28.Jan.2006 WTC lease holder admits WTC7 was intentionally demolished ...
https://sirdave.com/pullit.mpg I've said it before, I'll say it again ... Watching the PULLIT video, the building clearly collapses straight down upon itself ... www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread30190/pg1
28.Jan.2006-11.Sep.2001   9-11 Research
Owner's Admission? Silverstein's Apparent Admission that Building 7 was Demolished.
Larry Silverstein, the controller of Building 7, the third skyscraper to ... https://911research.wtc7.net/wtc/evidence/pullit.html
28.Jan.2006 Silverstein, FDNY Razed WTC7
by Jeremy Baker Copyright August, 2003 by Darkprints In a stunning and belated development concerning the attacks of 9/11, Larry Silverstein, the controller ... https://vestigialconscience.com/Pullit.html
28.Jan.2006 Pull it!
pullIt.wmv · PULLIT .swf · PULLIT .mp3. To make the context perfectly clear: pull-it2_lo.wmv. (Click triangle to play). PULLIT2.swf · pull-it2.mp3 ... https://thewebfairy.com/911/pullit

Killtown's: Was the WTC 7 pulled? - "Pull it!" (To link this page, please use the following address: https://www.geocities.com/killtown/wtc7/pullit.html ).

Silverstein said "pull it"... https://thewebfairy.com/killtown/wtc7/pullit.html

28.Jan.2006 https://www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002374.php

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Hey Buddy: What Brought WTC7 Down? By Jarrett Murphy |

25.Jan.2006 Of the many mysteries surrounding 9-11, 11.Sep.2001 few have been of as much interest to as broad a range of people as the fate of World Trade Center 7, the 47-story office building that was the last to fall and appears to have been the first steel-framed skyscraper to collapse due solely to fire.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which this fall issued its final report on what happened to the Twin Towers, was supposed to report on WTC 7 at the same time.

But that got pushed to December, then to this spring + lately to the end of 2006.

Now, NIST is soliciting a contractor to try to come up with the best explanation for why the building came down.

NIST announced the move in a draft solicitation earlier this month.

A formal bid is being prepared. Michael Newman, NIST spokesman, says

the contractor will "determine the most likely scenario for the initiating event of the WTC 7 collapse + provide the global analysis of the collapse (i.e. the response of the whole building to the initiating event)."

The draft solicitation says NIST will consider the "possibility of any other events that may have occurred that day."

This is a red flag to people who harbor alternative theories of what 9-11 was all about.

WTC7, which housed offices for the CIA + the Office of Emergency Management,

is central to the notion that the buildings at Ground Zero were brought down by planned demolitions,

partly because film of the collapse shows a sudden, implosion-like demise.

The Voice asked NIST what it meant by "other scenarios." Its answer:

The contractor will look at up to 20 possible scenarios for the initiating event of the WTC 7 collapse.

In collaboration with the NIST WTC 7 team, the contractor will reduce this number to no more than 5 scenarios deemed most likely to be correct +

then focus its modeling on these five to eventually determine the single most likely scenario.

Posted in Citystate Comments

How many years must go by before we can start to accept(if ever) the fact that our govt. had a MAJOR role in 11.Sep.2001 9/11 + the destruction of all 3 WTC bldgs. with preplanted explosives.

I studied architecture as the bldgs. were put up.

I watched the steel come to the site.

I studied the engineering drawings as the towers grew.

I went on to design some of the HVAC systems inside those bldgs.

Those towers were as tough as a skyscraper comes.

They took the hit and there was a fire and it wasn't that bad.

Bldgs. like that don't just drop to the ground EXACTLY like a preplanned demolishion.

They should still be there today.

Wake up America and embrace the truth for once in your history.

11.Sep.2001 9/11 was rigged from the getgo and has been the key for this administration to turn on the war machine and rev it up.

How many Americans have to die?

How much of our freedom and privacy do we give away?

When do we take back our country from the madmen in charge?

Are you listening?

Please, do the research and figure it out for yourself.

11.Sep.2001 9/11: the biggest hoax in the world and we have it on tape!!
28.Jan.2006 https://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=HSFJBHJOZDWC4CRBAEZSFEY?type=domesticNews&storyID=10985730&pageNumber=1

He linked Sinclair's support for Sacco and Vanzetti to later discredited causes of the Cold War like the Rosenberg and Alger Hiss cases.

But Goldberg might have been better served if he had read the entire letter instead of the excerpts printed in the Times or if he had access to a soon-to-be published biography by Anthony Arthur called "Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair."

In a copy of the full letter made available to Reuters, Sinclair says that soon after he talked to Moore he began to have doubts about him. "I realized certain facts about Fred Moore. I had heard that he was using drugs. I knew that he had parted from the defense committee after the bitterest of quarrels. ... Moore admitted to me that the men themselves, had never admitted their guilt to him; and I began to wonder whether his present attitude and conclusions might not be the result of his brooding on his wrongs."

Sinclair questioned Moore's former wife who worked with the lawyer on the case + she "expressed the greatest surprise" saying he had not expressed thoughts that the men were guilty before.

In the letter, he also vowed "Boston" would tell all sides and "I would take my stand on the point that the men had not been proved guilty and that their trial had not been fair."

Arthur, who provided advance excerpts of the biography to Reuters, says that in other letters Sinclair quotes Moore as not even being sure both men were guilty.

"Moore said neither man ever admitted it to him, but he was certain of Sacco's guilt and fairly sure of Vanzetti's knowledge of the crime if not his complicity in it," Arthur wrote in the biography which will be published in June by Random House.

He added, "His knowledge had not prevented Moore from doing whatever he could to save the two men, perhaps including illegal activities. The entire legal system, was corrupt, Moore insisted, assuring Sinclair that, 'There is no criminal lawyer who has attained to fame in America except by inventing alibis and hiring witnesses. There is no other way to be a great criminal lawyer in America."'

The author said Sinclair's decision to end "Boston" on a note of ambiguity concerning Sacco and Vanzetti's guilt subjected him to "a torrent of abuse from the left."

Now he is being hit from the right.
28.Jan.2006 https://www.missoulanews.com/News/News.asp?no=5470
“Everyone who looks at the ground is seeing the same thing, but they’re not necessarily seeing the same thing,” he says. “At first you’re just looking at the ground and it looks like the ground. It’s not like a footprint that you see in the sand or in the mud. Everybody sees that. What we see are the tiny little indications that someone has been there, like a little tiny broken branch, a little flower broken off, a compression in the soil. It all adds up to a track.”
28.Jan.2006 Hey Buddy: What Brought WTC7 Down?  Of the many mysteries surrounding 9-11, few have been of as much interest to as broad a range of people as the fate of World Trade Center 7, the 47-story office building that was the last to fall and appears to have been the first steel-framed skyscraper to collapse due solely to fire. The National Institute of Standards and Technology, which this fall issued its final report on what happened to the Twin Towers, was supposed to report on WTC 7 at the same time. But that got pushed to December, then to this spring + lately to the end of 2006. Now, NIST is soliciting a contractor to try to come up with the best explanation for why the building came down.
28.Jan.2006 Jack, we never knew ya  Desperate White House scrubbing Abramoff photos.
28.Jan.2006 ACLU Releases Government Photos  The FBI is spying on vegans. Your tax dollars at work!
28.Jan.2006 Malaysia creates team to track 'Bigfoot' 

A southern Malaysian state will appoint a team of scientists and experts to hunt for a "Bigfoot" beast after the reported sighting of three giant human-like creatures, officials said Thursday.
28.Jan.2006 Spychips  How Major Corporations and Government Plan to Track Your Every Move with RFID.
New book. Link from boing boing.
28.Jan.2006 Starving woman curses God, dies in her sleep  A starving Kenyan woman placed a powerful tribal curse on God, accusing him of sending famine + died in her sleep, local newspapers said Thursday.
The woman from eastern Kenya's drought-ravaged Kangundo district decided to invoke a dreaded oath from the Kamba community, famed for its potent witchcraft, media reports said.
No comment from God. Yet.
27.Jan.2006 Venezuela officers 'spied for US' : The Venezuelan government says several military officers have been caught passing state secrets to the US.

27.Jan.2006 A Loud, Multicoloured 'No' to Imperialism and War: The overarching World Social Forum theme "Another World Is Possible" +

opposition to "imperialism" + war are the common denominators among the broad range of organisations + individuals gathered in Caracas this week

27.Jan.2006 Bianca Jagger: One death every minute The arms trade makes big money for the richest nations while fuelling conflict across the world

27.Jan.2006 Sidney Blumenthal: A call to the faithful : Karl Rove has once again proved his ability to obliterate history in the cause of his president

27.Jan.2006 U.S. posts wrong photo of ‘al-Qaida operative’: After year and a half, wrong man's photo removed from wanted page

27.Jan.2006 Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda : A secret Pentagon "roadmap" on war propaganda, personally approved by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld 00.Oct.2003 calls for "boundaries" between information operations abroad and the news media at home, but provides for no such limits and claims that as long as the American public is not "targeted," any leakage of PSYOP to the American public does not matter.

27.Jan.2006 Democrat support for Alito likely dooms Kerry filibuster threat: Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's confirmation seemed all but certain Jan. 26, as two more Democrats announced their support for him, apparently giving Republicans the 60 votes required to overcome a filibuster attempt supported by Sen. John Kerry.

27.Jan.2006 Senators in need of a spine : Senate Democrats, who presented a united front against the nomination of Alito in the Judiciary Committee, seem unwilling to risk the public criticism that might come with a filibuster

27.Jan.2006 Attorney will not be allowed to represent Padilla: U.S. Magistrate denied attorney Donna Newman's request on Monday. Newman, who has previously represented Padilla, filed a motion to join two other lawyers already representing Padilla

27.Jan.2006 Don't Let Them Spy On Us: Call for a Special Counsel: Use the form to send an email to your senators telling them to insist that the Department of Justice appoint a special counsel to investigate and prosecute any and all crimes committed.

27.Jan.2006 A must watch: Video: New Orleans-Black Rage: Australian TV : SBS Dateline's Nick Lazaredes in New Orleans, with the sorry racial fallout from Hurricane Katrina and the story of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina is not a pretty one.

27.Jan.2006 ACLU Releases Government Photos: Two documents relating to anti-war and anti-government protests + a vegan rally, prove the agencies have been "spying" on Georgia residents unconstitutionally, the ACLU said

27.Jan.2006 'Suicide Seeds' Could Spell Death of Peasant Agriculture,: Groups fighting for the rights of peasant communities are stepping up pressure on governments to ban the use of genetically modified ''suicide seeds'' at UN-sponsored talks on biodiversity in Spain this week.
27.Jan.2006 Iran vows to put Israel into 'eternal coma' if attacked : Were Israel to attack Iran's nuclear facilities, Iran would respond so strongly that it would put the Jewish state into "an eternal coma" like Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's, the Iranian defense minister said yesterday.

27.Jan.2006 Iran: We'll Shut Down Straits of Hormuz: If Europe does not act wisely with the Iranian nuclear portfolio and it is referred to the U.N. Security Council and economic or air travel restrictions are imposed unjustly, we have the power to halt oil supply to the last drop from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Straits of Hormuz," said Mohammed-Nabi Rudaki, deputy chairman of the Iranian parliament's National Security + Foreign Policy Commission.

27.Jan.2006 Iran accuses U.S., Britain and Israel of role in 2 plane crashes: Iran said Thursday it had information that the USA + Britain + Israel had a role in two deadly military plane crashes in the last two months

27.Jan.2006 Iran - a threat to the petrodollar?: The proposal to set up the IOB was first put forward in Iran's Third Development Plan (2000-2005).

Mohammad Javad Assemipour, who heads the project, has said that the exchange will strive to make Iran the main hub for oil deals in the region and that it should be operational by March 2006.

27.Jan.2006 US warns India over Iran stance : Washington has warned India a landmark deal giving it US nuclear technology may fall through if Delhi does not back a UN motion against Iran.

27.Jan.2006 U.S. backs off envoy’s threat to India: Ambassador had said nuclear deal would ‘die’ if India supported Iran
27.Jan.2006 Sharon’s Vision: An Israel From Nile to Euphrates: Have Zionist goals changed? No, because the gang that has ruled Israel since it was planted in the Arab world have been terrorists and war criminals. The goal of colonizing has not changed since the establishment of Israel.
27.Jan.2006 Former Pentagon chief sees damage to U.S. military: The U.S. military's ground forces are so stretched - that potential adversaries may be tempted to challenge the USA, a group headed by former U.S. Defense Secretary William Perry said on Wednesday.

27.Jan.2006 When Will US Women Demand Peace? : Whenever I travel to international gatherings to talk about the war in Iraq, economic development and women's rights, the question I get asked most frequently is: "Where are the women in the USA? Why aren't they rising up?"

27.Jan.2006 PM quits, says Hamas must form governmemt: Palestinian prime minister Ahmed Qorei announced his resignation + said the radical Islamist group Hamas must form the next government after the general election.

