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  OCT 2001/JAN 2002 VOLUME NINE - NUMBER THREE / PUBLISHED: 2 OCT 2001

 *MOTION SCIENCES ORGANIZATION IS A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE ENTERPRISE: AN ADVANCED PHYSICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION SUPPORTING AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF SCIENTISTS AND INSTITUTIONS, TOGETHER PIONEERING BREAKTHROUGH TECHNOLOGIES FOR 21ST CENTURY LIFE. MOTION SCIENCES ORGANIZATION IS EVOLVING SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONSIBLE TECHNICAL APPLICATIONS OF ADVANCED ELECTRODYNAMICS, QUANTUM THEORY, AND MATERIALS SCIENCES. THE ORGANIZATION CONNECTS, INFORMS, SPONSORS, AND ASSISTS IN THE PRIORITIZATION OF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AMONG ASSOCIATES OF THE MOTION SCIENCES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK, ENABLING THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES TO ADVANCE BEYOND THE LIMITS IMPOSED BY SEVERELY FRAGMENTED EXPLORATIONS OF MAINSTREAM PHYSICS. THROUGH THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK, MSO AND ITS ASSOCIATES ARE EQUIPPED TO ENGAGE COMPREHENSIVE THEORETICAL RESEARCH THROUGH APPLIED TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT IN PARTNERSHIPS WITH OTHER RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS, GOVERNMENT AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS, AND INDEPENDENT INNOVATORS. THE ALLIANCE IS EXPECTED TO ACCELERATE THE EMERGENCE OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES FOR URGENT AND UNADDRESSED NEAR-, MID- AND LONG-TERM HUMAN NEEDS IN ADVANCED PROPULSION, RENEWABLE ENERGY, ELECTROMAGNETIC AND ACOUSTIC SENSING, INFRASTRUCTURE MATERIALS AND PROTECTION, NAVIGATION INSTRUMENTATION, AND TESTING AND ANALYSIS SYSTEMS.

MOTION SCIENCES ORGANIZATION (MSO) HAS BEEN FORMED BY THE COMBINATION OF THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS AND ASTROPHYSICS (CIPA) AND THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCES ORGANIZATION (ISSO). INITIAL ASSOCIATES WITHIN THE MOTION SCIENCES RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK INCLUDE SCIENTIFIC APPLICATIONS & RESEARCH ASSOCIATES (SARA) AND THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN AUSTIN. THEIR DISTINCTIONS INCLUDE: *STEWARDSHIP OF SIGNIFICANT INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IN DOMAINS OF ENERGY GENERATION, ELECTROMAGNETIC PROPULSION, AND MATERIALS SCIENCES; *A LARGE AND WELL-CREDENTIALED INTERNAL STAFF AND EXTENSIVE EXTERNAL NETWORK OF RESEARCHERS AT THE LEADING EDGE OF 21ST CENTURY SCIENCE, WITH A SHARED FOCUS ON THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL PURSUIT OF ADVANCED PHYSICS FOR TRUE BREAKTHROUGHS RELEVANT TO GENUINE AND URGENT HUMAN NEEDS. *A MODEL OF COOPERATIVE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT PARTNERS; *A COLLABORATIVE OPERATING STRUCTURE CAPABLE OF ENABLING THE INCUBATION OF BREAKTHROUGHS INTO PRODUCTS FOR EVERYDAY USE; *AND A TEAM OF PEOPLE DEEPLY COMMITTED TO RESPONSIBLE EXPLORATION AND USE OF ADVANCED PHYSICS, A COMMITMENT SOON TO BE FORMALIZED IN AN OATH FOR THE PEACEFUL USE OF SCIENCE...

