07.Mar.2006 Financial Responsibility == Terrorism? ScuttleMonkey 91
An anonymous reader writes "Capital Hill Blue is reporting that recently a retired Texas schoolteacher + his wife had a little run in with the Department of Homeland Security. The crime? Paying down some debt.
From the article: 'The balance on their JCPenney Platinum MasterCard had gotten to an unhealthy level. So they sent in a large payment, a check for $6,522. And an alarm went off. A red flag went up.
The Soehnges' behavior was found questionable. [...] They were told, as they moved up the managerial ladder at the call center, that the amount they had sent in was much larger than their normal monthly payment.
And if the increase hits a certain %age higher than that normal payment, Homeland Security has to be notified.'"
07.Mar.2006 SpaceX Developing Orbital Crew Capsule ScuttleMonkey 66
iamlucky13 writes "Private aerospace firm SpaceX has revealed that it has secretly been working on a crew and cargo vehicle since late 2004. Development of the capsule, named Dragon, has so far been funded by SpaceX and its partners, which includes the Canadian company that built the robotic arm for the International Space Station.
Dragon would be launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 and dock at the ISS with assistance of the robotic arm.
While SpaceX founder Elon Musk is prepared to complete development of the capsule with his own resources, SpaceX is seeking funding from NASA's Commercial Orbital Transportation Services program, which makes up to $500 million available through 2010 for private spacecraft development."
07.Mar.2006 NJ Bill Would Prohibit Anonymous Posts on Forums ScuttleMonkey 344
An anonymous reader writes "The New Jersey legislature is considering a bill that would require operators of public forums to collect users' legal names + addresses + effectively disallow anonymous speech on online forums. This raises some serious issues, such as to what extent local and state governments can go in enacting and enforcing Internet legislation."
07.Mar.2006 Working Toward Computer Roll-ups The possibilities of building products made with stretchy silicon go far beyond e-paper. Get ready for televisions + laptops you can carry like a yoga mat. By Gretchen Cuda.
07.Mar.2006 NHS care criteria 'fatally flawed' Panorama reports on how thousands of people have lost their homes and most of their savings to pay for NHS care which should be free.
07.Mar.2006 Moussaoui 11.Sep.2001 trial begins The sentencing trial begins of the only person indicted in the US for playing a direct role in the 11 September attacks.
07.Mar.2006 Ministers defeated over ID cards Government plans to give identity cards to all passport applicants are defeated in the Lords.
07.Mar.2006 Mexico ex-leader's brother tried A brother of ex-Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari goes on trial in France on money-laundering charges.
07.Mar.2006 HSBC bank unveils record profits HSBC reveals the biggest profits ever by a UK High Street bank, making a pre-tax profit of £11.5bn in 2005.
07.Mar.2006 Brain scans explain maths disability Scientists say they have isolated the area of the brain linked to the maths learning disability dyscalculia.
07.Mar.2006 Stopping the next extinction wave A new study identities 20 regions in the world which may become extinction 'hot-spots' in the near future.
07.Mar.2006 E-mail delivery 'tax' criticised Non-profit groups protest about plans to charge up to one US cent to deliver e-mail to supporters.
07.Mar.2006 'No quick fix' from nuclear power Building new nuclear plants is not a 'quick fix' to securing Britain's energy supply, an advisory panel reports.
07.Mar.2006 Äthiopien: Uno versichert Bauern gegen Dürre
07.Mar.2006 Österreich: Vogelgrippe-Katzen unter Beobachtung
07.Mar.2006 Unterwasser-Archäologie: 600 Jahre altes Schiffswrack entdeckt
07.Mar.2006 Prozessoren-Protzer: Schnellster Supercomputer Europas fährt hoch
07.Mar.2006 Beliebt bei den Nachbarn: Deutschland erlebt Tourismus-Rekord
07.Mar.2006 Geheimdienstaffäre: Regierung bestreitet Weitergabe von BND-Informationen
07.Mar.2006 Netzwelt-Ticker: China stellt US-Kontrolle des Internet in Frage
07.Mar.2006 Amnesty International: US-Truppen halten im Irak Tausende willkürlich fest
07.Mar.2006 Menschenrechte: Erzbischof von Canterbury kritisiert Guantanamo
07.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe: H5N1 in Polen
07.Mar.2006 11.Sep.2001 A New World Order Story : When it comes to wars we believe at the time to be noble – or even ignoble wars that we nevertheless think will bring us the eventual control of noble oil fields – the loss of a few thousand or more innocent lives is always a price our leaders have been willing to pay.
07.Mar.2006 Bush may be history, but sadly his work will outlast him : The unfortunate reality for the rest of the world is that the President’s work is likely to out last him.
07.Mar.2006 Like the hole in the ground in Manhattan, there is a big hole in the new world order where the Middle East should be. And no-one has any idea yet what is going to fill it.
07.Mar.2006 In case you missed it: Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? : Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis again very much engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before 11.Sep.2001. Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron has details in the first of a four-part series.
07.Mar.2006 UK: Ministers back 'terminator' GM crops : Website reveals plan to scrap prohibition on seeds that threaten Third World farmers with hunger
07.Mar.2006 UK: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state : The Prime Minister claims to be defending liberty but a barely noticed Bill will rip the heart out of parliamentary democracy
07.Mar.2006 US lawyers attack Israeli security agent "thugs": A confession extracted by torture at the hands of Israeli security "thugs" should not be allowed in an American court, lawyers for a Palestinian immigrant accused of funneling money to Hamas said on Friday.
07.Mar.2006 Jewish plot to kill Bevin in London : JEWISH terrorists plotted to assassinate Ernest Bevin, the foreign secretary, 00.000.1946, as part of their campaign to establish the state of Israel, newly declassified intelligence files have shown. The plan was devised by Irgun, the insurgent group led by Menachem Begin, who went on to become a Nobel peace prize winner and prime minister of Israel.
07.Mar.2006 Mike Whitney: Dubai and the Straits of Hormuz : The IAEA has NOT found Iran in violation of its treaty obligations, but is looking for some way to accommodate the USA’ insistence that Iran should be publicly scolded by the international body. Will this public humiliation be used as a pretext for war?
07.Mar.2006 Cheney daughter leads ‘cold war’ on mullahs: THE war in Iraq is her father’s business but Elizabeth Cheney, the American vice-president’s daughter, has been given responsibility for bringing about a different type of regime change in Iran.
07.Mar.2006 Bush nukes legal and ethical constraints: All nation-states operate in their own interests, of course.
But American disregard for the law + the moral + political inconsistency of its foreign policy, has hit a new low under George W. Bush.
07.Mar.2006 Israeli spy affair: Pro-Israel Lobbying Group Roiled by Prosecution of Two Ex-Officials : The annual gathering of the nation's top pro-Israel lobbying group, which starts here on Sunday, will be addressed by Vice President Dick Cheney and United Nations Ambassador John R. Bolton. Politicians are lined up to warn of the threat from Iran and Hamas.
07.Mar.2006 Iran and Qaeda benefit from US in Iraq: congressman: The U.S. presence in Iraq is hurting the worldwide war on terrorism and benefits only Iran and al Qaeda, U.S. Rep. John Murtha said on Sunday.
07.Mar.2006 Please smile while under the boot: The self-righteous arrogance with which the West feigns shock at Muslim reactions to humiliation reveals how deeply the colonial attitude runs in the Occident
07.Mar.2006 Matewan Revisited -By Charles Sullivan
The history of America is the chronicle of class struggle. The current fight is the same fight that working class people have always waged.
In the past there were three distinct classes: the upper class, the middle class and the underclass.
The middle class is rapidly melding with the under class, leaving us with essentially two socioeconomic classes. In essence, what remain are the rich + the poor.
The chasm between rich and poor has never been wider + it is growing every year. Continued
07.Mar.2006 Thousands of Federal Trials Kept Secret -By MICHAEL J. SNIFFEN and JOHN SOLOMON
Despite the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of public trials, nearly all records are being kept secret for more than 5,000 defendants who completed their journey through the federal courts over the last three years. Instances of such secrecy more than doubled from 2003 to 2005. Continued
07.Mar.2006 03/05/06 World in peril, Chomsky tells overflow crowd -By Brian Liberatore
"Under the current U.S. policies, a nuclear exchange is inevitable," the 77-year-old MIT professor said in his presentation, "Imminent Crises: Paths Toward Solutions." Continued
07.Mar.2006 India Deal Makes US a Nuclear Proliferator: ampaigners for a nuclear-free South Asia are aghast at the potential nightmare that lies ahead following the nuclear technology and fuel deal announced here this week by visiting USA President George W. Bush and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
07.Mar.2006 Nigerian militants threaten to halve oil output: Nigerian militants threatened on Sunday to halve the country's oil output by cutting another 1 million barrels a day this month in their campaign to gain more autonomy for the southern delta region.
07.Mar.2006 Bolivia's Morales accuses US of blackmail : "Because we don't accept vetoes or the change of a commander, blackmail comes from the U.S. armed forces," Morales was quoted as saying, referring to perceived U.S. interference in the Bolivian military.
07.Mar.2006 The torture dodge: Congress must put an end to abuses at Gitmo: The president believes he can ignore the law whenever he chooses. He made that clear in a "signing statement" in which he reserved the right to interpret the torture ban in the context of his broader constitutional powers as commander in chief.
07.Mar.2006 No Habeas at Guantanamo? : Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions in the Detainee Treatment Act preventing federal judges from seeing problematic evidence on why detainees are being held...
07.Mar.2006 'Specific' info on NSA eavesdropping? : Of all the lawsuits seeking to halt the National Security Agency's program to eavesdrop on certain Americans' electronic communications, a new one filed last week in Oregon may provide the federal courts with the most detailed glimpse yet into the clandestine counterterrorism effort.
07.Mar.2006 Watchdog: What Ever Happened to the Civil Liberties Board?: For more than a year, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board has been the most invisible office in the White House. Created by Congress in December 2004 as a result of the recommendations of the 11.Sep.2001 Commission, the board has never hired a staff or even held a meeting.
07.Mar.2006 Paul Craig Roberts: A Nation Polarized Between Rich and Poor: America's Bleak Jobs Future
07.Mar.2006 A Revolution Of Spirit: It is time to reclaim our power and our forefathers’ vision. It is essential that we become lights in a world blackened by our excesses, by our abrogation of spirit to the base desires of the corporation.
07.Mar.2006 Court upholds campus military recruiting: The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that colleges that accept federal money must allow military recruiters on campus. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing for the court, said that the campus visits are an effective military recruiting tool.
07.Mar.2006 More blacks deciding not to serve: Defense Department statistics show that the number of black active-duty enlisted personnel has declined 14 % since 2000.
07.Mar.2006 Cunningham's Corruption Connections: The same defense contractors who were playing Cunningham with cash and favors were working other members of Congress and top administration officials. Once all the facts are on the table, the Abramoff scandal may pale in comparison.
07.Mar.2006 Levee fixes falling short, experts warn: Two teams of independent experts monitoring the $1.6 billion reconstruction project say large sections of the rebuilt levee system will be substantially weaker than before the hurricane hit.
07.Mar.2006 The danger of an explosion : The US risks repeating the disasters of the past by supporting Pakistan's military dictatorship
07.Mar.2006 Chirac Opposes Sanctions Against Hamas Government : French President Jacques Chirac says he is opposed to any international sanctions against a Palestinian government formed by the militant group Hamas
07.Mar.2006 Wolfensohn: Aid to PA Must Continue: Wolfensohn, who represents the so-called Quartet of Mideast peacemakers, the US, UN, European Union and Russia, said cutting off aid to the Palestinians would lead to a humanitarian disaster.
07.Mar.2006 Defiling the Grave of an American Hero: : Is there a double standard in western values of free speech? You bet there is. The hypocrisy runs so deep that the vast majority of Americans does not know who Rachel Corrie is and, thanks to the self-imposed gag rule of cultural and media institutions, they never will.
07.Mar.2006 Video: Pigs At The Trough: U.S. Politicians Line Up To Prostitute Themselves For AIPAC
07.Mar.2006 Accusations of anti-semitic chic are poisonous intellectual thuggery : Attempts to brand the left as anti-Jewish because of its support of Palestinian rights only make it harder to tackle genuine racism
07.Mar.2006 Iraqi jail torture 'increasing': Amnesty International has claimed that use of torture by US-trained security forces in Iraq is increasing and that thousands of prisoners are being denied basic human rights.
07.Mar.2006 '14,000 detained without trial in Iraq' : US and UK forces in Iraq have detained thousands of people without charge or trial for long periods and there is growing evidence of Iraqi security forces torturing detainees, Amnesty International said today.
07.Mar.2006 Under-reporting of British casualties in Iraq: Analysis published in the Lancet : The research, conducted by a Professor Sheila Bird of the MRC Biostatistics Unit at Cambridge, illustrates that casualty figures are almost certain to be much higher than stated by John Reid, the Minister of Defence + argues that the failure properly to count UK military casualties in Iraq must end.
07.Mar.2006 US envoy hints at strike to stop Iran : Bolton says nuclear plant can be 'taken out'
07.Mar.2006 Bolton warns Iran of ‘painful consequences’ : Speaking at a convention of Jewish-Americans, said it is too soon for the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions on Iran but other countries are talking about doing so and Washington is “beefing up defensive measures to cope with the Iranian nuclear threat.”
07.Mar.2006 The USS Ronald Reagan deployed in the Persian Gulf : The U.S. Fifth Fleet said the USS Ronald Reagan has been deployed for maritime security operations in the Gulf region. The nuclear-powered surface vessel headed a carrier group that contains a guided missile cruiser, two destroyers and support ships.
07.Mar.2006 Jon Snow interviews Iran's top nuclear negotiator , Ali Larijani, live in Tehran
07.Mar.2006 Can a deal be done?: A deal over Iran's nuclear programme is possible, according to the UN's chief nuclear watchdog.
07.Mar.2006 Impeaching George W. Bush: From discussion to action -- Michael Ratner and his fellow lawyers have drafted a call to impeach President Bush.
07.Mar.2006 Impeachment Proves Risky Political Issue If Democratic candidate Tony Trupiano wins a Michigan House seat this fall, he pledges that one of his first acts will be to introduce articles of impeachment against President Bush.
07.Mar.2006 In case you missed it: Noam Chomsky Interview : "If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter.
07.Mar.2006 Harkin calls for pullout, says Iraq is now 'quagmire': Sen. Tom Harkin said in Iowa Friday that Iraq has deteriorated into "civil war," declaring it no longer manageable by U.S. forces.
07.Mar.2006 Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals assassinated by death squads: Hundreds of Iraqi academics and professionals have been assassinated since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003, according to a petition to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Summary Executions from the European peace group BRussells [sic] Tribunal on Iraq.
07.Mar.2006 The Value of George Orwell-By Charley Reese
The phrase "war on terror" is a phony metaphor. We are not at war. Ninety-nine and 99/100ths % of the American people are living the same way they've always lived. We have troops in Afghanistan and Iraq fighting an insurrection that our invasions of those countries caused. They are at war – a war of their own country's making – but the rest of us are not. Waving a flag or putting a bumper sticker on one's car cannot be called a war effort. Continued
07.Mar.2006 Twilight's Last Gleaming -By John Cory
Who are these people? These people who line their pockets with the lives of our loved ones? These gray men who lurk in shadows and kill the sunshine of democracy? These people who wear morality like a cheap suit pilfered from the collection plate of decency? Who are these people who have turned America into their own personal ATM machine? Continued
07.Mar.2006 Fisk Paints a Middle East in crisis-By ABC Australia 03/06/06
Robert Fisk says that in his three decades of reporting from the Middle East for British newspapers, he's never seen it more dangerous + that he's certain another major crisis, possibly even another 11.Sep.2001, is coming. Audio and transcript
06.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
What has changed in our society over the past thirty years? Back in the late 1960s, people asked: "Suppose they gave a war and nobody came?" Nowadays, the question seems to be: "Suppose they released a new version of the Pentagon Papers and nobody read them?" Permalink 06.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Yesterday, we read that two former high-level CIA officials (not named) had informed ABC News that the Inspector General was looking into allegations that Brent "bribe-master" Wilkes had received lucrative CIA contracts via his old friend at the Agency, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, who is now the Number Three "company" man. (Amusingly, this Los Angeles Times story notes that the CIA still won't confirm whether Wilkes had any such CIA contracts. Obviously, if no contracts existed, there would be no investigation.)
06.Mar.2006 http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Murray Waas' latest in the National Journal is mandatory reading.
Waas delivers more proof - although at this point, we hardly need more -- that W and co. knew full well that their justifications for war were misleading.
The most interesting passage - to my eyes, at least -- concerns former DCI George Tenet: The one-page
00.Oct.2002 President's Summary specifically told Bush that although "most agencies judge" that the use of the aluminum tubes was "related to a uranium enrichment effort...
INR and DOE believe that the tubes more likely are intended for conventional weapons uses."
The lengthier NIE - more than 90 pages - contained significantly more detail describing the disagreement between the CIA + the Pentagon's DIA on one hand, which believed that the tubes were meant for centrifuges + State's INR and the Energy Department, which believed that they were meant for artillery shells.
Administration officials had said that the president would not have read the full-length paper.
They also had said that many of the details of INR's dissent were contained in a special text box that was positioned far away from the main text of the report.
But the one-page summary, several senior government officials said in interviews, was written specifically for Bush, was handed to the president by then-CIA Director George Tenet + was read in Tenet's presence. Historians will always get a good, dark snicker out of the image of Bush refusing to read a mere 90 pages before deciding to drop bombs.
