April 23, 2005

Don=t be misled B It=s World War III

It is World War III B a total global war for survival

When fresh water is declared to be a need, not a right

Aquifers are being pumped beyond sustainability

Yearly grain harvests regularly fail to meet demand

And most fisheries are threatened with extinction

It is World War III when economic growth is the goal

Despite a massive extinction of the earth=s species

An exponential, life-endangering warming of the planet

Rising ocean levels set to submerge whole cities

And a cancer pandemic known to be pollution-driven

It is a desperate fight for which culture will continue

As the demands of the present world population

Already exceed the resources the earth can provide

The population increases by 73,000,000 yearly

And the poor fully expect their share of the wealth

You know the rich have opted to save their own skins

When they systematically defy all international treaties

In spite of mounting anger at their control of resources

The widespread availability of radioactive weaponry

And rampant diseases oblivious to political boundaries

You know that those whose way of life is oil-based

Are desperate to be the ones to extract the last drop

When they jeopardize their own economy in order

To control strategic areas, wage wars of aggression

And develop space-based weapons to dominate all

In the balance is the fate of all of us humans on earth

But in no case will the human species survive intact

For its germ plasm is even now being damaged B

In the last five of their wars, the rich have exploded

The uranium equivalent of 750,000 Hiroshima bombs

Congenital malformations are increasing everywhere

But in Central Asia it is a new plague B one which

Unlike HIV/AIDS in Africa, the rich will not escape

For in time they also will be enveloped and invaded

By their own, self-generated radioactive environment

Uranium-238 has a half-life 4,500,000,000 years

What is this goal which is purported to make

The price of Avictory@ worth it B when this price

Is the maiming of all generations after ours?

References

It is World War III B a total global war for survival:

Hall, Francoise, AThe Third World War B Initial Stages: The Free-fall of Resources and the Poor,@ April 8, 2005, 11 pages.

The results of a World Bank study, announced on March 30, 2005, reveal that approximately 60 percent of the ecosystem services that support life on Earth B such as fresh water, capture fisheries, air and water regulation, and the regulation of regional climate, natural hazards and pests B are being degraded or used unsustainably.

It is World War III when economic growth is the goal:

Hall, Francoise

ABorn in 2025,@ September 7, 2001, 5 pages.

AOur Global Village B North and South,@ March 1, 2003, 9 pages.

AGlobal Warming B The Real, Implacable but Unmentionable Enemy of the United States?@ February 26, 2005, 23 pages.

AThe World our Children will die in,@ March 12, 2005, 11 pages.

AAsk the Mosquitoes,@ March 19, 2005, 13 pages.

It is a desperate fight for which culture will continue:

United States Government, Census Bureau, Total Mid-year Population for the World, 1050-2050. http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/worldpop.html.

You know the rich have opted to save their own skins:

Hall, Francoise

AOur Global Village B North and South,@ March 1, 2003, 9 pages.

APortends of World War III B The United States= Grab of Persian Oil Reserves,@ May 29, 2004, 16 pages, pp. 14-15.

AThe World our Children will die in,@ March 12, 2005, p. 8.

ASurvival of the Richest,@ March 26, 2005, 16 pages, p. 8.

In addition, the following provide details about specific treaties:

World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003):

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2005/pr09/en/index.html.

The United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms (2001):

http://www/hrw.org/wr2k2/arms.html.

The United Nations Biosafety Treaty (1999):

http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.Print.asp?DocumentID=98&Article ID1538&l=en.

The United Nations Anti-personnel Land Mines Treaty (1997):

http://www.icbl.org/layout/set/print/content/view/full/61.

The United Nations Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT) (1995):

http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/fmct.

The United Nations Biodiversity Treaty (1992):

http://www.ciesin.org/TG/PI/TREATY/bio.html.

The United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976):

http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/a_ccpr.htm.

Among the treaties which the United States has either defied, subverted, undermined, violated, Aun-signed,@ or refused to sign, are the following:

1. The World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (2003).

2. The International Criminal Court (ICC) (2002).

3. The United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms (2001).

4. The World Conference against Racism (2001).

5. The United Nations Biosafety Treaty (1999).

6. The Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (1997).

7. The United Nations Anti-personnel Land Mines Treaty (The Ottawa Convention) (1997).

8. The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) (1996).

9. The United Nations Fissile Material Cut-off Treaty (FMCT), inspection and verification provisions. The Treaty bans the production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons (1995).

10. The United Nations Biodiversity Treaty (1992).

11. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989).

12. The Conventional Weapons Convention (CWC) (1980).

13. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (1979).

