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16.Dec.2006 Probe Sought Into Evangelical Military Video

A military watchdog group is accusing senior officers of coercing soldiers and airmen into adopting evangelical Christianity—as demonstrated in a promotional video the senior officers appeared in.

We apparently have a radicalized, evangelical Christian Pentagon within the rest of the Pentagon,” says the head of the watchdog group. Read about it here and here Watch the video here
16.Dec.2006 The Nightmare Scenario

"This week, the international crisis that started in September with U.S. discovery of stepped-up uranium enrichment activities in Iran is expected to trigger a nuclear war between Russia + the USA....”
16.Dec.2006 Nonlinear Media - Cross Medien Konzepte und Anwendungen LBS ... - HTML-Version
enthalten die ( Handy )Nummer des Nutzers sowie seine eingebenen Bedürfnisse. 6.2.4 Disorganizer ... Der Disorganizer vergleicht die vom Lokalisator (siehe ...
www.semanticmedia-showcase.de/WerkstattCM/CrossMedia/WS0405/Vorträge/Ausarbeitungen/lbs-ausarbeitung.pdf

A former arms control expert in the Soviet Union lays out an all-too-plausible chain of events.
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16.Dec.2006 Truthdig tips its hat to the Navy lawyer who on Dec. 11 won a major ACLU award for his successful defense in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,

the U.S. Supreme Court case that dashed Bush administration efforts to try terror suspects in special military courts. CONTINUE
16.Dec.2006 https://www.truthdig.com/tag/robert
Ear to the Ground:

Robert Redford: Americans Ready to Kick the Oil Habit
Robert Kennedy Jr. Plans to Sue Over Ohio Election Fraud

Interviews:

John Burton on California Before Arnold

Reports:

Robert Scheer: Top Spys Story on Prewar Intel Is Finally Told
Buzzflash: Scheer's Book 'Incisive, No Holds Barred Commentary'
Robert Scheer: My Mother 'the Illegal Alien'?
Robert Scheer: Bush More Right Than Wrong on Immigration
Robert Scheer: Media Failed Its Duty in Lee Case
Reviewers Praise 'Playing President'
Robert Scheer: DeLays Mission Continues
Classic Scheer Interviews From 'Playing President'
Robert Scheer: Hillary's Shameful Straddling on Iraq
Classic Scheer-Carter Interview From 'Playing President'
Robert Scheer: A Disgraceful Attack on the New York Times
Robert Scheer: Will the Real Democrats Please Stand Up?
Robert Scheer: Why I Wasn't Prepared for George W. Bush
Robert Scheer: Bush Should Channel Nixon in North Korea
Robert Scheer: Labor Pains of a Stillborn Foreign Policy
John Dean Lauds 'Playing President'
Robert Scheer: Why We Don't Know Our Enemy
Robert Scheer: Spinning Old Threats Into New Fears
Robert Scheer: Warring Over the Heart of the Party
Robert Scheer: Clinton Ended Welfare, Not Poverty
Robert Scheer -- Afghanistan: High on Opium, Not Democracy
Robert Scheer: Subverting Democracy With the Big Lie
Robert Scheer: Rendering Unto Syria
Robert Scheer: Dear Leader Brings It On
Robert Scheer: The Killing Fields of Iraq
Robert Scheer: Enron's Enablers Go Unpunished

16.Dec.2006 Vegetarians are more intelligent, says study 

My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency + I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.
- Ben Franklin
posted by Prof. Hex
16.Dec.2006 Soviet writings on atheism and religion
sence of the Ideology of Islam and Ways of Eliminating it). Maxakala, ... social'noj doktriny Vatikana' (On the Ideological Bases of the Vatikan's ... www.springerlink.com/index/W47750727X718146.pdf

16.Dec.2006 Jesus Christ The Bearer Of The Water Of Life - A Christian ...

Links with left-wing political ideology have faded + psychedelic drugs are by ... Evolution : in New Age it is much more than a question of living beings ... www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/interelg/documents/rc_pc_interelg_doc_20030203_new-age_en.html
16.Dec.2006
Evolution Sciences versus Doctrines of Creationism and Intelligent ...

"The debate between creationism versus evolution is starting again in the US, ... Ideology + science don’t mix (Letters to the Editor, 17.Oct.2006 ) www.mineralogie.uni-wuerzburg.de/palbot/evolution/creationism.html
16.Dec.2006
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-454975,00.html

Abbas argumentiere: "Wir sind in einer Sackgasse angelangt und geben jetzt alle Macht an das Volk zurück, um neu zu entscheiden", sagte al Alami.

"Es ist ein dummes Gesetz, so dumm wie die Situation selbst", fügte er hinzu.

Der Vorsitzende des angesehenen Palästinensischen Zentrums für Menschenrechte bezweifelt indes, dass Abbas seine Ankündigung überhaupt wahr machen will.

"Die Ankündigung von Neuwahlen ist ein letztes Druckmittel um zu einer politischen Lösung zwischen Fatah und Hamas zu kommen.

In 24 Stunden werden wir entweder eine Lösung haben oder einen Krieg".
16.Dec.2006
Palästinensergebiete: Schießereien zwischen Hamas- und Fatah- Anhängern in Gaza
16.Dec.2006 Klimaschutz: Stromanbieter droht mit Investitionsverlagerung

16.Dec.2006 Wahl im Iran: Gemäßigter Rafsandschani führt

16.Dec.2006 Hamas- Außenminister Zahar im Interview: "Wir werden diese Wahlen in unserem Land niemals zulassen"
16.Dec.2006 Geheim- Dossier: Hohe Kreml- Figur soll hinter Litwinenko- Mord stecken
16.Dec.2006 Moskau: Tausende demonstrieren gegen Putin
16.Dec.2006 Anti- Terror- Kampf: Sky Marshalls fühlen sich von Lufthansa ausgesperrt

16.Dec.2006 Eskalation in Nahost: "In 24 Stunden haben wir eine Lösung oder einen Krieg"

16.Dec.2006 Qualvoller Gifttod: Horror- Hinrichtung in Florida - kippt die Todesstrafe in den USA?

16.Dec.2006 Gegen Baker- Vorschläge: Rice lehnt Gespräche mit Iran und Syrien ab
16.Dec.2006 Palästinensergebiete: Abbas kündigt Neuwahl an - Hamas spricht von Staatsstreich
16.Dec.2006 Rent a Protest: Ärzte mieteten Demonstranten
16.Dec.2006 Korruptionsskandal: Chefbuchhalter belastet Siemens- Vorstände

16.Dec.2006 Kasachstan: Gigantisches Zelt in Borats Welt
16.Dec.2006 https://www.infowars.net/articles/december2006/141206Russian.htm

You'd think he would have been told in no uncertain terms to stay the hell away from the area, but no, he was allowed to fly directly toward the towers and pass within a few hundred feet without incident.

Perhaps it was the same reason why airborne fighters were not sent to Manhattan until at least ten minutes after the second tower was hit and did not arrive there until twenty two minutes after the second hit, even though logically they could have been there BEFORE flight 175.

The pictures have emerged at the same time as A former Boston Center air traffic controller has gone public on his assertion that 9/11 was an inside job and that Donald Rumsfeld and the Pentagon tracked three of the four flights from the point of their hijacking to hitting their targets.

After the Russian pilot had passed the Towers he tried to land but was told to fly on to New Jersey and land there. He then hid his camera so nobody could know he was filming.
16.Dec.2006
White House Clamps Down On USGS Publishing - CowboyNeal 50 - "The White House has begun implementing a new policy toward the U.S. Geological Survey, in which all scientific papers and other public documents by USGS scientists must be screened for content. The USGS communications office must now be 'alerted about information products containing high-visibility topics or topics of a policy-sensitive nature.' Subjects fitting this description might include global warming, or research on the effects of oil drilling in the Alaska National Wildlife Reserve."
16.Dec.2006 Eldorado Gold Downgrade Rating-Update: Toronto (aktiencheck.de AG) - Die Analysten von RBC Capital Markets stufen die Aktie von Eldordo Gold (ISIN CA2849021035/WKN 892560) von "Top Pick" auf "sector perform" zurück. Das Kursziel werde von 6,75 auf 6,50 USD gesenkt. (15.12.2006/ac/a/u)
16.Dec.2006 Suntech Power "buy" Rating-Update: New York (aktiencheck.de AG) - Die Analysten von Jefferies & Co stufen die Aktie von Suntech Power (ISIN US86800C1045/WKN A0HL4L) in ihrer Ersteinschätzung mit dem Rating "buy" ein. Das Kursziel sehe man bei 38 USD. (14.12.2006/ac/a/u)
16.Dec.2006 911 Truth: Steve Jones declines invite from BBC - BG -
Is Jones withdrawing from the fray?

"we did contact Professor Steven Jones, but he did not want to be interviewed for the programme"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2006/12/conspiracies_wont_go_away_1.html
16.Dec.2006 Front Page Slander - BG -by Sarah Meyer

Index Research Civilization and Truth Two opposing sides of human nature appeared in the Media within the last 24 hours. Front Page, for me, represents, the Media Face of Darkness. The Face of Darkness Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar 14.12.06, D. Horowitz, Front Page. For a full study of this dark media world and their corporate funding, see The Haditha Doctor and the Media Dissemblers This is relevant information as the Haditha murder trials are about to begin. Compare the above bile with the following Guardian letter: The Face of Integrity Israel boycott may be the way to peace 15.12.06. Letters, Guardian. Signed by: John Berger, Brian Eno, Sophie Fiennes, Eduardo Galeano,... Source: https://indexresearch.blogspot.com/2006/12/front-page-slander.html
16.Dec.2006 As Usual, Secretary Of State Rice Schizoid About Diplomacy
Yesterday, reports The Washington Post, she "rejected a bipartisan panel's recommendation that the USA seek the help of Syria and Iran in Iraq, saying the 'compensation' required by any deal might be too high. 'If they have an interest in a stable Iraq, they will do it anyway,' she said."

Blair's Lies Laid Bare
London's The Independent reports that Carne Ross, Britain's chief negotiator at the UN, made it clear that Tony Blair "must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mass destruction. He said that during his posting to the UN, 'at no time did HMG [Her Majesty's Government] assess that Iraq's WMD (or any other capability) posed a threat to the UK or its interests.'"

Southern Methodist University Alumni, Professors Up In Arms Over Proposed Bush Library
In fact, the idea that Southern Methodist University would host the George Bush Library offends Methodists -- the leading religion in America during Abraham Lincoln's time -- in general. Besides his, no doubt, heavily redacted papers, what books would he include? "My Pet Goat," "The Purpose-Driven Life"? George to Laura: "Read any good mysteries, lately?"

16.Dec.2006 By Juda Engelmayer - Carter And Baker: The Final Opportunity To Infuse Anti-Israel Idealism Into A New Political Era
Carter's new book and Baker's Iraq study report mark a convergence of opposite ideologies on a single topic, Israel. It would seem that the left and the right are about to begin hammering on Israel as the U.S. grows ever impatient in Iraq.

16.Dec.2006 By Allen L Roland -JIMMY CARTER UNMASKS AIPAC AND BRUTAL PALESTINIAN OCCUPATION
Former President Jimmy Carter is a proven man of peace and one of the few, if only, statesmen who is courageous enough to stand up to Israel's blatant disregard of Palestinian human rights as well as condemn it's Influence lobby AIPAC. The new Congress must remind Israel's militant right wing that their agenda is not necessarily America's agenda ~ or we'll soon be drawn into a preemptive Israeli strike and war with Iran.

16.Dec.2006 By Jude Acosta - Dancing With Dogs: The Necessary Art Of Leading
What working with dogs has taught me about working with just about everything else.

16.Dec.2006 By Paul Foote - Jeane Kirkpatrick: America Cannot Impose Democracy
Following the death of Jeane Kirkpatrick, some authors have suggested that her views support endless American wars and imposing democracy. Her views in a neoconservative magazine and at a symposium on socialism do not support these suggestions.

16.Dec.2006 By Heather Wokusch - It's Not Just Bush: We're Accountable Too
Blaming everything on a handful of people at the top, no matter how destructive and abusive they've been, misses a critical point.

16.Dec.2006 By Dave Lindorff - Progressives Should Relax About Control Of The Senate
It might be better for progressives and for the Democratic Party if it remained in opposition through 2008. Besides, Sen. Johnson is a backer of Bush's war.

By Andrew Bard Schmookler - Disagreement About Zbig: Acknowledging The Problem Of Power
Some people find it easy to condemn pretty much everyone who has ever wielded American power. I wonder what would happen if some of those people were compelled to go beyond such criticism and actually take on the responsibility of trying to survive in an intersocietal system that has been in a Hobbsean state of war since the first kingdoms arose in Mesopotamia more than 5000 years ago.

16.Dec.2006 By Linda Milazzo - THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GEORGE P. BUSH
It was the year 2000.

The new millennium.

It featured a rising new star from a prominent American family.

His name was George. George P. Remember George P.? The incessantly publicized + promoted son of Florida's Governor Bush?

The most dominant face of George W. Bush's 2000 Presidential campaign?
16.Dec.2006 Thinking About The Human Mind
'Science may begin with wonder and strives ultimately for understanding, but as a practical matter, science is interested in how to do things.

Physics formulated a few simple laws (governing how falling bodies behave, for example), which enabled engineering and technology to develop. https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18044.html
16.Dec.2006 White House Forbids Publication Of Op-Ed On Iran By Former Bush Official - BG -https://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/15/nyt-cia-oped/
16.Dec.2006 A few things - BG -
A few things: Excellent Gabriel Ash on the Zionist and Western misuse of the holocaust.

It has recently struck me that the never-ending German support for Israel may in fact be a manifestation of the German love of barbarity. Political reasons mean that Germany can no longer attack its neighbors, so it lets out it frustration by financing an Israeli holocaust against the Arabs. Ash notes that the horror of the Jewish holocaust is that a Western nation used sophisticated technology to kill white people living within its own borders. That's the horror of it. Similar attacks against non-whites living elsewhere don't even merit comment. The Jews got to be the official victims of the West in order to pretend to be the unique victims of the West, thus hiding all the horrors that are happening elsewhere.

