| 03.May 2006 Bush’s hand in the Terror War - By Mike Whitney There is no civil war in Iraq; it’s all been fabricated to split the country apart. The violence we see is emanating in waves from its ultimate point of origin…1600 Pennsylvania Ave; the epicenter of global terrorism. Continue 03.May 2006 Documents Reveal US approved torture before Abu Ghraib scandal - By Raw Story
New Army documents released by the American Civil Liberties Union today reveal that Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez ordered interrogators to "go to the outer limits" to get information from detainees. The documents also show that senior government officials were aware of abuse in Iraq and Afghanistan before the Abu Ghraib scandal broke. Continue
03.May 2006 U.S. and Europe Draft U.N. Resolution on Iran - By ELAINE SCIOLINO
The USA, Britain and France have drafted a binding Security Council resolution requiring Iran to stop key nuclear activities, but Russia and China are already resisting, officials involved in the negotiations said today. Continue 03.May 2006 Once more unto the breach
The current 'crisis' regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions is nothing more than a facilitator for war. -By Scott Ritter
The best thing the Europeans could do at this time would be to join ranks with the Russians and Chinese to take up the Iranian offer, defusing a very tense and dangerous situation that, as it currently stands, seems to be spinning close toward yet another needless war in the Middle East. Continue
03.May 2006 Börsenwert: Gasprom deklassiert BP und Microsoft
03.May 2006 USA-Reise: Merkel berät mit Bush über Kurs im Iran-Konflikt
03.May 2006 Reichensteuer: Köhler überprüft Verfassungsbedenken
03.May 2006 Deutsche-Bank-Gewinne: Ackermann feiert historisches Quartal
03.May 2006 Debatte um Verteidigungsbegriff: SPD warnt Jung vor Angriff auf die Verfassung
02.May 2006 Atomstreit mit Iran: Vetomächte uneins über Resolution
02.May 2006 Anti-Terror-Kampf: Annan legt neue Strategie vor
02.May 2006 36 US House Reps Want Bush Impeachment Probe: 36 US House Representatives have signed on as sponsors or co-sponsors of H. Res 635, which would create a Select Committee to look into the grounds for recommending President Bush’s impeachment, Atlanta Progressive News has learned. 02.May 2006 Bolivia Nationalizes Natural Gas Industry : Bolivia's President Evo Morales decreed the nationalization of the country's natural gas industry today, following through on an election pledge to increase control over the energy industry. 02.May 2006 Bolivia orders troops to seize gas and oil supplies : "The time has come, the awaited day, a historic day in which Bolivia retakes absolute control of our natural resources," Mr Morales said in a speech at a natural gas field operated by a Brazilian company. After he spoke, a soldier unfurled a Bolivian flag at the top of the installation. 02.May 2006 Bolivia gas move met with shock: Brazil and Spain have reacted sharply to a decree from Bolivia's President Evo Morales which asserts state control over the country's energy industry. 02.May 2006 The Sins Of Venezuelan President Chavez: The oil rich despots of Saudi Arabia , the Gulf States and Kazakhstan use the oil wealth of their people to enrich themselves and their ruling elites , set up Swiss bank accounts and in the case of the Royal Saud Family,.finance terrorism. Democratic activists and thinkers are persecuted. 02.May 2006 U.S. use of secret warrants climbed 18 pct in 2005: The number of court-approved warrants allowing the Bush administration to conduct intelligence searches and electronic surveillance inside the USA climbed 18 percent to 2,072 in 2005, the Justice Department said on Monday.
02.May 2006 James Petras : AIPAC: Lobbies and Whistleblowers : The arrest of two leading members of the principal pro-Israel lobby AIPAC for procuring confidential information from a leading Pentagon official and passing it to an Israeli spymaster seems to be an open and shut case of espionage.
02.May 2006 Iran decries U.S. refusal to rule out nuclear strike: Iran denounced the USA on Monday for contemplating possible nuclear strikes against Iranian targets and urged the United Nations to take urgent action against what it called a dangerous violation of international law. 02.May 2006 Iran Threatens Israel if U.S. Attacks : A top Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander said Tuesday that Israel would be Iran's first retaliatory target in response to any U.S. attack. 02.May 2006 Israeli: World has means to stop Iran: The world has the military might to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, Israel's military chief said in published Tuesday 02.May 2006 Brzezinski: Entire nation would respond to a military attack : “Iran is capable of harming U.S. interests in Iraq and Afghanistan; it has very high capabilities and can halt oil exports. All this could be damaging to the USA.” 02.May 2006 Outed CIA agent was working on Iran : According to current and former intelligence officials, Plame Wilson, who worked on the clandestine side of the CIA in the Directorate of Operations as a non-official cover (NOC) officer, was part of an operation tracking distribution and acquisition of weapons of mass destruction technology to and from Iran. Video and transcript
02.May 2006 Senator Russ Feingold Calls For Redeployment of U.S. Troops from Iraq: We simply cannot continue to avoid asking the tough questions about Iraq. We should not be appropriating billions of dollars for Iraq without debating – and demanding -- a strategy to complete our military mission there. 02.May 2006 Most young Americans can't find Iraq on map - study: Fewer than 4 in 10 Americans aged 18-24 in a survey could place Iraq on an unlabeled map of the Middle East, a study conducted for National Geographic found. Only about one-quarter of respondents could find Iran and Israel on the same map. 02.May 2006 War pimp alert: Iranians accused in Iraq bombing deaths of soldiers: Iranian agents were accused yesterday of masterminding a bomb attack that killed three Italian soldiers in Iraq last week and intensified political pressure for the incoming government to speed up its withdrawal of troops from that country. 02.May 2006 War pimp alert: Iran a 'threat to Arabs and Israel': Moshe Katsav, the Israeli president, has told Aljazeera that Iran poses a threat to Arabs and his country. 02.May 2006 Iran prepared for US attack : Iranian minister says his country faces possibility of U.S. attack as Iran prepares to confront UN powers over its controversial nuclear programme. 02.May 2006 US diplomat predicts tough Iran resolution : The US diplomat leading talks on Iran's nuclear programme today predicted European governments would propose a tough UN resolution that could allow the use of sanctions or force against Tehran. 02.May 2006 Iran says Russia and China will not back sanctions : Iran's foreign minister was quoted on Tuesday as saying that Russia and China had officially informed Tehran they would not support sanctions or military action over the Islamic Republic's nuclear program. 02.May 2006 Strikes on Iran too risky, says US general: His are a rare public statement from the US military on what is the most contentious international issue of the day.
02.May 2006 Once more unto the breach The current 'crisis' regarding Iran's nuclear ambitions is nothing more than a facilitator for war.- By Scott Ritter
The best thing the Europeans could do at this time would be to join ranks with the Russians and Chinese to take up the Iranian offer, defusing a very tense and dangerous situation that, as it currently stands, seems to be spinning close toward yet another needless war in the Middle East. Continue 02.May 2006 American Hostages...By Riverbend - Iraqi Girl Blog
If you live in Iraq- you know America’s hands are tied. Just as soon as Washington makes a move against Tehran, American troops inside Iraq will come under attack. It’s that simple- Washington has big guns and planes… But Iran has 150,000 American hostages. Continued 02.May 2006 Endgame for the Constitution -By Paul Craig Roberts
Unless Bush is impeached and turned over to the war crimes court in the Hague, Americans will never reclaim their liberties from an executive branch that has established itself as the sole judge of the limits of its powers. Continue
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Who benefits? This observation makes perfect sense:
To kick off his war against Poland, Hitler staged an attack by soldiers dressed in Polish uniforms targeting a German radio station near the Polish border. The attack was drawn out to give the radio station plenty of time to broadcast a report of the attack + WW2 got off to a grand start.
So here we have a report of Iran shelling Iraq.
Stop and think for a moment. Iran has about as much motive to attack Iraq right now as Poland had to attack Germany.
It's a staged provocation, people. Permalink
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ SOCOM We all know another terror attack is coming. When it does, Rumsfeld's Special Operations Command -- SOCOM -- stands poised to enforce dictatorial control over the USA and the rest of the world. Funded to the tune of $8 billion, SOCOM is a strike force of Green Berets and Navy Seals -- the best of the best, straight from the heart of Jesusland -- all of whom have been brainwashed to view liberals as terrorists. As Mike Whitney puts it: Under the secretary’s direction, 53,000 paramilitaries and Green Berets will be released into sovereign nations in violation of international law, conducting renditions, assassinations, sabotage + acts of piracy. Rumsfeld’s plan abandons all prior constraints on the military and converts the entire world into a "free-fire" zone.
There’s no doubt that Rumsfeld’s malignant strategy encompasses the American "homeland" as well. It was Rumsfeld who pushed the Posse Comitatus law towards extinction by setting up NorthCom, a military command post within the USA. This creates the possibility that future military operations will target the American people, a threat which was anticipated by the founding fathers. Under new legislation the military is free to spy on American citizens, deploy mercenaries to natural disasters, and, in the event of a terrorist attack, arrest citizens without charges. The power-mad Bush administration has every reason to stage a new domestic attack. When it happens, do not believe one official word . Permalink
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ If the struggle and the chanting are heard between 10:03 and 10:06, then why was silence heard in 2002? Permalink
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00.000.2006 the same recording was played at the Moussaoui trial -- except now, the scenario was quite different. Three minutes after 10 a.m., passengers seem to be breaking through the cockpit door, fighting with the hijackers in a futile effort to take back the throttle. "Go! Go!" they encourage one another. "Move! Move!" But the terrorists have flipped the plane upside down. They spin it downward.
"Shall we finish it off?" a hijacker asks in Arabic.
In its final plunge, the hijackers shout over and over in Arabic: "Allah is the greatest! Allah is the greatest!"
The tape ends.
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ But the final minutes of United Flight 93 are truly puzzling.
00.000.2002 relatives of the victims were allowed to listen to the cockpit recordings. According to the Phildelphia Daily News, they heard sounds of a struggle at 9:58 a.m. There was a final "rushing sound" at 10:03. Then silence. The plane hit the ground at 10:06.
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ The agent for Monica Lewinsky's "tell-all" book was Richard Carlson, former Bush official and father to Tucker Carlson. The elder Carlson has now revealed that his good friend Scooter Libby -- of all people! -- drew up the actual contract.
All coincidence, of course. Permalink
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ If the war planners had not made an irrevocable decision for war, then why did they ask Turkey for the use of their bases? Why did the U.S. deep-six snap inspections of Iran's nuclear program? The men who covet Iran's oil are serious -- so serious, that they will stage a new "sink the Maine" scenario if one is needed. I'll say it for the second time today: The power-mad Bush administration has every reason to stage a new domestic attack. When it happens, do not believe one official word. Permalink
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Impeachment rules and routes
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Well, attorney, former US Senator and VP candidate, John Edwards, has taken up this banner, written about it + set up an online petition to present to the good Prosecutor.
You know what to do.Permalink
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Look again at the transcript: McClellan brought the matter up . He didn't have to answer the question that way. Without actually divulging something that he is pledged to keep secret, he has offered reporters a broad hint that they should look closer.
Whaddaya think? Could it be that Bush's poochie decided to give his master a parting snarl? Permalink
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Occasionally, they get mentioned in mainstream publications: See the U.S. News and World Report quote here. (This page collects tunnel reports.) We know that the White House has an underground bunker -- remember Cheney during 9/11? -- and a moment's thought will tell you why there must be more than one way to enter and exit that bunker.
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Talking Points Memo directs our attention to a really, really weird exchange between reporters and Scott McLellan regarding the Secret Service logs that should show how many times Jack Abramoff entered and exited the White House. Should...but won't : I wouldn't look at it as a complete historical record of things -- of events here at the White House. I'd just caution you on that.
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ The house that Jack bought.... dr. elsewhere here
Ah. Seems the ACLU (ya gotta love 'em) has forced the Secret Service to turn over logs of Jack Abramoff's visits to the White House, reportedly over 200 times in the first ten months of Bush's tenure.
02.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ It appears that Jack Abramoff may well have visited the WH every single work day at least for the first ten months of Bush's presidency.
Which would also mean that Jack was working far more than the President, of course.
