911 Truth International Conference Photo Gallery!

Beyond Expectations!

Yesterday‘s 911 Truth International Conference was an overwhelming success and it exceeded our expections! I will write more soon, but for now, here are some pictures!

From early in the morning guests were directed to the conference hall by ladies on stilts.

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Yumi giving the opening address!

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View of the audience that joined the movie session, that included the first screening in Japan of the most popular 911 movie to date, 'Loose Change.' Actually, the Japanese version was not completed on time for the event, so only the first hour was shown.

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The opening performance for the second part of the program, the buffet party and lunch, was by Mamadou Lo, a well known African drummer who now lives in Japan.

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View of the audience that attended the buffet lunch...

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Yumi then proceeded to introduce the main guests for the event... Jimmy Walter flew over to Japan from Austria especially for the event. Jimmy Walter has spent millions of dollars of his own money in an effort to let the public know what really happened on September 11th. He even has a million dollar challenge to anyone who can prove that bombs did not bring down the two World Trade Center towers. No one to this day has even attemted to prove him wrong. Check out his website, ReOpen 911 here!

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William Rodriguez was next, the last man out of the World Trade Center and now a National Hero in the US. Read a little about William here.

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Leuren Moret, the well known and internationally famous expert lecturer on the health effects of depleted uranium (DU), presented testimony on the high levels of radiation recorded in the area around the Pentagon in the hours and days after the destruction that took place there, suggesting that a cruise missile was the cause of the damage and NOT a passenger plane as we have been told, as cruise missiles contain DU.

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Mad Amano, a well known parody cartoonist spoke on how the mass media is using movies like ‘Flight 93’ and ‘The World Trade Center’ to embed the untruth of the events of September 11th, 2001 into the psyche of the world...

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Richard Koshimizu gave a very annimated and powerful presentation covering many aspects of the Sept. 11th government conspiracy.

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Dave Shaw, gave us an introduction to the newly released Japanese version of the movie ‘911 Eyewitness’ and we were then treated to a 30 minute mini showing!

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Benjaman Fulford, the ex head of Forbes Asia, the well known economic magazine, then gave a very powerful presentation on how the world has been misled by the mainstream media. Currently he has several 911 bestsellers in Japanese in print, 9.11 Terror Concoction and 9.11 Truth Revealed.

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Muneo Narusawa, who wrote a very well written expose on the events of September 11th, then discussed different aspects of the 911 myth we have been told to accept as truth... He has a popular book in Japanese titled 911 Mystery.

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William Rodriguez then gave us a very, very moving account of his experiences at the World Trade Center. Many of the audience were in tears, including myself...

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Next it was time for a musical interlude, with a message of Peace and Love, of course! ZAKI gave us an outstanding performance and included a song urging Japan to keep Article Nine of the Constitution. Article Nine states that Japan should never again use military force as a way to resolve conflicts.

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Mamadou Lo then gave us a stunning demonstration of his masterful drumming skills, so much so, that many people began dancing to the wonderful rhythms he created, including the two rather tall ladies that can be seen in the picture below, who came all the way from Osaka to support this 911 Truth Event!

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The New Frontiers (minus 1) performed next. They first got together in the 60’s when they were at high school and are well known for their wonderful renditions of the many of the folk tunes made famous in that era, including the songs of Pete Seger, Woodie Gutherie and Joan Baez..

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Benjamin Fulford and William Rodriguez. Two powerful men with a mission of Truth for the world!

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A view of the people lined up for the third session, the Symposium.

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Another view! We were very surprised to see so many people. So many in fact it ended up being ‘standing room only’, which here in Japan, as you will see below, is actually ‘sitting on the floor room only!’

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Two views of the packed to capacity hall!

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‘Sitting on the floor room only!’

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A view of the panelists that took part in the two and a half hour symposium that included a question and answer session with the audience...

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William Rodrigues was in great demand!

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911 Truth Be Told!

Today Japan will have the chance to hear what really happened on Sept. 11th, 2001.

And make no mistake, it will not be what the mainstream media and Hollywood (eg. Flight 93...) have been spoon feeding us, I can assure you!

I have had the chance to meet with some of the speakers already and I am so impressed with there infatiguable desire to bring truth, peace and common sense back into our lives.

It is so inspiring to meet such people, who, after finding out what really happened on September 11th, literally stopped the lives they had been living up to that time and from then on have devoted themeselves to the task of awakening you, me and the rest of the world to the deception that is slowly engulfing us...

If you have not already started, it is time now for you to begin your own research...

If you discover things that don’t ‘quite fit with the official story’ then speak out to your friends and family... Discuss, explain, question... look deeply... You may then find your taste buds maturing and soon you will have no problem refusing the overly soft and simple baby food that has been placed oh so conveniently within your reach...

Anyway, when I am able to, I will keep you up to speed on events the Conference!

William Rodriguez to visit Japan!

Big News!

William Rodrigues is coming to Japan to speak at the first 911 Truth International Conference on October 7th in Tokyo! See my previous Blog to learn more about William.

It looks like it will be standing room only at the conference! It is going to be quite an amazing day...

Let the truth be known to all!

Click here for details on the 911 Truth International Conference!

♪ Interview With William Rodriguez ♪ - 33 min 32 sec - 7.7 MB

I must say I had some very good opportunities to meet with some of the leading people in the 911 Truth Movement. Thanks to these meetings I could confirm that what happened on September 11th, 2001 was not what the mainstream media was telling us. Check out these pictures taken from around ground zero of many of the 911 Truth movement members that the mainstream media has failed to show the public...

Please listen to the accompanying podcast (in both English and Japanese). I interview William Rodriguez, the last person to escape from the World Trade Center before it collapsed. He refuses to back down from his story that just before the building collapsed, bombs were set off in the basement of the building.

