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Comment on THE EXPOSED: VIDEO -- RALLY FOR POISONED NUCLEAR WEAPONS WORKERS IN OAK RIDGE, TN

2008-07-28T21:03:33Z

Hello,

The exposed nuclear rally is for workers .In which they want to make environment clean and healthy .Many people are sick from poisonous environment.
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Comment on DECLARATION OF PEACE PLEDGE: TAKE ACTION FOR A NEW COURSE IN IRAQ

2007-07-31T16:55:35Z

Cris, sent you an email -- talk to you soon ...

Comment on DECLARATION OF PEACE PLEDGE: TAKE ACTION FOR A NEW COURSE IN IRAQ

2007-07-30T08:57:59Z

Wes, I am trying to reach you. Where are you?
Cris McConkey, Trumanaburg, NY

Comment on SUPPORT BBC'S ALAN JOHNSTON'S RELEASE FROM ABDUCTION IN THE GAZA STRIP

2007-07-10T14:22:28Z

Carter -- I use OS-X also on a MacBook Pro and have no problem -- it's not the blog's software, but if a glitch, likely on the BBC site -- Wes

Comment on SUPPORT BBC'S ALAN JOHNSTON'S RELEASE FROM ABDUCTION IN THE GAZA STRIP

2007-07-03T08:24:13Z

I can't get to the Alan Johnson article, but get caught in clicking back and forth from pages promising it. ZIs this due to my having an iMac (OS-X tiger) or some flaw in the Non-Violent Ways software?
Carter Pate

Comment on TACTICS TO THWART A NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST URANIUM WEAPONS

2007-06-08T01:33:08Z

I overran my 3000 character limit -- write me - I answer all mail, even the nasty and impolite .. I have made an in depth study of the characters in the anti-DU business and I have made an in depth study of DU. I got in this because I learned about nuclear fallout when I was a young Captain heading for Iceland and I saw DU being described as if it were fallout. I also saw a false comparison with the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan and there are Japanese activists who have fomented the anti-DU crusade because of what we did to end WW-II. I am also afraid that some kid in the Middle East is going to be convinced by the frauds in the anti-DU business that he should pay the US back for poisoning his country forever. That would be a horrific result from these frauds because the fact is that no one has poisoned anyone's country forever with DU and especially not Afghanistan which is the heart of why the fraud Mohammed Daud Miraki continues to raise money for non-existent health care facilities to care for non-existent patients in Afghanistan even after the State of Illinois shut down his non-profit corporation. I turned him in to the IRS and I hope that they go after him for tax fraud in addition to being one of Cathy Garger's very best people. I see she is mentioned many times in Cliff's piece, which seems to be drawing no ratings except mine, but has been circulated around the world to make me out to be some awful government spook when all I really am is a smart fellow with a keyboard who used to love having his elderly cat sit on the mouse and purr. Unfortunately, that pleasure of battling the anti-DU crusade business has ended because at the age of 18 she died of kidney failure.

Roger Helbig
rwhelbig at gmail dot com

DU Story, DU and other Yahoo groups have the actual documents about Moret, Rokke and links to factual information about DU, uranium, natural radioactive minerals like Thorium, very common in the sands of Rio de Janerio, now, has anyone seen a Brazilian bikini clad beauty out with a radiation meter like Moret in Hawaii .. if they did it would make Moret's readings look like mere background radiation, which of course is just what they were.