Now wasn't that fun? Permalink
02.May 2006 Verstaatlichung in Bolivien: Evos explosive Mai-Demo
02.May 2006 TV-Bericht: Terror-Verdächtiger soll in Frankreich gefoltert worden sein
02.May 2006 Artensterben: 530 neue Todeskandidaten auf Roter Liste
02.May 2006 Italien: Berlusconi offiziell zurückgetreten
02.May 2006 Frankreich: Watergate an der Seine
02.May 2006 McKinsey-Studie: Jeder dritten Klinik droht die Pleite
02.May 2006 Streit an der Wall Street: Mit Tierversuchen an die Börse
02.May 2006 Riesen-Festplatte: Ein Terabyte in gelb 02.May 2006 Bolivien: Verstaatlichung schockiert Ölkonzerne
02.May 2006 Kaltwasserkorallen: Bedrohte Biotope in der Finsternis
02.May 2006 Jahrestag: Bush sieht Irak auf richtigem Weg
02.May 2006 Klimawandel: Tibets Gletscher schmelzen rapide
02.May 2006 Clearstream-Affäre: Villepin schließt Rücktritt aus
02.May 2006 USA: Hunderttausende Immigranten fordern Rechte ein
02.May 2006 US-Drohungen: Iran beschwert sich beim Sicherheitsrat 02.May 2006 Bolivien: Soldaten besetzen Raffinerien
02.May 2006 Linksruck in Bolivien: Morales verstaatlicht Öl- und Gasindustrie
02.May 2006 https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20710F8395A0C7B8EDDA80994DC404482
"These programs are huge," said Dov S. Zakheim, the Pentagon's comptroller and chief financial officer for the last three years, who recently joined Booz Allen Hamilton, the consulting firm. "There is a historical tendency to underestimate their test schedules, their technological hurdles, the likely weight of an airplane and, as a result, to underestimate costs.
02.May 2006 https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F20710F8395A0C7B8EDDA80994DC404482
Lockheed makes about $1 million a year in campaign contributions through political action committees, singling out members of the Congressional committees controlling the Pentagon's budget + spends many millions more on lobbying. Political stalwarts who have lobbied for Lockheed at one point or another include Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi and a former Republican national chairman; Otto Reich, who persuaded Congress to sell F-16's to Chile before becoming President Bush's main Latin America policy aide in 2002; + Norman Y. Mineta, the transportation secretary and former member of Congress.
02.May 2006 https://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/abl/pr961112.htm Boeing has a long history of successful large-scale systems integration such as the International Space Station. Boeing is the industry leader in modification of its 747 aircraft to perform unique missions ranging from the Space Shuttle transporter to Air Force One.
02.May 2006 https://fussmaker.blogspot.com/2006/02/bush-jr-not-so-incognito.html
13.Feb.2006 Bush Jr. - not so incognito Tell me. Have any of you heard of Marvin Bush? Marvin is George W.'s youngest brother. What's so special about this low-profile Bush? He just happened to be on the board of Securacom (since renamed Stratesec), a company that had contracts to provide security for the World Trade Center, United Airlines + Dulles International Airport (the airport from which American Airlines Flight 77, which crashed into the Pentagon, originated) on September 11.
02.May 2006 List of 50 corporate crime movies statistics on corporations ripping the people off not enough money for schools, so some want to raise personal income taxes... but what about the corporations? A Department of Justice policy is routinely used to relieve large U.S. corporations of their criminal liability Economic Hit Man IBM & the Nazis Bush family & the Nazis Barnes & Noble's Nazi past Who owns Trader Joe's? Bush's school reform = $ in the pockets of his friends
02.May 2006 https://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/OPINION01/604220329/1007/MTCN0305 Pulling those documents back into the shadows does nothing to keep this nation strong. Historical documents tell the story — good and bad — of this nation. Historians need them. Americans own them. Now that the reclassification program has been unmasked, the involved parties need to divulge its cost, its methods and its justification. And all government officials should vow to maintain a classification program that respects democratic principles.
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02.May.20006 any observers have noted that since pre-Islamic times Iranian culture has been imbued with a powerful sense of dualism, which is likely grounded in the Zoroastrian notion of a perpetual struggle between good and evil. This attitude persisted in different forms in succeeding centuries, with the culture's preoccupation with justice and injustice and with an ongoing tension between religion and science. The 12th-century poet Omar Khayyam—himself a noted mathematician—captured this dualism in one of his roba'iyyat (quatrains), in which he expresses his own ambivalence: Some follow the path of religious faith.
Others, more doubtful, seek rational certainty. I fear, someday, the call might come: You fools! The route is neither one nor the other.
02.May 2006 The crisis - Iran's revolution deeply altered that country's relationship with the USA. The deposed Iranian ruler, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, had been close to a succession of U.S. administrations + this had produced deep suspicion and hostility among Iran's revolutionary leaders, from both the left + right of the political spectrum. Beginning in the fall of 1978, the…
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Iran hostage crisis
international crisis (1979–81) in which militants in Iran seized 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis, which took place during the chaotic aftermath of Iran's Islamic revolution (1978–79) and its overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, had dramatic effects on domestic politics in the USA and ...
02.May.20006 Qom, Iran
city in north-central Iran from which the Ayatollah Khomeini ruled the Islamic republic from 1979 until his death in 1989; became a center of Shi'ite Islam in the 8th century AD + a place of pilgrimage in the 17th century; 10 kings and 400 Islamic holy men buried there; largest theological college in Iran; today a petroleum distribution center, with petrochemical, ...
02.May 2006 Energy crisis kindles search for alternatives
In the 1970s and 1980s, Western countries became keenly aware of their dependence on foreign oil. The events that first raised their consciousness came in 1973, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) doubled the price of its exports and imposed an oil embargo on the USA. The moves ushered in an era of economic decline for industrialized ...
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> Iran hostage crisis
international crisis (1979–81) in which militants in Iran seized 66 American citizens at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, holding 52 of them hostage for more than a year. The crisis, which took place during the chaotic aftermath of Iran's Islamic revolution (1978–79) and its overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy, had dramatic effects on domestic politics in the USA and ...
> Crisis, The
American monthly magazine published by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). It was founded in 1910 and, for its first 24 years, edited by W.E.B. Du Bois; by the end of its first decade it had achieved a monthly circulation of 100,000 copies. In its pages, Du Bois displayed the evolution of his thought from his early, hopeful insistence ...
> Iran
a mountainous, arid, ethnically diverse country of southwestern Asia. Much of Iran consists of a central desert plateau, which is ringed on all sides by lofty mountain ranges that afford access to the interior through high passes. Most of the population lives on the edges of this forbidding, waterless waste. The capital is Tehran, a sprawling, jumbled metropolis at the ...
> IRAN
The Islamic Republic of Iran is in southwestern Asia on the Caspian and Arabian seas and the Persian Gulf. Area: 1,638,057 sq km (632,457 sq mi). Pop. (1993 est., including about 2.3 million Afghan refugees): 60,768,000. Cap.: Tehran. Monetary unit: Iranian rial, with (Oct. 4, 1993) a free rate of 1,587 rials to U.S. $1 (2,404 rials = £ 1 sterling). Rahbar (spiritual ...
> Suez Crisis
(1956), international crisis in the Middle East, precipitated on July 26, 1956, when the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, nationalized the Suez Canal. The canal had been owned by the Suez Canal Company, which was controlled by French and British interests.
02.May 2006 3520 Student Encyclopedia Britannica articles, specially written for elementary and high school students
Iran
The Middle Eastern nation of Iran was once the heartland of the ancient Persian Empire. About 2,500 years ago the empire extended from the Indus Valley, in what is now Pakistan, to the Nile River and parts of present-day Libya in northern Africa. The state was popularly known as Persia, a name first used by the ancient Greeks, after the ancient province of Parsa. The ...
Qom, Iran city in north-central Iran from which 00.000.1979-00.000.1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini ruled the Islamic republic from -until his death in-; became a center of Shi'ite Islam in the 8th century AD + a place of pilgrimage in the 17th century; 10 kings and 400 Islamic holy men buried there; largest theological college in Iran; today a petroleum distribution center, with petrochemical, ...
Asian financial crisis
A financial crisis that gripped much of Asia beginning in the summer of 1997 raised fears of a global economic meltdown. Most of Southeast Asia and Japan saw slumping currencies, devalued stock markets + a precipitous rise in private debt. Although most of the governments of Asia had no national debt and seemingly sound fiscal policies, the International Monetary Fund ...
Energy crisis kindles search for alternatives
In the 1970s and 1980s, Western countries became keenly aware of their dependence on foreign oil. The events that first raised their consciousness came 00.000.1973, when the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) doubled the price of its exports and imposed an oil embargo on the USA. The moves ushered in an era of economic decline for industrialized ...
Constantine the Great
(AD 280?–337). Two important events marked the reign of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. He made Christianity a lawful religion in Roman society + he founded the city of Constantinople, the brilliant capital of the Eastern Roman Empire.
02.May 2006 Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
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> Iran-Contra Affair
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Article on this crisis over the sale of U.S. arms to Iran through Israeli assistance in 1985.
> Declassified Documents on Iran and the USA
The National Security Archive ,Washington, DC
List of secret papers on the history of relations between these countries, including the draft directive of the Regan era on the hostage crisis in Lebanon and the conflict in Azerbaijan.
02.May 2006 https://911research.com/essays/salter/767orwhatzit2.html Webfairy has repeatedly charged that I and others who oppose her ideas are disinformation agents. I have tried to stick to the facts and avoid venturing into this issue. My opinion all along is that the no-plane theories are a threat to the 9/11 truth movement simply because they are completely unproven, crackpot notions. I have never concluded that the no-planers were agents. I will say, however, that Webfairy's approach in particular mimics typical COINTELPRO tactics, which are to poison the atmosphere in activist circles by being antagonistic and making divisive and paranoid accusations and to introduce ridiculous ideas that discredit the movement in the eyes of the public.
02.May 2006 https://911research.com/essays/salter/767orwhatzit2.html
Mature, conscientious and responsible individuals place truth before their egos, feel regret when they make mistakes + place importance on treating their collegues fairly.
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01.May 2006 At the Enron Trial, Strange Stumbles Mar Lay's Defense
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01.May 2006 New York City Anti-War March
Wing TV - Connect The Dots: "People as far as the eye could see in front of us along Broadway in New York City. And behind us, along Broadway, people as far as the eye could see. The streets of New York – shut-down by law enforcement officials – filled with protestors in opposition to the War in Iraq (and other causes). As one woman – Julie from New Jersey – commented: it’s a sea of humanity! In
01.May 2006 HORN OF AFRICA COUNTRIES: "Silent tsunami" threatens Ethiopia and neighboring countries
Kjell Magne Bondevik, the U.N. special humanitarian envoy for the Horn of Africa, said 8 million people in the Horn need immediate aid and 7 million more are at risk if if donors do not come up with the funding. Click here to view the original Webpage. Sent using R|mail.
01.May 2006 US 'allowed Zarqawi to escape' - World - theage.com.au US 'allowed Zarqawi to escape' - World - theage.com.au
01.May 2006 Iraqi oil gangs syphon off billions :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch
Iraqi oil gangs syphon off billions :: from www.uruknet.info :: news from occupied Iraq - ch: "April 30, 2006 A new class of grand mafiosi sucking billions of pounds out of Iraq's vital oil sector is crippling efforts to rebuild the nation, according to an official report published in Baghdad. "
01.May 2006 The War Against Science BlondeSense: The War Against Science: "The War Against Science"
01.May 2006 JAZZ & HERITAGE FESTIVAL: Bruce Springsteen gives voice to Katrina's victims' anger and pain
Decrying what he called "criminal ineptitude" in Hurricane Katrina's wake, Springsteen on Sunday jabbed at the political powers he deemed responsible for New Orleans' slow recovery. Click here to view the original Webpage. Sent using R|mail.
01.May 2006 LABOR DAY: ETA's ceasefire marks Labor Day marches
All Basque trade unions rallied on their own but for CC.OO and UGT that joined in a march.Click here to view the original Webpage. Sent using R|mail.
01.May 2006 A Critique of the Complete Official Version of the South Tower Hit
Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com Humint Events Online The 9/11 hijacking attacks were very likely facilitated by a rogue group within the US government that created an Islamic terrorist "Pearl Harbor" event as a catalyst for the military invasion of Middle Eastern countries. This weblog will explore the incredibly strange events of 9/11/01, and other
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01.May 2006 The housing bubble has popped The housing bubble has popped
01.May 2006 SOCIALIST ALTERNATIVE: Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela sign trade pact Hoping to create a counterweight to US influence in Latin America, the leftist leaders of Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela on Saturday endorsed their own socialist alternative for regional commerce and cooperation.
