| 22.Aug.2006 Griechenland: Touristen fliehen vor Flammen
22.Aug.2006 Zeitungsbericht: Kofferbomber- Spur weist zu Islamisten
21.Aug.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/unispiegel/studium/0,1518,druck-432792,00.html Die Meinung der Leipziger zum Marx-Bildnis ist durchaus geteilt. "Ich bin empört, dass er wegkommt", sagt eine Passantin. Diese Plastik sei ein Stück Geschichte + die könne man nicht einfach auf den Müll werfen. Rudolph Christoph ist da etwas ruhiger bei dieser Frage. Der 72-Jährige hatte selbst jahrelang für die Gießerei in Lauchhammer gearbeitet, die Marx am 06.Okt.1974 -einen Tag vor dem 25. Jubiläum der DDR, aufgestellt hatte und jetzt auch wieder abnimmt. Dass die Universität ihn nicht an ihr neues Gebäude hängen will, das könne er gut verstehen. Diese Zeiten seien eben vorbei.
21.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Luskin's announcement came after his receipt of a letter from Fitzgerald, the federal prosecutor dogging the case. Up to that point, everyone was certain Rove was toast + Jason Leopold even reported that he had been indicted, but the indictment was placed under seal as Sealed v. Sealed , evidently a most unusual event. The timing of that filing coincided with the framework Leopold reported, but no indictment was ever announced. He suffered a great deal of animosity from the public, including liberal bloggers, but
21.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Of course, Plame and her husband, Joe Wilson, have filed a lawsuit against Rove, Cheney, Libby + unnamed others, but that is somewhat of a side issue, though the overlap will make for fascinating revelations. The latest on the lawsuit includes the fact that Plame/Wilson have added another attorney to their team who has pointed out that Cheney may have a hard time using Constitutional immunity to wiggle out of the suit, as they plan to use the Supreme Court decision against Clinton in the Paula Jones case. Poetic (in)justice, eh (I never thought that ruling made any sense)? And then there's the fact that Cheney has lawyered up, likely his best move since resigning from Halliburton.
21.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ the only information the public has gained in the past several months, technically since Libby was indicted, has come from Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin of "my innocent client paid me in gold bricks" fame + Robert Novak, of "publish the CIA identity" fame. Like we should trust either one of these guys.
21.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Rove Revisited - dr. elsewhere here
Just when it seemed Rove's status in the CIA leak case had gone the way of Florida's 2000 election results and bin Laden's whereabouts, Jason Leopold provides us with an updated refresher.
21.Aug.2006 Illegale Rüstungsgeschäfte: Iran erhielt aus Deutschland Navigationssysteme für Drohnen 21.Aug.2006 Spanien: Acht Menschen sterben bei Zugunglück
21.Aug.2006 Wahl im Kongo: Heftige Feuergefechte in Kinshasa 21.Aug.2006 Kofferbomber: Spuren nach Hamburg und Mülheim 21.Aug.2006 Sprengstoffexperte im Interview: "Die Bomben waren dilettantisch gebaut"
21.Aug.2006 Terrorplot von London: Justiz klagt elf Verdächtige an 21.Aug.2006 Strompreis- Erhöhungen: Landesregierungen kündigen Widerstand an 21.Aug.2006 HIV- Forschung: Erschöpfte Immunzellen aufgepäppelt 21.Aug.2006 Anti- Terror- Datei: Gesamtbild aus vielen Moaiksteinchen
21.Aug.2006 Libanon- Friedenstruppe: Bush und Merkel mahnen zur Eile
21.Aug.2006 Timothys Libanon- Tagebuch: "Es wurde so viel Hass gesät"
21.Aug.2006 35. - Amanda - Number of words the current issue of TIME magazine devotes to Judge Anna Diggs Taylor’s ruling that President Bush’s warrantless domestic wiretapping program is unconstitutional. 1,109 . The number of words in the same issue on the extradition of John Mark Karr. (HT: Bill in Portland Maine)
21.Aug.2006 Bush Now Says What He Wouldn’t Say Before War: Iraq Had ‘Nothing’ To Do With 9/11 - Faiz - President Bush was in the midst of explaining how the attacks of 9/11 inspired his “freedom agenda” and the attacks on Iraq until a reporter, Ken Herman of Cox News, interrupted to ask what Iraq had to do with 9/11. “Nothing,” Bush defiantly answered. Watch it. 19.Mar.2003 -To justify the war, Bush informed Congress that acting against Iraq was consistent with “continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists + terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations, or persons who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on 11.Sep.2001.” As ThinkProgress has repeatedly documented, Vice President Cheney cited “evidence” cooked up by Douglas Feith + others to claim it was “pretty well confirmed” that Iraq had contacts with 9/11 hijackers. More generally, in the lead-up to the war in Iraq, the administration encouraged the false impression that Saddam had a role in 9/11. Bush never stated then, as he does now, that Iraq had “nothing” to do with 9/11. Only after the Iraq war began did Bush candidly acknowledge that Iraq was not operationally linked to 9/11. Digg It! Full transcript: BUSH: The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens before we started the freedom agenda in the Middle East. QUESTION: What did Iraq have to do with it? BUSH: What did Iraq have to do with what? QUESTION: The attack on the World Trade Center. BUSH: Nothing. Except it’s part of — and nobody has suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack. Iraq was a — Iraq — the lesson of 11.Sep.2001 is take threats before they fully materialize, Ken. Nobody’s ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq.
21.Aug.2006 A Judicial Misfire
THE NATION would benefit from a serious, scholarly and hard-hitting judicial examination of the National Security Agency's program of warrantless surveillance. The program exists on ever-more uncertain legal ground; it is at least in considerable tension with federal law and the Bill of Rights. ...
21.Aug.2006 83-year-old Canadian proves your doctor can get you busted for terrorism! - Eideard
An 83-year-old Canadian man, who had received a radioactive dye for diagnosis of a heart condition, set off radiation detectors at the U.S.-Canadian border.
21.Aug.2006 No nuclear halt, warns Khamenei Iran's supreme leader says his country will press ahead with its nuclear programme, despite pressure for a halt.
21.Aug.2006 Diplomats flee DR Congo shooting Several foreign ambassadors in DR Congo seek shelter in the house of an opposition leader after heavy shooting.
21.Aug.2006 No Saddam plea at genocide trial Saddam Hussein refuses to enter a plea on the opening day of his trial on charges of genocide and war crimes.
21.Aug.2006 Bill Thompson column Technology commentator Bill Thompson says the web was a powerful tool - but underused - during the airport chaos on Thursday.
21.Aug.2006 Automakers Crush Safety Rule Thousands are severely hurt each year by collapsing vehicle roofs but the auto industry wants no part of more stringent requirements. In Autopia.
21.Aug.2006 Closer to Deducing the Origin of the Moon - Zonk 77 - eldavojohn writes "A giant explosion on the sun in January of 2005 allowed SMART-1 (a European spacecraft orbiting the moon) to detect what elements the moon is made up of based on the X-rays from the sun's explosion. This allows scientists to speculate on the moon's origins while seeing data from all over the moon as opposed to the core samples we have collected and returned in the past. From the article: 'Scientists responsible for the D-CIXS instrument on SMART-1 are also announcing that they have detected aluminium, magnesium and silicon. "We have good maps of iron across the lunar surface. Now we can look forward to making maps of the other elements." said SMART-1's Principal Investigator.'"
21.Aug.2006 South Florida man says Dell battery burned down house Blog: Oh, Dell. First your batteries overheated. Then they started blowing up. And now, according the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, they...
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21.Aug.2006 Freedom in an Unfree Land, Part 2 — When Is Your Money Not Your Money? When You’re Carrying Too Much. - Uncle Dave -The spiral downward continues unabated.
21.Aug.2006 Eleven charged over 'bomb plot' Eleven people are charged in connection with an alleged plot to blow up several transatlantic airliners.
21.Aug.2006 Bush pledges $230m in Lebanon aid US President Bush pledges $230m in aid for Lebanon and urges the rapid deployment of a peace force.
21.Aug.2006 A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces - Zonk 46 - uler writes "The NY Times has an article about an interesting new open source storage project. Unlike data storage mechanisms today that work 'by making multiple copies of data,' the Cleversafe software takes an 'approach based on dispersing data in encrypted slices.' It's an elegant solution and one that's been a long time coming: the software uses algorithmic techniques known by mathematicians since the 70's. Adi Shamir (of RSA) first wrote of information dispersal is his 1979 paper 'How to Share a Secret (pdf).'"
21.Aug.2006 Catapult the Truth: Bush Has Failed in Fighting Terror -- A BuzzFlash Editorial (Register for Free and Make Your - About the BuzzFlash Editorial.) 21.Aug.2006 White House Authorized Leaks on Brit Raid That Compromise National Security -- A BuzzFlash Editorial (Register for Free and Make Your - About the BuzzFlash Editorial.)
Larry Hawes: Enemies of The State - A BuzzFlash Reader Contribution 21.Aug.2006 A Riveting Documentary Covering the Horrific First Step Into Nuclear Warfare: Hiroshima, Produced by the BBC
Bush Betrays the Fight Against Terrorism: "The federal research agency in charge of countering emerging terrorist threats such as liquid explosives is so hobbled by poor leadership, weak financial management + inadequate technology that Congress is on the verge of cutting its budget in half." 8/21 21.Aug.2006 Ray McGovern: The Constitution: Checking a Would-Be King - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
Bush Administration Leaks Hurt the War Against Terrorists. British Intelligence Honchos Asks Busheviks to Stop Leaking Details About Recent London Arrests. Another Bush Betrayal of American National Security for Political Purposes. 21.Aug.2006 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute
Bush's No. 1 Poodle, Tony Blair, "Feels Betrayed by Bush on Lebanon'
Name the bigger crook: Bush or Nixon? Comment at the Last Chance Democracy Cafe.
21.Aug.2006 https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/08/jetliner-plot-another-scarecrow.html
Two weeks before the announcement of the latest jetliner plot, Pakistani authorities arrested Rashid Rauf, the alleged terrorist mastermind, Al Qaeda link-man and beauty product entrepreneur. I've always found the sequence of events odd: One would presume that the arrest would have cancelled any plans. Now we learn that the information extracted from Rauf (whether by fair means or foul) may not hold much value: But after two weeks of interrogation, an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, officials are now saying that his extradition is ‘a way down the track’ if it happens at all.
It comes amid wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed.
Analysts suspect Pakistani authorities exaggerated Rauf’s role to appear ‘tough on terrorism’ and impress Britain and America.
A spokesman for Pakistan’s Interior Ministry last night admitted that ‘extradition at this time is not under consideration’. This whole "plot" is starting to look like just another scarecrow, designed to frighten the gullible.
21.Aug.2006 https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/08/jetliner-plot-another-scarecrow.html
Craig Murray notes the the binary liquid explosive myth (if myth it is) can be used by authorities who want to smear someone placed under arrest. The acetone under your bathroom sink doesn't make you a terrorist, but it could lead to some ominous headlines about "precursor chemicals" in your apartment.
