URL: https://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html
11.Jul.2004 Official s discuss how to delay Election Day Talks stem from recent fears of terror attack timed to election.
URL: https://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html
12.Jul.2004 WASHINGTON (CNN) U.S. officials have discussed the idea of postponing Election Day in the event of a terrorist attack on or about that day, a Homeland Security Department spokesman said 11.Jul.2004 .
The Homeland Security Department has referred questions about the matter to the Department of Justice's Office of Legal Counsel, spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said.
The Homeland Security Department wants to know about the possibility of granting emergency power to the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission, authority
that Roehrkasse said was requested by DeForest B. Soaries Jr., the U.S. Election Assistance Commission s chairman.
Soaries, who was appointed by President Bush, is a former New Jersey secretary of state + senior pastor of the 7,000-member First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, New Jersey.
He wrote in 00.Apr.2004 to Homeland Security Department Secretary Tom Ridge + national security adviser Condoleezza Rice asking them to seek such legislation from Congress, Roehrkasse said.
Roehrkasse said the recent discussions were sparked by intelligence indicating al Qaeda wants to "disrupt our democratic process."
Homeland Security Department Tom Ridge warned of such an attack in a news conference last week, saying the warning was based on intercepted "chatter" among al Qaeda operatives. (Full story)
Roehrkasse noted, however, that there was no specific information suggesting such an attack would be aimed at the political conventions or the 02.Nov.2004 Election Day.
The four-day Democratic convention kicks off 26.Jul.2004 in Boston, Massachusetts, + the Republican National Convention begins 30.Aug.2004 in New York City.
URL: https://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/11/election.day.delay/index.html
12.Jul.2004 Ridge also said the nation's color-coded terrorist threat level would remain at yellow, or elevated.
11.Jul.2004 Democratic Rep. Jane Harman of California, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, took issue with Ridge's comments Sunday.
11.Jul.2004 "Six days ago, the leadership of the House + Senate intelligence committees + leadership of the House + Senate were briefed on these so-called new threats," Harman said on CNN's "Late Edition."
"They are more chatter about old threats, which were the subject of a press conference by Attorney General [John] Ashcroft and [FBI] Director [Robert] Mueller six weeks ago.
"[Ridge] sounded more like an interior decorator talking about what more we can do under the shade of yellow," she said.
What has Homeland Security Department officials worried is that terrorists could attempt to disrupt the election in same way that
11.Mar.2004 train bombings in Madrid created unrest three days before the Spanish general election, Roehrkasse said.
Although there is no evidence that the bombings influenced the Spanish election, Socialist Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero unseated Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, whose government supported the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
12.Jul.2004 Ashcroft Says Even Tougher Patriot Act Needed!
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12.Jul.2004 USA Delivered To Liars, Thugs, Bullies, Fanatics & Thieves
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12.Jul.2004 Data Nightmare At Pentagon
12.Jul.2004 Japanese Schoolchildren To Be RFID-Chipped
12.Jul.2004 USA Senat House Sustains Patriot Act By One Vote
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12.Jul.2004 Senior USA administration officials counter terrorism experts view the coming months as a time to increase vigilance out of concern that Islamic militants may try to replicate the political success they had
in Spain with coordinated pre-election train bombings. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 Plans for such an attack are believed to be near completion, the official said, echoing what officials said earlier in the summer before the Memorial Day weekend. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 ...a senior intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity. -[-TREASON !!! ]URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 The Department of Homeland Security is addressing the threat and has efforts under way to "ramp up security," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge said the Bush administration based its decision to bolster security on "credible" reports about al-Qaida's plans,
coupled with the pre-election terror attack in Spain earlier this year + recent arrests in England, Jordan and Italy.
"This is sobering information about those who wish to do us harm," Ridge said.
"But every day we strengthen the security of our nation." USA officials
do not have specific knowledge about where, when or how such an attack would take place, but the CIA + FBI + other agencies "are actively working to gain that knowledge," Ridge said. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 Ridge Warns of Election Terror Plot URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 Ridge said security officials must take care not to allow heightened security measures to intimidate minority voters,but that local+state election officials he's talked to
have not been told what measures to expect.- "There's got to be communication," he said, "between law enforcement + election officials in preparation for 02.Nov.2004 " URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 Soaries noted that 11.Sep.2001 , fell on Election Day in New York City - + he said officials there had no rules to follow in making the decision to cancel the election + hold it later.
Events in Spain, where a terrorist attack shortly before the March election possibly influenced its outcome,
show the need for a process to deal with terrorists threatening or interrupting the 02.Nov.2004 presidential election in USA, he said.
"Look at the possibilities.
If the federal government were to cancel an election or suspend an election, it has tremendous political implications.
If the federal government chose not to suspend an election it has political implications,"
said Soaries, a Republican and former secretary of state of New Jersey.
"Who makes the call, under what circumstances is the call made, what are the constitutional implications?" he said.
"I think we have to err on the side of transparency to protect the voting rights of the country."
Soaries said his bipartisan, four-member commission might make a recommendation to Congress about setting up guidelies.
"I'm hopeful that there are some proposals already being floated. If there are, we're not aware of them.
If there are not, we will probably try to put one on the table," he said. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/postponed.htm
12.Jul.2004 In a shamelessly partisan move, Homeland Secretary Ridge today announced that al Qaeda has advanced its preparation for a terror attack in the US designed to disrupt the Democratic process.
One wonders how Ridge is able to know so much about the specific intent of the terror attack he says is coming, in particular the part about the intent to disrupt the election.
Ridge said during his press conference that we are now in a "post-Madrid" atmosphere. He also confirmed that planning for postponing the general election is now in full swing.
Ridge's press conference marked a crude new low in the shameless terror demagogy of the Bush regime.
Even Democratic politicians and CNN talking heads were able to surmise that this outing was largely aimed at deflating the five-point approval bounce which Kerry had acquired by naming Edwards.
It is clear that the Bush campaign will rely on a relentless pounding of the electorate with terror warnings, alerts + alarms over the next four months -
in the first place as psychological warfare to strengthen the regime. At a deeper level, the option of an actual ABC/WMD terror attack at least one order of magnitude greater than 11.Sep.2001 must be reckoned with, possibly as an October Surprise, or perhaps sooner.
Finally, the Congress is looking into the 09.Jun.2004 incident in which a small plane lacking a transponder caused the panicked stampeding of the entire USA Congress, including Senators, Congressmen + staff.