01.May 2006 Bush von Satiriker in die Flucht geschlagen Waterflake Das jährliche Korrespondent Dinner am Freitag nutzte der als Entertainer eingeladene Humorist Stephen Colbert als Möglichkeit Bush nach allen Regeln der Satirekunst vorzuführen.
Zum Ende seiner Vorstellung, berichten Reporter verließen George W. Bush und seine Frau mit einem sauren Lächlen die Party. Nachtisch? Nein Danke!
01.May 2006 Maikundgebung München Georg Addison am 01.05.06 hat eine maikungebung stattgefunden.es haben mehrere tausend teilnehmerInnen teilgenommen.
01.May 2006 New Microsoft browser raises Google's hackles With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in its new Web browser. Google, which only recently began beefing up ... 01.May 2006 Virginia Market Turns To ‘Buyers’ Favor’ Ben Jones
Inman News reports on Virginia home sales. “Home sales in Virginia dropped for the seventh consecutive month in March, while home-price growth returned to a more normal pace, according to the Virginia Association of Realtors.” “Closed sales totaled 10,088 in March, down 12 ...
01.May 2006 Priority Cell Phones for First Responders
Verizon has announced that is has activated the Access Overload Control (ACCOLC) system, allowing some cell phones to have priority access to the network, even when the network is overloaded. If you are a first responder with a Verizon phone,...
01.May 2006 Google searches for Microsoft limits
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Google has expressed concerns about competition from Microsoft in the Web search business in recent talks with the Justice Department and the European Commission, according to a published report. The New York Times reports that Microsoft's (Research) new Internet browser ...
01.May 2006 “A Day Without Gringos!” Eideard The Mexico City portion of May Day demonstrations -- calls for a boycott of all goods made by American-owned companies.
01.May 2006 Colbert's Routine: What Did Jeff "Skunk" Baxter Think? Here’s the middle of Colbert’s speech, before the interminably long video and after the crowd-pleasing “Dick Cheney shot a guy in the face” joke. Shall we discuss the dinner entertainment? Our analysis, after the jump. There was the creepy Bush impersonator bit, which is ...
01.May 2006 Clarke urged to address Commons Charles Clarke must update the Commons on the hunt for 1,023 foreign criminals, the Conservatives say.
01.May 2006 US immigrants stage boycott day Hundreds of thousands of US immigrant workers hold a day of protests to show their importance to the US.
01.May 2006 Iran hits out at 'dangerous' US Iran rebukes the US in a letter to UN Secretary General, accusing Washington of plotting illegal military attacks.
01.May 2006 Bolivia gas under state control Bolivia's president orders foreign firms to hand over control of gas and oil sales as troops move into installations.
01.May 2006 Workers in May Day march Thousands of workers from across the UK march to the traditional May Day trade union rally in central London.
01.May 2006 Asia's May Day sparks high alerts May Day rallies are held across Asia, with police on high alert in the Philippines and Indonesia.
01.May 2006 Rocker angry at Katrina response Bruce Springsteen criticises the response to Hurricane Katrina, citing the "criminal ineptitude" of politicians.
01.May 2006 EU split over easing job access Several older EU member states are opening up their labour markets to workers from eastern Europe.
01.May 2006 Rebels 'would respect' Nepal vote Nepal's rebels says they will respect the decisions of a constituent assembly if its elections are "free and fair".
01.May 2006 Britain 'needs compulsory voting' People should be forced to vote in UK elections to combat low turnout, a think-tank suggests.
01.May 2006 More species slide to extinction The polar bear, hippo and many sharks are among species newly listed as threatened with extinction.
01.May 2006 9/11 film makes number two in US United 93, the first Hollywood film dealing with the 2001 terror attacks, enters the US movie chart at number two.
01.May 2006 Building a More Yummy Pig A national collaboration receives a $10 million federal grant to map pig genes. It's all about producing better-tasting pork chops.
01.May 2006 Immigrants stand up to be counted Thousands in San Francisco join counterparts in big cities nationwide as part of "A Day without Immigrants" demonstration.
01.May 2006 Housefly a model for new wide-angle lens Angled honeycomb design of artificial compound eye similar to that of the housefly. Wide range of uses possible, says researcher.
01.May 2006 A foam to protect against bomb blasts and car wrecks Blog: Metcomb Nanostructures is linking up with Jorg Wellnitz at the University of Applied Sciences in Ingolstadt, Germany to come up...
01.May 2006 Higher Education Fears Wiretapping Law CmdrTaco 89 alphadogg writes "Institutions of higher education are up in arms over an FCC ruling on wiretapping they say could cost them billions of dollars in upgrades, expose their networks to more attacks + jeopardize rights to privacy and freedom of speech. "
01.May 2006 Is Coffee the Persuasion Bean? CmdrTaco 145 Gli7ch writes "According to an Australian study, our geek wonder-drink of choice might turn us into yes-men. From the article: "The experiments showed that "caffeine increases persuasion through instigating systematic processing of the message"." Apparently this has implications for the advertising world, "because it suggests that they should schedule adverts for times when people are likely to be consuming caffeine, such as breakfast time."."
01.May 2006 https://goldprice.org/buying-gold/
According to the U.S. Geological Survey, “Of the 193,000 metric tons of gold discovered to date, 62% is found in just four countries on earth. All the gold discovered thus far would fit in a cube 22 meters on a side.” 20 to 30 percent of this is held in bank vaults and the balance, 70 to 80 percent, is mostly help privately in the form of jewellery, coins and bullion.
01.May 2006 https://goldprice.org/bob/2006/02/american-economic-collapse-2006.html
Remember, America is borrowing at an annual rate of about 1 TRILLION US dollars per year from the rest of the world to maintain its current lifestyle. That alone, if it were to end, would put about a 10% dent in the US's GDP. It's going to get ugly.
01.May 2006 https://goldprice.org/bob/2006/02/american-economic-collapse-2006.html
According to a semi-annual AC Nielsen survey: 22% of Americans are living hand to mouth. That puts America near the top of a list of 42 savings short countries, neck and neck with Portugal. Other countries in the top ten are the UK, Canada and France, all heavy duty wealfare states.
01.May 2006 https://goldprice.org/bob/2006/02/american-economic-collapse-2006.html
The US dollar as we know it will probably not exist after about the middle of the next decade.
Over the next 25-30 years about 75 million Americans are expecting to retire. What the do not know or choose not to think about is that most will live in destitution and/or not be able to retire. The US government spent all the funds that were supposed to be saved for their retirement and healthcare. The US government is basically broke.
01.May 2006 https://www.bagnewsnotes.com/ Maybe Iran poses a serious near term threat. Maybe that country is being used as the latest straw man by belligerent cowboys running the U.S. government. Either way, however, the quality of propaganda (in both directions) is just top notch.
01.May 2006 https://www.bagnewsnotes.com/ There are various points of contention over the new Universal movie, United Flight 93 . WAPO , for example, focuses on the extent to which Hollywood invented key parts of the story. Slate wonders whether Flight 93 + this third dramatization of it, has been exploited as 9/11's "feel good" moment. The NYT , among others, questions the intensity of the film, especially the trailer. For the BAG's part , the concern is over the use (or, overuse ) of Trade Center imagery. I accept that the director and most people who were involved with the film had the best of intentions.
01.May 2006 https://www.bagnewsnotes.com/ It's one thing to use New York as a partial reference for what occurred in Pennsylvania. It's another thing, however, to take this scale of liberty. (Flight 93 Trailer - Quicktime format)
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01.May 2006 Rechtsextreme Aufmärsche: Randale in Rostock, Courage in Leipzig (Politik, 1. Mai-Demos: Krawalle in Kreuzberg, Randale in Rostock
01.May 2006 Linksruck in Bolivien: Morales verstaatlicht Öl- und Gasindustrie
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF ''This is an attempt by the president to have the final word on his own constitutional powers, which eliminates the checks and balances that keep the country a democracy," Fein said. ''There is no way for an independent judiciary to check his assertions of power + Congress isn't doing it, either. So this is moving us toward an unlimited executive power."
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF ''There can't be judicial review if nobody knows about it," said Neil Kinkopf, a Georgia State law professor who was a Justice Department official in the Clinton administration. ''And if they avoid judicial review, they avoid having their constitutional theories rebuked." Without court involvement, only Congress can check a president who goes too far. But Bush's fellow Republicans control both chambers, and they have shown limited interest in launching the kind of oversight that could damage their party. ''The president is daring Congress to act against his positions, and they're not taking action because they don't want to appear to be too critical of the president, given that their own fortunes are tied to his because they are all Republicans," said Jack Beermann, a Boston University law professor. ''Oversight gets much reduced in a situation where the president and Congress are controlled by the same party."
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF ''Years down the road, people will not understand why the policy doesn't look like the legislation," he said. And in many cases, critics contend, there is no way to know whether the administration is violating laws -- or merely preserving the right to do so.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Defenders say the fact that Bush is reserving the right to disobey the laws does not necessarily mean he has gone on to disobey them.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Under Meese's direction in 1986, a young Justice Department lawyer named Samuel A. Alito Jr. wrote a strategy memo about signing statements. It came to light in late 2005, after Bush named Alito to the Supreme Court.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF But it was not until the mid-1980s, midway through the tenure of President Reagan, that it became common for the president to issue signing statements. The change came about after then-Attorney General Edwin Meese decided that signing statements could be used to increase the power of the president.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Golove said that to the extent Bush is interpreting the Constitution in defiance of the Supreme Court's precedents, he threatens to ''overturn the existing structures of constitutional law." A president who ignores the court, backed by a Congress that is unwilling to challenge him, Golove said, can make the Constitution simply ''disappear."
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF David Golove, a New York University law professor who specializes in executive-power issues, said Bush has cast a cloud over ''the whole idea that there is a rule of law," because no one can be certain of which laws Bush thinks are valid and which he thinks he can ignore. ''Where you have a president who is willing to declare vast quantities of the legislation that is passed during his term unconstitutional, it implies that he also thinks a very significant amount of the other laws that were already on the books before he became president are also unconstitutional," Golove said.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Bush's statement did more than send a threatening message to federal energy specialists inclined to raise concerns with Congress; it also raised the possibility that Bush would not feel bound to obey similar whistle-blower laws that were on the books before he became president. His domestic spying program, for example, violated a surveillance law enacted 23 years before he took office.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF On several other occasions, Bush contended he could nullify laws creating ''whistle-blower" job protections for federal employees that would stop any attempt to fire them as punishment for telling a member of Congress about possible government wrongdoing.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Bush is the first president in modern history who has never vetoed a bill, giving Congress no chance to override his judgments. Instead, he has signed every bill that reached his desk, often inviting the legislation's sponsors to signing ceremonies at which he lavishes praise upon their work. Then, after the media and the lawmakers have left the White House, Bush quietly files ''signing statements" -- official documents in which a president lays out his legal interpretation of a bill for the federal bureaucracy to follow when implementing the new law. The statements are recorded in the federal register. In his signing statements, Bush has repeatedly asserted that the Constitution gives him the right to ignore numerous sections of the bills -- sometimes including provisions that were the subject of negotiations with Congress in order to get lawmakers to pass the bill. He has appended such statements to more than one of every 10 bills he has signed. ''He agrees to a compromise with members of Congress + all of them are there for a public bill-signing ceremony, but then he takes back those compromises -- + more often than not, without the Congress or the press or the public knowing what has happened," said Christopher Kelley, a Miami University of Ohio political science professor who studies executive power.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF For the first five years of Bush's presidency, his legal claims attracted little attention in Congress or the media. Then, twice in recent months, Bush drew scrutiny after challenging new laws: a torture ban and a requirement that he give detailed reports to Congress about how he is using the Patriot Act.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Many legal scholars say they believe that Bush's theory about his own powers goes too far and that he is seizing for himself some of the law-making role of Congress and the Constitution-interpreting role of the courts.
