May 1-8, 2006
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PROVO, Utah - "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act," said the British writer George Orwell. Orwell's words aptly describe the situation of Steven E. Jones, a soft-spoken professor at Brigham Young University (BYU) who has turned his attention to the unanswered questions of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Provo, the home of BYU, is America's most conservative city in the most Republican county. With more than 85 percent of the population supporting President George W. Bush, Provo seems an unlikely place for any "revolutionary act" - unless that act were simply telling the truth.
On the picturesque campus of the private Mormon university, surrounded by snow-capped peaks, Jones teaches physics and carries out research in the fields of metal-catalyzed fusion, solar energy and archeometry, or the scientific study and analysis of artifacts.
As an archeometrist, Jones applies physics to explain events in the past. Since last year when he became aware of the unanswered questions of 9-11, he has focused his attention on the available data and evidence.
The unexplained presence of molten metal at the World Trade Center (WTC) puzzled Jones and he contacted this writer to confirm the reports first published in American Free Press in 2002. These reports came from two men involved in the removal of the rubble: Peter Tully of Tully Construction of Flushing, N.Y., and Mark Loizeaux of Controlled Demolition, Inc. of Phoenix, Md.
Tully told AFP that he had seen pools of "literally molten steel" in the rubble.
Loizeaux confirmed this: "Yes, hot spots of molten steel in the basements," he said, "at the bottom of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven levels."
The molten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubble was being removed," he said. He confirmed that molten steel was also found at WTC 7, which mysteriously collapsed in the late afternoon.
SERIOUS INVESTIGATION
Last November, Jones presented a draft which has since evolved into a 52-page paper. His paper begins with an appeal for "a serious investigation of the hypothesis that WTC 7 and the Twin Towers were brought down . . .through the use of pre-positioned cutter-charges."
Jones presents evidence that an "aluminothermic process" called "thermite" was used to weaken and sever the 47 massive core columns that held up the towers. The official version fails to explain how these critical columns failed. When ignited, thermite, a combination of finely ground aluminum and iron oxide (rust), cuts through steel like a "warm knife through butter," Jones said, especially when mixed with 2 percent sulfur. The resulting combination, called "thermate," lowers the melting point of steel.
Thermite was patented in Germany by Hans Goldschmidt in the late 1800s. Extremely high temperatures are produced when the aluminum and iron oxide react. The reaction produces temperatures of more than 2,500 degrees Celsius (4,500 degrees Fahrenheit) as the ferric oxide is reduced to molten iron. Iron melts at 1,535 degrees Celsius. The reaction causes the oxygen from the ferric oxide to bond with the aluminum, producing aluminum oxide, molten iron, and approximately 750 kilocalories per gram of thermite. The aluminum oxide is a whitish smoke.
AFP recently attended a presentation of Jones's 9-11 research at BYU. Jones began with footage of the unexplained collapse of Larry Silverstein's 47-story building, WTC 7, at 5:25 p.m.
When Jones was interviewed by Tucker Carlson of MSNBC, the producers refused to air this short but crucial video segment.
AFP observed thermite reactions in Jones's physics class. As a colleague combined the powdered rust and aluminum in a mounted ceramic flowerpot, Jones filmed the reaction. A paper wick with magnesium ignited the sand-like mixture.
The reaction was intense, nearly explosive, and white flames and pieces of metal flew out of the pot. From the bottom poured a white-hot liquid - pure molten iron. After a few seconds a glowing yellow-hot piece of iron was lifted with tongs and shown to the students.
Because thermite does not require air and can react underwater, it may explain the persistent hot spots that were unaffected by a continuous dousing from fire hoses. The white-hot molten iron and slag can itself prolong and extend the heating and incendiary action.
"As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running," Leslie Robertson, structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, told fellow engineers.
Footage taken by WABC-TV of the burning South Tower at 9:53 a.m., immediately before the building collapsed, reveals large amounts of white-hot molten metal, presumably iron, pouring from the 81st floor of the east corner.
The amount of spilling molten metal suggests a pool of molten iron was in that area of the building. While some have suggested that the molten metal was aluminum, this is easily disproved by the fact that molten aluminum appears silver-gray in daylight. The only possible explanation is that the white-hot metal gushing from the South Tower was molten iron and had been produced by a very large amount of thermite.
The amount of molten metal seen falling would indicate that tons of thermite had been used on that floor. From the video footage it appears that several cubic yards of molten metal fell, which, if iron, would have weighed over eight tons.
Jones's explosive paper is accessible on his web page (physics.byu.edu) and will be published in a forthcoming book by David Ray Griffin and Peter Dale Scott. Reading Jones' paper on-line allows the reader to review the photographic/video evidence.
"I consider the official FEMA, NIST, and 9-11 Commission reports," Jones writes, which claim "that fires plus impact damage alone caused complete collapses of all three buildings."
He challenges the official explanation and provides evidence to support the controlled-demolition hypothesis, which, he says "is suggested by the available data, testable and falsifiable."
Jones notes that the hypothesis that the towers were demolished by explosives "has not been analyzed in any of the reports funded by the U.S. government."
Ignoring the evidence of the controlled-demolition hypothesis, the FEMA-sponsored study of 2002 concluded, "The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the building to collapse remain unknown."
Furthermore, the official report found that the fire-induced collapse hypothesis "has only a low probability of occurrence."
The engineers concluded that "further research, investigation, and analyses are needed to resolve this issue."
"That is precisely the point," Jones says, "further investigation and analyses are indeed needed, including serious consideration of the controlled-demolition hypothesis which is neglected in all of the government reports."
The fact that the 9-11 Commission report does not even mention the collapse of WTC 7 "is a striking omission of data highly relevant to the question of what really happened on 9-11," he said.
FURTHER INVESTIGATION
Further investigation is what Jones is trying to get other scientists to do. One would think that the mainstream media would be interested in a highly respected physicist answering questions about 9-11, but that has not been the case. The controlled media and supporters of the official version completely avoid Jones.
Like a modern-day Galileo or Luther, Jones has exposed the flaws in the official version, "a myth," he says, "which has taken on religious proportions.
"There is a clear disconnect between what the official reports say happened and what actually happened," Jones says. "A scientific theory has to be falsifiable. It must be able to be tested and challenged.
"The data stands on its own. Where are the honest scientists?" Jones asks. "Take the blinders off and find out what happened."
The official 9-11 reports are what Jones calls "pathological science," in which investigators ignore all evidence that contradicts the conclusion they have been asked to prove.
AFP contacted three scientists who support the official theory to ask if they would review Jones's paper.
