11.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394557,00.html

Die Demokraten haben Bushs umstrittenen Wunschkandidaten für den Supreme Court ins Kreuzverhör genommen.

Richter Alito versuchte den Justizausschuss bei der Anhörung zu besänftigen:

Niemand dürfe sich über das Gesetz stellen - auch der Präsident nicht.

Washington - "Kein Mensch steht über dem Gesetz", verteidigte sich Samuel Alito vor den Senatoren gegen die Attacken der Demokraten,

die die Anhörung zu einem Angriff auf die Politik von Präsident George W. Bush nutzten.

Die Verfassung gelte sowohl in Friedens- als auch in Kriegszeiten, sagte Alito.

Er stehe voll und ganz hinter der Auffassung, dass der Präsident keinen "Blöanko-Scheck" bei seinen Entscheidungen habe.
11.Jan.2006 Editorial Columns - Year 2003
Nelson Aldrich, who headed the Senate Banking Committee + for whom Nelson Rockefeller is named, was a leader in the secret meeting at Jekyll Island, Ga., ... www.sanspap.com/columns2003.htm
10.Jan.2006 https://www.lexipda.de/infos/a/an/antibolschewistische-liga.html Antibolschewistische Liga

Artikel von lexiPDA.de

00.Dez.1918 Die Antibolschewistische Liga wurde von Eduard Stadtler, Mitbegründer der Solidarier, gegründet.

Stadtler propagierte einen "deutschen", "nationalen" oder "christlich-nationalen" “Sozialismus”, im Gegensatz zum "Klassenkampf-Sozialismus".

Die Industriellen

Hugo Stinnes,

Albert Vögler,

Siemens, Henrich (Siemens-Schuckert Konzern),

Borsig,

Deutsch (von der AEG),

Salomonsohn (von der Disconto-Gesellschaft)

u.a.,

stellten Eduard Stadtler eine Summe von mehreren Hundert Millionen Mark zur Verfügung.

Laut Aussage von Hugo Stinnes 500 Millionen Mark.

10.Jan.2006 ? Rosa Luxemburg - im IzyNews Lexikon
Stadtler propagierte einen "deutsc... ) " gegründet, die Industrieverbandschef Hugo Stinnes ([mehr über Hugo Stinnes] Hugo Stinnes (* 12. ... lexikon.izynews.de/lex/Rosa_Luxemburg
10.Jan.2006 Stadtler Antibolschewistische Liga Gefahr Millionen Hugo
Informationen,

Foren zu Antibolschewistische Liga,

Stadtler, Gefahr, . keimhafter Faschismus -Korporativismus: ein bewußtes SICH-VERGLIEDERN, eine gewollte ...www.lexipda.de/infos/a/an/antibolschewistische-liga.html
14.Sep.2001 Joe Harrington [A] was working on the installation of new furniture in Wedge One,

when he was called out to the parking lot to talk about security with his customer moments before the crash

"About two minutes later

one of my guys pointed to an American Airlines airplane 20 feet high over Washington Blvd.," Harrington said. https://911research.com/pentagon_2.htm

"It seemed like it made impact just before the wedge.

It was like a Hollywood movie or something." https://www.dcmilitary.com/army/pentagram/6_46/local_news/12049-1.html
10.Jan.2006 Ariel Sharon: The Accused : The man who is now Israel's Prime Minister,

Ariel Sharon, sent Lebanese militiamen into the Palestine refugee camps of Sabra + Shatilla.

When they left 36 hours later at least 800 people lay dead after a rampage of murder + torture + rape.

10.Jan.2006 N. Korean Leader Visiting China: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has traveled to China on a rare trip outside his country, a South Korean military intelligence official said Tuesday.

10.Jan.2006 Anti-War Group Has Documents Proving NSA Spied on Them :

10.Jan.2006 Judges request surveillance details:

Judges bypassed in domestic wiretap spying program receive secret intelligence briefing

10.Jan.2006 In case you missed it: Alito Defended Wiretap Protections

00.000.1984 Memo: The attorney general should be immune from lawsuits over illegal wiretaps, Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote

in a 1984 memorandum as a government lawyer in the Reagan administration.

10.Jan.2006 Thom Hartmann: Challenging Abramoff's "Artificial Aristocracy": That Jack Abramoff exclusively gave his money to conservative Republicans shouldn't surprise us. -

To understand why, we have to understand the core conservative governing principle - aristocracy.

10.Jan.2006 Who Got What: Jack Abramoff Lobbying and Political Contributions, 1999 – 2006 :

Here is a detailed look at Abramoff's lobbying + political contributions from Abramoff, the tribes that hired him + SunCruz Casinos, since 1999.

10.Jan.2006 By the Numbers: Lobbying in America : Here are a few quick facts showing the size and scope of this burgeoning Washington, DC industry.

10.Jan.2006 From Big-Time Lobbyist to Object of Derision :

Jack Abramoff, former superlobbyist and newly convicted felon, is learning how unpleasant disgrace can be. -

Mr. Abramoff's ties to the Republican Party stretch into the executive branch + he could implicate up to 12 members of Congress, people involved in the case said.

10.Jan.2006 Attorney: $115,000 paid to DeLay's wife fair : Christine DeLay was paid the money during a 3-year period by the Alexander Strategy Group, a Washington lobbying firm that is

now the object of a criminal probe

10.Jan.2006 Figuring Out Alito: If the Judiciary Committee really wants to know where Alito stands, they'll raise the specter of Bush v. Gore.

10.Jan.2006 Al Gore really did beat George W. Bush in 2000:

10.Jan.2006 Internal Justice Dept. Document Alleges Drug Trafficking Links, Money Laundering and Conspiracy to Murder
10.Jan.2006 U.S. Defends Prison Camp at Guantanamo : The representatives of the German political parties stand completely behind Merkel and are even sending her to Washington with clear mandate:

10.Jan.2006 Swiss claim proof that CIA ran Europe jails :

European investigators looking into allegations of secret CIA-run prisons in Europe said yesterday that an Egyptian government message naming countries where such prisons existed could amount to indirect proof of the claims.

10.Jan.2006 CIA faces new secret jails claim:

The CIA kept 23 people in a secret prison in Romania + maintained similar facilities in Bulgaria, Ukraine, Macedonia + Kosovo, according to allegations contained in a leaked Swiss intelligence report

10.Jan.2006 Rumsfeld’s Archipelago of Gulags : Focus on Cuban camp obscured far worse activities around the world.

10.Jan.2006 The Rise & Fall of Imperial Democracies: From the Beltway to Bangkok, Moscow to Manila, elected leaders are using the threat of terror to grab more power—and making the threat worse.

10.Jan.2006 Indian States Monitoring Cybercafe Users: The southern Indian state of Kerala will join two other states in requiring cybercafes to record the names and addresses of their customers in an effort to combat online fraud, virus attacks and terrorism, an official said Tuesday.

10.Jan.2006 Iran reopens nuclear research plant: In defiance of protests from the West, Iran says it has removed UN seals at its nuclear facilities and resumed controversial research work.
10.Jan.2006 How US troops destroyed my family home: Audio: Iraqi journalist Ali Fadhil, who was seized in his home by US soldiers two days ago, describes his ordeal.

10.Jan.2006 Two British men to be tried on charges of leaking alleged Al-Jazeera memo : Two British men were ordered Tuesday to stand trial later this month on charges of leaking a government memo in which U.S. President George W. Bush reportedly discussed bombing the headquarters of the Arab satellite news channel Al-Jazeera.

10.Jan.2006 Abduction of American Reporter in Iraq Blacked Out By U.S. News Outlets : The Monitor revealed that the reporter, Carroll, is a stringer for the paper who has written many stories for the newspaper for about a year, the last four or five months reporting from Iraq.

10.Jan.2006 US sees Iraqi oil production choked for years: Shell's vice-president recently stated that any auction of Iraqi's oilfields was unlikely before 2007,"

said the EIA report released late 00.Dec.2005 + carried on its website

10.Jan.2006 Enough of his excuses: Blair must be impeached over Iraq: The only way parliament can regain the trust of disaffected voters is to admit that it was wrong to support the war

10.Jan.2006 What We Don't Know Can Hurt Us: There is an bill in Congress to investigate Bush for impeachable crimes. Did you know that?

If not, maybe you should be asking your local media outlets why you don’t know about it.

10.Jan.2006 Citizen's Tribunal Indicts Bush Administration for War Crimes: An unprecedented series of indictments alleging war crimes and crimes against humanity, in five separate areas, on moral, political + legal grounds, will be delivered by a citizens' tribunal to President Bush at the front gate of the White House this Tuesday, January 10th.

10.Jan.2006 MoveOn.org Surrenders: We’ve got a war going on + advocacy groups who allegedly oppose it should stand up to it, not pander to those who do.
10.Jan.2006 Bremer claims he was used as Iraq ‘fall guy ’: A Pentagon spokesman on Monday confirmed that Mr Bremer had sent Mr Rumsfeld a memo based on a report by the Rand Corporation consultancy that recommended 500,000 US troops would be needed to pacify Iraq – far more than were sent. But Mr Bremer’s advice was rejected by military leaders and Mr Rumsfeld.

10.Jan.2006 In case you missed it: So, Mr Bremer, where did all the money go? : At the end of the Iraq war, vast sums of money were made available to the US-led provisional authorities, headed by Paul Bremer, to spend on rebuilding the country. By the time Bremer left the post eight months later, $8.8bn of that money had disappeared. Ed Harriman on the extraordinary scandal of Iraq's missing billions

10.Jan.2006 Powell admits errors in war: He says lack of troops impeded U.S. success : Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday night in the Twin Cities that he harbors no regrets about the U.S. invasion of Iraq but acknowledged wartime mistakes and warned that Iraq's eventual government might not be as broad-based as American leaders had hoped.
10.Jan.2006 Iraq Celebrates Four-Day Festival of Eid : There were no reports of violence in Iraq as of midday Tuesday.
10.Jan.2006 U.S. can open private mail
U.S. officials can open personal mail arriving from abroad -By Reuters
"Customs and Border Protection is charged with making sure that terrorists and terrorists' weapons don't enter the country," said Suzanne Trevino, a spokeswoman for the customs agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. Continued
10.Jan.2006 Streit mit Iran: USA halten sich militärische Option offen
10.Jan.2006 Supreme Court: Bushs Kandidat versucht Senat zu besänftigen
10.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394341,00.html

Der verlustreiche Einsatz der US-Armee im Irak bereitet Präsident Bush weiteres Ungemach. Inzwischen streitet seine Regierung öffentlich mit Ex-Zivilberater Bremer über strategische Fehler. Bush selbst rechnet in den kommenden Monaten nach eigenen Worten mit weiteren Verlusten.

Washington - Das Jahr 2006 sei ein Jahr weiterer Prüfungen und Opfer, sagte der Sprecher des Weißen Hauses, Scott McClellan, in Washington. In einer Rede vor Veteranen will George W. Bush heute weiter um Sympathie für seine Irak-Politik werben. Bush werde dabei auf die Fortschritte bei der Demokratisierung des Landes, dem Wiederaufbau der Wirtschaft und der Ausbildung der irakischen Streitkräfte verweisen, sagte McClellan. In all diesen Bereichen hätten die USA aus Fehlern gelernt.
Nach einer Umfrage der Nachrichtenagentur AP sank die Zustimmung in der Bevölkerung für Bushs Vorgehen im Irak in der vergangenen Woche auf 39 Prozent. Anfang Dezember hatten sich noch 41 Prozent der Befragten damit zufrieden gezeigt.
10.Jan.2006 USA: Mumifizierte Frau saß vor dem Fernseher

10.Jan.2006 Vogelgrippe: Merkel fordert entschlossenes Vorgehen
10.Jan.2006 Seuchenschutz: Pest-Impfstoff aus Tabakpflanzen
10.Jan.2006 Tod in Haiti: Das Martyrium des Uno-Generals

10.Jan.2006 Kabinettsklausur: Merkel vertagt Lösung im Atomstreit

10.Jan.2006 Atomstreit: Ahmadinedschads gefährliches Spiel
10.Jan.2006 USA: Bushs Kandidat im Kreuzverhör
10.Jan.2006 Urbanistik: Ende der Stadtflucht
10.Jan.2006 Streit um Tron: Darf man einen Hacker beim Namen nennen?