Excellent Mike Whitney on the ongoing Lobby e... Source: https://xymphora.blogspot.com/2006/12/few-things.html
16.Dec.2006 Funny - BG -
LINKS Police interrogate Tony Blair - tape leaked in pub... Malta ranks as one of safest locations in world Amalgam Virgo 'A national security ministry based on the lines of Hitler's 1933 putsch of the State and judiciary is under way' Stepping the change - Bridging the gap - Spooks fl... 1989 - Callboys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse 1989 - Callboys in Bush Sr's Whitehouse p2 JFK speech about secret societies 9. Kant's Criticisms of Utilitarianism 'Republican Senator John McCain has introduced legislation that would fine blogs up to $300,000 for offensive statements, photos and videos posted by visitors on comment boards, effectively nixing the open exchange of ideas on the Internet, providing a lethal injection for unrestrained opinion + acting as the latest attack tool to chill freedom of speech on the world wide web.' propaganda
matrix.com/articles/december2006/1

https://www.propagandamatrix.com/articles/december2006/1
16.Dec.2006
'National interest' halts arms corruption inquiry - BG -
A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by the arms company BAE Systems and its executives was stopped in its tracks yesterday when the prime minister claimed it would endanger Britain's security if the inquiry was allowed to continue....Source:
https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/archives/cat_politicscorruption.html#057115

16.Dec.2006 Jimmy Carter slaps Dershowitz down - ThoughtCrimes.org - BG -
Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor "knows nothing about the situation."

https://www.thoughtcrimes.org/s9/index.php?/archives/1426-Jimmy-Carter-slaps-Dershowitz-down.html
16.Dec.2006 Testimony Helps Detail CIA's Post-9/11 Reach - washingtonpost.com - BG -

Would the Italian secret services help the CIA kidnap terrorism suspects and fly them out of the country? https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121502044.html?nav=rss_email/components
16.Dec.2006 Newsvine - Miami Chief's Son Sentenced in Drug Case - BG -https://www.newsvine.com/_news/2006/12/13/480679-miami-chiefs-son-sentenced-in-drug-case
16.Dec.2006 Why cell phone outage reports are secret - The Red Tape Chronicles - MSNBC.com - BG -https://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/12/why_cell_phone_.html
16.Dec.2006 Telegraph | News | No release for Guantanamo detainees - BG -https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/12/15/wguan15.xml
16.Dec.2006 War And Peace: Everyone In Power Wants Double War Efforts - BG -War And Peace: Everyone In Power Wants Double War Efforts There is no exit from this disaster. None.
16.Dec.2006 Neil Cavuto: "All the Blogs" Will be "Furious" to Learn That, Per a Fox News "Study, " The Media Really IS Biased - BG -
Fox killed two birds with one stone today during a segment claiming that the "liberal media" intentionally hid good economic news prior to the midterm election because they "don't want to see Bush succeed." Not only was the notion of the "liberal media" reinforced but so was the idea that the middle class is better off than ever, they just don't know it. It all began with a promo Cavuto aired prior to the segment: The market's record run splashing across the headlines these days, but did the media hide some good news before the midterm elections? We studied this pretty closely. I think you're going to be a litt...
Source:
https://www.newshounds.us/2006/12/15/neil_cavuto_all_the_blogs_will_be_furious_to_learn_that_per_a_fox_news_study_the_media_really_is_biased.php

16.Dec.2006 Gazprom buying into Pravda - BG -Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, which is extorting equity from Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi in the Sakhlin 2 LNG project, is also buying up large parts of the Russian press....
Source:
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2006/12/gazprom_buying_into_pravda.html

16.Dec.2006 Saudi decision puts focus on law chief - BG --By Jon Silverman Legal affairs analyst Lord Goldsmith Lord Goldsmith said the decision was taken by the SFO https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6184159.stm
16.Dec.2006 911 WTC CD - BG -
Who Knew? According to "Pinch" and "Conspiracy Smasher" and their associated minions, WTC-like towers that collapse easily and rapidly are extremely complicated to build + can only be designed by highly-trained engineers with the aid of super-computers. On the other hand, according to "Pinch" and "Conspiracy Smasher", towers that DON'T COLLAPSE at all can apparently only be built by conspiracy-theorizing idiots who use chicken/rabbit wire as construction material. But actually, it IS easy to build a tower that collapses easily and rapidly: The problem seems to be that if one connects the parts together and constructs according to a similar structure as the WTC, the tower doesn't seem to want to collapse at all under its own weight. My tower didn't even collapse when extra force was applied to the top section. Funny how that works. I guess it's ...
Source:
https://covertoperations.blogspot.com/2006/12/who-knew.html

16.Dec.2006 Independent Online Edition > UK Politics - BG -Whistleblower that ministers tried to muzzle https://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/article2076163.ece
16.Dec.2006 The Iraqi Flim-Flam: Bush-Blair Lies Confirmed Again - BG -
The Iraqi Flim-Flam: Bush-Blair Lies Confirmed Again Was this obscene war based on lies? Yes. Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war (The Independent, via rebellenation): Excerpts: The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN security resolutions on Iraq, makes it clear that Mr Blair must have known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of mas...
Source:
https://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=964

16.Dec.2006 Letter from Operation Paget police - BG -The police are asking me for their cooperation + with the other hand are smashing my belongings just for the "crime" of writing the entirely fictitious "Golden Chain
https://tomlinsonvmi6.blogspot.com/2006/12/letter-from-operation-paget-police.html

16.Dec.2006 today's papers
An Army of More
By Daniel Politi
Posted Friday, Dec. 15, 2006, at 5:01 AM ET

The Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox with word that the Bush administration is leaning toward sending as many as 20,000 more troops to help stabilize Baghdad. The Washington Post leads with the top Army general calling for a growth in the force by at least 7,000 soldiers a year and warned the current Army "will break" under current demands if something isn't done to increase the number of servicemembers. He also called on the Pentagon to ease restrictions on Army National Guard and Army Reserves. The Los Angeles Times leads locally but goes high with a look at how the Senate has never forced any of its members to resign due to physical or mental problems. Throughout history, there have been a few senators that were too incapacitated to show up, but were nevertheless allowed to keep their seat. As Sen. Tim Johnson, D-S.D., emerged from surgery and faces the prospect of a long recovery, this tradition could be a benefit to Democrats who hold the slimmest of majorities in the Senate.
16.Dec.2006 USA Today leads with word from Pentagon officials that flame-resistant uniforms will become the norm for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan by early 2007. The uniforms resist catching fire for approximately nine seconds, which could be long enough to escape a burning vehicle.
16.Dec.2006 On the Editorial Page Iraqis reject the Baker-Hamilton report.
16.Dec.2006 Peggy Noonan What does Barack Obama believe in?
16.Dec.2006 Feds investigate reporter who uncovered murderous drug informant  
Excerpt: As is always true for the Bush administration, they are not interested in investigating severe government wrongdoing. But they are very vigilant about investigating -- and trying to ferret out and punish -- those who bring the wrongdoing to light (the classic case being their eagerness to punish the whistleblowers and journalists who informed Americans that the President was illegally eavesdropping on them, while doing everything possible to protect the lawbreakers themselves).
The context of this "visit" by federal agents to Conroy's home and office, as well as the accompanying threats issued to him, must be emphasized: the story which Conroy had reported on for Narco News involved the complicity in multiple murders on the part of federal DHS agents as well as the U.S. attorney who sent the agents to Conroy's home and business. Under the circumstances, receiving a "visit" to one's home and business by federal agents sent by the Bush associate at the heart of this matter would be seen by any reasonable person as quite intimidating, just as intended.
03.Dec..2006 :
Drug agency looks the other way as informant commits a dozen murders
Bush-Cheney tried to cut payouts to sick nuclear workers  
Excerpt:

The Bush administration repeatedly sought ways to limit payouts to nuclear weapons workers sickened by radiation and toxic material, according to a memo written by congressional investigators and obtained by USA Today .
16.Dec.2006
"Winner" of disputed Mexican election sworn in amid chaos  
Excerpt: With European princes, Latin American leaders, former President George H.W. Bush, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and other dignitaries looking on from two balconies, Calderon, 44, raised his hand and sometimes shouted as he recited the 62-word oath amid a chorus of derisive whistles. The swearing-in ceremony lasted less than two minutes... Calderon's "defeated" rival, the leftist Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, had declared himself Mexico's "legitimate president" in his own swearing-in ceremony Nov. 20 before 100,000 people in this city's central square, the Zocalo.

16.Dec.2006 Fine print in defense bill opens door to martial law  
Excerpt: The thrust of the bill seems to be about giving the federal government a far stronger hand in coordinating responses to Katrina-like disasters. But on closer inspection, its language also alters the two-centuries-old Insurrection Act, which Congress passed in 1807 to limit the president's power to deploy troops within the USA.

16.Dec.2006 Wealthiest 2% own more than half the world  
Excerpt: Two % of adults have more than half of the world's wealth, including property and financial assets, according to a study by the U.N. development research institute published on Tuesday.
Comment: Don't you wonder sometimes what the world might be like, if the rich gave the poor a chance? If the world were run by people who believed the religious rhetoric they'd rehearsed and recited all their lives, or just by people who gave a damn about people other than them selves and "their kind"?
And I say to myself, what a wonderful world ...    Helen & Harry    
PERMANENT LINK

16.Dec.2006 U.S. Is Dropping Effort to Track if Visitors Leave - New York Times - BG -https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/washington/15exit.html?hp&ex=1166158800&en=27f5ff9dcbd78759&ei=5094&partner=homepage
16.Dec.2006 sh: Nary a Care? - BG -
People's interviewer also mentioned that readers had asked if he takes sleep aids. Bush said generally not, but he does occasionally when he travels. "I must tell you, I'm sleeping a lot better than people would assume," he said.
https://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/12/bushs_first_com.html

16.Dec.2006 Bush: I'm Sleeping A Lot Better Than People Would Assume...
"I've got so much on my mind + this job is so exciting that it's really hard to settle down and plan the next 10 years of our life."
People's interviewer also mentioned that readers had asked if he takes sleep aids.
https://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/huffingtonpost/LatestNews/~3/61674943/bush-im-sleeping-a-lot-_n_36396.html
16.Dec.2006 Survey: Americans "Fattest Inhabitants Of The Planet"...
Americans drank more than 23 gallons of bottled water per person 00.000.2004 -- about 10 times as much as 00.000.1980. We consumed more than twice as much high fructose corn syrup per person as 00.000.1980 and remained the fattest inhabitants of the planet, although Mexicans, Australians, Greeks, New Zealanders and Britons are not too far behind.

https://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/huffingtonpost/LatestNews/~3/61697890/survey-americans-fattes_n_36402.html

- Bush Admin Ignored UK Warnings About Iraqi Insurgency...
The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN, has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act.
https://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/huffingtonpost/LatestNews/~3/61686350/bush-admin-ignored-uk-war_n_36399.html
16.Dec.2006 EU Wants a Middle East Free of WMDs
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Union called Thursday for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction, responding to recent comments by the Israeli prime minister that have been interpreted as acknowledging his country has a nuclear arsenal..
https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_MIDEAST?SITE=INKEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
16.Dec.2006 NEARLY 8 INCHES OF RAIN SLAMS PALM BEACH...(published on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:57:12 GMT) https://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2006/12/14/1214rain.html

- PRINCES DEMAND END TO CONSPIRACIES... (published on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:55:11 GMT) https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2505771,00.html

- Diana verdict: Death an Accident... (published on Thu, 14 Dec 2006 23:55:11 GMT) https://apnews.myway.com/article/20061214/D8M0SM7O0.html
16.Dec.2006 Nano-Cables Convert Light Into Electricity
'Nanocables that convert light into electricity could one day be used to power nano-robots.'The cables are 16 nanometres in diameter and several micrometres long.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18039.html
16.Dec.2006 Researchers Find Surprise In Makeup Of A Comet
'WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 Comets are not all made of interstellar dust and ice, but instead may contain material shot from the heart of the solar system during its tumultuous birth, scientists reported Thursday after examining pristine particles of a comet that were brought back by the Stardust spacecraft.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18041.html

General Says Army Will Need To Grow
'Warning that the active-duty Army &quot;will break&quot; under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 or more soldiers a year and lifting Pentagon restrictions on involuntary call-ups of Army National Guard and Army Reserve troops.'Gen.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18040.html
16.Dec.2006 Corrupt governments - BG -https://www.caat.org.uk/resources/pictures/acehstormer.php

LINKS Carne Ross was Britain's key negotiator at the UN. Now Ross says Blair must have known that Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction. He says that during his posting to the UN, "at no time did Her Majesty's Government assess that Iraq... posed a threat to the UK or its interests." Mr Ross revealed it was a commonly held view among British officials dealing with Iraq that any threat by Saddam Hussein had been "effectively contained". He reveals that British officials warned US diplomats that bringing down Saddam would lead to chaos. Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war Secret evidence shows no case for Iraq war Whistleblower that ministers tried to muzzle "Wafic Said is one of Britain's wealthiest men, owning country houses, private jets, a stable of r... Source: https://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2006/12/corrupt-governments.html
16.Dec.2006 Stepping the change - Bridging the gap - Spooks flee as Gorbals Johnny grabs power - BG -
The world of corsetry was shaken last night with the news that Lord Patel's friend and epistolary lover of many years , pal and fellow graduate of Lady Margaret Hall, the beautiful Dame Pauline Neville - Jones, Eliza Manningham Buller (58 - 33 of them as a spook) the "M" in MI5 is handing in her lunch pail. She will be remembered principally for having (at the insistence of Lord Patel )...
Source:
https://postmanpatel.blogspot.com/2006/12/stepping-change-bridging-gap-spooks.html

16.Dec.2006 A New York Sun report that Ahmad Chalabi may now be the Bush Administration's point man in reaching out to Syria.... - BG -
A New York Sun report that Ahmad Chalabi may now be the Bush Administration's point man in reaching out to Syria
https://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/002159.php

16.Dec.2006 Peter Lance on Fox and Friends - BG - Peter Lance on Fox and Friends PeterLance.com has the video from yesterday morning....
16.Dec.2006 Puts Obama In Split-Screen With Bin Laden and Hussein | TPMCafe - BG -
It turns out that Jeff Greenfield isn't the only one at connecting Senator Barack Obama to Muslim extremists on the basis of his name.
https://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/dec/12/cnn_puts_obama_in_split_screen_with_bin_laden_and_hussein

16.Dec.2006 Fading Reyes ? Hmmm.

Looks like that big fight over the chairmanship of the House Intelligence committee was a fight over a committee that will soon lose--or at least have to share--a big chunk of its turf. ... ... 1:20 P.M.

That official police report on Diana's death appears to be a bust, as far as alleging spying by the Clinton Administration on Republican magnate Ted Forstmann. Byron York:
16.Dec.2006 Jewish Media Owners and Reporters Attack Carter Nonstop - BG -
The virulent attacks on Jimmy Carter are ongoing and increasing in volume as an army of well-connected Jews in the media conspire together to destroy anyone challenging their total dominance in the debate over Palestinian rights. I googled many combinations of words that expressed the idea of 'how many Jewish owners of media' and got only Nazi sites or useless sites. No studies, no mainstream media stories, nothing! Talk about pulling the wool over everyone's eyes!TO READ MORE CLICK HERE...   Source:
https://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/culture_of_life_news/2006/12/jewish_media_ow.html

16.Dec.2006 Conspiracy - BG -
It was a traffic accident. ~~~~~ 18 key witnesses were ignored by the £4 million Lord Stevens inquiry into the death of Princess Diana. UK Daily Express "MI6 in Paris" Conspiracy Planet - Princess Diana: Murder-Coverup - Princess ... "A baffling allegation that the RAF crew which flew Tony Blair from his Sedgefield constituency to London to greet the Princess's repatriated body had been on continual standby to make the flight from two days earlier — when Diana was still alive." Revealed: Diana inquiry's tantalising new questions the Daily Mail Encounters of the unexplained Princess Dianas death (Part2) Encounters of the unexplained Princess Dianas death (Part3) Encounters of the unexplained Princess Dianas death (Part4) Encounters of the unexplained Princess Dianas death (Part5) Encounters of the unexplained Princess Dianas death (Part6) Princess Diana's "Murder" ...
Source:
https://aangirfan.blogspot.com/2006/12/conspiracy.html

16.Dec.2006 EXCLUSIVE: White House Forbids Publication Of Op-Ed On Iran By Former Bush Official - Think Progress -

Middle East analyst Flynt Leverett, who served under President Bush on the National Security Council and is now a fellow at the New America Foundation, revealed today that the White House has been blocking the publication of an op-ed he wrote for the New York Times. The column is critical of the administration’s refusal to engage Iran.

Leverett’s op-ed has already been cleared by the CIA, where he was a senior analyst. Leverett explained, “I’ve been doing this for three and a half years since leaving government + I’ve never had to go to the White House to get clearance for something that I was publishing as long as the CIA said, ‘Yeah, you’re not putting classified information.’”

According to Leverett the op-ed was “all based on stuff that Secretary Powell, Secretary Rice, Deputy Secretary Armitage have talked about publicly. It’s been extensively reported in the media.” Leverett says the incident shows “just how low people like Elliot Abrams at the NSC [National Security Council] will stoop to try and limit the dissemination of arguments critical of the administration’s policy.”

