18.Feb.2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/cheneys-chappaquiddick-i_b_15711.html
I think this has the potential to be an iconic moment. It is a distillation of almost all that is wrong with this current administration:
1) Hypocrisy - The purported family values party covering up an incident that probably involves an extramarital affair, drinking + a Texas-sized pile of lies.
2) Arrogance - Thinking that it is perfectly reasonable for this news to be released to the public by a private citizen (a lobbyist no less) to a rinky-dink newspaper.
3) Incompetence - Absurd stories/statements, unjustified delays, making light of a serious situation. Scott McClellan made every effort to portray this as a complex matter. Details were trickling into the White House as if the "fog of avian war" was obscuring reality. The "Situation Room" was in full-swing and at the ready to deploy troops to snuff out any insurgent quail!
4) Dishonesty - The lies are numerous and obvious.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/cheneys-chappaquiddick-i_b_15711.html
Dowd: Cheney Complains "National Security Leaks Are Endangering America. Unless, Of Course, He's Doing The Leaking"...
18.Feb.2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/cheneys-chappaquiddick-i_b_15711.html
They're trying to spin it as just a badly handled case of press relations, but it's could be a whole lot more than that.
18.Feb.2006 http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Comments: We need to stop playing. Don't buy the drugs that fund them.

Don't buy the products that fuel the offshore companies, don't invest, no Walmart.

I mean be strict with yourself.

Toss the TV and cable (you're paying for propaganda), cell phone (it's tracking)

If in govmt service (local, state, fed) don't accept illegal directives.

Live simple, buy locally and frugally, know your neighbors.

Cut everything to the bone, cut up the credit cards, pay cash or do without.

Take your power back, remember we enable them.

And their power and wealth is an illusion.

Its paper and the paper they offer others to take their orders.

Don't play anymore.

Pull out of the game.# posted by Anonymous : 4:29 PM  
18.Feb.2006 http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/metroeast/story/B194683946D4E3D98625711800231BF9?OpenDocument
Historians have recognized Cahokia Mounds as one of the most significant sites in the world.
Named a World Heritage Site by the United Nations 23 years ago, Cahokia Mounds shares that designation with the Great Wall of China, the pyramids of Egypt, the Taj Mahal, the Grand Canyon and the Statue of Liberty.
Historians say there were more than 120 mounds, but only 109 locations have been recorded. Many were altered or destroyed by farming or modern development including housing subdivisions. About 70 mounds are preserved within the historic site boundaries.
The Cahokians, a sub-tribe of the Illinois Indians, built mounds for various uses. Flat-topped mounds were used as a base for ceremonial buildings or to elevate homes of the elite. Other mounds were used for burials of important people or to mark important locations. Most Cahokians, however, were probably buried in cemeteries, not mounds.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-eskow/cheneys-chappaquiddick-i_b_15711.html
Neither the press nor law enforcement seems inclined to investigate.

Before the right-wing commenters howl - there's documentation for all of these statements. Let's take them one by one: In addition to Cheney and Whittington, the hunting party included Katherine Armstrong (who was in the car at the time of the shooting: more on that later). After lots of evasive comments that only referred to a "third hunter," we now know her identity: Pamela Willeford, the US Ambassador to Switzerland.

Then there was this Armstrong quote on MSNBC and picked up by Firedoglake (later dutifully scrubbed, but preserved on Google cache): "There may be a beer or two in there," (Armstrong) said, 'but remember not everyone in the party was shooting.'"
18.Feb.2006 http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4723216.stm

The study says: "The scientific literature has emphasized the benefits of conscious deliberation in decision making for hundreds of years.

"In contrast, the notion that unconscious thought is fruitful hardly developed beyond the status of "folk wisdom".

Reflection

But the study found that people can think unconsciously and that for complex decisions unconscious thought is actually superior.

The team argued the problem with conscious thought is that the brain can only focus on a few things at the same time, which can lead to some aspects being given undue importance.

Lead researcher Dr Ap Dijksterhuis said: "The take-home message is that when you have to make a decision, the first step should be to get all the information necessary for the decision.

"Once you have the information, you have to decide + this is best done with conscious thought for simple decisions, but left to unconscious thought - to 'sleep on it' - when the decision is complex."

Jonathan Schooler of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver told Science the study built on evidence that too much reflection could be detrimental in some situations.

"What may be really critical is to engage in [conscious] reflection but not make decision," he added.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdiag0217,0,7292010.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
"You want to try to record it accurately. That always helps if you pull it up again in the future," said Mark Birkhauser, president elect of the International Hunting Education Association.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdiag0217,0,7292010.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
Texas Game Warden James Duke filled out the report on Monday, based on information from the sheriff's office + he made a mistake, said Lydia Saldana, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife. "That's a human error," Saldana said. "He should have colored the other side. It was the right side of the face and neck."
18.Feb.2006 http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usdiag0217,0,7292010.story?coll=ny-leadnationalnews-headlines
That diagram has been picked up and faithfully replicated by television and newspapers across the country, including the New York Times this week and by Newsday Thursday.
The only problem is that the diagram is wrong, by all accounts. It shows Whittington hit on the left side of his face, neck and chest when Cheney, the Kenedy County Sheriff's office and the report itself say the wounds were on the right side.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/cheney_shooting_coverup_in_progress_ballistics.htm
The only way that birdshot could have possibly penetrated into Whittington's heart, given the minimal force impact capacity of the shot is if he was shot from incredibly close range. This then means that the whole event requires a greater level of scrutiny. If they lied about the distance of the shot, its probably one of many lies.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/cheney_shooting_coverup_in_progress_ballistics.htm

Then comes the delay of Sheriff Ramon Salinas III of Kenedy County access to the Vice President from the time of the shooting at 5:30 p.m. Saturday until an interview at 8 a.m. Sunday morning.

Secret Service spokesman Eric Zahren stated that about an hour after the shooting the local Secret Service office notified the Sheriffs' Department of the shooting and arrangements were made for an interview. Saturday night at least one deputy showed up at the ranch's front gate and asked to speak to Cheney but was turned away by the Secret Service, Zahren said. This sort of delaying tactic is indicative of drunk-driving hit and runs by rich kids allowing the necessary time to sober up, contact your attorney and get your story straight.
18.Feb.2006New Trojans plunder bank accounts Bank-stealing Trojans wait for victims to sign onto their bank's Web site and then steal money.
18.Feb.2006Google may have to fight second subpoena If Justice Department's first subpoena is granted, another will demand details on how the search engine operates, court filing says.
18.Feb.2006Segway Inventor Turns To Environment Zonk 364 MBCook writes "CNN has an article in which they talk about Dean Kamen's latest inventions designed to provide water to rural villages. His goal is also to provide electricity and opportunities for entrepreneurship. From the article: 'Eighty percent of all the diseases you could name would be wiped out if you just gave people clean water,' says Kamen. 'The water purifier makes 1,000 liters of clean water a day + we don't care what goes into it. And the power generator makes a kilowatt off of anything that burns.'"
18.Feb.2006 http://www.infowars.com/articles/us/cheney_shooting_coverup_in_progress_ballistics.htm
"It's incumbent upon the shooter to assess the situation and make sure it's a safe shot," said Mark Birkhauser, President-elect of the International Hunter Education Association and Hunter Education Coordinator in New Mexico. "Once you squeeze that trigger, you can't bring that shot back."
18.Feb.2006 Cahokia Mounds gets funds to expand  Over the last 80 years, Illinois has gradually reclaimed more than half of the 4,000 acres that made up the American Indian civilization of Cahokia, once the largest community in what is now the United States.
18.Feb.2006 Cheney's Chappaquiddick II: The Real Story Emerges  The real story is already emerging, if you're willing to do a little digging. Cheney and Whittington went hunting with two women (not their wives), there was some drinking + Whittington wound up shot. Armstrong didn't see the incident but claimed she had, Cheney refused to be questioned by the Sheriff until the next morning + a born-again evangelical physician has been downplaying Whittington's injuries since they occurrred.
18.Feb.2006 Sleep on it, decision-makers told  When it comes to making tough decisions - don't sweat it, sleep on it - or so a team of scientists recommends.
A Dutch study suggests complex decisions like buying a car can be better made when the unconscious mind is left to churn through the options.
18.Feb.2006 Diagram in Cheney's accident report wrong  There is something wrong with this picture.
In the only publicly available, official report on last weekend's accidental shooting by Vice President Dick Cheney, a diagram of a body shows where Austin lawyer Harry Whittington was hit by pellets fired from Cheney's Italian-made shotgun.
That diagram has been picked up and faithfully replicated by television and newspapers across the country, including the New York Times this week and by Newsday Thursday.
The only problem is that the diagram is wrong, by all accounts. It shows Whittington hit on the left side of his face, neck and chest when Cheney, the Kenedy County Sheriff's office and the report itself say the wounds were on the right side.
18.Feb.2006 Cheney's story and the ballistics don't match  I am shocked! Shocked!
18.Feb.2006 China's Fight With Falun Gong  The shocking reenactments of torture in front of Pennsylvania Station in New York and the Chinese Embassy in London publicly make the point: Falun Gong, a popular spiritual movement brutally suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party, is effectively waging its counterwar against the Chinese government, from the West.
18.Feb.2006 Venus at its brightest Friday morning  Astronomical lore has it that a naval commander mistaking Venus for an enemy vessel once ordered his crew to commence firing on it + there are also stories of railroad engineers applying the brakes because they thought the planet was the light of an oncoming train.
18.Feb.2006 1942-The Battle of Los Angeles  The anniversary is almost upon us...
18.Feb.2006 Modern technology finds ancient Maya ruins  NASA and University of New Hampshire scientists are using space- and aircraft-based "remote-sensing" technology to uncover ancient Maya ruins.
17.Feb.2006 Was Diana murdered?  Could it be that we've all been fooled?
18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Guantanamo: Why? I urge you to read Kevin Drum's new piece in the Washington Monthly, which summarizes the cover story of the National Journal. According to this account, many of the prisoners held in subhuman conditions at Gitmo were detained for reasons that were not just hazy, not just unproven, but downright false.

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This report doesn't discuss the hellfire which will rain down on our warships by advanced new missiles...sold to Iran by China...and thus paid for by all those dollars you spent at Wal-Mart.
But...hey. It's all good. After all, President Bush is right with Jesus. And Jesus is coming soon. Isn't he...? Permalink

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WAR ON IRAN! It's inevitable. Here's a good look at what to expect... In Iran itself, the initial results might also appear to be a "success" for the United States, but the prospect may seem very different when Iranian forces (such as a revitalised Revolutionary Guard) infiltrate into Iraq, seek to sabotage oil facilities in western Gulf states + develop low-tech methods to disrupt tanker traffic.
In turn, these forms of retaliation would be met with further air strikes by US forces; this would result, within weeks, in the beginnings of a sustained and complex war, one that could certainly stretch to Lebanon and Afghanistan.
Third, the report points to the near-certainty that any attack on Iran would lead to the country setting out quite deliberately to develop nuclear weapons as quickly as possible, withdrawing from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) forthwith.

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By the way, did you know that the United States government is in "technical default"? That is, there is a $5.5. billion gap between our debt and the congressional ceiling on debt...
Job creation lags behind population growth. Plants are closing, or moving overseas. Poverty is raising sharply. So are the numbers of people without health insurance. Rents are going up + so are evictions. The already sky-high rents in major cities may well double as hundreds of thousands of people with unpayable mortgages are forced to sell or give up their homes.

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18.Feb.2006 Reddhedd over at firedoglake happened upon a similar fit of angst, and had what is actually a very reasonable response for the moment, the perfect Tom Paine quote. "These are the times that try men's souls...." 18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
But today I'm asking myself: Can I understand well enough to give better aim to the chase and ask the really hard question? Surely we can all agree we have more than ample information and evidence, not only on the evil perpetrators, but on what fate awaits us. Now what, precisely, do we do about it?

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Anyone out there identify with this angst?

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And so what do I do? I keep chasin' the paper. Or, e-paper, whatever. I keep tracking down yet more information and evidence, as if there were not enough goods on these folks three years ago. As if I - ME! - I'm gonna find that one crystal, pure, unassailable, unequivocal, piece of truth that will reverse all this madness and set it straight again.
18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/} The information and evidence keep piling up, now at a pace that is so astounding one stays in a perpetual state of hyperventilation trying to take it all in. Any one of the scandals that make up this avalanche, at any other time in our history would have taken down even the most popular and distinguished of administrations.

18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}So now, knowing what actually will happen but entertaining some speculation as to how, I find myself with yet another question. How much more information do we need?

18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Like most of you, I comb the internet on an almost daily basis, looking for yet more evidence that evil is afoot, nay, ahead. But how much more evidence do I need?

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So it's not even clear to me that their plan requires another inside job; the 9/11 specter will suffice, in their minds, at least. The downside of another such event, after all, is that it would happen on their watch + they do capitalize a great deal on maintaining their role as our protectors. The upside of course would be martial law and all those dictatorial perks Bush has so openly salivated over.

18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}All week, our very own Darth Vader appeared to be facing his ultimate demise while unseasonably warm and sunny days fed into the giddy frenzy that we might finally see him depart in disgrace. Today, though, intense winds bring in dark clouds and rain and plummeting tempteratures as I hear the Dick has foiled us yet again + watch footage of more torture in Abu Ghraib, read of the Democratic Party's abandonment of Russ Feingold's heroic but lone attempt to stanch yet another devastating wound to our democracy, as I discover yet more evidence of the military takeover of this country, as I listen to more of the incompetence, graft and greed that has left thousands upon thousands needlessly suffering in a country we needlessly invaded, as well as a region we have needlessly abandoned right here at home. And on and on and on and on....
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401488,00.html
"Wenn ein Sprite auf Film gebannt ist, ist das extrem aufregend", sagte Jaugey. Man sehe auf dem Fernseher zunächst nur einen kurzen Blitz. Aber es sei wunderschön, wenn man sich anschließend die Daten der Hochgeschwindigkeitskamera anschaue.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401396,00.html
Ratten sind beispielsweise in der Lage, korrekte Vorhersagen über die Folgen eigener Aktionen zu treffen, auch wenn sie diese nie zuvor ausprobiert hatten. Das haben Forscher der Universität Göttingen und der University of California in Los Angeles jetzt nachgewiesen.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401396,00.html
Eine Unterscheidung zwischen kausalen und statistischen Beziehungen sei aber wesentlich für ein Verständnis von Kausalität, sagte Waldmann. Ratten können nach den Erkenntnissen der Psychologen sehr wohl zwischen solchen Zusammenhängen unterscheiden. Im ersten Experiment beobachteten die Tiere, dass auf einen Lichtreiz sowohl ein Ton als auch Futter folgte. Das Licht war also die Ursache für zwei Effekte.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401396,00.html
Erzeugten die Ratten den Ton jedoch selbst, indem sie einen Hebel drückten, verhielten sie sich anders. Waldmann und seine Kollegen argumentieren: Nun erwarteten die Tiere kein Futter mehr als Folge des Tons. Vielmehr nahmen sie sich selbst als Ursache des Tons wahr. Deswegen vermuteten sie auch nicht mehr, das Licht verpasst zu haben. Und ohne Licht aber erwarteten sie auch kein Futter.
Dies sei ein Beleg, dass die Nager kausal denken können. Waldmann: "Die These, dass kausales Denken nur Menschen vorbehalten ist, lässt sich damit nicht mehr halten."
18.Feb.2006 http://alfatomega.com//20051013.html
08.Sep.2005 US deploys another military base on post-Soviet territory : Ashkhabad seems to be drastically changing its foreign policy: it abandons CIS and becomes more loyal to America
18.Feb.2006 http://alfatomega.com//20051013.html
10.Sep.2005 UC Regents lose control of nuclear weapons program : Five admirals + Carlyle Group + Rand take over
18.Feb.2006 Papier ist geduldig. Bücher die Geschichte machten ... von "non vitae sed scholae discimus" bis " pecunia non olet ". ... Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species "JE NE SUIS PAR MARXISTE" ... www.geocities.com/wbuecher/buecher.htm

Elmar Altvater Dateiformat: PDF/Adobe Acrobat – HTML-Version bewahrt: „ pecunia non olet “. da hat Es sich Gut getroffen, ... from serious Crime, for The purpose of concealing or disguising The illicit origin ...www.bundestag.de/ftp/pdf_arch/ag11406.pdf