27.Jan.2006 Hamas scores stunning win - but what happens now? : Securing 76 of the 132 seats in the parliament whose existence it opposed for almost a decade,

Hamas's unexpectedly overwhelming victory challenged almost every assumption about the Middle East + plunged the Israel-Palestinian conflict into another period of unpredictability.

27.Jan.2006 After the Hamas earthquake : Bush + Tony Blair, who set such store by promoting democracy in Iraq + (selectively) elsewhere in the Middle East, should be delighted. The only problem is the result:

27.Jan.2006 Israel decides not to negotiate with Hamas : Israeli emergency cabinet meeting decided Thursday night that Israel would not negotiate with Hamas until it renounced violence + recognized Israel's right to exist.

27.Jan.2006 The Palestinians' democratic choice must be respected : The excuses given for refusing to deal with Hamas will not wash. This is a chance for Europe to have an independent role

27.Jan.2006 Arabs see US and Israel changing stance on Hamas Israel + the USA will eventually adapt to the reality of an electoral victory by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas,

opening new opportunities for Middle East peace talks, Arab commentators said on Thursday.

27.Jan.2006 Gilad Atzmon - Where to now, Palestine? Some reflections : The consequences of today’s Hamas victory aren’t yet clear, however the election results have revealed beyond doubt some fundamental information about Palestine + the Arab world:

27.Jan.2006 How Israel and the USA Helped to Bolster Hamas: We take a look at the little-known rise of the militant group with investigative journalist Robert Dreyfuss, author of the new book

"Devil's Game: How the USA Helped Unleash Fundamentalist Islam." In it, Dreyfuss reveals how the U.S. looked the other way

when Israel's secret service supported the creation of Hamas.

27.Jan.2006 Hamas Victory Good for Israel? : Can Hamas' stunning success in the recent PLO election provide a reprieve for the Jewish state? Israeli national radio.

27.Jan.2006 In case you missed it: Hamas history tied to Israel : Israel + Hamas may currently be locked in deadly combat, but, according to several current + former U.S. intelligence officials,

00.000.1970 -beginning in the late s-over a period of years-Tel Aviv gave direct + indirect financial aid to Hamas.

27.Jan.2006 A six per cent democracy : Yesterday just over 6% of the Palestinian electorate in occupied East Jerusalem were granted the opportunity to vote in their city in the second Palestinian parliamentary elections. Israel tried to score points internationally by allowing elections in East Jerusalem, while trying to choke the life out of them.

27.Jan.2006 Why don’t we know what is going on in Israel & Palestine?: Recent studies of U.S. media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reveal that the media reported Israeli children’s deaths at rates 7 to 40 times greater than Palestinian children’s deaths. Some typical examples:
27.Jan.2006 How US lost billions in Wild West gamble to rebuild Iraq: AN AUDIT of US reconstruction spending in Iraq has uncovered spectacular misuse of tens of millions of dollars in cash, including bundles of money stashed in filing cabinets, a US soldier who gambled away thousands and stacks of newly minted notes distributed without receipts.

27.Jan.2006 Gore Vidal: President Jonah: Not since the glory days of Watergate and Nixon’s Luciferian fall has there been so much written about the dogged deceits and creative criminalities of our rulers.
27.Jan.2006 The Killing Fields: Ghosts of the Walking Dead By Manuel Valenzuela
Iraq’s Killing Fields are as real as the sun, as dangerous as a nuclear weapon, as devastating as any plague.

The devastation taking place inside it is anathema to humanity, a war crime + crime against humanity, a malfeasant manifestation by Machiavellian miscreants.

If the world entire were made aware of its seriousness, of its criminality + of the callousness of American leaders the backlash would be a giant tsunami of anger. Continued
27.Jan.2006 Video:  Confessions of an Economic Hit Man ByJohn Perkins

Since world war two we've managed to create history's first truly global empire.

This has been done by the corporatocracy, which are a few men and women who run our major corporations and in doing so also run the U.S. government and many other governments around the world. Real video
27.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-397673,00.html
Die Zahlen dürften allerdings die Spekulationen darüber anheizen, ob die US-Notenbank Fed auf ihrer Sitzung am kommenden Dienstag den Kurs der moderaten Zinssteigerungen fortsetzen wird.
Allerdings erhöhte sich auch der Inflationsdruck.

Die so genannte Basisinflationsrate - in der die Kosten für Ernährung + Energie nicht eingerechnet sind - stieg im vierten Quartal um 2,2 %, nach 1,4 % in den vorherigen drei Monaten.

Unter Einrechnung von Ernährung und Energie sank die Preissteigerungsrate dagegen von 3,7 auf 2,6 %.
27.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-397673,00.html
Die Analysten wurden von den Zahlen überrascht. Sie hatten mit einem Wachstum von 2,8 % in den letzten drei Monaten des Jahres gerechnet.

"Die Entwicklung steht im krassen Widerspruch zu den Daten der letzten Monate", sagte Commerzbank-Experte Patrick Franke.

Seine erste Analyse: Der Energiepreisschub nach den Hurrikans habe den Konsum gedämpft.

Darüber hinaus seien die Ausrüstungsinvestitionen so schwach wie zuletzt im ersten Quartal 2003.
Im dritten Quartal hatte die Konjunktur noch um 4,1 % im Vergleich mit dem entsprechenden Vorjahreszeitraum zugelegt.

Besonders auffällig war im vierten Quartal die Schwäche der Binnennachfrage, die gerade einmal um 1,1 % zunahm - im dritten Quartal lag sie noch bei 4,1 %.

Der Konsum der Privathaushalte gilt als Motor der US-Wirtschaft. Auch der Zuwachs der privaten Immobilieninvestitionen ließ deutlich nach - von 7,3 % im dritten auf 3,5 % im vierten Quartal.
Export-Rate enttäuscht
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Katie Couric had the audacity to lie to Howard Dean's face.

She told Dean that he was the liar.

This happened on Today , which apparently has been dragooned into the effort to provide RNC spin on the Abramoff affair.
She kept repeating the lie that Jack Abramoff gave money to Democrats, which he did not.

Furthermore, his clients/victims - casino-owning Indian tribes - diverted their donations from Democrats to the Republicans, although the tribes continued to give small amounts to their traditional allies.
As we've seen in a previous post, the Washington Post tried to make the case that Jean Carnahan received funding at Abramoff's "direction." In fact, she received nothing; her opponent did.

The Post said the same thing about Tom Daschle, who also received nothing.

Max Cleland received a mere $500 from one of Abramoff's Indian clients, but that amount probably would have been much higher if Abramoff never existed.
The Democratic Party, as an institution, should file a lawsuit against NBC for libel.

A similar suit can and should be filed against any "deep pockets" media organ who repeats the Jack-gave-to-Dems lie.
27.Jan.2006 Schwächephase: US-Konjunktur bricht überraschend stark ein
27.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-397663,00.html
Der 154 Millionen Euro teure "Meteosat 9" soll in einer geostationären Umlaufbahn in 36.000 Kilometern Höhe arbeiten.

Die europäische Organisation für meteorologische Satelliten (Eumetsat) beziffert die Kosten des MSG-Programms auf rund 2 Milliarden Euro, von denen die Organisation selbst 1,7 Milliarden + die Esa 300 Millionen Euro trage.
27.Jan.2006 Indonesien: Seebeben der Stärke 7,7
27.Jan.2006 Wettersatellit: "Meteosat 9" schießt erstes Foto
27.Jan.2006 Nach Hamas-Sieg: Israel im Schockzustand
27.Jan.2006 Palästinensische Wahlen: Warum sich die Hamas zu Tode siegen könnte

27.Jan.2006 Unschuldig im Todestrakt: Der Überleber

27.Jan.2006 Bolivien: Präsident Morales halbiert sein eigenes Gehalt
27.Jan.2006 Anti-Raucher-Gesetz: Kalifornien setzt Zigarettenqualm auf Giftliste
27.Jan.2006 Zeitungsbericht: USA bauen Spezialeinheit gegen ABC-Waffen auf
27.Jan.2006 Netzwelt-Ticker: Endlich ein Petabyte Speicherplatz
27.Jan.2006 US-Reaktionen auf Hamas-Sieg: Demokratisierung? Islamisierung!
27.Jan.2006 Stahl-Monopoly: Inder Mittal und Thyssen verbünden sich für Milliarden-Deal
27.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-397597,00.html
Neben den Plänen der Russen wirken die ohnehin schon hochfliegenden Weltraum-Visionen von US-Präsident George W. Bush nahezu mutlos.

"Wir wollen bis 2015 eine permanente Basis auf dem Mond errichten", sagte Nikolai Sewastjanow, Chef des staatlichen Raumfahrtkonzerns Energija, Zeitungsberichten zufolge bei einer wissenschaftlichen Tagung.

Und er ging noch weiter: "Bis 2020 können wir mit der Lieferung des seltenen Isotops Helium-3 in industriellem Maßstab beginnen."
27.Jan.2006 Gewagter Plan: Russen wollen ab 2020 den Mond ausbeuten
27.Jan.2006 Mexiko: Riesiger Drogentunnel in die USA entdeckt
27.Jan.2006 Terrorismus: El-Masri soll Tawhid-Mitglied gewesen sein
27.Jan.2006 Kursrallye: Gute Vorgaben treiben Dax über 5600 Punkte
27.Jan.2006 Vogelgrippe: Forscher könnten Waffe des H5N1-Virus gefunden haben
27.Jan.2006 Neuer Optimismus: Aufschwungslaune steckt Verbraucher an
27.Jan.2006 Palästina-Wahl: Uno ruft Hamas zu Gewaltverzicht auf
00.Jan.1987 =Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik= Seite 20-24

"Wir geben den Weg zu einer schrankenlosen Geschichtsdiskussion nicht frei." Heinz Galinski Ex-Vorsitzender des Zentralrats der Juden in Deutschland
27.Jan.2006 https://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/3.htm

The Making of an Atlantic Ruling Class home Chapter 3 The Wilson Offensive
27.Jan.2006 https://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/atlanticrulingclass/3.htm

French policy, heralding the strategy of European integration it would follow in the 1950s,

consisted of enveloping German ambitions as much as possible in a legal framework requiring constant consultation between the European powers + securing American support for it.

Following the Locarno agreements, French foreign minister Briand tried to draw the USA into the European settlement through the Kellog-Briand pact,

a 'gesture of moral and psychological solidarity' as his chef de cabinet called it +not more. 64

A year before, Briand had become Honorary President of the Paneuropa Union, the organization of Count Coudenhove- Kalergi + in

00.000.1929 he would make a belated proposal to start discussions on the realization of a United States of Europe.

Coudenhove-Kalergi was an exemplary case of a pre-war liberal converted with religious fervour to Wilsonian Universalism.

In his memoirs, Coudenhove recalled how the American intervention in the war had made him aware of the fact that

'two prophets' were engaged in a struggle over the 'soul of Europe':

the American President and Lenin. 65

After the publication of his book Paneuropa in 1923, in which he proposed European unity as a means to prevent war + raise the standard of living in Europe by introducing American mass production + consumption,

Coudenhove was approached by Louis Rothschild + Max Warburg.

Warburg offered him 60,000 gold marks to start a movement, of which the Oresdner Bank and Rothschild's Kreditanstalt of Vienna became the trustees. 66

The organization's prominent supporters + officials were, for the greater part, bankers and their friends except for France, where liberal leaders like Herriot and cartel protagonists like Loucheur were both prominent.

In the Belgian national committee of the Paneuropa Union, Heinemanr of SOFINA was the treasurer;

in Germany, von Gwinner, of the Deutsche Bank + subsequently, H. Pitstenberg of the Berliner Handelsgesellschaft, a bank linked to AEG;

Colijn was the leading figure in the Netherlands; and

in Luxemburg, A. Mayrisch, of the ARBED steel trust was prominent.

In Britain, finally, it was the Colonial Secretary, L.S. Amery, linked to the Vickers group, who promoted Coudenhove + eventually secured Churchill's support as well.

One of Coudenhove's main concerns (shared by his banker supporters), however, was American support.

00.000.1925 Max Warburg arranged for his brothers in the USA, Felix Warburg + Paul Warburg to invite Coudenhove for an American tour.

In America, the count discussed European unity with Hoover, Kellogg, Young and Lippmann,

but also found out that American support for the unity of Europe rested on mutually incompatible foundations:

isolationists were in favour because it would diminish the chances for American involvement in an eventual European war;

internationalists saw in European unity a favourable condition for US participation in the League of Nations. 67
27.Jan.2006 https://www.walther-rathenau.de/kontakte.htm

Fürstenberg, Carl (1850-1933), Bankier, Direktor der Berliner Handelsgesellschaft, Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender AEG:
www.berlin.de/switch/Land/BAs/Wilmersdorf/09lex/gedenktafeln/Fuerstenberg

Siehe auch:

Maximilian Harden: Fürstenberg, Carl
27.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,320890,00.html
Aus der Fusion der

1856 errichteten Berliner Handelsgesellschaft + der

1854 gegründeten Frankfurter Bank ging

1970 die BHF-Bank hervor.