Listen to Leverett’s remarks at a panel today at the Center for American Progress: CLICK HERE FOR AUDIO

Transcript:

Thanks. I think I was able to put out some of my basic ideas on how we need to be engaging Iran diplomatically. They’re, you know, expounded on in greater length on paper. I wanted to say something briefly about the administration + where it is.

I have been extremely pessimistic that this administration is inclined or capable of genuinely rethinking its approach to Iran in the way that we need it to at this point + I’ve had an unfortunate experience this week that has only confirmed that for me. As I do with all of my publications, the Century Foundation paper, I showed to the CIA, for whom I used to work, to verify that I was not revealing classified information. They did so, as they have with 30 other things that I’ve published since leaving government. Didn’t ask to change a word.

I prepared an op-ed for the New York Times off of this paper, which is ready to go, ready for publication. The CIA says that as far as they’re concerned, there’s not any classified information in it. But the White House has intervened, claiming that there is classified information in the op-ed, even though it’s already been cleared. It’s all published. It’s all based on stuff that Secretary Powell, Secretary Rice, Deputy Secretary Armitage have talked about publicly. It’s been extensively reported in the media. But the White House is saying I can’t publish an op-ed in the New York Times that lays out the argument. I’ve been doing this for three and a half years since leaving government + I’ve never had to go to the White House to get clearance for something that I was publishing as long as the CIA said, ‘Yeah, you’re not putting classified information.’

Why this week — after the Baker study group, when pressure is on them to rethink their position on Iran — why do they not want this op-ed, based on my experiences in government, my experience dealing with Iran, with Iranian officials, after I left government? Why do they not want this op-ed going in the New York Times this week? I think it says something + I think it says something about just how low people like Elliot Abrams at the NSC [National Security Council] will stoop to try and limit the dissemination of arguments critical of the administration’s policy.
16.Dec.2006
Cheney: Rumsfeld ‘Is the Finest Secretary of Defense This Nation Has Ever Had’ - Payson -

Today, Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at a ceremony honoring outoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Cheney, himself a former Defense Secretary under George H. W. Bush, said Rumsfeld was the “finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had.”

Watch it: <script type="text/javascript"> var flvRumsfeld_Cheney3202409212 = new SWFObject('//12/Rumsfeld_Cheney.320.240.flv&autoStart=false', 'em-flvRumsfeld_Cheney3202409212', '320', '260', '6', '#ffffff'); flvRumsfeld_Cheney3202409212.addParam('quality', 'high'); flvRumsfeld_Cheney3202409212.addParam('wmode', 'transparent'); flvRumsfeld_Cheney3202409212.write('flvRumsfeld_Cheney3202409212');

Cheney and Rumsfeld have been close political allies for decades.

00.000.1969 Rumsfeld hired Cheney to “his first job in the federal government” as an assistant at the Office of Economic Opportuntiy. Five years later, Rumsfeld became White House Chief of Staff and made Cheney his deputy. Digg It! Transcript:

In his regard for our people in uniform, in his unwavering strength through unprecedented challenges, in his example of leadership and patriotic service, I believe the record speaks for itself: Don Rumsfeld is the finest Secretary of Defense this nation has ever had.
16.Dec.2006 Bush
on Rumsfeld: ‘This Man Knows How To Lead…And The Country Is Better Off For It’ - Think Progress -

Just 2 out 10 Americans approve of President Bush’s Iraq policy. It hasn’t fazed him. Today, President Bush gave outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld a “rousing endorsement.”

At his farewell ceremony, Bush said that Rumsfeld “knows how to lead and he did and the country is better off for it. Watch it: <script type="text/javascript"> var flvrumsfeldexit3202409213 = new SWFObject('//12/rumsfeldexit.320.240.flv&autoStart=false', 'em-flvrumsfeldexit3202409213', '320', '260', '6', '#ffffff'); flvrumsfeldexit3202409213.addParam('quality', 'high'); flvrumsfeldexit3202409213.addParam('wmode', 'transparent'); flvrumsfeldexit3202409213.write('flvrumsfeldexit3202409213');

The ceremony featured “an armed forces full honor paradefor Rumsfeld.
16.Dec.2006 Inhofe may return to Senate environment panel. - Faiz -

E&E reports, “Sen. John Warner (R-Va.) dropped his bid yesterday for the ranking member spot on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, leaving the door open for Sen. James Inhofe (Okla.) to claim the position without opposition.” The position will give Inhofe a platform to continue claiming global warming is the “greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.”
16.Dec.2006 Close Friend Of Bush At Center Of Coast Guard Contract Fiasco - Payson -

Donald “Boysie” Bollinger, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Bollinger Shipyards, “has been a friend of George W. Bush for a quarter century.” CQ Today reported 00.000.2004 that “Bollinger has known Bush since 1980? and has twice served as Bush’s Louisiana campaign chair. 00.000.2004, Bollinger became a Bush “Super Ranger” after “bringing in more than $300,000? for the campaign.

Bollinger Shipyards is part of an emerging scandal over the costly Coast Guard fleet-building program. Four years ago, the Coast Guard — “in an astonishing abdication of responsibility” — handed off the $17 billion program to Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman “to plan, supervise and deliver the new vessels and helicopters.” (The program is now “foundering” as the estimated cost of the program has ballooned to $24 billion. Continuing problems have “delayed the arrival of any new ships or aircraft.”)

Bollinger Shipyards is a business partner of the two military contracting giants + Bollinger’s company is responsible for some of program’s worst mistakes:

Even before the refurbishing began 00.000.2003, though, Coast Guard engineers expressed doubts that the boats could bear the extra weight the changes would impose. “You could have buckling of the structure of the ship,” Chris Cleary, of the Engineering Logistics Center at the Coast Guard, said he recalls pointing out. But Bollinger Shipyards, a business partner of Northrop and Lockheed, insisted the conversion would succeed. […]

Bollinger, it turned out, had overestimated how much stress the modified boats could handle, a miscalculation it cannot fully explain. “The computer broke for some reason,” said T. R. Hamlin, a senior Bollinger manager. “Whether it was a power surge or something, who knows?” The cursory oversight by the Coast Guard meant the mistake was not caught in time.

In Iraq, lax government oversight and incompetence or profiteering by contractors have disabled reconstruction efforts,” the New York Times wrote yesterday. “Now the same disease is undermining our coastal defenses.”
16.Dec.2006 Final fantasy.’ - Nico -

The neoconservative American Enterprise Institute yesterday released its latest plan for Iraq, “Choosing Victory,” which declares, “We must send more American combat forces into Iraq.American Prospect’s Spencer Ackerman has the lowdown.
16.Dec.2006 With Mary Cheney Pregnant, Bush Won’t Say Whether He Still Opposes Gay Adoption - Judd -

As a presidential candidate

00.000.1999, Bush stated his unequivocal opposition to gay adoption. From the AP, 3/23/99:

Bush said he opposes allowing gay couples to adopt. “I believe children ought to be adopted in families with a woman and a man who are married,” he said Monday.

The governor also declined to take a position on whether children already adopted by gays or lesbians should be removed from those homes. “I have no idea whether the children ought to be removed or not removed,” he said. “The question is whether I’m for gay adoption. And the answer is, I’m not.”

Then Mary Cheney, Vice President Cheney’s daughter, got pregnant. The child will be raised by Mary Cheney and her partner Heather Poe. ABC News asked the White House “over and over, if the President, as he declared 00.000.1999, still opposed same sex couples adopting children.” The White House would not answer.

Here’s what Bush had to say a few days ago to People Magazine:

The Vice President took me aside and gave me the good news. He and his wife, Lynne, are very happy for Mary I think Mary is going to be a loving soul to her child. And I’m happy for her.

There must be something about Mary.
16.Dec.2006
The Senator “who never says no.” - Judd - How Jack Abramoff associate Todd Boulanger described Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS) in an email obtained by TPM Muckraker. Boulanger urged others at Abramoff’s lobbying firm, Greenberg Traurig, to donate even more money “for the member who keeps the lights turned on here at Greenberg.”
16.Dec.2006 December 15, 2006 - Think Progress -

President Bush will be there this afternoon as the Pentagon rolls out a full-honors goodbye ceremony for Donald Rumsfeld .”

Sen. Bill Nelson’s (D-FL) meeting yesterday with Syrian President Assad was “inappropriate and undermined democracy in the region,” the White House said. Three more senators, including Arlen Specter (R-PA), will visit Syria soon. Meanwhile, the White House hedged yesterday when asked whether neocon darling Ahmad Chalabi was reaching out to Syria on behalf of the U.S.

White House press secretary Tony Snow apologized yesterday to NBC News correspondent David Gregory , whom he accused last week for posing “partisan” questions at a briefing for journalists. “I’ve thought a lot about that + I was wrong,” Snow said.

C-SPAN has asked incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to change rules kept in place by conservatives that require camera operators to take “static, head-on shots of the representative who’s speaking at the podium,instead of “taking individual reaction shots” or panning the House chamber.

New Zogby poll shows that “ Arab attitudes toward American people , products and culture grew increasingly negative last year,” in large part from U.S. policy toward Iraq and the Palestinian conflict.

By slipping four sentences into a big bill passed last week,” outgoing House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) “secured a major change in Medicare policy avidly sought by a few health insurers, in particular a multinational company with headquarters in his home state , Illinois.” The provision “showed up mysteriously after House and Senate negotiators had finished writing the bill.”

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice yesterday rejected the Iraq Study Group’s recommendation that the USA engage in talks with Syria in Iran , stating, “If they have an interest in a stable Iraq, they will do it anyway.”

Warning that the active-duty Army ‘will break’ under the strain of today’s war-zone rotations, the nation’s top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 or more soldiers a year and lifting Pentagon restrictions on involuntary call-ups of Army National Guard and Army Reserve troops.”

The idea of escalating troop levels is “running into strong opposition in Baghdad. Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has flatly told Gen. George Casey, the top American military commander in Iraq, that he doesn’t want more U.S. personnel deployed to the country, according to U.S. military officials.”

And finally: Politicians are about as ethical as car salesmen , according to the “annual Gallup survey on how the public ranks various professions in terms of ‘honesty + ethical standards.’”

Seven % of Americans rated the ethics of car salesmen highly, with congressmen getting 14 % and senators 15 %. Nurses rated the highest with 84 %.
16.Dec.2006 I must tell you, - Nico - I’m sleeping a lot better than people would assume.” — President Bush, in a new interview with People magazine.
16.Dec.2006 Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen, - Nico - has been detained for four years without formal charges, much of it in solitary confinement. He is now a broken human being:

Saying that there was ’sufficient cause” to conduct a competency hearing, the government, in papers filed yesterday, urged the judge to do so.

The government itself cited the affidavit of a psychiatrist for the defense, Dr. Angela Hegarty, who said that Mr. Padilla did not understand the nature and consequences of the proceedings against him and that he suffered “impairment in reasoning” as a result of post-traumatic stress disorder “complicated by the effects of prolonged isolation.”

Mr. Padilla’s lawyers said he opposed this request that his competency be evaluated. Dr. Hegarty, one of two mental health professionals who examined him, said Mr. Padilla was “fearful of being thought of as crazy.” She described him as “hypervigilant,” his eyes darting about, his face twitching into grimaces, his “startle response” on constant high alert.

The original accusations against him — “about the dirty bomb, Al Qaeda connections and supposed plans to set off natural gas explosions in apartment buildings — appear nowhere in the indictment against him.”
16.Dec.2006 New Jersey approves civil unions. - Nico -

Lawmakers in the U.S. state of New Jersey legalized same-sex civil unions on Thursday to give gay and lesbian couples the same rights as marriage but would not allow such partnerships to be called ‘marriage.’BlueJersey and Garden State Equality have commentary.
16.Dec.2006 Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) update: - Nico -

Admiral John Eisold, Attending Physician of the United States Capitol said, “Senator Tim Johnson has continued to have an uncomplicated post-operative course. Specifically, he has been appropriately responsive to both word and touch. No further surgical intervention has been required.”
16.Dec.2006 Boehner, King Distort Pelosi Quote, Falsely Claim She Has Broken 9/11 Commission Pledge - Nico -

Top House conservatives are attacking incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) over comments she made today about her new plan for intelligence reform, which involves creating a “hybrid” panel with members of the intelligence and appropriations committees.

The 9/11 Commission report called on Congress to overhaul the congressional intelligence system, but offered two options for achieving this goal (Pelosi chose the second):

For intelligence oversight, we propose two options : either a joint committee on the old model of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy or a single committee in each house combining authorizing and appropriating committees .

At a press conference today, Pelosi was asked why she had decided against “creating a joint House-Senate intelligence body.”

Pelosi explained that the 9/11 Commission had provided multiple options for intel reform + “ if they are giving you different alternatives, then implicit in that is that you can’t do them all .”

The right wing has now jumped on this quote, claiming it is evidence that Pelosi has abandoned her pledge to enact all of the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations.

Peter King (R-NY), the outgoing House Homeland Security Committee chairman, issued a statement claiming Pelosi had “admitted she won’t be able to enact all the 9/11 Commission recommendations,” + called it a “direct contradiction of statements Ms. Pelosi has made in the past.”

Outgoing House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) referenced Pelosi’s quote and said he “appreciate[s] the candor she has demonstrated” with respect to her “promise of enacting all of the remaining unresolved recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.”

These claims are misleading and wrong. Pelosi’s intelligence proposal is in line with the 9/11 Commission’s recommendations. Already, 9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer has said Pelosi’s plan would “achieve the commission’s two major goals,” calling it “a major step forward.” House conservatives, meanwhile, refused to take such a step and earned a “D” for their efforts on intelligence reform from the commission.
16.Dec.2006 McCain Bill Is Lethal Injection For Internet Freedom - Paul Joseph Watson -Exploits fear of sexual predators and basic misunderstanding of Internet to attack blogs critical of the
16.Dec.2006 Why Was This Russian Pilot Allowed By The WTC After It Was Under - Paul Joseph Watson -Attack On 9/11? Amazing New Pictures Raise Questions Steve Watson
16.Dec.2006 Boston Air Traffic Controller Says 9/11 An Inside Job - Paul Joseph Watson -Knew people in FAA on day of hijackings who said intercept procedures should have been enacted as normal
16.Dec.2006 Pelosi will US Geheimdienste stärker überwachen - sfux Washington -

Die designierte Präsidentin des US-Abgeordnetenhauses, Nancy Pelosi, will einen neuen Kongressausschuss zur Überprüfung des Geheimdiensthaushalts schaffen. Er solle sicherstellen, dass das Geld der Regierung regelgerecht ausgegeben werde. Die Geheimdienste würden damit stärker überwacht + das amerikanische Volk gewinne an Sicherheit, sagte Pelosi am Donnerstag bei einer Pressekonferenz in Washington.
Pelosis Demokratische Partei hat das...

16.Dec.2006
CIA-Flüge und Gefangenentransporte: Zahlen und Fakten (2) - sfux World Content News -

Teil 2 dokumentiert die bisher bekannt gewordenen Gefangenen-transporte, in die deutsche Flughäfen direkt involviert waren und gibt einen Überblick über die Verdachtsmomente bezüglich geheimer Inhaftierungen in Deutschland.
Zum Vorabverständnis, um welches Phänomen es hier geht: Gefangenentransporte - ob von der CIA oder von US-Militärs durchgeführt - liefen in den...

