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To: coug who wrote (5698)	2/5/2003 9:08:55 PM
From: coug	Respond to of 25898

I also wanted to add, some people would even analyze sage brush, pine needles or any other prevalent plant type, looking for anomalous (very very trace amounts, ppb range again ) that the root structure sucked up and assimilated into it's new growth.... And it worked............There would be concentrations.. It could be contoured.. with bulls eyes over the highest concentrations in the underlying host rocks.. Maybe the UN should retain a good exploration geologist with some practical mining experience to help resolve this terrible mess. <ng>

To: coug who wrote (5698)	2/5/2003 9:18:57 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

coug, All of your concerns about PPB analysis and the coherence of aerial photographic evidence, etc. etc. simply melt away if you believe, as I do, that everything that the Bush Administration says is a total lie and utter fabrication. Powell used phony documentation, dubiously sourced communications intercepts and doctored photos to try to sell his lie. From the most mundane example of "black is white, white is black". To the most nefarious doublethink deviousness. Occasionally, the Bushistas reel in a sucker with their trawl of twaddle and tall tales. A really good case in point is the naivete displayed recently by the actor, Richard Gere. He was overheard recently praising GWB for doing much more for AIDS amelioration in Africa than Clinton ever did. Gere got snookered. Bush is lying. Here's what Bush said in his disingenuous SOTU speech: "I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years, including nearly $10 billion in new money, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean." The headlines the next day said "$15 Billion for AIDS victims in Africa". The naive believed this would be the 2003 budget. Nothing could be further from the truth. The 2003 budget for assistance with AIDS treatment in Africa is actually not new money at all. It is money that is being redirected from aid for treatment of malaria and other endemic tropical diseases. Bush is robbing Peter to pay Paul and collecting a great headline from a compliant and submissive media. Here's what other observers had to say about Bush's cynical misrepresentation of his "compassionate" aid to Africa: Jacqueline Cabasso, executive director of the Western States Legal Foundation and co-author of The End of Disarmament and the Arms Races to Come: "This sounds like a lot of money, but it's important to put it in perspective. The U.S. military budget, at nearly $400 billion a year ($396.1 billion for FY 2003) is larger than the military budgets of the next 26 countries combined cdi.org ($394.2 billion); and 35 times larger than the combined military budgets of the "Axis of Evil" countries (Iraq, Iran and North Korea -- $11.8 billion). brook.edu U.S. nuclear weapons research, development, testing, and production, at $5.9 billion for 2003, is significantly higher than spending during the average Cold War year, for directly comparable activities ($364 billion). This does not include delivery systems. How could this money be better spent to ensure real human, national and global security?" Salih Booker, executive director of Africa Action: "Bush's announcement would be the height of cynicism if the president does not now request at least $3.5 billion of his new total for funding this year. This is the U.S. share of what is urgently needed to fight HIV/AIDS now. According to the White House, the President's request for additional funds to fight HIV/AIDS will not affect the 2003 budget, and will only begin in 2004, with an increase of just $700 million. The real measure of the president's sincerity will be in the budget numbers for 2003 and 2004. Large numbers for 2007 are meaningless to people who will die this year without access to essential medicines. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is the most important vehicle in the effort to fight the pandemic and the U.S. should contribute a far greater share. The new commitment of only $1 billion to the Fund, over a period of 5 years, would actually undermine Africa's greatest hope. Africa's illegitimate external debts are draining $15 billion a year from the War on AIDS. The spirit and logic of the President's own initiative demand the immediate cancellation of these debts." Raj Patel, policy analyst at Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy: "This policy is disingenuous to its core. Under existing World Trade Organization legislation, countries can already 'compulsorily license' drugs, waiving the patent protection of pharmaceutical companies in the interests of public health. It is, in fact, U.S.-sponsored legislation at the World Trade Organization that prevents those countries in the third world which lack the production capacities to produce generic retroviral drugs from importing them from other countries. This compassion for the third world doesn't pan out either. In December, the United States was alone among members of the World Trade Organization in its opposition to an expanded list of diseases which waives reimportation rules. What looks like a moment of heartfelt generosity on the part of the Bush regime is, in fact, a hard-nosed recognition that pharmaceutical companies around the world aren't winning the PR battle to justify their monopolies. To put it more simply, this is a $15 billion subsidy to the U.S. pharmaceutical industry, in lieu of political battles lost at the WTO by U.S. negotiators. It remains to be seen quite how much of this new-found largesse will go to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which last year was on the verge of bankruptcy." Source: accuracy.org ******************* In conclusion, Richard Gere is naive and he just got sandbagged by Bush.