1999 -Seit- gehört die Bank zur ING Groep + firmiert seit

2002 unter ING BHF-Bank AG.
11.Jan.2006 Pat Robertson Christian centre deal abandoned

The Israeli government is pulling out of a business deal with the American evangelical leader Pat Robertson, after he said Ariel Sharon's stroke was punishment by God for withdrawing from the Gaza strip.

Mr Robertson and the Israeli tourism ministry were shortly to have signed an agreement to fund a $50m (£28m) Christian heritage centre on the shore of the Sea of Galilee.

23.Jan.2006 Abramoff Scandal Threatens to Derail Reed's Political Ambitions

(Bloomberg) The Washington scandal over lobbyist Jack Abramoff may claim a casualty outside the nation's capital:

Ralph Reed, a former presidential-campaign adviser who once headed one of the U.S.'s largest Christian activist groups.
27.Jan.2006 TSA: Program may use fliers' financial data

A new program to speed travelers through airport security may require passengers to agree to a check of their personal and financial records, the Transportation Security Administration said.
23.Jan.2006 Bush Defends 'Terrorist Surveillance'

MANHATTAN, Kan. - President Bush pushed back Monday at critics of his once-secret domestic spying effort, saying it should be termed a "terrorist surveillance program" +

contending it has the backing of legal experts, key lawmakers + the Supreme Court.

27.Jan.2006 An American Hitler and his Gestapo

America, once hailed as the land of the free, has – under the tyranny of King George – become Amerika, reviled as a global thug that doesn’t give a damn about anyone’s rights, especially those of its own citizens.

27.Jan.2006 ABRAMOFF & KIDAN IMPLICATED IN GANGLAND STYLE SLAYING

06.Feb.2001 Gus Boulis left his office in Fort Lauderdale about 9:30 p.m. + took a shortcut on his way home to Hollywood, FL.

A car stopped in front of him + then a black Ford Mustang with temporary tags pulled up next to Boulis + someone in the car shot him at least three times with a semi-automatic weapon.

27.Jan.2006 Russian General: Nine Eleven a Globalist Inside Job

It’s ironic General Leonid Ivashov, former Chief of Staff of the Russian armed forces, delivers the truth on globalism +

this truth, unavailable in the corporate media of the “free world,” is published in a newspaper in Las Tunas, Cuba.

Ivashov tells us so-called international terrorism “is not something independent of world politics but simply an instrument,

a means to install a unipolar world with a sole world headquarters,

a pretext to erase national borders + to establish the rule of a new world elite” +

“is a phenomenon that combines the use of terror by state + non-state political structures as a means to attain their political objectives through people’s intimidation, psychological + social destabilization,

the elimination of resistance from power organizations + the creation of appropriate conditions for the manipulation of the countries’ policies + the behavior of people.”
27.Jan.2006 Bush touts his record, but just to his party
GOP leaders say a state function is private, so reporters are ejected during the speech

LAKE BUENA VISTA - The Florida Republican Party on Saturday called security to eject reporters listening to Gov. Jeb Bush tout his party's accomplishments in Tallahassee.
27.Jan.2006 US under fire as Chavez hosts World Social Forum

CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of international activists gathered in Caracas on Tuesday for the World Social Forum to protest U.S. imperialism + debate topics from fair trade to indigenous rights.
27.Jan.2006 Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst The Bush administration is bracing for impeachment hearings in Congress.
27.Jan.2006 Feds agree to pay ACLU over no-fly list

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Two federal agencies agreed Tuesday to pay the American Civil Liberties Union $200,000 to settle a lawsuit brought to uncover information about the government's no-fly list,

which bars suspected terrorists from airliners.
27.Jan.2006 Rising oil price pumps up sugar futures Sugar prices surged to a 24-year high as more supplies are used for fuel because of soaring energy costs. Friday's 6.4 % rally was the biggest fluctuation of any commodity.
26.Jan.2006 Wolfie at the Door Preaching against corruption at World Bank, he practices it — and staff rebels
24.Jan.2006 White House Declines to Provide Storm Papers

WASHINGTON -The Bush administration, citing the confidentiality of executive branch communications, said Tuesday that

it did not plan to turn over certain documents about Hurricane Katrina or make senior White House officials available for sworn testimony before two Congressional committees investigating the storm response.
26.Jan.2006 "The Emblem of Suffering and Shame"

The New York Times has printed a good, if woefully incomplete, story on the massive, death-dealing corruption of Bush's crony conquistadors in Iraq (Audit Describes Misuse of Funds in Iraq Projects).

One of the anecdotes of avarice related in the just-released audit of the Special Inspector General for Iraqi Reconstruction could well stand as an emblem of the entire murderous, misbegotten enterprise:

it's grubby, it's petty, it's driven by raw, bestial greed + it resulted in the cruel, unnecessary death of innocent people.

The criminal conspiracy that destroys America

Sadly, the President of the USA is a criminal.

In fact, he should be arrested, tried and sentenced to life in prison as a repeat offender.
26.Jan.2006 https://onlinejournal.com/
Analysis Real international terrorism: How and why the West supports terrorism -By Roy Naganathan
Voltaire wrote, “It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

Since 11.Sep.2001 the world has changed dramatically due to the climate of trepidation instilled in Western society and the excessive use of military force, which has not been as overt since the Cold War era.
25.Jan.2006 Analysis Clumsiness of new “Osama” propaganda: sign of increasing Bush administration desperation -By Larry Chin
Exactly one year ago, in response to a previous bogus "Osama" transmission, I wrote: “Like previous productions, the tape was conveniently timed to reinforce + invigorate Washington’s expanding war agenda,

keep the populations of Western nations fearfully compliant and supportive of the Bush administration’s 'war on terrorism,'

further provoke anti-Western sentiment in the Middle East + distract from exploding political + economic fault lines all over the world.

Analysis of previous alleged Osama bin Laden videos + other loudly-promoted' 'terror tapes,' 'arrests' + 'trials,' have been exposed as propaganda, likely produced by operatives of the Bush administration

We can logically conclude that this work is more of the same.”
24.Jan.2006 Commentary Unpatriotic spying -By Michael Hammerschlag

The decision by the Bush administration to go after the New York Times for exposing a portion of their spying - the unauthorized NSA spying on calls to Afghanistan- sets up the central struggle for America’s soul.
Commentary The Anti-Empire Report: Some things you need to know before the world ends -By William Blum
We read about things done + said by the Iraqi president, or the Ministry of this or the Ministry of that + it's easy to get the impression that Iraq is in the process of becoming a sovereign state,

albeit not particularly secular + employing torture, but still, a functioning, independent state.

Then we read about the IMF + the rest of the international financial mafia - with the US playing its usual sine qua non role -

making large loans to the country and forgiving debts, with the customary strings attached, in the current instance ending government subsidies for fuel + other petroleum products.
24.Jan.2006 Commentary Another nuke exercise -- your next 9/11? By Jerry Mazza
Catch this! Some fresh-brewed Homeland Insecurity published today on WorldNetDaily .

The Department of Defense (DOD) has scheduled its second major, three-day exercise to combat nuclear terrorism, this time in the Charleston, South Caroline area.

I don’t know about you, but I didn’t know Charleston had a nuclear terror problem, shades of

11.Sep.2001 -the day on which some six drills were going, enough to distract anybody from doing anything when the drills went real.
23.Jan.2006 Commentary God bless Canada! -By John Chuckman

I hadn't realized until recently that Stephen Harper was using "God Bless Canada!" as a tagline for his speeches.

Some may think this a harmless, or even beneficent, expression for a politician to use, but for those with knowledge of history, nothing could be a more frightening.
21.Jan.2006 Special Reports How Cheney used the NSA for domestic spying prior to 9/11 -By Jason Leopold
11.Sep.2001 -In the months before- 9/11 thousands of American citizens were inadvertently swept up in wiretaps, had their emails monitored +

were being watched as they surfed the Internet by spies at the super-secret National Security Agency, former NSA and counterterrorism officials said.
21.Jan.2006 The Splendid Failure of Occupation Part 41: The choice: obedience or annihilation -By B. J. Sabri

00.000.1991 From one specific angle, the American bombardment of Iraq had no parallels in the entire history of modern warfare -

U.S. imperialists televised it to every corner of the globe.

With that, the show of mass destruction had become visual entertainment for some + a message on the cost of disobedience to U.S. diktat.

In the USA where TV addiction runs high, viewers were able to see the live transmission of the slaughter with a push of a button.

This writer intensely recalls how some people dinning out at New York City restaurants were wowing at the televised scenes of explosions while consuming their meals.
21.Jan.2006 News Media Bought and paid for lies and propaganda masquerading as news -By Bill Berkowitz
Several decades ago, when veteran radio news reporter Scoop Nisker closed out his broadcasts by telling his audience that if they didn't like the news they should "go out + make some of your own,"

little did he imagine that the Bush administration + a host of its surrogates, would become masters of that domain.
21.Jan.2006 Commentary Echoes of war -By Ghali Hassan
If one compares the engineering of the crisis which led to the war of aggression against Iraq with the current engineering of crisis to justify aggression against Iran, one is not likely to identify differences.

The lies + the language are the same.

The path to peaceful resolution is deliberately replaced by the path to war of aggression.

The motive is to manipulate public opinion + justify a war of aggression against another Muslim nation.
26.Jan.2006 Regierungsbildung: Hamas kündigt "Prozess der nationalen Versöhnung an"
26.Jan.2006 Machtwechsel in Palästina: Hamas erobert Ramallah
26.Jan.2006 Islamisten-Wahlsieg: Israel lehnt Kontakt zu Hamas-Regierung ab
26.Jan.2006 Volle Kassen: Bundesagentur erwartet Milliarden-Überschuss
26.Jan.2006 Reaktionen: Bush ruft Hamas zur Mäßigung auf
26.Jan.2006 "Terroristen-Regierung": Israel fordert harte Haltung der EU gegen Hamas
26.Jan.2006 Umfrage: Mehrheit der Briten zweifelt an Evolution

26.Jan.2006 Augenblick: Machtdemonstration
26.Jan.2006 Zensur: Iran sperrt BBC-Website

26.Jan.2006 Palästina-Wahl: Hamas-Anhänger stürmen Parlament

26.Jan.2006 Hamas-Erfolg: Rice sichert Fatah Unterstützung zu

26.Jan.2006 Hamas: Terror und Suppenküchen

26.Jan.2006 Hamas-Triumph: Endlich Klarheit
26.Jan.2006 Krisenkonzern: GM macht 8,6 Milliarden Dollar Verlust
26.Jan.2006 Kuschelhormon: Sex schützt vor Lampenfieber
26.Jan.2006 Deutsche Atomwaffen: Union distanziert sich von Scholz-Vorstoß

26.Jan.2006 Arabische Welt: Zwischen Zweifeln und Hoffnungen
26.Jan.2006 18 Jahre Greenspeak: Sag's noch einmal, Alan
26.Jan.2006 Deutsche Reaktionen: "Ein Glückwunschtelegramm wird es nicht geben"

26.Jan.2006 Palästinensische Parlamentswahl: Die Angst vor Hamastan geht um

26.Jan.2006 Wahlsieg der Hamas: Merkel hält an Reise in Palästinenser-Gebiete fest
26.Jan.2006 Chaos in Nahost: Abbas ruft zur Ruhe auf
26.Jan.2006 Planetenfund: Forscher wollen bis 2010 fremdes Leben finden
26.Jan.2006 Drohgebärde: Ex-Verteidigungsminister Scholz fordert deutsche Atomwaffen
26.Jan.2006 Beginn des Enron-Prozesses: Gier vor Gericht
26.Jan.2006 USA: Bush verteidigt Abhöraktion

26.Jan.2006 Immobilienfonds-Krise: Anleger haben kaum Anspruch auf Entschädigung

26.Jan.2006 Umfrage: Deutsche machen EU für Wirtschaftsmisere verantwortlich

26.Jan.2006 Seuchen-Prognose: Forscher finden das Gesetz des Reisens
26.Jan.2006 Saddam to sue Bush and Blair : Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein Wednesday distributed copies of a lawsuit against President Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair for destroying Iraq.
26.Jan.2006 Tehran claims Britain behind bombings in Ahvaz: Iran directly accused Britain of of equipping + directing those behind a twin bomb attack in the oil city of Ahvaz that killed eight people and wounded dozens more. 26.Jan.2006 UK's murky role in Cyprus crisis : Evidence has emerged that British undercover forces were involved in fomenting the conflict between Greek and Turkish Cypriots ten years before the 1974 partition of Cyprus. 26.Jan.2006 Spy With a Heart of Gold? : Was an American spy for Israel trying to "help" his country?
26.Jan.2006 Sometimes, you just got to laugh: US diplomat: Chávez is meddling in other countries' affairs: US ambassador to Peru James Curtis Struble Wednesday said Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez "is meddling a lot in other countries' affairs."

