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Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Mount St. Helens Crater Shaken by Earthquake

Mount St. Helens Crater Shaken by Earthquake

Mount St. Helens Crater Shaken by Earthquake

The earthquake, which struck on Saturday at the crater at Mount St. Helens, measured 3.1 on the Richter scale, making it the strongest quake at the volcano since mid-October.

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/38468.html

A 3.1-magnitude earthquake shook the crater at Mount St. Helens on Saturday, the strongest quake at the volcano since mid-October.

US Geological Survey scientists said they did not believe a major eruption was imminent, just a continuation of the minor ash and steam eruptions that have been occurring since the mountain reawakened in the autumn.

Saturday's earthquake appeared to be a larger version of the small earthquakes scientists have registered about once a minute for the past several weeks, the USGS said.

Scientists hoped good weather yesterday and today would allow them to get a better look at the volcano.

A flurry of small earthquakes beginning in late September were followed by a burst of steam and ash on Oct. 1, the first in a series of small eruptions.

None of the early earthquakes measured over 3.2 in magnitude.

A new lava formation began building in the crater soon after, with magma reaching the floor at the rate of 7 to 8 cubic meters, about one large dump truck load, every second.

The new dome and the uplifted floor beneath it now cover 28.33 hectares and stand 228.6m high.

Mount St. Helens blew apart in May 1980, killing 57 people and covering the region with gritty ash.

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Monday, November 29, 2004

Bird Flu Pandemic Viewed as Likely

 

Bird Flu Pandemic Viewed as Likely

Bird Flu Pandemic Viewed as Likely http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Bird-Flu-Pandemic-Viewed-as-Likely-38474.html

The geographic spread of the H5N1 virus in poultry, and evidence that it is becoming more versatile, could make its eradication impossible, WHO officials warned. In addition to killing humans, the virus has affected other animals, most recently tigers in a Thailand zoo.

International health officials meeting in Bangkok expressed grave fears Friday that the evolving avian flu virus could result in a pandemic.

A senior World Health Organization (WHO) official said the conditions are ripe for a new pandemic, and that the resiliency of the H5N1 virus makes it a likely candidate for an international outbreak.

"We are closer now to an influenza pandemic than at any time in recent years," said Dr. Shiferu Omi, WHO's Western Pacific regional director.

Go to:  http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Bird-Flu-Pandemic-Viewed-as-Likely-38474.html  for entire article.

 

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Mystery surrounds Yushchenko ailment

 
 

Mystery surrounds Yushchenko ailment

 
 
Find this article at:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/11/25/yushchenko.ailment.ap/index.html


VIENNA, Austria (AP) -- What ails Viktor Yushchenko?

As Ukraine's popular pro-Western opposition leader claimed victory Tuesday in hotly contested presidential elections, the mystery surrounding an appearance-altering illness that twice prompted him to check into a Vienna hospital persisted.

Yushchenko accused the Ukrainian authorities of poisoning him. His detractors suggested he'd eaten some bad sushi.

Adding to the intrigue, the Austrian doctors who treated him have asked foreign experts to help determine if his symptoms may have been caused by toxins found in biological weapons.

Medical experts said they may never know for sure what befell Yushchenko.

But the illness, whatever it was, has dramatically changed his appearance since he first sought treatment at Vienna's private Rudolfinerhaus clinic on September 10.

Known for his ruggedly handsome, almost movie star looks, Yushchenko's complexion is now pockmarked. His face is haggard, swollen and partially paralyzed. One eye often tears up.

Doctors at Rudolfinerhaus declined to comment Tuesday. By the time Yushchenko checked out of the clinic last month after returning for follow-up treatment, physicians said they could neither prove nor rule out that he had been poisoned.

Dr. Nikolai Korpan, who oversaw Yushchenko's treatment in Vienna, said the cause of his illness remained "totally open.''

Doctors were unable to confirm suspicions of poisoning because Yushchenko first checked into the clinic four days after the symptoms appeared -- too late for tests to show if poisoning had occurred, Korpan said.

At Rudolfinerhaus, Yushchenko underwent a week of intensive treatment for several illnesses, including acute pancreatitis, a viral skin disease and nerve paralysis on the left side of his face, Korpan said.

Clinic director Michael Zimpfer said doctors were unable to explain some of Yushchenko's symptoms, particularly his strong backaches.

He said they could not rule out stress or a viral infection.

Yushchenko's doctors in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, said they had determined that "chemicals not of a food origin'' had triggered the illness.

Zimpfer and the clinic's chief physician, Dr. Lothar Wicke -- who requested police protection after receiving an anonymous threat while treating Yushchenko -- later asked for outside help from "a specialist in military operations and biological weapons,'' the Austria Press Agency reported.

Yushchenko's medical files since have been sealed and turned over to Austrian prosecutors, local media reported.

Authorities have not said whether they planned to investigate further or merely turn over their findings to Ukraine.

