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14.Feb.2006 https://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/0213061cheney1.html
See Dick. Run! First official report released in Cheney hunting accident

FEBRUARY 13--The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department today issued a report on Vice President Dick Cheney's accidental shooting Saturday of a fellow quail hunter on a sprawling Texas ranch. The hunting accident report, a copy of which you can find below, briefly recounts how Cheney plugged Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old Austin lawyer, with birdshot in the face, neck + chest. According to the state report, Cheney was wearing a "blaze orange" cap and "coat/vest" and brown trousers and was toting an Italian-made Perazzi 28-gauge shotgun. In addition to the document's release, wildlife officials reported today that while Cheney had purchased a valid non-resident hunting license, he did not obtain a required "upland game bird stamp." As a result, a warning citation--which carries no fine or penalty--will be issued to Cheney, which state officials described as "routine." And as for whether Cheney would have needed to previously take a hunters education course, state wildlife officials noted that such classes are only required of hunters born on or after 02.Sep.1971 .

30.Jan.1941 Cheney was born.

While yet to release its report on the shooting, the Kenedy County Sheriff's Office this afternoon issued a press release noting that an "investigation reveals that there was no alcohol, or misconduct involved in the incident." In an interview with deputies, Whittington "collaborated Vice President Cheney's statement," according to the release, which concluded, "This was no more than a hunting accident." (3 pages)

POPPED: Cheney's been a straight shooter since his two drunk driving arrests
14.Feb.2006 https://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70190-0.html?tw=rss.index
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14.Feb.2006 See "Caught in the Crossfire: The Untold Story of Falluja"
From Wars to Oil Profiteering to Torture to Shooting People, Cheney is Consistent: He Lies. Now We Find Out Cheney's Shooting Victim Was Shot in the Heart and Was and May Still be in Intensive Care. (Who Can Trust Anything These Chronic Prevaricators Say?)
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Americans are Being Mugged by the Busheviks: The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years. This Comes on the Tail of All-Time Record Profiteering from the Oil Companies + Exxon's Largest Profit for a Corporation in U.S. History. You Can Get Away with These Crimes Against the American Public When You Control the Sheriff, the Congress and the Courts -- and the Dems Roll Over and Play Dead After a Few Words of Protest.
Fitzwater, Former WH Press Secretary, Blasts Handling of Cheney Shooting -- As Victim Suffers Heart Attack 2/15

14.Feb.2006 Cheney Violates Hunting Law, But It's Not His Fault. Of Course. There are Those of Us Who Obey the Rule of Law + Then There are Members of the Bush Administration Who Don't.
Texas sheriff barred from interviewing Cheney about shooting incident. Why is Cheney always above the law? Because he thinks he is a dictator, not a citizen of the USA subject to the rule of law. 2/14
Rabbi James Rudin, Author of "The Baptizing of America," Says the "Christocrats" are Here! A BuzzFlash Interview

14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}But that's all deep background stuff + there's enough surface slime going down here to slide clear off the planet.

Big questions, like why were wounds that were reported by Ms. Armstrong to be so superficial keeping the victim in the ICU for 48 hours?

Was the shot fired from 30 yards or 30 feet;

both have been reported?

Why did it take almost three hours to get this poor guy admitted to the hospital after said incident, even with a medical crew at the scene?

When were authorities notified, as per TX law?

Why was the press not informed for 22 hours?

And was the sheriff allowed to interview Cheney or not; the reports are conflicting (though not really)?
Though the sheriff's office issued a statement that ruled out alcohol, there is no indication that any real tests were taken to verify this.

All manner of hunters have weighed in on these details + the consensus is pretty clear:

the only way this sort of thing does happen - and it does - is if the shooter is dumb or drunk or both.
For the best reading on all these questions, visit Josh Marshall at TPM and Jane Hamsher + friends at firedoglake.

They raise a boatload of fascinating points, including the fact that Cheney only "hunts" in areas stocked with prepped prey (oh so manly), the 28 gauge he used is often referred to as "a lady's gun" (even more manly) +

- again -

Cheney has a medical team hovering likely inside the Secret Service comfort zone, courtesy of us taxpayers (the ultimate in today's 'manly').
Of particular interest, though, is the fact that Jack Reed + George Allen were on Fox this morning blasting Cheney not for blasting his buddy,

but for declassifying a NIE (National Intelligence Estimate), which has apparently been alledged by Libby.

Firedoglake raises the tantalizing observation that these two hyper-repug dogs were not brought out to protect the VP but to hound him. Et tu, Rupert ?
Could it be the time has come to put this ol' huntin' dog down? -dr. elsewhere
UPDATE: Like I said, hard to keep up. Smoking Gun has the sheriff's press release and Cheney's citation for the incident.
Note that the report does not have a time associated with the report itself, only for the incident.

And note that the safety position for Cheney's gun was marked "unknown." Note also that Cheney's "hunting education" is marked "unknown," + Whittington's "no."

And take particular note of the second paragraph of the press release;

not only does it not make very good sense, but it does not note the times at which Whittington was moved to the two medical facilities.Permalink14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
The Dickie Fudd story is veritably exploding out there. The press corps is on fire, the blogosphere is practically vaporizing + there are now so many angles exposed, it's hard to keep up.
First of all, an alert commenter hooked us up with some background on Whittington's role in the funeralgate scandal during Georgie's last days as TX guv, one in which his Chief of Staff Allbaugh played a key role

(+ then went on to head FEMA, turn it over to Brownie so he could go lobby, ending up in NOLA to milk that tragedy for all it was worth while his protege floundered in fashion).

Evidently a lot of covering up of a lot of stuff was going on + a whistleblower who was fired,

then filed suit (and then evidently settled for a paltry $50,000?), has seemingly vanished from view.

That settlement datum is the most recent info I could find on that story, now I can't relocate it + Robert Bryce appears to have moved on from the whole shebang. Anyone have more?
14.Feb.2006New Microchips Shun Transistors
A nifty new chip made with magnetic patterning packs high density and processing power. Computers using the technology would boot up almost instantly, stay cool and be impervious to power interruptions. By John Hudson.
14.Feb.2006Love Under a Microscope Zonk 86 smooth wombat writes "As today is one of the top five marketing-induced spending days, the obvious question is, what is love? Anthropologist Helen Fisher studied the brain's circuitry and found that the brain sees romantic love as a reward similar to chocolate, money or drugs. Does this mean that the mystery of love is less magical now that science has studied it under the microscope? According to Dr Fisher: 'You can know every ingredient in a piece of chocolate cake + you still sit down and eat that chocolate cake and it's wonderful,' she said. 'In the same way, you can know all the ingredients of romantic love and still feel that passion.'"

14.Feb.2006Title: UK MPs Approve Compulsory ID Cards ScuttleMonkey 307+ Idimmu Xul writes "BBC News is reporting that the UK House of Commons has approved legislation making identity cards compulsory." From the article: "The plans, rejected by peers last month, will now go back before the House of Lords.

Tories warned of "creeping compulsion" + Lib Dems said the "fight against compulsory ID cards" would go on."
14.Feb.2006Phishing Site Using Valid SSL Certificates ScuttleMonkey 157+ UnderAttack writes to tell us the Washington Post SecurityFix blog has an interesting article about a new and rather sophisticated phishing scheme. The email not only used the first few digits of the users card number to look more plausible (even though the first part of the number is the same for all cards), but it also used a valid SSL certificate for its domain name."
14.Feb.2006Privacy Concerns On Google's 30 Day Data Policy CmdrTaco 138 darkmonkeh writes ""Google Inc. is offering a new tool that will automatically transfer information from one personal computer to another, but anyone wanting that convenience must authorize the Internet search leader to store the material for up to 30 days", CNN reports. Although Google's policy states that it can hold data for up to 30 days, "Google intends to delete the information shortly after the electronic handoff + will never retain anything from a user's hard drive for more than 30 days", said Sundar Pichai, director of product management. With pressure on Google after the request by the Bush administration for personal information, privacy concerns may be hard hitting."
14.Feb.2006Magnetic Processors - Computing's New Future? CmdrTaco 179 metalcoat writes "For the first time researchers have created a working prototype of a radical new chip design based on magnetism instead of electrical transistors. As transistor-based microchips hit the limits of Moore's Law, a group of electrical engineers at the University of Notre Dame has fabricated a chip that uses nanoscale magnetic "islands" to juggle the ones and zeroes of binary code. Wolfgang Perod and his colleagues turned to the process of magnetic patterning (.pdf) to produce a new chip that uses arrays of separate magnetic domains. Each island maintains its own magnetic field. Because the chip has no wires, its device density and processing power may eventually be much higher than transistor-based devices. And it won't be nearly as power-hungry, which will translate to less heat emission and a cooler future for portable hardware like laptops."
14.Feb.2006Title: Chinese Claim Internet Censorship Modeled on West Zonk 202 ubermiester wrote to mention a NYT article reporting on a Chinese Press Briefing. At the event Liu Zhengrong, supervisor of Internet affairs for the Chinese State Council, stated that the state control of Internet access is based on Western models. From the article: "Mr. Liu said the major thrust of the Chinese effort to regulate content on the Web was aimed at preventing the spread of pornography or other content harmful to teenagers and children. He said that its concerns in this area differ minimally from those in developed countries. Human rights and media watchdog groups maintain that Chinese Web censorship puts greater emphasis on helping the ruling party maintain political control over its increasingly restive society. Such groups have demonstrated that many hundreds of Web sites cannot be easily accessed inside mainland China mainly because they are operated by governments, religious groups or political organizations that are critical of Chinese government policies or its political leaders."
14.Feb.2006Title: Chinese, U.S. Condemn Censorship Zonk 2 More reactions both at home and abroad to the censorship issue. picaro writes "According to the BBC, 'party elders' in China released an open letter decrying the current state of censorship in China + suggesting that 'history demonstrates that only a totalitarian system needs news censorship, out of the delusion that it can keep the public locked in ignorance.'" LWATCDR writes "The US government is upset over restrictions of freedom of speech on the Internet.

The USA, has 'very serious concerns' about the protection of privacy + data throughout the Internet globally + in particular, some of the recent cases raised in China."
14.Feb.2006 Colombians said to mask civilian deaths: Security forces have killed civilians + have covered up the killings by dressing up the bodies as Marxist guerrillas, according to testimony in an annual United Nations human rights report released yesterday.

14.Feb.2006 US Called upon to Expel Ex Bolivian President: Presidente of Bolivia Evo Morales called upon his US counterpart George W. Bush to stop protecting former president Gonzalo Sanchez de Losada to be tried in Bolivia for his crimes.

14.Feb.2006 Venezuelan ambassador: Aznar a Yankee tool: Venezuelan ambassador in Madrid Arevalo Mendez said yesterday that former Spanish prime minister Jose Maria Aznar "has no voice, nor thought, nor discourse of his own." When analyzing the Latin American political system, "Aznar is carrying Bush on his shoulders, which limits the vision the US has of the region."

14.Feb.2006 Yahoo makes plea over censorship : Internet giant Yahoo says it is "deeply concerned" over government efforts to impose censorship.

14.Feb.2006 Pigs at the trough: U.S. Has Royalty Plan to Give 7 Billion Windfall to Oil Companies : The federal government is on the verge of one of the biggest giveaways of oil and gas in American history, worth an estimated $7 billion over five years.

Senators hear 'shocking examples' of FEMA waste: FEMA has let nearly 11,000 unused manufactured homes deteriorate on old runways and open fields in Arkansas + the agency spent $416,000 per person to house a few hundred Hurricane Katrina evacuees for a short time in Alabama last fall, government investigators told the Senate on Monday.

14.Feb.2006 No money for the sick or poor: Budget axes public health projects: If enacted, the 2007 budget would eliminate federal programs that support inner-city Indian health clinics, defibrillators in rural areas, an educational campaign about Alzheimer's disease, traumatic brain-injury centers + a nationwide registry for Lou Gehrig's disease.

14.Feb.2006 Grand Jury Charges Noe With 53 Felony Counts: The former GOP fund-raiser was accompanied by his sister and brother-in-law and said nothing during the six-minute hearing.

14.Feb.2006 Abramoff Said to Claim Close Ties to Rove : Three former associates of Jack Abramoff say the now-convicted lobbyist frequently told them he had strong ties to the White House through presidential confidant Karl Rove.

14.Feb.2006 Popular Ohio Democrat Drops Out of Race + Perhaps Politics : Paul Hackett, an Iraq war veteran and popular Democratic candidate in Ohio's closely watched Senate contest, said yesterday that he was dropping out of the race and leaving politics altogether as a result of pressure from party leaders.

14.Feb.2006 Cheney and shooting victim were hunting illegally, officials say: Vice President Dick Cheney was hunting illegally - without the required $7 stamp on his license for quail - when he accidentally shot one of his hunting partners, Texas Parks and Wildlife officials said Monday.
14.Feb.2006 LIST of CIA Torture Planes, Culprits—Here’s PROOF that EU DENIES : European investigators have been saying they “have no proof” of illegal CIA activities because European governments won’t cooperate. Here is proof — or at least information that will help them get the proof they say they need.

14.Feb.2006 U.S. and Israelis Are Said to Talk of Hamas Ouster : The USA and Israel are discussing ways to destabilize the Palestinian government so that newly elected Hamas officials will fail and elections will be called again, according to Israeli officials and Western diplomats.

14.Feb.2006 U.S., Israel Deny Anti-Hamas Plot: Israeli security officials said they were looking at ways to force Hamas from power and were focusing on an economic squeeze that would prompt Palestinians to clamor for the return of President Mahmoud Abbas' ousted Fatah Party.

14.Feb.2006 Fmr. Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami Debates Professor Norman Finkelstein on Israel, the Palestinians + the Peace Process

14.Feb.2006 Compulsory ID cards for UK citizens within five years : Critics warn UK is "sleepwalking towards a surveillance state"

14.Feb.2006 These double standards: Few tears were shed at the jailing of Abu Hamza last week. Most Britons were relieved that the cell door had slammed shut on a man who has come to embody every western stereotype about Islam

14.Feb.2006 The Cartoons and the Neocon: Daniel Pipes and the Danish Editor: I have to tell you about a massive propaganda coup. You’ve been had by some of the most bigoted people in the world -- and I’m not talking about Muslim fundamentalists.

14.Feb.2006 Al Qaeda establish 'Islamic state' in Pakistan province : After taking "virtual control" of the entire North Waziristan province of Pakistan,Taliban+Al Qaeda have recently "declared" the establishment of an 'Islamic State' in the area +gained a major base for their operations against the US-led forces in Afghanistan, media reports said

14.Feb.2006 Taleban say attacks will increase, US “helpless”: Afghanistan’s Taleban guerrillas are gaining strength and will step up attacks against government and foreign troops when spring comes next month, a Taleban commander said on Tuesday.
14.Feb.2006 Tom Engelhardt : Can You Say "Permanent Bases"?: The American Press Can't: Whatever top administration officials and military commanders say -- and they always deny that we seek "permanent" bases in Iraq -– facts-on-the-ground speak with another voice entirely. These bases practically scream "permanency."

14.Feb.2006 War pimp alert: Iran crosses 'red line' in nuclear stand-off: Iran has started to inject uranium feedstock gas into centrifuges at its Natanz nuclear facility, crossing an internationally agreed "red line" on the path to producing the material for atomic weapons.

14.Feb.2006 Iran says enrichment-related nuclear activity resumed : "But this does not mean a full scale as technically it is impossible at this phase to inject uranium into the 60,000 centrifuges in Natanz," Vaeidi said, referring to press reports that the full enrichment process had already started.

14.Feb.2006 Iran sets new date for atomic talks with Russia: Iran announced on Tuesday it was deferring until next week talks with Russia on its nuclear plans, but gave no sign it was ready to stop enriching uranium on its own soil -- the key element in Moscow's plan.

14.Feb.2006 Iran can progress despite enemies, president says : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad spoke to USA TODAY's Barbara Slavin in an interview that touched on U.S.-Iranian relations, the Holocaust and Iran's nuclear aspirations.

14.Feb.2006 Iran: The Media Fall Into Line: Western journalists are once again falling obediently into line as the British and American governments begin the long, arduous process of demonising another oil-rich target.

14.Feb.2006 PNAC: Rebuilding America's Defenses - A Biopsy on Imperialism : The Enduring Mission: to “maintain military preeminence that is consistent with the requirements of a strategy of American global leadership with global missile defenses” which protect and control land, sea, air, space and cyberspace.