26.Jan.2006 Cindy Sheehan Writes from Venezuela: There were tens of thousands of people in the antiwar, anti-imperialsm march in Caracas yesterday. Fernando Suarez (anotther member of GSFP) and I were among the people who led the march.

26.Jan.2006 Sizing Up Hugo Chávez: The poor, who have been the maids, gardeners and delivery boys, but never the fellow-citizens of the privileged, now feel the country belongs to them. That’s why the opposition is so fierce.

26.Jan.2006 Argentina gives residency to 1 million foreigners: The immigrants from Bolivia, Perú, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay will thus be able to legally work in and travel freely into and out of the country.

26.Jan.2006 The case against Alito: If the Senate accepts President Bush's nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, our nation will undergo profound legal changes, resulting in its transformation from a democratic republic to a corporatist dictatorship

26.Jan.2006 Pentagon and CIA refer detainee-abuse cases to DOJ: Twenty cases of detainee abuse allegations against CIA and Defence Department employees have been referred to the Justice Department for possible prosecution, a senior U.S. official said in a letter released on Tuesday.

26.Jan.2006 TSA and FBI Ordered to Pay $200,000 to Settle "No Fly" Lawsuit : Case Brought on Behalf of Two San Francisco Peace Activists Who Were Detained at an Airport
26.Jan.2006 NSA Accused of Psychologically Abusing Whistleblowers: Five current and former National Security Agency (NSA) employees have told Cybercast News Service that the agency frequently retaliates against whistleblowers by falsely labeling them "delusional," "paranoid" or "psychotic."

26.Jan.2006 New Frontiers for the Police State: A provision in the "Patriot Act" creates a new federal police force with power to violate the Bill of Rights. You might think that this cannot be true as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.

26.Jan.2006 Censorship at the Border : The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging a provision of the Patriot Act that is being used to deny visas to foreign scholars whose political views the government disfavors. The lawsuit charges that the provision, known as the "ideological exclusion" provision, is being used to prevent USA citizens and residents from hearing speech that is protected by the First Amendment.
26.Jan.2006 Katrina vanden Heuvel : Saving Our Democracy : On a glorious Saturday in New York, a spirited crowd of close to eight hundred people gathered inside the cavernous, subterranean Great Hall at New York's Cooper Union to hear Representative John Conyers and a dozen other eloquent speakers--address the gravest issue of our time: How do we save our imperiled democracy?

26.Jan.2006 Isikoff Confirms Abramoff Shopped Bush Photos : Appearing on MSNBC, Newsweek correspondent Michael Isikoff reported that it was indeed Abramoff who floated the photographs to Washingtonian. Watch the video:

26.Jan.2006 Newspaper loses Galloway libel appeal : If the newspaper had won the case at the Court of Appeal, the Respect MP would have faced a legal bill estimated at around £2 million and bankruptcy.
26.Jan.2006 British soldiers take MoD to court over 'medical negligence' : The mental scars suffered by those who have experienced the horrors of the Iraq conflict have been exposed in a series of medical studies + legal actions.
26.Jan.2006 Pentagon Planning Document Leaves Iraq Out of Equation: A four-year blueprint for the military reflects a view that the war is an anomaly. There's talk of robots and drones, but no force buildup.
26.Jan.2006 U.S. invasion responsible deaths of over 250,000 civilians in Iraq : New studies make the Bush administration's "liberation" argument for a 'pre-emptive' war against Iraq seem questionable.
26.Jan.2006 Unhitching our Wagons New Blood, New Visions + a New Political Party -By Charles Sullivan
Working class people, especially progressives, must come to understand that our interests are not being served by hitching our political wagons to either the Democratic or the Republican Party. The Republicrats represent a capitalist system that has given rise to class division, the unequal distribution of wealth, private ownership + a system of wage slavery that does not serve democracy, but plutocracy . Continued
26.Jan.2006 Iran's new bourse may threaten the dollar : By Linda S. Heard
A growing number of experts believe Iran's new oil bourse is more of a threat to US interests than nuclear missiles. Continued
26.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Bush used the questioned tape to justify his warrantless wiretapping of American citizens:
"I understand there are some in America who say, 'Well this can't be true, there aren't still people willing to attack.' All I would ask them to do is listen to the words of Osama bin Laden and take him seriously," Bush said at the National Security Agency. Just who , exactly, said such a thing? Surely no-one on the left. We've been busy castigating Bush for ignoring Bin Laden. Permalink
26.Jan.2006 https://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_449.shtml
What the world must continue to take seriously is not a threatened strike by “Osama," but the violent desperation of a stumbling New World Order (the ultimate creator of “Osama," and the paymasters of “Al-Qaeda” and “Islamic terrorism”) + a Bush administration that will resort to anything to save itself. As it was on the morning of 9/11, all eyes must remain locked on the guilty parties in Washington and the openly criminal Bush administration, with the means, motive and opportunity to wreak havoc.
26.Jan.2006 https://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_449.shtml

As Michel Chossudovsky points out in The Anglo-American War of Terror: An Overview:

“One of the main objectives of war propaganda is to ‘fabricate an enemy.' As anti-war sentiment grows and the political legitimacy the Bush Administration falters, doubts regarding the existence of this illusive ‘outside enemy’ must be dispelled.

“Propaganda purports not only to drown the truth but also to ‘kill the evidence’ on how this ‘outside enemy,' namely Osama bin Laden’s Al Qaeda was fabricated and transformed into ‘Enemy Number One.' The entire National Security doctrine centers on the existence of an ‘outside enemy’ which is threatening the Homeland.”

Even if he were real, “Osama," “Al-Qaeda” and the “war on terrorism” has exclusively served the political purposes of the Anglo-American empire, every moment that the Bush administration has needed a fabricated straw enemy. The irrefutable fact that Osama bin Laden + Al-Qaeda + all fabricated propaganda featuring their images, are creations of Anglo-American intelligence + continue to serve faithfully as intelligence assets.
26.Jan.2006 https://www.crooksandliars.com/

The right wing's attempt to label democrats + war opponents as equal to Osama continues.

On the McLaughlin group this weekend, Pat joined the latest chorus being echoed by Joe Scarborough and their gang. Video-WMP Video-QT

BUCHANAN: John, I take him seriously for this reason. What Bin Laden is doing, he's been eclipsed by Zarqawi + Zawahiri. And what he is doing, he is saying with this what Clinton said.

I am relevant- I am here- I am alive...

If anyone believes that this is some dubious connection then you are sadly mistaken.

I will continue to monitor this "meme" the Rovian republicans are hoping becomes buried in the subconscious of the American people.

Let me know when you hear other talking heads making these statements. (We all know FOX will do it so I'm not really counting them.)
26.Jan.2006 https://www.crooksandliars.com/(Time) Abramoff and Bush .
26.Jan.2006 https://www.crooksandliars.com/
Glenn says:  " This statement is factually false + Rove has to know that it's false. Nobody of any note – let alone "some important Democrats"-disagree that it's "in our national security interest to know" who Al Qaeda is calling and why. Nobody opposes eavesdropping on Al Qaeda + Rove knows that. And yet, here he is, claiming, falsely, that the NSA scandal is based on a disagreement about whether the Government should be eavesdropping on Al Qaeda, even though no such disagreement exists...read on  
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
Excerpt:
In blatant defiance of the Constitution's guarantees of Habeas Corpus + separation of powers,

the Senate on Thursday approved the Graham Amendment to the Department of Defense Authorization Act by a vote of 49 to 42.

Five Democrats joined all but 4 Republican Senators in giving the President unfettered power to hold prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba,

for the rest of their lives, with no criminal charges + no right to challenge their confinement by Habeas Corpus....
The Democrats who voted in favor of the Graham Amendment were Joseph Lieberman (Conn.), Kent Conrad (N.D.), Ben Nelson (Neb), Mary L. Landrieu (La) + Ron Wyden (Or).
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
Two possibilities:
1. The Bush Cult, against all evidence, believes that torture is a valuable method for gaining actionable intelligence. The administration and its allies aren't aware that U.S.-sponsored torture is turning the entire Arab and Islamic world into a terrorist breeding ground.
2. The torture is a cleverly crafted policy designed to destabilize the fledgling Iraqi government (creating more enemies to fight), prolong the war (increasing profits for the corporate/military/industrial complex) + fuel the perpetual "our god is bigger than your god" quest for hegemony in the Middle East.
Take your pick.
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
The Rendon Group personally set up the Iraqi National Congress and helped install Ahmad Chalabi as leader, whose main goal — “pressure the USA to attack Iraq and overthrow Saddam Hussein” — Rendon helped facilitate. Pentagon documents show that Rendon has the highest level of government clearance (above Top Secret), which helped it with its INC work — “a worldwide media blitz designed to turn Hussein…into the greatest threat to world peace.”
While the White House continues to insist it did not manipulate intelligence before the Iraq war, it sure seems that it hired John Rendon and his group to do just that.
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
It's a wrap. They got the brass ring. Whether or not the administration crumbles under it's perverse criminality, the U.S. is never going to pull out of Iraq. Yes, some troops will come home. But if you think any administration -- even a Democratic one -- is going to voluntarily extract itself from the second largest source of oil on the planet, I've got a copy of the Carter Doctrine I'd like you to read.
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
One of the most penetrating analyses of the underlying motives of the Bush Cult I have yet to see.
From caribmon's post at Dailykos:
The recent revelations about the virulent spread of death squads ravaging Iraq have only confirmed for many people the lethal incompetence of the Bush Regime, whose brutal bungling appears to have unleashed the demon of sectarian strife in the conquered land. The general reaction, even among some war supporters, has been bitter derision: "Jeez, these bozos couldn't boil an egg without causing collateral damage."
But what if the truth is even more sinister? What if this murderous chaos is not the fruit of rank incompetence but instead the desired product of carefully crafted, efficiently managed White House policy?
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
21.Dec.2005 Missing Black Boxes in WTC Attacks Found One of the most important news items to emerge in some time.
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
As Ted Lopatkiewicz, director of public affairs at the National Transportation Safety Agency which has the job of analyzing the boxes' data, says, "It's very unusual not to find a recorder after a crash, although it's also very unusual to have jets flying into buildings."
Now there is stronger evidence that something is amiss than simply the alleged non-recovery of all four of those boxes. A source at the National Transportation Safety Board, the agency that has the task of deciphering the date from the black boxes retrieved from crash sites-including those that are being handled as crimes and fall under the jurisdiction of the FBI-says the boxes were in fact recovered and were analyzed by the NTSB.
"Off the record, we had the boxes," the source says. "You'd have to get the official word from the FBI as to where they are, but we worked on them here."
More at link.

posted by Professor Pan at
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
This is a must read.
I will say that again.
This is a must read.
Having been confined to one of those "free speech" pens at several demonstrations, this "little noticed" provision of the Patriot Act takes dissent even further and effectively criminalizes it.
The word fascism gets thrown about a lot these days, but this is the definition of fascism, in bold, all caps, in red, underlined + surrounded by hideous blinking html tags.
26.Jan.2006 https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
Why is it that every message from the man works to confirm Bush's talking points, I wonder?
For instance:
The war against America and its allies will not be confined to Iraq. Iraq has become a magnet for attracting and training talented fighters.
What "OBL" is saying is that Al Qaeda is the major enemy fighting the U.S. in Iraq. While it is true that there are elements of Al Qaeda in Iraq, the purported statement subtly refutes the fact that most of the fighters in Iraq are insurgents fighting the occupation of their country. "OBL" therefore reinforces Bush's continous equating of Iraqi insurgents and Al Qaeda.
13.Mar.2002 George W. Bush,“So I don’t know where he is. You know, I just don’t spend that much time on him. … And, again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.” https://www.charm.net/~profpan//
26.Jan.2006 Why Won't The Media Touch This Book?  "Bush/Cheney stole their re-election in 2004.
They stole it not just in Ohio, but all throughout the USA, from coast to coast."
Press release for Mark Crispin Miller's new book Fooled Again .
26.Jan.2006 Clumsiness of new "Osama" propaganda: sign of increasing Bush administration desperation  This latest production may be the clumsiest and most transparent fakery of them all. Today, with the Bush administration cornered and bleeding from scandals, in need of a distraction and cover for an atrocity in Pakistan, more justification for a future conquest of Iran + facing Peak Oil and Gas-related collapse, it is a fine time for another wag, another attempt at the same old trick. But it is a trick that is losing its power.
26.Jan.2006 Palästinenser-Wahlen: Kopf-an-Kopf-Rennen zwischen Fatah und Hamas
25.Jan.2006 https://www.indiana.edu/~league/bibm.htm

00.000.1932 Marburg, Theodore. Development of the League of Nations Idea . Edited by John Holladay Latan. New York: Macmillan,.

00.000.1918 Marburg, Theodore. Draft Convention for League of Nations . New York: Macmillan,.

00.000.1917-00.000.1918 Marburg, Theodore. League of Nations . New York: Macmillan,.

