09.Jun.2006 In Goodbye Speech, DeLay Bitterly Attacks Liberals Amanda 
Today Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) gave his parting speech on the floor of the House. DeLay broke with tradition + bitterly attacked his liberal colleagues, many of whom walked out. Watch an excerpt:

We will miss you too, Tom DeLay.

Full transcript below:

In preparing for today, I found that it is customary in speeches such as these to reminisce about the good old days of political harmony + across-the-aisle camaraderie + to lament the bitter, divisive partisan rancor that supposedly now weakens our democracy.

Well, I can’t do that because partisanship, Mr. Speaker, properly understood, is not a symptom of democracy’s weakness, but of its health and its strength, especially from the perspective of a political conservative.

Liberalism, after all, whatever you may think of its merits, is a political philosophy and a proud one with a great tradition in this country, with a voracious appetite for growth.

In any place or any time on any issue, what does liberalism ever seek, Mr. Speaker? More. More government, more taxation, more control over people’s lives and decisions and wallets.

If conservatives don’t stand up to liberalism, no one will.
09.Jun.2006 A sad day for Paris Hilton. Nico A bill to repeal the estate tax on the ultra-rich was just defeated in the Senate.

“The vote was a big defeat both for President Bush and for Senate Republican leaders, who had framed their opposition to what they called the ‘death tax’ as a popular and even populist crusade.”
09.Jun.2006 33 % : Faiz Approval of Bush’s handling of Iraq, according to a new AP/Ipsos poll. Bush’s overall job approval is at 35 % .
09.Jun.2006 Major defeat for the religious right. Nico 
The FDA has approved a vaccine to protect against a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. (Cervical cancer affects over 10,000 women in the USA each year, killing more than 3,700 annually.)

The vaccine was opposed by prominent religious right groups because they said it would be seen as a “license to engage in premarital sex.”
09.Jun.2006 Specter angry about getting snubbed by Cheney. Faiz 
In a three-page letter to Cheney, Specter complained about the Vice President’s unwillingness to cooperate on NSA eavesdropping oversight.

“I was surprised, to say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the Committee without calling me first. …

This was especially perplexing since we both attended the Republican Senators caucus lunch yesterday + I walked directly in front of you on at least two occasions en route from the buffet to my table.”
09.Jun.2006 Annan Deputy Criticizes U.S. Policy; Bolton Demands Apology, Says U.N. Will Be ‘the Victim’ Judd 
Yesterday at a conference co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress + the Century Foundation, Mark Malloch Brown — the #2 official at the U.N. — offered a constructive critique about the way the USA treats the organization:

[T]he prevailing practice of seeking to use the UN almost by stealth as a diplomatic tool while failing to stand up for it against its domestic critics is simply not sustainable. You will lose the UN one way or another.

Brown noted that rampant U.N. bashing in the USA makes even renovating their dilapidated headquarters difficult:

[T]he only government not fully supporting the project is the U.S. Too much unchecked UN-bashing and stereotyping over too many years —manifest in a fear by politicians to be seen to be supporting better premises for what they unjustly regard as overpaid, corrupt UN bureaucrats—makes even refurbishing a building a political hot potato.

In response, U.N. Ambassador John Bolton has lashed out at Brown.

He said that if Annan didn’t immediately repudiate the remarks, the United Nations would be the “victim.” From his press release:

Well, on that speech, this is a very, very grave mistake by the Deputy Secretary General…Even though the target of the speech was the USA, the victim, I fear, will be the United Nations.

And even worse was the condescending and patronizing tone about the American people.

That fundamentally + very sadly, this was a criticism of the American people, not the American government, by an international civil servant it’ s just illegitimate.

… But what we think the only way at this point to mitigate the damage to the UN is that the Secretary General Kofi Annan, we think has to personally + publicly repudiate this speech at the earliest possible opportunity.

Looks like Bolton can dish it out, but he can’t take it.
09.Jun.2006 “I don’t believe there’s any issue that’s more important Judd 

than this one.” — Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. The measure got 49 votes in the Senate, far short of the 2/3 required.
09.Jun.2006 Mother Jones has launched OceanVoyager.org, which highlights the numerous threats facing our oceans .

“What’s noteworthy about the site is that it doesn’t focus on the work of one organization, but rather highlights the best of the best of what a multitude of nonprofits are doing to conserve our oceans.”

“The Happy Face is Watching You.”

GroupIntel details the massive amount of customer data collected by Wal-Mart ,

whose “data centers are the corporate counterpart to Area 51,” + which has “enough storage capacity to contain twice the amount of all the information available on the Internet.”
09.Jun.2006 CEI Scholar: Gore Thinks Climate Change is Caused by ‘Widespread Sin,’ a Sign of ‘the Antichrist’ Judd 

Ian Murray, senior fellow at the Exxon-backed Competitive Enterprise Institute, writes for the National Review on global warming issues.

Today, he excerpts some promotional material from a horror movie that he says “mirrors Al Gore’s views” on global warming:

[G]lobal warming is caused by the widespread sin, immorality + materialism of our current society. The looting and murders after these disasters struck are further evidence of the Antichrist’s coming .

The Bible’s revelation predicts that it will be under these conditions that the mark of the Beast will come upon us.

Global warming skeptics can’t challenge Al Gore on the substance, so they just smear him personally. This is what is left of the “debate” about climate change.

Stand up against Murray’s smear tactics. Pledge to go see An Inconvenient Truth.
09.Jun.2006 The four stages of global warming denial Judd courtesy of Tree Hugger.
09.Jun.2006 Limbaugh: Liberals Are ‘Ecstatic’ About Haditha, Planning ‘Gang Rape’ of War Supporters Judd 
Yesterday, Rush Limbaugh asserted that “the American left” and “the drive-by media” is happy about allegations of misconduct against civilians by U.S. troops at Haditha.

Moreover, they planned on using Haditha to “gang rape” supporters of the war to undermine U.S. efforts in Iraq:

This Haditha story, this Haditha incident, whatever, this is it folks, this is the final big push on behalf of the Democratic Party, the American left + the Drive-By Media to destroy our effort to win the war in Iraq. That’s what Haditha represents — and they are going about it gleefully. They are ecstatic about it… Folks, let me just put it in graphic terms. It is going to be a gang rape. There is going to be a gang rape by the Democratic Party, the American left and the Drive-By Media, to finally take us out in the war against Iraq. Make no bones about it.

Actually, taking the allegations seriously is essential to our success in creating a secure and democratic Iraq. The Iraqi people need to know the truth, which is that the alleged conduct is not tolerated in the USA military or in American society. It requires a thorough investigation by the USA government, thorough coverage by the USA media + appropriate outrage by the American public, left, right + center.

Anything less does a disservice to all the troops in Iraq who have held themselves to highest ethical standards under extreme pressure.
09.Jun.2006 Au revoir, Tom. Nico 
Rep. Tom Delay’s “fellow Texas GOP House members chose an expensive contemporary French restaurant in Washington, Le Paradou, to toast the outgoing 22-year congressman Tuesday night in a private dinner.” But DeLay’s spokeswoman “was unhappy with any references to the restaurant as French”: “This is an American restaurant that serves French cuisine.”
09.Jun.2006 Coulter on 9/11 Widows: ‘I Have Never Seen People Enjoying their Husbands’ Death So Much’ Judd 
In her new book, “Godless,” right-wing pundit Ann Coulter writes of the 9/11 widows:

These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities and stalked by grief-arazzies. I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much.

She was confronted about the statement this morning by NBC’s Matt Lauer. Coulter accused Lauer of “getting testy.” Watch it:
06.Jun.2006 Think Progress 
The Defense Department’s quarterly report to Congress on Iraq claims the “Iraqis have confidence the new Baghdad government will improve the situation.” But the poll the Pentagon used to prove this point “is described as a ‘nationwide survey’ with no explanation of who was polled and how.”

The Supreme Court has agreed to rule on two cases that will determine the role of affirmative action in elementary and secondary schools , a move that could ultimately “spell the end of official efforts to maintain racial integration in U.S. public schools.” “It’s bad news for desegregation advocates,” said Goodwin Liu of the University of California at Berkeley. “It looks like the more conservative justices see they have a fifth vote to reverse these cases.”

“A lawyer for terror suspect Jose Padilla has filed a motion to suppress evidence” he claims the FBI obtained illegally from two sources, one of whom was allegedly tortured after U.S. rendition . The informant, a Pakistani, says he was hung by leather straps in his cell and “tortured by means of a razor being used to make incisions on his chest and his genitals.”

Nearly 1,400 Iraqi civilians were killed across Baghdad in May, the largest number of deaths in one month since the U.S.-led invasion three years ago.

The U.S. military has cut the number of Iraqi civilians killed at checkpoints or shot by U.S. convoys to about one a week today from about seven a week in July. The statistics indicate hundreds of Iraqi civilians were killed at checkpoints or on Iraqi highways during the first two years of the war, a period when statistics were not recorded. The killings are “are almost always the result of mistakes.”
09.Jun.2006 U.S. officials fear a domestic terror attack is likely before the end of the year , as activity by “homegrown” cells is increasing. “The next attack here, officials predict, will bear no resemblance to Sept. 11. The casualty toll will not be that high, the target probably not that big.”

California State Attorney General Bill Lockyear “has begun hauling the CEOs of major oil companies into his office - demanding, in closed door sessions, that those executives tell him, under oath, why gas prices are higher in California than almost anywhere else in the nation.”

The Security and Peace Initiative (SPI), which is co-sponsored by the Center for American Progress, is hosting a major foreign policy conference today in New York called “Power and Superpower: Global Leadership for the 21st Century.” Democracy Arsenal, the official SPI blog, will be live-blogging the event all day.
09.Jun.2006 When asked by a reporter if he would see Al Gore’s global warming documentary , “An Inconvenient Truth,” Jeb Bush said, “No, I’m not going to be doing that.” (He did see the latest X-Men movie, which he described as “excellent.”)
09.Jun.2006 Entertainment News Tonight
09.Jun.2006 The Bilderbergers Lose Their Cool
Amazing stuff -- the Bilderbergers dropped the facade that they don't exist, took off the kid gloves + engaged in the heavy-handed harassment of Alex Jones, someone whose reports of this incident will reach inquiring minds all around the globe.   They've radically raised their public profile.  Not smart.  

The Internet must really be getting under the skin of the few hundred billionaires who imagine that they will be able to bully over 6 and a half billion human beings into abject submission with police state tactics.  

It sounds like the influence of the neoconservatives among the Bilderbergers is stronger than ever. 

They may have even taken over the operation, in the same way that they have taken over the Bush administration + much of the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations). 

If this is the case, the whole kit and caboodle is probably going to hoist itself on its own petard.
09.Jun.2006 Israel (and the Israel Lobby) Continue to Agitate for a Global Holy <https://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2006/06/a_realist.asp>
[They keep being caught red-handed at these activities, so it's difficult to understand why they bother to deny what anyone can easily see they are up to.

By the way, DOUGLAS FEITH + DAVID HOROWITZ are members of One Jerusalem. Do they think that everyone is stupid?]
09.Jun.2006 Digest Number 1321
911 Truth Action Messages In This Digest (6 Messages)

1. Re: [Conspiracy-Theory] Question for Joni From: Dick Eastman

2. 9/11 Truth Coalition From: erik larson

3. Please Email Lou Dobbs Immediately About Coulter. From: MarshaMcClelland

4. Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group From: MarshaMcClelland

5. Fw:  Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group From: Dick Eastman

6. Jesse back from Chi Conference.  On radio 8 pm ET From: reggie501
09.Jun.2006 Zogby Poll Finds Over 70 Million Voting Age Americans Support New 9/11 Investigation (Less than half trust the "Official Story") https://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20060522022041421
09.Jun.2006 Cheney???s Office Declares Exemption from Secrecy Oversight - The NewStandard
09.Jun.2006 Digest Number 1383
september_eleven_vreeland Messages In This Digest (2 Messages) 1. Bank Buys Broker for CONCEALED DEMOLITION From: norgesen 2. Global Domination Through Fractional Capitalization From: norgesen View All Topics | Create New Topic Messages 1. Bank Buys Broker for CONCEALED DEMOLITION Posted by: "norgesen" norgesen@yahoo.com   norgesen Wed Jun 7, 2006 9:06 am (PST) 9/11 - Bank Buys Broker for CONCEALED DEMOLITION
In an open letter from David Hawkins to the London Market insurance brokers committee the cause for murder and fraud is laid out for the Trade Center destruction.