[RTF] Erich Ott Dateiformat: Rich Text Format – HTML-Version das römische Wort soll seine Gültigkeit bewahren: " pecunia non olet ", ... "is the processing of ... criminal proceeds to disguise their legal origin . ... www.prokla.com/Volltexte/124altvater.rtf
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401488,00.html
Die meiste Zeit verbrachten die Wissenschaftler mit Warten, berichtet Cummer. Man habe jedoch ständig auf der Hut sein müssen, um keinen "Sprite" zu verpassen. Der Name für die Kobolde ist kein Zufall: Weil die Irrlichter die Forscher so lange an der Nase herum geführt hatten, tauften Experten der University of Alaska sie "Sprites", nach den Kobolden in Shakespeares Stück "The Tempest".
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401488,00.html
Man nennt sie "Kobolde" oder "Elfen". Piloten, die die mysteriösen Lichterscheinungen zufällig erspäht hatten, behielten ihre Beobachtungen lieber für sich - aus Angst, dass man sie für verrückt erklären könnte. Dass es die Lichtgestalten aber tatsächlich gibt, ist mittlerweile unbestritten.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401420,00.html
Ein Fund von 50 toten Schwänen im Greifswalder Bodden südlich von Rügen ist der erste größere auf dem deutschen Festland. Die Tiere waren an einem rund fünfhundert Meter breiten Uferabschnitt verendet. Proben der Kadaver werden in Rostock auf H5N1 überprüft.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401420,00.html
"Die Lage hat sich extrem zugespitzt", gab der Agrarminister von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Till Backhaus (SPD), zu. Bei den zehn neuen Fällen handelt es sich den Angaben zufolge um sechs Höckerschwäne, drei Singschwäne und eine Gans. "Die Ergebnisse zeigen, dass Schwäne entweder besonders häufig Träger des Virus' oder aber besonders anfällig für die Infektion sind", sagte Mettenleiter.
18.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401420,00.html
Gesundheitsministerin prangert Länderhoheit an
Ähnlich äußerte sich auch Bundesgesundheitsministerin Ulla Schmidt. Sie beklagte, die 16 Bundesländer zeichneten sich durch eine "sehr große Eigenständigkeit" und ein "sehr großes Beharren" aus. So sei etwa die Einrichtung einer Pandemiekommission von den Bundesländern abgelehnt worden. "Wir haben in unserem Staat keine Weisungsbefugnis", sagte Schmidt.
18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-401271,00.html}
Auf die Frage, was ihn persönlich bei der Arbeit mit den Dresdner-Bank-Akten besonders entsetzt habe, erklärt Wissenschaftler Bähr: "Der Umgang mit der Vergangenheit in der Nachkriegszeit." Angesichts der in den fünfziger Jahren eingehenden Entschädigungsforderungen von Opfern des "Dritten Reichs" habe es an jeglichem Unrechtsbewusstsein gefehlt. Zwar sei das ein gesellschaftstypisches Phänomen gewesen, erschreckt habe es ihn aber schon, sagt Bähr. "Da findet man immer wieder das Stereotyp vom Juden, der jetzt wieder die Hand aufhält", erklärt auch der Historiker Dieter Ziegler, der das Verhalten der Bank gegenüber jüdischen Kunden und Mitarbeitern untersuchte. Die Geschichte der Dresdner Bank bis 1957 ist nun Thema weiterer Forschungsarbeiten. Spätestens Anfang 2007 soll eine entsprechende Veröffentlichung fertig sein.
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Die Bank-Sprecher wichen erschreckt zurück, nun wird das Werk in den eigenen Berliner Räumlichkeiten vorgestellt. Schließlich will man historische Sensibilität demonstrieren. Vorstandschef Herbert Walter verweist deshalb auch immer wieder auf den von der Bank ausgeschriebenen Victor-Klemperer-Wettbewerb für Schüler und die 2003 gegründete Eugen-Gutmann-Gesellschaft, die an der deutschen Bankengeschichte weiter forschen soll.
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Mit der erheblichen historischen Bürde will die Dresdner Bank nun offensiv umgehen. Wie schwer das sein kann, erfuhr sie, noch bevor die Studie überhaupt veröffentlicht war: Mit dem Plan, zu diesem Anlass im Jüdischen Museum in Berlin ein Forschungskolloquium abzuhalten, stieß das Geldinstitut auf schroffe Kritik. Die Wahl des Museums habe einen "Hautgout", erklärte der stellvertretende Vorsitzende des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland, Samuel Korn, dem SPIEGEL. Es entstehe der Eindruck, man wolle sich dadurch "des Wohlwollens von jüdischer Seite versichern". Der Vorsitzende der Berliner Gemeinde, Gideon Joffé, schimpfte: "Es hat den Anschein der Absolution und dadurch einen faden Beigeschmack."
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Es sei nicht klar, ob die Bankzentrale über den Krematoriumsbau informiert war, resümiert Historiker Bähr. Schließlich war die Beteiligung nur eine von vielen. Außerdem waren für das Bauunternehmen die Bank-Filialen in Breslau und Kattowitz zuständig. Dennoch seien der Einfluss der Bank auf die Huta und damit auch die historische Verantwortung nicht von der Hand zu weisen. Schließlich sei kaum ein Unternehmen "dem Zentrum des Holocausts so nah" gewesen wie die Huta.
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Zum "offenen Mittäter" an den nationalsozialistischen Verbrechen wurde die Bank den Historikern zufolge auch durch ihre Beteiligung an der Breslauer Huta Hoch- und Tiefbau AG. Die Huta errichtete die Gebäude mehrerer Krematorien in Auschwitz-Birkenau, außerdem konstruierte sie Wirtschafts-, Entlausungs- und Wohnbaracken in dem Vernichtungslager. Die Dresdner Bank war mit einer Kapitalbeteiligung von rund 26 Prozent Huta-Großaktionär. Sie besaß außerdem Vorzugsaktien, die ihr in bestimmten Fragen bis zu zwanzigfaches Stimmrecht einräumten. Bei den Hauptversammlungen 1942 und 1943 vertrat das Geldinstitut nahezu sämtliche Anteilseigner. Obendrein war der stellvertretende Leiter der Dresdner-Bank-Filiale in Breslau noch Aufsichtsratschef bei Huta.
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Die enge Verbindung zum NS-Staat war der Studie zufolge dabei keineswegs darauf zurückzuführen, dass die Bank wegen der verheerenden Folgen der Weltwirtschaftskrise 1931 in Staatsbesitz übernommen und erst 1937 wieder reprivatisiert wurde. Zwar installierte das Hitler-Regime in dieser Zeit die beiden "Karriere-Nazis" Emil Meyer und Karl Rasche im Vorstand, die später eifrig an der Nazifizierung des Instituts weiter arbeiteten. Ansonsten aber blieb die Führungsspitze der Bank in ihren Entscheidungen immer unabhängig. Und die guten Kontakte der SS-Mitglieder Rasche und Meyer wurden von Aufsichtsrat und Vorstand außerordentlich wohlwollend betrachtet - aus geschäftlichem Interesse. Auch Carl Goetz, der noch bis Mitte der sechziger Jahre Aufsichtsratschef der Bank war, segnete die Kredite an die SS ab und pflegte Beziehungen zu Nazi-Größen wie etwa zu Reichswirtschaftsminister Walther Funk.
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Auch zu den Geschäften mit der SS sei die Bank keineswegs gezwungen gewesen, erklärt Historiker Bähr. Die Bayerische Staatsbank etwa konnte eine Finanzierungsanfrage der SS sehr wohl ablehnen. An unfreiwilligen Partnerschaften habe die Partei-Organisation überhaupt kein Interesse gehabt, weil sie in dem sensiblen Bereich der Finanzen Wert auf äußerste Diskretion legte. "Geradewegs bei ihren verwerflichsten Geschäften im 'Dritten Reich' wäre es für die Dresdner Bank zweifellos möglich gewesen, anders zu handeln", erklärt der Herausgeber der Studie, der Zeithistoriker Klaus-Dietmar Henke, in seinem Schlusswort.
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Im Rahmen der "Arisierung" freute sich die Bank über ihr anziehendes Kreditgeschäft - für den Kauf jüdischer Besitztümer stieg der Finanzierungsbedarf der "arischen" Kundschaft erheblich. Ab 1938 wurden die Bezüge der jüdischen Betriebsrentner willkürlich und erbarmungslos zusammengestrichen, manchmal um über 30 Prozent. Und die Ausrottungspolitik der Nazis nutze die Führungsspitze der Bank geschickt aus, um in den besetzten Gebieten günstig zu expandieren.
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Die zentrale Aussage des jetzt vorgelegten 2400-Seiten-Werks fasst Historiker Bähr mit einem Satz zusammen: "Die Zusammenarbeit der Bank mit dem NS-Regime war sehr viel breiter als bisher gedacht." Immer wieder stellten die Forscher bei ihren Untersuchungen die Frage nach der Verantwortung des Geldinstituts. Die Antwort ist erschütternd. In ihren unternehmerischen Entscheidungen nutzen alle Beteiligten mit erschreckender Nüchternheit die teils zynischen Geschäftsmöglichkeiten, die sich unter dem NS-Regime boten.
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war der ehemalige Dresdner-Bank-Vorstand Karl Rasche bei den Nürnberger Prozessen zu sieben Jahren Haft verurteilt worden, auch die Nähe des Geld-Instituts zu SS-Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler war hinlänglich bekannt. Angesichts solch offensichtlicher historischer Tatsachen sorgte die Geschichtsklitterung zum Jubiläum für helle Empörung. Der damalige Dresdner-Bank-Vorstandschef Jürgen Sarrazin sah sich gezwungen zu handeln.
18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-401271,00.html}
Die dicken Bücher scheinen wie ein Symbol für einen radikalen Kurswechsel zu sein, den die Dresdner Bank erst 1997 vollzog. Bis dahin hatte das Institut branchentypische Verschwiegenheit auch in Bezug auf seine Vergangenheit gepflegt. Während die Deutsche Bank bereits 1995 eine klare Darlegung ihrer Rolle im Nazireich veröffentlichte, strickte die Dresdner Bank noch in einer Festschrift zu ihrem 125-jährigen Bestehen - im Jahr 1997 - an der Legende eines Unternehmens, das in der NS-Zeit eifrig gegen den zunehmenden Druck von Staatsseite ankämpfte.
18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-401271,00.html}
Kaum ein anderes privatwirtschaftliches Unternehmen hatte so enge Beziehungen zur SS wie die Dresdner Bank, erklärt der Wirtschaftshistoriker Johannes Bähr. Sie vergab etwa 30 Prozent aller Kredite für die Unternehmen der verbrecherischen Organisation und stellte ihr insgesamt rund 47,7 Millionen Reichsmark zu Verfügung. Im Gegenzug transferierte die SS-Führung riesige Guthaben auf Dresdner-Bank-Konten, die gleichzeitig als Sicherheit für die Kredite galten. Es war ein gutes Geschäft für beide Seiten. Dabei habe die Bank "aufgrund ihrer Verbindungen zu SS-Betrieben schon bald nach Beginn der planmäßigen Ermordung der Juden im Frühjahr 1942 gewusst, dass sie Geschäfte mit Massenmördern machte", schreibt Bähr in seiner Untersuchung. 
18.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-401271,00.html}
Hamburg - Im Frühjahr 1939 benötigten die Deutschen Erd- und Steinwerke (DEST) einen Kredit mit dem erklecklichen Volumen von fünf Millionen Reichsmark. Man wandte sich an die Dresdner Bank, die schon zuvor in kleinerem Rahmen gute Dienste geleistet hatte. Damit wurde das Geldinstitut endgültig zur Bank des Vertrauens für die SS: Die DEST waren das erste Häftlingsunternehmen der Organisation. Sie betrieben später unter anderem ein Kieswerk in Auschwitz, eine Kiesgrube in Treblinka und einen Steinbruch im polnischen Arbeitslager Blizyn, wo sich Tausende zu Tode schufteten.  
18.Feb.2006 Holocaust: Polen gegen iranische Nachforschungen
18.Feb.2006 Cheneys Opfer: "Unfälle passieren nun einmal"
18.Feb.2006 Luftsicherheit: Tödliche Gefahr über Europas Himmel

18.Feb.2006 Rechtsextremismus: Innenminister sagen Neonazis den Kampf an
18.Feb.2006 Karikaturenstreit: Demonstranten hängen Müntefering-Puppe auf
18.Feb.2006 "Der Rote Kakadu": Klassenklampf und Block 'n' Roll
18.Feb.2006 Luftsicherheit: Jung will Terror-Flugzeuge trotz Karlsruher Urteil abschießen
18.Feb.2006 Mieses Krisenmanagement: Bund und Länder streiten über Bekämpfung der Vogelgrippe
18.Feb.2006 Bush Faces Big Choices as Hamas Takes Reins: On the eve of Hamas' takeover of the Palestinian parliament, the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush still appears uncertain about how hard a line to take with the movement it has long considered a terrorist organisation.

18.Feb.2006 Commercial photos show Chinese nuke buildup : Commercial satellite photos made public recently provide a new look at China's nuclear forces and bases -- images that include the first view of a secret underwater submarine tunnel.

18.Feb.2006 Nigeria oil 'total war' warning : A Nigerian militant commander in the oil-rich southern Niger Delta has told the BBC his group is declaring "total war" on all foreign oil interests.

18.Feb.2006 Nigerian military launches attack on targets in the Delta: A Nigerian militant group has threatened to escalate its campaign against the government and oil producers after the country’s military launched an attack on targets in the oil-producing Niger Delta

18.Feb.2006 Fire razes Shell oil well: As death toll in gunship attack on bunkerers rises to 30: AN oil well operated by Shell 30 kilometres south of Port Harcourt caught fire yesterday 24 hours after militant youths threatened revenge against it for making its facility available for an attack on an Ijaw community in Delta State

18.Feb.2006 Waterworld: how life on Earth will look 1,000 years from now: By the next millennium the global map will have been redrawn by disastrous climate changes, according to a new forecast

18.Feb.2006 Climate change: On the edge : Greenland ice cap breaking up at twice the rate it was five years ago, says scientist Bush tried to gag

18.Feb.2006 Sea levels likely to rise much faster than was predicted : Global warming is causing the Greenland ice cap to disintegrate far faster than anyone predicted. A study of the region's massive ice sheet warns that sea levels may - as a consequence - rise more dramatically than expected.

18.Feb.2006 Global warming '30 times quicker than it used to be' : Greenhouse gases are being released into the atmosphere 30 times faster than the time when the Earth experienced a previous episode of global warming.

18.Feb.2006 Tsunami bomb NZ's devastating war secret : Top-secret wartime experiments were conducted off the coast of Auckland to perfect a tidal wave bomb, declassified files reveal.

18.Feb.2006 Specter calls for probe of his office: Sen. Arlen Specter said yesterday that he would ask the Senate ethics committee to investigate whether any rules were violated when he directed almost $50 million to companies and institutions that employed the husband of one of his top aides as a lobbyist.

18.Feb.2006 The Little-Noticed Order That Gave Dick Cheney New Power: Have you ever heard of Executive Order 13292?

18.Feb.2006 Ted Rall: The Shootist :   What is Dick Cheney Covering Up?

18.Feb.2006 Shoot First, Avoid Questions Later: The White House's secretive response to Cheney's misfire cannot be understood apart from the society of Texas royalty.

18.Feb.2006 Guns and Roses: Why It's Still Cheney's Chappaquiddick : After trying to get me to say that Cheney and Pamela Willeford had an affair (which I wouldn't - I stick with what I know), Tucker Carlson confronted me on "The Situation" tonight* about the fact that Willeford's husband was apparently on the ranch at the time of the incident.

18.Feb.2006 Humor: Cheney Goes Ahead With Folsom Prison Concert: Contains some adult language

18.Feb.2006 Belafonte's absence at King funeral is noticeable :  Could he have been excluded to ensure the presence of President George W. Bush at the "first lady'' of civil rights' funeral?
18.Feb.2006 David Martin: The Long War — George Bush’s War Without End : Now that the cakewalk that was to be our invasion of Iraq is nearing its third anniversary and the roses that were to be thrown at us have turned into improvised explosive devices, it has become official — we are engaged in a long war. Make that “The Long War.”

18.Feb.2006  A must listen interview: Self-Described Economic Hit Man John Perkins: “We Have Created the World’s First Truly Global Empire”

18.Feb.2006 War pimp: Rice: Iran is global terror 'banker': The Iranian government is a "central banker" for global terrorism and working with Syria to destablise the Middle East, the US Secretary of State has said.