Earlier this month, Volodymyr Syvkovych, the head of a 15-member Ukrainian parliamentary commission that investigated the mysterious illness, said a forensic medical examination found no traces of "any biological weapons'' in Yushchenko's blood, nails, hair or urine.



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Dropping the anchorman

Dropping the anchorman
Nov 25th 2004
From The Economist print edition


Dan Rather's retirement marks a welcome change in American journalism


FOR conservative America, it just keeps on getting better. A mere 20 days after the Republicans' clean sweep of the White House and Congress, the American right celebrated the retirement of one of the hated grandees of liberal journalism, Dan Rather. Â?It's as if the voters just keep on voting,Â? says one conservative. Â?And our side just keeps on winning.Â?

The right has been after Mr Rather's scalp for decades. The CBS veteran made his name beating up Richard Nixon in the Watergate era and has kept CBS News on the liberal straight-and-narrow as its longstanding news anchor. (Accuracy in Media, a conservative-watchdog group, first started its Â?Can DanÂ? campaign 16 years ago.) Mr Rather's career highlights include a shouting match with George Bush senior over Iran-contra and an interview with Saddam Hussein shortly before last year's American invasion. Now the 73-year-old has announced that he will be retiring from his anchoring job next March.

Next March will be exactly 24 years since Mr Rather took over from Walter Cronkite. But Mr Rather's reputation has not recovered from a Â?60 MinutesÂ? documentary (made by CBS) which tried to raise questions about George Bush junior's service in the Texas National Guard. Mr Rather claimed to have documents proving that Mr Bush had violated a direct order to take a physical examination, and also that his superiors had been put under pressure to Â?sugarcoatÂ? his evaluation. But within 14 hours internet sleuths had shown that the documents were forgeries. Mr Rather stood by his story for 12 excruciating days, while his supporters arrogantly contrasted the network's rigorous fact-checking with Â?a guy sitting in his living room in his pyjamas writingÂ?. But the pyjama guy turned out to be right.

Mr Rather's retirement epitomises two broader shifts of power. First, the old media are losing power to the new. And, second, the liberal media establishment is losing power to a more diverse cacophony of new voices.

For most of the post-war era the American media were dominated by a comfortable liberal consensus. The New York Times was the undisputed king of the print news, while the network anchors lorded it over TV news. That consensus is now under siege. The attacks are partly coming from the cable networksÂ?particularly from conservative Fox News. (Charles Krauthammer once quipped that Rupert Murdoch had spotted a niche marketÂ?half the country. Sure enough, Fox is now America's top-rated cable news network.) But old media also face a newer and more unpredictable source of competitionÂ?the blogosphere. Bloggers have discovered that all you need to set yourself up as a pundit is a website and an attitude.

All through the recent election campaign, the new media outsmarted the old media when it came to setting the news agenda. Republican strategists admit that the Swift Boat veterans' attacks on John Kerry, largely ignored by the old media, would never have got anywhere without the online Drudge Report. Drudge was also instrumental in turning the Â?60 MinutesÂ? story into an embarrassment for the Democrats, not Mr Bush. Local bloggers also had an effect; in South Dakota, for instance, they repeatedly highlighted Tom Daschle's partisan record in Washington, DC, something that the Democratic Senate majority leader's friends in the local print media had never laboured to expose.

The bloggers have often been at their most devastating when they have been criticising the old media for bias. Their favourite target has long been the New York Times, where they helped to remove the paper's previous editor, Howell Raines. But CBS is also a juicy target. Why, the bloggers are now demanding, is Mr Rather being allowed to keep a full-time job working for Â?60 MinutesÂ?, the very programme whose reputation he has besmirched? Â?This is not a victory,Â? proclaims Rathergate.com, before declaring its intention to keep attacking CBS.


Given America's fractious politics, it is easy to look at Mr Rather's retirement merely in terms of a left v right scorecard. But, more fundamentally, it is about choice.

Mr Rather's announcement of his (partial) retirement comes just a few days before Tom Brokaw resigns from his job anchoring NBC's evening news. That leaves ABC's Peter Jennings as the only survivor of the long-established triumvirate. But nobody imagines that the arrival of new blood at CBS and NBC will revive the fortunes of the network news. Most Americans now get their news from an ever-proliferating range of sources: not just Fox or CNN, but also foreign newspapers and even the innumerable original documents that are now available at the touch of a button. And fewer people regard any single news sourceÂ?be it CBS News or the New York TimesÂ?as the embodiment of truth.

The erosion of the old media establishment probably does entail some shift to the right, if only because so many of the newer voices are more reliably pro-Republican than Mr Rather. But the new media are simply too anarchic and subversive for any single political faction to take control of them. There are plenty of leftish bloggers too: such people helped Howard Dean's presidential campaign. And the most successful conservative bloggers are far from being party loyalists: look at the way in 2002 that they kept the heat on the Republicans' then Senate leader, Trent Lott, for racist remarks that the New York Times originally buried. It is a safe bet that, if the current Bush administration goes the way of previous second-term administrations and becomes consumed by scandals, conservative bloggers will be in the forefront of the scandal-mongering.