10.Jan.2006 Nordstern: Polaris ist nicht allein
10.Jan.2006 Ukraine: Regierung stürzt über Gas-Kompromiss

10.Jan.2006 Geheime CIA-Gefängnisse: Verfahren gegen Schweizer Journalisten
10.Jan.2006 Atomkraft: Energiegipfel soll im April Kompromisslinie ausloten
10.Jan.2006 Vogelgrippe in der Türkei: Das rasende Virus

10.Jan.2006 Aufschwung: Börsianer überraschen mit Optimismus
10.Jan.2006 Streit über Atomprogramm: Steinmeier droht Iran mit Abbruch der Verhandlungen

10.Jan.2006 Türkei: Hausbewohner flüchten vor verdächtiger Ente

10.Jan.2006 Ökologie: In der Wüste wimmelt es von Bakterien
10.Jan.2006 TV-Starkoch Jamie Oliver: "Londoner Küchen sind voll mit Drogen"

10.Jan.2006 Schadenersatz-Regelung: EU-Richter bestätigen Rechte von Flugpassagieren
10.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,druck-394353,00.html
Wer schon immer wissen wollte, wie es dabei hinter den Kulissen zugeht, welchem Stress Apples Produktmanager dabei ausgesetzt sind und wie haarklein Steve Jobs die Choreografie vorgibt, sollte unbedingt lesen, was der ehemalige Apple-Manager Mike Evangelist dem britischen "Guardian" über seine Erlebnisse bei den Vorbereitungen zu solchen Veranstaltungen diktiert hat.
10.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,druck-394353,00.html
Laut "Independent" klagen Hunderte Myspace.com-Anwender darüber, dass Forenbeiträge und Blog-Einträge, in denen es um eine konkurrierende Video-Website ging, gelöscht bzw. zensiert wurden. Ein Blog, in dem sich User gegen die Zensur seitens der neuen Eigentümer formierten, wurde gelöscht. Die Begründung: Es habe sich nur um ein Missverständnis gehandelt. Die ganze Geschichte ist hier nachzulesen.
10.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,druck-394353,00.html
Blogger an Murdoch: so nicht!
Von wegen Konkurrenz belebt das Geschäft. Wie der "Independent" berichtet, versucht Medien-Mogul Rupert Murdoch, massiv darauf Einfluss zu nehmen, worüber sich seine Kunden austauschen. So geschehen bei der Community-Website MySpace.com, die Murdochs' News Corp. im vergangenen Jahr samt 38 Millionen eingetragener Benutzer erwarb. 10.Jan.2006 Walther Leisler Kieps Memoiren: Ein Mann für heikle Missionen
10.Jan.2006 Türkei: Vogelgrippe in Ferienregion angekommen
10.Jan.2006 Implantierte Chips: Das geht unter die Haut
10.Jan.2006 Nuklear-Konflikt: Iran beseitigt Siegel von Atomanlagen
10.Jan.2006 Irak: Bush schwört Amerikaner auf weitere Verluste ein
10.Jan.2006 Guantanamo: Zwangsernährung für Dutzende Gefangene

10.Jan.2006 Regierungspläne: Wirtschaft kritisiert Konjunkturprogramm

10.Jan.2006 Pakistan: Tote bei Raketenangriff auf Armeeposten

10.Jan.2006 Atomstreit: Grüne drohen mit Massenprotesten
10.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394290,00.html
Blair habe für seine Handlungen die Verantwortung zu übernehmen, so Rose weiter. Die Konsequenzen für den Irak und den Krieg gegen den Terror seien verheerend. "Besonders aus Sicht eines Soldaten gibt es keine ernsthaftere Entscheidung eines Premierminister als die, in den Krieg zu ziehen." Blairs Entscheidung stehe irgendwo zwischen "falscher Politik und illegalem Handeln", sagte er der BBC.
10.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394290,00.html

Der frühere Uno-Militärkommandeur in Bosnien, Rose, hat ein Amtsenthebungsverfahren gegen Tony Blair gefordert. Hintergrund ist die Entscheidung des Premierministers für den Eintritt in den Irak-Krieg. Diese liege irgendwo zwischen falscher Politik und illegalem Handeln.

London - Mit einer Begründung in den Krieg zu ziehen, die sich als haltlos erweise, sei etwas, "mit dem niemand so einfach davonkommen sollte", sagte Sir Michael Rose der BBC. Er bezog sich damit auf die Argumentation der britischen Regierung vor dem Krieg, der Irak besitze Massenvernichtungswaffen.
10.Jan.2006 Merkel-Kritik: USA verteidigen Gefangenenlager Guantanamo
10.Jan.2006 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/branded_b_13272.html?p=2#comments
Paul wrote: What's next? Visas to travel from state to state? "Achtung! Papers please."
This is already happening. You can't travel on a plane, a train, a bus + a car without showing your id. There's a couple of cases before the courts now... check out https://www.papersplease.org/for more information. I don't want to live in a Homeland, I want to live in the United States of America and it's getting hard to recognize my country. Very sad state of affairs lately.
10.Jan.2006 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-moore/branded_b_13272.html?p=2#comments
I hope a reporter makes time to ask Bush during his next interview ... "Mr. Moore, an American who wrote a book critical of you, has been placed on the no-fly list. What will you do to correct that and hold whoever abused TSA power accountable?"
09.Jan.2006 https://www.workingforchange.com/printitem.cfm?itemid=20162

John Gorenfeld, a veteran investigative reporter and a longtime chronicler of Moon's sojourns, described Moon's thinking on another ongoing project, his attempt to transform the United Nations: "Moon speaks in parables from the Book of Genesis. He says the U.N. is like Cain, but he wants to build a second entity that is like Abel. Ideally, his 'Abel U.N.' -- a body fusing all religions -- would be embraced by the U.N. But if not, he wants to set up his own alternative diplomatic machine to outshine the U.N."

During a May 2003 meeting with President Bush at the White House, Philippines President Arroyo suggested that the United States might consider co-sponsoring the proposal, the conservative online news magazine, NewsMax.com reported. According to that report, the president "expressed deep interest and asked his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to study the matter."

"Some 3,000 people, including Vice President Annette Lu, US President George W. Bush's younger brother Neil Bush and Washington Times president Joo Dong Moon, listened to Reverend Moon's speech at the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Taipei," the Taipei Times reported.

Neil Bush is no stranger to showing up at out of the way places searching for business: One month after 9/11, Bush showed up at an international technology conference in Dubai where he was hunting for investors for Ignite!
09.Jan.2006 Anti-Bush author put on No-Fly list  Jim Moore, author of Bush's Brain, has been put on the No-Fly list by the fascist in the White House. Feel any safer?
09.Jan.2006 Miffed Canadian pays bank bill a penny at a time  He's upset because his Canadian bank is outsourcing its credit card processing to the United States.
"I don't want the CIA or George Bush to know how many cases of Viagra I bought last week, or what church or charities I donate to," he told Reuters.
09.Jan.2006 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/international/europe/07hoffman.html?adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1136646260-2vvhmKN3gOF3MVzC3pmqqg&pagewanted=print

"Everything comes from the sun via the plant kingdom," he said.

MR. HOFMANN studied chemistry and took a job with the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz Laboratories, because it had started a program to identify and synthesize the active compounds of medically important plants. He soon began work on the poisonous ergot fungus that grows in grains of rye. Midwives had used it for centuries to precipitate childbirths, but chemists had never succeeded in isolating the chemical that produced the pharmacological effect. Finally, chemists in the United States identified the active component as lysergic acid + Mr. Hofmann began combining other molecules with the unstable chemical in search of pharmacologically useful compounds.
09.Jan.2006 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/07/international/europe/07hoffman.html?adxnnl=0&adxnnlx=1136646260-2vvhmKN3gOF3MVzC3pmqqg&pagewanted=print
"Outside is pure energy and colorless substance," he said. "All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings."
09.Jan.2006 Your phone records are for sale  The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone -- for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts.
09.Jan.2006 Your phone records are for sale  The Chicago Police Department is warning officers their cell phone records are available to anyone -- for a price. Dozens of online services are selling lists of cell phone calls, raising security concerns among law enforcement and privacy experts.
09.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394254,00.html
Solche Evakuierungen seien inzwischen Alltag, spielte er den Zwischenfall herunter.
09.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394254,00.html

In Washington ist das US-Justizministerium evakuiert worden.

Hintergrund war ein verdächtiger Gegenstand in der Nähe des Gebäudes.

Washington -

In einem Bus vor dem Ministerium sei am frühen Morgen ein verdächtiges Paket gefunden worden,

berichtete CNN unter Berufung auf einen Sprecher des Ministeriums.

Deshalb mussten alle Mitarbeiter das Gebäude verlassen.
09.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-394018,00.html
In einer der "fahrlässigsten Operationen in der modernen Geschichte der CIA", so Risen,

habe der Geheimdienst einen als Agenten angeworbenen russischen Wissenschaftler beauftragt,

den Iranern

00.Feb.2000 in Wien Baupläne für das Zündsystem einer Atomwaffe zu übergeben.

Die hochgeheime Bauanleitung habe sich der US-Geheimdienst zuvor aus der russischen Waffenschmiede Arsamas-16 besorgt.
09.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-394018,00.html
Ziel der Operation "Merlin" sei ein "demütigender Rückschlag" für die iranischen Wissenschaftler gewesen,

da die Pläne zwar authentisch wirkten, technisch aber nicht zum Erfolg geführt hätten.

Allerdings seien die eingebauten Fehler so einfach zu entdecken gewesen, dass die Iraner sie leicht hätten korrigieren können, behauptet Risen.

Zudem habe der russische Wissenschaftler entgegen den Anweisungen Teheran in einem Begleitschreiben auf die versteckten Änderungen hingewiesen.

Somit hätten die USA selbst dem fundamentalistischen Regime, dessen derzeitiger Präsident Mahmud Ahmadinedschad Israel am liebsten "ausradieren" möchte, "möglicherweise zu Atomwaffen verholfen".

Während die "New York Times" die brisante Enthüllung ihres Autors auf Bitte des Weißen Hauses zurückgehalten haben soll,

verweist die CIA auf angeblich "schwerwiegende Ungenauigkeiten" in Risens Werk - und lehnt jeden Kommentar zu den Enthüllungen ab.
09.Jan.2006 Corruption + the College Republican :

So Jack Abramoff is now a confessed criminal, a corrupter of congress, a man who's decision to turn state's witness now threatens the careers of as many as 60 senators + representatives.

All of which begs the question:

How did Jack Abramoff become Jack Abramoff?

09.Jan.2006 A Darker Bioweapons Future:

One of the top developments of 2005 is a kind of genetic engineering on steroids - a new field called "synthetic biology" in which scientists are setting out to create new forms of life that have never existed before.

09.Jan.2006 Uranium revelation upsets isle activists: SEVERAL environmental and native Hawaiian groups are accusing the Army of misleading the public after the groups discovered that a heavy metal known as depleted uranium was recovered at Schofield Barracks' range complex.
09.Jan.2006 Alito may be the worst choice: AT THIS moment in American history, it would be hard to find a worse Supreme Court nominee than Samuel A. Alito Jr. His ideology captures everything extremist about the Bush administration. If confirmed, Alito would serve as Bush's enabler.
09.Jan.2006 Bush announces radical shift in foreign policy; No U.S. media report it: Buried in the UK's Financial Times - and as far as I can tell, not reported anywhere else - are the details of a State Department briefing this week in which the Bush administration very publicly said it is essentially scrapping U.S. support for NATO and the United Nations. No joke.
09.Jan.2006 US accused of backing kidnappers of Iranian soldiers : Iran said on Saturday that kidnappers who had taken nine Iranian border guards as hostage in the eastern parts of the country were linked to the Taliban and supported by the United States, the official IRNA news agency reported.
09.Jan.2006 Army Won't Try Officer in Afghan Abuse Case

09.Jan.2006 The U.S. Army has dropped its case against the only officer to face criminal charges in connection with the beating deaths of two prisoners held by the U.S. in Afghanistan, a military spokesman said Saturday. Continued

09.Jan.2006 The Economic Costs Of The Iraq War :   Linda Bilmes  Kennedy School, Harvard University And  Joseph E. Stiglitz  University Professor, Columbia University

We estimate that the total economic costs of the war, including direct costs and macroeconomic costs, lie between $1 and $2 trillion. Continued

09.Jan.2006 The 'Fin de Regime'? An out-of-touch George Bush now presides over a lost foreign war and a morass of influence peddling By Eric Margolis
China's Taoists philosophers warned that you become what you hate. We see this paradox in Washington, where the current administration increasingly reminds one of the old Soviet Union. Continued

09.Jan.2006 Marines died short of armor By Michael Moss
A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 % of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to their upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials . Continued
09.Jan.2006 Swiss may have known about secret CIA prisons By Scott Capper
The Swiss intelligence community has allegedly been aware of secret CIA prisons in eastern Europe for nearly two months according to leaked documents . Continued
08.Jan.2006 Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children By Philip Watts
John Yoo publicly argued there is no law that could prevent the President from ordering the torture of a child of a suspect in custody – including by crushing that child’s testicles . Continued
09.Jan.2006 U.S. Warns the Netherlands :

A decision not to send more troops in Afghanistan would be damaging for Dutch interests in the US,

former American diplomat Paul Bremer III warned on Monday.

09.Jan.2006 15-Year-Old Combatant to Face Guantanamo Trial Three Years Later :

Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen, faces imminent trial by military commission at Guantanamo Bay for war crimes he had allegedly committed at the age of 15, his lawyers say.

09.Jan.2006 War pimp alert: An Attack on Iran is Inevitable:

A military confrontation with Iran is inevitable.

Israel will need to destroy as much of Iran’s nuclear weapons capability as possible.

If it does not, Iran’s ayatollahs will launch nuclear-armed ballistic missiles at Israel.

09.Jan.2006 Russia hopes Iran nuclear dispute not to trigger war: Russia has been resisting calls from the United States and the European Union to refer Iran to the UN Security Council for possible sanctions

09.Jan.2006 Plane crash kills Iran commander : A small military passenger jet crashed in northwestern Iran today, killing the commander of the ground forces of the elite Revolutionary Guards.