01.May 2006 https://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/04/30/bush_challenges_hundreds_of_laws?mode=PF Among the laws Bush said he can ignore are military rules and regulations, affirmative-action provisions, requirements that Congress be told about immigration services problems, ''whistle-blower" protections for nuclear regulatory officials + safeguards against political interference in federally funded research. Legal scholars say the scope and aggression of Bush's assertions that he can bypass laws represent a concerted effort to expand his power at the expense of Congress, upsetting the balance between the branches of government. The Constitution is clear in assigning to Congress the power to write the laws and to the president a duty ''to take care that the laws be faithfully executed." Bush, however, has repeatedly declared that he does not need to ''execute" a law he believes is unconstitutional. Former administration officials contend that just because Bush reserves the right to disobey a law does not mean he is not enforcing it: In many cases, he is simply asserting his belief that a certain requirement encroaches on presidential power. But with the disclosure of Bush's domestic spying program, in which he ignored a law requiring warrants to tap the phones of Americans, many legal specialists say Bush is hardly reluctant to bypass laws he believes he has the constitutional authority to override. Far more than any predecessor, Bush has been aggressive about declaring his right to ignore vast swaths of laws -- many of which he says infringe on power he believes the Constitution assigns to him alone as the head of the executive branch or the commander in chief of the military.
01.May 2006 https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/27/60minutes/printable1552009.shtml
Asked where they would place this hoax in the list of hoaxes that have been perpetrated throughout history, Putnam and John Edwin Wood both say "at the top."
01.May 2006 https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2143536,00.html
The stature and the athleticism of the group show that they were fit, healthy and well nourished. When humans arrived at the lakes around 50,000BC, the land would have been lush, the freshwater lakes brimming with perch, cod, mussels and crayfish. As well as kangaroos and other game, there would have been plentiful waterfowl to hunt. But by the time these footprints were made, the climate had begun to change, becoming less hospitable as the Ice Age took hold. The world was becoming cooler, but this fertile area was turning to desert. As glaciers expanded at the poles, they tied up huge volumes of water, causing sea levels across the Earth to drop, to 100 metres below today’s level. The smaller oceans and cooler air meant less evaporation and therefore less rain, so the lakes were drying out, on their way to being the desiccated mud flats they are today. This earth dried for good soon after the group passed by, allowing their footprints to survive, a touchingly human link with a day in the life of our ancestors
01.May 2006 https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2143536,00.html In 2003, another group was walking along the same ground, Aborigines on an archeology course led by Steve Webb, of Bond University, Queensland. They weren’t supposed to be there – a colleague had taken them to the dull-looking clay pan by mistake – but Webb thought it would still make good fieldwork practice for his students. More than 150 Ice Age human burials had been unearthed in the area, as well as the bones of now-extinct animals. However, after years of watching scientists take artefacts and remains away to museums and universities elsewhere, the elders of local tribes had placed a moratorium on excavations. Webb and his colleagues had only recently won back their trust. “Is this a footprint?” asked Mary Pappin Jr, a 26-year-old member of the local Mutthi Mutthi tribe. “Christ, it is,” replied Webb. They quickly spotted two or three more prints, which had been exposed as the wind eroded the dunes. Painstaking excavation has since revealed 450 more, as well as what appear to be spear holes in the ground and the tracks of kangaroos and emus. This is perhaps only an eighth of the total, the rest still covered by dunes, but it is already the largest collection of Ice Age footprints discovered anywhere in the world, laden with information about the group’s physiology, hunting tactics and social behaviour. “It’s really quite a remarkable find,” said Matthew Cupper, an archeologist at the University of Melbourne who has been studying the prints. “It’s a little snapshot in time. The possibilities are endless
in terms of getting a window into past Aboriginal society.”
01.May 2006 https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2099-2143536,00.html SEVEN STAGES OF MAN 3.2 million BC
‘Lucy’ lived
An upright-walking hominid, Lucy became man’s oldest discovered ancestor by almost 1m years when her skeleton (above) was uncovered
in Hadar, Ethiopia, in 1974. 1 million BC
Beginning of the Pleistocene era, a time of huge climatic change
During this epoch, vast ice sheets advanced and retreated four times over the Earth’s mountainous areas and northerly latitudes. Humans began to migrate out of Africa, from where it is widely believed they originated, and into Europe and Asia towards the end of the epoch. 50,000BC
Humans arrive in the Willandra Lakes area
Many archeologists believe that humans first arrived in Australia in canoes from Southeast Asia, during a time when water levels were lower and the dividing sea narrower. 20,000BC
Willandra Lakes footprints made
The largest collection of Pleistocene-era footprints yet discovered, they provide insights into the anatomy and behaviour of hunter-gatherers. 17,000BC
Lascaux wall paintings made in southwestern France
Discovered in 1940, these cave paintings are thought to be one of the world’s first recorded narratives. 8,000BC
The Ice Age ends + the current geological period, the Holocene epoch, begins
Agricultural civilisations emerged soon after. The Holocene is sometimes referred to as the Age of Man: although Homo sapiens evolved before the start of the Holocene, all recorded human history falls within it. 3,000-1,500BC
The building of Stonehenge
Construction took an estimated 30m man-hours.
01.May 2006 https://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1620.shtml
But this movie is worth a look. The DVDs are available online.
01.May 2006 https://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1620.shtml
Chief Plower of Engine 331 from the Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority saw the Pentagon damage. He agreed to appear on vonKleist's radio show, but cancelled one hour before air time. The two firefighters scheduled to appear with him were placed on indefinite leave.
Perhaps if a tornado can drive a piece of hay straw through a glass window, a Boeing 757 can get its 124' 10" frame through a 16-foot hole.
01.May 2006 https://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1620.shtml
However, the material weaves a fabric of plausibility.
01.May 2006 https://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1620.shtml
On the morning of 9-11, vonKleist and his wife, Joyce Reilly, were doing their 7-10 a.m. radio show from Versailles, Mo. The north tower had already been hit when they got the news. vonKleist told his listeners to save their videotapes of the incident. Later, he requested his audience to send the tapes to his studio.
"I found a couple of things on those tapes that just blew me away," he says.
Some of the discrepancies between the official story and what vonKleist turns to as evidence of a potential conspiracy are:
* The explosion on not one, but two planes prior to hitting the tower.
* The presence of unusual topography on the bottom of the airplanes, which could be a missle launcher.
* The unusual engine patterns on the planes, not indicative of the type of the planes they were supposed to be.
* The type of plane that crashed into the Pentagon could not have made such a small hole in the wall. This originally surfaced on a French website called Hunt the Boeing. The roof didn't collapse until after the fire departments arrived. There are undamaged computer terminals and a wooden stool with an unsinged book open on it. There was no crater around the wall where the explosion occurred. We have heard no accounts of environmental cleanup required for the 8,600 gallons of airplane fuel that would have been spilled.
* Video footage released from the only security camera on that wall at the Pentagon shows an explosion but no plane. No video footage taken by internal cameras, theoretically recording the world's most secure building, captured the explosion. A video camera from a nearby gas station was "reported" to have been confiscated by government authorities.
* Flight 93, a Boeing 767, which supposedly crashed in a Pennsylvania field, was reported by WCPO-TV Channel 9 in Cincinnati, Ohio to have landed at the local Cleveland Hopkins International airport. The plane was the subject of a bomb scare and the passengers were detained while it was investigated at 9:43 a.m. eastern time. Flight 93 reportedly crashed in the field at 10 a.m. in Pennsylvania. WCPO has removed the story with a note that it is factually incorrect.
* Tower 3 was purposefully brought down just hours after it was structurally compromised by the collapse of the other two towers. Operations such as that take weeks to plan and execute, suggesting that the charges were in place before the third tower was brought down.
* George Bush supposedly referred to seeing the first plane fly into the first tower, when the footage captured by a private sector film crew that showed the first crash would not be available for weeks.
* Arab hijackers are supposedly speaking to each other in broken English toward the end of the Flight 93 debacle. vonKleist maintains that they would have spoken in Arabic rather than another language if they were really Arabic.
Experts disagree, eyewitness accounts differ ... but does the film lie? New sources frequently report something in haste only to get it wrong. Experts disagree.
01.May 2006 https://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1620.shtml
The Bush Family is reportedly a huge investor in the Carlyle Group, and Bush Sr. reportedly a former director of that group. The bin Laden family was flown out of the U.S. under tight security on six chartered airplanes.
01.May 2006 Cracking the Cult of Hackers "In the early days, it was all about ego. At that time, hackers just wanted to prove they were smart," said Stuart McClure, head of McAfee's Avert Labs. "Today, hacking is absolutely predominantly financial. Everything is driven by financial gain."
01.May 2006 Rumors rewrite Bard's life As the year 2000 approached, a poll in Britain named William Shakespeare the "Person of the Millennium."
But the Bard's reputation is taking some hits in this millennium, with an array of claims and speculation about his life -- the most shocking that Shakespeare was the love child of British royalty.
01.May 2006 Dave vonKleist Explores Another Side of 9-11 At first, Dave vonKleist seems like one of those guys that sells salad spinners, ginsu knives or vacuum cleaners at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. But after viewing his movie "911 In Plane Sight," one winds up believing he just could be right!
01.May 2006 Polk puts on dramatic high-wire act in court When Susan Polk gave her opening statement last week in her murder trial, experts agreed she scored points with jurors by stressing that she was the victim of a controlling, abusive husband whom she killed in self-defense.
But when she invoked Harrison Ford movies and Stephen King thrillers, said she believed in fairies and claimed to be a psychic who predicted the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, courtroom observers shook their heads and wondered if there would be any end to her outlandish theories, absurd claims and odd courtroom antics.
01.May 2006 The Priory Of Sion To follow the trail of the Priory of Sion, you first need to go to a small, remote village in the foothills of the French Pyrenees called Rennes le Chateau and to go back in time more than 100 years. It was here that the Priory was said to have had a mysterious influence on the village priest, Berenger Sauniere, who spent money on a scale that was way beyond his means.
01.May 2006 Behind The Shroud Of Opus Dei As 45 million-plus readers of "The Da Vinci Code" already know, the fictional Silas, a masochistic albino monk, and murderer, is a member of Opus Dei -- an actual group within the Catholic church -- which may or may not be anything like the Opus Dei in Dan Brown's novel.
30.Apr.2006 https://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2157887,00.html The Sunday Times
Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park Jon Clarke in Malaga
THE archeologists could barely hide their excitement. Beneath the main square of Ecija, a small town in southern Spain, they had unearthed an astounding treasure trove of Roman history. They discovered a well-preserved Roman forum, bath house, gymnasium and temple as well as dozens of private homes and hundreds of mosaics and statues — one of them considered to be among the finest found. NI_MPU('middle');
But now the bulldozers have moved in. The last vestiges of the lost city known as Colonia Augusta Firma Astigi — one of the great cities of the Roman world — have been destroyed to build an underground municipal car park.
01.May 2006 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/europe/30paris.html?ei=5087%0A&en=e6a4969bb33f1274&ex=1146542400&pagewanted=print They started digging in early March and almost immediately made one of their best finds in recent years. As it happens, the Convent of the Visitation covered the 4,400-square-foot plot from the early 17th century until 1910, when it was demolished. One long-buried wall of the convent has been uncovered. Further, the site is crossed by a large drainage pipe, confirmation that interest in preserving ancient ruins is fairly new. However, now quite visible is a 20-foot-wide road, as well as the walls and floors of at least three houses. In one house, archaeologists have been able to identify an under-the-floor thermal heating system. And across the site, coins and ceramic shards have been found.
01.May 2006 https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/30/world/europe/30paris.html?ei=5087%0A&en=e6a4969bb33f1274&ex=1146542400&pagewanted=print Further, this area was inhabited long enough for stone walls to replace earlier adobelike clay-and-wood building material. The significance of such finds, of course, is what they reveal about earlier times. It is known that early settlers around the Île de la Cité burned their houses before they were conquered by a Roman legion under Labienus in 52 B.C. But in the decades that followed, a new town was built on the Left Bank, which eventually had a population of 12,000 to 20,000. Then, after the first barbarian incursions in A.D. 253, the population apparently withdrew from the hill of Sainte-Geneviève and sought refuge behind new walls on the Île de la Cité, which was called Paris, borrowing the name of the ancient Gallic Parisii tribe. Thus, because the archaeologists have found no traces of occupation of the site between the 4th and 17th centuries, they have been able to confirm that even an area little more than a mile from the Seine was long considered insecure for habitation. "It was a neighborhood of the Augustan period," explained Didier Busson, the architect in charge of the dig. "It may have been founded by Gauls who had been in the Roman army and settled here, bringing with them their experience of building."
