Dao Thi Bich Van – Viet Nam

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

The work of Dao Thi Bich Van in the trade union of the Department of Education and Training requires patience, devotion, the ability to convince and encourage, and profound love. She organizes initiatives to improve the lives of disadvantaged people, especially teachers, handicapped people, and street children.

She says: « I am an ordinary woman with very simple work ».

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Dao Thi Bich Van – Viet Nam

She works for the Department of Education and Training Hanoi, named on Asia Link, and on Frontier/South-East-Asia/.

She made trips to the countryside, where she came to understand the unhappy lot of teachers and students in remote regions. What she saw brought tears to her eyes and she pledged to improve their lives. She has established and managed humanitarian programs at the Hanoi Education and Training Department and the Department’s trade union, using all possible resources to guarantee their success.

In the past 10 years, she has mobilized teachers in the Department to donate to humanitarian programs and participate in humanitarian and social activities. She has raised billions of dong annually, totaling more than US$ 1.5 million in ten years.

For street children, she has marshaled vocational training teachers in Hanoi to give free classes in reading, writing and vocational training; she convinced the Swiss organization Terre des Hommes to finance the building and equipment and called on the Italian Motherless Association to donate US$30,000 to upgrade the classrooms.

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Michael C. Ruppert – USA

Linked with The Archive of ‘From The Wilderness’ FTW, with jenna orkin’s Act 2: From the Wilderness’ Peak Oil.
And also with Michel Chossudovsky – Canada, with Cynthia McKinney- USA,
and with Center for Research on Globalisation.

Michael Ruppert is the founder and editor of ‘From The Wilderness’, a newsletter and website dedicated to investigating political cover-ups. On August 16, 2006 Ruppert announced that he was leaving the United States permanently, citing years of harassment for his ongoing dissident activities … (full text).

See also: BY THE LIGHT OF A BURNING BRIDGE, his permanent Goodbye to the United States).

He writes: FTW (the newsletter ‘From The Wilderness’) is really screwed up right now. Everybody knows it and I am not going ignore it. I am in bad shape too. I am not going to hide that either. I have been in Caracas for 14-plus weeks and am facing a serious combination of medical ymptoms that were described by Carlos Ruiz in “Living with Mike Ruppert in Caracas. » (full text).

FULL DISCLOSURE – THE LAPD RECORDS OF MICHAEL C. RUPPERT.

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Michael C. Ruppert – USA

More articles on CIA & Drugs.

OPENING REMARKS OF MICHAEL C. RUPPERT for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.

Michael Ruppert is the author of Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Published in September 2004 and is one of the three best-selling books globally and in the US about the attacks of 9/11. Rubicon is the only book to show that Vice President Richard Cheney, the US government and Wall Street had a well-developed awareness of Peak Oil before the 9/11 attacks and that US policy since then has been consistent with Peak Oil imperatives. In May, 2006 Crossing the Rubicon was added to the Harvard School of Business library and released in a French version with distribution throughout all major book stores in France. (‘Outside the box‘, scroll down).

1996 Dark Alliance Investigative Report, Google Scolar-articles about.

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Webster Griffin Tarpley – USA

Linked with Made in USA, and with Russian Press Blasts Anglo-Saxon Terrorist Controllers.

Webster Griffin Tarpley is an author, lecturer, and critic of US foreign and domestic policy. He maintains that the events of 9/11 were engineered by the military industrial complex. He envisions a model of false flag terror operated by a rogue network of independent operatives in the privatized military intelligence sector and corporate media … he earned an AB at Princeton University in 1966 in English and Italian, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Fulbright Scholar at University of Turin, Italy. Master of Arts in humanities from Skidmore College.
(full text).

He says: « The other aspect is ‘synthesis’, meaning ‘drawing things together’ like bringing elements together that are disparate and don’t seem to belong together, but really do. And that’s the conceptual framework I offer in there, and some charts on the back, and at various points in the book. The question of the moles, patsies, the professional killers, and the command center which coordinates all of that within the framework of a brainwashed world of controlled corporate media. In particular I try to show, in the case of the patsies, leaning on some research by Daniel Hopsicker, who has been delving around in Florida for some years, that in the case of Atta and some of the other pilots training at the airport in Venice, Florida, they are the products of the precise airports that were being used by Oliver North and Secord, and Felix Rodriguez in the Iran/Contra scandal of the 1980s, for gun running into Central America and bringing back crack cocaine and heroin and other lethal narcotics into the United States. That’s what Atta comes from and it’s very interesting that the 9/11 patsies are so closely connected to the Iran/Contra infrastructure. These are the kinds of elements of continuity that I try to show in the book »… (full interview text).

See his website.