William recently met with Charlie Sheen (read about him here) and they are discussing the possibility of a Hollywood movie to tell his courageous story. For more details, have a look at this New York Post story... In the picture below, you can see Charlie, William and Esai...

More later... I have a plane to catch!

♪ From Ground Zero ♪ - 29 min 10 sec - 6.8 MB

Hi,

Am at Ground Zero!

Unable to write much now, but please listen to the accompanying podcast that includes an interview with Alex Jones.

There is a bit of Japanese in it but most of it is in English.

The 911 Truth Movement is growing!

More later!

Yumi

♪ How I got involved? ♪ - 19 min 44 sec - 4.6 MB

Today is the 61st anniversary of the end of the 2nd World War. Japan experienced the horrible effects of two atomic bombs, one in Hiroshima on Aug 6 and the other in Nagasaki on Aug 9, 1945. Aug 15 marked the defeat of Japanese Imperial Army.

I remember back when I was a university student. I was not interested in either environmental or peace issues. I enjoyed dating, playing sports, fashion, eating out, dancing plus many different part time jobs while I was studying.

Today's podcast is with Gen Morita and Damien. We talk about how each of us got involved with the 911 Truth Movement and peace activism in general. In my case I was not convinced at all about any of the so-called 911 conspiracy thoeries at first... I totally believed the official story. The truth these theorists were suggesting was too awful and cruel to be true: that the US government would allow or do such horrible things!? So I didn't believe it even though such claims were posted on the internet right after the Sept. 11th.

For me, it was my encounter with the movie 911 IN PLANE SITE and a long talk with Dave VonKleist, the producer, that changed my perceptions of 911. I then started reading books like Crossing the Rubicon, Inside Job, The New Pearl Harbor, The 911 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. Finally, translating the film 911 In Plane Site into Japanese convinced me that the official story has too many lies and descrepancies to be true. Now I talk about "911 Boeing wo Sagase" (the Japanese title of 911 In Plane Site) and show the film at every talk I give all over Japan.

Now with Loose Change and Confronting the Evidence by ReOpen 911, it has become quite clear that official story is not true.

The problem remains though on how to convince majority of the general population who still believe the official story. (as I used to!)

Well, here is a chance for you and your friends to see and hear from the 911 truth tellers directly. We are putting on a big 911 Event in October. Please come along and learn what really happened on September 11th, 2001! Here is the program.

911 Truth International Conference in Tokyo
(English presentations will be translated to Japanese)
Date: Oct 7, 2006
Time: 9:30AM to 9PM
Place: International Conference Hall of Olympic Youth Center, Yoyogi, Tokyo
(nearest station: Sangubashi on the Odakyu line, three stops from Shinjuku)
map: http://nyc.niye.go.jp/facilities/d7.html
Fee: 5000 yen for registerd participants/ 6000yen at the door
includes joining the recepton party (free drinks & food)
Presenters: Jimmy Walter, Founder of ReOpen 911.
Benjamin Fulford, Best selling author, 911 Terror Concoction.
Muneo Narusawa, Weekly Friday, journalist, 911 Truth adovocate
Steven Jones and David Ray Griffin will be participating by video.
MC: Yumi Kikuchi
Translators: Gen Morita, Kimberly Hughes
Technical director: Damien
Films or selections of films to be shown in the morning will be: Loose Change, 911 In Plane Site, Confronting the Evidence, 911 Eye Witness, and others time permitting.

To register: Send 5000 yen by Yubin Furikae (Post Office) by the end of September
to Harmonics Life Center: 00110-1-144224 (Yubin Furikae Number)
*write your name, address, phone and 911 Truth Conference fee in the comment space of Furikae form. These forms are available at any post office in Japan.

Or just send an e-mail with the title of "911 Truth Conference Registration" with your name, address, phone number and whatever the comments you may have.

I am looking forward to seeing you there!

US National Radio Poll on 911: INSIDE JOB?

9/11 "INSIDE JOB" POLL ON NATIONAL RADIO !!!

This was too important for anyone to miss but unfortunately, the poll closed after a very short time!! On the nationally syndicated "Ed Shulz Show" they asked the queston: Do you believe the US government attacked itself on 9/11?

You can see the result on this page:
http://www.bigeddieradio.com/polls/index.asp

It is too bad that it is now too late to vote, but an overwhelming 69% said that they believed!
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Benjamin's new book "9.11 Terror Concoction - How fascist America fooled the world by faking the 911 terror attacks" was in its second printing with 20,000 sold after just 3 days in local bookstores (It was released on July 31). Let's make this a million seller book here in Japan and YOU can help by spreading the news.

Remember the main stream media has failed to give adequate coverage to any of the alternative viewpoints to the official 911 story that have been raised, not only by ordinary people but by academics too. So now we must all do our bit and BECOME THE MEDIA by spreading the word...

I have the book in my Global Peace Campaign store also, which you can purchase through PayPal. Spread the good news about this book. We need everyone to know the truth! This book is a must read for any Japanese person who cares about global peace.

Benjamin and I are planning a 911 Truth Conference on Oct 7th in Tokyo at the Olympic Center, Yoyogi, Tokyo. I will keep you updated in this blog. Please reserve the day in your schedule if you are interested in learning the truth about 911. It will be an all day event.

C-SPAN airs “September 11th Terrorist Attacks”

‘The American Scholars Symposium: 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda‘ that was held on June 25th in Los Angeles with Alex Jones, Professor Steven Jones, Col. Robert Bowman, Professor James Fetzer, Webster G. Tarpley and others aired all across the US on Saturday and Sunday on C-SPAN (US Public TV). The actual broadcast times were Saturday evening at 8pm and again at 11pm eastern time (July 29th) and 2:15 pm Sunday July 30th. It will re-air Tuesday (8/1) at 6:10PM EST.

This was a truly amazing for C-SPAN to do what no other TV station in the US has been prepared to do. It has sent and is sending shock waves throughout the US and now the world as news of it spreads rapidly!