As the onslaught of information about the destruction of the three towers on 11.Sep.2001 the idea that the government is complicit becomes more apparent.
From:
David Hawkins,
Forensic Economist, Foundation Scholar, Cambridge University
British Columbia, Canada Tel: 604-542-0891
An open e-mail letter to:
David Hough, Executive Director
London Market Insurance Brokers' Committee
Copy:
Judi McLeod, Founder Editor, Canada Free Press
www.canadafreepress .com/
Steven Jones
Professor of Physics, Brigham Young University
Co-chair of Scholars for 9/11 Truth
Jim Fetzer
Distinguished McKnight University Professor of Philosophy
Co-chair of Scholars for 9/11 Truth www.st911.org /
Bcc
03.Apr.2006 -Date of sending-
Dear Mr. Hough
Re: 9/11 - Bank Buys Broker for Concealed Demolition
In my e-mail to you titled, "Citigroup-AMEC 9/11 insurance fraud on Lloyd's of London?",

I suggested that "Lloyd's convert its civil action in respect of alleged negligence by Citigroup-AMEC [in an alleged diesel-fueled fire leading to the destruction of WTC#7] into a RICO* suit

in respect of apparent racketeering [including solicitation to murder], extortion, arson and insurance frauds .."
(Full text of letter at www.st911.org/ some excerpts below)
RICO* - Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organization
We remind you that Lloyd's et al. have sued Citigroup-AMEC et al. in respect of the destruction of WTC#7 which with WTC#1 + WTC#2,

became the first three steel-framed buildings in history to collapse through fire on 9/11.
One of the directors of Citigroup is the disgraced former director of the CIA., John Deutch.

Mr. Deutch is a director of Raytheon where he helped to destroy 'Able Danger' counter-intelligenc e data-mining evidence pointing at Mohammed Atta's and the other al-Qaeda cells in America a year before 9/11.
https://www.abledangerblog.com/2006/03/2004-raytheon-genesis-link-chart.html
Deutch's Citigroup is now arranging credit of $25 billion to help Cerberus Capital Management buy GMAC, the mortgage broker which allowed WTC leasholder, Larry Silverstein, to structure an alleged 'double occurrence' insurance fraud.
https://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060403/gm_gmac.html?.v=9
Post 9/11, Mr. Silverstein claimed damages for two buildings (WTC# 1 & 2) but the, together with his Citigroup-AMEC and GMAC advisors, must have concealed from the court their prior knowledge that at least three WTC buildings (#1, 2 & 7) had been rigged for demolition with explosives and/or incendiaries.
If Mr. Silverstein did not know that the three WTC buildings were so rigged, he could not meaningfully have agreed with the officers of the New York Fire Department to 'pull' WTC building 7.
https://www.prisonplanet.com/011904wtc7.html
'Pull' is industry jargon for taking a building down with explosives.
To secure the WTC mortage, GMAC appears to have bought leaseholder- owned life insurance policies from Groupe Axa on behalf of mortgage investors,

including, we suggest, Citigroup + various New York City Pension Funds ("NYPF") such as NY's Fire Department Pension Fund ("FDPF") + its Firefighters' Variable Supplements Fund ("FFVSF"),

the latter being responsible for maximizing the retirement benefits of senior officers in the City fire department.
https://www.axa-financial.com/pressroom/2001/09172001_claims_announcement.html
00.Mar.2000 -Around- these New York City Pension Funds were plaintiffs in what we consider was a Mafia-directed racketeering class action suit* against Orbital Sciences of Dulles VA.
* In the USA District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Alexandria Division (Civil Action No. 99-197-A Jury trial demanded)
The NYPF suit appears to have been designed to extort mob control over war-gaming and insured-mortgage decision support technologies of Macdonald Dettwiler and Associates ('MDA') of Richmond, British Columbia, Canada.
https://www.mdacorporation.com/systems/defence.shtml
https://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr2001050301.html
https://www.mdacorporation.com/news/pr/pr2006010301.html
Following an out of court settlement, Orbital handed control of MDA to the CAI Private Equity group, custodian of the NYPF and many other labor union pension and insurance funds, thereby allowing 50 "prominent individuals" with CAI, Citigroup, GMAC and insiders to 'stage' hijackings for the 9/11 attack but conceal the subsequent demolitions in support of bogus insurance claims.
https://www.caifunds.com/specialinvestors.html
https://www.caifunds.com/successstories3.html#macdonald
11.Sep.2001 -After- CAI + Citigroup + GMAC + their affiliates in Groupe AXA appear to have collected death certificates from families of dead firefighters + paid out "dead-firefighter" life insurance policies to victims' pension fund. https://www.axa-financial.com/pressroom/2001/09172001_claims_announcement.html
Deutch's Citigroup + GMAC appear to have conspired to use racketeering loans to finance 9/11 hijackings during bogus NORAD war games and divert attention from concealed demolitions and organized securities and insurance frauds.
New York firefighters with other City labor union members who missed, escaped or survived the 9/11 attacks, involuntarily profited from the deaths of their colleagues through AXA payments into their union pension and insurance funds.
City pension fund members are now at risk of being accused of participating in the 9/11 crimes and are therefore targets for racketeering and extortion.
We believe that Citigroup is buying GMAC to protect insider knowledge of the concealed demolitions of WTC buildings #1, 2 and 7 and the RICO activities of the CAI Private Equity Group members, who appear to be engaged directly or indirectly in murder, arson, racketeering and insurance frauds.
Once again, we invite you to forward this to your contacts at Lloyd's for consideration of a RICO suit against CAI's "50 prominent individuals" including the 9/11 insiders at Citigroup the bankers and GMAC the brokers.
Yours sincerely,
David Hawkins
British Columbia, Canada Tel: 604-542-0891
Notes:
"9/11 - Bank Buys Broker for CONCEALED DEMOLITION"
Silverstein' s lawyers referred to .. near-simultaneous burnings four different courthouses by deranged man constituted 'multiple events .. Silverstein .. and partners .. borrowed $563 million from GMAC .. agreement to use insurance proceeds to pay off lender in trade center deal, the GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corporation"
https://www.greatgridlock.net/NYC/nycpress.html
"The World Trade Center leaseholder has won a court victory over his insurers .. A New York jury has decided that the 11 September 2001 attack on the two towers constituted two separate events. The US District Court ruling means Larry Silverstein could now get an extra $1.1bn (?0.56bn) from nine insurers to finance reconstruction. He has been fighting the insurance companies, arguing he was owed $7bn (?3.6bn) - double his $3.5bn policy."
https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4075053.stm
Exceprts from, "9/11 - A Citigroup-AMEC insurance fraud on Lloyd's of London? by David Hawkins, Foundation Scholar, Cambridge University, Founder of the
Citizen's Association of Forensic Economists at Hawks' CAFE ..
"An open e-mail letter to: David Hough, Executive Director London Market Insurance Brokers' Committee" ...
"Underwriters at Lloyd's have an ongoing action to recover damages in respect of the alleged negligence by Citigroup Construction Defendants?AMEC PLC et al. ("Citigroup- AMEC") which defendants allegedly caused damage to a substation underneath World Trade Center building 7, that substation being the property of a Lloyds' insuree, Consolidated Edison Company of New York, Inc. (?Con Ed?).
https://www.total911.info/city_sj_motion.pdf
Lloyd's, with others, allege that Citigroup-AMEC was negligent in designing and installing the 7WTC water mains which ruptured and prevented firefighting and the 7WTC diesel generators, fuel lines and tanks which malfunctioned and fed fires causing an 'implosion' of the Con Ed substation. ...
We allege the Citigroup-AMEC partners sabotaged the diesel generators to feed fires lit by arsonists on the 11th, 12th or 13th floors of WTC7 where the Securities & Exchange Commission lost between 3,000 to 4,000 files. The SEC files contained evidence of insider trading by Citigroup-AMEC investment bank partners in the shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom. The House Financial Services Committee was seeking information about the treatment Citigroup's Salmon Smith Barney investing banking division may have given WorldCom executives. Salomon had offices in 7 World Trade Center and Citigroup says back-up tapes of corporate emails from September 1998 through December 2000 were stored at the building and destroyed in 9/11.

Citigroup subsequently paid $2.65 billion to the settlement class which purchased WorldCom securities during the period from April 1999 through June 2002.
https://www.thestreet.com/markets/matthewgoldstein/10036925.html
https://www.citigroup.com/citigroup/press/2004/040510a.htm
At 5:20 p.m. on 9/11, 7 World Trade Center collapsed in its own footprint at a speed slightly slower than free fall under gravity in a manner consistent with a controlled demolition. Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the debris pile of WTC #1, 2 and 7. The thermal signature of 32 hot spots, 5 days and 10 days after the collapse, is consistent with all the buildings being rigged for demolition with an incendiary such as thermite.
We allege that the Citigroup-AMEC partnership now conspired to remove and destroy evidence of arson before filing bogus property insurance claims in an arrangement with Larry Silverstein and Silverstein Properties, including a claim for a double payment for the destruction of the Twin Towers. "Griffin quotes court documents to the effect that Silverstein had only $14 million invested in the insurance deal for the Twin Towers (compared to 50 times as much by his [off-book] lenders) through limited liability investment vehicles."
https://9-11-inquiry.blogspot.com/2005/03/march-2005-wtc-building-7-911-smoking.html
End of excerpts from "9/11 Citigroup-AMEC insurance fraud on Lloyds ...."
https://www.911eyewitness.com/truth/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=39
https://www.stoplying.ca/articles/april06/money_trail_040906.htm
09.Jun.2006 FBI: "No hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11" By valis

from the MUCKRAKER REPORT : “On

05.Jun.2006 the Muckraker Report contacted the FBI Headquarters, (202) 324-3000, to learn why Bin Laden’s Most Wanted poster did not indicate that Usama was also wanted in connection with 9/11. The Muckraker Report spoke with Rex Tomb, Chief of Investigative Publicity for the FBI. When asked why there is no mention of 9/11 on Bin Laden’s Most Wanted web page, Tomb said, “The reason why 9/11 is not mentioned on Usama Bin Laden’s Most Wanted page is because the FBI has no hard evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11.” Link
07.Jun.2006 new articles on APFN

07.Jun.2006 The Truth about George W. Bush — Glenn Welker

07.Jun.2006 The Truth about George W. Bush (Update!) — Glenn Welker,

07.Jun.2006 Important 9/11 information ... — Vinnie S.,

07.Jun.2006 Bill O' Rielly — Rich Sheridan,
07.Jun.2006 Arlen Specter is a Nazi, One of "Them" — Rich Sheridan,

07.Jun.2006 USS Liberty: Missing Piece to the Middle East Peace Puzzle — Stephen M. St. John,

07.Jun.2006 The Draft — maddog,

07.Jun.2006 King of Syria Abdul Halim Khaddam: Made in USA — Stephen M. St. John,

07.Jun.2006 WHY DID THE VA HAVE ACTIVE DUTY SOLDIER FILES? — Cheryl Seal,

07.Jun.2006 Report from Chicago 9/11 Truth Conference — Les Jamieson,

07.Jun.2006 More on the VA Identity Theft case — Cheryl Seal,
09.Jun.2006 Logic for the insane By Jonathan Shorter Michael Ledeen:
All this diplomacy crap with Iran will make it much less likely that we'll blow up thousands of Iranians. And that would be a damn shame.
And oh, Dear God, did he really end the article this way?
Faster, please. Please.
Here we go again.
09.Jun.2006 Neocons successfully organize to block Juan Cole's appointment at Yale<https://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2006_06_04.php#008673>
09.Jun.2006 Krugman: Shameless in the Senate tbe Progressive American
09.Jun.2006 LaRouche Updates His Warning on Cheney Plans for Preventive Bombing Against Iran <https://www.larouchepub.com/pr_lar/2006/lar_pac/060605_lar_new_warning.html>
09.Jun.2006 Cafferty: Arlen Specter: a gutless Republican worm Bloglines

09.Jun.2006 House panel clears another $50 billion for Iraq <https://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060607/ts_nm/iraq_congress_dc> Billions and billions down a bottomless rathole.
09.Jun.2006 That awful "taxpaper-supported BBC" The American Thinker Blogger Thoughts:

On the whole, the BBC is more + more a puppet of the State. Don't know how they still broadcast something resembling the truth at times.
09.Jun.2006 Pro-Israel Group Pushes Tough U.S. Policy on Iran
09.Jun.2006 Giuliani Covers His Back. Will Only Blame DC "Incompetents" For NYC Terror Cuts And Not Republican Leaders... | The Huffington Post

Giuliani Covers His Back. Will Only Blame DC "Incompetents" For NYC Terror Cuts And Not Republican Leaders...
09.Jun.2006 System Pulls Answers From Online Conversations By Identifying The Alpha Chatterers (Science Daily)
09.Jun.2006 Retirement Account For DeLay's Wife Traced To Lobbyist Free Internet Press - Retirement Account For DeLay's Wife Traced To Lobbyist
09.Jun.2006 The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed
The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew + the world soon learned, the charge was false.

Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House
09.Jun.2006 Making the Case
Like the author of this blog, I regularly review all the evidence about 9/11 in my mind, looking for weaknesses in the case that it was an inside job.

At the end of each exercise I come away with the absolute certainty, stronger each time, that it was in fact an inside job.

The evidence is not only overwhelming in detail but perfect in its consistency. To hear the official story is to laugh.
09.Jun.2006 America Freedom To Fascism
CBS News Says: "FOUR STARS" (Highest Rating).The scariest film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling.

Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered.
09.Jun.2006 Canada Terror Plot Grows More Absurd
Bloglines Another Day in the Empire Canada Terror Plot Grows More AbsurdBy Administrator on Uncategorized Bizarre is the only way to explain it. “One member of an alleged al Qaeda-inspired terror ring arrested in Canada last weekend faces the accusation that he sought to behead Prime Minister Stephen Harper,” reports SwissInfo.
09.Jun.2006 Governor's Press Secretary Quits After Dropping 'F Bomb'
Governor's Press Secretary Quits After Dropping 'F Bomb'
09.Jun.2006 RCMP Changes Fertilizer Story
Bloglines Another Day in the Empire RCMP Changes Fertilizer StoryBy Administrator on Uncategorized Now, instead of securing the purchase of three tons of ammonium nitrate for the alleged Ontario terrorists, the cops in Canada “learned of the alleged purchase and intervened, switching the fertilizer, which can be used to make a bomb… [of the
09.Jun.2006 Sploid: 45% doubt 9/11 story Sploid: 45% doubt 9/11 story
09.Jun.2006 Self Assessment Proves Unreliable Again...(K. Harris in FL)
Katherine Harris Won't 'Kowtow' to GOP Leaders NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, June 6, 2006 WEST PALM BEACH -- Katherine Harris thinks she knows why she's been shunned by her party leadership and shirked by big donors + it has nothing to do with political platforms. "Perhaps in some elite circles, the reason I have not gotten more support...is because they don't believe I can be controlled,"
09.Jun.2006 The Raw Story | In new book, White House reporter Helen Thomas calls Bush press secretaries 'robots' 'spouting nonsense'
The Raw Story | In new book, White House reporter Helen Thomas calls Bush press secretaries 'robots' 'spouting nonsense'
09.Jun.2006 Pleiten, Pech und Pannen? sfux 
Karl Weiss - Nun steht endgültig fest, daß der BND bereits früh von der Verschleppung des deutschen Staatsbürgers Al Masri wußte, aber bewußt nichts unternommen hat. Aus US-Quellen war die Entführung als ?Irrtum" bezeichnet worden. Als aber Al Masri gegen die Verantwortlichen des ?Irrtum" in den USA klagen wollte, wurde seine Klage nicht angenommen, denn es seien ?Sicherheitsinteressen des Staates" betroffen.
09.Jun.2006 Außerirdische fordern Beschneidung sfux Harald Haack ? Glaubt man der Bibel, so sind sie längst unter uns Menschen: Die Außerirdischen.

Seit mehr als zweitausend Jahren treiben sie Menschen in den Wahn. Nun fordern deren Famuli die Beschneidung der freien Meinungsäußerung.
09.Jun.2006 Der LBB-Skandal in Berlin sfux 
Karl Weiss - Der Untersuchungsausschuß des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses über den Skandal ?Landes-Bank Berlin"(LBB) sollte am Freitag vorgelegt werden.

In einem Vorabbericht hebt die ?Wirtschaftswoche" hervor, daß dort steht, die Politik, so der damalige CDU-Wirtschafts-Senator und andere, wußten sehr wohl, was sie da anstellten.

Der Sonderprüfungsbericht einer Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft von Anfang 1998 war dem Senat bekannt, der die Risiken der folgenschweren Fonds-Geschäfte...
09.Jun.2006 Kommt jetzt der Hedge-Fond-Crash? sfux 
Karl Weiss - Die Europäische Zentralbank (EZB), sonst sehr vorsichtig mit Vorhersagen, hat jetzt in einem Finanz-Bericht ausdrücklich vor einem Finanzcrash gewarnt, der von dem Zusammenbruch eines großen Hedge-Fonds ausgehen könnte. Damit würde sich bereits das zweite wesentliche Ereignis der Vor-Krisen-Entwicklung von 1998 wiederholen.
Die EZB warnt, es drohe durch “ den Kollaps eines großen Hedge-Fonds oder mehrerer kleiner Fonds" zu “ ungeordneten...
09.Jun.2006 Schweizer UMTS-Studie eine Posse sfux 
Harald Haack ? Die Mobilfunkindustrie und Mobilfunkbetreiber finden immer wieder Möglichkeiten, sich aus der Verantwortung zu stehlen.

00.000.2003 Obwohl eine- publizierte- niederländische Studie ergeben hatte, dass es bei Betrieb von UMTS-Sendeantennen aufgrund der Strahlung zu Gesundheitsbeeinträchtigungen bei in der Nähe solcher Antennen wohnender Menschen gibt, negiert eine Studie der Universitäten...
09.Jun.2006 Kuba und Bolivien helfen sich sfux Von Karl Weiss -

20 Krankenhäuser in Bolivien werden mit kubanischer Hilfe gebaut und ausgestattet.

Dies haben die beiden Regierungen Fidel Castros und der neue bolivianische Präsident Evo Morales vereinbart.

Zur Einweihung des ersten der Krankenhäuser in Escoma, nahe der peruanischen Grenze und des Titicacasees, kam der kubanische Botschafter.

Kuba wird Bolivien helfen, ein soziales Versorgungs- und Bildungssystem aufzubauen. Bolivien will dafür mit Erdgas bezahlen.
09.Jun.2006 National survey shows President Bush may be witnessing the collapse of his presidency
The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center finds that President Bush's support among the American people has fallen to 33%.

Even more devastatingly, the survey finds that people's most frequently used one-word description of President Bush is "incompetent."
09.Jun.2006 Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group Paul Joseph Watson Alex Jones Detained On Orders Of Bilderberg Group 15 hours of hell at the hands of immigration who knew they were coming
09.Jun.2006 Pentagon Jettisons US Agent Provocateur Al-Zarqawi Paul Joseph Watson Pentagon Jettisons US Agent Provocateur Al-Zarqawi Musab dies for the umpteenth time but this time its for real says the US government!
09.Jun.2006 Toronto Terrorist Ringleader Has Military Connections Paul Joseph Watson Toronto Terrorist Ringleader Has Military Connections Media frenzy over terror plot distracts from Bilderberg Group conference
09.Jun.2006 Mixed Media Reaction To Chicago Conference Shows Progress Paul Joseph Watson Mixed Media Reaction To Chicago Conference Shows Progress Reasonably balanced New York Times piece, Neo-Con blogs attack
09.Jun.2006 Toronto Star: 'Perhaps Toronto 17 Not Terrorists At All' Paul Joseph Watson Toronto Star: 'Perhaps Toronto 17 Not Terrorists At All'
09.Jun.2006 Canadian 'Terror Plot' Begins To Unravel Paul Joseph Watson Canadian 'Terror Plot' Begins To Unravel Terrorists set up in sting operation, more on unfounded London raid
09.Jun.2006 VIDEO: Hugo Chavez Rede in Wien ctv-net.org Die komplette Rede vom Hugo Chavez Auftritt, welche er vor mehr als 5000 Jugendlichen im Veranstaltungszentrum Arena Wien gehalten hat im Zuge des EU- Lateinamerika Gipfels.
09.Jun.2006 Cafe search after terror arrests Detectives search an internet cafe in Bradford, following two arrests under terrorism laws.
09.Jun.2006 Silicon Valley, Greenpeace co-founder say yes to nuclear Despite its unpopularity, a Valley venture capitalist says nuclear power deserves another look + a Greenpeace co-founder agrees.
09.Jun.2006 Net neutrality showdown Network operators want to charge Net content providers for enhanced services, but critics say regulations are needed to prevent abuse.
09.Jun.2006 New Net neutrality plan may ruffle feathers Google, Yahoo + Microsoft want to regulate broadband providers, but they won't like those rules being applied to them.
09.Jun.2006 House rejects Net neutrality rules House of Representatives sides with broadband providers like Verizon and AT&T over Internet companies.
09.Jun.2006 House panel OKs digital licensing bill Critics say complex copyright proposal could erode fair use rights and set a precedent that threatens devices like TiVo.
09.Jun.2006 No Tolls on The Internet Congress is about to cast a historic vote on the future of the Internet.

It will decide whether the Internet remains a free + open technology fostering innovation, economic growth + democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable + phone companies that can put toll booths...
09.Jun.2006 Microsoft Admits WGA Phones Home Microsoft acknowledged reports Wednesday that its latest update to Windows Genuine Advantage, an anti-piracy program implemented to detect counterfeit copies of Windows XP, phones home to the Redmond company on a daily basis.
09.Jun.2006 Republican Assures The Public Bush Can Follow A Discussion Uncle Dave Republican assures public Bush not asleep, brain dead, etc during meeting. Public elated.
09.Jun.2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Dead? Was He Ever Alive? John C Dvorak The straw man is dead. Long live the next straw man.
09.Jun.2006 China 'blocks' main Google site Chinese authorities have blocked most domestic users from the main Google.com search engine, a media watchdog said. Internet users in major Chinese cities faced difficulties accessing Google's international site in the past week, Reporters Without Borders said.
09.Jun.2006 Microsoft: Oops, We Forgot to Mention, WGA Calls Home Daily Steven Parker Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker. The company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to allow ...
09.Jun.2006 Net Neutrality The Internet as we know it is facing a serious threat. There's a debate heating up in Washington, DC on something called "net neutrality" – and it's a debate that's so important Google is asking you to get involved. We're asking you to take action to protect Internet freedom. In ...
09.Jun.2006 A tragic day for America Jeff Jarvis The House has now passed the indecent indecency bill. We are the only nation with a First Amendment. In a time when speech is being attacked in China — with help from American corporations — and across the Middle East and in Russia and in too many places to name, we should be standing ...
09.Jun.2006 WP: Data theft hit active military Social Security numbers and other personal information for as many as 2.2 million U.S. military personnel — including nearly 80 % of the active-duty force — were among the data stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs analyst last month, federal officials said yesterday ...
09.Jun.2006 Amnesty's Amazing Ads Jason Amnesty International launched a new ad campaign that is incredibly creative and powerful. The tagline is “It’s not happening here but it’s happening now” which is hammered home with these transparent ads . The ads “transport” issues in countries like Iraq, ...
09.Jun.2006 Australian rocks may be fossils of earliest life forms, say scientists
SYDNEY: Scientists are completely foxed about a cluster of odd-shaped rocks found in Australia's Pilbara region. Some are shaped like egg-cartons while some resemble ice-cream cones turned upside down. The shapes have for long intrigued scientists about whether they are fossilized remnants of microbial colonies or were they caused by geological activity. However a group of scientists who recently completed a new analysis said the rocks were caused by colonies of microorganisms capturing and sticking grains of sand and sediment.
09.Jun.2006 Argentina bids to halt pulp mills Argentina asks the top UN court to order Uruguay to stop building two paper mills it says will pollute their border.
09.Jun.2006 White House sees faster US growth White House advisers expect the US to grow more quickly this year, but warn that inflation will also accelerate.
09.Jun.2006 Chinese ban Da Vinci Code movie China orders cinemas to stop showing The Da Vinci Code, weeks after it was released in the country.
09.Jun.2006 BP faces Alaska oil spill probe UK oil giant BP could face criminal charges over an oil spill in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay in March.
09.Jun.2006 Oil prices fall on Zarqawi death The death of Iraqi militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi drives world oil prices below $70 a barrel.
09.Jun.2006 Zarqawi death 'good news' - Blair The death of militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq is "very good news", Tony Blair tells his Cabinet.
09.Jun.2006 UK appoints 'climate ambassador' The UK government appoints an envoy to build international partnerships to tackle climate change.
09.Jun.2006 Secret CIA jail claims rejected The US joins European nations in attacking a report accusing them of colluding over CIA flights.
09.Jun.2006 Senate blocks gay marriage ban The US Senate blocks a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, backed by the president.
09.Jun.2006 Powder thrown outside Commons The House of Commons re-opens after being locked down, after powder was thrown around in the building's central lobby.
09.Jun.2006 Timber trader guilty over Liberia A Dutch court sentences a businessman to eight years in jail for breaking a UN arms embargo on Liberia.
09.Jun.2006 US military victims of data theft Stolen data on 26 million US veterans also included information about millions on active duty, officials say.
09.Jun.2006 Portugal starts huge solar plant Construction work begins in southern Portugal on what is set to be the world's largest solar power station.
09.Jun.2006 Oil falls after Iran nuclear move Oil prices fall after Iran reacts more positively than expected to international proposals for limiting its nuclear growth.
09.Jun.2006 UK 'colluded in terror flights' The UK helped the US fly terror suspects to secret jails, Europe's leading human rights watchdog says.
09.Jun.2006 China 'blocks' main Google site Google's troubles in China continue as authorities reportedly block its English-language site.
09.Jun.2006 Namibia suffers polio 'setback' Namibia announces that it is suffering from its first polio outbreak in over a decade, with seven deaths in recent weeks.
09.Jun.2006 Paper Is the New Silicon Election officials could learn something from the nuclear missile technology of the Cold War,where punch-tape storage + purely mechanical devices were preferred over hackable electronics
09.Jun.2006 Judge Will Review Secret Spy Docs In a blow to the EFF, the judge overseeing the group's surveillance lawsuit against AT&T will review the government's classified evidence that the case must be dismissed to preserve national security.
09.Jun.2006 Lessig On Free Content, Copyright Zonk 73Glyn Moody writes

