It seems as though the peace truth justice people are being tortured to a very high degree inside USA to the point of an American Genocide for those that speak truth

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It seems as though the peace truth justice people are being tortured to a very high degree inside USA to the point of an American Genocide for those that speak truth. Most targeted groups are the Religious society of Friends (Universalist Quakers and Christian Quakers), Domincan Catholics, Methodists, Church of England, Lutherans as well as Jewish Voices for Peace in San Fran..

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Allegations of new anti-Semitism have been particularly vociferous from the Koret and Taube foundations, http://www.koretfoundation.org/ longtime backers of the festival. The foundations criticized Jewish Voice for Peace and the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker organization widely considered tobe on the vanguard of Christian pacificism. The festival had asked thetwo groups to promote "Rachel" within their constituencies. The twoJewish foundations issued a joint statement labeling the Quaker andJewish peace organizations as "two virulently anti-Israel,anti-Semitic" groups associated with "groups that aid and abet terroragainst the Jewish state."

Tad Taube serves as president of the Koret Foundation and chairman of TaubePhilanthropies. He is chairman and founder of the Woodmont Companies, adiversified real estate investment and management organization. He waschairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries (successor to Koret ofCalifornia) from 1973 until its merger with Levi Strauss in 1979. Hehas served as trustee of the University of Notre Dame

Susan Koret, Board Chair

Susan Koret is lifetime chair of the board of the Koret Foundation. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she immigrated to the United States where, in 1979, she married Joseph Koret and converted to Judaism. Since the death of her husband in 1982, she has sustained and enhanced his philanthropiclegacy through devoted commitment to the Foundation. She is an active investor and also serveson the boards of the American Friends of the Hebrew University, theFromm Institute for Lifelong Learning at the University of San Francisco,and the Korean Center of San Francisco. She is an active supporterof San Francisco's cultural community and minority ethnic communities,involving herself in programs ranging from the arts to youth education.

Tad Taube, President

Tad Taube serves as president of the Koret Foundation and chairman of Taube Philanthropies. He is chairman and founder of the Woodmont Companies, a diversified real estate investment and management organization. He waschairman and CEO of Koracorp Industries (successor to Koret ofCalifornia) from 1973 until its merger with Levi Strauss in 1979. Hehas served as trustee of the University of Notre Dame de Namur, theUniversity of San Francisco, and as governor of The Hebrew Universityin Jerusalem.

At his alma mater, Stanford University, Mr. Taube is founder and advisory board chair of the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, established in 1986. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institution and serves on its ExecutiveCommittee, and was founder and past chairman of the advisory board ofthe Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR). Inaddition, Mr. Taube is past chair of the Stanford Athletic Board. Hisinvolvement in Stanford Athletics includes his family’s principal giftto Stanford’s Taube Family Tennis Stadium and his significant supportof Stanford’s new football stadium, built in 2006.

Mr. Taube was a founder of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1982 and was principal owner of the Oakland Invaders football franchise. A member of the Lincoln Club, the Commonwealth Club andnumerous other civic organizations, he has received a number ofprestigious service awards and recognitions, including the Alexis deTocqueville Society Award presented by United Way in 1998, the ScopusAward from the Hebrew University in 1985, and an honorary doctoratedegree from Pacific Graduate School of Psychology in 1995.

In 2004, the President of the Republic of Poland awarded Tad Taube Poland’s highest civilian medal — The Commander’s Cross — and three years later, in 2007, the Republic of Poland named Mr. Taube HonoraryConsul for the San Francisco peninsula region.

Also in 2007, Mr. Taube received the Corporate Citizenship Award from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Forward newspaper recognized him as one of its Forward Fifty most influential Jews in America.

Mr. Taube holds BS and MS degrees from Stanford University and served as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He is married to Dianne Panos Taube and he has six children ranging in age from 5 to 50.

