20.Mar.2007 Deutschland im Fadenkreuz der Terror-Medien - onlineredaktion Michael Schulze von Glaßer -

Terror kommt von dem lateinischen “terrere2 : der Schrecken, in Schrecken versetzen.

Das Wort meint die

[WIRKLICH] absichtliche,

aber oftmals

willkürlich

erscheinende

Verbreitung von Angst und Schrecken

durch ausgeübte

oder

angedrohte

Gewalt.

Als Terrorismus wird diese Angst zum Erreichen politischer oder wirtschaftlicher Ziele genutzt.

Terror dient immer dazu, die Menschen gefügig zu machen.

Doch wer sind ...
20.Mar.2007 Something to Consider - BG clipped from www.dailykos.com Ashcroft Did It, Too

Well, sort of. U.S. News raises this potential defense of Alberto Gonzales in the prosecutor purge, only to immediately shoot it down.

Turns out that Ashcroft's chief of staff, David Ayres, began the process of looking at which USAs should be up for replacement.

Remember that Comey was the acting Attorney General (Ashcroft was recovering from surgery at the time) who refused to authorize the NSA's warrantless wiretapping

00.000.2004. No wonder both Ashcroft and Comey got the boot.

Obviously their definitions of "legal" and "competent" just didn't mesh with the White House's.

And you never thought John Ashcroft would look so good.
20.Mar.2007 Fractal Politics: Local Marching or Marchturbating; Dems Legislating to stop the war or Jerking us Around.
Fractal Politics;

microcosm

Whether it's a local peace march or war-ending efforts in congress, it takes strong, tough leadership.

Anything less is ineffective and will accomplish nothing except further loss of hope and participation by the grass roots.
20.Mar.2007 Senate debate on revoking Gonzales's appointment authority begins Bush administration snuck provision into Patriot Act last year
20.Mar.2007 Lives of Others and Our Own Lives

The Bush Administration's power is founded in lies. [PROPAGANA].

Keeping the truth from the public requires a web of coercion and intimidation that touches all our lives. [PSYOP]
20.Mar.2007 Bush vs. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The Bush's Administration's failure to craft a comprehensive national energy policy is undermining America's resilience.

As a result, America is caught in a vicious cycle that is breaking her military + leaving us more brittle at home.
20.Mar.2007 Kristof to Democrats: Talk About Israel!
One of the most courageous and talented journalists in America today is Nicholas Kristof.

He has traveled from the brothels of Cambodia (to rescue child-prostitutes) to the refugee camps of Darfur (to report on genocide) often at great personal risk. On

18.Mar.2007 he took what may be seen as his greatest professional risk.

Namely, he took on the Israel Lobby in his column Talking About Israel.
20.Mar.2007 Four Years of Death and Failure
Four years of losses would get a coach fired. You would think Americans would be calling for his head.
20.Mar.2007 How Americans Can Support Democracy in the Middle East--Without War and Without the U.S.-Middle East Free Trade Area
Part I of II: Democratic Aspirations in Iran and the Middle East I agree with one thing Condoleeza Rice said: we shouldn't give up on the democratic aspirations of the people of the Middle East!

She's wrong on what to do, though.

The best way we Americans can help Middle Eastern people achieve democracy is to get our military out of their faces + work on improving democracy in our own country.
20.Mar.2007 Grandpop - How come you wanted Bush to abolish democracy?
One day Republicans will have to explain to their grandchildren why they wanted a megalomaniacal moron to turn our democracy into a fascist police state.
20.Mar.2007 "Economics of Empire"
The pathology of Empire really has more to do with economics than with politics.

All traditional empires have been at heart a project of economic advantage only affected by political rationalization + ultimately the military power to carry out the seminal goal of economic advantaged status.
20.Mar.2007 Arsenic in my Fluoride? CDC admits Yes
Tainted fluoride chemicals are added to 2/3 of the U.S. water supplies.

Fluoride does not purify or treat the water supply, it's added to medicate the tap water consumer against tooth decay. It fails at that, too. But costs hundreds of millions of dollars a year.
20.Mar.2007 President Bush, the Iraqi people are not collateral damage they are victims
I am sick of the term collateral damage when it comes to their lives being taken and when it pertains to Americans who are killed through acts of terror and hate, we label them victims.

That should enrage everyone. The Iraqi people are not collateral damage but victims of these neo-cons who launched their own brand of 9/11 on these innocent people.
20.Mar.2007 Iraqi People to White House - Leave. No "Timetables"
A majority of the Iraqi people (a) condone violent attacks on our troops and (b) want us out immediately.

How hard is it to figure out? We want out, they want us out, "timetables" are a sham under these circumstances.

Out now! Respect the will of Americans and Iraqis. Show some leadership Congress!
20.Mar.2007 Clinton U.S. Atty: No Political Pressure
00.000.1993-000.000.2001 Peg Lautenschlager,U.S. Atty.()"During my tenure of as an U.S. atty., I never personally nor did I know of any U.S. atty. who had those sorts of alleged (political) demands placed on him or her." 20.Mar.2007 Ohio's Secretary of State Brunner Sets Model for the Nation
Newly elected Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner shows the nation we can clean out corruption and create election integrity.
20.Mar.2007 "Bogus Arguments": Report on the Radio Show
Can there be constructive dialogue with the true-believer Bushite supporters.

My recent experience on the radio in Virginia makes me doubtful.

At least it does not seem that I --whose approach has to do with logic + reason and evidence-- have anything in my repertoire that penetrates the trance state.
20.Mar.2007 Has Bush pulled the bow so far back that he's finally loosened the arrow of American Socialism?
Is Socialism coming into its own as a reaction to Bush neo Nazism? Has Bush polarized into existence a Progressive/Liberal Political Party?
20.Mar.2007 You're Either With Us, Or You're An "N" Word. The Last Vestige Of Decency Has Flown O'Reilly's Coop
So not to misunderstand his blatant bile,

Bill will go on to explain that when he calls you a Nazi,

he doesn't mean you are actually a Nazi;

only that you use Nazi tactics.

You know.

Like when you call someone a rapist,

you don't mean they're a rapist;

only that they use rapist's tactics.

That's so,

when he's holding a knife to your throat

while he forces you to have sex,

you don't think

he's that bad a guy.
20.Mar.2007 Republican Political Mafia and Federal Law
There is nothing as corrupt as using the governmental powers of law enforcement, to selectively prosecute your political enemies + to cover-up criminal behavior by your political organization + allies,

while in a position of political power. This situation is the essence of the current scandal concerning the firing of US Attorneys by the Bush White House.
20.Mar.2007 US Leads the World In Malware Creation - kdawson 51 -
PetManimal writes "Symantec says that China, Russia + the other developing countries usually blamed for the increasing amount of malware are not the biggest culprits.

The security software company released a report (PDF) claiming that

the US leads the world in a number of malware categories, ranging from the 'amount of malicious activity originating from their networks' to 'underground economy servers.'

Preston Gralla says the US lead should come as no surprise, considering the capitalist way of life + the high level of technical knowledge.

He also suggests that the some of the 'criminals' may actually be Internet entrepreneurs who crossed over to the dark side: 'It's an inevitable result of a thriving free market and tech expertise.

An underground economy often mirrors the legal, above-ground one. Scratch a criminal + sometimes you find a misguided entrepreneur, looking to get rich a little too quick.'"
20.Mar.2007 Justice Department documents released. - Nico - ABC News reports:

New e-mails released this evening by the Justice Department reveal the depth of White House involvement in the discussions to fire eight U.S. attorneys last year.

The thousands of pages of e-mails suggest the White House was involved in the plan from the beginning.

The e-mails detail conversations about attorneys targeted for dismissal.

There are no e-mails from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who reportedly does not use e-mail, though the Justice Department says messages show some indication that Gonzales’ former chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson, kept the attorney general apprised.

The House Judiciary Committee website is likely to have some of the emails in PDF form available tonight.

UPDATE: U.S. News reports: “One day after Justice Department Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified on Capitol Hill about the reasons eight U.S. attorneys were summarily fired, a Justice Department spokesman…sent an E-mail to Gonzales’ chief of staff, Kyle Sampson + spokeswoman Tasia Scolinos saying Gonzales was unhappy with McNulty’s testimony regarding why U.S. attorney Bud Cummins of Arkansas had been let go. That E-mail is what is causing the most concern at the Justice Department.” During his hearing, McNulty had agreed that Cummins was fired even though “he had done nothing wrong” and was simply making way for Rove protege Tim Griffin.

UPDATE II: Justice Dept. official: “You have no idea how bad it is here.“
20.Mar.2007 Lieberman: No Democratic Presidential Candidate Has ‘Strong And Muscular’ Foreign Policy - Nico -

Today on MSNBC, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT) declared that he is searching for a political party that is “very strong and muscular on foreign and defense policy.” Anchor Nora O’Donnell responded, “But, Senator, arguably there’s not one Democratic presidential candidate that is espousing that particular position, right?” Lieberman said, “So far, you’re right.” Watch it:

All of the current Democratic presidential candidates want to sharply reduce or eliminate the U.S. presence in Iraq.

That is strong and muscular — redeployment will refocus America’s security posture on combating global terrorist networks and the war in Afghanistan.

It will restore our military and address the current readiness crisis.

It will take away a prime rallying cry for extremists, shore up America’s image abroad + free up billions of dollars for critical homeland security + domestic needs.

The problem is that Lieberman doesn’t want a strong foreign policy. He wants a belligerent one. Transcript: (more…)
20.Mar.2007 Inactivity 'costs NHS £1 billion' Physical inactivity costs the health service more than £1 billion a year, research suggests.
20.Mar.2007 Thousands of mirrors keep energy greener Video:

Thousands of mirrors keep energy greener. Nevada Solar One, one of the biggest solar projects in recent U.S. history, is almost complete.