MSO, AS THE HUB OF THE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT NETWORK IT SPONSORS, IS THE FIRST PHYSICS RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION TO COMBINE THESE FIVE DISTINCTIONS WITH A CRUCIAL SIXTH DISTINCTION: A NOT-FOR-PROFIT OPERATING AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY STRUCTURE FROM WHICH HUMANITY AS A WHOLE SHALL DERIVE THE BENEFITS FROM DISCOVERIES SPONSORED THROUGH MSO. ABOVE A CERTAIN PERCENTAGE OF REVENUE REDIRECTED BACK TO FUND MSO OPERATIONS, ALL NET PROCEEDS FROM OPERATIONS AND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RESULTING FROM MSO-FUNDED ACTIVITIES WILL BE PLACED IN TRUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF ALL, THROUGH PHILANTHROPIES TO BE SELECTED IN THE AUTUMN OF 2001. MOTION SCIENCES ORGANIZATION HAS THEREFORE ESTABLISHED A HISTORICALLY UNIQUE AND PERHAPS ESSENTIAL COMBINATION OF THEORETICAL, DEVELOPMENT, AND OPERATING CAPABILITIES NECESSARY TO PIONEER THE KIND OF INNOVATIONS INCREASINGLY DEEMED BY SCIENCE AND MAJOR GOVERNMENTS AS CRITICAL TO THE LONG-TERM SURVIVAL OF HUMAN CIVILIZATION - WITHIN A COLLABORATIVE FINANCIAL MODEL WHOSE ETHICS ARE AS INNOVATIVE AS THE TECHNOLOGIES UNDER DEVELOPMENT. THIS REPRESENTS A SYNTHESIS OF CAPABILITIES AND PRINCIPLES OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO THOSE WHO UNDERSTAND THAT THE DOMAINS BEING EXPLORED ARE AS PROFOUNDLY SIGNIFICANT AS THOSE STUDIED BY THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT, PERHAPS EVEN MORE SO. MOTION SCIENCES IS FUNDED BY VISIONARY SPONSORS AND MEMBERS WHO SUPPORT THE MOTION SCIENCES MISSION AND HAVE ENGAGED TO HELP CATALYZE A BRIGHTER FUTURE... (go to: http://www.motionsciences.org)!!!

["the experimental method to alter the properties of the vacuum may be called vacuum engineering...if indeed we are able to alter the vacuum, then we may encounter some new phenomena, totally unexpected." - nobel laureate t.d. lee, 1988... "the vacuum is fast emerging as the central structure of modern physics" - saunders and brown, 1991]

 *THE LARGEST SPACE COMMAND FACILITY IN THE WORLD AT VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE IN CALIFORNIA WAS FORCED TO SUSPEND BUSINESS AS USUAL AND MOVE ONTO "THREAT CON BRAVO" ALERT (TWO SECURITY LEVELS ABOVE USUAL) FOR AT LEAST SIX DAYS IN JUNE 2001... MORE THAN 300 GLOBAL JUSTICE ACTIVISTS FROM THE VANDENBERG ACTION COALITION CONFRONTED SPACE COMMAND TROOPS, AND NEARLY TWO DOZEN NONVIOLENT RESISTERS PEACEFULLY INFILTRATED THE BASE'S INNER SECURITY ZONES, CHALLENGING THE U.S. SPACE COMMAND'S KEY ROLE IN MILITARY ENFORCEMENT OF CORPORATE INTERESTS THROUGH WAR - (go to: http://svpal.org/~sjpc)!!!

 *THOUSANDS OF PEACE ACTIVISTS RALLIED IN LATE SEPTEMBER IN SAN FRANCISCO AND WASHINGTON D.C. TO MOURN VICTIMS OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER DISASTER AND URGE THE NATION TO HEAL THE POVERTY AND INJUSTICE THAT FUELS GLOBAL VIOLENCE, INSTEAD OF FOCUSING ON MILITARY REVENGE!!!

 *HEMP IS THE WORLD'S PREMIER RENEWABLE RESOURCE FOR FOOD, FIBER AND ENERGY. THE 10 YEAR OLD GLOBAL HEMP MARKET IS A THRIVING COMMERCIAL SUCCESS. AND THE U.S. IS NOW THE ONLY MAJOR INDUSTRIALIZED NATION TO PROHIBIT THE GROWING AND PROCESSING OF HEMP. SINCE JAMESTOWN AND UP TO 1937, AMERICAN FARMERS CULTIVATED INDUSTRIAL HEMP. NOW A LARGE, WELL-EDUCATED CROSS-SECTION OF CITIZENS IS DEMANDING THAT THIS RIGHT BE RESTORED. AMERICA IS A REPUBLIC FOUNDED ON THE SPIRITUAL INSIGHT THAT EACH INDIVIDUAL CITIZEN HAS A DIVINE RIGHT TO SELF-GOVERNANCE. OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES ARE IN PLACE TO ASSURE THIS PROCESS AND TO PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND PROPERTY OF THOSE WHOSE VOICES MAY NOT BE HEARD ABOVE THE INEVITABLE DIN OF FEAR, IGNORANCE AND GREED. HOWEVER, THE RESPONSIBILITY FALLS UPON THE CITIZENS TO CONTINUALLY INSIST THAT THEIR GOVERNMENT SERVE THEM AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND. DISTINGUISHED STATESMEN AND HEMP FARMERS, OUR FOUNDING FATHERS UNDERSTOOD WELL THE DUTY OF THE PEOPLE TO REMAIN EDUCATED AND ETERNALLY VIGILANT!!!