Thomas W. Eagar of MIT refused to even look at the paper and said there is no evidence of molten metal pouring from the WTC. Challenged with the evidence, he hung up the phone.
Zdenek P. Bazant of Northwestern University submitted his fire-induced collapse theory to the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) two days after 9-11, without examining any evidence. Asked if he would review Jones's paper, Bazant also refused, "I have seen Jones's fiction before. If you want my private opinion, it is nothing but sensationalism," he said. "His purported refutation of my analysis is baseless."
Asked to simply look at five photos in an e-mail showing the cascading molten metal and core columns, which appear to have been cut with thermite, Bazant responded, "I do not have time."
Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl, an Iranian-born professor at Berkeley, who was a member of the ASCE team studying the WTC collapse, also refused to look at Jones's paper.
"I will not be able to find time to review the material that you have sent me," said Astaneh-Asl.
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During the 1980s, and before Hollywood became so politically correct, movie critics declared the film Red Dawn as an alarmist presentation that wold scare the American people. The film depicted an invasion of the United states. Could Red Dawn now be rising?
Jack Wheeler, Ph.D., a onetime adviser on national security matters to President Ronald Reagan and founder of the Freedom Research Foundation, predicts that America, due to the Immigration "crisis," is headed toward another civil war. Wheeler "predicts that the demonstrations, although now peaceful, will soon grow more and more violent, until police, and perhaps the military, will find them difficult to control.
The Pew Institute estimates that there are at least 12 million illegal aliens in America, mostly Mexicans. Some sources place estimates at 20 million.
The former Reagan adviser is not the only national security or immigration expert to feel this way.
Michelle Dallacroce, who heads Mothers Against Illegal Aliens, agrees with Wheeler, adding that already Mexicans demonstrating in the United states are proclaiming that America's southwestern states, including California, "are theirs" and that they will one day get back the territory taken from them in the 1848 Mexican War.
Texas is already more than one-third Hispanic. California has the largest Hispanic population with 2.4 million, and virtually every state in America has an illegal alien problem. There are an estimated 65,000 illegal aliens in New York City.
One problem that Wheeler and others point to is the fact that no one knows how many of the illegal aliens are "America friendly" and not enemies of the country.
There have been indicators dating back for decades warning that America is heading for big trouble with Mexico.
Congressional investigators found that Chinese arms dealers were caught in 1996 attempting to smuggle into the United States thousands of machineguns and Chinese-built versions of American shoulder-fired Stinger anti-aircraft missiles.
The weapons, which were confiscated by U.S. Customs officials, were headed for Los Angeles street gangs. This shipment of weapons was intercepted, but how many others got by federal agents along with the millions of illegal aliens?
MERCENARIES
There have also been report, published in AFP and elsewhere, that U.S. law enforcement has withnessed what appeared to be "Oriental language-speaking" soldiers accompanying Mexican army troops in incursions across the border into the United States.
The populist former Spotlight newspaper, as well as the Establishment Arizona Republic, reported in series of articles during the summer of 1994 about how North Korean spy ships. Flying Mexican flags, were going up and down the Gulf of California, between the Mexican mainland and the Mexican Baja Peninsula, reaching a point as far north as about 50 miles from the U.S. border.
One ship, identified as the Clomax 71, was flying the Mexican flag and docked briefly at Rocky Point on the Mexican mainland side of the northernmost part of the gulf.
The Arizona Republic concluded its story this way:
"Some of the North Koreans aboard the ship, according
to intelligence officials, were thought by authorities to be ‘soldiers
or commandos' involved in the training of revolutionaries and
terrorists at secret Mexican camps in Baja California and in the
mountains near Culiacan, Sinalos on the mainland side of the southern
end of the gulf."
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While lawmakers were searching for Easter eggs, they heard your voice loud and clear: pas stand-alone legislation that protects the border with Mexico. After that debated amnesty, if you must. Debating amnesty is OK; passing amnesty is not.
On returning to Washington, many congressmen reported hearing from voters who want the border sealed off with no amnesty provisions. The House passed such a borders-only bill in December. The senate, with an observably lower IQ, wants to pass a borders and amnesty bill.
"Temperatures are running hot, and amnesty is not an option," said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.). "People are probably a lot closer to the House bill than they are to considering the Senate bill." He said his office received a higher than usual volume of calls and emails about illegal aliens during the recess.
Rep. Michael Conaway (R-Tex.) Said he heard "push back" from many voters regarding "anything that smacks of amnesty."
"The message I hear...is that we need to secure our borders and we need to enforce out immigration laws," said Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Tex.). Allowing illegal workers to remain and eventually become citizens is "clearly perceived as amnesty" and "people are opposed." he said.
The recent mass demonstrations by advocates of illegal immigration, in which Mexican flags were hoisted and Old Glory pulled down, burned or trampled upon has backfired, congressmen said.
At a breakfast meeting in Travis County, Tex, Smith asked the crowd of about 60 citizens whether the demonstrations made them more or less inclined to favor legalizing illegal aliens. No hand was raised for "more inclined." But about 50 of the 60 present shot their arms up for "less inclined."
In the Senate insists on its amnesty bill, House conferees
must stand firm. Senators want to tell constituents they voted
to protect the borders. If challenged, they want to say they "had
to" support amnesty to get the bill passed. Then they can
go to Hispanic voters, legal and illegal, and boast about supporting
amnesty.
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A Harvard study has linked fluoridated water to bone cancer in boys. To make matters worse, a department chair with industry ties misrepresented results to federal authorities.
Boys who drink water with levels of fluoride considered safe by federal guidelines are five times more likely to have a rare bone cancer than boys who drink unfluoridated water, according to a study by Harvard University scientists published in a peer-reviewed journal.
The study, led by Dr. Elise Bassin and published in Cancer Causes and Control, the official journal of the Harvard Center for Cancer Prevention, found a strong link between fluoridated drinking water and osteocarcoma, a rare and often fatal bone cancer, in boys.
The study confirms research by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the New Jersey health department that also found increased rates of bone cancer in boys who drank fluoridated tap water.
Dr. Bassin's study comes on the heels of a National academy of Sciences (NAS) report that found the federal "safe" limit for fluoride in tap water did not protect children from dental fluorosis or increased bone fractures. The NAS recommended that the allowable limit for fluoride in tap water be lowered immediately.
"This study raises very serious concerns about fluoride's safety and its potential to cause bone cancer in teenage boys," said Richard Wiles, senior vice president with the Environmental Working Group. "The findings raise fundamental questions about the wisdom of adding fluoride to tap water."