This was a transparent ploy to terrorize USA Congress, where both parties have lately been giving Bush some embarrassing moments over Abu Ghraid + the national debt + the budget + related issues.
URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/value.htm
12.Jul.2004 ...that I did not refer to Bush supporters as conservatives, or even of being truly on what we consider as the political right.
Those poor, misled individuals who choose to stand unquestioningly by Bush are not conservatives.
They are men and women who are loyal to one mere politician instead of their country.
Although the Bush flock quickly rebukes dissenters as un-American, unpatriotic or traitors, they should take the time out to analyze their own loyalties.
True conservatives, value integrity above all other personal traits. Without integrity, the sincerity of other positions can easily be questioned.
Although many conservative leaders have shown a great lack of honesty in the past through hypocrisy or simply bold-faced lies, the men and women who make up this movement are as a whole, good, truthful people.
By supporting the administration of Bush, those who in the past may have considered themselves "conservative" are in fact ideologues hell-bent on defending the notion of morality by
backing a man of disjointed moral character.
By blindly offering their unwavering support just as a lemming runs enthusiastically towards a cliff, the supporters of Bush erode the integrity of the Republican Party (which may never recover) +
by calling themselves conservatives, undermined the true intent of this movement. -The Washington Dispatch https://www.washingtondispatch.com/opinion/article_9508.shtml
Additionally, the Bush administration was so desperate to scare the USA public that they recycled a UK report about Iraq's 45 minute attack window capability +
unmanned Iraqi drones spraying bio-warfare agents over USA cities, all of which turned out to be completely false.
As their arguments on WMD fell apart, Bush-bots (as I lovingly call them), jumped on the U.N. resolution bandwagon led by Bush's boy, Sean Hannity.
This argument has always been laughable to me.
The premise of this defensive stance is that Saddam violated the resolutions of the UN so Bush had to defy the will of the U.N. in order to protect the integrity of their own resolutions. Huh?
Yes, it has always been a silly argument yet at least it is factually correct at its core.
It should also be considered that Israel has nuclear and chemical weapons.
They bulldoze the homes of Palestinians and have built their own version of the Berlin Wall around new ghettoes.
They routinely flaunt UN resolutions. Why are they not "liberated?"
The "we did it to liberate the Iraqi people" talking point did not work as Bush conveniently ignores the genocide currently being committed in Africa.
If any group of people in this world needs to be "liberated" it's the men, women and children being hacked to death by machetes as men like Robert Mugabe smile and approve. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/dest.htm
12.Jul.2004 Shouts of "Shame, Shame, Shame" echoed through the House Chamber as scores of angry members on the Democratic side took to their feet.
But the Republicans are apparently immune to such public shaming, having become experienced at overturning fair votes in Florida + on the floor of the House last year during the Medicare vote
after keeping that vote open for three hours.
Finally, after keeping the vote open twice as long as scheduled the Tom DeLay + company had threatened, cajoled + enticed enough Republicans to tie the vote at 210-210.
To the jeers of the amendments supporters the presiding Republican let the gavel fall and the amendment was defeated on a tie vote.
Ironically, the Republicans had subverted the most basic underlying principle of a democracy -- that the will of the majority as evidenced by a fairly taken vote should prevail -
- in order to protect the Bush Administration's abridgement of American civil liberties under section 215 of the Patriot Act.
Win at any cost. What a sad civics lesson for America's children and for foreign countries who are supposed to look to America as an example of democracy. -
Joel Barkin is the Communications Director for Congressman Bernie Sanders I-VT. https://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/04/07/con04288.html
12.Jul.2004 Dust Bites Cheney! Lyndon LaRouche said to-night:
"Every indication is, that Cheney is near to the end of his string as Vice-President.
The dropping of Cheney from the Republican ticket, is very bad news for the Kerry campaign.
Since the aftermath of the March primaries, Bush and Kerry have been locked into a race to see which can get to the bottom first.
If a mainstream Republican is seen as a probable replacement for Cheney on the Presidential ticket, the resulting slow-down in the rate of collapse of Bush's popularity,
could mean a likely November defeat for the recently proposed Kerry-Edwards pair.
"In reacting to today's updated reports on the pile-up of terrible troubles for Cheney's career,
we must not lose sight of the fact that neither of the presently probable tickets are mentally prepared to cope with the presently accelerating threat of global collapse of the world's monetary-financial system.
The date that the world's financial collapse becomes official, is uncertain; but it will be soon.
We don't need a new Herbert Hoover, either Democrat or Republican, with this financial collapse now coming on fast.
"So, it will be good for the world if Cheney is out very soon. Do not forget, that, even after Cheney were gone, the real dangers still lie immediately ahead."
For more of LaRouche's evaluation + perspective, tune in to his website, , for his
15.Jul.2004 webcast, which will commence at 1 pm. Eastern Daylight Time. LaRouche's topic is "The New Threat of Fascism."
12.Jul.2004 00.000.1992-00.000.1993 Addington served as the Pentagon's General Counsel, leaving government when Cheney departed as Secretary of Defense in 00.Jan.1993.
When Cheney chose himself as Bush [BGW968]'s Vice Presidential running mate, he brought Addington to the White House as his General Counsel. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/dlere.htm
10.Jul.2004 Cheney's Man Penned Torture Memo -From EIR-Executive Intelligence Review www.larouchepub.com
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Live Webcast Address by Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche to a Washington, DC audience on 15.Jul.2004 15 01-00 pm
Cheney's Man Penned Torture Memo David Addington, the General Counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, was the actual author of one of the now-infamous White House "torture memos"
that claimed for President Bush the authority to violate the Geneva Conventions on the Treatment of Prisoners of War, in the so-called "war on terrorism."
The immediate result of this Hitlerian document was the scenes of inhuman torture at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, +
the as-yet untold tales of similar torture at other secret prison locations in Afghanistan, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, + in other countries around the world.
The revelation that Addington was the author of the
25.Jan.2002 draft memorandum for the President first appeared in a 03.Jul.2004 Newsweek online story.
An unnamed Gonzales aide told the magazine's Daniel Klaidman that "the memo was actually penned not by Gonzales but by Dick Cheney's top lawyer, David Addington, a hard-charging hawk."
The LaRouche campaign has independently confirmed the accuracy of the Newsweek story, through several intelligence +
legal community sources, familiar with the deliberations that preceeded the writing of the
25.Jan.2002 document, which President Bush approved.