Marburg, Theodore. "Papers of Theodore Marburg." Held by the Library of Congress.
25.Jan.2006 mhp: The Alliance of Bankers and Revolution The Marburg Plan , financed by Andrew Carnegie 's ample heritage, was produced in the early years of the twentieth century. It suggests premeditation for this ...
www.modernhistoryproject.org/mhp/ArticleDisplay.php?Article=Bolshevik11
25.Jan.2006 Ahmadi-Nedschad wirft London erneut Terrorbeteiligung vor
Teheran - Der Iran hat Großbritannien und die USA für die Bombenanschläge verantwortlich gemacht, bei denen im Südwesten des Landes mehrere Menschen ...
25.Jan.2006 https://www.golem.de/print.php?a=42905
Original-URL des Artikels:  https://www.golem.de/0601/42905.html Veröffentlicht:  24.Jan.2006 16:01
Bundesweite Razzia gegen Raubkopierer Auch Gesellschaft zur Verfolgung von Urheberrechtsverletzungen (GVU) im Visier
25.Jan.2006 https://www.dsl-magazin.de/news/news_Urteil_T_Online_darf_nur_rechnungsrelevante_Daten_speichern_4_17925_1.html
Außerdem wurde T-Online dazu verpflichtet, nach Beendigung der jeweiligen Nutzung alle Daten, die eine Verbindung zwischen der zugeteilten IP-Adresse und dem Kläger herstellen, umgehend zu löschen. Die Kammer vertrat die Auffassung, dass diese Daten für eine Rechnungsstellung nicht erforderlich seien und deshalb deren Erhebung und/oder Speicherung nach den einschlägigen Vorschriften des TK-Gesetzes nicht zulässig sei.
25.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-397305,00.html
Colonel Lewis Boone, ein Sprecher der Army, ging zu der Studie des pensionierten Heeresoffiziers auf Distanz. Dass die Armee vor einem Zusammenbruch stehe, sei eine "sehr extreme Charakterisierung". Die Armee sei immer noch dazu in der Lage, jede Anforderung, die an sie gestellt werde, zu erfüllen.
25.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-397305,00.html
Krepinevich, pensionierter Heeresoffizier, warnt in seiner Studie für das Verteidigungsministerium vor einem drohenden "Zusammenbruch" der größten Teilstreitkraft der US-Armee. Der derzeitige Leiter eines Forschungsinstituts für strategische und haushaltspolitische Einschätzungen befürchtet katastrophale Einbrüche bei der Nachwuchsanwerbung, sollten die Truppen weiter derart strapaziert werden.
Noch verfüge die Army über eine ausgezeichnete Kampfkraft, aber man beginne sich zu fragen, wie lange der Stress noch weitergehen könne, warnt Krepinevich in der 136 Seiten umfassenden vom Pentagon in Auftrag gegebenen Studie. Als Zeichen eines bereits begonnenen "Abwärtstrends" gibt er an, dass das Heer im Jahr 2005 hinter seinem Rekrutierungssoll zurückgeblieben sei, trotz erheblich verstärkter finanzieller Anreize für Neulinge. Die US-Armee befinde sich in einem "Rennen gegen die Zeit", wenn sie den Anforderungen des Krieges genügen wolle oder ein "zusammenbrechen", weil die Rekrutierung sich "katastrophal" entwickle.
25.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-397241,00.html
Gordon schätzt, dass bereits 26 % des aus der Erdkruste gewinnbaren Kupfers verloren sind - in Müll, der nicht mehr aufgearbeitet werden kann. Bei Zink ist die Lage ähnlich: 19 % seien nicht mehr zu verwerten. Die aktuellen Rohstoffpreise würden dies jedoch nicht widerspiegeln, weil derzeit noch ausreichend Vorräte zur Verfügung stünden. Zudem entwickeln Ingenieure immer bessere Verfahren, um Metall effizienter zu gewinnen.
Kurzfristig ist nach Aussagen der Forscher noch nicht mit einem Metallmangel zu rechnen. Langfristig sei dies aber der Fall. Vor allem seltene Metalle wie etwa Platin könnten schon bald knapp werden. Es gebe bislang auch keine Platin-Alternativen, etwa für den Bau von Katalysatoren oder Brennstoffzellen. Als Risiko werten die Forscher zudem, dass der Pro-Kopf-Verbrauch vieler Metalle weiterhin ansteigt. Deshalb könnten eines Tages auch bisher reichlich vorhandene Metalle rar werden.
"Wir müssen das Recycling in einem größerem Maßstab angehen", sagte Cynthia Ekstein von der National Science Foundation.

Metall solle in seinem gesamten Nutzungsprozess gesehen werden - von der Förderung als Erz bis zur Müllhalde.
25.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-397279,00.html
Als Rakoff nun die Veröffentlichung der Namen anordnete, fügte er gleich unmissverständlich hinzu, die Entscheidung sei "endgültig". Sowohl AP als auch Amnesty International rechneten allerdings nach dem Urteil damit, dass das Pentagon in Berufung gehen wird. "Das wird mit an Sicherheit grenzender Wahrscheinlich passieren", sagte ai-Experte Bhattacharyya. "Und dann hoffen wir eben, dass das Berufungsgericht zum gleichen Urteil kommt."
25.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-397279,00.html
Jetzt bringt ein amerikanischer Bundesrichter die US-Regierung in Sachen Guantanamo allerdings in Bedrängnis: Jed S. Rakoff, Richter am Federal District Court in Manhattan, ordnete die Veröffentlichung der Namen der mehreren hundert Guantanamo-Gefangenen an.

30.Jan.2006 -Bis zum- müsse das Pentagon die Identität der Häftlinge preisgeben, urteilte der Richter. Er gab damit einer Klage der Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press (AP) statt.
Menschenrechtsorganisationen reagieren erfreut. "Sehr positiv" und "ausgesprochen begrüßenswert" sei die Entscheidung des Richters, sagte der USA-Experte der deutschen Sektion von Amnesty International (ai), Sumit Bhattacharyya, im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Damit ist der amerikanischen Administration ein weiteres Instrument aus der Hand geschlagen - das der Geheimhaltung", sagte er. "In einer Atmosphäre der Geheimhaltung sind Menschenrechtsverletzungen Tür und Tor geöffnet."
"Argumente nicht überzeugend"
Bereits im vergangenen Jahr hatte AP die Freigabe der Protokolle von 558 Anhörungen in Guantanamo beantragt. Das Verteidigungsministerium überließ der Agentur zwar die Protokolle, schwärzte darin aber sämtliche Namen und Passagen, die möglicherweise Rückschlüsse auf die Identität der Gefangenen zugelassen hätten. Begründete wurde dies vom Pentagon zunächst mit dem Schutz der Persönlichkeitsrechte der Häftlinge - ein Argument, das Richter Rakoff bereits am 4. Januar dieses Jahres zurückwies.
Die US-Regierung versuchte daraufhin, die Geheimhaltung der Namen mit dem Schutz der Familien, Kollegen und Freunde der Häftlinge zu begründen. Diese müssten im Falle einer Veröffentlichung mit peinlichen Fragen oder gar Vergeltungsmaßnahmen durch terroristische Gruppierungen rechnen, hieß es.
Doch auch diese Argumentation ließ Rakoff nicht gelten und verwarf sie als "nicht überzeugend" und "dünne Spekulation". Schließlich hätten die Familien, Kollegen und Freunde "niemals eine begründete Aussicht" auf Anonymität gehabt.
Richter sorgte schon einmal für Aufsehen
25.Jan.2006 NS-Dokumentation: Topographie des Terrors soll 2009 fertig werden
25.Jan.2006 Alitalia-Streik: Berlusconi wirft Linken Verschwörung vor
25.Jan.2006 US-Terrorabwehr: Bundesrichter bringt Bush-Regierung in Bedrängnis
25.Jan.2006 Pentagon-Studie: "US-Army am Rande des Zusammenbruchs"
25.Jan.2006 Enron-Prozess: Schauplätze und Dramatis personae eines Bilanzskandals
25.Jan.2006 Energienot und Kälte: Ukraine erwägt, Industrie lahmzulegen
25.Jan.2006 Weltwirtschaftsforum: Der Geist von Davos

25.Jan.2006 England: Forscher will Spukschloss entzaubern
25.Jan.2006 Trotz Recycling: Metallvorräte der Erde reichen nicht
25.Jan.2006 Iranischer Minister nennt Israel "kleiner Satan"
25.Jan.2006 Benedikts erste Enzyklika: Love, love, love!

25.Jan.2006 Prognose 2006: Glos hält Wachstum von zwei % für möglich

25.Jan.2006 Tumulte auf Zypern: Straws Auto mit Eiern beworfen
25.Jan.2006 Guantanamo: Zypries verurteilt Vernehmungen durch deutsche Beamte
25.Jan.2006 Raucher: Gene bestimmen täglichen Tabakbedarf

25.Jan.2006 BND-Affäre: Opposition streitet weiter über Untersuchungsausschuss

25.Jan.2006 Straßengebühr: EU blockiert Maut-Erstattung für deutsche Spediteure
25.Jan.2006 Irak: Anstieg der Armut seit Saddams Sturz

25.Jan.2006 Guantanamo: US-Militär dementiert neue Hinrichtungsregelung

25.Jan.2006 Psychische Krisen: Erste Hilfe im Netz

25.Jan.2006 Palästinenser: Hamas will bewaffneten Kampf fortsetzen
25.Jan.2006 Hochstimmung: Ifo-Geschäftsklimaindex schnellt nach oben

25.Jan.2006 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Ich war Maos Hund"

25.Jan.2006 Italien: Gericht soll über Existenz Jesu entscheiden
25.Jan.2006 Atomkonflikt: Iran begrüßt russischen Vorschlag
25.Jan.2006 Landtagswahl Rheinland-Pfalz: SPD drohen schwere Verluste
25.Jan.2006 Boomwirtschaft China: Exportüberschuss erreicht Rekordhöhe
25.Jan.2006 Wechsel zur Deutschen Bank: Harsche Kritik an Ex-Staatssekretär Koch-Weser
25.Jan.2006 Suchmaschine: Google übernimmt chinesische Zensurbestimmungen

25.Jan.2006 CIA-Affäre: USA weisen Europarat-Kritik zurück
25.Jan.2006 Please, Help Me!: Please help me my friends, who lived through war, who experienced war around the world. Please tell me the way in which I can pass on this horrible experience to others.

Please also tell me, explain to me why many of us still, as my friend observes, keep "quiet and cower."

25.Jan.2006 Audit Describes Misuse of Funds in Iraq Projects : Much of the material in the latest audit is new + the portrait it paints of abandoned rebuilding projects, nonexistent paperwork + cash routinely taken from the main vault in Hilla without even a log to keep track of the transactions is likely to raise major new questions about how the provisional authority did its business + accounted for huge expenditures of Iraqi + American money.

25.Jan.2006 Iraq's Oil Bust: The Bush ad—ministration dreamed of liberating the country on the cheap. Billions in untapped oil reserves would pay for reconstruction and nation-building.

But hundreds of billions of American tax dollars later, Iraq's oil still isn't flowing at prewar levels.

25.Jan.2006 Fact or fiction? Bush offered Blair chance to pull out of Iraq: President George W Bush has revealed he offered Tony Blair the chance not go to war in Iraq, but the Prime Minister turned it down.

25.Jan.2006 Bolton: Bush won't tolerate nuclear Iran: According to Bolton, Bush worries that a nuclear-equipped Iran under its current leadership could well engage in a nuclear holocaust,

"and that is just not something he is going to accept."

25.Jan.2006 Patrick J. Buchanan: Bush's Dilemma: Iran vs. Israel : If America does not strike, Mofaz is saying, Israel will.

Yet, as that could produce the same results as an American attack, without the same assurance of success, Bush may have to restrain Israel, if he does not want a wider war.

25.Jan.2006 Paul Craig Roberts : US Orders Syria To Do the Impossible : Is there a person anywhere in the world who still thinks there is an ounce of sanity in the Bush administration?

If so, let that person read John Bolton’s orders to Syria in the January 24 online edition of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

25.Jan.2006 CIA flights likened to the work of gangsters : The USA was accused of "gangster tactics" yesterday + European governments were accused of turning a blind eye to the "outsourcing of torture", as a human rights watchdog concluded that the CIA conducted illegal anti-terror activities in Europe.

25.Jan.2006 EU governments condoned torture, Swiss investigator says: European governments have silently condoned the practice of abducting suspected terrorists + transporting them from European airports to countries in which torture is used, a Council of Europe (CoE) investigation has revealed.

25.Jan.2006 Video: Elusive Peace: Israel and the Arabs: Israel's former Prime Minister Ehud Barak persuaded US President Bill Clinton to devote his last 18 months in office to helping make peace with Yasser Arafat. But after tense negotiations the deal was never made. Then Ariel Sharon made a controversial visit to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in East Jerusalem, a site which is also holy to Jews.