16.Dec.2006
2001 Anthrax attack on US Congress made by scientists and covered up by FBI, expert... - sfux 
Sherwood Ross - The terrorists who perpetrated the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress likely were US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab having access to "moonsuits" that enabled them to safely process and manufacture super-weapons-grade

16.Dec.2006 Animal studies 'of limited use' Animal drug tests are often of poor quality and conflict with human trials, researchers warn.
16.Dec.2006 UK Hepatitis C cases soar Thousands are still being diagnosed with hepatitis C, despite a major awareness campaign, figures show.
16.Dec.2006 Cannabis chocolate trio convicted Three people are found guilty of supplying cannabis-laced chocolate bars to multiple sclerosis sufferers for pain relief.
16.Dec.2006 Delhi doctors begin hunger strike Doctors at India's top medical institute begin a hunger strike to protest against quotas for low-caste Hindus.
16.Dec.2006 High IQ link to being vegetarian Intelligent children are more likely to become vegetarians later in life, a study says.
16.Dec.2006 New push for Iraq reconciliation Iraqi's prime minister calls for the return of ex-members of Saddam Hussein's army, in a bid to curb sectarian tensions.
16.Dec.2006 Spacewalk to finish ISS rewiring The Discovery crew prepares for a fresh spacewalk to complete the rewiring of the International Space Station.
16.Dec.2006 Spain restores Gibraltar air link Direct flights between Spain and Gibraltar resume for the first time in decades after a landmark deal.
16.Dec.2006 Filipino legislator gunned down A congressman and his bodyguard are shot dead in the Philippines as they leave a wedding.
16.Dec.2006 Security high at anti-Putin rally Police are out in force for a Moscow rally against President Putin, but it fails to attract a big crowd.
16.Dec.2006 US 'troop boost in Iraq likely' US President George W Bush is likely to send more troops to Iraq next year, an administration official says.
16.Dec.2006 Florida governor halts executions Florida Governor Jeb Bush suspends executions in the US state after a flawed death by lethal injection.
16.Dec.2006 Japan upgrades defence's status Japan's parliament votes to upgrade the defence agency to a full ministry, for the first time since World War II.
16.Dec.2006 Press sums up EU summit Papers across Europe reflect on the main themes covered by the EU's end-of-year summit in Brussels.
16.Dec.2006 First day ends in UAE elections Polling ends in the United Arab Emirates, where less than 1% of the population are choosing members of an assembly.
16.Dec.2006 Iraq aid agency 'attacked' by US The Iraqi Red Crescent complains of repeated attacks and harassment by American forces.
16.Dec.2006 'Taleban law' blocked in Pakistan Pakistan's Supreme Court blocks a bill aimed at enforcing Islamic morality in North West Frontier Province.
16.Dec.2006 Bhutanese king steps down early King Wangchuk of the tiny Himalayan nation of Bhutan abdicates earlier than planned to make way for his son.
16.Dec.2006 No deal for US-China trade gap China promises to introduce a more flexible currency policy, but it comes with no timetable.
16.Dec.2006 Drug resistant TB 'more severe' The problem of multidrug-resistant TB may be even more severe than previously thought, experts warn.
16.Dec.2006 Care needed with carbon offsets Planting trees to offset carbon will have little impact unless they are put in the right place, scientists say.
16.Dec.2006 ePassports 'at risk' from cloning The hi-tech ePassport could make forgery and identity theft easier, BBC Click discovers.
16.Dec.2006 The Green Room Eco-tourism brings economic benefits but it can also bring ecological disaster, a conservation scientist argues.
16.Dec.2006 US envoys start rare Cuba visit Ten US congressmen arrive in Cuba - the largest such delegation to go since Fidel Castro took power 00.000.1959.
16.Dec.2006 Litvinenko 'spied for UK company' A Russian ex-agent was poisoned after obtaining information for a UK firm, says an ex-associate.
16.Dec.2006 Rio police held over drugs links Brazilian police arrest 75 serving officers suspected of links with drug gangs and organised crime.
16.Dec.2006 Protests spark clashes in Bolivia At least 20 people are hurt in clashes between government and opposition supporters in the Bolivian city Santa Cruz.
16.Dec.2006 EU parliament passes budget The European Parliament approves the EU budget for 2006, setting spending at £76bn.
16.Dec.2006 Fitness 'cuts colon cancer risk' Keeping physically active can significantly cut the risk of developing colon cancer, research shows.
16.Dec.2006 Gates: Digital locks too complex Microsoft boss Bill Gates tells a group of influential bloggers that copy protection is too complex for consumers.
16.Dec.2006 Blair defends Saudi probe ruling Tony Blair hits back at criticism over a decision to drop a Saudi arms inquiry and "cash for honours" allegations.
16.Dec.2006 EU driving licence coming 00.000.2013 Euro-MPs approve a European driving licence to replace the many national licences by 2032.
16.Dec.2006 Israel PM strives for Abbas talks Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he is making "extraordinary efforts" to start peace talks with the Palestinian leader.
16.Dec.2006 Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel NASA's proposed 2024 moon base will be a steppingstone to Mars, but it may also be a mining outpost. The moon is an abundant source of helium-3, a potent fuel for next-generation nuclear reactors. Trouble is, China, India and Russia have their eyes on it too. By John Lasker.
16.Dec.2006 Stuck on Oil Dependence The Department of Energy issues a report detailing how continuing the current energy policy will increase our oil dependence for decades to come. In Autopia.
16.Dec.2006 Week in review: Mother Nature on the hot seat Global warming and the tech industry's environmental role were hot topics as scientists met to discuss the Earth, planets and space.
16.Dec.2006 FCC Drops Morse Code Requirement - Zonk 115 - leighklotz writes to mention a story discussing what some might consider a historic event.

The FCC has dropped the Morse Testing requirement for amateur radio certifications. The public announcement was made on Friday. Ham radio operators will no longer have to study Morse, in a move patterned after other western nations. Says leighklotz: "The U.S. joins Canada and other countries in eliminating the morse code testing requirement, after being authorized to do so on July 5, 2003, when the World Radio Telecommunications Conference 2003 in Geneva adopted changes to the ITU Radio Regulations."
16.Dec.2006
First Russian Anti-Evolution Suit Enters Court Room - Zonk 359+ - sdriver writes

"If you thought it was only the US giving Darwin a hard time, Russia has its own problems starting with evolution. A student has 'sued the St. Petersburg city education committee, claiming the 10th-grade biology textbook used at the Cervantes Gymnasium was offensive to believers and that teachers should offer an alternative to Darwin's famous theory.' The suit, the first of its kind in Russia, is being dismissed out of hand by the principal and teachers. The teacher of the science class had apparently even taken the step of stating at the start of the school year that there were other theories on the origin of life."
16.Dec.2006
Tech Companies Draw on 'Wisdom of the Crowds' - Zonk 115+ - "News.com is carrying an article on a 'mini-conference' held at Yahoo's HQ this past Wednesday.

The get-together put representatives from Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! + HP together to talk about their experiments with predictive networks. The 'wisdom of the crowds' allows these companies to make use of the collective knowledge their employees hold to answer important questions for the company." From the article: "David Pennock, a principal research scientist at Yahoo Research, said the company has created a currency called a Yootle. It's described as a 'scorekeeping system for favors owed.' Pennock offered as an example a programmer offering to write a piece of code for a few Yootles. Or, when organizing a dinner outing, one employee could use an internal SMS tool to bid 2 Yootles for Italian and 4 Yootles for Mexican. 'If you don't get to go to the restaurant you want to, you get compensation' in Yootles, he said. Related to Yootles is Yahoo Research's experiment with a fantasy prediction market for technology called the Tech Buzz Game. It's a modified version of software licensed from NewsFutures in conjunction with O'Reilly Media and features topics like Atlantic hurricanes and portable media devices. Winners are those who predict how popular a topic will be on Yahoo Search. "
16.Dec.2006
P2P - From Internet Scourge to Savior - Zonk 121+ - microbrewer writes

"The MIT Technology Review has up a feature discussing the future of p2p networks. Specifically, they look at their role in content distribution, in the age of ubiquitous video services. Soon, the article asserts, the very same p2p-style networks that 'threatened' legitimate business may be the basis for most video-on-demand services." From the article: "So how could additional P2P traffic actually be a good thing for the Internet? Carnegie Mellon's Zhang points out that because peer-to-peer networks exploit both the downlink and uplink capacities of users' Internet connections, they distribute content more efficiently than centralized 'unicast' technologies. Zhang also says it should be possible to label P2P traffic so that service providers can track it and decide how much of it to allow through their networks. He and colleagues from the University of California at Berkeley have founded a startup, Rinera, to develop software that will give service providers such control."
16.Dec.2006
DRM 'Too Complicated' Says Gates - Zonk 174+ -arbirk writes

"BBC News is reporting on comments made by Bill Gates concerning DRM. It seems he has got the point (DRM is bad for consumers), but that opinion differs widely from the approach taken by Microsoft on Zune and their other music related products. The comments were originally posted on Micro Persuasion. The article also has a take on Apple's DRM." From the BBC article: "Microsoft is one of the biggest exponents of DRM, which is used to protect music and video files on lots of different online services, including Napster and the Zune store. Blogger Michael Arrington, of Techcrunch.com, said Bill Gates' short-term advice for people wanting to transfer songs from one system to another was to 'buy a CD and rip it'. Most CDs do not have any copy protection and can be copied to a PC and to an MP3 player easily and, in the USA at least, legally."
16.Dec.2006
https://www.mail-archive.com/edebate@ndtceda.com/msg08605.html
[eDebate] operation unrelenting shitbag - jack stroube Thu,

01.Nov-2001 21-21-18 -0800 more bad news cline as senior advisor to the CSIS

00.000.1973 happened to be in chile counselling pinochet + oh yes with apartheid

00.000.1978 just prior to leading the mickey mouse admininistration down the path of constructive engagement w apartheid -- ray cline cofounder of the CSIS was a stain...a little list of reading material for all of those now interested in backing up this anti-CSIS research project in the form of a public citizen's consortium -- we want to warn civilians that shitbag may take years if not decades until our mission is accomplished -- so get ready for a long and grueling battle against the largest terror network in the world which unlike al-qaida has penetrated into your own little dabait backyard... availabale @ https://www.pir.org/main4/Ray_Steiner_Cline.html

CLINE RAY STEINER

Britain

00.000.1951-00.000.1953

Taiwan 1958-1962

Germany 1962-1969

Chile 1973

South Africa 1978

Cambodia 1980

Philippines 1986
16.Dec.2006
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16.Dec.2006
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html

so here's a possible answer to his query as to not only how the buildings "could have been brought down..but perhaps those responsable for installing explosive charges inside the buildings
Bush-Linked Company Handled Security for the WTC, Dulles and United
by Margie Burns
  George W. Bush's brother was on the board of directors of a company providing electronic security for the World Trade Center, Dulles International Airport and United Airlines, according to public records. The company was backed by an investment firm, the Kuwait-American Corp., also linked for years to the Bush family.
But none of these connections has been looked at during the extensive investigations since 9/11. McDaniel says principals and other personnel at Stratesec have not been questioned or debriefed by the FBI or other investigators. Walker declined to answer the same question regarding KuwAm, referring to the public record.
for more on this "theory" just google Marvin Bush and 911
# posted by Anonymous

16.Dec.2006 https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html
Despite the lack of the normal investigations such airline events would automatically trigger, Bush and Cheney strongly pressured Daschle and Gephardt to have no Congressional investigations, either.
This is inherently suspicious to anyone who knows of these refusals or attempted refusals to have any investigations at all, even of the most automatically and universally performed kinds. Clearly, either the facts that would be uncovered would not support the official storylines, or else other, additional highly suspect facts would come out. (For example, maybe the alleged hijackers were videotaped boarding the planes, but in the company of others, whose roles and identities would be most embarrassing if revealed).
In a situation like this, in which all the ordinary investigations have been officially blocked + the extraordinary investigations
were initially blocked, then stonewalled, slow-walked, underfunded + lied to by governmental agencies (the co-chairs admitted later they had considered referring NORAD officials to the DOJ for perjury charges), each of the government's claims (of which they refuse an adequate corroborative investigation) must be regarded as likely false, from a to z.
As to the CD hypothesis, one primary corroborating bit of evidence is the falling of the communications tower. Attached to the central core, it begins to fall immediately, but the central core cannot fail immediately in the non-CD version of this collapse. The squibs out the windows, the extreme damage at the ground floor levels, the exact diagonal cut lines on large steel girders + the evidently so inexplicable WTC 7 collapse that the 9/11 commission chose not to address it whatsoever + the FEMA (or was it the NIST?) report stated that the only mechanisms thought possible were unlikely to explain it, all suggest the CD hypothesis may be correct. Pools of molten metal left in the subbasements levels weeks later (despite a continuous flooding of ground zero with water streams) are, I think, impossible to explain without the much higher temperatures associated with CD.
As to Hopsicker's claim that no evidence exists for governmental foreknowledge of the alleged hijackers' plot, that appears quite false. Putin has claimed without contradiction that he ordered a most urgent advance warning be delivered to the WH, as likewise did Egypt's leader (one of them specifying 19 hijackers), among several other countries providing the same warnings. Even the TALIBAN foreign minister (!!) travelled to DC to warn of the same thing, while FBI field agents were memoing their superiors of the same threat from the flight school attendants.
# posted by Anonymous
16.Dec.2006 https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html

That conspiracies do exist is recognized by law, so the word 'consipiracy' cannot be automatically used to discredit an argument that contradicts 'officially sanctioned reality.'
16.Dec.2006
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html

The truth of any historical controversy is usually squeezed between the Official Story and the Semi-Official Alternative Story. On one hand, you have the W-approved version of reality. On the other, you have the Fantasyland vision of missiles plowing into the Pentagon.
One or the other. No Option Three.
But there are other avenues of investigation + those roads, I feel, will get us closer to the truth.

16.Dec.2006
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html
More people will see Loose Change than will watch 9/11: Press for Truth. Nonsensical assertions about (say) the collapse of World Trade Center 7 receive a wide audience, while few know that the USA military allowed plane-loads of Al Qaeda operatives to escape from Afghanistan.
16.Dec.2006
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html
In the mid 1990s, paranoid chic took hold; The X-Files was on the air and in the air. I became frustrated and infuriated with the suddenly-popular conspiracy buffs.

They kept regaling me with the same canards:
16.Dec.2006
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html
Anyone who can find Jesus in South America 2000 years ago is capable, clearly, of finding pretty much anything he wants to, anytime at all.
The bottom line is that this debate would be pretty funny if there weren't 3000 people dead.
Instead, the situation is Orwellian. Disinfo writ large. And it didn't happen by accident.
The Army's got a 1200-man psyops unit. I'll bet they aren't all tasked overseas.

-- Daniel Hopsicker
16.Dec.2006
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/hopsicker-on-controlled-demolition.html
The reason the govt is covering up, based on evidence I uncovered + not on bullshit speculation, is that

during the SAME month that Atta arrived to attend his flight school, the OWNER of the flight school had his Lear jet confiscated by DEA agents with submachine guns, who found 43 pounds of heroin on board.

That's not speculation. That's fact.

And it is to OBSCURE that fact that Adnan Khashoggi's minions started spreading money around to scumbags + refugees from Benny Hinn revivals, who pretend to be looking for the truth.
I have laid out the evidence in black and white about the flight school owner's heroin bust.

Yet who among you sorry-ass creeps has publicized it or attempted to learn more by actually investigating?

Don't waste your time looking. The answer is NO-ONE.
16.Dec.2006
Interview with FM Peres on –

11.Sep.2001 Interview with FM Peres on – 11.Sep.2001 ... any of the specific questions , let me just ask you first, if I may, for a reaction ... www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0kh50
16.Dec.2006 Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, Sep. 11, 2001 ... feedback@israelnationalnews.com> Subject: Arutz-7 News: Tuesday, Sep . 11 , 2001 ... www.hebroots.org/hebrootsarchive/0109/0109f.html
16.Dec.2006 For All Time - World War II (parts 1-34) ... do outnumber us there...no surprise, their half of the war is defending their Empire ...

Axis powers during January and February, after ... foralltime.alternatehistory.com/
16.Dec.2006
Beyond the Backword - 11/02 ... role in financing German World War I efforts in an 'unneutral' manner."