The speakers pulled no punches and I am sure anyone seeing it who was not aware of the cover-up they were exposing would have been blown away to say the least. It was a totally ‘in your face,’ no pussyfooting around, let’s save the US and the world from the abyss that opened up and started swallowing our freedoms and our very precious lives on September 11th, 2001.

In the final minutes of the show Alex Jones says, ‘I would just like to state on the record; the 911 hoax has been exposed, the WMD hoax has been exposed. We’re going to continue to expose all of these hoaxes...‘

I urge you to watch this presentation broadcast by C-SPAN. You can watch it here on YouTube.

Listen to Professor Jones talk about the explosive residue he found in the pieces of steel from the World Trade Center that he analyzed. The evidence, from him and from the other experts on the panel is overwhelming and actually incontrovertible...

It is now time for everyone to take action, to stand up and ask for truth and justice, not just for the 3,000 who perished on Sept. 11th, but for the thousand who have been killed in Afganistan and Iraq...

If you are in the US and have access to C-SPAN I urge you to watch C-SPAN on Tuesday and see that there. If you want you can download it from here. A couple of versions and formats are available, but whatever, it is a big download of around 250 MB, so you will need a fast connection.

New 911 Book Released in Japan!

Benjamin Fulford's (former Asia Pacific Bureau chief at Forbes magazine) new book, '9.11 Terror Concoction - How fascist America fooled the world by faking the 911 terror attacks' has just been released in Japan. It is available in Japanese only. The Japanese title is: ９・１１テロ捏造　日本と世界を騙し続ける独裁国家アメリカ [911 Tero Netsuzo nihon to sekai wo damashi tuzukeru dokusai kokka America] and is published by 徳間書店 [Tokuma Shoten] and is available at all major bookstores in Japan and soon will be available at our Global Peace Campaign Store. The Forbes Asia English site can be seen here.

This is a very comprehensive book with much information and some excellent pictures that leave little doubt that the official US government 911 story is full of holes! For example there are some excellent color photos of the World Trade Center buildings collapsing at the very front of the book (the 8th and 9th color pages from the front). The text that accompanies them starts off like this... 'If after seeing these pictures you think the World Trade Center collapsed from fire, you had better start to believe that your brain is fried...' Benjamin does not mess around with words, I can tell you!

On the back inside cover flap of the book which you can see here, Benjamin has this to say... 'This book is the red pill that Neo from the film ‘The Matrix‘ chose. If you are afraid of knowing the truth, don't read it. You have the freedom to keep choosing the blue pill but the resources to create and know the truth are in this book.'

If you live in Japan and want to let your Japanese friends know what really happened on September 11th, 2001, get a copy/copies of this book and give it/lend it to your friends... I have yet to finish reading it (it is over 400 pages long!) but I can tell you that it is definitely worth every yen...

By the way, Benjamin wrote a feature story in January of this year in the Shukan Post, a popular weekly Japanese Magazine. In it he covered all the main questionable areas of the 911 event. It is six pages in length and it gives a great overview of the discrepancies in the official 911 story. I still have copies available at my store!

We Japanese must be made aware of the horror that the US committed on Sept. 11th. Right now we are on a path that is leading us towards re-militarization... We must not let this happen!

♪ Life and Debt by Stephanie Black ♪ - 10 min 03 sec - 2.3MB

Today's podcast is with Stephanie Black, the director of the film Life and Debt, which we just screened at our 3rd Tokyo Peace Film Festival. The festival was a big success with 813 people (who bought tickets) and 50 volunteer staff.

Stephanie came to our house and spent the last few days in Kamogawa. She is a vegetarian (she eats some fish sometimes) so she really enjoyed the food we served as we cook almost everything fresh from our own organic garden. She says living our way (sustainably and organically) is the good way to tackle globalization (which is the theme of Life and Debt).

Her film is outstanding as it reveals what the IMF, the World Bank and their Structual Adjustment Policy really does to the 3rd world countries and their people.

This film says so much.

You can buy the DVD for 3,800 yen in Japan at UPLINK, or at any of the sites listed on lifeanddebt.org

911 Coverup Makes Front Page of Norwegian 'Le Monde'

Unfortunately, this is not an English language mainstream publication, but Le Monde Diplomatique, a well known and well respected paper in Norway published a three page cover story on July 1st 2006 that questions the official US government 911 story...

Here is a synopsis of the full story as published on the July edition of the Nowegian Le Monde Diplomatique homepage. (If you wish to read the synopsis on the Le Monde homepage you will need to scroll down to the bottom of the page.)

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Was September 11th an inside job?
Av Kim Bredesen, Journalist for Le Monde diplomatique (Juli 2006)

9/11TRUTH: More and more people in the USA are convinced that the American authorities are concealing their involvement in the September 11th tragedy. Statements from witnesses, marked confidential for several years, now show that controlled demolition may have taken place. The US government had long anticipated such an incident – as the Republican document from 2000 Rebuilding America’s defenses indicates.

The 9/11Truth organisation believes that the USA probably orchestrated an incident of this type in order to justify the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the curtailing of civil liberties within the US through the introduction of The Patriot Act. It has now emerged that the America’s most senior military leader in 1962 devised a plan for a premeditated attack on Americans, which would have involved shooting down a passenger plane, so that the blame could be cast on Cuba. So why should this be excluded today? Many also believe that Pakistani intelligence cooperated with the CIA and Al-Qaida because the former transferred significant sums of money to the hijacker Mohammed Atta in the days leading up to the 11th of September. They even had Bin Laden under surveillance during the time of his treatment in a military hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan in September 2001.

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An unofficial translation of the whole story has been posted here for everyone to get an idea of the extensive coverage the article gives.

Though it has been several weeks since the story ran, we can only hope that the the English version of Le Monde Diplomatique will carry the story...

Vanity Fair Covers Loose Change...