18.Feb.2006 The next Iran war : A new report examines the likely course and proliferating dangers of a United States attack on Iran.

18.Feb.2006 Michel Chossudovsky: The Dangers of a Middle East Nuclear War: New Pentagon Doctrine: Mini-Nukes are "Safe for the Surrounding Civilian Population"

18.Feb.2006 Russian official says Iran will be overpowered by US military strike: - Chief of the Russian Federation General Staff Colonel-General Yuri Baluyevsky said Thursday that Iran's military abilities were too limited to deal with a military strike directed by the US.

18.Feb.2006 Iran Seeks Allies In Latin America For Nuclear Program : Iran is reaching out to Latin American countries from Venezuela to Uruguay, seeking to line up diplomatic allies as it faces increasing scrutiny of its nuclear program.

18.Feb.2006 Reports: China, Iran near huge oil deal: China and Iran are close to setting plans to develop Iran's Yadavaran oil field, according to published reports, in a multibillion-dollar deal that comes as Tehran faces the prospect of sanctions over its nuclear program.

18.Feb.2006 Experts assess impact of China's oil needs : - In 1993, there were just 700,000 passenger cars in the entire country of China. By 2003, there were 5 million.

00.000.2005 -Chinese companies sold 5 million new passenger cars and its 2006 production capacity is now estimated at 8 million new cars.

18.Feb.2006 Federal judge dismisses Canadian extraordinary rendition suit : ights lawsuit filed by Maher Arar, in what is believed to be the first suit filed challenging US extraordinary rendition practices.

18.Feb.2006 Judge's anger at US torture : A high court judge yesterday delivered a stinging attack on America, saying its idea of what constituted torture was out of step with that of "most civilised nations".

18.Feb.2006 U.N. chief: U.S. should close Guantanamo prison: Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday said the United States should close the prison at Guantanamo Bay for terror suspects as soon as possible, backing a key conclusion of a U.N.-appointed independent panel.

18.Feb.2006 Close Guantanamo, says Peter Hain : Pressure to close the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay grew today after Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain backed its shutdown.

18.Feb.2006 Plan to investigate eavesdropping killed: The Bush administration helped derail a Senate bid to investigate a warrantless-eavesdrop- ping program Thursday after signaling it also would reject Congress's request to have former Attorney General John Ashcroft and other officials testify about the program's legality.

18.Feb.2006 Judge Orders Action on Spying Documents : A federal judge dealt a setback to the Bush administration on its warrantless surveillance program, ordering the Justice Department on Thursday to release documents about the highly classified effort within 20 days or compile a list of what it is withholding.

18.Feb.2006 Bush May Be Crossing the Rubicon From Republic To Dictatorship: Through the justifications it has put forth for warrentless wiretapping, the Bush administration is almost literally crossing the Rubicon, beginning the process of transforming the United States from a republic into to a presidential dictatorship.

18.Feb.2006 In case you missed it: Despotism & Democracy : Measures how a society ranks on a spectrum stretching from democracy to despotism. Explains how societies and nations can be measured by the degree that power is concentrated and respect for the individual is restricted. Where does your community, state and nation stand on these scales

18.Feb.2006 The Fourteen Defining Characteristics of Fascism : Flash Presentation

18.Feb.2006 Charles Sullivan: The Making of a Zombie Culture :The systematic torture of captives is a non-event for the s of the corporate news, whose minds have been deftly manipulated to reach this conclusion without their knowledge.

18.Feb.2006 Putting a Wrench Into the Gears of This War Machine": On Wednesday, February 15, 2006, a group of war resisters began a 34 day liquids only fast in Washington, DC. The fast is sponsored by the Voices for Creative Nonviolence

18.Feb.2006 US says has "inoculation" strategy to curb Chavez : Washington wants to curb Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's anti-American influence by lobbying allies to try to expose any anti-democratic policies, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

18.Feb.2006 Chavez Calls U.S. Foreign Policy 'Crazy' : Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez mocked Washington's foreign policy as "crazy" Thursday for labeling his government as one of the region's biggest dangers just days after making a diplomatic overture to mend frayed ties.
18.Feb.2006 Iran calls on UK troops to pull out of Basra: "The Islamic Republic of Iran demands the immediate withdrawal of British forces from Basra," Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters through an interpreter during a visit to Lebanon.

18.Feb.2006 Bush Administration's War Spending Nears Half-Trillion Dollars: ABC News has learned today that President Bush will ask Congress for an additional $65.3 billion for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It brings the total funds requested this year to more than $110 billion for those operations.

18.Feb.2006 Cindy Sheehan and Sam Bostaph : The Human Cost of War : TThe land that nourished the first written language and the roots of civilized political order has become a charnel house.
18.Feb.2006 Europe's contempt for other cultures can't be sustained
A continent that inflicted colonial brutality all over the globe for 200 years has little claim to the superiority of its values - By Martin Jacques
When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal. Now - and increasingly in the future - it will be very different. And the subject of these feedback loops, or consequences, will concern not just present but also past behaviour. Continued 
18.Feb.2006 Flamethrowers -By Chris Floyd
A militarist state must have war: to justify its draconian rule (and those $550 billion "defense" budgets), to find new fields for dominion and swag + to seal with blood its illegitimate compact with the people, seeking to make them complicit in its crimes, which are committed in their name, for their "security." Continued
18.Feb.2006 Tierbeobachtung: Neue Hoffnung für Schneeleoparden
18.Feb.2006 Mysteriöse Blitze: Lichtgespenst-Video begeistert Forscher
18.Feb.2006 Interview mit Franka Potente: "Kinder sind Avantgardisten"
18.Feb.2006 Hirnforschung: Auch Tiere denken kausal

>18.Feb.2006 Arbeitskampf: Mehrheit der Deutschen gegen Ver.di-Streik
18.Feb.2006 Dresdner Bank im "Dritten Reich": Hitlers willige Banker
18.Feb.2006 Iranische Holocaust-Konferenz: "Unser Präsident meint es nur gut"
18.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe-Gefahr: Freibrief für Tauben
18.Feb.2006 Netzwelt-Ticker: Linux schlägt Windows auf dem Mac
18.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe: Rügen räumt Vogelkadaver nicht rechtzeitig
18.Feb.2006 How Will We Know When We Have Lost, America? -By N K. A
We will know we have lost when we do what we have done in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, Bagram and the other entirely secret and not so secret CIA and military detention centers round the world. We will know we have lost when the first target in the massacre of a village or city is its hospital. Continued
18.Feb.2006 Conservatives Endorse the Fuhrer Principle
Our leader über alles
By Paul Craig Roberts
Last week's annual Conservative Political Action Conference signaled the transformation of American conservatism into brownshirtism. A former Justice Department official named Viet Dinh got a standing ovation when he told the CPAC audience that the rule of law mustn't get in the way of President Bush protecting Americans from Osama bin Laden. Continued
18.Feb.2006 The History of CIA Interrogation

18.Feb.2006  From the Cold War to the War on Terror - Democracy Now! Audio Interview

 Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book “A Question of Torture”, a startling expose of the CIA development of psychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago. Click here to listen
18.Feb.2006 Abu Ghraib leaked report reveals full extent of abuse -B Suzanne Goldenberg in Washington
· 1,325 images of suspected detainee abuse
· 93 video files of suspected detainee abuse
· 660 images of adult pornography
· 546 images of suspected dead Iraqi detainees
· 29 images of soldiers in simulated sexual acts
Nearly two years after the first pictures of naked and humiliated Iraqi detainees emerged from Abu Ghraib prison, the full extent of the abuse became known for the first time yesterday with a leaked report from the US army's internal investigation into the scandal. Continued
17.Feb.2006"The people round Blair are all linked to the United States…. And here is the source of the tension between so-called Old and New Labour. For who are the Labour Party's traditional constituencies? British domestic manufacturing and British public sector workers. Old Labour is the domestic economy; New Labour is the overseas British economy; in other words, the multinationals, the City of London + the Foreign Office which represents their interests."
17.Feb.2006 _{http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/psyops.htm}
"It is not surprising that more and more people are coming to the conclusion that the ballot box is no longer an instrument that will secure political solutions…. They can see that the parliamentary democracy we boast of is becoming a sham."
- TONY BENN
17.Feb.2006 _{http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/psyops.htm}

"The Government must promote its own cause and undermine that of the enemy by.... a carefully planned and co-ordinated campaign of psychological operations. There is of course an element of truth in the idea that an effective domestic intelligence system could be used to jeopardise the freedom of the individual. Under an authoritarian regime, freedom of the individual is not particularly relevant."
- Brigadier FRANK KITSON (the architect of covert death squads in Northern Ireland)
17.Feb.2006 _{http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/psyops.htm}

Psychological Operations (" Psyops ") is an all-embracing term defined by NATO as "planned psychological activities in peace and war directed towards enemy, friendly and neutral audiences, in order to create attitudes and behaviour favourable to the achievement of political and military objectives…. Strategic psywar pursues long-term and mainly political objectives. It is designed to undermine an enemy or hostile group to fight and to reduce the capacity to wage war. It can be directed against the dominating political party, the government and/or against the population as a whole, or particular elements of it. It is planned and controlled by the highest political authority." _{http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/psyops.htm}
00.000.1968–00.000.2002 Terrorism and U.S. Policy,

Within hours of the horrific attacks of 11.Sep.2001, National Security Archive staff began compiling this in-depth and unparalleled documentary history of international terrorism and U.S. policy.

The resulting collection of 1,509 formerly secret documents provides coverage beginning with the first politically-motivated hostage-taking episode of its the

00.Jul.1968 hijacking of an El Al jet to and devoting special attention to the Middle East and Southwest Asia. The set features records from the White House, National Security Council, State Department, Defense Department, Justice Department + other federal agencies as well as detailed FBI field reporting, CIA analyses + military studies.

Among the most valuable materials are sensitive intelligence reporting won through a lawsuit by former AP reporter and hostage Terry A. Anderson, memos from Henry Kissinger to President Richard Nixon detailing terrorist incidents as they unfold + a complete set of declassified meeting records of the important Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. Specific highlights include the circa 1996 CIA biographic sketch of Osama bin Laden, + the

00.May 2002 "Bombshell Memo" by FBI whistle-blower Coleen Rowley, featured on the cover of Time Magazine (03.Jun.2002 edition).
17.Feb.2006 Mohammed-Cartoons: Wütende Proteste in Hongkong und Malaysia

17.Feb.2006 Trotz Umweltschützer-Protest: Olympische Flamme weiter mit Vollgas

17.Feb.2006 Game Bytes: Australien verbietet Sprayer-Spiel

17.Feb.2006 Afrika: Der stille Tod der Kinder

17.Feb.2006 US-Gefangenenlager: Britischer Minister fordert Schließung von Guantanamo

17.Feb.2006 Junge Arbeitslose: Behörden dürfen zum Wohnen bei Eltern zwingen
17.Feb.2006 Nach Jagdunfall: Bush nimmt Cheney in Schutz

17.Feb.2006 Siedler-Konflikt Hebron: Im Käfig

17.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe: Seehofer macht Behörden auf Rügen schwere Vorwürfe
17.Feb.2006 http://endcolumbusday.livejournal.com/

The second letter came from a member of the Jewish Defense League in Rochester. His argument ran that, unlike Columbus (whom he described as "little more than a bit player, without genuine authority or even much of a role, in the actual process of European civilization in the New World which his discovery made possible"),

Himmler was a "responsible official in a formal state policy of exterminating an entire human group for both racial and economic reasons," and on a scale "unparalleled in all history."

My analogy between the two, he said, served to "diminish public respect for the singular nature of the Jewish experience at the hands of the Nazis,"

as well as popular understanding of "the unique historical significance of the Holocaust." Finally, he added, undoubtedly as a crushing capstone to his position, "It is a measure of your anti—semitism that you compare Himmler to Columbus" because "Columbus was, of course, himself a Jew."

I must confess the last assertion struck me first + only partly because I'd never before heard claims that Christopher Columbus was of Jewish ethnicity. "What possible difference could this make?" I asked in my letter of reply.

"If Himmler himself were shown to have been of Jewish extraction, would it then suddenly become anti—semitic to condemn him for the genocide he perpetrated against Jews, Gypsies, Slavs + others? Would his historical crimes then suddenly be unmentionable or even `okay'?"

To put it another way, I continued, "Simply because Meyer Lansky, Dutch Schultz, Bugsey Siegel and Lepke were all Jewish `by blood', is it a gesture of anti—semitism to refer to them as gangsters?

Is it your contention that an individual's Jewish ethnicity somehow confers exemption from negative classification or criticism of his/her conduct?

What are you saying?" The question of Columbus' possible Jewishness nonetheless remained intriguing, not because I held it to be especially important in its own right, but because I was (and am still) mystified as to why any ethnic group, especially one which has suffered genocide, might be avid to lay claim either to the man or to his legacy. I promised myself to investigate the matter further. ( Read more... )
17.Feb.2006 http://www.ljseek.com/search/Anti%20Spy%20Program
Americans are waking up to the falsehoods of a most corrupt and criminal government ... should invest resources in other things than defense.   Through the cover of socialism and anti -militarism the foreign agent or its lackeys spread the false notion that defense is unnecessary ...
... are too widely dispersed. They receive no assistance from the Federal Government. The FBI Cointel- Program and the CIA's Operation Chaos have been breaking up leftist type organizations and social ...
... legal questions are hard. This one is not. The President s authorizing of NSA to spy on Americans is blatantly unlawful. Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago law professor There comes a ...
Detention Camp Jitters ... law in the United States." -- The Sydney Morning Herald , July 27, 2002 In 1984, the Rex-84 readiness exercise program was conducted by 34 federal departments and agencies, reportedly as an exercise to handle an influx ...
17.Feb.2006 Detention Camp Jitters ... nbsp;

00.000.1984 -the Rex-84 readiness exercise program was conducted by 34 federal departments and agencies, reportedly as an exercise to handle an influx ... http://alobar.livejournal.com/1527257.html  
17.Feb.2006 Der Kosovo-Krieg im Cyberspace IWS is an online resource that aims to stimulate debate about a range of subjects from information security to information operations and e-commerce. www.iwar.org.uk/iwar/resources/kosovo.htm
17.Feb.2006 World-News Independent Media Source ... ACLU v. NSA Clients Respond to White House Claims ... House spin on its illegal spying program. Play the audio or ... last week that the NSA spying program is actually "designed ... freepage.twoday.net -