It was the second time in two months that a military plane has crashed in Iran.

09.Jan.2006 Palestinians Won’t Miss Sharon: Palestinians are not weeping for “the butcher of Beirut,” Ariel Sharon, as he battles for his life. One of the world’s most ruthless leaders

09.Jan.2006 U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts + Impact : A Conservative Total for U.S. Aid to Israel: $91 Billion—and Counting

09.Jan.2006 Losing the War on Terrorism: It is impossible to exaggerate the damage caused by the President's improvident decisions. Yes, these tactics are immoral.

Yes, they violate American norms and values. Yes, they are in many respects illegal. All this, by itself, is enough to warrant condemnation by Congress and the public.

09.Jan.2006 Belafonte Calls Bush 'Greatest Terrorist' :

The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" on Sunday + said millions of Americans support the socialist revolution of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

09.Jan.2006 Bolivia's Morales makes China overture: Bolivia's president elect invited energy-hungry China on Sunday to help develop his country's vast gas reserves after his government carries out plans to nationalize them.

09.Jan.2006 Prof, Wife Accused of Being Cuban Agents :

A college professor and his wife, a college administrator, have been charged with being longtime illegal agents of Cuban President Fidel Castro, according to documents filed Monday.

09.Jan.2006 Frank Rich : The Wiretappers That Couldn't Shoot Straight :

The louder the reports of failures on this president's watch, the louder he tries to drown them out by boasting that

he has done everything "within the law" to keep America safe + by implying that his critics are unpatriotic, if not outright treasonous.

09.Jan.2006 Angry and Furious at the Collaborationist Democrats: Representative Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House + Senator Jay Rockefeller, the Democratic senator from West Virginia,

a man known for some sensitivity to civil liberties infringements + a substantial number of congressmen, plus the New York Times, all knew of Bush's illegal spying.

09.Jan.2006 Specter Seeks AG's Testimony on Spying :

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Sunday he has asked Attorney General Alberto Gonzales

to testify publicly on the legality of warantless eavesdropping on telephone conversations between suspected terrorists + people in the United States.

09.Jan.2006 The NSA Spy Engine - Echelon :

A top-secret program code-named Tempest, is capable of reading computer monitors, cash registers + automatic teller machines from as far away as a half-mile +

is being used to keep a close eye on an untold number of American citizens, the sources said, pointing to a little known declassified document that sheds light on the program.

09.Jan.2006 Cracks in an evil edifice : America's monstrous system of commercial political lobbying has long needed to be cut down to size.

In Washington, more than 35,000 professional lobbyists now spend at least $5bn every year trying to influence the votes of members of the US Congress.

09.Jan.2006 A Donor Who Had Big Allies: In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used their official positions to try to stop a federal investigation of a wealthy Texas businessman who provided them with political contributions.

09.Jan.2006 Joe Conason: Let us prey : Jack Abramoff + his deeply religious right-wing cronies express their "biblical worldview" by swindling Indian tribes + bribing legislators. Verily, mysterious are the ways of the Lord.

09.Jan.2006 Jack Abramoff's, former firm takes survival course :

00.000.2000 -in the weeks after the disputed election-Lawyers for the firm represented George W. Bush .

Its partnership ranks include high-powered lawyers like John Scalia, the son of Justice Antonin Scalia of the Supreme Court.

09.Jan.2006 In case you missed it: Controversial lobbyist had close contact with Bush team:

In President Bush's first 10 months,

GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff + his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies

09.Jan.2006 The Case Against Alito : There's reason to think that Alito's views on executive power are the main reasons Bush wants him on the Court.

09.Jan.2006 China’s Stranglehold on the Dollar :

China’s action signals that we are entering a period of economic instability, where America’s future is largely in the hands of its creditors.

Economic policy in China will now determine the interest rates on mortgages in America.

09.Jan.2006 U.S. firms ducking out of promises made on pensions : The death knell for the traditional company pension has been tolling for some time now in the USA.

Companies in ailing industries like steel, airlines and auto parts have thrown themselves into bankruptcy and turned over their ruined pension plans to Washington.
09.Jan.2006 Bush has planned exit strategy:

“Once we set up a friend as the head of Iraq, the new Iraqi president is going to ask the American military to withdraw,” U.S. Rep. Ralph Hall, R-Rockwall, said Friday in a telephone interview from his home.
09.Jan.2006 MPs leaked Bush plan to hit al-Jazeera :

Two Labour MPs have defied the Official Secrets Act by passing on the contents of a secret British document revealing how President George Bush wanted to bomb the Arabic TV station, al-Jazeera.
09.Jan.2006 Like arsenic in the water supply, lobbyists have poisoned Washington
Both Democrats and Republicans have got rich off the millions that flow to those in power, leaving the poor sidelined -By Gary Younge
Court papers reveal that this key financier of the Bush administration's high-minded agenda of moral piety is a foul-mouthed, greedy bigot.

In intercepted emails, he refers to his Native American clients - whom he played off against each other for millions of dollars which he then used to pamper politicians - as "morons", "monkeys", "fucking troglodytes" + "losers".  Continued
09.Jan.2006 How Many Iraqis Have Died Since the US Invasion in 2003? 30,000? No. 100,000? No. - By ANDREW COCKBURN
President Bush's off-hand summation last month of the number of Iraqis who have so far died as a result of our invasion and occupation as "30,000, more or less" was quite certainly an under-estimate.

The true number is probably hitting around 180,000 by now, with a possibility, as we shall see, that it has reached as high as half a million. Continued

09.Jan.2006 Scott Ritter, "We don't get it that wrong" Scott Ritter speaking at the Commonwealth Club

George W. Bush was not the originator of the policy that led to the invasion of Iraq. He inherited from the administration of Bill Clinton, a policy of regime change. Listen here.
09.Jan.2006 Scandal of force-fed prisoners
Hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes, admits Guantánamo Bay doctor -By David Rose
New details have emerged of how the growing number of prisoners on hunger strike at Guantánamo Bay are being tied down and force-fed through tubes pushed down their nasal passages into their stomachs to keep them alive. They routinely experience bleeding and nausea, according to a sworn statement by the camp's chief doctor. Continued
09.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-394168,00.html
Düsseldorf - Bis zum Jahr 2030 könnte in Deutschland Gas aus Biomasse, das derzeit nur einen Bruchteil in der Versorgung ausmacht, jährlich immerhin 17 Prozent des derzeitigen deutschen Erdgas-Jahresbedarfs liefern. Das ist das Ergebnis einer noch unveröffentlichten Studie der des Bundesverbandes der deutschen Gas- und Wasserwirtschaft (BGW), wie das "Handelsblatt" berichtet. Das wäre eine Energiemenge von 166 Milliarden Kilowattstunden pro Jahr.
09.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Republicans have a new tool to silence critics W just signed a bill which - in one of those little-noticed provisions unrelated to the main thrust of the law - makes it illegal for any anonymous or pseudonymous writer to use the internet to "annoy" someone. That's the wording: Annoy.
Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person...who receives the communications...shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.
Superficially, this is a measure against cyber-stalking. But the law appears to be extremely broad -- after all, any form of criticism, even well-founded criticism, can be labelled an annoyance. Ann Coulter, for example, may want to test the boundaries of this law by taking to court anyone who makes another "Mann Coulter" crack.
The signing of this law gives conservative forces an excuse to pressure ISPs into divulging the identities of anonymous bloggers, commentators + usenet posters.

Until now, ISPs protected the privacy of clients who had merely hurt the feelings of someone else.
Hurt feelings are now a serious legal matter. Permalink
09.Jan.2006 Vogelgrippe: Seehofer beruft Krisensitzung ein

09.Jan.2006 Viereinhalb-Jahres-Hoch: Dow Jones springt über 11.000 Punkte
09.Jan.2006 Joe Ackermanns Neujahresbotschaft: "China und USA warten nicht auf Europa"
09.Jan.2006 Irak-Krieg: Früherer Uno-Kommandeur fordert Amtsenthebung Blairs
09.Jan.2006 Geheime CIA-Gefängnisse: Loch im Schweizer Sicherheitsnetz
09.Jan.2006 Fleisch im Gepäck: Reisende werden schärfer kontrolliert
09.Jan.2006 Washington: US-Justizministerium evakuiert
09.Jan.2006 Vogelgrippe-Ausbrüche: Angst infiziert die Türkei
09.Jan.2006 Atomstreit: Steinmeier sieht sehr verhängnisvolle Signale aus Iran

09.Jan.2006 USA: Cheney wegen Atemnot im Krankenhaus
09.Jan.2006 Geheimoperation "Merlin": CIA soll Iran Atombombenpläne zugespielt haben
09.Jan.2006 Indien: Bis zu zehn Millionen weibliche Föten abgetrieben
09.Jan.2006 November-Rekord: Deutsche Exporte über 70 Milliarden Euro
09.Jan.2006 Nuklearstreit: Iran nimmt Atomforschung wieder auf

09.Jan.2006 Energieversorgung: Alternative Biogas
09.Jan.2006 Geheimgefängnisse: Fax aus Ägypten bringt CIA in Bedrängnis
09.Jan.2006 Seuchen: Vogelgrippe-Virus auch in Istanbul
09.Jan.2006 Gentest: Echtheit von Mozart-Schädel nicht bewiesen
09.Jan.2006 Türkei: Papst-Attentäter soll freikommen

09.Jan.2006 Joseph Marx (1882-1964) im Dritten Reich
Schüler von Marx und deren Hinterbliebene erzählten mir zudem, daß zu Marx ' großem Bekannten- und Freundeskreis auch viele Juden gehörten. ... www.joseph-marx.org/de/drittes-reich.html
09.Jan.2006 Wer von Deutschland reden will, darf vom Islam nicht schweigen Mit diesen Worten leitete Karl Marx seine „Kritik der Hegelschen ... in der die Juden das Geld und die Zirkulation in einem der islamischen Welt wenn nicht ... www.redaktion-bahamas.org/auswahl/web36-3.htm
09.Jan.2006 Marx - Kartei G Das „raffende“ Finanzkapital wurde von A. Hitler mit den Juden identifiziert und ... Wal Buchenberg, 09.Sep.2001 www.marx-forum.de . DISKUSSIONSFORUM. www.marx-forum.de/marx-lexikon/lexikon_g/globalisierung.html

Geschichte Deutschland Welche Stellung aber würde Deutschland heute in der Welt einnehmen! ... Die innen-und sozialpolitischen Gegner der Nazis waren nicht nur Juden, ... www. marx -forum.de/geschichte/deutschland/kontinuitat.html
09.Jan.2006 ZNet Deutschland - a community committed to social change Kann jemand ein Anti-Zionist sein, ohne ein Antisemit zu sein? ... Karl Marx schrieb ein paar garstige Dinge über Juden, wie auch Otto Weininger, ... www.zmag.de/artikel.php?id=979
09.Jan.2006 Köhler in Israel: Reich Ranicki: Diese Boykottdrohung ist ... ... die Psychologie ohne Sigmund Freud, die Soziologie ohne Karl Marx, die Literatur ... Die jetzt aufwachsende Generation israelischer Juden kümmert sich ...www.faz.net/.../Doc~E7C585A3FCE4D445BAF3A0AED4005F6F1~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html
09.Jan.2006 Freire Interkulturell Zu anderer Zeit und an anderem Ort schrieb Karl Marx als genauer Beobachter ... Dieser Verlust seiner alten Welt, ohne daß eine neue gewonnen worden wäre, ... www.freire.de/FreireInterkulturell.html
08.Jan.2006 Karl Marx: 18. Brumaire d. Louis Bonaparte (Kap.IV) Karl Marx : 18. Brumaire des Louis Bonaparte (Kapitel IV) ... Er gebärdete sich als ein verkanntes Genie, das alle Welt für einen Simpel ausgibt. ... www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/marx-engels/1852/brumaire/kapitel4.htm
08.Jan.2006 Theorie/Claussen In der vorkapitalistischen Welt erschienen die Juden als das personifizierte Unglück. Sie selbst waren gezwungen, ohne Heimat zerstreut im Ausland zu leben ... www.antisemitismus.net/antisemitismus/theorie/texte/claussen-01.htm
08.Jan.2006 160 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung des Aufsatzes Zur Judenfrage ... Diese Beschuldigung gegen Marx ist nicht neu. Der Aufsatz von Marx wurde 1960 von Dagobert Runes unter dem neuen Titel Eine Welt ohne Juden veröffentlicht. ... de.internationalism.org/ir/32_ judenfrage.html
08.Jan.2006 Karl Marx/Friedrich Engels - Reden auf der Gedenkfeier in Bruessel Seitenzahlen verweisen auf: Karl Marx - Friedrich Engels - Werke, Band 4, S. 519 - 525 ... Jedermann weiß, daß die Treuepflicht gegenüber dem Monarchen ohne ... www.mlwerke.de/me/me04/me04_519.htm
08.Jan.2006 Die Aufgaben der Juden in Europa, Publikation, Konrad-Adenauer ... Das gilt freilich nicht nur für Juden, sondern auch für diese Welt, in der es keine Humanität ohne Aufklärung geben kann und keine Aufklärung ohne Humanität ... www.kas.de/publikationen/2005/6744_dokument.html
08.Jan.2006 Etwas frisiert Marx sagte über den Juden, daß "durch ihn und ohne ihn" das Geld zu Weltmacht wurde. Die antisemitischen Fälscher ließen " ohne ihn" weg, ... www.ping.de/sites/sisyphus/frisiert.html
08.Jan.2006 FRANZ RUDOLF BIENENFELD: Ein Pionier der Menschenrechtsgesetze ... Sektion des 1936 gegründeten World Jewish Congress (WJC) nachfolgte. ... Er war ein Mitglied der Board of Deputies of British Jews ; 1948 wurde er auch ... www.david.juden.at/kulturzeitschrift/44-49/menschenrecht-45.htm
08.Jan.2006 Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft » How the West ended slavery ... Marx was a good strategic thinker. He outlined how the North could win, earlier than the Union ... So it was not going to fall without being attacked. ... www.fdog-berlin.de/index.php/how-the-west-ended-slavery-heute-der-amerikanische-burgerkrieg/
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393836,00.html
Und sie muss eine Strategie anwenden, die bisher noch keinen einzigen französischen Politiker zum Erfolg geführt hat: Sie muss die öffentliche Meinung gegen die Ansicht der Parteihierarchie durchsetzen.