Germany sired ... invasion of Poland, beginning WWII. ... www.waronfreedom.org/update.html

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World War 1 FAQ FAQ on WW1. ... responsible for WWI ?

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The United States PSYOP Organization in Europe During World War II The USA PSYOP Organization in Europe During World War II ... www.psywarrior.com/PSYOPOrgWW2.html Chapter 28 World War 1 (PDF File) Chapter 28 World War 1 Section 1 The Seeds Of War

00.000.1914 -In the summer of-an assassination took ... was over, the war had involved most ... www.args.k12.va.us/academics/history/Stoneking/chapters/world2/wo
16.Dec.2006
T R O U B L E D C O M P A N Y R E P O R T E R L A T I N ... firms, advised WorldCom , Inc. (MCI) in its definitive agreement ... long term," said Carlo Frau , sent to Nicaragua last week to ...
16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ The votes for removal do not exist yet.

But the day may soon come when a number of Republican senators decide that they can best serve their party by turning against their president. Permalink
16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ John Dean is wrong on impeachment

John Dean argues against impeachment of Bush and Cheney, although he advocates the use of the impeachment process against lower administration officials. Dean:
Impeachment is a political process + not only are the votes to remove either Bush or Cheney lacking, but it also would not be very good politics to do to them what was done to President Clinton.
There Is No Chance Either Bush or Cheney Will Be Removed From Office
The Republican Congress shamed itself when it impeached and tried President William Jefferson Clinton.

It was a repeat of what an earlier Republican Congress had done to President Andrew Johnson, following the Civil War. Both proceedings were politics at their ugliest.
Democrats, when they undertook to impeach Richard Nixon, moved very slowly, building bipartisan support for the undertaking. I agree that the Republican party shamed itself + that the proceedings were ugly.

But the Clinton impeachment worked . Had it never occurred, Gore would have won 00.000.2000 and we'd now have a movement to place Clinton's face on Mt. Rushmore.
16.Dec.2006
https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ John McCain wants to shut down blogs... ...and get this: He's using the tired old "protect the children" ploy.
16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ How can I know anything about my commentators beyond the "facts and circumstances" immediately available to anyone?
The recent Democratic victory owed much to Air America and to progressive blogs. Mismanagement may shutter the former, while McCain hopes to destroy the latter. The G.O.P. intends to regain total control of the debate + they are using false kiddie porn fears to accomplish that goal.
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16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ No, the skepticism we should bring to the table in such significant cases is orders of magnitude beyond what we'd normally consider in a typical case. Puzzle house, indeed, which is why the counterintelligence office James Jesus Angleton is thought by many to have been driven mad by the requirements of his job description.# posted by Anonymous
16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Divide and conquer is an old tactic + governmental sowing of dissent among its critics is very old as well (see the US government infiltration in COINTELPRO + how government provocateurs did exactly these things, or check Operation Gladio's history of synthetic terror). These are very effective techniques and are to be reflexively expected in crimes of such enormity.
So, the difference is, in such cases, entirely unlike most issues in life, military or intelligence agency psy-ops experts will be doing their level best job for hire, deliberately confusing the issues and targeting prominent researchers who are getting too close to some fact or another.

16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ You can find a good sampling of what Wilsonian thought, circa

00.000.1913 , here:https://www.vlib.us/amdocs/texts/monopoly.htm
Here's a bit: "The amazing thing to me is that the people of the USA have not seen that the administration of a great business like that is not a private affair; it is a public affair."

16.Dec.2006
https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ J. Edgar Hoover said that the average person is at a grave disadvantage when they run into evidence of a conspiracy so immense that it beggars their imagination. Guessing, he meant the Mafia or other organized crime.
To what was Woodrow Wilson referring, when he said that at the highest levels of industry or government, something existed so monstrous and all-powerful that even the most powerful men in the country dared only speak of it in whispers, if they dared mention it all (my close paraphrase)?
Probably a neo-fascist industrialist claque, steeped in secret society brotherhoods, multi-generational or centuries old plots, of nearly unimaginable wealth and power, whose hubris may find them doing unwise things that many would find irrational and impossible, simply out of the knowledge that they own the corporate media and can have it say whatever they want, or leave unmentioned whatever they want.
# posted by Anonymous

16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ In short, both Jesusmaniacs and CD proponents refuse to acknowledge the "take it somewhere else" message unless you take out your trusty two-by-four and start applying it to the noggins of anyone who annoys.
God, but I absolutely cannot STAND these turkeys. If science really were on their side, they wouldn't be acting like religious zealots.
# posted by Joseph

16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ I've tried to summarize some of this for the residents of the DU 9/11 dungeon and dropped a name check for you over there. This is great stuff + perhaps the debate over there will shift from melting steel for a while. https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=128630&mesg_id=128630
Hamden from DU

16.Dec.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Completely unrelated, except through word-choice, is this post from RigInt forums.

The author describes an event thrown by his wife's employer and "1) Claims that everyone will be changed by a ceremony at the close of the day which is designed to inculcate loyalty to said corporation. Said ceremony is also where they require everyone to take a pledge that insists you call all fellow employees 'brother' or 'sister'."
So Bohringer skated... Kozeny remains in jail in the Bahamas, according to
this recent article.

16.Dec.2006 White House Forbids Publication Of Op-Ed On Iran By Former Bush Official, Even Though It Was Cleared by the CIA. Soviet-Style Censorship in America.
Barack Obama: First in a Series of Campaign Buttons

16.Dec.2006 Winner of the Top Project Censored Awards Two of the Last Three Years -

And Earned the Honor of Being Called "the Shrillest and Most Dimwitted Political Site on the Web" by the Wall Street Journal.

16.Dec.2006 John McCain's Shameless Call for Escalation of the Iraq War. He is Asking More GIs to Die for His Own Political Opportunism. 12/15
The British Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that

Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Bush Administration Warned That an Iraq Invasion Would Lead to Chaos by Senior UK Officials.

16.Dec.2006 Report: Senator Tim Johnson's Progress "Encouraging" 12/16
Hiring Now for Online Content Manager for BuzzFlash.com
Leonard Pitts, Jr.: My freedom linked to others -- including gays 12/16
Official says Fla. execution was botched

16.Dec.2006 Federal judge upholds Bush "terrorism" law:

A federal judge upheld the Bush administration's new "terrorism" law Wednesday, agreeing that Guantanamo Bay detainees do not have the right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. courts.

'Gitmo Is Like Being Alive in Your Own Grave' :

''Guantanamo brings images of a man in orange overalls, his face down and a soldier holding him by the neck, like a dog on a leash," says 14-year-old Zahra Paracha. "Animals are treated better,''

U.S. transfers 16 detainees from Guantanamo prison to Saudi Arabia:

The U.S. Defense Department announced on Thursday that it transferred 16 detainees from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to Saudi Arabia.

Senator's illness could spark US political upheaval:

The sudden illness of South Dakota Democratic U.S. Sen. Tim Johnson has huge potential ramifications in the narrowly divided Senate and for the rest of President George W. Bush's term.

Mint bans melting coins now worth more as liquid than loot :

Given rising metal prices, the pennies and nickels in your pocket are worth more melted down than their face value -- and that has the government worried.
16.Dec.2006
Speech of Neturei Karta rabbi in Teheran:

"My friends I wish to end with the prayer that the underlying cause of strife and bloodshed in the Middle East, namely, the State known as ‘Israel’, be totally and peacefully dissolved. To be replaced by a regime fully in accordance with the aspirations of the Palestinians. When Arab and Jew will be able to live peacefully together as they did for centuries."

OPEC to cut oil output by 500,000 bpd

00.Feb.2007 : The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) Thursday agreed to reduce overall production in 500,000 bpd, or 2 %, as of next February 1st, when winter in the northern hemisphere ends, in a move that boosted oil prices
16.Dec.2006 Palestinian Prime Minister Barred From Entering Gaza: Israeli security sources said Amir Peretz, the defence minister, had ordered the closure.

Deal reached on Haniya crossing : Israel and Egypt have reached a deal to allow the Palestinian prime minister to return to the Gaza Strip.

Olmert filmed 'coaching' Prodi: An Israeli television station has broadcast footage that appears to show Ehud Olmert, the Israeli prime minister, coaching Romano Prodi on what to say during a joint press conference.

Israeli Committee against Torture: High Court's ruling could increase killings: "We are afraid the High Court's ruling could create a dangerous slope in which the harming and killing of innocent citizens will increase." According to the Committee's data, since the start of the second intifada 500 Palestinians have been killed in targeted killings

Jonathan Cook: Still Jews only: Recognising Israel's "right to exist" is in practice bowing to paranoid state racism

Support for Israel in Congress is Based on Fear: I can tell you from personal experience that the support Israel has in the Congress is based completely on political fear -- fear of defeat by anyone who does not do what Israel wants done.

Irans President: World problems rooted in disregard for religious principles by West, Zionists: : According to a report released by the Presidential Office Media Department, the president made the remark in a meeting with Jewish rabbis who attended the two-day international conference on holocaust in Tehran

Ahmadinejad says Zionists are criminals: Ahmadinejad said not all Jews are Zionists + called for "a referendum in order to determine the type of regime the Palestinians prefer, with the participation of all Palestinians -- including Jews, Christians and Muslims," Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported.

Speech of Neturei Karta rabbi in Teheran:
16.Dec.2006 What Would Happen If Jesus Were Born In U.S. Today?
Infant Discovered In Barn, Child Protective Services Launch Probe
Nazareth Carpenter Being Held On Charges Involving Underage Mother
Bethlehem, Judea - Authorities were today alerted by a concerned citizen who noticed a family living in a barn. Upon arrival, Family Protective Service personnel, accompanied by police, took into protective care an infant child named Jesus, who had been wrapped in strips of cloth and placed in a feeding trough by his 14-year old mother, Mary of Nazareth.
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16.Dec.2006 In case you missed it: U.S. funding Somali warlords - intelligence experts: The USA has been funnelling more than $100,000 a month to warlords battling Islamist militia in Somalia, according to a Somalia expert who has conferred with the groups in the country.

16.Dec.2006 Two in Three Americans Want Diplomatic Ties with Cuba : Judging by press coverage and political rhetoric, one would imagine that most Americans take a very dim view of establishing diplomatic ties with Fidel Castro's Cuba. A new Gallup poll, however, reveals that this is far from true.

16.Dec.2006 'National interest' halts arms corruption inquiry: A major criminal investigation into alleged corruption by the arms company BAE Systems and its executives was stopped in its tracks yesterday when the prime minister claimed it would endanger Britain's security if the inquiry was allowed to continue.

16.Dec.2006  U.K. case for war 'torn apart': A committee of Britain's Parliament has published formerly secret testimony that the newspaper The Independent says has "torn apart" the case for war in Iraq.

16.Dec.2006 John W. Dean: Refocusing the Impeachment Movement : I myself have no doubt that Bush has, in fact, committed impeachable offenses + that for each Bush "high crime and misdemeanor," Cheney's culpability is ten or twenty times greater.

16.Dec.2006 Subpoena seen as a bid by U.S. administration to stop leaks: Federal prosecutors are trying to force the American Civil Liberties Union to turn over copies of a classified document it received from a source, using what legal experts called a new extension of the Bush administration's efforts to protect national-security secrets.

16.Dec.2006 U.S., China Clash on Currency: U.S. and Chinese leaders clashed publicly on the opening day of strategic economic talks, with Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. pushing China to revalue its currency and Chinese Vice Premier Wu Yi saying Americans do not have a full understanding of the situation.
16.Dec.2006 U.S. fermenting civil war: U.S. training Fatah in anti-terror tactics : U.S. officials training Palestinian security forces loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas are emphasizing urban anti-terrorist techniques as part of a systematic effort to bolster Abbas and his Fatah loyalists to counter the political success of Hamas, according to Palestinian analysts and officers receiving the training.

16.Dec.2006 The enemy within : There are hundreds, possibly thousands of Palestinians working covertly for the Israeli intelligence services.

16.Dec.2006 Syria's Assad calls for dialogue with Israel: Assad called on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to consider Syria's offer to discuss peace in exchange for territorial concessions, Rome-based daily La Repubblica reported. 16.Dec.2006 Here is what happens when you challenge Zionism: David Horowitz: Jimmy Carter: Jew-Hater, Genocide-Enabler, Liar

16.Dec.2006 Former President Carter says he won't visit Brandeis: "I don't want to have a conversation even indirectly with Dershowitz," Carter told The Boston Globe.

"There is no need ... for me to debate somebody who, in my opinion, knows nothing about the situation in Palestine."

16.Dec.2006 Israel boycott may be the way to peace : Ten Palestinians are killed for every Israeli death; more than 200, many of them children, have been killed since the summer

16.Dec.2006 Mike Whitney: Bush makes a “Clean Break” with the Baker Plan : As the USA predicament in Iraq becomes more tenuous, Israel will come under increasing pressure to make concessions for peace. We can expect to hear agonized squeals from the usual suspects, but that will only further identify the dwindling number of neocons who cling to the suicidal policy which most Americans have already abandoned.
16.Dec.2006 Iraqi Red Crescent accuses U.S. forces of attacks: The Iraqi Red Crescent accused U.S. forces on Friday of carrying out a spate of attacks on its offices over the last three years during operations to flush out suspected militants.

16.Dec.2006 Tribal Leaders Don't Trust Iraq Soldiers : Tribal leaders and some political groups in the strife-ridden Iraqi province of Diyala are turning to terrorists and insurgents for protection rather than trust Iraqi soldiers and police, the commander of U.S. forces in that area said Friday.

16.Dec.2006 Sadrists want U.S., British embassies in Iraq closed: The political committee in al-Shaheed al-Sadr's office urged the Iraqi government to close down the U.S. and British embassies in Baghdad and expel the two ambassadors

16.Dec.2006 Top general calls for more troops: The Army's top general warned on Thursday that his force ``will break'' without thousands more active duty troops and greater use of the reserves. He issued the warning as President Bush considers new strategies for Iraq.

16.Dec.2006 Bush weighing deeper commitment in Iraq, officials say: - President Bush is weighing whether to make a deeper American commitment in Iraq despite growing public unhappiness with the war, according to senior U.S. officials and former officials familiar with Bush's high-level review.

16.Dec.2006 Graham Says 20-Thousand More Troops Needed In Iraq : South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham says about 20,000 more American troops are needed if Iraq is going to establish a working democracy.

16.Dec.2006 U.S. considers 35,000 more troops for Iraq: Senator John McCain said that U.S. military commanders were discussing the possibility of adding as many as 10 more U.S. combat brigades — a maximum of about 35,000 troops — to "bring the situation under control" while Iraq's divided political leaders seek solutions to the worsening bloodshed here.

16.Dec.2006 Despite Its $168 Billion Budget,: The Army Faces a Cash Crunch: At a time when the war in Iraq is deepening + debate over pulling out the troops is intensifying, the rising cost of waging the fight is outpacing even the Army's huge budget. The financial squeeze is leaving the Army short of equipment and key personnel.

16.Dec.2006 Democrats Expected to Increase U.S. Military Spending: This year's Pentagon budget is $436 billion. That amount does not include more than $140 billion that's being spent this year alone on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

16.Dec.2006 Rice hints Baker report to be snubbed: US secretary of state tells Washington Post that US will not 'trade away' Lebanon to Syria nor allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons – in exchange for peace in Iraq. Says administrations stepping up efforts for Israeli-Palestinian calm

16.Dec.2006 UAE surprised at U.S. warning on Syria, Iran trade : A United Arab Emirates official voiced astonishment on Friday at a threat of U.S. action against the Gulf state for allegedly failing to prevent a flow of technology to Iran and Syria that can be used in homemade bombs.

