.

The most important thing to begin with is evaluation of the degree of
precision and accuracy in the language used which is entirely conditioned on
mutually understandable definitions of terms and which determines the "truth
coefficient" of the document.

The best example to illustrate this point keys in on the various
inconsistencies throughout the document regarding the confusing and
imprecise use of words such as "emissions", "pollutions", "carbon
emissions", "particulate matter", "greenhouse gases", and even "clean".   As
someone who earned a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Chemistry, I
am dismayed at the lack of overall clarity of information presentation due
to switched and confusing terminology definitions used in the various parts
of the Strategic Plan document.  Since I understand the chemistry of what is
being discussed it is easy to see how this language/definition problem, even
at the internal level of the DOE, prevents clear communication and
understanding of the nature and scope of the problems and solutions faced by
today's energy industry.

The primary energy industry "greenhouse gas" is carbon dioxide, which is
"emitted" by fuel carbon or hydrocarbon combustion that commensurately
consumes oxygen from which Earth's protective ozone layer is phototropically
produced.  Although incomplete combustion also produces an array of other
"emissions" including particulate carbon, carbon monoxide, various unburned
hydrocarbons, combusted fuel impurities like oxides of sulphur, etc., i.e.,
air "pollutions", the lazy shorthand term of "carbon emissions" seems, at
least for purposes of energy industry greenhouse gases quantification, to
primarily describe carbon dioxide expressed as for example "tons of carbon
emissions".

Yet on page [5] of the Strategic Plan under the Energy Challenges subsection
of the DOE's Challenges section, it says "The Department's Energy Resources
R&D Portfolio is addressing the carbon emissions challenge by proposing
investments in a variety of clean fuel options, such as natural gas...", in
the same first partial paragraph which concludes with "The Energy Resources
R&D Portfolio also recognizes the continuing importance of nuclear power in
generating clean, emission-free electricity".

From this it seems that DOE's greatest challenge is one of truthfully and
accurately representing the facts.   For an agency whose rhetoric prides
itself on its "world class science" it is hard to see these two statements
as mistakes instead of obfuscation.

Sure natural gas burns "cleaner" in terms of more complete combustion with
perhaps less impurities than, say, the high sulphur uranium contaminated
coal that is stripmined from the the "National Sacrifice Area" of the Black
Mesa in Arizona and burned in power plants with unfiltered smokestacks
producing reportedly more acid rain pollutions than the top five US cities
combined while showering thousands of square miles with radioactive ash
and the coal transport slurry line drains underground water drying up the
Tribal Nations lands in the whole area, BUT, in absolutely no way is natural
gas combustion "cleaner" in terms of reducing carbon dioxide emissions
because it still yields carbon dioxide upon combustion in the same
proportions as coal or oil.   By no stretch of the imagination does
investment in natural gas combustion ameliorate carbon dioxide greenhouse
gas energy industry emissions.

As to nuclear power producing "clean emission-free electricity", sure there
are no carbon emissions but it does produce the most toxic "emissions"
imaginable that are subject to catastrophic releases, meltdowns, etc., as
evidenced by Three Mile Island and recent accidents in Japan, etc.  Even
more routinely tragic and dangerous are the effects of uranium mining and
wind-blown tailings piles continually causing cancers and deaths to the
local people in mining areas most of whom are members of Tribal Nations who
are "sacrificed" like the Big Mountain Dineh (Navajo) people forcibly
relocated from the Black Mesa to "new lands" in the area of the Rio Puerco
uranium tailings pond dam burst and flood that makes these lands dangerously
radioactive.

For "world class science" to tout nuclear power as "clean emission-free
electricity" is unconscionable when the main "emission" is the nuclear waste
that is piling up at every nuclear power plant with no place to go, except
sneaking it across country into Yucca Mountain without required permits
targeted for FY 2010 per Strategic Plan [64] and in violation of US Treaty
with the Western Shoshone Tribal Nation, while DOE ignores the LENT Low
Energy Nuclear Transmutation data submitted two years ago about this
demonstrated new technology to neutralize radioactive wastes.

A recent summary of this research courtesy of Emerging Energy Mutual Fund:

"The Transmutation of Nuclear Wastes

"Currently over 55 million gallons of high-level radioactive waste is stored
in leaking underground tanks at Hanford, Washington.  These and other
storage facilities in the US and Russia are already leaking into ground
water supplies.  We (humans) discovered how to make these materials; we must
also discover how to safely undo this radioactive legacy.

"This urgent scientific problem can be solved.  Unknown to most people
outside the scientific community, the transmutation of elements (changing
one element into another) has been demonstrated using several pioneering
processes. Some of these processes have shown it may be possible to
stabilize radioactive material.