Set to be ready in April, its home is outside Las Vegas in the sunny desert, where rows of mirrors bounce the sunlight into receptors, turning the heat into usable energy. CNET News.com's Micahel Kanellos reports.
20.Mar.2007 The Air Car Nears Completion - ScuttleMonkey 460 -
torok writes "According to an article on Gizmag, Tata, India's largest automotive manufacturer, has developed a car that runs on compressed air. It costs less than $3 USD to fill a tank on which it can run for 200 to 300km. The car will cost about USD $7,300 and has a top speed of 68mph. About once every 50,000 km you have to change the oil (1 liter of vegetable oil). Initial plans are to produce 3,000 cars per year."
20.Mar.2007 Data Centers Breathe Easier With Less Oxygen - ScuttleMonkey 286 -
PC World is reporting that some companies are looking at a new method of fire protection in their server closets, oxygen-deprivation systems.

""Wood stops burning when the oxygen content falls to 17 % +

plastic cables between 16 to 17 %,

said Frank Eickhorn, product manager for fire detection at Wagner Alarm and Security Systems GmbH in Hanover, Germany.

Wagner makes electric compressors that use a special membrane to remove some of the oxygen from the outside air, a system the company calls OxyReduct.

The excess oxygen is exhausted + the remaining nitrogen-rich air is pumped inside the data center."
20.Mar.2007 Isn't it Possible that Ahmadinejad is Our Agent? - BG clipped from www.americanthinker.com

Mahmoud's Delusions When Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York City

this coming week, he may see his own theatrical appearance before the infidel UN Security Council as a moment of personal destiny,

a confrontation with the Satanic forces of the world -- with Ahmadinejad being the one, true representative of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate.

Because at some level, he has always believed that all the world's songs were about him. It is those paranoid features that make him so ominous.

Paranoia and nuclear weapons do not mix.
20.Mar.2007 www.tpmmuckraker.com
Ousted USA Lauded by DoJ
Leahy: "I Am Sick and Tired of Getting Half-Truths"
U.S. Attorney Purge Scandal: The Week Ahead
Rove's Talking Point

The House and Senate judiciary committees want to hear from Karl Rove + it looks like there's going to be a fight before they do. But

Rove has already spoken twice on the U.S. attorney firings + on both occasions, he auditioned a talking point that provides an excellent case for firing Carol Lam -- the only problem with it being that it's not true.
20.Mar.2007 www.911blogger.com Smoke Did NOT Come from WTC 7

Defenders of the official story about the collapse of WTC 7 often show photographs of the South side of the building to bolster the claim that raging fires caused building 7 to collapse.

However, the following photos from the North side indicate that the huge quantities of smoke may actually have come from an entirely different building: WTC 5.

https://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2007/03/smoke-did-not-come-from-wtc-7_19.html
20.Mar.2007 thetalkingdog.com March 18, 2007, Damned allies keep releasing worst of worst!

This Washington Post story tells us that evidently, our allies in Riyadh seem to be objectively pro-terrorist, at least insofar as insisting on promptly releasing, usually within weeks,

those people that we have deemed worthy of release from Guantanamo Bay's open-ended (and once open-air) detention center.

Indeed, according to a report by two Washington, D.C. lawyers Anant Raut + Jill M. Friedman, who represent detainees + did an analysis of 24 of the Saudi detainees so far released (about whom data is available),

most of those we release are promptly released by their home countries.
20.Mar.2007 xymphora.blogspot.com Lobbyology 101: the mechanics of power

Some people have trouble wondering how the Lobby, representing less than 50% of a group that compromises 2% of the American population, wields so much power. 

00.000.2002 -From an old- (!) article (or here) by Michael Lind on the Lobby (emphasis in red):

“Most ethnic lobbies – of which the German and Irish diasporas were the most influential in the past – have based their power on votes, not money.

(Most immigrant groups have been relatively poor at first + have lost their ethnic identity on becoming more prosperous.)

The influence of these lobbies has usually been confined to cities + states in which particular ethnic groups have been concentrated – Irish-American Boston, German-American Milwaukee, Cuban-American Miami.

The emergent Latino lobby is similar in its geographic limitation.

The small U.S. Jewish population (about 2 % of the total) is highly concentrated in New York, Los Angeles, Miami and a few other areas.
20.Mar.2007 commentisfree.guardian.co.uk Truth and torture

Al-Qaida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to an astonishing list of crimes. But should we believe him?

Last week, the American government released the confessions of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the senior al-Qaida terrorist who appears to have directed the attack on the Twin Towers.

He has now added to this a list of 30 other crimes and atrocities that he planned or put into action. It was published by the American government last week.

There is nothing quite like this list outside the Moscow show trials that Stalin mounted; and if we accept Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession, we owe Stalin's ghost a handsome apology.

The evidence that he did in fact plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter + President Musharraf has exactly the same value as the confessions of Yagoda, Yezhov and Beria, successive heads of the NKVD and KGB, that they had plotted to assassinate Comrade Stalin on the orders of British intelligence.
20.Mar.2007 www.guardian.co.uk July 21 attacks planned year before, court hears The alleged

21.Jul.2005 terror attacks were planned as a protest against the Iraq war almost a year before being carried out, one defendant told a court today.

Muktar Said Ibrahim, 29, has already confessed to making the rucksack devices that failed to go off across London's public transport network

00.000.2005 -in the summer of- but insisted they were not intended to hurt anyone.

He said he had planned them as a "firework" to create panic after he became disillusioned with conventional opposition to the war.
20.Mar.2007 www.ft.com Barclays in exclusive talks with ABN Amro

Barclays is in exclusive talks about a takeover of ABN Amro that would rescue the Dutch bank from a campaign by activist investors while creating one of the world’s biggest financial institutions.

ABN Amro executives on Monday night agreed to enter into a period of exclusive talks with Barclays, after intensive weekend discussions.

Many details still need to be ironed out, but a deal would be Europe’s biggest cross-border financial services merger and would transform the continent’s banking landscape.
20.Mar.2007 www.talkingpointsmemo.com

Tony Snow gave us the new line for the White House on Carol Lam today.

According to Snow,

there's nothing odd about the fact that the Attorney General's Chief of Staff, Kyle Sampson, discussed the need to get rid of Carol Lam

just a day after she informed the Justice Department of her decision to execute search warrants against a key CIA official appointed by the Bush White House.

Indeed, Snow says that

00.Jan.2005. as far back as the Justice Department emails expressed concern about Lam's lax immigration enforcement policies
20.Mar.2007 www.richardsilverstein.com Soros: ‘Demolish the Wall of Silence Protecting AIPAC’

George Soros has published what may be read as his inaugural manifesto for a counter-lobby to challenge AIPAC, On Israel, America and AIPAC, in the current issue of the NY Review of Books.

It is a masterful overview of recent events both in the Israeli-Arab conflict, U.S. Mideast policy and American Jewish communal debate about Israel.

Soros criticizes George Bush and Ehud Olmert for their failed policy of strangling Gaza through international boycott and their refusal to recognize a government including Hamas.

He correctly notes that Hamas recognition of Israel should be a condition for a settlement, but not for a negotiation.
20.Mar.2007 White House seeking Gonzales replacements, - Nico -

and Gonzales’ deputy Paul McNulty is almost certain to resign, The Politico reports:

Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed…

Among the names floated Monday by administration officials are Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and White House anti-terrorism coordinator Frances Townsend. Former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson is a White House prospect. So is former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson, but sources were unsure whether he would want the job.

Republican sources also disclosed that it is now a virtual certainty that Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty, whose incomplete and inaccurate congressional testimony about the prosecutors helped precipitate the crisis, will also resign shortly. Officials were debating whether Gonzales and McNulty should depart at the same time or whether McNulty should go a day or two after Gonzales.

UPDATE: Fox News’ Major Garrett reports: “Several GOP [congressional] sources told Fox tonight: Gonzales is the President’s friend and his problem + that they will waste no political capital defending him.” Digg It!
20.Mar.2007 Fox News: “4 Years Later: Iraqis ‘Thanking’ America” - Amanda -

Today on his Fox News show, host Neil Cavuto did a segment on “something you are not hearing” — how many Iraqis are “thanking” the United States for “liberating” Iraq:

Cavuto’s segment and his guests do not represent the majority of Iraqis. According to a new BBC/ABC News poll, just 18 % of Iraqis now have confidence in the U.S.-led coalition troops and nearly 90 % “say they live in fear that the violence ravaging their country will strike themselves and the people with whom they live.” Other poll highlights:
00.000.2002-from the fall of into the early weeks of the Iraq War.” The media coverage in the run-up to the Iraq war - Faiz - “was a disaster.”

20.Mar.2007 A few highlights from the report: FAIR documents “some of the worst moments in journalism,

08.Sep.2002 –Michael R. Gordon + Judith Miller co-author the article “U.S. Says Hussein Intensifies Quest for A-Bomb Parts” on the front page of the New York Times.

09.Oct.2002 –Kenneth Pollack, the influential and heavily cited war advocate at the Brookings Institution, appears on the Oprah show to discuss the impending war. “Does he have the ability to attack us here in the USA?” Oprah Winfrey asks. “He certainly does,” Pollack explains.

12.Dec.2002 –The Washington Post runs a front-page article by Barton Gellman headlined, “U.S. Suspects Al-Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis; Analysts: Chemical May Be VX + Was Smuggled Via Turkey.”

25.Feb.2003 –MSNBC cancels Donahue, its top-rated show and a rare oasis of war skepticism in the mainstream media.

18.---2003 –Bill O’ReiMarchlly makes a promise on ABC’s Good Morning America:

“If the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it’s clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation + I will not trust the Bush Administration again, all right?”
20.Mar.2007 Bush Recycles Iraq Anniversary Talking Points - Amanda -

President Bush originally had no plans to commemorate the fourth anniversary of the Iraq war today. But at the last minute, he cobbled together a quick speech — stressing the “good progress” being made in Iraq and warning that there will still be “bad days” ahead — that ended up being nothing more than a recycling of old talking points.