17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-401418,00.html
Neue Folter-Fotos: Erschreckende Bilder, besonnenes Echo (16.02.2006)http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,401325,00.html ·   Folterfotos: Pentagon fürchtet neue Welle der Gewalt (16.02.2006) http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,401275,00.html
17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-401418,00.html
Wir wissen, dass es sich bei ihnen um gefährliche Terroristen handelt."
17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-401418,00.html
Präsidentensprecher Scott McClellan in Washington. "Das Militär behandelt Gefangene human, wie vom Präsidenten angeordnet.
17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-401418,00.html
Er stimme nicht mit allem überein, was in dem heute vorgelegten Bericht stehe, sagte Annan. "Aber die Grundlagen sind klar: Privatpersonen können nicht beliebig lange festgehalten werden, ohne dass sie vor Gericht gestellt werden. Guantanamo sollte so bald wie möglich geschlossen werden."
Die fünf Beobachter der Uno-Menschenrechtskommission hatten in ihrem Bericht "folterähnliche" Fälle in dem Gefangenenlager kritisiert und die US-Regierung aufgefordert, auf "brutale, herabsetzende oder unmenschliche" Behandlung zu verzichten. Die Zwangsernährung von Gefangenen  kämen Folter gleich. Auch einige der Befragungstechniken in Guantanamo könnten auf Folter hinauslaufen, besonders wenn mehrere von ihnen kombiniert würden. Dazu zählten der Einsatz von Hunden, Schlafentzug, Isolation und dass Gefangene extremen Temperaturen ausgesetzt würden.
Die unwürdige Behandlung sei auch auf Fotos zu erkennen gewesen. Wenn sich die Häftlinge widersetzt hätten, seien sie geschlagen oder ausgezogen worden. Die USA müssten die Gefangenen umgehend vor ein unabhängiges Gericht stellen oder sie freilassen.
Die Uno-Berichterstatter, darunter der Österreicher Manfred Nowak, stützen sich auf Aussagen ehemaliger Gefangener, öffentlich zugängliche Dokumente, Medienberichte, Aussagen von Anwälten und einen von der US-Regierung ausgefüllten Fragebogen. Sie hatten einen Besuch in Guantanamo beantragt, den die USA im vergangenen Jahr bewilligt hatten. Die Uno-Experten verzichteten jedoch darauf, nachdem ihnen mitgeteilt worden war, dass sie nicht mit den Gefangenen hätten sprechen dürfen.
Die US-Regierung verwahrte sich gegen die Kritik und warf der Uno schlampige Arbeit vor. "Es diskreditiert die Vereinten Nationen, wenn ein Team einen Bericht raushaut, ohne sich die Fakten anzusehen. Das Team hat sich nur mit den Unterstellungen beschäftigt", sagte Präsidentensprecher Scott McClellan in Washington. "Das Militär behandelt Gefangene human, wie vom Präsidenten angeordnet. Wir wissen, dass es sich bei ihnen um gefährliche Terroristen handelt."
Derzeit sind 490 Menschen in Guantanamo inhaftiert, seit Öffnung des Lagers vor fünf Jahren wurden fast keine Anklagen erhoben.
17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-401416,00.html
Die Ermittler schenkten den entlastenden Darstellungen Cheneys und des Getroffenen Glauben.
17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-401416,00.html
Der US-Vizepräsident muss nicht mehr mit einer Anklage wegen des Jagdunfalls rechnen, bei dem er einen Freund angeschossen hat.
17.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-401416,00.html
Sarita/Washington - Wie das zuständige Büro des Sheriffs am Donnerstag in Sarita mitteilte, wurden die Ermittlungen eingestellt. In einem Bericht wurde weitgehend die Darstellung Cheneys unterstützt. Auch der verletzte 78-jährigen Harry Whittington sagte den Ermittlern, dass niemand zum Zeitpunkt des Vorfalls etwas getrunken habe und dass alle Beteiligten die vorgeschriebenen orangefarbenen Warnwesten getragen hätten.
16.Feb.2006 Gefangenenlager: Annan fordert Guantanamo-Schließung
16.Feb.2006 16. FEBRUAR 2006
16.Feb.2006 Jagdunfall: Cheney wird nicht angeklagt
16.Feb.2006 Fußball-WM: Union gibt Plan für Bundeswehr-Einsatz auf
16.Feb.2006 Custos da cacofonia empresarial Fundada em 1973 por David Rockefeller , a Trilateral integra personalidades do mais alto nível: empresários, presidentes de empresas, políticos não ... www.fpglobal.pt/cacofonia.html

The Trilateral Commission Overview and possible enlargement Last ... Paul Volcker, former Chairman of the Federal Board of Governors replaced David Rockefeller . Akio Morita, chairman of Sony, became the new Japanese chairman. ... www.fpglobal.pt/tril.html
16.Feb.2006 Who Wants World War III? Rockefeller was one of the first to see this and although not in the oil business himself, founded Shell Oil. What he did was develop oil tankers for the ... www.unitypublishing.com/Government/WorldWarIIIWho.htm

THE BILDERBERG SECRET MEETING FOR 2004 For over 50 years now the ... J., Henry Kissinger, Richard Perle, Melinda Gates (wife of Bill Gates), David Rockefeller , Timothy F. Geithner, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New ... www.unitypublishing.com/Newsletter/Bilderburg.htm
16.Feb.2006 A Verdade da Mentira: História Arquivo Rockefeller é considerado como o mais controverso homem de negócios da América ... No entanto Rockefeller distribuiu mais dinheiro do que qualquer outra ... a_verdade_da_mentira.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/cat_historia.html

Semanário Tanto Kissinger como Rockefeller apoiaram energicamente a candidatura de Durão ... Um grupo restrito de Bilderberg, onde estavam Rockefeller , Kissinger, ... www.semanario.pt/noticia.php?ID=2574
16.Feb.2006 http://www.waronfreedom.org/update.html

[1] See "SOS USA: Serial Killer CIA President's Body Count," http://groups.yahoo.com/group/WarOnFreedom/message/440

[2]  From "In war, some facts less factual," by Scott Peterson, Christian Science Monitor, Sept. 6, 2002, http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0906/p01s02-wosc.html  .

[3] Exposed by John R. MacArthur, Publisher of Harper's Magazine, in his book "Second Front." See lecture transcript at  http://www.independent.org/tii/content/events/f_macarth.html . With a population under 2 million, Kuwait has about 120 births per day, or 6 for each of its score of hospitals. Premature newborns, who sometimes need incubators, account for only about one in nine births. For hundreds of incubators, you want a hen hatchery, not a hospital. To quell such doubts, Hillton & Knowles PR followed up with false witnesses to the burial of the dead babies, see http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3589/us-iraq-lie.html . Apparently no one has been sued for the genocidal consequences.

[4] The use of the term "CIA" as shorthand for a covert, corrupt criminal clique working within it, should not detract from the fact that most of the men and women of the CIA may do valuable, and occasionally even courageously conscientious work. They also serve to mask the "skunk works," which is banned under the CIA's charter.

[5] "Gabriel Hanotaux, The Dreyfus Affair + How London Orchestrated the Destruction of the Franco- German Alliance," corroborates England's horror at economic development for Egypt, and views France and Germany as builders, England as looter http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/hanot91.htm

[6] Martin Palmer, http://www.nex.net.au/users/reidgck/DIVIDE.HTM

[7] In "A New Age of Empire," http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=11&ItemID=2610

[8] See Paul Thompson's widely acclaimed online reference work, The Complete 911 Timeline,  http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/index.htm 

[9] http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,573893,00.html

[10] http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/completetimeline/2001/wpost102701b.html

[11] Interview with Salon magazine, http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0206/S00180.htm , links to a collection of Ms. Rosenberg's work at http://www.fas.org/bwc/news/anthraxreport.htm

[12] "FBI's Theory On Anthrax Is Doubted, Attacks Not Likely Work Of 1 Person, Experts Say," http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A28334-2002Oct27

[13] War on Iraq, What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know, by William Rivers Pitt with Scott Ritter, Context Books, 2002, pp. 56-59.

[14] " Bush's speech reveals how much America, not Hussein, has changed, " http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1009/p01s02-usgn.html

[15] See http://www.petitiononline.com/stoputsh/. For more background, see also Eric Margolis, http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/publication.html Iraq's History Is Written In Blood, and http://www.foreigncorrespondent.com/archive/iraqs_history.html, a tragic history of Iraq under British and U.S. imperialism, how Bush Sr bombed it from the most advanced to the most backward Arab country.

[16] The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, as criticized by a Scottish newspaper: http://www.sundayherald.com/27735 (group message no. [] ) "blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001... drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff)." The "blueprint was still online in October 2002 at http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf (90 pages, 873-Kb).  The list of signatories to the PNAC's "Reaganite" charter http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm  includes the above names and a roster of less well-known lights from the oil industry.

[17] http://www.clamormagazine.org/issues/14/feature3.shtml .

[18] Thyssen's complaint was not a mere product of overheated imagination. In his memoirs, David Lloyd George,  British Prime Minister and representative at Versailles, noted how Germany and England competed to offer a home in Palestine in exchange for Jewish support in the closely-matched war. Germany was first to accept the proposal and urged the deal in vain on her ally, Turkey. From Memoirs of the Peace Conference, 1939; cited at http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/l-george.html . Many of the early Bolsheviks and Socialists, were Jewish as well. John Cornelius, "More on the Zimmerman Telegram,:  http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/0998/9809057.html , notes that "Lloyd George was an attorney in Zionist employ already at the 6th Zionist Congress in Basel in 1903." Cornelius believes (http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/1099/9910057.html ) that the replacement of PM Asquith by Lloyd George was specifically planned in order to realize the transaction, Palestine in exchange for American entry into the war.

[19] In "The International Jew," http://www.noontidepress.com/books/ford/ij02.html , Ford claimed that Jews held most of the key positions in the post-WWI German government.

[20] See Christopher Simpson, author of Blowback, in "America's recruitment of Nazis + its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy," http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Brunner_B_CS.html and "Government Investigated Bush Family's Financing Of Hitler," http://www.lightwatcher.com/culturejam/nazi_finance.html

[21] Phil Leggiere, The Indiscreet Charm of the Bush Nazi Web Conspiranoids, http://www.thethresher.com/indiscreet.html "support for dictatorships ... the private sector style of international affairs pioneered by Dulles, Harriman, Lovett and Bush in the '30s gradually metaphorphosed, during and after World War 2, into the official Realpolitik of the U.S. government, often under the guidance of these same men."

[22] http://www.tarpley.net/bushb.htm

[23] http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/wall_street/

[24] http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/noon.html, by Glen Yeadon. Chapter 5: The 1930s: Nazis Parading on Main Street. The toothless investigation and media cover-up of this act of high treason closely parallel 9/11.

[25] Yeadon, Ratlines:The CIA &The Nazis, http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

[26] http://reformed-theology.org/html/books/bolshevik_revolution/

[27] Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin, "George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography," Ch. II, The Hitler Project, http://www.tarpley.net/bush2.htm

[28] Yeadon, http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm . Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. the Banks: Morgan's Fascist Plot, and How It Was Defeated. http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/morgan1.htm  to morgan4.htm. Allegedly the Duponts were also involved.

[29] Smedley Butler quoted in The Plot to Sieze the White House by Jules Archer, reviewed at  http://www.eclectica.org/v1n1/reviews/wharton_plot.html .

[30] Yeadon, http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/ratlines.htm

[31] http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/coat/articles/links/how_to_start_a_war.htm

[32] Vidal's review is an essay from his forthcoming book, The Enemy Within. Versions of it were published in La Repubblica, Rome + The Observer, London.

[33] Kangas, "The Origins of the Overclass," http://home.att.net/~Resurgence/L-overclass.html

[34] Mark Hertsgaard talks to Salon about his new book, "The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World. http://www.salon.com/books/int/2002/11/06/hertsgaard/print.html

[35] Bob Feldman, Alternative Media Censorship: Sponsored by Cia's Ford Foundation? http://www.questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html

[36] In Mockingbird, The Subversion of the Free Press by the CIA, http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.html

[37] E.g., http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/more_dodgy_goings_on.htm  

[38] "Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser? Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich."

[39] Kris Milligen, Editor, Conspiracy Theory Research List, in "Everything you wanted to know about Skull & Bones, but were afraid to ask," at http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/skullbones.htm, http://www.wealth4freedom.com/truth/3/skullandbones.htm, or http://www.bilderberg.org/skulbone.htm , is the source of the following quotes.

[40] "Skull & Bones - Those Who Dismantled Our Constitution" http://www.trunkerton.fsnet.co.uk/skull.htm. The author also asks if the Russell's links to China, opium and war continued through CIA involvement in the Golden Triangle during the Vietnam War, under Bush 41 and Theodore Shackley - and one might add, now, to Afghanistan.

[41] Paul Goldstein and Jeffrey Steinberg, "George Bush, Skull & Bones and the New World Order," 1991, http://www.parascope.com/articles/0997/whitepaper.htm, is perhaps the most complete and balanced account online.

[42] Article and Interview from USA Today and MSNBC at http://www.bilderberg.org/skulbone.htm

[43] The Today Show, http://www.msnbc.com/news/802773.asp?cp1=1

[44] Key financing for the Japanese victory was provided by Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co., American agents for Rothschild; Russian anti-Semitism was one motive. http://users.cyberone.com.au/myers/balfour.html

[45] Paul Goldstein and Jeffrey Steinberg, op.cit.

[46] Co-author of the Unauthorized Biography of George Bush, website www.tarpley.net. Lectures on 19th and 20th century geopolitical history at http://www.abjpress.com/tarpb4.html

[47] " Propaganda Techniques" is based upon "Appendix I: PSYOP Techniques" from "Psychological Operations Field Manual No.33-1" published by Headquarters; Department of the Army, in Washington DC , on 31 August 1979 . http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/546409/posts
16.Feb.2006 http://www.waronfreedom.org/update.html

Dedication: Courage is the Desire to Seek the Truth, Whatever It May Be; Patriotism is the Courage to Speak the Truth, In the Face of Tyranny

Keynote quotation: "War is not an answer to human conflict any more than cannibalism is to human hunger."  - Bruce Kent

We have met the enemy + they are us. - Pogo

To the deaf, a shout is as good as a whisper. - Maxim Horky

  I. Putschist Bush Fakes Facts to Attack Iraq

In the shadow and thunder of the evil empire's gathering war cloud over Iraq , I shout to show how the lying pair of Bush and Blair sow the illusion of a threat from there...
16.Feb.2006 ¿Que es el Clero-Fascismo? - La Iglesia en la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Herencia Cristiana. ¿Que es el Clero-Fascismo ? por Greg Whitlock ...

Clero-Fascismo turco de Kamal Ataturk, el cuál Hudal lo llama Kamalism.' Austria, Croacia, Eslovaquia, España, Portugal ... dio su definición de Clero-Fascismo el 28 de agosto de ... www.herenciacristiana.com/clerofascismo.html

Contestando tu Pregunta Online 1. El clero-fascismo de Austria. Distinto a la Alemania nazi fue el caso de Austria ... clero-fascistas, sino también España, Portugal , Vichi (gobierno central de Francia durante ... www.contestandotupregunta.org/vaticano/vaticano20.htm

Il clerico-fascismo di Fini : Italy imc ... oost-vlaanderen. paris. poland. portugal . prague. russia. sweden. switzerland ... essere completi si dovrebbe parlare di radical- clero-fascismo . La componente radical-socialista-laica esiste ... italy.indymedia.org/news/2003/04/263100_comment.php

Klerofašizem Klerofašizem dama.sl.reference.pl/sl/klerofa%C5%A1izem

Política e Religião em Eduardo Lourenço, ou a Questão dos Dois Poderes* (PDF) ... específica em Portugal , no período pós-25 de Abril ... intolerável cheval de retour do clero-fascismo que é o senhor Arcebispo de Braga ... sweet.ua.pt/~mbaptista/dopoderespiritual.pdf

20041210 ... Defex- Portugal , Lda., Secord, Richard + his agents; + GeoMilitech (GMT ... Terrorismo Cristiano - ULTRA DERECHA, CLERO-FASCISMO y TERRORISMO ... GeoMilitechSinglaubhis partner, Studley ... alfatomega.com//20041210.html

SE LO CONOSCI LO EVITI : PADRE TAM , UN FASCISTA VESTITO DA PRETE ( CAMBIA POCO ) : Italy imc ... oost-vlaanderen. paris. poland. portugal . prague. russia. sweden. switzerland ... Fascismo=clero clero=fascismo . Non so quale dei due e il peggio,tutti nelle foibe ... italy.indymedia.org/news/2005/02/725141_comment.php

Centro de Medios Independientes - NAZIS EN ECUADOR! todos las palabras. cualquier palabra. medios. imágenes. audio. vídeo. Sitios con información sobre Ecuador y la región. NAZIS EN ECUADOR! PAgina de los nacional socialistas ecuatorianos. EL UNICO FASCISTA BUENO ES UN FASCISTA MUERTO. ... italy. madrid. netherlands. norway. portugal . prague. russia. sweden. switzerland ... ecuador.indymedia.org/es/2003/04/2328.shtml

¿Que es el Clero-Fascismo ?

El sistema de gobierno Clero-Fascista es una ideología basada en la encíclicas papales Ultramontanistas y el principio Führer. ... Clero-Fascismo turco de Kamal Ataturk, el cuál Hudal lo llama Kamalism.' Austria, Croacia, Eslovaquia, España, Portugal ... dio su definición de Clero-Fascismo el 28 de agosto de ... _{www.edicionessimbioticas.info/article.php3?id_article=639}
16.Feb.2006 Referenzen von GCS General Control Systems ... SIEMENS HELLAS. TITAN CEMENT. WACKENHUT SECURITY HELLAS ... www.gcs.at/deu/company/referenzen.htm
16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Ok to laugh yet? Though the callous way the WH has handled this, and more importantly the condition of the Dick's victim, make joke-cracking a bit indelicate, this one just cracked me up.
Senator Leahy, reflecting upon our genteel veep's infamous name-calling of him (in the Senate chamber!), had this to say today: "In retrospect, it looks like I got off easy."
Worlds of truth stacked up on these two men in these pithy little scenarios, eh? -dr. elsewherePermalink
16.Feb.2006 Paul Craig Roberts: "Even Jobs at McDonald's Aren't Safe": Americans are giving up their civil liberties because they fear terrorist attacks. All of the terrorists in the world cannot do America the damage it has already suffered from offshore outsourcing.