Murray likens the current tales to the ricin plot of a couple of years ago: It was alleged that a flat in North London inhabited by Muslims was a "Ricin" factory, manufacturing the deadly toxin which could kill "hundreds of thousands of people". Police tipped off the authorities that traces of ricin had been discovered. In the end, all those accused were found not guilty by the court. The "traces of ricin" were revealed to be the atmospheric norm.
The "intelligence" on that plot had been extracted under torture in Algeria - another echo here, as the "intelligence" in this current case has almost certainly been extracted under torture in Pakistan.
21.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ The jetliner plot: Another scarecrow? Recent stories tend to confirm suspicions that the latest UK "terror plot" was something other than advertised.
The most interesting piece comes from our Australian friend Gavin Gatenby ("Nick Possum"). A chemist told him the straight skinny on TATP (Triacetone Triperoxide), the "secret ingredient" which, we are told, the Pakistanis had planned to use on jetliners.
I avoided chemistry in high school and thus cannot verify what you are about to read; any readers "in the know" should feel free to share their expertise. Gatenby's source calls TATP an "unstable brew" that requires both same-day usage and constant cooling: “Well, firstly you’ve got to understand that TATP isn’t a liquid, it’s a white crystalline powder. Looks like sugar and it makes nitroglycerine look safe...
“The three ingredients are acetone, sulfuric acid and hydrogen peroxide. The acetone and sulphuric you can buy at the hardware store without attracting suspicion, but the hydrogen peroxide has got to be virtually full strength. You can’t use the stuff you buy over the counter at the pharmacy because it’s 97 per cent water. Well, you could, but you’d have to buy a lot of little bottles of peroxide and boil off the water, which is very risky. One false move and you’ve burned your house down.
“Anyway, you can premix the peroxide with the acetone – a couple of litres might make a useful amount of TATP – and carry that onto the plane in a single container but you’ve got to keep it cool and the only way I can think of to do that is to carry it in a Styrofoam container with some of those cold bricks from the supermarket. Plus, in your kit you’ll need to have a stirrer and a thermometer and a glass beaker or a stainless steel bowl to mix it in..." So far, we've talked about the easy part. Here's what happens once you've dragged the cooler and other ingredients into the plane's toilet (without avoiding suspicion) in order to mix up some big boomage:
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“First you’ll need to fill your cooler box with water and wait till it the cold bricks cool it below 10 degrees C. Next step: take your mixing bowl, float it in the cold water, pour in the peroxide/acetone mix and then add the sulphuric acid, a drop at a time, stirring carefully. You’d need to check the temperature constantly. If it gets a little too hot you’ll get a piss-weak batch; if it gets way too hot you’ll get a weak batch that spontaneous detonates. I’d probably kill you and nobody else.
“Let’s assume that takes twenty minutes or so. You still aren’t finished. You’ll end up with damp crystals. You’ll have to carefully, very carefully, decant them onto a paper towel to soak up surplus liquid and then leave them to dry for an hour or so. Hey presto! Mother of Satan.” (Emphasis added.) Could a Pakistani take a bulky carry-on into the airline restroom and expect to operate undisturbed for 90 minutes? Not likely.
Very similar conclusions are reached in this piece in the Register, by Thomas C. Greene: So the fabled binary liquid explosive - that is, the sudden mixing of hydrogen peroxide and acetone with sulfuric acid to create a plane-killing explosion, is out of the question. Meanwhile, making TATP ahead of time carries a risk that the mission will fail due to premature detonation, although it is the only plausible approach.
Certainly, if we can imagine a group of jihadists smuggling the necessary chemicals and equipment on board + cooking up TATP in the lavatory, then we've passed from the realm of action blockbusters to that of situation comedy. Craig Murray notes the the binary liquid explosive myth (if myth it is) can be used by authorities who want to smear someone placed under arrest. The acetone under your bathroom sink doesn't make you a terrorist, but it could lead to some ominous headlines about "precursor chemicals" in your apartment.
Murray likens the current tales to the ricin plot of a couple of years ago: It was alleged that a flat in North London inhabited by Muslims was a "Ricin" factory, manufacturing the deadly toxin which could kill "hundreds of thousands of people". Police tipped off the authorities that traces of ricin had been discovered. In the end, all those accused were found not guilty by the court. The "traces of ricin" were revealed to be the atmospheric norm.
The "intelligence" on that plot had been extracted under torture in Algeria - another echo here, as the "intelligence" in this current case has almost certainly been extracted under torture in Pakistan. Two weeks before the announcement of the latest jetliner plot, Pakistani authorities arrested Rashid Rauf, the alleged terrorist mastermind, Al Qaeda link-man and beauty product entrepreneur. I've always found the sequence of events odd: One would presume that the arrest would have cancelled any plans. Now we learn that the information extracted from Rauf (whether by fair means or foul) may not hold much value: But after two weeks of interrogation, an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, officials are now saying that his extradition is ‘a way down the track’ if it happens at all.
It comes amid wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed.
Analysts suspect Pakistani authorities exaggerated Rauf’s role to appear ‘tough on terrorism’ and impress Britain and America.
A spokesman for Pakistan’s Interior Ministry last night admitted that ‘extradition at this time is not under consideration’. This whole "plot" is starting to look like just another scarecrow, designed to frighten the gullible. Permalink
21.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Very weird Karr stuff Yes, I know that the John Mark Karr story has rapidly turned into silly-season material. Face it: We're hooked.
21.Aug.2006 Our foreign policy is just plain wrong : The relationship between Mr Bush and Mr Blair has done untold damage both at home and abroad 21.Aug.2006 Heading toward an (inevitable) war in Kirkuk: Continued US inaction most likely will lead to civil conflict between Kurds and others in the oil-rich northern Iraqi area and possible outside intervention, top expert says 21.Aug.2006 Beirut fury at 'ceasefire breach' : Lebanese PM Fouad Siniora has accused Israel of a "naked violation" of the five-day-old ceasefire, after a raid by Israeli commandos deep inside Lebanon. 21.Aug.2006 Israel's raid in the Bekaa Valley : The BBC's John Leyne, who visited the scene of the attack, said the Israelis seemed to have run into much fiercer resistance than they anticipated before they were extracted by helicopter. 21.Aug.2006 Israel defiant on Lebanon raid, prepares for 'next round' : Israel warned that it would keep up raids against Hezbollah to prevent the Shiite militia from getting weapons from abroad and said it would prepare for the "next round" of war. 21.Aug.2006 Israelis lose faith in government as war with Hezbollah ends: Hava Mendelovich returned to her damaged apartment in this scarred border town this week to clean up the wreckage left by a Hezbollah rocket, but it wasn't only her home that was a shambles. Her faith in the government was shattered. 21.Aug.2006 RAF top guns and Navy frigate set for war zone as pact falters: A Ministry of Defence source said British ground troops would not be joining the 13,000-strong UN peacekeeping force because we are too "heavily involved" in Iraq and Afghanistan. 21.Aug.2006 Pakistanis find no evidence against ‘terror mastermind’: The Briton alleged to be the ‘mastermind’ behind the airline terror plot could be innocent of any significant involvement, sources close to the investigation claim. 21.Aug.2006 Pardons are forever: Prediction: Before leaving office, President Bush will issue a shockingly large number of presidential pardons to operatives who, with the administration’s blessing, ventured far outside the law to wage Bush’s “war on terror
21.Aug.2006 Redrawing The Middle East Map -Ralph Peters- Armed Forces Journal - How a new Middle East would look. Continue 21.Aug.2006 The 155th Victim - By Uri Avnery -It has to be said aloud: every one of the 154 Israeli dead of Lebanon War II (until the cease-fire) died for the settlers on the Golan Heights. Continue 21.Aug.2006 After Lebanon, Israel is looking for more wars -By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
Israel regards the “home front” -- its civilian population -- as its Achilles’ heel in the army’s oppression of the Palestinians in the occupied territories, its intermittent invasions of south Lebanon + its planned attacks further afield. Continue 21.Aug.2006 Amateur Warlords - By Eric Margolis- Bush, Cheney, Blair - and now Olmert - have demonstrated they have no grasp of military affairs . Continue
21.Aug.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-432747,00.html
"Dieses Projekt ging an die Grenzen dessen, was selbst das Hubble-Teleskop leisten kann", sagte Jay Anderson, einer der Forscher, die die Ergebnisse der Himmelsbeobachtung jetzt im Fachblatt "Science" vorgestellt haben. "Diese Sterne kann man nicht mit einer einzelnen Aufnahme entdecken. Man muss eine Vielzahl von Bildern kombinieren, um sie zu finden." Die Astronomen haben die Kameras des Hubble-Weltraumteleskops insgesamt mehr als 75 Stunden auf das gleiche Fleckchen Nachthimmel gerichtet und 378 überlappende Bilder erhalten. Die europäische Raumfahrtagentur Esa bietet eine hochauflösende Version des Fotos mit Zoom- Funktion an.
21.Aug.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-432679,00.html
Die Hauptverursacher von Karies sind Streptokokken. Diese Bakterien siedeln sich auf den Zähnen an und geben dabei Säuren ab, die Löcher in den Zahnschmelz fressen. In dem Kaugummi setzen die Forscher Milchsäurebakterien ein, die sich an die Streptokokken anheften und verhindern sollen, dass sie sich an der Zahnoberfläche festhalten. So spült sie der Speichel leicht weg + sie könnten ihr zerstörerisches Werk nicht weiter ausüben, schreiben die Forscher im Fachmagazin "Chemistry and Industry". Die Milchsäurebakterien in dem neuen Kaugummi seien für den Menschen völlig unbedenklich.
21.Aug.2006 Konjunktur: Bundesbank erwartet kräftiges Wachstum 21.Aug.2006 Herrenloser Koffer: Polizei räumte Bahnhof von Itzehoe
21.Aug.2006 Festnahme des Kofferbombers: Entscheidender Hinweis kam aus dem Libanon
21.Aug.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-431055,00.html Anfang Mai 1945: Das Kosakenkorps Domanow befindet sich auf dem Rückzug aus dem oberitalienischen Friaul in die österreichischen Alpen. Die Marschkolonne mit ihrem riesigen Tross ist viele Kilometer lang. 25.000 Menschen, davon mehr als die Hälfte Frauen, Kinder und alte Leute im Gefolge der Reitersoldaten, versuchen die britische Besatzungszone zu erreichen. Denn die antikommunistischen, russischen Reiter - einst treue Truppe der Zaren - haben als offizieller Wehrmachtsverband für Nazi-Deutschland gekämpft und wollen unter keinen Umständen in die Hände der italienischen oder jugoslawischen Partisanen fallen, mit denen sie selbst in den zurückliegenden Monaten alles andere als zimperlich umgegangen sind.