Mr Rather's passing does not mean that the liberal orthodoxy is about to give way to a new conservative one. It means that all orthodoxies are being chewed up by a voraciously unpredictable news media, which is surely all to the good.



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Friday, November 26, 2004

Check out the huge coronal hole currently transiting the solar disc!

Check out the huge coronal hole currently transiting the solar disc!

http://solar.spacew.com/eit/
 

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Solar Terrestrial Activity Report
http://www.dxlc.com/solar/

Recent activity    [November 26, 2004 at 04:40 UTC]

The geomagnetic field was quiet to minor storm on November 25. Solar wind speed ranged between 455 and 556 km/sec under the influence of a high speed
stream from coronal hole CH128.

Solar flux measured at 20h UTC on 2.8 GHz was 109.4. The planetary A index was 20 (STAR Ap - based on the mean of three hour interval ap indices: 20.1).
Three hour interval K indices: 45344322 (planetary), 44333423 (Boulder).

The background x-ray flux is at the class B2 level.

At midnight there were 3 spotted regions on the visible solar disk. The solar flare activity level was low. A total of 1 C class event was recorded during the day. That
flare was a C2.6 event at 11:01 with an origin behind the northeast limb.

Region 10704 decayed slowly and quietly.
Region 10706 developed slowly as a few spots emerged in the south and southwest.
Region 10707 became less complex as the positive polarity spot in the north separated from the negative polarity spots in the main penumbra.

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs)

November 23-25: No obviously Earth directed CMEs observed.

Coronal holes

Recurrent coronal hole CH128 in the southern hemisphere was in a geoeffective position on November 21-23. Large and well defined recurrent trans equatorial
coronal hole CH129 will rotate into a geoeffective position on November 27-28.

Forecast

The geomagnetic field is expected to quiet to active on November 26 and quiet to unsettled on November 27-29. Unsettled to major storm is possible on
November 30 when the high speed stream from coronal hole CH129 arrives.

The is 60-100% probability that effects from a coronal hole could reach Earth within the next 5 days.

Propagation (radio wave)

Long distance low and medium frequency (below 2 MHz) propagation along east-west paths over high and upper middle latitudes is poor to very poor. Propagation
along long distance north-south paths is poor.

Report by Jan Alvestad/DXLC:    http://www.dxlc.com
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Papua rocking - Alaska & Russia Shaky

A 7.2 quake shook Papua today following the TimeStar forecast posted in August indicating this area would heat up with resonant quakes and volcanoes in Alaska and Russia, possibly extending to Japan and Washington State.  See TimeStar email alert of November 24 and TimeStar forecast posted August 26, 2004. 
 
This 7.2 quake came in with the opening of a 13-day window of the October 27, 2004 lunar eclipse.  December 18, 2004 to January 19, 2005 looks like a period of very high geophysical activity, with Alaska, Russia, Japan, Washington State, Mexico and Central high on the list for quakes, volcanoes and storms.
 
The Papua area (New Guinea) is sinking and thousands have been evacuated to new homes in the last few years.  When the Papua (New Guinea) area sinks, new land masses will rise in the North Pacific.  An underwater volcano in the Aleutians was discovered in 2003 that is predicted to be the next new Aleutian island.  New land masses in the next few DECADES are not limited to the Aleutians and could include areas off the coast of Hawaii and Oregon, but, again, North Pacific locations for new land masses are not limited to these.  Hawaii and Oregon are just locations that look likely, with the coast of Alaska and Russia leading probable areas.
 
 
 
 
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Saturday, November 13, 2004

Current Photos of Mt. St. Helens; The Lampholder Newsletter, November 12, 2004





From: SpecEdNewsletter [mailto:lamppub@hiwaay.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 9:17 AM
To: lamppub@hiwaay.net
Subject: Current Photos of Mt. St. Helens; The Lampholder Newsletter,
November 12, 2004
Importance: High





THE
LAMPHOLDER NEWSLETTER

Published by Lampholder Publications
An International Prophecy Journal
November 12, 2004
Prophecy Report





Current Photos of Mt. St. Helens
Crater, Dome, and Eruption Changes
Mount St. Helens' new growth as seen from the east

Mt. St. Helens Current Advisory Update
"Increase in the intensity of eruption could occur suddenly or with very
little warning and
may include explosive events that produce hazardous conditions within
several miles of the
volcano...."

Mt. St. Helens Seismograph and Earthquake Data



LIDAR Images of Mount St. Helens, Washington - Dome Growth

http://www.lampholderpub.com/new_page_65.htm


____________________________


Shirley Ann Miller, Sr. Editor
Lampholder Publications

Lampholder Publications (c) 1985-2004
An International Prophecy Journal
www.lampholderpub.com
lampholder@hotmail.com



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Friday, November 12, 2004

Arafat Era Ends 11/11 -- Timothy's Prophetic Vision

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Arafat Era Ends 11/11
Timothy Snodgrass
Nov 12, 2004

ARAFAT ERA ENDS 11/11 - AN 11th HOUR WARNING

November 11, 2004

At exactly 4:30am Paris time on 11/11, Yasser Arafat was officially pronounced dead in french military hospital, fulfilling a significant series of prophecies concerning the "removal of Arafat", and how this relates to our current timeline. For the last several years we have received numerous prophetic words from people around the world, in many cases which the Holy Spirit has verbally spoken to them that the "removal of Arafat" would be a clear sign of the Lord's soon return, and indication that major judgments were about to explode on the world scene.