At the moment, though, I am most intrigued by the image of Tenet and Dubya in the oval office, with Bush reading his one-page summary and the head spook explaining the longer words
06.Mar.2006 And the Winner for Best Actor is...George W. Bush
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S.D. Governor Mike Rounds Signs Abortion Ban Into Law. The American Taliban is in Control in South Dakota. 3/7
Retired general: "We're in a civil war now"
More Proof of How Bush and Cheney Hoodwinked Us Into Going to War, At a Cost of Thousands Upon Thousands of American and Iraqi Lives -- And Hundreds of Billions of Dollars
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"Lies That Kill, Part One," Episode 12 of Steven C. Day's The Last Chance Democracy Cafe
Salt Lake City Tribune Op-ed: "The Nuremburg legacy this nation bequeathed to the world after WWII. is unyielding:
Torture Accountability Starts with Bush.
The Rude Pundit Bares His Dubai Strategy
06.Mar.2006 https://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-03-06_1032675.html
The world's first bronze is believed to have been produced in Asia Minor
_00.000.3500 -BC,at about- the conventional beginning of the Early Bronze Age, Charcoal ovens have been found in Asia Minor + elsewhere - but never any trace of olive oil.
Charcoal, a slow, steady fuel produced by heating wood in airless chambers, was used right up until the Industrial Revolution when it was replaced by coke, or distilled coal.
So why did the ancient Cypriot smelters use oil, Belgiorno was asked .
06.Mar.2006 https://ansa.it/main/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2006-03-06_1032675.html
"Mediterranean metallurgy was born in the places where we have the first evidence of olive-oil extraction," she said .
_00.000.2000 -BC- Olive oil fed foundries Olive oil was used as fuel for foundries before it became one of the glories of the Mediterranean cuisine, Italian archaeologists believe.
06.Mar.2006 Jailed killer's magic books ban A maximum security prisoner has been banned from reading magic books - in case he picks up escapology tips.
06.Mar.2006 Falling Man: the many faces of a 11.Sep.2001 riddle The search for the identity behind a haunting image turned into a tortuous quest.
06.Mar.2006 Ireland prepares to scrap thousands of bizarre old laws
Thousands of bizarre old laws dating back 800 years to the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland are to be abolished as part of a major overhaul of the country's statute book.
06.Mar.2006 Is the volcano springing to life beneath Yellowstone? A new study by scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey says that a recently discovered surface bulge in Yellowstone National Park could be indicative of some mysterious geothermal activity underneath the surface in recent years.
06.Mar.2006 https://education.vsnl.com/godfrey/ RED RAIN OF KERALA
00.Jul.2001-00.Sep.2001 -during-. A red rain phenomenon occurred in Kerala, the place where I live.
The characteristics of this phenomenon were very strange. Conventional explanations appeared totally inadequate to account for this phenomenon.
I started an investigation with limited resources and I was greatly assisted by my research student A. Santhosh Kumar.
06.Mar.2006-00.000.2001 -since- We have been studying this red rain.
Some of our research results are now accepted for publication in the journal -Astrophysics and Space Science, an international peer reviewed journal of astronomy, astrophysics and space science.
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06.Mar.2006 kloopy.com - US Patriot Act US Patriot Act at 09:42 22.Jul.2005 ... The way they're taking away freedom and ... after law which slowly removes constitutional
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06.Mar.2006 Our government is Murdering the people of New Orleans/N.O.......+ is NOT there as ordered by people out to “protect” us just as taking away our constitutional rights and the patriot act is in the name...www.mysticwicks.com/showthread.php?s=5a62c7ae520af62a6d6f81098d6d972f&t=106 06.Mar.2006 BND im Irak: Transatlantisches Verwirrspiel
06.Mar.2006 Neuer Gasgigant: Linde bietet für britischen Konkurrenten
06.Mar.2006 Atomstreit: Iran warnt vor Anrufung des Sicherheitsrats
06.Mar.2006 https://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4777254.stm
People flee
"Now the writ of the local administration is restored and the said area is under complete command of the security forces" said army spokesman Major General Shaukat Sultan.
He said some residents had been moved to "safer areas" because of the fighting.
Witnesses said hundreds of people lugging bags and bundles of clothes were fleeing the region.
"'We cannot rule out the killing of civilian people because militants have their hideouts in populated areas" he said, although "our operation is very targeted and precise, using radars + latest weapons + equipments".
Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters fled into North Waziristan after the US-led invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.
Tens of thousands of Pakistani troops were sent in 2003 to flush out the militants, but correspondents say this is the fiercest fighting so far.
Story from BBC NEWS: https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/south_asia/4777254.stm Published: 2006/03/06 00:21:06 GMT
06.Mar.2006 Himalayan melting risk surveyed A new weather station is expected to show the extent of melting from global warming in the Himalayas
06.Mar.2006 https://caymannetnews.com/2006/03/1042/secrecy.shtml
Government should introduce a policy of disclosure for all Public Servants including the judiciary to be open + honest about their membership of groups such as the Freemasons because transparency is the key to honesty + to improving public confidence in Government.
05.Mar.2006 https://www.digg.com/index/page2
Teflon chemical to be reduced says EPA
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"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the companies that use perfluorooctanoic acid, an ingredient in Teflon, will cut the chemical's use.
PFOA or its related chemicals... doesn't break down in the environment and has been found in low levels in the blood of some 90 % of Americans, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday."
05.Mar.2006 https://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4766842.stm
"Understanding how something changes in time means really understanding its essence + we are now looking at changes on a very, very fast timescale," said team member Dr John Tisch, of Imperial College London, UK.
Ultra-fast process
The researchers devised a new technique to "see" the motion of protons, one of the building blocks of an atom, in molecules of hydrogen and methane.
The technique involves firing a very short but intense laser pulse at a molecule, which rips an electron away, leaving the molecule in an excited ionised state.
The electron is then drawn back to the molecule + when it collides a very short burst of x-rays is released.
05.Mar.2006 https://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4771032.stm
Strained relationships
British Heart Foundation head of medical information Belinda Linden said: "There is now good evidence that emotions such as depression, anger, hostility and conflict are linked with an increased risk of heart disease.
"This study focuses on how these emotions within a marital relationship might affect people's heart and circulation.
"These emotions can be triggered when relationships are strained, particularly if there are also other problems such as lack of support, or financial difficulties."
She added: "We know that pressures such as anger or hostility can release certain chemical in the body that may increase the risk of heart disease, but we still need to understand more about how this can affect our heart and circulation." Story from BBC NEWS:
https://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/health/4771032.stm
Published: 2006/03/04 01:00:16 GMT
05.Mar.2006 Time short in Kenya food 'crisis' The UN says immediate food aid is needed for 3.5m Kenyans to prevent many more starvation deaths.
05.Mar.2006 Williams attacks prison camp Guantanamo Bay sets a dangerous precedent, the Archbishop of Canterbury says in a scathing attack.
05.Mar.2006 Iran issues new nuclear warning Iran threatens full-scale uranium enrichment if its nuclear work is referred to the UN Security Council.
05.Mar.2006 BOC and Linde 'near to £8bn deal' UK industrial gases firm BOC is set to be bought by German rival Linde in an £8bn deal, Sunday newspapers say.
05.Mar.2006 Fastest view of molecular motion A specially built laser has helped scientists make the speediest ever observations of motion in a molecule.
05.Mar.2006 Bush praises Pakistan terror role US President George W Bush hails Pakistan's part in the war on terror as he concludes a trip to the country.
05.Mar.2006 PM attacked on 'God' remarks Anti-war campaigners criticise Tony Blair after he says his decision to go to war in Iraq will be judged by God.
05.Mar.2006 Guantanamo names revealed After four years of secrecy the Pentagon releases the names of detainees being held in Guantanamo Bay.
05.Mar.2006 Zimbabwe 'running out of wheat' Zimbabwe has only two weeks of wheat supply left, the country's main milling organisation warns.
05.Mar.2006 China's military budget jumps 14% China announces another double-digit rise in military spending - up by 14.7% to $35.3bn 00.000.2006.
05.Mar.2006 Bush U-turn on Iranian pipeline President George W Bush says the US no longer opposes a gas pipeline from Iran to India via Pakistan.
05.Mar.2006 BT 'quadruples' broadband speeds BT plans to increase its broadband speeds to up to 8Mbps from the end of March.
05.Mar.2006 Dramatic warning about khat misuse A new play hopes to raise awareness of mental health problems linked to a drug used in some communities.
05.Mar.2006 Marital rows 'harm heart health' Arguments do not just produce harsh words and hot air, they can harden arteries too, a study suggests.
05.Mar.2006 Waxy Fights for Right to Parody A blogger resists pressure to remove videos lampooning Bill Cosby from his site.
The Cosby legal team is bearing down, but Andy Baio says it's discrimination against amateur web creators -- mainstream shows (The Simpsons, Mad Mag, SNL) have parodied Cosby over the years.
05.Mar.2006 Brand Doesn't Pull Its Punches The riveting documentary film, Our Brand Is Crisis, chronicles the adventures of the American political advisors who stage-managed Bolivia's 2002 election.
What's the effect on democracy, asks the film, when ad execs hawk politicians the same way Nike sells sneakers? By Jason Silverman.
05.Mar.2006 Space Hawks Chase Death Rays Peacenik warns of conflict as Russia, China and the USA scramble for moon bases by 2020. By John Lasker. Plus: Prospace Responds
05.Mar.2006 Space Jackets Down to Earth ScuttleMonkey Roland Piquepaille writes "Several technologies used to design the space suits protecting astronauts are now being adapted to protect workers facing extremely hot and dangerous conditions. According to the European Space Agency (ESA), these 'space-cooled' jackets are using three different technologies: special 3D-textile structure, cooling apparatus derived from astronauts' suits + a special water-binding polymer acting as a coating. Even if these protective clothes are primarily intended for firefighters or steel workers, several applications are possible, such as in sportswear or in cars as parts of air conditioning systems. Read more for additional details and pictures."
05.Mar.2006 No Backdoor in Vista Zonk mytrip wrote to mention a C|Net article stating that Vista will not have a security backdoor after all. From the article: "'The suggestion is that we are working with governments to create a back door so that they can always access BitLocker-encrypted data,' Niels Ferguson, a developer and cryptographer at Microsoft, wrote Thursday on a corporate blog. 'Over my dead body,' he wrote in his post titled Back-door nonsense."
05.Mar.2006 In Praise of Constant Connectivity Zonk An anonymous reader wrote to mention an opinion piece on CNet discussing the realities of living in constant contact with the world at large.
The author argues that the ability to connect actually creates time for us that we wouldn't have otherwise had.
From the article: "... rather than obliterate our social lives, always-on connectivity and the increased flexibility it brings will allow us to break free from the office and actually socialise more.
Sure, you'll be on call at unusual hours of the day, but think about how much more efficient you'll be -- particularly if your most productive hours aren't between 9am and 5:30pm!
And besides, all newfangled technology comes with an 'off' switch should you find yourself needing some down time."
05.Mar.2006 Jupiter Gets New Red Spot Zonk saskboy writes "The planet Jupiter is growing a new red spot. Jupiter is already well known for its Great Red Spot storm which is visible through modest backyard telescopes, so it will be interesting if this newer spot sticks around and grows. From the article: 'The official name of this storm is Oval BA, but Red Jr. might be better.
It's about half the size of the famous Great Red Spot and almost exactly the same color.
00.000.2000 Oval BA first appeared-when three smaller spots collided + merged.
A similar merger centuries ago may have created the original Great Red Spot, a storm twice as wide as our planet and at least 300 years old.'"
05.Mar.2006 Robotic 'Pack Mule' with Impressive Reflexes Zonk moon_monkey writes "New Scientist has a story about a nimble, four-legged robot that can recover its balance even after being given a hefty kick."
From the article: "The project is sponsored by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who want the robotic pack mule to assist soldiers in terrain too tough for vehicles.
Ground-based soldiers often need to carry 40 kilograms of equipment. Raibert says the latest version of BigDog can handle slopes of 35 - a steeper gradient than one in two.
The hydraulics are driven by a two-stroke single-cylinder petrol engine + it can carry over 40 kg, about 30% of its bodyweight.
The robot can follow a simple path on its own, or can be remotely controlled."
05.Mar.2006 NASA Study Shows Antarctic Ice Sheet Shrinking Zonk deman writes "A recently released NASA study has shown that the Antarctic ice shelf is shrinking at an alarming rate of 36 cubic miles per year.
The study, run from April 2002 to August 2005, indicates that the melting accounted for 1.2 millimeters of global sea level rise for the period.
From the article: 'That is about how much water the USA consumes in three months and represents a change of about 0.4 millimeter (0.01575 inch) per year to global sea level rise, the study concluded.
The study claims the majority of the melting to have occurred in the West Antarctic ice sheet."
05.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-399683,00.html
Weniger Salz im Nordatlantik, das bedeutet letztendlich ein kälteres Klima in Europa.
Doch diese Sorge bedrückt wohl die Menschen nur wenig, die am Strand von Key West am Salzrand ihrer Margarita nippen - dort, wo das Salz für die Grönlandsee seine lange Reise antritt.
05.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-399683,00.html
So paradox es klingt: Eine starke globale Erwärmung würde zu einer deutlichen Abkühlung des westeuropäischen Klimas führen.
05.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-404446,00.html
Der Deutsche Wetterdienst (DWD) sagt für die nächsten Tage Schneeschauer voraus. Am Mittwoch soll es aber im Süden und Südwesten erneut länger schneien.
Schuld an dem Chaos waren die Schnee-Tiefs "Xandra" und "Yuna".
Ungewöhnlich sei vor allem der späte Zeitpunkt, erklärte DWD-Meteorologe Helmut Malewski.
Dennoch sei 2005/2006 insgesamt "ein richtiger normaler Winter, wie ihn viele schon abgeschrieben haben".
05.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-404446,00.html
In der Ostschweiz fiel seit Messbeginn vor 75 Jahren noch nie so viel Schnee innerhalb von 24 Stunden.
Der Rekordwert wurde in St. Gallen mit 65 Zentimetern gemessen.
Unter den Schneelasten knickten reihenweise Bäume ein und versperrten Straßen und Schienen.
Auf den Straßen herrschte nacktes Chaos, Hunderte Autofahrer mussten in Notunterkünften übernachten.
05.Mar.2006 Seattle Times Editorial: "President Bush is great at sales, but he cannot deliver a product ? time after time."
We've Said This for Five Years.
Not to Mention the Lying and Illegal Behavior.
2300 U.S. Troops Killed in Iraq, Thousands Seriously Wounded, Tens of Thousands of Iraqis Killed. For What? For a Lie?
Army Will Launch Criminal Investigation Into Tillman Death. Uh, How Long Did That Take?
Another Heartfelt Thank You to the Patrons of the Last Chance Democracy Cafe, From Its Propietor, Steven C. Day. The Last Chance Democracy Cafe, a Site of the BuzzFlash News Internet Network.
Years after turning America into a police state, White House rolls out halfhearted, obligatory civil liberties panel 3/6
Hindu priests exorcise Bush's bad karma after his visit befouls Ghandi shrine 3/6
Sectarian fighting puts U.S. troops in the middle 3/6
Newt Gingrich thinks: "Wildly irresponsible governance in Washington. Incipient civil war in Iraq. I know what you're thinking: What this country needs right now is ? Newt Gingrich." 3/6
Will Rudy Giuli run for president to make McCain seem more conservative? 3/6
05.Mar.2006 Bundesregierung: Atompolitik spaltet die Koalition
05.Mar.2006 Winter im März: Schneechaos in Süddeutschland
05.Mar.2006 NSA-Affäre: FBI sucht die Lecks
05.Mar.2006 Guantanamo-Akten: Einblick ins Geheimarchiv der Terrorfahnder
05.Mar.2006 Salz und Golfstrom: Fernwärme für Europa
05.Mar.2006 Geldsegen: Buffett-Fonds verbucht Milliarden-Gewinn
05.Mar.2006 Wetterchaos: Bayern versinkt im Schnee
22.Oct.2004 - Page updated at 12:00 A.M.
Pentagon touted link between Saddam and al-Qaida By Jonathan S. Landay Knight Ridder Newspapers -WASHINGTON
00.Sep.2002 — Pentagon officials told the White House that Saddam Hussein was linked to the 11.Sep.2001 attacks,
even though U.S. intelligence experts couldn't verify the information and considered it dubious, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said yesterday. Print this article
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00.Mar.2006 18:50 High court wades into Texas political shootout Jumping forcefully into a nasty political feud with the potential to affect the November midterm elections, the Supreme Court on Tuesday appeared reluctant to throw out the Texas congressional map that resulted in a GOP majority in the state's congressional delegation.
01.Mar.2006 https://www.firedupamerica.com/aggregator?from=40
Travel Agency Subpoenaed for DeLay Records AUSTIN,Prosecutors have asked a travel agency to turn over records on a trip to Britain that Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), then the House majority leader, took in 2000 with lobbyist Jack Abramoff. Source: The Washington Post
14.Jan.2006 Arrison calls for strong self-regulation in nanotech
In a TechNewsWorld column Sonia Arrison, director of Technology Studies at Pacific Research Institute, calls for strong self-regulation in nanotech: ?
The scientific community is well aware of the potential dangers with nano-scale particles.
The public will be glad to know that the discussion over proper methods is thriving and developing in ... Post Date:01/14/2006 04:46:21 www.foresight.org
04.Mar.2006 You Got The Red Armor: New Nanotech Armor 5x Stronger Than Steel
Instalanche me! It's war! It's nanotech! It's the singularity of body amor!