Listen his video: 9/11 L.A. Symposium – Webster Griffin Tarpley on 911 Evidence, 1.06 h, 04.08.2006.

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Webster Griffin Tarpley – USA

Read on his website: George Bush, The Unauthorized Biography, by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, on his website: Table of Contents (Introduction and chapters 1 to 25). Scrolling down of the same page: You can get the entire book at once, by dowloading the following compressed file: bushbook.zip. (The zip file is about one Megabyte. It contains all the chapters in HTML format.)

He says also: « The thing about the anthrax is that 9/11, the Pentagon and the WTC Towers are far away from rural America, the Midwest… there are large parts of the US where people could say, ‘As long as it’s skyscrapers, there’s no skyscraper here…’ and there were tens of millions of people who felt that they were not on the hook. But of course the one thing that just about everybody does is go to a Post Office box or a mail slot at home, or your mailbox, and get out your daily mail. And as you remember, when you did this, you’re always thinking, how many anthrax spores are in this envelope and every unidentified piece of junk mail you opened up you wondered if you were gonna get white powder in it. So this was very effective psy-war, it was also used, very consciously by the FBI to take investigators, who were supposedly looking into 9/11 and to divert them to something completely different. It’s very interesting that the FBI has never solved this crime. I think it’s a key to the bankruptcy of their investigative procedures in general, if that were still needed. The one thing that’s clear is that the anthrax spores that are involved here come from US military labs ». (full interview text).

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Zumra Nuru Mohammad – Ethiopia

founder of Awra Amba

Linked with Awra Amba, and with Zumra’s new lifestyle perception.

He can’t read or write, but Zumra Nuru created a society that would have made Karl Marx proud. The 60-year-old Ethiopian farmer founded and cochairs Awra Amba, a commune where men cook, women plow, and religion has no place. His inspiration came from his childhood: He was sent to the fields instead of to school and beaten for eating meat at his Christian neighbor’s home. His mother had to work much more than his father … In the 1980s, Nuru finally launched the egalitarian society he dreamed of with 19 other people who adopted his vision. Today Awra Amba has some 400 members and is lauded as a model to alleviate poverty and promote gender equality in a country where women generally hold a subservient status to men. (full text).

He says: « It made me sad, when I asked my parents about it … they acted as if I were foolish » … and: “Everybody I ask tells me that mankind has one root some say that it started from Adam and Eve and others prefer to say it was Adem and Hawa,” … and: “I decided then to ignore such lines, which create differences among human beings, and establish a heaven that has a place for all by giving love to each other and avoid all causes of conflict among themselves”.

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Zumra Nuru Mohammad – Ethiopia

Father of the village.

Bio, exerpt: … In 1972 when he first settled in Awramba, there were 66 households who agreed to live according to his new lifestyle. As other people in the surrounding districts politicized his activities and began accusing him, he began to realize what he dreamed of since childhood wasn’t going to be easily realized … and: In the final days of the Derg regime in 1989 when they heard that the neighborhood is going to massacre Zumra and all of his followers, the whole Awaramba community left their homes in the middle of the night and descended on Bonga town in southern Ethiopia, to save their lives. (full text).

Den Karl Marx cung phai u hao.

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Rodrigue Tremblay – Canada

Linked with Questions About the Financial Crisis, and with The neocons’ crazy dream of World War III.

Rodrigue Tremblay (born October 13, 1939) is a Canadian-born economist, humanist and political figure. He teaches economics at the Université de Montréal. He specializes in macroeconomics, international trade and finance, and public finance. He is a prolific author of books in economics and politics. Born in Matane, Québec, Canada, he has a B.A. from the Université Laval (1961), a B.Sc. in Economics from the Université de Montréal (1963). Tremblay did his graduate work at Stanford University where he obtained a M.A. in Economics (1965) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1968) … He is a rare and versatile economist whose accomplishments touch many fields of economics and economic policy. He is known for his contributions in three areas of economics … He is also a public intellectual who is known for his contributions to the understanding of international, Canadian and Quebec politics. His blog on world geopolitics is read in fifty countries and in seven languages. His book The New American Empire was published in English, in French under the title « Le nouvel empire américain » and in Turkish under the title of « Yeni Amerikan †mparatorlu›u ». His political analyses have been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail and numerous French-language newspapers such as Le Devoir, La Presse (Canada), Le Soleil, and several other publications … (full text).

A Fed Panic and a Massive Bailout of American Banks Paid for by the Entire World, September 22nd, 2007.

He writes: The global dollar-based financial system is in crisis and is threatening the prosperity and stability of many economies. Financial excesses of all kinds have undermined its legitimacy and its efficiency. The U.S. dollar is losing its preeminence as the main international reserve currency while many banks are caught in the turmoil of the subprime credit crisis … (full text, Nov 16, 2007).