According to one specialist in military law, familiar with the proceedings, Addington participated in all of the meetings that led to the drafting of the memo.
An intelligence community source confirmed that Newsweek had obtained on the record statements from Bush White House officials close to General Counsel Gonzales,
in anticipation of an Administration effort to spike or discredit the story.
One week after the Newsweek release, the Bush White House has made no effort to challenge the account of Addington's role.
Prior to the Newsweek posting, senior U.S. military + intelligence sources had singled out Addington as a key player in the Cheney circles, who aggressively promoted the trashing of international law in the terror war.
The Addington-authored. 25.Jan.2002 draft was followed, six months later by the most infamous of the "torture memos," the Justice Department Office of Legal Counsel
01.Aug.2002 document by Jay Bybee, directed to Gonzales, which set the standards for what constituted torture, under the jaundiced interpretations of international law from the Ashcroft department.
The Bybee memo sanctioned "cruel, inhuman, or degrading" acts which "still do not produce pain and suffering of the requisite intensity to fall within Section 2340A's proscription against torture."
Addington was also directly involved in the preparation of the Bybee memo. Cheney's Longtime Aide
12.Jul.2004 Fierce winds damaged 400 houses, mainly in the north, ripped up trees and cut power supplies to 300 areas, while hailstorms destroyed 4,600 hectares (11,360 acres) of crops, a ministry official said.
Storms that had provoked floods and power cuts in Britain and Germany during the week turned to snow in the Bavarian mountains on Sunday. Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze, was covered in two meters (six feet seven inches) of snow after 10 centimeters fell since Saturday and the mercury dipped to an unseasonally cold minus six degrees Celsius (21 degrees Fahrenheit), meteorologists said. URL: https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1540&u=/afp/20040711/sc_afp/europe_weather_040711213201&printer=1
12.Jul.2004 Al Jazeera reported the opinion of Awni Khatib, a professor of chemistry at Hebron University;
"the new symptoms, particularly the violent convulsions experienced by some Palestinian protesters outside the village of Sawiya [Zawiya], southwest of Nablus
suggest..that the Israeli army may be using a new class of chemicals that lie somewhere between normal tear gas and chemical weapons." [40]
Israel's repeated use of highly toxic unknown chemicals against Palestinian civilians is now an open secret.
We can expect these attacks to continue until a concerted effort is made to determine the facts and hold Israel accountable. So far, the international human rights community has steadfastly ignored the mounting evidence.
URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/chemwar.htm
In its 00.Mar.2003 special report, Israel's Secret Weapon, BBC Television reviewed this series of gas attacks, noting, "The Israeli army has used new unidentified weapons.
00.Feb.2001 a new gas was used in Gaza.
A hundred and eighty patients were admitted to hospitals with severe convulsions...Israel is outside chemical and biological weapons treaties and still refuses to say what the new gas was." [30] URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/chemwar.htm
12.Jul.2004 At IIBR, doctors publish world-class research in acetylcholine, the mother lode of nerve gas design. The Nes Ziona complex is reputed to have invented an "undetectable" poison-needle gun for "clean" assassinations. [8] In September 1997, two days after Jordan's King Hussein told Israeli PM Netanyahu that Hamas was seeking negotiations, Mossad agents in Jordan attempted to kill Hamas leader Khaled Misha'al with a lethal dose of fentanyl. [9]
URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/chemwar.htm
12.Jul.2004 Though it is a state secret, Israel's development of chemical and biological weapons has been known and analyzed for decades. From the typhoid poisoning of Palestinian wells and water supplies in 1948 [3,4] to the conversion of F-16s into nerve gas 'crop dusters' in 1998 [5], Israel has always demonstrated a strong interest in developing CBW agents and methods for their dispersal. In 1992 an El Al 747 flying nerve gas ingredients from the US to Israel crashed into an Amsterdam apartment building. [6] According to Salman Abu-Sitta, president of the Palestine Land Society, the respected Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad followed up the crash with an in-depth investigation of the Israel Institute for Biological Research (IIBR), Israel's CBW complex in Nes Ziona. The paper reportedly found "strong links" with several US CBW and medical research centers, "close cooperation between IIBR and the British-American biological warfare programme," and "extensive collaboration on BW research with Germany and Holland." [7]
URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/chemwar.htm
10.Jul.2004 Evidence Israel Using Chemical Warfare On Palestinians -Online Journal-
10.Jul.2004 the two clinics in Al-Zawiya treated 130 patients for gas inhalation.
The patients were children, women, old people and young men. Dr. Abu Madi related that there was a high number of cases of [tetany], spasm in legs and hands, connected to the nervous system.
Pupils were dilated . . . Other symptoms included shock, semi-consciousness, hyperventilation, irritation and sweating." [1]
Thus reads a report by medical units serving the West Bank village of Al-Zawiya, where nonviolent resistance to Israel's impending wall has been extraordinarily resolute.
According to the medical report (procured by the International Middle East Media Center - IMEMC), "the gas used against the protestors is not tear gas but possibly a nerve gas."
The following day, Israel's 'Peace Bloc,' Gush Shalom, began a press release with the following quote from Al-Zawiya: "What the army used here yesterday was not tear gas.
We know what tear gas is, what it feels like. That was something totally different ...When we were still a long way off from where the bulldozers were working, they started shooting things like this one
(holding up a dark green metal tube with the inscription 'Hand and rifle grenade no.400' in English). Black smoke came out. Anyone who breathed it lost consciousness immediately, more than a hundred people.
They remained unconscious for nearly 24 hours. One is still unconscious, at Rapidiya Hospital in Nablus. They had high fever and their muscles became rigid. Some needed urgent blood transfusion.
Now, is this a way of dispersing a demonstration, or is it chemical warfare?" [2]
The incident in Al-Zawiya appears to be the tenth attack by Israeli soldiers using an "unknown gas" against Palestinian civilians since early 00.000.2001 .
We have photographs of the canisters. We have film of victims suffering in the hospital. We have interviews with Palestinian and European doctors who have treated the victims.
And we presumably have hundreds, perhaps thousands, of survivors. But we know nothing of their fate.
12.Jul.2004 The other issue I'm asked about is slightly different + it's this -- after the USS Cole was bombed [in 00.Oct.2000 in Yemen], do I wish I had ordered the Special Forces in + the answer to that is,
I would have done it in a heartbeat, with Special Forces and more, with or without international support, once I got the CIA and FBI finding that Osama bin Laden did it.