Pigs at the trough : Senate aide's spouse gets a windfall : Sen. Arlen Specter helped direct almost $50 million in Pentagon spending during the past four years to clients of the husband of one of his top aides, records show.
16.Feb.2006 ‘Collective Punishment’, Cries Hamas : Incoming Hamas legislator Mushir Al-Masri said Thursday that Israel’s tough response to its new role as majority party in the Palestinian Authority is tantamount to "collective punishment".

16.Feb.2006 US Congress to vote on withholding Palestinian aid : The measure states that "no United States assistance should be provided directly to the Palestinian Authority if any representative political party holding a majority of parliamentary seats within the Palestinian Authority maintains a position calling for the destruction of Israel."

16.Feb.2006 U.S. backs Israel on aid for humanitarian groups, not Hamas : Israel will try to delegitimize the new Palestinian Hamas government by insisting that international aid be given to humanitarian organizations and not the PA authorities.

16.Feb.2006 Hamas to rely on Muslim funds: Ismail Haniya, set to be named Palestinian prime minister, has said that a Hamas government would rely on help from the Muslim world if the West acts on threats to axe funds once it takes office

16.Feb.2006 Republicans Criticize Bush Mideast Policy: Republican senators criticized the Bush administration Wednesday over its policies in Iraq, Iran and the Palestinian territories, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's first testimony on Capitol Hill in months exposed her to a tough grilling from some members of her own party

16.Feb.2006 Secret Data Exposed in Terrorism Case: : Federal officials in Dallas mistakenly disclosed classified counter-terrorism information in a breach of national security that could also threaten one of the country's biggest terrorism prosecution cases, newly unsealed court records show.

16.Feb.2006 Civil liberties fear as US terror suspect list rises to 325,000 : Civil liberties organisations expressed outrage yesterday after it was reported that the database of terrorist suspects kept by the US authorities now holds 325,000 names, a fourfold increase in two and a half years.

16.Feb.2006 Dick Cheney authorized to disclose classified information?: Dick Cheney used the occasion of his softball interview with the Fox News Channel about shooting his hunting partner to announce to us that he is authorized to disclosed classified information.

16.Feb.2006 David Ignatius : Fueled by arrogance, Bush White House ignores the rules: There is a temptation that seeps into the souls of even the most righteous politicians and leads them to bend the rules, and eventually the truth, to suit the political needs of the moment. That arrogance of power is now on display with the Bush administration.

16.Feb.2006 The Global Free Fire Zone: The Air Force has put out a “Prompt Global Strike Request for Information,” beginning the process of examining alternatives for new weapons capable of hitting targets anywhere on earth.

16.Feb.2006 Ron Paul: The End of Dollar Hegemony : A hundred years ago it was called “dollar diplomacy.” After World War II + especially after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, that policy evolved into “dollar hegemony.” But after all these many years of great success, our dollar dominance is coming to an end.

16.Feb.2006 Haiti's Rene Preval Is Declared Winner of Election: The winner of the controversial elections in Haiti, Rene Preval, is a former ally of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and has inherited his following among the poor.

16.Feb.2006 US troop deployment sparks protests in Dominican Republic: The landing of hundreds of US troops at a port city in the Dominican Republic, barely 80 miles from the Haitian border, sparked protests and warnings that Washington may be preparing another military intervention aimed at quelling the popular unrest that has erupted in Haiti over attempts to rig the presidential election.

16.Feb.2006 Paraguay finds oil, natural gas : The Paraguayan government confirmed on Tuesday that a British prospecting company has found oil and natural gas in the north of Paraguay, whose energy has depended on import.
16.Feb.2006 Saddam Reportedly Warned U.S. of Terrorism : Saddam Hussein told aides in the mid-1990s that he warned the United States it could be hit by a terrorist attack, ABC News reported Wednesday, citing 12 hours of tapes the network obtained of the former Iraqi dictator's talks with his Cabinet.

16.Feb.2006 Talking to terrorists: The New Statesman can reveal that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office has - decided on a policy of engagement with what it calls "political Islam". To this end, it proposes to develop "working-level contacts" in Egypt with one of the Middle East's most militant groups, the Muslim Brotherhood

16.Feb.2006 Propaganda ? France accuses Iran over nukes: The French foreign minister has accused Iran of pursuing a clandestine military nuclear programme.

16.Feb.2006 Selling a war: Iran nuclear programme is 'military' : French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy branded Iran's nuclear programme for the first time on Thursday as a “clandestine, military” project.

16.Feb.2006 Russia Warns U.S. Against Striking Iran : Russia's top military chief on Thursday warned the United States against launching a military strike against Iran and a top diplomat voiced hope that close cooperation with China could help resolve the Tehran nuclear crisis.

16.Feb.2006 Bush plans huge propaganda campaign in Iran: The Bush administration made an emergency request to Congress yesterday for a seven-fold increase in funding to mount the biggest ever propaganda campaign against the Tehran government, in a further sign of the worsening crisis between Iran and the west.

16.Feb.2006 House condemns Iran's nuclear program: The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed a resolution condemning Iran for its nuclear program + urging the international community to apply sanctions to deny it the ability to develop atomic weapons.

16.Feb.2006 Amnesty condemns Iran's treatment of ethnic minorities : The administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has come under severe criticism from Amnesty International in a report entitled "New government fails to address dire human rights situation", which was published this week.

16.Feb.2006 UN report blasts Guantanamo prison, says detainees should be tried or freed: The world body also called on the United States to refrain from practices that "amount to torture."

16.Feb.2006 Mentally disabled Palestinian shot in Gaza: Israeli occupation forces have shot an unarmed mentally retarded Palestinian man at close range near the Gaza border fence, Palestinian and Israeli sources say
16.Feb.2006 The Iraq war's defining weapon: The threat posed by Iraq's reported possession of weapons of mass destruction was the excuse US President George W Bush gave for his invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it is the simplest of technologies - the roadside bomb - that has emerged as the biggest nightmare for US occupation forces in Iraq. 16.Feb.2006 Abuse photos authentic: Pentagon: The Pentagon has confirmed the authenticity of a set of photographs of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib that were aired for the first time on Wednesday by Australian television, a defence official said.
16.Feb.2006 U.S. reports discovery of apparent death squad in Iraq: The U.S. military has stumbled across the first evidence of a death squad within Iraq's Interior Ministry after the detention last month of 22 men wearing police commando uniforms who were about to shoot a Sunni man, according to the American general overseeing the training of Iraqi police.
16.Feb.2006 Eyes Wide Open -By Chris Floyd
What shall we say when history asks how such crimes came to be committed in the name of America? Will we say that we stood silently by, shrugging our shoulders, filling our bellies, closing our eyes? Or will we be able to say: We saw. We dissented. We resisted. We condemned. Continued
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-401320,00.html
Ganz anders als diese Pulsare verhalten sich die nun beobachteten RRATs: Ihre Radioimpulse sind mit einer Länge von teilweise nur zwei tausendstel Sekunden extrem kurz + die Pausen zwischen den Signalen sind unregelmäßig und teilweise viele Minuten lang.
Dennoch haben die Wissenschaftler bei den meisten der beobachteten RRATs eine gewisse Regelmäßigkeit der Signale beobachtet, die jedoch immer wieder durch Unterbrechungen gestört ist. Die Signale erschienen wie das Licht eines Leuchtturms, der immer wieder von unregelmäßigen Stromausfällen betroffen sei, erklären die Astronomen.
Da die RRATs wegen der Kürze der Signale und den langen Pausen dazwischen nur schwer auszumachen seien, habe man die seltsamen kosmischen Signalgeber wohl bislang übersehen, schreiben die Forscher. Sie vermuten, dass sich in der Milchstraße mindestens 400.000 RRATs tummeln. Dagegen gibt es nur etwa 100.000 gewöhnliche Pulsare.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-401199,00.html
Die Gesetzesvorlage soll Exportbeschränkungen für Hardware und Software enthalten und die Aufstellung von E-Mail- und anderen Kommunikations-Servern in Ländern, die nicht amerikanischen Rechtsstandards folgen, verbieten.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-401199,00.html
Diesem bereits in der letzten Woche erstmals vorgebrachten Versuch, den Schwarzen Peter an die Diplomatie durchzureichen, begegnete James Keith vom US-Außenministerium mit dem Verweis auf die Gründung der "Global Internet Freedom Task Force", die kurz vor Beginn der Anhörung im Menschenrechtsausschuss bekanntgegeben worden war.
Die Bush-Regierung hat damit eine behördliche Struktur zur Beobachtung von Internet-Zensur in anderen Ländern geschaffen. Aufgabe der neuen amtlichen Nicht-Eingreiftruppe ist Beobachtung und Analyse. Außerdem soll sie die Regierung und Wirtschaftsunternehmen beraten, denen sie Leitlinien für einen rechtskonformen Umgang mit Daten in zensierenden Ländern geben will.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-401199,00.html
Ein bisschen weniger freie Information sei besser als gar keine, argumentierte der Google-Abgesandte mit dem Hinweis darauf, dass Google seine Nutzer in China immer dann, wenn ein Suchergebnis weggefiltert wird, ausdrücklich auf diese zensurbedingte Lücke hinweise. Sein Haus habe sich entschieden, mit dem Ausbau einer chinesischen Web-Site fortzufahren, damit sie einen "bedeutenden, wenn auch nur unvollkommenen Beitrag für die Erweiterung des Zugangs zu Informationen in China leisten kann".
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-401199,00.html
Vertreter beider großen Parteien beschuldigten die US-Konzerne, aus Geschäftsinteresse Peking geholfen zu haben, Rede und Meinungsfreiheit im Land zu unterdrücken. "Diese abscheulichen Aktionen in China sind eine Schande", urteilte der demokratische Abgeordnete Tom Lantos. Die "wertfreien Entschuldigungen" der Tech-Unternehmen machten ihn "krank".
Sein republikanischer Kollege Chris Smith, Vorsitzender des US-Parlaments-Unterausschusses für Menschenrechte, sekundierte, die Firmen hätten der "Diktatur gedient". Der Profit dürfe eine solche Zusammenarbeit mit der "Tyrannei" nicht rechtfertigen.
Mit Hilfe eines Laptops demonstrierte Smith, was die Selbstzensur der Suchmaschine Google in der Praxis bedeutet: Während die Suche nach dem Begriff "Tiananmen Square" in der US-Version Bilder von Panzern und vom Tienanmen-Massaker, mit dem die chinesische Armee 1989 den friedlichen Protest Tausender Studenten beendete, erbrachte, zeigte die Suche bei Google China Bilder lächelnder Touristen.
Anders als bei einer ersten Anhörung Anfang des Monats hatten die IT-Firmen am Mittwoch Repräsentanten nach Washington geschickt. Die Befragung nahm über weite Strecken den Charakter eines Verhörs an, bei dem die Firmenvertreter nicht gut aussahen.
Denn neue Argumente hatten sie nicht mitgebracht, ihre Verteidigung gegen die ethisch motivierten Anschuldigungen war vorab bekannt. Auf dem chinesischen Markt Geschäfte zu machen, sagte etwa Elliot Schrage, Repräsentant von Google, sei eine schwierige Sache. Wer das wolle, müsse nun einmal auf die dortigen Gesetze Rücksicht nehmen. Geschäfte in China bedingten eine Selbstzensur, auch wenn das den Grundwerten und den Standards von Google widerspreche, sagte Schrage in einer vorbereiteten Stellungnahme.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-401199,00.html

"Wie kann die Führung Ihrer Unternehmen nachts noch ruhig schlafen?", fragte der demokratische Abgeordnete Tom Lantos im Rahmen der Anhörung des Menschenrechts-Ausschusses des US-Kongress. Die Frage setzte den Grundton. Am Pranger standen Cisco, Google, MSN und Yahoo.

Sollten Amerikas führende IT-Unternehmen gehofft haben, die Wogen der Empörung über ihre Verstrickung in Internet-Zensurmaßnahmen in China hätten sich ein wenig gelegt, wurden sie am Mittwoch enttäuscht. Die Anhörung des Menschenrechtsausschusses des US-Repräsentantenhauses geriet zu einer öffentlichen Anklage der Internet-Unternehmen.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-401145,00.html
Das Ergebnis war eindeutig: Die Aga-Kröten an der Spitze der Meute hatten längere Hinterbeine als Angehörige alteingesessener Populationen - ein klarer evolutionärer Vorteil. Die Studie erklärt nach Meinung der Experten auch, warum sich die Aga-Kröten in ihren ersten Jahren in Queensland nur um etwa zehn Kilometer jährlich ausbreiteten, mittlerweile aber um die 50 Kilometer pro Jahr schaffen. Mittlerweile dominieren die Kröten ein Gebiet von mehr als einer Million Quadratkilometern - dreimal so groß wie Deutschland.
Laut Shine sind die auch als Zuckerrohr-Kröten bekannten Tiere ein schlagendes Beispiel dafür, dass sogenannte invasive Arten so rasch wie möglich bekämpft werden müssten - "bevor der Eindringling Zeit hat, sich zu einem gefährlicheren Feind zu entwickeln".
Es ist im Übrigen nicht das erste Mal, dass die Aga-Kröte das Wirken der Evolution zeigt. Die Invasion der Amphibien hat auch der Entwicklung anderer Tiere gewaltig auf die Sprünge geholfen. Bereits vor einem Jahr hatte Shine zwei Schlangenarten entdeckt, die sich in nur 70 Jahren so weit verändert haben, dass sie die Giftkröte gefahrlos fressen und verdauen können.
16.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe: Zehn weitere infizierte Tiere gefunden
16.Feb.2006 Riesen-Airbus: Tragfläche des A380 bei Test eingerissen

16.Feb.2006 Ein-Euro-Jobs auf Rügen: Arbeitslose bergen verendete Grippe-Vögel
16.Feb.2006 Neutronensterne: Seltsame Radiosignale verblüffen Forscher
16.Feb.2006 Atomstreit mit Iran: Frankreich verschärft den Ton

16.Feb.2006 Furcht vor Vogelgrippe: Bei den Veterinären häufen sich die Kadaver
16.Feb.2006 Überleben auf dem Meer: Durst löschen mit Salzwasser