Bush QUOTES On “good days, bad days” :

19.Mar.2007 Bush “There will be good days + there will be bad days ahead.” [Link]

19.Mar.2006 Bush “There will be good days and there will be bad days.” [Link]

19.Mar.2004 Bush “There will be good days and there will be difficult days.” [Link]

Bush QUOTES On “progress” :

19.Mar.2007 Bush “There’s been good progress.” [Link]

19.Mar.2006 Bush “I’m encouraged by the progress.” [Link]

19.Mar.2005 Bush “Iraq’s progress toward political freedom has opened a new phase of our work there.” [Link]

Bush continues to “stay the course” on talking points. (HT: Hotline Last Call)
20.Mar.2007 : 2,000 page document dump tonight. - Nico - ’s Dana Bash reports,

“We expect on the Senate and the House side, the Judiciary Committees, they are expecting a good old-fashioned document dump, Wolf. Lots and lots of pages.

In fact, they expect as many as 2,000 pages of documents to come late in the day, maybe even as late as 7:00 tonight.

All they understand from the Justice Department is that these documents will be e-mails and other internal pages that could provide “additional insight” into just why these U.S. Attorneys were fired.”
20.Mar.2007 Bush And Cheney Celebrate Four Year Anniversary Of Iraq War - Faiz -

Today’s four year anniversary of the Iraq invasion has put the White House on the defensive.

“Bush’s schedule originally called for no observation whatsoever of the four-year-anniversary of the war.” But he added a brief public statement late this morning, urging a stay the course approach.

Before altering his plans, Bush’s only public event today called for playing host to the

00.000.2006 college football champion Florida Gators.

He proceeded with those plans a little after 3 pm today, shaking hands and celebrating the occasion. Via Pipeline:

As for Vice President Cheney, he will be marking today’s Iraq anniversary by attending the Hudson Institute Board Dinner at the swanky Union League Club in New York.

ThinkProgress contacted the Vice President’s office to request details about what Cheney will be talking about. “No one in the office can answer that question,” said a Cheney staffer.

Hudson Institute — a proponent of war against Iran — is home to former Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby.
00.000.2003 -enlisted to help bring down the statute- Kadhim al-Jubouri, an Iraqi weight lifter.

20.Mar.2007 “The Americans are worse than the dictatorship. Every day is worse than the previous day.”

“I really regret bringing down the statue,” - Faiz - said who

He added that he would prefer to be living under Saddam than under U.S. occupation:

“The devil you know [is] better than the devil you don’t. We no longer know friend from foe.

The situation is becoming more dangerous. It’s not getting better at all.

People are poor and the prices are going higher and higher.”
20.Mar.2007 Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): - Nico - “I believe we need a new attorney general.”
20.Mar.2007 Was Carol Lam Targeting The White House Prior To Her Firing? - Faiz -

Referring to the Bush administration’s purge of former San Diego-based U.S. attorney Carol Lam, Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) questioned recently on the Senate floor whether she was let go because she was “about to investigate other people who were politically powerful.”

The media reports this morning that among Lam’s politically powerful targets were former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo and then-House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA).

But there is evidence to believe that the White House may also have been on Lam’s target list. Here are the connections:

– Washington D.C. defense contractor Mitchell Wade pled guilty last February to paying then-California Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham more than $1 million in bribes.

– Wade’s company MZM Inc. received its first federal contract from the White House.

15.Jul.2002-15.Aug.2002 -from-to-The contract, which ran- stipulated that Wade be paid $140,000 to “provide office furniture and computers for Vice President Dick Cheney.”

– Two weeks later, on August 30, 2002, Wade purchased a yacht for $140,000 for Duke Cunningham. The boat’s name was later changed to the “Duke-Stir.” Said one party to the sale: “I knew then that somebody was going to go to jail for that…Duke looked at the boat + Wade bought it — all in one day. Then they got on the boat and floated away.”

– According to Cunningham’s sentencing memorandum, the purchase price of the boat had been negotiated through a third-party earlier that summer, around the same time the White House contract was signed.

To recap, the White House awarded a one-month, $140,000 contract to an individual who never held a federal contract.

Two weeks after he got paid, that same contractor used a cashier’s check for exactly that amount to buy a boat for a now-imprisoned congressman at a price that the congressman had pre-negotiated.

That should raise questions about the White House’s involvement.

UPDATE: Perhaps this was the “real problem” Sampson was referring to:
20.Mar.2007 No mistakes in Iraq? - Amanda -

Asked on CBS’s The Early Show to say what the administration’s biggest mistake was in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice replied, “I don’t know. When we look back over time we will know the answer to that question.” She later added the White House “might have looked to a more localized, more decentralized approach to reconstruction.” (For a look back on the past four years in Iraq, ThinkProgress has a timeline HERE.)
20.Mar.2007 Feinstein: U.S. Attorneys Are Not ‘Political’ Appointees - Amanda -

E-mails show that the Bush administration rated the “performance” of U.S. attorneys on whether or not they were “loyal Bushies.” The White House is now justifying its prosecutor purge by arguing that since these attorneys are “political” appointees, they “serve at the pleasure of the President” and need to follow the administration’s political whims. President Bush, 3/14/07:

U.S. attorneys and others serve at the pleasure of the President. Past administrations have removed U.S. attorneys. It is their right to do so.

White House Advisor Karl Rove, 3/8/07:

Look, by law and by Constitution, these attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and traditionally are given a four year term.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, 3/7/07:

Like me, U.S. attorneys are political appointees + we all serve at the pleasure of the president.

If U.S. attorneys are not executing their responsibilities in a manner that furthers the management and policy goals of departmental leadership, it is appropriate that they be replaced.

Similarly, yesterday on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace claimed that it’s “the very nature of the game that these are going to be political appointees.”

But as Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) pointed out yesterday on CBS Face the Nation, political means only that they are appointed by the President.

“[O]nce that prosecutor takes the oath of office, that prosecutor must become independent,” she said.

“That prosecutor must be objective +

what I worry about most of all in this is

the chilling effect this has on objectivity of the American U.S. attorney who is the main prosecutor for the federal government of big cases under federal law.” Watch it:

Ousted prosecutor David Iglesias has also stated that one of the “most important tenets of a U.S. attorney’s office” is to never “mix politics with prosecutions.”

“I think Americans need to have full confidence that their federal prosecutors are above politics,” said Iglesias. Transcript: (more…)
20.Mar.2007 Right-wing hypocrisy on prosecutor purge. - Amanda -

00.000.1993 “Republicans sought to depict the routine + standard replacement of U.S. attorneys by the Clinton administration as some sort of grave scandal which threatened prosecutorial independence + was deeply corrupt. Yet now, people like The Wall St. Journal’s Paul Gigot — one of the most vocal critics of the

00.000.1993 U.S. attorneys replacement — insist that the President has the absolute right to fire any U.S. attorneys at any time and for any reason.” -Glenn Greenwald-
20.Mar.2007 Eine krude Verschwörungsthorie - Der Terrorismus und das Internet - sfux Karl Weiss -

Wieder und wieder werden uns Videos und Texte, die im Internet in bestimmte Seiten gestellt wurden, als Nachrichten von Terroristen vorgestellt. Der ganze Medien-Trash wiederholt die angebliche Weisheit: Terroristen stellen Terrorwarnungen und Bekennerbotschaften ins Internet. Es scheint so, als ob das Internet zum Tummelplatz von Terroristen geworden sei. Da kann natürlich Deutschland...
20.Mar.2007 Sleep disorder creates 'Mr Hyde' One man tells how he changes from being "mild-mannered" in the day to violent at night.
20.Mar.2007 Rivers run towards 'crisis point' Dams, shipping, pollution and climate change are among the threats to major rivers, a report concludes.
20.Mar.2007 US 'resolves N Korea funds row' The US says it has resolved a financial dispute with North Korea as talks on nuclear issues resume.
20.Mar.2007 Judges quit in Pakistan dispute A number of judges resign in Pakistan in continuing protests over the suspension of the chief justice.
20.Mar.2007 Scientists Study Sacred Sounds Blasting heavenly tunes in hallowed halls, researchers find the acoustic quirks that help churches get the message across. Nicole Martinelli reports from Milan.
20.Mar.2007 U.S. Balks at Climate Talks All delegates agree on the critical need to cut emissions, but the United States still worries about its economy and the contributions from developing countries. AP
19.Mar.1945 -Blow It All Up-Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree," calling for the destruction of Germany's entire infrastructure in order to leave only a wasteland for the Allies. Compiled by Tony Long.
20.Mar.2007 Texas power plant runs on biodiesel Biofuels Power is harvesting oil from deep fat fryers to run its 5-megawatt power plant.
20.Mar.2007 Math team solves the unsolvable E8 Eighteen mathematicians, lots of computing power produce 60GB solution for symmetrical structure with 248 dimensions. Images: Massive mathematics
20.Mar.2007 Republican Political Mafia + Federal Law
There is nothing as corrupt as

using the governmental powers of law enforcement,

to selectively prosecute your political enemies +

to cover-up criminal behavior by your political organization + allies,

while in a position of political power.

This situation is the essence of the current scandal concerning the firing of US Attorneys by the Bush White House.
20.Mar.2007 Commander Bush is Hamstrung by Democracy
The Supreme Court during WW2 ruled that Congress' shared authority over the military "is not restricted to the winning of victories in the field and the repulse of enemy forces.

It embraces every phase of the national defense, including the protection of war materials and the members of the armed forces from injury and from the dangers which attend the rise, prosecution and progress of war."
20.Mar.2007 Federal Attorneygate; Now it's The Patriot Act's Fault
This morning I heard a government bureaucrat actually refuse to answer a question instead of ducking it. I also heard Sen. Feinstein admit in a small way that they went too far with the Patriot Act.
20.Mar.2007 Good News for GOP: Memory Fuzzy on Prosecutor Firings
Dang memory. It's the strangest thing.

00.000.1976 -back in -things that Bill Clinton did-The Republicans have a funny way of remembering- but they can't remember their own actions just two years ago?
17.Mar.2007 Examing the Confession of Kalid Sheik Muhammed
20.Mar.2007 Permission to Speak Freely?
Information Clearing House is facing censorship by the company that distributes its newsletter.