An Israeli firm has developed armor based on nanotechnology. ApNano has tested armor said to be five times stronger than steel and twice as strong as any impact-resistant... Post Date:01/09/2006 16:27:00 ace.mu.nu
04.Mar.2006 In A Time Of Crisis Bush's True Character Was Revealed
As someone famous once said, it is in times of crisis that one's true character is revealed.
So what we now know about President Bush, is that he and his administration are profoundly imcompetent + when the President feared that was about to be exposed, he simply lied to cover it up.
Three days after Hurricane Katrina wiped out most of New Orleans, President Bush appeared on television and said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." His staff has spent the past six months trying to take back, modify or explain away those 10 words.
The release of a pre-storm video showing officials warning Bush during a conference call that the hurricane approaching the Gulf Coast posed a dire threat to the city and its levees has revived a dispute the White House had hoped to put behind it: Was the president misinformed, misspoken or misleading?
The video leaves little doubt that key people in government did anticipate that the levees might not hold. To critics, especially Democrats but even some Republicans, it reinforces the conclusion that the government at its highest levels failed to respond aggressively enough to the danger bearing down on New Orleans. To Bush aides, the seeming conflict between Bush's public statements and the private deliberations captured on tape reflects little more than an inartful statement opponents are exploiting for political purposes.
04.Mar.2006 GOP Rep: Port Deal Not Investigated Beforehand
According to USA Today-On Deadline, GOP Rep. Peter King says the Bush administration failed to investigate the ports deal before approving it.
Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican, told radio ranger Don Imus this morning that contrary to what President Bush and administration officials have been telling the public, the Dubai port deal was not scrutinized first, according to officials involved.
This is yet another example of a troubling lack of character in the Bush administration. As in the case with Hurricane Katrina, they fail to take actions to keep up safe + then when they get caught failing us, they lie about the situation.
04.Mar.2006 America Is Becoming A Strange Place Indeed
I think this morning's Washington Post story points out just what a strange place America is in politically.
It's strange to me that it is news merely because members of Congress from the President's own party asks a few questions about our national security.
There was a time that the Congress actually thought that was their job, regardless of which party was in the White House.
04.Mar.2006 Globe Story Will Rock DeLay's World
The story in today's Boston Globe about the latest subpoenas in the Abramoff investigation are very bad news for DeLay.
Clearly the feds have zeroed in on the activities of theu_s_family_network U.S. Family Network and the money that Russian energy execs steered there for as yet unknown political favors in return.
DeLay + his henchman, Ed Buckham, are neck deep in the u_s_family_networkU.S. Family Network. If DeLay knows anything incriminating about the Speaker, or the President, now may be the time for him to start organizing his thoughts, because it won't be too long before he is trying to make a deal with the feds.
04.Mar.2006 Rules Committee Report Is Now Available Online
The new report by the Rep. Louise Slaughter of the House Rules Committee is now available online.
You can find the full report here.
And here's a link to Rep. Slaughter's post on Kos about her report: Our Report from the House - America for Sale: The Cost of Republican Corruption
According to Rep. Slaughter, here are some of the key findings of the report:
04.Mar.2006 Once Again The Noose Tightens Around The House GOP
Mitchell Wade, an unindicted co-conspirator in the Rep. Duke Cunningham bribery scandal, will become an "indicted co-conspirator" later today.
According to the AP, Wade will plead guilty to unspecified charges in Washington.
This is extremely bad news for the GOP, as this will give the feds yet another cooperating witness in their ongoing corruption probe of DeLay and others.
Wade + fellow defense contractor Brent Wilkes, showered GOP House members with campaign contributions + in at least one case, bribes, in return for earmarked defense contracts. Check out this San Diego Union Tribune story for a sense of the potential scope of this matter.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.firedupamerica.com/aggregator?from=20
Pentagon Agency's Contracts Reviewed Federal investigators are looking into contracts awarded by the Pentagon's newest and fastest-growing intelligence agency, the Counterintelligence Field Activity, which has spent more than $1 billion, mostly for outsourced services, since its establishment in late 2002, according to administration... Source: The Washington Post
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Katrina Video Refuels Debate Over Response Three days after Hurricane Katrina wiped out most of New Orleans, President Bush appeared on television and said, "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." His staff has spent the past six months trying to take back, modify or explain away those 10 words.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.firedupamerica.com/aggregator?from=20
Ex-FEMA chief: Chertoff should be fired Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff should be fired for his handling of Hurricane Katrina, former federal emergency management chief Michael Brown said Thursday, accusing Chertoff of lacking disaster management knowledge.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.preemptivekarma.com/archives/2006/03/duke_cunningham_1.html
March 03, 2006 Duke Cunningham's briber about to roll over?
A DC political operative has told me that Brent Wilkes, one of the individuals charged with bribing Republican Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, has struck a deal with prosecutors to testify.
Wilkes will implicate four more Republicans for possible criminal activity: Richard Pombo,John Doolittle,Duncan Hunter + Jerry Lewis.
The operative says that they are "highly certain" that this information is accurate. This hasn't hit any media outlets as far as I know..so I have no way of second sourcing it.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.firedupcalifornia.com/node/61
Doolittle Fawns All Over Abramoff Client Squeeze Play: What's Poor Arnold To Do? Is Doolittle Quietly Trying To Curry Favor With Abramoff?
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Former GOP Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham was sentenced Friday to eight years and four months in federal prison for taking $2.4 million in bribes from at least three defense contractors. Source: CNN 16:34 Rep. Cunningham hit with record sentence Read full story for latest details.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.firedupamerica.com/aggregator
00:00 U.S. Seeks Deadline in Dispute With Iran NEW YORK, March 3 -- The Bush administration, preparing to take Iran's case to the U.N. Security Council as early as next week, is seeking a 30-day deadline for Tehran to halt its nuclear program and cooperate with international inspectors or face severe diplomatic pressures, according to several... Source: The Washington Post
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SAN DIEGO, March 3 -- Former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham, a decorated fighter pilot in Vietnam who admitted taking $2.4 million in bribes from two defense contractors, was sentenced Friday to eight years and four months in federal prison for selling his office. Source: The Washington Post
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Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) has acknowledged that she requested last year that $10 million in federal funds be set aside for a Navy intelligence program in her district at the request of Washington contractor Mitchell J. Wade, who pleaded guilty last week to bribing another House member.
Source: The Washington Post
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Hearing Set on Agencies' Withdrawal of Papers From Archives A congressional committee will look into a secret program under which federal intelligence agencies have withdrawn thousands of historical documents from public access at the National Archives, even though the records had been declassified. Source: The Washington Post
04.Mar.2006 https://www.firedupamerica.com/aggregator
Interesting Rumor In The GOP Corruption Scandal Check out the latest rumor in the Cunningham-Wilkes-Wade-Alexander Strategy-DeLay-Et al Corruption Scandal.
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04.Mar.2006 George Bush Is Very Unpopular
It appears as though our mighty President's approval ratings have hit its lowest level ever. Only 34% of Americans approve of the job George Bush is doing + perhaps more interestingly, most Americans now say the president does not care much about people like themselves (51% think he doesn't care). If this is his approval rating at home, I wonder what it is abroad? I guess thats why our fearless leader is bringing about 5,000 people to protect him during his upcoming visit to India. Post Date:02/27/2006 23:58:06
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04.Mar.2006 George Bush counts on India for global fight on terror
George Bush on Friday laid out what it would mean for an India-US partnership in the world. An alliance against terrorism, but more important, an aggressive promotion of democracy worldwide, freer trade. Click the following link https://ww4.6URL.com/0HF5 to read the complete article. Post Date:03/03/2006 23:53:35
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04.Mar.2006 George Bush Is A Liar. He Lies He Lies He Lies. Seriously, He Lies A Lot. It's Becoming A Problem
I was in New Orleans just days after Katrina hit. Watching this video footage showing Bush in another outrageous lie made me ill to my stomach. At what point are the people that voted for this man going to get to work undoing the damage they have done? Where is the congress with the guts to impeach this fraud? These are the same people who went after Bill Clinton for getting a blowjob. George Bush let New Orleans flood + he knew he was doing it + he lied about it + it's all on tape. What more do they need? Post Date:03/02/2006 08:29:00
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04.Mar.2006 Nachfolger von George Bush - er selbst will seinen Bruder als Präsidenten
George Bush kann bei der nächsten Präsidenten-Wahl in den USA nicht mehr teilnehmen. Bei der Diskussion über seinen Nachfolger wollte er sich aber zunächst raushalten. [...] Post Date:02/27/2006 11:46:44
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04.Mar.2006 These Are the Women George Bush Didn't Want America to See
What is it about these two women, on opposite sides of the political spectrum, that scares George Bush so much that they were refused entrance to the State of the Union speech? Post Date:02/02/2006 13:00:55 www.newshounds.us
04.Mar.2006 All the President's Dodges - How George Bush ducks questions
George Bush is a quick wit. ... The pause to think gives him away. When he doesn't punch out a response, he's not puzzling out the answer. He's puzzling out the spin. Here are three of the president's favorite dodges, as executed at the press conference: ... Post Date:01/26/2006 21:03:59 www.basicchristian.org
04.Mar.2006 https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060304/ap_on_sc/cow_dung_gasoline;_ylt=AvCQYE7SuJONiiTuGkG_UU8DW7oF;_ylu=X3oDMTBiMW04NW9mBHNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
Gasoline extracted from cow dung is unheard of, said Tomiaki Tamura, an official of the Natural Resources and Energy Agency. Japan relies almost totally on imports for its oil and gasoline needs.
The team, helped by staff from the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology near Tokyo, produced gasoline by adding several unspecified metal catalysts to the dung inside a container and applying a 30-atmosphere pressure and heat of up to 300 degrees Celsius (572 Fahrenheit), Shibusawa said. Details of the catalysts could not be disclosed, he added.
The team hopes to improve the technology so that it can be used commercially within five years, Shibusawa said.
04.Mar.2006 Japanese Make Gasoline From Cattle Dung Sakae Shibusawa, an agriculture engineering professor at the Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, said his team has successfully extracted .042 ounces of gasoline from every 3.5 ounces of cow dung by applying high pressure and heat.
04.Mar.2006 Huge Crater Found in Egypt The crater is about 19 miles (31 kilometers) wide, more than twice as big as the next largest Saharan crater known. It utterly dwarfs Meteor Crater in Arizona, which is about three-fourths of a mile (1.2 kilometers) in diameter.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.baidu.com/s?wd=exxon%20annual%20report%201998&cl=3
SEEN Exxon -Mobil, was made possible by over $1 billion in approved loans, credits and... annual meeting. The Bank's leadership remained an ardent supporter of export-oriented oil... report ,...www.seen.org/
04.Mar.2006 Venezuela aims for biggest military reserve in Americas : Around 500,000 Venezuelans will start a four-month military training programme today to turn them into members of the country's territorial guard. They are the first group of a total of 2m Venezuelan civilians who have so far signed up to become armed reservists.
04.Mar.2006 Pigs at the trough: Top CIA Official Under Investigation : The CIA Inspector General has opened an investigation into the spy agency's executive director, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo + his connections to two defense contractors accused of bribing a member of Congress and Pentagon officials.
04.Mar.2006 Ten Who Stood Against Patriot Act Reauthorization : When the key vote came Thursday, Feingold found he was not entirely alone. Along with Vermont Independent Jim Jeffords, eight Democrats joined Feingold in voting "no" to reauthorization. The eight were:
04.Mar.2006 Documents Reveal the Stories of Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay : Forced by a federal court to lift the cloak of secrecy that had long shrouded the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Pentagon released thousands of pages of documents Friday containing names and other details for hundreds of detainees scooped up after the 11.Sep.2001 attacks.
04.Mar.2006 Bush and the bomb : Bush, visiting New Delhi, struck a landmark deal allowing India to develop peaceful nuclear energy while staying outside the nuclear non-proliferation treaty (NPT). This smacks of double standards that will make it hard to hold the line on this issue and gives some substance to the charge, voiced by an angry President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, that opposition to Iran's nuclear ambitions - which he claims are peaceful - is politically motivated.
04.Mar.2006 U.S. Opens Iran Propaganda office: New US focus on promoting democracy in Iran: The US State Department has created an office dedicated to Iran to reflect the Bush administration’s new focus on promoting democracy in the Islamic republic, officials said on Thursday.
04.Mar.2006 CIA used A-bomb plan as bait The CIA scheme was to introduce intentional flaws in the design plans that would delay or derail Iranian work. The following excerpt shows the poorly conceived plan + its easily identified flaws
04.Mar.2006 William M. Arkin : WMD Terrorism is A Nightmare of Different Sort: I've never thought that terrorists posed much of a weapons of mass destruction threat + I've always thought that the specter of "nuclear terrorism" was promiscuous and politically motivated, both to undermine disarmament and to bolster U.S. WMD programs.
04.Mar.2006 Hamas strength seen in State Department poll : A State Department-commissioned poll taken days before January's Palestinian elections warned U.S. policymakers that the militant Islamic group Hamas was in a position to win. Nevertheless, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said after the election that they had no advance indication of a major Hamas triumph.
04.Mar.2006 U.S. Cites Exception in Torture Ban : Bush administration lawyers, fighting a claim of torture by a Guantanamo Bay detainee, yesterday argued that the new law that bans cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of detainees in U.S. custody does not apply to people held at the military prison.
04.Mar.2006 In case you missed it: Wasn’t Jesus A Liberal? : Liberalism has been under assault for years now.
The battering of this grand political philosophy has altered the contemporary definition of liberal to the point that Conservatives use it as a profane word.
They use it to paint a political opponent as anti-God and anti-American.
It has gotten to the point that moderate and liberal Christians are afraid to be open about their political leanings.
04.Mar.2006 Military to continue to pay Iraqi media: Casey :
The U.S. military will continue to pay Iraqi media to publish reports favorable to American forces following an investigation into the controversial practice, the top U.S. general in Iraq said on Friday.
04.Mar.2006 God made me kill all those Iraqi's: Blair: 'God will be my judge on Iraq' :
Contradicting warnings from advisers not to mix politics + religion, the Prime Minister said that his interest in politics sprang from his Christianity and its "values and philosophy" had guided him in public life.
04.Mar.2006 America the Pitiful -By Charles Sullivan
Calling our form of government a democratic republic does not make it so. We are what we do. By now it should be abundantly clear that most Americans are incapable of recognizing real democracy—because they have never been subjected to one. Perhaps no culture on earth is more materialistic or delusional than ours’. Compared to much of the world, America’s behavior is tragically pathological. Continued
04.Mar.2006 The results of the latest Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times national public opinion poll: 54 % of Americans disapprove of President Bush's handling of terrorism -- marking a significant reversal in public sentiment from a year ago. It's Way Past Time for the Dems to Charge.
Scientists find Antarctic ice shrank significantly
Fed Up With Bushevism: Support the Voice of Democracy on the Net, BuzzFlash.com.
The Olbermann vs. O'Reilly feud is just getting funnier and funnier: MSNBC host goes to town on right-wing crank after his abuse of power and paranoid police threats -- for mentioning Olbermann! 3/5
Bill Frist is the latest Republican who wants to pass a new law inspired by Bush's law-breaking 3/5
If Duke Cunningham Gets 8 Years, Cheney and Bush Should Get Life in Prison
Negroponte said a civil war in Iraq would be a "serious setback" -- not to the Iraqi people, but to our "global war on terror" 3/5
Democrats Want Immediate Vote on Port Betrayal 3/5
More on the teacher suspended for liberal commentary -- shouldn't teachers be speaking the truth? 3/5
Gagged FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds is ready to let it all out! 3/5
04.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Hopsicker also delivers some fascinating new information about Mohammed Atta and his pre-attack doings and associations -- but that's a post for another time. Permalink
04.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Incidentally, Daniel Hopsicker has announced in a radio interview that he will soon have more information on Wilkes and the CIA. There may even be a book in the works, tying together the Cunningham and Abramoff scandals.
You can hear the excellent two-part interview with Daniel Hopsicker by going here; download F-541a and F-542b. The Wilkes/Cunningham material is on side B.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Dusty Foggo became first a cop, then a D.A.'s assistant -- and then was recruited into CIA, where he now holds the third-highest position. Some say that he was always more of a desk jockey than a James Bond, but he did do a stint in Honduras during the contra war. He handled their financing.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/The ABC story relies on unnamed former CIA officials who say that Foggo was instrumental in swinging fat government contracts to Wilkes' semi-pseudo family of "companies":
As executive director of the CIA, Foggo oversees the administration of the giant spy agency. He was appointed to the post by CIA Director Porter Goss after working as a midlevel procurement supervisor, according to former CIA officials.
While based in Frankfurt, Germany, he oversaw and approved contracts for CIA operations in Iraq. Hmm. Why do I get the strange feeling that some very unnerving stories lurk between the lines of those two short paragraphs? I don't know who those two former officials are, but ABC may have decided to "go to the top" -- which could mean either former DCI George Tenet, or his temporary successor John McLaughlin, or both.
Months ago, I wrote about Wilkes' longstanding and little-understood links to CIA.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Of course, the CIA has a long history of using front companies. And -- surprise, surprise! -- Brent Wilkes has odd links to the Agency.
