One of the people accused of helping refugees escape from Woomera is
asking for letters of support. Please write to:
timothy daniel collins
port augusta prison
po box 6
port augusta
SA 5700
(Tim can't receive any books or papers but can receive cash and money
orders).
This week's stories: People of Iraq to Be Liberated...To Create A New
World Free From Terrorism...Free From Fear...And Based on
Democracy......Quotes of the Week.
A UN report prepared before the war on Iraq estimated that it will
create 900,000 refugees. The report also says that as many as 500,000
Iraqis may require treatment: 100,000 for injuries, 400,000 for disease.
The report says that 3.03 million people will require 'therapeutic
feeding' - "2.03 million severely and moderately malnourished children
under five and one million pregnant and lactating women".
London Times.
The American government is planning a secret meeting to discuss the
construction of a new generation of nuclear weapons, according to a
leaked Pentagon document.
A meeting of military officials and nuclear scientists in August would
also decide whether to restart nuclear testing and how to convince the
public new weapons are necessary.
The National Nuclear Security Administration, which is responsible for
designing, building and maintaining nuclear weapons, has confirmed that
the document is real.
A policy paper by Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld identified seven
countries as potential targets for US nuclear weapons. The American
government has adopted the policy of 'pre-emptive strikes' - attacking
other countries that they feel might pose a threat in the future.
The Guardian (UK), Washington Post.
More than half of the San Francisco police department's leadership face
prosecution for allegedly trying to cover up a street brawl involving
off-duty police officers.
Four of the city's senior police officers, including its police chief
Earl Sanders, were among 10 officers indicted on criminal charges in
connection with the fight reportedly sparked over a bag of Mexican
take-away food.
Three junior officers are accused of beating two civilians who refused
to hand over their bag of steak Fajitas.
ABC news website.
The Australian government has established an email address where people
can pass messages on to troops in Iraq. However the Defence Department
says that 'negative' messages, presumably meaning messages critical of
the war, will not be passed on.
Quotes of the week:
"If the U.S. unilaterally goes to war, and it is anything short of a
quick surgical strike (lasting less than 30 days), the economists were
all predicting extreme economic gloom: falling dollar value, rising spot
market oil prices, the Fed pushing interest rates down towards zero
with resulting increase in national debt, severe trouble in all
countries whose currency is guaranteed agains the dollar (which is just
about everybody except the EU), a near cessation of all development and
humanitarian programs for poor countries. Very few economists or
ministers of finance predicted the world getting out of that economic
funk for minimally five-10 years, once the downward spiral ensues".
Science journalist Laurie Garrett, in a leaked private email sent from
the World Economic Forum.
"[The world is] run by about 5,000 bickering, sometimes charming,
usually arrogant, mostly male people who are accustomed to living in
either phenomenal wealth, or great personal power".
Laurie Garrett.
"...this Administration has chosen to make terrorism a domestic
political tool, enlisting a scattered and largely defeated Al Qaeda as
its bureaucratic ally. We spread disproportionate terror and confusion
in the public mind, arbitrarily linking the unrelated problems of
terrorism and Iraq. The result, and perhaps the motive, is to justify a
vast misallocation of shrinking public wealth to the military and to
weaken the safeguards that protect American citizens from the heavy hand
of government. September 11 did not do as much damage to the fabric of
American society as we seem determined to so to ourselves. Is the Russia
of the late Romanovs really our model, a selfish, superstitious empire
thrashing toward self-destruction in the name of a doomed status quo?"
John Brady Kiesling, an American diplomat for twenty years, in his
letter of resignation.
"We have not seen such systematic distortion of intelligence, such
systematic manipulation of the American people, since the war in Vietnam".
John Brady Kiesling.
"We back democracy all the way. All the way, that is, up to the point
where they disagree with us."
Former US senior State Dept. Official, quoted in SchNews news report.
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