The Bassin study is also at the center of a joint federal and Harvard ethics investigation into whether Dr. Chester Douglass, the chairman of Oral Health Policy and epidemiology and Harvard Dental School and Dr. Bassin's doctoral thesis advisor, lied about the results of dr. Bassin's work when reporting the results of his federally funded research to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).
Last year, the Environmental Working Group obtained documents strongly suggesting that Douglass may have misrepresented Bassin's findings. Douglass has received large federal grants to study the relationship between fluoridated drinking water and bone cancer, and is on the payroll of Colgate, the toothpaste giant, where he has edited their dentists' newsletter for more than a decade.
When pressed recently by an investigative reporter from Fox News in Boston as to the quality of Dr. Bassin's findings, Douglass had nothing but praise for the work. "She did a good job. She had a good group of people advising her. And it's a nice analysis. There's nothing wrong with that analysis," he said.
"It's noce to see that Douglass has finally come clean on the quality of Dr. Bassin's work. It's just a shame that he was not so forthcoming when reporting on his work to the NIH,' Wiles said.
Fox filmed Douglass waving a draft copy of Harvard's investigation of his conduct, and saying the university's report will be coming out soon. Last year, the Environmental Working Group asked the NIEHS, which funded Douglass' research, to investigate whether he misrepresented his findings.
The Environmental Working Group urges communities not to add fluoride to tap water, and advises parents to avoid fluoridated water for their children, particularly bottle fed infants.
"Fluoride is fine in toothpaste, where it is directly
applied to the teeth, but provides almost no dental benefit in
water, while presenting serious health risks, particularly for
boys," Wiles said.
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The FDA is engaged in conferencing with Canada and Mexico for the purpose of creating one "harmonized" set of food and drug regulations for the three nations with zero input from the people of Canada, the United States or Mexico. On what legal authority does the FDA presume to take this action?
This is part of a planned effort to destroy America and force American citizens into a North American Union with Canada and Mexico patterned after the European Union. It's being scripted by the Council on Foreign Relations, which is what prompted the neo-cons to create the "Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America."
The purpose of this, according to the FDA, is to fucus on what they call "health fraud." But we all know how the FDA interprets "health fraud." Take their current vendetta against cherry growers. The FDA is ordering cherry growers not to repeat the story that eating foods high in plant nutrients may protect people against some types of cancer and strokes. This comes despite recommendations from the surgeon general and the National Research Council.
The FDA said it was responding to claims made on Ocean Spray's web site. Normally, the FDA has no authority over web sites, but the company had put its web site address on its products, and the agency does have authority over labels.
Incredibly the FDA is looking to force this tyranny on Canada and Mexico, while simultaneously attempting to impose the worst aspects of those countries' regulations on Americas.
For example, Canada regulates dietary supplements as "drugs," but in the United States, under the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act of 1994, these products are foods. Today, Americans enjoy far greater access to nutritional products and to health information than Canadians do.
The last thing Americans need is for the FDA to make decisions unilaterally in regard to the "Trilateral Cooperation Charter" without any input from congress or the American people.
Congress needs to protect Americans from the FDA by holding oversight hearings on this matter.
In 1994, the American people flooded Congress with letters, phone calls and personal visits shortly before passage of the Dietary Supplement Health & Education Act. Now the FDA is attempting to destroy the country to get around the will of the American people.
I am contacting my two senators and my congressman about this. I am also alerting my local paper, my friends and my family. What do you intend to do about this fiasco?
For more information on how you can lend your
name to the fight against the FDA in this matter, call toll free
800-333-2553 or write to the International Advocates for Health
Freedom at 556 Boundary Bay Rd., Point Roberts, WA 98281
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have found a correlation between an ingredient found in shampoo and nervous system damage. The experiments were conducted with the brain cells of rats, and they show that contact with this ingredient called methylisothiazoline, or MIT, causes neurological damage.
What products contain the chemical compound MIT? Head and Shoulders, Suave, Clairol and Pantene Hair Conditioner all contain this ingredient. Researchers are concerned that exposure to this chemical by pregnant women could put their fetus at risk for abnormal brain development. In other people, exposure could also be a factor in the development of Alzheimer's and other nervous system disorders.
The chemical causes these ailments by preventing communication between neurons. Essentially, it slows the net working of neurons, and since the nervous system and brain function on a system of neural networks, the slowing of this network will suppress and impair function of the brain and nervous system.
These findings were presented Dec. 5 at the American Society for Cell Biology annual meeting.
I have frequently warned readers about the dangers of using brand-name personal care products. The vast majority of these products contain toxic chemical compounds like MIT that contribute to cancer, liver disorders and neurological diseases. In fact, MIT is just one of dozens of such chemicals that are found in personal care products.
Why are these dangerous personal care products allowed to remain on the market? Because the FDA, which is responsible for regulating these products, spends little time, money or effort investigating the safety of these products. Instead, the FDA spends the vast majority of its time approving new prescription drugs rather than protecting the public against the dangers from such drugs or personal care items like shampoos, soaps, deodorants and scents.
In fact, it may surprise you to learn that manufacturers can put practically any chemical they want into shampoos, even if it is a hazardous chemical listed in the Registry of Toxic Effects of chemical Substances database maintained by the Centers for Disease Control and prevention and even ifit is considered a toxic waste chemical by the EPA. The FDA allows all sorts of chemicals to be used in these products, including chemicals that are known carcinogens and that contribute to liver failure and nervous system disorders. How's that for protecting public health?
If you thought prescription drugs were dangerous, just take a look at the toxic chemicals found in personal care products used by virtually all Americans every day. Americans bathe themselves in toxic chemicals anf they do it by buying and using products made by brand name companies that have premier shelf positioning at convenience stores, grocery stores and discount clubs.
One of the more curious personal care products on the market is Herbal Essences shampoo by Clairol.
Personally, I think this product is a joke because it's trying to exploit the word "herbal" to imply that the shampoo is healthy, even though it is primarily made with the same ingredients as other popular shampoos. The first three ingredients, for example, are water, sodium laureth, and sodium lauryl sulfate. Big deal, hun? You can find the same three ingredients in 99-cent shampoo at Wal-Mart. Plus, the product contains all sorts of other ingredients that I personally would allow to touch my skin, like methylchloroisothiazolinone, if you can believe thate's actually a chemical with a name that long. Think the color of the shampoo is from the herbs? Think again. Three other ingredients in the shampoo are Yellow #5, Orange #4 and Violet #2.