25.Jan.2006 NSA DIRECTOR, GENERAL MICHAEL HAYDEN CONTRADICTS HIS 2002 TESTIMONY TO THE JOINT INQUIRY OF CONGRESS: NSA Director Hayden- One Needle in a Growing Bush "Hay"stack of Lies:

25.Jan.2006 New Frontiers for the Police State: A provision in the "Patriot Act" creates a new federal police force with power to violate the Bill of Rights.

You might think that this cannot be true as you have not read about it in newspapers or heard it discussed by talking heads on TV.

25.Jan.2006 UK: Police stop and search 100 people a day under new anti-terror laws : Campaigners will mount a legal challenge in the House of Lords today,

as they attempt to limit the laws giving police sweeping powers to stop people even if they have no grounds to suspect them of a crime.
25.Jan.2006 Study: Army stretched to breaking point: Andrew Krepinevich, a retired Army officer who wrote the report under a Pentagon contract, concluded that the Army cannot sustain the pace of troop deployments to Iraq long enough to break the back of the insurgency.

25.Jan.2006 U.S. forces must learn to fight 'Long War': "This generation of servicemembers will be in what we're calling the Long War," the general said.

"Our estimate is that for at least the next 20 years, part of our focus will be on how do we deal with the extremist networks that will continue to threaten the USA and its allies."
25.Jan.2006 Unhitching our Wagons New Blood, New Visions + a New Political Party -By Charles Sullivan
Working class people, especially progressives, must come to understand that our interests are not being served by hitching our political wagons to either the Democratic or the Republican Party. The Republicrats represent a capitalist system that has given rise to class division, the unequal distribution of wealth, private ownership + a system of wage slavery that does not serve democracy, but plutocracy . Continued
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According to Bill O'Reilly, bloggers who went after Deborah Howell for her Abramovian obfuscations -- in other words, bloggers like yours truly -- functioned as part of a well-organized smear campaign funded by George Soros and Peter Lewis.
Does O'Reilly feel obligated to provide any evidence that either of these men paid a single dollar to a single blogger for this purpose? Of course not. "Christians" like O'Reilly always have an elastic interpretation of the commandment forbidding false witness. For the well-heeled O'Reilly to accuse anyone else of taking money is like Germany accusing Poland of starting World War II. Permalink 25.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
Obviously, this is the first step. Today, we are told that these intrusions are justified by the sacred cause of protecting our children. Tomorrow, we will be living in the world of Minority Report . Permalink
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Iris scans Why, in a time of strained educational budgets, would the Freehold Borough School District feel obligated to spend $369,000 on a iris scanner system designed to identify everyone in or near an elementary school ? Are terrorists infiltrating our grade schools? 25.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
The new Gestapo The Patriot Act reauthorization bill of 2005 offers an interesting little tidbit. Most people don't know about this:
Sec. 3056A. Powers, authorities + duties of United States Secret Service Uniformed Division
(a) There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division'.

Subject to the supervision of the Secretary of Homeland Security,

the United States Secret Service Uniformed Division

shall perform such duties as the Director, United States Secret Service, may prescribe in connection with the protection of the following:

What follows is a list of federal properties (the White House, Foreign Diplomatic Missions + so forth). Then we get to the juicy bit:
(11) An event designated under section 3056(e) of title 18 as a special event of national significance.

The uniformed Secret Service are authorized, in the wake of such an "event," to make arrests without warrant.
What I've been looking for - and have yet to find - is Section 3056(e) of title 18.

Just what is a "special event of national significance"?

I'm thinking bombs.

I'm thinking that all the Bushies need do is set off a single mini-nuke - +

then they will have the authority, based on laws already on the books ,

to send out the Gestapo to jail all dissenters. Permalink
25.Jan.2006 Klima-Studie: 2005 war wärmstes Jahr seit über einem Jahrhundert
24.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-396960,00.html
Zahlreiche "kohärente + übereinstimmende Indizien" sowie Äußerungen von US-Beamten deuteten darauf hin, dass die CIA systematisch Häftlinge in Drittländer befördert habe, die dann die Folter übernahmen, erläuterte Marty. Es gebe Beweise dafür, dass "Folter geoutsourct" wurde.

Er nannte die illegalen Verschleppungen des islamischen geistlichen Abu Omar in Italien + die des Deutschen Khaled el-Masri.

Das sei von den zuständigen Behörden nie bestritten worden.
24.Jan.2006 Ahmadinedschad-Besuch: Rätsel um Bombenanschläge in Iran

24.Jan.2006 Atomstreit: Iran und Russland streben Kompromiss an
24.Jan.2006 https://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/opinion/13679193.htm
Anyone concerned about American public life at the outset of the 21st century would do well to pay close attention to the prophetic scenario embraced by millions.

For these believers, America faces not just shadowy terrorists but nothing less than the advance guard of Antichrist himself.
24.Jan.2006 https://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48470

Lahr knows that the Eastwind pilots are telling the truth. So does the CIA.

Now, with the 10th anniversary approaching of TWA 800's demise, it is left to a California federal judge to insist that the truth be shared with the nation.

Lahr is not overly optimistic, but he is not about to give up.
24.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-397112,00.html
Yi folgert aus dem Ergebnis der Studie, dass Menschen + Schimpansen einer gemeinsamen Gattung zugeordnet werden sollten - wie es schon einmal der Fall war.

00.000.1775-00.000.1816 waren beide Arten Mitglieder der Gattung Homo.

Dann aber wurden Schimpansen + ihre Vettern, die weniger aggressiven Bonobos, in die Gattung Pan eingeordnet - als Pan troglodytes + Pan paniscus.

"Wir haben nicht nur ein extrem ähnliches Erbgut, sondern auch fast gleiche Zeitspannen von einer Generation zur anderen", sagte Yi.

"Menschen und Schimpansen sollten einer Art angehören."
24.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-397112,00.html
Die Evolutionsbiologen um Soojin Yi vom Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta haben die sogenannte molekulare Uhr von Menschen + Schimpansen verglichen.

Dabei fanden sie heraus, dass sich das Erbgut von Homo sapiens und Pan troglodytes, so der lateinische Name des Schimpansen, mit nahezu der gleichen Geschwindigkeit verändert.
Die langsam laufende molekulare Uhr deutet auf eine lange Zeitspanne zwischen den Generationen und eine ausgedehnte Entwicklungszeit bis zur Geschlechtsreife hin.

Beim Menschen geht sie besonders langsam - und wird oft als eines der Merkmale benutzt, die Homo sapiens gegen das Tierreich abgrenzen.
Yis Team hat jetzt herausgefunden, dass sich das Schimpansen-Erbgut ähnlich gemächlich verändert - und in dieser Hinsicht der DNA des Menschen näher steht als der von anderen Affenarten.

Die molekulare Uhr des Schimpansen tickt nur um drei % schneller als die humane, schreiben die Forscher im Fachblatt "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences".

Zwischen Mensch + anderen Affenarten wie Gorilla oder Orang-Utan bestehe dagegen ein Geschwindigkeitsunterschied von elf %.
24.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-396972,00.html
Ralph Catalano + Tim Bruckner von der University of California in Berkeley haben nun eine Studie veröffentlicht, der zufolge Theorie Nummer eins eher zutrifft.

Die Forscher werteten die Lebensdaten der zwischen

00.000.1751-00.000.1912 geborenen Schweden statistisch aus.

Sie fanden heraus, dass in manchen Jahren zwar weniger Jungen auf die Welt kamen, die dann jedoch länger lebten als eigentlich zu erwarten war.
Dieser Zusammenhang spricht für die Theorie der natürlichen Auslese, schreiben Catalano + Bruckner im Fachblatt "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences":

Die männlichen Föten, die trotz widriger Umstände geboren wurden, waren robuster und hatten damit eine vergleichsweise hohe Lebenserwartung.

Die ungewollte "Abtreibung" schwächerer männlicher Föten könne vom Drang gesteuert sein, für das Überleben des eigenen Geschlechts zu sorgen.

Weiblicher Nachwuchs sorge eher für den Erhalt der eigenen Art als männlicher.
Um weitere Hinweise auf die richtige Theorie zu bekommen, müsse die Studie aber mit anderen Bevölkerungsgruppen wiederholt werden, kommentieren die Wissenschaftler.
24.Jan.2006 Guantanamo: Neue US-Regeln ermöglichen Hinrichtungen
24.Jan.2006 Gigantische Krise: Arbeitslosigkeit weltweit auf Rekordstand

24.Jan.2006 Supreme Court: Bush setzt Richter Alito durch

24.Jan.2006 Erbgut-Studie: Schimpansen sollen wieder Menschen werden
24.Jan.2006 Ahmadinedschad-Besuch: Rätsel um Bombenanschläge in Iran
24.Jan.2006 CIA-Affäre: Notizen eines frustrierten Ermittlers
24.Jan.2006 International koordinierte Aktion: 300 Razzien gegen Raubkopierer
24.Jan.2006 Trotz Katastrophen: Tourismus steigt weltweit auf Rekordniveau
24.Jan.2006 Anti-Terror-Kampf: Pentagon will Spezialeinheiten aufstocken

24.Jan.2006 Immobilienfonds-Krise: Anleger ziehen Milliarden ab
24.Jan.2006 Energiepreise: Höchste Zeit für ein Kartell der Öl-Verbraucher
24.Jan.2006 Luxor: Gut erhaltene Königinnen-Statue entdeckt 
24.Jan.2006 Umwelt-Rangliste: Costa Rica schlägt Deutschland
24.Jan.2006 Unwort des Jahres: "Entlassungsproduktivität"
24.Jan.2006 Übernahmepläne: Thyssen und BASF blitzen in Amerika ab
24.Jan.2006 CIA-Affäre: Europaratsermittler berichtet von 100 Verschleppten und Folter
24.Jan.2006 Ekliger Fund: Wal-Erbrochenes macht Fischerpaar reich
24.Jan.2006 Teure Devise: Euro klettert auf Vier-Monats-Hoch
24.Jan.2006 Wolfowitz under Fire: The immediate cause of the turmoil at the World Bank is the appointment of an adviser to Mr Wolfowitz with close ties to the Republican party as the new director of the internal watchdog that investigates suspected fraud and staff misconduct.

24.Jan.2006 Supreme Ethics Problem? : What Was Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Doing on Day of Supreme Court Swearing-In?

24.Jan.2006 U.S. Senate panel endorses Alito : The Senate Judiciary Committee voted strictly along party lines today to endorse Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. for a seat on the Supreme Court, sending the nomination to the full Senate, where confirmation is all but certain.

24.Jan.2006 Airline captain adds NSA to TWA Flight 800 case: More than five years ago, retired United Airline Capt. Ray Lahr began his FOIA (Freedom Of Information Act) petition to discover why TWA Flight 800 blew up on the night of 17.Jul.1996 off the coast of Long Island.

24.Jan.2006 Consevatives win in Canadian election: Conservative Stephen Harper pledged to quickly carry out his campaign promises to cut taxes, get tough on crime and repair strained ties with Washington after his party won national elections and ended 13 years of Liberal Party rule in Canada.
24.Jan.2006 Palestinian refugees will hold mock PLO elections in Brussels and Paris: Six million Palestinians exiled in Arab states, Europe, the Americas and elsewhere + Palestinian citizens of Israel, have remained stripped of their right to participate in Palestinian democratic decision making and are denied their right to return.

24.Jan.2006 U.S. ordered to reveal IDs of detainees: A federal judge has ordered the Pentagon to release the names and nationalities of hundreds of prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, rejecting the government's argument that it would be a violation of their privacy and expose them to retaliation by terrorist groups.

24.Jan.2006 Defending Spy Program, General Reveals Shaky Grip on 4th Amendment : The former national director of the National Security Agency, in an appearance today before the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., today, appeared to be unfamiliar with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

24.Jan.2006 How Close Are We to the End of Democracy?: No president in over 200 years of our history has ever before claimed the "unitary powers" that Bush claims are his. Not President Lincoln during the Civil War, not President Wilson during World War I, not President Roosevelt during World War II, not President Truman during Korea + not Presidents Johnson and Nixon during Vietnam.

24.Jan.2006 Impeachment hearings: The White House prepares for the worst : "A coalition in Congress is being formed to support impeachment," an administration source said.

24.Jan.2006 Bush on Trial for Crimes against Humanity: The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration convened last weekend in New York City's Riverside Church.

24.Jan.2006 Expulsion of U.S. Envoy Sought in Pakistan : Lawmakers in northwestern Pakistan on Monday demanded the government expel the American ambassador to Pakistan in response to a U.S. airstrike that killed 13 people.

24.Jan.2006 East Timor truth commission finds U.S. "political and military support were fundamental to the Indonesian invasion and occupation" : Report estimates 100-180,000 Timorese killed or starved 1975-1999

24.Jan.2006 11 killed in Nigeria oil raid: An armed gang dressed in police uniforms has attacked the offices of Agip oil company, a unit of Italy's ENI, in Nigeria, killing 11 people, security and government sources said.

24.Jan.2006 Venezuela vice president to Sen. McCain: 'Go to hell': Venezuela's vice president derided Sen. John McCain for suggesting that "wackos" run the South American country, saying Monday that the USA should focus on its own problems.