I just assumed he did from the day it happened + everyone else did. But it wasn't until after I left office that the CIA made a finding. If they had given me a finding beforehand, I would have gone after him.
URL: https://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/09/clinton/index.html
12.Jul.2004 After 11.Sep.2001 I wished that I had had a military debate because basically the Pentagon + Gen. [Henry] Shelton [former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff] were strongly opposed to it.
12.Jul.2004 Prisoner Satar Jabar's photograph, showing him hooded + wired up, has become familiar to Iraqis, who derisively call it "the Statue of Liberty."
Far from being a dangerous insurgent, however, Jabar, 24, was an accused car thief. URL: https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5412316/site/newsweek/
12.Jul.2004 It's difficult to escape the conclusion that the Abu Ghraib torturers were just having a good, if sadistic, time. One military investigator wrote in his notes on Graner:
"the biggest S.O.B. on earth," a comment he underlined twice. The price for the party is enormous: damage done to Iraqi support for the American occupation has been incalculable. The details are sickening.
08.Jul.2004 Soldiers fresh from Iraq speak out against war, Bush administration - AUSTIN (AP) —
Two military service members who recently returned from Iraq spoke out against the war Wednesday during a rally at the Capitol, telling a small but boisterous crowd that the Bush administration misled America about the threat of terrorism there.
"I supported this war at first, when my administration led me to believe that it was the right thing to do to oppose the government of Saddam Hussein and free the Iraqi people," said Capt. David Harris, a 12-year veteran who recently returned from Iraq. URL: https://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/070804/sta_070804057.shtml
12.Jul.2004 The description given by Juan Acuña Perira, who was attacked by unknown animals he likens to "winged dogs", coincides remarkably with an image published by a Mexican newspaper [in 1996- translator's note], an image that has been circulated throughout the Internet and was neither denied nor classified as true by researchers of strange phenomena. The peasant described the creature as an earless dog with shining eyes, and more telling yet, the bite he suffered on one of his feet clearly shows a triagular, three-fanged bite.
URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/winfed.htm
08.Jul.2004 Diario El Centro The "winged dogs" that attacked Juan Acuña + the ones allegedly responible for sheep and hen deaths, continue to spread fear in Parral. URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/vat.htm
12.Jul.2004 Vatican Tells US Bishops Not To Give Kerry Communion URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/vat.htm
12.Jul.2004 Last month the Pope delighted White House election strategists by agreeing to meet President Bush in Rome after repeated overtures from Washington. A senior religious advisor to the White House told The Telegraph that there was "no doubt" that the Pope preferred President Bush to Sen Kerry, even though the Vatican was strongly against the war in Iraq + the senator is a practising Catholic.
„I have been in Rome with the Pope and the president," said Deal Hudson, one of the most prominent Catholic laymen in the US and the editor of the religious Crisis magazine. "I also represented the president in the 25th anniversary celebrations of John-Paul's papacy. The Pope and his inner circle prefer pro-life Bush to pro-choice Kerry." URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/vat.htm
12.Jul.2004 Michael Novak, a Catholic theologian, said: "Ratzinger's letter was stronger and firmer than we were led to believe. It's pretty dynamite stuff." URL: https://www.rense.com/general54/vat.htm
12.Jul.2004 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/11/wkerry11.xml&sSheet=/news/2004/07/11/ixworld.html
URL: https://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdun093885112jul09,0,6932057,print.story
12.Jul.2004 As the whole world watches, the Republican National Convention will become one of those signature events that test our commitment to the fundamental liberties on which our country was founded. Come Labor Day, let's hope that we can be proud of what we will have learned about ourselves and our city
URL: https://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdun093885112jul09,0,6932057,print.story
12.Jul.2004 Nonetheless, trouble may be brewing. At a June meeting with our organization, which represents nine groups planning convention protests, high-level NYPD officials and city lawyers rejected a march scheduled for Sept. 2, the day President Bush [BGW968] will arrive. In fact, they didn't want any marches during the convention. When pressed, they backed off from a total ban, but the Police Department has only agreed to allow one march during that time + many people are likely to try to march - permit or not.
And then there is the ongoing controversy over the march and rally planned by United for Peace and Justice for Sunday, August 29, the day before the convention starts. Though police officials told us in a recent meeting that they expect this protest may be the largest in New York City history, the city has rejected the group's request to hold its rally in Central Park, which is far and away the best place for huge outdoor events. Instead, city officials, with the full support of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, are forcing the UFPJ rally onto the street.
The prospect of this mega- demonstration stretching along miles of Manhattan pavement on a sweltering August afternoon raises the specter of a repeat of the February 2003 disaster over access, pens and horses. And given the fact that having this protest on the street places additional burdens on the police department when it already will have its hands full, the mayor's obstinacy about Central Park is all the more difficult to understand.
URL: https://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdun093885112jul09,0,6932057,print.story
12.Jul.2004 Also casting a shadow over the upcoming convention is the debacle of the February 2003 anti-war demonstration here in New York City. Invoking 9/11-related security concerns, the NYPD banned a proposed peace march and limited organizers to a stationary rally on First Avenue, which was an unprecedented restriction that the federal courts supported. On the day of the rally, police barricades prevented tens of thousands of people from reaching First Avenue, police horses terrified crowds simply trying to get to the event + those who made it to the demonstration found themselves penned in
URL: https://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdun093885112jul09,0,6932057,print.story
12.Jul.2004 Two events loom large over the protests likely to swirl around the convention. First and foremost is the attack of 11.Sep.2001 , which not only prompted unprecedented security worries about the convention but also set the stage for the Iraq war, which has proved so unpopular and divisive that it alone will bring hordes of protesters to New York in late August. And as we learned from the police-protester clashes during the 1968 Chicago convention, the combination of an unpopular war and police efforts to stifle dissent can be disastrous.
URL: https://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdun093885112jul09,0,6932057,print.story
09.Jul.2004 In about seven weeks, hundreds of thousands of people may descend on midtown Manhattan for the Republican National Convention.
Some will be delegates, most will be demonstrators + one will be the president of the USA, there to accept his party's nomination.
While the convention at Madison Square Garden may be a political event for some, for many it will serve as a key gauge of the extent to which
11.Sep.2001 security concerns have eroded America's commitment to civil liberties.
And the right to protest is one of the most important of those civil liberties.