01.May 2006 https://dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/4/30/1441/59811 But the rest of you, what are you thinking, reporting on NSA wiretapping or secret prisons in eastern Europe? Those things are secret for a very important reason: they're super-depressing. And if that's your goal, well, misery accomplished. Over the last five years you people were so good -- over tax cuts, WMD intelligence, the effect of global warming. We Americans didn't want to know + you had the courtesy not to try to find out. Those were good times, as far as we knew.
01.May 2006 Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner: Crooks and Liars has some video. Here's the transcript.
Now, I know there are some polls out there saying this man has a 32% approval rating. But guys like us, we don't pay attention to the polls. We know that polls are just a collection of statistics that reflect what people are thinking in "reality." And reality has a well-known liberal bias.
01.May 2006 Spain destroys lost Roman city for a car park Extremely depressing.
01.May 2006 Bush challenges hundreds of laws Chimpy McCokespoon thinks he's above the law. Big Surprise.
President Bush has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution.
01.May 2006 Cesarean section's ancient history References to C-sections go back thousands of years. Early Chinese drawings depict newborns being removed from openings in their mother's abdomens. Ancient Greeks believed the sun god Apollo ripped his son Asclepius from his dying mother's belly.
01.May 2006 A Preface to Paris: New Clues to the Roman Legacy On a Left Bank hillside, which carries the name of Sainte-Genevieve, the patron saint of Paris, French archaeologists have found remnants of a road and several houses dating back some 2,000 years to when Rome ruled Gaul.
01.May 2006 TV-B-Gone Hate TVs in bars and restaurants? Try TV-B-Gone!
01.May 2006 https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/flight_93_depressurisation.html
How Did Human Remains End Up Miles From Flight 93's Crash Site?
01.May 2006 https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/flight_93_depressurisation.html A more logical explanation is that people inside the plane were sucked out because of a sudden depressurisation. [R]elatives of Flight 93 passengers who heard the cockpit tape April 18 at a Princeton hotel said government officials laid out a timetable for the crash in a briefing and in a transcript that accompanied the recording. Relatives later reported they heard sounds of an on-board struggle beginning at 9:58 a.m., but there was a final "rushing sound" at 10:03 + the tape fell silent. [Philadelphia Daily News, 9/16/02] The "rushing sound" indicates a depressurisation occurred. A reason for the depressurisation: "I know of two people - I will not mention names - that heard a missile," Stuhl said. "They both live very close, within a couple of hundred yards. . .This one fellow's served in Vietnam and he says he's heard them + he heard one that day." The mayor adds that based on what he knows about that morning, military F-16 fighter jets were "very, very close." [phillynews.com, 11/15/01] Corroborative evidence?
01.May 2006 How Did Human Remains End Up Miles From Flight 93's Crash Site? Are we supposed to believe that hijackers armed with only box cutters forced an angry mob to jump from the plane seconds before the crash? Or are we supposed to believe that people simply felt compelled to jump from the plane? If the official story is true then people jumping from the plane is the only way human remains could have been found miles from Flight 93's crash site.
A more logical explanation is that people inside the plane were sucked out because of a sudden depressurisation.
01.May 2006 Turkish Armed Forces Strike PKK Camps in N. Iraq : The Northern Iraqi cities of Amedi and Zaho, sheltering Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) militants, were hit with mortar attacks in “Operation Crescent.” 01.May 2006 Iraq Concerned Over Turkish Invasion: So far, the Turkish military was said to have penetrated 10 kilometers into Iraq in the operation against the Kurdish Workers Party, or PKK 01.May 2006 Kurdistan: Dangerous Passage: Could another front be opening in the Iraq war? Over recent weeks, some 200,000 Turkish troops, backed by tanks and helicopter gunships, have massed along the mountainous border with Iraq. Trucks passing from Turkey, ferrying the imported goods and foodstuffs that are the lifeblood of the Kurdish economy, have slowed from 1,000 a day to just a couple of hundred. 01.May 2006 Iran 'attacks Iraq Kurdish area' : Iraq has accused Iranian forces of entering Iraqi territory and shelling Kurdish rebel positions in the north. Iranian troops bombed border areas near the town of Hajj Umran before crossing into Iraq, the defence ministry in Baghdad said on Sunday. 01.May 2006 ‘Don’t attack us or else,’ Kurdish guerrillas warn Iran: Lodged in northern Iraq in an area flanked by NATO member Turkey and Washington’s foe Iran, elements of the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have accused Teheran of attacking their encampments. 01.May 2006 Powell Says He Urged Bush to Send More Troops to Iraq : Powell, in an interview with Britain's ITV1, says he gave the advice to now - retired General Tommy Franks, who planned the Iraq invasion, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Mr. Bush. 01.May 2006 'I Demand a Timetable': Moqtada al-Sadr on war, peace and occupation. 01.May 2006 Bush Warns of 'More Days of Sacrifice': President Bush warned in his weekly radio address of tough fighting to come and "more days of sacrifice and struggle" in Iraq as April drew to a close as the deadliest month for American forces this year. 01.May 2006 Fallout From U.S. Strikes: In a report to be posted on the IAEA's Web site this week, the agency states that about 1,000 Iraqi men, women and children in a village near the former Tuwaitha nuclear research facility are living inside an area contaminated by radioactive residue and ruin. "I can only guess that a lot of the damage at Tuwaitha was from bombing," 01.May 2006 US urges new aid to Iraq power grid: A senior U.S. official said on Sunday Gulf Arab states and other foreigners should help Iraq build new power stations, as U.S. investment in the electricity sector winds down after three years of reconstruction aid. 01.May 2006 Tens of thousands in New York march against the war in Iraq: Tens of thousands of antiwar protesters marched yesterday through Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of US troops from Iraq just hours after an American soldier died in a roadside explosion in Baghdad -- the 70th US fighter killed in that country this month. 01.May 2006 Iran: 'Maximum' Cooperation Offered To IAEA, Not Security Council : Iran says it could allow the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to resume snap inspections of its nuclear facilities, but only if the UN Security Council returns Iran's case to the jurisdiction of the UN's nuclear watchdog. The White House has rejected the offer. 01.May 2006 Iran says digging in for confrontation over nuclear programme : Iran has said it was digging in for a confrontation with the West over its disputed nuclear programme, vowing that neither UN Security Council resolutions nor US military action could force a climbdown. 01.May 2006 'Iran will face music' says Powell: He said the Security Council was only likely to be able to agree on a "quite limited" range of such measures against the regime. 01.May 2006 Iran says U.N. sanctions would boost oil prices even higher : The Iranian deputy oil minister said Sunday he did not believe the United Nations would impose sanctions on Iran because that would boost oil prices even higher. 01.May 2006 Iran holds the trump card in oil game : As the crisis escalates, Washington's diplomatic partners will become gravely worried about their energy supplies. 01.May 2006 New oil shock ahead as $100 spike looms : The growing international crisis over Iran's nuclear programme could trigger a catastrophic oil price spike, sending crude prices over $100 a barrel, senior Wall Street analysts are warning. 01.May 2006 China threatens to veto sanctions against Iran : CHINA has threatened to veto any proposal to impose sanctions on Iran if it does not give up its quest for nuclear power. This will split the United Nations as it meets this week to discuss how to handle the standoff. 01.May 2006 A reliable prophet of doom: I believe that George Bush is a prophet. But not just any old prophet. A special kind – one whose actions bring about the very things he claims will happen, albeit without any recognition of his role in causing them to occur. He is, therefore, a self-fulfilling prophet. Let me explain. 01.May 2006 Bush praises Azerbaijan's president, despite spotty record: The meeting demonstrated the difficulty the administration faces as it seeks to maintain U.S. access to oil and gas supplies from countries that may be unstable or unreliable, often because of corruption or human-rights abuses. 01.May 2006 Thousands Protest Turkish Plans To Build Nuclear Plant : Thousands rallied in Turkey's Black Sea coastal city of Sinop on Saturday to protest government plans to build the country's first nuclear power plant there 01.May 2006 Turkey, Israel make undersea connections: Leaders in Israel and Turkey envision a network of four underwater pipelines for transporting Russian oil and natural gas, with feeder lines to Jordan, the Palestinian Authority and Lebanon. 01.May 2006 Haniya: Palestinian president has the right to negotiate with any party: Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniya said on Sunday that his government will not appose any negotiations spearheaded by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas with any party, including Israel. 01.May 2006 Syria begins national campaign to gather money for Palestinians: Syria began a weeklong campaign on Sunday to collect money for the Palestinians, following a visit by the Palestinian foreign minister 10 days ago. 01.May 2006 Why are the Palestinians expected to take the blame?: How long is a sane man expected to sit on his hands while his enemy slaps him in the face? The Palestinian people have endured a prolonged aggression by a pariah state + yet the world not only expects them to sit on their hands, the world blames them for it. 01.May 2006 Sudan agrees to deal on Darfur: The Sudanese government has accepted a peace deal brokered by the African Union (AU) after talks in Nigeria, but the rebels say they still have reservations over the deal. 01.May 2006 Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela Reject U.S. Trade: Bolivia's president signed a pact with Cuba and Venezuela on Saturday rejecting U.S.-backed free trade and promising a socialist version of regional commerce and cooperation. 01.May 2006 Bolivia Ready to Recover National Resources, Says Evo Morales: In a keynote address, the Bolivian leader noted it is important to free the country's natural resources from foreign domination, assuring that his government is organized and prepared to recover those resources from the oil companies, which have caused great damage to Bolivia. 01.May 2006 April 1965 and the unfinished Dominican revolution : On April 28, 1965, 42,000 U.S. troops poured into the Dominican Republic to put down the beginnings of a democratic revolution in the Caribbean country. That invasion and the repression that followed continue to shape the Dominican people’s struggle for true sovereignty. 01.May 2006 Egypt extends emergency law: The Muslim Brotherhood, the strongest opposition force, said there was no justification for extending the law, which Hosni Mubarak, the president, last year promised to substitute with anti-terrorism legislation. 01.May 2006 U.S. trying to halt suit against NSA: It's official: The Bush administration formally said Friday that it will try to halt a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans illegally. 01.May 2006 In leak cases, new pressure on journalists : The Bush administration is putting pressure on the press as never before + it is operating in a judicial climate that seems increasingly receptive to constraints on journalists. 01.May 2006 Data Show How Patriot Act Used: The FBI issued thousands of subpoenas to banks, phone companies and Internet providers last year, aggressively using a power enhanced under the Patriot Act to monitor the activities of U.S. citizens, Justice Department data released late Friday showed. 01.May 2006 Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping: It didn't take long for the idea of forcing Internet providers to retain records of their users' activities to gain traction in the U.S. Congress. 01.May 2006 William Pfaff: Why Europe should reject U.S. market capitalism : In the USA, the new model of corporate business has evolved toward a form of crony capitalism, in which business and government interests are often corruptly intermingled, the system resistant to reform because of the financial dependence of both major political parties on contributed money. 01.May 2006 Noam Chomsky: Failed States: We began by considering four critical issues that should rank high on the agenda of those concerned with the prospects for a decent future. Two of them are literally matters of survival: nuclear war and environmental disaster.