Richard Atkinson

Retired as the president of the University of California in 2003, Richard Atkinson has also served as chancellor of the University of California, San Diego. Appointed director of the National Science Foundation by President Jimmy Carter, Dr. Atkinson’s nationaland international science policies included negotiating the first memorandumof understanding in history between the People's Republic of Chinaand the United States. He was a long-standingfaculty member at Stanford University, serving as a professor of psychologyand holding appointmentsin the School of Engineering, the School of Education, the AppliedMathematics and Statistics Laboratories, and the Institute for MathematicalStudies in the Social Sciences.

Dr. Atkinson's research dealt with problems of memory and cognition. His theory of human memory has helped clarify the relationship between brain structures and psychological phenomena, explaining the effects of drugs on memory and formulation of techniques to optimize learning.He developed one of the first computer-controlled systems for instruction — aprototype for the commercial development of computer-assisted instruction,which focused primarily on reading for young school children. A co-founderof the Computer Curriculum Corporation, his scientific contributionsresulted in his election to the National Academy of Sciences, the Instituteof Medicine, the National Academy of Education, and the American PhilosophicalSociety. Past president of the American Association for the Advancementof Science, he is former chair of the Association of American Universities.A mountain in Antarctica has been named in his honor.

Michael J. Boskin

Michael J. Boskin is Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics and senior fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He isalso research associate, National Bureau of Economic Research. An advisorto governments and global businesses , Dr. Boskin serves on severalcorporate and philanthropic boards of directors. He served as chairmanof the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) from 1989to 1993. The independent Council for Excellence in Government ratedDr. Boskin’s CEA one of the five most respected agencies (outof 100) in the federal government. He chaired the highly influentialblue-ribbon Consumer Price Index Commission, whose report hastransformed the way government statistical agencies around the worldmeasure inflation, GDP, and productivity.

Dr. Boskin received his B.A. with highest honors in economics and the Chancellor’s Award as outstanding undergraduate in 1967 from the University of California , Berkeley, where he also received his M.A. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1971. In addition to Stanford and theUniversity of California, he has taught at Harvard and Yale. The authorof more than 100 books and articles, he is internationally recognizedfor his research on world economic growth, tax and budget theory andpolicy ; U.S. saving and consumption patterns ; and the implicationsof changing technology and demography on capital, labor, and productmarkets.

Dr. Boskin has received numerous professional awards and citations, including Stanford’s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1988, the National Association for Business Economists’ Abramson Award for outstanding research and its Distinguished Fellow Award, the Medalof the President of the Italian Republic in 1991 for his contributionsto global economic understanding, and the 1998 Adam Smith Prize foroutstanding contributions to economics.

William K. Coblentz

William K. Coblentz is a senior partner with the law firm of Coblentz, Patch, Duffy & Bass, LLP. A former chair of the Board of Regents of the University of California, he presently serves on the boards of the McClatchy Company, NAACP Legal Defense and EducationalFund, Children Now, University of California Press, and the Universityof California , San Francisco Medical Center Foundation. He isa member of the Council on Foreign Relations, San Francisco ; the AmericanBar Association ; the Association of the Bar of the City of New York; theAmerican Law Institute; and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Coblentz was formerly a member of the board of directors of the Pacific Telesis Group, the San Francisco Airports Commission, Vidal Sassoon, Inc., and Mervyns ; he was a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford University, and an adjunct professor at the HaasSchool of Business,University of California, Berkeley.

Anita Friedman

Jewish Family & Children’s Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin & Sonoma Counties, Executive Director

Dr. Anita Friedman has served for nearly 30 years as executive director of Jewish Family and Children’s Services of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties, one of the largest family serviceinstitutions in the United States, with 13 Bay Area offices in fivecounties serving more than 58,000 children, adults and seniors eachyear. She is a frequent lecturer and writer on issues of Jewishcommunal service, mental health and innovative business models for theprovision of human services.