21.Aug.2006 Weiße Zwerge: Kamera erspäht geschrumpfte Riesen
21.Aug.2006 Streit um Urananreicherung: Chamenei will Atomprogramm vorantreiben
21.Aug.2006 Russland: Alu- Giganten wollen Weltmarktführer bilden 21.Aug.2006 US- Studien: Klimawandel löst stärkere Hurrikane aus
21.Aug.2006 Libanon- Krieg: Israelische Reservisten kritisieren Militärführung
21.Aug.2006 Unwetter in Ungarn: Panik und Tote am Nationalfeiertag 21.Aug.2006 Explosion in Moskau: Sprengsatz bringt Markthalle zum Einsturz
21.Aug.2006 Zugbomber: Regierung geht von Hintermännern aus
21.Aug.2006 Sicherheitsrisiko: Funkchip- Reisepass zündet Bombe 21.Aug.2006 Bakterien: Kaugummi soll vor Karies schützen
21.Aug.2006 Terror: Deutschland im Fadenkreuz
21.Aug.2006 Regierungsbilanz: Merkel lobt Schröders Agenda
21.Aug.2006 Polizei in Bedrängnis: Urlauber verteidigen illegale Händler
21.Aug.2006 Völkermord- Prozess: Saddam beschimpft Richter
21.Aug.2006 Minenbetreiber Anglo American: Konkurrenten erwägen 80- Milliarden- Dollar- Übernahme
21.Aug.2006 Libanon- Krieg: Hisbollah soll britische Nachtsichtgeräte haben
21.Aug.2006 Archäologie: Auf der Spur von Hitlers Kosaken 21.Aug.2006 Feuer im Transrapid: Experten vermuten Batterie als Brandherd
21.Aug.2006 Umfrage: Deutsche gegen staatliche Arbeitszeitregelung
21.Aug.2006 Terrorfahndung: Jagd auf den zweiten Bombenleger
21.Aug.2006 Rostige Pipelines: Mitarbeiter erheben Manipulations- Vorwürfe gegen BP 21.Aug.2006 Uno- Truppe im Libanon: Israel fordert Führungsrolle Italiens 21.Aug.2006 Terrorbekämpfung: Bewaffnete Rail- Marshalls sollen für Sicherheit in Zügen sorgen
21.Aug.2006 Federal judge strikes down warrantless surveillance, dealing blow to Bush police state tactics
(NewsTarget) Arguably the most controversial of the post-Sept. 11 antiterrorist measures was President Bush's NSA-run "Terrorist Surveillance Program," which has been under fire as "warrantless surveillance" ever since its December 2005 exposure by the New York Times. U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor...
21.Aug.2006 Kam englisch & russisches Kriegsmaterial an die Hisbollah? - sfux Stephan Fuchs ? Wie AP berichtet, fand Israel Waffen aus Beständen der Hisbollah welche ursprünglich für den Iran bestimmt waren. Peinlich, die Waffen kommen aus England und aus Russland.
Israelische Untersuchungen sollen ergeben haben, dass die Nachtsichtgeräte die in Lagern der Hisbollah entlang der Grenze gefunden worden sind, aus englischer Produktion stammen. Jene wurden, so die israelische...
21.Aug.2006 Rape, Murder + the American GI - sfux Robin Morgan, Women's Media Center - We must not forget the death of Abeer, who was allegedly stalked, raped and killed by American soldiers. Abeer was 14 years old; her name means 'fragrance of flowers.'Her birthday...
21.Aug.2006 Fieberhafte Suche nach Bahnbombenleger - sfux AFP - Nach der Festnahme eines der beiden mutmaßlichen Bahnbombenleger wird weiter unter Hochdruck nach seinem Komplizen gefahndet. Zugleich erließ der Ermittlungsrichter des Bundesgerichtshofs gegen den ersten Verdächtigen Haftbefehl wegen versuchten vielfachen Mordes. Außerdem wird er der Mitgliedschaft in einer terroristischen Vereinigung verdächtigt. Der 21-jährige Libanese war Samstagmorgen in Kiel gefasst worden. Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) sprach angesichts...
21.Aug.2006 The Truth About Terrorism - sfux Joe Parko - The latest terrorist plot involving airplanes flying from London to the U.S. provides clear evidence that the threat from terrorism is growing. Since our invasion of Iraq, we have seen an appalling rise in terrorist attacks around the world. The sad fact is that the so-called ?war on terrorism? is failing and that terrorism is spreading like a cancer and posing more and more danger for us.
The truth is that none of our thousands of nuclear...
21.Aug.2006 Bush on Iraq: ‘We’re Not Leaving So Long As I’m The President’ - Judd - At a press conference today, President Bush said, “We’re not leaving [Iraq] so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake.” His term ends almost two-and-a-half years from now, in January 2009. Watch it: Bush_on_Iraq_We_re_Not_Leaving_So_Long_As_I_m_The_President_Video">Digg It! Transcript: BUSH: The strategy is to help the Iraqi people achieve the objectives and dreams which is a democratic society. That’s the strategy. The tactics — now — either you say yes it’s important we stay there and get it done or we leave. We’re not leaving so long as I’m the president. That would be a huge mistake. It would send an unbelievably you know terrible signal to reformers across the region. It would say we’ve abandoned our desire to change the conditions that create terror.
21.Aug.2006 August 21, 2006 - Think Progress - Iraqi insurgents killed 20 people and injured 300 as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims gathered for a holy Shiite festival over the weekend. But in a sign of just how routine the intense sectarian bloodshed in the capital has become, the U.S. military reported “relatively little violence.” U.S. Postal Service gone wild. As the top executive at the USPS, Azeezaly Jaffer “ran up $8,252 staying at a Washington hotel suite,” “blew $3,486.33 in one evening for steak dinners and a bar-hopping binge,” and “tipped two lucky waiters $1,511.66 following a seafood dinner.” It was “all on the Postal Service’s dime.” Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev said President Bush should stop viewing the world “from the position of a superpower” and Vice President Cheney should “calm down” and stop criticizing Russian leaders. The U.S. should understand that “leadership should be done not by domination, not by becoming a policeman in the world, but by being a partner,” Gorbachev. The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate, the federal research agency in charge of countering emerging terrorist threats such as liquid explosives, is so hobbled by poor leadership, weak financial management + inadequate technology that Congress is on the verge of cutting its budget in half. Lawmakers call the agency a “rudderless ship.” 82 percent . Number of Katrina victims who say their lives are still not back to normal, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. A Kaiser Family Foundation survey found that 43 percent of Americans believe the federal government has failed to learn from Hurricane Katrina and the nation is no better prepared for a major disaster than it was before. “The Bush administration has begun designating as secret some information that the government long provided even to its enemy the former Soviet Union: the numbers of strategic weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.” William Burr, who compiled the report for The National Security Archive, said the move represented one of the “more dramatic examples of unjustifiable secrecy .” Violent crime is “on the rise” in cities across America, “fueling criticism of Bush administration policies as a wave of murders and shootings hits smaller cities and states with little experience with serious urban violence.” The economic slowdown. Recession appears unlikely but “The job market is now tepid, consumers are tempering their spending + inventories - from women’s apparel to computer hard drives - are starting to rise.” And finally: “Conservatism is widely seen as having the upper hand” in country music , but Nashville artists on the left have grown frustrated with that reputation and are starting to speak out. A sample from “W Cheese,” written by Darrell Scott: “They filled our plate with freedom fries, red, black and blue, white lies/And a helping, heaping, hating size of stinkin’ W cheese.”
21.Aug.2006 McCain Calls For Escalation In Iraq, Suggests Putting More Troops On The Ground - Faiz - On NBC’s Meet the Press this morning, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for immediately adding more U.S. soldiers on the ground in Iraq. Echoing the failed strategy behind the escalation during the Vietnam War, McCain suggested that putting more troops in the middle of Iraq’s civil war would help the U.S. to ultimately prevail. Watch it: <script type="text/javascript"> var so56011 = new SWFObject('//08/mccaintroops.320.240.flv&autoStart=false', 'em-so56011', '320', '260', '6', '#ffffff'); so56011.addParam('quality', 'high'); so56011.addParam('wmode', 'transparent'); so56011.write('so56011'); As former administration officials and military generals have noted, a larger initial force was necessary to provide security on the ground and prevent the growth of the insurgency. But at this point in the conflict, a larger force is operationally impracticable. Slate’s Fred Kaplan wrote last year that the Army could maintain its current troop levels in Iraq, but it doesn’t have the capacity to “allow George W. Bush to send more troops to Iraq and Afghanistan” unless we institute a draft. Beyond the practical unfeasibility of sending in more troops, McCain misdiagnoses what adding more troops at this point would do to the situation on the ground. As the Center for American Progress’s Iraq redeployment strategy argues: A more visible presence of U.S. troops risks further stoking the flames of the insurgency by feeding perceptions of long-term U.S. occupation among many Iraqis. Full transcript below: MCCAIN: The question is, are we going to be able to bring the situation under control now? I still believe we can. I think part of it has to do with the Madhi army and Sadr. Sadr has got to be taken out of this equation and his militia has got to be addressed forcefully. GREGORY: But to do that, do you need more U.S. soldiers on the ground now? MCCAIN: I think so. I think so. We took troops from places like Ramadi, which are still not under control and put them into Baghdad. We’ve had to send in additional troops as they are. All along, we have not had enough troops on the ground to control the situation. Many, many people knew that + it’s — we’re paying a very heavy price for it.
21.Aug.2006 McCain Falsely Claims Most American Oppose Timetable For Iraq Withdrawal - Think Progress - Today on Meet the Press, Sen. John McCain claimed, “Most Americans — when they are asked ‘do you want to set a date for withdraw?’ — they say no.” Watch it: McCain is wrong. Most American support a timetable for withdrawal. Here’s the latest CNN Poll: CNN Poll conducted by Opinion Research Corporation. Aug. 2-3, 2006. N=1,047 adults nationwide. MoE ± 3 (for all adults). “Which comes closer to your view about U.S. troops in Iraq? The U.S. should set a timetable for withdrawal by announcing that it will remove all of its troops from Iraq by a certain date. The U.S. should keep troops in Iraq as long as necessary without setting any timetable for withdrawal.” Timetable % No Timetable % Unsure %
8/2-3/06 57 40 4
6/14-15/06 53 41 6 For a detailed plan on how to execute a phased withdrawal, check out Strategic Redeployment 2.0. Digg It! Transcript: GREGORY: Let me show you something you said about public support for the war back last year in November. Put it on our screen. “If we can’t retain the support of the American people, we will have lost this war as soundly as if our forces were defeated on the battlefield.” As you well know, 60% is against the war. They say the war in Iraq has not been worth it. Has this government lost the people? MCAIN: I don’t think so. Most Americans — when they are asked “do you want to set a date for withdraw?” — they say no. I’ve expressed my frustrations to you this morning. But they are not ready to face the consequences of failure by setting a date certain for withdraw. And I believe that they largely, although frustrated, recognize the consequences of failure.