ABC News reports that Wilkes' long time bud, Kyle "Dusty" Foggo -- the number three man at CIA -- will come under the scrutiny of the CIA's Inspector General.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/the real scandal here isn't the money that went to Cunningham (or Duncan Hunter, or Katherine Harris) -- it's the fact that Brent Wilkes set up fake or semi-fake companies for the express purpose of channeling taxpayer funds into partisan politics.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404395,00.html
Auch Tausende irakische Zivilisten kamen ums Leben.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404395,00.html
London - Blair sagte, er habe in der Frage, ob seine Entscheidung für den Krieg im Irak richtig war oder nicht, lange mit seinem Gewissen gerungen, heißt es in der Abschrift eines Interviews des britischen Fernsehsenders ITV. Das Urteil darüber sprächen am Ende andere + "wenn Sie gläubig sind, wird es von Gott gefällt". Seine Politik habe christliche Werte und eine christliche Philosophie. Zur Frage, ob er vor seiner Kriegsentscheidung gebetet habe, äußerte sich Blair, der regelmäßiger Kirchgänger ist, nicht. Auch die Geschichte werde darüber befinden, ob die Entscheidung richtig gewesen sei, sagte er.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404395,00.html
Mit einer Äußerung im Fernsehen hat der britische Premier Blair für Aufruhr gesorgt. Auf die Frage, ob er die Beteiligung am Irakkrieg noch für richtig halte, sagte er, er habe lange mit sich gerungen. Letztlich werde Gott das Urteil fällen. Kriegsgegner sind empört
04.Mar.2006 Atomstreit: USA wollen Teheran Ultimatum setzen
04.Mar.2006 Beteiligung am Irakkrieg: Blair beruft sich auf Gott
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-402297,00.html
"The Pearl", ein 400 Hektar großes künstliche Eiland, dass derzeit 20 Kilometer nördlich des internationalen Flughafens entsteht, soll 30.000 Menschen exklusives Wohnen ermöglichen. Auf 16 Millionen Quadratmeter Sand und Stein entsteht alles, was man mit Geld kaufen kann: 8000 Villen, Reihenhäuser und Appartements mit Meerblick, drei Luxushotels, Schulen, Kindergärten und Moscheen. Für das Vergnügen werden vier Häfen für insgesamt 700 Yachten, ein Yachtclub, Parkanlagen, Privatstrände, Restaurants und Einkaufsmeilen - selbstverständlich alles vom Feinsten - errichtet. Eine perfekt inszenierte Welt. Je nach Geschmack kann der stolze Käufer zwischen verschiedenen architektonischen Stilen wählen. Vorbilder für die Bauherren sind Gebäude der Toskana, Provence, Kataloniens oder Andalusiens.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404366,00.html
Die Ermittlungen gegen den Lobbyisten Jack Abramoff könnten weitere unliebsame Überraschungen für die Republikaner bergen. Bei der Partei Bushs wächst deshalb die Sorge, die oppositionellen Demokraten könnten bei der Zwischenwahl im November die Kontrolle über den Kongress zurückgewinnen.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404366,00.html
Der Fall Cunningham ist nur einer von mehreren Skandalen, in die Parlamentarier der Partei von Präsident George W. Bush verwickelt sind. So musste etwa der Mehrheitsführer im Repräsentantenhaus, Tom DeLay, im Zuge von Ermittlungen wegen illegaler Wahlkampffinanzierung zurücktreten.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404366,00.html
"Euer Ehren, mein Leben liegt durch meine Handlungen in Trümmern", sagte Cunningham zu Bezirksrichter Larry Burns. Er bat das Gericht, vor Antritt seiner Haft noch ein Mal seine 91 Jahre alte Mutter sehen zu dürfen. Der Richter zeigte wenig Verständnis für den Ex-Abgeordneten: "Sie waren nicht hungrig. Sie haben nicht gefroren + sie waren nicht nass. Und doch haben Sie all dies getan", erklärte Burns.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-404366,00.html
Cunningham saß seit 1991 im US-Repräsentantenhaus. Sein Mandat hatte der altgediente Republikaner bereits niedergelegt, nachdem er die Bestechung zugegeben hatte.
Das Ausmaß seiner Korruption ist beispiellos in der Geschichte des amerikanischen Kongresses. Wie die "New York Times" mit Verweis auf Gerichtsunterlagen berichtet, hat der hochdekorierte Vietnam-Veteran den Konzernen auf Kongresspapier das Auftragsvolumen und die dafür notwendige Zuwendung an seine Adresse genau aufgelistet. Für ein 140.000-Dollar-Boot versprach der Republikaner beispielsweise ein Pentagon-Geschäft in Höhe von 16 Millionen Dollar.
Laut Anklage pflegte Cunningham von den Bestechungsgeldern einen aufwendigen Lebensstil und legte sich unter anderem einen Rolls-Royce und Perserteppiche zu. Auch Reisen ließ sich der Politiker bezahlen. So organisierte ein Konzern einen aufwendigen Trip inklusive Privatjet, Hummer-Essen und "anderen Extras".
"Während er ein gutes Leben führte, verschleuderte er Steuern zum Beispiel für militärische Systeme, die die Streitkräfte weder haben wollten noch benutzten", erklärte Staatsanwalt Phil Halpern. Die Ankläger hatte die Höchststrafe von zehn Jahren beantragt, Cunninghams Anwalt Lee Blalack plädierte auf sechs Jahre.
"Mein Leben liegt in Trümmern"
04.Mar.2006 Atomwaffen: US-Regierung will wieder aufrüsten
04.Mar.2006 Winterwetter: Zug bleibt in Schneewehe stecken
04.Mar.2006 Reaktionen: "Ein Signal an die US-Regierung"
04.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe: Erster Fall in Niedersachsen bestätigt
04.Mar.2006 Saudi-Arabien: Richter verurteilt sich selbst
04.Mar.2006 Transrapid: China forciert Bau von neuer Trasse
04.Mar.2006 Geheimdokumente aus Guantanamo: No-Names bekommen Identität zurück
04.Mar.2006 Interview mit Suzi Quatro: "Ich habe den Frauen eine laute Stimme gegeben"
04.Mar.2006 Mögliche Preisabsprache: US-Justiz überprüft Musik-Downloadbranche
04.Mar.2006 Finanzaffäre: Britische Ministerin trennt sich von Ehemann
04.Mar.2006 Korruptionsskandal: US-Politiker muss acht Jahre hinter Gitter
04.Mar.2006 Bush-Besuch: USA verweigern Pakistan Nuklear-Abkommen
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-403367,00.html
Auch in den friedlicheren Niederlanden hat Experte Bert Lenten 2003 beim Ausbruch einer "Hühnerpest" genannten Vogelgrippe-Variante beobachtet, wie die Menschen Wildvögel plötzlich als Bedrohung wahrnahmen. Seiner Ansicht nach ist die umgekehrte Sichtweise angemessener: "Es sind einfach viele Feuchtgebiete zerstört worden. Wildvögel müssen sich aber irgendwo ernähren und so kommen sie den Nutztieren immer näher."
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-403367,00.html
Doch wie sonst könnte der Erreger - in lebenden Vögeln, deren Fleisch oder ihrem Kot - nach Mitteleuropa gekommen sein? Bert Lenten zählt Möglichkeiten auf: Handel, Schmuggel, illegaler Einfurh von lebendem oder totem Geflügel. "In Osteuropa wird sogar der Mist aus Hühnerställen als Futter für Fischteiche genommen", sagte er. "Wir haben den Fall eines Schwans, der bei seiner Beringung in Ungarn kerngesund war und zwei Tage später tot in Kroatien aufgesammelt wurde." Wer sich einzig auf Zugvögel als Überträger von H5N1 konzentriere, der übersehe andere Ansteckungswege - das sei gefährlich.
Im Januar hatte der Politpopulist Wladimir Schirinowski im russischen Parlament gefordert, alle Zugvögel bei der Rückkehr aus ihren türkischen Winterrevieren abzuschießen. "Die Regierung muss dem Vogelzug einen Riegel vorschieben", forderte er. In der Türkei waren im Januar vier Kinder nach einer H5N1-Infektion gestorben. "Die Vögel sollen da bleiben, wo sie sind", sagte der Politiker.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-403367,00.html
"Ich halte überhaupt nichts von dieser Theorie", sagt der Mikrobiologe Alexander Kekulé von der Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Denn nach allem was man wisse, wirke das Virus in Schwänen sehr schnell und sehr stark. "Die fallen in wenigen Tagen tot um", betont Kekulé. "Einbahnstraßen-Denken" nennt der Vogelkundler Klaus-Dieter Feige die These, dass Wildvögel das Virus aus Osteuropa eingeschleppt haben, wo sich ihre Brutreviere mit denen nach Asien ziehender Vögel überlappen. Feige ist Landeschef der Ornithologischen Arbeitsgemeinschaft Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-403367,00.html
Minister und Veterinäre warnen unisono vor dem Beginn des Vogelzugs im nahenden Frühling. Zugvögel sind die erstbesten Verdächtigen. "Wenn Wildvögel die hauptsächlichen Überträger wären, zum Beispiel zwischen China und Nigeria, dann würde man doch auf der Strecke dazwischen auch Ausbrüche erwarten", sagt Lenten. Das gefährliche Virus hat sich von Osten nach Westen ausgebreitet, die maßgeblichen Vogelzugrouten verlaufen in Nord-Süd-Richtung. Im Fall Rügen kommt hinzu, dass viele betroffene Schwäne überhaupt keine klassischen Zugvögel waren, sondern bestenfalls sogenannte Kälteflüchter.
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-403367,00.html
"Es ist verfehlt, Zugvögel für die Vogelgrippe verantwortlich zu machen", sagte der Exekutivsekretär der Uno-Konvention über wandernde Tierarten (CMS), Robert Hepworth. Für die Verbreitung des Virus durch Zugvögel gebe es keine wissenschaftlichen Belege.
In der Tat bleibt das Auftreten der aggressiven asiatischen Variante von H5N1 in Europa rätselhaft. Die Wanderbewegungen wilder Tiere sind bislang die einzige Erklärung, und diese bleibt unbefriedigend. "Es gibt da viele Einzelfälle, aber wir können kein Zentrum sehen, kein Muster", sagt der Ornithologe Bert Lenten im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE. Er trägt einen noch sperrigeren Titel als Hepworth: Exekutivsekretär des Abkommens zur Erhaltung der afrikanischeurasischen wandernden Wasservögel (AEWA). Die beiden Uno-Tierschutzbürokraten sehen sich plötzlich als Verteidiger zu Unrecht Alleinverdächtiger.
Zugvögel unter Generalverdacht
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-403367,00.html
Wie die Vogelgrippe nach Deutschland kam, ist weiter völlig unklar. Während Politiker und Veterinäre vor dem Beginn des Vogelzugs warnen, weisen Experten auf die Lücken der Erkenntnisse hin: Es scheint, als könnten wilde Gänse, Schwäne und Enten es nicht alleine gewesen sein.
Die Weltkarte ist zu einem Flickenteppich geworden. Von China und Vietnam aus breiten sich rote Felder aus: Jene Länder, in denen das Vogelgrippe-Virus H5N1 ausbricht. Beinahe täglich scheinen Länder dazuzukommen, jüngst immer mehr europäische. Und auch beim Betrachten der Deutschlandkarte drängt sich die Flickenteppich-Assoziation auf. Rügen traf es als erstes, inmitten H5N1-freier Nachbarländer. Die betroffenen brandenburgischen Landkreise grenzen nicht eben an die Insel. Ostholstein liegt 150 Kilometer weiter westlich. Um gar an den Bodenseestrand von Überlingen oder das Mannheimer Rheinufer zu gelangen, muss der Erreger gar die gesamte Bundesrepublik diagonal überquert haben. Muss? Müsste? Nur wie? Geflogen?
04.Mar.2006 Indien und China: Alte Feinde, neue Freunde
04.Mar.200 Ausbreitung von H5N1: Forscher zweifeln an der Zugvogel-These
04.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe: Schutzmaßnahmen treten in Kraft
04.Mar.2006 SAP-Gründer Hopp im Interview: "Ich bin kein Gewerkschaftshasser"
04.Mar.2006 Wetterkapriolen: Schneechaos in Süddeutschland
04.Mar.2006 Guantanamo: Pentagon veröffentlicht Namen von Hunderten Gefangenen
04.Mar.2006 John McLaren | Peace Wars: the 1959 ANZ Peace Conference | Labour ... ] In The Australian Peace Movement: A Short History , Malcolm Saunders and Ralph Summy ... 1 They agree that the Australian Peace Council (APC) arose from the ...
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04.Mar.2006 Letter re NK to Bush ] Irene Gale, Australian Peace Committee, Adelaide, Sue Gilbey, Secy, Australian Peace Committee South Australia , Pauline Mitchell, Campaign for International ...
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04.Mar.2006 Greenpeace - Peace and nuclear disarmament: News ]
06.Aug.2005 Australian Peace and Disarmament campaigner, ... The group’s message was simple - the Australian peace movement opposes nuclear ... www.greenpeace.org.au/peace/news.html
04.Mar.2006 The Guardian ] Australian peace movement gathering strength In Australia opposition to war against Iraq is growing.
This was demonstrated on 16.Feb.200- by the size of the ...www.cpa.org.au/garchve03/1128peace.html
04.Mar.2006 The Australian: Peace breaks out despite looming war [February 20 ... ] The Australian , Australia's national daily newspaper.
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04.Mar.2006 https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_en_ot/art_real_shakespeare&printer=1;_ylt=Au3DRN1PpMXplkEX6xCEm95Y24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
I suspect this is the closest we're ever going to get to looking at the face of Shakespeare," said Tarnya Cooper, curator of the gallery's 16th-century collection.
She said there was strong evidence but no conclusive proof that the so-called Chandos portrait depicted Shakespeare.
The portrait — the first painting presented to the gallery when it opened in 1856 — forms the center of the "Searching for Shakespeare" exhibition, which opens Thursday.
04.Mar.2006 https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060301/ap_en_ot/art_real_shakespeare&printer=1;_ylt=Au3DRN1PpMXplkEX6xCEm95Y24cA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-
The National Portrait Gallery has spent a year and a half conducting tests on several alleged Shakespeare portraits, subjecting them to X-rays, ultraviolet examination, microphotography and pigment analysis.
The gallery concluded that one of the best-known images, the so-called Flower portrait owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was a fake, painted 200 years after the writer's death.
The work, which shows the playwright gazing out at an angle and wearing a wide white collar, has been widely reproduced and is often printed on the covers of his plays.
04.Mar.2006 https://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060302/ap_on_sc/gospel_of_judas
The text, in Egypt's Coptic language, dates from the third or fourth century and is a copy of an earlier document.
National Geographic Society, along with other groups, has been studying the "Judas" text.
The society said Thursday it will release its report on the document "within the next few weeks" but didn't specify whether that would come via a book, magazine article or telecast.
Robinson has not seen the text that National Geographic is working on, but assumes it is the same work assailed by Bishop Irenaeus of Lyons around A.D. 180.
04.Mar.2006 British Gallery Unveils Shakespeare Image For centuries, scholars have argued about the appearance of William Shakespeare. Britain's National Portrait Gallery announced Wednesday that a canvas by an obscure 17th-century artist is - most likely - the one true likeness of the playwright painted in his lifetime.
04.Mar.2006 14th-Century Shipwreck Found in Stockholm Archeologists have found a shipwreck from the late 1300s buried in the mud of a bay in central Stockholm, officials said Thursday.
04.Mar.2006 Expert Doubts 'Gospel of Judas' Revelation An expert on ancient Egyptian texts is predicting that the "Gospel of Judas" - a manuscript from early Christian times that's nearing release amid widespread interest from scholars - will be a dud in terms of learning anything new about Judas.
04.Mar.2006 Gallup: 2 Out of 3 Americans Want U.S. Pull Out from Iraq While newspaper editorials remain virtually silent on the subject, the American public seems to have made up its mind. A new Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll out tonight shows that 2 out of 3 adult Americans now want U.S. troops to start to come home from Iraq. And 55% call the decision to attack Iraq in 2003 a "mistake."
2004061924_Report 00.Jun.2004 Clinton sieht die USA noch fünf Jahre im Irak ...
04.Mar.2006 Palästina: Zwei Staaten gegen das Proletariat Etwas neuere Geschichte. Das angekündigte Scheitern der Osloer Verträge
00.000.1993 Die Osloer Verträge wurden nach dem Irak -Krieg unterzeichnet, die USA und das ...
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,druck-404016,00.html
"Ich hatte mir das Thema nicht ausgesucht, weil es mich besonders interessierte", bekannte Capote hinterher mit Blick auf "In Cold Blood".
"Es war, weil ich einen Non-Fiction-Roman schreiben wollte, ein Buch, das sich ganz wie ein Roman lesen sollte, nur dass jedes Wort darin wahr sein sollte."
04.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/0,1518,druck-404016,00.html
00.000.1975 hatte Capote das erste Kapitel daraus in dem Magazin "Esquire" veröffentlicht - und damit den Anfang seines Endes heraufbeschworen.
Denn was er für die geplante Sammlung entlarvender Porträts offenbar bewusst in Kauf nahm, war Hochverrat an all jenen Freunden, Weggefährten + intellektuellen Widersachern, deren Nähe und Zuspruch ihm stets als unentbehrlicher Lebenstreibstoff gedient hatte.
Die infolge der Veröffentlichung in "Esquire" einsetzenden Schmähungen seiner Kollegen und Freunde, darunter auch die seiner einstigen Vertrauten, der Schriftstellerin Harper Lee,
trafen den exaltierten homosexuellen Szene-Paradiesvogel mit voller Wucht. Von Depressionen geschüttelt, griff er immer öfter zur Flasche.
04.Mar.2006 Ismail Haniyeh: From Refugee Camp to Prime Minister's Office : "Politics," said Shakespeare in The Tempest, "makes strange bedfellows," + few alliances are stranger or more unexpected than those within the present Palestinian government.
04.Mar.2006 Uri Avnery: Break Down That Wall: Every time when I am in Bil'in and other places in occupied Palestine, I can't help thinking what a paradise this country would be if there were peace, peace based on justice and mutual respect.