"Transmutation of elements has been demonstrated using:

(1)  Electron charge clusters by Kenneth Shoulders
(2)  Cold fusion technology by J. Dash and T. Mizuno
(3)  Gaseous cold fusion technology by Karbut
(4)  Electrolytic cells by H. Fox
(5)  Accelerated gamma-rays by P. Brown

"We believe the most promising physical process is based on the use of
high-density electron charge clusters.

"The US Department of Energy, so far, has ignored promising solutions
despite these scientists' progress toward solving this most dangerous of
scientific problems. The US Department of Energy has not shown sufficient
interest in developing or implementing new technologies.  The DOE has
instead committed to a questionable and incredibly costly plan of vitrifying
a mere portion of the nation's nuclear waste and storing it "temporarily" in
Yucca Mountain. These deadly wastes remain hazardous for more than 10,000
years.

"We propose a one-year effort to prove the physics of high-density electron
charge cluster transmutation for the purpose of the amelioration of
radioactive materials. Our plan is to research the technology and perform
one or more demonstrations of the different techniques. The purpose of the
demonstration will be to take what others have shown to be possible,
validate this technology and take it to the next step by improving the
transmutation efficiency. This effort will lead to the elimination of
nuclear waste permanently, rather than storing it for millennia.

"The proposed study should involve the leading scientists in the field,
including Ken Shoulders, Hal Fox, John Dash, Paul Brown, and others. It is
time to explore fully whether or not one or more of the proposed
transmutation techniques really work and can be engineered to demonstrate
conclusively their usefulness in eliminating the nuclear waste problem.

"For more information, contact Stephen Kaplan, 503-297-7348,
<[e-mail]>"


It is patently evident that this is a superior alternative to "geologic
disposal [as] the [present] national strategy".


Kaplan is also co-author of a recent detailed referenced article (with Dr.
Brian O'Leary, at <http://www.connexion.org/kaplan>) featuring an overview
of the many new Clean-Energy technologies mentioned above to replace
nuclear, fossil fuel, hydroelectric, and other inefficient induction-based
electricity generating power systems.   Dr. O'Leary was the science and
energy policy advisor and speechwriter for four US Presidential candidates,
wrote the foreword for journalist Jeane Manning's book about this genre
called The Coming Energy Revolution and his book on the topic called Miracle
in the Void, and was passed over for appointment to a top DOE science post
in 1998.  More on his work may be found at <http://www.maui.net/~oleary>.

Contrary to DOE Strategic Plan speculations, this new genre of power
technology does promise to be a "silver bullet" to address the energy
demands for the 21st Century in all three end-use sectors:  Buildings,
transportation, and industry. [4]

One possible explanation for overall DOE intransigence towards serious
investigation and implementation of these new ideas may be found in
Strategic Plan references beginning on [7] "nearly half of the current R&D
technical managers will be able to retire in five years;  serious skills
gaps have developed due to significant downsizing; [and] there exists
virtually no pipeline to develop future managers..."   With the senior R&D
staff too old to embrace cutting edge developments from the private sector,
technical skills gaps and no hope for replacing the aging DOE
Bureaucratocracy, perhaps it is time to either embrace Dr. Eugene Mallove's
<http://www.infinite-energy.com> contention that the DOE itself should be
dissolved or seriously restructured, and/or Dr. O'Leary's appeal for a New
Manhattan Project analog as a global public "crash program" to rapidly
complete R&D and implementation of these new Clean-Energy technologies.

After we received the DOE letter of May 1998 detailed in my initial response
above, the DOE point of contact appointed by then Energy Secretary Pena did
his best to liaison with our people to input these ideas into the DOE R&D
bureaucracy and he was encouraged by the 1997 results cited in that letter
proving the existence of the long postulated Zero Point Energy (ZPE) field
that some researchers feel is at the root of many of these new energy
technologies' operation (what the DOE letter called the "Holy Grail of
energy research"), but after a few months in mid-1998 of career threatening
internal resistence he backed off and was apparently reassigned to other
tasks under the administration of new Energy Secretary Richardson.  This is
hardly a comforting example in support of purported DOE "Core Values" [3]
"4. We value creativity and innovation",  "8. We pursue the highest
standards of ethical behavior", and from the Strategic Plan inside back
cover "3. We value listening as an essential tool in learning from others".