14.Feb.2006 US Plan for the "Great Middle East": The Kurdish Pipeline: The neo conservator project of carving a "zone of prosperity" in the Middle East financed by Iraqi oil to benefit essentially the Israelis, has been swept over. The USA may have an alternative solution though as much uncertain. It boils down to toppling the regime of Bashar Al Assad and setting up a Kurdish State in the north of Iraq.
14.Feb.2006 The American Turkey Is Dead-By Mary Pitt
When the rank-and-file American voter rubs the propaganda-induced sleep from his eyes, he will realize that his freedoms are gone, his patriotism is misplaced + the two buzzards, Democrat and Republican, are picking the lint from his empty pockets. Continued
14.Feb.2006 Americans think Iran may use nukes -By United Press International
The poll said eight out of 10 respondents predicted Iran would provide a nuclear weapon to terrorists to attack the USA or Israel. Six out of 10 respondents said Iran itself would deploy nuclear weapons against the USA. Continued
14.Feb.2006 Who Will Blow the Whistle Before We Attack Iran? -By Ray McGovern

With no perceptible demurral from inside the government, George W. Bush launched a war of aggression, defined by the Nuremberg Tribunal as “the supreme international crime, differing from other war crimes only in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole”—like torture, for example. Continued.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-400815,00.html
Doch die Lage am 5892 Meter hohen Wahrzeichen Tansanias ist offenbar viel dramatischer, als sie Thompson vor dreieinhalb Jahren beschrieben hat. Die mächtigen Gletscher könnten schon viel früher verschwinden, erklärte der Forscher nun, nachdem er den Berg erneut untersucht hat.
"Die Veränderungen sind dramatisch", sagte Thompson. Man könne dies vor Ort sehen - aber auch auf Luftaufnahmen. "Der Abbau des Eises könnte sich sogar noch beschleunigt haben."
Das schnelle Verschwinden der Gletscher, das auch in den Alpen und in anderen Hochgebirgen weltweit beobachtet wird, führen die meisten Wissenschaftler auf den Klimawandel zurück. Steigende Temperaturen bringen das Eis zum Schmelzen. Zudem fehlt es an Neuschnee, dessen Weiß die Sonnenstrahlung gut reflektiert und so den Gletscher vor dem Aufwärmen schützt.
00.000.1912-20060214 -Seit- als die Gletscher am Kilimandscharo erstmals vermessen und erfasst wurden, sind 82 Prozent der Eisfelder verschwunden.

00.000.1962-00.000.2000 schrumpfte die Gletscherhöhe um 17 Meter - das entspricht rund einem halben Meter pro Jahr.
Neue Messungen von Thompsons Team zeigen, dass das nördliche Eisfeld an drei Stellen am Rand seit

00.000.2002 fünf Meter Höhe verloren hat. Der sogenannte Furtwängler-Gletscher droht gespalten zu werden, denn in seiner Mitte hat sich ein riesiges Loch gebildet, das bis auf den felsigen Grund reicht. Bereits in sechs Monaten könne die Teilung vollzogen sein, fürchtet Thompson.
Der Furtwängler-Gletscher hat seit dem Jahr 2000 ein Drittel seiner Dicke eingebüßt - damals war er noch neun Meter hoch. Die südlichen Eisfelder haben sogar vier bis fünf Meter verloren. "Das ist ein enormer Eisverlust", erklärte Thompson. "Es gab keine Bildung von neuem Eis an den Gletschern seit dem Jahr 2000."
Mit Hilfe von Luftaufnahmen will der Geoforscher den Schwund des Eisvolumens genauer berechnen. Er befürchtet dramatische Folgen für die Bewohner der Region. Zum einen ist das Tourismusgeschäft bedroht. Zum anderen könnte auch eine wichtige Wasserquelle versiegen.
Thompson will jetzt mit einer Isotopenanalyse herausfinden, wie hoch der Anteil des Schmelzwassers am gesamten Verbrauch der Menschen in der Nähe des Kilimandscharos ist. Noch will er nicht ausschließen, dass das genutzte Wasser überwiegend aus den Regenwäldern des Berges stammt.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-400815,00.html

Die Gletscher auf Afrikas höchstem Berg verschwinden noch schneller als befürchtet. Neue Untersuchungen am Kilimandscharo haben ergeben, dass das Wahrzeichen Tansanias schon in zehn Jahren eisfrei sein könnte.

Der "Science"-Artikel im Oktober 2002 hatte die Welt aufgeschreckt: 2015, prophezeite Lonnie Thompson von der Ohio State University, spätestens aber 2020 werde der Kilimandscharo eisfrei sei. Der Geowissenschaftler hatte den Gletschern auf dem höchsten Berg Afrikas sechs Eiskerne entnommen. Die Analyse ergab, dass der Gipfel seit fast 12.000 Jahren mit Eis bedeckt ist, das jedoch zu schmelzen droht.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-400949,00.html
Berlin - Laut Seehofer ergab ein Schnelltest bei zweien der verendeten Schwäne den Verdacht auf den gefährlichen Virus H5N1. Mit endgültigen Ergebnissen des Europäischen Referenzlabors in England rechne man am Donnerstag, sagte der Minister am Abend in Berlin. "Nach allen uns vorliegenden Daten müssen wir davon ausgehen, dass der Verdacht vom Europäischen Referenzlabor bestätigt wird." Es sei jetzt eine "sehr ernste Situation" eingetreten. Wichtig sei es nun, ein Überspringen der Seuche auf Nutztiere zu verhindern. Von diesen könnten sich Menschen schwerer infizieren als von Wildtieren.
Ein routinemäßiges Treffen mit seinen Kollegen aus den Ländern morgen in Berlin will Seehofer zu einer Sitzung des nationalen Krisenstabes umfunktioniert. "Die Vogelgrippe macht uns zunehmend Sorgen. Das Tempo der Ausbreitung nimmt deutlich zu." Die Stallpflicht soll vermutlich bis Ende April gelten. Ursprünglich hatte sie erst ab dem 1. März wieder in Kraft treten sollen.
Laut Angaben des Agrarministeriums in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern wurde rund um die Fundstelle auf Rügen ein Schutzgebiet von drei Kilometern eingerichtet. Das bedeute, dass Betriebe mit Geflügel untersucht würden und nur eingeschränkt Geflügel transportiert werden dürfe. Zudem gebe es ein Beobachtungsgebiet im Umkreis von zehn Kilometern.
14.Feb.2006 Nahost: Israel will nicht mit Hamas-Regierung verhandeln

14.Feb.2006 Italien: Minister will T-Shirt mit Mohammed-Karikatur tragen
14.Feb.2006 Rügen: Erster Vogelgrippe-Verdacht in Deutschland
14.Feb.2006 Nach Jagdunfall: Cheney-Opfer erleidet Herzinfarkt
14.Feb.2006 Riesenschiffsschraube: Die Dicke aus Mecklenburg
14.Feb.2006 Irak: Weitere Briten wegen Misshandlungen festgenommen
14.Feb.2006 "Tagesspiegel"-Karikaturen: Proteste in Teheran, Unterstützung in Berlin
14.Feb.2006 Iran-Konflikt: Struck warnt vor Säbelrasseln
14.Feb.2006 Atomstreit: Iran will doch mit Russland verhandeln

14.Feb.2006 Messe 3GSM: Mobilfunker gegen Instant Messaging

14.Feb.2006 "Tal der Wölfe": Türkischer Kinohit schürt Kulturkampf
14.Feb.2006 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Wut der islamischen Massen"
14.Feb.2006 Offizielle Bestätigung: Iran nimmt Uran-Anreicherung wieder auf
14.Feb.2006 Guantanamo: Uno-Bericht wirft USA Folter vor

14.Feb.2006 Dämpfer: Konjunktur stagnierte im vierten Quartal
14.Feb.2006 Uno-Generalsekretär: Südkoreaner will Annan beerben
14.Feb.2006 https://www.madcowprod.com/02132006.html
MadCow Investigates Abramoff Scandal Jack Abramoff & the Republican Black Hand
Abramoff & Kidan Implicated in Gangland-Style Slaying THE BIG FIX 2006 Is Abramoff Getting Away with Murder? The Secret World of Jack Abramoff
Hammer to the Slammer: Curtains for the GOPMOB?
BushFellas:
Casino Jack & the Republican Thuggees
New Mob Links in Abramoff Scandal
Top Ten Things You Never Knew About Jack Abramoff
Cunningham stripped $700 mil from U.S. Defense Cunningham Scandal Figure linked to Iran Contra cocaine trafficking Wilkes Foundation Suspended in California
14.Feb.2006 https://www.madcowprod.com/02132006.html

13.Feb.2006 -Venice,FL. by Daniel Hopsicker

Next week the MadCowMorningNews will succeed in doing something neither the Congressional Intelligence Committee’s nor the 9.11 Commission’s investigation ever did: depose under oath an associate of Mohamed Atta’s in Florida.

This opportunity doesn’t come without a price, however...It comes with yet another lawsuit. Which is fine...we don't shrink from telling the truth. (You may have noticed.) But our legal bills have been mounting, to the point where we have not had the heart to even open the last few monthly statements from our lawyer.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.madcowprod.com/02132006.html
"Threats of law suits against journalists have become the hallmark of the Bush administration in their not-too-clever tactic to silence the independent media in the USA."--Wayne Madsen
14.Feb.2006 Stone Age marvels which inspire and astonish NOT the seven biggest visitor attractions, nor the biggest money-spinners. Seven man-made objects with the power to transcend themselves and their surroundings. Bits of human creativity that amaze and impress.
In terms of sheer wonder, the Stone Age treasures of Orkney - the oldest built structures in Scotland, must qualify. Within a few square miles, mainland Orkney offers a cluster of standing stones that predate Stonehenge, a unique Stone Age village uncovered by the sea and a mysterious burial mound containing the biggest collection of Viking runic writing.
12.Feb.2006 How long is George planning to be president? Well, I guess he could step down. Or get impeached.
14.Feb.2006 ATTA ASSOCIATE BEING DEPOSED NEXT WEEK Next week the MadCowMorningNews will succeed in doing something neither the Congressional Intelligence Committee's nor the 9.11 Commission's investigation ever did: depose under oath an associate of Mohamed Atta's in Florida.
14.Feb.2006 Palme evidence 'was destroyed' Police destroyed evidence that may have been linked to the still unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme, a new documentary about the murder alleges, reports said Monday.
14.Feb.2006 Accidents will happen Does Dick Cheney prefer the Most Dangerous Game?
14.Feb.2006 Brewer Creates First 'Vitamin' Beer Where's my Vitamin Cigarette?
14.Feb.2006 U.S. concludes 'Cyber Storm' mock attacks The government concluded its "Cyber Storm" wargame Friday, its biggest-ever exercise to test how it would respond to devastating attacks over the Internet from anti-globalization activists, underground hackers + bloggers. + Bloggers?

25 Okt.2005 Omega-News: The New York Times is reporting Vice President Dick Cheney and CIA Director Porter Goss met with Senator John McCain last week to urge him to back exempting CIA officers from a proposed Senate ban on torture. ... US-Regierung will für die CIA eine Ausnahme vom drohenden Folterverbot ... omega.twoday.net/20051025
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}you may want to take advantage of some of the background info provided by Brad within this post. Bottom line, Curtis - a whistle-blower - is running against Feeney - the criminal Congressman he blew the whistle against. Though a lifelong Republican, Curtis will be running as a "conservative" Democrat.
14.Feb.2006 Cheney, Bush and Rove Sabotaged Our National Security by Outing Valerie Plame. Apparently, She Specialized in Tracking Illicit WMDs in Relation to Iran. Why are Bush, Cheney and Rove Still in the White House and Not in Prison for Undermining America?
Dick Cheney, a Man and His Gun: Poster Boy for the NRA. Nothing Like Hunting from Your Car. What an Inept, Boorish, Fool, Who is a Danger to His Hunting Mates and America.

14.Feb.2006 Fair Trade Monday Returns to BuzzFlash with Divine Chocolate!
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Texas Sheriff Barred From Interviewing Cheney About Shooting Incident. Why is Cheney Always Above the Law. Because He Thinks He is a Dictator, Not a Citizen of the USA Subject to the Rule of Law. 2/14
Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives; A U.N. inquiry says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law. 2/14

14.Feb.2006 Maureen Farrell for BuzzFlash.com: Detention Camp Jitters
NYT story has more on shooting victim, who is a Texas funeral official, hired when a woman was suing the state for retaliation over investigating a Bush friend 2/13
Tom Noe, prominent GOP fundraiser, charged in Ohio with theft and money laundering in an investigation of a controversial state investment in rare coins that has embroiled Republicans in scandal during an election year.
Cheney, Bush, Rove Cover-up Machine is Working Overtime! 2/14
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi -- friend to Bush and member of the ultra-right-wing secret society known as P2 -- has declared himself "the Jesus Christ of politics."
In the accompanying photo, Berlusconi shows what Licio Gelli had him by.
(Alternative photo caption: "Actually, I'm bigger than Jesus...") Permalink
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}The President KNEW If you haven't seen it yet, this photo-essay is damning. Permalink
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Bush WANTS a new terror attack The first sentence of this AP story says it all: A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism. Permalink 14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
HOLY SHADES OF SCHADENFREUDE!! Well, it does look like Dick Cheney's stars are just a tad outa line about now. Not only has he put an old (in both senses of the term) friend in the ICU (what can it mean to shoot a pal in the FACE??), but it now appears that Valerie Plame's beat was not just WMDs, but IRAN!
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Permalink
Well, anyway. it will nevertheless be quite entertaining to watch him slime out of this one. meanwhile, it's pretty entertaining to watch Scottie sweat his way through a surprisingly aggressive WH press corps!
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Of course, this imperious "above the law" attitude is just so Dick! But one cannot help but wonder just how all those federal and Supreme Court judges (scroll to end) he touted as the "greatest accomplishments" of this administration will help him in that podunk little Texas town.
oh, woops, forgot; he owns Texas, too.
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}To make matters even worse - maybe even worse than blaming poor old Whittington! - (NOT better, Dick, NOT better), the VP has evidently refused to cooperate with the local sheriff in the shooting's investigation.
14.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Here they are, trying so hard to get this new pre-emptive war off the ground (so to speak) + he pulls an Elmer Fudd.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400585,00.html
Bei Windgeschwindigkeiten von bis zu 100 Stundenkilometern gab es viele Schneeverwehungen. An der Küste von New England drohen Überschwemmungen. Den Winterstürmen war ein ungewöhnlich milder Januar vorangegangen.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400585,00.html
Zehntausende Flugpassagiere sitzen in weiten Teilen der USA fest. Allein am Fort-Lauderdale-Airport in Florida seien 7500 Reisende betroffen, teilte ein Flughafensprecher mit. "Unser Auto ist in New York. Wir können nicht einmal nach Philadelphia oder Washington fliegen", sagte eine der Reisenden.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400585,00.html
Der Nationale Wetterdienst hatte zuvor für den Großraum New York und weite Teile des Nordostens Sturmwarnung ausgegeben. Vielerorts blitzte und donnerte es während des Schneesturms. Mehrere Groß- und Provinzflughäfen wurden vorsorglich für mehrere Stunden geschlossen. Der New Yorker Flughafen LaGuardia ist auch heute noch nicht wieder geöffnet. Rund 200.000 Menschen von Virginia bis Massachusetts sind noch immer ohne Strom, nachdem starke Windböen und umgefallene Bäume zahlreiche Leitungen beschädigt hatten.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400585,00.html
New York - Die Schneehöhen wurden gestern Nachmittag gemessen und übertrafen den bisherigen Rekord aus dem Jahr 1947 um knapp zwei Zentimeter. Die Schneefallmenge wird im Central Park seit 1869 gemessen. Bürgermeister Michael Bloomberg mahnte die New Yorker zur Vorsicht. 2200 Schneepflüge und 350 Streufahrzeuge sind heute im Einsatz. Mitarbeiter der Stadtreinigung legten Zwölf-Stunden-Schichten ein. Zum Schneeschaufeln wurden zusätzliche Arbeitskräfte eingestellt. Viele Einwohner reagierten trotz der chaotischen Verhältnisse gelassen: Im Stadtteil Greenwich Village etwa schnallten sich zwei Frauen ihre Skier an, um im Central Park ein paar Runden zu drehen.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-400207,00.html
Der Rückspultaste im Rattenhirn kamen US-Forscher auf die Spur, als sie Tieren beobachteten, die durch verschiedene Labyrinthe liefen. Das Gehirn der Ratten produzierte dabei nicht nur während des Laufs charakteristische Muster an Nervenaktivität, sondern wiederholte diese auch in den Pausen - innerhalb weniger Sekundenbruchteile und in umgekehrter Abfolge. Die Ratten nahmen sich gewissermaßen nach jeder Runde einen Moment Zeit, um über das Erlebte nachzudenken.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-400207,00.html
Stehen sie später noch einmal vor einer ähnlichen Situation, können sie die möglichen Konsequenzen sehr viel besser abschätzen als ohne diese Lernphase, schreiben die Forscher.
Sollte sich zeigen, dass es beim Menschen einen ähnlichen Rückspulmechanismus gibt, könnte das beim Verstehen von Lernstörungen helfen.
14.Feb.2006 Frog-marching the Media to the Gallows -By Mike Whitney
The Times has proved once again that the elite-media is a steadfast partner in mobilizing the masses for unpopular wars. Despite the countless thousands of innocent people who have already been killed by the Time’s fear-mongering coverage of "imaginary" Iraqi WMD, the editors continue to use the corporate-bullhorn to call the nation to arms. Continued
14.Feb.2006 Paul Craig Roberts: Forget Iran, Americans Should be Hysterical About This : US manufacturing lost 2.9 million jobs, almost 17% of the manufacturing work force. The wipeout is across the board. Not a single manufacturing payroll classification created a single new job.