04.Mar.2006 Israel: Military exports to China back on track : "We renewed the issues of permits to Israeli companies wishing to do business in China," Toren said. "The companies come to us and we use our judgment, with or without consulting with the USA," he continued.
04.Mar.2006 Would Iranian Nukes Only Kill Jews? : A nuclear fireball detonated over Jerusalem would kill a substantial fraction of the city’s half-million Jews — and the city’s quarter-million Palestinians. But not only lives would be destroyed.
04.Mar.2006 US Blanket for India's Nuclear Winter Chills: The nuclear deal inked by the USA and India on Thursday was a doozy. In one stroke, Washington ended India's pariah status and drove a stake through the heart of the Non-Proliferation Treaty. But it still may have been the right thing to do.
04.Mar.2006 Spinning a web for India : Underneath fuzzy talk of shared values, President Bush's real concern is to hobble a potential rival
04.Mar.2006 Hacks And Spooks - Close Encounters Of A Strange Kind: 00.000.1975, following Senate hearings on the CIA, the reports of the Senate's Church Committee and the House of Representatives' Pike Committee highlighted the extent of agency recruitment of both British and US journalists.
04.Mar.2006 US lags in propaganda war: Rumsfeld By Daniel Trotta: The Pentagon chief said today's weapons of war included e-mail, Blackberries, instant messaging, digital cameras and Web logs, or blogs.
04.Mar.2006 CENTCOM Team Engages 'Bloggers: Blogs sometimes include information -- accurate and otherwise -- about the U.S. military's global war on terror. U.S. Central Command officials here took notice and created a team to engage these writers and their electronic information forums.
04.Mar.2006 US censors websites : US MARINES stationed in Iraq are complaining that the US government is restricting their access to websites too much.
Along with porn sites, on the Army’s list of banned sites include mail sites such as Yahoo, AT&T, Hotmail. The censors are also blocking blogs and sites that do not agree with the current administration.
04.Mar.2006 Chris Floyd: Party Hacks : The fix is in for 2008: Two weeks ago, an obscure, unelected, Republican-appointed official in California decided the future of the world. That future -- at least for the next several years -- will be an accelerating nightmare of war, corruption, repression, atrocity and terror. That's because the loyal apparatchik has, with the stroke of a pen, guaranteed the perpetuation of the Bush faction in power in 2008 and beyond.
04.Mar.2006 Katherine Harris Caught Up in Bribery Scandal: U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris said Thursday she did not knowingly do anything wrong in her associations with a defense contractor who prosecutors say illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign in 2004.
04.Mar.2006 Bill Clinton helped Dubai on ports deal : Bill Clinton, former US president, advised top officials from Dubai two weeks ago on how to address growing US concerns over the acquisition of five US container terminals by DP
World.
04.Mar.2006 Dubai funds Neil Bush's company: Investors from the United Arab Emirates helped fund the $23 million Neil Bush raised for Ignite!, the learning systems company that holds lucrative No Child Left Behind Act contracts in Florida and Texas.
04.Mar.2006 Is Carlyle Group at heart of DPW deal? : What does Dubai Ports World have in common with CSX, Treasury Secretary John Snow + the Bush Family? The Carlyle Group is the answer currently gaining ground on the Internet.
04.Mar.2006 In case you missed it: ‘Frauds-R-Us’: The Bush Family Saga: How can one family which has so many skeletons in the family closet, get away with such dirty dealings and over such a long period of time without being called to task?
04.Mar.2006 Katrina Six Months Later:
04.Mar.2006 Experts Call for Release of 11.Sep.2001 Evidence : A society of experts and scholars has now joined with Judicial Watch in calling for release of videos that are being held by the Department of Defense, which are essential to understanding events at the Pentagon that transpired on 11.Sep.2001, 2001. Scholars for 11.Sep.2001 Truth
04.Mar.2006 When $8.18 Trillion Isn't Enough : Yesterday, Treasury officials told Senate aides that without an increase in the nation's $8.18 trillion debt limit, the government "would default on obligations for the first time in history sometime during the week of March 20."
04.Mar.2006 Paul Craig Roberts: How the Economic News is Spun: When You Can't Obscure the News, Buy It
04.Mar.2006 Midwest Oil fined for selling gas too cheaply: The state imposed a $140,000 penalty for what it called "willful, continuing + egregious" violations of the price law.
04.Mar.2006 Teacher Probed Over Bush Remarks: About 150 students at a suburban Denver high school walked out of class to protest a decision to put a teacher on administrative leave while the school investigates remarks he allegedly made in class about President Bush, including a comment that some people compare Mr. Bush to Adolf Hitler.
04.Mar.2006 Poll: 2 Out of 3 Americans Want U.S. Pull Out from Iraq : While newspaper editorials remain virtually silent on the subject, the American public seems to have made up its mind. A new Gallup/CNN/USA Today poll out tonight shows that 2 out of 3 adult Americans now want U.S. troops to start to come home from Iraq. And 55% call the decision to attack Iraq in 2003 a "mistake."
04.Mar.2006 Australian PM denies seeing cable on wheat scandal: Australian Prime Minister John Howard has distanced himself from the scandal surrounding huge bribes paid to Saddam Hussein's regime by denying he had ever seen a diplomatic cable which warned of the payments.
04.Mar.2006 Ex-Official: Iraq Abuses Growing Worse : Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday.
04.Mar.2006 Terrorist growth overtakes U.S. efforts: Thirty new terrorist organizations have emerged since the 11.Sep.2001, 2001, attacks, outpacing U.S. efforts to crush the threat, said Brig. Gen. Robert L. Caslen, the Pentagon's deputy director for the war on terrorism.
04.Mar.2006 Baghdad official who exposed executions flees : Faik Bakir, the director of the Baghdad morgue, has fled Iraq in fear of his life after reporting that more than 7,000 people have been killed by death squads in recent months, the outgoing head of the UN human rights office in Iraq has disclosed.
04.Mar.2006 U.S. Intel: Qaeda Plotting 'Big Bang' : U.S. officials tell CBS News that intelligence has picked up reports that al Qaeda in Iraq is planning what one source calls the "Big Bang," a spectacular terrorist attack in Iraq against either a single high-profile target or multiple targets simultaneously.
04.Mar.2006 Katrina: Criminal Negligence or Manslaughter? -By Mike Wwhitney
Why aren’t we talking about Criminal Negligence? Continued
04.Mar.2006 Guantanamo man tells of 'torture' -By BBC
A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture. Audio and transcript. This is a must listen
04.Mar.2006 'War on terror' trials could allow evidence obtained through torture -By Agence France Presse
US military officers, breaking with domestic and international legal precedent, said that "war on terror" military tribunals at the Guantanamo naval base could allow evidence obtained through torture. Continued
04.Mar.2006 Zeitungsbericht: Baukonzern HDH steht vor der Insolvenz
04.Mar.2006 Schneechaos in Frankfurt: Auch am Samstag drohen viele Flüge auszufallen
04.Mar.2006 Verhandlungen in Moskau: Hamas stellt Bedingungen für Waffenruhe mit Israel
03.Mar.2006 Pakistan: Zornige Proteste vor Bush-Besuch
03.Mar.2006 Dokumentation: "Freigeister aller Länder, vereinigt Euch"
03.Mar.2006 Schneechaos in Frankfurt: Lufthansa streicht alle innerdeutschen Flüge
03.Mar.2006 Moskauer Gespräche: Russland drängt Hamas zur Umsetzung der Friedensabkommen
03.Mar.2006 Umsatzwarnung: Intel schockt die Märkte
03.Mar.2006 Karikaturenstreit: Prominente Muslime gegen islamistischen "Totalitarismus"
03.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe: Rügen fürchtet die Rechnung der Bundeswehr
03.Mar.2006 Russische Experten: Iranische Atombombe in fünf Jahren
03.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe in Mannheim: Erstmals H5N1 in deutscher Großstadt
03.Mar.2006 Taiwan-Konflikt: China beginnt Militärmanöver
03.Mar.2006 Nach Atomdeal: Bush-Regierung will Indien aufrüsten
03.Mar.2006 Satellitenbild der Woche: Monster, Brückenstreit und Zugvögel
03.Mar.2006 Menschenrechte: Europäischer Gerichtshof verurteilt Türkei wegen Misshandlungen
03.Mar.2006 Netzwelt-Ticker: Das Ende aller Rätsel
03.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe: Zwei weitere tote Wildvögel mit H5N1 in Brandenburg
03.Mar.2006 Atapuerca, Homo Heidelbergensis - Homo antecessor adultes Cranium, Sima de los Huesos , Sierra de Atapuerca, Spanien, ca. ...
Three new human skulls from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site in ... www.willighp.de/evo/funde/hh_atapuerca.php
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' Sima de los huesos ' at Galeria Carles Taché - Finden Sie weitere Künstler, Kunstwerke, Ausstellungen, Galerien und ... www.artnet.de/...//www.artnet.de 1. März 2006
Galeria Carles Taché: Online Inventarkatalog auf artnet Miguel Angel Campano - Sima de los huesos , 2001. Miguel Angel Campano Sima de los huesos , 2001. Miguel Angel Campano - Untitled, 2001. Miguel Angel Campano ... www.artnet.de/Galleries/Inventory.asp?G=&gid=1029&which=&rta=https://www.artnet.de
Sima Objekte Knochenobjekte, Schmuck und andere Designobjekte Grube, wie zB in ' Sima de los Huesos ' -> Knochengrube, -->mehr dazu. 3.Ozeanische Erdkruste, -->mehr dazu. www.sima-objekte.de/
Die Odyssee der Menschheit in Atapuerca
00.000.1992 -im Sommer- Knochengrube, Die Sima de los Huesos ... dort auf dem Grund wurden die 300.000 Jahre alten Reste von 32 Individuen beiderlei Geschlechts + ... www.spain.info/TourSpain/Reportajes/0/La+odisea+de+la+especie+en+Atapuerca?SubSys=Sights?language=DE
Yacimiento de Atapuerca – Archäologische Fundstätte von Atapuerca in der Sima de los Huesos (etwa: Knochenschlucht) wurden Die Reste von mindestens 32 Personen verschiedenen Alters gefunden, weshalb man von einem der
www.spain.info/TourSpain/Arte%20y%20Cultura/Monumentos/H/CW/0/Yacimiento%20de%20Atapuerca.htm?Language=de
Juan Luis Arsuaga - Perlentaucher.de, Kultur und Literatur Online Und erst kürzlich hat der Fund des vollständigen Beckenknochens eines Prä-Neandertalers in der Sima de los Huesos die Wissenschaftler dazu veranlasst, ... www.perlentaucher.de/autoren/12082.html
ORF ON Science - Atapuerca und die ersten Europäer - Teil 2 Die Sima de los Huesos , mit einem Alter von ca. 300.000 Jahren brachte Reste von bis zu dreissig identifizierbaren Individuen von Homo heidelbergensis ans ... science.orf.at/science/news/16048
Wurde Europa doch früher besiedelt? Überraschungen aus Ost und West Die jüngeren Formen, die aus dem Höhlensystem Sima des los Huesos bei Atapuerca um 300.000 rJ stammen, werden von ihren Beschreibern als Homo www.wort-und-wissen.de/sij/sij92/sij92-2.html
Museum-Aktuell: Das Museums-Portal, European Museums, Verlag Dr ... La muestra incorpora los más recientes hallazgos y, como novedad, se presentan los originales del Cráneo Número 5 de la Sima de los Huesos y del ... www.museum-aktuell.de/index.php?site=ausstellungen&step=2&kat=1
Entwicklung des Menschen in Europa 780000 - 120000 Jahren wurden aus den beiden Fundplätzen Sima de los Huesos und Gran Dolina geborgen. Bereits bei den älteren unter ihnen, dem Homo erectus ... www.landschaftsmuseum.de/Seiten/Lexikon/Entwicklung_Mensch.htm 2. März 2006
Chronologieschnipsel 00.Sep.1998 in Berlin besucht werden konnte, entnehmen wir [Seite 45], daß die 1600 menschlichen Fossilien aus der "Knochengrube" Sima de los Huesos ... www.berliner-geschichtssalon.de/Seiten/schnipsel.htm
Spanien - Zeiträume Reisen GmbH - Ihr Reiseveranstalter für ... In der Sima de los Huesos (etwa: Knochenschlucht) wurden die Reste von 32 Personen verschiedenen Alters gefunden, weshalb man von einem der wertvollsten je ... www.zeitraeume-reisen.de/.../Reisen/46302_ZentralspanienUNESCO8_II/46302_ZentralspanienUNESCO8_II.htm
Curiosidades (Lo + Antiguo) en La Sierra de la Demanda (Burgos) ... La llamada Sima de los Huesos está considerada como uno de los yacimientos de huesos y fósiles más importantes del mundo y que mejor están permitiendo el ... en.toprural.com/rutas/es.cfm/accion/clase/idp/09/idz/116/idc/3/idt/8.htm?clang=DE
Antiquity of Man hominin evolution external links ] Three new human skulls from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site in Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain, by JL. Arsuaga (1993; .pdf format) ... www.antiquityofman.com/archaeology_links_homininarticles.html
Zur Stammesgeschichte des Menschen ... In der Höhle Sima de los Huesos (spanisch = Knochengrube) wurden seit 1976 über 1600 menschliche Knochenfragmente von insgesamt 32 Individuen gefunden ...
ftp.brg-schoren.ac.at/Materialien/Biologie/Spezialgebiete/Stamm3.htm
03.Mar.2006 ORF ON Science - Atapuerca und die ersten Europäer - Teil 2 Die Sima de los Huesos , mit einem Alter von ca. 300.000 Jahren brachte Reste von bis zu dreissig identifizierbaren Individuen von Homo heidelbergensis ans ... science.orf.at/science/news/16048
Wurde Europa doch früher besiedelt? Überraschungen aus Ost und West Die jüngeren Formen, die aus dem Höhlensystem Sima des los Huesos bei Atapuerca um 300.000 rJ stammen, werden von ihren Beschreibern als Homo ... www.wort-und-wissen.de/sij/sij92/sij92-2.html
03.Mar.2006 Atompolitik: Gabriel dementiert Zusage über längere Kraftwerks-Laufzeiten
03.Mar.2006 Tierschützer gegen Adidas: "Kängurus sind keine Schuhe"
03.Mar.2006 Nahost: USA wollen Hamas isolieren
03.Mar.2006 Anti-Terror-Gesetz: US-Senat stimmt Bushs "Patriot Act" zu
03.Mar.2006 Protektionismus in Europa: Hoch die Barrikaden
03.Mar.2006 "Welcome back to the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week.
Skip the sex, what we have here is lies and videotapes."
George W. Bush has been caught as surely with the smoking gun as Dick Cheney was a couple of weeks ago.
Crashing the Gate: Netroots, Grassroots + the Rise of People-Powered Politics; "An uplifting testimonial to the power of the Net" -- A BuzzFlash Review
Molly Ivins: The Cost of Incompetence
Bush Free Fall Continues in New Polls. The Only Thing Saving Him is a Servile Mainstream Media and a Rubber Stamp Congress.
The People of America, Despite the Bush Lies, Are Waking Up.
Ray McGovern: I Do Not Wish to Be Associated With Torture -- A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
Associated Press Starts Acting Like a Journalistic Organization:
Re Katrina, "They Failed to Deliver...But the videotape and transcripts offer a graphic display of a fatally inept bureaucracy at work ? a system where everybody talks a good game and nobody produces." 3/3
Is a Farrakhan/Falwell Alliance Coming Down the Road? "Falwell Asserts Jews Can't Go To Heaven." No, but hypocritical, disgusting, phony "Evangelists" can sure go to Hell. 3/3
The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers.
Pat Robertson loses seat on evangelical broadcasters' board 3/3
Loss of Antarctic Ice Increases 3/3
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I'm reminded of a similar controversy which has arisen over Tor, a program which allows users to use the internet anonymously. (See here, scroll down to number 9.)
Tor was developed by the Navy, which has used it for intelligence gathering purposes.
That history set off all sorts of alarm bells: What if the intelligence community made this thing available to the world, placed a back door into it +
thus had a bird's-eye view of everyone who was trying to escape cyber-scrutiny? (Dan Bown's entertaining Digital Fortress is based on a very similar scenario.)
03.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
This Wonkette story adds to the picture. Apparently, the Powers That Be hope to prevent our warriors in Iraq from receiving any information not approved by the Republican Party - even if doing so requires the censoring of email. Here's the scoop, according to a Wonkette correspondent in the service:
Just to let you know, the US Marines have blocked access to "Wonkette" along with numerous other sites such as personal email (i.e. Yahoo, AT&T, Hotmail, etc), blogs that don't agree with the government point of view, personal websites + some news organizatons. This has taken effect as of the beginning of February.
I have no problem with them blocking porn sites (after all it is a government network), but cutting off access to our email and possibly-not-toeing-the-government-line websites is a bit much.
Initially all web blocking was done locally at the hub sites in Iraq.
If you wanted a site "unblocked" you just had to email the local administrator with a reason (like, "I'd like to read my email, please.") + if it wasn't porn or offensive, they'd allow it.
Now, all blocking is done by desk-weenies at the USMC Network Operations Center in Quantico, VA, who really don't care if we get our email (or gossip) out here, as they get to go to happy hour after working 9 to 5 and go home to a nice clean, warm home with a real bed! (Sorry, I'm a little peeved.) Meet the new American soldier: He has goggles which allow him to see at night -- yet he remains blind. Permalink
03.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
I can tell you that alchohol was one way to escape the reality of the service, when one didn't know if one were to live or die the next day.
And for what?