21.Aug.2006 AEI Fellow After Meeting With Bush: President May Take Military Action Against Iran In 12-18 Months - Faiz - Reuel Marc Gerecht, a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a member of a small group of analysts who were asked to discuss their views on the Middle East with President Bush at a private lunch this week, said this morning on ABC’s This Week that the mid- to long-term fallout from Israel-Hezbollah conflict could be a good thing because it may prompt Bush to take military action against Iran. Watch it: Whatever the President’s plans are, there are no good military options in Iran. Bush_U_S_May_Attack_Iran_Within_18_Months">Digg It! Transcript: GERECT: I think more importantly — because of the way the Syrians and Iranians reacted — it is possible that the president has gotten very, very angry over that issue. If, in fact, you see down the road — because the premier issue for the iranians is nuclear weapons program — if you see down the road the president taking a much harder line on that issue STEPHANOPOULOS: How much harder line could he take? Are you talking about military action? GERECT: Well yeah it is conceivable you go down the road 12 or 18 months that the president will say nuclear weapons in the hands of the mullahs is simply unacceptable — as he said many times. And if in fact Lebanon contributes to the hardening of the American postion, then I would say that hezbollah actions in Lebanon were a great mistake.
21.Aug.2006 NY Times, CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror plot - Media Matters for America Latest Media Matters for America items
NY Times, CNN, Fox News uncritically reported GOP suggestion that unwarranted surveillance helped foil U.K. terror plot In Propaganda/Noise Machine In an August 18 article on a federal judge's ruling striking down as unconstitutional the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance program, New York Times reporters Adam Liptak and Eric Lichtblau uncritically quoted House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's (R-IL) claim that the program "saved the day by foiling the London terror plot." Liptak and Lichtblau reported that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has not said "whether the program played any role in foiling" the British terror plot, but then reported Hastert's assertion. The report went on to note that Hastert's office "declined to elaborate" on the claim, but, as Media Matters for America has noted, media reports cast considerable doubt on his assertion that intelligence gathered through the warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens and legal residents helped thwart the attack. Indeed, Lichtblau himself reported on August 15 that U.S. law-enforcement agencies found "no direct connection" between the London plotters and anyone within the United States. In their reports on the news, CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena and Fox News chief White House correspondent Bret Baier similarly linked the warrantless domestic surveillance program to the recently foiled plot. On August 17, Judge Anna Diggs Taylor of the U.S. District Court in Detroit rejected the Bush administration's legal defense of the program -- which since 2001 has authorized the National Security Agency (NSA) to eavesdrop on the international communications of U.S. persons without court orders required by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA). Taylor ruled that the program violates FISA, as well as the First and Fourth Amendments + ordered that the program be halted. In their August 18 article on the ruling, Liptak and Lichtblau reported: Mr. Gonzales would not say whether the program played any role in foiling a plot last week to set off bombs in airliners bound for the United States from Britain. But Speaker J. Dennis Hastert, Republican of Illinois, suggested that it did play a role in the investigation. In a written statement criticizing Judge Taylor's ruling, Mr. Hastert defended the wiretapping operation and said that "our terrorist surveillance programs are critical to fighting the war on terror and saved the day by foiling the London terror plot." His office declined to elaborate. But Liptak and Lichtblau failed to note that the Bush administration and various news outlets -- including the Times -- have asserted that there is no evidence of any U.S. connection to the London plotters -- a fact that would seem to undermine Hastert's claim that the domestic surveillance program "saved the day." For instance, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff stated in an August 11 press conference that "we do not have evidence ... that the plotting [for the attack] was done in the United States." He later added that "we did not see any U.S. internal activity in this plot." Washington Post staff writers Dan Eggen and Spencer S. Hsu reported on August 13 that U.S. law enforcement agencies found "no links" between the plotters and anyone inside the United States. And Lichtblau himself reported in an August 15 article that, according to law enforcement officials, "no links to any Americans have surfaced." Furthermore, while it has been confirmed that U.S. authorities, once alerted to the London plot, conducted extensive surveillance of suspects within the United States, news reports indicate that the eavesdropping occurred in accordance with FISA, as Media Matters for America noted. Indeed, Lichtblau reported on August 15 that "the Justice Department sought double or triple the usual rate of court-approved wiretaps to monitor the communications of American suspects" in the plot (while, again, Lichtblau reported that U.S. officials found no direct connection to anyone in this country). Eggen and Hsu, in their August 13 article, reported that hundreds of law enforcement officials undertook "dozens of clandestine surveillance and search operations on individuals with possible links to the London plotters," including "people who had been called or e-mailed by suspects or their relatives and acquaintances." But Eggen and Hsu further noted that this surveillance "produced a noticeable surge in applications for clandestine warrants from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court." Despite the above evidence that the warrantless domestic surveillance program had little -- if anything -- to do with uncovering the London terror plot, CNN justice correspondent Kelli Arena uncritically reported on the August 17 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight an argument attributed to unnamed "[g]overnment officials" that the incident is "a primary example of why the U.S. government sometimes needs to listen in on international communications without a warrant." Similarly, Fox News chief White House correspondent Bret Baier noted on the August 17 edition of Special Report that Taylor's ruling "comes one week to the day after the British terror plot to blow up jetliners was thwarted." He then reported that Gonzales "called the terrorist surveillance program a critical tool to stop more terrorist plots." From the August 17 edition of CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight : ARENA: Government officials point to the alleged plot to blow up jetliners over the Atlantic as a primary example of why the U.S. government sometimes needs to listen in on international communications without a warrant. But a federal judge in Detroit says the National Security Agency's controversial wiretapping program violates free speech and privacy rights. From the August 17 edition of Fox News' Special Report with Brit Hume : BAIER: The ruling comes one week to the day after the British terror plot to blow up jetliners was thwarted. In a late-afternoon news conference, the attorney general called the terrorist surveillance program a critical tool to stop more terrorist plots. GONZALES: I believe very strongly that the president does have the authority to authorize this kind of conduct and particularly in a time of war.
21.Aug.2006 No Evidence on Patsy Rashid Rauf By Administrator on Uncategorized Now that we are well on our way to instituting “behavioral profiling,” that is to say “looking at your background so when your passenger list comes up we start identifying people that need more scrutiny,” at airports in the United States and Britain in the wake of the “liquid bomb” non-threat a week and a half ago, the corporate media is reporting that Rashid Rauf, initially pegged as the plot “key planner” and a close relative of Jaish-e-Mohammed leader Masood Azhar who went over the al-Qaeda dark side, is in fact not what he is cracked up to be, or rather what the corporate media, listening to Pakistan’s duplicitous ISI, basically a branch office of the CIA, made him out to be. After “two weeks of interrogation, an inch-by-inch search of his house and analysis of his home computer, officials are now saying that his extradition is ‘a way down the track’ if it happens at all,” notes the Daily Mail. “It comes amid wider suspicions that the plot may not have been as serious, or as far advanced, as the authorities initially claimed…. Analysts suspect Pakistani authorities exaggerated Rauf’s role to appear ‘tough on terrorism’ and impress Britain and America.” How fortuitous, especially for the neocons and Bush’s Ministry of Homeland Security, busily working to trounce the Constitution and turn America into a snoop and police state. “Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff called on state legislators Thursday to embrace new federal driver’s license requirements to strengthen security,” reports the Associated Press. “Starting three years from now, if you live or work in the United States, you’ll need a federally approved ID card to travel on an airplane, open a bank account, collect Social Security payments, or take advantage of nearly any government service. Practically speaking, your driver’s license likely will have to be reissued to meet federal standards,” explained CNet News in March. In addition to name, birth date, sex, ID number, a digital photograph + address, “Homeland Security is permitted to add additional requirements—such as a fingerprint or retinal scan—on top of those.” In short, without this new card, slotted to go online by 2008, you will be unable to function in society. “In a speech at the annual meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures, Chertoff sought to allay privacy concerns about the federal Real ID Act, saying there are no plans to create a federal database of drivers’ personal information,” same as the NSA, ensconced in telecom offices, only listens in on al-Qaeda phone calls or reads Osama’s email. Recall Chertoff and AG Gonzales using the absurd liquid bomb plot as an excuse to hold “suspects” for long periods of time minus formal charge, as the Brits currently do. “What helped the British in this case is the ability to be nimble, to be fast, to be flexible, to operate based on fast-moving information,” or rather spurious information. “The Bush administration has pushed for greater executive authority in the war on terror, leading it to create a warrantless eavesdropping program, hold suspects who are deemed as ‘enemy combatants’ for long periods and establish a military tribunal system for detainees that affords defendants fewer rights than traditional courts-martial,” the Associated Press reported last week. In other words, kicking the Bill of Rights while it is down. Of course, at this point—with more than a week of corporate media reports detailing implausible liquid bomb scenarios + airports going into hysterical lockdown, the fact Rashid Rauf did not plan to bomb airplanes, or the disappeared “suspects” in London did not have bombs, airline tickets, or even passports—it does not matter if there was a threat or not. Far too many Americans, reacting like Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero-One, to commands from the Borg Hive, now believe al-Qaeda will sooner or later mix up a deadly concoction of bathroom chemicals on the next red-eye flight out of Chicago, thus they will acquiesce to barking security thugs at airports and mindlessly march through X-rated X-ray machines with nary a bleat of protest.