18.Feb.2006 Zetsches Radikalkur: Die Welt steht Kopf, die Welt AG auch
16.Feb.2006 Uno-Berichterstatter: "Guantanamo grenzt an Folter"
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401283,00.html
B ei Kontakt mit mit möglicherweise an Vogelgrippe erkrankten Vögeln müssen strenge Schutzmaßnahmen eingehalten werden. Notwendig seien ein Einwegoverall mit Kapuze, Gummistiefel, Handschuhe, Schutzbrillen und spezielle Atemschutzmasken, sagte Stefan Dreller vom Berufsgenossenschaftliche Institut für Arbeitsschutz. Viele sogenannte OP-Masken gewährten keinen ausreichenden Schutz, betonte Dreller und verwies auf eine aktuelle Studie des Institutes. "Es gibt gute und schlechte OP-Masken. Viele derartige Masken erfüllen die Mindestanforderungen nicht."
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401283,00.html
Mit den Ergebnissen der detaillierten Untersuchungen besteht nun endgültige Gewissheit, dass die Seuche Deutschland erreicht hat, sagte der Bundeslandwirtschaftsminister Horst Seehofer in Berlin.
D er Amtsbezirk Nordrügen misst nach Angaben seines Leiters rund 600 Quadratkilometer und hat zahlreiche Wasserflächen. Rügen ist von Boddengewässern zerschnitten und hat deshalb besonders lange Küstenlinien. Hinzu kommen lange, teils schwer zugängliche Küstenabschnitte mit Steilufer und unübersichtliche Schilffelder. Walter hat deshalb um die Entsendung eines Hubschraubers gebeten, der beim Auffinden toter Vögel helfen soll. Er schätzte, dass mindestens noch 100 Kadaver zu bergen seien.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401283,00.html
Weil es an Helfern zum Einsammeln der Kadaver mangelt, will die Kreisverwaltung Rügen auch Arbeitslose rekrutieren. Man habe bereits mit den Arbeitsagenturen Kontakt aufgenommen, sagte eine Sprecherin der Verwaltung. Auch der Krisenstab sei um Unterstützung gebeten worden.
Bärbel Höhn (Grüne) kritisierte Vorgehen der Rügener Behörden. Die Vorsitzende des Verbraucherschutz-Ausschusses des Bundestags sagte im ZDF, das Anlaufen der Maßnahmen am Dienstagabend sei missglückt.
Sie wies darauf hin, dass am Fundort der infizierten Schwäne weitere tote Tiere erst am Mittwochnachmittag eingesammelt wurden. "Es kann nicht sein, dass möglicherweise infizierte Tiere dort über längere Zeit herumliegen."
Nahe des Fundorts der infizierten Schwäne an der Wittower Fähre waren auch am Donnerstagmorgen noch mehrere verendete Vögel auf dem Eis unweit des Ufers zu sehen. Die Kadaver waren laut Augenzeugen weiter frei zugänglich. 
Die Rügener Kreisverwaltung und das Schweriner Landwirtschaftsministerium räumten Fehler im Kampf gegen die Vogelgrippe ein. Angesichts der seit Monaten bekannten Bedrohung hätte eher reagiert werden müssen, erklärten sie heute.  
H5N1-Infektion bestätigt
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401188,00.html
Das plötzliche Auftreten der Vogelgrippe in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sieht Mettenleiter mit Sorge. "Sorgen macht uns, dass Schwäne keine klassischen Zugvögel sind und dass das Virus schon vor dem klassischen Frühjahrszug Deutschland erreicht hat", sagte er. Dafür gebe es zwei mögliche Erklärungen. Am wahrscheinlichsten sei, dass die Tiere wegen des strengen Winters in Osteuropa gekommen seien und das Virus so hierher brachten. Möglich sei auch, dass die Tiere schon immer auf Rügen lebten. "Das würde bedeuten, dass das Virus schon länger hier grassiert als gedacht", sagte Mettenleiter.
Fachleute suchen jetzt auch in anderen Vogelkadavern nach dem Virus. In Hamburg wurden mehrere tote Enten in einem Kanal entdeckt. In den Kreisen Plön und Rendsburg-Eckernförde wurden rund 20 tote Vogel gefunden. Nach einem NDR-Bericht wurden auch auf der Ostseeinsel Fehmarn tote Schwäne entdeckt. Behördensprecher betonten allerdings, dass die Tiere zum Beispiel auch verhungert oder erfroren seien könnten. Zudem gehe es hier weiterhin um eine reine Tierseuche.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401188,00.html
Eventuelle Infektionen bei Menschen gelten bei der jetzigen Variante des Erregers als sehr unwahrscheinlich. Die Sorge der Gesundheitsexperten gilt einer Mutation. Je weiter H5N1 sich verbreitet, desto wahrscheinlicher ist eine Variante, die sich von Mensch zu Mensch verbreiten kann.
Mit seinen Notfallmaßnahmen für einen solchen Pandemiefall sei Deutschland gemeinsam mit den USA, Frankreich oder den Niederlanden führend. Allerdings würden "noch nicht in ausreichendem Maße" antivirale Medikamente bereitgehalten, kritisierte Stöhr. Durch gezielte Maßnahmen lasse sich die Zahl der von einer möglichen Pandemie Betroffenen verringern.
Derzeit bestehe keine Gefahr für Menschen. Bei dem Grippevirus handele es sich um eine Tierseuche, die außerordentlich schwer auf den Menschen überspringe, machte er heute im Bayerischen Rundfunk deutlich. In Asien seien trotz der weiten Verbreitung der Vogelgrippe nur wenige Menschen erkrankt. In Europa seien zudem bislang nur Wildvögel und keine Nutztiere erkrankt. Deshalb seien auch die Lebensmittel in Europa sicher, sagte Stöhr.
16.Feb.2006 Regierung zu H5N1: "Impfung ist keine Lösung"

18.Feb.2006 US-Propagandafeldzug: Millionenprogramm gegen die Mullahs
16.Feb.2006 Zensurdebatte: Kongress liest IT-Unternehmen die Leviten
16.Feb.2006 Terroranschläge: Saddam soll USA gewarnt haben

16.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe auf Rügen: Behörden fühlen sich überfordert

18.Feb.2006 Bernankes Kongresspremiere: Klarer Kopf, klare Sprache
16.Feb.2006 Folterfotos: Pentagon fürchtet neue Welle der Gewalt
16.Feb.2006 Vulkan in Alaska: Küstendorf fürchtet die Todeswelle
16.Feb.2006 Festnetzer gegen Mobilfunker: Schneller, billiger, besser?
16.Feb.2006 Heute in den Feuilletons: Gleichgültigkeit oder Wahrheitsskepsis
16.Feb.2006 Blitz-Evolution: Gift-Kröte hat jetzt längere Beine
16.Feb.2006 Privatschule geschlossen: Prügelnde Lehrer an Herz Jesu
16.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe: WHO-Experte warnt vor tödlichen Risiken
16.Feb.2006 Abu Ghureib: Annan entsetzt über Folterfotos

16.Feb.2006 Bundeswehreinsatz im Innern: Union beharrt auf Grundgesetzänderung
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We lost radar at 10:03 and shortly thereafter the ExecJet that was vectored near the last known position saw smoke. She said that there were no fighters in the area of the crash site before the crash.
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I was not working that day, so this IS all second-hand information.

I spoke with the controller who was at the scope where UAL93 crashed (so yes, there was somebody "visually inspecting radar". That IS, in fact, what we do for a living). I asked her about the conspiracy theories and she said that 1) things happened how they were presented. We lost radar at 10:03 and shortly thereafter the ExecJet that was vectored near the last known position saw smoke. She said that there were no fighters in the area of the crash site before the crash.
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This was the discussion on an old "9/11" thread... and I've talked to the controller who was actually at the scope when UAL93 crashed. She says that there were no fighters in the area at the time of the crash (they arrived later). Based on what she observed, she does not feel that UAL93 was shot down.

Was it? I don't know, but I believe her when she says it's very improbable.
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307. Just to clarify, I was discussing the Cleveland ATC tape released to the media in 9/01, not the CVR tape -- of which I don't believe any has ever been released in any form.

ATC tapes (or, more typically, their transcripts) are routinely released as part of NTSB investigations. However, this specific ATC tape, being so graphic, having been released so early and helping "prove" the government's "case" by having an Arab sounding "captain" give an announcement after what sounded like it could have been the pilot's murder, seemed to be a purposeful intelligence "leak".

I was wondering your take on whether you think this tape accurately describes what the Cleveland ATCs heard betwenn 9:35 and 9:40 EDT on 9/11 and who you think might have been leaked this to the press through what chain of command, if any.

I'm also curious about your take on the meeting between the FAA & Cleveland ATCs that took place in the aftermath of 9/11 in which some Cleveland ATCs were reportedly threatened with disciplinary action.
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248. I've posted this before... ...but here's what I know.

I was not working that day, so this IS all second-hand information.

I spoke with the controller who was at the scope where UAL93 crashed (so yes, there was somebody "visually inspecting radar". That IS, in fact, what we do for a living). I asked her about the conspiracy theories and she said that 1) things happened how they were presented. We lost radar at 10:03 and shortly thereafter the ExecJet that was vectored near the last known position saw smoke. She said that there were no fighters in the area of the crash site before the crash.

Granted, this isn't Congressional testimony, but she has no reason to lie. I've always maintained that I don't claim to be able to PROVE that UAL93 wasn't shot down, I just have a little bit of additional confirmation that most people don't that makes me feel comfortable accepting the official version.

BTW, it would be on the radar tapes too...Cleveland ARTCC.
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243. 10:03 is also when radar contact was lost LAST EDITED ON Jun-25-03 AT 08:05 AM (ET)

...and I'm still waiting to hear how a commercial airliner flies for 3 minutes at low altitude with no electrical system....
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242. What does radar contact have to do with this? LAST EDITED ON Jun-25-03 AT 08:02 AM (ET)

The timing gap is between the end of the CVR and seismic reading.

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/local/4084323.htm

Three-minute discrepancy in tape
Cockpit voice recording ends before Flight 93's official time of impact
By WILLIAM BUNCH
bunchw@phillynews.com

THE FINAL three minutes of hijacked United Flight 93 are still a mystery more than a year after it crashed in western Pennsylvania - even to grieving relatives who sought comfort in listening to its cockpit tapes in April. A Daily News investigation has found a roughly three-minute gap between the time the tape goes silent - according to government-prepared transcripts - and the time that top scientists have pinpointed for the crash.

Several leading seismologists agree that Flight 93 crashed last Sept. 11 at 10:06:05 a.m., give or take a couple of seconds. Family members allowed to hear the cockpit voice recorder in Princeton, N.J., last spring were told it stopped just after 10:03. The FBI and other agencies refused repeated requests to explain the discrepancy. The cockpit voice recorder a roughly 30-minute tape loop, is supposed to record the sounds inside the cockpit right up until the moment of impact and usually does.

Aviation experts said there could be several explanations for the gap. They said it could mean that the FBI and other government agencies either failed to properly synchronize the times, or there were other problems in the retrieving or handling of the tape from the so-called "black box" recovered from the wreckage at Shanksville, Pa.

Or, experts speculated, it could mean there was a major on-board electrical failure on the plane three minutes before Flight 93 crashed, causing the recorder to quit working.
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THE "SMART" MONEY IS ON A CALIBRATION ERROR????? What?

Are we talking about seismology here or someone setting his watch?

Do you have ANY IDEA what you talking about here? Do you realize that the reading was timed using four different seismic stations? Do you really think that seismic clocks can get away with being any less accurate than ATC clocks?

Please put away that pipe if you are going to be working soon.

What the three missing minutes signifies is:

1) The time lapse between the destruction of the plane's electrical system and the time it took for the largest piece of fuselage to hit the ground

or more likely

2) a Nixonian gap.
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" statement of a belief as if it were a matter of fact is a deception, not an elucidation" is a technically incorrect statement.
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A statement of a belief as if it were a matter of fact is a deception, not an elucidation.
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The PA black box was recovered. But it took a very long time before the families were allowed to listen to it.

IIRC, three minutes were missing.
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Why do many people believe the government, when they stated there were "terrorists" on the planes, when there is no evidence of it?
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What an investigator does is discover facts and then builds a theory based on them.

Example: In the English language link I posted he states at one point that they are bad pilots... then later says:

"According to the American aeronautical sources, this irregular trajectory denotes that those who manned the Boeing were people with little experience in the handling of these engines, against some opinions that sustain the great know-how of the terrorists."

He uses both sides (they're good pilots and bad pilots) to try to prove his point. Which is it, are they good or bad?
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One final note. Please take a moment to read this quick synopsis on Ockham's razor. It will serve you well in life.

"Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity"
- William of Ockham
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Was it all MIHOP? I don't know. I lean more to LIHOP, but I will say this: There is NOTHING I would put past this bunch. Look at everything else they've done and then tell me that this is out of the question considering who they are, what they've said and what they've done.
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266. Anyone set up a simulation of 77? If I understand the approach to Washington, 77 was coming in full throttle over the Potomac, between the Pentagon and the WH at about 7000 feet. It then dropped to ground level in a 270 turn and hit the specially reinforced portion of the Pentagon almost (not quite) at ground level.

I don't pretend to be a pilot, but in the simulation I set up using the 757 model at cruising airspeed, I think I destroyed the airframe about 15 times before I was able to make the complete turn....and another 15-20 times before I could get the simulation to hit the Pentagon.

For this pilot, who I believe was so bad that his instructor said he had no business flying a Cessna, this ability to make the manuever on his 1st attempt was amazing. I guess if you aren't a CT nut, then you have to believe that this guy, on the ride of his life, was "lucky" to the extreme.
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We got new equipment a few years ago, so the "antiquated" stuff is pretty much gone. However, you are absolutely correct that losing a transponder from time to time isn't, by itself, an odd thing or a cause for concern (well, at least it wasn't before 9/11).
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63. David, I think that given enough simulator training, having a rudimentary knowledge of the navigation systems on the aircraft, and the excellent weather that they had, coupled with the fanatic determination that they had, it would be possible to do what they did.

A long straight low approach at high speed is not a very difficult maneuver. In fact it's pretty easy.

As for the transponder...NO. Fighters wouldn't be scrambled upon the ATC center losing a transponder data return. (The aircraft taget is still visible to ATC even without the transponder on...when shut off, data such as altitude, groundspeed, ID, etc are lost.)It isn't terribly unusual to an air traffic controller to lose data given the antiquated state of the system they use.
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47. Haven't seen the 9-11/Military forum yet, then? Trust me, some of the people down there believe even more ludicrous theories.

--JN2
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Or should do we suppose that one controller communicated with the C130 while another independently watched a radar screen but without communicating with each other?
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Other Versions This for instance:

http://www.stanford.edu/~sarahjr/lexisnexis/artman.txt

e.g.

"Artman, now a lieutenant colonel in the Army Reserve and the engineer for
the city of Winter Haven, was in Washington attending a conference. About
9:45 a.m., as he walked with a friend near the
Washington Monument, he saw a plane fly low over the city.

That wasn't unusual. Planes fly low over the city so often no one pays
any attention to them, said Artman.

But this wasn't just any plane. "I saw the plane that hit the Pentagon,"
he said. "It went behind some trees." Then he saw the smoke from the
Pentagon."
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Absolutely agree on the "blip" statement"?
How then do you explain this:

"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe."

from href= http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/2020/2020_011024_atc_feature.html as compared to this:

"It was like coming up to an intersection. When air traffic control asked me if we had him in sight, I told him that was an understatement -- by then, he had pretty much filled our windscreen. Then he made a pretty aggressive turn so he was moving right in front of us, a mile and a half, two miles away.

I said we had him in sight, then the controller asked me what kind of plane it was.

"That caught us up, because normally they have all that information. The controller didn't seem to know anything."

"They told us to turn and follow that aircraft -- in 20-plus years of flying, I've never been asked to do something like that. With all of the East Coast haze,
from href= http://www.startribune.com/stories/1576/3213501.html (apparently defunct)

------

They were asking a military aircraft to chase what they'd thought was a military aircraft, notwithstanding what had already taken place in New York?

An why, please, would the abcnews article make no mention at all of the C130?

On odd omission, don't you think?
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278. ATCs assessment
Nothing is discounted. On the contrary, given a remarkable lack of eye witness evidence to account for the trajectory one has to make the most of whatever is available, a task that is not then so easy.

I wonder if the C130 was confused with the B757. I have not yet seen any officially researched map to illustrate the supposed 270 degree turn. If the plane actually got as far as Washington (as some versions would have it) and then had to double back to head in from the vicinity of Arlington Village, it could only then have gone the long way around, so to speak, to get there. There is no other geographical possibility and the confusion is hardly settled by this ambivalent report:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2001/09/11/national/main310721.shtml

e.g.
"...Eight minutes before the crash, at 9:30 a.m. EDT, radar tracked the plane as it closed to within 30 miles of Washington. Sources say the hijacked jet continued east at a high speed toward the city, but flew several miles south of the restricted airspace around the White House.
At 9:33 the plane crossed the Capitol Beltway and took aim on its military target. But the jet, flying at more than 400 mph, was too fast and too high when it neared the Pentagon at 9:35. The hijacker-pilots were then forced to execute a difficult high-speed descending turn.
Radar shows Flight 77 did a downward spiral, turning almost a complete circle and dropping the last 7,000 feet in two-and-a-half minutes."

but

"At the White House Friday, spokesman Ari Fleischer saw it a different way.
That is not the radar data that we have seen, Fleischer said, adding, The plane was headed toward the White House."

At any rate the uninformed, unresolved conundrum that thus arises is not satisfactory.
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163. Try this: From: http://911-strike.com/remote_skills.htm

However, air traffic controller Danielle O'Brien, who tracked the radar signal from Flight 77, stated that it was flown like a fighter jet.

http://september11.natca.org/NewsArticles/DaniellOBrien.htm

"The speed, the maneuverability, the way that he turned, we all thought in the radar room, all of us experienced air traffic controllers, that that was a military plane," says O'Brien. "You don't fly a 757 in that manner. It's unsafe."

The plane was between 12 and 14 miles away, says O'Brien, "and it was just a countdown. Ten miles west. Nine miles west … Our supervisor picked up our line to the White House and started relaying to them the information, we have an unidentified very fast-moving aircraft inbound toward your vicinity, 8 miles west."

Vice President Cheney was rushed to a special basement bunker. White House staff members were told to run away from the building.

"And it went six, five, four. And I had it in my mouth to say, three, and all of a sudden the plane turned away. In the room, it was almost a sense of relief. This must be a fighter. This must be one of our guys sent in, scrambled to patrol our capital + to protect our president + we sat back in our chairs and breathed for just a second," says O'Brien.