These new technologies specifically fulfill the Strategic Plan Draft [18]
prediction that "Advanced technology may ultimately mitigate some of
these..." [17] Key External Factors beyond DOE's direct control that are
expected to influence DOE's Strategic Planning, i.e., climate change
amelioration decisions, aging facilities (by 2015, 60% of coal fired and 40%
of nuclear power plants will be 40 years old and it is not clear how much
longer they can operate due to regulatory and economic issues), Yucca
Mountain Site Characterization Process and NRC, EPA regulations for proposed
high level nuclear waste repository, and "public perception directly affects
(sic) Congressional and Administration support for DOE programs."

Certainly it would appear that even without additional funding the existing
[26] DOE Energy Research and Development Portfolio of April 1999 budget of
$7 billion can accomodate all or a good portion of the $108 million annual
budget proposed by Dr. O'Leary for the "New Manhattan Project" given its
potential value to accomplishing DOE and Strategic Plan goals including
amelioration of nuclear wastes.  However, if the American public is properly
advised of this opportunity there would be no doubt that each American would
be thrilled to chip in a dollar a year from their taxes to fund this
Project.  This would help fulfill the Strategic Plan's commitment to
"breakthrough research in science and technology".

Biofuels are mentioned [4] and an extensive Interagency Crosscutting
Coordination discussion pervades the Strategic Plan text with other agencies
involved listed in Appendix A, including the US Department of Agriculture
(which conducted the 1941-45 Hemp for Victory program to help win WWII), but
this Crosscutting needs to include the White House Office of Drug Policy
Control to reverse Federal resistence to hemp relegalization in favor of a
global scale emergency revival of the Hemp for Victory campaign to win the
"war" against global climate change, not only for its superior biofuels
applications (see my CNES comments discussion) but also for adequate
effective [27] "carbon sequestration".

Finally, for the time I can now devote, the organization chart [15] shows a
positive change from the 1997 to the 2000 versions where "illustrative
measures for strategy", is replaced and realigned to "performance goal for
objective", but there needs to be included a box for "error analysis and
feedback adjustments" in the system for it to take advantage of the
cybernetics of goal accomplishment or the DOE will continue to lack the best
helmsmanship techniques available.


(5) Conclusion and Action Plan

With the development of such an organizational plan implemented by modern
electronic communications media and embraced by the peple, the agencies and
governments of this Globe, and including the corrected ethics reflective of
modern advances in the chemical physics of consciousness itself, the present
course of human history may be, and must be, quickly changed off of the path
towards total destruction and onto the path towards realizing the goal of
true peace, harmony among all life and free natural abundance as paradise on
Earth.

Give O'Leary the $108 million per year under a negotiated performance
contract for him to initiate the "New Manhattan Project".

This message and related information will be offered to the Global Peace
Walk 2000 for public dissemination and delivery on its arrival in Washington
DC, October 6-12, 2000, and to the United Nations for its 55th anniversary
October 24th to help inaugurate the UN Year and Decade of Creating a Culture
of Peace for the 21st Century.  This walk is hoping to gather over a million
people for a ceremony to rededicate the Washington Monument as a Symbol of
the Message of Peace on the October 9th Columbus Day Holiday which is also
John Lennon's 60th birthday and, according to the Smithsonian Institute, the
observed 1000 year anniversary of the arrival of the Vikings to America.


The above article has been abbreviated due to time constraints for
submission so for additional claims documentation, references, and updates
see <http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/doc.html>.


(6) Author references

David Crockett Williams  [e-mail]
  Bachelor of Science, Chemistry (CA State Univ. Northridge '69)
  Chartered Life Underwriter (American College of Life Underwriters PA '71)

  Author of Tetron Natural Unified Field Theory equations '74-'77
  (purports to be a correction and completion of E=mC^2 defining Tetron
  as the human mind's consciousness orientation function of light)
  <http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/tetron.html>

GLOBAL  EMERGENCY  ALERT  RESPONSE
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000

Global Peace Walk 2000
http://www.globalpeacenow.org
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/gpw.html
Updates 415-267-1877 -- Voicemail 415-863-2084
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/schedule.html SCHEDULE & contacts

USCampaign:   Independent US Presidental Campaign2000
Williams for President and Leonard Peltier Vice President
[e-mail]
http://www.egroups.com/group/williams-peltier

The Vision of Paradise on Earth
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/vision.html

Support HR 2545:
global Nuclear Disarmament & Economic Conversion Act of 1999
Details & Email:  http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm
Sign letters to senators  http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#senate
and Representatives http://prop1.org/prop1/letter.htm#letter

Easy index to email Congress & Media
http://congress.nw.dc.us/wnd
(copy & paste email letters to media and Congress)

An Agenda for Peace
http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/agenda.html





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