This months edition of Vanity Fair has a must read detailed article titled ‘Click Here For Conspiracy’ on the must see movie ‘Loose Change.’ Check out the online version here.

Here are some excerpts...

...For those who can't find information about the alleged cover-up on the nightly news, there is Loose Change, a documentary about 9/11 conspiracy theories which just might be the first Internet blockbuster. Since it appeared on the Web in April 2005, the 80-minute film has been climbing up and down Google Video's "Top 100," rising to No. 1 this May, with at least 10 million viewings.

...For the past three months, 20,000 people a day have been clicking on to the official Loose Change Web site, loosechange911.com; more than 50,000 have placed orders for the DVD since its release. ("But we're not really making any money," says Rowe, "because we gave away like 100,000 copies for free.") Millions more have been downloading the film from a growing number of unaffiliated sites.

...It's safe to say that, if it were a theatrical release, Loose Change would be one of the most popular—and incendiary—movies in the country right now. Avery and Rowe say they are talking to several major movie studios about releasing a third and "final cut" of the film on September 11, 2006. They wonder if the government may be watching, too. "I hope so," says Avery.

If you have not already watched it, YOU MUST!

♪ Tokyo Peace Film Festival Announcement ♪ - 5 min 25 sec - 1.3MB

The Third Annual Tokyo Peace Film Festival will be held this coming weekend... don't miss it! Listen to my interview with 12 year old Steven Sotor, director of the film ‘Genie In A Bottle: Unleased’ and in the accompanying podcast. Below you can find details on all the films that will be shown.

Date: Saturday, July 22, 2006

Time: 10:00 AM - 9 PM (see schedule of films below)

Place: National Institution for Youth Education
(National Olympic Youth Center)
Arts Building Large Hall (カルチャー棟大ホール）
3-1. Yoyogi Kamizono-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0052
TEL. +81-3-3467-7201
Map to venue: http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/02informations/cont05.html

Entrance fee: 1500 yen for those aged 25 and younger, 2500 yen for those aged 26 and over

Fee includes membership to the "Tokyo Peace Film Club" , which includes discounts for upcoming films, announcements for future events, etc. Fee covers all films, and may be paid at the door. Because seats are filling up fast, it is best to make a reservations via the festival website (www.peacefilm.net, Japanese only) or e-mail: info@peacefilm.net (English OK).

Film schedule:

10:05 AM (104 min.): Little Birds
(http://www.littlebirds.net/eng/index.htm)
Directed by Watai Takeharu

After the U.S. armed forces entered Iraq in April 2003, Watai Takeharu remained in Iraq to continue shooting portraits of Iraqi citizens in the war-ravaged country. In Baghdad, Samawa, Falluja, and at Abu Ghraib, Watai listened to the voices of the Iraqi people, and succeeded in catching glimpses of the truth about the Iraq War that mainstream media have failed to capture. From the footage of over 123 hours which resulted from his one-and-a-half-year-long research in Iraq, a film has now been competed. (in English and Japanese)

12:04 PM (88 min.): Life and Debt
(http://www.lifeanddebt.org)
Directed by Stephanie Black

Utilizing excerpts from the award-winning non-fiction text "A Small Place" by Jamaica Kincaid, Life & Debt is a woven tapestry of sequences focusing on the stories of individual Jamaicans whose strategies for survival and parameters of day-to-day existence are determined by the U.S. and other foreign economic agendas. By combining traditional documentary telling with a stylized narrative framework, the complexity of international lending, structural adjustment policies and free trade will be understood in the context of the day-to-day realities of the people whose lives they impact. (in English and Japanese)

1:45 - 2:55: Lunch with the Directors!

Have lunch with directors Stephanie Black, Kamanaka Hitomi, John Junkerman, and Tanaka Yu. Seats available on a first-come, first-served basis only...reserve by e-mail at lunch@peacefilm.net or by FAX at 03-3393-2207 (English OK). Fee: 1500 yen.

3:00 PM (16 min.): Genie In A Bottle: Unleashed
http://www.lachildrensfilm.org/film.psp?id=145
Directed by Steven Sotor

What did the genie have to say about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? This film was screened at the United Nations and all around the world. It also was shown at the Los Angeles International Childrens Film Festival in December 2005. Steven and his 12 year old friend directed and produced this film. Check out this review here. (in English and Japanese)

3:33 PM (121 min.): Rokkashomura Rhapsody
(http://www.rokkasho-rhapsody.com/en/_links/links)
Directed by Kamanaka Hitomi

Documentary about the nuclear fuel reprocessing plant in Rokkasho-mura, Aomori-ken. Kamanaka also directed the acclaimed documentary film "Hibakusha". (in Japanese; no English subtitles)

5:50 PM (92 min.): How to Make Peace　("平和の作り方")
by Kikuchi Yumi, Imamura Kazuhiro, Tanaka Yu

Film made by the Tokyo Peace Film Club, which takes an in-depth look at issues of war and peace and Japan's role therein. Original film that is not to be missed! (In Japanese only; no English subtitles.)

7:37 PM (80 min.): Japan's Peace Constitution (http://www.cine.co.jp/kenpo/english.html)
Directed by John Junkerman

In 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, the conservative Japanese government is pressing ahead with plans to revise the nation's constitution and jettison its famous no! -war clause, Article 9. This timely, hard-hitting documentary places the ongoing debate over the constitution in an international context: What will revision mean to Japan's neighbors, Korea and China? How has the US-Japan military alliance warped the constitution and Japan's role in the world? How is the unprecedented involvement of Japan's Self-Defense Force in the occupation of Iraq perceived in the Middle East? (in English and Japanese)

Festival sponsors include:

Department of Peace Project, Global Peace Campaign, Be Good Cafe, Japan Jiritsu Project

For more information, contact the Peace Film Club:

URL: http://www.peacefilm.net
E-mail: info@peacefilm.net (English okay)
Tel: 090-4459-3020
FAX: 0479-62-1327

Tell Bush Hands Off Korea! Send an online petition

Got this from IAC. Thank you, Sara!
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Tell Bush, Cheney, and Congress:
U.S. HANDS OFF KOREA!