Tom Feeley, ICH's publisher, needs our help.

Please read this email I sent the offending wretches and barrage them with your own missives at support@ymlp.com!
20.Mar.2007 Fox News Apologizes For Years Of Erroneous Plame Reporting...

Plame said UNDER OATH that, in essence, every Fox expert and host who for years came on to muddy Plame's words and reputation was misinformed and misinforming.
20.Mar.2007 The Bush Regime needs to be stopped somehow, so what's it going to be America?
How much more established proven crime by the Bush Regime will be enough to make Americans stand up and demand the resignation of the Bush and his associates.
20.Mar.2007 The War on Earth
There has been a terrible misunderstanding! King George declared war on earth and (subsequently) everyone on it. He declared war on terra, not terror!
20.Mar.2007 https://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_anthony__070313_the_lost_lesson_of_9.htm -By Anthony Watson (c) 2007 Authors Website: www.neo-liberalism.org
20.Mar.2007 The power is in the people. The president is a public servant and serves at our pleasure. There is no such thing as the “unitary executive” defined in our Constitution. We need to take back our country from the fear-mongers. REMEMBER, WE THE PEOPLE PROTECT THE PRESIDENT, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND.

Flight 93 was destined for the White House.

11.Sep.2001 -On- the people protected George W. Bush, even as he failed to protect us.
20.Mar.2007 https://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_anthony__070313_the_lost_lesson_of_9.htm
The infamous shoe bomber, Richard Reed, was also stopped by passengers. The shoe bomber made it through security and was going to do his dirty deed on board, but was noticed and restrained by passengers. Big government failed again. Only a short time ago, Air Mauritania also had a terrorist incident on board an airplane and again it was the passengers that prevented a serious problem.
20.Mar.2007 https://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_anthony__070313_the_lost_lesson_of_9.htm

11.Sep.2001 -On-the government’s inherent inability to protect us from terrorism was clearly demonstrated.

Big government not only failed to uncover the plot, it failed to stop the first plane from hitting its target + in fact failed to stop three out of the four airplanes hijacked on 11.Sep.2001.

This is the lost lesson of

9/11.

It was freedom + individual liberty that stopped the terrorists on 9/11.

The people on board stopped Flight 93.

Free people acting on information available in a free society stopped the only plane that did not hit its target.

The government on the other hand failed “completely” + “utterly” on that fateful day.

The accelerated change that technology has brought only confirms the foresight of the framers of the Constitution in their protection of individual rights.

Government is too big + ponderous to react to the increasingly fluid and flexible attacks of 21st century terrorist organizations.

Only, we as a people can compete with those organizations. We must not give up our ability to defend ourselves against terrorists.

Every time we cede an individual right or liberty we make ourselves less safe, not more.
20.Mar.2007 ECONOMIC "PERFECT STORM" BREWING
Bush + Congress drive America into a "Perfect Storm" of financial death.

How far can this boat float with an $8.5 trillion hole in its bow? How many more jobs can be outsourced until Americans can't buy food or pay mortgages? How far down the tubes can Bush drive his ship of state?
20.Mar.2007 Another Redirection The rolling pin of White House scandal continues to splay out an ever widening pastry of malfeasance, fraud, jobbery and inquity.
20.Mar.2007 ALBERTO GONZALES/THE FACE OF FASCISM Alberto Gonzales is the legal face of an ultranationalist ideology that not only externalizes evil but condones evil in its own practices of torture and extreme punishment. In this post, I compare his hearing testimony and his record and follow it with a short essay by Marguerite Feitlowitz, SALON, who calls him the TORTURER GENERAl.
20.Mar.2007 When Loyalty Is Not a Virtue: A Glimpse into Bush's Amoral World
The new scandal of Alberto Gonzalez and the politicization of the American system of justice is a reminder of how the idea loyalty, with the Bushites, is not part of a moral system. It is, rather, a symptom of a fundamentally amoral worldview in which power is really the only value.
20.Mar.2007 Another Fall Guy: The Plame Game Revisited Today's hearings reveal that the White House has a lot to hide but by the time the Supreme Court gets involved, Bush will probably be out of office.
20.Mar.2007 US Beef Smells Fishy Japanese consumers view eating US beef as a major health risk.
20.Mar.2007 Note to Congress: Hear from the Small Fish Who've Had Their Careers Destroyed by Bush
While it's heartening that Congress has heard testimony from the massacred U.S. Attorneys + will hear today from the world's most famous undercover spy, Valerie Plame, Congress is long overdue to hear from the others out there who have had their careers destroyed by this Administration.
20.Mar.2007 Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's Unbelievable Confession Is Khalid Shaikh Mohammed guilty or innocent of the 30 or so allegations by the Pentagon. I don't know and neither do you.
20.Mar.2007 Are your investments killing America?
George Bush received a standing ovation when he recently visited Wall Street, obviously for fostering a "profit friendly" landscape. But if the financial industry is morally bankrupt, why are we handing over all of our investment funds to them? Perhaps it's time we all took a personal ethics check. You may be shocked to realize what your money is being used for right now!
20.Mar.2007 Gonzales Nixed Inquiry into Own Conduct at DOJ, Democrats Furious
(APN) ATLANTA ? At least four Members of US Congress and four US Senators today raised concerns about a breaking report in the National Journal that US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appears to have known he was going to be negatively implicated in a review at the US Department of Justice's (USDOJ) OPR when he advised President Bush regarding the review. The review was later squashed when Bush denied security clearances. 20.Mar.2007 Tell Congress To Support The Kucinich IMPERATIVE For Impeachment
Minutes ago the U.S. Senate AGAIN failed to exercise meaningful oversight for the national suicide which is our policy in Iraq. Members of Congress must stop running away from actually restraining the abuse of executive power. And the only remedy is for us to renew again and again our call for Congress to impeach at the most mercifully swift speed ALL those who have so grievously harmed we the people.
20.Mar.2007 Former FBI Agent: Reform the Patriot Act Article published on Thursday, March 15
20.Mar.2007 House Appropriations Committee Passes Iraq War Supplemental
The House appropriations committee passed the Iraq War supplemental totaling $124.1 billion, $95 billion for the war in Iraq.

Protesters were kept out of the hearing and 10 were arrested. Next step for the bill is the House floor where it currently looks like no amendments will be allowed.
20.Mar.2007 Why Cuba is a democracy and the US is not A comparison of democracy in Cuba and the USA
20.Mar.2007 Riverside Rides Again...
Tom Courbat is an ordinary guy who consistently commits extraodinary acts of citizenship along with several other salt-of-the-earth types who assemble in Riverside County, CA under the name "SAV R VOTE." They are part of a growing number of American citizens who have discovered that a handful of common-sense individuals can literally move mounains to improve election integrity.
20.Mar.2007 "IS EVERYONE BUSH HIRES A WOODEN HEADED, LONG NOSED PINOCCIO?" The strangely inexplicable decision to deceive regarding the firing of Justice Department Attorneys
20.Mar.2007 John Perkins: New Confessions and Revelations from the World of Economic Hit Men
A quarter-century ago, I saw myself as a hit man for the interests of U.S. capitalism in the struggle for control of the developing world during the cold war. Today, the EHM game is more complex, its corruption more pervasive + its operations more fundamental to the world economy and politics. There are many more types of economic hit men + the roles they play are far more diverse.
20.Mar.2007 United State of Minds Article published on Thursday, March 15
20.Mar.2007 Voice of America Promotes America's Terrorist Enemies
The Voice of America's Persian language service is promoting the lies and disinformation of a terrorist organization on the Department of State's list of terrorists. The MEK (Rajavi Cult or Pol Pot of Iran) has murdered American military officers, Rockwell International employees + large numbers of Iranian and Iraqi civilians.
20.Mar.2007 Top U.S. General Puts It In Hi Mouth
After four years of conducting an illegal war in Iraq, which has killed almost one million people, wounded and dislocated millions more, tortured countless thousands, the military's top general has put his finger on (or into) the problem + his foot firmly into his trap. It's all about whose sexual organ rubs against another's.
20.Mar.2007 Howard Dean: This could be George Bush's Watergate
Eight U.S. Attorneys, fired because they wouldn't follow orders by the Bush Administration.Fired because they refused to go on witch-hunts against Democrats, or ignored the Republicans' blatant disregard for the law. Fired so that they could be replaced by talking heads and loyalists of the Bush Administration.
20.Mar.2007 Call on Congress to Stop Funding the Occupation of Iraq and Vote to Bring our Troops Home 00.000.2007
On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, national peace organizations including United for Peace and Justice, Military Families Speak Out, Code Pink, Peace Action, Progressive Democrats of America, Democracy Rising, Voters for Peace, Democrats.com, AfterDowningStreet + the Backbone Campaign today called on Congress to use its power of the purse and pass binding legislation to end the war and occupation.
15.Mar.2007 10 Members of The Encampment to Stop the War Arrested at first House Appropriations Committee Meeting
The Encampment to Stop the War went into the Rayburn Building to confront the Democrats as the House Appropriations Committee holds their first meeting to fund the continuation of the slaughter in Iraq. 10 Encampment members were arrested. A few of us were the first in line in the hallway outside the chamber where the meeting is now taking place. The balance of Encampment members picketed the outside of the building.
20.Mar.2007 Oedipus Wrecks: How Bush attacked Official who Exposed War Profiteering and Privateering
America has deliberately driven hundreds, perhaps thousands, of political prisoners insane. It is the current doctrine of US psychological torture. If the panorama could be viewed all at once, the American people would see an administration that, by the summer of 2003, felt it could do whatever it wanted to anyone. Bush's inner circle validated every cliché about the arrogance of power + Americans are noticing at long last
20.Mar.2007 Malaria-Resistant Mosquito Developed _(AP) Researchers have developed a malaria-resistant mosquito,a step that might one day help block the spread of an illness that has claimed millions of lives around the world 20.Mar.2007 Two-year-old boy becomes Egypt's 26th bird flu case