14.Feb.2006 Bush Administration Spent Over $1.6 Billion on Advertising and Public Relations Contracts Since 2003: "The government is spending over a billion dollars per year on PR and advertising," said Congressman Waxman.

14.Feb.2006 US plans massive data sweep: Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far?

14.Feb.2006 Every move you make ... they'll be watching you : It's getting harder to cover your tracks as even the most everyday activities -- from running a Google search to using the E-Z Pass lane -- leave a lengthy digital trail.

14.Feb.2006 Spying Necessary, Democrats Say: But Harman, Daschle Question President's Legal Reach

14.Feb.2006 The War on Privacy : Rumsfeld warns that the enemy can succeed in changing our way of life. It already has.

14.Feb.2006 America's masterplan is to force GM food on the world : More than 3,500 elected councils in 170 regions of Europe have declared themselves GM-free.

14.Feb.2006 More Questions Raised About Delay in Reporting Cheney Misfire : The more than 18-hour delay in news emerging that the Vice President of the USA had shot a man, sending him to an intensive care unit with his wounds, grew even more curious late Sunday.

14.Feb.2006 Help Save Public Access TV! : Your Community Cable Channels (Public, Educational, Governmental) are under threat by pending legislation in the House and Senate. Take Action!

14.Feb.2006 How drug lobbyists influence doctors
14.Feb.2006 Iran paper launches cartoon challenge: An Iranian newspaper has opened an international competition seeking cartoons on the Holocaust in what it says is a test of whether the West will be as supportive of freedom of expression over the Nazi genocide as it was with caricatures of Islam's prophet.
14.Feb.2006 Tariq Ali: This is the real outrage : Yesterday, footage of British soldiers brutalising and abusing civilians in Iraq - beating teenagers with batons until they pass out, posing for the camera as they kick corpses - was made public. No one can seriously imagine these are the isolated incidents the Ministry of Defence claims; they are of course the norm under colonial occupations. Who will protest now - the media pundits defending the Enlightenment or Muslim clerics frothing over the cartoons?
14.Feb.2006 Baghdad Embassy Bonanza: A controversial Kuwait-based construction firm accused of exploiting employees and coercing low-paid laborers to work in war-town Iraq is now building the new $592-million U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Once completed, the compound will likely be the biggest, most fortified diplomatic compound in the world.
14.Feb.2006 `Mistake` captives languish at Guantanamo: Five Chinese Muslims the U.S. military admits were captured by mistake want the U.S. Supreme Court`s help in getting out of the Guantanamo Bay military prison

14.Feb.2006 Hamas cries foul over Abbas powers: The outgoing Palestinian parliament has given new sweeping powers to Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, even as Hamas refused to identify the new prime minister.

14.Feb.2006 Israel cuts off eastern West Bank from rest of West Bank : While the international community busied itself with the disengagement from the Gaza Strip last summer, Israel completed another cut-off process, which went unnoticed: Israel completed cutting off the eastern sector of the West Bank from the remainder of the West Bank in 2005.

14.Feb.2006 U.S. support has allowed Israel to violate Palestinian rights repeatedly : Washington's support for Israel's occupation and gradual takeover of Palestinian lands prevents the creation of a viable Palestinian state and a just and lasting peace, strengthens hawks and weakens doves on both sides + means more needless Israeli and Palestinian deaths.

14.Feb.2006 Israel uses Hamas-Chechen "link" to affect Russian opinion: Government officials are circulating a document showing Hamas's links to Chechen terrorists in an attempt to influence Russian public opinion against President Vladimir Putin's overtures to Hamas.

14.Feb.2006 Israel, U.S. Jews lobby Oscar panel against use of 'Palestine' : Israel and U.S. Jewish groups have lobbied organizers of next month's Academy Awards not to present a nominated film about Palestinian suicide bombers as coming from "Palestine," an Israeli diplomat said yesterday.

14.Feb.2006 Netanyahu: Blumenthal to stay on Likud list despite conviction : MK Naomi Blumenthal will remain on the Likud Knesset candidate list despite her bribery conviction, Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday.
14.Feb.2006 says the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay at times amounts to torture and violates international law.
14.Feb.2006 Iran resumes enrichment work: Diplomats : "Iran has continued its nuclear drive within the framework of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the NPT, but if we see that you want to deprive us of our right using these regulations, know that the people will revise their policy in this regard," Ahmadinejad said.

14.Feb.2006 Israel pushes urgency of UN Iran review: Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni urged German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier Monday to support discussing the Iranian nuclear issue at the United Nations Security Council immediately

14.Feb.2006 Iran Consequences Of War: : This briefing paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the likely nature of US or Israeli military action that would be intended to disable Iran’s nuclear capabilities. It outlines both the immediate consequences in terms of loss of human life, facilities and infrastructure + also the likely Iranian responses, whichy would be extensive

14.Feb.2006 Outed CIA officer was working on Iran, intelligence sources say: The unmasking of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson by White House officials in 2003 caused significant damage to U.S. national security and its ability to counter nuclear proliferation abroad, RAW STORY has learned.

14.Feb.2006 Syria switches to euro amid confrontation with US : Syria has switched all of the state's foreign currency transactions to euros from dollars amid a political confrontation with the USA, the head of state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria said on Monday.

14.Feb.2006 Thom Hartmann: Rumsfeld and Cheney Revive Their 70's Terror Playbook : Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney are at it again.

14.Feb.2006 We Don't Want Your War! : Flash presentation

14.Feb.2006 Report: U.S. Is Abusing Captives : A U.N. inquiry
14.Feb.2006 The Pentagon’s War on the Internet -By Mike Whitney
The Pentagon has developed a comprehensive strategy for taking over the internet and controlling the free flow of information. The plan appears in a recently declassified document, “The Information Operations Roadmap”, which was provided under the FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) and revealed in an article by the BBC. Continued
14.Feb.2006 UN inquiry demands immediate closure of Guantanamo -By Con Coughlin
Defence and Security Editor in New York
A United Nations inquiry has called for the immediate closure of America's Guantanamo Bay detention centre and the prosecution of officers and politicians "up to the highest level" who are accused of torturing detainees. Continued
14.Feb.2006 '10,000 would die' in A-plant attack on Iran -By Thomas Harding
More than 100 American bombers, many based on carriers in the Gulf, would take part in a huge simultaneous surprise air attack on 20 key nuclear and military facilities, the report says. Continued .
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400654,00.html

Fast vier Jahrzehnte saß der Inder Jagjivqan Ram Yadav in Haft, ohne dass ihm jemals der Prozess gemacht worden wäre. Der simple Grund: Die Behörden hatte seine Akte verloren und ihn einfach im Gefängnis gelassen. Jetzt wurde der inzwischen 70-Jährige freigelassen.

Milkipur - 1968 war der Inder unter dem Verdacht verhaftet worden, seine Schwägerin getötet zu haben. Heute ordnete das höchste indische Gericht in Neu-Delhi die Freilassung Yadavs auf Kaution an.
Der Fall des alten Mannes gilt als ein extremes Beispiel für das chaotische indische Justizsystem, in dem Arme und Unterprivilegierte schutzlos sind und oft einfach "vergessen" werden. So hatte Yadavs Familie 38 Jahre in dem Glauben gelebt, er sei verstorben.
Erst im Juli war sein Fall von Zeitungen entdeckt worden, als die Gefängnisbehörde bei Gericht nach einem Verhandlungstermin für Yadav nachfragte. Schließlich hatte sich eine Gruppe von Anwälten für die Freilassung des Langzeit-Häftlings eingesetzt. Er wird nun von seiner Frau in seinem Heimatdort Milkipur erwartet.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400670,00.html
Die "Graf Spee" verließ Wilhelmshaven am 21. August 1939, elf Tage vor Beginn des Zweiten Weltkriegs + versenkte neun Handelsschiffe. Am 13. Dezember wurde sie dann in einer Seeschlacht mit zwei britischen und einem neuseeländischen Kriegsschiff getroffen und schwer beschädigt. Kapitän Hans Langsdorff steuerte daraufhin den Hafen von Montevideo in Uruguay an. Die Regierung des neutralen Landes gewährte der "Graf Spee" auf britischen Druck hin aber nur eine Liegezeit von 72 Stunden - zu wenig für die notwendigen Reparaturen.
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400703,00.html
Nach einem Verrat in die Hände der Feinde gefallen, wurde ihr 1431 der Prozess wegen Ketzerei gemacht. Ebenso ist der Legende nach ihre Asche in den Fluss Loire gestreut worden, um einen Reliquienhandel mit ihren Überresten zu vermeiden.
25 Jahre nach ihrer Hinrichtung wurde Jeanne d'Arc von der katholischen Kirche rehabilitiert, 1909 dann selig und schließlich 1920 heilig gesprochen. Die Untersuchungen würden ein halbes Jahr andauern, kündigten die Experten an.
14.Feb.2006 Abstimmung im Unterhaus: Auch Briten sollen Personalausweise erhalten
14.Feb.2006 13. FEBRUAR 2006
14.Feb.2006 Horror-Ölpreise: Deutschland legte elf Milliarden Euro drauf
14.Feb.2006 Karikatur: Iran fordert Entschuldigung vom "Tagesspiegel"
14.Feb.2006 Traumhafte Steueraussichten: Bis 2009 rund 82 Milliarden mehr
14.Feb.2006 Reliquie: Reste Johannas von Orléans werden analysiert
14.Feb.2006 Prügel-Bilder: Das Gentleman-Image der britischen Armee liegt in Trümmern
14.Feb.2006 Neue Museen in Frankreich: Von Austern bis Ökosystem

14.Feb.2006 Eskalation im Atom-Konflikt: Steinmeier appelliert an Vernunft der Regierung in Teheran
14.Feb.2006 Gellende Schreie: Olympia-Fan löst Polizeieinsatz aus

14.Feb.2006 Bundeswehr bei der WM: SPD gegen Grundgesetzänderung

14.Feb.2006 Historischer Schneesturm: New York schaufelt sich aus dem Chaos
14.Feb.2006 Wrack-Bergung: Adler der "Graf Spee" gehoben
14.Feb.2006 Schlampige Justiz: Mann wurde 38 Jahre im Gefängnis vergessen
14.Feb.2006 Forschungsförderung: US-Drittmittel nur für Windows-Rechner
14.Feb.2006 Gewalt-Video: Britische Polizei nimmt Verdächtigen fest
14.Feb.2006 Artenschutz: Japan sitzt auf Walfleisch-Berg
14.Feb.2006 Atomstreit: Iran bereitet Urananreicherung vor
14.Feb.2006 Streit unter Verlierern: Ford und Chevrolet rangeln um Nummer-eins-Titel

14.Feb.2006 Neue Arten entdeckt: Kleine Spinnen mit Giftzahn-Verlängerung
14.Feb.2006 Öffentlicher Dienst: Ver.di rechnet mit 40.000 Streikenden
14.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-400586,00.html
Hamburg - Die Signale sind widersprüchlich: Rekordhohe Rohstoff- und Energiepreise, aber trotzdem rasant wachsende Unternehmensgewinne. Politische Unsicherheit im Angesicht von Terror und Atomstreit, aber dennoch ein glänzendes Börsenklima an vielen Handelsplätzen. Und während Chinas aufstrebende Wirtschaft weiter rasant wächst, haben sich die USA zum weltweiten Konjunkturrisiko gewandelt.
14.Feb.2006 Dänemark: Freier Museumseintritt per Gesetz

14.Feb.2006 Nahost-Reise: "Deutschland steht an Israels Seite"
14.Feb.2006 Lernhilfe: Ratten haben Rückspultaste im Gehirn
14.Feb.2006 Pirelli-Werbung: Teuflische Szenen mit dem Segen der Kirche
14.Feb.2006 USA: New York versinkt im schlimmsten Schneesturm der Geschichte
14.Feb.2006 Irak: Saddam lässt sich in Gerichtssaal schleppen
14.Feb.2006 Atomstreit: Iran verschiebt Verhandlungen mit Russland

14.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe: Seehofer bringt vorgezogene Stallpflicht ins Spiel
14.Feb.2006 Iran auf der Berlinale: "Wohl dosierte Propaganda"
14.Feb.2006 Jugendförderung: Bundesagentur will Geringqualifizierte loswerden

14.Feb.2006 Steuer-Razzia: Lebensversicherte im Visier des Fiskus
14.Feb.2006 Jagdunfall: US-Vizepräsident Cheney schießt Mann an

14.Feb.2006 Interview mit "Freakonomics"-Autor: "Wir führen die Wirtschaftswissenschaft zu ihren Wurzeln zurück"

14.Feb.2006 Streik in zehn Bundesländern: Ver.di droht mit wochenlangem Arbeitskampf

14.Feb.2006 Militärische Option gegen Iran: SPD-Politiker schwenken auf Merkel-Linie
13.Feb.2006 Title: Government Cyber Storm Ends CmdrTaco 85 Bemmu writes "Mainichi Daily News and BBC News are reporting that the 'Cyber Storm' operation, for testing how prepared America is for fending off cyber attacks, has now concluded. Apparently they even used bloggers as part of the operation, as relayers of misinformation!"
13.Feb.2006 Title: A Real Transformer? CmdrTaco 139 mshiltonj writes "This is a video of real robot tranforming from a vehicle to a biped and back to a vehicle. It's some Japanese technology demonstration." Rumor is the next version will be a red semi + trailor and will be much more than meets the eye.
13.Feb.2006 Title: Botnet Attack Shuts Down Hospital Network Zonk 276 aricusmaximus writes "A California student is now facing felony conspiracy charges after unleashing a botnet attack that shut down the network of a Seattle hospital intensive care unit. This indictment comes a few weeks after another California man pled guilty to similar charges. Both attacks were attempts to make money off of adware affiliate programs. So who's really at fault here? The students? The hospital for not securing their computers and network? Or the adware companies for providing the incentive?"
13.Feb.2006 Title: Being Enron's SysAdmin Zonk 77+ CowboyRobot writes "FreeBSD's Kirk McKusick has a long interview with Enron's former SysAdmin, Jarod Jenson, where he describes the nuts and bolts of working in and managing such a large-scale operation." From the article: "EnronOnline was a Web-based trading application. We had several hundred, even thousands of commodities that we would price in realtime, the same way that equities are priced. We were trying to push realtime pricing information out to clients who could do instantaneous transactions on them. People who are familiar with financial markets--the commodity markets--would recognize EnronOnline as sort of the same thing. We had a lot of the same issues that the markets had trying to push out realtime data--not only within our local network but also to the customers--as quickly as we could globally + trying to make sure that what every trader saw on the screen matched what every company in the world had on theirs."
13.Feb.2006 Title: Microsoft Anti-Spyware Removes Norton Anti-Virus Zonk 383+ An anonymous reader writes "According to a story over at Washingtonpost.com, the latest definitions file for Microsoft's Anti-Spyware beta flags Symantec's Norton Antivirus products as a password-stealing trojan and prompts users to delete portions of the program. Users who follow the instructions hose their installation of Norton, requiring delicate Windows registry edits and a complete removal/reinstall of Norton. Microsoft's support forum is quickly filling up with complaints about this problem, many from businesses that have been pretty hard hit. This should be a cautionary tale about deploying beta products in production environments."
12.Feb.2006 Title: RFID Injection Required for Datacenter Access Zonk 185 user24 writes "Security focus reports that RFID injections are now required for access to the datacenter of a Cincinnati company. From the article 'In the past, employees accessed the room with an RFID tag which hung from their keychains, however under the new regulations an implantable, glass encapsulated RFID tag from VeriChip must be injected into the bicep to gain access ... although the company does not require the microchips be implanted to maintain employment.'"
12.Feb.2006 Title: Mind Control Parasites in Half of All Humans Zonk 459 iiii writes "According to a Yahoo News story, half of the world's human population is infected with Toxoplasma, a parasite shown to alter the brain function of rats, inducing them into behavior that benefits the parasite but is suicidal for the rat. So what affect does it have on humans? Article comes complete with Heinlein 'Puppet Masters' reference. I call dibs on using Toxoplasma as a name for my rock band."
12.Feb.2006 https://fr.search.yahoo.com/search?p=namebase%20bronfman%20edgar&prssweb=Rechercher&ei=UTF-8&fl=1&meta=vl%3D&ybs=0&vl=&pstart=1&fr=fp-tab-web-t-1&b=11
Alternative Press Review #7 - Finding Our Way Out of Oklahoma by Adam Parfrey ... the Christic Institute, Daniel Brandt, whose NameBase software is a leading resource for ... Jewish Congress celebrating liquor tycoon Edgar Bronfman , a vastly powerful Zionist leader ... www.altpr.org/apr7/oklahoma.html
12.Feb.2006 Project for the Exposure of Hidden Institutions - 1001 Club ... You have Edgar Bronfman and Maurice Strong from Canada, Henry Ford and Robert ... Congress of which Edgar Bronfman in the long time president. Coincidentally, Namebase lists only one ...

home.planet.nl/~reijd050/organisations/1001_Club.htm

09 Oct.2001 00:00:09 Secret RIAA Meeting ... Strauss Zelnick - BMG. Edgar Bronfman - Universal. Gerald Levin - AOL Time-Warner ... EDT From: NameBase ... cryptome.sabotage.org/riaa-secret.htm

Chemtrail Central : - Sherman Skolnick report ... dictator/boss J. Edgar Hoover by way of investigating + ... of the whiskey-soaked Bronfman family, owners jointly with ... + COINTELPRO In Defense of Paranoia", NameBase Newsline, No ... www.chemtrailcentral.com/forum/msg60151.html
12.Feb.2006 RHODES SCHOLARS FROM 1960 A YEAR AT A TIME [Free Republic] ... To save disk space, the several membership rosters in NameBase were entered to avoid redundancy ...