Sign the petition online.

Please join our online campaign to demand U.S. HANDS OFF KOREA, by sending emails to President Bush, your senators, your congressperson, key congressional leaders and the media telling them you want the U.S. to end its warmongering campaign against Korea NOW!

The text of our online petition is below:

President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Rice, Secretary-General Annan, and Congressional Leaders,

I am writing this letter to oppose the current international warmongering campaign against Korea being carried out by the U.S. government, and to demand that it end immediately!

With the recent routine testing of 7 missiles by the DPRK, the Bush Administration is working overtime to gather international support for sanctions and other hostile actions towards North Korea.

It is important to put the launch of the missiles in perspective to see which country is the real threat to peace in the region.

The DPRK tested 7 missiles, one of them the Taepodong-2 missile. The others were short-range Scud and medium-range Rodong missiles. These tests violated no international law and were completely within that country’s rights as a sovereign state. These sorts of tests are conducted all the time by many countries.

Even the New York Times, in a July 5 editorial, had to admit that, "Since the test poses no direct security threat, and violates no international treaty, there is no justification for any military response, by the United States or anyone else."

The testing of 7 small rockets by the DPRK pales in comparison with the massive military mobilization by the U.S.

On June 14, the U.S. Air Force held “a quality control test” for its 500 Minuteman III missiles. One of these missiles traveled 4,800 miles towards the central Pacific, and three test warheads landed near the Marshall Islands.

At the same time, three U.S. Navy carrier battle groups—including three aircraft carriers, 22,000 troops, dozens of fighter planes and several heavy bombers —were assembled in the western Pacific off Guam in the largest naval mobilization since the Vietnam War. The USS Curtis Wilbur and the USS Fitzgerald, both guided-missile destroyers with massive destructive capacity sit right off the coast of North Korea. The U.S. also sent spy planes on 170 missions over North Korea. Just hours ago, the USS Martin, a 9,200-ton guided missile destroyer with the Navy's most advanced combat weapon system arrived in the region as a direct challenge to the DPRK.

The U.S. still has more than 30,000 troops stationed in South Korea despite widespread, militant opposition to them. Its claims that the troops are there to protect the south from the north are rejected by the majority of southerners. In fact, there have been massive demonstrations against the U.S. military presence.

It's important to remember that President George W. Bush named the DPRK, along with Iraq and Iran, as one of the “axis of evil.” As the whole world witnesses the torture, rape, and murder that "regime change" has brought to the people of Iraq, the DPRK has every reason to be concerned and has every right to take necessary steps to defend itself.

The DRPK has tried repeatedly to get the U.S. to end the state of war that still exists since the 1950-53 Korean War and to sign a peace treaty that would normalize relations between the two countries. The U.S. always refuses. The U.S. war on the Korean Peninsula resulted in the death of 4 million Korean people and the division and continuing U.S. occupation of the country to this day.

Considering the U.S. missile test, the military maneuvers, and the constant stream of threats against the DPRK from both the Republican administration and the Democratic Party leaders, it is quite clear that the Pyongyang government faces a serious threat from the most belligerent and heavily armed military in the world.

As part of the media hype to demonize and isolate the DPRK, Bush and his media mouthpieces have raised the specter of North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons. Again, this must be put into perspective. The U.S. stockpile contains almost 10,000 nuclear warheads. This includes 5,735 active or operational warheads: 5,235 strategic and 500 nonstrategic warheads. The U.S. also has approximately 4,225 additional warheads held in the reserve or inactive stockpiles.

The U.S. is also the only country to ever use nuclear weapons against civilian targets. The Bush Administration has also made it very clear that it considers use of nuclear weapons is acceptable in its global crusade of regime change.

I reject the use of "weapons of mass destruction" as justification for a campaign of sanctions and hostility against the people of North Korea.

I denounce this fabricated crisis as just the latest in a string of distortions generated by Washington to justify its program of endless war.

I demand:

- An end to Washington's campaign of lies and hostility towards the people of North Korea.
- An end to the military operations targeting North Korea.
- That the U.S. end the state of war with North Korea that has lasted more than 50 years.
- The immediate withdrawal of the U.S. naval carrier groups deployed against the DPRK.

Sincerely,

Sign the petition online.
(Your signature will be appended here based on the contact information you enter online)

Sign the petition online - http://www.iacenter.org/koreacampaign.shtml

Donate to help with organizing expenses- http://www.iacenter.org/iacdonate.shtml

Sign the Iraq Hope Network Petition... Please!

Please join the Iraq Hope Network in signing a petition calling for an immediate end to the suffering of people in Iraq that is resulting from the violent and illegal tactics presently being employed by the U.S. military. The petition will be delivered to President George W. Bush, with a copy to the U.S. Embassies in Tokyo and Baghdad.

You can find the petition here:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/507914513

The Iraq Hope Network is a Japan-based network of NGOs, aid workers, journalists, lawyers, university professors and volunteers who together sponsor projects in Iraq focused on humanitarian aid, reconstruction and human rights.

Many thanks for your help!

LA 911 Conference Great Success

Take a look at what Charlie Sheen says here:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/270606charliesheen.htm

Here is some news from Prison Planet:

American Scholars Symposium A Huge Success
Attendees from around the globe attest to 'best 9/11 truth conference ever'

Paul Joseph Watson|Prison Planet.com|June 26 2006

Over 1200 attendees from as far afield as Japan, Great Britain and Australia converged on the Sheraton Hotel in Los Angeles to enjoy a conference that they later described as the best 9/11 truth symposium ever, the highlight of which was a personal appearance and speech by Hollywood star and 9/11 truth crusader Charlie Sheen.