The timing in which Arafat fell into a coma, November 3, Paris time (November 2, U.S. time: Election Day) is also extremely significant (read our September 15, 2004 Rosh Hashana Report). Shortly after Yasser Arafat fell into a coma on November 3, the Holy Spirit spoke to me that 11/11 would be a very significant date in history. (I mentioned this to my wife and several other ministry associates in the Philippines.) One week ago, we felt prompted to enter into a time of prayer and fasting from 11/11/04 - 01/11/05; a 3-month period of cleansing and preparation for the new year (chiefly a Daniel fast, fruits and vegatables).

On the early morning of 11/11 before the sun rose in the Philippines, I received the following vision: I was climbing a large mountain somewhere near the Indonesian coast, traveling upwards into a place of refuge. Upon reaching my destination in the mountains, I found a small city with a large population of Christians, and begin to prophesy to them about approaching judgments; but the inhabitants were spiritually blind, and could not receive the word. Suddenly, the gound began to shake, and every eye looked towards the coast. Like a small ripple in the crystal blue sea, the first tidal wave approached and had little impact. Those watching said, "Is that all!?". They began to mock God's grace and mercy demonstrated in the first judgment. But while they were mocking yet another wave approached, slightly larger; and then another, and another. Until finally one large ripple appeared on the horizon, so large that as it struck the hills on the coast the impact left a thunderous splash, towering perhaps a thousand feet into the air. Below us the water from the tsunami traveled along the river inland for nearly a hundred miles, destroying everything in it's path.

It is interesting how God always confirms major prophetic words with signs for those who are watching. On the evening of November 11, seismic activity in the Asia-Pacific region suddenly went off the scale; with a 7.5 quake in Indonesia, followed by a 6.4 aftershock; a 6.5 quake in the Solomon Islands (Solomon representing the Temple Mount, where Arafat requested to be burried), a 6.4 quake in Japan, and a 5.8 quake in Taiwan. Tsunami warnings were briefly issued in Indonesia, and the seismic jolt was felt so stongly by ships in the region that it literally knocked sailors off their feet. The jolt caused at least one shipping accident, throwing a small boat from East Timor into the path of a passing freighter in Deli Harbor.

The first wave on 11/11 was small, but other waves are coming. As the US, UK, UN, and countries around the world continue to pressure Israel to concede covenant land promised to her by God, I prophesy to you that we are now entering into some troubled waters as we approach the new year. It will only be through God's grace and mercy that we do not see these large ripples in the sea crashing against our shoreline in 2005. But nothing is impossible with God!

Blessings,

Timothy Snodgrass
Philippines

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Bin Laden has religious approval to nuke U.S.! Report to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, Nov. 14

From the DRUDGE REPORT
http://drudgereport.com/

FORMER HEAD OF CIA'S OSAMA BIN LADEN UNIT  SAYS THE QAEDA LEADER HAS SECURED
RELIGIOUS APPROVAL TO USE A NUCLEAR BOMB AGAINST AMERICANS
Fri Nov 12 2004 12:02:34 ET

Osama bin Laden now has religious approval to use a nuclear device against
Americans, says the former head of the CIA unit charged with tracking down the
Saudi terrorist. The former agent, Michael Scheuer, speaks to Steve Kroft in
his first television interview without disguise to be broadcast on 60 MINUTES
Sunday, Nov. 14 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

Scheuer was until recently known as the "anonymous" author of two books
critical of the West's response to bin Laden and al Qaeda, the most recent of
which is titled Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror. No
one in the West knows more about the Qaeda leader than Scheuer, who has
tracked him since the mid-1980s. The CIA allowed him to write the books
provided he remain anonymous, but now is allowing him to reveal himself for
the first time on Sunday's broadcast; he formally leaves the Agency today
(12).

Even if bin Laden had a nuclear weapon, he probably wouldn't have used it for
a lack of proper religious authority - authority he has now. "[Bin Laden]
secured from a Saudi sheik...a rather long treatise on the possibility of
using nuclear weapons against the Americans," says Scheuer. "[The treatise]
found that he was perfectly within his rights to use them. Muslims argue that
the United States is responsible for millions of dead Muslims around the
world, so reciprocity would mean you could kill millions of Americans,"
Scheuer tells Kroft.

Scheuer says bin Laden was criticized by some Muslims for the 9/11 attack
because he killed so many people without enough warning and before offering to
help convert them to Islam. But now bin Laden has addressed the American
people and given fair warning. "Their intention is to end the war as soon as
they can and to ratchet up the pain for the Americans until we get out of
their region....If they acquire the weapon, they will use it, whether it's
chemical, biological or some sort of nuclear weapon," says Scheuer.