"Das wird ihr Hauptproblem: Ségolène Royal genießt bei den Franzosen eine echte Popularität und auch bei den Sympathisanten der Sozialistischen Partei. Aber sobald sie sich einer Abstimmung der Parteimitglieder stellen muss, wird die Sache schon um einiges schwieriger", schätzt Meinungsforscher Cayrol.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393836,00.html
"Sie verkörpert einen wirklichen Wandel in einer Zeit, in der die Franzosen nicht aufhören zu sagen, dass sie von der ewig gleichen Politik die Nase voll haben", analysiert der Meinungsforscher Roland Cayrol.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393836,00.html
Frankreich erlebt eine beispiellose Vertrauenskrise zwischen der Bevölkerung und der abgehobenen Politikerkaste.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393836,00.html
Schlicht vulgär war die Reaktion des Senators Michel Charasse, der meinte, eine Royal-Kandidatur "würde genauso enden wie bei Mutter Merkel, mit einem Tritt in den Arsch". Das war kurz nach Merkes Wahldebakel - und mittlerweile ist die CDU-Politikerin bekanntlich Regierungschefin.

Die Parallele zu Deutschland könnte also treffender gewählt sein, als dem Politiker bewusst oder lieb gewesen wäre. Das scheint den Herren auch zu dämmern: Presseberichten zufolge sandten die reuigen Machos schon Friedensboten in Royals Pariser Büro, wo sie allerdings abblitzten.

"Die Reaktionen beweisen, dass Royal als wirkliche Bedrohung wahrgenommen wird", interpretiert Politologin Sineau.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393836,00.html
Das alte Jahr habe doch mit "hübschen Paukenschlägen" aufgehört, hieß es Anfang Januar unter Berufung auf die deutschle Kanzlerin Angela Merkel, die liberische Präsidentin Ellen Johnson und die aussichtsreiche chilenische Kandidatin Michelle Bachelet.

"Ist dies vielleicht der Vorabend eines Big Bang, aus dem eine neue Welt hervorgehen wird?", fragt die Autorin - wiederum mit Fragezeichen.
Der Begriff ist nicht falsch gewählt, denn ein Urknall scheint gegenwärtig das einzige, was Bewegung in die etablierte Männerwelt der französischen Politik bringen könnte.

"Frankreichs politische Klasse ist die geschlossenste, maskulinste und oligarchischste in ganz Europa", sagt Mariette Sineau, Forschungsdirektorin am rennomierten staatlichen Institut CNRS und der Eliteschule Institut d'Etudes Politiques im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Deutschland hat über 30 Prozent Frauen in politischen Ämtern, Frankreich gerade mal zwölf.

Die führenden Politiker sind fast alle Absolventen der Elite-Verwaltungsschule ENA, stammen sogar größtenteils aus Paris, kurz "sie sind alle aus einem Guss" - und sie sind alle männlich.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394149,00.html
Auch Aufständen wegen Enteignungen von Land, wie sie im Dezember etwa die Provinz Guangdong erschütterten, könnte mit den neuen Vorgaben begegnet werden.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394149,00.html
Der vom chinesischen Staatsrat beschlossene nationale Notfallplan sieht die Einrichtung eines Krisenreaktionsbüros vor, wo Informationen gesammelt und Hilfsaktionen koordiniert werden sollen. Er beinhaltet harte Strafen für Provinzbeamte, die Unglücke zu verheimlichen versuchen statt die Informationen schnell nach Peking weiterzumelden. Örtliche Behörden hatten immer wieder versucht, Unglücke aus Furcht vor Kritik zu vertuschen.
Der Plan soll nicht nur bei Chemieunglücken zur Anwendung kommen, sondern auch bei Naturkatastrophen wie der derzeitige Schneestrum in der Provinz Xinjiang, wo fast hunderttausend Menschen evakuiert werden mussten
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394149,00.html
Der Plan soll auch bei Unruhen und Naturkatastrophen greifen.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394149,00.html

Zum dritten Mal binnen weniger Wochen ist in China nach einem Chemieunfall die Trinkwasserversorgung von Millionen von Menschen gefährdet. Ein Fluss wurde durch Cadmium aus einer Gießerei verseucht. Die Regierung beschloss einen nationalen Notfallplan für solche Katastrophen.

Peking - Wie die amtliche Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua am Sonntag meldete, gelangte bereits am Mittwoch in der Provinz Hunan Krebs erregendes Cadmium aus einer Gießerei in den Fluss Xiangjiang. Der Fluss versorgt die sechs Millionen Einwohner zählende Provinzhauptstadt Changsha sowie die Nachbarstadt Xiangtan mit 700.000 Einwohnern mit Trinkwasser. Chinas Regierung beschloss unabhängig davon einen nationalen Notfallplan, um Unfälle schneller erkennen und bekämpfen zu können. Der Plan soll auch bei Unruhen und Naturkatastrophen greifen.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394122,00.html
Auch in der griechischen Hauptstadt Athen wackelten die Häuser. Die Athener Rundfunksender der Millionenmetropole riefen die Hörer auf, eventuelle Schäden zu melden. Die Griechen sind häufige Beben gewöhnt. Griechenland ist das am stärksten erdbebengefährdete Land des europäischen Kontinents. Die Hälfte aller in Europa registrierten Beben gibt es hier. gemeldet.
08.Jan.2006 Video Prompts Probes Into Security In Iraq - Afghanan Dot Net https://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/aegis.wmv (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif). User is offline Profile Card · PM · Go to the top of the page ... www.afghanan.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=873
08.Jan.2006 Global Facilitation Network for Security Sector Reform (GFN-SSR) An internet video (https://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/aegis.wmv ) showing private contractors shooting at civilian cars in Iraq, loosely linked to his ... www.gfn-ssr.org
08.Jan.2006 FreeLists/lit-ideas/[lit-ideas] Elvis Does Baghdad https://www.corpwatch.org/downloads/aegis.wmvyrs,andreas
www.andreas.com --To change your ... www.freelists.org/archives/lit-ideas/12-2005/msg00164.html
08.Jan.2006 Autoindustrie: VW will Werk in Russland bauen

08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394153,00.html
Illegal eingeführte Lebensmittel seien die größte Gefahrenquelle, warnte der Direktor der Vogelklinik der Universität Gießen, Erhard Kaleta. Er fügte hinzu: "Wir machen am Frankfurter Flughafen bereits 24 Stunden am Tag stichprobenartige Kontrollen." Aber das reiche nicht aus. Der Leiter der Tierseuchenbekämpfung am hessischen Umweltministerium, Thomas Fröhlich, appellierte an die EU-Kommission, "die Kontrollen an den anderen europäischen Flughäfen zu erhöhen und auch die Außengrenzen besser zu prüfen".
Auch nach Einschätzung der Bundesärztekammer müssten an den Flughäfen engmaschige Kontrollen bestehen. Präsident Jörg-Dietrich Hoppe forderte: "Wir müssen uns auf den Tag X vorbereiten, an dem die Vogelgrippe auch hierzulande festgestellt wird."
"Bei milden Temperaturen kann der Vogelzug nach Deutschland schon innerhalb der nächsten Wochen einsetzen. Darauf müssen wir reagieren können", sagte er.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394153,00.html
Klaus Stöhr, der Chef des Influenza-Programmes der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO, hatte noch am Morgen in einem Interview gesagt, es gebe keine neuen Hinweise, dass das Virus sich von Mensch zu Mensch übertragen könne. "Das Gefahrenpotential hat sich nicht verändert", sagte Stöhr im NDR. Die Seuche sei in der Türkei offenbar schon viel länger verbreitet als angenommen. Ausgebreitet habe sie sich wegen eines unzureichenden Seuchenschutzes. Nach Stöhrs Angaben hat sich die Zahl der Verdachtsfälle bei Menschen in der Türkei auf 50 erhöht.
Die russischen Gesundheitsbehörden warnten am Sonntag vor Reisen in die Türkei. Touristen sollten insbesondere den Osten des Landes meiden und sich bei einer Rückkehr medizinisch untersuchen lassen, hieß in einer Empfehlung.
Insgesamt geht die WHO nun von 146 bestätigten Infektionsfällen in Kambodscha, China, Indonesien, Thailand, der Türkei und Vietnam aus. 76 Menschen sind demnach gestorben.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394153,00.html
In der Gegend um Dogubayazit, dem Heimatort der verstorbenen Geschwister, wurden schon etwa 30.000 Vögel vorsorglich getötet, wie der türkische Fernsehsender NTV am Sonntag berichtete. Viele Dorfbewohner wehrten sich nach Behördenangaben verzweifelt dagegen, weil sie ihre Lebensgrundlage bedroht sehen. Die Sorglosigkeit der Menschen im Umgang mit infiziertem oder potentiell infiziertem Geflügel gilt Experten derzeit als der Hauptgrund für die Übertragung des Virus' auf Menschen.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394153,00.html
Das Ministerium verhängte eine Urlaubssperre für seine Mitarbeiter. Fälle von Vogelgrippe seien Laborergebnissen zufolge mittlerweile in 10 der 81 Provinzen des Landes nachgewiesen worden, darunter in Istanbul, Bursa und Ankara. Insgesamt handele es sich um 15 Infektionsherde.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394153,00.html

Das Virus erreicht Istanbul
Die Meldungen über die Verbreitung der Vogelgrippe in der Türkei überschlagen sich. Nun wurde der Erreger auch in einem Vorort von Istanbul bei Vögeln festgestellt. Insgesamt haben sich inzwischen mindestens neun Menschen definitiv infiziert, fünf von ihnen mit dem H5N1-Virustyp.

Ankara - Einen Infektionsherd hat das türkische Landwirtschaftsministerium im europäischen Teil des Landes festgestellt. Labortests wiesen den Erreger bei Tieren in Kücükcekmece nach, einem westlichen Außenbezirk der Zehn-Millionen-Stadt Istanbul, wie die Nachrichtenagentur Anadolu am Sonntag berichtete. Ob es sich um den auch für Menschen gefährlichen H5N1-Virusstamm handelt, ging aus der Mitteilung des Ministeriums nicht hervor. Auch nahe der Stadt Bursa südlich von Istanbul wurde laut der Nachrichtenagentur Vogelgrippe bei Geflügel registriert.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394140,00.html
m Dezember sagte der Schweizer Dick Marty, der für den Europarat in dieser Frage ermittelt, er sehe in der Affäre um mutmaßliche Geheimgefängnisse und Gefangenenflüge in Europa die Verdachtsmomente erhärtet. Vorliegende Informationen stärkten "die Glaubwürdigkeit der Anschuldigungen über den Transport und die vorübergehende Festnahme von Personen außerhalb jedes juristischen Verfahrens in europäischen Ländern".
Merkel will Schließung von Guantanamo
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394140,00.html
Wie ernst die Schweizer Behörden den Bericht nehmen, zeigt, dass die Zeitung sich wegen Geheimnisverrats verantworten muss. Laut "Neuer Zürcher Zeitung" wird der zuständige Bundesrat Samuel Schmid eine sogenannte Administrativuntersuchung einleiten.
Mit der Administrativuntersuchung soll geklärt werden, wie das als geheim klassifizierte Dokument an die Öffentlichkeit geraten konnte, sagte ein VBS-Sprecher auf Anfrage. Die Zeitung müsse zudem wegen der Publikation des Dokumentes mit rechtlichen Schritten rechnen. Der VBS-Chef behalte sich weitere rechtliche Schritte vor.
CIA-Affäre sorgt in Europa für erhebliche Unruhe
Die "Washington Post" berichtete bereits am 2. November ausführlich über ein angebliches Netzwerk von Geheimgefängnissen der CIA. Der Dienst "versteckt und verhört einige seiner wichtigsten al-Qaida-Gefangenen in einer Einrichtung aus der Sowjet-Ära in Osteuropa", berichtete das Blatt damals. Behördenvertreter aus den USA und anderen Ländern hätten diese Information bestätigt.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394140,00.html
Das Blatt zitiert aus dem Schreiben folgende Passagen: "Die Botschaft hat aus eigenen Quellen erfahren, dass tatsächlich 23 irakische und afghanische Bürger auf dem Stützpunkt Mihail Kogalniceanu in der Nähe der Stadt Constanza am Schwarzen Meer verhört wurden. Ähnliche Verhörzentren gibt es in der Ukraine, im Kosovo, in Mazedonien und Bulgarien." Constanza liegt in Rumänien.
Außerdem sei von dem Bericht der Menschenrechtsorganisation Human Rights Watch die Rede, demzufolge "am 21. und 22..Sep.2005 Gefangene mit amerikanischen Militärflugzeugen von der Basis Salt Pit in Kabul zum polnischen Stützpunkt Szymany und dem oben genannten rumänischen Stützpunkt transportiert worden sind".
Die Informationen der Ägypter stammten nicht nur aus öffentlichen Quellen wie Zeitungsartikeln, sondern auch aus "eigenen Quellen", betont der "Sonntagsblick" und zitiert einen ungenannten Schweizer Geheimdienstmitarbeiter, der die Arbeit des ägyptischen Geheimdienstes als "hochprofessionell" einstufe.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394140,00.html