In addition to serving on the Koret Foundation Advisory Board, and on the board of the American Friends of Koret Israel Economic Development Funds, Dr. Friedman serves on various local, state, national and international boards andcommissions. Among them are the Human Services Commission for the Cityand County of San Francisco and the International Board of Trustees forthe World Council of Jewish Communal Service. She has consulted withthe State of Israel’s Ministry of Social Affairs on best practices inserving children and families, and her breakthrough work to acclimateSoviet Jews to American life has won her accolades from dignitaries theworld over.

A licensed clinical social worker specializing in mental health services for families and couples, Dr. Friedman has received high praise and numerous awards, including the State of California Family Service Council Leadership Award, theInternational Louis Kraft Award for Jewish communal service; the MyrtleWreath Award, Hadassah’s highest honor; the Jewish CommunityFederation's Professional of the Year Award; and the Koret Prize forleadership in community service. She is a graduate of the prestigiousWexner Heritage Foundation fellowship.

Dr. Friedman completed undergraduate studies at the University of California at Berkeley, and her doctoral degree in organizational psychology at the University of San Francisco. The daughter of Holocaust survivors, sheand her husband live in San Francisco and have three sons.

Robert Friend

Robert Friend is president of Howard Properties of San Francisco, a privately held real estate investment company. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, he serves as president of the Friend Family Foundation, chairman of UCSF’s Diabetes Advisory Committee,and chairman of Summer Search San Francisco, a program that challengeslow-income high school students to develop character and leadershipby providing year-round mentoring, life-changing summer experiences,college advising, and a lasting support network.

In addition, Mr. Friend is a member of the Chancellor’s Advisory Committee at UCSF and serves on the boards of the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, the Taube Foundation for Jewish Life & Culture, the Bernard Osher Foundation, and several other supporting foundationsof San Francisco’s Jewish Community Endowment Fund.

Richard L. Greene

Richard L. Greene is a specialist in tax law and a founding partner of the law firm Greene, Radovsky, Maloney, Share & Hennigh. He is a frequent lecturer in the tax field and a recipient of the V. Judson Klein Awardfor outstanding contributions to the field of taxation. He has servedas co-chairman of the executive committee of the State Bar of CaliforniaTaxation Section, past president of the San Francisco Barristers Club’sTax Section, and president of the San Francisco Tax Litigation Club.Mr. Greene has also served as adjunct professor at Boalt Hall Schoolof Law, conducted seminars at StanfordUniversity and Hastings Collegeof the Law, and taught courses at the University of San Francisco LawSchool. He is the president of the board of trustees of the San FranciscoMuseum of Modern Art.

Mr. Greene is a trustee of the Berkeley Foundation ; a member of the advisory boards of the Bancroft Library and the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy ; and a director of the Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning. He also serves as a director of otherprivate charitable foundations.

Stanley Herzstein

Stanley Herzstein is former president of the men’s division of Koracorp, a subsidiary of Koret of California, where he worked with Joseph Koret for 30 years. He has served on the boards of the Jewish Home, San Francisco; the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula,Marin and Sonoma Counties; Pacific Bank; San Francisco State UniversityCollege of Business; American Committee for Shaare Zedek Medical Center;Market Street Development Association; International Society of GeneralSemantics (now the Institute of General Semantics); and the San FranciscoCity Task Force on Aging. He is past president of the San FranciscoCommission on Aging and a past president of the Institute on Aging.

Abraham D. Sofaer

Abraham D. Sofaer is the George P. Shultz Distinguished Scholar and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He previously served as a federal district judge in New York and as legal adviser to the U. S.Department of State. Prior to that time he was a professor oflaw at Columbia University, where he focused on separation of powersissues in the American system of government, including the power overwar. He has also served as assistant U.S. attorney in the SouthernDistrict of New York and was a clerk to Judge J. Skelly Wright on theU.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., and to the Honorable WilliamJ. Brennan Jr., associate justice of the Supreme Court of the UnitedStates. Currently, he concentrates on issues related to terrorism,international law, diplomacy, and national security.