"In an interview with the Guardian, Lawrence Lessig explains exactly how he'd like copyright reformed + has this to say about free content: 'I think it's going to be a more significant movement than the free software movement because whatever the importance of the freedom of coders, coders will still be just a tiny proportion of the public, but culture is ... much broader.'"
09.Jun.2006 Eric Schmidt on Net Neutrality Zonk 217GillBates0 writes

"Google's CEO Eric Schmidt has written an open letter to the Google user community asking them to speak out on the issue of net neutrality. The official Google Blog has a blurb on this as well. From the letter: 'In the next few days, the House of Representatives is going to vote on a bill that would fundamentally alter the Internet. That bill + one that may come up for a key vote in the Senate in the next few weeks, would give the big phone and cable companies the power to pick and choose what you will be able to see and do on the Internet ... Creativity, innovation and a free and open marketplace are all at stake in this fight.'"
09.Jun.2006 ITMS Faces Complaint From Norwegian Ombudsman timothy 128+Whiney Mac Fanboy writes

"Following the French Bill that threatened Apple's iTunes service in France, the iTunes music store is facing more uncertainty in Scandinavia. According to a report in Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, Norway's Consumer Ombudsman has filed a complaint with Apple's music download sales service iTunes, arguing that the transaction terms violate Norwegian law. The Register is also reporting this story:, saying a contract cannot be regulated by English law, rather than Norwegian law, so iTunes must accept responsibility for damage its software may do + said it is unreasonable to alter terms and conditions after a song has been sold. Consumer Council told the Reg: 'The Consumer Council has asked Apple to respond as to whether iTunes should work on other platforms - they have until 21 June to respond. After that the Ombudsman is likely to set another deadline and then start fining the company.' The BPI (Britain's RIAA equivalent) has also called upon Apple to license Fairplay."
09.Jun.2006 Microsoft Talks Daily With Your Computer samzenpus 549+

"Microsoft Corp. acknowledged Wednesday that it needs to better inform users that its tool for determining whether a computer is running a pirated copy of Windows also quietly checks in daily with the software maker. The company said the undisclosed daily check is a safety measure designed to allow the tool, called Windows Genuine Advantage, to quickly shut down in case of a malfunction." The EULA is suppose to disclose this daily call-in feature. Lauren Weinstein, who is co-founder of People for Internet Responsibility, was one of the first people to notice the daily communications to Microsoft. Report from Yahoo.com"
09.Jun.2006 3D Human Cells Grown ScuttleMonkey 108+ SR_melb writes that

Melbourn researchers have, for the first time, managed to grow three dimensional human cells. This bypasses previous achievements of only being able to create two-dimensional constructions like skin. From the article: "Professor Wayne Morrison, from Melbourne's Bernard O'Brien Institute of Microsurgery has led the breakthrough. He says it's a world first and predicts the discovery will ultimately lead to the creation of human organs, including parts of the heart, by using the patients' own stem cells. Such a scenario, says Professor Morrison, would reduce the problem of immune rejection which is often associated with organ transplants."
09.Jun.2006 DRM and Democracy ScuttleMonkey 166+
jar Bruce Perens has a short editorial on why DRM could have an impact on much more than just our record collections. From the article: "Within the last century, electronic communications have increasingly become the vehicle of democratic discourse. Because radio and television broadcasting are expensive with limited frequencies available, the wealthy have dominated broadcasting. The Internet and World Wide Web place into the common man's hands the capability of global electronic broadcasting. [...] In order to protect democratic discourse in the future, the Internet must remain a fair and level playing field for the distribution of political speech. The full capability of the Internet must remain available to all, without restriction by religious, business, or political interests."
09.Jun.2006 Making Science Machine Readable ScuttleMonkey 109+holy_calamity writes

"New Scientist is reporting on a new open source tool for writing up scientific experiments for computers, not humans. Called EXPO, it avoids the many problems computers have with natural language + can be applied to any experiment, from physics to biology. It could at last let computers do real science - looking at published results and theories for new links and directions."
09.Jun.2006 US Service Personnel Data Stolen samzenpus 287+BStrunk writes

"I was reading the news this morning on Reuters, when I stumbled across this article: US Service Personnel Personal Data Stolen In the article, an official violated policy by taking the detailed personal information of thousands of active and reserve troops to his personal home, storing it on a personal computer, that was later stolen. In an age where domestic phone calls are monitored, a government employee was allowed to walk out of a government installation with the data on thousands of American citizens to store on an insecure personal computer? Doesn't that seem strange to you. This is a real failure, in my opinion, in government protection of its citizens. Layers of encryption and protected access was successfully bypassed to make the theft of this information as simple as stealing a home pc. Now, not only do service personnel currently serving have to worry about IEDs and being fired upon, but they are now subject to possible identity theft. A real failure. After this, how could one have faith enough to serve an inept institution?"
09.Jun.2006 Scientists probe 2,000-year-old Greek computer  'Antikythera Mechanism' may be planetary calculator.

See also: Antikythera Mechanism: World's Oldest Computer? And Ancient 'computer' starts to yield secrets And X-Tek inspects ancient computer
09.Jun.2006 The Case of the Missing $21 Billion  Who's Following the Iraq Money?
09.Jun.2006 Quarrying threatens Shaolin Temple area  Overzealous quarrying in the Songshan Mountains has endangered the environment in the area that is home to the Shaolin Temple, the spiritual home of kung fu.
09.Jun.2006 Washington fury over UN attack on Bush 'hypocrites' : The deputy secretary-general of the UN was last night accused of making "a very, very grave mistake" after calling the Bush administration hypocrites who were feeding a right-wing anti-UN frenzy in middle America.

09.Jun.2006 US infuriated by UN official's speech : The USA demanded Wednesday that U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan repudiate a speech in which his No. 2 official broke with tradition and accused the USA of undermining the United Nations.

09.Jun.2006 Scepticism expressed over Canadian terrorist plot : The Canadian terrorist conspiracy should be “treated with the utmost caution and a large degree of scepticism”

09.Jun.2006 Daniel Ellsberg Interview: The day after the next 9/11 our freedoms are gone.

09.Jun.2006 From Freedom To Fascism :   The scariest goddamn film you'll see this year. It will leave you staggering out of the theatre, slack-jawed and trembling. Makes 'Fahrenheit 9/11' look like 'Bambi.' After watching this movie, your comfy, secure notions about America -- and about what it means to be an American -- will be forever shattered.
09.Jun.2006 Amnesty criticises US airstrikes in Pakistan : Amnesty International has expressed grave concerns over the USA’ targeting and killings of civilians inside Pakistan and the arrest, detention and disappearance of Pakistanis by their own government in the name of war on terror.

09.Jun.2006 Europe helped CIA run secret prisons: Probe: “It is now clear — although we are still far from having established the whole truth — that authorities in several European countries actively participated with the CIA in these unlawful activities,” said Marty.

09.Jun.2006 From logistics to turning a blind eye: Europe's role in terror abductions: The full extent of European collusion with the CIA during operations to abduct terrorism suspects and fly them to countries where they may be tortured is laid bare today by the continent's most authoritative human rights body.
09.Jun.2006 War pimp alert: Jewish leader in Germany calls Ahmadinejad 'second Hitler' : The newly elected leader of Germany's main Jewish organization said that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a "second Hitler" who should not be allowed to attend the World Cup, according to comments published Thursday.

09.Jun.2006 War pimp alert: Pro-Israel group pushes tough U.S. policy on Iran: As the Bush administration pursues sensitive diplomacy, the influential U.S. pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC has sent out a fundraising letter seeking support for a tough U.S. line against Iran's nuclear program.

09.Jun.2006 UN finds highly enriched uranium traces in Iran: IAEA : A senior UN official said Thursday the new traces of highly enriched uranium that had been found were not of a high enough quality to make weapons.

09.Jun.2006 Iran ready to discuss nuclear program, but not stop it: - President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Thursday that Iran was ready to discuss "mutual concerns" over his country's nuclear program, but he refused to first suspend uranium enrichment.

09.Jun.2006 Iran 'continuing enrichment work' : Iran slowed uranium enrichment in May but picked up the pace on the day it got an offer to abandon the work, a report by the UN nuclear agency shows.

09.Jun.2006 Bill Christison: War, War and More War is What Bush Really Wants: We should - strongly reject any U.S.- or Israeli-initiated military actions or coup attempts against Iran. The consequence of such actions would almost certainly be a new world war.
09.Jun.2006 House Panel Approves $50B More for Wars: On a voice vote, the House defense appropriations subcommittee passed a $427 billion measure for the Pentagon budget year that begins Oct. 1, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

09.Jun.2006 The Case of the Missing $21 Billion: Who's Following the Iraq Money?

09.Jun.2006 Iraq War: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush : Media Critic Eric Boehlert Takes on the Corporate Media

09.Jun.2006 Army has to turn over Halliburton docs: A U.S. district court judge has ordered the Army to release 14 documents, including six emails, dealing with the Halliburton oil contract in Iraq.
09.Jun.2006 Poll: U.S. disapproves of war in Iraq: The poll, found that 59 % of adults say the USA made a mistake in going to war in Iraq - the highest level yet in AP-Ipsos polling.
09.Jun.2006 Iraq Al-Qaeda chief Zarqawi killed in air strike: The US military said Zarqawi was killed in an air strike on a safe house north of Baghdad where he was holding a meeting with fellow militants, ending years of hunting for the country's most wanted -- and elusive -- fugitive.

09.Jun.2006 U.S. shows video of Zarqawi killing : A new video shows U.S. warplanes carrying out an air strike on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al Qaeda leader in Iraq.

09.Jun.2006 Father of beheaded man blames Bush, not Zarqawi: Asked what would give him satisfaction, Berg, an anti-war activist and candidate for U.S. Congress, said, "The end of the war and getting rid of George Bush."

09.Jun.2006 Audio: Will Al-Zarqawi's Death Fuel the Insurgency or Diminish It?: We speak with Robert Fisk, chief Middle East correspondent of the London Independent and Loretta Napoleoni, author of "Insurgent Iraq: Al Zarqawi and the New Generation."

09.Jun.2006 Chris Floyd: Hubub in Hibhib: The Timely Death of al-Zarqawi : Zarqawi, was head of an organization that quite fortuitously dubbed itself "Al Qaeda in Iraq" just around the time that the Bush Administration began changing its pretext for the conquest from "eliminating Iraq's [non-existent] weapons of mass destruction" to "fighting terrorists over there so we don't have to fight them over here."
09.Jun.2006 Other People's Blood By BOB HERBERT
For the smug, comfortable, well-off Americans, it doesn't seem to matter how long the war in Iraq goes on - as long as the agony is endured by others. If the network coverage gets too grim, viewers can always switch to the E! channel (one hand on the remote, the other burrowing into a bag of chips) to follow the hilarious antics of Paris, Britney, Brangelina et al. Continue

09.Jun.2006 Caped Crusaders in a Comic Book War By Jerry Ghinelli

Fresh + well-rested after their year-long vacation, our valiant crusaders—oil executives by day, freedom fighters by night—return to the world stage once again as Batman + Robin: The Caped Crusaders in a Comic Book War. Continue
09.Jun.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/} Faking it - I encourage readers to take a look at Dr. Michael Carmichael's "A New Perle Harbor."

Here's an excerpt: [Former CIA analyst Ray] McGovern predicted dire consequences would result from Bush’s policy of pre-emptive war.