Hamburg - Das Fax wurde nach Informationen des Blattes im am 15. November 2005 durch einen Schweizer Geheimdienst-Horchposten abgefangen. Adressat sei der ägyptische Botschafter in London gewesen, Absender Ägyptens Außenminister Ahmed Abul Ghaith. Schweizer Geheimdienstmitarbeiter versahen das Schreiben laut "Sonntagsblick" mit dem Vermerk: "Die Ägypter verfügen über Quellen, welche die Existenz amerikanischer Geheimgefängnisse bestätigen".
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394140,00.html
Der Schweizer Zeitung "Sonntagsblick" liegt ein Fax vor, das die Existenz von US-Geheimgefängnissen in Osteuropa beweisen soll. Das ägyptische Schreiben, das der Schweizer Geheimdienst VBS abfing, nennt konkrete Orte und Anzahl von Inhaftierten.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394130,00.html
Sowohl in Indien wie auch in Bangladesh sind die ärmsten Menschen der Kälte schutzlos ausgeliefert. Bei den meisten Toten handelt es sich um Obdachlose, die im Freien schlafen und nicht mehr als eine Plastiktüte oder einen Jutesack zum Zudecken haben, meldete die indische Nachrichtenagentur PTI. Indien und Bangladesch liegen großenteils in der tropischen Klimazone.
In der pakistanischen Himalaya-Region haben dreitägige Stürme hüfthohen Schnee hinterlassen. Die Straßen in mehrere Bergdörfer waren am Sonntag unpassierbar + auch Hilfsflüge mussten bei Temperaturen um minus 15 Grad abgesagt werden, teilte das Uno-Flüchtlingshilfswerk (UNHCR) mit. Rund 100 Familien hätten ihre Dörfer verlassen.
In Japan wurden Soldaten zum Schneeschippen eingesetzt, nachdem der Norden und Westen in der weißen Pracht versank. Die Nachrichtenagentur Kyodo meldete, in dem ungewöhnlich strengen Winter seien seit Dezember bisher 63 Menschen ums Leben gekommen und 1040 verletzt worden. Viele seien beim Schneekehren zusammengebrochen. Zwei Frauen kamen vergangene Woche ums Leben, als ein Haus unter der Schneelast einstürzte. Laut Wetteramt wurden an 42 Punkten in Japan Schneerekordhöhen für Januar gemessen. Es gab erhebliche Verkehrsbehinderungen; die Fluggesellschaft Japan Airlines teilte mit, einige Flüge nach Nordwestjapan könnten verspätet sein oder umgeleitet werden. Die Hochgeschwindigkeitszüge nach Akita waren am Sonntag nach Angaben der Ostjapanischen Bahngesellschaft verspätet.
In China sind nach heftigen Schneefällen 220.000 Menschen von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten. Straßen waren im Nordwesten durch Schneemassen blockiert und Telefonleitungen unterbrochen. Die Temperaturen fielen nachts auf 43 Grad unter Null. Vor allem die zentralasiatische Region Xinjiang, die an die Mongolei und Kasachstan grenzt, ist betroffen. Die Volksbefreiungsarmee wurde in dem schwer betroffenen Kreis Fuyun in der Präfektur Altai für Räum- und Bergungsarbeiten mobilisiert. Bei Evakuierungen mussten rund 100.000 Menschen ihre Häuser und Wohnungen verlassen, wie die staatlichen Medien am Sonntag berichteten.
In einigen Gegenden sei in den vergangenen Tagen ein Meter Schnee gefallen. Insgesamt seien 620.000 Menschen betroffen. Rund 6000 litten an wetterbedingten Erkrankungen. Am schlimmsten trifft es Nomaden, deren Herden kein Futter mehr finden. Mehr als 9000 Stück Vieh sind bereits verendet. 300.000 Stück Vieh drohe der Hundertod, warnte ein Behördensprecher. Die Schneestürme, die am 29. Dezember begonnen haben, zerstörten auch Häuser. Das Verwaltungsministerium in Peking berichtete, die Wiederherstellung der Verkehrsverbindungen sowie die Versorgung mit Nahrungsmitteln und Kleidung für die Menschen in den schwer betroffenen Gebieten stehe im Mittelpunkt der Hilfsmaßnahmen.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-394130,00.html

Winterchaos in Asien: Japan versinkt im Schnee, in China wurden Temperaturen von minus 43 Grad gemessen, in Indien forderte die Kältewelle bereits mehr als hundert Todesopfer.

Neu-Delhi/Tokio/Peking - In Neu-Delhi wurde heute mit null Grad die niedrigste Temperatur seit 70 Jahren gemessen; im Norden stieg die Zahl der Kältetoten nach amtlichen Angaben auf 116. In Bangladesh erfroren Medienberichten zufolge in zwei Tagen 17 Menschen. Im pakistanischen Erdbebengebiet flohen Hunderte von Menschen vor der Kälte aus ihren Bergdörfern. In Japan sorgten ungewöhnlich ergiebige Schneefälle für ein Verkehrschaos.
08.Jan.2006 Vogelgrippe: Das Virus erreicht Istanbul

08.Jan.2006 Detroit Motor Show: Deutsche Autobauer verkünden Rekordzahlen
08.Jan.2006 Chemieunglück: Erneut chinesischer Fluss verseucht
08.Jan.2006 Afghanistan: Karzai bietet Taliban Versöhnung an

08.Jan.2006 17:58) Zeitungsbericht: Geheimdienst findet Beleg für CIA-Gefängnisse in Europa

08.Jan.2006 17:50) Kurzschluss: Vogel legt Mannheimer Bahnhof lahm
08.Jan.2006 Buch-Digitalisierung: Google will mit Europas Regierungen zusammenarbeiten
08.Jan.2006 https://www.bradblog.com/Diebold.htm

KEY ARTICLES IN THE SERIES SO FAR...
15.Sep.2005 * EXCLUSIVE! * A DIEBOLD INSIDER SPEAKS!
18.Sep.2005 A Quick-ish DIEB-THROAT Follow-up...
20.Sep.2005 Diebold Stock Hits 52-Week Low!
21.Sep.2005 DIEBOLD STOCK PLUMMETS! DOWN 15.5% AT TODAY'S CLOSE!
22.Sep.2005 DIEB-THROAT Weighs in on Diebold's Stunning 15.5% Wednesday Stock Plunge
22.Sep.2005 Diebold Stock Falls Another 7% in Early Trading...
23.Sep.2005 Diebold's Tough Luck, VR's Promise + a New Ad for America from the Velvet Revolution...
26.Sep.2005 DIEB-THROAT Story Picked Up by Cleveland Plain Dealer
30.Sep.2005 DIEB-THROAT, Me & Ann Coulter, Election Reform & The BRAD SHOW LIVE!
20.Oct.2005 NON-PARTISAN GAO REPORT CONFIRMS CONCERNS ABOUT SECURITY OF ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES!
06.Dec.2005 RAW STORY Interviews DIEB-THROAT! Many New Revelations...
06.Dec.2005 EXCLUSIVE: POTENTIAL SECURITIES FRAUD CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT AGAINST DIEBOLD IN PROGRESS!
Plaintiffs Sought for Addition to Class...
12.Dec.2005 DIEBOLD CEO WALDEN O'DELL RESIGNS! FRAUD LITIGATION IMMINENT! Controversial, Partisan Head of Voting Machine Company Steps Down for 'Personal Reasons'
13.Dec.2005 EXCLUSIVE!
SECURITIES FRAUD LITIGATION FILED AGAINST DIEBOLD, INC!
Eight Current and Former Executives Named as Co-Defendants, Including former CEO O'Dell and New CEO Swidarski
14.Dec.2005 DIEBOLD TEST ELECTION HACKED IN LEON COUNTY, FL!
Results Reversed! County Dumps Diebold!
16.Dec.2005 Diebold Dropped in Volusia County, FL!
18.Dec.2005 Jeb Bush Expresses Concern About E-Voting Security in State
20.Dec.2005 DIEBOLD SENT PACKING BY CALIFORNIA!
STATE WON'T RE-CERTIFY! (For Now)
State 'Punts' Issue Back to Feds for Further Testing on Security Issues
21.Dec.2005 Diebold Rejected by St. Louis County, MO!
Lobbyist Inquires Into BRAD BLOG and a Family Member!
21.Dec.2005 Diebold Withdraws from North Carolina! (Again)
Refuses to Meet State Law Requiring Source Code Inspection by State
04.Jan.2006 State of Connecticut Drops Plans to Move to E-Voting Machines!
Feds Said to Approve Return to 'Lever-Style' Equipment! 
08.Jan.2006 https://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002181.htm

I have a question for the trolls:
Do any real terrorists think that there is the possibility of them being spied on? Of course they do.

I imagine that infiltration of their operations is an ongoing high priority concern for them - it would be for me (see right there how I think like a terrorist? better watch out!)
**For any NSA perusing this blog, the aforementioned comment was a JOKE. Thank you for not wiretapping me.
So the story is not that some "cover" was blown on an illegal spying operation - as Colin Powell said, they could have gotten pretty much any approval they wanted to wiretap + even do it retroactively. The story IS, in fact, the abridgement of the freedoms of the people from unreasonable (unlawful) search and seizure.
Quit defending this, you fools. It has nothing to do with terrorists, unless you come to the logical conclusion that our government is acting like the the terrorists also.
Remember, "First they came for the trade unionists..." You morons are somewhere in that list. Eventually they will come for you, because they will have stepped over some boundary that you conflict with them over. Understand these people - they keep pushing forward. It's got nohting to do with protecting your freedoms and your security from some terrorist menace. It is about power, greed, control. And it is never enough.
08.Jan.2006 Wie die ‘neutrale’ Schweiz ihre imperialistischen Interessen wahrnimmt Die schweizerische Bourgeoisie exportiert Kapital, beutet also zurückgebliebene Völker imperialistisch aus.” (Ebd., S. 272).

Während die Bourgeoisie danach ... www.internationalism.org/german/welt/117_neutral.html
08.Jan.2006 Landesamt für Verfassungsschutz Baden-Württemberg Seine Behauptung, der Nationalsozialismus sei „ imperialistisch “ gewesen, wird von der JF zu Recht als „verharmlosende Vokabel“ entlarvt. ... www.verfassungsschutz-bw.de/rechts/files/r_parteien_2004-10.htm
08.Jan.2006 Rom und Germanien
Chr. als offensiv oder defensiv, imperialistisch oder nicht- imperialistisch ... Die Praxis jedoch kann allenfalls als ansatzweise imperialistisch angesehen ... www.ggrs.com/essays/romgerm.html
08.Jan.2006 "Die Religion des Schwertes" Was heute die USA, von Ayatollah Khomeini schon 1979 zum „Großen Satan“ ernannt,im Irak leisten, ist so wenig imperialistisch, wie es die Zerschlagung ... _{www.pawek.de/Glaubensterror.html}
08.Jan.2006 Bush auf Kriegskurs...Nächstes Ziel Iran Weil dieses Volk selbst imperialistisch ist. Es ist nicht der Präsident, der Soldaten in den Krieg schickt.

Er ist selbst nur eine Marionette dieses . _{www.uni-protokolle.de/foren/viewt/13806,0.html}
08.Jan.2006 Die Zeit - Politik : Europa braucht keinen Vormund Der nationalistisch-egozentrische Einfluss imperialistisch gesinnter ...

Gleichzeitig schürten imperialistisch gesinnte Intellektuelle den Argwohn gegen ... www.zeit.de/archiv/2002/32/200232_unilateral.xml
08.Jan.2006 Berlin.de: Abt. II – Linksextremismus Ziel ist daher, die herrschende, als imperialistisch oder kapitalistisch diffamierte Staatsordnung durch einen revolutionären Akt zu überwinden, ... www.berlin.de/sen/inneres/verfassungsschutz/linksextremismus.html
08.Jan.2006 Neue Bush-Doktrin im strengen,objektiven Sinn des Wortes ... Neue Bush-Doktrin im strengen,objektiven Sinn des Wortes imperialistisch ... imperialistisch :. Sie beansprucht. für die Vereinigten Staaten. Einseitig ... alfatomega.com/noname26.html
08.Jan.2006 https://alfatomega.com/2004062627_Report.htm
26.Jun.2004 Client Was "Stripped of His Identity" While in Federal Custody .: "His jailers addressed him as John Doe and any correspondence he received was addressed to John Doe," Sheriff said. "His family ... and all other relatives were not allowed to see or visit with him despite their efforts to do so."
08.Jan.2006 https://alfatomega.com/2004062627_Report.htm
13.Nov.2001 with no advance notice to Congress, President Bush signed a military order that gave the Pentagon the power to try, sentence + even execute anyone he identifies as an "illegal combatant" — a suspected terrorist who had violated the laws of war.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002181.htm
The point is, we are here, now, witnessing our government act like the Gestapo + our government turn into the fourth reich.