A two-year-old Egyptian boy is being treated for bird flu, the 26th case of the deadly virus in the country, the health ministry announced on Monday.
20.Mar.2007 Beetle species rediscovered in Britain The endangered short-necked oil beetle, long thought gone from Britain, was rediscovered recently by an entomologist at a site in southern county of Devon.
20.Mar.2007 Flexible battery power

A paper-like, polymer based rechargeable battery has been made by Japanese scientists. The news is reported in the latest edition of The Royal Society of Chemistry journal Chemical Communications.
20.Mar.2007 New Russian drug may help fight bird flu Russian scientists have created a new anti-virus drug that they allege can help neutralize the potentially deadly H5N1 bird flu virus.
20.Mar.2007 Alcohol-based cirrhosis on rise in Britain Cases involving cirrhosis of the liver by alcohol among British people aged 25-to-34 years have more than doubled during the last decade, figures show.
20.Mar.2007 Bird flu found in endangered Japanese eagle The deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu has been found in the body of an endangered eagle in southern Japan, the environment ministry said Sunday, according to reports. 20.Mar.2007 Food poisoning warning issued in Britain British officials have issued a food poisoning alert after learning that nearly 250,000 packed sandwiches could be contaminated with the listeria bacterium.
20.Mar.2007 Bison Once Again Roam Eastern Colorado (AP) After an absence of more than a century, wild bison were returned to Colorado's Front Range on Saturday in full view of Denver's skyline.
20.Mar.2007 China bans firm from selling land on the moon A Chinese company has been banned from selling plots of land on the moon, state media reported on Saturday.
20.Mar.2007 Scientists Demonstrate Thought-Controlled Computer - Zonk 114+ -
Da Massive writes with a link to ComputerWorld coverage of a unique gadget shown at this past week's CeBit show. The company g.tec was showing off a brain/computer interface (BCI) in one corner of the trade hall. The rig, once placed on your head, detects the brain's voltage fluctuations and can respond appropriately. This requires training, where "the subject responds to commands on a computer screen, thinking 'left' and 'right' when they are instructed to do so ... Another test involves looking at a series of blinking letters + thinking of a letter when it appears." Once the system is trained, you can think letters at the machine and 'type' via your thoughts. Likewise, by thinking directions you can move objects around onscreen. The article provides some background on the history of g.tec's BCI + suggests possible uses for the technology in the near future.
20.Mar.2007 Modern Technology Reveals Mummy's Past - CmdrTaco 27 -
mamamia writes "The baby mummy had a European mom + likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died — and at such a young age — remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators.

The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a child mummy."
20.Mar.2007 Tony Snow's Evasive Comments About Gonzales Indicate that the Bush Organized Crime Family is Getting Ready to Throw Their Consigliere Overboard. Another Day, Another Fall Guy.
Surge of Violence Continues in Iraq: Bombs rock Baghdad, Kirkuk, killing 26

20.Mar.2007 Pelosi calls for new attorney general: "I don't think Alberto Gonzales fundamentally understood the difference between being the president's lawyer and the attorney general of the United States and the premier defender of the Constitution." 3/20
Carol Korreck: A Soldier's Mother Asks: Are We as Stupid as They Think We Are? -- A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
"Republican officials operating at the behest of the White House have begun seeking a possible successor to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, whose support among GOP lawmakers on Capitol Hill has collapsed, according to party sources familiar with the discussions...Republican sources also disclosed that it is now a virtual certainty that Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty, whose incomplete and inaccurate congressional testimony about the prosecutors helped precipitate the crisis, will also resign shortly. Officials were debating whether Gonzales and McNulty should depart at the same time or whether McNulty should go a day or two after Gonzales." 3/20
The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers.
Iraq by the Numbers

20.Mar.2007 Top NASA Scientist: Bush is Politicizing and Screening Global Warming Science -- A BuzzFlash News Alert
Iraqis see hope drain away. Bush invades and country goes backwards. It's the story of Bush's life, a life of failed leadership.
Reuters: "Only 18 % of Iraqis have confidence in U.S.-led forces, a new poll showed on Monday, as President Bush faced anti-war protests at home four years after the invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein." Bushevism Has Led to a Colossal Failure, A Costly Embarrassment of Epic Proportions to America.
20.Mar.2007 Nach tödlichem Kugelhagel: Enttäuschung über Anklage gegen New Yorker Polizisten
20.Mar.2007 Kosovo- Status: Nichts mehr zu besprechen zwischen Serben und Albanern

20.Mar.2007 Umfrage: Iraker immer verzweifelter - Bush bittet um Geduld
20.Mar.2007 Raketenschild in Osteuropa: Steinmeier plädiert für Nato- Debatte
20.Mar.2007 Guantanamo: Al- Qaida- Mitglied gesteht Anschlag auf USS- Cole
20.Mar.2007 Koalitionszoff: Becks Anti- Raketen- Kurs bringt die Union in Wallung
20.Mar.2007 Jahrestag des Irakkrieges: Bush warnt vor Gefahren durch Truppenabzug
20.Mar.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-472569,00.html

Das Projekt zur Berechnung aller Repräsentationen der Lie-Gruppe E8 begann von vier Jahren.

Die Hauptschwierigkeit bestand in der Programmierung.

"Nachdem wir die zugrundeliegende Mathematik verstanden hatten, dauerte es zwei Jahre, bis wir sie für den Computer übersetzt hatten", sagte David Vogan vom MIT.

Danach standen die Forscher vor dem Problem, einen geeigneten Großrechner zu finden.

Es dauerte ein weiteres Jahr, um die Berechnung zu optimieren, so dass sie auf verfügbaren Supercomputern ausgeführt werden konnte.

Schließlich brauchte der Großrechner Sage an der University of Washington 77 Stunden, bis das Ergebnis feststand. Es besteht aus einer Matrix mit 453.060 Zeilen und Spalten.

Die Matrix hat 205 Milliarden Einträge, jedes ist ein Polynom.
20.Mar.2007 Durchbruch: Mathematiker berechnen hochkomplexe Symmetrien

20.Mar.2007 Atomstreit: USA erteilen Ahmadinedschad Visum für Uno- Besuch

20.Mar.2007 Verschwörungstheorie: Enge Vertraute sollen Marilyn Monroe in den Tod getrieben haben
20.Mar.2007 Betrugsprozess: Der tiefe Fall des Gazetten- Barons
20.Mar.2007 TV- Dokumentation aus Irak: "Ich bedauere den Sturz der Saddam- Statue"
20.Mar.2007 Teure Aussichten: Experten prognostizieren weiteren Energiepreis- Anstieg

20.Mar.2007 Wut auf Brause- Multi: Umweltschützer geißeln Coca- Colas Wasserverbrauch
20.Mar.2007 Gentechnik: Verbotene Leuchtfische in Deutschland aufgetaucht
20.Mar.2007 Die Folter in Ägypten: "Am Ende hätte ich alles gestanden"

20.Mar.2007 CIA- Agent auf der Flucht: "Ich hab' nichts mehr zu verlieren"

20.Mar.2007 Ankunft in Kairo: "Arbeite als Spion - oder verrotte im Knast"
20.Mar.2007 CIA- Entführung: Protokoll eines Martyriums
20.Mar.2007 Bundeswehr- Skandal: Scheingeiselnahmen und Stromstöße als "Ausbildungshöhepunkt"
20.Mar.2007 Karzai- Besuch: Kanzlerin sieht deutsches Afghanistan- Konzept bestätigt
20.Mar.2007 Neuseeland: Schlammlawine aus Kratersee stürzt ins Tal
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19.Mar.2007 https://hnn.us/articles/1811.html
In view of all the financial transactions involving Germany during this period,

the role of that major Jewish banking family, the Warburgs (which also did business with the Harriman group), demonstrates some of the realities of the flow of capital.

The Warburgs, backed by such American groups as B’nai B’rith and the American Jewish Committee, demanded

00.000.1934 according to Tarpley and Chaitkin, that “American Jews not ‘agitate’ against the Hitler government” or participate in any pro-Nazi boycott.

Such denial about Nazi objectives was not unusual at the time. Aryan laws, at that point in German history, were still less tangible than the marketplace
19.Mar.2007 https://hnn.us/articles/1811.html
00.000.1930 -during the s- some 70 % of the gold that “flowed into Germany's” came from U. S. Investors + heavily from clients of the Dulles firm.

18.Aug.1941 -An internal government memo on- also noted that the UBC had made ”extensive” purchases of gold amounting to over 8 million dollars, most of which was then shipped to Europe, presumably Germany.
19.Mar.2007 https://hnn.us/articles/1811.html

Buchanan contends that there are also records involving the City National Bank, which he cites as “definitely the hot-blood area for all the Nazi money,

especially I.G. Farben + Hermann Schmidt, the infamous managing director of I.G. Farben,” which was represented in court by Dulles’s Sullivan and Cromwell.

Their relationship with German enterprises, moreover, began during the years of Germany’s Weimar Republic, well before Hitler's rise
19.Mar.2007 https://hnn.us/articles/1811.html

12.Oct.1920 -On- the St. Louis Globe-Democrat headlined “Ex-St. Louisan Forms Giant Ship Merger,” explaining that

Bert Walker was the “moving power” behind the “merger of two big financial houses in New York, which will place practically unlimited capital at the disposal of the new American-German shipping combine.”

00.000.1942 -In the summer+fall of- Congress- under the authority of the Trading With the Enemy Act,

seized the first group of entities, the UBC, the Holland-American Trading Corporation + the Hamburg-American Line.

Buchanan’s diligence has discovered that

00.000.1930 -in the early s-the latter “reportedly smuggled Nazi spies into the U.S.

00.000.1930 -in the early s- before the war + encouraged U.S. ‘Patriots’ to travel to Germany + proselytize for Hitler”

Much of this is confirmed by the new documentation.