01.May 2006US 'Allowed Zarqawi To Escape' - By Chris Evans
The claim, by former US spy Mike Scheuer, - "Mr Bush had Zarqawi in his sights almost every day for a year before the invasion of Iraq and he didn't shoot because they were wining and dining the French in an effort to get them to assist us in the invasion of Iraq," he told Four Corners. Continued 01.May 2006 Turkey Refuses U.S. Request To Allow Attack On Iran From Turkish Base By YNetNews
Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said Sunday that his country refused a request from the USA to attack Iran from its Air Force base in Incirlik, despite the U.S. offer of a nuclear reactor, according to a report in Al Biyan. Continued 01.May 2006 Time to shut-down the UN -By Mike Whitney When the bombing begins in Iran, the UN can finally board-up its doors and send the diplomats home; there’ll be no more reason to maintain the pretense. An attack on Iranian facilities will signal a period of global realignment where states either submit to the Washington axis or join the growing resistance. We are quickly moving towards Bush’s dream of a world that is divided into “us against them”. Continue 01.May 2006 Robert Fisk: Seen through a Syrian lens ,'unknown Americans' are provoking civil war in Iraq -By Robert Fisk
The Americans, my interlocutor suspected, are trying to provoke an Iraqi civil war so that Sunni Muslim insurgents spend their energies killing their Shia co-religionists rather than soldiers of the Western occupation forces. "I swear to you that we have very good information," my source says, finger stabbing the air in front of him. Continued 01.May 2006 Failed States The US Has the Characteristics of A "Failed State" -By Stephen Lendman
Having laid out his premises, Chomsky believes the US today exhibits the very features we cite as characteristics of "failed states" - a term we use for nations seen as potential threats to our security which may require our intervention against in self-defense. Continue 01.May 2006 Praying for Peace or Preying on Peace? -By Rev. WILLIAM A. ALBERTS
The United Methodist Church should be bringing disciplinary action against President George Bush for war crimes. Evidence continues to mount that Bush, a United Methodist, deliberately used his religious faith to deceive the American people in the run-up to his administration's pre-meditated war against non-threatening, sanctions-weakened, defenseless Iraq. Continue
01.May 2006 If this isn't a de facto dictatorship, what is? -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis
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Be warned. The White House is now telling us that engineering a confrontation with Iran is a key part of their plan to resuscitate the president's dismal approval ratings in time to survive election day. 5/1
It Was One of the Key Goals of the Busheviks to Increase Oil Company Profits. Now, They are Trying to Toss a Scraggly Chicken Bone to American Consumers and the Idea is Bombing Because People are Spending Their Paychecks to Fill Up Their Tanks to Enrich Bush Supporters and Staff Members. 5/1
Powell forces Rice to defend Iraq planning 5/1 01.May 2006 Rush's Plea Bargain for Being a Drug Addict: Rush Limbaugh must submit to random drug tests under an agreement filed Monday that will dismiss a prescription fraud charge against the conservative commentator after 18 months if he complies with the terms. He also must continue treatment for his acknowledged addiction to painkillers and he cannot own a gun. 5/2
Big plunge begins for the U.S. dollar 5/1
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01.May 2006 Wilkes, like Poppy Bush, has long been an Agency-friendly businessman not formally employed by the Company. His first real job was with the World Finance Corporation, a CIA-connected money laudromat which had its origins in the anti-Castro Cuban milieu.
01.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Ken Silverstein's instantly-famous article "Red Lights on Capitol Hill?" Apparently photographs were taken + investigators are anxiously procuring copies. My heart beats faster in fevered anticipation.
01.May 2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-413784,00.html
Sollten extraterrestrische Lebewesen tatsächlich darüber nachdenken, wie sie mit anderen Zivilisationen kommunizieren können, dann fragen sie sich auch, was wir in diesem Universum gemeinsam haben.
01.May 2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-413993,00.html Schon seit 1996 baute der europäische Raumfahrtkonzern EADS Space Transportation (ST) in Bremen an dem Weltraumlabor, in dem die Astronauten in Zukunft Gewebekulturen, Pflanzen und Mikroorganismen in der Schwerelosigkeit untersuchen sollen. Insgesamt kostet Columbus 880 Millionen Euro. Nach dem derzeitigen Zeitplan der Nasa wird es nun in der zweiten Jahreshälfte 2007 an der ISS andocken können.
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ALL THE EX-PRESIDENT'S SCANDALS Clintons top all-star cast of fraud-case witnesses Suit against former commander in chief to include Streisand, Travolta, Pitt, Ali Posted: April 25, 2006 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Art Moore
01.May 2006 Tag der Arbeit: Angst vor neuen Belastungen wächst
01.May 2006 Schock für Tierfreunde: Dänischer Prinz isst gern Hundefleisch
01.May 2006 Regierungsbildung in Israel: Siedlungen aufgeben, Grenzen bis 2010 festlegen
01.May 2006 Columbus-Modul: Raumfahrtlabor in ewiger Wartestellung
01.May 2006 Maikundgebungen: 100.000 Demonstranten gegen Putin
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01.May 2006 Neue Bush-Doktrin im strengen,objektiven Sinn des Wortes ... Neue Bush-Doktrin im strengen,objektiven Sinn des Wortes imperialistisch ... imperialistisch:Sie beansprucht. für die USA. Einseitig ein Recht auf. ... alfatomega.com/noname26.html
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01.May 2006 Colbert Lampoons Bush at White House Correspondents Dinner-- President Not Amused? WASHINGTON A blistering comedy “tribute” to President Bush by Comedy Central’s faux talk show host Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondent Dinner Saturday night left George + Laura Bush unsmiling at its close. Earlier, the president had delivered his talk to the 2700 ...
01.May 2006 Rebuilding of Iraqi Pipeline as Disaster Waiting to Happen
A few weeks later, after the project had burned up all of the $75.7 million allocated to it, the work came to a halt. The project, called the Fatah pipeline crossing, had been a critical element of a $2.4 billion no-bid reconstruction contract that a Halliburton subsidiary had won from the Army in ...
01.May 2006 Government Moves to Intervene in AT&T Surveillance Case Rebecca
DOJ Will Assert Military and State Secrets Privilege and Request Dismissal of Lawsuit San Francisco - The USA government filed a "Statement of Interest" Friday in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's (EFF's) class-action lawsuit against AT&T, announcing that the government would "assert ...
01.May 2006 Pandora’s box Sean
The Wikipedia article on countries with nuclear weapons is sobering reading. This map is from the article, although the color-coding is a bit misleading. (3quarksdaily points to more maps.) The USA, Russia, United Kingdom, France and the People’s Republic of China are the five ...
01.May 2006 White House could prosecute journalists for “espionage” for printing any “leaks” Site admin Forget the freedom of speech issue...
01.May 2006 Scientists make water run uphill
US physicists have made water run uphill quite literally under its own steam.
01.May 2006 Liberal thinker JK Galbraith dies Renowned economist and political thinker John Kenneth Galbraith dies in the US at the age of 97.
01.May 2006 Egypt extends its emergency laws Egypt extends emergency laws for two years, as the government says they are vital after recent bombings.
01.May 2006 Nepal MPs back new constitution Nepal's parliament backs the election of a body to draft a new constitution and decide the monarchy's role.
01.May 2006 Spacecraft seek climate clarity Two Nasa satellites undertake the most detailed study to date of clouds and fine particles in the atmosphere.
01.May 2006 China ignores Vatican over bishop The state-controlled Catholic church in China ordains a new bishop without the approval of the Vatican.
01.May 2006 Argentina braced for mill protest Argentine environmentalists are set to take part in a huge rally against pulp mills being built in neighbouring Uruguay.
01.May 2006 "The decider" suspends the rule of U.S. law: Bush "has quietly claimed the authority to disobey more than 750 laws enacted since he took office, asserting that he has the power to set aside any statute passed by Congress when it conflicts with his interpretation of the Constitution"
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Video and transcript: Stephen Colbert. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias.? Perhaps the Most Courageous, Honest + Bitterly Hilarious Challenge to the Bush Monarchy Delivered in His Presence. Just Devastating. It was Also an Attack on the Brainlessness of the Washington Press Corps. Watch It. Part I 5/1
Video and transcript: Stephen Colbert. "Reality has a well-known liberal bias.? The Washington White House Correspondents Dinner. Part II 01.May 2006 Powell forces Rice to defend Iraq planning 5/1
Thousands come to Washington to protest Darfur genocide 5/1
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01.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Depleted Uranium in Afghanistan Has a generation in Afghanistan been poisoned by America's use of depleted uranium in bombs? See the evidence for yourself, here and here. Be warned: These are the most disturbing photographs you will ever see.
Between 800 and 1200 metric tons of uranium munitions were used in this country. Since medical facilities are so primitive, we cannot know the percentage of pregnancies affected by DU. But: "In the month of May 2005, in one maternity ward in Kabul, 150 babies were born deformed."
Here's another disturbing fact: The people who justify the use of DU shells tend to be the same type of folk who argue that abortion is murder. Permalink
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01.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Why did the FBI search Jack Anderson's files? According to the official story, the FBI went "fishing" through the late Jack Anderson's files to ferret out information on the AIPAC case. Wayne Madsen -- yes, I know, but stay with me a bit -- thinks they had another reason: "That explanation by the FBI did not hold any water since Jack Anderson had not been active in pursuing that particular story -- he had suffered from Parkinson's Disease since 1986." Madsen, citing his usual anonymous "inside" sources, thinks that the feds really went looking for info concerning "Poppy" Bush and the JFK assassination.
01.May 2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ The good news: American-made goods will be be cheaper overseas. The bad news: We don't make anything anymore. Permalink
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30.Apr.2006 Dollar slides From the Sunday Times of London: THE dollar has embarked on a big decline that will see it fall against all leading currencies, according to analysts.
The plunge is being prompted by America’s $800 billion (£438 billion) current-account deficit, they say. You think gas prices are high now ? Imagine what will happen if, when, oil is denominated in the euro, with Iran leading the way.
01.May 2006 30. APRIL 2006
30.Apr.2006 Atomstreit: Rice droht Iran mit Maßnahmen auch ohne Uno
30.Apr.2006 U.S. prepares to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes' :Amnesty International has made public a report blasting the USA for failing to take appropriate steps to eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world 30.Apr.2006 Aussie to sue British army: AN Australian man allegedly tortured by British troops in Iraq is to sue the British army in the High Court in London this year. 30.Apr.2006 Greg Palast: Armed Madhouse: Here is our new world of militarized greed, where America's panic over lunatics with box-cutters has metastasized into a billion-dollar fear industry 30.Apr.2006 James K. Galbraith : The Predator State : Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government? 30.Apr.2006 Corporations and the Hidden Curriculum : The changing role of education in a consumerist society 30.Apr.2006 FBI Sought Info Without Court OK : The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday.
30.Apr.2006 Kerry Sponsors Collective Punishment of Palestinian's : Perhaps he could blame intimidation by the American Israeli PAC organization or a need to pander to his Jewish benefactors as he makes another run for the Presidency, but Kerry’s recent co-sponsorship of the Palestinian Compliance Act of 2006 is a violation of Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention that forbids collective punishment and states
30.Apr.2006 War pimp alert: Olmert says Iran president "psychopath" : Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a psychopath and anti-Semite whose declarations resemble those of Adolf Hitler, Israeli acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said in a newspaper interview on Saturday. War pimp alert: War Clouds : LET ME TELL YOU about the next war. It will start sooner than you think — sometime between now and September. And it will be precipitated by the $700-million Russian deal this week to sell Tor air defense missile systems to Iran. 30.Apr.2006 Security Council Poised for Iran Replay : The council's three veto-wielding Western nations immediately announced plans to introduce a new Security Council resolution next week that would make Iran's compliance with their demands mandatory. To intensify pressure, they want the resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which means it can be enforced through sanctions or military action. 30.Apr.2006 Chinese envoy opposes resorting to Chapter 7 resolution on Iran: China's UN envoy Wang Guangya restated Beijing's opposition to Western plans to invoke Chapter 7 of the UN charter to legally bind Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activities. 30.Apr.2006 India: Avoid confronting Iran : India on Saturday said the report presented by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran’s nuclear programme should form the basis for sustained diplomacy to avoid confrontation and to promote an amicable solution. 30.Apr.2006 Fitzgerald to Seek Indictment of Rove : Despite vehement denials by his attorney, who said this week that Karl Rove is neither a "target" nor in danger of being indicted in the CIA leak case, the special counsel leading the investigation has already written up charges against Rove, and a grand jury is expected to vote on whether to indict the Deputy White House Chief of Staff sometime next week, sources knowledgeable about the probe said Friday afternoon. 30.Apr.2006 African Genocide: Some are calling it the first genocide of the 21st century, the killings of mostly black African Muslims blamed on an Arab militia known as the Janjaweed. Some 200,000 are thought to have been killed and 2,000,000 brutalized or displaced. 30.Apr.2006 U.N. Talks But Won't Act on Genocide, Say Activists: The 15-member U.N. Security Council, which has shown a reluctance to penalize those accused of war crimes in conflict-ridden Darfur in Sudan, unanimously adopted a resolution Friday to protect civilians in armed conflicts.