It's happening, dipshit. It's actually really happening. + it's indefensible under our Constitution, period.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002181.htm
......that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, & to institute new Government, laying it's Foundation on such Principles, & organizing it's Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety & Happiness. Prudence indeed will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light & transient Causes; and accordingly all Experience hath shown that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long Train of Abuses & Usurpations pursuing invariably the same Object, evinces a Design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their Right, it is their Duty to throw off such Government, & to provide new Guards for their future Security. ~ 04.Jul.1776
08.Jan.2006 https://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002181.htm There you go again with that "George Bush is eroding our civil liberties" stuff.
It is making the rounds now that Bill Clinton issues an executive order to allow physical searches (https://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo/eo-12949.htm )

without a court order and Jimmy Carter issued an Executive Order to allow electronic monitoring without a court order (https://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo12139.htm ).
Following from a 1994 Washington Post Article
"Deputy Attorney General Jamie S. Gorelick, the Clinton administration believes the president "has inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches for foreign intelligence purposes."
So, please quit your silly whining that George Bush, alone, is responsible for such things.
Now, would any of you care to condemn Clinton and Carter for doing the same thing.
28.Dec.2005 https://www.chris-floyd.com/
Clowntime is Over: The Last Stand of the American Republic
So now, at last, the crisis is upon us. Now the cards are finally on the table, laid out so starkly that even the Big Media sycophants and Beltway bootlickers can no longer ignore them.

Now the choice for the American Establishment is clear + inescapable: do you hold for the Republic, or for autocracy?  
There is no third way here, no other option, no wiggle room, no ambiguity.

The much-belated exposure of George W. Bush's warrantless spy program has forced the Bush-Cheney Regime to openly declare what they have long implied - + enacted - in secret:

that the president is above the law, a military autocrat with unlimited powers, beyond the restraint or supervision of any other institution or branch of government.

Outed as rank deceivers, perverters of the law and rapists of the Constitution, the Bush gang has decided that their best defense - their only defense, really - is a belligerent offense.

"Yeah, we broke the law," they now say; "so what? We'll break it again whenever we want to, because law don't stick to our Big Boss Man. What are you going to do about it, chump?"  
08.Jan.2006 https://www.chris-floyd.com/smf/index.php?topic=102.msg281#msg281
Liar. Quote ...Secondly, there are such things as roving wiretaps. Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires-a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.
But a roving wiretap means-it was primarily used for drug lords. A guy, a pretty intelligence drug lord would have a phone + in old days they could just get a tap on that phone. So guess what he'd do? He'd get him another phone, particularly with the advent of the cell phones. And so he'd start changing cell phones, which made it hard for our DEA types to listen, to run down these guys polluting our streets. And that changed, the law changed on-roving wiretaps were available for chasing down drug lords. They weren't available for chasing down terrorists, see? And that didn't make any sense in the post-9/11 era. If we couldn't use a tool that we're using against mobsters on terrorists, something needed to happen.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2004/04/20040420-2.html
https://www.vote-smart.org/speech_detail.php?speech_id=50711&keyword=wiretap&phrase=&contain=
Quote Bush refutes `unchecked powers' in wiretap debate By Jeff Zeleny Washington bureau
Published December 19, 2005, 8:16 PM CST
WASHINGTON -- President Bush on Monday forcefully defended his administration's eavesdropping program for terrorist suspects living in the United States as an essential element of protecting Americans from a new enemy + he said whoever unmasked the secret plan had committed a "shameful act."
As Republicans joined Democrats in calling for a congressional inquiry into the domestic spying program, the president insisted he had the legal and constitutional authority to order surveillance. He said he was concerned about citizens' civil liberties but denied suggestions that he had abused the power of the presidency + he vowed not to abandon the plan he approved after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-051219bush-story,1,966073.story?coll=chi-news-hed
08.Jan.2006 https://www.chris-floyd.com/smf/index.php?topic=102.msg281#msg281
As an outsider, I am flabbergasted that Americans aren't literally trampling all over themselves in their headlong rush to get to DC and tear Washington down brick by officially fascist brick.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/010930-attack02.htm
30,Sep.2001 -The People- THE WORLD FIGHTS BACK
REVEALED: BIN LADEN'S LAIR
EXCLUSIVE PHOTOS FROM SPACE SHOW ASTONISHING TERROR HQ THAT TROOPS WILL AIM TO WIPE OUT
08.Jan.2006 https://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/010930-attack02.htm

ASSADALAH ABDUL RAHMAN'S CAMP

THIS is just one of the camps revealed in the astonishingly clear satellite pictures. It is operated by the son of blind cleric Omar Abdul Rahman, who was jailed in the United States for plotting to blow up the World Trade Center in 1993.
08.Jan.2006 Buch-Digitalisierung: Google will mit Europas Regierungen zusammenarbeiten

08.Jan.2006 Winterchaos in Japan: Abkommandiert zum Schneeschippen

08.Jan.2006 Winter: Asien leidet unter Rekordkälte und Schneechaos
08.Jan.2006 https://www.subcontinent.com/sapra/research/terrorism/terrorism.html
2002 Topics Terrorism: What's in a Name?
12.Sep.2002William Shakespeare wrote an immortal verse in Romeo and Juliet: 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.' The supreme dramatist was weaving his magical web of words around benign subjects like love in the late sixteenth century. I am writing about terrorism in Kashmir in the age of mujahideen armed with Kalashnikovs and rocket-propelled grenades. What's in a name? Why not call terrorism something else and perhaps it might still convey the stench of the worst imaginable cruelty humankind has ever known? No. Here Shakespeare is not applicable. Here, the name game attains far greater importance than in besotted Romeo's speeches. Let us consider the politics with names played in General Musharraf's land for proof.

An Assessment of Musharraf's Anti-Jihad Speech
13.Jan.2001 No Pakistani ruler has condemned the Jihadi culture and terrorism as squarely as General Musharraf has done in his 12 January 2001 speech. India has guardedly welcomed his speech but will have to wait to see it implemented.

  2001 Topics

Terrorist Attack on Parliament: Striking at the heart of Indian Democracy
18.Dec.2001 For the first time in the history of independent India, the Indian Parliament, located in the heart of the capital, New Delhi, came under terrorist attack. On 13 December 2001, five unidentified terrorists drove into the Parliament House complex, resulting in a shootout that lasted for nearly an hour. The Indian intelligence establishment believes this was an attempt to assassinate the Indian prime minister. Pakistan has not only rejected involvement in the attack but has also brought in troops to border positions.

The Terrorist Attack on the Indian Parliament: Analysis
13.Dec.2001 The terrorist attacks on the Indian Parliament on 13 December 2001 have been described as an attack on the heart of Indian democracy. The needle of suspicion points to Pakistan-based terrorist groups like the Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Jaish-e-Muhammad. Security analyst B. Raman feels that the involvement of one of the Pakistani components of Osama bin Laden's International Islamic Front for Jihad is a strong possibility and further attacks are also possible in the near future.

Compelling Pakistan to Co-operate
14.Sep.2001 US Secretary of State, Colin Powell, has called Pakistan a friend because it has offered unstinted support to the US in capturing the perpetrators of the 11.Sep.atrocities. But will Pakistan really co-operate? The answer is no - not unless the United States compels Pakistan to do so.

Terrorist Pearl Harbour
11.Sep.2001
These are tentative comments on the terrorist Pearl Harbour attacks on the World Trade Centre towers in New York, the Pentagon in Washington DC + an unidentified place near Pittsburgh recorded at

11 PM IST, on 11..Sep.2001

Counter Proxy War
11.Sep.2001
Afghanistan marked an important landmark in the evolution of covert action techniques.

It was a proxy war, partly overt, partly covert, to make the Soviet troops bleed through the use of surrogates, without the direct involvement of US troops.

Musharraf, Bin Laden and the Lashkar
02.Jul.2001 Contrary to Pakistan's assesrtions, the military regime in that country is deeply involved with Islamist international terrorist networks including the one run by Osama bin Laden

  2000 Topics

Lashkar e Taiba: A Backgrounder
27.Dec.2000 The Lashkar e Taiba and its political wing called the Markaz Dawa Al Irshad have for many years been calling for the expansion of the so-called jihad to the rest of India from Jammu & Kashmir for creating two independent homelands for the Muslims of South and North India. As a first step in this jihad, it had in the past called for intensified activities in Hyderabad and Junagadh, which it looks upon as Pakistani territory. The Red Fort, as the seat of the Muslim rulers of the past, is an important symbol in its eyes. This paper is a backgrounder on the Lashkar e Taiba. It has been prepared out of extracts from past papers on various subjects written by the author.

Islamic Jihad and the United States
29.Oct.2000 The Jihadists in Pakistan have spread their influence all over the globe - even the United States is not immune. The startling part is that Pakistan''s secret service, the ISI, is deeply involved with the key Jihadist organisations and have helped set up such organisations in the United States.

Death Throes of Terrorism in Kashmir?
07.Aug.2000 The wave of terrorist killings in Kashmir on 1 August 2000, according to analyst B.Raman, signals the beginning of the end for terrorism in that state. The killings, which left close to a 100 people dead, was clearly the result of terrorist anger against the decision of Kashmir''s last indigenous militant group''s to talk to the Indian government. The killings evoked widespread condemnation even within Pakistan. The fact that Hindus were specifically targetted suggests that the perpetrators belonged to extremist organisation fighting under the banner of Islamic Jihad in Kashmir. Raman argues that this kind of violence in response to peace initiatives should not come as a surprise - rather this kind of violence will only increase.

Indian Home Minister's Statement on the Hijackers
06.Jan.2000 Indian Home Minister LK Advani issued a written statement on 6 January 2000, detailing the antecedents of the five hijackers of IC 814. All clues point to Pakistan.

  1999 Topics Indian Airlines IC 814 Hijack
A Chronology of the Hijacking
The Pakistani Connection
The Prize: Masood Azhar
The Harkat ul Ansar

US Attitude to Pakistan: The Bin Laden Factor
10.Aug.1999 It would be over-optimistic to view the USA's supportive attitude to India during the recent Kargil conflict essentially as an indicator of India's enhanced importance in the US perception.

Kashmir: After 10 Years of Violence
02.Apr.1999 This year would mark 10 years since the outbreak of violence in Jammu & Kashmir (J&K).

Explosions in Tashkent, The Background
08.Mar.1999 16.Feb.1999 -there were a series of six car bomb explosions in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, killing, according to official accounts, 16 persons and injuring 130 others.

The Capture of Abdullah Ocalan: An Analysis
19.Feb.1999 The facts regarding the circumstances under which Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (KWP), was captured in Nairobi and flown to Istanbul clandestinely by the Turkish Special Forces are not yet clear.

Whereabouts of Bin Laden: An Analysis
15.Feb.1999 "One of the priority tasks of the reshuffled ISI is going to be to pressurise the Taliban to throw Bin Laden out of Afghanistan. Nawaz Sharif is under tremendous pressure from the US to make the Taliban moderate its anti-woman policies and to hand over Bin Laden to the US, failing which the US reportedly wants the ISI and the IB to co-operate with the CIA and the FBI in having him captured from his hide-out in Kandahar and flown to the US in a Noriega-style operation.

Sayed Abu Nasir believed to be close associates of Osama Bin Laden
22.Jan.1999 Press reports of the Police version have alleged that the Sayed Abu Nasir, along with 6 others—4 from Egypt and one each from the Sudan and Myanmar "are believed to be close associates of Osama Bin Laden" and that they had " active assistance and guidance from the ISI to blow up the US consulates." The Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) is the military-controlled Pakistani external intelligence agency.

Terrorism 1999: Changing Profile
06.Jan.1999 Despite the continued activities of some Marxist + Maoist groups in India, Nepal, the Philippines, Japan + some countries of Latin America, terrorism inspired by ideology is on the decline after the collapse of Communism.

  1998 Topics

Osama Bin Laden: Rumblings in Afghanistan
22.Dec.1998 There are tentative, but as yet unconfirmed indications that following the US bombing of the terrorist camps in Afghanistan, an unsuccessful revolt took place against Mullah Mohammad Omar, the son-in-law of Bin Laden, who lives in Kandahar.

United States Bombing of Terrorist Camps in Afghanistan
03.Nov.1998 An analysis of United States bombings of terrorist camps in Afghanistan, the impact of this on Osama Bin Laden and its implications for India.

Former Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's Assassins to be Hanged
28.Jan.1998 Judge awards Death sentence to 26 people found guilty of killing the former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.

Kandy Blast Forces Sri Lanka to Outlaw LTTE
26.Jan.1998 The wave of Sinhala protests all over Sri Lanka following the powerful bomb blast near the gate of the country's most sacred Buddhist shrine, Dalada Maligawa or the Temple of the Tooth at Kandy, has forced the Kumaratunga Government to finally outlaw the LTTE.