Comment on TACTICS TO THWART A NONVIOLENT CAMPAIGN AGAINST URANIUM WEAPONS

2007-06-08T01:19:42Z

Cliff Kindy ought to correspond with me rather than ratting me out to his friends on this BLOG. I was writing a long and impassioned message about the frauds in the anti-DU crusader business. Yes, it is a business, look at the books and DVDs that they sell, the donations that they solicit and even paid admission to conferences like the one in Vancouver, BC later in June. Where is all that money going and why do you support them? There job is to convince you to keep supporting them. I am the ultimate bad guy for now because I have Google searches on my name (that's how I found this one, Doug Rokke, one of the principal frauds, Leuren Moret, another of the principal frauds, and Bob Nichols, their spokesperson and I read the mail on anti-DU groups, some of which are open to the public. I am a retired Air Force Reservist and when I turn 60 in July, I will actually begin to draw a small monthly check for serving 25 years active and reserve duty. Doug Rokke is not yet 60, so he does not get the check, but he is a retired Army Reservist. He served all of about 2 years in the Army as a Reservist, and all the rest of his time (he tries to make you believe he is a career soldier; Don Williams bought that line hook line and sinker, but Rokke really served a number of years in the Illinois National Guard when they were mainly home in the cornfields, not in Iraq, and in the Army Reserve. He did get called for the Gulf War and he served in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - he sometimes tells people that he is a disabled combat veteran - well, he never saw combat, so that is a lie, just one of many, like that he was the Director of the Army DU program, well Captain Rokke, Army Reserve, on active duty in Alabama at the Army Chemical Corps School got out of active duty and became Mr Rokke, Civilian supervisor of the School's classes about DU. Mr Rokke failed to complete his first six months probation. Doctor Rokke is a PhD in Education, not in Medicine, not in Physics, not in Health Physics, his PhD thesis is long, dull and boring and has absolutely nothing to do with depleted uranium. Lieutenant Rokke, back from the Gulf never even mentioned DU. He did not join that bandwagon until he realized that it was a comfortable living, better than just being a substitute teacher and an actor in community theater and he found he could spin tall tales with the best of them. That's why I call it a business. Rokke, Moret, Nichols, Garger, some of the big names, and Garger is just a windbag, has absolutely no knowledge about anything, just writed convincing stories, Nichols is her tutor; whatever he says goes and he has even less knowledge than Garger. Moret likes to be called Doctor Moret, but she knows that she really dropped out of the doctoral program and never studied anything to do with radiation, uranium or how to measure radioactivity, but snows you because she once worked at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and before that Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory.

Comment on PALESTINIAN UNITY GOV'T IS GOOD NEWS, BUT WHAT ABOUT ITS ISRAELI PARTNER? - URI AVNERY

2007-03-19T04:20:43Z

Just as I thought.

Comment on THOUGHTS ON NONVIOLENCE FROM CARTER PATE OF TENNESSEE

2007-03-14T10:43:59Z

The following is an antiwar strategy proposed by Tom Hayden's blog. (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-hayden/strategy-for-antiwar-mov_b_3255.html). Here is a summary: ENDING THE IRAQ WAR, AN ORGANIZER’S GUIDE.

The strategy is to undermine the pillars that make the war possible, while building new pillars of peace and justice.

The Pillars of War

1. public opinion. Goal: to achieve a solid majority who believe the costs have outrun any benefits. Primary method: targeted education and outreach. Issues: casualties, budgetary cost, prison torture, contractor corruption, unilateralism, country becoming less safe.
2. Military recruitment. Goal: to limit the troops available to fight. Primary methods: increase pressure against military recruiters by parents and young people, support dissenting soldiers, oppose diversion of reserves and guard.
3. Congressional opposition. Goal: to increase bipartisan questioning of war and amendments to limit or end taxpayer funding. Primary methods: build anti-war coalitions in targeted congressional districts, demand hearings and accountability, pressure for withdrawal timetable and funding cuts. Issues: go to costsofwar.com for information on the war’s costs.
4. Left-Right Alliance. Goal: encourage Republican and “red state” opposition to while building up progressive anti-war forces among Democrats, independents and Greens. Primary methods: stress costs in blood, taxes and reputation, expose fabrications that led to American deaths, work closely with military families. For Democrats build grass-roots opposition through groups like Progressive Democats of America.
5. Coalition of Willing. Goal: reduce allied troops in Iraq, increase military isolation of US. Primary methods: publicly defend countries that pull troops, support global peace and justice movement pressure on UK, Italy, etc., condemn coalition with known human rights abusers like Uzbekistan, Pakistan.

The Pillars of Peace and Justice

• build a long-term anti-empire, pro-democracy movement as permanent force
• link peace with domestic budget cuts
• link with working class through counter-recruitment
• link with environment/consumer through energy conservation/renewables
• link with civil liberties through anti-torture, anti-Patriot Act
• link with spiritual community through anti-Christian extremism
• link with conservatives through economic and security costs

Comment on WELCOME! ¡BIENVENIDO!

2007-03-13T04:26:46Z

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