People from as far away as Japan and Australia made the long-haul trip to L.A. to view slick presentations from numerous high profile speakers. Media organizations from Great Britain and Australia were also represented as well as over 100 alternative press outlets.

BYU physics professor Steven Jones' authoritative lecture on the use of incendiary devices in the demolition of the trade towers and building 7 went further than ever before in its conclusive tone on the issue. Jones has now tested steel samples from two different sites that both clearly show the use of thermate as a tool of implosion and the analysis has been verified by two other universities.

Lt. Col. Robert M. Bowman, the former head of the Star Wars weapons defense system and Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering from Cal Tech, also gave a powerful presentation on the NORAD 9/11 stand down which was extremely well received.

The highlight for many was the surprise personal appearance of Hollywood star, current TV hit and recent shining addition to the ranks of noted 9/11 whistleblowers Charlie Sheen, who received a rapturous ovation before his speech on the courage of those who went before him in standing up to an unpalatable truth in the name of freedom.

To read more: go to:
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/june2006/260606hugesuccess.htm

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Now, it is our turn to host the Symposium in Japan.
On Oct 7, we will invite Jimmy Walter and William Rodoriguez to Tokyo for the 1st 911 Truth Conference in Japan.

I am raising 2 million yen to cover the cost of the event. If you can afford any donation, please go to the Post Office near by and send whatever you can afford money by YUBIN Furikae (Postal Transfer: ask for the help) to:
00110-1-144224 Harmonics Life Center
In the box below, please write 911 donation, and your e-mail address, and at the bottom your name and address. For donations over 10,000 yen, I will send you a DVD produced by Re-Open 911 and signed by Jimmy Walter.

Thanks for your support in advance. I need all of you who are reading this to help make this a success!

Spa! Magazine does 911 Story!

The latest issue of the Japanese weekly magazine SPA! has an multi page story on 911. If you live in Japan, check it out! If you read Japanese, purchase a copy for yourself, or if you don’t for your Japanese friends!

I will write more on the content soon...

♪ Global Alliance for Departments/Ministries of Peace Emerging ♪ - 41 min 02 sec - 9.5MB

I am writing this at my old friends house (Janis Levine) in Seattle where I am spending a night before leaving for Japan after the four day Summit for an International Intiative for Departments of Peace. This time, unlike the first time in London last October, we had delegates from the 3rd world countries like Uganda, the Solomon Islands, Nepal, the Phlippines and India, (Palestine and Israel were there, too, but they were in London at the first Summit). Having all these 3rd world countries join us made our experience so much richer.

All the International delegates In the school bus to Royal Roads University, where the Summit was held on June 21-22, 2006

The US movement continues to be the leader of our campaign, with Dot Maver who has been doing amazing organizing and supporting for the whole movement along with the wonderful staff members at Peace Alliance. We are very fortunate we have such a strong movement in the USA, because the decisions of the US affect all of us in the world.

On the way to here from Victoria, I met several people on the Victoria Clipper (The name of the boat we took.) who were interested in learning more about the DoP initiative. I gave them my contact info and the URL of the Peace Alliance:
http://www.thepeacealliance.org

You can lobby anywhere, any time, with anyone! It's fun!

I already miss my new global family with whom I know I will work for a long time. In the podcast you can listen to what some of the delegates say about the Departments/Ministries of Peace. I wish I could have recorded all the voices of the delegates, at least one from each country (about 17 countries participated), but due to time restraints, I could only include some. Still, by listening to them you can get some idea of their thinking and of our work.

Japanese delegates in front of Royal Roads University

At the end of the Summit, Japan was selected to be the host of the next Summit in 2007 by a majority vote... Other countries that were nominated included Australia, India, Romania, the Philippines, England and Costa Rica. During the final stage of the selection, India and Japan were the last remaining countries. At that point, the Indian delegate, Krishuna, stood up and said, "I would like to support my Japanese friends who are struggling to preserve Article 9, the Peace Constitution of Japan, and if having the Summit in Japan helps the peace movement in Japan, I would like to drop out and maybe be the host next time."

As soon as he said that, every body recognized the importance of Article 9 for peace building around the world.

At the Eagle Feather First Nations Artist Gallery on Jun 21 after the conference

The process of choosing the next host country was so fair, open, caring and beautiful that I cried after Japan was chosen. The Summit in Japan will be held on or around Sep 21, 2007, The International Day of Peace. Everyone wants it to take place in Hiroshima. That would be another challenge as I live far away from Hiroshima. We have a lot of work ahead...

I mean to build a strong team in Japan to host the next Summit. This will be very challenging for me and my family, but I know I can get all kinds of support from the new friends I met in this conference.

Working for peace gives you a lot of joy and satisfaction indeed.

Our wonderful International team, now called the Global Alliance for Ministries/Departments of Peace. In the center is Dot Maver, Executive Director of the Peace Alliance USA

♪Jimmy Walter at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan♪ - 64 min 36 sec - 14.9MB

[Updated June 17th: Now includes a short interview with Jimmy recorded at Yumi’s home the day after Jimmy’s Foreign Correspondents’ Club presentation]

I hope you will listen to Jimmy Walter's presentation at The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan that is included here.

Jimmy arrived the evening of June 14 at Narita Airport. We were there to greet him but he didn't come out of the security gate until one hour after his plane landed. We were quite nervous until we met him, wondering all the while if he had been stopped at immigration by the Japanese police or something like that.

Jimmy has had many attacks, death threats, his house broken into, computers stolen, etc. But he is here now with us... What an honor to have such a wonderful human being who devotes his life to saving not only America but also the entire world from the real terror!

This is the joy of doing peace work... You keep meeting wonderful people. I am so blessed.

Enjoy and learn from his presentation!