23 Kashmiri Pundits massacred by Terrorists in Kashmir
25.Jan.1998 Terrorists shot dead 23 civilians in the village of Wandhama, a hamlet in the foothills of the mountains of Jammu and Kashmir.

Major Bomb Blasts in New Delhi during 1997
03.Jan.1998 The spate of unsolved bomb blast cases in the National Capital Region has put tremendous pressure on the local police. The Delhi Police complain of lack of resources to combat terrorism.

  1997 Topics

Four Americans Killed in Retaliation to Kansi Conviction
12.Nov.1997 Unidentified gunmen killed four American auditors + their Pakistani driver  in Karachi on 12.Nov.1997 -two days after Pakistani national Mir Aimal Kansi, 33, was convicted for the murder of two agents of America's Central Intelligence Agency.

Mir Aimal Kansi The Most Wanted Man on the FBI list Arrested
00.Jun.1997 "After a four-and-a-half-year manhunt that reached from Washington's suburbs to Afghanistan's deserts, the suspect, Mir Amal Kansi, a 33-year-old Pakistani,was handed over by "Afghan individuals" after the United States had placed a $2 million reward on his head.

All Western Hostages Killed, Claims Harkat Militant
07.May 1997 The two associates of the Harkat ul Ansar chief arrested after a shootout claim that all four Western tourists taken hostage by their group have been murdered.

  1996 Topics

Facts About Ramzi Ahmed Yousef
01.Oct.1996 Ramzi Ahmed Yousef, the best known Islamist terrorist in the world who is currently undergoing trial in the United States for committing acts of terrorism on American soil including the bomb blast at the New York World Trade Center, is actually a Pakistani and not an Iraqi or Kuwaiti as reported in sections of the Western media.

Al Faran and the Hostage Crisis in Kashmir
10.Mar.1996 A shadowy terrorist outfit calling itself Al Faran abducted six Western tourists last year. One of them, an American, escaped while another, a Norwegian, was brutally executed in 1995.

World Terrorism: An Introduction
01.Jan.1996 Today the biggest and the most insidious threat to mankind is ideologically motivated terrorists who, given money and materiel, are willing to perpetrate the worst of crimes against humanity.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/7/144526/2757
Menu Home Resources and Links Search Keywords About Primer Advertising Larger font/Smaller font Login Log In Create an Account Recommended Looking back at the Rightwing Attack on the Mainline Churches
By Frederick Clarkson (3 comments) IT'S NOT PARTISAN: Conservatives & Republicans object to Bush's spying on his fellow citizens
By David Grossman (1
08.Jan.2006 https://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/7/144526/2757
Propaganda 101: Mastery of the Dark Arts
08.Jan.2006 https://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/7/144526/2757
This enticing satire on spin reveals how the tools of persuasion, wrought from the bloodline of Sigmund Freud himself are used every day to engineer public consensus in a way that favors a thin slice of western society.
08.Jan.2006 https://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/7/144526/2757

Oddly, the contractor was not named in news articles.  

Murray's office found 20 states in which the IRS (or its contractor) had collected party affiliation info:

Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wisconsin.

Voter-registration data is public info in many states, but why would the IRS want it?

Maybe, the contractor wanted the info for its own purposes and inadvertently passed it along to the IRS.  

In that case, tax dollars paid that contractor to do its other business---which may amount to contractor fraud.

This situation came to light after Colleen Kelley, president of the National Treasury Employees Union, told IRS officials about it last month.  

IRS Deputy Commissioner John Dalrymple wrote the following to Kelley:
"the IRS makes no use of any information related to political party affiliation because IRS rules prohibit such usage," he wrote.

"The only portion of voter registration information that is used relates to the voter's address."

Officials should answer several questions, before speculations run wilder:  

 Who was the contractor?

 Why did the contractor collect such info?

 Why did the contractor send that info to the IRS?

 How long has this been going on?
08.Jan.2006 https://www.politicalcortex.com/story/2006/1/7/144526/2757
IRS Tracked Taxpayers' Political Info: Are Punitive Audits in our Future? By D Cupples
01/07/2006 02:45:26 PM EST
Keywords: irs, internal revenue service, audit, political, party, affiliation, patty murray, colleen kelley First, we learn that exec-branch staffers outed a CIA agent to punish her husband for criticizing President Bush.  Next, we learn that an exec-branch agency has been illegally spying on Americans with Bush's blessings.  

What's next, punitive IRS audits for Bush-critics?

It's not beyond possibility, given that a private contractor hired by the IRS to find deadbeat taxpayers collected voter information (including party affiliation) and gave it to the IRS:

Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., a member of an appropriations subcommittee with jurisdiction over the IRS, said the practice was an "outrageous violation of the public trust" that could undermine the agency's credibility.

IRS officials acknowledged that party affiliation information was routinely collected by a vendor for several months. They told the vendor last month to screen the information out.
08.Jan.2006 Five More Marines Killed in Iraq in a War Where Bush Has Created a State of Terror, Where We Don't Even Know Who is Fighting Us + We Have Stopped Counting the Dead. Who Will Save Us From the King George of America 2006?
"Iran to Resume Nuclear Research Next Week?" Let's Make a Deal with the Iranian People. They Force the Clowns Running their Government from Power + We'll do the Same to Our Clowns. Good Deal, Right?
Is this why DeLay stepped down? Probing a second firm tied to the ex-Majority Leader
The Book that Forced the New York Times to Reveal Bush's Illegal Spying on Americans. "State of War: The Secret History of the C.I.A. and the Bush Administration," by James Risen
Three Christian ministers claim to have snuck into a Senate hearing room in order to anoint the chairs that will be used for Alito's confirmation hearing..."We did adequately apply oil to all the seats...God is interested" 1/8
Until seeing "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," we had no idea how emblematic of the Bush Administration Enron was.
German chancellor speaks out against Guantanamo: Mr. Bush, tear down this gulag 1/8
U.S. will build high-security prison in Afghanistan for terror suspects 1/8
Poll shows most Americans think snooping needs a warrant...
IRS tracked political info on taxpayers 1/8
08.Jan.2006 As you surely know, "Godfather" Jack Abramoff (G.O.P. moneyman + funder of Israeli sniper schools) teamed up with Ralph Reed (a professional pseudo-Christian) to run a protection racket involving Indian tribes. Any tribe that made a sufficient pay-off to Abramoff -- i.e., to the Republican party -- was allowed to operate a casino. If the Indians didn't fork over the dough (for Abramoff's alleged "lobbying" services), Reed would send word out to his hordes of Jesusmaniac zombies: "We are shocked -- SHOCKED to discover that gambling is taking place on Indian lands! Let us bring the wrath of God down upon the heathens!"
The Republicans, it seems, had a scheme to grab a huge chunk of all the world's casino action, including Indian gaming, internet gambling and casino boats operating outside U.S. territorial waters. That's one of two reasons why Godfather Jack and his gang insisted on grabbing the extremely lucrative casino boats operating out of South Florida.
(The other reason, of course, is drugs. Those boats come and go without oversight -- and if you're a grown-up, you know damn well what that means.)08.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
Daniel Hopsicker, in a fine new piece on the Abramoff scandal, puts the matter nicely: Writing a quarter million dollars worth of checks (for no discernible purpose) to Mafia hit men who are later charged with the murder of the check-writer’s biggest enemy in the whole damn world is just another in a long line of "freak coincidences" in South Florida, a place where things have always been a little... different . 08.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
In the late 1990s, however, the normally lethargic lawman managed to rouse himself for an all out "Sitzkrieg." With uncharacteristic gusto, he went after...Gus Boulis.
The operators of the SunCruz ships and the New SeaEscape were charged individually with both unlawful sports bookmaking and casino gambling. The operators of the Monte Carlo were charged with unlawful casino gambling, while the operators of the Palm Beach Princess were charged with unlawful bookmaking.
The investigation was conducted jointly by the attorney general's office, Broward County State Attorney Michael Satz...08.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
My point is this: Boulis didn't sell his boats just because Bob Ney insulted him. Pressure from Florida prosecutors did the trick. They accused Boulis of various misdeeds, such as not making correct payouts to his customers.
Those were important crimes. Murder, it seems, is not.
Yes, the murder investigation is now a state matter; Sitz can't sit on this one all by himself. But even at the state level, we're talking about the same fellows who went after Boulis.
Who watches the watchmen? Abramoff may be singing now, but does anyone want to hear him sing about...oh, say, Michael Satz?
The killing of Gus Boulis will probably go down in history as one of those crimes -- everyone knows what really happened, even though the guys who ordered the hit will probably never be charged with murder. Don't expect to see headlines about Republican thugs who use gunfire to control the gaming and drug trades. If such headlines ever do appear, even the Jesusmaniac zombies might get a clue as to what their beloved G.O.P. has really been up to these past couple of decades.
There are all sorts of protection rackets. The most important one: Protecting the public from ever hearing the truth. Permalink
08.Jan.2006 Congo's 3.9 m victims: Deadliest crisis in 60 years By David Blair
"Ignorance about its scale + impact is almost universal and international engagement remains completely out of proportion to humanitarian need." The committee found that Congo's war claimed 38,000 lives every month in 2004. Continued
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-393870,00.html
Die Nasa-Techniker waren eigentlich davon ausgegangen, dass der rötliche Staub des Mars die Energiespender nach relativ kurzer Zeit zudecken und die Roboter stoppen würde. Doch mittlerweile wissen die Ingenieure, warum das nicht geschehen ist:

Auf dem Mars weht der Wind regelmäßig kräftig genug, um die Solarzellen der Rover immer wieder freizupusten.
So können "Spirit" und "Opportunity" weiterhin wertvolle Informationen zur Erde funken. "Diese Rover leben von geborgter Zeit", sagt Steven Squyres, der wissenschaftliche Leiter der Mars-Mission. "Wir haben die Garantiezeit lange überschritten."

Jetzt werde jeden Tag versucht, alles aus den Sonden herauszuholen. "Wir leben von Tag zu Tag", sagt Squyres.
Rover überstanden technische Pannen
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394126,00.html
Klaus Stöhr, der Chef des Influenza-Programmes der Weltgesundheitsorganisation WHO hatte noch am Morgen in einem Interview gesagt, es gebe keine neuen Hinweise, das das Virus sich von Mensch zu Mensch übertragen könne. "Das Gefahrenpotenzial hat sich nicht verändert", sagte Stöhr im NDR. Die Seuche sei in der Türkei offenbar schon viel länger verbreitet als angenommen. Ausgebreitet habe sie sich wegen eines unzureichenden Seuchenschutzes. Nach Stöhrs Angaben hat sich die Zahl der Verdachtsfälle bei Menschen in der Türkei auf 50 erhöht
08.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-394126,00.html

Das Vogelgrippe-Virus scheint sich in der Türkei mit großer Geschwindigkeit zu verbreiten. In der Hauptstadt Ankara wurden nach Behördenangaben drei Menschen in einer Klinik positiv auf das Virus getestet. Im Norden des Landes wurde das Virus bei toten Vögeln nachgewiesen.

Bei den in Ankara in einem Krankenhaus getesteten Menschen handele es sich um zwei Kinder und einen Erwachsenen, teilte der Stadtgoverneur Kamal Onal am Sonntag mit. Es ist unklar, ob es sich um den hochgefährlichen H5N1-Typ handelt, an dem im Osten der Türkei bereits mindestens zwei, vermutlich drei Kinder gestorben sind. Bei zwei weiteren Kindern ist dort ebenfalls H5N1 nachgewiesen worden. Die Todesfälle waren die ersten bei Menschen durch den gefährlichen Virusstamm außerhalb Südostasiens.
08.Jan.2006 Türkei: Vogelgrippe erreicht die Hauptstadt
08.Jan.2006 Protest auf See: Greenpeace-Schiff kollidiert mit Walfänger

08.Jan.2006 Griechenland: Starkes Erdbeben erschüttert Athen
08.Jan.2006 Zähe Maschinen: Mars-Roboter bleiben sauber
08.Jan.2006 Pakistan: Uno unterbricht nach Tumulten Hilfsflüge für Erdbebenopfer
08.Jan.2006 Streit um Atomenergie: Koch will Option für neue Kernkraftwerke

25.Jan.1996 - Agreement between the Secretary of State for heritage + the BBC (with treasury minutes).

An example from the agreement:

8.3 If + whenever in the opinion of the Secretary of State an emergency shall have arisen in which it is expedient in the public interest that Her Majesty's Government in the UK shall have control over the broadcasting or transmission of any matter whatsoever by means of the stations or any of them, it shall be lawful for the Secretary of State to direct and cause the stations or any of them or any part thereof to be taken possession of in the name and on behalf of Her Majesty and to prevent the Corporation from using them + also to cause the stations or any of them or any part thereof to be used for Her Majesty's service, or to take such other steps as he may think fit to secure control over the stations or any of them + in that event any person authorised by the Secretary of State may enter upon the stations or any of them and the offices and works of the Corporation or any of them and take possession thereof and use the same as aforesaid.