In other works, this is a shampoo product purchased by naive consumers, in my opinion. People who really know herbs and natural products can only laugh at a product like this. Want a real shampoo? Buy Olive Oil Shampoo from Heritage Products, available at most natural health stores.
Every week, it seems, we see a new announcement about some toxic chemical found in personal care products that is related to either cancer or neurological disorders. And yet these products are being sold by retailers and are consumed in large quantities by the American people, who remain oblivious to the real damage these products are causing to their health.
The solution here is to protect yourself by leaning the truth about these products and switching to products made with safe ingredients. There are safe shampoos, safe soaps, safe laundry detergents dishwashing liquids and even deodorant products. You don't have to expose yourself to toxic chemicals to take care of personal hygiene, because whether you agree with it or not, these disease-causing chemicals are going to remain in personal care products for many years to come. Why? You can bet that the manufacturers of these products will fight any attempt to regulate or outlaw these toxic chemicals. That's because the chemicals are convenient for manufacturers. It's much the same way in which food manufacturers use sodium nitrate in bacon and other packaged meats. It's all about their convenience rather than protecting you health.
There's the idiot test for today. If I was standing on a street corner with a bottle of colored liquid, and I told you that the liquid contained a toxic chemical that caused neurological disorders, Alzheimer's disease and birth defects, would you buy that product from me and scrub it into your scalp under warm water? Of course not.
But if you're buying these popular shampoo products. That's exactly what you're doing right now. Such is the power of brand marketing in America.
Author and journalist Mike Adams is with News Target an Internet
site focused on health, wellness and medicine. His article appeared
on the site. For more information go to www.newstarget.com.
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Protesters waving Latino flags in an effort to dictate laws have generated such a backlash that it helps supporters of legislation that would enforce border control without amnesty, lawmakers say:
"I couldn't be happier, because every single time this kind of thing happens, the polls show that more and more Americans turn against the protesters and whatever it is they are trying to advance," said Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.).
His sentiments were widely echoed by other congressmen who were afraid to identify themselves.
The May Day protests were much smaller than two earlier demonstrations, partly because many employers told Latino workers not to come back if they failed to show up on May 1.
For example, the Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino told its 10,000 employees if they failed to show up for work in order to protest they would be fired. Only two workers protested.
While protesters chanted in the streets, a large group of Latinos who are either American citizens or legal residents called for more border protections and no amnesty.
Although a press conference in Washington sponsored by the group was crowded with newspaper reporters and TV cameras, there was no mention in The Washington Post and only a scant mention buried in The Washington Times.
Of other major newspapers, only the Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle mentioned the event. American Free Press, however, was there to cover the event and spoke with some of the organizers.
Led by Army Col. Al Rodriguez (ret.), a coalition of Americans of Hispanic heritage called "You Don't Speak for Me" organized to dispel notions that all Latinos want open borders and amnesty.
"While the illegal aliens are boycotting, the rest of us will be footing the $100 million-a-day costs for providing schooling, health care and other benefits and services to illegal aliens and their families," Dan Stein, president of an allied group called FAIR, told the press conference.
"Politicians and the media seem to believe that Hispanic Americans hold a monolithic view on the subject of immigration," said Pete Nunez, a former assistant secretary of treasury and a spokesman for the coalition.
"In fact, millions of Hispanic Americans - including many who have gone through the immigration process the right way - are offended by the demands being made by people who have broken our nation's laws."
On the same day, House Republicans called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prosecute businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens, citing companies forced to close for the day because they depended heavily on Latino workers.
Also on the same day, Customs agents raided 15 locations in New York and New Jersey to smash a "human trafficking ring" that smuggled Mexicans into the country and may have forced women to serve as sex slaves. The raids were conducted after New Jersey police pulled over two vehicles carrying at least 10 women who had been working in brothels in Virginia, Maryland and Washington.
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Davis, Calif - In the days after the Sept 11 attacks, when he saw the light bluish smoke rising from the rubble of the World trade Center, Thomas A. Cahill, an expert on airborne aerosols and director of the DELTA Group at the University of California at Davis, knew the plumes contained large amounts of the very smallest particles, the extremely toxic ultra-fine particles less than one millionth of a meter in size, and smaller.
Unlike the much larger dust particles from the destruction of the twin towers, these ultra-fine nanoparticles are particularly hazardous because of their extremely small size, which allows them to pass throughout the body and penetrate into the nucleus of the human cell.
In the end of September 2001, Robert Leifer, a colleague from the Department of Energy's Environmental Measurement Laboratory in New York City, contacted Cahill and asked him to send one of the DELTA Group's air monitoring devices known as the 8-stage rotating drum impactor.
By Oct. 2, 2001, the Davis air monitoring unit was set up on the lab's roof at 201 Varick Street at the edge of the "exclusion zone," about one mile north of the smoking rubble of the WTC. On top of the 12-story building, the unit was at an elevation of about 150 feet above street level, but lower than most of the surrounding buildings. The exclusion zone was the area around the Wtc, which had no electricity as a result of the destruction of the power plant that had existed under WTC 7.
Cahill's air sampling began on Oct. 2 and continued until late December, after the last fires were finally extinguished.
Asked why it took so long to begin a scientific evaluation of the air contamination, Cahill told AFP he had assumed that there were scores of agencies and scientists monitoring the air quality in New York City after 9-11.
When Cahill went to New York City in January 2002, rather than welcome the Californian's effort to evaluate the toxicity of the city's air, an official with the regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had but two questions for him: Who asked you to do it? Who's Paying?
While Christine Todd Whitman, then administrator of the EPA, told New Yorkers that the air was safe to breathe in the days and weeks after 9-11, Cahill said there were enormous violations of standards that jeopardized the health of anyone exposed to the plumes coming from the rubble. Those most affected by the toxic smoke were the thousands of workers who labored on top of the rubble pile, he said.
In January, James Zadroga, a 34 year-old detective with the NYPD died of lung disease and mercury poisoning. Zadroga had spent hundreds of hours at Ground Zero working on recovery and cleanup at the site.
The conditions were "brutal" for people working at Ground Zero without respirators. It was slightly less terrible for those working or living in adjacent buildings, Cahill, a professor emeritus of physics and atmospheric science, said. "It was like they were working inside the stack of an incinerator," he said.
The DELTA Group's work revealed the presence of extremely small metallic aerosols in unprecedented amounts in the plumes coming from the burning WTC rubble. Most of the particles in these plumes were in the category of the smallest ultra fine and nanoparticles, from 0.26 to 0.09 microns.