After all, what separates our country from those our government so freely criticizes - indeed sometimes attacks -
is our constitutionally protected right to take to the streets to protest our leaders and their actions without fear of persecution or worse
URL: https://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpdun093885112jul09,0,6932057,print.story
12.Jul.2004 CIVIL LIBERTIES Right to protest is being stomped on Official obstinacy threatens to turn anti-GOP convention demonstrations into one big mess URL: https://www.rense.com/
12.Jul.2004 Vatican Tells US Bishops Not To Give Kerry Communion
URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/butler/story/0,14750,1258730,00.html
11.Jul.2004 The consolation for Number 10 is that Butler will essentially not be a new story. The report will add further detail to the headlines we all already know. The legal case for the war was equivocal. Saddam was not a clear and present danger. Flaky intelligence supplied by dubious or self-serving sources was presented as absolute fact. The threat dossier should never have been published, certainly not in the form it came out.
Having all this further highlighted by a committee of the Prime Minister's own, if reluctant, creation can definitely be difficult for the government. What the Butler inquiry won't do is alter many minds about the war in Iraq. And what it can't be is the final verdict on whether Tony Blair was right to take his country into that war.
That judgment will be for the voters, for history and for his Maker. Even to the Almighty, Mr Blair would argue that toppling Saddam was 'the right thing to do'. He will go on saying that from here unto Eternity.
URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/butler/story/0,14750,1258730,00.html
11.Jul.2004 George W Bush has endeavoured to decouple himself from the failings of the CIA by getting rid of its director. Tony Blair has taken the opposite course. He has given the top job at MI6 to John Scarlett, who, as chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, took 'ownership' of the infamous dossier. Any criticism of him thus becomes a commentary on the judgment of Mr Blair.
URL: https://www.guardian.co.uk/butler/story/0,14750,1258730,00.html
11.Jul.2004 The excoriating report published by the Senate intelligence committee on Friday describes the CIA's assessments of Iraq's military capability as the 'greatest intelligence failing in the history of the nation'. That's strong stuff when you consider that previous intelligence failings in the history of USA include the failure to foresee the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor - which, ironically, is why the CIA was set up in the first place - as well as the attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon.
Some Senators say that had they known then what they know now they would never have voted for the war in Iraq. For Tony Blair, one of the few balms to the long and searing afterburn since the invasion is that very few of those Labour MPs who supported the war have said openly that they were conned and would change their vote now.
URL: https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2660471
02.Jul.2004 I write badly, therefore I am a would-be terrorist By CHARLES C. GREEN
I don't think of myself as a dangerous character. Neither, I think, do the lively old ladies who routinely trample me on the escalators at Neiman Marcus. Nor the other software salesmen who race past me into early retirement. Nor, above all, the publishers and agents who seem to take unabashed pleasure in routinely shredding my dream of hanging up my salesman's shoes and becoming an author.
But it turns out we're all wrong about me. Just ask John Ashcroft.
Frankly, I didn't think I had the stuff — neither compelling dialogue for my probably-never-to-be-published novel-in-progress, nor the aura of a cold-blooded killer — until a few weeks ago, when my flight from New Orleans landed at Dallas' Love Field.
"How are you?" asked the airport security person who popped up beside me on my way to baggage claim.
"Uh, fine — thanks," I replied, wondering, why are you asking?
As if she'd read my thoughts, she told me there had been complaints about me on the airplane. Then she asked to see the crossword puzzle I'd been working on during the flight. Huh? I thought. Talk about being puzzled! Still, my grin was smug as I handed it over. I'd just completed the Friday New York Times puzzle, for the first time ever.
But the agent ignored the crossword, turning the paper sideways to read a line I'd scribbled in the margin: "I know this is kind of a bomb."
She pointed to the sentence, her finger resting on the word "bomb." "What does this mean?" she demanded.
URL: https://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2660471
11.Jul.2004 Goodman: Political correctness now covers the car you, I drive
URL: https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5416144/
11.Jul.2004 Sens. urge White House to pick new CIA chief Comes two days after damning Intelligence Committee report
URL: https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5411741/site/newsweek/
11.Jul.2004 Ridge's department last week asked the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to analyze what legal steps would be needed to permit the postponement of the election were an attack to take place. Justice was specifically asked to review a recent letter to Ridge from DeForest B. Soaries Jr., chairman of the newly created U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Soaries noted that, while a primary election in New York on 11.Sep.2001 was quickly suspended by that state's Board of Elections after the attacks that morning, "the federal government has no agency that has the statutory authority to cancel and reschedule a federal election." Soaries, a Bush appointee who two years ago was an unsuccessful GOP candidate for Congress, wants Ridge to seek emergency legislation from Congress empowering his agency to make such a call. Homeland officials say that as drastic as such proposals sound, they are taking them seriously—along with other possible contingency plans in the event of an election-eve or Election Day attack. "We are reviewing the issue to determine what steps need to be taken to secure the election," says Brian Roehrkasse, a Homeland spokesman.
URL: https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5411741/site/newsweek/
11.Jul.2004 Exclusive: Election Day Worries Newsweek
19.Jul.2004 issue - American counterterrorism officials, citing what they call "alarming" intelligence about a possible Qaeda strike inside the USA this fall, are reviewing a proposal that could allow for the postponement of the November presidential election in the event of such an attack, NEWSWEEK has learned.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
11.Jul.2004 Question of Pressure Splits Panel:
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,308173,00.html
11.Jul.2004 Insbesondere dort, wo zuvor pflanzenbewachsene Dünenlandschaften zu vegetationslosem Flachstrand planiert wurden, dezimieren Wind und Wasser den Sandbestand. In Extremfällen, wie an Italiens Südwestküste schon geschehen, reicht dann ein heftiger Sturm, um einen Strand über Nacht nahezu komplett verschwinden zu lassen.
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,308173,00.html
11.Jul.2004 Vielen Küstenorten droht der Verlust ihrer Hauptattraktion: Die Sandstrände versinken im Meer. Bis zum Ende dieses Jahrhunderts werden 4500 Quadratkilometer Küstenland erodiert sein oder unter Wasser stehen, prophezeit eine im Auftrag der staatlichen Umwelt- und Energieagentur Enea erarbeitete Studie. Schon jetzt wird der Sand knapp. Der berühmte VIP-Strand Macchiatonda beim toskanischen Capalbio beispielsweise war vor 30 Jahren noch etwa 50 Meter breit und bot Raum zum fröhlichen Ballspiel. Heute ist er auf magere 10 Meter geschrumpft,
URL: https://noticias.clix.pt/Sociedade/70387.html
11.Jul.2004 Mais de cem bombeiros estiveram no combate às chamas
Fogos em Mafra e Silves circunscritos (actualização) (11/07 | 18:31)
Os dois incêndios que deflagraram esta tarde, um na zona de Mafra e outro em Silves, foram já circunscritos, disse à Lusa fonte do Serviço Nacional de Bombeiros e Protecção Civil.