21.Aug.2006 Essential: --- 9/11 Truth Event London: Was 9/11 an inside job? https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/911-truth-event-was-911-an-inside-job --------
A quick look back at top stories this week: US officer charged in Iraq assaults https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/us-officer-charged-in-iraq-assaults Blair?s ?frenzied law making? : a new offence for every day spent in office https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/blairs-frenzied-law-making-a-new-offence-for-every-day-spent-in-office Prescott lets slip that some suspects won?t face serious charges https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/prescott-lets-slip-that-some-suspects-wont-face-serious-charges UK-US flight in emergency divert https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/uk-us-flight-in-emergency-divert Iraqi Civilian Death Toll Rose Above 3,400 in July https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/iraqi-civilian-death-toll-rose-above-3400-in-july Former British Ambassador Says Terror Alert Is ?Propaganda? https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/former-british-ambassador-says-terror-alert-is-propaganda Australia to seek Hicks? return if Guantanamo trial delays continue https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/australia-to-seek-hicks-return-if-guantanamo-trial-delays-continue Bush administration seeks changes to War Crimes Act https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/bush-administration-seeks-changes-to-war-crimes-act 9-11 Inside-Job Theory Creeps into Mainstream https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/9-11-inside-job-theory-creeps-into-mainstream 30,000 fill the streets around the White House https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/30000-fill-the-streets-around-the-white-house The top ten things food companies don?t want you to know https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/the-top-ten-things-food-companies-dont-want-you-to-know 9/11 adds up to 1,780 days behind bars for one detainee https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/911-adds-up-to-1780-days-behind-bars-for-one-detainee Terror alert: Blair to force through 90-day detention https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/terror-alert-blair-to-force-through-90-day-detention Parents scare kids off crime with police ID database https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/parents-scare-kids-off-crime-with-police-id-database Focused on 9/11, U.S. Is Seen to Lag on New Threats https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/focused-on-911-us-is-seen-to-lag-on-new-threats George Bush Should Learn the Meaning of ?Fascism? Before Using the Word https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/george-bush-should-learn-the-meaning-of-fascism-before-using-the-word Web firms? China role criticised https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/web-firms-china-role-criticised Government releases detailed 9/11 hijacking information https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/government-releases-detailed-911-hijacking-information Secret Experimentation on United States Citizens https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/secret-experimentation-on-united-states-citizens Google to Keep Storing Search Requests https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/google-to-keep-storing-search-requests Australia to help host American Concentration Camps https://www.rinf.com/columnists/news/australia-to-help-host-american-concentration-camps
21.Aug.2006 Review of recent weeks.... - BELLACIAO - Real Photo Fakers Real War Crimes - JONATHAN COOK - Collective Bellaciao
21.Aug.2006 The new Arab world
Hana Abdul Ilah Al Bayaty The project for a new Middle East was stillborn and is now buried. There is a democratic renaissance sweeping the Arab world that calls for independence, an Arab Palestine, unity, justice and democracy. It cannot be stopped. The political map of the region is being redrawn, but not by the Americans, nor the Israelis. The success of this renaissance is a gift for us all, pointing as it does towards a renewal of the international order along the lines of justice and the ! defence of human values. The page has been turned on 50 years of US-Israeli foreign policy. It is a new era. The tide has turned. Only how much destruction the bloodthirsty US-Israeli war machine will be able to inflict before it admits defeat remains to be seen and depends on our ability to resist globally. Arab victory is certain... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25924 BAGHDAD AND INFO WARS (Part One)
Malcom Lagauche ...The propaganda cover-up of the Battle of Baghdad, what we call BOBCUP (Battle of Baghdad Cover-up) was so conspicuously against the United States principles of information, which is what we follow in the Department of Defense Public Affairs operations, was so egregiously out of line, it was then that I self-mobilized my mission of conscience because, basically, it was apparent to me at that point, that we were under dictatorship. Suppressing the events of an ent! ire battle and keeping it suppressed long after the battle was over ? you know, you could have said, "Well, we didn?t want to tell the Iraqis where our troops were," or something else. But, you can?t say that months and months and months and years after the event. Baghdad was he beginning. I?ve finished a successful career; in and out of the active Army and in and out of the reserves. My last gig was that of a general staff officer. I?ve been around. Baghdad brought me out of the observation and analysis of this war to a participant in what we call the "info war." The war to get real information to the public... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25921 Innocent children jailed, U.S. official says
Sharon Behn, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Children who have never been charged with a crime are being held in juvenile prisons in Iraq, a State Department official stated in a report he posted on the Internet this week. Some of the children are in the detention centers simply because there is no one to pick them up and take them home, said Marshall Adame, an official with the National Coordination Team based out of Camp Victory in Iraq. "These are not hardened criminals or t! errorists," said Mr. Adame in a personal detailed report he published on an Internet log. He added that there had been reports of "physical and other abuse" in the detention centers but that the U.S.-led coalition considered the issue "not our urgent business."... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25915 Officer Called Haditha Routine
Marine Said Deaths Didn't Merit Inquiry
Thomas E. Ricks, Washington Post Staff Writer The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. "I thought it was very sad, very unfortunate, but at the time, I did not suspect any wrongdoing from my M! arines," Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 1st Marines, said in the statement... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25923 Letter to the World from Hanna Darwish (aka John Doe)
American-Palestinian New Generation In what modern nation can an occupying nation imprison members of a democratically elected government and escape international censorship, let alone a mere mention in the press? How many times must we witness a blacker and viler version of chutzpah? Israel has once again shown its racist and fascistic nature by imprisoning additional members of the Hamas government, this time the deputy prime minister of the Hamas government! . 'Huda, the wife of Nasser al-Shaer said on Saturday that Israeli troops burst into her home of around 4:30am and took her husband away.... She said her husband had been in hiding since Israel began its crackdown in late June after fighters in the Gaza Strip infiltrated southern Israel and captured an Israeli soldier."... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25922 Alert: BBC's Panorama and John Ware to attack Muslims
MPACUK.org As most of you will be aware, Israel and its Zionist agenda, have been waging a real war against the Palestinian people. Not satisfied with this, over the last few years we have also witnessed a strengthening media war, where lets face it, Muslims have been resounding losers. In another twist to this Islamophobic campaign, we have come to hear that, pro Israeli BBC journalist and researcher, John Ware (with picture), is planning yet another vicious ! sting against the Ummah. Who is his target and what can you do about it? Read on... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25920 How the Military/Industrial complex turned America into Murder, Inc.
The Existentialist Cowboy ...Bush, of course, will not admit that our country has become Murder, Inc. His party will even deny that we've become it's euphemism: The National Security State. The origins of our Murder, Inc. is the National Security Act of 1947 ?a blueprint for fascism . It granted to the Pentagon powers of unlimited defense spending. It would not have been possible to justify such largesse without a bogeyman to be dragged out when! ever the population is roused by truth to suspicion. In 1947, the bogeyman was the specter of communism ?a tactic urged upon President Harry Truman by GOP Senator Arthur Vandenburg. The climate of fear is maintained by both parties but with less embarrassment by the GOP... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25919 Israel Violates UN Resolution 1559
James Marc Leas Recent articles in the corporate media cite UN resolution 1559 for its insistance on disarming Hezbollah. But the articles omit mention of the resolution's equal insistance on the withdrawal of "all non-Lebanese forces from Lebanon"--including Israeli forces. These articles and the statements by US government and Israeli officials focus on the portion of UN resolution 1559 which they insist "called for the disbanding of Hezbollah?s fighting force and all other mi! litias and the extension of Lebanese government control over the entire country" ("Testing How Long the Cease Fire Can Last," New York Times, August 15, 2006)
But they do not mention that Israel violated this same UN resolution when it bombed and invaded Lebanon... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25918 Breaking the ceasefire
Eli Stephens, Left I on the News The news is filled with the story of Israel breaking the ceasefire in Lebanon; even the bold Kofi Annan said he was deeply concerned. Three points: 1. Israel has already murdered numerous alleged Hizbollah fighters since the ceasefire went into place; not once have those attacks been labelled as "violations of the ceasefire." Yes, Israel says they were defensive acts against Hizbollah fighters pointing guns at them or whatever. Maybe they were. Is there any! proof? And does Israel have the slightest credibility which would allow us to believe anything they say?... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25917 Israel: a State built on lies
Punyapriya Dasgupta ...The forked tongue is a constant in the history of Zionism. Over long years the Zionists worked single-mindedly for a take-over of Palestine but kept on denying that aim until they had achieved it. Who exactly coined the crisp slogan of a "land [Palestine] without people to a people [Jews] without land" is not known. The credit is given sometimes to Herzl himself and sometimes to his English collaborator, Israel Zangwill. Max Nordeau, another Hungarian-born asso! ciate of Herzl , had a twinge of conscience when he learnt that Palestine was not a land without people. He said: "I did not know that ? but then we are committing an injustice!" But he quickly recovered and claimed that the word "homeland", used in the Balfour Declaration and the League of Nations Mandate to camouflage the contemplated State for the Jews in Palestine was his idea. The infamous Balfour Declaration (1917) was the first tall feather in the cap of Chaim Weizmann, an arrogant Jewish biochemist who dined with British prime ministers + helped British war efforts in 1914-1918... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25916 *** NOT SATIRE ***
'A dead Saddam will be tried'
News 24 South Africa Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein could be tried posthumously for genocide if an Iraqi court decides to execute him for a separate accusation of mass murder, a US official in Baghdad said yesterday (...) "If the tribunal decides on the appeal during the Anfal trial and if it upholds the death penalty the sentence has to be carried out within 30 days of the decision on the appeal," said the US official. "Which means theoretically, that if S! addam is given the death penalty and if everything falls in place, he can be executed and the Anfal trial can carry on posthumously."... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25914 Were Arab Bishop's rights violated?
Truth About Iraqis Below is an email I received from friends and colleagues. Ask yourself this, will Pat Robertson speak of this? Will Christian television shows address this? No, they will not. This is Bishop Riah's account of what happened when he tried to fly out of Tel Aviv (it seems he was due to record an interview for 'Hard Talk', amongst other things)... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25912 Israeli government continuing its policy of imprisoning the Palestinian
Wisam Afifeh, PNN Government Spokesperson Dr. Ghazi Hamad strongly denounced Saturday Israeli forces arresting elected Palestinian officials. He put particular emphasis on this morning?s case of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Education Dr. Nasser Addin Al Shaer. Israeli soldiers besieged his Ramallah home at dawn Saturday and announced via megaphone that he was to "surrender." Dr. Hamad said Saturday, "The kidnapping comes as part of t! he continuing Israeli policy to undermine and demolish our political system and spoil the elected Palestinian government."https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25911 Declaration in support of the Arab Resistance in Lebanon
Nabila Harb, on the behalf of the editorial board of the Free Arab Voice ...This is not a conflict only for the Shi'a, although every Shi'a should support Hizb'ullah's actions. This is not a conflict only for Muslims, although every Muslim should support this Resistance. This is a conflict in which every Muslim, every Christian, every secularist, every Arab and every individual anywhere who believes in justice must support Hizb'ullah's Resistance. The peo! ple of Iraq are struggling under the yoke of foreign Occupation and oppression and a puppet government that only concerns itself with its own selfish and sectarian interests. The people of Palestine are struggling under the burden of foreign Occupation and a continuing programme of dispossession and genocide. The people of the Arab Nation from sea to sea are struggling under the corrupt rule of leaders who bow to U.S./Zionist propaganda and foreign interests daily. The aim of the U.S. alliance ultimately is the destruction of every vestige of strength and independence in the Arab Nation... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25910 Israel?s Racist ?Jihad? Against the Arab & Muslim People
Genevieve Cora Fraser As the world has witnessed in Lebanon and Palestine, Hizbullah and Hamas have a long way to go to rival the ferocity and utter ruthlessness of the Israeli military. Their goals are in diametrical opposition. Despite propaganda and resolutions to the contrary, Hizbullah and Hamas are resistance organizations, freedom fighters, determined to defend and liberate their people. Israel's military function is the alleged security of the Jewis! h state, but the achievement of that goal is highly questionable. Its hidden agenda or role, viewed historically, is the oppression and subjugation of the Arab-Muslim people so that Western Powers can rape their land and rob it of its riches ? chief of which is oil... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25909 A Journey to Southern Lebanon
Funerals at Qana
KATHY KELLY Two days ago, driving toward the village of Qana, we saw men at work, creating neatly aligned rows of rectangular cement structures that would soon be ready for burials. On foot, we entered Qana, thinking we should at least identify the site where a massacre had taken place when, on July 30, an Israeli bomb hit a building that sheltered children as they slept. It took five hours for ambulances to reach them. Statistics differ, but the most rece! nt Human Rights Watch report estimated that twenty-three were killed. Turning a corner, we saw men arranging white plastic chairs for guests who came to mourn with family members in the funeral tradition. The men sat in front of one home. Women were next door... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25907 As Full of Pro-Israeli Holes as Swiss Cheese
Inside 1701: What the UN Security Council's Ceasefire Resolution Actually Says
VIRGINIA TILLEY What is really portended by UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which set the terms for the present ceasefire in Lebanon? The very fact that it was signed at all might be encouraging, but no one is sure what its actual impact will be and most are sceptical. For Israel, will it secure the outcome its leaders are (rather desperately) claiming they have gained by thi! s dreadful war - i.e., ultimate disarmament of Hizbullah? For Lebanon and Hizbullah, will it secure Israel's withdrawal? Either way, will it last? https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25906 Cave Dwelling Muslim Behind Liquid Bomb Non-Plot
Kurt Nimmo Never mind that "liquid bombs" are fantastical nonsense, or there is no evidence those arrested?more accurately, disappeared?in Britain plotted to blow up planes (no bombs, no airline tickets, no passports), the corporate media, having established the now widely believed Brothers Grimm story of Muslim perfidy by way of household chemicals, has moved to the next level. "An al-Qaeda operative who masterminded the alleged plot to blow up airliners over the ! Atlantic is hiding in mountainous terrain in north-eastern Afghanistan, a Pakistan intelligence official has claimed," reports the Scotsman... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25905 Saved again, thank the Lord, saved again
The Anti-Empire Report
Some things you need to know before the world ends
William Blum So now we've (choke) just been (gasp) saved from the simultaneous blowing up of ten airplanes headed toward the United States from the UK. Wow, thank you Brits, thank you Homeland Security. Well done, lads. And thanks for preventing the destruction of the Sears Tower in Chicago, saving lower Manhattan from a terrorist-unleashed flood, smashing the frightful Canadian "terr! or plot" with 17 arrested, ditto the three Toledo terrorists + squashing the Los Angeles al Qaeda plot to fly a hijacked airliner into a skyscraper. The Los Angeles plot of 2002 was proudly announced by George W. early this year. It has since been totally discredited. Declared one senior counterterrorism official: "There was no definitive plot. It never materialized or got past the thought stage... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25904 Israeli officer killed, 2 others injured, in unsuccessful commando operation in Lebanon
Ma'an News The Israeli army acknowledged Saturday that an Israeli officer was killed and two others seriously injured in an unsuccessful landing, west of Ba'albek, in Lebanon. They were involved in a confrontation with Hezbollah fighters, during which three Hezbollah fighters and the Israeli officer were killed. Lebanese security sources reported earlier that Israeli warplanes fired missiles at a Hezbollah stronghold in easter! n Lebanon in the early hours of Saturday morning, The Israeli strike came just hours after the United Nations appealed to the Europeans to contribute troops to a peacekeeping force to separate the two sides... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25903 ?Let me get my right by my own hands.?