"government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action." --george washington

"when the people fear the government you have tyranny...when the government fears the people you have liberty." --thomas jefferson

 *EXERCISE YOUR RIGHTS - OR LOSE THEM... THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (go to: http://www.aclu.org)!!!

 *A LARGE INTERNATIONAL TEAM OF SCIENTISTS AT THE STANFORD UNIVERSITY LINEAR ACCELERATOR IN CALIFORNIA HAS FOUND AN IMPORTANT NEW DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MATTER AND ANTIMATTER BY DETECTING EVIDENCE OF CHARGE-PARITY (CP) VIOLATION. THIS IS THE SECOND MAJOR DISCOVERY IN 37 YEARS OF FUNDAMENTAL ASYMMETRY IN THE RELATIVE BEHAVIORS OF MATTER AND ANTIMATTER!!!

 *A SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ENTREPRENEUR HAS MANAGED TO PERSUADE THE CHILEAN GOVERNMENT TO PRESERVE CHILE'S PUMALIN PARK, NOW ONE OF THE LARGEST PRIVATE LAND HOLDINGS IN THE WORLD!!!

 *PUBLIC OUTCRY IN MEXICO HAS STOPPED THE DEVELOPMENT OF A HOTEL PROJECT ON XCACEL BEACH IN ORDER TO PROTECT AN ENDANGERED SEA TURTLE BREEDING GROUND HABITAT!!!

 *VOLUNTEERS ARE BUILDING BEAR DENS NEAR LAKE TAHOE TO MINIMIZE BEAR-HUMAN CONTACT IN WINTER!!!

 *2,028 MARIJUANA PLANTS WERE RECENTLY FOUND GROWING IN CALIFORNIA'S LOS PADRES NATIONAL FOREST!!!

 *LIK ROPER IS WORKING ON A NEW CD TENTATIVELY TITLED 'QUEEN SAYS NO TO POT SMOKING F.B.I. MEMBERS' OR 'MARIJUANA IS LEGAL NOW', AND HAS BEEN RECEIVING AIRPLAY AT SEVERAL COLLEGE RADIO STATIONS INCLUDING KSJS 90.7 FM AND KSCU 103.3 FM AMONG OTHERS!!!


 ROPER WISDOM:
'LET COLLECTIVE DENSITY NOT EFFECT COLLECTIVE DESTINY'
'IRONY AND SCEPTICISM DEFEND AGAINST POMPOSITY AND HYPOCRISY'
'DEEPENED DEMOCRACY IS QUANTUM MECHANICS AND CHAOS MANAGEMENT'
'LIBERATING IDEOLOGIES PERPETUATE EXPONENTIALLY'

 WORDS ARE IMPORTANT

Spoken or heard, they reflect and affect our thoughts by the specific meanings they carry, the concepts they suggest, and the emotions they touch. Their influence on the human psyche, and therefore on our actions, is enormous. That's why the state department's June 19, 2000 announcement that henceforth 'rogue states' will be called 'states of concern' is a potential springboard for resolving long-standing but now anachronistic disputes with other nations. From whence came the rogues? It really hasn't been that many years since 'rogue' became linked-with nations or states in the parlance of international relations and national politics. When 'rogue' became synonymous with a leader or country implacably opposed to U.S. interests.

It was neither Cuba nor North Korea who 'set the standard' but saddam hussein. This change occurred in the post-desert storm 1990s when nations like iraq that supported terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction took center stage in the thinking of american policy makers. In an elusive consensus: nuclear weapons and american security after the cold war, Janne Nolan presented a brief overview of how this change occurred. Representative Les Aspin, chairman of the house armed services committee and soon to be Clinton's first secretary of defense, identified 'regional' aggressors as the main threat to international peace.

Mr. Aspin defined what Nolan describes as the saddam hussein four-point 'threat yardstick' by which all regional renegades could be measured.

The points were:

*willingness to commit aggression;
*pursuing nuclear weapons development;
*using or supporting the use of terrorism; and
*employing a totalitarian system of governance.

- COLONEL DANIEL SMITH (RET.)



 'The only way to bring about real national (and global) security, free from the threat of nuclear holocaust is to work towards global nuclear abolition. This year the U.S. reaffirmed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, which obliges the nuclear powers to achieve global nuclear disarmament. Unfortunately, the military contractors that are pushing star wars are also responsible for maintaining the United States' massive nuclear arsenal. As long as the interests of these corporations are put ahead of the interests of the people, the United States, along with the rest of the world, will move towards an increasingly unstable and militarized world' - Z MAGAZINE


 This is an anonymous email I received months back:

Link to: [Fwd: The Real Rogues: Related to Back-Engineered ET Craft?]
The Real Rogues: Behind the Star Wars Missile Defense System

Like a bad sequel, the proposed Star Wars missile defense system has come back to dominate the national security debate this election year This is not Ronald Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), the failed scheme to build an anti-missile shield to protect the U.S. from a massive nuclear at tack by the now-defunct Soviet Union. What's being proposed now under the name National Missile Defense (NMD) is a Son of Star Wars, a more modes version meant to protect against a limited attack by "rogue states" armed with just a few nuclear missiles or an accidental missile launch by Russia.

