-Caveat Lector- also contains excerpts from Iraq peace pledge, Bush Gives Secrecy Power to Public Health Secretary, Is it Osama or Memorex? , CIA COVERT ACTIONS & DRUG TRAFFICKING, Pacific News Content Heroin, Drug Warlords Reappear on Afghan Scene, Heroin, Drug Warlords Reappear on Afghan Scene
this may be heavy for survivors of abuse Pedophile Confessions Compared to Allegations and Examination Findings of Their Victims Amy A. Daso, Barry H. Creighton, Robert A. Shapiro - "The 31 perpetrators confessed to a total of 101 acts of sexual abuse. Some acts were committed multiple times. The 31 perpetrators abused 47 children and the 45 children who were old enough to provide a history described 111 acts of sexual abuse.... In addition, these victims' allegations were substantiated by the perpetrators. This level of substantiation may not exist, however, in cases without a confession. The only allegations that were denied by the perpetrators were those of penile-vaginal or penile-rectal penetration. The reason for a reluctance to admit to these acts might be the stiffer criminal penalties associated with penetration." http://mediswww.meds.cwru.edu/dept/pct/Year%204/hp00/Daso.html Violence hurts children emotionally, academically By Melissa Schorr New York, 12/19/01 (Reuters Health) - Young, inner-city children who have witnessed episodes of violence are more likely to miss days of school and get poor grades, researchers report...The study revealed that, overall, these young children had already witnessed a significant amount of violence. One third of the 7-year-olds said they had seen someone get shot, and 10% had seen someone in their own home get shot or stabbed. Three-quarters had at least heard a gun being fired. Moreover, many showed signs of depression, anxiety and low self-esteem. For example, 32% of the children said they were sometimes or often afraid something bad would happen if they went outside to play, while 61% worried they could get killed or die." Source: Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2001;155:1351-1356. http://www.reutershealth.com/frame2/arch.html and search for date 2001-12-19 Japan Hosts World Congress to Battle Child Sex Trade by Tim Large 12/16/01 "Yokohama, Japan (Reuters) - More than 3,000 delegates from 137 countries gathered near Tokyo Sunday for a congress to combat the child sex trade, a multibillion dollar racket spanning the globe. The four-day congress, the second of its kind, comes five years after governments, U.N. agencies and grass-roots groups first met in Stockholm to map out a battle plan against commercial child sex abuse." http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011216/wr/crime_children_sex_dc_1.html survivors of abuse may want to use caution when doing this http://www.peaceresponse.org/pledge/index.shtml The Bush Administration is considering pursuing military action against as many as 40 countries suspected of harboring terrorists. Iraq remains a prime target. In the past 11 years the US has led a devastating economic and air assault on that country in an effort to weaken Saddam Hussein. This war has - according to UN estimates - killed over a million people (including an estimated average of 150 children a day). The US rationalizes escalation of the war against Iraq as part of a general war on terrorism although no links to the Sept. 11 attack have been disclosed, nor are they likely. And outgoing Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, told incoming President George Bush in January, 2001: "Iraq no longer poses a military threat to its neighbors." Iraq is willing to let weapons inspectors return if the bombing and economic sanctions are lifted (Iraqi Ambassador to UN al-Douri, BBC Nov. 29, 2001), a solution that would promote international security and the welfare of the Iraqi people. http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/20/politics/20SECR.html?ex=1009909544&ei=1&en=b 4a4f54ff922b02f December 20, 2001 CLASSIFIED INFORMATION Bush Gives Secrecy Power to Public Health Secretary By ALISON MITCHELL WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 — President Bush has granted the secretary of health and human services the power to classify information as secret, a step that shows how the battle against terrorism is drawing domestic agencies into the national security apparatus. William A. Pierce, the spokesman for the Health and Human Services Department, called the new authority a recognition that the agency was now in the forefront of preparations to fight bioterrorism and is sitting in on White House sessions on domestic security. "The bottom line is relatively simple," Mr. Pierce said. "We are now a homeland security agency, part of the homeland security council." He said he expected a "narrow subset" of agency documents to be classified, those relating to bioterrorism and the nation's preparedness to respond to it.... In 1995 President Bill Clinton issued an executive order that overhauled government secrecy rules, reducing the number of documents made secret and shortening the time such documents were kept classified. http://www.rockrivertimes.com/trrtcgi/viewnews.cgi?category=2&id=1008788955 Viewpoint: Is it Osama or Memorex? By Joe Baker Senior Editor Last week Vice-President Richard Cheney and President George W. Bush announced the discovery of a video tape reportedly containing admissions by Osama bin Laden that he was behind the 9/11 attacks. What a fortunate turn of events...for the Bush administration. As historian David Irving commented: "How fortunate that of all the millions of videotapes littering liberated Kandahar, the Americans should have chanced upon this one!" Here is a man accused of masterminding a highly sophisticated and carefully crafted assault on the U.S. that took years of planning. In all that time, not one word of the plan leaked out, but he just happened to leave an incriminating video tape lying around where we could find it. How careless of him! This is not said in defense of bin Laden. I have no use for the scumbag. He deserves whatever he gets; but it is, I believe, an example of the duplicity this administration foists on the American public as fact. http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/Issues/97-08%20AUG/ciacovert.html CIA COVERT ACTIONS & DRUG TRAFFICKING by Alfred McCoy Let's look at the heroin boom of the 1980s. In the 1980s, CIA op-erations again played a role in the revival of the U.S. drug problem. In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan and the Sandinistas seized power in Nicaragua, prompting two more CIA operations with some revealing similarities. Let us now pay particularly close attention to the CIA's Afghan operation. Not only is the Afghan operation simultaneous and similar to the controversial contra operation, but its direct and negative impact on U.S. drug supply is beyond question or controversy. In 1980 and 1981, heroin production in Southwest Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan suddenly expanded to fill gaps in the global drug market. Although Pakistan and Afghanistan had zero-zero-heroin production in the mid-1970s, by 1981 Pakistan had suddenly emerged as the world's number one heroin supplier. Reporting from Teheran in the mid 1970s, U.S. Ambassador Richard Helms, the former CIA Director, insisted that there was no heroin production in this region, only localized opium trade. This region, he said, then supplied zero percent of the U.S. heroin supply. In 1981, by contrast, the U.S. Attorney General announced that Pakistan was now supplying sixty percent of the U.S. demand for heroin. Inside Pakistan itself the results were even more disastrous. Rising from zero heroin addicts in 1979, Pakistan had five thousand addicts in 1980 and one million two hundred thousand addicts in 1985, the world's highest number in any terms. Why was Pakistan able to capture the world's heroin market with such surprising speed and ease? http://www.pacificnews.org/content/pns/2001/dec/1217warlords.html Heroin, Drug Warlords Reappear on Afghan Scene By Peter Dale Scott, Pacific News Service, Dec 17, 2001 Quick on the heels of Taliban defeat, starving farmers are replanting the opium poppies banned under the Islamist regime, giving rise to fears of renewed drug warlordism. Engaged in the shooting war, Washington may be turning a blind eye to a favorite income source of its allies, says Pacific News Service commentator Peter Dale Scott -- bad news for those who want to reduce global heroin production. Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, and has authored numerous books on drugs and U.S. foreign policy. Within two years, Afghanistan may again be producing 2,800 or more tons of opium annually, according to U.S. and Pakistani sources, becoming again the world's chief supply source. In areas bordering Pakistan, where most of the opium is processed, prices have already plummeted. While the Taliban effectively forbade growing opium poppies -- the raw material for heroin -- their defeat means starving farmers are hurrying to replant the one lucrative crop available to them.... 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