Can you imagine knowing the truth about how shitty this war promoted? What motivation makes you get up in the morning to put on your boots + pull patrol thinking about land mines and suicide bombers every freaking minute?
how do they sleep at all?
Let me tell you, you need to believe in a nicer truth to make it through the day.
And the fact is, these are poorer and undereducated people, who else would go through that crap voluntarily, day after day?
03.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
I spent 3 years in the Army Infantry Airborne + my friend, that is not a haven for free debate and intellectual discorse.
You are conditioned to obey. That is it. And believe me, you are lied to as well + then some.
The fact is that our troops have very little real info to go by.
And you had better not question what the commander-in-chief asks.
It is the word of the lord.
We had an expression in the 82nd Airborne: we are like mushrooms, kept in the dark and fet shit.
03.Mar.2006 https://www.wbresearch.com/dgieurope/full.html
The Contribution Of Geospatial Intelligence To The Greater Intelligence Picture: An Italian Perspective
Lt. General Nicolò Pollari,
Director,
ITALIAN INTELLIGENCE AND SECURITY SERVICES (SISMI)
15.Oct.2001 -since the- Lt. General Pollari has been the Director of SISMI
Previous to this,Lt. General Nicolò Pollari commanded territorial, educational and higher formation units, as well as operative branches of the Guardia di Finanza and of the Judicial Police.
In particular, he headed the central squad of the Guardia di Finanza in Rome.
In addition, Lt. General Nicolò Pollari has carried out judicial inquiries in Italy and abroad to counter terrorism and organised crime.
00.Apr.1993-00.Aug.1997 Lt. General Nicolò Pollari was the Chief of Staff of the Guardia di Finanza,
before becoming Deputy-Secretary General of the Executive Committee for the Intelligence and Security Services.
In the same period, he chaired the Inter-institutional Working Group on Economic Intelligence.
03.Mar.2006 https://www.wbresearch.com/dgieurope/full.html
Geo-Spatial Intelligence As Foundation For Increased “Effect”
Michael M. Thomas
Vice President and General Manager, Geospatial-Intelligence Solutions, IS&S,
LOCKHEED MARTIN
Michael M. Thomas is Vice President + General Manager of the Geospatial-Intelligence Solutions Line of Business, Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems & Solutions (IS&S).
Mr Thomas’ primary responsibilities include the day-to-day operations of the business, contract performance, financial management, strategy + implementation of National and International Geospatial-Intelligence systems + technologies, advanced research and human resource management.
Mr Thomas previously served as Executive Vice President of Lockheed Martin Management & Data Systems.
00.Nov.1998 Mr Thomas was named as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Focus Executive, a role he continues.
In this role, Mr Thomas is responsible for executive oversight for all NGA activities, ensuring that LMC provides focused resources in support of NGA.
Mr Thomas has over twenty-five years of experience in business development + program performance leadership positions with IBM, Loral & Lockheed Martin.
Environmental Picture Decision Superiority Persistent Surveillance Effect Based Operation Geo-ref model
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography --- by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin /bush10.htm Chapter -X- Rubbers Goes to Congress
00.000.1966 -the year that Bush says he left the management of Zapata to devote himself full-time to politics, Zapata experienced another increase in earnings per share.
00.000.1966 According to the Zapata Annual Report, Zapata's "net profits for 1966 exceeded the net profits of several Fortune 500 companies."
The value of Zapata's offshore drilling fleet was an estimated $34 million + the company's stock was now trading on the American Stock Exchange.
With departure of George H.W. Bush as chairman of the board, the corporate personalities of Zapata underwent a shakeup.
Along with Bush departed his maternal Uncle Herbie, aka G.H. Walker Jr., the Managing Director of G.H. Walker and Co., New York.
J.W. Gardner was out as president, replaced by William H. Flynn.
The new chairman of the board and chief executive officer was now D. Doyle Mize, who had previously been a member of the board.
The Underwood, Neuhaus Co. interests kept their seat on the Zapata board, but their representative changed from Milton R. Underwood to William Stamps Farrish III, Bush's Beeville hunting partner and the grandson of the Standard Oil executive who had been exposed for dealing with Nazi firms.
Added to the board were also two representatives of leading Houston law firms, including R.P. Bushman of Vinson, Elkins, Weems + Searls and B.J. Mackin of Baker, Botts, Shepherd and Coates.
Judging from the presence of Farrish and the Houston lawyers, we may conclude that although Bush had departed from the formal structure of Zapata, he still had board members to represent his interests, which was important in light of the Zapata stock he continued to hold.
The sole New Yorker on the post-Bush board was also a new face, Michael M. Thomas of Lehman Brothers.
03.Mar.2006 Utah Votes 'No' to Darwin's Critics Zonk
NewbieV writes "An article in Tuesday's New York Times notes that proposed legislation which would have 'stress[ed] that not all scientists agree on which theory regarding the origins of life, or the origins or present state of the human race, is correct;' has failed by a 46-28 vote in a Republican-controlled state House of Representatives."
03.Mar.2006 Diebold Whistle-Blower Charged With Felony Access CmdrTaco
Vicissidude writes "An employee of law firm Jones Day found legal memos showing that their client, Diebold Election Systems, had used uncertified voting systems in Alameda County elections beginning 00.000.2002 - violating California election law. The whistle-blower turned over the memos to the Oakland Tribune, which published the legal memos on its website 00.Apr.2004 .
The company's AccuVote-TSx model was subsequently banned 00.May 2004 .
Now, the whistle-blower, Stephen Heller, has been charged in L.A. Superior Court with felony access to computer data, commercial burglary + receiving stolen property.
If convicted on all three counts, Heller could face up to three years and eight months in state prison.
Blair Berk, Heller's attorney state, "Certainly, someone who saw those documents could have reasonably believed that thousands of voters were going to be potentially disenfranchised in upcoming elections."
Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the L.A. County district attorney's office rebuts, "He's accused of breaking the law...
If we feel that the evidence shows beyond a reasonable doubt in our minds that a crime has been committed, it's our job as a criminal prosecutor to file a case.""
03.Mar.2006 NSA Shopping For Data Mining Tech Zonk prostoalex writes
"The National Security Agency paid a visit to Silicon Valley venture capitalists, the New York Times learned, to talk about potentially 'interesting' technologies that the Feds would be interested in purchasing.
Data mining technologies that could link arbitrary facts into logical events and find dependencies, technologies for quick voice transcription -
all these technologies usually get to market faster if developed by private companies."
03.Mar.2006 Swarms of Microrobots Over Europe? Zonk
Roland Piquepaille writes "In 'Mini robots to undertake major tasks?,' IST Results describes a EU-funded project which allowed to build several kinds of microrobots in the last three years.
These robots are very small (about 1.5 cm by 3 cm), have limited on-board intelligence and are wirelessly controlled by a central robot control system.
A follow-on project has already started, with an even more ambitious goal: deploy 'real' swarms of up to 1,000 robot clients.
Such robot swarms are expected to perform 'a variety of applications, including micro assembly, biological, medical or cleaning tasks.'
Read more for additional details, pictures and references about this follow-on project not described by the article mentioned above."
03.Mar.2006 Senators press for details of NSA spying A prominent Senate Democrat says President Bush seems to think there's "no place" for judicial or congressional oversight.
03.Mar.2006 Using India's Poor as Guinea Pigs Big pharmas have a billion people vying to be part of clinical trials of untested drugs.
Areas known only for snakes and heat now have good hospitals after the government passed a law allowing the drug testing and advertised its "treatment naive" patients. By Jennifer Kahn from Wired magazine.
03.Mar.2006 Optimists 'have less heart risk' Optimists seem less likely to die of heart disease or stroke than pessimistic people, a Dutch study says.
03.Mar.2006 Cancer chemical found in drinks Traces of a cancer-causing chemical, controlled in drinking water, are found in British soft drinks, the BBC learns.
03.Mar.2006 'Military-style' flu network call A military-style surveillance network should be set up to identify early signs of a human flu pandemic, US doctors say.
03.Mar.2006 Antarctica losing ice to oceans Using space-based measurements of gravity, scientists show Antarctica is losing ice into the oceans.
03.Mar.2006 Giant wind farm plan thrown out Plans to create England's largest wind farm in Cumbria are rejected by the government.
03.Mar.2006 High Court clears P&O's takeover Port and shipping group P&O's £3.9bn takeover by rival Dubai Ports World is approved by a High Court judge.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.sploid.com/news/2006/03/murderrobot_hel.php "Other robo-copter tinkerers are trying to give their machines some teeth," DefenseTech reports today.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.sploid.com/news/2006/03/nyc_library_gra.php
02.Mar.2006 Secret video reveals Bush knew levees would break
02.Mar.2006 AP video shows Bush knew exactly what would happen to New Orleans a day before
02.Mar.2006 https://www.sploid.com/news/2006/03/nyc_library_gra.php
02.Mar.2006 'Patriot Act' is back with 89-10 Senate vote
02.Mar.2006 Anti-American Senate passes police-state laws after 2-month delay
02.Mar.2006 BREAKING: Al-Qaeda Infiltrated UAE Government, According To 2002 Letter
00.May 2002 or 00.Jun.2002 al Qaeda officials wrote a letter to the UAE government claiming the emirates were "well aware" of the infiltration.
The letter, translated by the USA Government, is publicly available on the website of the West Point Combating Terrorism Center.
02.Mar.2006 They Knew: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina
In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans' Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.
Bush didn't ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: "We are fully prepared." - From the Associated Press.
So they knew. Everybody owes Kanye West an apology.
"I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees"
02.Mar.2006 Murder-robot helicopter Killer robot helicopters! Coming soon to a fascist theocracy near you!
02.Mar.2006 Study: Bronze disk is astronomical clock A mysterious Bronze Age disk has reportedly been identified by a Hamburg, Germany, scientist as being one of the world's first astronomical clocks.
The 3,600-year-old Sky Disc of Nebra, discovered four years ago when German grave robbers tried to sell it on the international market, indicates Bronze Age man had a sophisticated sense of time.
02.Mar.2006 Concealed History: The Next War on Iran and Syria
02.Mar.2006 Another story found over at the Anomalist. From Al-Jazeerah.
02.Mar.2006 What Bush Was Told About Iraq Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney + other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources.
02.Mar.2006 Why is the "Drug War" a Complete Failure in Relation to Mexico? The Truth is That the American Government Believes the Mexican Economy Will Collapse if the Drug Trade is Really Stopped, So It's Just a Show "War." A BuzzFlash Interview with Author Charles Bowden.
02.Mar.2006 America's Security Betrayed: A review of a United Arab Emirates-owned company's plan to take over a portion of operations at key U.S. ports never looked into whether the company had ties to al Qaeda or other terrorists, a key Republican lawmaker told CNN on Wednesday.
What an ingenious little book about something we all use and need, love and disdain -- and it is at the root of the evil of the Bush Administration: Money. Get "The Little Money Book" From BuzzFlash.com.
The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers.
Another Bush Betrayal of National Security: Dubai Port Deal May Close on Monday, Despite the Propaganda Stunt of a "45-day Review." 3/3
What Will It Take to Remove Bush from Office. How Many Times Has He Been Revealed a Serial Liar? Now, a Tape is Released Proving that He Was Warned the Levees Could Break in New Orleans Days Before He Swore to the Nation That No One Could Have Predicted the Levees Would Break. What Will It Take for America to Restore Honesty and Truth to Our Government by Frogmarching Bush Out of the White House?
POLL: Bush Free Fall Continues in New Polls 3/3
02.Mar.2006 Bush is a Danger to Life and Limb Everywhere: White House REDUCES Mine Safety Regulations! 3/3
The actual video of Bush being briefed about Katrina and told the Superdome and the levees might not be sufficient. Bush knew and went on vacation anyway, then lied about it after the fact, saying no one could have anticipated the breach of the levees and the scope of the storm. The Associated Press basically calls Bush a liar. 3/2
02.Mar.2006 Human rights abuses in Iraq are as bad now as they were under Saddam Hussein, as lawlessness and sectarian violence sweep the country, the former U.N. human rights chief in Iraq said Thursday. 3/2
02.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/the controversial Al Qaeda-linked Arab monarchy is also poised to take over American firms which make "make precision components used in engines for military aircraft and tanks." See the Washington Post story here and the Raw Story piece here.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Although I have not agreed with Xymphora's take on the port deal, one of his most recent observations hits the target: Israeli companies run airport security in the USA + run a large part of the American telephone system. We've not heard any theories about Israel's connections to the drug trade and to the arms trade. Israel is the world leader in the illegal ecstasy trade + one of the world's biggest arms traders. In both cases, Israeli involvement in these matters dwarfs any possible Dubai involvement in similar operations, but we never hear anything about the security implications if Israel is involved.
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02.Mar.2006 http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ 4. Check Point bought Sourcefire for $225 million. Where did they get that kind of money?
The non-freeware version of Zone Alarm costs roughly fifty bucks + I believe that this is the product for which an afore-cited news story claimed 80,000 customers.
Math was never my strong suit, but by my calculations, 80,000 units at $50 per adds up to $4 million.
Check Point does offer other products for the corporate market, of course. Look over their line + come to your own conclusions as to whether this firm could fork over $225 million cash.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/3. Most of us rely on freeware; my system has a ton of the stuff.
I am particularly reliant on certain pieces of well-reviewed free security software, such as AVG, Ad-Aware, Ewido + (ahem!) Zone Alarm.
Although a poor man should never count the teeth of a gift horse, I'm starting to wonder: Do the companies which make such fully-functional systems available gratis have hidden agendas?
02.Mar.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Incidentally, the Israeli company which acquired Sourcefire is Check Point, which makes the popular internet firewall Zone Alarm.
Everyone agrees that it is an excellent piece of software. Although various news stories claim that Check Point serves some 80,000 paying customers, the company distributes a free version of Zone Alarm, which millions of people have downloaded. Many believe that the no-pay version of ZA outshines for-pay versions of competing products.
Those of a paranoid turn of mind will thus want to ask a few questions:
1. Is there any way to tell whether someone engineered a back door into Zone Alarm?
02.Mar.2006 Israel: Sub fleet chief: We can hit targets overseas : Submarines may be used for hitting strategic targets outside Israel's territory, chief commander of the IDF's submarine fleet, Colonel Yoni, stated.
02.Mar.2006 Israel: Olmert received apartment bribe: Journalist Yoav Yitzhak says acting prime minister got apartment discount in exchange for expediting construction permits.
02.Mar.2006 London mayor's suspension frozen: A London judge Tuesday froze the four-week suspension of London Mayor Ken Livingstone so it can be appealed.
02.Mar.2006 Bob Herbert : Ike Saw It Coming : In one of the great deceptive maneuvers in U.S. history, the military-industrial complex (with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney as chairman and C.E.O., respectively) took its eye off the real enemy in Afghanistan and launched the pointless but far more remunerative war in Iraq.
02.Mar.2006 In case you missed it?: Video : Exposed: The Carlyle Group : Shocking documentary uncovers the subversion of Americas democracy.
I defy you to watch this 48 minute documentary and not be outraged about the depth of corruption and deceit within the highest ranks of our government.
02.Mar.2006 Chris Floyd: The Pentagon Archipelago : When I read the passage below from Moazzam Begg's account of his years in Bush's Terror War prisons, I had a strange feeling of dislocation: it was as if 30 years had suddenly fallen away and I was back in high school, reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago
02.Mar.2006 U.S. will pay $300,000 in 11.Sep.2001 detainee's lawsuit : The settlement, filed in federal court late on Monday, is the first the government has made in a number of lawsuits charging that noncitizens were abused and their constitutional rights violated in detentions after the terror attacks.
02.Mar.2006 U.S. Opposes U.N.'s Planned Rights Panel: : The Bush administration will oppose a U.N.-backed resolution calling for the creation of a council to expose the world's worst human rights abusers, John R. Bolton, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said Monday.
02.Mar.2006 Bush chides Belarus on human rights ahead of vote : President George W. Bush showed U.S. displeasure on Monday with the Belarus government's human rights record by meeting at the White House with two women whose husbands disappeared in the former Soviet republic.
02.Mar.2006 Iranians not to give up right to uranium enrichment: "Iran is ready to accept any plan that will both honor our rights and build trust.
02.Mar.2006 U.S. plan to divide Iran: The US and Britain have torn apart Iraq and now they want to do the same to Iran.
The US military has been studying ethnic and religious tensions in Iran as part of its preparations for war. This suggests that plans for war are advanced.
02.Mar.2006 John Zogby:New Poll Of U.S. Soldiers in Iraq : A first-ever survey of U.S. troops on the ground fighting a war overseas has revealed surprising findings, not the least of which is that an overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year.
02.Mar.2006 Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer: The Iraq War in Context: A Strategy Paper Calling for the Immediate Withdrawal of U.S. Troops
02.Mar.2006 Exclusive: Former UN Human Rights Chief in Iraq Says US Violating Geneva Conventions, Jailing Innocent Detainees: Pace says he believes the U.S. has violated the Geneva Conventions, is fueling the violence through its raids on Iraqi homes and is holding thousands of detainees that are for the most part innocent of any crimes.
02.Mar.2006 Miscreants, Murderers + Malefactors : Imperial Conquest, Torture + a Little Matter of Genocide: The monstrous psychopaths now infesting the White House have taken malevolence to a whole new level.
Let us remind ourselves that The White House belongs to us and that Bush serves us.
02.Mar.2006 Storm the White House: It is our duty and the duty of the United Nations to rescue the people of the world from the U.S. dictators. Murder for occupation and theft of land is illegal.
Murder of journalists is criminal. Remove the traitors who have stolen the U.S. budget and used it to commit international crimes against humanity.