Much of the debate has centered on money: should we deploy the very expensive or the extremely expensive version? In recent months, as allegations of testing fraud have come to light and another Star Wars missile test failed, the debate has broadened. Many policy-makers and mainstream media pundits are now suggesting the system is not ready, and President Clinton, due to decide this summer or fall on whether to move forward with deployment of NMD, should leave that call for his successor to make.

Yet one crucial area has not been discussed: the real rogues - military corporations - driving the Star Wars deployment decision. To understand their role, one must first look at the arguments against Star Wars.

Star Wars won't work: Independent physicists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Union of Concerned Scientists have analyzed the Star Wars radar system and concluded it will not be able to distinguish actual warheads from decoys, chaff, and other countermeasures an attacker would employ to confuse or overwhelm the system. Star Wars testers tacitly acknowledge this - their tests involve a single Mylar balloon decoy instead of the dozens or hundreds they would surely face in an actual attack. Even with the tests rigged to succeed two out of three tests have failed. The third "succeeded" by a fluke when the interceptor missile honed in on the decoy balloon which just happened to be in the path of the mock warhead.

Recognition that the Star Wars system is not viable is growing. Just before the most recent missile test, 50 Nobel Prize-winning scientists signed a letter to President Clinton urging him to reject Star Wars deployment. In June, 53 members of the House of Representatives signed a letter calling on the FBI to conduct an investigation of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) over allegations of fraud in the Star Wars testing program. Unfortunately, in what's likely to be the definitive Congressional vote on Star Wars this year, the Senate rejected Senator Dick Durbin's (D-IL) amendment to force the Pentagon to conduct more realistic tests, featuring more decoys and countermeasures, and establish an independent panel to review test results. The vote was almost entirely along party lines, with Republicans voting overwhelmingly to kill the amendment.

Star Wars is outrageously expensive: Even by the standards of the military, the Star Wars price tag is stupefying. Since the early 1950s, the country has spent over $100 billion on ballistic missile defense, $70 billion of it since Reagan's SDI proposal, with next to nothing to show for it. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the current Star Wars plan at $60 billion, but a more robust land-, sea- and space-based scheme favored by many Republicans would cost more on the order of $240 billion. All of that is before the inevitable delays and cost overruns.

Star Wars will re-start the Nuclear Arms Race: Russia has clearly stated that its ratification of the START II arms reduction treaty, which would retire several thousand missiles, would be nullified if Clinton opts to deploy Star Wars without Russia's consent. Even worse, Russia has threatened to beef up its offensive nuclear capability, possibly including a return to multiple warhead missiles.

China has fewer than 20 1950s-era nuclear-armed missiles, and it worries a U.S. Star Wars system could thwart its deterrent force.
China could go to over 200 modern missiles much more quickly and cheaply than the U.S. could deploy a missile defense system. Should China do this, India and then Pakistan would likely feel compelled to respond in kind, exacerbating the already tense and potentially disastrous nuclear arms race in South Asia. As French President Jacques Chirac - no nuclear dove but an opponent of Star Wars - has stated, "If you look at world history, ever since men began waging war, you will see that there's a permanent race between the sword and the shield. The sword always wins. The more improvements that are made to the shield, the more improvements are made to the sword."

Russia and China are also concerned that Star Wars will not be a mere "defensive" system, but could be part of a U.S. first strike strategy. As U.S. military strategists constantly point out, capabilities rather than intentions should drive defense planning. The proposed Star Wars system could provide the U.S. with an offensive, first-strike capability by rendering harmless Russia's or China's retaliatory capacity. The rational response by these countries would be to increase their offensive nuclear forces.

Threat from "rogue states" is wildly overstated: In the past few years, the State Department's "rogue state"-recently changed to " states of concern"-doctrine has become the centerpiece of the 1' argument for Star Wars. The intelligence community, in an extreme worst-case scenario, cites North Korea as the most immediate threat, possibly having ballistic missiles by 2005. In reality, North Korea has frozen its missile testing program for nearly two years.