In McGovern’s opinion, Iran would retaliate with a cruise missile attack against the US fleet then launch a military invasion of Iraq + simultaneously activate a world wide ring of terrorists that would make Al-Qaeda look like, “a girls netball team.”
McGovern’s predictions may be unfolding already. The London police raid that coincided with Perle’s visit to Britain netted two men suspected of terrorist plotting to build a massive chemical bomb. But, after four days of excruciating forensic examination of their premises, the police found no evidence of bomb-building activities. Whether this “swoop” was staged or not remains to be seen, but this episode resonates with an official campaign to ratchet up the public concern about terrorism. The non-productive raid has produced a predictable backlash among the local residents who are demanding some form of official confirmation that the raid was based on credible evidence rather than a melange of Islamophobic paranoia. These words deserve consideration in conjunction with this piece in the Toronto Star on the much-ballyhooed Canadian terror ring: Or it is possible that the only thing that these bits of evidence prove is that a group of young men went somewhere where they tramped around in big boots, cooked on barbecues, played soldier and generally acted like jerks — which young men are occasionally wont to do.
The three tonnes of ammonium nitrate allegedly purchased was, as McDonell said, three times the amount used in the Oklahoma terror bombing of 1995.
But, as he also said, farmers routinely buy three tonnes of ammonium nitrate "every day." They use it for fertilizer, not bombs. More: Another is that this is a reprise of the infamous 2003 Project Thread fiasco, in which RCMP and immigration officials accused 23 Muslims of terrorism only to acknowledge later that at most the men were guilty of minor immigration fraud.
Still another possibility is that this may turn out to be Canada's version of the 2004 Virginia "paintball" trial, in which one man was sentenced to life and another got 85 years.
In that controversial case (even the presiding judge complained the outcome was unfair), nine Muslim men were convicted of participating in terrorist training — the main evidence being that they had played paintball in the woods outside Washington. Xymphora quotes a National Post story (which is otherwise difficult to access) which states that the CSIS (the Canadian security guys) have been watching these twelve men and five lads for some time. Police investigators have suggested this group posed an imminent threat to national security, but there are questions being raised about how dangerous the group could have been if CSIS had known about it and was watching it so closely for so long.” Mr. X goes on to add: It is becoming obvious that CSIS found a hot-headed leader + took its time to cultivate the leader and his ‘cell’, probably through guidance from an insider informant who carefully developed all most the radical ideas, up to and including the RCMP-supplied fertilizer. The reason CSIS didn’t act more quickly is that it needed to build up the group to the extent where it could use it to form the basis for requests for more money and power. It is completely ridiculous to believe that the group wasn’t aware that it was being watched, since the Muslim community was completely aware. What kind of group carries on its activities knowing it is being watched by the police? The kind of group that knows it is doing nothing wrong. So far, I find this theory less than convincing. But I'm willing to consider the possibility that it may be true + I hope other minds will be open to the notion. Let's see how the evidence develops. Permalink
09.Jun.2006 Anthony Sutton Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler www.Artfond. de ... (von links nach rechts: Winston Churchill, Averell Harriman , "Uncle Joe" Stalin) ...

Draper arbeitet später mit Averell Harriman für die NATO, ... www.artfond.de/wallstreet.htm
09.Jun.2006 Präsidentenwahl in USA: Bush oder Kerry? 20.Mai 2004 ...

Während sich Averell Harriman um die “Verbesserung der menschlichen »Rasse«” kümmerte, arbeitete ein anderer »Skull and Bones«-Patriarch an der Beeinflussung ... _{www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/frieden/regionen/USA/ploppa2.html}
09.Jun.2006 Averell Harriman - Wikipedia Averell Harriman war der Sohn des Eisenbahnmoguls Edward Henry Harriman + Mary Williamson Averell , Bruder von E. Roland Harriman. _{de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averell_Harriman} 09.Jun.2006 Umstrittene Rede: Rice kritisiert Uno- Spitze

DONNERSTAG, 08. JUNI 2006
09.Jun.2006 Börsendebakel: Dax rutscht unter 5400 Punkte
09.Jun.2006 US- Reaktionen auf Sarkawis Tod: "Dies ist Wendepunkt Nr. 697"
09.Jun.2006 Atomstreit: Inspektoren werfen Iran mangelnde Kooperation vor
09.Jun.2006 Sarkawis Tötung: Bush ist stolz auf die US- Soldaten
09.Jun.2006 Geisterschiffe vor Guinea: Wo Piratenfischer ums Überleben kämpfen
09.Jun.2006 Tod eines Terror- Chefs: Der Angriff auf Sarkawi
09.Jun.2006 Zukunft des Terrors: "Wir sind Sarkawi"
09.Jun.2006 Reaktionen auf Sarkawis Tod: "Möge er in der Hölle schmoren"
09.Jun.2006 Irak: Bush erfreut über Sarkawis Tod
09.Jun.2006 Zitate von Sarkawi: "Solange unsere Herzen schlagen, wird Bush keinen Frieden haben"
09.Jun.2006 Somalia: US- Diplomaten kritisieren CIA- Hilfe für Warlords
09.Jun.2006 Bündnisstrategie: Nato will mehrere Kriege gleichzeitig führen können
09.Jun.2006 Wiederentdeckung: Es gibt den Rekord- Tausendfüßler doch

09.Jun.2006 Teurere Kredite: EZB schraubt Leitzins auf Drei- Jahres- Hoch
09.Jun.2006 Tod des Terrorführers: Bin Ladens blutrünstiger Gehilfe
09.Jun.2006 Irak: Al- Qaida bestätigt Tod von Sarkawi
09.Jun.2006 Vulkan Merapi: Tausende fliehen vor gigantischer Glutwolke
09.Jun.2006 Radar- Satellit: "Cloudsat" zeigt Wolken von Innen
09.Jun.2006 Märkte: Ölpreis fällt nach Sarkawi- Tod, Dollar steigt
09.Jun.2006 Iran: Ahmadinedschad will über Atomprogramm verhandeln
09.Jun.2006 Fossilien- Streit: Versteinerungen in Australien als ältestes Leben
09.Jun.2006 Mutmaßliches Massaker: Neue Bilder aus Haditha belasten Marines
09.Jun.2006 Großbritannien: Parlament wegen Anthrax- Alarms geschlossen
08.Jun.2006 Haditha- Massaker: US- Soldaten verweisen wohl auf Gefechts- Chaos
07.Jun.2006 Europe colluded in CIA prisoner "spider's web": More than 20 states colluded in a "global spider's web" of secret CIA prisons + transfers of terrorism suspects stretching from Central Asia to Guantanamo Bay, a European rights watchdog said in a report on Wednesday.

07.Jun.2006 Europe 'aided US in CIA flights' : "...Spain, Turkey, Germany and Cyprus provided "staging posts" for rendition operations, while the UK, Portugal, Ireland and Greece were "stop-off points", the report says.

07.Jun.2006 Rendition 'massively damaging' to counter-terrorism effort : The British government's apparent support of CIA rendition flights is "massively damaging" in the battle against international terrorism, a former Foreign Office minister said today.

07.Jun.2006 Inventing Al-Zarqawi: How a video-store clerk and small-time crook became America’s nemesis in Iraq

07.Jun.2006 U.S. taxpayers financed human trafficking, report says: For the first time since Congress mandated its annual publication, a State Department report cataloging human trafficking across the globe includes allegations that American taxpayers financed such abuses.

07.Jun.2006 Documents Shed Light on CIA's Use of Ex-Nazis : The Central Intelligence Agency took no action after learning the pseudonym and whereabouts of the fugitive Holocaust overseer Adolf Eichmann in 1958, according to CIA documents that shed new light on the spy agency's use of former Nazis as informers after World War II.
07.Jun.2006 New U.S. rules allow force-feeding at Guantanamo : The U.S. military issued medical guidelines Tuesday for the treatment of prisoners, formally directing doctors at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere to force-feed hunger strikers whose lives are in danger and granting doctors a limited role in interrogations.

07.Jun.2006 Physicians for Human Rights Condem New Rules: The guidelines released on Tuesday, which the military said formalise existing rules and policies, drew criticism from a human rights group that said the military should not interfere with detainees who use hunger strikes as a protest and should bar experts in psychology from having any role during interrogations.

07.Jun.2006 Worse Than Iraq?: Nigeria's president and onetime hope for a stable future is leading his country toward implosion—and possible U.S. military intervention
07.Jun.2006 Why the Boycott of Israel is Justified: The recent boycott resolutions of CUPE and NATFHE against Israel’s Apartheid predictably awakened Israel’s willing apologists, initiating a high pitched chorus of condemnation and self pity across the Western media, not to mention the blogosphere
07.Jun.2006 Britain is the fall guy for the US retreat from Afghanistan : The attempt to assert Kabul's control over the country will fail - and our anti-Taliban mission is little short of suicidal

07.Jun.2006 Blair is only as guilty as the party that puts up with him : The question is not why the prime minister has drifted so far to the right, but why Labour MPs have followed him

07.Jun.2006 Respect urges Muslims to end police co-operation : Muslims in east London should withdraw co-operation with the police in the wake of last week's terror raid in which a man was shot, a Respect party activist has said.

07.Jun.2006 Gwynne Dyer: Terrorism: How Canada Reacted to Sikhs in 1985 Is Still Relevant : Any terrorist attack on Canada is bound to be homegrown, because there is no shadowy but powerful network of international terrorists waging a war against the West.

07.Jun.2006 Iran: New Nuclear Offer Needs Clarification: "The proposals contain a number of positive aspects, but some issues need clarification," an Iranian television channel quoted Ali Larijani as saying.

07.Jun.2006 Israel destroys 3 generations of Palestinian family :

The Amen family's joyful trip in a new car came to a devastating end last month when an Israeli missile aimed at a Palestinian militant hit their Mitsubishi by mistake.

07.Jun.2006 IOF kills Palestinian policeman: The men hit by IOF gunfire in northern Gaza, which the army claimed were plotting a terror attack, were Palestinian security forces.

The name of the man killed is Khadar Qasam, 23.
07.Jun.2006 'U.S. Military Hides Many More Hadithas' : In Haditha itself, he said, the U.S. military cut electricity and water to the entire city, attacked the hospital and burned the pharmacy.

07.Jun.2006 Italian forces to leave Iraq by December : The new Italian administration today confirmed all Italian troops would withdraw from Iraq by the end of the year.

07.Jun.2006 Philippine Mercenaries Being Recruited by US Company: A US outfit, Blackwater, has set up shop at the Subic Freeport + is now recruiting active and retired soldiers, preferably combat veterans, to help fight America’s war against Iraq.

07.Jun.2006 Officer at Fort Lewis calls Iraq war illegal, refuses order to go : In January, Watada told his commanders that he believed that the war was unlawful + therefore, so were his deployment orders. He did not, however, consider himself a conscientious objector, since he was willing to fight in wars that were justified, legal and in defense of the nation.

07.Jun.2006 Charley Reese: What Is The Mission? : he Iraqis are a fierce people. No elf is going to sprinkle fairy dust on them and make them fall in love with us. Why should they?

We destroyed their country + caused the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children just with the sanctions, not counting the thousands we've killed since then.

07.Jun.2006 U.S./UK Bases In Iraq: “It is important to remember, at this point, that the UN Security Council "mandate" for the occupation troops in Iraq ended by the end of 2005.

Apart from ex-prime minister Jafari's "invitation", they do not have any "legal" cover to stay.”

07.Jun.2006 Britons begin to turn away from alliance with America: Fewer than half the public believe that America is a force for good in the world + nearly two thirds believe that Britain’s future lies more with Europe than with the US.
07.Jun.2006 Baghdad has bloodiest month as 1,400 targeted killings add to toll : Nearly 1,400 Iraqi civilians were murdered in targeted killings last month in Baghdad alone + many more died in indiscriminate bomb blasts, making May the bloodiest month in the capital since the war began, Iraq's health ministry said yesterday.

07.Jun.2006 US troops accused of new murders in Iraq : In the latest in a string of allegations against US forces, Juburi said 29 Iraqis were killed in May in separate incidents in the towns of Latifiyah and Yusifiyah, south of Baghdad + in the capital itself
07.Jun.2006 The War They Wanted, The Lies They Needed By Craig Unger
The Bush administration invaded Iraq claiming Saddam Hussein had tried to buy yellowcake uranium in Niger. As much of Washington knew + the world soon learned, the charge was false. Worse, it appears to have been the cornerstone of a highly successful "black propaganda" campaign with links to the White House. Continue 

07.Jun.2006 The Last Taboo By John Pilger
'It's painful to acknowledge, but it really is quite simple,' he said. 'There is no basic moral difference between the soldier at the checkpoint who prevents a woman who is having a baby from going through, causing her to lose the baby + the man who killed my daughter. And just as my daughter was a victim [of the occupation], so was he.' Continue

07.Jun.2006 1927 Again By Greg Palast.
Huey Long was our Hugo Chávez + he laid out a plan: a progressive income tax, real money for education, public works to rebuild Louisiana and America, Social Security old age pensions, veterans' benefits, regulation of the big utility holding companies, an end to what he called, "rich men's wars," and an end to the financial royalism of the One % . Continue 
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-420137,00.html Royal Dutch Shell: Weniger Öl, mehr Gewinn
https://www.manager- magazin.de/geld/artikel/0,2828,414424,00.html Exxon Mobil: Maßlose Börse
https://www.manager- magazin.de/geld/artikel/0,2828,413338,00.html
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-420137,00.html

Finanzakrobaten als Ölpreistreiber

Den Vorwurf, dass Ölmultis wie ExxonMobil nicht frühzeitig in neue Förderkapazitäten investiert und damit den Preisanstieg unterstützt hätten, weist Schult Bornemann zurück. Lediglich 15 Prozent der Weltölförderung gehe auf die zehn größten privaten Ölgesellschaften zurück. Die Ölindustrie habe auch keineswegs durch eine Verknappung der Raffineriekapazitäten den Preisanstieg gefördert. Die Kapazitäten seien statt dessen im vergangenen Jahr um 3,1 Prozent auf einen Wert von 4,3 Milliarden Tonnen ausgeweitet worden.