As the head of the CIA unit charged with tracking bin Laden from 1996 to 1999,
Scheuer says he never had enough people to do the job right. He blames former
CIA Director George Tenet. "One of the questions that should have been asked
of Mr. Tenet was why were there always enough people for the public relations
office, for the academic outreach office, for the diversity and multi-cultural
office? All those things are admirable and necessary but none of them are
protecting the American people from a foreign threat," says Scheuer.

And the threat posed by bin Laden is also underestimated, says Scheuer. "I
think our leaders over the last decade have done the American people a
disservice...continuing to characterize Osama bin Laden as a thug, as a
gangster," he says. "Until we respect him, sir, we are going to die in numbers
that are probably unnecessary, yes. He's a very, very talented man and a very
worthy opponent," he tells Kroft.

Until today Nov. 12, Scheuer was a senior official in the CIA's counter terrorism
unit and a special advisor to the head of the agency's bin Laden unit.

Developing...

Have a great day.

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Thursday, November 11, 2004

6.5 and 7.3 mag Quakes & magnetic storms 11-11-04

Three large quakes shook the Pacific today as the magnetic storms that began this week abated, even though one additional solar eruption is yet to arrive later today. 
 
These events coincide with the first 13-day window of the October 27 lunar eclipse with the quakes in the Pacific area the TimeStar forecast projected as the area that would be most affected with the lunar eclipse.
 
More later,
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WAYNE MOODY WROTE:
 
The geomagnetic storms that have been persistent over the past 3 days have subsided.  However, there is one additional coronal mass ejection that has not yet intersected with Earth and could later today.
 
In the meantime, the increased geomagnetic energy seems to have spawned several large earthquakes today (see http://www.citiesoflight.net/MajorQuakes.html for details of those over 6.0).  Those over 6.0 today have been a 6.4 in Hokkaido, Japan, a 6.5 in the Solomon Islands, and the most recent one a 7.3 in the Kapalauan Alor Region of Indonesia.  There have been no reports of damage at this time.
 
 
 
 
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Anti-French feeling is rampant in Ivory Coast - French open fire on a crowd of tens of thousands..

 
 
Last Updated: Tuesday, 9 November, 2004, 23:20 GMT
Deaths at Ivory Coast demo
French tank and Ivorian demonstrators at a rally in Abidjan
Anti-French feeling is rampant in Ivory Coast
Several people have died after shooting at an anti-French protest in Ivory Coast's commercial capital, Abidjan.

Several witnesses told the BBC that French peacekeepers opened fire on a crowd of tens of thousands supporters of Ivorian government.

But France said the Ivorian armed forces fired on the demonstrators after they themselves were shot at.

It said the Ivorians were covering a French retreat from a hotel they had controversially been occupying.

Correspondents say the demonstrators feared the French troops intended to advance on Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo's residence, less than a kilometre away.

France has said it has no intention of overthrowing him.

Earlier on Tuesday, South African President Thabo Mbeki said after talks with Mr Gbagbo that the Ivorian leader was committed to a peaceful solution in the divided country.

Mr Mbeki will now report back on the crisis to the African Union, which sent him on the mission.

Violence in Ivory Coast erupted at the weekend, after government planes attacked a French military base inside the rebel-held northern half of the country, killing nine French soldiers.

In retaliation, French troops virtually wiped out the small Ivorian air force, triggering a wave of anti-French violent protests.

The Red Cross estimates that four days of clashes have left at least 600 people injured in Abidjan.

'Provocations'

A hospital source said at least nine people were killed and many more were in a critical state, the BBC's James Copnall in Abidjan reports.

PEACE UNRAVELS
29 Sept: Parliament fails to meet deadline for political reforms promised to rebels
15 Oct: Rebels ignore deadline for disarmament
28 Oct: Rebels withdraw ministers from unity government
4 Nov: Government aircraft begin daily air strikes on rebel-held territory in north
6 Nov: An air strike leaves nine French soldiers dead; France responds by destroying Ivorian planes
7 Nov: Thousands of Gbagbo supporters demonstrate against the French in Abidjan; UN condemns Ivorian attacks

There were also unconfirmed reports that two Ivorian gendarmes were killed near the luxury Hotel Ivoire, our correspondent says.

The French Defence Ministry said in a statement that the Ivorian troops opened fire after being shot at by protesters.

"In response to the repeated provocations of the crowd, some of them armed, and in response to shots fired [by protesters], the Ivorian forces opened fire," the statement said.

An Ivorian army spokesman was not immediately available for comment, our correspondent says.

More than a year of strained peace came to an end last week when President Gbagbo ordered air attacks on the rebel-held north.

France sent 600 more troops to back up the 4,000 soldiers it already has in Ivory Coast as part of a UN force of 10,000.