Charter available on the BBC website https://www.BBC.co.uk HMSO, 0171 873 9090, 0117 926 4306 or 01232 325672 BBC Producers Guidelines https://www.BBC.co.uk/info/editorial/prodgl/contents.htm
08.Jan.2006 Alasdair Milne was a crucial figure in the transmission of all three programmes, without his backing none would have gone ahead.

He had to be removed to save the Conservative party + the establishment, further embarrassment.

Since Alisdair's sacking the BBC's producers have lost the will to fight for controversial programmes which serve the public rather than establishment interest. Thursday 29th January 1987 was the day public service ended at the BBC.
10.Sep.2001 https://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=93231 BBC hopefuls face their first interrogation By David Lister, Media and Culture Editor

A secretive panel of figures from business, politics, the media and academia will begin an exhaustive interrogation this week of the six candidates for the sensitive position of BBC chairman, who will preside over some of the most revolutionary changes in the corporation's history.
08.Jan.2006 DG Dyke proud to be 'Top Dog' https://www.sunday-times.co.uk - [this article appeared in early editions of the Sunday Times newspaper but has not appeared on the Sunday Times website] David Brown

Greg Dyke, director-general of the BBC, can expect rumblings of discontent from staff who have to pay for their own tea and biscuits when he returns tomorrow suntanned and relaxed after a junket to America.

Dyke and 14 of his senior managers ran up a bill of £250,000 - equivalent to 2,200 licence fees - during the six-day training trip in Dallas and San Francisco.

His group stayed at the exclusive 'Mansion' in Turtle Creek hotel in Dallas where rooms cost up to £1,750 a night. The hotel is a favourite among celebrities including Mick Jagger, Sharon Stone and Richard Gere.

They then moved on to the 'W' Hotel in the heart of San Francisco where rooms cost between £210 and £412 a day.

During the trip they were "motivated" by guided visits to American companies with a "can do" attitude, such as the IT company Cisco Systems, Southwest airlines and Ritz-Carlton hotels.

The trip, for Dyke and members of his 'Make It Happen' management team, was organised by the London-based "creative and innovation" training company 'What If.' The junket was marketed under the title 'Top Dog'.

The group was accompanied by a handful of What If consultants and two company Chief Executives: Eric Peacock of Business Link in Hertfordshire + Liam Black of the Furniture Resource Centre Group.

Dan Proctor, of What If, is reported to have said that the group were stimulated and learnt about ideas that "you can't get out of a book".

Last night the BBC defended the trip, insisting the expense represented just a fraction of its £30m annual training budget.

A spokesman said: "It is leadership training for people who are really going to effect culture change".

The BBC refused to confirm the total bill for the trip but a similar expedition last year by Alan Yentob, its director of drama and entertainment + Jane Root, controller of BBC2, is believed to have cost £15,950 per person, excluding flights.

The cost of Dyke's trip will anger other employees at the corporation after his recent announcement that 750 jobs had to be cut. Last year he cut 50 of the 170 employees due to cover the prestigious Edinburgh festival, citing the need to reduce spending on expensive junkets.

When he joined the BBC last year Dyke vowed to cut management costs to free up money to make radio and television programmes. Last year the corporation was attacked for sending dozens of managers on workshops at a luxury hotel in order to improve their "emotional intelligence".

Dyke's cost-cutting has also not extended to his own salary. After just a year in charge he was rewarded with a bonus of £91,000 - on top of his £347,000 basic salary.

https://www.sunday-times.co.uk
08.Jan.2006 https://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1318577,00.html Pauline Neville-Jones is.... International governor of the BBC Chairman of Qinetiq

On the council for the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)* + was.... Foreign affairs advisor to John Major Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee Career member of British Diplomatic Service Political Director in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Managing Director in NatWest Markets Vice Chairman of Hawkpoint Partners, a Corporate Advisory house.
08.Jan.2006 BBC governor under fire for Iraq contracts

https://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1318577,00.html

Antony Barnett, public affairs editor

03.Oct.2004 - The Observer The BBC chief who played a pivotal role in how the corporation covered the Iraq war + the David Kelly affair, stands to profit out of a firm with lucrative military contracts in Iraq.

Dame Pauline Neville-Jones, a BBC governor, emerged as one of the main figures in the feud between the BBC and the government in the fallout of the Hutton inquiry into the death of weapons scientist Dr David Kelly, being blamed personally by former-director general Greg Dyke for his sacking.

Neville-Jones, a former chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, took an unusually active role in the Kelly affair, criticising Andrew Gilligan's reporting and also expressing unease about Kelly's expertise.

Now it has emerged that Neville-Jones chairs a company providing military equipment for US Humvees + Black Hawk helicopters, both of which are used in Iraq, leading to calls for her to reconsider her position as a governor.

Documents from Companies House reveal that Neville-Jones earned £133,000 last year as chairman of Qinetiq, the privatised research arm of the MoD.

The company recently bought two US defence firms that have intimate ties to the Pentagon and multi-million-dollar contracts supplying the US forces in Iraq.

The company's accounts also disclose that Neville-Jones owns £50,000 worth of shares in Qinetiq which are held through the controversial US fund the Carlyle Group.

The fund is known as the 'Ex-Presidents Club' because of the number of former world leaders it has employed, including President Bush's father and former Tory Prime Minister John Major.

Following Qinetiq's move into the US defence market, the company hopes to float on the stock market, a move that would probably see the value of Neville-Jones's shares rise.

Neville-Jones, who sits on the BBC's programme complaint committee, has always declared her chairmanship of Qinetiq, but backbench MPs are now calling on her to consider her position as governor.

Former defence minister Peter Kilfoyle said: 'The fact that she has such a financial interest in the armaments industry and firms involved in Iraq appears to be a real conflict of interest. She should have stepped aside when it came to discussing military issues.'

Labour MP Llew Smith, Labour MP said: 'It is completely inappropriate that someone so senior in the BBC should be leading a firm making huge profits from the misery caused by the invasion of Iraq.'

Neville-Jones was personally blamed by Dyke for leading the boardroom revolt against him after Hutton criticised the corporation for failing to correct its reporting over the WMD dossier.

It emerged in the Hutton inquiry that Neville-Jones sent BBC chairman Gavin Davies a note expressing her unease that Gilligan may have exaggerated the status of Kelly, who killed himself over the scandal.

Qinetiq was formed out of the part-privatisation of the MoD's military research arm.

The MoD still owns 51 % of the company, which announced last month that it paid £160 million to buy US firms Foster-Miller and Westar.
08.Jan.2006 * International Institute for Strategic Studies - what is it - https://www.iiss.org
08.Jan.2006 Critical description of IISS from "The Committee of 300" by Dr John Coleman: page 178

The IISS is the vehicle for MI6-Tavistock black propaganda + wet jobs (an intelligence over name denoting an operation where bloodshed is required), adverse nuclear incidents and terrorism, which goes to the world's press for dissemination, as well as to governments and military establishments.

Membership in the IISS includes representatives of 87 major wire services and press associations, as well as 138 senior editors and columnists....

The IISS is nothing more than a higher echelon opinion maker, as defined by Lippmann and Bernays. In the writing of books + in newspapers, IISS was formed to be a coordinating centre for not only creating opinions, but to get those opinions and scenarios out much faster and to a far greater audience than could be reached by a book for example.... "The conscious and intelligent manipulation of organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in a democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government, which is the true ruling power in our country...... We are governed, our minds are moulded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of...." Edward Bernays
21.Aug.2005 - Independent - Shame on BBC News for its sour grapes over the ITV News scoop

By Greg Dyke - Published: 22 August 2005 There was sour grapes last week in the BBC Newsroom as, in their own news bulletin, they condemned ITN for exposing the Metropolitan Police as liars in the De Menezes shooting case. ITN had clear evidence that Sir Ian Blair and other senior Met. officers had lied and instituted a cover up over the murder of a Brazilian on the London Underground. Firearms officers threatened to walk out if any of them were prosecuted and Sir Ian Blair caved in to their demands for immunity. [ed.] https://news.independent.co.uk/media/article307493.ece
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New Iraq War Crimes Tribunal The People will Judge George W. Bush - Hear the testimony - The people will judge...
mindfreedom.org More Psychiatric Fraud-Patch Adams says Prez should be evaluated first.
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Check Out The Amazing Penta-Lawn! A Must See! Tested at the Pentagon on 9/11/01, this lawn was shown to resist fire, skid marks, explosions and planes crashing into it!
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State Exemptions RECOMMENDATIONS VS. LAWS: It is important for you to know the legal requirements of the vaccination laws in your state and to understand the difference between a legal requirement and a recommendation.

07.Jan.2006 https://www.global-elite.org/elitewiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Quote of the Week: "The threat of environmental crisis will be the 'international disaster key' that will unlock the New World Order." - Mikhail Gorbachev
07.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394098,00.html
Delays Name wird auch in Zusammenhang mit der Affäre um den Lobbyisten Jack Abramoff genannt, der sich am Dienstag in einem Korruptionsverfahren schuldig bekannt hat.

Abramoff erklärte sich außerdem zur Zusammenarbeit mit den Behörden bei umfangreichen Ermittlungen gegen führende Parlamentarier und deren Mitarbeiter bereit, die von ihm und anderen Lobbyisten bestochen worden sein sollen.

DeLay, ein enger politischer Freund Präsident George W. Bushs, soll von Abramoff oder dessen Verbindungsmännern in den Jahren 2001 bis 2004 mindestens 57.000 Dollar (48.000 Euro) erhalten haben.
Die Affäre kommt Bushs Republikanern rund zehn Monate vor den Kongresswahlen äußerst ungelegen, pflegte doch der Lobbyist Abramoff enge Kontakte zu republikanischen Politikern. Die Ermittlungen könnten die Chancen der Republikaner, die seit 1994 die Mehrheit im Kongress stellen, bei der Wahl im November schmälern. Nach einer neuen Umfrage der Nachrichtenagentur AP und des Ipsos-Instituts würden es 49 Prozent der Wähler lieber sehen, wenn die oppositionellen Demokraten die Mehrheit im Kongress stellen. Nur 36 Prozent wünschen sich eine Mehrheit der Republikaner.
07.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-394097,00.html
Der Grund für das strikte Vorgehen gegen den Heereschef: Aguado hatte am Freitag bei einem Empfang mit König Juan Carlos indirekt mit einem Einsatz des Militärs gedroht, sollte Katalonien mit seinen Forderungen nach mehr Eigenständigkeit die Einheit Spaniens gefährden. "Das Militär sollte sich politischer Kommentare enthalten, aber es ist unsere Pflicht hier zu warnen", sagt Aguado. "Als Militärs haben wir geschworen die Einheit Spaniens zu wahren", fügte er hinzu. Aguado warnte vor "schweren Konsequenzen", sollten die Autonomiepläne Kataloniens in ihrer jetzigen Form umgesetzt werden.
Der General berief sich bei seinen Äußerungen auf Artikel VIII der Verfassung, wonach die Streitkräfte die Souveränität des Landes und dessen territoriale Integrität schützen müssen. Nach der spanischen Verfassung darf sich das Militär nicht in die politische Debatte einmischen. Die endgültige Entscheidung über die Entlassung des Generals muss kommende Woche der Ministerrat treffen. Seit dem Ende der Franco-Diktatur vor 30 Jahren ist noch nie ein General unter Arrest gestellt worden.
07.Jan.2006 Korruptionsskandal: US-Republikaner DeLay verzichtet auf Vorsitz
07.Jan.2006 Spanien: Heereschef unter Hausarrest
07.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393945,00.html
"In der gesamten Geschichte haben nachrichtendienstliche Erkenntnisse über Datenübertragungen kritischen Anteil an der Kriegführung gehabt." Hätte man den Kongress um Erlaubnis gefragt, hätte dies außerdem "unsere Feinde über unsere geheimdienstlichen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen informiert", so Moschella in einem Brief an die Abgeordneten.
Der Bericht des "Congressional Research Service" kommt nun offenbar zu einem anderen Ergebnis. Laut der "Washington Post" heißt es in dem 44-seitigen Text unter anderem: "Es erscheint unwahrscheinlich, dass ein Gericht der Ansicht zustimmen würde, dass der Kongress explizit oder implizit die elektronischen NSA-Überwachungsaktionen autorisiert hat." Die Begründungen aus dem Justizministerium "scheinen keine gute Basis zu haben", so die Experten. Einige Abgeordnete hatten schon zuvor gefordert, gegen Bush wegen der Lauschattacken ein Amtsenthebungsverfahren anzustrengen. Diesen Forderungen dürfte der Bericht neue Nahrung geben.
07.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-393945,00.html
Der demokratische Senator Frank Church, der damals einen Geheimdienst-Untersuchungsausschuss des Senats leitete, sagte damals, diese Lausch-Möglichkeiten könnten jederzeit gegen das amerikanische Volk gewendet werden: "Ich weiß, dass es die Kapazitäten gibt, in Amerika eine vollkommene Tyrannei einzurichten + wir müssen dafür sorgen, dass dieser Geheimdienst (die NSA) und alle anderen Dienste mit Zugriff auf solche Technologien im Rahmen des Gesetzes und unter ordentlicher Kontrolle handeln, so dass wir niemals diesen Abgrund überqueren."
Schließlich wurde 1978 das FISA-Gesetz verabschiedet, um den geheimdienstlichen Datenhunger mit juristischen Mitteln einzudämmen.