C BROKAW TOM BROMLEY D ALLAN BRONFMAN EDGAR MILES BROOKINS CAROL BROOKS HARVEY BROWER ... www.freerepublic.com/forum/a376bec1b01b5.htm

The Salk Institute ...

00.000.1974-00.000.1997 Fellow Salk Institute trustee Edgar M. Bronfman was a director 00.000.1981-00.000.1995 +... the University of Southern California, 1978-79, by Daniel Brandt of Namebase ... www.smokershistory.com/Salk.htm

National Opinion Research Center The National Opinion Research Center. In 1941, President Roosevelt created the Office of the Coordinator of Information, with Gen. William J. Donovan in charge. ... President of the advertising firm Doyle, Dane, Bernbach Inc.; Edgar M. Bronfman ; former HEW Secretary John W ... Public Information Research/Namebase review of: Simpson, Christopher ... www.smokershistory.com/NORC.htm
12.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Jesus was a raghead I read with some interest Ann Coulter's latest hate-gasm. Among her many vile remarks was a needlessly insulting reference to Muslims as "ragheads."
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400390,00.html
ein Sprecher der WHO am Samstag der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters. "Es ist wichtig, dass die Leute wissen, dass sie keinen Kontakt zu kranken Vögeln haben sollen", sagte er. Eine höhere Warnstufe werde nicht ausgerufen. "Wenn das Virus in einem neuen Land auftaucht, heißt das nicht, dass die Pandemie begonnen hat. Es heißt, dass die Tierkrankheit sich ausbreitet."
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400390,00.html
"Eis und Hunger verjagen die Vögel - die Migrationswege ändern sich", berichtete die Zeitung "La Repubblica" am Sonntag.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400390,00.html
Die Kontrollen funktionieren und wir verfügen über alle notwendigen Instrumente, um weitere Probleme zu verhindern", zitierte die Zeitung "Corriere della Sera" am Sonntag den Minister.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400390,00.html
Ressortchef Horst Seehofer hat bereits angekündigt, dass ab 1. März Nutzgeflügel für mindestens zwei Monate in Ställen gehalten werden muss, um Ansteckungen über Wildtiere während des Vogelzugs vorzubeugen.
Italiens Gesundheitsminister Francesco Storace sagte, bei den meisten der 21 tot aufgefundenen Schwäne in den südlichen Regionen Apulien, Kalabrien und Sizilien sei das H5N1-Virus nachgewiesen worden. Die Nachricht löste im ganzen Land Besorgnis aus
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400390,00.html
Außerdem sei das auch für Menschen gefährliche Vogelgrippevirus vom Typ H5N1 bei Wildgeflügel und nicht Nutzgeflügel entdeckt worden. Wenn das Auftauchen der Vogelgrippe jedoch näher an deutsches Staatsgebiet rücke, werde über ein Vorziehen der Pflicht zum Halten von Geflügel in Ställen nachgedacht, sagte die Sprecherin.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400390,00.html
Nach den ersten Vogelgrippe-Fällen in Italien, Griechenland und Bulgarien ist auch bei einem Schwan in Slowenien ein Erreger der H5-Gruppe festgestellt worden. Ob es sich um den auch für Menschen gefährlichen Virenstamm H5N1 handele, sei noch unklar, teilte die EU-Kommission am Sonntag in Brüssel mit. Das slowenische Labor für Vogelgrippe habe seine Proben zu weiteren Tests an das EU-Referenzlabor im britischen Weybridge geschickt.
11.Feb.2006 The Urgency of Now: Stopping the War on Iran -By Mike Kress
The neo-cons will use their tool at the UN, Ambassador John Bolton, to help create an international crisis and thereby justify attacks on Iran. Though there’s no evidence to prove that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, Iran’s refusal to halt its lawful nuclear programs will become the pretext for America’s next unnecessary war. Continued
12.Feb.2006 Video Exclusive: Brutal & British: Exposed.. squad of British soldiers beat teenage Iraqis and shame their country

14.Feb.2006 Ex-CIA official rips war case: Says Iraq data distorted to sway public

14.Feb.2006 Dahr Jamail: Out of Sight, Out of Mind : If one watches corporate media or listens to Cheney Administration propaganda, one is either not getting information about Iraq at all, or hearing that things are looking up as the U.S. approaches another “phase” in the occupation. Just taking a brief look at the “security incidents” reported by Reuters

for today, 12 February, gives a little clue as to how the occupation of Iraq, aside from being immoral and unjust, is a dismal failure.

14.Feb.2006 Australian troops may stay in Iraq, Howard says: "It should not be assumed that we would bring all of our forces home," he said.

14.Feb.2006 US prepares military blitz against Iran's nuclear sites: "This is more than just the standard military contingency assessment," said a senior Pentagon adviser. "This has taken on much greater urgency in recent months."

14.Feb.2006 Iran is prepared to retaliate, experts warn: Iran is prepared to launch attacks using long-range missiles, secret commando units + terrorist allies planted around the globe in retaliation for any strike on the country's nuclear facilities, according to new US intelligence assessments and military specialists.

14.Feb.2006 Gordon Prather: Sanction the IAEA Board, not Iran : The Associated Press even reported – falsely – that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had "ordered" the end of voluntary cooperation with the IAEA "in response to the U.N. agency decision to refer Iran to the Security Council over fears the country is trying to develop a nuclear bomb." But there was no referral.

14.Feb.2006 Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in Morocco : THE USA is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources.
12.Feb.2006 CIA chief sacked for opposing torture -By Sarah Baxter and Michael Smith
The CIA’s top counter-terrorism official was fired last week because he opposed detaining Al-Qaeda suspects in secret prisons abroad, sending them to other countries for interrogation and using forms of torture such as “water boarding”, intelligence sources have claimed. Continued
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400466,00.html

Der erste Schneesturm der Saison hat den Nordosten der USA heimgesucht. Heftige Schneefälle und Windgeschwindigkeiten bis 120 Stundenkilometer haben das öffentliche Leben weitgehend lahmgelegt.

Washington - Der Washington National Airport vor den Toren der US-Hauptstadt stellte am Morgen nach schweren Schneefällen seinen Betrieb ein. Hunderte Flüge von und nach New York, Boston und Washington wurden gestrichen oder starteten mit Verspätung.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400489,00.html
Dem verletzten 78-jährigen Harry Whittington, der von mehreren Schrotkugeln getroffen wurde, gehe es aber gut, sagte eine Besitzerin der Ranch, Katherine Armstrong. Cheney habe Whittington auch am Sonntag im Krankenhaus besucht.
12.Feb.2006 Erwerbsunfähigkeit: Struck fordert Ausnahmen für Rente mit 67

12.Feb.2006 Unfall: Cheney trifft mit Schrotflinte auf Jagdkollegen
12.Feb.2006 Karikaturenstreit: Moslemische Länder gehen gegen Journalisten vor

12.Feb.2006 Atomstreit: Steinmeier ruft Iran zum Einlenken auf
12.Feb.2006 USA: Schneesturm legt den Nordosten lahm

12.Feb.2006 Nahost: Hamas droht Israel mit Vernichtung
12.Feb.2006 Öffentlicher Dienst: Ausweitung der Proteste auf zehn Bundesländer

12.Feb.2006 Schulen: Jede Woche 500.000 Mobbing-Fälle

12.Feb.2006 Wahl in Kuweit: Erstmals kandidiert eine Frau
12.Feb.2006 Unfreiwilliges Geständnis: Imam preist Londoner U-Bahn-Attentäter

12.Feb.2006 Italien: Berlusconi vergleicht sich mit Napoleon

12.Feb.2006 H5N1-Virus: Vogelgrippe verbreitet sich in der EU
12.Feb.2006 Ministerpräsident Rasmussen zum Karikatur-Streit: "Wir Dänen fühlen uns wie im falschen Film"
12.Feb.2006 Arbeitsmarkt: Böhmer spricht sich für Mindestlohn aus

12.Feb.2006 Autobahnen: Zahlreiche Brücken in miserablem Zustand

12.Feb.2006 Atom-Konflikt: Bericht über detaillierte US-Pläne für Angriff auf Iran

12.Feb.2006 Einbürgerung: Regierung plant Pflichttest für Ausländer

12.Feb.2006 Atomkraft: RWE will Laufzeitverlängerung für Biblis A beantragen
12.Feb.2006 Irak: Saddam plant laut Anwalt nun doch keinen Hungerstreik
12.Feb.2006 Schutt wird zu Gold

Das stört Larry Silverstein nicht. Er ist nämlich damit beschäftigt, aus dreieinhalb Milliarden Dollar das Doppelte zu machen. Eigentlich müßte Larry Silverstein ein am Boden zerstörter Mann sein. Der 11. September 2001 ebnete nicht nur sein 47-stöckiges Gebäude WTC 7 ein, sondern machte auch noch die beiden 110 Stockwerke hohen Zwillingstürme des World Trade Centers dem Erdboden gleich. Diese hatte er am 26. Juli 2001 gerade für die nächsten 99 Jahre gepachtet.
48 Tage später sitzt Larry Silverstein auf einem Haufen Schutt - der ihm nun Milliardenprofite einbringen wird. Zusammen mit seinem australisch-israelischen Partner Frank Lowy konnte sich Silverstein die Pacht der Zwillingstürme zu einem äußerst vorteilhaften Preis sichern. Dabei half ihm seine langjährige Freundschaft zu Lewis Eisenberg, der den Deal ausgehandelt hatte. Eisenberg war nämlich Vorsitzender der Hafenbehörde von New York und New Jersey gewesen, jener staatlichen Institution, der das World Trade Center gehörte.
Silverstein und Eisenberg kennen sich von jener Zeit, als beide leitende Funktionen bei United Jewish Appeal hatten, einer jüdischen Wohltätigkeitsorganisation, die laut dem Journalisten Christopher Bollyn Milliarden umsetzt. Lewis Eisenberg war zudem Vizepräsident des stärksten Armes der Israellobby, dem American Israel Public Affairs Committee (siehe ZS 36, Seite 54). Heute ist Eisenberg der wichtigste Spendeneintreiber für die Republikanische Partei von Präsident Bush. Immobilientycoon Larry Silverstein wird nun bald im Geld schwimmen, weil das von ihm gepachtete Grundstück des World Trade Centers für 3.55 Milliarden Dollar versichert war. Das ist Silverstein jedoch nicht genug. Seine Anwälte argumentieren, daß der 11. September im Grunde genommen zwei Versicherungsfälle darstelle, weil ja auch zwei Flugzeuge in die Türme eingeschlagen hätten. Also müsse auch die doppelte Versicherungssumme ausbezahlt werden. Harold Rubenstein, der Sprecher von Silversteins Immobilienkonzern, ist zuversichtlich, daß man vor Gericht gewinnen werde.
Einen Wehrmuts-Tropfen gibt es allerdings: Am 14. Januar 2002 hatte eine Gläubigerfirma von Silverstein beim State Supreme Court in Manhattan eine Klage gegen ihn eingereicht. Der Grund: Er habe die für den 11. September bereits ausbezahlten Versicherungsgelder zum Teil illegal verwendet. Konkret wirft man Silverstein vor, er habe mit dem Geld Lobbyisten in Albany und Washington bezahlt und damit versucht, seine Haftung gegenüber den Opfern der Katastrophe zu begrenzen. https://www.zeitenschrift.com/news/wtc_wahrheit.htm#
12.Feb.2006http://news.fairfax.com.au index.html-from=lhsnav.htm
Dig deeper at Orange Grove

The State Opposition will no doubt be pleased with its upper house inquiry into the Orange Grove fiasco. It has succeeded in compounding the Government's misery as it watches the centre's retailers shut their doors and their employees get the sack. Significantly, the hearings have revealed the Premier, Bob Carr, as less than forthcoming about contacts with the powerful Westfield group which has successfully used the law to shut down Orange Grove. What the inquiry has not done, however, is answer the basic question of why Liverpool Council ever approved Orange Grove's rezoning from bulky goods complex to factory outlet in defiance of its Local Environmental Plan.

Of course, the parliamentary inquiry was always more concerned with goings on in Macquarie Street than at Liverpool Council. It hoped to find some skulduggery behind the State Government's refusal to endorse the rezoning of Orange Grove, even though the Government's stance was in line with rulings by the courts. Had the Carr Government been swayed by Westfield which has a shopping centre nearby? Mr Carr had denied any contact with Westfield or its chief, Frank Lowy, about Orange Grove. However, the inquiry revealed that a Westfield executive, Mark Ryan, had met Mr Carr's chief of staff, Graeme Wedderburn, last April to allege a whiff of corruption about the rezoning of Orange Grove. Mr Wedderburn alerted Mr Carr who told him to alert the Assistant Planning Minister, Diane Beamer. Ms Beamer, too, denied contact with Westfield over Orange Grove - but not for want of trying on Westfield's part. Westfield told the inquiry it had sent a letter to Ms Beamer unsuccessfully seeking a meeting and had tried to phone her (though Ms Beamer says she was not made aware of the call). The inquiry has illuminated the sort of access Westfield thinks it deserves - and actively pursues - but it has not turned up evidence of any favours for Mr Lowy.