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Rodrigue Tremblay – Canada

Listen to his video: The deconstruction of Iraq, 2 min., October 4, 2007.

He writes also: When religious extremists use their tax-free access to TV to openly call for a nuclear confrontation between America and Iran, and when they try to demonize the European Union by calling it « the Antichrist », it is time to ask what’s going on in the U.S. —Is this wind of collective madness subsiding or getting up steam? Are the Armageddonite fanatics calling for the end of the world and the Second Coming of Christ, in an Armageddon war supposed to kill two billion people, turning the U. S. into a madhouse, where the inmates seem to be in charge? There are, indeed, as many as 30 million Armageddonite Americans—ten percent of the population—most of them members of the evangelical religious fundamentalist movement, to which GWB subscribes as an evangelical born-again Christian, and from which he borrows his religious language in defense of his policies. (In the 2004 elections, exit polls showed that more than three-quarters of white evangelical Christians voted for President Bush.) Many among the evangelicals are known to nurture the crazy idea that if their preachers’ end-of-the-world scenario were to be accomplished, they would be ‘raptured’ and would enter into some ‘Heaven’, without going through a ‘Judgment Day’. Since the leaders of this movement are frequently invited to the White House for off-the-record policy sessions, and since many congressmen attend their meetings, it might not be so foolish after all to look at what these delusional characters have in store for the world. (full text).

Canada and Bushs North American Union.

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Virgelina Chará – Colombia

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « Peace cannot be reached with bullets because then so many lives are lost. You cannot buy it or sell it with blood. It is a process that must be built from within the family ».

She says also: “They have threatened me with death” … and: “I worked from the age of six helping my family” … and: “When you are helping people in the community, you realize what is going on”.

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Virgelina Chará – Colombia

She works for the Cooperativa Multiactiva Interétnica Nuevo Horizonte Limitada (Inter-ethnical Multi-active Cooperative).

Virgelina Chará is an African Colombian, born half a century ago in the Valle del Cauca, in Colombia.

She has been threatened with death five times and cannot remember how many times she has been displaced from her home. She has been arrested, kidnapped, beaten and persecuted. She has seven children, three grandchildren and she never rests “because of my desire to live and to live with under dignified conditions”, says Virgelina Chará when talking about her life, which has lasted for half a century, punctuated by displacements and persecutions.

She was the first of four children born in Cauca, in Colombia. She was Afro-Colombian and poor, raised by her mother and grandmother. From ages 12 to 18, she worked as a maid in Calí. She managed to go to school in the evenings and graduated from the primary level at age 24.

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Xiaoying Zheng – China

Linked with Classical Music Struggles to Be Heard.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « I wish to present wonderful music and peaceful life to the public and popularize exquisite classical music to the best of my ability » … and: « A symphony which represents Western music, is a most complex yet splendid artistic form » … « Compared with China’s big cities like Beijing and Shanghai, Xiamen, with a population of only 400,000, has done very well ».

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Xiaoying Zheng – China

She works for China’s Central Opera Theater (named in China today).

Zheng Xiaoying is China’s first female opera and symphony orchestra conductor, and is the first Chinese orchestra conductor to take the international opera stage. She is now the Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of Xiamen Philharmonic Orchestra. Zheng has been awarded a variety of prizes in acknowledgment of her outstanding art achievements on the following four aspects:

I. Rebuilding of the Central Opera Theatre’s orchestra from ruin after the Cultural Revolution and excellent opera conducting:

Zheng has often been invited to give performances on important occasions in China since 1978. She has conducted many Chinese and foreign operas. She also offers tremendous support to the creative works of young composers and assists in the trial performance and spread of Chinese works. Her conducting is considered enthusiastic, conscientious, exquisite, and inspiring.Zheng has been invited more than 30 times to lead opera and symphony concerts or give lectures in more than 20 countries like USA, Russia, Japan, Australia, and European countries. She is the first Chinese conductor to take the podium in a foreign opera theatre and continues to receive such invitations even now. Zheng’s performance on the international stage has changed prejudices against Chinese and oriental women.

II. More than 50 years of brilliant teaching achievements:

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Müyesser Günes – Turkey

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « All guerrillas, soldiers, and prisoners are my children. I shall be there for all of them. I will continue to struggle for peace so that they do not die ».