The UBC was not a “bank” at all but “in reality a clearing house” for many assets + enterprises held by Fritz Thyssen, a German steel magnate who has written about his role in helping to finance the Third Reich.

00.000.1924 -it was “founded-Located close to Bush’s 59 Wall Street office, by W. Averell Harriman on behalf of Thyssen + his Bank voor Handel en Scheepvaart N. V. of Holland.”
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19.Mar.2007 Fueling irrational fears, media make money, boost careers, panel says

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19.Mar.2007 Raketenschild in Osteuropa: Merkel warnt USA vor Alleingängen
19.Mar.2007 Karzai- Besuch: Merkel sieht deutsches Afghanistan- Konzept bestätigt
19.Mar.2007 Rekruten- Misshandlung: Bundeswehr- Ausbilder müssen sich vor Gericht verantworten

20.Mar.2007 Kritik an Raketenschild: Steinmeier in schwieriger US- Mission
18.Mar.2007 A Single-Photon Server - Zonk 63 - Roland Piquepaille writes

"A team of German physicists at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics has built a single-photon server with just one atom. They've trapped ultra cold atoms of rubidium in a vacuum chamber and applied laser pulses from one side. The generated photons were of 'high quality,' meaning their energy was very similar from one test to another + that their properties could be controlled. The researchers think this new way to generate single photons will help the field of quantum information processing. "
18.Mar.2007 Getting Your Government Files Via the FOIA - Zonk 19+ - An anonymous reader writes

"The Bad Guys blog is marking America's third annual Sunshine Week: 'a national effort to cast light onto the growing recesses of government secrecy'. US News is offering up the latest information on the Freedom of Information Act, with links to filing FOI requests to US states, the federal government + 67 other countries. 'Often the records can be obtained by simply asking for them, but

11.Sep.2001 -since-federal agencies have grown increasingly stubborn about what they release.

A just-released survey by the National Security Archive found that only 1 in 5 federal agencies meets congressionally mandated requirements for online information access.

There's hope, though:

A new bill is making its way through the House of Representatives, with bipartisan backing, that would strengthen the FOIA, one of a host of open government measures being looked at by the new Congress.'"
18.Mar.2007 Global Warming Endangered by Hot Air? - Zonk 229+ - oldwindways writes

"The BBC reports that leading climate researchers are concerned that the tone of speculation surrounding many reports (scientific as well as in the media) could be making it more difficult for legitimate science to make a case for the future. Is Hollywood to blame? Have we 'cried wolf' too many times with global warming?

Or is this just a case of some researchers who are not ready to face the truth?

Either way, it raises the interesting question of how greater public awareness of Global Warming might be affecting the course of research and vice versa.

Not to mention what happens when public awareness is shaped by factors other than scientific findings. This is especially troubling during what some are calling the warmest US winter in years."
18.Mar.2007 Nanotechnology Reveals Hidden Fingerprints - CowboyNeal 22+ - valiko75 writes

"Hidden fingerprints can now be revealed quickly and reliably thanks to two developments in nanotechnology.

The thing is that they have invented an easier way to reveal hidden fingerprints, but the explanation is rather vague.

The main point is that the experiments are not very stable at the moment, but with its development this technology will probably help in discovering many criminal mysteries."
18.Mar.2007 35 %: - Amanda - Number of Americans who are confident about the war in Iraq, compared to 83 % four years ago, at the start of the war.

The new poll also finds that “30 % of those polled this month said they were proud of the war, as opposed to 65 % who expressed that sentiment 00.000.2003.”
18.Mar.2007 Sestak, Andrews Dominate Debate With Tom DeLay + Richard Perle - Nico -

Today, NBC’s Meet the Press featured a panel with

retired Navy Admiral Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA) +

Win Without War director Tom Andrews

debating former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) +

prominent neocon Richard Perle.

Andrews and Sestak made short work of DeLay and Perle. Andrews emphasized how dangerous it is to place U.S. soldiers into a civil war. “Our kids don’t know when they’re out there on the streets of Baghdad, whether the people they’re next to are the enemy or their allies. … They’re losing their lives as a result.”

Sestak made the case for redeploying U.S. forces out of Iraq. “Even George Washington at the Battle of Brandywine understood after this initial clash that he had to redeploy and go elsewhere to assume the strategic victory. That’s what this is about. Is there a better way to handle Iraq and then to be able to handle the entire security environment?” Watch it:

At one point, DeLay claimed that places like Bahrain and Qatar wouldn’t accept U.S. troops who had redeployed out of Iraq. Sestak put his hand on DeLay’s arm and informed him that the U.S. military already has bases in those countries.

Later, Perle made the incredible statement that “‘Redeploy’ is a euphemism for cut-and-run.” Note to Perle: redeployment is an official military term (see this entry in the Pentagon’s Dictionary of Military Terms). “Cut and run” is the euphemism + a tired and false one at that. Digg It!
18.Mar.2007 Hume Launches New Smear: Plame Lied Under Oath - Faiz -

Today on Fox News Sunday, Brit Hume continued his campaign to smear Valerie Plame Wilson. Previously, he had falsely said that it was “unlikely she was” covert.

Instead of apologizing this morning, he launched a new attack against Plame, claiming that she had lied under oath when she testified on Friday about whether she recommended her husband be sent to Niger to investigate Iraq’s supposed nuclear ambitions.

Hume said Plame’s testimony “flies in the face of the evidence” adduced by the “bipartisan” Senate Intelligence Committee, which said that “she very much did have something to do with it, that she recommended him and that she put it in a memo.” Watch it:

Plame testified that she never suggested her husband for the Niger trip. “I did not recommend him, I did not suggest him, there was no nepotism involved — I didn’t have the authority,” she said.

Hume’s false claim originated from a statement attached to the Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq that was released 00.000.2004.

In an addendum to that report, Sens. Pat Roberts (R-KS), Christopher Bond (R-MO) + Orrin Hatch (R-UT) wrote definitively, “The plan to send the former ambassador to Niger was suggested by the former ambassador’s wife, a CIA employee.” The right-wing, including columnist Bob Novak, have taken the statement written by three Republican senators and falsely attributed it as the “unanimous” conclusion of the Senate report.

The three conservative senators based their claim on testimony by a CIA employee who appeared before the Senate Intel Committee. Plame revealed on Friday that the CIA employee later apologized to her “with tears in his eyes” because he said “his words had been twisted and distorted” by the senators. And in fact, the unnamed employee drafted a memo, asking that he be re-interviewed by the Senate to correct the record. His attempts to set the record straight were denied. On Friday, Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) asked to retrieve a copy of that memo:

REP. VAN HOLLEN: So, just so I understand, Mr. Chairman, if I could — so, there was a memo written by the [Counterproliferation Division] officer, upon whose alleged testimony the Senate wrote its report that contradicts the conclusions –

MS. PLAME WILSON: Absolutely.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: — contradicts the conclusions from that report.

MS. PLAME WILSON: Yes, sir.

REP. VAN HOLLEN: Mr. Chairman, it seems to me that this committee should ask for that memo. And it bears directly on the credibility of the Senate report on this very, very important issue, which they’ve attempted to use to discredit Ambassador Wilson’s mission.

REP. WAXMAN: I think the gentleman makes an excellent point + we will insist on getting that memo. Digg It! Transcript: (more…)
18.Mar.2007 Iglesias: My Firing Was A ‘Political Hit’ - Amanda -

Today on Fox News Sunday, former U.S. attorney David Iglesias beat back several misleading claims by Bush administration officials + reasserted that his firing was a “political hit,” not done for performance reasons.

He pointed out that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales agreed to write him a recommendation even after he was fired. “If [my firing] was performance based, there is no way they would have agreed to have allowed me to list them as a reference,” he said. “In fact, they agreed, telling me that the true nature was political, not performance.” Watch it:

Iglesias rebutted criticisms from Republican leaders, such as the New Mexico GOP chairman, who complained to Karl Rove that the former prosecutor didn’t go after voter fraud aggressively enough.

In those cases, “we didn’t have evidence beyond a reasonable doubt,” Iglesias stated. “Prosecutors can’t just prosecute on rumor and innuendo. I set up only one of two election fraud task forces in the country.

In fact, the Justice Department asked me to speak at an election fraud seminar as a result of those task forces.”

Iglesias also resisted pressure from Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM), who made “unprecedented” — + possibly illegal — calls to him to prosecute Democrats before the

04.Nov.2006 elections.

In today’s New York Times, White House counselor Dan Bartlett acknowledged that calls and visits from officials in New Mexico “played a role in deciding Mr. Iglesias’s fate.” Transcript: (more…)
18.Mar.2007 30 %: - Nico - President Bush’s approval rating in a new Newsweek poll. (Via Atrios)
18.Mar.2007 https://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/03/high_school_stu.html

If this story is true (which I sort of doubt), then this isn't a good thing, it's a serious problem. If a high school student can build a nuclear reactor out of some parts he got on eBay and at a local hardware store, then what is there to say that a national government, with millions of dollars and an army of scientists at it's disposal, couldn't do the same thing, only with a very different (and much more terrifying) intention. Posted by: punkrockr | Mar 18, 2007 3:16:54 AM 18.Mar.2007 Past U.S. attorneys outraged by prosecutor purge. - Amanda -

“People who understand the history and the mission of the United States attorney + Justice Department — they are uniformly appalled, horrified,” said Atlee W. Wampler III, chairman of a national organization of former United States attorneys and a prosecutor who served in the Carter and Reagan administrations.

“That the tradition of the Justice Department could have been so warped by that kind of action — any American should be disturbed.”
18.Mar.2007 How Bush will commemorate four years of war. - Nico -

“The White House, repeatedly asked if President Bush is planning anything to mark the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq on Monday, has suggested that the president is going about business as usual.

On Monday, that business includes playing host to the 2006 NCAA football champions, the University of Florida ‘Gators.’“
18.Mar.2007 White House Effort To ‘Gum To Death’ U.S. Attorney Process Moving Forward As Planned - Amanda -

18.Jan.2007 Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee, under oath, that

“with respect to every United States attorney position in this country, we will have a presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed United States attorney.”