Als gewichtigen Treiber des Ölpreises macht der ExxonMobil Experte stattdessen den Finanzsektor aus. Er erinnert an Schätzungen, dass 20 bis 25 Dollar je Barrel von den derzeitigen Notierungen um 72 Dollar auf spekulatives Kapital zurückzuführen seien. Fest steht für ihn zumindest, dass die Nachfrage allein den Preisanstieg nicht verursacht habe. Vielmehr sei in letzter Zeit eine Reihe von "vagabundierenden Geldmitteln" aus der Finanzindustrie in den Markt geflossen. Das müsse doch gesagt werden, wenn er schon mal in der Finanzmetropole Frankfurt sei.
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-420130,00.html

Zunächst hielt man die Funde für Reste von Jungtieren

Zunächst hielten Wissenschaftler die von mehr als elf Exemplaren stammenden Fossilien für die Überreste einer Gruppe von Jungtieren, die aus unbekannten Gründen zu Tode gekommen waren. Sander und seine Kollegen konnten nun mittels sogenannter Wachstumsmarken jedoch nachweisen, dass die Zwerge ausgewachsen waren.

Diese Marken zeigen ähnlich wie die Jahresringe eines Baumes die Wachstumsphasen des Tieres an. Liegen sie sehr nahe beieinander, ist das Wachstum abgeschlossen. Nach den Ergebnissen der Forscher müssen die Tiere zwischen 1,7 und 6,2 Meter lang gewesen sein - groß genug, um als Reproduktion im Dinopark Münchehagen noch recht eindrucksvoll auszusehen, aber winzig im Vergleich zur Brachio-Verwandschaft.
07.Jun.2006 Streit über Annans Vize: USA und Uno- Führung im Clinch
07.Jun.2006 Afghanistan: "Bundeswehr- Mandat überdenken"
07.Jun.2006 Atomstreit: USA bestehen auf Anreicherungsstopp Irans
07.Jun.2006 Sensationsfund: Die Minisaurier von Niedersachsen
07.Jun.2006 Ölmarkt: "Vagabundierendes Geld"
07.Jun.2006 US- Politik: Bush scheitert mit Verbot der Homo- Ehe

07.Jun.2006 Kriegsverbrecher: Eichmann und die Nazi- Helfer der CIA
07.Jun.2006 CIA- Bericht des Europarats: Opposition nimmt Steinmeier ins Visier
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/reise/aktuell/0,1518,druck-420072,00.html

Grandiose Leistung: Die französische Windsurferin Raphaëla Le Gouvello ist als erster Mensch ganz auf sich allein gestellt von Australien nach Afrika gesurft.

Heute wird sie auf einer Insel östlich von Madagaskar erwartet.

Saint-Denis-de-la-Réunion - Die 46-jährige Extremsportlerin soll nach 60 Tagen und etwa 6300 Kilometern heute auf der französischen Überseeinsel Réunion östlich von Madagaskar ankommen.

Bevölkerung und Behörden im Hafenort Le Port bereiten sich bereits aufwendig auf die Willkommensparty vor.
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-420019,00.html

Prähistorische Steinmalerei als Logbuch kosmischer Ereignisse - ein Astronom glaubt eine solche Überlieferung gefunden zu haben. Sie soll von einer Sternen-Explosion vor 1000 Jahren berichten.

Der Computer zeigt: Am Fundort war die Supernova tatsächlich zu sehen.

Sie erschien vor genau 1000 Jahren am Nachthimmel. In den letzten 5000 Jahren war keine Supernova so hell von der Erde aus zu sehen wie diese.

Nur schien in der ganzen westlichen Hemisphäre kein Gelehrter die Sternenexplosion aufgezeichnet zu haben.

Und aus dem mittelalterlichen Europa kennen Wissenschaftler bislang nur ein paar Hinweise aus Klöstern, etwa aus St. Gallen ("Ein neuer Stern von ungewöhnlichem Aussehen erschien."), auf den 01.Mai 1006 .
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-419979,00.html

Pilzkrankheit als Vorderfront des Artensterbens

Einige Wissenschaftler glauben, dass Amphibien die ersten Opfer einer neuen Sterbenwelle sind, die die schlimmste seit dem Verschwinden der Dinosaurier vor 65 Millionen Jahren werden könnte.

Gascon sagte, dass es unklar sei, ob die Frösche Chytridiomycosis widerstanden hätten, oder ob sie aus einer bislang nicht betroffenen Gegend kämen. Die Krankheit hatte noch 40 Kilometer vom jetzigen Fundort entfernt Frösche getötet.

Vom Artsterben beunruhigt wollen Amphibien-Experten nun mehr als 400 Millionen US-Dollar sammeln, um in der Gefangenschaft von Zoos oder Aquarien Zuchtbestände zu halten - so sind bereits 35 der bedrohten Arten gerettet worden. Wegen der grassierenden Pilzinfektion können derzeit aber keine Frösche in die freie Wildbahn zurückgebracht werden.

"Wir können die Krankheit in Gefangenschaft behandeln, aber Auswilderungsprogramme sind zum Scheitern verurteilt", sagte Joe Mendelson, ein Kurator im Zoo von Atlanta.

Er ist der Leiter der Amphibien-Spezialistengruppe der World Conservation Union. "Normalerweise geht es bei Fangprogrammen darum, die Populationen in der Wildnis zu stützen.

Wegen der Krankheit kann dies aber nicht funktionieren", sagte er. Durch Zucht in Gefangenschaft könne aber immerhin "Hunderten oder Tausenden von Arten geholfen werden".
07.Jun.2006 Simuliertes Universum: Dunkle Materie formte Struktur im All
07.Jun.2006 Weltall: Planeten- Kinderstube ohne Sonne
07.Jun.2006 Internet- Zensur in China: Google zeigt ein bisschen Reue
07.Jun.2006 Zuckerbrot: Iran soll Uran anreichern dürfen
07.Jun.2006 Astro- Indianer: Ur- Einwohner malten Supernova in Fels
07.Jun.2006 CIA- Flugaffäre: Europarat- Ermittler beschuldigt Deutschland
07.Jun.2006 Artenschutz: Seltene Frösche trotzen Killerpilz
07.Jun.2006 Arlen Specter Sells Out America Again, Reaches Deal With Cheney. Phone Companies Won't be Forced to Testify About Their Compliance with Illegal NSA Spying.
Block the Vote, Ohio Remix; "If there was ever a sign of a ruling party in trouble, it is a game plan that calls for trying to win by discouraging voting." The obviously corrupt Blackwell must be removed from the election process.

07.Jun.2006 The New Greg Palast Book, "Armed Madhouse," Available from BuzzFlash.com. Limited Number of Signed Copies.
Advance Orders for "Clueless George is Watching You," the Sequel to "Clueless George Goes to War."
The Senate voted down a constitutional ban on same-sex marriage on Wednesday, but Republicans planned a vote in the House of Representatives to keep a national spotlight on the hot-button issue. 6/8
The BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash Readers.

07.Jun.2006 Blockbuster: Vanity Fair writer Craig Unger interviews nine former intelligence and military officials who have served in the C.I.A., the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency + the Pentagon, all of whom say, on the record, that they believe the Niger documents were part of a campaign to deliberately mislead the American public.
Greg Palast: "Godless" is Gutless; A review of Ann Coulter's latest hate-filled tome and a debate challenge

07.Jun.2006 Greg Palast: Jim Crow Goes Digital, an excerpt from his new book, "Armed Madhouse" - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
In California, Republicans Cast a Vote for Corruption as Bilbray Appears to Have Defeated Strong Democratic Challenger Francine Busby
07.Jun.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/} The NYT scores the disgusting + corrupt Kenny "the kapo" Blackwell in an editorial this morning...

If there was ever a sign of a ruling party in trouble, it is a game plan that calls for trying to win by discouraging voting.
The latest sign that Republicans have an election-year strategy to shut down voter registration drives comes from Ohio.

As the state gears up for a very competitive election season this fall, its secretary of state, J. Kenneth Blackwell, has put in place "emergency" regulations that could hit voter registration workers with criminal penalties for perfectly legitimate registration practices. The rules are so draconian they could shut down registration drives in Ohio...

More: Mr. Blackwell and other politicians who insist on making it harder to vote never say, of course, that they are worried that get-out-the-vote drives will bring too many poor and minority voters into the system.

They say that they want to reduce fraud. However, there is virtually no evidence that registration drives are leading to fraud at the polls.
But there is one clear way that Ohio's election system is corrupt. Decisions about who can vote are being made by a candidate for governor.

Mr. Blackwell should hand over responsibility for elections to a decision maker whose only loyalty is to the voters and the law. Permalink
07.Jun.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/} Damn right Nancy Pelosi deserves the House Speaker's position. She comes from a productive part of the country.

Tom Delay, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Newt Gingrich and the rest cannot make that claim. Permalink
07.Jun.2006 https://www.apfn.org/apfn/enron.htm

AND JUST WHO OWNS ENRON?

30.Sep.2001 -As of- the top institutional holders were:

#1 - Alliance Capital Mgmt with 42,939,048 shares; followed closely by

#2 - Janus Capital Mgmt with 41,361,200 shares;

#3 - Putnam Investment Mgmt ( Marsh & McLennan ) with 23,122,100 shares;

#4 - Barclays Global Investors (a member of the Committee of 300 ) with 23,047,196 shares; +

#5 - Fidelity Mgmt & Research with 20,790,452 shares.

The remaining of the top 15 investors included:

Smith Barney ;

State St. Global Advisors;

Aim Mgmt;

Vanguard Group;

Morgan Stanley ;

Northern Trust;

Deutsche Bankers Trust;

Massachusetts Financial Service;

Presdner Rcm;

Cs First Boston Investment . . . .

For more on Marsh & McLennan , GO TO > > > The Marsh Birds

For more on Morgan Stanley and the investment game, GO TO > > > Nests Along Wall Street

07.Jun.2006 Northern Trust Co. Entries : Northern Trust Co. ... Unlike many banks, Northern Trust grew during the Great Depression: deposits increased from about $50 million in 1929 to ...
www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2795.html
07.Jun.2006 Deepak Chopra: "They" Aren't Going Away By Deepak Chopra on 9/11

For most people the truly frightening thing about Islamic fundamentalism is its implacability. As one observer said right after 9/11, the most shocking thing to Americans about the 19 hijackers is that they spent a year living here, enjoying the fruits of the American way + yet they still hated us. Jihadists are machines of fixed intent, immune to reason. What can tolerant people do in the face of unswerving intolerance? That's the key question facing us versus "them." "They" are fanatical, crazy, suicidal, demonic--pick whatever alienating word you like. Nor do we have to limit ourselves to the jihadists. I remember a right-wing Christian fundamentalist on CNN saying, "As long as you liberals and baby murderers despise us, we aren't going away." Which puts in a nutshell why "they" are so terrifying.
07.Jun.2006 Marjorie Cohn Stop the Beast

"In an annual security conference on Saturday, Donald Rumsfeld assured the audience, 'We don't intend to occupy [Iraq] for any period of time. Our troops would like to go home and they will go home.'" Marjorie Cohn asks, "Why, then, would the USA be building an enormous embassy in Baghdad and a base so large it eclipses Kosovo's Camp Bondsteel, which had been the largest foreign US military base built since Vietnam?"
07.Jun.2006 What Will Americans Do When They Realize That They Were Seduced into Committing a Genocide?

https://cytations.blogspot.com/2006/06/what-will-americans-do-when-they.html

What makes this possibly believable: the neocons and their Christian Zionist allies have repeatedly declared their fervent desire and intention to commit genocide against the enemies of Israel, including all Arabs and Muslims (and often the Russians, Chinese, Europeans and the majority of Americans as well).