Left to right: Shokichi Kina (Diet Member for Okinawa, Yumi Kikuchi, Jimmy Walter & Benjamin Fulford

Watch This Movie!! (Please...)

This movie is very well done! More can be found here http://www.911revisited.com/

Lecture by Jimmy Walter of the Reopen 9.11 Campaign

Thursday, June 15th 7-9 PM (doors open at 6:30)
National Institute for Youth Education (National Olympic Memorial Youth Center)
Central Building Room #101
Entrance fee: 1000 yen (advance reservations not required)

Venue Address: 3-1. Yoyogi Kamizono-cho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo, 151-0052
Phone: 03-3467-7201
Map: http://nyc.niye.go.jp/e/02informations/cont05.html

Jimmy Walter, a businessman from the U.S., is the founder of a campaign titled "Reopen 9.11." This campaign is working to challenge the official explanation for the events of September 11, 2001, which hold that al-Qaida operatives were responsible for perpetrating multiple terrorist attacks in the United States. (Campaign website: www.reopen911.org)

For example, the U.S. government states that the World Trade Center building collapsed when its steel was weakened from the heat of the flames that broke out after it was struck by airliners--a claim that Brigham Young University physics professor Steven Jones explains is physically impossible. See his detailed explanation here.

Currently Mr. Walter is on a European tour to expose the truth behind the events of 911 and is coming to speak in Japan for the first time. We were hoping Mr. Walter would be joined by William Rodriguez, who was the last person to escape from inside the towers before they collapsed, however Mr. Rodriguez will not be able to attend.

Come and hear for yourself a completely different perspective from what is being presently accepted by mainstream media--a view that is gaining a growing number of followers around the world.

The lecture will be in English, with Japanese interpretation provided by Gen Morita and Yumi Kikuchi.

Sponsor: Global Peace Campaign http://english.globalpeace.jp
Organizer: Yumi Kikuchi, Founder, GPC http://yumikikuchi.blogspot.com
Supporting Organizations: Japan Jiritsu Project, Tokyo Peace Film Festival

For more information, contact Yumi Kikuchi:

E-mail: yumik(At symbol)fine(Dot)ocn(Period)ne(Dot)jp

yumik@fine.ocn.ne.jp



Tel: 0470-97-1011
FAX: 0470-97-1215

Four Page 911 Story In Flash!

The latest issue of the Japanese mens magazine Flash (Issue 916) has printed a four page story on the alleged 911 hijackers that have subsequently been found to be alive and well.

There are many such articles covering this matter in the western media but till this publication, few to be found in the mainstream Japan media. For example, here is one story from the BBC.

It is interesting to note that NONE of the names of the hijackers can be found on the passenger manifests of the hijacked flights.

Both Benjamin Fulford and myself were interviewed for the story, though I am not quoted in the article at all.

There are so many strange areas in the official 911 story it is amazing that most people have believed it without a question for so long!

NY Times Report on Chicago 911 Truth Conference

I wanted to go to Chicago for this event very much, but couldn't, so I asked Benjamin Fulford, the author of the 911 story that appeared in the January issue of the Weekly Post to attend this conference. Check out this previous post to learn about Benjamin and the Weekly post article. He should be in Chicago now and will report to us the latest developments in the 911 Truth Movement in the USA.

Here is the NY Times article covering the event. (You need to be a registered user to see the full story. Registration is free!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/us/05conspiracy.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Great coverage, isn't it? Finally mainstream media started picking up this most important issue.

Would you like a puppy?

Kuro-chan, our stray dog had babies about a month ago. Four black ones and one light brown one. They are so cute but we can not keep them here as we often travel for long periods of time. We are looking for someone who can keep one or both. Please let me know by DM.

Universal National Service Act of 2006

Did you know about this?
They are going to start the discussion on this bill today:2006-06-06, 666!
http://www.anewworldrising.com/node/433

February 14, 2006, Congressman Charles Rangel (Democrat - NY) introduced a bill (Universal National Service Act of 2006 - HR 4752 IH) aiming at drafting everyone - men and women alike - from the ages of 18 to 42 into the military for a minimum period of 2 years.

To quote the bill: "To provide for the common defense by requiring all persons in the United States, including women, between the ages of 18 and 42 to perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes."

The House is to convene on June 6 (06/06/06] to debate and possibly adopt this bill, that is, unless a vast public outcry succeeds in derailing this insanity, which you can do by writing a letter of protest to your congress person through

http://www.conservativeusa.org/mega-cong.htm or http://www.webslingerz.com/jhoffman/congress-email.html

Phone calls are even better. The numbers of all US Representatives can be found at:

http://clerk.house.gov/members/index.htm

♪ Meeting with Johan Galtung ♪ - 33 min 29 sec - 7.7MB

Have you heard of Transcend?

It is a method that solves conflicts without violence or arms. They have been very successsful in many areas of conflict and there are many Transcend trainers all over the world. There is even an academic group in Japan that studies the Transcend method.
http://www.wako.ac.jp/~itot/tran/

The Interenational group can be found here:

http://www.transcend.org

Support Peace by Peaceful Means!

Buy Peace Shares with TRANSCEND and contribute to peacebuilding world-wide!

Isn't this great? I will send my support in Euros.

I went to ICU yesterday where Johan Galtung and other peace academics gathered for an International Symposium on Peace, Religion and Politics. The title was:
Movements and Pacifism after September 11.

In the podcast, you can listen to questions the scholars made to Johan and his responses to them. Meeting Johan was like meeting Gandhi!

The Unthinkable!

My friend from Hawaii sent me this story that was published in the UK Sunday Times
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Sarah Baxter, Washington (The Sunday Times) Hala Jaber and Ali Rifat, Baghdad

PHOTOGRAPHS taken by American military intelligence have provided crucial evidence that up to 24 Iraqis were massacred by marines in Haditha, an insurgent stronghold on the banks of the Euphrates.