28.Feb.2006 The Soldiers Speak. Will President Bush Listen? -By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
When President Bush held a public meeting with troops by satellite last fall, they were miraculously upbeat. And all along, unrepentant hawks (most of whom have never been to Iraq) have insisted that journalists are misreporting Iraq and that most soldiers are gung-ho about their mission. Hogwash! A new poll to be released today shows that U.S. soldiers overwhelmingly want out of Iraq ? and soon. Continued
02.Mar.2006 Terra, Terra, Terra
Cry `terra` and let loose the dogs of war. -By Anwaar Hussain
Never before has one word, or its relentless repetition, done so much for one man as the word `terror’ (`terra` in Texanese) has for this Texan from Crawford that now resides in the White House. No other single word, it seems, is so much responsible for Bush`s continued fame among certain naive American quarters . Continue
02.Mar.2006 Senator Feinstein's War Profiteering -By Joshua Frank
Senator Feinstein's husband has a nice profile at SFGate. Richard Blum has scored bundles from this war and the millions have been deposited in his accounts, which he undoubtedly shares with his wife (even if they aren't, she's certainly reaping the benefits as her salary could not possibly afford a $16.5 million mansion). Continued
02.Mar.2006 Let history judge -By Scott Ritter
It was judge Jackson's words + my steadfast allegiance to the Constitution of the USA motivated me to give testimony this past Saturday at the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, in particular in support of the first count put forward by the commission: that the Bush administration authorized a war of aggression against Iraq. Continue .
02.Mar.2006 When Americans No Longer Own America -By Thom Hartmann
They truly believe that a "New World Order" with multinational corporations in charge instead of sovereign governments will be the answer to the problem of world instability. And therefore they must do away with quaint things like unions, a healthy middle class, and, ultimately, democracy. Continued
02.Mar.2006 Tens Of Thousands in India Rally Against Bush : Tens of thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Bush slogans rallied here Wednesday to protest the arrival of President George W. Bush for talks aimed at securing a strategic partnership between India and the USA.
02.Mar.2006 Dyer: U.S., India are aligning militarily - but don't tell the Chinese: Chances are you won't hear a single word about U.S.-Indian military links in the mainstream media's reporting about President Bush's first visit to India this week.
02.Mar.2006 Patriot Act E-Mail Searches Apply to Non-Terrorists, Judges Say: Two federal judges in Florida have upheld the authority of individual courts to use the Patriot Act to order searches anywhere in the country for e-mails and computer data in all types of criminal investigations, overruling a magistrate who found that Congress limited such expanded jurisdiction to cases involving terrorism.
02.Mar.2006 Gonzales Seeks to Clarify Testimony on Spying : Extent of Eavesdropping May Go Beyond NSA Work
02.Mar.2006 Domestic spying more widespread than thought : The NSA has built a database, part of the intelligence community’s “Denial and Deception” operations that now holds transcripts of phone calls and e-mails among journalists and their sources and associates. The database formerly was known as “Firstfruit” until Madsen exposed it last May.
02.Mar.2006 Senate Advances Patriot Act Renewal : ``The White House played hardball and the decision was made by some to capitulate.''
02.Mar.2006 "Imagine a world of no more privacy." : How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track your Every Move with Radio Frequency Identification
02.Mar.2006 Amy Worthington: Police state USA : In a fascist police state, the dictator secures his power with support from private corporations which are given special privileges and, thus, benefit from doing business with dictators. Continuously bribed by 28,000 corporate lobbyists in D.C.,4 Congress is doing its part to build a fascist state in America.
02.Mar.2006 Make a Freedom Of Information Act Request : Many Americans -- especially those with family and friends abroad -- are wondering whether government agents have been listening to their phone conversations or reading their email. If you're worried this has happened to you, you can use this site to help you find out.
02.Mar.2006 Racism Thrives: A December 2004 Cornell University opinion poll showed 44 % of Americans approved curtailing some civil liberties for all Muslim Americans-including registering with the federal government, close monitoring of mosques by law enforcement agencies and racially profiling citizens of Muslim or Middle Eastern heritage.
02.Mar.2006 Bush's Mysterious 'New Programs': Is the Pentagon building U.S.-based prison camps for Muslim immigrants? Evidence points to the possibility.
02.Mar.2006 Let Freedom Ring!: This is a call to action. It is addressed to every American who can read, most especially Veterans of any sort. We can and must now consider the option of relieving the regime of George Walker Bush of his command. This includes ALL of his associates. We cannot + MUST not let this situation degenerate any further.
02.Mar.2006 FDA Shields Drug Companies From Lawsuits : Last month, the FDA revealed its latest protective policy for drug companies in a statement that said people who believe they have been injured by drugs approved by the FDA should not be allowed to sue drug companies in state courts.
02.Mar.2006 Ken Livingstone: An attack on voters' rights : I was elected mayor by the people of London and only they should have the power to remove me
02.Mar.2006 Abramoff pushed plan to drill for oil in Israel: Lobbyist Jack Abramoff worked with Russian partners to establish a company that envisioned a high-risk plan to drill for oil in Israel, which he hoped would bring him riches and reshape the Middle East, according to documents and his former lobbying partners
02.Mar.2006 Surely Americans will not put up with this censorship : The decision by a New York theatre to cave in to pressure over our play shows how the scope for free debate has narrowed
02.Mar.2006 Libertad? Maybe: Puerto Rican independence activists rally 'round an FBI crackdown: On September 23, 2005, FBI agents shot and killed a fugitive Puerto Rican independence leader. Now New York's independista community is hoping that anger over that death ends Puerto Rico's 100-plus years as a U.S. possession.
02.Mar.2006 Iran call for nuclear-free region : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called for the Middle East to be free of nuclear weapons.
02.Mar.2006 Egypt's Mubarak says he warned the USA not to attack Iran : He said Shiite Muslims in the Gulf region also could turn against the USA because “Iran generously provides for Shiites in every country and these people are ready to do anything if Iran is attacked.”
02.Mar.2006 Syria opposition says US funding counterproductive: Syria's liberal opposition has said it will not accept money from a U.S. offer to fund democratic groups in the country, saying that its credibility would be damaged if it took the cash.
02.Mar.2006 Pentagon dismisses US troop poll: The poll by Le Moyne College and Zogby International found that only 23% believed US troops should stay in Iraq "as long as it takes", as US President George W. Bush has insisted. Nearly one in three troops said US forces should withdraw immediately.
02.Mar.2006 Thirty-five % of Iraq veterans received mental health care: In addition, 12 % of the more than 222,000 returning Army soldiers and Marines in the study were diagnosed with a mental problem.
02.Mar.2006 Former US troops rail against war : “I joined up the day after 11.Sep.2001, 2001. I saw action in Falluja and Baghdad. My mortar platoon dropped numerous rounds on the town of Samawa during the start of the invasion. I don’t know how many innocents I killed with my mortar rounds.
02.Mar.2006 How Bush has stayed away from soldiers' funerals : More than 2,290 US troops have been killed in Iraq. President George Bush has attended none of the funerals - for which he is often criticised by the families of those who have died.
03.Jan.2006 Iraq: a solution to nothing -By Scott Ritter -Special to The Times
America continues to pretend that we are building something of value in Iraq. And yet, common sense dictates that when one seeks to build on a corrupt foundation, whatever it is that is being constructed is doomed eventually to collapse. Our nation's involvement in Iraq is based on as corrupt a foundation as imaginable . Continued
02.Mar.2006 Iraq study warned of civil war White House, Military Dismissed 00.000.2003 Analysis -By Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay
WASHINGTON - U.S. intelligence agencies repeatedly warned the White House beginning more than two years ago that the insurgency in Iraq had deep local roots, was likely to worsen and could lead to civil war, according to former senior intelligence officials who helped craft the reports. Continued
02.Mar.2006 Where Are the Good Americans? -By JEREMY BRECHER & BRENDAN SMITH
Anyone who sees the photographs of the victims of the Nazi concentration camps must wonder how human beings could ever have allowed such things to happen. They must wonder how people of good will could have stood by while their government committed atrocities in their name. In the wake of that nightmarish era, people often asked, "Where were the good Germans?" Continued
02.Mar.2006 Poll: U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War in 2006 -By Zogby
02.Mar.2006 Almost 90% think war is retaliation for Saddam’s role in 11.Sep.2001 , most don’t blame Iraqi public for insurgent attacks Continued
02.Mar.2006 The Troops Want to End Iraq Occupation in 2006 -By Richard B. Mazess
The Reserves and National Guard are overwhelming in favor of withdrawal (89% and 82%) this year compared to the Army and Marines (69% and 58% respectively). Even more impressively, three-quarters of the Guard and Reserves + half of the Army, favored withdrawal within 6 months. Continued
02.Mar.2006 15 Arrested At White House Protesting U.S. Torture : Members of Witness Against Torture began their protest at the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court, continuing to the Capitol and the Department of Justice + ending at the White House where U.S. Park Police carried out the arrests.
02.Mar.2006 IAEA says no evidence of Iranian n-weapons plan : As the countdown for a crucial meeting on Iran on March 6 gets under way, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has revealed that it has not found any evidence that Teheran had diverted material towards making atomic weapons.
02.Mar.2006 Iran Says U.S. Sabotaging Nuke Deal: Iran's top nuclear negotiator on Thursday insisted that bilateral talks should continue on a Russian offer to enrich uranium for Iran and warned that handing over the nuclear issue to the U.N. Security Council — as the USA has demanded — would kill Moscow's initiative.
02.Mar.2006 The wrong way to fix Iran : THE BUSH administration quietly orchestrated a major shift in U.S. policy toward Iran this month, requesting $85 million from Congress to help bring about regime change in Tehran. Washington is now seeking not just to contain Tehran's nuclear ambitions but also to topple the Iranian government.
02.Mar.2006 Iran claims Israel has over 200 nuclear warheads : Teheran has information suggesting that Israel's nuclear arsenal exceeds 200 warheads.
02.Mar.2006 Bush Must Now Convince Congress on India : Bush acknowledged it will be difficult to persuade Congress to support the agreement, in which the USA would share its nuclear know-how and fuel with India. But he said he's confident it will be approved so India can power its fast-growing economy without expanding world demand for oil.
02.Mar.2006 Implications of India-US defence pact: Even if we assume that Iran has secret nuclear ambitions, other members of the UN perhaps do not have the moral right to object. After all, Pakistan, India + Israel have built the bomb.
02.Mar.2006 India, Pakistan got atomic arms "legitimately": John Bolton: His comments, made in response to an audience question following a speech to a meeting of the World Jewish Congress, appeared to go farther than the administration of President George W. Bush has previously gone in embracing the two nations' nuclear programs.
02.Mar.2006 U.S. company bags $38 million DU tank ammo order: Critics see the radiation of depleted uranium as a potential health hazard to tank crews and to people exposed to the material after it has been fired.
02.Mar.2006 Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness: Why Has Our Military Refused to Show This Training Video To Our Troops Now Serving In Iraq?
02.Mar.2006 Video: Blowing the N-whistle : Depleted uranium: How dangerous is it?: A former US military researcher tells Gay Alcorn of his crusade to expose the health risks of depleted-uranium weapons used in the Gulf wars.
02.Mar.2006 Palestinians will lose essential services, says UN : Essential services such as medical treatment, water, sewage and security will be cut by stoppages in donor aid and tax payments to the Palestinian Authority ordered in the wake of Hamas's election victory, a UN report warns.
02.Mar.2006 Israeli 'ruler-in-waiting' plans to starve Hamas : She is already being spoken of as an Israeli leader in waiting. Today the Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni brings to London the campaign to destabilise the incoming Hamas Palestinian government by starving it of cash.
02.Mar.2006 Israeli Defense Minister Claims More Of West Bank: "When we talk about Israel's permanent or future borders, it includes the Jordan Valley, Ma'aleh Adumim, Gush Etzion, Ariel, Kedumim-Karnei Shomron and Reihan-Shaked,"
02.Mar.2006 S Africa confirms Hamas meeting South Africa has said it would meet the Hamas leadership despite US-led efforts to isolate the Islamic resistance + former opposition group after its victory in Palestinian polls
02.Mar.2006 Israelis ask Oscars to drop suicide bomb film: The controversial film was made by an Israeli Arab director + actors working with a Palestinian crew + locations.
The producer was a Jewish Israeli + the funding was European.
02.Mar.2006 Democrats move to force port vote: A broad coalition of Democrats in the House are collecting signatures for a letter to President Bush decrying the United Arab Emirates funding of Hamas + its boycott against Israel.
02.Mar.2006 Arab-haters target Dubai port company : In a repeat of the calculated insults to the Arab world coming fast and furious these days.
02.Mar.2006 What to do when the emperor has no clothes : These are troubling times for all of us who love this country, as surely we all do, even the satirists.
You may poke fun at your mother, but if she is belittled by others it burns your bacon
02.Mar.2006 Senate approves Patriot Act renewal : The US Senate [official website] has approved a long-term renewal of the USA PATRIOT Act [PDF text; JURIST news archive] by a vote of 89-10.
02.Mar.2006 Pay too much and you could raise the alarm : All they did was pay down their debt. They didn't call a suspected terrorist on their cell phone. They didn't try to sneak a machine gun through customs.
02.Mar.2006 Govt. "Error" That Cost U.S. Billions : How it happened or who's responsible is a mystery eight years after the fact. But what may have been a simple error — or perhaps something more ominous — has given a multimillion-dollar windfall to a group of oil and gas companies and could cost the government billions of dollars more in the years to come.
02.Mar.2006 Armed forces are put on standby to tackle threat of wars over water : Across the world, they are coming: the water wars.
From Israel to India, from Turkey to Botswana, arguments are going on over disputed water supplies that may soon burst into open conflict.
02.Mar.2006 Outlook worsens in Afghanistan: Lt. Gen. Michael D. Maples, appearing with Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, said attacks within Afghanistan were up 20 % between 2004 and 2005, suicide bombings increased "almost fourfold" and makeshift bombs, similar to those used in Iraq, had "more than doubled."
02.Mar.2006 Suicide attack in Pakistan kills four, including U.S. diplomat : A suicide attacker rammed a car packed with explosives into a vehicle carrying an American diplomat in Pakistan's largest city, killing four people – including the diplomat – ahead of President Bush's visit to Pakistan.
02.Mar.2006 Inquiry urged into warning of Iraq shrine bomb: - Iraqi politicians demanded an inquiry on Wednesday into why the government did not act on a warning about a plan to bomb a Shi'ite shrine, an attack that has brought the country to the brink of civil war.
02.Mar.2006 Juan Cole: Kurds, Sunnis Attempting to Dump Jaafari : . Jaafari is, unacceptable to the USA because of his close ties to Iran and his socialist tendencies (he recently expressed admiration for Noam Chomsky and wondered if Noam would come visit Baghdad).
02.Mar.2006 U.S. strategy in Iraq: No, it's not Vietnam. This one's a civil war : All sides in today's Iraq debate share a common but unspoken assumption: the way to succeed in Iraq is to refight the Vietnam War, but the right way this time. Official strategy mirrors the Nixon administration playbook: win hearts and minds while handing the fighting over to the locals.
02.Mar.2006 Iraq War Not Worth Fighting for 63% in U.S.: Many adults in the USA regret their government’s decision to launch the coalition effort in Iraq, according to a poll by the New York Times and CBS News.
63% of respondents think the result of the war with Iraq was not worth the loss of American life and other costs of attacking Iraq.
02.Mar.2006 What Bush Was Told About Iraq : Two highly classified intelligence reports delivered directly to President Bush before the Iraq war cast doubt on key public assertions made by the president, Vice President Cheney + other administration officials as justifications for invading Iraq and toppling Saddam Hussein, according to records and knowledgeable sources.
02.Mar.2006 Mr Blair, you sent my son to die in a war based on lies : Occupation has achieved nothing positive. It is time to bring our troops home and let the Iraqi people decide their own future
02.Mar.2006 Molly Ivins: Level of Bush administration incompetence is truly chilling : The administration's competence problem is already at the yadda, yadda, yadda stage.
They were supposed to protect us from terrorist attack, they said Iraq would be a cakewalk, that we only needed 50,000 troops.
They failed to plan for the occupation or Hurricane Katrina or the prescription drug plan. Yadda.
02.Mar.2006 A Global Infrastructure for Mass Surveillance -By Nolan K. Anderson
The myths surrounding our dealings with the government's avowed purpose of "protecting" us needs more objective scrutiny than almost any other scam politicians have to inflict upon us.
"Scam" is a harsh word, but as one examines the true nature of the programs for mass surveillance of global populations it will be seen that "scam" is a word far too benign to truly describe the programs presently underway. Continued
02.Mar.2006 Shining Light into the Abyss -By Charles Sullivan
America has a lot to answer for. Despite the willful perversion of language used to conceal unpopular truth, the soul of a nation is revealed not by what it says, but by what it does. We are not the people we purport to be. Our actions, our policies, do not portray a democratic republic concerned with human welfare, the common good. Continued.
02.Mar.2006 Exclusive: Video shows Bush, Chertoff warned before Katrina: By Associated Press
Watch as President Bush is briefed on the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, in this video obtained exclusively by The Associated Press. Hear what aides told him just before the storm hit the Gulf Coast. Click here to view . Real video
02.Mar.2006 How the US Learned to Love the Bomb (Again)
How do you feel about a nuclear weapon that could be launched from the back of a jeep? Video Report - Dateline SBS Australia
The slightly bizarre idea of 'user-friendly' nuclear weapons. The US has been quietly beavering away on a program aimed at completely upgrading its nuclear arsenal, including the development of tactical weapons - mini-nukes that could be used on the battlefield. Click here to view
02.Mar.2006 Somebody is trying to provoke a civil war in Iraq. -By Robert Fisk
The real question I ask myself is: who are these people who are trying to provoke the civil war? Now the Americans will say it's Al Qaeda, it's the Sunni insurgents. It is the death squads. Many of the death squads work for the Ministry of Interior. Who runs the Ministry of Interior in Baghdad? Who pays the Ministry of the Interior? Who pays the militia men who make up the death squads? We do, the occupation authorities. Click here for video and transcript
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-403931,00.html
"Wir haben keine Ahnung, warum wir überfallen wurden", sagte Mogusa. "Wir sind völlig schockiert, so etwas ist selbst unter der Diktatur des früheren Präsidenten Daniel arap Moi nicht vorgekommen."