16.Dec.2006 Iranians go to polls in test for Ahmadinejad : The vote for city and rural councils and the Assembly of Experts, in theory the most powerful institution in the Islamic Republic, will show if the president's rivals are regaining popularity

16.Dec.2006 Netanyahu wants Iran president tried for genocide : Likud chair MK Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned about 70 foreign diplomats stationed in Israel to a meeting next Tuesday, at which he will urge them to end their complacency and join Israel in an effort to halt Iran's nuclear program, which he says is aimed at genocide of the Jews.

16.Dec.2006 Hillary Clinton: I join Israel against Ahmadinejad : Clinton called him a serious threat on Israel and her allies and continued to say that Iran must not be allowed to obtain and develop nuclear weapons.

16.Dec.2006 Hamas, Fatah wage Gaza gun battle : Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh was eventually allowed to cross without the estimated $35 million cash but on the Gaza side of the border, his convoy came under intense fire from Fatah gunmen and one of his bodyguards was killed. Hamas said the gunmen had been aiming to kill the prime minister.

16.Dec.2006 Hamas, Fatah Clash in Deepening Violence: - Gunmen allied with Hamas and Fatah clashed at a West Bank mosque and in Gaza Strip streets on Friday, as violence spread to areas of the Palestinian territories normally untouched by factional strife.
16.Dec.2006 Who's Running Lebanon? -By Robert Fisk
Devastated by Israel's bombs, threatened by the looming might of Iran and Syria + divided from within by its own ethnic bloodletting - Lebanon is an unfolding tragedy with little hope of salvation.
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16.Dec.2006 Why Did They Torture Jose Padilla-By John Grant
What makes this case so insidious is that, according to a psychiatrist who examined him over a 22-hour period, the treatment Padilla received in the South Carolina brig was such that he now "lacks the capacity to assist in his own defense." In other words, a U.S. citizen was secretly worked over for 21 months to the point he is unable to think well enough to engage with his lawyer.
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16.Dec.2006 Guantanamo Detainees To Be Held Even Without Evidence -BY Con Coughlin
The hard core of detainees held at America's Guantanamo Bay detention camp will be held indefinitely even if there is insufficient evidence to bring them to trial, a senior Bush administration official said.
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16.Dec.2006 The Cash Cows of Personal Debt The Credit Card Industry and Predatory Capitalism - By Charles Sullivan
The booming credit card business is one of the most profitable and destructive industries to ever emerge from the inventive capitalist mind. Citibank is raking in more money than Microsoft and Wal-Mart. Obscene profits are realized without lifting a finger to perform any physical work. 00.000.2004 a single credit card company—the MBNA—realized 1.5 times the profits of fast food industry giant McDonald’s. Collecting on credit card debt is a very lucrative business.
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16.Dec.2006 Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war -By Colin Brown and Andy McSmith
The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
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16.Dec.2006 Bushs Mad-Dash to History’s Dustbin : -By Mike Wwhitney
Muqtada al-Sadr is the most powerful man in the country, the de-facto sovereign of Iraq. He oversees the 60,000 man Mahdi Army which currently poses no threat to US forces. If Bush turns on him, the occupation will become virtually untenable overnight. .
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16.Dec.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-454740,00.html

Je höher der IQ im Kindesalter, umso größer sei die Wahrscheinlichkeit, als Erwachsener Vegetarier zu sein, schreiben Catharine Gale und ihre Kollegen im Fachblatt "British Medical Journal". Diese Erkenntnis stimme mit früheren Studien überein, in denen ein Zusammenhang von IQ und gesünderer Lebensweise nachgewiesen worden war.

Vegetarier seien vor allem weiblich, gehörten höheren sozialen Schichten an und hätten eine bessere Ausbildung. Sie seien meist Akademiker. Ein Unterschied im IQ um 15 % erhöhe die Wahrscheinlichkeit, Vegetarier zu sein, um 38 %.
16.Dec.2006
https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-454872,00.html

Einen Rückschlag mussten die Ermittler gerade eben vom Bundesgerichtshof einstecken. Per Weigerung löste ein Richter dort eine grundsätzliche Prüfung der so genannten "Online-Durchsuchung" aus. Mit Hilfe eines heimlich eingeschleusten Programms wollten die Fahnder auf Rechnern von Verdächtigen forschen, ohne dass die von den Recherchen etwas merken sollten. Das ging einem Richter des BGH zu weit, nun wird ein grundsätzlicher Beschluss erwartet, der die Maßnahme komplett kippen könnte. Dann wäre die Politik erneut am Zug.
16.Dec.2006 2,500-year-old boat coffin to reveal mysterious Chinese kingdom 

With abundant cultural relics, a boat-shaped coffin dating back nearly 2,500 years has unearthed recently in southwest China's Sichuan Province, giving expectation to reveal true history of a mysterious kingdom in the area.
16.Dec.2006 Administration asks to keep Cheney logs secret 

The Bush administration asked an appeals court Wednesday to overrule a federal judge and allow the White House to keep secret any records of visitors to Vice President Dick Cheney's residence and office. posted by Prof. Hex

16.Dec.2006 Al Fayed repeats murder allegation over Diana death 

Mohamed al Fayed, the Egyptian owner of Harrods department store in London, Thursday repeated his public accusation that his son Dodi and Princess Diana were "murdered."
16.Dec.2006 Diplomat's suppressed document lays bare the lies behind Iraq war 

The Government's case for going to war in Iraq has been torn apart by the publication of previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction.
A devastating attack on Mr Blair's justification for military action by Carne Ross, Britain's key negotiator at the UN,

has been kept under wraps until now because he was threatened with being charged with breaching the Official Secrets Act. posted by Prof. Hex
16.Dec.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-454729,00.html

Nach Angaben des Chirurgen Renzo Cecere ist Langevin der einzige in Kanada lebende Mensch ohne Pulsschlag und ohne messbaren Blutdruck. Weltweit gibt es allerdings eine Reihe weiterer Menschen, die ebenfalls keinen Puls haben: Das mechanische Herz, dessen Name "Heartmate II" eher an ein Fitnessgerät aus dem TV-Shop erinnert, wurde im Rahmen der klinischen Versuche bereits in den USA einigen Patienten eingepflanzt. Das Gerät pumpt mit einer batteriebetriebenen Turbine Blut in die Hauptschlagader und soll bis zu zehn Jahre funktionieren.
16.Dec.2006
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-454649,00.html

Unerwartet: Material aus dem heißen Zentrum

Doch bis zu einem Zehntel der Mineralien aus dem Kometenstaub seien bei der Entstehung des Himmelskörpers mehr als 1700 Grad Celsius heiß gewesen, schreiben die Forscher in "Science". Deshalb müssen sie aus dem inneren Sonnensystem herausgeschleudert worden seien, folgern sie. Das bedeute, dass sich bei der Entstehung des Sonnensystems viel mehr Stoffe miteinander gemischt haben als bisher angenommen, sagte Brownlee. Er schätzt, dass bis zu zehn % des Kometenmaterials aus dem inneren Sonnensystem kamen. "Das ist eine echte Überraschung, weil der allgemeinen Vorstellung entsprechend Kometen nur aus interstellarem Staub + Eis bestehen sollten."
16.Dec.2006
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-454649,00.html

00.Feb.1999 war die Sonde gestartet + hinter die Marsumlaufbahn hinaus ins Weltall zum Rendezvous mit dem kosmischen Einzelgänger geflogen.

Auf weniger als 250 Kilometer näherte sich "Stardust" dem unförmigen Eisbrocken.

4,6 Milliarden Kilometer flog das kleine Raumschiff, bevor es in Utah landete - und nach sieben Jahren Missionszeit rund tausend feine Krümel aus der Staubwolke des Kometen für die irdischen Labors mitbrachte.

Die gesamte Ausbeute wiegt nur etwa ein Tausendstel Gramm.
16.Dec.2006
https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-454649,00.html
In diesem ungewöhnlichen Stoff hatte die Raumsonde "Stardust" im Januar 2004 Staubpartikel eingefangen, die sich von Wild 2 gelöst hatten.
16.Dec.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-454649,00.html

Bilderbuchlandung in der Wüste von Utah. Das war im Januar.

Fast auf den Tag genau elf Monate später macht die kaum vorstellbar leichte Ausbeute an Staubkörnen, die "Stardust" vom Kometen Wild 2 heimgebracht hat, Furore in der Wissenschaftswelt.

Die Forscher müssen ihre Vorstellungen darüber revidieren, wie Kometen zusammengesetzt sind - und wie die Materie bei der Entstehung unseres Sonnensystems verteilt war.
16.Dec.2006 15. DEZEMBER 2006
16.Dec.2006
Grausige Exekution in Florida: Aufruhr gegen Hinrichtungen mit der Giftspritze
16.Dec.2006 Bruderkampf in Gaza: Palästinenser schießen auf Palästinenser
16.Dec.2006 Satellitenbild der Woche: Dichter Rauch über Australien
16.Dec.2006 US- Studie: Weniger Hormontherapie - weniger Brustkrebsfälle
16.Dec.2006 Weltweiter Luftverkehr: Bis 2020 soll sich Passagierzahl verdoppeln

16.Dec.2006 Deutsche Terror- Bilanz: "Wir sind sehr knapp an einer Katastrophe vorbeigeschrammt"
16.Dec.2006 Syrien: Assad will mit Bush und Olmert reden
16.Dec.2006
IQ und Ernährung: Kluge Menschen essen weniger Fleisch
16.Dec.2006 Eskalation in Palästina: "Die Situation ist extrem angespannt und unsicher"
16.Dec.2006 Polonium- Affäre: Niederlande lassen London- Touristen untersuchen
16.Dec.2006 Studie: Meeres- Anstieg verdoppelt sein Tempo
16.Dec.2006 Iran: Testwahl für Ahmadinedschad
16.Dec.2006 Irak- Debatte: Rice lehnt Gespräche mit Syrien und Iran ab
16.Dec.2006 "Prestige"- Katastrophe: Monsterwellen sollen Tanker versenkt haben

16.Dec.2006 Netzwelt- Ticker: Gates kritisiert digitales Rechte- Management

16.Dec.2006 Entschädigung: Vertriebene reichen Klage gegen Polen ein

16.Dec.2006 Fünf Jahre Euro- Bargeld: Doping für den Exportweltmeister
16.Dec.2006 Studenten- Proteste in Paris: Party- Guerilla schockt Miethaie

16.Dec.2006 Sieben Tipps: Korruption bekämpfen

16.Dec.2006 Medizin kurios: Mann lebt ohne Puls
16.Dec.2006 Außeneinsatz: ISS- Verkabelung kommt voran
16.Dec.2006 Deutsche Telekom: Kein Anschluss für Asylbewerber
16.Dec.2006 Wertvollste Konzerne: Saudis schlagen Texaner
16.Dec.2006 Palästinenserkonflikt: Mordanschlag auf Ministerpräsident Hanija
16.Dec.2006 "Stardust"- Projekt: Kometen- Staubkörner widerlegen Theorien über Sonnensystem

16.Dec.2006 Umfrage- Tief: Drei Viertel der Deutschen mit Großer Koalition unzufrieden
16.Dec.2006 - 34-Minute Execution May Revive Debate Over Florida Death Penalty...
A man convicted of murdering the manager of a topless bar nearly three decades ago was executed by injection Wednesday, appearing to grimace before dying 34 minutes after receiving the first of two doses of chemicals.
The manner of his death will likely rekindle the argument that Florida's method of execution constitutes cruel + unusual punishment.
https://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/huffingtonpost/LatestNews/~3/61126002/34minute-execution-may-r_n_36293.html

- Novak: Rove Will Retire From Politics After Bush Term...
From The Evans-Novak Political Report:
Rove's Retirement: To little notice in the national media, Bush presidential adviser Karl Rove disclosed during a Washington speaking engagement last week that he will not return to his lifetime profession as a political consultant when he leaves the White House. Rove referred to himself as "a former political consultant" and said that he was leaving the game.
https://feeds.huffingtonpost.com/~r/huffingtonpost/LatestNews/~3/61126004/novak-rove-will-retire-f_n_36292.html
16.Dec.2006 - Microsoft Rolls Search Demographics Tool
(published on 2006-12-13T19:14:08Z)Microsoft today rolled out a new adCenter Labs Demonstration tool that can be used to predict a customer?s age, gender + other demographic information according to his or her online behavior. The data is compiled from search queries and webpage.
https://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MicroPersuasion/~3/60900620/microsoft_rolls.html
16.Dec.2006 - Israel Court Won't Ban Targeted Killings
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli Supreme Court decided Thursday not to issue a blanket ban against the targeted killing of Palestinian militants, ruling that some of the killings were legal under international law..

https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/ISRAEL_TARGETED_KILLINGS?SITE=INKEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

- Ban Ki-Moon to Formally Take U.N. Helm
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- South Korea's Ban Ki-moon formally takes the reins of the United Nations Thursday as the institution grapples with internal reforms, volatility in the Middle East and international standoffs over the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran..
https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/UN_NEXT_SECRETARY_GENERAL?SITE=INKEN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
16.Dec.2006 - Reshuffle in Saudi Arabia (published on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 00:00:00 EST)The outgoing ambassador to America might become foreign minister https://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=80bcbfafdee3458c069d4c2cb759a3d0
16.Dec.2006 - Security cameras raise rights worry in NYC... (published on Wed, 13 Dec 2006 23:49:04 GMT)

https://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=domesticNews&storyid=2006-12-13T231656Z_01_N13491988_RTRUKOC_0_US-USA-RIGHTS-CAMERAS.xml&src=rss&rpc=22
16.Dec.2006 - Ralph Peters: Return Of The Tribes
'Globalization is real, but its power to improve the lot of humankind has been madly oversold. Globalization enthralls and binds together a new aristocracy--the golden crust on the human loaf--but the remaining billions, who lack the culture and confidence to benefit from &quot;one world,&quot; have begun to erect barricades against the internationalization of their affairs.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18023.html
16.Dec.2006 Dershowitz: How Low Can You Go? - BG -
Alan Dershowitz, never one to let facts or truth get in the way of an ideological harangue, has sunk to a new low. One of Big D's most avid enemies has been Norman Finkelstein, an anti-Zionist professor who has done quite a formidable job of debunking a Dershowitz book. So it was something [...]... Source:
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2006/12/14/dershowitz-how-low-can-you-go/

16.Dec.2006 Move along... nothing to see here.... (Diana Death: nothing suspicious) - BG -https://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/12/14/diana.report/index.html
16.Dec.2006 More thoughts on Prince Turki al-Faisal and the Iraq war - BG -
https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/12/more-thoughts-on-prince-turki-al.html

Blogger Thought:  I haven't seen commentary on this blog (cannonfire) that gets within a mile of the truth about 9/11.  However, perhaps this commentary is sound.
16.Dec.2006
The New American Covers '9/11 Press for Truth' | 911Blogger.com
16.Dec.2006
https://911blogger.com/node/4995

/11 Press for Truth effectively presents some of the most glaring discrepancies, lies + coverups concerning the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil.

Henry Kissinger "nearly fell off the couch." He spilled his coffee on himself. He was visibly shaken. The next day he announced that he was stepping down as chairman of the 9/11 Commission, the post to which President Bush had named him a couple of weeks earlier. What had caused the always poised and famously unflappable "Dr. K" to come unhinged? Why the abrupt resignation from the chairmanship he had so recently accepted amidst such fanfare?

The day before his resignation, Dr. Kissinger invited a small group of 9/11 family members to the New York office of Kissinger Associates, the premier global consulting service to presidents, princes, potentates + corporate executives. The date was December 12, 2002. Kissinger, no doubt, expected them to be putty in his hands. After all, he is the fabled, gravelly voiced eminence who has strode across the world stage for the better part of half a century. Wars, revolutions, financial panics, political scandals + economic crises — he has come through them all, not only unscathed but almost apotheosized to demigod status.