He has written many articles on terrorism, the Middle East peace process, and the use of force in international affairs. When he was a professor at Columbia University, he wrote a book about the constitutional powers of Congress and the President to control or affect the use offorce. As an administrative judge in New York state, he presided overthe first major environmental action involving PCBs. After leavingthe Department of State, he practiced law at Hughes, Hubbard and Reedin Washington, D.C. As U.S. district judge for the Southern Districtof New York, he handled several high-profile cases, including the libelaction against Time magazine by then Israeli general and laterprime minister, Ariel Sharon. He was awarded an honorary doctoratefrom Yeshiva University. He is president of the American Friends ofthe Koret Israel Economic Development Funds and is a founding trusteeand chairman of the board of the Jazz Museum in Harlem. He serveson other corporate and charitable boards.

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From: Lynn Surgalla [mailto:[e-mail]]
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http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/news/depleted_uranium_iraq_afghanistan_balkans.html MORET: Yes, and that’s exactly what it is. We’ve conducted four nuclear wars since 1991. Yeah, these are nuclear wars. DU is a nuclear weapon. ICONOCLAST: From the point of view of a scientist, what needs to happen to correct this? MORET: Well, we need to stop the use of it. We’ve built an international movement to stop the use, the manufacture, the storage, the sales, and the deployment ofdepleted uranium weapons. ICONOCLAST: Are the munitions we sell to other countries contained with depleted uranium? MORET: We have. In 1968 the first depleted uranium weapons systems that we found a patent for suddenly appeared in the U.S. patent office. It was for the Navy. It was sort of a Gatling gun style weapon system that you mounted on ships. It rapidly fires like 2,500 bullets a minute. It’s over 3,000 now. They’ve improved the design. Then in 1973, we gave depleted uranium weapons systems to the Israelis and supervised their use. They used them in the Arab-Israeli war and completely wiped out the Arabs in five days. Then the show was on theroad. That was the first actual battlefield demonstration of this newweapon system. Hughes Aircraft developed the full-length system which is for the Navy. That’s the Gatling gun system. They still use it. That was produced in 1974 and tested. Within six months the U.S. government had sold the DUweapons system to 12 entities which included many branches of the U.S.military and other counties. We’ve sold DU weapons systems to about — we don’t know exactly for sure — it’s been about 12 or 17 countries. The good news is that normally such a weapons system that effective would have been sold to 80, 100, or 120 countries by now. But because of the radiological, biological, and environmental hazard, countries were not only afraid to buy it, the ones who did buy it are afraid to use it.

Photo: http://www.zlocinac.org/du_effects/dr_jonymous_hanon/index.html" border="0" height="140" width="186""> Peace. http://www.zlocinac.org/du_effects/ Only countries that have used DU as weapon are Britain, the U.S., and Israel The only countries we know that have used DU are Britain, the U.S., and Israel. The United Nations in 1996 passed a resolution that depleted uranium weapons are weapons of mass destruction, and they are illegal under all international laws and treaties. In 2001, the European Parliament passed a resolution on DU. What happened is that the NATO forces went into Yugoslavia in 1998 and ’99 and flew 39,000 bombing runs and completely bombed Yugoslavia into radioactive rubble. Germany and the U.S. made the most money on the destruction of Yugoslavia, and they made sure that countries that didn’t know about the DU, that the peacekeepers from those countries like from Italy and Portugal, were sent to the mostcontaminated regions in Yugoslavia.

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From: Lynn Surgalla [mailto:[e-mail]]
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They CARPET-BOMBED THE WHOLE NATION (since 1991) with RADIOACTIVE DEPLETED URANIUM (which stays RADIOACTIVE for BILLIONS OF YEARS and causes CANCER & BIRTH DEFECTS & OTHER ORGAN DAMAGE in ALL LIVING BEINGS) ======ECOCIDE /GENOCIDE.

1. Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium

Iraqi cancers, birth defects blamed on U.S. depleted uranium. By LARRY JOHNSON ... the surge in birth defects in southern Iraq that he blames on depleteduranium. ...

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2. Iraqi Cancers, Birth Defects Blamed on U.S. Depleted Uranium

Iraqi Cancers, Birth Defects Blamed on U.S. Depleted Uranium. by Larry Johnson ... responsible for a significant increase in cancer and birth defectsin the region. ...

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3. Depleted Uranium - Far Worse Than 9/11

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Oregon soldiers sue KBR for exposure tocancer-causing chemical in Iraq

by Julie Sullivan, The Oregonian

Monday June 08, 2009, 7:13 PM

Five current and former Oregon Army National Guard soldiers filed suit Monday against a war contractor that they say knowingly exposed them to a cancer-causing chemical in Iraq.

The suit alleges that managers from Kellogg, Brown & Root, or KBR, of Houston knew before the Oregon Guard arrived at the Qarmat Ali water treatment plant in May 2003 that the site was contaminated by hexavalent chromium, a highly toxic and long-identified carcinogen.

The plaintiffs allege the company either failed to do the required testing a month before the Guard arrived or destroyed the records to conceal the contamination. KBR also discounted soldiers' and civilians' bloody noses and other symptoms of exposure as sand allergies.

The Oregon Guard had been assigned to protect civilian employees working at the treatment plant, a key component of Iraqi oil production.

In a written statement Monday, KBR director of communications Heather L. Browne said the company appropriately notified the Army Corps of Engineers, which oversaw the contractor's work.

"KBR has provided the results of environmental testing and assessments to the U.S. Military and will continue to fully cooperate with the government on this issue," she wrote. "KBR did not knowingly harm troops."

According to the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland, KBR's health safety manager in southern Iraq knew in May 2003 the plant was contaminated with sodium dichromate, a corrosion fighter that is almost pure hexavalent chromium. (The military believes Saddam loyalists opened and scattered bags ofit as they fled the plant.) Plaintiffs allege that KBR managers repeatedly toldU.S. and British soldiers there was no danger, even after blood tests oncivilian workers later confirmed elevated chromium levels.

The suit says the five plaintiffs developed symptoms of hexavalent chromium poisoning and continue to suffer breathing problems, stomach and esophageal ulcers and headaches, and face a greater risk of cancer and impact on their offspring. The Oregon troops served with the 1st Battalion, 162ndInfantry Division that rotated through duties guarding civilians at Qarmat Alifrom April to June 2003.

Four of the plaintiffs -- Larry Roberta, of Aumsville, Scott Ashby of Lake Oswego. Rocky Bixby of Hillsboro and Matthew Hadley of Aloha -- completed their Guard obligation and are civilians. Capt. Charles Ellis of Junction City remains with the Guard and is deploying to Iraq with the 41st Infantry Brigade in July.

Last month, Roberta and Ashby testified before the Oregon Legislature, which is considering a bill to set up a small fund to help exposed soldiers who develop cancer.

Attorneys for the soldiers, David Sugerman of Portland and Michael Doyle of Houston, said they expect several West Virginia National Guard members who served at the Iraqi water plant to file a similar suit. Last year, 16 Indiana National Guard members who replaced the Oregon troops at Qarmat Ali and10 civilian contractors who worked at the facility also sued KBR. Under federalrules, civilians working on military bases are limited in their ability to sueemployers, and that case has been in a confidential arbitration.

Since news coverage by The Oregonian in January, more than two dozen Oregon veterans have asked to be placed on a registry and more than a dozen have reported health issues to the National Guard or VA, mostly breathing problems.

The Oregon Army National Guard is still asking soldiers who may have served with the 1-162 to contact the Guard at 503-584-2285 or the Portland Veterans Administration at 800-949-1004, ext. 52852, for more information on registering their exposure.

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