Has depleted uranium made it difficult to retrieve oil from Iraq? This claim requires investigation.
07.Jun.2006 “The U.S. Armed Forces disposed of chemical weapons in the ocean from World War I through 1970,” the Congressional Research Service notes in a “valuable new report” made public by Secrecy News. A 2001 U.S. Army report found that “past disposal of chemical weapons in the ocean had been more common and widespread geographically than previously acknowledged.”
07.Jun.2006 Today, David Safavian admitted he was unqualified to be the General Services Administration’s chief of staff. “Did you think you were qualified for the job?” the federal prosecutor asked him. “Probably not, actually,” Safavian said.
07.Jun.2006 Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity may soon be removed from Armed Forces Radio . “In a highly unexpected development,” a radio consulting firm hired by the military has strongly recommended dumping all political talk shows from stations that reach the vast majority of troops and others residing overseas.”
07.Jun.2006 Hastert Sees The Light, Iraqis Still In The Dark Guest 

While in Baghdad over the weekend, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) asserted that Iraq is making progress on electricity generation:

On a surprise visit at President Bush’s request, House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) flew into Baghdad at 4 a.m. Friday and immediately remarked on how many lights he saw burning in the Iraqi capital .

The speaker and his party saw it as a sign of progress, of how much power had been restored in a city known for frequent blackouts , according to Hastert’s spokesman, Ron Bonjean, who accompanied the speaker.

“It was one of our first impressions, so many lights shining brightly,” Bonjean said.

Hastert must have toured Baghdad at just the right time because Baghdad residents still have an average of just four hours of electricity per day. The pre-war level for Baghdad? 16-24 hours per day.

More at Political Animal. – Geoff Miller
07.Jun.2006 Snow Compares Gay Marriage Ban With ‘Civil Rights’ Legislation Think Progress 

At this afternoon’s press conference, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow compared the constitutional amendment banning gay marriage supported by President Bush to historic “civil rights” legislation. Later Snow was asked if he really meant to equate banning gay marriage with “civil rights.” Snow responded, “How do you define civil rights?” Watch it: Raw Story has the transcript.
07.Jun.2006 POLL: Only 3 % Say Homosexuality is America’s ‘Most Serious Moral Crisis’ Nico 

President Bush and congressional conservatives “are aiming the political spotlight this week on efforts to ban gay marriage,” a move that’s sure to renew debate over so-called “values voters.” But as a poll released today by the Center for American Progress shows, the moral concerns of the American people are nothing like what the right wing claims.

Below, some highlights:

– Asked to name the most serious moral crisis in America today , 28% of Americans cite “kids not raised with the right values”; followed by 22% saying “corruption in government/business”; 17% saying “greed and materialism” or “people too focused on themselves”; and only 3% citing “abortion and homosexuality.”

– On addressing poverty: 68% of voters strongly agree that “government should uphold the basic decency and dignity of all and take greater steps to help the poor and disadvantaged in America” (89% total agree).

– On religious freedom: 67% of voters believe that religious freedom is a “critical” part of their image of America compared to less than three in 10 who believe Judeo-Christian faith specifically is critical to this image.

(Click HERE for more details on the poll + HERE for a slideshow presentation on the findings. For what it’s worth, among voters who participated in the survey, 46% voted in 2004 for President Bush, while 36% voted for John Kerry.)

As Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times wrote this weekend, “the survey demonstrated again that the moral issues people worried about most in their daily lives were very different from the ones dominating political debate.”

UPDATE: Via First Draft, Gallup has released a similar poll:

What issue do you think should be the top priority for the president and Congress to deal with?

The top five responses were:

Situation in Iraq/war: 42%
Fuel/oil prices/lack of energy sources/the energy crisis: 29%
Immigration/illegal aliens: 23%
Economy in general: 14%
Poor healthcare/ hospitals; high cost of healthcare: 12%

I suppose gay marriage could be classed with “Ethics/moral/religious/family decline”, which was the 20th of the 28 issues listed by respondents, important to only 1% of those polled.
07.Jun.2006 Colbert to Graduates: ‘You Are the Most Cuddled Generation In History’ Think Progress 

American Progress CEO John Podesta convinced Stephen Colbert to give the commencement address this weekend at Podesta’s alma mater Knox College. Here’s an excerpt:

There are so many challenges facing this next generation + as they said earlier, you are up for these challenges. And I agree, except that I don’t think you are. I don’t know if you’re tough enough to handle this. You are the most cuddled generation in history. I belong to the last generation that did not have to be in a car seat. You had to be in car seats. I did not have to wear a helmet when I rode my bike. You do. You have to wear helmets when you go swimming, right? In case you bump your head against the side of the pool. Oh, by the way, I should have said, my speech today may contain some peanut products.

You can read the whole transcript at the Knox College website.
07.Jun.2006 June 5, 2006 Think Progress 

“The Pentagon has decided to omit from new detainee policies a key tenet of the Geneva Convention that explicitly bans ‘humiliating and degrading treatment,’ … a step that would mark a further, potentially permanent, shift away from strict adherence to international human rights standards .” The State Department “fiercely opposes” the decision “and has been pushing for the Pentagon and White House to reconsider.”

Though President Bush has publicly embraced the constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage , “he never seemed to care enough to press the matter,” according to Newsweek. Says one “old friend” of Bush’s: “I think it was purely political. I don’t think he gives a s**t about it. He never talks about this stuff.”

$50 million: Amount outside interests have paid since 2000 to shuttle Members of Congress and their staffs around the world . Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) took one of the most expensive trips — more than $20,000 “for a one-day trip from Washington to Hidalgo, Texas, to accept an award as The BorderFest Border Texan of the Year.”

“ The world’s deserts are under threat as never before, with global warming making lack of water an even bigger problem for the parched regions,” according to a new United Nations report. Rainfall could drop by 20 % by the end of the century “due to human-induced climate change.”

New research published in the journal Science is also showing that the “ world’s tropical zones are growing , threatening to drive the world’s great deserts into southern Europe and other heavily populated areas.”
07.Jun.2006

“In the three years since Americans gained federal protection for their private medical information , the Bush administration has received thousands of complaints alleging violations but has not imposed a single civil fine and has prosecuted just two criminal cases.”

Progress in battling HIV/AIDS in the USA has “slowed to a crawl” since the epidemic first began 25 years ago. There have been no major treatment discoveries “for almost 10 years, when the drug cocktails were first introduced,” and the creation of a cure or vaccine, “is not close to becoming a reality.”

The American Bar Association’s board of governors voted unanimously this weekend “to investigate whether President Bush has exceeded his constitutional authority in reserving the right to ignore more than 750 laws that have been enacted since he took office.”

And finally: Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman is hosting more than 200 mayors at the U.S. Conference of Mayors annual meeting. “I want everyone going home…saying Oscar Goodman is the coolest mayor who ever lived ,” Goodman said, adding that critics who thought the corporate-funded party was unethical were “haters,” “misanthropes” and “complainers.”
07.Jun.2006 Hyped Terror Raid Proves To Be Paper Tiger Paul Joseph Watson Hyped Terror Raid Proves To Be Paper Tiger No evidence of chemical weapons, supposed Canada attack also discredited Paul
07.Jun.2006 Digital Publishing Is Scrambling the Industry's Rules Publishers, editors and writers are grappling with the Web's ability to connect readers and writers more quickly and intimately.
07.Jun.2006 Death by DMCA In 1998, U.S. entertainment companies persuaded Congress to make dramatic changes in its copyright code by passing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The DMCA gave copyright holders new rights to control the way people use copyrighted material and new protection for technologies designed to ...
07.Jun.2006 Torrent Site The Pirate Bay Returns Popular Swedish BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay came back online Saturday night, after being shut down in a police raid last week and forced to relocate to The Netherlands. The raid prompted a response from Pirate Bay supporters, which attacked the Web sites of the Swedish police and government.

07.Jun.2006 Lying to Government Agents "How to Avoid Going to Jail under 18 U.S.C. Section 1001 for Lying to Government Agents" Title 18, USA Code, Section 1001 makes it a crime to: 1) knowingly and willfully; 2) make any materially false, fictitious or fraudulent...
07.Jun.2006 Alarming surge in students resorting to physical self harm There has been an increase in the number of teenagers and young adults who have resorted to physically hurting themselves while in school or college. A study in the July edition of 'Pediatrics' has brought to light the scale of self harm occurring.
07.Jun.2006 House raid police had 'no choice' Police had "no choice" but to raid a house after being told a chemical device might be there, Scotland Yard says.
07.Jun.2006 Swedish piracy row gathers pace The row between supporters of a Swedish website accused of piracy and the nation's authorities is escalating.
07.Jun.2006 Bernanke voices inflation fears The Federal Reserve chief warns US rates may have to rise to check inflation despite slowing growth.
07.Jun.2006 Elderly abuse 'becoming common' Neglect and abuse of elderly people in Britain has become widespread, a survey suggests.
07.Jun.2006 GNU Radio Opens an Unseen World An open-source software-configured transceiver can open garage doors, track cell phone users and locate itself on GPS. And that's just the beginning.
07.Jun.2006 Figs were likely humans' first crop You may not eat figs on a daily basis today, but 11,000 years ago it was the hot new food--and may have been a first step toward modern agriculture.
07.Jun.2006 Why Web 2.0 Will End Your Privacy timothy 186
"This is a pretty good insight into some of the dangers of social networking and website customisation -- marketing and loss of privacy. When marketeers know who your friends are and what you are all into, it makes their advertising a lot more effective. From the article: "Why are the companies worth so much money? Why is MySpace worth over half a billion dollars without a proper revenue model? Why is Digg allegedly pitched at over $20m (at the last count) without any idea of where money is going to be pulled from? The answer is - data. Information. Marketing. Every detail about you and me. That is where the money is."
07.Jun.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-419970,00.html

Der Vorläufer des Bundesnachrichtendienstes (BND), die Organisation Gehlen, hätte den SS-Obersturmbannführer offenbar bereits damals fassen können, sagte der Historiker Timothy Naftali von der Universität von Virginia. "Das neu veröffentlichte CIA-Material deutet darauf hin, dass es auf höchster Ebene der Regierung von Konrad Adenauer Sorgen vor Aussagen über enge Mitarbeiter des Kanzlers gab, falls Eichmann festgenommen würde."

Die CIA habe der Bonner Regierung geholfen, einen Teil von Eichmanns Tagebuch zurückzuhalten, das Adenauers Sicherheitsberater Hans Globke belastete. Globke war wegen seiner Rolle in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus umstritten - da er unter anderem Mitherausgeber des Kommentars zu den Rassegesetzen war. Der israelische Geheimdienst kidnappte Eichmann 1960 in Argentinien und schmuggelte ihn nach Israel. Er wurde in Jerusalem wegen Verbrechen gegen das jüdische Volk verurteilt und 1962 gehängt.
07.Jun.2006 Geheimdienste: CIA soll Eichmann gedeckt haben
07.Jun.2006 Brasilien: Landlose stürmen Parlament
07.Jun.2006 Atomkonflikt: Bush lockt Teheran mit direkten Gesprächen
07.Jun.2006 Blockbuster: Vanity Fair writer Craig Unger interviews nine former intelligence and military officials who have served in the C.I.A., the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency + the Pentagon, all of whom say, on the record, that they believe the Niger documents were part of a campaign to deliberately mislead the American public.
The New Greg Palast Book, "Armed Madhouse," Available from BuzzFlash.com. Limited Number of Signed Copies.
NYT: GOP thinks Katherine Harris is becoming something of a "pariah." 6/7
Gays Don't Threaten Heterosexual Marriage, Adultery Does ... So Let's Attack the Real Problem - A BuzzFlash News Analysis
Religious right hate groups fail to get gay rights repeal on November ballot in Washington state. 6/7
The Real Threat to Marriage: Top 10 GOP Adulterers
Get Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth," the large-format paperback on BuzzFlash.com. Read the book, THEN see the movie!
Top GOP agenda item for 2007? Privatize Social Security. Could they be any dumber? Uh, no. 6/7
Sidney Blumenthal: The Busheviks and Islamic Fundamentalists Both Support a Ban on Gay Marriage. They Have a Lot in Common.
Gunmen in police uniforms and ski masks in Baghdad take 56 people captive before they vanish. The Post calls it part of an unrelenting kidnapping epidemic in Iraq.
07.Jun.2006 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/} P2, Ledeen and the Niger forgeries I haven't finished reading it. I neverthless feel compelled to direct your attention to Craig Unger's excellent new piece on the Niger forgeries, published in Vanity Fair. Even when Unger goes over familiar ground, he manages to grip the reader's attention. He dares to delve into the P2 links, which most writers on this topic still prefer to avoid. Check it out! Permalink
07.Jun.2006 https://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/06/05/terror/printable1683852.shtml
The next attack here, officials predict, will bear no resemblance to Sept. 11. The casualty toll will not be that high, the target probably not that big.