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-403945,00.html
New Orleans' Bürgermeister Ray Nagin zeigte sich schockiert angesichts des Videos. "Es überrascht mich, dass die Reaktion so langsam war, wenn es bereits diese Art von Gefahrenbewusstsein gegeben hat. Mir wird schlecht, wenn ich daran denke. Ich habe auf diese Leute gehört und ihnen geglaubt, dass sie das Ausmaß der Gefahr nicht gekannt haben."
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-403945,00.html
"Sie bringen keine Patienten aus den Krankenhäusern, keine Häftlinge aus den Gefängnissen + sie lassen die Hotels in der Innenstadt geöffnet", kritisierte Brown.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-403945,00.html
Den Protokollen zufolge wurde über einen Dammbruch jedoch heftig diskutiert + auch Bush hatte sich besorgt gezeigt. "Ich habe heute zwei Mal mit dem Präsidenten gesprochen, einmal in Crawford und dann noch einmal an Bord der Air Force One", sagte Brown. Bush habe "Fragen zu den Berichten über die Deiche" gestellt. An den Gesprächen waren auch der stellvertretende Stabschef des Weißen Hauses, Joe Hagin + die Gouverneurin von Louisiana, Kathleen Blanco, beteiligt.
In der letzten Lagebesprechung vor dem Eintreffen von "Katrina" zeigte sich Brown außerdem skeptisch angesichts der Vorbereitungen der Regierung zum Katastropheneinsatz. Der Fema-Chef flehte seine Kollegen regelrecht an, alles nur Mögliche zu unternehmen, um den Betroffenen zu helfen. Die Bundesbehörden müssten sich notfalls über Regelungen hinwegsetzen: "Macht es", forderte Brown. "Ich werde einen Weg finden, es zu rechtfertigen."
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-403945,00.html
Das Videomaterial und die Mitschriften von Briefings über sieben Tage hinweg, die der Nachrichtenagentur AP vorliegen, zeigen, wie Warnungen buchstäblich in den Wind geschlagen wurden und den Erkenntnissen über die bevorstehende Gefahr keine Taten folgten.
In einer Lagebesprechung am 28. August zeigte sich ein Hurrikan-Experte äußerst besorgt darüber, ob die Dämme von New Orleans den Sturmfluten standhalten könnten. Der damalige Fema-Chef Michael Brown brachte gegenüber Bush und Heimatschutzminister Michael Chertoff die Befürchtung zum Ausdruck, dass es möglicherweise nicht genügend Rettungskräfte gibt, um den Flüchtlingen im Footballstadion Superdome zu helfen. Er sei besorgt, ob die Rettungskräfte "auf eine Katastrophe innerhalb einer Katastrophe" reagieren könnten, sagte Brown auf einem der Bänder.
Die Aufzeichnungen belegen, dass Experten auf lokaler und Bundesebene die Bedrohungen durch den Hurrikan eingehend diskutiert hatten. Ihnen war ganz offensichtlich klar, dass der Sturm enorme Verwüstungen zur Folge haben würde. Bush erklärte vier Tage nach "Katrina" dagegen, niemand habe den Dammbruch in New Orleans vorhergesehen. Später korrigierte er sich dahingehend, dass die Behörden zunächst fälschlicherweise angenommen hätten, die Dämme seien nicht beschädigt worden.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-403972,00.html
Methan vom Meeresgrund, so glaubten Wissenschaftler bisher, habe kaum einen nennenswerten Anteil am globalen Methan-Haushalt: Das Treibhausgas werde sofort von Mikroben zersetzt und unschädlich gemacht und gelange deshalb erst gar nicht in die Atmosphäre.
Das aber dürfte ein Irrglaube gewesen sein, wie Wissenschaftler unter Leitung des Alfred-Wegener-Instituts für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI) in Bremerhaven jetzt herausgefunden haben. Ihren Messungen zufolge gelangen sehr wohl große Mengen des Tiefsee-Methans in die Luft und haben daher auch einen größeren Anteil an der globalen Erwärmung als bisher vermutet.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-403958,00.html
Das Gutachten der italienischen Behörden belegt nun, dass es sich bei einem am 13. Mai 1981 auf dem Petersplatz in unmittelbarer Nähe des Attentäters fotografierten bärtigen Mann mit Brille um Antonow handelt, schreibt der "Corriere della sera".
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-403958,00.html
"Dieser Ausschuss glaubt ohne jeden Zweifel, dass die Führung der Sowjetunion die Initiative ergriff, um Papst Karol Wojtyla aus dem Weg zu schaffen und dass sie diese Entscheidung an den GRU weiterleitete", erklärte der Chef der Kommission, Paolo Guzzanti. Der Mordversuch war dem Bericht zufolge "in seiner Bedeutung ohne Beispiel in der modernen Geschichte".
Der GRU habe sich der Komplizenschaft ostdeutscher und bulgarischer Geheimdienstler bei dem Mordversuch auf dem Petersplatz am 13. Mai 1981 bedient. Bulgarische Agenten hätten die Urheberschaft der Tat verschleiern, Mitglieder der Stasi die Spuren durch gezielte Desinformation der Medien verwischen sollen. Der russische Militärgeheimdienst wehrte sich vehement gegen die Darstellungen. Die Angaben hätten "nichts mit der Realität" zu tun, sagte ein Sprecher laut einer Meldung der Nachrichtenagentur Interfax.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-404012,00.html
Felix Warneken und Michael Tomasello untersuchten zunächst, wie eineinhalbjährige Kinder in insgesamt zehn verschiedenen Situationen reagierten, bei denen ein fremder Erwachsener Schwierigkeiten hatte. Die Wissenschaftler ließen im Experiment Gegenstände außerhalb ihrer Reichweite fallen und versuchten dann erfolglos, die Gegenstände wiederzubekommen. Die Kleinen hoben die Gegenstände tatsächlich in kürzester Zeit auf und brachten sie den Forschern. Die Studie zeigt den Wissenschaftlern zufolge erstmals, dass Kleinkinder ohne besondere Erziehung zu helfen bereit sind, auch wenn sie selbst davon nicht profitierten.
Das gleiche Verhalten beobachtete das Team auch bei Schimpansen, allerdings nur bei etwas einfacheren Versuchsanordnungen. Demnach waren die Affen sehr hilfsbereit, wenn ihre Tierpflegerin nach Gegenständen zu greifen versuchte, die sie nicht erreichen konnte.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-404012,00.html
Die Forscher erhoffen sich von den Versuchen neue Erkenntnisse über die menschliche Evolution, da das Erbgut von Mensch und Schimpanse zu fast 99 % übereinstimmt. Die Komplexität der Kooperation unter Schimpansen könne bedeuten, dass Menschen und Affen ihre Fähigkeit zur Zusammenarbeit vor rund sechs Millionen Jahren von ihrem gemeinsamen Vorfahren geerbt haben.
Allerdings gebe es auch deutliche Unterschiede zwischen menschlicher und tierischer Kooperation. "Es gibt noch immer keine Hinweise dafür, dass Schimpansen sich über gemeinsame Ziele austauschen, so wie es Menschen schon in frühester Kindheit tun", sagte Melis. Auch beweise das Experiment nicht, dass Schimpansen etwas über die Qualitäten eines Artgenossen erfahren, indem sie ihn in seinem Verhalten beobachten.
"Wir haben nur erfahren, dass Schimpansen bei der Zusammenarbeit ein wenig mehr verstehen, als wir bisher vermutet haben", so die Forscherin. Möglicherweise könnten künftige Studien zeigen, "was menschliche Kooperation so einzigartig macht".
Auch Affen können selbstlos sein
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/politik/0,1518,druck-403915,00.html
EU-Richtlinie nicht verfassungskonform?
Die Begründung des Urteils dürfte noch für heiße Diskussionen sorgen. Denn auch, wenn Handy- und E-Mail-Daten nun weniger stark als unter dem Fernmeldegesetz geschützt sind, genießen sie doch prinzipiell einen gesetzlich garantierten Schutz. Beschlagnahmt werden dürfen sie nur bei Vorliegen eines Verdachtes auf eine Straftat. Das aber steht im offenen Gegensatz zur EU-Richtlinie zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung, die von Telekommunikationsunternehmen eine präventive, grundsätzliche Speicherung und Archivierung solcher Daten ohne Vorliegen eines Anfangsverdachtes verlangt.
Die EU-Richtlinie sieht vor, dass künftig jede Benutzung von Telefon, Handy und Internet protokolliert werde, damit Strafverfolgungsbehörden auf diese Informationen zugreifen können. Nachdem das Europäische Parlament nach langer Diskussion den vom Minsterrat vorgelegten Kompromissvorschlag im Dezember billigte, folgten kürzlich auch die EU-Justizminister.
Die Bundesregierung unterstützt die EU-Richtlinie, will bei ihrer Umsetzung aber auf Bedenken von Datenschützern und Bürgerrechtlern eingehen. Der Entwurf eines neuen Telekommunikationsgesetzes des Bundeswirtschaftsministeriums sieht bereits vor, dass Speicherungsdauer und Art der erfassten Daten nicht über die Mindestanforderungen der EU-Regelung hinaus gehen sollen. Außerdem sollen die Unternehmen eine "angemessene Entschädigung" für die Erfassung der Daten erhalten: Die Verbände der IT- und Telekommunikationsindustrie hatten sich vor allem mit der Begründung gegen die EU-Richtlinie gestellt, dass ihnen die erheblichen wirtschaftlichen Lasten für die Schaffung der Überwachungs-Infrastruktur aufgebürdet werden sollten.
Mit dem Urteilsspruch des Bundesverfassungsgerichts dürfte nun die Frage in die Diskussion kommen, ob die Grundbedingung einer verdachtsunabhängigen Vorratsspeicherung von Telekommunikations- und Internetdaten überhaupt mit der deutschen Verfassung in Einklang zu bringen ist.
02.Mar.2006 Vogelgrippe: Seehofer dehnt Schutzzonen aus
02.Mar.2006 Zinserhöhung: Euro-Zentralbank verunsichert die Märkte
02.Mar.2006 Pleitefall Heros: Mitarbeiterin soll Chef jahrelang erpresst haben
02.Mar.2006 Effektiv zum Futter: Schimpansen haben Manager-Qualitäten
02.Mar.2006 Schlappe für IG Metall: SAP-Mitarbeiter wollen keinen Betriebsrat
02.Mar.2006 New Yorks Mafia: Die Sopranos leben
02.Mar.2006 Reaktionen zum E-Mail-Urteil: Zypries begrüßt Karlsruher Richterspruch
02.Mar.2006 Ausländische Geheimdienste: Koalition hält bessere Kontrolle für unmöglich
02.Mar.2006 Presserat: Mohammed-Karikaturen verstoßen nicht gegen Kodex
02.Mar.2006 Brandrede: US-Behördenchef vergleicht Fettsucht mit Terror
02.Mar.2006 Mehr Ramschprodukte: "In vielen Fällen droht ein Stromschlag"
02.Mar.2006 Kommissionsbericht: Breschnew soll Papst-Attentat befohlen haben
02.Mar.2006 Fall "Cicero": Gericht erklärt Telefonüberprüfung für rechtswidrig
02.Mar.2006 Methan: Meeresboden setzt Klimagas frei
02.Mar.2006 Abu Ghureib: Mutter eines französischen Häftlings klagt
02.Mar.2006 Dammbrüche in New Orleans: Bush war gewarnt
02.Mar.2006 Pressefreiheit: Polizei verbrennt Ausgabe des "Standards"
02.Mar.2006 Hausarrest: Vogelgrippe ängstigt Katzenfreunde
02.Mar.2006 Verfassungsurteil: Fahnder können auf E-Mails zugreifen
02.Mar.2006 Atompolitik: USA verkaufen Nukleartechnologie an Indien
02.Mar.2006 BND-Affäre: Wirbel um neue "New York Times"-Geschichte
02.Mar.2006 Sportlertrick: Bälle mit Drall überfordern das Hirn
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-402214,00.html
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Viele westliche Industrieländer, allen voran die USA, unternehmen nur wenig, um ihre Treibhausgas-Emissionen zu senken.
Andere Staaten mit riesigen Einwohnerzahlen, etwa China, werden künftig erst richtig mit dem Kohlendioxid-Ausstoß beginnen.
Glauben sie, dass der Klimawandel noch gestoppt werden kann, ehe es zur Katastrophe kommt?
Fuchs: Ich sehe das sehr pessimistisch. Viele Wissenschaftler haben ihre Prognosen zuletzt revidiert - in Richtung noch bedrohlicherer Szenarien.
Wenn man sich dann vor Augen hält, dass die USA mit fünf % der Weltbevölkerung für 25 % des globalen CO2-Ausstoßes verantwortlich sind, muss man sagen: Solche Relationen sind einfach krank.
Und ich glaube nicht, dass in den USA so schnell ein Umdenken stattfinden wird - schon gar nicht unter der jetzigen Regierung.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: 1989 sind Sie als erster Deutscher zu Fuß über das Eis zum Nordpol gegangen. In einigen Jahren wird man dafür vielleicht eher ein Boot als gutes Schuhwerk brauchen.
Sind Sie froh, nicht 30 Jahre später geboren zu sein?
Fuchs: Mir wird auch die umgekehrte Frage oft gestellt - ob ich nicht lieber zu Zeiten eines Amundsen gelebt hätte, als es noch wirkliches Neuland zu entdecken gab.
Ich finde, dass wir in einer ungeheuer spannenden Zeit leben. Allerdings haben Sie Recht: Die Nordpol-Touren, so wie ich sie bisher gemacht habe, werden wahrscheinlich in einigen Jahren nicht mehr möglich sein.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-402214,00.html
Fuchs: Wir wurden etwa schon von einem Ozeanografen begleitet, um Tiefseetemperatur-Profilmessungen für das Bundesamt für Seeschifffahrt durchzuführen.
In anderen Fällen geht es einfach nur darum, Daten zu erfassen und zu speichern. Ich biete das immer an, denn es ist interessant und sinnvoll, die Möglichkeiten unserer Projekte auf diese Art zu nutzen.
Allerdings haben manche Wissenschaftler gewisse Berührungsängste.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Wie äußern sich die?
Fuchs: Ich werde oft als Abenteurer bezeichnet und gelte deshalb bei einigen Wissenschaftlern als nicht kompetent genug. Aber das ist nicht überall so, gerade junge Wissenschaftler sind meist frei von Dünkel.
02.Mar.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-402214,00.html
Fuchs: Nein. Wir dokumentieren das, was alle Klimamodelle und Satellitendaten übereinstimmend zeigen. Die Arktis erwärmt sich rapide, das Eis schmilzt in dramatischem Tempo.
Wir sind auf unseren Expeditionen drei Mal in Folge an der Nordost-Passage gescheitert, weil sie zugefroren war.
00.000.2002 aber konnten wir problemlos vom Nordkap an der sibirischen Küste entlang bis nach Alaska segeln.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Und das halten Sie für eine zweifelsfreie Folge der globalen Erwärmung?
Fuchs:
00.000.2002 sprachen Experten angesichts der eisfreien Nordost-Passage von einem natürlichen Wetterextrem. Heute wissen wir, dass das kein Ausreißer war.
Wir haben auf unseren Reisen überall auftauenden Permafrostboden gesehen. Es ist ein erschreckendes Gefühl zu sehen, wie schnell sich die Arktis verändert.
02.Mar.2006 Deutsche Bank: Nur geringe Abwertung bei Immobilienfonds
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02.Mar.2006 Pakistan: US-Diplomat bei Anschlag getötet
02.Mar.2006 Klimawandel: "Eis der Arktis schmilzt in dramatischem Tempo"
01.Mar.2006 https://www.nature.com/news/2006/060227/full/060227-3.html
Some spirals, such as the ones found on snail shells, are common in nature. And others can be easily made by unwinding a thread around a central peg. But the Archimedes' spiral is not like either of these.
"Seemingly it does not exist in nature," the researchers say.
"This is the earliest time that such advanced geometric figures have been spotted," says Papaodysseus. "The next such figures appear only 1,300 years later." The team report their work in the journal Archaeometry 1 .
01.Mar.2006 Were ancient Minoans centuries ahead of their time? A geometrical figure commonly attributed to Archimedes in 300 BC has been identified in Minoan wall paintings dated to over 1,000 years earlier.
Found at the Anomalist
01.Mar.2006 The Minnesota GOP’s Stealth Attack On Privacy A story by Minnesota Public Radio reveals a disturbing new way that a political party is secretly grabbing sensitive personal information about voters.
This week the Minnesota Republican Party is distributing a new CD about a proposed state marriage amendment. Along with flashy graphics, the CD asks people their views on controversial issues such as abortion, gun control, illegal immigration + so on.
The problem - the CD sends your answers back to headquarters, filed by name, address + political views. No mention of that in the terms of use. No privacy policy at all. The story concludes: "So if you run the CD in your personal computer, by the end of it, the Minnesota GOP will not only know what you think on particular issues, but also who you are."