Treasure of Baghdad ...Abu Bakir is an old man in his late 50s who works in the ministry of Agriculture in Baghdad. As he was heading to work, he was accompanied by one of his sons. As they were leaving the ministry, a group of armed men blocked off their way and kidnapped Abu Bakir leaving his son shouting and screaming in the street trying to help his father but in vain. No one intervened. By this time, bad news was coming like rain from the new democratic country. People ! were dying in dozens, fuel crisis increased, electricity almost vanished in a place where temperature reached 120 F + death squads and militias move freely in a lawless country where no official force is really in control. S., my other close friend, emailed me and told me that the neighborhood opposite to mine is controlled by the Mahdi army militiamen who threatened every single Sunni family to leave despite the fact that the neighborhood is mixed and never had problems (...) Abu Bakir?s family searched for every spot they expected to see him in. One day, they received a phone call from the kidnappers. "We killed your father," they told his 24 year-old daughter. Neighbors took them to Ur neighborhood to search for his dead body. Finally, they found it in a black trash bag in a trash area. It was really hard to identify him, A. said. It appeared he was brutally tortured... https://www.uruknet.info/?p=25902
21.Aug.2006 Israeli Mossad Implicated In Attempt To Bomb German Trains
21.Aug.2006 World Net Daily Forced To Issue 9/11 Hit Piece Retraction - Paul Joseph Watson- "No such comments made by Jones," admits website as another attack exposed for baseless allegations.
21.Aug.2006 oaxaca? aufstand! - radio corax -während der wahlbetrug auch in westlichen Medien langsam bekannt (gegeben) wird...eskaliert die situation in oaxaca weiter:
21.Aug.2006 Auf dem Weg zum überregionalen Freifunk-Netz - Mario Behling
Viele Freifunker kennen das: Man ist der erste und hat keinen Kontakt zur "großen Wolke". Auch wenn sich einige Freunde in der Umgebung mit anschließen, solange kein Kontakt zur großen Wolke besteht, bleibt das Freifunk-Erlebnis doch ziemlich unspektakulär. Warum also den ganzen Aufwand betreiben und mitmachen? Warum nicht warten, bis sich die Lücke zu zum lokalen Netz schließt? Um verstreute Netze - kleine und große miteinander zu verbinden, gibt es nun das FreifunkVPN-Projekt. Denn, mittels VPN-Technik ergibt sich die Möglichkeit einzelne Wolken über das Internet mit einem Tunnel zu verbinden und so die Freifunkwolken in einer Stadt und sogar die Netze verschiedener Städte in einem gemeinsamen überregionalen Freifunk-Netz zu vereinen. Dies ermöglicht nun auch den Freifunkern in kleinen Netzen mit größeren Freifunk-Wolken in Kontakt zu treten und so direkt mit entfernten Teilnehmern zu kommunizieren - ein starker Motivationsschub.
21.Aug.2006 Sicherheitslage "ungewöhnlich ernst" - schäuble
pünkltlich zur besten verlegezeit für bw-marineeinheiten wird deutschland opfer einer stümperhaften terrorwelle,und wie soll es anders sein waren es ausgerechnet libanesen(aber nicht von der hisbollah)die zu binladens
truppe gehören sollen.der typ auf dem bild soll mit noch einem komplizen(2.bild)zwei bomben in koblenz und dortmund deponiert haben um 2 züge zu sprengen,stellten sich aber zu blöd an.
nachdem er anhand dieses bildes identifiziert wurde,wurde er in kiel festgenommen.
wenn man davon ausgeht das für einen deutschen beamten diese"asylanten" alle gleich aussehen eine meisterleistung,bei der qualität der bilder,und wie man ausgerechnet darauf kommt den in kiel zu suchen.ich hätte den nicht mal erkannt wenn er direkt neben den bild gestanden hätte und gesagt hätte das bin ich.
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21.Aug.2006 Fraudulent Australian Census Takers
In Australia, criminals are posing as census takers and harvesting personal data for fraudulent purposes. EDITED TO ADD (8/21): I didn't notice that this link is from 2001. Sorry about missing that, but it actually makes the story more interesting....
21.Aug.2006 Mutiny as passengers refuse to fly until Asians are removed
The extraordinary scenes happened after some of the 150 passengers on a Malaga-Manchester flight overheard two men of Asian appearance apparently talking Arabic. Passengers told cabin crew they feared for their safety and demanded police action. Some stormed off the Monarch Airlines Airbus A320 ...
21.Aug.2006 Was Flight 93 Shot Down? New Book Says Yes. - John C Dvorak - Weird accounts will make you suspicious.
21.Aug.2006 Brazil's Road to Energy Independence
SAO PAULO, Brazil -- Record oil prices have made the world's energy landscape a darkly foreboding place this year, inhospitable to optimism and celebration. Except in Brazil. It has been something of a banner year here, full of milestones. The government predicts that for the first time in its ...
21.Aug.2006 Elusive Proof, Elusive Prover: A New Mathematical Mystery
To a topologist, a rabbit is the same as a sphere. Neither has a hole. Longitude and latitude lines on the rabbit allow mathematicians to map it onto different forms while preserving information. Three years ago, a Russian mathematician by the name of Grigory Perelman, a k a Grisha, in St. ...
21.Aug.2006 Terror suspect lodges an appeal A woman, who is among 23 terror suspects being held over an alleged air terror plot, applies to be released.
21.Aug.2006 No Saddam plea at genocide trial Saddam Hussein refuses to enter a plea on the opening day of his trial on charges of genocide and war crimes.
21.Aug.2006 Ten dead in Moscow market blast An explosion killed 10 people, including at least two children, at a market in eastern Moscow, officials say.
21.Aug.2006 No nuclear halt, warns Khamenei Iran's supreme leader says his country will press ahead with its nuclear programme, despite pressure for a halt.
21.Aug.2006 Oil rebounds on Iran uncertainty Oil prices rebound on Monday from their two-month lows as concerns reignite over Iran's nuclear programme.
21.Aug.2006 Japan bans 'contaminated' US rice Japan suspends imports of US long-grain rice after supplies are found to contain an unapproved GM variety.
21.Aug.2006 TV and papers trusted over blogs The British public trust newspapers and television as much as their family and friends for information, says a new study.
21.Aug.2006 Madonna defies prosecution row Pop star Madonna starts the German leg of her tour despite threats of possible prosecution for blasphemy.
21.Aug.2006 Fatal storm hits Hungary festival At least two people die and many are hurt when a storm hits a firework festival in Hungary's capital Budapest.
21.Aug.2006 Ice geysers 'discovered on Mars' Geysers spewing sand and dust hundreds of feet into the air have been discovered on Mars, scientists say.
21.Aug.2006 Canaries' migrant wave hits 1,000 The number of illegal immigrants arriving in Spain's Canary Islands from Africa in three days hits 1,000.
21.Aug.2006 Lighting risk to premature babies Constant exposure to artificial hospital lights may damage premature babies' biological clocks, research suggests.
21.Aug.2006 Snails poison diners in Beijing A popular snail dish is blamed for at least 50 meningitis cases in the Chinese capital.
21.Aug.2006 HIV 'switches off' immune cells Scientists discover precisely how HIV evades the body's natural defences against viral infections.
21.Aug.2006 Mother gives rabbit flu warning The mother of a man believed to be Britain's first rabbit flu victim issues a warning about the disease.
21.Aug.2006 Baby spot sparks plane alert A ten-month-old baby is ordered off a plane over fears that a spot on his head was chickenpox.
21.Aug.2006 Biofuel Production to Cause Water Shortages? - ScuttleMonkey 184 - WED Fan writes "Scientists meeting in Stockholm are reporting that increased food and biofuel production will place higher demand upon irrigation and water resources." From the article: "Demand for irrigation -- which absorbs about 74 percent of all water used by people against 18 percent for hydro-power and other industrial uses and just 8 percent for households -- was likely to surge by 2050. Many nations are also shifting to produce biofuels -- from sugarcane, corn or wood -- as a less polluting alternative to fossil fuels. Oil prices at $75 a barrel and worries about global warming are driving the shift."
21.Aug.2006 Goldfish Smarter Than Dolphins - ScuttleMonkey 321 - flergum writes "While dolphins may have big brains, laboratory rats and goldfish can outwit them. It appears that the large brains are a function of their environment rather than intelligence. From the article: 'Dolphins have a superabundance of glia and very few neurons... The dolphin's brain is not made for information processing it is designed to counter the thermal challenges of being a mammal in water.' I guess this means that the Navy will start recruiting and training goldfish for those mine search and destroy missions."