But e-mails reveal that the Justice Department was already planning to install Karl Rove-protege Tim Griffin as U.S. attorney in Arkansas by taking advantage of a Patriot Act provision that allows the President to appoint “interim” U.S. attorneys for indefinite periods of time, bypassing the Senate confirmation process altogether.

The administration understood that its plan to skirt Congress would be met with severe criticism. In a Dec. 19 email, Sampson wrote to a White House aide, explaining the administration’s strategy for countering the criticism:

We should gum this to death. [A]sk the senators to give Tim a chance…then we can tell them we’ll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates + otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in “good faith,” of course.

With little attention, this scenario is exactly what is playing out now, as the White House is running out the clock to keep Griffin in office.

15.Feb.2007 Griffin — in an effort to stem the growing tide of criticism over his appointment — announced that he had “made the decision not to let my name go forward to the Senate.”

Rep. John Boozman (R-AR), a stalwart White House ally, said last week he “is interviewing candidates to recommend as replacements for Griffin.”

“It is my goal to produce a list of three strong candidates to forward to the White House for consideration,” he said.

Boozman added it would “take between six and nine months” to identify Griffin’s replacement.

Meanwhile, as the White House waits to name a new nominee, Griffin has said that he is ready and willing to serve until the end of Bush’s term.

The conservatives’ efforts to find a replacement for Griffin are presumably in “good faith” of course.

UPDATE: The Arkansas Times blog is suspicious of Boozman’s “good faith” efforts and calls on Griffin to resign.

“If Boozman drags his feet long enough on nominations, he could easily extend the appointment of a permanent U.S. attorney into the final months of Bush’s term.”
18.Mar.2007 REPORT: Public Support for Iraq War In Fast Decline Since 2003 - Think Progress -

Monday marks the four-year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

President Bush still believes launching this war was the right decision + that it has been worth the cost in blood, money, damaged security and lost international reputation.

The American public strongly disagrees.

American Progress fellow Ruy Teixeira has tracked polls on public support for the war

00.Mar.2003 -since- on two key questions: 1) whether going to war was a mistake + 2) whether the war has been worth fighting. The results:

Teixeira notes that the 59 % ‘mistake’ figure is now “just about as high as the peak response Gallup received to an analogous question during the Vietnam war (61 %).”

The trend is clear: the vast majority of Americans do not approve of the Iraq war, now more than ever. For a history of the Iraq war, see our timeline HERE.
18.Mar.2007 58: - Nico - %age of Americans — including 45 % of Republicans — who “say the ouster of the federal prosecutors was driven by political concerns. …

The NEWSWEEK poll results offer little good news for Gonzales, who faces pressure to resign from Democrats and a handful of Republicans.

Fewer than one third (32 %) of those surveyed want him to stay remain in his job.”
18.Mar.2007 Gonzales apologizes. - Nico -

“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales apologized to the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys in a conference call Friday as he tried to hold on to his job amid the scandal over the firings of eight federal prosecutors. …

Across the country, morale within U.S. attorneys’ offices deteriorated, leaving many feeling misled by the Bush administration.

‘They feel a strong sense of betrayal,’ said a former Bush administration Justice Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to protect his friends in the administration.”

UPDATE:

“Two New Mexico lawyers with strong ties to the state Republican Party met last summer with a top aide to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales + complained about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias,” the AP reports. One of the lawyers, Pat Rogers, “has represented the New Mexico GOP in legal matters for several years,” +

“was among the names that Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., submitted to President Bush for consideration as Iglesias’ successor.”
18.Mar.2007 Sampson Contradicts Gonzales Over Resignation - Nico -

On Tuesday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that his chief of staff Kyle Sampson had resigned because Sampson had provided “incomplete information” to senior members of the Justice Department who had testified to Congress about the White House role in the U.S. Attorney purge:

Obviously I am concerned about the fact that information, incomplete information, was communicated or may have been communicated to the Congress.

I believe very strongly in our obligation to ensure that when we provide information to the Congress, it is accurate and that it is complete and I am very dismayed that that may not have occurred here.

But last night, Sampson’s lawyer Bradford Berenson released a statement contradicting Gonzales.

Berenson claims Sampson resigned because he failed to “organize a more effective political response,” not because he misled anyone:

Kyle did not resign because he had misled anyone at the Justice Department or withheld information concerning the replacement of the U.S. Attorneys.

He resigned because, as Chief of Staff, he felt he had let the Attorney General down in failing to appreciate the need for and organize a more effective political response to the unfounded accusations of impropriety in the replacement process.

Now why would he do that? As CREW pointed out in its letter to Gonzales calling for a special prosecutor, Sampson’s misleading may have been a federal crime:

According to press reports, Sampson has acknowledged that he did not tell DOJ officials about the extent of his communications with the White House regarding the firings.

Justice officials who testified before Congress, including the attorney general, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and Principal Associate Attorney General William Moschella, all told Congress that the White House, though consulted, was not deeply involved in the firing decisions.

Federal law provides that if Sampson knew that he was causing DOJ officials to make inaccurate statements to Congress, he can be prosecuted for the federal crime of lying to Congress even though he did not personally make any statements to Congress. The Special Prosecutor should investigate not only Mr. Sampson’s conduct but whether anyone else was involved in formulating the incomplete and erroneous congressional testimony or whether the officials who testified were aware that they were providing imperfect information to Congress.
18.Mar.2007 Fear centre 'shrinks' in autism A part of the brain linked to learning and fear shrinks in people with autism, research suggests.
18.Mar.2007 Pessimism 'growing among Iraqis' Iraqis have little confidence in their own government and the US-led coalition forces, a major survey shows.
18.Mar.2007 Mexican drug raid targets police Mexican troops take over a state police HQ in Tabasco state, in a move to curb drug-related violence.
18.Mar.2007 US accused over environment Germany says the United States has blocked progress on two key issues to protect the global environment.
18.Mar.2007 Australia in Iraq troops pledge Australian PM John Howard says his troops will stay in Iraq until Iraqis are able to control their own security.
18.Mar.2007 Czech village 'vetoes' US shield The residents of a village in the Czech Republic hold a protest ballot over a US missile shield radar station.
18.Mar.2007 Lunar dust 'may harm astronauts' Scientists investigate the possible threat posed to astronauts' health from inhaling lunar dust.
18.Mar.2007 Protesters march against Iraq war Anti-war protesters march in the US, Europe and beyond as the anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq approaches.
18.Mar.2007 India strike over police shooting A strike called by opposition parties over the shooting by police of protesting farmers hits India's West Bengal state.
18.Mar.2007 Juan Cole: Giving Aid and Comfort to the Enemy: the Plame Affair: Valerie Plame Wilson, whose career Karl Rover and Vice President Dick Cheney wanted destroyed in a fit of pique, was finally allowed to testify before Congress on Friday. Some in the blogosphere are arguing that the outing of Plame Wilson was an impeachable offense.
18.Mar.2007 Chiquita banana company is fined $25m for paying off Colombian paramilitary groups :

The Chiquita banana company, one of the world's biggest + most powerful food companies, has admitted paying "protection" money to Colombian paramilitary groups identified by the US government as terrorist organisations - + has agreed to pay a $25m (£13m) fine to wrap up a federal investigation.
18.Mar.2007 The Political Economy of Diamonds:

11.Sep.2001 -A few years before-the world's curiously selective conscience was shocked by images from the little West African country of Sierra Leone.

There, an insurgent group fond of hacking off hands and feet with machetes funded its war by exploiting slave labor in diamond fields,

18.Mar.2007 Probe of Al-Qaeda Leader's Handling Sought: Two senators who observed

last week's closed military proceedings against al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed called for an investigation into allegations that the accused planner of the

11.Sep.2001 -attacks was physically abused while in CIA custody.

18.Mar.2007 Musharraf sees conspiracy against him Islamabad:

Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf on Saturday told a public meeting 'conspiracy has been hatched against him, urging the masses to "frustrate designs of those who are indulged in conspiracies."

18.Mar.2007 Without a trace: Seven-year-old Saud Bugti's father was picked up by secret police on a street corner in Karachi last November. No one has heard from him since.

He has joined the ranks of Pakistan's 'disappeared' - victims of the country's brutal attempts to wage war on both al-Qaida and those who fail to support the government.

18.Mar.2007 Inside America's powerful Israel lobby: AIPAC's three-day summit included fiery evangelical oratory, adoration for Dick Cheney -- and new plans for going after Iran.
18.Mar.2007 In case you missed it: New US covert operations helping Sunni Muslim radicals: USA is stepping up covert operations in Iran in a new strategy that risks sparking an "open confrontation" + benefits Sunni radicals
18.Mar.2007 Ellsberg Joins March 19th Stop Funding the War Protest at Speaker Pelosi's Office : Daniel Ellsberg has agreed to be the lead speaker at The Stop Funding the War https://www.stopfundingthewar.org

19.Mar.2007 -rally at 12 noon on Monday- in front of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's district office at the San Francisco Federal Building, 450 Golden Gate Avenue.
18.Mar.2007 U.S. troops in Iraq often abuse prisoners: report :

00.000.2006 -issued on- Human Rights Record of the USA says The USA has a flagrant record of violating the Geneva Convention in systematically abusing prisoners during the Iraqi War + the War in Afghanistan.
18.Mar.2007 Gates warns US plans to maintain presence in region 'for decades': Sadr urges followers to oppose occupation forces
18.Mar.2007 True Confessions? The Amazing Tale of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed -By Anthony D'Amato
The sweeping Guantanamo "confessions" of al Qaeda leader Khalid Shaikh Mohammed rival the scope of those made in the Stalinist purge trials of the 1930s + should equally prompt us to question the legal process in which they were made... Continue

18.Mar.2007 The Confession Backfired - By Paul Craig Roberts
The first confession released by the Bush regime’s Military Tribunals--that of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed--has discredited the entire process.