With the public dirt-digging at Parliament House due to end on Monday, interest will shift to the Independent Commission Against Corruption which is also investigating the Orange Grove debacle, behind closed doors and without fanfare. The commission can compel evidence, making it a more effective forensic tool than any Upper House inquiry. The community will expect the commission's powers to be used to the full to sweep away the innuendo + to expose the facts about the Orange Grove rezoning.
12.Feb.2006Hail soccer's saviour
18.Nov.2005 THREE-and-a-half years ago Westfield boss Frank Lowy finally capitulated and agreed to a meeting with a rag-tag mix of soccer lobbyists desperate to convince one of Australia's most successful businessmen to rescue the game they loved.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.geocities.com/killtown/wtc7/pullit.html)
Silverstein said "pull it"...
12.Feb.2006 How did everybody know the building was about to collapse since the fire commander ordered firefighters away from the WTC 7 at 11:30 am— seven hours before it collapsed —and why would the firefighters need to be pulled out when the firefighters were never in the building to fight the fires in the first place?
12.Feb.2006 Audio and video clip courtesy of The Web Fairy. (Watch video clip. Listen to audio
12.Feb.2006 America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero -PBS (09/10/02) (Unidentified construction worker): " Hello? Oh, we're getting ready to pull building six ."
12.Feb.2006 Nein aber ehrlich. Sowas könnte meiner Meinung nach möglich sein. Aber ist das nicht ein bisschen zu weit hergegriffen?
anstatt das Down zu loaden kann man sich das einfach auf https://www.kommunisten-online.de/Kriegstreiber/usa1.htm angucken.
12.Feb.2006 Of the big four voting vendors, Sequoia currently has the tidiest corporate ownership but the most recent indictment of an employee and the most prolific habit of hiring its own regulators. Besides hiring former California Secretary of State Bill Jones, Sequoia hired Kathryn Ferguson, the elections official who helped purchase Sequoia machines for Clark County, Nevada + Santa Clara County, California, as Vice President, Corporate Communications. In October 2003 she moved to Hart Intercivic. 28 Michael Frontera, former executive director of the Denver Election Commission, went to work for Sequoia after awarding it $6.6 million in contracts from his own department. 29 Alfie Charles, former spokesman for Secretary of State Bill Jones, This free internet version is available at www.BlackBoxVoting.org Black Box Voting 72 is now spokesman for Sequoia Voting Systems. 30 At the time of the bribery scandal, Sequoia Voting Systems was owned by Jefferson Smurfit Group, a company based in Ireland. In May 2002, Sequoia was purchased by Great Britain’s De La Rue plc + Phil Foster’s loyal and trusting boss, Peter Cosgrove, was retained and promoted. De La Rue is considered a blue-chip company. Its fortunes are heavily affected by politics + it has at least one politically active investor. It is the world’s biggest commercial money printer. De La Rue was one of the first British companies to profit from the war in Iraq, earning a quick windfall when it received the assignment to print the new Iraqi bank notes. During the first Bush administration, De La Rue was called in toward the tail end of Sandinista rule in Nicaragua to create new money. 31 De La Rue is also involved in Britain’s national lottery, through its investment in Camelot Group plc. In this capacity, it enraged British citizens when they learned that Camelot had assigned its executives a 40 percent pay hike while reducing the funds allocated to good works. 32 De La Rue would very much like to take Diebold’s position + not just in election systems. The firm also sells ATMs and smart cards and lists Diebold Inc. as one of its competitors. 33 In July 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation into a U.S. division of De La Rue, alleging that it had engaged in an illegal price-fixing scheme in relation to the supply of holograms for Visa banking cards, violating US antitrust laws. In a statement, De La Rue said the “individual implicated” in the pricefixing allegation had “left the business in October 1999.” 34 One of the most aggressive investors in De La Rue stock is the hugely wealthy Australian Lowy family, who by March 2003 had picked up 5.5 million shares (just over 3%) through their private investment vehicle, LFG Holdings. Frank Lowy is Australia’s second- richest man. He is highly political, particularly with pro-Israel issues + has come under fire for his company’s payments to Lord Levy, British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s “special envoy to the Middle East,” which the Aussie billionaire authorized directly. At first, his payments raised This free internet version is available at www.BlackBoxVoting.org Black Box Voting © 2004 Bev Harris • ISBN 1-890916-90-0 Company Information 73 suspicions of a “cash for access” intrigue at the highest level of British politics, but as the size of the payments (£250,000) became apparent, the Australian media began raising questions of “cash for foreign policy.” 35 The Lowy family contributes heavily to the Democratic Party. 36 On August 4, 2003, Sequoia Voting Systems quietly announced a partnership with VoteHere Inc. for electronic ballot verification on its touch-screen machines. 37 It is amazing how much money the elections industry is willing to spend just to avoid giving us ballots we can read and use for audits. The VoteHere system provides a receipt with a code number on it, not a human-readable ballot. You get to check your single vote using a secret code. If you believe this constitutes public counting of the vote then please meet me under the bridge at midnight and enter your special password into my PalmPilot + I’ll slip you a brown paper bag with some stock tips in it. Count on ’em. Trust me. Instead of allowing the vote to be counted in the open, viewed by citizens, the VoteHere solution requires us to give control of our elections to a handful of cryptographers with defense-industry ties. VoteHere Inc. Like a Timex watch, this company takes a licking but keeps on ticking. Launched by a cryptographer named Jim Adler during the height of the dot-com boom, VoteHere hoped to usher us into the brave new world of Internet voting. Adler picked up funding from Compaq Computer and Cisco Systems and Northwest Venture Associates, $15 million by November 2000. 38 He also did an honorable thing: He made his company’s source code available for review. Adler’s Internet voting system did not fare well in a simple review titled “Vote early, vote often and VoteHere,” a master’s thesis by Philip E. Varner. After defining threats to the publicly available VoteHere system in such areas as completeness, privacy, verifiability, fairness and reliability + creating an attack tree, Varner identified several weaknesses in the VoteHere system and concluded it was not ready for use. 39 Undaunted, the entrepreneurial Adler charged ahead with a plan This free internet version is available at www.BlackBoxVoting.org Black Box Voting 74 to have us try voting on totable Compaq iPAQ hardware using VoteHere software and online polling sites connected to the Internet. 40 But his Internet plans did not materialize + Adler also stopped making his source code available for public review. VoteHere persuaded places like Swindon, England + the city of Suwanee, Georgia, to try the system and conducted an online advisory election for the Conservative Party in Sweden. But by 2003, it had few sales to show for six years of work and $15 million in outside investments. I have seen no more sources of funding for VoteHere, nor much in the way of sales revenues, but one thing I did find was a board of directors spiked with power brokers from the defense industries. For a long time, VoteHere's chairman was Admiral Bill Owens, a member of the Defense Policy Board and Vice Chairman of Scientific Applications International Corp. (SAIC), which did the Diebold review for the state of Maryland. Robert Gates, former CIA director and head of the George Bush School of Business at Texas A&M, was another director. VoteHere may be trying to make a comeback with its Internet voting concept. It hired former Washington State Secretary of State Ralph Munro as its chairman. Pam Floyd, who had worked for Washington state elections director David Elliott, left to take a position with VoteHere for three years; she recently became Washington’s assistant state elections director + she oversees Washington’s Internet SERVE project. Washington state is now leaving the door open (through legislation proposed by Munro crony and current secretary of state Sam Reed) to arrange for more Internet voting in the state. In 2003, VoteHere decided to go after the innards of other vendors’ touch screens, perhaps hoping to become the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval for electronic voting machines by claiming that its system verifies the integrity of the vote. This verification system is another way to avoid giving voters the paper ballots they are asking for.
12.Feb.2006 SEIU Local 105
12.Jun.---- —in honor of National Justice for Janitors Day—700 janitors , their families, elected officials—including Denver City Councilwoman Rosemary ... www.seiu105.org/onthejob/building_service_division/justice_for_janitors_2003.cfm

SEIU Local 105 Formed in Denver in 1985, Justice for Janitors is in its 17th year. The campaign is about hard-working janitors uniting for fair working conditions with ... www.seiu105.org/onthejob/building_service_division/justice_for_janitors/index.cfm
12.Feb.2006ACTU: News: International Justice For Janitors Day – Oz and US cleaners' unions appeal to Frank Lowy to make his Westfield malls decent places to work. www.actu.asn.au/public/news/1055743836_6998.html
12.Feb.2006 Prozess: Saddam kündigt Hungerstreik an

16.Jun.2003 Libya: What happened and When? July 29, 1953 : A Treaty of friendship between Libya and the United Kingdom is signed. April , 1959: Zletin oil field , one of the largest oil fields in Libya ...ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dr_ibrahim_ighneiwa/libya ns.htm
12.Feb.2006 US and UK Government International Intervention Since 1945: Libya ... in Libya + the USA is required to abandon Wheelus Field , ...1973: February - 111 passengers and crewmembers are killed in the crash of a ... www.us-uk-interventions.org/Libya.html
12.Feb.2006 01.Jan.1908-00.000.1966 Chronology of the Middle East
Feb: Oil is discovered in Kuwait, at the Burgan field ; extraction by the US&UK owned ... 1953 . Libya joins Arab League; also signs military treaty with UK. ... middleeastreference.org.uk/Chronology.html

01.Jan.1970-31.Dec.1979 Timeline

11.Jun.1970 The USA presence in Libya came to an end as the last detachment left Wheelus Air Base. (AP, 6/11/00) 1970 Jun 11, Frank Laubach, ... timelines.ws/20thcent/1970.HTML
12.Feb.2006 Operation Musketeer: A Military Success Ends In Political Failure
00.000.1953 , the following quote was issued in a presitigous journal: "As an ... On the international field , however, a situation beyond their control was ... www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/report/1984/RRW.htm

Thunderstone: GlobalSecurity.org - Reliable Security Information

00.000.1953 , the following quote was issued In A presitigous journal: ... Britain could protect the Persian Gulf oil fields , her principal source of supply. ... www.globalsecurity.org/.../?query=iraq+maps& pr=default&order=r&cmd=context&id=42b615fd424
12.Feb.2006 Dragon operations: hostage rescues in the Congo, 1964-1965 In spite of known State Department apposition, the Americans and the Belgians favored Wheelus Air Base in Libya as the immediate point of departure for the ... www-cgsc.army.mil/carl/resources/csi/odom/odom.asp
12.Feb.2006 Roll Call A thru J there was A reason all New Weapons and securtity systems were field tested at the Bit; If they could ... spent several TDYs at Wheelus AFB, Tripoli Libya . ... www.bitteeinbit.org/rollcall/a-j.html
12.Feb.2006 netzpolitik.org: " Was macht überhaupt ein Geheimdienst? Aktuelle Berichterstattung rund um die politischen Themen... netzpolitik.org. Mittwoch, 28. September 2005. Was macht überhaupt ein Geheimdienst ? Die National Security Agency (NSA), u.a. Hauptbetreiber des globalen Überwachungsnetzwerkes Echelon, hat Kinder und Jugendliche als Zielgruppe entdeckt. ... 21.01.2006: US- Regierung will Zugriff auf Google -Anfragen. 20.01.2006: Virtuelles Panel der BBC zu ... 5 Comments. US- Regierung will Zugriff auf Google -Anfragen. 21.Jan.2006 ... netzpolitik.org/2005/was-macht-uberhaupt-ein-geheimdienst/trackback
12.Feb.2006 Dialog International: January 2006 ... vorausgesetzt, dass der deutsche Geheimdienst selbst diese Methoden nicht ... SAN FRANCISCO. Ein Google -Anwalt wies am Donnerstag ... die Machenschaften der US- Regierung hinein. Die damit ... dialoginternational.typepad.com/dialog_international/2006/01
12.Feb.2006 heise online - US-Geheimdienst fängt europaweit EMails ab ... militärische Ziele ausgerichtet: im Visier stehen Regierungsstellen, Organisationen und die Wirtschaft ... Top-Meldungen. Phishing mit Google ... Google verschickt Einladungen für Analytics ... www.heise.de/newsticker/data/ae-09.01.98-000
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400428,00.html
Nach den Anschuldigungen Browns wussten das Weiße Haus und das Heimatschutzministerium früher als behauptet von den Dammbrüchen in New Orleans - und ließen sich Zeit mit der Reaktion. Die Regierung sei zu stark mit dem Kampf gegen den Terrorismus beschäftigt gewesen und habe daher die Vorbereitung auf Naturkatastrophen sträflich vernachlässigt, sagte der frühere Leiter des Amts für Katastrophenmanagement (Fema), Michael Brown, am Freitag vor einem Senatsausschuss in Washington.
Hurrikan "Katrina" hatte am 29. August die Golfküste der USA heimgesucht. Dabei waren mehr als 1200 Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Weite Teile der Stadt New Orleans wurden überflutet.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400428,00.html
56 Stunden bevor "Katrina" die Küste erreichte, habe der Wetterdienst die Wahrscheinlichkeit einer Überflutung New Orleans bereits als "extrem hoch" eingeschätzt, so der Bericht. In diesem Zusammenhang wirke Bushs Aussage in einer Fernsehansprache am 1. September, niemand habe den Bruch der Dämme vorhersehen können, unglaubwürdig.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400428,00.html
Fehleinschätzungen habe es auf allen Regierungsebenen gegeben, insbesondere bei Heimatschutzminister Michael Chertoff. Dieser sei zu weit von den Ereignissen entfernt gewesen und habe die Notfallinstrumentarien "zu spät, zu ineffektiv oder überhaupt nicht" in Gang gesetzt. So sei der Einsatz von Soldaten und die Lieferung von Hilfsgütern um bis zu drei Tage verzögert worden.
Zudem hätten verschiedene Einrichtungen nicht mit- sondern gegeneinander gearbeitet, heißt es der Zeitung zufolge in dem Bericht. Bush hätte als einziger die Möglichkeit gehabt, die bürokratischen Widerstände zu brechen. Er habe aber nichts unternommen, um die Reaktion auf die Katastrophe zu beschleunigen. Der Umgang mit dem Hurrikan zeige, dass die Regierung nicht die nötigen Konsequenzen aus den Anschlägen vom 11. September 2001 gezogen habe.
Der 600 Seiten starke Bericht eines Komitees von elf Republikanern unter Thomas Davis schlägt allerdings nur wenige konkrete Änderungen für die Zukunft vor. Der größte Fehler der Regierung habe darin bestanden, die Folgen des Hurrikans nicht vorauszusehen. Experten hatten offenbar schon im Jahr 2004 in einem Katastrophenbereitschaftsplan eine Überschwemmung New Orleans als eines der schlimmsten Szenarien gewertet.
Frühe Warnung des Wetterdienstes
12.Feb.2006 Remember "Total Information Awareness"? You didn't really think the Bush regime had a pang of constitutionality and canceled it, do you? Hint: it's now called "Topsail"
BuzzFlash Exclusive: Sibel Edmonds on Porter Goss' Op-ed: 'Ignoturn per Ignotius'! And Since Mr. Cheney Authorized Scooter Libby to Disclose Classified Information, Shouldn't Mr. Goss be Asking for Cheney to be Prosecuted?
NYT: "We can't think of a president who has gone to the American people more often than George W. Bush has to ask them to forget about things like democracy, judicial process and the balance of powers ? and just trust him. We also can't think of a president who has deserved that trust less." 2/12
Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers & Tides." "Well, sometimes even BuzzFlash needs a break from politics to recharge our batteries. And watching the mesmerizing 'Rivers and Tides' was like going from 100 MPH to a dead stop in the middle of the sea of tranquility."
Bush team wants to sell forest lands -- and hurt hunters, anglers, campers, foresters, cattlemen, miners and others 2/12
President Bush's marks on overall job approval and for handling the economy are mired near their lowest levels despite a spike in confidence over the past month, an AP-Ipsos poll found. If the Democrats Blow This, Once Again, It's Time to Conduct a Revolution in the Democratic Party Leadership. In Fact, It's the Only Thing That Will Give the Dems in D.C. a Spine. We'll Have to Import the Talent from the Grassroots.
Larry Johnson: Attention, citizens -- a blue dress special 2/12
Bush lied about Katrina 2/12
New owners to Village Voice staff: drop dead 2/12
Details emerged last night of a shocking video which appears to show a group of UK soldiers brutally beating and kicking defenseless Iraqi teenagers in an army compound. Do we Americans really have to be associated with this? 2/12
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(By the way, most of the people who wear turbans in the USA are Sikhs -- who, as it happens, are neither Arabs nor Muslims. They have had to put up with many nasty remarks from the sort of ignorant fools who buy Coulter's books.) Permalink
12.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Jack meets George Remember when the White House told us that Dubya never met Jack Abramoff? Here are the photos proving otherwise. Are they real? I believe that they are. Permalink
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-399581,00.html
Das Endprodukt ist glasklar und praktisch keimfrei; es erfüllt problemlos die Badegewässer-Richtlinie der EU. Das effiziente Herausfiltern von Coli-Bakterien und anderen Krankheitserregern gilt als der wichtigste Erfolg des Verfahrens. In konventionellen Anlagen ist dies bislang nicht möglich.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-399581,00.html
Filter in Container einbauen
Walter Trösch leitet die zuständige Arbeitsgruppe am Fraunhofer-Institut. Er ist von den Zukunftschancen der neuen Technik überzeugt: "Mit industriell vorgefertigten und im Aufbau identischen Modulen, reduzierten Betriebskosten und höchster Qualität der Ablaufwerte könnte sie zum Exportschlager werden."
Die Filterleistung der Keramikscheiben dürfte sich durch Verringerung der Porengröße bis sechzig Nanometer noch erheblich steigern lassen. Trösch und seine Kollegen hoffen deshalb, dass diese Technik auch zum Entfernen von großmolekularen, hormonwirksamen Substanzen aus dem Abwasser taugt.
Jürgen Weber, technischer Leiter des Heidelberger Abwasserzweckverbandes, sieht noch ganz andere Möglichkeiten. "Solche Anlagen sind robust und leicht zu handhaben", erklärt er. "Man könnte sie in Container einbauen und schnell in Katastrophengebieten einsetzen." Vom Prinzip her ließe sich die Rotationsscheibenfilter-Technik dort sowohl für die Abwasserreinigung als auch für die Trinkwasser-Aufbereitung verwenden, um so den Ausbruch von Seuchen wie Cholera und Typhus zu verhindern.
12.Feb.2006 Global warming: passing the 'tipping point' : Our special investigation reveals that critical rise in world temperatures is now unavoidable
12.Feb.2006 President Bush Forever!: Does President Bush plan to use his Executive authority under his wartime powers to cancel the 2008 election because a change in leadership here might embolden the terrorists? The statue says 'yes.'

12.Feb.2006 A sheep-like nation is allowing Bush to erode our liberties and well-being: What is it going to take for the American people to wake up to the presidential coup d’état that is now under way, a takeover that is occurring in broad daylight by a president who has declared that as commander in chief he has unfettered power to fight an undeclared and never-ending war on terrorism, even if that means ignoring the courts, disregarding laws passed by Congress and circumventing the Bill of Rights in the process?

12.Feb.2006 Democrats Push Bill That Would Bar Third Parties in Races for Congress: Green Party leaders called on Congress to reject a House bill that combines public funding of congressional campaigns with a scheme to ban third party and independents from such races.

12.Feb.2006 GOP chairman questions Democrats' ability to protect Americans: Ken Mehlman, chairman of the Republican National Committee, declared Friday that Democrats who have condemned the Bush administration's controversial eavesdropping program may not be suited to safeguard Americans against terror attacks

12.Feb.2006 Three More Lawmakers Linked to Abramoff : Three members of Congress have been linked to efforts by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and a former General Services Administration official to secure leases of government property for Abramoff's clients, according to court filings by federal prosecutors on Friday

12.Feb.2006 Budget Plan Has $3.5B in New User Fees : The fees would swell to $47.2 billion over five years, dunning taxpayers and industry to help pay for government services

12.Feb.2006 Government wants to sell thousands of acres: The Bush administration on Friday proposed the largest Forest Service land sale in decades, listing 309,421 acres in more than 30 states — including nearly 7,500 acres in Washington state.
12.Feb.2006 Use of force debate persist on Iran : In a private meeting with European diplomats this week, a former senior U.S. official raised the idea of launching a dozen B2 bombers in an air raid aimed at crippling key Iranian nuclear facilities.

12.Feb.2006 War pimp alert: Gingrich: U.S. Must Stop Iran: Facing a potential nuclear holocaust at the hands of Iran, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich say the USA must do everything in its power to bring about regime change there, even if it means invading that nation.