We may not even recognize it for what it is at first, they say. But it's coming — of that they seem certain.
07.Jun.2006 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__060605_the_politics_of_dist.htm
It is the economy stupid. It is Iraq stupid. It is Iran stupid. It is the NSA and illegal spying stupid. It is Valerie Plame stupid. It is Votergate 2004 stupid. It is Haditha stupid. It is Abu Ghraib stupid. It is healthcare stupid. It is Downing Street stupid. It is 750 broken laws stupid. It is tax cuts for the rich while services to the poor are cut stupid. It is not repealing the inheritance tax stupid. It is Tom Delay stupid. It is Duke Cunningham stupid. It is Jack Abramoff stupid. It is corruption stupid. It is WMD stupid. It is outsourcing stupid. It is about checks and balances stupid. It is about Congressional oversight stupid. It is about democracy stupid
07.Jun.2006 https://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_anthony__060605_the_politics_of_dist.htm
So in the face of all of these issues, what is the focus of our Commander in Chief? In light of a 29% approval rating, the Iraq War, Haditha, Plamegate, Downing Street, NSA, 750 laws broken, Iran + the fact that in 2004 the will of the people was subverted, what is at the top of President Bush’s agenda? Gay marriage. That’s right. The issue that was completely forgotten about twice in the past six years by Bush suddenly is the direst issue on the agenda of our president. Forgive me for being cynical, but that is patently ridiculous. This is what is known as the politics of distraction.
07.Jun.2006 Cave face 'the oldest portrait on record'  A DRAWING discovered by a potholer on the wall of a cave in the west of France appears to be the oldest known portrait of a human face.
07.Jun.2006 Jupiter's Red Spots Are Nearing Each Other  upiter's well known Great Red Spot storm + its newly formed Oval BA (aka Red Jr.) are about to sweep past each other + astronomers aren't quite sure what's going to happen.
07.Jun.2006 Ancient scroll may yield religious secrets  A collection of charred scraps kept in a Greek museum's storerooms are all that remains of what archaeologists say is Europe's oldest surviving book — which may hold a key to understanding early monotheistic beliefs.
07.Jun.2006 45% doubt 9/11 story  I am shocked! Shocked!
07.Jun.2006 FBI releases small part of Vice President's FBI records, withholds 89 % of files  The Raw Story's got it.
07.Jun.2006 Documents show post-war CIA covered up Nazi war crimes  The 27,000 pages released by the National Archives are among the largest post-World War II declassifications by the Central Intelligence Agency. They offer a window into the shadowy world of U.S. intelligence - and the efforts to use former Nazi war criminals as spies, sometimes to detrimental effect.
07.Jun.2006 Researchers find hidden Greek text on 'world's oldest astronomy computer'  A team of Greek and British scientists probing the secrets of the Antikythera Mechanism has managed to decipher ancient Greek inscriptions unseen for over 2,000 years, members of the project say.
07.Jun.2006 Atomstreit: Bush lobt Reaktion aus Teheran

06.Jun.2006 Haniya pained by Palestinian fighting : The government is reeling from a financial embargo imposed by the US, Canada, Israel and the EU, rendering it unable to pay the salaries of 165,000 civil servants and public employees, although the government says it will soon pay those wages.

07.Jun.2006 Israeli generals mull massive operation in West Bank : Israeli army generals have been calling for massive raids and operations in the West Bank in a bid to destroy militants infrastructure there before Israel's further pullout from the region, Israel's Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday.

07.Jun.2006 The World Zionist Congress : Zionism against Jews?: The most disturbing resolution must be number 6/18, from the World labour Zionist movement (which is presumably linked to Israel's Labour party + therefore of considerable significance), which "calls upon the nations of the world to act aggressively and immediately to remove the Iranian threat".

07.Jun.2006 Exiles plot to overthrow Syria's Baathist regime : LEADING Syrian opposition figures, led by the country’s former Vice-President, gathered in London yesterday for a two-day conference to plot the overthrow of the Baathist regime of President Assad

07.Jun.2006 Intelligence behind raid was wrong, officials say : Senior counter-terrorism officials now believe that the intelligence that led to the raid on a family house last Friday in a search for a chemical device about to be used to attack Britain was wrong, the Guardian has learned.

07.Jun.2006 Police put on a `good spectacle': Snipers, leg irons, selected evidence, police brass — all calculated to sway the public, lawyers and security experts say

07.Jun.2006 Gwynne Dyer: The international terrorist conspiracy : There is no shadowy but powerful network waging a terrorist war against the West: the whole thing is a fantasy.

07.Jun.2006 71 Gitmo detainees end hunger strike suddenly: He said four of the 18 hunger strikers were being force-fed.

07.Jun.2006 Padilla lawyer wants key evidence tossed: A lawyer for alleged al-Qaida operative Jose Padilla is asking a judge to throw out key evidence, saying the warrant for his arrest was based on statements from one source who claims he was tortured and another who was heavily medicated.

07.Jun.2006 Chávez in Russia deal to build gun factory: Venezuela is to build Latin America’s first Kalashnikov factory under a deal with Russia that has stoked fears in Washington about the oil-rich country’s arms procurement plans.

07.Jun.2006 Venezuela to refine Ecuador's crude: Ecuadorian Energy and Mines Minister Ivan Rodriguez has annoucned that from July Ecuadorian crude will be refined in Venezuela.

07.Jun.2006 Justice Department's Black Site: The administration censors internal probe of lawbreaking by the Oval Office and the NSA

07.Jun.2006 U.S. Lawmakers Took Nearly $50 Million in Free Trips: Members of Congress and their aides took free trips worth nearly $50 million paid for by corporations, trade associations and other private groups between January 2000 and June 2005, according to a study released by the Center for Public Integrity

07.Jun.2006 The free trips of Congressman Solomon Ortiz:: U.S. Rep. Solomon P. Ortiz accepted free trips to China from a Houston-based husband-and-wife business team convicted recently in an illegal immigration scheme involving Chinese nationals.

07.Jun.2006 Firms Donated to Groups That Gave Judges Free Trips: Two organizations that have provided free trips to hundreds of federal judges received large contributions from tobacco, oil and other corporate interests

07.Jun.2006 Blackwell gets brunt of registrants' anger: Democrats and representatives of voter-registration groups accused Secretary of State Ken Blackwell on Monday of trying to rig this November's election by publishing draconian new rules governing the activities of people who register voters.

07.Jun.2006 Britain's Streets of Debt: The Whistleblower : BBC Video Report: For the first time on British television, a senior banking executive reveals how high street banks deliberately target their customers and push borrowing.

07.Jun.2006 Goobers on Parade: Fake Christians and Sham Southerners : The party platform, adopted Saturday, declares "America is a Christian nation" and affirms that "God is undeniable in our history and is vital to our freedom…

07.Jun.2006 Special Video Report: 'Toxic Sky? : A Channel 4 News investigation, Paul Moyer looks into why some say the government is manipulating the weather.
06.Jun.2006 Southern Afghanistan in “state of war": security think-tank: state of war is gripping southern Afghanistan as Taleban fighters win public support and it will spread unless newly deployed British troops regain control, a security think-tank warned on Tuesday.

06.Jun.2006 Afghanistan Can't Prosecute Driver In Riot Incident : "There is a status of forces agreement and U.S. retains criminal jurisdiction for acts committed by military personnel in Afghanistan," he said.

06.Jun.2006 'Ambiguities' in offer to Iran: Iran has said it will consider the proposals, but officials have also said Iran will not give up uranium enrichment, a process that can be used to make fuel for nuclear power stations

06.Jun.2006 Ahmadinejad: Nuclear Weapons Have No Place in Iranian Defense Doctrine

06.Jun.2006 US caught in Iran policy squeeze: The US is increasingly left with fewer options. In fact, the options, within Washington's policy framework, have narrowed down to two: one, get used to the possibility that a nuclear Iran might well emerge, or, second, resort to a military strike that might set Iran's nuclear program back for a while.

06.Jun.2006 Rice's Iran Gambit: Even if Rice is serious about the latest U.S. offer to Iran, even if Iran responds seriously + even if America's strategic position in the region continues to weaken (as is likely), the latest diplomatic initiative will fail. And this failure will bring closer the prospect of a military confrontation with Iran for which the Pentagon is already planning.

06.Jun.2006 Energy secretary says U.S. can weather Iranian oil disruption : Consumers wouldn't suffer undue hardships in the event Iran disrupts Persian Gulf oil supplies because the Bush administration has a plan ''if push were to come to shove,'' a Cabinet officer said Tuesday.

06.Jun.2006 Iranian Oil Bourse nearly ready to open : According to the Fars report, the board of directors of the International Bourse Co., which is charged with establishing the bourse, will review the final draft of the articles of association of the Iranian bourse this week.

06.Jun.2006 How low will the dollar go? : Many analysts suggest that Saddam Hussein’s switch from the dollar to the euro for oil trading was one of the core reasons for the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Now Iran, the 2nd largest OPEC producer, is getting ready to open a new oil bourse that will trade in euros. And Venezuela is said to be actively discussing the same move.
06.Jun.2006 If we knew more about Ireland, we might never have invaded Iraq : Loach's film about the Irish independence war is being rubbished because it tells the other side of the occupation story

06.Jun.2006 The Architects Of War: Where Are They Now?: President Bush has not fired any of the architects of the Iraq war. In fact, a review of the key planners of the conflict reveals that they have been rewarded – not blamed – for their incompetence

06.Jun.2006 A Call to Support U.S. Military Officer to Refuse Illegal Iraq War: Thank you LT for standing up for international,US + military law by refusing to deploy to Iraq in support of the ongoing illegal war+ occupation

06.Jun.2006 Lieberman faces showdown over Iraq: After years of ardent support for the Iraq war, Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman (news, bio, voting record) could become that conflict's first big political casualty in a Democratic primary race fueled by rising anti-war anger.

06.Jun.2006 Antiwar Candidates Challenge Incumbent Democrats in House and Senate Races: The 2006 mid-term elections are just five months away. In the Senate, close to three-dozen seats are up for grabs, while all 435 seats are open in the House. Democrats hope growing public discontent with the Bush administration will help them win control of Congress from the Republicans.
06.Jun.2006 Field commanders tell Pentagon Iraq war 'is lost': Military commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war "is lost" and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month.

06.Jun.2006 Iraqi Girl Blog: Baghdad Burning: According to people working and living in the area, around 15 police cars pulled up to the area and uniformed men began pulling civilians off the streets and from cars, throwing bags over their heads and herding them into the cars. Anyone who tried to object was either beaten or pulled into a car.

06.Jun.2006 "War" outlasting attention spans: The amount of time devoted to Iraq on the three biggest television networks' weeknight newscasts has dropped by nearly 60 % from 2003 to the first four months of 2006, according to the independent Tyndall Report tracking service.

06.Jun.2006 Government Investigates Iraq Contracting Fraud: The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction has 78 open investigations into fraud + corruption in the Coalition Provisional Authority
06.Jun.2006 Afghanistan's Second Intifada : By Mike Whitney
The Taliban have reclaimed southern Afghanistan, reconstruction has been miniscule + there’s been no attempt to establish security beyond the capital of Kabul. Afghanistan continues to languish in grinding poverty with less clean water and electricity than before the war. It is a failed narco-state with 99% of the countryside under the iron-grip of the regional warlords and drug-kingpins. Continue

06.Jun.2006 " The USA is Terrified " Noam Chomsky on Latin America's Move Towards "Independence and Integration"

The U.S. in the past has had two fundamental mechanisms for controlling Latin America: one is violence, the other is economic strangulation. They're both weakening. Continue

06.Jun.2006 Sacred Ecology and Capitalism By Charles Sullivan -

Any economic system based upon greed rather than the public good and the ruthless exploitation of nature is not only wrong, it is a prescription for disaster. Continue
06.Jun.2006 Technically Speaking, Market Analysis and Theory: "Bill" of Goods "To do a great right , do a little wrong ." Translation: a small loss is a professional loss. ronsen.blogspot.com/2006/01/bill-of-goods.html
06.Jun.2006 village voice > news > Bush's Courting of Saddam by Wayne Barrett With Special Reporting by Nathan Deuel ...

Sarkis Soghanalian , the international arms dealer who bought billions in weapons for Saddam Hussein ... the years, the twice-convicted Soghanalian was dubbed the "Merchant of Death ... _{www.villagevoice.com/issues/0443/barrett.php}

FRONTLINE/WORLD . Sierra Leone - Gunrunners . Gallery of International Arms Dealers . Sarkis Soghanalian | PBS SARKIS SOGHANALIAN . FACT SHEET ... producer William Kistner

00.Mar.2001 Sarkis Soghanalian , one of the world's most accomplished arms ... many Cold War arms deals, Soghanalian has seen wars, rebel movements + ... _{www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sierraleone/soghanalian.html}