 
 
 
 
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America's popularity and the real world

A SENSE OF ASIA

America's popularity and the real world
http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/back_neil.html


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By Sol Sanders
SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM

Sol W. Sanders

November 11, 2004

As someone who has lived for long periods overseas outside the U.S. Embassy bubble, the present spate of self-flagellation in the legacy media about the unpopularity of America alternately amuses and infuriates.

No one can deny Western Europeans who share so many of our values are unhappy with the U.S. In a world which sees itself having solved more than a thousand years of internecine wars Â? two of them almost fatal to their civilization Â? many, maybe most, Europeans want to believe peace and stability is a commodity always bought with reason and compromise. That is an old, almost fatal European disease; we only have to think back to the two decades leading to World War II when leadership thought it could buy peace that way. In time, the Europeans will come to their senses Â?either through intelligence or alas! through the kind of catastrophe which almost saddled them with a Hitler/Stalin-dominated continent. That may be coming sooner than expected with an Iran equipped with WMD-armed missiles with a Europen range.

But in the vast spaces between Casablanca and Zamboanga, another issue presents itself, There billions of people live in conditions where the idea of FranceÂ?s 30-hour week is incomprehensible. Although occasionally staged by agit-prop technicians, European signboards using four-letter words to insult Americans are meaningless. Their daily lives of scrabble preclude such luxuries Â? and better to avoid the batons of thugs who enforce the dicktat of whatever tyrant is temporarily in control.

To talk about public opinion polls in that environment is even more ludicrous than exit polls which so recently almost tripped up an American election. Nor, frankly, is a group of public luminariesÂ? report Â? who helped formulate American policy which gave us 9/11 Â? throw much light. Their admonitions to get to fundamentals as a palliative for anti-American sentiment are unimpeachable. Except, of course, it is a bit like suggesting the way to prevent a mugging in progress is to do an instant psychoanalysis of the attacker to find out where his childhood temptation to violence began. There, are, indeed, remarkable examples of where poverty and corrupt government has given way to improved living standards, political and social enlightenment. But one must remind these advocates of Â?basic reformÂ? it took 54,246 American lives, two and a half million South Koreans deaths, and perhaps 1.5 million martyred North Korean and Chinese soldiers, to lay the groundwork for the process in South Korea.

But if the political scientistsÂ? claptrap Â?scientificÂ? pollsters go astray in examining the level of Â?anti-AmericanismÂ?, anecdotal attempts by our intrepid media adventurers is even more ludicrous. It brings to mind adventures in the mid-1950s. I was investigating economic development prospects as Prime Minister Nehru and his trusty band borrowed foreign Communist apparatchiks set India on the Soviet planning path. I grabbed a taxi, a Hindi-Urdu interpreter, and went for a spin on one of the few highways leading out of the capital. At an unpredetermined spot, we descended, walked several miles into a village where we were, typical of most villagers around the world, welcomed. For several hours we discussed local problems. I didnÂ?t learn much. But I did discover no one could identify Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the greatest mass reform movement in the 20th century, and although they said they recognized the name; they had never heard of Nehru.

An intrepid young [I give her the benefit of the doubt] lady at The Los Angeles Times reports her interviews with America-returned young people in Lahore. Her piece recounts how, after their marvelous U.S. academic experience, they are now upset with what they see as a changed America. I have no doubt these scion of one of the most corrupt feudal elite in the Afro-Asian world do resent our support of a military dictatorship. But whatever else it is doing, is helping to drain the swamp of terrorists, internal and external. Her reference to a former politician who was a Â?friend of the U.S.Â? is idiotic were it not so damaging to any concept of what is going on in the country. Nor does she seem to know the lady, a frequent guest in Georgetown salons with the same sort of ignorance, triple face-lifts and all, comes from a family notorious as the worst landlords in the Sindh and who as prime minister presided over the swap of Pakistani nuclear technology for North Korean missiles.

In fact, it is a jungle out there. The Bush Administration, after 9/11 took the only option it had: to defend the U.S. against a wily group of nihilistic adventurers using Islamicist fanaticism to inflict as much hurt as they could on Americans everywhere. The fact pursuit of that goal takes forthright military options will not be approved in the hypocritical quarters of a UN which has Muammar QadaffiÂ?s Libya as chairman of its human rights commission, and gets billions in payoffs from a jerry-built attempt to sanction weapons sales to a monster like Sadaam Hussein. The use of American power to destroy a corrupt status quo which for more than half a century has bred such monsters will not win phony public opinion polls conducted by interested parties.

Sol W. Sanders, (solsanders@comcast.net), is an Asian specialist with more than 25 years in the region, and a former correspondent for Business Week, U.S. News & World Report and United Press International. He writes weekly for World Tribune.com.

November 11, 2004
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PALESTINIAN LEADER YASSER ARAFAT DIES IN PARIS HOSPITAL

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Wednesday, November 10, 2004

The Secret to Eternal Life

 
From: J R [mailto:starflakes@excite.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 10:50 PM
Subject: The Secret to Eternal Life

Not even in the fertile imaginations of internet blogs could what is going on in Paris ever even in a conspiracy theorists dream come close to PLO leader Arafat's quest for eternal life.