Moreover, during a recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, North Korean leader Kim Jong II agreed to completely end his country's missile development program if other countries would send up its satellites. This offer came shortly after Kim's historic summit meeting with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung, which resulted in real prospects for reconciliation between the two Koreas.

In Iran, a new leader is working to reform the country towards a more democratic and free path, and the U. S. and Iran have been improving low- level cultural and economic relations. The third "rogue state," Iraq, is so devastated by ten years of U.S. sanctions and bombing it cannot maintain its sewer systems, let alone build an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. None of these "rogue states" have ever flight-tested an ICBM.

"The Real Rogues" continued below...



LIK ROPER FOR PRESIDENT 2004

 WHEN I AM PRESIDENT I WILL:

 *NOT PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO BLIND ALLEGIANCE.

 *NOT LET A MASIVE C.I.A. BLUNDER DENY PEOPLE OF THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS (FEDERAL OR STATE) AND NOT ALLOCATE MORE FUNDS TO SPY AGENCIES WHO SCREW UP.

 *NOT ALLOW THE IDEALISTIC DREAM OF DEEPENED DEMOCRACY TO PERISH BECAUSE OF A TEMPORAL 'WAR' EMERGENCY, AND NOT RE-INSTATE MCCARTHYISM IN RESPONSE TO IT.

 *NOT SET A LAZY TONE BY TAKING MONTH LONG VACATIONS.

 *REQUIRE PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTING AND ANGER MANAGEMENT COURSES FOR ALL WAR SUPPORTERS AND/OR SUPPORTERS OF TERRORISM AND REMIND EVERYONE ONCE AGAIN THAT ANY ACT OF WAR IS AN ACT OF TERRORISM. PERIOD.

 *ADEQUATELY DISCLOSE TO CONGRESS AND THE PUBLIC THE LEGAL GUIDELINES FOR THE ECHELON SATELLITE.

 *CONSIDER THE U.S. DEFENSE DEPARTMENT'S SEEMINGLY PURPOSEFUL SPREAD OF THE SYNTHETIC BIOLOGICAL AGENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE AIDS VIRUS IN 1970 A DELIBERATE ACT OF GLOBAL BIOLOGICAL TERRORISM AIMED AT DE-POPULATION, (ALONG WITH RECENT ATTEMPTS TO OVERTURN KEY ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES) AND WARN PEOPLE TO BE LEERY OF ANY NEW MASS SMALLPOX VACCINATIONS BECAUSE THAT IS HOW THE AIDS VIRUS AND THE CARCINOGENIC SIMIAN VIRUS SV40 WAS INITIALLY SPREAD INTO THE HUMAN POPULATION.

 *REQUIRE THIRD PARTY TOXICITY SCREENINGS FOR ALL NEW IMMUNIZATION VACCINES TO PREVENT THE PURPOSEFUL SPREAD OF ANY MORE VIRAL INFECTIONS LIKE THE AIDS VIRUS.

 *ASK THE POPE TO ADVOCATE WIDESPREAD CONDOM USAGE AS A NEW, NON-VIOLENT DE-POPULATION METHOD.

 *REMIND PEOPLE THAT OBEDIENCE TO AN INFORMED CONSCIENCE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANY WRITTEN LAW.

 *SPONTANEOUSLY COMBUST TERRORISTS USING REMOTE SATELLITE MOUNTED MICROWAVE LASER TECHNOLOGY.

 *SAY THAT ONLY CHICKENSHIT WUSSIES NEED GUNS.

 *EXPOSE CONSPIRACIES TO INVENT THE A.D.H.D. (ATTENTION DEFICIT) DISEASE DESCRIPTIONS RELIED UPON BY CURRENT MEDICAL PRACTICE TO CREATE A MARKET FOR THE DRUG RITALIN.

 *MAKE THE ROSICRUCIAN DOCTRINE PART OF K-12 STUDIES.

 *NOT GIVE ALL-AMERICAN CITY AWARDS TO CITIES THAT IGNORE CONSTITUENTS, PROBABLY BECAUSE OF THEIR POMPOUS ATTITUDES AND CHARTER CITY STATUSES.

 *NOT ALLOW ANARCHISTS TO BE PLANTED BY CORPORATIONS AND/OR GOVERNMENTS TO DISPERSE PROTESTERS.

 *LEGALIZE MARIJUANA AND FLOAT THE WHOLE DAMN ECONOMY.

 *NOT TRY TO PAY-OFF SOME CONSTITUENTS WITH TAX REFUNDS OR TAX BREAKS.