But the ever calm and supremely confident diplomat was unnerved when Laurie Van Auken, whose husband was killed in the World Trade Center, said the families wanted him to disclose his client list to assure there was no conflict of interest. She asked if there were any Saudis among his clients and if any were members of the bin Laden family.

Kristen Breitweiser, another 9/11 widow who was there, gives this account of the meeting: "Kissinger told us to trust him. We told him we couldn't.... Kissinger seemed stunned.... He didn't understand the fuss about his client list — they were all reputable people, he said. Kissinger seemed stricken and became unsteady. In reaching for his cup of coffee he bobbled, knocked the pot, spilled his own cup and nearly fell off the couch." ..
9/11 Press for Truth asks, for instance, why NORAD fighter jets weren't scrambled on that fateful morning. Fighters are sent up, on average, more than twice a week to check on planes that have strayed off course or are not responding to the FAA or local air towers. This happens routinely — more than 100 times per year + without any major signals that a hijacking or terrorist attack is underway. Why, on September 11, 2001, did this air defense system uniquely — repeatedly — fail, even after the first plane hit the World Trade Center and it was blindingly apparent that we were under attack? The 9/11 Commission Report's explanation, which contradicts four previous explanations by federal officials on this matter (all four of which also contradict each other), is fraught with discrepancies, errors, omissions + contradictions.

16.Dec.2006
University of Illinois Professor Dr Franics A. Boyle Questions U.S. Involvement in Anthrax and 9/11 Attacks - BG -
US Government Biological Weapons Legislator Says 2001 Anthrax Attacks Part Of Government Bio-warfare Program -
infowars.net The real culprits behind the 2001 anthrax attack on Congress were most likely US government scientists at the army's Ft. Detrick, MD., bioterrorism lab according to a former government biological weapons legislator and University of Illinois Professor. Dr Franics A. Boyle says the FBI covered up these facts and has also quite clearly stated that he doubts the official government story that 19 arabs with boxcutters perpetrated the attacks of 9/11. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American i... Source: https://www.911blogger.com/node/5021

16.Dec.2006 Men In Black - Who are they? (7/7 Bombing) - BG -
Excerpt from Statement: The 4th Bomb Genre: Narrative Non-Fiction (True) The back of the bus had taken on a completely different structure. It was shrouded in a darkness permeated by three pairs of eyes that were staring out at him, all with the same look of fear and incredulity. The three females were huddled, writhing on the floor, each trying to slide beneath the other for safety. Their mouths were aghast with silent inhaled screams. Their wide eyes implored him to provide an explanation. Exhalation filled the eery silence that descended with faint screams that escalated in tandem with their rising sense of dread.

Keeping his chin on the ground Daniel crawled forward peering cautiously through the buses partially open centre doors that were now jutting awkwardly outwards. Scattered amongst tangled pieces of metal, plastic a...
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https://daniel77witness.blogspot.com/2006/12/men-in-black-who-are-they.html

16.Dec.2006 DISINFORMATION (as of Wed, 13 Dec 2006 09:20:11 +0000)
- Satellite Images Unlocks Extent Of Logging
'Australian anti-logging groups are using Google Earth to show the impact of forest clearing.'At least two groups - the Tasmanian arm of The Wilderness Society and the Victorian Rainforest Network (VRN) - have created Google Earth &quot;overlays&quot;, which can be downloaded from their websites.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18017.html

- Presidential Tyranny Untamed By Election Defeat
'Like the two entwining strands of the double helix, law and power form the genetic structure of government. Law is nothing but empty verbiage without power to back it up, enforce it, embody it.

https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18016.html

- Iraq: Cornered Military Takes To Desperate Tactics
'Fallujah - People living in areas where resistance to U.S.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18015.html

- Battle Brewing Over 'Iconistan'
'There's a turf war heating up over a strip of web real estate called &quot;Iconistan.&quot;'You won't find this mythical land on a map, as Iconistan exists only at the bottom of blog posts.

https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18014.html

- Under The Weather
'Two weeks ago, a massive typhoon, nicknamed Durian, blasted the Philippine island of Luzon, creating mudslides that swamped entire villages and buried at least 600 people--a brutal way to die. &quot;It's a wasteland,&quot; the mayor of the closest town to the disaster told London's Daily Telegraph after the torrential rains had passed.
https://www.disinfo.com/site/displayarticle18013.html
16.Dec.2006 On the Editorial Page
Kofi Annan's legacy: Rwanda, Dafur, Iraq and Oil for Food. 12:01 a.m. EST

Cross Country BY SARAH STEELMAN
Missouri won't buy stock in companies that do business with rogue regimes. 12:01 a.m. EST

Leisure & Arts BY DANIELLE CRITTENDEN - Sexual freedom is damaging to students. But health officials must not judge.
16.Dec.2006 today's papers
Foreskin Begone
By Daniel Politi
Posted Thursday, Dec. 14, 2006, at 5:28 AM ET

The Washington Post leads with word that in a meeting with President Bush, the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommended a change in strategy for Iraq that involves switching away from combat to training Iraqi security forces and looking for terrorists. The military leaders at the Pentagon were also quick to emphasize there is only so much the military can do in Iraq and urged for a larger focus on solving the country's economic and political issues. USA Today leads with the recommendations but with a slightly different angle. The paper talks about the plan, rather than the meeting and says the top U.S. commanders in Iraq developed the strategy.

The New York Times leads with + the WP fronts, the National Institutes of Health announcing the results of two studies that seem to prove circumcision can reduce the risk of a man contracting HIV from heterosexual sex by half. The Los Angeles Times leads with the results of a new poll that shows Democrats have a positive view of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton but Sen. John McCain would beat her if the election were held today. This is seen as further proof of how polarizing Clinton is with the electorate, while also illustrating McCain's popularity among independent voters. But there is a large segment of self-identified conservatives who have an unfavorable view of McCain, while former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani received high approval ratings overall. The Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox with results from its own poll that shows Bush's approval rating is at 34 %.
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16.Dec.2006 Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) did not have a stroke, - Nico - contrary to previous speculation, a spokesman for Johnson says.
15.Dec.2006 Israel blocks Haniya Gaza return Israel orders the closure of Gaza's border with Egypt to prevent Palestinian PM Ismail Haniya's return.
15.Dec.2006 Diana death a 'tragic accident' The official inquiry into the Paris car crash which killed Princess Diana finds no evidence she was murdered.
15.Dec.2006 Blair questioned in honours probe Prime Minister Tony Blair has been interviewed by police investigating allegations of cash for honours.
15.Dec.2006 US Democrat has brain operation Democrats' control of the US Senate is put in doubt as a senator undergoes emergency brain surgery.
15.Dec.2006 Blogging 'set to peak next year' The blogging phenomenon is set to peak 00.000.2007, according to technology predictions by analysts Gartner.
15.Dec.2006 Asia's greenhouse gas 'to treble' Greenhouse gas emissions by Asian countries will treble over the next 25 years, an official report warns.
15.Dec.2006 US scientists reject interference More than 10,000 US researchers sign a statement protesting about political interference in science.
15.Dec.2006 Spain debates Franco reparations Spain's parliament debates a law to grant reparations to victims of Gen Franco's dictatorship.
15.Dec.2006 Egypt cracks down on Brotherhood A top Muslim Brotherhood leader in Egypt is arrested along with scores of the group's supporters.
15.Dec.2006 Strike shuts down Indian states A strike called by India's biggest trade unions shuts down two communist-ruled states.
15.Dec.2006 Oil prices rise on Opec cut news Oil prices rise above $62 a barrel after Opec members agree a further output cut from 1 February.
15.Dec.2006 Prize offered to tag an asteroid A $50,000 competition is launched to find the best way to tag the potentially dangerous Apophis asteroid.
15.Dec.2006 Israel court backs targeted kills Israel's Supreme Court rules out a blanket ban on the targeted killings of suspected Palestinian militants.
15.Dec.2006 Tasmanian town cut off by fires Tasmanian firefighters are battling to save a small town that has been completely cut off by raging bushfires.
15.Dec.2006 Army discharges Pinochet grandson Gen Pinochet's grandson is sacked from the army over an unapproved speech at his grandfather's funeral.
15.Dec.2006 Princess Diana crash findings due The car crash which killed Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed was an accident, an inquiry is expected to say.
15.Dec.2006 Approaching Solar Storm Forces ISS to Take Cover - samzenpus 89 - vichyschwa writes

"A Coronal Mass Ejection resulting from an X3 Solar Flare earlier today is forcing the ISS and Shuttle astronauts to take cover and may result in communication disruptions. Last week, the same sunspot generated what astronomers described as a rarely imaged solar tsunami. The activity began with an X9 flare Dec. 5. According to Spaceweather.com, "satellites may experience some glitches and reboots, but astronauts are in no danger." However, the astronauts were ordered to a protective area of the space station as a precaution."
15.Dec.2006
Complete Mozart Works Now Free - samzenpus 215 -
"Mozart's year-long 250th birthday party is ending on a high note with the musical scores of his complete works available for the first time free on the Internet. Although most classical music is obviously too old to be under copyright, the rights to specific editions of pieces are owned by the publishers. Now, the International Mozart Foundation has acquired the right to publish the prestigious New Mozart Edition of every Mozart work on the internet. The response has been so overwhelming that the Foundation has been forced to increase their server capacity."

15.Dec.2006
Stephanopoulos, Blitzer failed to confront Smith on timing of his Iraq war reversal - BG -On the

10.Dec.2006 edition of ABC's This Week, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-OR) explained to host George Stephanopoulos his emotional statement on the floor of the Senate, in which he denounced the Iraq war as the result of "turning on the news" on December 6 and "hearing that yet another 10 of our soldiers died the same way that several thousands have ... through roadside bombs." Similarly, on the December 11 edition of 's The Situation Room, Smith told host Wolf Blitzer that he had changed his mind because he had believed that the war was about "taking out a tyrant and a terrorist and ridding him of weapons of mass destruction and establishing democracy" but had now turned the USA into "street cops in a sectarian civil war." Asked w... Source: https://mediamatters.org/items/rss/200612120005
15.Dec.2006 Astronauts Forced To Take Shelter From Violent Solar Storm In Space - BG -
A violent solar explosion sent a dangerous wave of radiation through space late Tuesday, prompting NASA to order the crews of Discovery and the International Space Station to take shelter overnight, according to Local 6 News partner Florida Today. The solar flare erupted around 9:40 p.m., unleashing enough radiation to disrupt radio communications on Earth and in orbit while endangering astronauts circling 220 miles above the planet....
Source:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1752908/posts

15.Dec.2006 Leahy Will Fight Bush on Privacy Rights - BG -

The incoming Democratic chairman of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee promised on Wednesday to combat what he denounced as President George W. Bush's war-time trampling of American rights....
15.Dec.2006 the big idea
Where Have All the Flower Children Gone?
Why you're not demonstrating against the Iraq war.
By Jacob Weisberg
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, at 3:32 PM ET

The American experience in Iraq, as many analysts have pointed out, looks a lot like the American experience in Vietnam. But one element seems to be missing: antiwar protests. There were enormous demonstrations around the world, including in New York and San Francisco, on the eve of the invasion

00.Feb.2003 .

Support for the Iraq war and the president's handling of it are significantly lower than comparable polling numbers for Vietnam + LBJ at an analogous point 00.000.1968.

Yet since the war began, antiwar protesters haven't been numerous, visible, or influential. Where have all the flower children gone?

The most obvious reason students aren't marching against the Iraq war is that there isn't any draft or threat of a draft.

In the Vietnam era, or at least from 1965 on, young men faced the dire possibility of being conscripted. In practice, of course, there were generous deferments and avenues for avoidance, especially for the well-connected. But even so, young men had to do things that were dishonest or dishonorable to avoid being sent against their will to kill and die. Many of the earliest campus demonstrations in Berkeley and elsewhere were specifically protests against the draft. To continue reading, click here.
15.Dec.2006 UN Chief´s Parting Message to U.S., Israel + PA
3.
PM Olmert in Germany: We Have Learned the Lessons of the Shoah
4.
Israeli Economy Sees Record-Breaking Positive News

15.Dec.2006 35 Scholars Urge Vatican to Open Holocaust Archives
15.Dec.2006 Israel high court allows Palestinians injured by IDF to sue for compensation - BG -
[JURIST] Israel's Supreme Court [official website, in Hebrew] Tuesday unanimously overturned a law barring Palestinians from claiming compensation from the Israeli state in respect of damages suffered in "conflict zones" in Gaza and the West Bank. The so-... Source:
https://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/12/israel-high-court-allows-palestinians.php

15.Dec.2006 today's papers
Sit and Wait
By Daniel Politi
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2006, at 5:00 AM ET

The Los Angeles Times leads with word from sources that military leaders at the Pentagon are likely to tell President Bush the USA needs to send more troops to Iraq. In addition, they will argue that U.S. forces need to carry out a new offensive against Muqtada al-Sadr. The New York Times leads + the Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox, with the White House announcing that Bush would delay presenting his new strategy for Iraq until next year instead of before Christmas, as was initially the plan.

USA Today leads with Federal investigators and safety advocates declaring they are worried the Airbus A380 double-decker plane, which is the largest jetliner in history, will be exempt from new U.S. rules designed to prevent explosions in the fuel tank. An explosion in the fuel tank caused the crash of TWA Flight 800 00.000.1996. The Washington Post leads with a poll on American attitudes toward Iraq that for the most part echoes a USAT poll published yesterday. The majority of Americans say the USA is losing the war + most support the proposals put forward by the Iraq Study Group.
15.Dec.2006 Extra BY PETER R. KANN - The media is in need of some mending.
15.Dec.2006 News from NPR about Bush Speech being Delayed - BG -
AFP/Getty Images
Opinion on Iraq War Drops; Bush Delays Key Speech

The White House puts off a major policy address from President Bush on the Iraq war.

The delay until

00.Jan.2007 comes as new national polls show plummeting public support for the war. Iraq: The GOP's Vietnam? Public Sours on Iraq Strategy
15.Dec.2006 Alex Jones Watch: Installment #1 - BG -
This post initiates this blog coverage of Alex Jones in a formal manner.
This author would prefer that the Jones Org., or RBN would be able to afford and support an individual that would act as an ombudsman for Jones website and on-air commentary. Realizing that is unlikely to happen, this blog intends to take up the slack.
Installment #1: Jones covers the Seattle Xmas Tree Mess at the Seattle Airport
Here's a blog entry that explains the controversy as it started:
"A rabbi complains that an airport array of Christmas trees should be accompanied by a menorah, "
https://info.detnews.com/weblog/index.cfm?blogid=8803
In almost complete variance to the facts, Jones said on his radio show today that a Rabbi was trying to get the Xmas trees removed.
I support Jones' work in many areas. My plan is not to take pot shots here. However, Alex, might I suggest you [re-]read the news stories and offer an on-air apology for your egregious misrepresentation of this news.
I have to say my thought process goes along the lines of... if Alex got this so wrong, what else has he missed the boat on?