War pimp alert: World Jewish Congress launches anti-Iran campaign : The World Jewish Congress has launched a campaign against Iran following the nuclear crisis and the anti-Semitic statements of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

12.Feb.2006 Karen Kwiatkowski: Why We Fight: Why We Fight will eagerly be consumed and digested by millions and millions of real and loyal Americans who are now weary of strange endless wars in far away places and an economy wasting under the demands of voracious spending on "defense."

12.Feb.2006 Watch it on line: Why We Fight : What are the forces that shape and propel American militarism? This award-winning film provides an inside look at the anatomy of the American war machine. Real video.

12.Feb.2006 In case you missed it: Where has all the money gone?: The auditors have so far referred more than a hundred contracts, involving billions of dollars paid to American personnel and corporations, for investigation and possible criminal prosecution. They have also discovered that $8.8 billion that passed through the new Iraqi government ministries in Baghdad while Bremer was in charge is unaccounted for, with little prospect of finding out where it went.

12.Feb.2006 Brazil poised to join the world's nuclear elite: While the world community scrutinizes Iran's nuclear plans, Latin America's biggest country is weeks away from taking a controversial step and firing up the region's first major uranium enrichment plant.

12.Feb.2006 US warns its soldiers about Turkish movie: An articles in the US army’s “Stars and Stripes” magazine said that American soldiers serving in Europe to stay away from cinemas screening the film Kurtlar Vadisi: Irak (Valley of the Wolves: Iraq). The magazine cited an order sent to the US base in Hohenfels Germany.

12.Feb.2006 'Bush is certainly not welcome in India': Seven political parties, including CPI, CPI(M) And Samajwadi Party, on Friday decided to oppose the forthcoming visit of US President George W Bush to the country.

12.Feb.2006 Costa Rica election another blow to US trade pact: A U.S. free trade pact with Central America, already delayed by a legal wrangle, has run into further trouble at presidential elections in Costa Rica where voters punished the main pro-trade candidate.

12.Feb.2006 Latinamerican trade surplus with US tops 100 billion : With oil exporters Venezuela and Mexico leading, Latin America and the Caribbean posted a 100.8 billion US dollars trade surplus with the USA in 2005, up 32.2% percent from the previous year, reported Friday the U.S. Department of Commerce.

12.Feb.2006 Vodafone embroiled in Greek phone-tapping scandal : Vodafone's mobile phone operation in Greece has become embroiled in a phone-tapping scandal, nicknamed the Greek Watergate, after it discovered its network was being used to eavesdrop on the country's political and military elite.

12.Feb.2006 Suicide complicates Greek mobile phone spying conundrum : The suicide of a Greek telecommunications expert added to the murkiness surrounding the explosive revelations that eavesdroppers listened in on Greece's entire political and military elite, including the prime minister, for almost a year.
12.Feb.2006 Siniyah: an Iraqi town that is now a prison: Twice now, an IPS correspondent has been refused entry to this town that has become a prison for its inhabitants. Contact with residents of the town came only at the checkpoint.

12.Feb.2006 Paul R. Pillar: Intelligence, Policy,and the War in Iraq: During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, writes the intelligence community's former senior analyst for the Middle East, the Bush administration disregarded the community's expertise, politicized the intelligence process + selected unrepresentative raw intelligence to make its public case.

12.Feb.2006 Michael T. Klare: Kicking the oil habit, all over the world: PRESIDENT BUSH was right to say that the USA is "addicted to oil" in his State of the Union address. : Other countries, including China and India, are just as addicted to oil + unless we strive to suppress their appetites along with our own, the problems we face will continue to multiply.

12.Feb.2006 Iran warns it may quit NPT : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warned on Saturday the Islamic republic could quit the Non-Poliferation Treaty if forced by the West to limit its disputed nuclear programme.
12.Feb.2006 US offered exile deal, says Saddam: The US offered to let Saddam Hussein live in exile if he would use his influence to end the Iraqi insurgency, a lawyer for the deposed leader says

12.Feb.2006 War Is Hell: A young man sat down next to me on a plane leaving Paris for the U.S. I noticed he was a U.S. army soldier.
12.Feb.2006 France Invades U.S. “Freedom Isn’t Free” - By Jerry Ghinelli

With the French occupation of the US now entering its third year, in a surprising new development, the government of Jacques Chirac today approved vast new economic measures needed to adequately finance the liberation of the US, commonly referred to as Operation American Freedom. Called the PetroEuro Transatlantic Oil Liberation Act (Petrol for short), effective immediately, all Americans must now convert their dollars into euros in order to purchase gasoline for their vehicles. Continued
12.Feb.2006 Riding-high with Hugo Chavez -By Mike Whitney
Hugo Chavez’s meteoric rise on the world stage has as much to do with his defiance of Washington as it does with his leadership of a hemispheric revolution. At great personal risk, Chavez has consistently lashed out against his witless-nemesis, George Bush + the coterie of sycophants who do his bidding. Continued
12.Feb.2006 The Urgency of Now: Stopping the War on Iran -By Mike Kress
The neo-cons will use their tool at the UN, Ambassador John Bolton, to help create an international crisis and thereby justify attacks on Iran. Though there’s no evidence to prove that Iran has a nuclear weapons program, Iran’s refusal to halt its lawful nuclear programs will become the pretext for America’s next unnecessary war. Continued
12.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-400168,00.html
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Viele haben sich auf den Standpunkt gestellt, dass die Pressefreiheit ein unverrückbares Gut ist.
Rashid: Es hat nichts mit einer Behinderung der Meinungsfreiheit zu tun, wenn das Prinzip des Respekts vor dem Islam beachtet wird. Ich fordere vom dänischen Premierminister nicht, dass er den verantwortlichen Redakteur ins Gefängnis wirft. Aber der Redakteur sollte von der Regierung kritisiert werden dafür, dass Menschen zu Tode kamen, für seinen Mangel an Sensibilität und für die Respektlosigkeit, die er gegenüber anderen Religionen und Gemeinschaften, die auch in Dänemark leben, an den Tag gelegt hat.
SPIEGEL ONLINE: Führende Politiker Europas haben solche Stellungnahmen abgegeben, vor allem aus Frankreich und Deutschland.
Rashid: Aber die Botschaften kamen viel zu spät und wurden im Eifer des Gefechts gar nicht mehr gehört. Es ist bitter, doch die Zeit für Entschuldigungen oder klärende Worte ist vorbei. Solche Sätze dringen gar nicht mehr durch.
12.Feb.2006 Flutkatastrophe: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Bush wegen "Katrina"
12.Feb.2006 Bakterienfilter: Keramik soll Abwasserreinigung revolutionieren
12.Feb.2006 https://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,5394943-110428,00.html

Guardian The British Museum today unveils the most expensive coin in history. The ninth-century coin depicts Coenwulf, the ruler of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia from 796 to 821 + it is thought to be the oldest example of gold currency commemorating a British ruler - which helps to explain why the museum paid £357,832 to the anonymous person who found it near Bedford in 2001.
12.Feb.2006 https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/08/AR2006020802295_pf.html
The Secret in the Steppes Thought Safe for All Time
Despite Misgivings in Mongolia, Explorers Hope to Find Site of Genghis Khan's 800-Year-Old Tomb

By Edward Cody Washington Post Foreign Service
09.Feb.2006; A20 ULAN BATOR, Mongolia -- On the vast flatlands of eastern Mongolia, enclosed by a two-mile wall in the form of an oval, diggers have uncovered tantalizing clues to the solution of one of history's enduring mysteries: the site of Genghis Khan's secret grave.

Finding the spot where the great Mongolian conqueror was laid to rest in 1227 by his famed horseback warriors would fill in a blank that has fascinated historians for centuries. Although he and his descendants galloped out of Mongolia to subdue most of the known world, Genghis Khan was buried without a monument or even a headstone, in keeping with Mongol belief that the dead should not be disturbed. Legend has it that the soldiers who carried out the mission were slaughtered to make sure the secret was safe for all time.
12.Feb.2006 Eureka! Lost manuscript found in cupboard A long-lost 17th century manuscript charting the birth of modern science has been found gathering dust in a cupboard in a Hampshire home. Filled with crabby italics and acerbic asides, the 520 or so yellowing and stained pages are the handwritten minutes of the Royal Society as recorded by the brilliant scientist Robert Hooke, one of the society's original fellows and curator of experiments.
12.Feb.2006 Man in the Moon's cataclysmic birth revealed Shock waves from ancient lunar impacts may be responsible for creating the Earth's single most famous face - the "Man in the Moon".
People have long interpreted a series of dark patches on the Moon's surface as a human face but no one knew how they formed. Now, scientists at Ohio State University, US, appear to have solved the mystery by creating a topographical model of the Moon and mapping gravity signatures of rocks all the way to the core.
12.Feb.2006 Haitian Woman Enters U.S. Carrying Skull In Suitcase A Haitian woman entered the USA at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport on Thursday night carrying a skull in her suitcase. Authorities believe the skull may be human.
The woman flew to the U.S. from Cap Haitian, Haiti, aboard Lynx Air. When asked where she got the skull by a Homeland Security officer, the woman reportedly responded, 'The spirits gave it to me.'
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12.Feb.2006 Manifesto anti-Bush John Harte , University of Berkeley, California Steven B. Hawthorne, University of North Dakota Joe E. Heimlich, The Ohio State University ... https://www.amerlis.pt/bush/manifesto.html
12.Feb.2006 https://dayton.senate.gov/news/details.cfm?id=251473&&
10.Feb.2006 https://dayton.senate.gov/news/details.cfm?id=251473&&

Senator Dayton’s statement on Michael Brown’s testimony is below.

“Today’s testimony by former FEMA Director Michael Brown raised very serious questions about when the failure of New Orleans’ levees was first reported to Secretary Chertoff and to President Bush. Both men have previously stated that they were not aware of the massive flooding in New Orleans until midday Tuesday. Yet, Mr. Brown testified that he spoke personally with the President, who was vacationing at his ranch, on the weekend before Hurricane Katrina struck + also with top White House staff on Monday afternoon. Likewise, Secretary Chertoff’s Deputy and his Chief of Staff were both e-mailed Monday evening with reports of the levees’ failure.

“It is incomprehensible how those top Administration officials failed to notify the President and the Secretary immediately of the catastrophe that was unfolding in New Orleans.”
12.Feb.2006 911 Stand Down/Sen Mark Dayton/911 Cover Up/NORAD Lied/FAA Cover ... Sen. Mark Dayton has charged the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Aerospace Defense Command with covering up disturbing interception ... www.willthomas.net/911/911_Stand_Down.htm
11.Feb.2006 https://perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=54672&forum_id=87&page=15
11.Nov.2005 05:11 pm Quote
Reply They were blown up, the owner of the WTC admits it. Case Closed. See > https://www.perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=69719&forum_id=87
11.Feb.2006 https://perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=54672&forum_id=87&page=11
10.Aug,2005 10:19 pmPosted Quote
Reply Bush-bots will try to spin this forever, but there's not getting around it. When informed that a second hijacked airliner had slammed into the second WTC + that "America is under attack", the "Commander in Chief" just sat there for seven minutes, totally incurious about the developing situation and what defenses America was mounting to counter the assault.
Any human being in his position would have immediately excused himself ("I'm sorry, children. A matter has come up requiring my attention. It's been a special honor sharing this day with you, but duty calls...")
Any human being, especially the Commander in Chief of the USA military, would have been burning to assess the situation and response procedures more comprehensively and precisely.
No one would conceivably sit there for seven minutes looking nervous - unless they already knew what was going on.
The only half-way rationale I've seen from Bush supporters is that maybe security protocol dictated that the President remain seated and doing what he was doing until they assessed the security situation regarding his immediate movements.
The problem with this is that they already had the school and immediate surroundings well secured as is stricly required. That's their job + they do it well. Everywhere the President goes, the "red phone" goes. Everywhere the President goes, the "black suitcase goes". Everywhere the President goes, he must be able to be instantly informed of attack + be able to quickly approve response protocols.
To sit for seven minutes + not even try to find out just what the hell was gong on....
There's just no explaining such aberrational behavior away.
And his face tells it all.11.Feb.2006 https://perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=54672&forum_id=87&page=6 more on this subject https://www.perspectives.com/forums/forum71/38752.html
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11.Feb.2006 https://perspectives.com/forums/view_topic.php?id=54672&forum_id=87&page=6
heres a few of the threads on this subject many a good post to be found in here lots of info and of course lots of name calling and Bullshat https://www.perspectives.com/forums/forum71/31719-20.html

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11.Feb.2006 https://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian/WTC/wtc-demolition.htm
Design architecture for the World Trade Center was provided by Minoru Yamasaki & Associates. Emery Roth & Sons served as the architect of record. Since these people have nothing to hide, they should provide the architectural plans of the World Trade Center, for all to see. This will enable any misunderstandings regarding the facts of the collapse to be established and corrected. In fact, Minoru Yamasaki & Associates, Roth & Sons, or their descendent companies, should put the entire set of architectural plans on the internet.
ASSOCIATED LINKS. Home Page (an assortment of articles on September 11 and Palestine).
Detailed Analysis of the Crash at the Pentagon and the FAKED Explosion Pictures. Large 1.4 megabyte file.
The most extensive presentation of the official line is the 21 pdf-documents to be found at https://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtcreport.htm
The most pertinent of these to this article are https://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtc-report/WTC_toc.pdf (Table Of Contents).https://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtc-report/WTC_ch2.pdf
https://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtc-report/WTC_apndxB.pdf
https://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtc-report/WTC_apndxD.pdf
https://www.house.gov/science/hot/wtc/wtc-report/WTC_apndxD_sheet.pdf
html-versions of these documents (with comment) can be found at: Table Of Contents For The Report.
WTC_ch2.htm Large 2 megabyte file. WTC_apndxB.htm
WTC_apndxD.htm
WTC_apndxD_sheet.htm
Other sites of interest are: Testimony of Dr. Abolhassan Astaneh-Asl. Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering University of California, Berkeley before the Committee on Science of the U.S. House of Representatives, April, 2002.
Microsoft software used to simulate the crash of a Boeing 747 into the World Trade Centre.
https://serendipity.magnet.ch/wtc.html
https://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/psyopnews2.htm
https://www.public-action.com/911/jmcm/physics_1.html
https://www.hera.org.nz/PDF Files/World Trade Centre.pdf
https://www.hera.org.nz/PDF Files/Elaboration on WTC Paper.PDF
html-version of the above HERA article.
https://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0112/Eagar/Eagar-0112.html
Article on the World Trade Center collapse from Scientific American.
https://www.tenlinks.com/NEWS/special/wtc/index.htm
https://www.civil.usyd.edu.au/wtc.htm
https://serendipity.magnet.ch/wot/psyopnews1.htm
11.Feb.2006 https://911research.wtc7.net/mirrors/guardian/WTC/wtc-demolition.htm
Impacts of the magnitude of those that occurred on September 11 were considered by the designers of the twin towers and the towers were designed to survive them. The possibility of a jet-fuel fires the size of those that occurred on September 11 were considered by the designers of the twin towers and the towers were designed to survive them. In order to explain why the towers collapsed, where other steel framed buildings would have survived, the WTC conspirators invented the "truss theory". The "truss theory" is seriously flawed. It cannot explain how the perimeter wall transmits wind loading to the central core. The "truss theory", if accepted, leads to a 33 percent underestimate of the amount of steel in the towers. That is, the "truss theory" does not account for the whereabouts of 32,000 tons of steel (of 96,000 tons) used in the construction of each of the towers. The "truss theory" is a lie that has been spun to convince a gullible public, that what appeared to be the controlled demolitions of three of the World Trade Center buildings, were actually natural consequents of the aircraft strikes and not controlled demolitions at all. There are photos showing large steel girders positioned where the "official" line states that only (double) trusses should be. In all, one has to conclude that the "truss theory" is false and that those who push it are part of a large conspiracy to deceive the American people. ARCHITECTS MUST PROVIDE WORLD TRADE
CENTER BLUEPRINTS AND PLANS.
11.Feb.2006 Mini-nukes on US agenda - Above Top Secret Conspiracy Community Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories each have an existing small hydrogen bomb they are proposing to modify to become the "Robust Nuclear ... www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread24153/pg1
11.Feb.2006 Reagan-Bush Security Breaches -By Robert Parry 23.Feb.2001
11.Feb.2006 While secretly shipping those weapons to Iran, Reagan-Bush officials also were sharing military intelligence with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. Substantial evidence now exists that the Reagan-Bush administration also helped arrange sophisticated military equipment for Iraq through third countries, such as Chile.

In a sworn affidavit in 1995, one of Reagan’s national security aides, Howard Teicher, described CIA contacts with Chile for arranging cluster bombs and other armaments for Iraq.

This covert assistance helped Saddam Hussein build his army into a powerful regional force and may have emboldened him in 1990 when he decided to invade Kuwait, an action that touched off the Persian Gulf War and continues to have geopolitical consequences to this day.
11.Feb.2006 "I can only trust that somebody who is a patriot ... and interested in the survival of this nation ... made the decision that the national policy objectives were worth the risk of a temporary drawdown of readiness," said Lt. Gen. Peter G. Barbules in a deposition to Iran-contra investigators in 1987.
11.Feb.2006 The freewheeling Reagan-Bush foreign policy led to other secret compromises with past and present U.S. adversaries. In the early 1980s, the Reagan-Bush administration secretly permitted the shipment of U.S. military equipment to the radical Islamic government of Iran through Israel.