Writing in Jurist, Northwestern University law professor Anthony D’Amato likens Mohammed’s confession to those that emerged in Stalin’s show trials of Bolshevik leaders in the 1930s. Continue

18.Mar.2007 The Truth Should Be Proclaimed Loudly -By Robert Fisk
When in the history of bookselling, I ask myself, has any publisher tried to avoid publicity for his book? Well, I can give you an example. Continue

18.Mar.2007 Israel's Right To Be Racist -By Joseph Massad
The matter-of-factness with which the state of Israel claims the right to treat non-Jews as lesser animals is shocking and annuls any move towards peace. Continue

18.Mar.2007 Velkomin to the USA of Foreclosure -By Mike Whitney
The stock market is about to crash.

The only question is whether it will quickly drop down the elevator shaft or follow the jerky flight-path of a man pushed down a stairwell. Either way, the outcome will be the same; stocks will nose-dive, the dollar will plummet + the bruised US economy will be splattered on the canvas like George Foreman in Rumble in the Jungle. Continue

18.Mar.2007 Permission to Speak Freely? -By Jason Miller
On behalf of fellow Information Clearing House contributing writers + ICH readers + the multitude of people who still believe that human rights represent a cornerstone of civilization, I call upon you to cease + desist with your arbitrary violation of Tom Feeley's rights to "demonstrate one's opinions on all matters", free speech + free press. Continue
18.Mar.2007 Global warming is a 'weapon of mass destruction' : Climate experts hit back after being accused of overstating the problem
18.Mar.2007 Hicks was forcibly sedated, says lawyer: DAVID HICKS was left frightened + confused after being forcibly sedated at Guantanamo Bay

last month + then told of new charges the prosecution wanted to bring against him, his US military defence lawyer, Major Michael Mori, has said.

18.Mar.2007 Ban word "terrorist" from U.S. trial, lawyer asks :

Defense lawyers want the word "terrorist" banned as too inflammatory in the U.S. trial of Jose Padilla + two other men charged with conspiring to aid Islamist extremists overseas.

18.Mar.2007 A constructive plot to return Guantanamo Bay to Cuba : The Invalidity of the Cuban-American Treaty on Guantanamo Bay
18.Mar.2007 Pressure on Musharraf as protests spread : The situation in Pakistan seems to be heading out of control.

Protests against the sacking of the Chief Justice Iftikar Mohd Chaudhry are spreading to other parts of the country.

18.Mar.2007 Why Musharraf Survives: Recent threats by the Bush administration to cut off billions of dollars in aid to Pakistan have sparked panic in government circles.
18.Mar.2007 Taming Leviathan: THIS week saw yet another reminder of the awesome power of “the lobby”.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) brought more than 6,000 activists to Washington for its annual policy conference. And they proceeded to live up to their critics' darkest fears.

18.Mar.2007 Grab your sick bag: Video: Cheney Speech To Israel's Most Powerful Lobby: V. P. Cheney at the American Israel Public Affairs Cmte. Forum

18.Mar.2007 In case you missed it: The Unauthorized Biography of Dick Cheney: Video: "In Dick Cheney's World, what he says is frequently more fiction than fact"
18.Mar.2007 Czech village rejects US radar base :

Residents of a Czech village have voted against hosting a US anti-missile radar station, fearing it will make the village a military target, amid a gathering of anti-war protesters in the nation's capital.

18.Mar.2007 Russia to increase global clout to combat U.S. unilateralism:

Russia’s foreign minister harshly criticized what he called Washington’s unilateral foreign policy on Saturday + said Moscow intended to counterbalance it with its increasing global clout.

18.Mar.2007 Iran said Russia has been paid 90% of the total deal amount: Officials said that despite Russia's assertions, Iran has honored its payment schedule of the $1 billion Bushehr project.

Despite this, they said, Russia's state-owned Atomstroiexport has slowed down construction to avoid sending nuclear fuel to Iran.

18.Mar.2007 War pimp alert: US and Israel conduct major missile defence exercise: Israel + the US are conducting a large-scale missile defence exercise aimed at combining their systems, American and Israeli officials said today, as both countries warn that Iran could obtain nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.

18.Mar.2007 Palestinian government is approved: The president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah, told lawmakers that Palestinians reject "all forms of violence" and want a permanent settlement with Israel.

18.Mar.2007 World support grows for Palestinian Cabinet : Palestinians installed a new coalition government yesterday in hopes of persuading the international community to end its isolation of the Palestinian National Authority and lift a year of bruising sanctions.

18.Mar.2007 U.S. to keep Palestinian aid ban, contacts possible: The USA + Israel on Sunday agreed to keep a ban on financial aid to the new Palestinian government, but in a break with the Jewish state, Washington left room for contacts with non-Hamas ministers.

18.Mar.2007 Prof. Tanya Reinhardt dies age 63 : Reinhardt, one of the most outspoken representatives of the radical Israeli left, was a fierce critic of the

00.000.1993 Oslo Accords between Israel + the Palestine Liberation Organization, saying they represented a perpetuation of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza.
18.Mar.2007 The One Video Clip Explaining Everything Wrong With Iraq, The Media + The Right : On Meet the Press, they expressed their commitment to "fair and balanced" debate by having on disgraced war supporter Richard Perle and indicted, deposed ex-congressman Tom DeLay against Admiral and Democratic Rep. Joe Sestak and Former Democratic Rep. Tom Andrews of Win Without War

18.Mar.2007 God's Dupes: Moderate believers give cover to religious fanatics -- and are every bit as delusional.

18.Mar.2007 Worldwide protests mark Iraq war :A series of anti-war demonstrations in countries including the USA + Canada + Australia + Spain + Britain occured ahead of the fourth anniversary of the US-led war in Iraq. 18.Mar.2007 Third of Iraqi children now malnourished: Caritas Internationalis + Caritas Iraq say that malnutrition rates have risen in Iraq

from 19 % before the US-led invasion to a national average of 28 % four years later.

18.Mar.2007 Defense chief raps withdrawal deadline: Both the Pentagon and the Iraqi government have gotten the message that Congress is losing patience with the war, said Gates
18.Mar.2007 The Late, Great American Nation -By John W. Whitehead
A pattern is emerging, predicated on one horrific incident 00.000.2001. The current administration is laying the groundwork for a military state + this is our final wake-up call. Continue

18.Mar.2007 Blair, Bush Could Face Probe at The Hague -By Gethin Chamberlain-TONY Blair could face the prospect of an International Criminal Court investigation for alleged coalition war crimes in Iraq. Continue

18.Mar.2007 A Good Kicking-Video - Torture Goes Unpunished
The Panorama special called A Good Kicking investigates the torture of seven Iraqi civilians 00.000.2003 while held in British custody in Basra.

One man, a hotel receptionist called Baha Mousa, died and had 93 injuries on his body. soldier, who asked to have his identity protected, told Panorama:

"What I saw in that cell wasn't interrogation. It wasn't detention.

It was torture as far as I am concerned. It was brutal. It was barbaric." Continue

18.Mar.2007 It's Hardly Pocahontas - New exhibits portray Jamestown colonists as killers and rapists -By James Langton
England's first successful colonists in America have been branded as rapists and murderers who imported slavery and oppressed the local Indian population. Continue
18.Mar.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Also out this week, in The American Conservative, a similar observation of the lack of open debate on this topic here in the MSM, but

the opening up of the discussion on - of course - the blogs.
18.Mar.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}that, following so close on the heels of our intense debate on the lack of discussion in the US about problems in - + about - Israel,

comes this piece by Nicholas Kristoff, due out in full tomorrow.
18.Mar.2007 They put me on a political hit list: U.S. Attorney
Frank Rich: "By the time the ides of March arrived in

00.Mar.2003 these warning signs were visible on a nearly daily basis.

So were the signs that Americans were completely ill prepared for the costs ahead. Iraq was largely anticipated as a distant, mildly disruptive geopolitical video game that would be over in a flash."
Helping Expose PlameGate After Robert Novak's Column. Fighting for Al Gore's Victory

00.000.2000 .

Winning Four Project Censored Awards in the Last Three Years (Two of Them First Place). Never Standing Down When It Comes to Standing Up for Democracy and Accountablity. BuzzFlash Needs Your Support to Pay Off Its Monthly Credit Card Bill. What's a Few Dollars to Save Our Constitution?

18.Mar.2007 Busheviks to Smother Democracy Again: White House Opposes D.C. Vote
The Viet Cong didn't "follow us home" from Vietnam, but veteran John McCain apparently thinks Iraqi terrorists will 3/19
Still more decay, disrepair and disregard at Walter Reed's crumbling sickbays--quality control inspector recently quit in frustration 3/19
There Are More Than a Few Family Skeletons in Al Gonzales' Closet -- Try Alcoholism, Drug Conviction, Parole Violation and a Mysterious Death. 3/18
Bush approval at 30, despite Washington Post predictions a few weeks ago of a second wave of Bush love 3/19

18.Mar.2007 "Bong hits" case splits Bush and Religious Right: many religious rights groups have joined the ACLU and others in defending the rights of high school students 3/19
17.Mar.2007 https://www.opednews.com/

Michael Bonanno: Socialism and Democracy – The People's Combination The definition obtained from Dictionary.com implies that "social" is not only not negative, but also helpful in human relationships.
18.Mar.2007 https://www.opednews.com/
Mark A. Goldman: What does it mean to win an illegal war? I hear members of Congress talking about how concerned they are about the possibility of having our troops experience defeat in the Iraq war.

They want the troops to experience a win. But how can soldiers engaged in an illegal war experience a win? What does winning an illegal war mean?

Does it mean that we will not give up until we are able to extricate ourselves without having to pay a price for our war crimes?
18.Mar.2007 "Microsoft sucks": Top- Blogger rechnet mit Microsoft ab
18.Mar.2007 Zeitgeschichte: Scheitern als Chance
18.Mar.2007 propaganda Public Relations & Edward Bernays BitTorrent - myBittorrent.com