24.Jan.2006 Chavez says end is near for U.S. "empire": "The empire has entered the phase of desperation, like a vampire who sees dawn approaching and realizes that he still has not sucked enough blood," the outspoken leftist said in a long speech after receiving an honorary degree from San Andres University in La Paz.

24.Jan.2006 Venezuela's Chavez hosts World Social Forum : Leftist leaders are increasingly popular across Latin America, while Chavez's own "revolution" for the poor has become an inspiration for like-minded activists everywhere.

24.Jan.2006 Castro offers eye care for US poor : Fidel Castro, the Cuban president, has offered free eye operations to impoverished Americans and asked the US government to let them travel to his country for treatment.
24.Jan.2006 Iranian report: Mossad agent arrested on border with Turkey : Iranian intelligence agents arrested a man who worked for Iran's Gachsaran oil company some 20 years ago. Fourteen years ago, the man allegedly hijacked an Iranian plane and landed it in Israel. Farda News reported "the Zionist regime granted the man asylum and recruited him to work as a spy."

24.Jan.2006 In case you missed it: Chris Floyd: Into the Dark: The Pentagon Plan to Foment Terrorism

24.Jan.2006 Pakistan backs Iran pipeline despite U.S. objections: Pakistan said on Tuesday that a plan to build a natural gas pipeline from Iran to India through its territory should go ahead as scheduled, despite strong opposition from the USA.

24.Jan.2006 What will China do? : Weeks ago, Chinese officials pledged to veto any U.S. or European attempt to impose UN sanctions on Iran. But since Ahmadinejad began to ratchet up tensions and the West responded with threats of its own, China has kept its intentions to itself.
24.Jan.2006 War pimp alert: Bush commits US to defence of Israel in face of Iran threat : "Israel's our ally. We're committed to the safety of Israel + it's a commitment we will keep.

24.Jan.2006 War pimp alert: Bush says sees risk of Iranian nuclear blackmail: U.S. President George W. Bush said on Monday he was concerned a future nuclear-armed Iran could blackmail the world.
24.Jan.2006 International Law, the United Nations + the War in Iraq: The U.S. representative claimed his country's actions were authorized by previous council resolutions (as many in the Bush administration are arguing again today). The British delegate similarly argued that because Iraq had not complied with the terms of Resolution 687, military force was justified.
24.Jan.2006 HRW: U.S. Policy of Abuse Undermines Rights Worldwide : New evidence demonstrated in 2005 that torture and mistreatment have been a deliberate part of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism strategy, undermining the global defense of human rights, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing its World Report 2006

24.Jan.2006 Jordan: Parliament Should Reject U.S. Impunity Deal: Jordan’s parliament should reject an agreement that would shield U.S. citizens and personnel under Jordan jurisdiction from ICC prosecution for war crimes, crimes against humanity or genocide, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today.

24.Jan.2006 Sanitised images hide truth about war, says Fisk : The sanitised images of war broadcast on television are a "lethal weapon" masking atrocities which demonstrate that conflict can "never be justified," an Independent debate was told last night.
24.Jan.2006 The Re-Declared War on Terror By Noam Chomsky

"Terror" is a term that rightly arouses strong emotions and deep concerns. The primary concern should, naturally, be to take measures to alleviate the threat, which has been severe in the past + will be even more so in the future. To proceed in a serious way, we have to establish some guidelines. Here are a few simple ones: Continued
24.Jan.2006 Investigator: U.S. 'Outsourced' Torture -By JAN SLIVA -The Associated Press

The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday that evidence pointed to the existence of a system of "outsourcing" of torture by the USA + that it was highly likely European governments were aware of it. Continued
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24.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Moonie mag speaks of impeachment Insight on the News is a propaganda sheet allied to the Washington Times and subsidized by the Reverend Moon. To the shock of many, Insight has today published a piece on possible impeachment hearings for W. Impeachment proponents in Congress have been bolstered by a memorandum by the Congressional Research Service on Jan. 6. CRS, which is the research arm of Congress, asserted in a report by national security specialist Alfred Cumming that the amended 1947 law requires the president to keep all members of the House and Senate intelligence committees "fully and currently informed" of a domestic surveillance effort. It was the second CRS report in less than a month that questioned the administration's domestic surveillance program.
The latest CRS report said Mr. Bush should have briefed the intelligence committees in the House and Senate. The report said covert programs must be reported to House and Senate leaders as well as the chairs of the intelligence panels, termed the "Gang of Eight." There's a Lawrence of Arabia quote for every occasion -- and right now, I'm thinking of the scene where Anthony Quinn tells Omar Sharif "This is a new trick!"
The question is not "Should Bush be impeached?" but "Why is Moon pushing the idea now?" After all, the Korean Khrist has long been close to Dubya's daddy. Brother Neil has been tagging along with the Moon roadshow for some time. And W himself even gave a televised "thumbs up" to Moon's "Tear Down the Cross Day" rally. (How our Fearless Leader managed to avoid paying a political price for that endorsement remains a mystery.)
So...what's really going on here?
24.Jan.2006 https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/22/cell_mecury_army/

So, youngsters can now blast away at their enemies on Sony gear and then graduate to an actual Cell-powered tank.

"The Cell BE processor was originally designed for the volume home entertainment market, but its architecture of nine heterogeneous on-chip cores is well-suited to the type of distributed, real-time processing that will power tomorrow's digital battlefield," said Craig Lund, CTO at Mercury. "At 200 GFLOPS, the Cell BE processor is an order-of-magnitude higher in performance than other processors. In defense computing, the availability of the Cell BE processor is an industry milestone akin to the introduction of AltiVec into the PowerPC architecture."

So far, Mercury is the only company to reveal Cell-based server designs. It has a blade server that slots into IBM's BladeCenter chassis and the more compact Turismo server coming in early 2007.
23.Jan.2006 https://www.alternet.org/story/31009/ 'Science is the last unreformed institution'
23.Jan.2006 https://www.alternet.org/story/31009/

What so infuriated Maddox was Sheldrake's theory of "morphic resonance" -- a complicated framework of ideas proposing that nature relies upon its own set of memories, which are transmitted through time and space via "morphic fields". The theory holds that these fields, which operate much like electrical or magnetic fields, shape our entire world. A panda bear is a panda bear because it naturally tunes into morphic fields containing storehouses of information that define and govern panda bears. The same with pigeons, platinum atoms + the oak trees on Hampstead Heath, not to mention human beings. This theory, if widely accepted, would turn our understanding of the universe inside out -- which is why Sheldrake has so often felt the wrath of orthodox scientists.

For the past 20 years, he has pursued further research on morphic fields even though no university or scientific institute would dare hire him. Much of his empirical explorations focus on unsolved phenomenon such as how pigeons and other animals find their way home from great distances, why people experience feelings in amputated limbs, why some people and animals can sense that someone is staring at them. He believes morphic resonance may offer answers to these questions.
23.Jan.2006 Cliff paintings in Ningxia may be origin of picture writing: expert  The prehistoric cliff paintings discovered in northwestern China may be a medium of primitive language and an origin of picture writing, experts have said.
23.Jan.2006 Ancient oak felled for wine barrels  The Morat tree, as it is called, was planted in the 1660s during the reign of Louis XIV, on the instructions of the King's main administrator, Jean-Baptiste Colbert. A huge tree-planting programme was organised at the time, to provide high quality timber for France's naval shipyards
23.Jan.2006 David and the Inflatable Goliath  Pentagon builds monster blimp. With pic.
23.Jan.2006 Attacks in Iraq jumped in 2005: Insurgents launched 34,131 attacks last year, up from 26,496 the year before, according to U.S. military figures released Sunday.

23.Jan.2006 Al-Qa'eda supporters win seats in local polls : Supporters of al-Qa'eda in Iraq have used the elections staged by the USA to gain positions of political power, the American military believes.

23.Jan.2006 Powell: US will pull troops out this year: Former Bush aide who urged caution over Iraq signals start of withdrawal by end of 2006

23.Jan.2006 Resistance And Occupation: Resistanc to occupation cannot be defeated.

Victory may be very long in coming, but come it will, because time is on the insurgents’ side. Occupation forces always withdraw, one way or another…

23.Jan.2006 American contractors leaving Iraq: American private contractors are preparing to leave Iraq as US money runs out and government ministries take charge of the reconstruction effort

23.Jan.2006 Troops return from Iraq with money to burn: Several soldiers interviewed estimated they earned an extra $700 to $800 per month while in Iraq, totaling up to an extra $9,600 for some from their year overseas.

23.Jan.2006 Nothing depleted about 'depleted uranium': Currently, more than 50 % of Iraqi cancer patients are children under the age of 5, up from 13 %. Children are especially vulnerable because they tend to play in areas that are heavily polluted by depleted uranium.

23.Jan.2006 Israel Hints at Military Action Against Iran: Israel is threatening to launch a pre-emptive strike against Iran's nuclear program. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz has hinted that Israel is preparing for military action against Iran's nuclear facilities.

23.Jan.2006 Rice says time for talking with Iran is over: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday there was strong international consensus against Iran's nuclear plans and time had run out for talking to Tehran.

23.Jan.2006 Iran threatens to restart full-scale enrichment if referred to U.N. Security Council : Iran will immediately retaliate if referred to the U.N. Security Council next week by forging ahead with developing a full-scale uranium enrichment program, a senior envoy said Monday.

23.Jan.2006 Senator Hillary Clinton Takes Money from Pro-Regime Iranians: Senator Hillary Clinton yesterday accused President George W. Bush of mishandling the threat from Iran while she's been accepting money from supporters of the renegade Iranian regime.

23.Jan.2006 Hillary Clinton, War Goddess : She wants permanent bases in Iraq – and threatens war with Iran

23.Jan.2006 Joe Lieberman: U.S. Prepared for Iran Strike: Sen. Joe Lieberman said Sunday that the U.S. is prepared to deal with the Iranian nuclear crisis militarily - even if the war in Iraq continues to require a substantial American troop commitment.

23.Jan.2006 Military assault on Iran could cost U.S. dearly : Diplomats around the world keep repeating the mantra: There is no military option when it comes to slowing, much less stopping, Iran's presumed ambitions to get the Bomb.

23.Jan.2006 Iran's Really Big Weapon: This could be a far more profoundly punishing blow to American interests than Iran's ability to manufacture a crude atom bomb that would have little credibility until it became small and stable and reliable enough to be delivered on some putative target.

23.Jan.2006 Mike Whitney : Iran’s Oil-exchange threatens the Greenback : This is why Bush and Co. are planning to lead the nation to war against Iran. It is straightforward defense of the current global system and the continuing dominance of the reserve currency, the dollar.

23.Jan.2006 U.S. tells Israel it will shun PA gov't that includes Hamas : The American administration has promised Israel that the USA will not recognize any Palestinian government in which Hamas participates, government sources in Jerusalem have said.

23.Jan.2006 U.S. Spent $1.9 Million to Aid Fatah in Palestinian Elections : American and Palestinian officials who spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak to reporters said that the program, which started in August, was intended to help defeat Hamas

23.Jan.2006 Fatah attacked for taking US funds: "This is a clear violation of the election law," he said. "Receiving money from foreign sources is forbidden and the PA and Fatah ought to clarify their position in this regard.

23.Jan.2006 Hamas sees possible indirect talks with Israel : A senior Hamas official raised the possibility on Monday of indirect negotiations with Israel, softening the Islamic militant group's stance ahead of this week's Palestinian election

23.Jan.2006 Israel killed Arafat, says Assad: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has caused outrage by accusing Israel of assassinating former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, whose death 14 months ago remains a mystery.

23.Jan.2006 Video: The Wall Of Hate: Your tax dollars at work. Windows Media. 7 minutes

23.Jan.2006 Pakistanis Stopped From Protesting U.S. : Pakistani security forces on Monday stopped hundreds of hard-line Islamists from heading to northwestern Pakistan to protest against a fatal U.S. missile attack, the first time authorities have tried to quell mounting anti-American sentiments.

23.Jan.2006 Sympathy for al-Qaida Surges in Pakistan : Sympathy for al-Qaida has surged after a U.S. airstrike devastated this remote mountain hamlet in a region sometimes as hostile toward the Pakistani government as it is to the USA.

23.Jan.2006 Bin Laden: Where is he? Who's protecting him? Why can't we find him? : The latest audiotape proves the al-Qa'ida figurehead has pulled off one of the most remarkable disappearing acts in history.

23.Jan.2006 Russia displays 'spying rock' : A programme aired on state television said four British diplomats used a hi-tech version of the "dead letter drop" of spy novel fame - a dummy rock by the roadside that could receive information electronically and beam it to a hand-held computer on demand.

23.Jan.2006 Russia blamed for 'gas sabotage' : Georgia's president has accused Moscow of serious acts of "sabotage" after gas blasts on Russian pipelines cut off supplies to Georgia and Armenia.