30.Apr.2006 IAEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program -By Juan Cole - Here is its conclusion, which others will not quote for you at such length: Continue 30.Apr.2006 The Security Council deadline myth -By Gordon Prather
Under a Safeguards Agreement concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency – as required by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Iran agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to "verify" that no "source or special nuclear materials" are being used in furtherance of a nuclear weapons program. During the past three years, every report Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has made to the IAEA Board concluded that – as best he can determine – no proscribed materials have been so used . Continue 30.Apr.2006 In Support Of Mutiny - By Dennis Morrisseau
As a declared candidate for Congress here in Vermont and a former Army officer, I hereby formally state that I support the "mutineers" if they exist. And if they are so far only rumors, only ghosts, then I hope to God that real flesh and blood American soldiers will stand against war in Iran soon. It has come to that. I will support it. Continue 30.Apr.2006 How Many US Troops are Really in Iraq? How Much is the War in Iraq Costing? By WINSLOW T. WHEELER
The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates its “burn rate” of monthly expenses at $6.4 billion in Iraq + $1.3 billion in Afghanistan. CRS points out that DOD did not include the cost of replacing worn out equipment + upgrades to facilities in theater. Adding those and a few other costs calculates to a monthly “burn rate” of $8.1 billion in Iraq; $1.6 billion in Afghanistan + a total burn rate of $9.9 billion per month. Continue
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30.Apr.2006 Übernahmetaktik: E.on will zunächst die halbe Endesa
30.Apr.2006 Partnersuche: Airbus bandelt mit Russland an AN>Einwandererkontroverse in den USA: Ein Tag ohne Latinos
30.Apr.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-413807,00.html
sagt Strobel. "Wir haben aus unserer Kernkompetenz Kochen ein Gerät für die Schwellenländer entwickelt."
30.Apr.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-413807,00.html Diese Zukunft sollte Anfang April auf Leyte beginnen. Eine Delegation der Münchener Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH (BSH), Weltumsatz 6,8 Milliarden Euro, besuchte mit Wissenschaftlern, Entwicklungsexperten und Umweltschützern das südostasiatische Eiland. In einer über einjährigen Erprobungsphase in philippinischen Haushalten und ländlichen Garküchen hatte der Pflanzenölkocher mit dem Namen "Protos" seine Bewährungsprobe bestanden.
30.Apr.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-413807,00.html Die Nebenwirkungen sind nach Erkenntnissen der Weltgesundheitsorganisation fatal: Durch die giftigen Abgase und Rußpartikel aus den offenen Feuerstellen sterben jährlich mehr als 1,6 Millionen Menschen. "Einem Kocher, der mit reinem Pflanzenöl betrieben werden kann", sagt deshalb Fritz Brickwedde, Generalsekretär der Deutschen Bundesstiftung Umwelt, "müsste eine große Zukunft bevorstehen."
30.Apr.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-413807,00.html
Über zwei Milliarden Menschen kochen täglich an offenen Feuerstellen statt mit Gas oder Strom. Bis zu 700 Kilogramm Feuerholz, das entspricht dem Gewicht eines Smart-Kleinwagens, werden in den armen Ländern für jedes Familienmitglied jährlich zur Essenszubereitung verfeuert.
30.Apr.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-413807,00.html Tatsächlich finden sich unter dem dichten, dunkelgrünen Bewuchs des Regenwaldes und den wogenden Mangrovenwäldern an den Ufern der Camotes Sea rund ein Drittel aller Pflanzenarten der Philippinen. Die Artenvielfalt der einheimischen Tierwelt auf der Insel Leyte wird in Asien von keiner anderen Region übertroffen.
30.Apr.2006 Bush Said "Mission Accomplished" Nearly Three Years Ago and It Wasn't. Bush Said "Bring 'Em On," and Our Soldiers Were Killed. Now, 2400 of Our GIs Have Died in Bush's Folly. 01.May 2006 Paul Krugman: The Crony Fairy 30.Apr.2006 Stephen Colbert, You Are My Hero!
Tens of thousands of protesters marched Saturday through lower Manhattan to demand an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, just hours after this month's death toll reached 70. 4/30
Bush Fails America's Safety and Security as the Photo-op Presidency Once Again Tries to Have Visual Image Fool the Nation About Rampant Incompetence: "Few Immediate Improvements in Disaster Response Seen As New Hurricane Season Looms." 01.May 2006 Nino "The Fixer" Scalia Continues His Judicial Arrogance and Flouting of the Constitution Without Any Accountability 4/30 30.Apr.2006 56 clergy charge that pulpits in Ohio are being used for electioneering 5/1 30.Apr.2006 Cindy Sheehan: Mission Accomplished Day - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
18 rich families want to see the estate tax abolished 4/30 30.Apr.2006 IAEA finds no proof of Iranian nukes 5/1
30.Apr.2006 29.Apr.2006 R.I.P. John Kenneth Galbraith I learned a lot from the works of John Kenneth Galbraith, who died today at the age of 97. This witty and wise man popularized the concept of "countervailing power" -- the notion that labor and government were necessary bridles for capitalism. That idea now seems to belong to another time. A better time.
Galbraith was the deputy head of the Office of Price Administration in World War II. Businessmen often came to his office to plead for exemptions from wartime restrictions. I recall reading -- somewhere -- that Galbraith and his assistant devised a clever signal: Whenever an "appellant" seemed to stray from the world of strict fact, Galbraith would wriggle two fingers up and down. This gesture refered to the way ants might wriggle their antennae in order to "talk" to each other while trudging neck-deep through moist bullshit.
These days, I cannot watch cable news for ten consecutive seconds without wriggling my fingers. Permalink
30.Apr.2006 Doku-Soap: Priesteranwärter kämpfen gegen die Lust
30.Apr.2006 Polnische Polemik: Minister vergleicht Pipeline-Projekt mit Hitler-Stalin-Pakt
30.Apr.2006 Für Sonderpreis: Chinese kauft Kampfflugzeug bei eBay
30.Apr.2006 Roter Kapitalismus: Gericht in China bestraft Milliarden-Betrüger
30.Apr.2006 Massendemo in Manhattan: Zehntausende demonstrieren für Irak-Abzug
30.Apr.2006 Aus dem SPIEGEL-Archiv: Paul Spiegel über den neuen Antisemitismus
30.Apr.2006 John K. Galbraith: Der große Widerpart der Neoliberalen ist tot
30.Apr.2006 Bush und sein Doppelgänger: "Laura ist heiß"
30.Apr.2006 Empire State Building: Monument mit bewegter Geschichte 30.Apr.2006 Empire State Building: Zum Geburtstag gehen die Lichter aus
30.Apr.2006 Videoüberwachung: Die Uni macht große Augen 30.Apr.2006 Heiße Mahlzeiten: Ölkocher soll Leben retten
30.Apr.2006 Schlüsselrolle der Hisbollah: Türöffner zum Heiligen Land
30.Apr.2006 FBI Releases Secret Subpoena Information Zonk 114 gollum123 writes to mention a CNN article, reporting on an FBI information release. The number of secret subpoenas the Bureau filed last year reached 3,501. These documents allowed access to credit card records, bank statements, telephone records + internet access logs for thousands of legal citizens without asking for a court's permission. From the article: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, the same panel that signs off on applications for business records warrants, also approved 2,072 special warrants last year for secret wiretaps and searches of suspected terrorists and spies. The record number is more than twice as many as were issued in 2000, the last full year before the terrorist attacks of 11.Sep.2001."
30.Apr.2006 Official Loose Change Blog: Oh, just 5 more coincidences. Nothing to see here folks. Official Loose Change Blog: Oh, just 5 more coincidences. Nothing to see here folks. 4.18.2006 Subject: re: former red zone resident at Ground Zero From: [redacted] Date: 4/13/06 "Hi Dylan, I lived within a block of ground zero on the south side. to be brief: 1. Confirm the security detail at WTC You are the 1st doc that mentioned the
30.Apr.2006 AOL News - Conspiracy Film Rewrites Sept. 11 AOL News - Conspiracy Film Rewrites Sept. 11 What do you think of 9/11 conspiracy theories?They're outrageous73%They're valid27% Total Votes: 124,714 Note on Poll Results
30.Apr.2006 MSNBC Photo: Anti-war activists march down Broadway, to protest...
Anti-war activists march down Broadway, to protest the war in Iraq, with thousands of supporters in New York April 29, 2006. The marchers demanded an immediate withdrawal of troops, the same day news organizations noted April as being the most deadly month for U.S. troops in Iraq, with at least 69 k https://msnbc.msn.com/id/12551152/displaymode/1176/rstry/10704049/
30.Apr.2006 Surprise of Enron Trial Is Lay's Surly Manner - Los Angeles Times Surprise of Enron Trial Is Lay's Surly Manner - Los Angeles Times
30.Apr.2006 Secret Court Proceedings in the NSA Cases: The Next Best Thing to Not Having Courts at All | The Huffington Post The Blog | Shayana Kadidal: Secret Court Proceedings in the NSA Cases: The Next Best Thing to Not Having Courts at All | The Huffington Post
30.Apr.2006 Government Moves to Intervene in AT&T Surveillance Case Rebecca Jeschke Government Moves to Intervene in AT&T Surveillance Case DOJ Will Assert Military and State Secrets Privilege and Request Dismissal of Lawsuit
30.Apr.2006 Mexico to legalize possession of pot, cocaine, heroin Eideard Mexico's Congress on Friday approved a bill decriminalizing possession of small quantities of marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine and even heroin for personal use...
30.Apr.2006 Victory With Rosemary TreeHugger thinks it’s time to re-invent the Victory Garden. In the WWII period of US history, a “Victory Garden” …largely a matter of growing your own food in the backyard…was a government promoted way for citizens to get fruit and veggies that were unavailable due to fuel shortages ...
30.Apr.2006 Leftist trio seals Americas pact The leaders of Venezuela, Bolivia and Cuba sign a deal aimed at countering US influence in Latin America.
29.Apr.2006 https://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/mpapps/pagetools/print/news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4954208.stm If attacks via known exploits were combined with other attacks, said Professor Sirer, malicious hackers could open up enormous amounts of the net to attack. For instance, he said, hackers could use denial-of-service attacks to overwhelm the net address books that are secure. This could leave users' computers with no choice but to look up website names via compromised servers. By combining well-known attacks and denial-of-service attacks, 85% of the net's domains become vulnerable to take over, revealed the analysis. He said: "They could already be doing it and we would hardly ever know."
29.Apr.2006 U.S. Government Moves To Dismiss EFF Case CowboyNeal 133iny0urbrain writes "The New York Times reports that the US government has asked a federal judge to dismiss the Electronic Frontier Foundation's civil liberties lawsuit against the AT&T Corporation because 'of a possibility that military and state secrets would otherwise be disclosed.' The statement concludes by saying: 'Finally, because the USA intends to assert the state secrets privilege and file a dispositive motion to dismiss this action, the USA requests that discovery proceedings be deferred until the government's submission has been considered and heard.' You can view the full text of the government's statement of interest (PDF) on the EFF's website." Sorry, hadn't had my coffee yet this morning + double posted this one. Sadly, the first one is a mere two stories down. It's also still pouring into the submissions bin, so I'm not the only one not yet awake.
29.Apr.2006 U.S. prepares to face U.N. on torture as Amnesty report blasts 'war crimes' :Amnesty International has made public a report blasting the USA for failing to take appropriate steps to eradicate use of torture at U.S. detention sites around the world 29.Apr.2006 Aussie to sue British army: AN Australian man allegedly tortured by British troops in Iraq is to sue the British army in the High Court in London this year.
29.Apr.2006 Greg Palast: Armed Madhouse: Here is our new world of militarized greed, where America's panic over lunatics with box-cutters has metastasized into a billion-dollar fear industry 29.Apr.2006 James K. Galbraith : The Predator State : Enron, Tyco, WorldCom... and the U.S. government
29.Apr.2006 Security Council Poised for Iran Replay : The council's three veto-wielding Western nations immediately announced plans to introduce a new Security Council resolution next week that would make Iran's compliance with their demands mandatory. To intensify pressure, they want the resolution under Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter, which means it can be enforced through sanctions or military action. 29.Apr.2006 Chinese envoy opposes resorting to Chapter 7 resolution on Iran: China's UN envoy Wang Guangya restated Beijing's opposition to Western plans to invoke Chapter 7 of the UN charter to legally bind Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activities. 29.Apr.2006 India: Avoid confronting Iran : India on Saturday said the report presented by the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran’s nuclear programme should form the basis for sustained diplomacy to avoid confrontation and to promote an amicable solution
29.Apr.2006 Young lovers court danger from puritan moral militia: Gone are the days when he could go to a nightclub or a party with his girlfriend. “Baghdadis don’t go out any more after dusk. We are all prisoners now.”
29.Apr.2006 U.S.-trained Iraqis working both sides: "There's two kinds of Iraqis here, the ones who help us and the ones who shoot us + there's an awful lot of them doing both," said Staff Sgt. Jason Hoover, 26. "Yes, it's frustrating. But we can't just stop working with them."