"Ultra fine particles require extremely high temperatures," Cahill said, "namely the boiling point of the metal."
While Cahill said he was not aware of evidence confirming the existence of molten metal in the rubble of the WTC, his data showing high levels of ultra fine particles in the smoke plumes prove that incredibly intense hot spots, capable of boiling and vaporizing metals and other components from the debris, persisted beneath the rubble for weeks.
"As of 21 days after the attack, the fires were still burning and molten steel was still running," Leslie Robertson, structural engineer responsible for the design of the WTC, said at the National conference of Structural Engineers conference on Oct. 5, 2001.
AFP reported in 2002 that pools of "literally molten steel" were seen in the basements of the collapsed twin towers and WTC 7 by contractors hired to remove the rubble.
The official reports by NIST, FEMA and the 9-11 Commission, however, omit any mention of the large quantities of molten metal observed in the basement areas of WTC 7 and the towers. Because "the official reports do not adequately address the issue of molten metal found at the sites," Professor Steven E. Jones wrote, this fact alone "provides compelling motivation for continued research on the WTC collapses."
The official version clearly fails to explain what caused the intense hot spots capable of producing the plumes of ultra fine particles and molten metal. Cahill rules out the gravitational potential energy of the collapse, saying this was capable of raising the entire mass of debris only a few degrees.
Using metallographic analysis, the 2005 NIST report from the
WTC determined that there was no evidence that any of the steel
samples they had examined had reached temperatures above 600 C,
well below the temperature of even the red-hot pieces of metal
that were seen being pulled from the rubble. However, by the time
NIST began their study nearly all of the critical steel evidence
from the WTC had already been melted down in Chinese steel mills.
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‘I couldn't be happier, because, every single time this kind of thing happens, the polls show that more and more Americans turn against the protesters and whatever it is they are trying to advance." __Rep. Tom Tancredo (R.Colo.)
Protesters waving Latino flags in an effort to dictate laws have generated such a backlash that it helps supporters of legislation that would embrace border control without amnesty, lawmakers say.
Tancredo's sentiments were widely echoed by other congressmen who were afraid to identify themselves.
The May Day protests were much smaller than two earlier demonstrations, partly because many employers told Latino workers not to come back if they failed to show up on May 1.
For example the Wynn Las Vegas hotel and casino told its 10,000 employees if they failed to show up for work in order to protest they would be fired. Only two workers protested.
While protesters chanted in the streets, a large group of Latinos who are either American citizens or legal residents called for more border protections and not amnesty.
Although a press conference in Washington sponsored by the group was crowed with newspaper reporters and TV camers, there was no mention in The Washington Post and only a scant mention buried in The Washington Times. Of other major newspapers only the Houston Chronicle and San Francisco Chronicle mentioned the event. American Free Press, was there to cover the event and spoke with some of the organizers.
Led by Army Col. Al Rodriguez (ret.), a coalition of Americans of Hispanic heritage called "You don't Speak for Me" organized to dispel notions that all Latinos want open borders and amnesty.
"While the illegal aliens are boycotting, the rest of us will be footing the $100 million-a-day cost for providing schooling, health care and other benefits and services to illegal aliens and their families," Dan stein, president of an allied group called FAIR, to the press conference.
"Politicians and the media seen to believe that Hispanic Americans hold a monolithic view on the subject of immigration." said Pete Nunez, a former assistant secretary of treasury and a spokesman for the coalition. "In fact, millions of Hispanic Americans - including many who have gone through the immigration process the right way - are offended by the demands being made by people who have broken our nation's laws."
On the same day, House Republicans called on Immigration and Customs Enforcement to prosecute businesses that knowingly hire illegal aliens, citing companies forced to close for the day because they depended heavily on Latino workers.
Also on the same day, Customs agents raided 15 location in
New York and New Jersey to smash a "human trafficking ring"
that smuggled Mexicans into the country and may have forced women
to serve as sex slaves. The raids were conducted after New Jersey
police pulled over two vehicles carrying at least 10 women who
had been working in brothels in Virginia, Maryland and Washington.
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The fact, omitted by the mainstream media, that the controversial Spanish-language version of the U.S. national anthem was written and produced by a British-born Israeli reveals the hidden hand behind the promotion of illegal immigration into the United States.
Adam Kidron, the producer of a controversial and distorted Spanish-language version of The Star Spangled Banner, "Nuestro Himno" ("Our Hymn"), is neither American nor Spanish-speaking, but comes from an Israeli family of Marxist Zionist "agitators."
Three days before the May 1 mass protests supporting the "rights" of illegal immigrants, CNN reported that Kidron, CEO of Urban Box Office, is the author and producer of the so-called Spanish-version of the U.S. National anthem. While CNN and the rest of the controlled media vigorously debated the anthem, they failed to provide any background information on Kidron the man behind it.
Kidron's distorted versin of the U.S. national anthem is intended to offend and confront Americans.
During the War of 1812, Francis Scott Key wrote the original Star-Spangled Banner after having witnessed the British bombardment of Fort McHenry one of the U.S. forts defending Baltimore, while detained on a British ship, Key had visited the British fleet in Chesapeake bay on Sept. 13, 1814, to secure the release of Dr. William Beanes, who had been captured when the British burned down Washington, D.C. Delighted to see the American flag still flying over the fort in the morning, Key wrote a poem, "Defense of Fort McHenry," which later became the lyrics to a song that became the national anthem.
Kidron, however, ignores the historical context of the U.S. national anthem and changed the lyrics to suit the illegal immigration agenda. For example, he simply omitted the line "And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air. Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there," saying "We just did not want to speak about celebrating bombs."
"I think people who want to be a citizen of this country ought to learn English," Bush said when asked about the Spanish version. "And they ought to learn to sing the national anthem in English."
Adam Kidron is the son of Michael Kidron (formerly Rosenberg) and Nina Gluckstein, two Jewish communists who were part of the massive Zionist armed invasion of Palestine in the 1940s.
His father, Michael, is described as a "revolutionary socialist" who was born in Cape Town, south Africa, in 1930, and who died apparently in Britain, in March 2003.
Both of Kidron's parents lived in Zionist-occupied Palestine, which became Israel in 1948. His father's "ardently Zionist family," the Rosenbergs from Cape Town, emigrated to Palestine in the mid-1940s. The Rosenberg family had originally come from Lithuania, "part of the Russian empire with strong Jewish socialist and Zionist movements," according to his obituary in the British papers.
Adam's father attended high school in Tel Aviv and would have been 18 during Israel's "War of Independence," in which some 400 Palestinian towns and villages were obliterated and ethnically cleansed. Kidron's British obituaries fail to mention what he did during the war.