"It was clear to me after my conversations with people on high that indeed we had agreed that the Israelis could transship to Iran some American-origin military equipment," said Nicholas Veliotes, the Reagan administration's assistant secretary of state for the Middle East. [See Robert Parry's book, Trick or Treason .]

Those early transactions set the stage for the expanded Iran-contra shipments of U.S. missiles to Iran in 1985-86, even as President Reagan vowed that he would never compromise with terrorists such as the Iranian-backed kidnappers of Americans in Beirut, Lebanon.

On June 18, 1985, for instance, Reagan said, “Let me further make it plain to the assassins in Beirut and their accomplices, wherever they may be, that America will never make concessions to terrorists – to do so would only invite more terrorism – nor will we ask nor pressure any other government to do so. Once we head down that path there would be no end to it, no end to the suffering of innocent people, no end to the bloody ransom all civilized nations must pay.”
11.Feb.2006 Some intelligence officials in the USA and Israel suspect that the some of the secret documents obtained by Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard eventually reached the Soviet Union, giving Moscow another window into U.S. military strategies. Pollard was arrested for spying in 1985.

China & Nuclear Secrets

Evidence developed in the 1990s indicates, too, that the Reagan-Bush administration suffered damaging spy operations from communist China.

U.S. intelligence officials believe that China gleaned sensitive nuclear secrets from exchange programs with U.S. nuclear scientists in the 1980s, contacts accelerated during the Reagan-Bush years as part of a strategy to isolate the Soviet Union.

Many of the U.S.-Chinese scientific exchanges came after Reagan’s White House solicited a favor from China – the secret supplying of surface-to-air missiles to the Nicaraguan contra rebels in 1984. White House aide Oliver North, who let Chinese authorities in on the secret White House contra-supply operation, said China shipped the missiles, in part, to curry favor with the USA.

U.S. intelligence now believes that between 1986 and 1988, the Chinese used those scientific contacts to steal sensitive U.S. nuclear secrets, including how to make a miniaturized W-88 hydrogen bomb. China successfully tested its own small hydrogen bomb in 1992.

The Washington Post reported that Chinese documents turned over by a Chinese "walk-in agent" showed that during the 1980s, Beijing had gathered a large amount of classified information about U.S. ballistic missiles and reentry vehicles. [WP, Oct. 19, 2000]

Snookered by Iran
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400215,00.html
Peter Wensierski , Jahrgang 54, arbeitet seit 1993 im Deutschland- Ressort des SPIEGEL. In Kooperation mit der Deutschen Verlags- Anstalt erscheint am 13. Februar 2006 sein Buch "Schläge im Namen des Herrn" , das mit den Lebensbedingungen von Heimkindern ein bisher wenig bekanntes Kapitel der Nachkriegsgeschichte der Bundesrepublik aufgreift. Wensierski lässt darin Betroffene, die in kirchlichen oder staatlichen Heimen bis in die siebziger Jahre unter demütigenden Bedingungen leben mussten, in Erfahrungsberichten zu Wort kommen.
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400215,00.html
"Die Kunden bekamen uns nie zu sehen, es gab extra einen Abholraum, zu dem war uns der Zutritt streng verboten." In der Hausordnung des Heims "Zum Guten Hirten" in Münster war das Schweigegebot bei der Arbeit jahrzehntelang festgeschrieben: "Während den der Arbeit gewidmeten Stunden wird so viel wie möglich Stillschweigen beobachtet, welches durch Gebet und Gesang unterbrochen wird. Auch im Speisesaal und in den Schlafsälen ist für gewöhnlich das Sprechen untersagt." Schweigsam, effektiv und einträglich - so sollten die Zöglinge sein.
Unterlagen aus dem "Guten Hirten" in Münster belegen die erbärmliche Bezahlung der Zöglinge selbst noch zu Beginn der siebziger Jahre: "Das Entgelt für eine 40-stündige Arbeit in der Woche schwankt zwischen 2 und 4 DM." In der Regel erhielten die Kinder und Jugendlichen - trotz harter Arbeit mit bis zu 48 Stunden die Woche - keinen entsprechenden Lohn. Sie waren auch nicht sozialversichert.
Ehemalige Heimkinder erwägen Klage
Die "verlorenen Jahre" sind für die Betroffenen heute finanziell ein Debakel. Sie fehlen bei der Rente, die für die meisten ohnehin recht schmal ist. Bei der AOK Dortmund etwa recherchierten ehemalige Heimkinder vergeblich nach Beiträgen, die für sie aus dem Vincenzheim ihrer Ansicht nach hätten eingehen müssen.
Die ehemaligen Heimkinder überlegen jetzt, ob sie Wiedergutmachung für Arbeit und Misshandlungen einklagen sollen, etwa nach dem "Gesetz über die Entschädigung für Opfer von Gewalttaten". Dieses Gesetz beinhaltet eine Einstandspflicht des Staates für unschuldige Opfer von vorsätzlichen, rechtswidrigen Gewalttaten. Fürsorgezöglinge wurden in den Erziehungsheimen trotz staatlicher Aufsicht im großen Stil als billige Arbeitskräfte ausgenutzt. Dieses System hatte eine lange Tradition.
In einer Caritas-Festschrift über die katholische Kinder- und Jugendfürsorge hieß es bereits in den dreißiger Jahren: Dem Fürsorgezögling "darf es schon in Fleisch und Blut übergehen, dass die Arbeit in Gottes Auftrag geschieht und nicht bloß klingende irdische Münzen einbringt, sondern auch den ewigen Lohn bedingt. Das Wort 'Im Schweiße deines Angesichtes sollst du dein Brot essen' darf den Eingang jeder Werkstätte zieren."

11.Feb.2006 Sorge um Landsleute: Dänemark schließt Botschaften in islamischenLändern
11.Feb.2006 Helfer unter Druck: Nach dem Schnee kommt das Hochwasser
11.Feb.2006 Langstreckenflug: Fossett stellt neuen Rekord auf
11.Feb.2006 Eskalation: Iran droht mit Kündigung des Atomwaffensperrvertrags
11.Feb.2006 Vogelgrippe: Gefährliches H5N1-Virus erreicht Italien und Griechenland
11.Feb.2006 Wikipedia: US-Parlamentarier haben weiter Zugriff
11.Feb.2006 Steinmeier und Gül: Toleranz-Appell an Christen und Muslime

11.Feb.2006 Muslim-Führer Ramadan: "Wir müssen der Vernunft mehr Gehör verschaffen"
11.Feb.2006 https://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v03n2p14.htm
Nuclear-capable cruise missiles would not be possible without tritium-boosted warheads. Second, there is the "hydrogen" bomb proper. Tritium is used to provide an initial fusion reaction to boost the yield of the secondary fission explosion, which ignites the second (and main) fusion explosion. The technique of using the first stage to set off the second, or third stage, is the real H-bomb secret. This is known as the "Teller-Ulam Trick," after its inventors, Edward Teller and Stanislav Ulam. The bomb uses only small amounts of tritium and other fissile material. The secondary fusion explosion "breeds" its own tritium from Lithium-6
11.Feb.2006 https://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v03n2p14.htm

The CANDU reactor system produces 2400 times as much tritium as the American light water reactor. This is a gigantic problem for Ontario Hydro, the operators of Ontario's commercial nuclear power reactors, because tritium is extremely toxic. As little as one billionth of a gram can cause cancer if inhaled, ingested, or absorbed through the skin. One five-hundredth of a gram is fatal to an average person. Thus, since the early days of nuclear power in Ontario, critics have argued that tritium should be removed from the heavy water in the reactors to reduce the exposure of workers and surrounding communities. Ontario Hydro recently began to build a tritium removal facility when it became apparent that there was a very lucrative market for it. It sells for $15 million per kilogram-more than one thousand times the price of gold!
11.Feb.2006 https://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v03n2p14.htm

From Peace Magazine Apr/May 1987, p.14. Author=David H Martin; Title=Tritium Traffic: Deadly Dividends for Nuclear Industry; URL=https://www.peacemagazine.org/archive/v03n2p14.htm Tritium Traffic: Deadly Dividends for Nuclear Industry David H Martin

In February, 1934, the British journal, New Scientist, published an article by Tom Wilkie, "Old Age Can Kill the Bomb." It was an ingenious solution to the arms control nightmare of verification; controlling not only the number of weapons, but the strategic materials that fuel them -- mainly plutonium, enriched uranium and tritium. Wilkie focused on tritium, because it turns into non-radioactive helium at a rate of 5.5 per cent per year. A halt of tritium production would rapidly cripple all nuclear arsenals. Thus, attention was rivetted on Ontario Hydro's plan to produce about 57 kilograms of tritium by 2006. A one megaton thermonuclear warhead (equivalent to one million tons of TN") may contain as little as one gram of tritium.
11.Feb.2006 https://www.antimatterenergy.com/technology.htm

Antimatter is inexhaustible. For example, antimatter can be acquired from the 9P/Temple 1 comet for less than $1 billion per gram. And there are hundreds of comets. The economic opportunities of using antimatter energy will come from billions of people being able to live out their dreams to make the world a better place to live.
11.Feb.2006 https://www.abc.net.au/science/k2/trek/s97398.htm

The military are really interested in antimatter, because it's just loaded with energy. They want to use it for bombs and spaceships.

In WW2, the big bombs were called "block-busters" - because they could destroy a whole city block. These bombs carried roughly 20 tonnes of TNT. Then came the atomic bombs. They were about 1,000 times more destructive - equivalent to about 20,000 tonnes of TNT. The next big "improvement" were the H-bombs. They were 1,000 times more powerful than the atom bombs - about 20,00,000 tonnes of TNT. Antimatter bombs will be about 1,000 times more powerful again.

The USA Astronautics Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base in California (which is a Space Shuttle landing site) has been pouring money into research into how to use antimatter in spacecraft. The magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology was jokingly called Megadeath Weekly because in each issue, it used to discuss new and unusual ways of killing lots of people. Colonel Ross Nunn, the director of the Astronautics Laboratory, said in Megadeath Weekly "The 'giggle factor' about antimatter is over. Antimatter is real + we know how to make it and keep it."

The military already have half a dozen workable designs for anti-matter rockets, thanks to the American NERVA nuclear rocket program of the 1960s. And the technology has already been designed to bring the production cost down to $10 million per gram of antimatter. This works out to $10 per microgram - so the 50 micrograms needed to get us across the deserts would cost about $500. This technology could make grams of antimatter each year.

But cheap space travel is about half a century away. When it comes, the solar system will no longer be a huge place into which we send out occasional robot spacecraft which take years to get to their destinations. The solar system will be our Big Backyard. Antimatter will give new subject matter for all those 4WD ad-makers sick of rocky creek beds

© Karl S. Kruszelnicki Pty Ltd 2003.
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400184,00.html
Das nach Richardson benannte Richardson-Obukhov-Gesetz hingegen erwies sich als falsch - viele Naturwissenschaftler und Ingenieure hatten es weltweit ihren Berechnungen zugrunde gelegt.
Wichtig für Klima, Umweltschutz und Kaffee
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-400184,00.html
Jetzt zeigt sich, dass Jahrzehnte alte Annahmen über die Regeln für dieses Chaos falsch waren. Zum ersten Mal konnten Forscher zwei der Grundlegenden Voraussagen zur Verwirbelung von Teilchen experimentell untersuchen. Das Team aus Dänemark, Deutschland, Frankreich und den USA kam dem Chaos der Turbulenzen in einer Flüssigkeit mit Hightech auf die Schliche: In einem Wassertank wurden 25 Mikrometer kleine Kugeln von einer Strömung verwirbelt und gleichzeitig mit Hochgeschwindigkeitskameras aufgenommen. 25.000 Mal pro Sekunde wurden die Polystyrol-Kügelchen im Wassertank gefilmt -
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,400235,00.html
Der Fraktionschef der Demokraten im Senat, Harry Reid, verlangte am Freitag eine Untersuchung der Vorwürfe. Jeden Tag gebe es mehr Hinweise darauf, dass das Weiße Haus Geheimdienstinformationen manipuliert und für ihre PR-Kampagne "vor, während und nach der Invasion des Iraks" benutzt habe.
11.Feb.2006 U.S. Vice President authorized aide to leak in CIA case: report : U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had directed his former top aide to leak classified material to discredit a critic of the Iraq war, The National Journal reported Friday.

11.Feb.2006 Dick Cheney Is Not Above The Law: Twenty-two members of the House have now signed on as co-sponors of the call by Representative John Conyers, D-Michigan, to establish a select committee of the Congress to investigate whether the Bush administration's actions before and after the invasion of Iraq violated Constitutional requirements, statutes and standards in a manner that would merit impeachment of the president or vice president. Y

War pimp alert: Rumsfeld cautions Iran and Syria about aiding Iraq insurgency: Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cautioned Iran and Syria against trying to undermine the newly elected government in Iraq, but he also said he understood their determination to resist U.S. efforts to stop them.

11.Feb.2006 Euro factor to the Iran ‘crisis’ : The referral of Iran to the UN Security Council by the International Atomic Energy Agency is not a step towards resolving the presumed nuclear problem between that country and the ‘international community’. It is a step towards further confrontation, with the deliberate intention by the US-UK axis to provide political cover for its real aim: subjugation of Iran.

11.Feb.2006 In case you missed it: Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse: It is now obvious the invasion of Iraq had less to do with any threat from Saddam's long-gone WMD program and certainly less to do to do with fighting International terrorism than it has to do with gaining strategic control over Iraq's hydrocarbon reserves and in doing so maintain the U.S. dollar as the monopoly currency for the critical international oil market.

11.Feb.2006 A U.S. War Plan?: All Eyes on Khuzestan: Acting on the advice of the Truman-era senator who observed that "You can do anything you want with the American people if you scare them enough," the administration has been making headway among Americans with its scare campaign about Iran

11.Feb.2006 3 Minute Video: Your An *sshole: A short informational filmstrip about the current U.S. Administration. If the word 'asshole' offends, substitute the word 'fascist.'" Video contains mature language.

11.Feb.2006 William Pfaff : A 'long war' designed to perpetuate itself : Even if you include the 9/11 casualties, the number of Americans killed by international terrorists since the late 1960s (which is when the State Department began counting them) is about the same as that killed by lightning - or by accident-causing deer, or by severe allergic reactions to peanuts.

11.Feb.2006 France secretly upgrades capacity of nuclear arsenal : France has secretly modified its nuclear arsenal to increase the strike range and accuracy of its weapons. The move comes weeks after President Jacques Chirac warned that states which threatened the country could face the "ultimate warning" of a nuclear retaliation.

11.Feb.2006 Intel pros say Bush is lying about foiling 2002 terror attack: Outraged intelligence professionals say President George W. Bush is "cheapening" and "politicizing" their work with claims the USA foiled a planned terrorist attack against Los Angeles in 2002.

11.Feb.2006 Abramoff says he met Bush "almost a dozen" times : Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public on Thursday that President Bush met him "almost a dozen" times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal.

11.Feb.2006 Bush/Abramoff Photographs: A picture is worth a thousands words. Or: I Never did have my picture taken with Abramoff

11.Feb.2006 Hamas Should Be Recognized as Legitimate, Putin Says : The international community should recognize the Palestinians' choice of Hamas to lead their next government, Russian President Vladimir Putin said today as he offered to meet with the Islamic group, which opposes Israel.

11.Feb.2006 Israel Hits Russia's Invitation To Hamas: An Israeli Cabinet minister on Friday accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of "stabbing Israel in the back" for inviting Hamas militants to Moscow following their decisive victory in Palestinian elections.

11.Feb.2006 Architects threaten to boycott Israel over 'apartheid' barrier : A group including some of Britain's most prominent architects is considering calling for an economic boycott of Israel's construction industry in protest at the building of Israeli settlements and the separation barrier in the Occupied Territories.

11.Feb.2006 Yahoo the whistleblower: Internet giant gave China details of writer: The search engine supplied Beijing with the web and email details of a writer who was subsequently jailed for eight years for 'subverting state power', it emerged

11.Feb.2006 Bolivia edges close to energy takeover: Analysts believe Morales will try to model Bolivia's energy industry after Venezuela's, where most multinational oil companies are managing to live under a system dominated by President Hugo Chavez's socialist government.

11.Feb.2006 Robert Scheer.: Bush's War On The Poor : Where would the Bush Administration be without terrorism? Like the Cold War before it, the "war on terror" is a conveniently sweeping rationale for all manner of irrational governance, such as the outrageous $2.77 trillion budget the President proposed to Congress on Monday.