 *DE-COMMISSION THE SUPREME COURT AND KEEP THE BUILDING AS A HISTORIC LANDMARK TO REMIND PEOPLE OF THE KIND OF BLATANT UN-DEMOCRATIC DEMAGOGUERY THAT ONCE OCCURRED ON AMERICAN SOIL, (BEFORE THE U.S. BECAME A FULLY ACTUALIZED NATION OF, FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE, WHERE DEEPENED DEMOCRACY FINALLY TOOK HOLD, WHEN NEW HAMPSHIRE-STYLE DEMOCRACY SPREAD ACROSS THE LAND TO GRANT LOCAL CONTROL TO ALL CONSTITUENTS, AND CONGRESS WAS LIMITED TO INTERNATIONAL DUTIES).

 *REMIND PEOPLE THAT THE WORDS CONSTITUTION AND CONSTITUENT ARE VERY SIMILAR, AND ORIGINATE FROM THE SAME ROOT WORD.

 *NOT PLACE LAID-OFF WORKERS ON ANTI-DEPRESSANTS AS A WAY TO STIMULATE THE PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY AND/OR ECONOMY.

 *MANDATE THAT ALL NEW HOUSING UTILIZE ULTRA-EFFICIENT LIGHTING SYSTEMS AND ELECTRICAL DEVICES TO MAXIMIZE EFFICIENCY AND CONSERVATION ON A LARGE SCALE.

 *RESPECT ALL RELIGIONS AND/OR IDEOLOGIES BY ALLOWING NEO-PAGANS TO RUN NAKED AND FREE IN PUBLIC ONCE AGAIN.

 *VOLUNTEER TO PARTICIPATE IN SEX RESEARCH ON THE NEW $63 BILLION DOLLAR INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION.

 *GET A TRAMPOLINE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE ROOF.

 *GAIN THE WORLD AND KEEP MY SOUL.







"The Real Rogues" continued...

It really isn't "rogue nations" that are driving the rush to deploy a Star Wars "missile defense" system that won't work, will cost a large fortune, and will re-ignite the arms race. The Star Wars profiteers - Boeing, Lockheed Martin, TRW and Raytheon, that together accounted for 60 percent of all missile defense contracts in the last two years - constitute the real Rogues Gallery.

Boeing Corporation

Boeing Corporation, the "Lead System Integrator" or main contractor on Star Wars, is responsible for ensuring that all component NMD parts and systems are developed and integrated successfully. A $14 billion taxpayer-subsidized purchase of McDonnell Douglas in 1997 made Boeing the country's second largest war profiteer and NASA's top contractor. Boeing is also the nation's largest exporter with over half its annual sales of military and civilian aviation equipment crossing international borders.

Boeing has a long history of corporate criminality. In 1974, Boeing settled out of court with the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) over payments of $54 million made to 18 countries that subsequently brought Boeing aircraft sales to $943 million. At the time, Boeing claimed that the fees were legitimate as commission or consulting fees. In the complaint filed by the SEC, Boeing was accused of "employing devices, schemes, and artifices to defraud, making untrue statements of material facts and omitting to state material facts." At this time the SEC also alleged that Boeing spent at least $27 million paying off 7 foreign governmental officials who were involved with their aircraft sales.

Boeing admitted to bribing foreign officials in the 1970s and 1980s but then returned to claiming its innocence in the l990s even after a former employee, Assistant Navy Secretary Melvyn Paisley, was convicted in the massive Ill Wind weapons contractor scandal. Boeing, Raytheon, Hughes, and other conractors conspired to rig bids to win Pentagon contracts. Paisley was found guilty of bribery, improper contracts, and diverting contracts to a firm he secretly controlled.

In 1994, Boeing agreed to fork over close to $75 million in order to avoid criminal prosecution which, at that time, was the largest non-criminal Pentagon payback case in history. According to government statements, Boeing's settlement included $52 million for overcharging computer-related work, $14 million for overcharging on non-domestic government work, and $9 million for hazardous-waste disposal costs. This year, Boeing has been sued by the Justice Department for allegedly concealing a subcontractor's billing fraud totaling "millions of dollars in fraudulent costs."

Boeing has also been charged with knowingly selling the Army defective parts and overcharging the Air Force thousands of dollars for minor supplies. In 1989, Boeing settled for $11 million on one such charge. This summer, the Justice Department is seeking $20 million in damages for improper installation of parts on the AH-64A Apache helicopters.

Lastly, Boeing's record of employee treatment is simply miserable, running the gamut of labor transgressions. In 1998, Boeing began a lay-off cycle which to date has cost more than 20,000 workers their jobs. Since the 1980s, employees have filed a fairly steady stream of lawsuits complaining of the effects of toxins in their work environment, but few of these cases ever make it to court.