She explained: « I was no longer a mother in fear. That person had vanished and was replaced by a strong and knowledgeable mother. I began to follow the news. I read newspapers and books, which helped alleviate my pain. As soon as I put the kids to sleep I would turn on the television and watch programs such as Siyaset Meydani (Political Arena) and Teke Tek (One to One). I could no longer sleep at night. I began to understand that there was a Kurdish question in Turkey. I wanted to do something to overcome our problems, and so that I would never be faced with the news of Mehmet’s death. Whenever I traveled or met new people, I was compelled to befriend them and explain the real situation in Turkey. I was no longer an ordinary housewife. I would talk about the situation and I tried to organize the older women to take a stance. I told them, ‘Mothers need to do something. Today I am living through all this but tomorrow it may be your turn’. I knew the pain all too well and I knew that it would grasp us all, all over Turkey. Without knowing it, I was becoming a peace militant and a peace mother ».

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Müyesser Günes – Turkey

She works for the Peace Mothers (there exist worldwide many local groups named ‘Mothers for Peace’).
Muyesser Gunes has spent most of her life as a typical Kurdish village woman. She was born in Bitlis/Ahlat to a family with seven siblings. Her mother died at age 29, during the birth of her last child, because there was no village doctor to assist her. After losing their mother, the girls were forced to stop attending school to look after the younger children; Muyesser left school when she was five. At age 14, she was married off to a 12-year-old cousin and her responsibilities increased tremendously. She had to care for her sick mother-in-law and young husband. At age 17, she had her first child and for the next ten years, she lived in the village, milking the animals, baking bread, cutting and harvesting the fields, and producing yogurt and cheese.

The Kurds were completely self-sufficient since the Turkish state did not supplement their living in any way. Eventually, her village’s name, Mezik, was banned, along with thousands of others, and changed to the Turkish, Burcu Kaya. Her eldest son, Mehmet, was subjected to harassment by Turkish students and state forces and was kicked out of school for being a Kurd. Their house was regularly raided and at one point, Mehmet was taken into police custody and tortured.

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Index November 2007

Rohini Hensman – Sri Lanka

Linked with Playing Lions and Tigers, and with NATIONALISM AND THE LEFT IN SRI LANKA.

Rohini Hensman is a researcher and writer active in the women’s liberation, trade union, human rights and anti-war movements in India and Sri Lanka. She has written extensively on all these issues, and is currently working on a book on globalization and labour in India. (full text).

Sri Lankan Rohini Hensman lives in India where she is a writer and anti-war activist promoting women’s, labor, and human rights. Her book of fiction, Playing Lions and Tigers, follows the intertwined lives of fourteen characters from different parts of Sri Lanka, different social classes, different ethnic and religious communities, all confronting the challenges of their country’s post-colonial conditions: poverty and religious conflict. Inhabiting the lives of her characters, Rohini looks at the personal dramas of peaceful citizens turned into violent enemies by the manipulations of authoritarian and criminal government. (black oak books, scroll down).

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Sorry, I can’t find any photo of Rohini Hensman, Sri Lanka

Read: A Last Chance For Peace in Sri Lanka, 21 January 2005.

She writes also: ‘If the Bush administration has decided to attack Iran militarily, is there any power on earth that can stop it if the people of the US are unable or unwilling to do so? The argument below is that if the USA’s ability to undertake imperial conquests depends on its obvious military supremacy, this in turn is ultimately based on the use of the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. It is the dominance of the dollar that underpins US financial dominance as a whole as well as the apparently limitless spending power that allows it to keep hundreds of thousands of troops stationed all over the world’. (full text, 19th November 2007).

Her publications: on Dissident Voices; on; on ; on .

The OPEC Summit in Riyadh over the weekend of 17-18 November was the scene of a political debate that is not normally associated with the oil-producing cartel. The meeting was dominated by a discussion of the falling value of the US dollar, the currency in which the oil exports of most OPEC countries is denominated. ‘The dollar is in free fall, everyone should be worried about it,’ according to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez; ‘The fall of the dollar is not the fall of the dollar, it’s the fall of the American empire’. ‘They get our oil and give us a worthless piece of paper,’ added Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad. ‘The dollar has no economic value.’ However Saudi officials rejected the suggestion that the meeting discuss ending the practice of pricing crude in dollars, and emphasised the purely economic agenda of OPEC. It is undeniable that Chavez and Ahmedinejad have a political axe to grind, and that is not hard to understand: both have been the target of US attempts at ‘regime change’; Iran is in addition facing threats of military attack by the US. But is the Saudi claim that its agenda is purely economic plausible? The currencies of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – were pegged to the dollar in January 2003, but this peg has increasingly come under pressure as the dollar has declined. The corresponding devaluation of their own currencies has led to rapid inflation in GCC countries, while at the same time devaluing their foreign exchange reserves. (full text, Nov. 21, 2007).

A GLOBAL SATYAGRAHA AGAINST IMPERIALISM, Oct 6, 2007.

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