But the plane continued to turn right until it had made a 360-degree maneuver.

"We lost radar contact with that aircraft. And we waited. And we waited. And your heart is just beating out of your chest waiting to hear what's happened," says O'Brien. "And then the Washington National controllers came over our speakers in our room and said, 'Dulles, hold all of our inbound traffic. The Pentagon's been hit.'"
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That was one crack pilot who could make that correction and that was even a better pilot who made the maneuver into the Pentagon without completely breaking up in mid-flight.

My question is: Why isn't the US Government recruiting these Arab terrorist pilots? With flying skills like they exhibited on 9/11, they must have a natural ability to fly commercial airliners like tactical fighter jets.
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232. the bump theory It's interesting to note that much of this discussion is about "theories". No one has mentioned a "theory" in the article.

The article explains simply that someone digitally analyzed some video footage of the plane at a university (outside the states) and says that it is impossible that these shapes are shadows, because a number of shots were analyzed from different angles. No conspiracy theory is mentioned.

The article is interesting for two reasons:

1. No scientific examination of photos would be allowed in the current climate at any university in the US for national security reasons. And no mainstream American newspaper would be allowed to publish info about the research anyway.
Why?

2. People outside the States do not consider the idea of an American "cabal" conspiracy to be outrageous at all - particularly in the light of attacking a country preemptively on false pretenses. Lying seems to be quite fashionable in my country too (the UK).

That there should be any interest at all in something strange underneath the aircraft means that there are widespread questions about the official story.

I draw your attention to this because sometimes the official government explanations and accounts of 9/11 are a lot more absurd than the questions the rest of the world are asking.

Mohammed Atta's passport was found a few blocks away! Unsinged even.
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LAST EDITED ON Jun-24-03 AT 06:14 PM (ET)

Take it up with La Vanguardia, or the folks at Boeing, who say they can't explain what it is for reasons of "national security." What's that all about?

I have a strong skepticism about remote control and bumps and whatnot, but I try to look at the evidence, all the evidence from mainstream sources + not just the parts that I personally like.

There are a number of possible explanations. For instance, we know Global Hawk was being tested on 727s the month before. It had in fact been tested for years. What if the next phase was to use it experimentally on a few real aircraft as a secret anti-hijacking device? So the pilot would be aware of this. In this theory, Atta and others who had trained in military bases also were aware of this, turned the tables, and used the technology to their own ends. Perhaps the pilots acted in strange ways that day (for instance not sending off an emergency hijack signal) because they thought the real events were part of a simulated hijacking. The Raytheon employees could have been on board to observe this exercise. It's interesting to note that when NORAD technicians started getting word of the hijackings, they initially assumed they were not real and part of a war game scheduled for that day called Vigilant Guardian. That would explain why Boeing can't talk about this for reasons of "national security" and not some other reason, like our lawyers say we can't speak on this matter. This is just one theoretical possibility; one can think of others if one has an open mind.

To completely dismiss this article out of hand and claim the bumps were shadows when the very makers of the plane have already ruled that out as an explanation and ridicule the idea with talk of aliens and ganga is just being obstinate and immature.
16.Feb.2006Video: Consumer confidence key to success of digital business
Video: Consumer confidence key to success of digital business. Symantec CEO John Thompson said it won't be a major cyberattack that will cripple electronic business, it will be loss of confidence.
16.Feb.2006Activists take aim at "Goolag"
Blog: The outcry over Google's recent censored foray into the Chinese search world hasn't stopped at home.On Valentine' Day, scores...
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Cheney Shot A Man
Some thoughts... -The NSA eavesdroppers must be going crazy today. A lot of e-mails blasting through the internet containing the words "Cheney" and "shooting". -The only reason the victim was injured was because Cheney refused to give him the proper body armor. -The Bush Cultists have begun their "buh-buh-but what about Chappaquiddick?" defense. Heard a marble-mouthed yokel call the Bill Press show with this argument on Sirius Left today. Shameful and pathetic. The caller, not Press. -Plummer alerted me to this article at FireDogLake. Why the delay in reporting the incident? Before we consider conspiracies, we have to remember: the White House is slow to respond to everything. 9/11, Katrina, the Asian Tsunami. Maybe if Cheney shot the corpse of Terry Schaivo. -My exclusive photo of the shooting victim here. -Huff Po's Roy Sekoff posted an hilarious cartoon here.
Post Date:02/13/2006
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Republican Congressman Congratulates Cheney For Shooting a Lawyer!
While gunshot-victim Whittington's children wait to see if their father lives or dies from pellets in his heart, Republican Congressman Stacey Campfield "jokes" about it + advocates shooting lawyers and Democrats:Dead eye Dick Cheney "Our VP is now clearly pro gun and anti lawyer. I say not a bad start. I am taking up a collection to send a few democrats off on a hunting trip..."From Crooks and Liars Post Date:02/14/2006
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Ex-Cheney Aide Testified Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says.
Ex-Cheney Aide Testified Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says. I. Lewis Libby Jr. told a grand jury that he was authorized by his "superiors" to disclose classified information in June and July 2003. By NEIL A. LEWIS. [NYT > Home Page]Post Date:02/13/2006
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NSA Surveillance Leak Case Watch: Vice President Cheney Strongly Defends Eavesdropping Operation
U.S. President George W. Bush speaks about Iraq and Afghanistan after being briefed by top brass at the Pentagon January 4, 2006. Standing with Bush from left are National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. Reuters: Cheney strongly defends eavesdropping operation Vice President Dick Cheney strongly defended a secret [...] Post Date:01/04/2006 14:44:46
flapsblog.com Vice President Cheney says what da fuk he want
Crap of note: "If we'd been able to do this before 9/11, we might have been able to pick up on two of the hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon. They were in the United States, communicating with al Qaeda associates overseas. But we didn't know they were here plotting until it was too late." Is it not the case that an FBI agent picked up on these guys, raised a warning and was ignored? Did we not conclude there was enough information floating in seperate organizations to alert us to the possibility of the sort of attack that took place on 9/11? Cheney Says Eavesdropping Program Might Have Prevented 9/11 By William BraniginWashington Post Staff WriterWednesday, January 4, 2006; 12:36 PM Post Date:01/04/2006 13:45:43
www.prometheus6.org Cheney: Eavesdropping Might Have Prevented 9/11 William Branigin: Vice President Cheney today offered a staunch defense of a secret government eavesdropping program, saying it might have been able to thwart the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks if it had been in place at the time. [Washington Post]
Post Date:01/04/2006 19:15:10
www.drudge.com

Cheney cites justifications for domestic eavesdro? Cheney cites justifications for domestic eavesdropping By Jim VandeHei and Dan Eggen, Washington Post, January 5, 2006 Vice President Cheney said yesterday that the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks might have been prevented if the Bush administration h Post Date:01/05/2006 16:15:53
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Even The GOP Won't Cover Up For Bush On Messes Like Katrina Submitted by Roy Temple on Mon, 02/13/2006 - 9:10am. Bush Administration | Bush's Post-Katrina Recovery Disaster

The Bush administration's respones to Hurricane Katrina that even the GOP isn't willing to cover up for them on that one.

Here's the NY Times story on the report to be issued on Wednesday by the all-Republican committee that investigated the Bush administration's response to Katrina:

House Republicans plan to issue a blistering report on Wednesday that says the Bush administration delayed the evacuation of thousands of New Orleans residents by failing to act quickly on early reports that the levees had broken during Hurricane Katrina.
An examination of documents shines a new light on the government response to Hurricane Katrina.
A draft of the report, to be issued by an 11-member, all-Republican committee, says the Bush administration was informed on the day Hurricane Katrina hit that the levees had been breached, even though the president and other top administration officials earlier said that they had learned of the breach the next day.
That delay was significant, the report says, rejecting the defense given by the White House and the Department of Homeland Security that the time it took to recognize the breach did not significantly affect the response.
"If the levees breached and flooded a large portion of the city, then the flooded city would have to be completely evacuated," the draft report says. "Any delay in confirming the breaches would result in a delay in the post-landfall evacuation of the city." It adds that the White House itself discounted damage reports that later proved true.
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Bush's $7 Billion Giveaway To Big Oil Submitted by Roy Temple on Tue, 02/14/2006 - 9:17am. Bush Administration

Since the deficit is under control, I can certainly understand why the President would want to forego $7 billion in royalties and instead give them to the struggling oil companies. 

Here's the NY Times covereage:

The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years.
New projections, buried in the Interior Department's just-published budget plan, anticipate that the government will let companies pump about $65 billion worth of oil and natural gas from federal territory over the next five years without paying any royalties to the government.
Based on the administration figures, the government will give up more than $7 billion in payments between now and 2011. The companies are expected to get the largess, known as royalty relief, even though the administration assumes that oil prices will remain above $50 a barrel throughout that period.
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Bush Keeping Money Raised By Second Indicted Fundraiser Submitted by Roy Temple on Wed, 02/15/2006 - 5:46am. Bush Administration | GOP AbraMafia | GOP Culture of Corruption

President Bush is keeping the money raised by a second Pioneer who has been indicted.  Tom Noe, a prolific fundraiser for Bush, was recently indicted on 53 counts.  Noe has also been a major source of embarassment for Republican Governor Bob Taft, of Ohio.

From the Toledo Blade:

Democratic National Committee officials said yesterday's indictment of Tom Noe is a prime example of the corruption plaguing Washington and Columbus.

16.Feb.2006 http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/articles/article/050.html
Even if they had money to keep him there, we are now faced with a problem that two hundred years of capitalism has not completely solved: how to discipline a youngster reliably to fulfil a boring and underpaid duty?
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here are the Missing Masses? Sociology of a Door
Bruno Latour
In hommage to Robert Fox 16.Feb.2006 http://www.ensmp.fr/~latour/articles/article/050.html
I expect sociologists to be much more fortunate than cosmologists since they soon will discover their missing mass. To balance our accounts of society we simply have to turn our attention away from humans and look at non-humans. Here they are, the hidden and despised social masses who make up our morality. They knock at the door of sociology requesting a place in the accounts of society as stubbornly as the humans masses did in the 19th century.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149
Paul Craig Roberts: Nuking the Economy
The Progressive Daily Beacon: The only things worthy of impeachment are private sexual indiscretions and a stained blue dress, the rest is passe pre-9/11 thinking.
Raging Blog : Barbara Comstock was employed by the DOJ during their 'investigation' of the Plame Leak.  So what the hell is she doing on Scooter's defense team?
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149

"Mary Matalin told the WaPo: "The vice president was concerned. He felt badly, obviously. On the other hand, he was not careless or incautious or violate any of the [rules]. He didn't do anything he wasn't supposed to do." ...read on"

I don't think he was supposed to shoot a man, but that's just me.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149
On The Chris Matthews Show, David Brooks doing his James Brady impersonation, continued the meme of trying to turn left wing bloggers into psychotics. Video-WMP Video-QT

Brooks: Whoever the Democratic candidate, that is the weakness of the Democratic party, they've got the blogs and the netroots who are semi-nuts and they insist on a Stalinist line of discipline. (via TP)
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National Security: The Attack on the Constitution Jim Marcinkowski "It is my pleasure to be able to share some of my thoughts with you this evening on matters of national security and the Constitution. I come here not as a Democrat, not as a former Republican, but as an American who is deeply troubled by the direction we are headed as a nation... read on"
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149 Here's the press briefing with Scotty and the gang. Video-WMP Video-QT
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149 Tweety makes like McClellan and defends Cheney's delayed press notifications. There's more of Gregory and Scotty. Did Chris actually think that it would have been a walk in the park for Scotty today?

Video -WMP Video-QT (vid and transcript by David Edwards) MATTHEWS: I can understand that in the urgency of the moment that the Vice President's concern was life and death and not PR .   ANCHOR: Right, but 22 hours later - do you think that is an unusual delay for the White House press corps to know about this?   MATTHEWS: ...i f you can imagine shooting a hundred or two hundred pellets into somebody's face, and seeing all that blood, I assume. Even though these are small pellets. A lot of damage must have been done and I'm sure he was worried - really worried - that the man was in trouble. If he was up laughing in bed a few hours later then that would change the scene dramatically, but I'll go with the Vice Presidents explanation right now."   Deferring to Armstrong (the host) had to be carefully calculated by Cheney's people. This is the VP after all and let's face it, they make all those decisions-not the host of the event.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149 Bush at 39% Bush at 39% All those speeches and the SOTU didn't seem to help .
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"Several days ago, in a post entitled " Easy to Hate ," I discussed a NYT story about fairly low-level immigration officials. The article described some notable horror stories involving officials endowed with growing discretionary power -- and what happens when such power is unleashed against people who pose no threat to us whatsoever. The victims included a young child, a university literature professor + a group of Tibetan monks... read on"
16.Feb.2006 http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/02/13.html#a7149 Jon Stewart was having a really boring weekend and he was really sad. Nothing had been getting his blood boiling lately and he just wasn't excited to be alive anymore-Until:

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16.Feb.2006 VP Cheney "accidentally" shoots man on hunting trip The VP shoots a Corpus Christi lawyer, who bychance was an old guy (78 years old). Albeit by accident, it's rather amusing after you get over the initial shock and find out that Whittington is doing fine. I would just like to know how you "accidentally" shoot someone with a shotgun. Those don't have the range of rifles + you have to be in close range to be shot by one. Anyone that's taken gun safety knows that you point your gun downwards when not shooting and if you're shooting, your party is behind you. So.... BoingBoing < CNN Post Date:02/12/2006
16.Feb.2006 Salinity May Rise Again Macao Water warns that salinity levels for tap water may rise again in the next two weeks. Post Date:02/13/2006
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LewRockwell.Com : Will the BATF Seize Cheney's Gun? Greg Perry on the four rules of hunting. Post Date:02/14/2006
16.Feb.2006 Metro driver involved in fatal accident fired A Metropolitan Transit Authority bus driver was fired Friday for "unsafe and careless action and disregard for established safety procedures" in a fatal accident with a pedestrian, Metro spokeswoman Raequel Roberts said. Post Date:02/04/2006
16.Feb.2006 Bizarre Accident In Belmont County It's a bizarre accident in Belmont County, in which the victims are the perpetrators. It happened in Neffs Ohio, just before dawn on Friday. A man driving his son to school felt an impact under his car. He had run over two people...but there's more to the story. Post Date:02/03/2006
16.Feb.2006 The New Waas, Eriposte and What Cheney Knew Eriposte at the Left Coaster is the premiere braintrust on the Niger documents. And his take on the latest piece from Murray Waas is well worth a read and a re-read. Both Waas and eriposte have been indespensible in filling in some of the Administration gaps on this aspect of the Traitorgate case + especially on what Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby knew and did not know about Joe Wilson + ... Post Date:02/03/2006
16.Feb.2006 Ex-Cheney aide gets trial date – CNN WXIA-TVEx-Cheney aide gets trial dateCNN?- 14 hours agoWASHINGTON (CNN) -- The obstruction of justice trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- the former chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney -- will begin almost a year from now, on January 8, 2007, a federal judge ruled Friday. ... Trial set for early next year in Libby case ReutersFormer Cheney Aide to Stand Trial in January 2007 Voice of AmericaYahoo! News?- MSNBC?- Guardian Unlimited?- Washington Post?- all 504 related Post Date:02/03/2006
16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.firedupamerica.com/aggregator} New Subpoenas Very Bad News For DeLay
14.Feb.2006 23:09 Dam, who FERCed up the Taum Sauk reservoir?

Continuing his efforts to distance himself from Andy's client, AmerenUE, Half-time Blunt issued a call today for state involvement in federally regulated dams.  Seems the situation is all FERC'd up.  Blunt says the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has let us all down when it comes to damn safety and Doyle "You wanna buy a Bridge" Childers can do a better job.

Blunt has previously blasted FERC for lack of oversight, all but blaming them for the Taum Sauk explosion. 