A racial discrimination suit was settled for $1 million last November. In this suit, which represented 12,000 current and 7,000 past African- American employees, Boeing was accused of hostile treatment and promoting less-qualified white employees. The U.S. Labor Department, which investigated the case, accused Boeing of interference by denying inspectors access to necessary records.

Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin is responsible for building NMD Payload Launch vehicle and components of the Space-Based Infrared System. The largest war contractor in the world, Lockheed Martin rakes in about $18.5 billion in annual Department Defense (DoD) contracts, making it the top Pentagon contractor as well.

Like many mega-corporations, Lockheed claims to make decisions based on high moral principles. The company website lists six ethical principles by which they supposedly do business: honesty, integrity, respect, trust, responsibility, and citizenship. An examination of the company's record reveals quite different principles:

* Principle 1: Contract violations - In May, a $4.25 million settlement agreement was reached between the Government and Lockheed Martin Naval Electronics and Surveillance System Lockheed Foreign Military Sales (FMS) funds were improperly used while performing a FMS contract with Egypt to upgrade four sonar systems used by the Egyptian military.

* Principle 2: Foreign Corrupt Practices - Lockheed was convicted of violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) during the sale of three cargo planes to Egypt in 1993 and was fined a total of $24.8 million.

* Principle 3: Conspiracy and Retaliation - 1996, Lockheed was sued by a former employee who alleged a conspiracy to prevent him from testifying during the 1993 FCPA trial mentioned above and then retaliated against him by firing him after he testified.

* Principle 4: Bribery - Lockheed documents were subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles last year during an investigation into a possible kickback payment to a consultant on a 1990 sale of air defense radar to Taiwan. This is the latest in a history of bribery and kickbacks dating to the late 1970s when Lockheed admitted to paying $22 million in bribes to win contracts overseas.

* Principle 5: Racism - This year, workers at Lockheed's plant in Marietta, Georgia, filed a lawsuit charging Lockheed with racial and other forms of discrimination. The workers claimed that corporate officials systematically passed over the group of mostly black workers for promotions, discriminated in pay, and fostered a hostile work environment. In one case a worker whose supervisor was a member of the Ku Klux Klan with his robes openly displayed in the office, was forced to get a pass to go to the restroom and had to be escorted there. In another case a worker found a hangman's noose in his workplace. The case is still pending.

* Principle 6: Payoffs for Layoffs - When Lockheed merged with Martin Marietta in 1995 they used U.S. taxpayer money to fund the $1 billion cost of plant shutdowns and employee relocations and then fired 19,000 taxpaying workers. During the same merger, the two companies rewarded their top officials with $31 million in federal money, one-third of the total bonus package they gave themselves.

Finally, as a special ministry to the underprivileged citizens of our country, Lockheed's second most significant business after weapons peddling is management of for-profit state welfare departments and private prisons.

TRW

According to its website, TRW has been involved in missile defense research for over 50 years. TRW is the lead innovator of what it calls the "center of the National Missile Defense system," the Battle Management Command, Control and Communications (BMC3) system, which integrates the computer systems that are supposed to differentiate between nuclear warheads and Mylar decoy balloons. As the record of the first three tests indicates, the BMC3 system has been a complete failure.

Even more disturbing, this year former TRW senior engineer Nira Schwartz blew the whistle on her former employer, stating publicly that TRW blatantly lied about rampant test result failures to the DoD "It's not a defense of the United States," said Dr. Schwartz. "It's a conspiracy to allow them to milk the government. They are creating for themselves a job for life." Indeed, all the "big four" contractors see Star Wars as a Golden Goose that will secure lucrative contracts and boost their sagging stock prices. Schwartz has filed a lawsuit against TRW, which is pending.

TRW has been the target of numerous false claims suits and anti-trust lawsuits, including one in 1984 when TRW was forced to pay the government $17 million to compensate for overcharges. Most recently, in 1998 the Justice Department joined former senior TRW financial executive Richard Bagley in a lawsuit against TRW for defrauding the government of over $50 million on various space contracts throughout the l990s. Not coincidentally, "at a time when we continue to see wrongdoing by large defense contractors and their executives, the defense industry is approaching Congress to water down the False Claims Act, " said Bagley's attorney Eric Havian. "Their proposed amendments would make it almost impossible to bring cases such as [this]."

Raytheon

Raytheon's pieces of the Star Wars pie include the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) and X-radar. These are key NMD components. The EKV is the interceptor that's supposed to destroy the incoming missile, and the X-radar system is supposed to find the EKV's target by discriminating between real warheads and decoys.