14. The Two Additional Protocols to the Fourth Geneva Convention (1977).

15. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1976).

16. The Anti-ballistic Missile Systems (ABM) Treaty (1972).

17. The Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) (1972), and its Verification Protocol (1972).

18. The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) (1970).

19. The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966).

20. The Four Geneva Conventions (1949).

21. The Genocide Convention (1948).

22. The Nuremberg Code on Medical Experimentation (1945).

23. The Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and Principles (1945).

24. The United Nations Charter (1945).

25. The Stimson Doctrine (1931).

26. The Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact (1928).

27. The Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare (1923).

28. The Declaration of London on Sea Warfare (1909).

29. The Hague Regulation on Land Warfare (1907).

30. The Hague Neutrality Convention (1907).

You know that those whose way of life is oil-based:

Odum, Howard and Elizabeth Odum, A Prosperous Way down B Principles and Policies (University of Colorado, Boulder, CO), 2001.

Heinberg, Richard, The Party=s Over B Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies (New Society, Gabriola Island, BC, Canada), 2003.

Everest, Larry, Oil, Power and Empire B Iraq and the U.S. Global Agenda (Common Courage, Monroe, ME), 2004.

Goodstein, David, Out of Gas B the End of the Age of Oil (W. W. Norton, New York, N.Y.), 2004.

Hall, Francoise, AEnergy Today,@ July 10, 2004, 20 pages.

Klare, Michael

Blood and Oil B The Dangers and Consequences of America=s growing Dependence on Imported Petroleum (Metropolitan/ Henry Holt, New York, N.Y.), 2004.

AThe New Geopolitics,@ in John Foster and Robert McChesney, Pox Americana B Exposing the American Empire (Monthly Review Press, New York, N.Y.), 2004, pp. 51-56.

Roberts, Paul, The End of Oil B On the Edge of a Perilous New World (Houghton Mifflin, New York, N.Y.), 2004.

Ruppert, Michael, Crossing the Rubicon B The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil (New Society, Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada), 2004.

Deffeyes, Kenneth, Beyond Oil B The View from Hubbert=s Peak (Hill and Wang/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, N.Y.), 2005.

In the balance is the fate of all of us humans on earth:

Hall, Francoise, ASilent Omnicide B The Destruction of the Human Gene Pool,@ April 16, 2005, 12 pages.

Estimated Contamination of the Earth:

Depleted Uranium Hiroshima Bomb Equivalent

(tons)

Atmospheric Testing B 40,000

Wars:

Iraq, 1991-2003 800 146,080

Yugoslavia 1994, 1999 100 18,260

Afghanistan, 2001 800 146,080

Iraq, 2003 2,410 440,066

Total during Wars 4,110 750,486

Total Contamination B 790,486

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Congenital malformations are increasing everywhere:

Hall, Francoise

AThe Third World War B Initial Stages: The Free-fall of Resources and the Poor,@ April 8, 2005, 11 pages.

ASilent Omnicide B The Destruction of the Human Gene Pool,@ April 16, 2005, 12 pages.

Congenital Abnormalities:

In Iraq: In Iraq as a whole, congenital abnormalities have increased sharply:

Congenital Abnormalities, Iraq, 2001 and 2002

Previous 2001 Percent Rate 2002 Increase (1989)

All Abnormalities

(per 100,000 births), 2001 11 116 955

Anophthalmos (Born without Eyes)

(per 100,000 births), 2002 0.01 500 5,000,000

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At the Saddam Teaching Hospital, Basra, Iraq: At the Basra Teaching Hospital, cancer deaths and congenital abnormalities have increased dramatically:

Cancer Deaths,

Saddam Teaching Hospital, Basra, Iraq

1989 2001 Percent Increase

Cancer deaths 34 603 1,674

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HIV Infections:

The prevalence of HIV infection in countries with more than 10,000,000 inhabitants and in which HIV infection affects more than 10 percent of adults, is as follows:

Country ^(a) Population Adult Population Infected

(Percent)

(2002) (2000)

Ethiopia 69,000,000 11

South Africa 45,000,000 20

Kenya 32,000,000 14

Mozambique 19,000,000 13

Cote d=Ivoire 16,000,000 12

Zimbabwe 13,000,000 25

Malawi 12,000,000 16

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^(a) All of these countries are in the United Nations low human development category, except for South Africa which is in the medium human development category.

Uranium-238 has a half-life 4,500,000,000 years:

Hall, Francoise

ANuclear Power B An Infallible Technology for Infallible Humans?@ May 6, 2004, 16 pages.

ASilent Omnicide B The Destruction of the Human Gene Pool,@ April 16, 2005, 12 pages.

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