So, one might ask, who are these FERCing idiots who let us down.  Well,

Andrew my boy, all of the Commissioners are appointees of George W. Bush.  Of course, there are supposed to be five of them and GW has been so busy running a war that he only appointed three, but now that Matt and Doyle are on the job I'm sure things will be a dam sight better.
16.Feb.2006 U.S. May Lose Billions in Oil, Gas Royalties Because of Law Despite record profits, oil and gas producers may avoid billions of dollars in royalty payments to the government because of a decade-old law designed to spur production when energy prices are low. Source: The Washington Post
16.Feb.2006 Gunning for Cheney Other than the fact that a sitting vice president hasn't shot anyone since Aaron Burr dispatched Alexander Hamilton, why is Dick Cheney the non-sharpshooter getting so much coverage? Source: The Washington Post
16.Feb.2006 House Blasts Katrina Response House and Senate committees today blasted the federal response to Hurricane Katrina last year, with a House panel issuing a scathing report on what it called a widespread "failure of leadership" and senators grilling Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on his department's much-criticized... Source: The Washington Post
16.Feb.2006 Cheney: 'You can't blame anyone else' Vice President Dick Cheney publicly addressed his weekend hunting accident for the first time Wednesday in an interview with another cable network. "You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend," Cheney said in excerpts of the interview. Source: CNN
16.Feb.2006 Poll: Most think GOP, Democrats lack vision By a large number, most Americans lack faith in the ability of Democrats or Republicans to solve the nation's problems, a CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll released Wednesday indicates. Source: CNN
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The Latest Abu Ghraib Photos Are Deeply Disturbing Ms. Armstrong's Got More Versions Of The Hunting Accident Than The Bush Administration Has Rationales For War Shooting A Man At 30 Yards With A 28-Guage Shotgun New Subpoenas Very Bad News For DeLay Massachusetts Will Require Wal Mart To Stock Morning After Pill Bush Keeping Money Raised By Second Indicted Fundraiser GOP Handwringing Over Cheney Rock The Vote Is Regrouping Ari Fleischer Criticizes Team Bush's Handling Of Cheney's Shooting Asking The Tough Questions
13.Feb.2006 Cheney's Got a Gun Because of the top item here. The cheap joke is usually the best joke. Dick Hunt [ytmnd] Also: the Red State Update weighs in : Episode 14 -- Dick Cheney Shoots Hunter Comment on this...
05.Feb.2006 Gonzales will say that media reports about Bush's spy program are all wrong. Then why did Cheney ju
Gonzles had better have lots of evidence tomorrow that he's telling the truth + not again perjuring himself, because this flatly contradicts slews of stories based on information from administration officials. From the Financial Times:"Contrary to the speculation reflected in some media reporting, the terrorist surveillance programme is not a dragnet that sucks in all conversation and uses computer searches to pick out calls of interest," Mr Gonzales will say in response to questions raised by Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate judiciary committee. "No communications are intercepted unless first it is determined that one end of the call is outside of the country + professional intelligence experts have probable cause [that is, 'reasonable grounds to believe'] that a part to the communication is a member or agent of al-Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist organisation." But that appears to conflict with a detailed report in yesterday's Washington Post, based on anonymous interviews with US intelligence officials. The report said that only some 5,000 Americans had had their conversations recorded or e-mails read since the programme was launched following the September 11 terrorist attacks. However, in order to identify those targets, hundreds of thousands of calls and e-mails are first scanned and subject to computer filtering in order to identify the smaller number deemed suspicious.Wait a minute, the media got the story totally wrong, but then: 1. Bush came out and, in response, admitted the details of the program publicly. Why would he do that if the media got the story wrong? All he'd have to do is say we're not doing any of that, period. But instead he publicly admitted the real details of a super classified program that he claims by making public serious jeopardizes national security? 2. Even more bizarre, Cheney this week had the following to say about the NYT's reporting on this story:With Congress preparing to plunge into a hearing focused exclusively on the warrantless wiretapping, Vice President Dick Cheney said exposing the effort has done "enormous damage to our national security." The New York Times revealed the program's existence in December. "It, obviously, reveals techniques and sources and methods that are important to try to protect," Cheney said. "It gives information to our enemies about how we go about collecting intelligence against them. It also raises questions in the minds of other intelligence services about whether or not they can work with the United States intelligence service, with our CIA, for example, if we can't keep a secret."But, if the NYT got the story wrong, then its reporting revealed nothing at all. And its erroneous reporting most certainly did not cause "enormous damage to our national security." It can't, if it's wrong. And finally, the NYT's "wrong" stories most certainly did not "give information to our enemies about how we go about collecting intelligence about against them." If anything, they gave the enemy misinformation, if Gonzales is really going to say this tomorrow. Then what was Cheney smoking last week when he said this? So, did Cheney lie last week in an effort to slam the NYT, or is Gonzales going to lie tomorrow in an effort to deceive the public about Bush's domestic spying program? 3. And finally, we find this out, that all the news reports have supposedly been wrong, 6 weeks later, on a Sunday night, the eve of congressional hearings on the sujbect? None of those GOP Senators and Congressmen who were briefed on the subject could have come forward in the past six weeks and said, uh, the newspaper stories are just wrong? No, suddenly, tonight, we find this out. I hate football, but even I recognize a Hail Mary when I see it.
12.Feb.2006 Cheney Praises Stephen Hayes, Pushes Hussein/Al-Qaeda Link
Today on Tony Snow's radio show, Vice President Cheney praised a Weekly Standard piece by Stephen Hayes that uses second-hand descriptions of unreleased Pentagon documents to argue that Hussein had extensive ties to terrorists: SNOW: The Weekly Standard over the weekend published a long piece by Steve Hayes, who talked about ...
16.Feb.2006 Cheney Says Sanctions Could Face Iran (AP)Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that sanctions would be "the number one item on the agenda" if Iran is hauled before the U.N. Security Council for restarting nuclear activities. Post Date:01/11/2006
16.Feb.2006 More about Cheney and hunting An excellent series of blogs and excerpts on the Cheney hunting mishap is posted here: http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2006_02_12_firedoglake_archive.html#113985176383965724 Several very good points ...Post Date:02/14/2006
16.Feb.2006 Dick Cheney Goes Hunting I'm not trying to make a big deal out of a hunting accident for partisan purposes. But I am offended by the never-our-fault White House spin team. Post Date:02/14/2006
16.Feb.2006 Doing the Math on Cheney and His Shooting Accident Check out what this lawyer reader who has been a bird hunter of 30 years' experience sent me in an e-mail on the improbability of Ms. Armstrong's version (pdf) of Cheney's shooting accident from a mathematical point of view. A snippet: I conclude the target was within 10 or 15 yards, at most, of Dick and possibly as close as 5 yards. My reasons for saying this are algebraic. ...So, my best estimate is as follows: Dick nearly blew this guy's head off. Conclusion: "I don't think I'd hunt anything with Dick." Post Date:02/13/2006
16.Feb.2006 Cheney's Hunting Party Companions A reader writes in: Do you find it odd that 2 men are out hunting with 2 women that are not their wives? Maybe this is the reason for the WH cover up? The four in the hunting party were: Cheney, Whittington, the divorced Katharine Armstrong and as Raw Story wrote earlier, Pamela Willeford, the U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland. Before you say it's sleazy to ask this, think about what the press would be reporting if it were John Kerry instead of Dick Cheney. Post Date:02/13/2006 17:08:00
16.Feb.2006 Cheney Was Hunting Illegally When Accident Occurred Thanks to a law introduced by State Rep. Charlie Geren (R) + passed last year, hunters in Texas are required to have an Upland Game Bird Stamp before hunting quail. According to an email ThinkProgress recieved from Lydia Saldaña, spokeswoman for the Texas Parks + Wildlife Department, Cheney didn't have ... Post Date:02/13/2006 19:41:32
16.Feb.2006 Bush Knew Saturday About Hunting Accident AP - President Bush knew Saturday evening that Vice President Dick Cheney had accidentally shot a hunting companion, but the information wasn't made public until the next day — by a private citizen — the White House said Monday. Post Date:02/13/2006
16.Feb.2006 Cyber Storm Exercise Completed, Dick Cheney Goes Hunting This news from DHS should make you feel safer if you live in the U.S., but watch your back if U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney goes hunting in your area. U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the completion... Post Date:02/12/2006
16.Feb.2006 US 'selected' Iraq intelligence An ex-CIA official says Washington "cherry-picked" intelligence on Iraq before the 2003 invasion. Post Date:02/10/2006
16.Feb.2006 Chavez deadline for US preachers The Venezuelan government gives a group of US missionaries a Sunday deadline to leave the country. Post Date:02/12/2006
16.Feb.2006 US government 'failed' on Katrina All levels of US government, from President Bush down, failed over Hurricane Katrina, a report finds. Post Date:02/12/2006
16.Feb.2006 Chertoff backs Katrina response Embattled US security chief Michael Chertoff rejects criticism of the response to Hurricane Katrina. Post Date:02/13/2006
16.Feb.2006 Row rages over Katrina response The former Fema chief says officials knew levees were breached in New Orleans earlier than admitted. Post Date:02/10/2006
16.Feb.2006 'Cyber Storm' tests US defences The US tests the security of its cyber systems in a week-long simulated attack run by Homeland Security. Post Date:02/12/2006
16.Feb.2006 http://www.feed-seeker.com/ Top Ten Searched for Terms Todays 1 George Bush 2 Muslim Cartoons 3 Cheney hunting accident 4 Olympics 5 nanotechnology 6 oscar nominations 7 business plan 8 Iraq war 9 packaging machinery 10 Freedomland
16.Feb.2006Angeblich soll einer seiner Hacker-Angriffe mehr als 300 Computer auf der US Naval Wepons Station Earle in New Jersey lahm gelegt haben.

Zuvor hatte Gary M. Dateien gelöscht.

Dies sei in der kritischen Zeit nach den Anschlägen des 11.Sep.2001 passiert.
Der Hacker wurde im vergangenen Sommer in London festgenommen - später aber gegen Kaution wieder freigelassen. Ihm wurde verboten, das Internet zu benutzen. _{http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-401014,00.html}
00.Feb.2001-00.Mär.2002 soll Gary M. 53 Computer der US Army, 26 der Marine, 16 der Nasa und je einen Rechner des Verteidigungsministeriums und der Air Force gehackt haben. US-Ermittler bezifferten den angerichteten Schaden auf 700.000 US-Dollar.

Sie gehen bislang davon aus, dass Gary M. weder Geheiminformationen herunter geladen noch an ausländische Regierungen weitergeleitet hat.
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Gary M., der unter dem Namen Solo hackte, hat bereits gestanden, in Computer der US-Regierung eingebrochen zu sein. Er bestreitet jedoch, dabei Schäden angerichtet zu haben. Seine Unterstützer erklärten, die US-Militärs sollten Gary M. dankbar sein, weil er Sicherheitslücken in ihren Systemen aufgezeigt habe.
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Jetzt wehrt sich der einstige Systemadministrator vor dem Bow Street Magistrates Court in London gegen die drohende Auslieferung in die USA. Sollte er an die US-Justiz übergeben werden, drohen ihm eine Strafe von bis zu 1,75 Millionen US-Dollar sowie eine 60-jährige Haft.
Seine Anwälte haben zudem darauf verwiesen, dass der Mann vor einem Militärgericht angeklagt werden könnte. Dabei fürchten sie "Spezialbehandlungen" wie beispielsweise Einzelhaft, mit denen Ermittler Beschuldigten Geständnisse entlocken. Möglicherweise drohe dem Mandanten gar eine Überstellung ins berüchtigte Gefängnis Guantanaomo auf Kuba, in dem die USA Terrorverdächtige festhalten, erklärten die Anwälte. Dort bestehe keine Chance auf Entlassung.
Das Londoner Gericht wird in der Angelegenheit auch Clive Stafford-Smith anhören, einen Anwalt, der sich für die Rechte der in Guantanamo Inhaftierten einsetzt.
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US-Ermittler werfen Gary M. das "den größten Hacking-Angriff aller Zeiten auf Militärrechner" vor und wollen ihm in den USA den Prozess machen. Der 40-jährige Mann aus Wood Green im Norden Londons soll in fast hundert Computer der US-Armee, der US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa und des US-Verteidigungsministeriums eingedrungen sein.
16.Feb.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-395548,00.html
Rund 450 Mitarbeiter beschäftigt das FLI, den Großteil auf Riems.

00.000.1910 -Seit- werden auf der Insel - in sicherer Entfernung zur nächsten Stadt Greifswald - Erreger von Tierseuchen erforscht. 2004 belief sich das Budget des Instituts auf über 21 Millionen Euro.
16.Feb.2006Vogelforscher Bairlein erwartet in den kommenden Tagen, dass die Veterinärämter eine große Anzahl tot entdeckter Vögel zur Untersuchung bekommen: "Wenn jetzt irgendwo eine tote Ente gefunden wird, wird sie gemeldet. 16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
Nach Angaben von FLI-Präsident Thomas Mettenleiter hat es bei allen weltweit bekannten Infektionsfällen bei Menschen stets einen direkten Kontakt zu Nutzgeflügel gegeben.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
Dies alles spricht gegen eine direkte Einschleppung des auch für Menschen gefährlichen Virus durch eines der in Rügen gefundenen Tiere.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
Heimische (Greif-)Vögel als Reservoir: Der Haken an dieser Erklärung ist jedoch, dass im vergangen Herbst bei einer Untersuchung von Tausenden Wildvögeln in Europa kein H5N1 festgestellt worden ist. Kein Anzeichen für ein stilles Reservoir also. "Dies ist ausgesprochen eigenartig. Dafür haben wir kein Erklärungsszenario", sagt Bairlein.
13.000 Schwanenpaare in Deutschland 16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
"Das ist unser Appell an die Ornithologen, verstärkt auf tote Greifvögel zu achten", sagte die Sprecherin.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
FLI-Sprecherin Reinking zeichnet diese Möglichkeit nach: Die Schwäne könnten sich bei Wildenten angesteckt haben, die sich ihrerseits schon im vergangenen Jahr bei Zugvögeln infiziert haben. "Dann kam das Virus bis jetzt unentdeckt in der Wildvogelpopulation vor", sagte Reinking.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
Da Höckerschwäne nur kurze Strecken zurücklegten, könnten sie nicht aus Vogelgrippe-Regionen gekommen sein. "Aber woher kommt das Virus dann, wenn es nicht durch Zugvögel transportiert wurde?", fragt der Leiter des Wilhelmshavener Instituts für Vogelforschung. "Nur die Sing- und Zwergschwäne sind arktische Zugvögel und überwintern hier. Aus der Arktis können sie das Virus aber nicht eingeschleppt haben, denn dort ist es bislang nicht nachgewiesen."16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
"Dieses aktuelle Phänomen ist nicht zu erklären, denn es hat offensichtlich nichts mit dem Vogelzug zu tun", sagte der Vogelforscher Franz Bairlein.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
Vordringlich wollen die Wissenschaftler nun klären: Warum und wie haben sich die Höckerschwäne den Erreger eingefangen, obwohl sie doch keine Zugvögel sind?16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
FLI-Sprecherin Elke Reinking bestätigte, dass es sich bei den auf Rügen infizierten Vögeln um Höckerschwäne handelt. "Diese Art ist ein Standortvogel, der immer hier ist", sagte sie. "Uns beschäftigt jetzt die Frage, wo kommt das Virus her?" Das FLI ist als Bundesforschungsanstalt für Viruskrankheiten der Tiere die zentrale wissenschaftliche Instanz in Deutschland, wenn es um die Vogelgrippe geht. Seine Beratung dient der Bundesregierung und den Landesregierungen als Entscheidungsgrundlage für die Seuchenbekämpfung.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
Da die vergangene Woche von Urlaubern in Rügen gefundenen Schwäne das H5N1-Virus in sich trugen, gilt derzeit bei jeglichem toten Federvieh höchste Vorsicht. Warum es ausgerechnet sie sind, die mit dem Vogelgrippe-Erreger infiziert waren, ist völlig ungeklärt.16.Feb.2006 _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}

Wie konnten sich die Rügener Schwäne bloß mit dem gefährlichen Virus H5N1 infizieren? Die Forscher stehen vor einem Rätsel. Denn: Die Vögel haben in Deutschland überwintert - und kamen folglich nicht aus den verseuchten Gebieten.

Warum ausgerechnet Schwäne? Mehr als hundert tote Schwäne und ein toter Habicht sind im Norden der Insel Rügen gefunden worden. Der Greifvogel trug das Vogelgrippe-Virus in sich. Es handelt sich um die zweite Tierart, bei der in Deutschland H5N1 gefunden wurde. Der Habicht und die Schwäne waren auf die Insel Riems gebracht worden, wo sie in den Labors des Friedrich-Loeffler-Instituts (FLI) untersucht werden. _{http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-401091,00.html}
16.Feb.2006 Frankreich: Europarat geißelt Zustand der Gefängnisse
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