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O incêndio no concelho de Mafra lavrava na Quinta dos Leitões, na Ericeira. No combate às chamas estiveram 80 bombeiros, apoiados por 23 veículos e um helicóptero, segundo a mesma fonte.
O incêndio no concelho de Silves, que deflagrou também à hora de almoço perto da Barragem de Silves, foi igualmente circunscrito. Um helicóptero, 24 bombeiros e sete veículos estiveram envolvidos no combate deste foco de incêndio.
URL: https://noticias.clix.pt/Politica/70389.html
11.Jul.2004 Líder do PCP diz que aviso de vigilância "cheira a tiro de pólvora seca"
Carvalhas: credibilidade de Sampaio foi "profundamente atingida" (11/07 | 19:29)
O líder do PCP disse hoje que a credibilidade do Presidente da República "foi profundamente atingida" com a decisão de não convocar eleições antecipadas após a demissão do primeiro-ministro, Durão Barroso.
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"O Presidente da República vai continuar a ter à sua volta os cortesãos e os louvaminhas, mas a sua credibilidade foi profundamente atingida", afirmou Carlos Carvalhas, para quem Jorge Sampaio "sai derrotado, na sua relação com os que mais sofrem, na sua relação com os democratas e na sua relação com a esquerda consequente".
"O Presidente, no nosso ordenamento institucional, não é uma rainha de Inglaterra, nem pode sê-lo de facto, a coberto de muita retórica de esquerda, de promessas de vigilância e de discursos sem conta, sem qualquer efeito concreto", criticou o secretário-geral comunista que falava em Arcos de Valdevez, no decorrer de um encontro das mulheres CDU do Porto.
Para Carvalhas, a "ameaça" feita por Jorge Sampaio ao futuro Governo, quando lembrou que mantém intactos todos os poderes institucionais, entre os quais o de dissolver a Assembleia da República, "cheira a tiro de pólvora seca". Os avisos de Sampaio, continuou, "valem tanto como a vigilância feita às negociatas com as privatizações, ao subsídio de doença, ao código laboral e à dita consolidação orçamental".
Carvalhas garantiu, por isso, que a CDU fará tudo para que o futuro Governo de Pedro Santana Lopes e do seu "comparsa" Paulo Portas não dure até 2006. "Com luta e mobilização popular, vamos mostrar-lhes o cartão vermelho", concluiu
URL: https://noticias.clix.pt/Internacional/70392.html
11.Jul.2004 George Tenet abandonou hoje funções em plena crise da agência
Senado quer que Bush nomeie rapidamente novo director da CIA (11/07 | 21:49)
Os membros da comissão para os serviços secretos do Senado norte-americano instaram o Presidente, Bush [BGW968], a nomear rapidamente um novo director para a CIA, numa altura em que surgem informações sobre a probabilidade de novos atentados no país.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
11.Jul.2004 U.S. Contracts Torture of Australian Citizen Mamdouh Habib: Habib was arrested in Pakistan in October 2001. Soon after he was handed over to American custody and then taken, to Egypt. For six months he was left at the hands of his Egyptian interrogators. Mamdouh Habib was severely tortured there before being delivered to Guantanamo Bay where he remains to this day without charge. Video and transcript
URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/swornstatements042104.html?g
11.Jul.2004 Sworn Statements by Abu Ghraib Detainees
These documents, obtained by The Washington Post, are the offical English translations of previously secret sworn statements by detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Some of the names have been withheld from these statements by washingtonpost.com because they are alleged victims of sexual assault. These files are in PDF format.
Some of the descriptions in these statements may be disturbing because of their sexually explicit or graphic nature.
URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/swornstatements042104.html?g
11.Jul.2004 Nori Samir Gunbar AL-YASSERI,. 17.Jan.
Hiadar Saber Abed Miktub AL-ABOODI,. 20.Jan.
Shalan Said ALSHARONI,. 17.Jan.
Abd Alwhab YOUSS,. 17.Jan.
Thaar Salman DAWOD,. 17.Jan.
URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/world/iraq/abughraib/swornstatements042104.html?g
11.Jul.2004
MUSTAFA,. 17.Jan.
Mustafa Jassim MUSTAFA,. 18.Jan.
Kasim Mehaddi HILAS,. 18.Jan.
Ameen Sa'eed AL-SHEIKH,16.Jan.
[Name Withheld],. 21.Jan.
Mohanded Juma JUMA, 18.Jan.
Asad Hamza HANFOSH,. 17.Jan.
Abdou Hussain Saad FALEH, 16.Jan.
Hussein Mohssein Mata AL-ZAYIADI, 18.Jan.
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11.Jul.2004 Breaking News Update New Abu Ghraib photos, video & exclusive prisoner sworn statements https://www.washingtonpost.com/
URL: https://www.modbee.com/state_wire/story/8819190p-9706014c.html
11.Jul.2004 Jewish American activist from San Francisco denied entry into Israel
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11.Jul.2004 John Edwards — Bulldog Grip on ‘Underdog’ Israeli Nation: Edwards voted for the Patriot Act, voted for giving President Bush authority to use military force in Iraq + is obsessed with militarily defending Israel through war in the Middle East.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1456.htm
11.Jul.2004 "...The Muslims people basically got involved in the fight against zionism when it started effecting them on a political bases which is 1917 for the Palestinians or afterwards for some of the other Arab countries, We [religious Jews] were in this fight from the 1890 roughly... As soon as it was founded [zionism], it was condemned - Jews came out and said this is atheistic, this is idol worship..."
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11.Jul.2004 In case you missed it: Lecture: Rabbi Goldstein gives a historic overview of Zionism. Audio
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11.Jul.2004 Saddam Hussein on Trial See photos of his day in court View pictures of Saddam, Iraqis https://www.washingtonpost.com/
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11.Jul.2004 The allegations about Douglas Feith, the number three at the Department of Defence, are made in a supplementary annexe of the committee's review of the intelligence leading to war in Iraq,released on Friday.