After the war, Adam's father attended Hebrew University in Jerusalem. From an "ardently Zionist family," Michael became "a socialist and an internationalist, and he continued to be both, inseparably, for the rest of his life," the Times (UK) wrote in 2003. His father's residency status in Israel in the 1940s and 50s would make his son Adam an Israeli national, whether he carries the Israeli passport or not.
After some 10 years in Palestine/Israeli, Adam's father left Israel in 1955 to study at Oxford University, by which point he would have been an Israeli citizen.
Michael Kidron was a fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) and was funded by the Ford Foundation and others. The Guardian (UK) described him as "a Marxist theorist, and agitator." Kidron's obituary says he was "a critical Marxist" and "played a key role in developing a theory, that of the permanent arms economy, to account for the west's long postwar boom, etc."
The Marxist Zionist connection to the illegal immigration agenda is no coincidence. Communists have long used immigration as a weapon to destroy nations and have been behind much of the forced migration of the past century. During the Soviet Union, for example, mass migration was used to weaken the national fabric of the nations occupied by the Soviet Union.
In the Baltic States, finally, "Soviet" immigrants
outnumbered the native population in the capital cities of Rallinn
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Behind the increasingly shrill rhetoric and saber rattling over Iran's nuclear ambitions America and Israel are engaged in a secret war against Iran that has echoes of the years when the CIA supported the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union.
This time, the United States and Israel are running covert operations with the help of Kurdish militias and rebel Iranian fighters. For some observers, training and arming Islamic fighters smacks of the days of Soviet rule in Afghanistan.
Then, the Soviet army, which was the second most powerful military in the world, was defeated by Islamic militants, including men like Osama bin Laden.
Now the U.S. military, with Israeli commandos lending a hand, is arming and secretly training a different breed of mujahideen, or Islamic fighters - Kurdish militias with links to ethnic Kurdish communities in Iran and Syria, and fighters from the Iranian Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK), which has bases in southern Iraq and has provided the United States with information about the Iranian military and Iran's nuclear sites.
From the perspective of Washington and Tel Aviv, the history of the Kurds makes them ideal recruits for a covert war against Iran and Syria.
During and after Saddam Hussein's rule, the Kurds of northern Iraq longed for an independent Kurdistan. When the so-called "no-fly zone" was in place over Iraq, the Kurds had protection from the U.S. Air Force and U.S. allies. That enabled them to build a large militia force and to develop a burgeoning economy.
But, since the fall of Saddam the Kurds have become disillusioned with the country's slide into chaos and have hinted that they would be happy to see Iraq divided into three parts. In that event, they would establish an autonomous region called Kurdistan and the rich northern oil fields of Kirkuk would ensure their prosperity for decades to come.
Not everyone favors creation of an independent Kurdistan. The Turks, Iranians and Syrians are united in a belief that it would generate instability by encouraging large ethnic Kurdish communities in their countries to demand separation and an alignment with Iraq's Kurds.
In the 20th century ethnic Kurdish demands for autonomy led to more than 30,000 of them being slaughtered by the Turks. In Iran, they were brutally suppressed in three provinces they dominated.
As part of a covert scheme to destabilize and soften up the Iranian regime for possible Special Forces attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, Washington has turned to disaffected Iranian Kurds for help and to Iranian dissidents in the MEK.
Using fighters trained by the United States in secret bases in southern Iraq, the MEK has carried out a series of attacks in Iran. In recent months, there has been increasing instability inside three Iranian provinces dominated by Kurds, as well as attacks on Iranian troops near the border with Iraq. A Kurdish guerrilla group claimed responsibility for two of the attacks, saying they were in retaliation for Iranian shelling into Kurdish areas of northern Iraq.
New York journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in December 2005 that U.S. combat troops were already in Iran. Following that report, there was an incident near the Iran-Iraq border in January when an Iranian military cargo plane carrying 10 top Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders mysteriously crashed. Later, there were rumors it was brought down by U.S. Special Forces within Iran.
In April 2006, Iran said it shot down a U.S. surveillance drone flying over the country. Israel has been running its own black operations with the help of Kurds it has trained. The Kurds reportedly have strong ties to Israel because it supports the creation of an independent Kurdistan. From an Israeli perspective, such an entity would provide Israel with an ally in a region in which it is totally isolated and would keep Iraq destabilized.
It was Israel's neo-con friends in Washington who once believed a new Iraq would be Israel's best ally, but the more that vision has turned to nightmare, the more Israel has looked to the creation of a separate Kurdish state in Iraq as the next best thing.
Israel's relationship with the Kurds goes back a long way. During the Iran-Iraq war, the Israelis supplied the Kurds with weapons to attack Saddam Hussein's forces. Then, after the first Gulf War, when the United States and its allies abandoned the Kurds, Israel continued to provide them with weapons and training.
To that end, Israeli special forces and Mossad have been training and recruiting Kurds for clandestine operations and surveillance in Iran and Syria. The advantage of having Kurdish fighters carry out operations is that they can easily blend into ethnic Kurdish communities and sow dissent.
They can also recruit rebel elements and build bases for future operations. Kurdish militiamen and fighters from the MEK are seen by Israel as ideal insurgents.
Richard Walker is the nom de plume of a former mainstream news producer who now writes for AFP so he can expose the kinds of subjects that he was forbidden to cover in the controlled press.
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The following open letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) was written by a 27-year veteran of the Border Patrol, who has testified before Congress on the issue of illegal immigration.
There is a huge volume of propaganda and myth circulation about illegal aliens, particularly illegal Mexican, Salvadoran, Guatemalan and Honduran aliens. This article will help sort the fact from the propaganda.
* Illegal aliens generally do not want U.S. citizenship Americans are vain thinking that everybody in the world wants to be a U.S. citizen. Mexicans and others want to remain citizens of their home countries while obtaining the benefits offered by the United States such as employment, medical care, in-state tuition, government-subsidized housing and free education for their offspring. Their main attraction is employment and their loyalty usually remains at home. They want benefits earned and subsidized by middle class Americans. What illegal aliens want are benefits of American residence without paying the price.
* There are no jobs that Americans won't do. Illegal aliens are doing mobs that Americans can't take and still support their families. Illegal aliens take low-wage jobs, live dozens in a single residence, share expenses and send money to their home country. But there are no jobs Americans won't do for a decent wage.