21.Aug.2006 ISS Construction Resumes - ScuttleMonkey 96 - avtchillsboro writes "The NY Times has an article detailing new construction on the International Space Station (ISS) and the additions via coming Space Shuttle missions through 2010. From the article: 'For more than three years, the International Space Station has floated half-built above the Earth. Maintained by a skeleton crew, the station — an assemblage of modules and girders — has not come close to its stated goal of becoming a world-class research outpost. But now construction, which has hung in limbo since NASA's space shuttle fleet was grounded after the 2003 Columbia disaster, is scheduled to resume. The shuttle Atlantis is scheduled to lift off next Sunday carrying a bus-size segment of the station's backbone that includes a new set of solar-power arrays.'"
21.Aug.2006 Morphine Relief Without Addiction? - ScuttleMonkey 253 - Roland Piquepaille writes "Morphine has been used as a painkiller for decades, if not centuries. Unfortunately for patients, morphine is also an addictive substance. Now, Brigham Young University (BYU) chemists are using a vine plant that grows in Australia to develop a new painkilling molecule, but with fewer side effects. The Deseret Morning News reports that the BYU chemists hope to ease pain with hasubanonine, the synthetic compound they created and which has a similar molecular structure as morphine. Still, more tests need to be done before this natural drug can replace morphine."
21.Aug.2006 First Phase of AIDS Vaccine Trials Successful - ScuttleMonkey 462 - rbarreira writes "Xinhua online is reporting on the success of the first trial phase of an AIDS vaccine, which was started on March 2005. From the article: '"Forty-nine healthy people who received the injection showed no severe adverse reactions after 180 days, proving the vaccine was safe," said Zhang Wei, head of the pharmaceutical registration department of the SFDA. "The recipients appeared immune to the HIV-1 virus 15 days after the injection, indicating the vaccine worked well in stimulating the body's immunity," he told the press conference.' After the results are further analyzed, 800 more voluntaries may be needed for the second and third phases of the vaccine's trial."
21.Aug.2006 This Global Warming Fix Stinks A Nobel laureate gives credence to a malodorous solution to global warming: shooting sulfur into the Earth's atmosphere.
21.Aug.2006 Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame AOL's decision to release hundreds of thousands of search records ranks among the worst privacy breaches of all time. We surveyed the field and offer 10 other examples that rival or even exceed it.
21.Aug.2006 Blimp Cell Service Idea Floated If robotic airships floating in the stratosphere could replace unsightly telecom towers and expensive satellites, they just might improve earthly communications. One company is lofting a test dirigible.
21.Aug.2006 Republican Sen. Hagel says GOP has lost its way
Lamont's phone rings off the hook with new support from Dem establishment...
A Riveting Documentary Covering the Horrific First Step Into Nuclear Warfare: Hiroshima, Produced by the BBC
Iran fired 10 short-range missiles on the second day of large- scale military exercises Sunday, as officials reiterated Tehran's stance that it did not intend to halt its uranium enrichment program. 8/21
Brent Budowsky: "We will win elections, lead the nation + make America the best it can be when we build and finance the megaphone that will end the one party state once and for all, by ending the one party media that makes it possible." Hear, Hear! No one knows better than BuzzFlash that the big progressive donors don't back progressive media, with few exceptions. We survive because of the average American's good will and dollars. The big progressive dollars don't understand the importance of the media in defining the debate. That's why Ann Coulter makes millions as a vulgar right wing shock terrorist -- and sites like BuzzFlash have to go hat in hand. Unpopular Alaska incumbent Gov. Frank Murkowski may not escape Tuesday's Republican primary. If Murkowski is unseated, his deal to smooth the way for a $25 billion natural gas pipeline to Canada will likely go down with him. 8/21 21.Aug.2006 UN says Lebanon truce may unravel 8/21 Frank Rich: "As the election campaign quickens, genuine nightmares may well usurp the last gasps of Rovian fear-based politics. It's hard to ignore the tragic reality that American troops are caught in the cross-fire of a sectarian bloodbath escalating daily, that botched American policy has strengthened Iran and Hezbollah and undermined Israel + that our Department of Homeland Security is as ill-equipped now to prevent explosives (liquid or otherwise) in cargo as it was on 9/11." 21.Aug.2006 GOP think tank creature predicts attack on Iran in 12 to 18 months 8/21
Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story ? Part 5 : Mujahideen movies 8/21
21.Aug.2006 Presseschau: "Terroristen zielen auf unsere offene Gesellschaft"
21.Aug.2006 20. AUGUST 2006 Wahlen im Kongo: Schießerei kurz vor Schluss 21.Aug.2006 Flüchtlingsstrom: Erneutes Drama vor Lampedusa
21.Aug.2006 Äthiopien: 16.000 Menschen aus Fluten gerettet
21.Aug.2006 Nahost: Wieder Hamas- Politiker festgenommen 21.Aug.2006 Terrorbekämpfung: Unter freundlichen Augen 21.Aug.2006 Atomkonflikt: Muskelspiele in Teheran 21.Aug.2006 Terrorverdacht: Haftbefehl gegen mutmaßlichen Bombenleger
21.Aug.2006 Clamor Magazine : issue 14 : feature His hobbies were golf, hunting, drinking scotch + beating his sons to a pulp. Elsie Walker, one of Walker's grandchildren described Walker as a "tough old ... www.clamormagazine.org/issues/14/feature3.php Bush family election special 2004 *By the time Prescott Bush was a teenager, the Bushes were sufficiently ... boxer whose hobbies were described as " golf, hunting, drinking scotch + ... www.e-book.com.au/electionspecial04.htm May 2003 eDebate Archives: [eDebate] hitler's angel 1AC: nazi b and one of the most extravagant apartments in Manhattan. His hobbies were golf , hunting , drinking scotch and beating his sons to a pulp. Elsie Walker, ... www.ndtceda.com/archives/200305/0107.html George W. Bush: Heir to the Holocaust – HTML-Version ... coast + one of the most extravagant apartments in Manhattan. His hobbies were golf, hunting, drinking scotch + beating his sons to a pulp. Elsie ... coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_3-7.pdf
21.Aug.2006 Testigos de Jehová HISTORIA DE LA SECTA DE LOS "TESTIGOS DE JEHOVA" Russelistas fue el primer nombre que se les dió a los adeptos de esta secta por ser Russel su fundador. Al morir Russel 21.Aug.2006 tomar el mando Rutherford, se cambió de nombre. ... Santo" (Mateo 28,19). FUNDADOR: CHARLES TAZE RUSSEL . El fundador de los Testigos de Jehová fue Charles Taze Russel ... www.legionhermosillo.com.mx/testigos.html
20.Aug.2006 Hagel: Iraq Is In A ‘Very Defined Civil War’ - Amanda - Today on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said that Iraq is in a “very defined civil war” and that the Middle East is “the most unstable we’ve seen since 1948.” He also reiterated that the United States needs to begin withdrawing troops within the next six months because staying the course just continues to “kill Americans and put Americans in the middle of a civil war that we have less and less control and influence over every day.” Watch it: Digg It! Full transcript below: HAGEL: We have a very unstable Middle East, the most unstable we’ve seen since 1948. You can measure that any way you want. The fact is the future of Iraq will be determined by the Iraqi people, just like it was in Vietnam. The answer in my opinion is not to just keep feeding more American troops into it. The Iraqi people have already made some decisions here. We, in fact, are in probably a low-grade — maybe a very defined — civil war. You’ve got corruption. Everywhere. As bad as it’s ever been. You’ve got uncontrollables that we can’t control. We can’t deal with. Iran probably has more influence in Iraq than we do at this point. [snip] WALLACE: You have said that you think we should begin pulling troops out within six months. HAGEL: I do. WALLACE: How is that going to make things better? HAGEL: How is it going to make things better for us to continue to kill Americans and put Americans in the middle of a civil war that we have less and less control and influence over every day? How does that stabilize things? This is going to play out, Chris, on its own. I’m not saying pull out of Iraq. That’s not what I’ve said. I’ve said start withdrawing troops. We have to show the Iraqi people — and this obviously cuts right to the great anti-Americanism by any poll, by any measurements there — that we are not there to predetermine their outcome. We’re not there to control or to govern. They are going to have to do that. Now, the fact is, bottom line, Chris, there are very few options here. We don’t have any good options. We got a mess on our hands in the Middle East.
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20.Aug.2006 Airliner plot, Tablighi Jamaat, ISI and Mossad - aangirfan
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Airliner plot, Tablighi Jamaat, ISI and Mossad By aangirfan There are reports that the plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic (August 2006) may be linked to an organisation called Tablighi Jamaat, which may be linked to Pakistan Intelligence, which may have been penetrated not just by the CIA but also by Mossad.
19.Aug.2006 From The Guardian https://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,,1853800,00.html
Tablighi Jamaat , whose activities are being monitored by the security services, holds tightly guarded meetings on an industrial estate close to the area where some of the suspects in last week's terror raids were arrested. This week it emerged that at least seven of the 23 suspects under arrest on suspicion of involvement in the plot to blow up transatlantic airliners may have participated in Tablighi events.
The organisation - influenced by a branch of Saudi Arabian Islam known as Wahhabism - has already been linked to two of the July 7 suicide bombers who attended a Tablighi mosque at the organisation's headquarters in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire. The jailed shoe bo mber Richard Reid is also known to have attended Tablighi meetings.
2. B Raman, Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, wrote the following:
LTTE targets ISI station chief in Colombo ( Cached )
Col. Bashir Wali , a former chief of Pakistan's Intelligence Bureau + a fomer officer of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence ( ISI ), was posted as the Pakistani High Commissioner in Colombo in June 2004.
It is reported that Col. Wali was and still is an active member of the Tablighi Jamaat.
3. Washington's Pakistani Allies: Killers and Drug Dealers, by Rahul Bedi in New Delhi
Reprinted from Sydney Morning Herald, September 27, 2001
https://emperors-clothes.com/analysis/allies.htm... Opium cultivation and heroin production in Pakistan's northern tribal belt and adjoining Afghanistan were a vital offshoot of the ISI-CIA co-operation.
4. Ralph Olson Sr., on 2 Jan 2005, wrote about:"Charlie Wilson's War" by George Crile , Grove Press,NY, 2003.https://www.apfn.net/messageboard/01-05-05/discussion.cgi.71.html
... the CIA, since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, cultivated the ISI as their most important client and agent...
I just read "Charlie Wilson's War" by George Crile, Grove Press, NY, 2003.
The Mossad used Charlie Wilson to penetrate the CIA's Afghan campaign + thereby the ISI and the Pakistani government at all levels...
CIA officer Milton Bearden says that in this period Dick Cheney played a key role in getting Wilson appointed to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence , which may suggest that Cheney was an important player in the pro-Israeli network even at this point ("The Main Enemy", Milton Bearden, Ballantine Books, NY, 2003. pg. 277).
The Israelis may have gained Wilson's allegiance in part by pandering to his appetites. Charlie Wilson was very close with at least three very beautiful Israeli women + at least two of these were put in his path by the Israeli government. One was "Ziva, a beautiful Israeli ballerina" (Crile, pg. 2).
Then there was "a raven-haired captain in the Israeli Defense Forces.She was the congressman's official guide to the war zone + Wilson's infatuation began on that first trip into the desert to see the burning Russian tanks" (Crile, pg. 32).