Somewhere in the death of any human there should be a sanctity, but what has been going on in a French military hospital is looking like a 3 Stooges movie.

For the record, Yassir Arafat is dead.....but for over a week now the world has been treated to stories of his apparent death defying act of first being brain dead in a coma....but not dead.

Being put on life support....but not dead.

His brain then hemorrhaged from swelling....but he is not dead.

His liver quit working.....but he is not dead.

and last report......his kidneys have shutdown, because his body is decomposing...but he is not dead.

Apparently the secret to eternal life is quite simple even in France....where the French have told the Palestinians to get this corpse out of their country days ago...and that is stealing over 3 billion dollars in funding that was supposed to go to Palestinians to help with their miserable lives...and keeping it in accounts no one can get into.

The PLO's coffers are bare....but Arafat's secret bank accounts are bulging at over 3 billion....all money from bribes and revenue supposed to help his own people.

The problem is though that Arafat wouldn't hand over the bank accounts to pay bills when he was dying. He didn't even trust his loving wife with the information....apparently the father of the PLO state feared his loving people would do what Caligula did to Tiberius in Rome. Put a pillow over his head and send him to God's judgement.

So now we have the eternal Arafat...or eternal until the wife and Palestinians get into the bank accounts to divide up the loot...come up with Arafat's "will" to who should attain his mantle.....and eternal until Egypt, Jordan and Israel can get security in place so the whole middle east doesn't go up in smoke.

Of course as the widow and PLO are fighting over the spoil.....no one is mentioning all of the innocent dead Arafat is responsible for....women....children.....the fodder of his terrorism......
No one is going to mention his published plot to murder Sec of State Powell.....
...and no one is going to mention how 3 billion dollars would have flowered Palestinians lives with education, hospital care, homes and self reliant businesses.....that in a generation during which Arafat was raping his own people and butchering other peoples, his Palestinian people could have become so powerful as business entrepreneurs they could have bought their own nation.

But the media doesn't want you or especially the Palestinians hearing any of that....because it would mean the Palestinians wouldn't have needed a terrorist to lead them....and the Palestinians would have become a threat to the powerful banking elite in being poweful themselves...and not just pawns in the game where puppets like Arafat do their bidding.....never giving a care that young Palestinian children are fodder for war or cold and hungry at night...as long as Yassir had his throne.

So in an ancient chant we bid you Yassir......The tyrant is dead...Long live the tyrant!

At least until his bank accounts are opened.






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The Dutch are terrorized now - Backlash to Dutch muslims - EU at risk..

Oh, you know..it just might get worse.  Hope not.
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Excerpt:
"We cannot let ourselves be blinded by people who seek to drag us into a spiral of violence," he said, according to the Associated Press news agency.

"It is the joint task of Muslims and non-Muslims to warn young people against radicalisation".

Dutch warning to EU

The Dutch Immigration Minister, Rita Verdonk, has warned that EU countries are at risk, because of an increasing radicalism among young Muslims.

 
 
Dutch anti-terror raid nets two
A police anti-terror operation in The Hague has ended with the arrest of two suspects after a violent 14-hour siege, Dutch officials say.

Three police officers were wounded in a grenade explosion earlier during the raid. Two of them remain in hospital. ..........

See full story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3998347.stm

 

 
 
 
 
 
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X Class Flare! Storm!- per Solar and GeoMagnetic Field monitors..

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The thing is, this has been like this for several days.
Something's up.
 
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Tuesday, November 09, 2004

Palestinan Visitors headed for Showdown with Arafat's wife

 
Former Palestinan PM Mahmoud Abbas arrives at his Paris hotel late Monday  (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
Former Palestinan PM Mahmoud Abbas arrives at his Paris hotel late Monday (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)

Visitors headed for showdown with Arafat's wife         Suha Arafat

CTV.ca News Staff

Amidst the ongoing confusion over Yasser Arafat's health, there is an unlikely showdown brewing in Paris -- between top members of the caretaker Palestinian administration and their ailing leader's wife.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Nabil Shaath, Parliament Speaker Rauhi Fattouh, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia and former PM Mahmoud Abbas touched down at Paris' Le Bourget airport on Monday evening, with a plan to visit Arafat on what many believe is his deathbed.

Their arrival comes a day after they called off the trip -- when Arafat's wife Suha accused them of embarking on a mission to grab power from the ailing leader.

On Sunday, Suha Arafat told Al-Jazeera TV that their trip's sole purpose was to "bury her husband al ve.''

"Let it be known to the honest Palestinian people that a bunch of those who to take over are coming to Paris tomorrow,'' Suha said in an emotionally-charged live telephone interview from Arafat's bedside.

"You have to realize the size of the conspiracy. I tell you they are trying to bury Abu Ammar alive,'' she said in Arabic, using his nom de guerre. "He is all right and he is going home. God is great.''