One portrays an Iraqi mother and young child, kneeling on the floor, as if in prayer. They have been shot dead at close range...

Please read the full story here.
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Now all the major news outlets are covering this horrible event. The BBC has posted two videos about the event. Have a look at the first here, and the second here.

Democratic Congressman, Jack Murtha, a former Marine, spoke out strongly against the war in Iraq! Click here to watch the interview (6.5 MB). Listen to him talk about the total lack of progress for the rebuilding of Iraq... Things have simply not improved as the US government claims they have. Murtha believes that before the year is out, Republicans will be asking to get the US troops out of Iraq! Let us hope so! The sooner the better.

As my friend who alerted me to the story says...

Stop the War! End the Occupation! Bring the Troops Home Now!

1. Mourn all victims of violence. 2. Reject war as a solution. 3. Defend civil liberties. 4. Oppose all discrimination: anti-Islamic, anti-Semitic, etc. 5. Seek peace through justice in Hawai`i and around the world.

Please have a look at this interview with the sole family survivor of the attack...



In writing up this story, I came across this flash movie at chris-floyd.com which says it all...
*WARNING* Some images in the Flash presentation and image gallery may be uncomfortable and inappropriate viewing for faint of heart and young children.

Mussolini

"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Mussolini

He was quite right, wasn't he? Now the US is run by the White House Company, Bush as the speaker, Cheney as the boss, Wolfawitz as the brains, Mossad, MI6, CIA, etc. etc.

Do you agree?

Archbishop Desmond Tutu on a Department of Peace

Got this from Dot Maver, Executive Director of Peace Alliance, USA. I met her when I was covering Dennis Kucinich in 2004 Presidential campaign. She was his campaign manager and is very warm-hearted and a talented person.

Peace Alliance is the center of the US Department of Peace Movement and also the leader of the international movement. I am going to attend the 2nd People's Summit for Department of Peace, which will be held in Victoria, Canada, from Jun 18-22. Upon coming home, we will have a meeting for JUMP (Japan United for a Ministry of Peace) on July 9 or 17. Will keep you updated.
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http://www.thepeacealliance.org/content/view/145/1/

Photo and interview by Mark Tompkins
For the Peace Alliance
At the Quest for Global Healing
May, 2006, Bali, Indonesia

What are your thoughts on the movement to establish Ministries and Departments of Peace in governments worldwide?

TUTU: It’s an extraordinary idea and, it fills one with a great deal of excitement and exhilaration, and it sounds crazy, but then I think it was crazy when Gandhi said we’re going to work so that eventually India is free. It must have been crazy when Martin Luther King Jr. also said we’re going to make civil rights a real issue in the United States, and maybe when Nelson Mandela and others said one day apartheid will be no more, that we need those like yourselves who dream dreams and say, “It is possible. It is possible for people to know that war is not natural.”

People have been able to live peacefully together, but if they live peacefully together after war, why should they have war first before they can realize that it is a great deal better. War is not nice to children, it’s not nice to people, it’s not nice to the environment.

And so I say go for it. This is marvellous. Go for it and really be crazy and say, one day we’ll ask, “Why were we so stupid for so long because of something so obvious?” Saying let us put our massive investment that we are putting right now in instruments of death and destruction, let us put them into something that is creative, that is life-enhancing teaching kids that there are ways of resolving differences that don’t need to be violent. You can sit down and ultimately say, “You know, actually, an enemy is a friend waiting to be made.”

Mad Mag Morph!

Is this frightening or what??

Al Gore On Saturday Night Live!

Check out Al Gore having some fun! If only half of this were true!



Transcript of the show...

Al Gore: When Glaciers Attack -- The World That Might Have Been

Al Gore appeared last weekend on 'Saturday Night Live.' In the show's alternate reality, here's the speech he gave. "Good evening, my fellow Americans.

"In 2000 when you overwhelmingly made the decision to elect me as your 43rd president, I knew the road ahead would be difficult. We have accomplished so much, yet challenges lie ahead.

"In the last six years we have been able to stop global warming. No one could have predicted the negative results of this. Glaciers that once were melting are now on the attack.

"As you know, these renegade glaciers have already captured parts of upper Michigan and northern Maine, but I assure you: We will not let the glaciers win.

"Right now, in the second week of May 2006, we are facing perhaps the worst gas crisis in history.

"We have way too much gasoline. Gas is down to $0.19 a gallon and the oil companies are hurting.

"I know that I am partly to blame by insisting that cars run on trash.

"I am therefore proposing a federal bailout to our oil companies because -- hey, if it were the other way around, you know the oil companies would help us.

"On a positive note, we worked hard to save welfare, fix Social Security and of course provide the free universal health care we all enjoy today.

"But all this came at a high cost. As I speak, the gigantic national budget surplus is down to a perilously low $11 trillion.

"And don't get any ideas. That money is staying in the very successful lockbox. We're not touching it.

"Of course, we could give economic aid to China, or lend money to the Saudis ... again.

"But right now we're already so loved by everyone in the world that American tourists can't even go over to Europe anymore ... without getting hugged.

"There are some of you that want to spend our money on some made-up war. To you I say: what part of "lockbox" don't you understand? ...
"As for immigration, solving that came at a heavy cost, and I personally regret the loss of California. However, the new Mexifornian economy is strong and El Presidente Schwarznegger is doing a great job.

"There have been some setbacks. ... Baseball, our national pastime, still lies under the shadow of steroid accusations. But I have faith in baseball commissioner George W. Bush when he says, 'We will find the steroid users if we have to tap every phone in America!'

"In 2001 when I came into office, our national security was the most important issue. The threat of terrorism was real.

"Who knew that six years later, Afghanistan would be the most popular spring break destination? Or that Six Flags Tehran is the fastest growing amusement park in the Middle East?

"And the scariest thing we Americans have to fear is ... Live From New York, it's Saturday Night!"

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