Like most military contractors, Raytheon knows how to throw its political weight around through large campaign contributions and a full-time lobbying staff of 19 people. And like its fellow rogues, Raytheon has an extensive record of illegal and unethical conduct. The company has been involved in civil suits concerning labor law violations, civil false claims violations, fraud, and at least one criminal violation:

* Spying and stealing documents from rival corporations: A May 1999 Reuters report revealed that Raytheon "will pay $3 million to a competitor, AGES Group, and purchase $13 million worth of AGES aircraft parts to settle allegations that a security firm hired by Raytheon eavesdropped on and stole documents from AGES." This happened after AGES Group won a government contract that had been held by Raytheon.

* Bribery: In November 1995, transcripts from a wiretap of Julio Cesar Gomes dos Santos, a special envoy to the Brazilian President Fernando Enrique Cardoso, indicated that Raytheon's lobbyists may have bribed a Brazilian senator to gain backing for a $1.4 billion radar project.

* False Claims: In October 1994, Raytheon Co. paid $4 million to settle a U. S. government claim that the company inflated a defense contract for antimissile radar.

* Securities Fraud: According to a complaint filed last year by the law firm of Pomerantz, Haudek, Block, Grossman & Gross, Raytheon and two of the company's senior officers allegedly failed to disclose in its financial statements that it was violating. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) by engaging in a systematic contract "acceleration" policy, under which the company was prematurely recording revenue on contingent sales contracts prior to actual performance.

It is these war profiteer corporations, not small, impoverished Asian and Arab countries on the other side of the world, that are the real rogues driving the rush to deploy a Star Wars missile system. Their massive collective rap sheet has no affect on their ability to push their agenda through Congress. Together, these rogue corporations have spent about $40 million on campaign contributions and lobbying expenses over the past three years to ensure that multi-billion dollar weapons contracts for Star Wars and other military programs will keep coming.

The only way to bring about real national (and global) security, free from the threat of nuclear holocaust is to work towards global nuclear abolition. This year the U.S. reaffirmed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, which obliges the nuclear powers to achieve global nuclear disarmament. Unfortunately, the military contractors that are pushing Star Wars are also responsible for maintaining the United States' massive nuclear arsenal. As long as the interests of these corporations are put ahead of the interests of the people, the United States, along with the rest of the world, will move towards an increasingly unstable and militarized world.

Kevin Martin is the director of Project Abolition, a coalition of seven U.S. peace and disarmament organizations. Rachel Glick, Rachel Ries, Tim Nafziger, and Mark Swier are program assistants for Project Abolition.

From Z Magazine September, 2000 By Kevin Martin, Rachel Glick, Rachel Ries, Tim Mafziger and Mark Swier

Where Have All the Rogues Gone? Colonel Daniel Smith, (Ret.)

WORDS ARE IMPORTANT. Spoken or heard, they reflect and affect our thoughts by the specific meanings they carry, the concepts they suggest, and the emotions they touch. Their influence on the human psyche, and therefore on our actions, is enormous.

That's why the State Department's June 19 announcement that henceforth "rogue states" will be called "states of concern" is a potential springboard for resolving long standing but now anachronistic disputes with other nations.

From Whence Came the Rogues?

It really hasn't been that many years since "rogue" became linked-with nations or states in the parlance of international relations and national politics. In 1991, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell observed, "I'm running out of demons. I'm running out of villains. I'm down to Castro and Kim II Sung." He did not use the term rogue, with its connotation of being irrational or out of control, but he did name the men who were in charge of the two third world countries the U.S. most loved to hate.

When "rogue" became synonymous with a leader or country implacably opposed to U.S. interests, it was neither Castro nor Kim who "set the standard" but Saddam Hussein. This change occurred in the post-Desert Storm 1990s when nations like Iraq that supported terrorism and developing weapons of mass destruction took center stage in the thinking of American policy makers.

In An Elusive Consensus: Nuclear Weapons and American Security After the Cold War, Janne Nolan presents a brief overview of how this change occurred. Representative Les Aspin, Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee and soon to be Clinton's first Secretary of Defense, identified "regional" aggressors as the main threat to international peace. Mr. Aspin defined what Nolan describes as the Saddam Hussein four point "threat yardstick" by which all regional renegades could be measured.

The points were:

* willingness to commit aggression;

* pursuing nuclear weapons development;

* using or supporting the use of terrorism; and

* employing a totalitarian system of governance.

REFERENCE SOURCES: ACLU.ORG, HTTP://WWW.MOTIONSCIENCES.ORG/,
PEACE TIMES @ HTTP://WWW.SVPAL.ORG/~SJPC/, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE,
SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, HTTP://WWW.SPIRITOFMAAT.COM/, Z MAGAZINE,
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