11.Feb.2006 Programs Bush Wants to Cut or Kill : A list of the 141 programs that President Bush proposed to eliminate or cut in his 2007 budget

A must read : The New Robber Barons : The U.S. Department of Labor claims we have an unemployment rate of 4.9% [1]. According to "the Economist, however, the true unemployment rate in the U.S. is over 8%, or 12.6 million Americans [2]. The difference is due to the fact that the U.S. Government doesn,t count people as unemployed after six months without a job [3].
11.Feb.2006 Billions Stolen From Iraq? : By CBS
Some $8.8 billion dispersed for reconstruction efforts in Iraq is unaccounted for, says the U.S. official in charge of tracing it . Continued
11.Feb.2006 Libby: White House 'Superiors' OK'd Leaks : -By TONI LOCY
A former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney told a federal grand jury that his superiors authorized him to give secret information to reporters as part of the Bush administration's defense of intelligence used to justify invading Iraq, according to court papers. Continued
11.Feb.2006 Bush ignored CIA advice on Iraq, says former spy - Julian Borger in Washington
Paul Pillar, has become the highest-ranking CIA official from the prewar period to accuse the White House of manipulating the intelligence on Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction. Continued
11.Feb.2006 Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq
Intelligence 'Misused' to Justify War, He Says -By Walter Pincus

The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of "cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had already reached to go to war + of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Hussein. Continued
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-400229,00.html
Berlin - Diese Krise werde Europa zwingen, sicherheitspolitisch "sehr schnell erwachsen zu werden", schrieb Fischer in der "Süddeutschen Zeitung". Der Sieg der radikalislamischen Hamas bei den Parlamentswahlen in den palästinensischen Gebieten, aber auch die anhaltende Gewalt-Eskalation im Irak sowie das iranische Atomprogramm stellten Europa vor "grimmige Alternativen".
11.Feb.2006 https://www.google.ch/search?hl=de&q=La%20Ola%20Welle&btnG=Suche&meta= Web Ergebnisse 1 - 10 von ungefähr 75'400 für La Ola Welle .
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,druck-400027,00.html
Barton schätzt, dass der Umstieg auf Digitales Kino in den USA in den nächsten fünf bis acht Jahren passieren wird. "Weltweit wird es wohl zehn bis 15 Jahre dauern", sagt er im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Es könnte aber auch schneller gehen."
Doch der technische Fortschritt stößt nicht nur auf Begeisterung. So fürchtet mancher Regisseur und mancher Kameramann, dass beim D-Cinema der typische Filmlook verloren geht. In der Tat erreichen digitale Kameras nicht ganz die Farbtiefe von Analogfilm.
Doch was die charakteristische Körnung des Filmmaterials angeht, haben Entwickler eine gute Nachricht für alle Skeptiker und Nörgler: Sie lässt sich auch im Nachhinein in digitales Material "hineinrechnen" - der Digitalprojektor kann sich somit regelrecht verleugnen. Das Kino der Zukunft wird spannend.
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/technologie/0,1518,druck-400027,00.html
Die Projektoren sollen zusätzlich für den Betrachter nicht sichtbare Wasserzeichen ins Bild einarbeiten. Diese Watermarks verraten, wo und wann der Film projiziert wurde. Wer ihn mit einem Camcorder aufnimmt, bannt auch diese Informationen mit aufs Band - die Wasserzeichen sollen sogar das Abfilmen überstehen.
Im Grunde müsste sich dann nur noch jeder Kinobesucher am Eingang mit seinem Ausweis identifizieren - und die Überwachung wäre perfekt. So oder so - das Kino wird zum Hochsicherheitstrakt.
Die Technik für Verschlüsselung und Key Management steht, sagt Siegfried Foessel, Projektleiter Digital Cinema am Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS in Erlangen, wo auch der MP3-Standard entwickelt wurde. Nur das sogenannte Forensic Marking sei "noch nicht ganz zu Ende definiert".
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-400148,00.html

Neue Dokumente nähren Zweifel daran, dass die Bush-Regierung schnell genug auf die drohende "Katrina"-Katastrophe reagiert hat. Zeugen zufolge wusste das Weiße Haus bereits Stunden zuvor, dass der Südstaaten-Metropole New Orleans eine massive Überflutung drohte.

Washington - Angaben des demokratischen Senators Joseph Lieberman zufolge, der dem "Katrina"-Untersuchungsausschuss vorsitzt, sind bislang knapp 30 Gespräche und Mails zwischen den einzelnen Behörden dokumentiert, in denen bereits am Morgen des 29. August von massiven Überschwemmungen in New Orleans die Rede ist. An diesem Tag traf der Hurrikan "Katrina" mit voller Wucht auf die Küste der Südstaaten und ließ verschiedene Deiche um New Orleans herum brechen.
Nach Angaben der "New York Times" sagten Regierungsbeamte dagegen vor dem Ausschuss aus, das Weiße Haus sei erst gegen Mitternacht über die Dammbrüche informiert worden. In früheren Stellungnahmen hatten sowohl Präsident George W. Bush als auch sein Heimatschutzminister Michael Chertoff erklärt, die Dämme seien erst am 30. August gebrochen.
Nach Erkenntnissen der Ermittler schickte jedoch ein örtlicher Sprecher der Katastrophenbehörde Fema bereits um 9.29 Uhr am Abend des 29. Augusts eine dringende E-Mail an das Heimatschutzministerium. Die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters zitiert die Mail des Mitarbeiters mit den Worten, dass die Bedingungen im Hurrikangebiet "weit ernster sind, als die Medienberichte zur Zeit wiedergeben." In der Nachricht warnt der Verfasser ausdrücklich, man stehe vor "erheblichen Überschwemmungen und wesentlich mehr flüchtenden Menschen" als man erwartet habe. Auch einige Feuer seien bereits ausgebrochen.
Schon am Morgen des 29. Augusts hatte Oberst Terry Ebbert, der örtliche Heimatschutzdirektor, in einer Krisenkonferenz mit der Fema, dem Roten Kreuz und anderen Katastropheneinrichtungen von einer sechs Meter hohen Sturmflut gesprochen. Dämme seien gebrochen, vor allem in Osten der Stadt gebe es Überschwemmungen.
Senator Lieberman zeigte sich empört über die langsame Reaktion der Regierung: "Es ist für mich unerklärlich, wie die auf Bundesebene Verantwortlichen am Dienstag, den 30. August, aufwachen konnten, ohne eine Ahnung von der ganz offensichtlich katastrophalen Situation zu haben." Vom Weißen Haus gab es zu dem Bericht bislang keinen Kommentar
11.Feb.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-400039,00.html
Der im Jahr 2000 gebaute Middelgrunden-Windpark steht rund dreieinhalb Kilometer vor dem Kopenhagener Hafen - ironischerweise auf einem Riff, das vorher als Halde für Hafenschlamm und kontaminierten Müll genutzt wurde. Die Ausmaße der 20 in Betonfundamenten verankerten Turbinen sind riesig: Ihre Rotoren haben jeweils einen Durchmesser von 76 Metern, ihre Naben liegen 64 Meter über dem Wasser.
Doch selbst sie können nur einen kleinen Teil des Energiehungers moderner Großstädte stillen: Mit einer Jahresleistung von 89.000 Megawattstunden deckt der Windpark gerade einmal drei Prozent des Energiebedarfs von Kopenhagen mit seinen 1,1 Millionen Einwohnern.
Dabei soll es allerdings nicht bleiben: Der Anteil der Windkraft am dänischen Energiehaushalt steigt rapide. Bis 2040 will Dänemark 40 Prozent seiner Elektrizität aus der Windkraft beziehen. 2001 lag der Wert nach Zahlen der Esa noch bei 13 Prozent.
11.Feb.2006 Kritik am Irak-Krieg: Ex-CIA-Mann erhebt schwere Vorwürfe gegen Bush
11.Feb.2006 Nahost: Joschka Fischer warnt vor "tiefer Krise"
11.Feb.2006 Atomstreit mit Iran: SPD soll über Merkels Rhetorik verärgert sein
11.Feb.2006 Preisverfall: Japan verfüttert Walfleisch an Hunde
11.Feb.2006 Italien: Priester muss Jesu Existenz nicht beweisen
11.Feb.2006 Soldaten-Einsatz bei Fußball-WM: Breite Front gegen Schäuble-Plan
11.Feb.2006 Personalpläne: Telekom will mit Stellenabbau beginnen
11.Feb.2006 Mysteriöse Brandserie: Die lodernden Kirchen von Alabama

11.Feb.2006 Sparkurs: 20.000 Mitarbeiter bangen um ihren Job bei VW
11.Feb.2006 Karikaturen-Streit: Dänische Politiker beklagen doppeltes Spiel der Imame
11.Feb.2006 Google und Datenschutz: Desktopsuche sorgt wieder für Streit
11.Feb.2006 Medien-Pläne: Microsoft und Disney bringen Inhalte ins Netz

11.Feb.2006 Russland: Viele Tote bei Großeinsatz gegen Rebellen

11.Feb.2006 Schneechaos in Bayern: Zahlreiche Schulkinder bei Unfällen verletzt

11.Feb.2006 Karikaturist Haderer: "Angriff auf unsere Arbeit"

11.Feb.2006 Elektronische Fußfessel: "Ei, du kannst, aber du darfst nicht"

11.Feb.2006 Produktpiraterie: Preise für den dreistesten Ideen-Klau
11.Feb.2006 Remember Robert Duvall playing the Corleone family attorney in the "Godather"? Well, he's back. But now his name is Alberto Gonzales + he works for the Bush family. Gonzales is the BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of the Week
Andy Goldsworthy's "Rivers & Tides." "Well, sometimes even BuzzFlash needs a break from politics to recharge our batteries. And watching the mesmerizing 'Rivers and Tides' was like going from 100 MPH to a dead stop in the middle of the sea of tranquility."
Squealin' Brownie reveals: Fourteen hours before one lick of Bush's guitar was heard, the White House knew of the NOLA levee failure. How long will the Bush lying and incompetence continue. Who will save the nation from this tragic farce?

11.Feb.2006 "A Matter of Money," Read It on BuzzFlash.com's Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven C. Day
Sen. Feingold: Deal to extend Patriot Act provisions -- and sell out our civil liberties -- is "unacceptable." Buzzflash agrees. Harry Reid lamely calls it "a step in the right direction." A step in the right direction would be for Harry Reid to resign. This Harry ain't no Harry Truman. (His office stopped sending us their alerts and inviting us in on calls. We can't imagine why.) 2/10

11.Feb.2006 More Worrisome Then the NSA Illegal Actions of the Bush Administration. Convicted Felon Admiral Poindexter's Cyber Spying Plan Returns! US plans massive data sweep; Little-known data-collection system could troll news, blogs, even e-mails. Will it go too far? Um, it's the Bush Administration. Of course, it will go too far. The question is, "Will anyone stop them?" 2/10
The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers.
The Rude Pundit Has a Right to be Rude: After This Week's Revelations of the Bush Regime's Total Incompetence, Ineptitude and Duplicity, Patriotic Americans Can Only Shake Their Head in Wonderment Why These People Still Have the Keys to Drive America Over a Cliff. "The confirmation of all the sh** many on the left have been saying about Katrina, about DeLay, about Libby and leaks ought to be another of those massive tipping points. But no one's suprised. It's just become too hard to process it all, you know. It's just traffic sounds, so many crickets, so much white noise." 2/11
Jack Abramoff said in correspondence made public Thursday that President Bush met him ?almost a dozen? times, disputing White House claims Bush did not know the former lobbyist at the center of a corruption scandal. 2/10 Do You Want Americans to Have a License to Murder?
11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}
In a laughable move to negate any punishment for Hammer of the House, Tom DeLay managed to finagle his way into two crucial committees, House Appropriations (where he’ll have control of money going to NASA in his district) and oversight of the Justice Department, which is of course investigating Abramoff, who insists via emails that Bush must recall their many meetings + whose investigation now involves the WH since they’re refusing to give up documents. 11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Permalink
11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}John Conyers made yet another plea for a Congressional investigation into the many scandals surrounding Iraq, the indefatigable Brad Friedman reports on the downsizing of Diebold + Charlie Cook looks at numbers that show the Dems could have a shot at the House this fall.
11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}LEAKGATE - Ok, I hate the –gate thing, too. But there are just too many scandals; one needs shorthand. A couple of nice little plums came in this week on this particular pudding. One, reporter John Dickerson gives us some insight into just how the WH set up the leak; bunch of cagey bastards, they are. And two, Murray Waas points out Cheney's role in the conspiracy.
…AND IN OTHER SCANDALS
11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}NSA EAVESDROPPING
Doncha just love that the media is using this term and not buckling to the Rovian euphemism of “terrorist surveillance”? Without question, the best in depth coverage of the issues regarding the laws, the actions + especially the administration’s arguments, comes from Glenn Greenwald. It’s worth the time to read through his unassailable points, as they might be your only comfort in the face of this chilling reality I thought I heard Gonzo alluding to (by avoiding it) in the Senate hearings. At least a couple of FISA judges objected, but we should not be surprised, given the old TIA intentions.
11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}What made Iraq possible was 9/11. Cheney's directive from last year, originally posted by Joe as "The Most Important Story of Our Time," was for the Air Force to have a nuke-dropping plan in place as a response to an attack on the US.
I'm of the humble opinion that the more we speculate, the less they can rely on the surprise element.

Let's speculate wildly here; don't hold back. -dr. Elsewhere Permalink
11.Feb.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}IRANEOUS In light of Joe's most recent post + the odd nerve gas scare from last night, it does seem pertinent to consider just what the evil ones are up to - besides no good - and how they might pull it off.
11.Feb.2006 Schüler machen großes Kino: Filmrolle aufwärts

(UniSPIEGEL, Auslandsvertretungen: USA streichen Diplomatenstellen in Deutschland
11.Feb.2006 Fotostrecke: Gigantische Schneemengen in Ostbayern

11.Feb.2006 Schneechaos in Bayern: Katastrophenstab plant Evakuierungen
11.Feb.2006 Überraschung: Grab im Tal der Könige entdeckt
11.Feb.2006 Blog-Studie: Der Nachwuchs ist weiblich
11.Feb.2006 "Katrina"-Flutkatastrophe: Weißes Haus war über Gefahr informiert

11.Feb.2006 Privat-Rakete: Start der "Falcon 1" verschoben

11.Feb.2006 Börsentrend Solaraktien: Angst vor der Sonnenfinsternis
11.Feb.2006 Karikaturen-Dschihad: Faules Urteilsvermögen im Staate Dänemark

11.Feb.2006 Afrika-Einsatz: Merkel will Bundeswehr in den Kongo schicken
11.Feb.2006 Weltraum-Tourismus: USA wollen bis 2008 private Flüge ins All zulassen

11.Feb.2006 Öffentlicher Dienst: Streiks weiten sich aus
11.Feb.2006 Nachwahlen: Schlappe für Blair-Erbe Brown in Schottland
11.Feb.2006 Neue VW-Sparmaßnahmen: "Umbau in gewaltigen Dimensionen"

11.Feb.2006 Schneechaos in Bayern: Schaufeln gegen die tödliche Last

11.Feb.2006 Kuba: Ökotourismus im Krokodilsschwanz
11.Feb.2006 Britische Hitler-Phobie: Don't mention the ball!
11.Feb.2006 Mega-Einkaufszentrum "Mall of America": Gigantisch ist nicht groß genug

11.Feb.2006 Historische Wende: China führt mehr Autos aus als ein
11.Feb.2006 Musik-Psychologie: Gruppenzwang macht das Lied zum Hit

11.Feb.2006 Libanon: Hisbollah-Chef glättet die Wogen

11.Feb.2006 Kritik an Regierung: Rürup will Rentenkürzungen nicht ausschließen

11.Feb.2006 LG Philips: "Eine der größten Insolvenzen"
11.Feb.2006 CIA-Affäre: Neue Vorwürfe gegen Cheney
11.Feb.2006 Ghostwriter: Alle Fächer, alle Fakultäten, alles Betrug
10.Feb.2006 https://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050105/news_1b5elgindy.html
11.Sep.2001-05.Jan. 2005 Ex-FBI agent admits giving out 9/11 data ASSOCIATED PRESS

NEW YORK – A former FBI agent admitted that he gave online stock traders confidential details of federal investigations, including a probe of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.

One of the recipients was San Diego stock speculator Anthony Elgindy. A Justice Department task force had begun the investigation of Elgindy to determine whether anyone might have known of the terrorists' plans and profited by selling vulnerable stocks just before the attacks, Jeffrey Royer said.

Elgindy was not charged in connection with that probe, but an investigation into the ties between Elgindy and Royer led to charges against the two men of racketeering, securities fraud and other crimes. The two are on trial together in federal court in Brooklyn.

Taking the stand Monday in his defense, Royer acknowledged he had revealed the existence of FBI and SEC investigations, executives' criminal records and other sensitive information to Elgindy and associate Derrick Cleveland.

He said the apparent violations were justified because Elgindy and Cleveland were stock-market experts who helped him develop evidence of financial wrongdoing.

Prosecutors say the relationship was criminal. Elgindy was accused of paying Royer for the information and using it to manipulate stock prices and extort companies that were the subjects of investigations.

When pressed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Seth Levine about apparent violations of FBI rules, Royer grew testy, asserting he was an independent-minded agent who had the right to decide what information to reveal.

"It's real easy for you to armchair quarterback when you don't have anything to do with the case," Royer told Levine. "Pursuant to a law-enforcement purpose, I can do anything I want with the files."

Cleveland has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit securities fraud and testified against Elgindy and Royer.

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