URL: https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/11/wsept11.xml
11.Jul.2004 According to dramatic testimony contained in the annexe, Mr Feith's cell undermined the credibility of CIA judgments on Iraq's alleged al-Qa'eda links within the highest levels of the Bush administration.
The cell appears to have been set up by Mr Feith as an adjunct to the Office of Special Plans, a Pentagon intelligence-gathering operation established in the wake of 9/11 with the authority of Paul Wolfowitz.
Its focus quickly became the al-Qa'eda-Saddam link.
On occasion, without informing the then head of the CIA, George Tenet, the group gave counter-briefings in the White House. Sen Jay Rockefeller, the most senior Democrat on the committee,said that
Mr Feith's cell may even have undertaken "unlawful" intelligence-gathering initiatives.
The claims will lead to calls by Democrats for the resignation of Mr Feith, the third-ranking civilian at the Department of Defence and a leading "neo-con" hawk. "Tenet fell on his sword," said one Democrat official, "even though it's clear that he was placed under tremendous pressure to come up with the 'right' intelligence product for the administration on Iraq.
"The testimony to the committee on Feith + other Pentagon officials shows just what kind of pressure was being exerted.
And when that didn't work, the Pentagon was just coming up with its own answers + feeding them to the White House. And on al-Qa'eda they got it all wrong."
Last night a senior Pentagon adviser confirmed that Mr Feith was being targeted by senators unhappy that the administration has so far escaped censure for its use of intelligence.
"There are senators who are clearly gunning for Douglas Feith now.
This is turning into a classic conspiracy investigation. They want to get Feith and see if, through Feith, they can go up the ladder to even bigger fish."
Mr Feith's role is to be examined further in the second phase of the Senate committee's investigations, which will deal with the Bush administration's use of the intelligence it received. The report by the Republican-dominated committee lambasted the CIA for intelligence failures while concluding that there was no evidence that the Bush administration tried to coerce officials to adapt their findings.
Yet the annexe- written by 3 leading Democratic senators - contains the strongest evidence yet that Pentagon hardliners sought to sideline the CIA during a drive to talk up a connection between Saddam + Osama bin Laden.
After the 11.Sep.2001 attacks, tension had grown between Pentagon officials and CIA agents, who suspected the Department of Defence of relying too heavily on dubious testimony from Iraqi defectors in order to justify a war against Iraq.
The CIA's investigation of links between Iraq and al-Qa'eda was almost the only aspect of the agency's intelligence-gathering to escape severe censure in the 511-page report. Sen Rockefeller, the senator for West Virginia, said: "Our report found that the intelligence community's judgments were right on Iraq's ties to terrorists. There was no evidence of the formal relationship, however you want to describe it, between Iraq and al-Qa'eda + no evidence that existed of Iraq's complicity or assistance in al-Qa'eda's terrorist attacks."
Pentagon officials who appeared before the Senate committee testified that Mr Feith and others believed that the CIA was not sufficiently aggressive in its investigation of links between Saddam and al-Qa'eda. During the summer of 2002, administration hardliners believed that evidence of a connection between Iraq and the terrorist organisation would provide a clinching argument for war.
After the publication in June 2002 of a cautious report by the CIA entitled Iraq and al-Qa'eda: A Murky Relationship, Mr Feith passed on a written verdict to the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, that the report should be read "for content only - and CIA's interpretation should be ignored".
In August 2002, Mr Feith's cell gave a briefing to Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, which included a stinging condemnation of the CIA's intelligence assessment techniques.
In sharp contrast to the Senate intelligence committee's criticisms of "over-reaching" and "exaggeration" by CIA agents, the Pentagon briefing criticised the agency for requiring "juridical evidence" for its findings and for the "consistent underestimation" of the possibility that Iraq and al-Qa'eda were attempting to conceal their collaboration.
In another incident, Mr Feith's Pentagon cell postponed the publication of a CIA assessment of Iraq's links to terrorism after a visit to CIA headquarters at which "numerous objections" were made to a final draft.
In particular, Pentagon officials insisted that more should be made of an alleged meeting between the 11.Sep.2001 hijacker Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi official in Prague in April 2001. The CIA judged reports of the meeting not to be credible, a verdict vindicated on Friday by the Senate committee report.
Most remarkably, on September 16, 2002, two days before the CIA was to produce its postponed assessment, Mr Feith's cell went directly to the White House and gave an alternative briefing to Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff + to the National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice's deputy.
The briefing contained the section alleging "fundamental problems" with CIA intelligence-gathering. It also gave a detailed breakdown of the alleged meeting between Atta and an Iraqi agent.
The following week, senior Bush officials made confident statements on the existence of a link between Saddam and al-Qa'eda. Mr Tenet would learn of the secret briefing only in March 2004.
URL: https://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/07/11/wsept11.xml
11.Jul.2004 Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links
A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda, according to the Senate intelligence committee.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
11.Jul.2004 Fury over Pentagon cell that briefed White House on Iraq's 'imaginary' al-Qaeda links: A Senior Pentagon policy maker created an unofficial "Iraqi intelligence cell" in the summer of 2002 to circumvent the CIA and secretly brief the White House on links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'eda, according to the Senate intelligence committee.
Y Panel Describes Long Weakening of Hussein Army: The Senate's report on prewar intelligence about Iraq, which asserts that warnings about its illicit weapons were largely unfounded and that its ties to Al Qaeda were tenuous, also undermines another justification for the war: that Saddam Hussein's military posed a threat to regional stability and American interests.
Y Shining a light in a real dark place: Taguba's report took the brigade's leadership to task, but it also blamed officers attached to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade. The following are some of the annexes include in the report prepared by Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba:
y Key Revisions Were Made to CIA Document: In a classified National Intelligence Estimate prepared before the Iraq war, the CIA hedged its judgments about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction, pointing up the limits of its knowledge.
Y Question of Pressure Splits Panel: There was ample evidence that top Bush administration officials had intimidated analysts to twist their judgments about whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.Political analysts said it was likely that Republicans would bottle up any further conclusions until after the November elections.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6463.htm
11.Jul.2004 "This is the most dangerous moment in American history":A journalist asks the senators with US personnel dying every day in a bogus war,why is the rest of the report not going to be finished before the election
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,308232,00.html
11.Jul.2004 Das vermeintliche UFO sei wahrscheinlich ein Metall-Meteorit, erklärte der langjährige UFO-Forscher Werner Walter nüchtern. Wissenschaftler bezeichneten die Erscheinung als Feuerball-Bolide, sie sei mit einer großen Sternschnuppe vergleichbar. Bei Neuschwanstein habe man nach dem Vorbeiflug einen Stein aus dem All gefunden, so Walter
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,308098,00.html
11.Jul.2004 Die europäischen Partner stellen den Russen für den Bau des Startkomplexes, der rund zehn Kilometer nördlich der "Ariane-5"-Rampe entsteht, 314 Millionen Euro zuzüglich einer Reserve von 30 Millionen Euro zur Verfügung. Frankreich übernimmt die Hälfte der Kosten, Deutschland ist mit bescheidenen sechs Prozent beteiligt.