Her remarks so shocked Palestinians, the caretaker leadership called off its planned trip to Paris. But as the dust settled, the harsh rebuke -- from a woman who, until a week ago, had not seen her husband in years -- served to unify the Palestinian response.

  • Backgrounders:
    Arafat's wife emerges as major figure
    Size, location of Arafat assets a mystery
    • Palestinian reaction

      In an urgent news conference convened in the West Bank on Monday, senior Arafat aide Tayeb Abdel Rahim made it clear Suha Arafat's involvement is not being warmly received.

      "What came from Mrs. Arafat doesn't represent our people,'' he said, accusing her of "wanting to destroy the Palestinian leadership's decision and to be the lone decision maker.''

      Palestinian Cabinet minister Salah Taamri later said, "We are Yasser Arafat's family. We knew Yasser Arafat even before Mrs. Suha Arafat was born. We care for Yasser Arafat and no one has the right to deny the truth from the Palestinian people."

      And, adding his comments to the fray, Qureia told reporters he regretted the outburst.

      "We express our utmost regret at the comments made by sister Suha," he said. "Abu Ammar belongs to the Palestinian people."

      Suha Arafat, a Sorbonne-educated, Christian convert to Islam, married Arafat in a secret ceremony 14 years ago. Since the latest uprising began in 2000, Suha, 41, has lived in Paris with the couple's daughter, Zahwa, where she is said to receive a monthly stipend of more than $100,000 CDN from PLO coffers.

      The perception she abandoned the West Bank for the luxuries of Paris life, coupled with the fact she had not seen her husband in years and now enjoys virtually exclusive access to him, has left a bitter taste in many Palestinians' mouths.

      Thousands staged rallies in Ramallah and other cities on Monday to make that clear.

      Some accuse her of aligning with hardliners vying to succeed Arafat, while others suggest she is a spoiled socialite with an exclusive interest in Arafat's alleged fortune.

      There is speculation Suha Arafat has spirited away millions in PLO funds has been fuelled by a French money laundering probe of approximately $13.6 million CDN transferred into her Parisian bank accounts between July 2002, and September 2003.

      Whatever the facts, Suha Arafat's outburst only managed to temporarily stall the visit, as the trip was declared a go on Monday morning.

      "The leadership should be around President Arafat in his office and his hospital bed. This is the natural thing to do," Arafat spokesperson Nabil Abu Rdeneh told reporters.

      "What they are trying to do is come up with a clear picture of what the health of Yasser Arafat truly is," CTV's Janis Mackey Frayer reported from Ramallah in the West Bank.

      Arafat's condition

      Verifying the exact state of Arafat's health has been increasingly difficult in recent days.

      The 75-year-old Palestinian leader is said to be in stable condition, suffering an unrevealed illness, in the intensive care unit at the Percy Military Training Hospital in Clamart, France. From a stream of conflicting reports, Arafat has been alternately described as conscious, unconscious, improving and comatose.

      Israeli media have even reported that Arafat may be taken off life-support equipment after the four leaders visit him.

      Attempting to cut through the confusion, doctors at the hospital where Arafat is being treated issued their own update on Monday.

      "His condition is stable," hospital spokesperson Gen. Christian Estripeau told reporters.

      However, "the medical situation of President Arafat compels us to restrict visitors."

      The already profound confusion over Arafat's health is being exacerbated by the struggle to gain access to the sick leader.

      So far, that has meant limiting Arafat's visitors to his wife and a handful of other Palestinian aides in Paris.

      Under French law, Suha Arafat has legal authority over her husband -- including the final decision on cutting off life-support. Until now, she has exercised that authority by attempting to control the flow of information regarding her husband's health.

      With the arrival of Qureia and his colleagues, the stage is now set for another tense showdown.

      With files from CTV's Tom Kennedy and The Associated Press

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      Monday, November 08, 2004

      Jim McCanney - emergency update

      NOVEMBER 07, 2004 emergency update ... we are being hit tonight with a MAJOR solar storm and two more are on the way .. most of the satellite monitors are off scale ... there is no need to go into detail other than we are in for some serious x-ray activity as the plasma magnetic field has seriously reversed ... the Kp index is severely in the "red" and climbing off scale as i write this ... i would be surprised if we did not see serious damage to our satellite network including the military network .. this is not a solar minimum moment as the standard sources would have you think ... clearly the sun is out of normal patterns and as i stated a week ago when the sun went 3 days without any sun spots ... the sun is oscillating and it would possibly rebound to  do what we are now seeing ... the sun may be in a resonance mode with an external energy source and this may only become worse with time ... my advise is to become prepared ... jim mccanney 

      the european space agency announced it is building a space platform telescope that is designed to search for "brown dwarfs" that would come into the solar system with potential of destroying all life on earth .. the telescope is unique in that it will try to look through "shrouds" surrounding the "comet nuclei" (GEEE all of a sudden comets have brown dwarfs as nuclei!!!) .... sounds like someone was listening to my radio broadcasts ... the creeping crud marches onward ... jim mccanney   

       
       
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