* Every person who illegally entered this nation left a home. They are not homeless and they are not Americans. Some left jobs in their home countries. They come to send money to their real home as evidenced by the more than $20 billion sent out of the country each year by illegal aliens. These illegal aliens willfully entered this nation in violation of the law and therefore assumed the risk of detection and of the law and therefore assumed the risk of detection and deportation. Those who brought their children assumed the responsibility and risk on behalf of their children.
* Illegal aliens are not critical to the economy. Illegal aliens constitute less than 5% of the workforce. However, they reduce wages and benefits for lawful U.S. residents.
* This is not an immigrant nation. There are 280 million native-born Americans. While it is true that this nation was settled and founded by legal immigrants, it is also true that there is not a nation on this planet that was not settled by immigrants at one time or another .
* The United States is welcoming legal immigrants. Illegal aliens are not immigrants by definition. The U.S. accepts more lawful immigrants every year than the rest of the world combined.
* there is no such thing as the Hispanic vote. Hispanics are white, brown, black and every shade in between. Hispanics are Republicans, Democrats, anarchists, communists and independents. The so-called "Hispanic vote" is a myth. Pandering to illegal aliens to get the Hispanic vote is a dead end.
* Although some illegal aliens enter this country for a better life, there are 6 billion people on this planet. At least 1 billion of those live on less than $1 a day. If wanting a better life is a valid excuse to break the law and sneak into America, then let's allow those 1 billion to come to America and we'll turn the United States into a Third World nation overnight. Besides, there are 280 million native-born Americans who want a better life. Since when is wanting a better life a good reason to trash another nation?
* There is no labor shortage in the United States. These are hundreds of thousands, of not millions, of American housewives, senior citizens, students, unemployed and underemployed who would gladly take jobs at a decent wage.
*It is not racist to want secure borders. What is racist about wanting secure borders and a secure America? What is racist about not wanting people to sneak into America and steal benefits we have set aside for legal aliens, senior citizens, children and other legal residents? What is it about race that entitles people to violate our laws, steal identities and take the American dream without paying the price?
Does Congress have the courage to do what is right for America? Or, will it bow to the wants and needs of those who don't even have the right to remain here?
These will be a reckoning. It will come in November of this
year, again in 2008 and yet again in 2010. We will not allow America
to be stolen by third world agitators ad thieves.
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Catholic Church hierarchy at odds with parishioners over issue of illegal immigration.
Many Catholics in the United States are not pleased with the Catholic Church's stance on the issue of illegal immigration, as major church leaders say they support amnesty for illegal aliens and will disobey immigration laws that they don't like.
Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahony said he would go to jail rather than follow a proposed law he said would require him to demand legal documentation before assisting immigrants. Mahony has a long history of advocation for illegal aliens. He opposed proposition 187, approved by California voters in 1994, which denied benefits to illegal aliens.
In addition to preaching the Gospel, Mahony now uses church services to propagandize for illegal aliens.
Legal aliens, such as Josee Kubiak, a native of Belgium, expressed outrage. She came to worship and had to listen to Mahony's propaganda.
Mahony seized on a provision in the House bill prohibiting people from helping illegal aliens to remain in the United States. It is aimed at businesses that deliberately hire or otherwise help illegal aliens. Mahony made the absurd argument that a Christian giving a bowl of soup to a hungry immigrant could go to jail.
Officially, the Catholic church denies that it supports amnesty for illegal aliens. But statements made by church leaders contradict this announcement.
In salt Lake City Catholic leaders there supported a national effort to implement immigration reform, which will include amnesty for illegal aliens.
For over a year now, Salt Lake's Catholic leaders have been behind a national church plan called: "Justice for Immigrants: The Catholic Campaign for Immigration Reform."
The plan calls for amnesty for illegal aliens, expanded work opportunities, "family reunification" and establishment of a temporary workers program.
Washington Cardinal Theodore McCaarrick gave the opening speech at the massive demonstrations by illegal aliens on the Mall.
In Oakland, Calif., the Rev. Antonio Valdivia, pastor of St. Louis Bertrand Catholic Church, gripped a palm frond like a walking stick and led a procession of 5,000 advocates for illegal aliens down the middle of International Boulevard.
All of them demand amnesty for illegal aliens.
But a new Zogby poll shows most Catholics oppose amnesty. Then asked 49% said they oppose amnesty, only 34% support it and 15% were unsure. Among Americans at large, 52% oppose amnesty and 32% support it.
Some Americans see the hierarchy's stance on illegal immigration as a crass attempt to increase the church's ranks at the expense of U.S. laws and national security.
"The Vatican has for decades promoted excessive immigration in the U.S., both legal and illegal," writes columnist Richard D. Sloan in The News Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind. "Vast numbers of immigrants are Catholics intended to increase the Vatican's political influence."
Sloan continues: "It is not mere coincidence that our
middle class is disappearing. There are those who plan to do away
completely with our borders so they can put or middle class in
competition against the world's most impoverished masses...It
is the solemn and absolute duty of our government to preserve
and control our borders. Refusal to do so is tantamount to treason."
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The secretive group known as Bilderberg will hold its annual secret meeting at the posh Brook Street Resort a few miles from Ottawa, Canada, June 8-11.
The location and part of the agenda was disclosed to American Free Press by a source inside Bilderberg's inner circle.
High on the Bilderberg's secret agenda this year are oil prices and the political upheaval in Latin America. When meeting last year in Rottach-Egern, Germany, Bilderberg called for dramatic increases in the price of oil. Oil prices started climbing immediately from $40 a barrel to $70.
Whether Bilderberg will call for still higher prices is unclear, but Henry Kissinger and others had gleefully anticipated ultimate prices at $150 a barrel a year ago. Bilderberg is certainly concerned about supply, which is related to the "Latin American problem," as one insider said.
Approximately 120 international leaders in politics and finance will also discuss the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which has caused a rare breach between American Bilderbergers and their European counterparts since the United States Iraq invasion in 2003. Whether the United States should invade Iran is also high on the agenda.
Bilderberg is especially concerned about Venezuela, where as part of a plan to increase revenues from its petroleum industry President Hugo Chavez said May 7 he would impose a new tax on companies that extract oil from his country. Big Oil is represented at Bilderberg by Jeroen van der Veer of The Netherlands, chairman of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group and Franco Bernabe of Italy, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe, among others. "We are going to create a new oil tax, called the tax on extraction,"
Chavez said. "The companies that are pumping oil in Venezuela are making a lot of money."
Chavez accused foreign oil companies of exploiting his country's vast petroleum reserves without paying sufficient taxes. Venezuela is the world's fifth-largest oil exporter but has troubled oil barons by sending cheap petroleum to needy American families and subsidizing domestic use so local citizens pay 12 cents a gallon.