15.Dec.2006 Saudi Arabia's Ambassador Suddenly Decamps USA - BG -
Right on the heels of Saudi Arabia snarling they will fund Sunni terrorists in Iraq if we make a deal with SCIRI, Bush then makes sounds of putting SCIRI in power and instantly, the Saudi Ambassador Prince who use to (hahaha) run their spook agency, leaves Washington, DC in a terrible hurry. What is going on? TO READ MORE CLICK HERE... \Source:
https://elainemeinelsupkis.typepad.com/culture_of_life_news/2006/12/saudi_arabias_a.html

15.Dec.2006 David Slesinger: Not somebody whose approach I support in the least! - BG -
Leaflet for "FROM 9/11 TRUTH TO 9/11 JUSTICE" in DC on Saturday Nov 11 INFORMATION IS NOT ENOUGH 9/11 ACTIVISTS MUST SHOW COURAGEFor 9/11 activists who ask when we'll reach critical mass, aren't you suggesting we've already won? Do you want to be compared to the determinism seen in Marx? I'll take an optimistic stand, but not a determinist stance. We do have a real chance to bring the truth of 9/11 into the full light of day. One reason we shouldn't count our chickens before they hatch is because there's political AND spiritual value in doing everything one can to expose the truth about 9/11. Why is courage so important? Those who attack us and dismiss our questions offhandedly are AFRAID TO LOOK AT THE ISSUE. Those who haven't taken a stand are AFRAID TO LOOK AT THE ISSUE. Those who are actual...
Source:
https://911courage.org/article.php/20061110032835353

15.Dec.2006 US Government Biological Weapons Legislator Says 2001 Anthrax Attack - Paul Joseph Watson 
US Government Biological Weapons Legislator Says 2001 Anthrax Attacks Part Of Government Bio-warfare Program Expert says FBI covered up the plot to attack

15.Dec.2006 Alleged Liquid Bomb Plot Credibility Crumbles - Paul Joseph Watson 
Alleged Liquid Bomb Plot Credibility Crumbles Court clears Rauf of charges as much vaunted transatlantic airliner attack dissipates into another staged terror

15.Dec.2006 John McCain’s War On Blogs - Amanda - John McCain has made clear that he doesn’t like the blogosphere.

Now he has introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles. Some highlights of the legislation:

Commercial websites and personal blogs “would be required to report illegal images or videos posted by their users or pay fines of up to $300,000 .”

Internet service providers (ISPs) are already required to issue such reports, but under McCain’s legislation, bloggers with comment sections may face “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.

Social networking sites will be forced to take “effective measures” — such as deleting user profiles — to remove any website that is “associated” with a sex offender. Sites may include not only Facebook and MySpace, but also Amazon.com, which permits author profiles and personal lists + blogs like DailyKos, which allows users to sign up for personal diaries .

Kevin Bankston of the Electronic Frontier Foundation notes that this proposal may be based more “on fear or political considerations rather than on the facts.” When he introduced his legislation to the Senate, McCain offered no evidence that children are being victimized by people who post comments on blogs.

McCain’s legislation could deal a serious blow to the blogosphere. Lacking resources to police their sites, many individual blogs may have to shut down open discussion.

(HT:The Liberty Papers) Digg It!
15.Dec.2006 Of the 383 pieces of legislation - Nico - that were signed into law during the two-year 109th Congress, more than one-quarter dealt with naming or renaming federal buildings and structures — primarily post offices — after various Americans.”
15.Dec.2006 82. - Nico - % of Americans who want most U.S. troops out of Iraq within two years.
15.Dec.2006 Former Cheney Adviser: ‘Iraq Is Now Bush’s Baby + Cheney Doesn’t Want To Be Tarred With It’ - Faiz -

Questioning why Vice President Cheney has been “publicly silent and mostly out of sightsince the Iraq Study Group issued its report, U.S. News reports that a former Cheney adviser believes the vice president is now cutting-and-running from the “grave and deterioratingsituation in Iraq:

I think we’ll see less of him than ever,” says the associate. “Iraq is now Bush’s baby + Cheney doesn’t want to be tarred with it in the eyes of historians.”

Regardless of the actions Cheney takes in the future, history will not forget that he has been at the center of the administration’s most egregious attempts to both sell the war (”we believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons) and falsely report the situation on the ground (”I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency”).

Based on conversations with sources inside the White House, U.S. News notes there may be an alternative explanation for Cheney’s disappearance:

White House insiders say Cheney is playing an inside game, advising President Bush privately not to change course too much in Iraq, not to withdraw U.S. troops anytime soon + not to talk directly with the hard-line regimes in Iran and Syria about the situation.

Cheney, an architect of current policy, is waiting for Bush to decide, perhaps early in the new year, what to do next before he speaks out. At that point, insiders say, he will go public to sell the president’s decision around the country , especially in speeches to conservative audiences who still have a high regard for Cheney, even though his popularity with the public is very low.

Cheney is reportedly advocating taking the side of the Shiites in Iraq’s civil war, a position which caused him to be “summonedrecently to Saudi Arabia and has stoked fears of a broader war in the Middle East. Whatever motivations Cheney has for remaining publicly silent, he seems intent on pushing his failed ideological vision to its disastrous ends, while escaping accountability for it.

Bush_s_Baby_And_Cheney_Doesn_t_Want_To_Be_Tarred_With_It">Digg It!
15.Dec.2006 Santorum: Fox News’ newest pundit? - Amanda -

A month after suffering the largest defeat by a Senate incumbent in a quarter-century,” Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) is “negotiating a cable deal, which political insiders say most likely is with Fox — though MSNBC and have been mentioned as well.”
13.Dec.2006 December 13, 2006 - Think Progress -

Saudi Arabia has told the Bush administration that it might provide financial backing to Iraqi Sunnis in any war against Iraq’s Shiites if the USA pulls its troops out of Iraq,” the New York Times reports. “King Abdullah also expressed strong opposition to diplomatic talks between the USA and Iran.”

As President Bush weighs new policy options for Iraq, strong support has coalesced in the Pentagon behind a military plan to ‘double down’ in the country with a substantial buildup in American troops, an increase in industrial aid and a major combat offensive against Muqtada Sadr,” the Los Angeles Times reports.

Former Congressman Ciro Rodriguez completed a stunning political turnaround Tuesday with an upset win over incumbent Republican Henry Bonilla that topped off the Democratic takeover of Congress.”

54: % of Americans who believe “Bush will be judged as a below-average or poor president, more than double the negative rating given any of his five most recent predecessors. Just 19 % expect him to be seen as outstanding or above average, placing him last among the six.”

Federal prosecutors are backing away from some of the aggressive tactics they have employed against corporate crime .” The Justice Department said yesterday prosecutors “will largely refrain from demanding that companies refuse to pay for the legal defense of executives who are under investigation + significantly limit their demands for privileged attorney-client communications.”

Americans overwhelmingly say the growing gap between rich and poor has become a serious national concern. “Almost three-quarters of Americans believe inequality is a major issue, versus 24 % who don’t think so, according to a new Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll.”

The Bush administration “asked an appeals court on Tuesday to overturn a ruling that could require…a redesign of the nation’s currency so paper money could be more easily used by the blind .” The administration said the changes “would be too expensive and could cause undue hardships on the vending machine industry.”

25,000. Number of U.S. troops dead or wounded in Iraq.

28 %. Number of Americans who approve of President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war. Just 34 % believe the USA is winning the war.
15.Dec.2006 Flughafen-Crash in Kirgisien - sfux -US-Piloten verschuldeten Unfall mit Präsidentenmaschine
Novosti - Der Zusammenstoß des kirgisischen Präsidentenflugzeuges vom Typ Tu-154M mit einem amerikanischen Tankflugzeug auf dem Flughafen Manas in Bischkek am 26. September ist "durch inadäquate Handlungen der Flugzeugbesatzung der amerikanischen Luftwaffe" verursacht worden.
Wie der Direktor des Departments für Zivilluftfahrt Kirgisiens, Alik Askarow,...

15.Dec.2006 Litvinenko, Tod und Polonium ? Lord Bell und eine antirussische PR-Kampagne - sfux Russland RU - ?

Unakzeptable Kampagne!?schimpfte Außenminister Sergei Lawrow über die ?aufgebauschte? Russlandkritik der letzten Tage. Der britische Botschafter Anthony Brenton hielt dagegen: "Im Namen der britischen Regierung erkläre ich, dass es keine antirussische Kampagne gibt."
Letztere Behauptung widerlegt die britische Presse. ?Guardian? und ?Financial Times? berichten ausführlich...

15.Dec.2006
Tratschundlaber - sfux Sonja Wenger -

In der guten ollen USA gibt es ein Gesetz namens Double Jeopardy, das es ausnahmslos verbietet, einen Menschen zweimal wegen demselben Verbrechen vor Gericht zu stellen. Ist man erst einmal freigesprochen, kann man also vor aller Welt zugeben, es getan zu haben.
15.Dec.2006
Buschmänner gewinnen Prozess in 1. Instanz - sfux Dr. Alexander von Paleske -

Der High Court von Botswana gab der Klage der Buschmänner auf Rückführung in den Kalahari Nationalpark statt.
Die Entscheidung kam überraschend, zeigt aber gleichzeitig die Unabhängigkeit des Gerichts. Das Gericht stellte sich auf den Standpunkt, die Umsiedlung der Buschmänner oder San aus ihrem angestammten Gebiet sei rechtswidrig, weil...

15.Dec.2006
Spion Covassi liefert Geheimmaterial - sfux Stephan Fuchs - Was die meisten fast nicht mehr für möglich gehalten haben wurde, nach monatelangem Seilziehen, endlich wahr. Der Schweizer Spion Claude Covassi hat sich gestern um 16:45 der parlamentarischen Geschäftsprüfungsdelegation GPDel in Bern vorgestellt.

Die GPDel überprüft die Schweizer Geheimdienste. Mit im Gepäck von Covassi: 300 Seiten Dokumente und 5 Stunden Gesprächsaufnahmen zwischen dem Moschee-Spion und...
15.Dec.2006
Appeal by alleged Daniel Pearl killer begins - sfux Karachi -

An appeal by a British-born Islamic militant sentenced to death for killing US reporter Daniel Pearl got underway Monday at a court in Pakistan after a delay of more than four years.
Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, also known as Sheikh Omar, was convicted by an anti-terrorism court of involvement...

15.Dec.2006
Um das Erbe des toten Diktators - sfux Malte Olschewski -

Man hat mit genauer Adresse an die Offiziere der Armee ein Manifest verschickt, wonach die Regierung die Streitkräfte auflösen würde. Auf gestohlenem Briefpapier der ?Unidad Popular? wurden den Haushalten Fragebogen zu gestellt, auf dem anzugeben war, welche Dinge man mit den Armen des Landes teilen wolle. Immer wieder kreuzten US-Kriegsschiffe vor den Küsten Chiles.
15.Dec.2006
UN adopts disability convention The UN General Assembly adopts a treaty giving greater rights to the world's 650m disabled people
15.Dec.2006 More mystery deaths than thought The rate of sudden unexplained cardiac death is around eight times higher than thought, warn experts.
15.Dec.2006 European chemical law passed The European Parliament approves landmark legislation to control the use of toxic chemicals in industry.
15.Dec.2006 India 'overestimates' HIV/Aids The number of Indians infected by HIV/Aids may be lower than the UN estimate of 5.7 million, a study suggests.
15.Dec.2006 Online banking fraud 'up 8,000%' The UK has seen an 8,000% increase in fake internet banking scams in the past two years, peers are told.
15.Dec.2006 Bush defends Iraq strategy delay US President George W Bush says he will not be rushed into deciding how to change his Iraq policy.
15.Dec.2006 Bushmen win land ruling A Botswana court rules that bushmen from the Kalahari desert were illegally moved from their homeland.
15.Dec.2006 Denmark 'most dynamic' in EU Denmark is now the EU's most competitive and dynamic economy, according to a report.
15.Dec.2006 U.S. Skimps on Americans' Privacy Europeans enjoy greater privacy rights than U.S. citizens under Homeland Security's Automated Targeting System. In 27B Stroke 6.
15.Dec.2006 And Your Brain Said, 'Ha!' Research suggests that our brains prime us to laugh when others do it. So that's why Adam Sandler is only funny at the movie theater. In Bodyhack.
15.Dec.2006 The Pernicious Price of Petroleum
In his new book, Lives Per Gallon, former secretary of the California EPA Terry Tamminen examines the health, environmental and national security costs hidden in every barrel of oil. Wired News interview by John Gartner.

15.Dec.2006 Google Plants Solar Trees
The search giant joins a growing trend by landscaping its headquarters' parking lots with pole-mounted panels that provide shade and generate clean power in one fell swoop. By Marty Graham.

15.Dec.2006 Sorting through the noise of Election '06 Neighborhood America CEO Kim Patrick Kobza says new technology can support a more constructive public dialogue ahead of Election Day.
15.Dec.2006 New Mars Discoveries - samzenpus 83 -sighted writes

"The fleet of five active spacecraft examining Mars (in addition to the recently-missing Mars Global Surveyor) have been working overtime.

On the heels of last week's finding of possible flows of liquid water, the ESA has announced that an entire hidden landscape exists just beneath the surface of the Red Planet +

NASA has released some really amazing images of layered topography that will yield many clues to the history of this strange world."
15.Dec.2006
FTC To Investigate 'Viral Marketing' Practices - ScuttleMonkey 255 -mcflaherty writes

"The Federal Trade Commission has stated that it is going to investigate the use of 'Viral Marketing' by corporations.

This is the type of advertising that seeks to start a word of mouth campaign for the product via consumers themselves. Previously, consumers themselves set the buzz. But lately advertisement firms are stepping up to the plate themselves, seeding the market with buzz that looks independent of the company, but is in fact funded by them. The crew at Penny Arcade contend that corporate generated buzz is not Viral Marketing + perhaps Guerrilla Marketing would be a more apt term. Either way, it appears to be a profitable advertising model."
15.Dec.2006
Liquid Terror Charges Dropped - ScuttleMonkey 284 -

A Pakistani judge has decided to drop terrorism charges against the man described as a "key figure" in the alleged plan to blow up flights out of London using liquid explosives. Instead of facing charges of terrorism for the plot, which forced many travelers to follow strict guidelines with respect to liquids, Rashid Raud now faces charges such as forgery. From the article: "Several commentators said the threat was deliberately exaggerated to bolster the anti-terror credentials of Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and that it helped to demonise British Muslims of Pakistani origin. The Crown Prosecution Service in the UK said the dropping of charges against Mr Rauf in Pakistan would "make no difference" to the case against the men charged in Britain."
15.Dec.2006
The Sierras of Titan - ScuttleMonkey 150 -eldavojohn writes

"Cassini has detected the tallest mountains on Titan, a large moon of Saturn. More importantly, clouds have also been detected in Titan's atmosphere. Why is this news important? Well, as scientists scan the skies for the easiest piece of mass to colonize, things that resemble Earth's geology & atmosphere are going to require the least effort & resources. These mountains mean that Titan may have tectonic plate movement similar in some ways to earth's. From the article, '"You can think of Titan as the Earth in deep freeze," said Dr Rosaly Lopes, Cassini radar team member at the US space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "It has a lot of the geological processes that Earth has. In fact, it is more Earth-like than anywhere else in the Solar System. But the surface is very cold; it's about minus 178C."'"
15.Dec.2006
White Dolphin Functionally Extinct - ScuttleMonkey 778 -

"For the first time in nearly fifty years another mammal, specifically an aquatic mammal, has gone extinct. In this case, it was the white dolphin, also known as the Baiji, which used to live in the Yangtze River in China. The dolphin had been known to exist for the last 20 million years."
15.Dec.2006
New Zealand's First Land Mammal Discovered - kdawson 144+ - Bob Beale writes to clue us to big news from New Zealand.

The country has long been thought to have been devoid of land mammals until recent times. No mammal fossils had ever been found there; but now one has. From the article: "Small but remarkable fossils found in New Zealand will prompt a major rewrite of prehistory textbooks, showing for the first time that the so-called 'land of birds' was once home to mammals as well. The tiny fossilized bones — part of a jaw and hip — belonged to a unique, mouse-sized land animal unlike any other mammal known... The fact that even one land mammal had lived there, at least 16 million years ago, has put paid to the theory that New Zealand's rich bird fauna had evolved there because they had no competition from land mammals."
15.Dec.2006
Quantum Cryptography Ready For Wide Adoption? - kdawson 115+ - An anonymous reader points us to an interview with the founder of quantum cryptography pioneer MagiQ Technologies. From the ...