29.Apr.2006 IAEA Finds no Proof of Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program -By Juan Cole Here is its conclusion, which others will not quote for you at such length:Continue 29.Apr.2006 The Security Council deadline myth -By Gordon Prather
Under a Safeguards Agreement concluded with the International Atomic Energy Agency – as required by the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons – Iran agreed to allow IAEA inspectors to "verify" that no "source or special nuclear materials" are being used in furtherance of a nuclear weapons program. During the past three years, every report Director-General Mohamed ElBaradei has made to the IAEA Board concluded that – as best he can determine – no proscribed materials have been so used . Continue 29.Apr.2006 How Many US Troops are Really in Iraq?
How Much is the War in Iraq Costing?By WINSLOW T. WHEELER
The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates its “burn rate” of monthly expenses at $6.4 billion in Iraq and $1.3 billion in Afghanistan. CRS points out that DOD did not include the cost of replacing worn out equipment and upgrades to facilities in theater. Adding those and a few other costs calculates to a monthly “burn rate” of $8.1 billion in Iraq; $1.6 billion in Afghanistan + a total burn rate of $9.9 billion per month. Continue
29.Apr.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ I refer readers to the post below -- particularly the section on the 1994 Revolution in Military Affairs paper. Also see this important 1999 story from the Washington Post. Permalink
29.Apr.2006 The big profiteers have their sights on the Internet and we need your support.
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The FBI secretly sought information last year on 3,501 U.S. citizens and legal residents from their banks and credit card, telephone and Internet companies without a court's approval, the Justice Department said Friday. (Ballooning from early reports of just 35 over an 18-month period.) 4/30
Busheviks Try to Dismiss Lawsuit Against Domestic Spying 29.Apr.2006 How Sweet It Is! "Rush Limbaugh was arrested Friday on prescription drug charges, law enforcement officials said." The Goebbels of the Airwaves Copped a Plea.
A day after the military announced that April was the deadliest month for U.S. forces in Iraq this year, thousands of anti-war demonstrators converged on lower Manhattan on Saturday to call for an immediate withdrawal of troops from that country. 4/29
GOP Hooker and Corruption Charges Probed. FBI agents are investigating whether a defense contractor provided prostitutes, limousines and hotel suites to a lawmaker who has been convicted on bribery charges, two federal officials said Friday. Was Jeff Gannon Involved? Just Asking? 4/29
Bush knows how to appoint crooks: The head of his FDA, who resigned in September, is facing criminal charges for lying to Congress and funny money business 4/30 29.Apr.2006 Jazz band has its power turned off in Cleveland for wearing "No Bush" shirts 4/30
Friday surprise: U.S. wants "states secrets" protection of its friend AT&T, defending it from charges of violating your civil liberties 4/30
29.Apr.2006 Italien: Berlusconi räumt seinen Posten
29.Apr.2006 Globalisiert und geschmacksfrei: Treibhaustomaten und Brotvernichtung
29.Apr.2006 Einwanderer-Debatte: Spanische Fassung der Hymne entzweit die USA
29.Apr.2006 CNN Cover's 9/11 Skeptics and Misrepresents 911Truth.org
Bloglines user bill.giltner@gmail.com 9/11 Blogger - Blogging 9/11 Related Alternative News All are welcome! but please avoid hate speech and profanity + use references when possible. CNN Cover's 9/11 Skeptics and Misrepresents 911Truth.org By dz 5MB MOVCNN's The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer briefly covered 9/11
29.Apr.2006 Colbert shakes up Bill Kristol over PNAC ties
29.Apr.2006 Enron Trial: Ken Lay 'Didn't Do Himself Any Favors' - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News
FOXNews.com - Enron Trial: Ken Lay 'Didn't Do Himself Any Favors' - Business And Money | Business News | Financial News: "HOUSTON — Enron Corp. founder Kenneth Lay was expected to charm jurors the same way he spent decades charming politicians, analysts, investors and employees. But when he took the witness stand this week in his fraud and conspiracy trial, the ever-smiling diplomat and
29.Apr.2006 USAToday Talks About Loose Change
29.Apr.2006 Big Bad Man in Baghdad Big Bad Man in Baghdad Big Bad Man in Baghdad Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Inflating the importance of Abu Musab al Zarqawi [1] as a leader of the Iraqi rebellion is the object of a US goverment propaganda plan, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. According to Col. Derek Harvey, who served as a
29.Apr.2006 Connect The Dots Wing TV - Connect The Dots United 93: Propaganda & Lies by Victor Thorn Even movie reviewers aren’t buying into the government-Hollywood deception surrounding United 93 – a film so obvious in its fabrications that film critic Cole Smithey called it a “propaganda docudrama.” He also brought-up the following points in his critique, Pandora’s Press Release:
29.Apr.2006 The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On
Bloglines user SeanMcBride (smcbride2@yahoo.com) KurzweilAI.net Accelerating Intelligence News A collection of news articles and stories relating to the accelerating nature of technology The Total Information Awareness Project Lives On Technology behind the Pentagon's controversial Total Information Awareness (TIA) data-mining project
29.Apr.2006 Two More Free Nations Fall To Biometric Prison Paul Joseph Watson Two More Free Nations Fall To Biometric Prison Aussies must all have biometric "access cards" by 2010, Scots to be forced on database with Citizens' National
29.Apr.2006 Atomare Landschaftspflege froschartoon Unmittelbar vor dem Treffen der Regierung mit führenden Vertretern der Energiebranche und anderen Experten hatte Kanzlerin Merkel durchblicken lassen, dass sie sich die Option Kernkraft mittelfristig offen halten will. Die Union teilte mit, die SPD werde schließlich einlenken.
29.Apr.2006 Bush Flashback: Using Strategic Oil Reserve To Lower Prices Damages “National Security” President Bush will order the Department of Energy to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Oil Reserve “in order to get more fuel on the market and help reduce rising gasoline prices.” 00.Sep.2000 then-Gov. George W. Bush criticized President Clinton for proposing to use the ...
29.Apr.2006 Tony Snow On President Bush: ‘An Embarrassment,’ ‘Impotent,’ ‘Doesn&# ... Fox News’ Tony Snow is expected to be named White House Press Secretary. Here’s some of what he’s had to say about the President: – Bush has “lost control of the federal budget and cannot resist the temptation to stop raiding the public fisc.” [3/17/06
29.Apr.2006 Coming soon: Liberal Children Part III : Descending to the Bowels of Hell Shelley Friends Liberals do damage America every day. They undermine American values, they collaborate with the enemy, they lie, they pollute good American's minds with their filthy talk... But the far worst liberals do is to corrupt the most precious we have: Our Children. Liberals are not fit to raise ...
29.Apr.2006 GE going solar on Portugal farm Webhelp The sheep that have long grazed 60 hectares of farmland in Serpa, Portugal, will soon have to share their space with the world's largest solar energy plant.
29.Apr.2006 Microsoft: European Fine 'Excessive' Microsoft told the European Court of First Instance Friday that the 497 million euro fine it had been ordered to pay by the European Commission should either be reduced or thrown out. Lawyers for the Redmond company called it "excessive."
29.Apr.2006 State Contractor Files Federal Lawsuit Against Me Warren Kremer Paino Advertising has filed a 3 count multi-million dollar federal lawsuit against me for the reporting I’ve done in this blog. They are claiming defamation, libel, + copyright infringement. Getting the sheriff to deliver the suit to me, in front of my kids and neighbors, is the ...
29.Apr.2006 NSA Warrantless Wiretapping and Total Information Awareness
Technology Review has an interesting article discussing some of the technologies used by the NSA in its warrantless wiretapping program, some of them from the killed Total Information Awareness (TIA) program. Washington's lawmakers ostensibly killed the TIA project in Section...
29.Apr.2006 Call to end testing 'obsession' The government must end its "continuing obsession" with testing schoolchildren, a head teachers' leader says.
29.Apr.2006 Spacecraft seek climate clarity Two Nasa satellites are launched to undertake the most detailed study to date of clouds and fine particles in the atmosphere.
29.Apr.2006 Microsoft's EU appeal case ends Microsoft used its position to dominate two key markets, the EU says in the final day of a court case.
29.Apr.2006 Five deny July bomb plot charges Five men plead not guilty at the Old Bailey over the alleged London bombing attempts on 21 July.
29.Apr.2006 Man released after terror probe A 25-year-old man detained under the Terrorism Act after an operation on Monday is released without charge.
29.Apr.2006 US says Iran top terror sponsor Iran is the most active state sponsor of terrorism, a US government review of global terrorism argues.
29.Apr.2006 Three-year-old boy 'anti-social' A three-year-old boy is accused of anti-social behaviour for playing football outside his home.
29.Apr.2006 Judge's warning to prison company A judge warns bosses at Reliance security firm that they could be jailed if they delay court business again.
29.Apr.2006 HSBC glitch delays worker payday Pay day will be coming late for thousands of workers this month after a computer problem at banking giant HSBC.
29.Apr.2006 Europe heart care 'fails adults' The care available for adults in Europe with heart disease is inadequate, an expert analysis has concluded.
29.Apr.2006 Bird flu confirmed in farm worker A poultry worker is confirmed to have conjunctivitis after contact with chickens infected with the H7 strain of bird flu.
29.Apr.2006 GIs Shoot Footage for New War Doc Camcorder images from soldiers in Iraq propel the new documentary The War Tapes. Battle doesn't get more personal than this. By Jason Silverman.
29.Apr.2006 Terrorist or UFO Truth Seeker? U.S. authorities want to try a Briton who hacked into top military sites to see what he could learn about aliens. They're upset, the hacker says, because it was so easily accomplished. As usual, sieve-like Microsoft software offered the way in.
29.Apr.2006 Bush to Shield AT&T From Lawsuit Citing national security, the administration says it wants to kill a suit over the phone company's alleged conspiracy to help the NSA illegally spy on Americans. From 27B Stroke 6, the Wired News security and privacy blog.
29.Apr.2006 States Sue Over Global Warming Ten states and several environmental groups want the feds to fight climate change with tighter pollution controls on power plants.
29.Apr.2006 Bush administration invokes "state secrets" in suit against NSA Blog: It's official: The Bush administration formally said Friday that it will try to halt a lawsuit that accuses AT&T of helping the...
29.Apr.2006 Congress may consider mandatory ISP snooping House Democrat joins Bush administration supporting new laws mandating that Net firms store records about consumers' activities.
29.Apr.2006 Comet fragments in close encounter with Earth NASA says the Earth will be safe from a broken comet on May 25 despite rumors spreading across the Internet.
29.Apr.2006 Congress May Consider Mandatory ISP Snooping Zonk 24
An anonymous reader a News.com story covering a most disquieting trend in the House of Representatives. From the article: "Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette's proposal says that any Internet service that 'enables users to access content' must permanently retain records that would permit police to identify each user. The records could not be discarded until at least one year after the user's account was closed. It's not clear whether that requirement would be limited only to e-mail providers and Internet providers such as DSL (digital subscriber line) or cable modem services. An expansive reading of DeGette's measure would require every Web site to retain those records."
29.Apr.2006 DOJ To Claim National Security in NSA Case Zonk 84
deblau writes "Wired is reporting that the federal government intends to invoke the rarely used 'State Secrets Privilege' in the Electronic Frontier Foundation's class action lawsuit against AT&T. The case alleges that the telecom collaborated with the NSA's secret spying on American citizens. The State Secrets Privilege lets the executive branch step into a civil lawsuit and have it dismissed if the case might reveal information that puts national security at risk."
29.Apr.2006 Blaming The Bats Zonk
45 d'alz writes "Bats have long been the subject of various conflicting theories. They have been linked with lethal viruses that cause Ebola hemorrhagic fever, SARS, Nipah or Hendra. But of late researchers have taken a complete shift in these theories. They now claim that bats are being blamed for human mistakes. It now seems that these outbreaks could be a direct result of the encroachments that took place over the years in the rainforests." From the article: "Emerging viruses like the one that causes SARS are symptoms of the drastic, large-scale changes humans are making in the life of the planet. At a time of intense concern about avian flu, it is hardly controversial to argue that human health is linked to animal health. But the field challenges traditional academic divisions, especially the cultural divide between doctors and veterinarians."
29.Apr.2006 Bill Gates helps the NY Times turn the clock back. | 