Europa schielt schon lange nach der russischen "Sojus"-Rakete. 1996 wurde das europäisch-russische Joint Venture "Starsem" für die kommerzielle Nutzung dieses Trägers gegründet, der aus der ersten russischen Atomrakete "Semjorka" (R-7) hervorgegangen ist.
Russland verspricht sich vom neuen Startplatz einen Leistungssprung bei seiner modernsten "Sojus"-Version, die hier künftig unter "Sojus/STK" (STK steht für Starsem-Kourou) firmiert + ein lukratives Auftragspaket. Denn durch die Äquatornähe kann die Rakete aufgrund der größeren Erdrotation eine zweieinhalb- bis dreifach höhere Nutzlast in eine geostationäre Umlaufbahn bringen als von den eigenen nördlicher gelegenen Kosmodromen. Bei Starts in den erdnahen Orbit verdoppelt sich die Nutzlast fast.
Moskau erhofft sich davon weltweit eine Quasi-Monopolstellung bei Nachrichtensatelliten bis zu drei Tonnen.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
11.Jul.2004 Powell's WMD speech 'based on lies': The depth of the CIA's distortions over WMDs has been revealed
Reviewing The Lies: Colin L. Powell, Remarks to the United Nations Security Council. Video and transcript.
URL: https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
11.Jul.2004 Arafat hints Israel planted Tel Aviv bomb: Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat has condemned Sunday's deadly bomb attack in Tel Aviv but suggested that it was an act of provocation carried out by the Israelis.
Sharon blames court for bomb: AN Israeli woman was killed and about 20 people wounded in a bomb attack on a Tel Aviv bus stop yesterday that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said was carried out "under the patronage" of the world court.
Bad company: 'Jack' Idema and the bounty hunters of Kabul: US payouts for Taliban and al-Qa'ida captures are attracting strange and dangerous adventurers to the 'Wild East'
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,308238,00.html
11.Jul.2004 Demnach steht in dem Bericht, dass ranghohe Regierungsbeamte Tony Blair im März 2002 ausdrücklich warnten, das vorliegende Geheimdienstmaterial zu den angeblichen Massenvernichtungswaffen sei "nicht ausreichend". Darüber gebe es sogar Protokollaussagen. Der Butler-Bericht, so hieß es weiter, mache deutlich, dass Blair seine "politische Entscheidung" zur Unterstützung von US-Präsident Bush [BGW968] ungeachtet der vorliegenden Fakten traf.
In der Sonntagszeitung "Independent on Sunday" sagte der frühere Geheimdienstbeamte Brian Jones, er und seine Kollegen könnten bis heute nicht verstehen, wie Blair auf der Grundlage der vorliegenden Informationen vor Kriegsbeginn im Parlament von einer "akuten und ernsthaften Bedrohung" durch den irakischen Ex-Diktator Saddam Hussein sprechen konnte. Blair hatte vor einem Unterhausausschuss in der letzten Woche eingeräumt, dass im Irak "vielleicht niemals" Massenvernichtungswaffen gefunden würden. Er sei aber nach wie vor davon überzeugt, dass der Krieg zum Sturz von Saddam Hussein berechtigt war.
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,308238,00.html
11.Jul.2004 Schon jetzt lassen erste kleine Happen aus dem Bericht vermuten, dass der Report ein ähnlich miserables Zeugnis für den MI6 zeichnet wie der in den USA für die CIA. Entscheidender für Blair wird indes, ob die Kommissionsmitglieder auch ihn und seine PR-Arbeit für den Waffengang der britischen Truppen unter Feuer nehmen.
URL: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,308238,00.html
11.Jul.2004 London - Steht die Götterdämmerung an der Themse schon unmittelbar bevor? Ja, zumindest wenn man der englischen Fernsehstation BBC glaubt. Die berichtete am Wochenende bereits, dass Premierminister Tony Blair ernsthaft über seinen Rücktritt als Regierungschef nachgedacht habe. Nur durch die persönlichen Gespräche mit mehreren seiner Minister und seiner Frau entschied er sich zum Weitermachen. Ganz gleich aber, was an den Gerüchten dran ist: Tony Blair sitzt nicht mehr fest im Sattel.
11.Jul.2004 Strand-Alarm: Wenn der Sand im Meer versinkt
Ein Badeort ohne Sandstrand? Kaum denkbar. Doch nach einer in Italien erstellten Studie droht vielen Touristenzentren genau dieses Schicksal. Die Küstenstreifen fallen dem Anstieg des Meeresspiegels zum Opfer.
11.Jul.2004 Kosmodrom unter Palmen: "Sojus" soll auch von Kourou starten
Die russische Raumfahrtindustrie expandiert nach Französisch-Guayana. Neben Kosmodromen in Russland und Kasachstan will der Kreml seine Raketen künftig auch vom europäischen Weltraumbahnhof Kourou starten
11.Jul.2004 CDU/CSU: Merkel warnt Union vor Sozi-Bazillus
11.Jul.2004 Exorzismus: Kind stirbt bei "Teufelsaustreibung"
11.Jul.2004 Feuerball über Süddeutschland: Vermeintliches UFO gesichtet
In der UFO-Meldestelle CENAP in Mannheim stand in der Nacht zum Sonntag das Telefon nicht still: Die Anrufer wollten beobachtet haben, wie ein grün-blaues Ufo um kurz nach 1 Uhr quer über den Nachhimmel schoss.
11.Jul.2004 GROSSBRITANNIEN Blairs schwerste Woche Nach der Blamage um den US-Geheimdienst kommen nun auf Tony Blair und seine Schlapphüte unangenehme Fragen wegen des Irak-Kriegs zu.
Am Mittwoch wird eine unabhängige Kommission über die Irak-Berichte des MI6 urteilen - dem britischen Regierungschef steht seine schwerste Woche bevor.