23.Jan.2006 Experts see $100 a barrel oil: Geopolitical conflicts taking their toll : Iran issue alone could cause disruption

23.Jan.2006 Saudi King Signs Energy Deal With China China has signed an agreement with Saudi Arabia that may boost Beijing's purchases of Saudi oil.

The deal came during a visit by Saudi King Abdullah to the Chinese capital.

23.Jan.2006 McCain says the U.S. can't rely on `wackos' oil : A top Republican lawmaker said Sunday that the U.S. must explore alternate energy sources to avoid being held hostage by Iran or by "wackos" in Venezuela -- an apparent reference to Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's populist president.

23.Jan.2006 Activists find a home from home: Hugo Chavez, the Venezuelan president, is to host one of the world's largest anti-globalisation, anti-war events, starting this week.

23.Jan.2006 Bolivian leader sworn in as the Left advances on US doorstep: Evo Morales, a former llama herder and coca farmer, was sworn in yesterday as Bolivia's first indigenous Indian president, the latest in a string of Leftists sweeping to power across Latin America in a backlash against US-backed free-market policies.

23.Jan.2006 Thousands throng streets as Bolivian leader sheds tears: Warning to US as Morales threatens to turn to China

23.Jan.2006 U.S. Gvt. Channels Millions Through National Endowment for Democracy to Fund Anti-Lavalas Groups in Haiti: Anthony Fenton, joins us to discuss the National Endowment for Democracy - the US government-funded group - that is pouring millions of dollars into trying to influence Haiti's political future.

23.Jan.2006 Held in 9/11 Net, Muslims Return to Accuse U.S. : Physical abuse, the lawsuit says, began the moment they arrived, chained and shackled. As Yasser described it, guards supervised by Lieutenant Pray slammed his brother face-first into a wall where an American flag T-shirt had been taped, then did the same to him.

23.Jan.2006 Crime Of Compassion : Although the government continues to characterize Dhafir as a criminal supporting terrorism, the only context in which this case makes any sense is the overwhelming humanitarian crisis created by the brutal U.S. sanctions on the country of Iraq

23.Jan.2006 Free Rafil Dhafir: He is a political victim of an overzealous government that is willing to bend the rules-as we show on this web page-- to win a trophy in the war on terrorism."

23.Jan.2006 U.S. anti-war activist gets 6 months for protest at military recruiting station : A peace activist was sentenced Monday to six months in jail for splattering his own blood at a military recruiting station to protest the then-looming war in Iraq.

23.Jan.2006 Paul Craig Roberts: Cheney's War Workshop Plots Another Attack: 2006 is a dangerous year for Americans. The Bill of Rights and Americans' civil liberties are being sacrificed on the alter of unaccountable executive power, as is the separation of powers, the foundation of our constitutional system.

23.Jan.2006 Bush Aide Says Abramoff Photos Coincidence: An adviser to President Bush said Monday that Bush's photographs in the company of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff amount to a coincidence and shouldn't be interpreted any more seriously than that.

23.Jan.2006 Bush and Abramoff—Say Cheese?: Abramoff would tell prosecutors, if asked, that not only did he know the President, but the President knew the names of Abramoff’s children and asked about them during their meetings. At one such photo session, Bush discussed the fact that both he and Abramoff were fathers of twins.

23.Jan.2006 Will Abramoff’s Deep Throat Swallow God’s Mouthpiece?: Evidence is mounting that former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed Jr., along with a former leader of the Texas Christian Coalition, may have illegally lobbied Texas state officials on behalf of crooked federal lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his clients.

23.Jan.2006 Wayward Christian Soldiers: What will it take for American evangelicals to recognize our mistaken loyalty?

23.Jan.2006 Bush nominee broke law: A federal judge nominated to the U.S. Circuit Court owned stock in corporations involved in lawsuits brought before him.

23.Jan.2006 U.S. 28th in environmental performance: The USA trailed most Western European nations, as well as Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Costa Rica and Chile in meeting environmental goals in such areas as safe drinking water and low ozone levels

23.Jan.2006 23.Jan.2006 The Truth Seeker - Big Brother is Watching You ... And .. of senior personnel from the CIA ,MI6, Mossad etc, along with military ... of the “ Mujihadeen ” to overthrow the socialist government of Afghanistan and ... https://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=437  
23.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
Some may be under the impression that by "speak her mind," she means "read my script" and "take my pay-off."

I suspect that if she were to write several columns in favor of - say - a cessation of aid to Israel, the WP powers-that-be would soon find a loophole in that "contract" of hers. Permalink 23.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
The only Indian tribes who gave substantially to Republicans were those working with Abramoff. Of the top 10 political donors among Indian tribes in that period, three are former clients of Abramoff and Scanlon: the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians + the Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians of California. All three gave most of their donations to Republicans -- by margins of 30 %age points or more -- while the rest favored Democrats... 23.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
On January 15, Howell wrote a column filled with deliberate lies, in which she claimed that Abramoff "had made substantial campaign contributions to both major parties." She also intimated that the Washington Post had covered up these phantom donations to Democrats.
Today she offered an "apology" which turns out to be almost as deceptive as the original outrage. I wrote that he gave campaign money to both parties and their members of Congress. He didn't. I should have said he directed his client Indian tribes to make campaign contributions to members of Congress from both parties. 23.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
The point is this: The Indians wanted to help Democrats, their traditional allies, who surely would have received far more from tribal donors if Jack Abramoff never existed. We still don't have even a quark's worth of proof that any tribe gave any amount to any Democrat purely because Godfather Jack directed them to do so. Permalink 23.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
Mark Schmitt tells us the part of the story the Post doesn't want you to know: The Coushatta tribe didn't give one dime to Jean Carnahan. Obviously, the tribal leaders received further "directions" in their confabs with Team Abramoff. 23.Jan.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
Yesterday, I asked (as did a lot of other people) for Washington Post Ombudscreature Deborah Howell to provide "one-half of one molecule's worth of evidence that Abramoff DIRECTED any Indian anywhere to give one dollar to any Democrat that otherwise would not have received it." The Post has made an effort to back her BS.
I still haven't received my half-a-molecule's worth. According to the Post:
Prominent Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff mounted a far-reaching campaign in 2002 on behalf of his clients, the Louisiana Coushatta tribe, to prevent another tribe, the Jena Band of Choctaws, from winning federal approval for a rival casino. As part of his efforts, Abramoff sent the Coushattas a list of politicians and organizations, titled "Coushatta Requests," for whom he wanted to tribe to write checks.

This article is cunning work.

The Postfolk do not circle names and say "See? Democrats! Right here !" And an unrelated squib directs our attention to Ralph Reed. This charade is designed to convince us that they are being fair and balanced.
23.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-396794,00.html
Dass die Wetterextreme zunehmen, ist für den Potsdamer Forscher jedoch Tatsache.

Zu den Extremen gehören auch Kältewellen,denn der Klimawandel führt nicht nur zu einer Erhöhung der Durchschnittstemperaturen, sondern zu einer Häufung extremer Temperaturen und Regenfälle - +zwar in beide Richtungen

Trockene Regionen leiden noch mehr unter Dürre, in Gegenden mit feuchtem Klima regnet es noch mehr.
Ein solches Extrem dürfte auch die relative Wärme in der Arktis darstellen, die Wissenschaftler derzeit auf der Forschungsstation Koldewey an der Westküste Spitzbergens beobachten. Sie registrierten die höchsten je im Januar gemessenen Temperaturen. Der Monat ist bisher fast 10 Grad wärmer als im Durchschnitt.
23.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-396794,00.html
Der absolute Minusrekord für Deutschland liegt allerdings schon 77 Jahre zurück + wurde am

12.Feb.1929 Kälterekord gemessen: Minus 37,8 Grad zeigte das Thermometer damals in Hüll, einem Ort im Kreis Pfaffenhofen an.

00.000.1947 Extreme Kälte ließ die Deutschen zittern.

00.000.1956 Extreme Kälte ließ die Deutschen zittern.

00.000.1963 Extreme Kälte ließ die Deutschen zittern.

"Was wir gerade erleben, löst bei mir nur ein Schulterzucken aus", sagt Gerstengarbe, der als Professor an der Humboldt-Universität in Berlin lehrt."

Anders wäre es, wenn die Kältewelle drei bis vier Wochen andauern würde."
23.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-396794,00.html
Ganz so einfach ist die Lage freilich nicht. Auch die gegenwärtige Kältewelle, die Russland, Polen, Deutschland und weitere Länder fest im Griff hat, taugt kaum als schlüssiger Beweis für den Klimawandel.

"Nur weil es zwei, drei Tage mal richtig kalt ist, denken die Leute gleich, die nächste Eiszeit ist da", sagt Friedrich-Wilhelm Gerstengarbe, Meteorologe am Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung.
Die Kältewelle als Vorbote des Klimawandels, davon will Gerstengarbe nichts wissen. "Es geht nicht um Vorboten, wir sind mittendrin im Klimawandel", sagt er im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Dies lasse sich anhand von Klimadaten aus den vergangenen hundert Jahren klar belegen.
"Die Klimatologen sind sich sicher, dass Witterungsextreme zunehmen", so Gerstengarbe. Man müsse die Sache nur global analysieren, wie es bei großen Versicherungsunternehmen schon lange üblich sei.
Gerstengarbe warnt jedoch davor, ein einzelnes Ereignis wie den derzeitigen Frost herauszugreifen. "Das besagt gar nichts; Kältewellen sind nichts Besonderes."
23.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/netzkultur/0,1518,druck-396772,00.html
Derweil kritisiert die amerikanische Bürgerrechts-Organisation Electronic Frontier Foundation einen Gesetzesentwurf des republikanischen Senators Gordon Smith, der neue digitale Medienformate stark reglementieren soll. Genauer noch: die Entwicklung und Einführung von neuen Formaten soll praktisch dem Willen der Plattenindustrie untergeordnet werden. Bissig fragt dazu der "Inquirer": Nehmen diese Gentlemen halluzinogene Drogen? Pikantes Detail: Senator Smith hat angeblich Zehntausende Dollar von der Plattenlobby bekommen ...
Dafür gibt's noch eine gute Nachricht für alle, die Musik nicht unlizenziert kopieren, aber trotzdem hören wollen: Mercora bietet ein Internetradio an, das Platteninhalte anderer User über ein P2P-System streamt, wie der "Sydney Morning Herald" berichtet. Tolle Idee, noch mit einigen Macken...
23.Jan.2006 Hunger strikers close to death By Sarah Baxter
DESPITE  force feeding by the American military, several hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay may be close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees. Continued
23.Jan.2006 Immobilienfonds-Krise: Regierung und Bundesbank beteiligen sich an Werbeaktion

23.Jan.2006 Atom-Drohung: Merkel verteidigt Chirac
23.Jan.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-396832,00.html
Noch ist die für 300.000 Euro entwickelte Elektro-Nase ein großer Kasten auf Rollen aus rostfreiem Stahl, der jeweils drei Minuten zur Untersuchung einer Kiste Fisch braucht. Mittelfristig sollen die Apparate auf die Größe von Taschencomputern schrumpfen, wie Entwickler Pierre Loonis von der Université de La Rochelle erläutert. "Innerhalb von sechs Monaten bis zwei Jahren wird dafür ein Markt geschaffen sein."
23.Jan.2006 Gefährlicher Frost: Sorge vor Eisnacht
23.Jan.2006 Schülerprojekt: Jugendliche decken NS-Verbrechen auf
23.Jan.2006 Konflikte: Blair wirft Iran Terror-Hilfe vor
23.Jan.2006 BND-Affäre: Grüne laufen über
23.Jan.2006 Extremkälte: Eiswinter erreicht Deutschland

(Panorama, Schlappe in Patentstreit: Blackberry droht Zwangsabschaltung in den USA

23.Jan.2006 Sanierungsplan: Ford schließt 14 Werke - 30.000 Jobs in Gefahr
23.Jan.2006 Große Koalition: Familienförderung entzweit Union und SPD
23.Jan.2006 Spionage-Vorwürfe: Agenten in der Steinzeit
23.Jan.2006 Elektro-Nase: Frische Fische misst der Riecher

23.Jan.2006 Gasstreit: Russland wirft Ukraine erneut Gasklau vor
23.Jan.2006 BND-Affäre: FDP rückt von Untersuchungsausschuss ab
23.Jan.2006 Eiszeit in Europa: Mittendrin im Klimawandel
23.Jan.2006 Nigeria: Rebellenangriffe treiben Ölpreis in die Höhe

23.Jan.2006 US-Doku "Why We Fight": Futter für die verzagte Linke

23.Jan.2006 Pressefreiheit: Uganda mobbt ausländische Journalisten
23.Jan.2006 Italien: Priester soll Nonne vergewaltigt haben
23.Jan.2006 Deutsche Bank: Ex-Staatssekretär Koch-Weser berät Ackermann
23.Jan.2006 Merkel bei Chirac: Schatzsuche in Versailles

23.Jan.2006 Atomstreit: Irans Führung lobt Steinmeier

23.Jan.2006 Machtkampf: Kuweits Regierung will neuen Emir absetzen