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Please find the urls and excerpts below for these pages. Sincerely, Neil http://congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?billnum=H.R.2459&congress=107 Congressional Legislation To establish a Department of Peace. Bill # H.R.2459 Original Sponsor: Dennis Kucinich (D-OH 10th) Sponsor/Cosponsor Total: 42 (last sponsor added 10/09/2001) 41 Democrats 1 Independents About This Legislation: 7/11/2001--Introduced. Establishes a Department of Peace, which shall be headed by a Secretary of Peace appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate. Sets forth the mission of the Department, including to: (1) hold peace as an organizing principle; (2) endeavor to promote justice and democratic principles to expand human rights; and (3) develop policies that promote national and international conflict prevention, nonviolent intervention, mediation, peaceful resolution of conflict, and structured mediation of conflict. www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11764 10 Reasons to Stop Bombing Afghanistan Don Hazen, AlterNet October 19, 2001 Despite almost universal agreement that America "needs to do something" in response to terrorism, our heavy bombing of Afghanistan increasingly looks like a bad idea. While virtually all of us feel that strong steps should be taken to apprehend anyone behind the massive murders on September 11, when you add up all the facts, the pulverizing of a battered country just doesn't make a whole lot of sense.... 1. Creating new terrorists. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of innocent civilians have already been killed by U.S. bombing in pursuit of Osama bin Laden. The Pentagon has confirmed numerous instances of "collateral damage," including a 2,000-pound bomb that struck a residential area near Kabul. (http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11734 - AlterNet -- Kabul's Poorest Have No Escape from U_S_ Bombs) http://www.alexconstantine.50megs.com/home.html need to scroll to the article below America, oil and Afghanistan - The Hindu - October 13, 2001 - By Sitaram Yechury.... Afghanistan occupies the central position in the U.S. strategy for the economic control of the oil and gas resources in the entire Middle East. The U.S. currently imports 51 per cent of its crude oil - 19.5 million barrels daily. The Energy Information Administration estimates that by 2020, the U.S. will import 64 per cent of its crude - 25.8 million barrels a day. Caspian region oil reserves might be the third largest in the world (after Western Siberia and the Persian Gulf) and, within the next 15 to 20 years, may be large enough to offset Persian Gulf oil. Caspian Sea oil and gas are not the only hydrocarbon deposits in the region. Turkmenistan's Karakum Desert holds the world's third largest gas reserves - three trillion cubic meters - and has six billion barrels of estimated oil reserves. Current estimates indicate that, in addition to huge gas deposits, the Caspian basin may hold as much as 200 billion barrels of oil - 33 times the estimated holdings of Alaska's North Slope and a current value of $4 trillion. It is enough to meet the U.S.' energy needs for 30 years or more. The presence of these oil reserves and the possibility of their export raises new strategic concerns for the U.S. and other Western industrial powers. As oil companies build oil pipelines from the Caucasus and Central Asia to supply Japan and the West, these strategic concerns gain military implications. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html";>Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/";>ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