Venezuela has voided oil-pumping contracts with private companies at 32 fields and replaced them with a mixed-company model that gave Venezuela's state-owned Petroleos de Venezuela SA a minimum 60 percent stake. Chavez has also sharply raised royalties and taxes, and reduced potential drilling acreage by almost two-thirds. He is also resisting expansion of NAFTA throughout the hemisphere, a prime Bilderberg goal.
Chavez's outspoken criticisms of the United States make it unlikely that American Bilderbergers can help smooth over the supply problem. However, banker David Rockefeller's family has always had a heavy interest in oil and other investments in South America.
President Bush will have a top White House aide representing him at Bilderberg, and high officials of the state, defense and treasury departments will attend. Heads of state and other high officials in government and banking will attend from Europe and Canada.
Bilderberg's agenda also includes the turmoil in the Middle East, nuclear proliferation, with an emphasis on Iran, North Korea and Pakistan, and global warming.
The Bilderberg group takes it name from the hotel in Holland where the group met in 1954, during the earliest period of its inception. Bilderbergers meet regularly, presumably on a once-a-year basis, at various locations around the world, always in extreme secrecy, often at resorts controlled by either the Rockefeller or Rothschild families. The Rothschild family is the leading European force within the Bilderberg Group, sharing its power with the American-based Rockefeller empire.
Bilderberg maintains an extremely low profile and seldom, if ever, publishes reports or studies for the public, at least, under its own official aegis. Participants denied the groups very existence for decades until it was forced into the open by the glare of media publicity, generated largely by the now defunct Spotlight newspaper.
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While Washington dithers over exploiting oil and gas reserves of the coast of Florida, China has seized the opportunity to gobble up these deposits, which run throughout Latin America, the Caribbean and along the U.S. Gulf coast.
The Chinese have forged a deal with Cuban leader Fidel Castro to explore and tap into massive oil reserves almost within sight of Key West, Florida. At the same time, Venezuelan President Hugo Chaves who controls the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere, is making deals to sell his country's oil to China, oil that is currently coming to the United States.
Meanwhile, a new left-wing populist regime in bolivia has nationalized the natural gas industry, threatening to cut off supplies to the United States.
SLANT DRILLING
There are new reports out circulation that Chinese firms are planning to slant drill off the Cuban coast near the Florida Straits, tapping into U.S. oil reserves that are estimated at 4.6 billion to 9.3 billion barrels believed to be beneath the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge, where drilling is held up in Congress due to the objections of environmental groups which warn of endangering caribou. Permission to drill in the refuge, which experts are certain will not present any environmental hazard has failed by just two votes in the Senate.
As Chinese business increases its reach around the world, it is seeking oil, which it lacks domestically.
After elections in Mexico in early July, when a new regime hostile to Washington is expected to take power, the United States might be without supplies of Mexican crude oil. The United states gets about 40 percent of its imported oil from Mexico and Venezuela.
China is eager to tap into oil reserves in the Florida Straits and then make a deal with Castro to control it. The Chinese have already reopened an abandoned Russian oil refinery in Cuba. Much of the gas refined there is believed to be destined for Freeport in the Bahamas, where the Chinese, through front company Hutchison-Whampoa, has developed a massive port facility and airfield.
With the refinery reopened and expanded it will also meet the needs of Castro.
Sen. Larry Craig (R-Idaho) has introduced legislation to ease
U.S. restrictions that prevent dealing with Cuba to drill in the
Florida Straits. It is hoped that Florida regulations that prevent
U.S. oil drilling off the state's coasts could also be eased.
The irony is that Chinese drilling could be even more of an environmental
hazard since China is not as concerned about or equipped to deal
with any potential ecological disaster as a result of a spill,
said Craig.
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"Baloney" is how Rep. Tom tancredo (R-Colo.) Described President Bush's may 15 speech about the immigraiton crisis. Tancredo said the "guest worker" program is just another way to describe an amnesty program. Tancredo was joined by many others in the House and Senate.
Tancredo is not alone.
Rep Peter King (R-N.Y.) said, in reference to the millions of illegal aliens in the country, that they should not be given amnesty here. Sen. George Allen (R-Va.), a presidential hopeful, added that no guest worker program should be considered until the border is secured.
On the other hand, senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), with one eye on the White House, presented legislation highlighting a guest worker program. Frist has been tiptoeing through the immigration issue and offered great praise for the president's speech.
President Bush's proposal to get a watered-down immigration bill out of the Senate by proposing to station 6,999 National Guard "logistical" troops along the more than 2,000-mile border was viewed by Rep. Virgil Goode (R-Va.) With some amusement. Every year, since 1997, Goode has introduced legislation that would require stationing National Guard troops along the border, and each year it has been approved by the House only to be rejected by the Senate.
Military analyst Lt. Col. David Hunt said 18,000 to 20,000 National Guard troops would actually be needed, considering that the 6,000 proposed by Bush would be reduced to 2,000 in three daily duty shifts.
Bush emphasized that the troops would not be involved in law enforcement but would provide "logistical" support for Border Patrol agents.
Another military analyst wondered if the troops would be armed with live ammunition or would be defenseless targets of well-armed Mexican army troops and para-military troops of the drug lords, who make frequent incursions into the United States, sometimes firing at U.S. Border Patrol. Could they be "armed" with empty rifles like U.S. troops sent on peacekeeping missions to the Middle East and elsewhere?
Bush called illegal immigration a "part of American life" and said Mexico is "our neighbor and friend." However, a government that encourages illegal immigration, allows its own troops to protect drug smugglers and tries to sabotage international security efforts is no friend of the United States.
President Bush noted that his guest worker program would allow illegal aliens to remain in the United States so long as they can be properly accounted for. He said they had to work, pay taxes and reside in the United States for several years like good citizens, which would earn them the right to a place at the end of the line of those seeking to become citizens.
Tancredo retorted that the president's "back of the line" referred to immigrants already in the country, not to those trying to follow proper immigration procedures and get in from the outside. In other words, illegal aliens would be allowed stay in America as they waited to become citizens, while legal applicants had to wait in their home countries.
Polls show that 80 percent of the American people are demanding that the border be secured. Many Americans cynically noted that Bush's immigration proposals are an effort to appease his political base, which is deserting him and to boost his ever-falling ratings in the polls.
Since taking office, Bush has avoided making any serious effort
to secure America's borders. Still, immigration has become the
number one issue, and the American people are demanding action.
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