Then he was introduced to Gila Almagor, Israel's leading movie star (Crile,pg. 32). "By the time he got back to Washington, Wilson hadbecome, in his own words, 'an Israeli commando' in the U.S.Congress" (Crile, pg. 32)...
As soon as he had gained access to the key Congressional positions, the "Israeli commando" became obsessed with funding and controling the CIA's Afhan jihad against the Soviets. In the words of Milton Bearden, the CIA Field Officer in Afghanistan at the time, "More than any other member of either house, Charlie fashioned Congress into the engine that drove the CIA's program for Afghanistan." (Bearden, pg. 277).
Given what George Crile has revealed about Charlie Wilson's career,we can substitute "the Mossad" for "Charlie" in the previous statement...
Traveling from Israel to Pakistan, Wilson was successful in selling president Zia on acquiring massive amounts ofIsraeli technology and weaponry (Crile, 140 - 153)...
So in summary, the Israelis were very major players in the Afghan jihad, providing crucial technology and weaponry. They accomplished this not by interfacing with the CIA, which opposed their involvement, but by interfacing their own intelligence agencies directly with the U.S. Congress + using Congressional delegations to establish their own direct connections to the government and intelligence services of Pakistan. The Israeli/Pakistan connnection was crucial to the success of the Afghan campaign against the Soviets + provided Israeli intelligence with a very secure footing inside Pakistan's intelligence agency, the ISI.
20.Aug.2006 .... Israeli commandos ... Lebanese prime minister,called a “flagrant violation” of the cease-fire ... - Truce Strained as Israelis Raid Lebanon Site - New York Times
20.Aug.2006 UK Terror "Plot" - codshit.com: conspiracy theories and a search for the truth
20.Aug.2006 Cave Dwelling Muslim Behind Liquid Bomb Non-Plot By Administrator on Uncategorized Never mind that “liquid bombs” are fantastical nonsense, or there is no evidence those arrested—more accurately, disappeared—in Britain plotted to blow up planes (no bombs, no airline tickets, no passports), the corporate media, having established the now widely believed Brothers Grimm story of Muslim perfidy by way of household chemicals, has moved to the next level. “An al-Qaeda operative who masterminded the alleged plot to blow up airliners over the Atlantic is hiding in mountainous terrain in north-eastern Afghanistan, a Pakistan intelligence official has claimed,” reports the Scotsman. “Although his name and nationality have not been revealed, the suspect allegedly exchanged messages, carried by a courier, with detained British national Rashid Rauf, who is being interrogated by Pakistani authorities in connection with the alleged plot that was smashed last week with at least 30 people arrested in both Britain and Pakistan.”
20.Aug.2006 But never mind. Our Ministry of Fantastic Stories, otherwise known as the corporate media, more accurately described as the stenographic wing of the neocon-dominated government, has spent a lot of time and effort building Ayman al-Zawahiri into an archfiend of illustrious and scary Freddy Kruger proportion, second only to Osama, who we hear from on occasion, no matter a recent Osama tape is “like a voice from the grave,” not surprising as Osama died some time ago.
20.Aug.2006 David Ray Griffin Update - 9/11 book from church publishing house causes uproar
20.Aug.2006 The Revver Interns: child labor vs. illegal aliens - Steven edward streight
Since most companies don't give a flying fig about hiring illegals + want us to think we need to "seal our borders", then...why should your company worry about child labor laws? Get VC funding, then employ the cheapest labor of all: children. One McDonald's Happy Meal per day should suffice, ...
20.Aug.2006 Lebanon sounds ceasefire warning Any group breaking the ceasefire with Israel will face decisive action, Lebanon's defence minister warns.
20.Aug.2006 Immigrant worker restriction call The Tories call for curbs to be imposed on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania ahead of entry into the EU.
20.Aug.2006 Byers seeks inheritance tax end Former cabinet minister Stephen Byers calls for inheritance taxes to be scrapped.
20.Aug.2006 Plane ticket surcharge dismissed The government says air passengers will not have to pay a surcharge to cover the soaring price of airport security.
20.Aug.2006 'Suspicious' pair taken off plane Two men are taken off a flight bound for Manchester after passengers become alarmed at their suspicious behaviour.
20.Aug.2006 DR Congo to reveal poll results Provisional results from DR Congo's elections are due to be announced, with a second round seeming likely.
20.Aug.2006 South Korean flood aid for North South Korea's government pledges 100,000 tons of rice and construction material to flood-ravaged North Korea.
20.Aug.2006 Chavez opponent rallies followers The main opposition candidate in Venezuela leads supporters on a march before formalising his 2006 presidential bid.
20.Aug.2006 Germany warns of terrorist threat Germans are warned they face the threat of attack after a man is arrested over an alleged train bomb plot.
20.Aug.2006 Iran 'will not halt enrichment' Iran says it will not suspend uranium enrichment, a key demand in a bid to resolve a nuclear row.
20.Aug.2006 Protests at Nepal fuel price hike Angry protests erupt in Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, after the price of petrol rises by a quarter.
20.Aug.2006 Blair and Reid 'dominating' media The prime minister and home secretary top a survey counting recent media coverage of politicians.
20.Aug.2006 New breast cancer test 'reliable' Scientists say a new type of breast cancer test that could avoid some women needing chemotherapy is reliable.
20.Aug.2006 FDA OKs Viruses to Treat Food
Certain microbes like to live on cold cuts, hot dogs and sausages. Certain viruses feast on those bad bugs + now the bacteria eaters (bacteriophages) can be sprayed on the ready-to-eat meats before they are packaged.
20.Aug.2006 Under the Hood of Quantum Computing - ScuttleMonkey 53 - nanotrends writes "Gordie Rose, the CTO of Dwave Systems, the venture funded company that plans to offer paid use of a superconducting quantum computer starting in 2007, reveals secrets of his quantum computer construction. It is based on nobium superconducting 'circuits of atoms' and is not RSFQ. (Rapid Single Flux quantum)."
20.Aug.2006 Polymer 'Muscle' Changes How we Look at Color - ScuttleMonkey 64 - New Scientist is reporting that in the not-so-distant future computer monitors + televisions may utilize a color changing polymer that responds to a current instead of existing techniques. From the article: "Aschwanden and colleagues built arrays of 10 pixels, each 80 micrometers across. The pixels consist of a piece of polymer covered with ridges tipped with gold. When white light is shone at the polymer from one side it reflects out of the screen and is also split into different wavelengths by this 'diffraction grating'. However, a slit above the polymer ensures that only one wavelength of light escapes, giving the pixel its color. The pieces of polymer also contract in response to current, like simple muscles. As they do so, the fan of light-waves is moved, changing the color that is fed through the slits above and out of the screen. Cutting the current causes the muscle to return to its original state."
20.Aug.2006 Molecules Spontaneously Form Honycomb - ScuttleMonkey 94 -
Science Daily is reporting that University of California Researchers have discovered a new process in which molecules assemble into complex patterns without any outside guidance. From the article: "Spreading anthraquinone, a common and inexpensive chemical, on to a flat copper surface, Greg Pawin, a chemistry graduate student working in the laboratory of Ludwig Bartels, associate professor of chemistry, observed the spontaneous formation of a two-dimensional honeycomb network comprised of anthraquinone molecules."
20.Aug.2006 Eavesdropping on a Botnet - ScuttleMonkey 137 -
wild3rbeast writes "Joe Stewart, a senior security researcher with LURHQ's Threat Intelligence Group has figured out a way to silently spy on a botnet's command-and-control infrastructure + finds that for-profit crackers are clearly winning the cat-and-mouse game against entrenched anti-virus providers. From the article: 'The lesson here is once you get infected, you are completely under the control of the botmaster. He can put whatever he wants on your machine + there's no way to be 100 percent sure that the machine is clean. The only way to be [completely] sure the system is malware-free is to completely wipe the hard drive and reinstall the operating system.'"
20.Aug.2006 https://www.alternet.org/story/40485/
Cheney Gets Flawed Neocon Briefings on Iran
Larisa Alexandrovna, Raw Story
20.Aug.2006 https://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329557486-119093,00.html
'The skill with which it was made shows a level of instrument-making not surpassed until the Renaissance. It really is the first hard evidence of their interest in mechanical gadgets, ability to make them and the preparedness of somebody to pay for them.'
20.Aug.2006 https://observer.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,329557486-119093,00.html
But 102 years after the discovery of the calcium-encrusted bronze mechanism on the ocean floor, hidden inscriptions show that it is the world's oldest computer, used to map the motions of the sun, moon and planets. 'We're very close to unlocking the secrets,' says Xenophon Moussas,an astrophysicist with a Anglo-Greek team researching the device. 'It's like a puzzle concerning astronomical and mathematical knowledge.' Known as the Antikythera mechanism and made before the birth of Christ, the instrument was found by sponge divers amid the wreckage of a cargo ship that sunk off the tiny island of Antikythera in 80BC. To date, no other appears to have survived.
20.Aug.2006 Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal European investigators are tracking the mysterious deaths of two security experts who had uncovered extensive spyware in their telecommunications firms.
20.Aug.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Nuclear war Pravda says it's scheduled for August 22, roughly speaking. Just in case you were curious. Permalink
20.Aug.2006 Months after making headlines, John Murtha's popularity booming.
Go, John, Go! 20.Aug.2006 Brent Budowsky: "We will win elections, lead the nation + make America the best it can be when we build and finance the megaphone that will end the one party state once and for all, by ending the one party media that makes it possible." Hear, Hear! No one knows better than BuzzFlash that the big progressive donors don't back progressive media, with few exceptions. We survive because of the average American's good will and dollars. The big progressive dollars don't understand the importance of the media in defining the debate. That's why Ann Coulter makes millions as a vulgar right wing shock terrorist -- and sites like BuzzFlash have to go hat in hand. 20.Aug.2006 Read "Toxic Faith: Liberal Cure. A Reasoned and Judeo-Christian Response to the Alarming Assertions of the Religious Right."
GOP hopes ruling that they broke the law will keep terrorism in the news and win votes. Why don't they just rob old ladies to keep the economy in the news? 8/20
Frank Rich: "As the election campaign quickens, genuine nightmares may well usurp the last gasps of Rovian fear-based politics. It's hard to ignore the tragic reality that American troops are caught in the cross-fire of a sectarian bloodbath escalating daily, that botched American policy has strengthened Iran and Hezbollah and undermined Israel + that our Department of Homeland Security is as ill-equipped now to prevent explosives (liquid or otherwise) in cargo as it was on 9/11." 20.Aug.2006 Comment on BuzzFlash Original Articles at BuzzFlash.Org. Just register and then comment away. As always, it's free.
Bush Still Living on Fantasy Island: "Iraq War keystone in terror fight." Bush Rules by Lie -- And Tens of Thousands Die.
Dispatch from the BuzzFlash Department of Reality: 4 U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan
MP isn't sorry he leaked "crap" description of Bush 8/20 20.Aug.2006 Flight 93 'was shot down' claims book 8/21
20.Aug.2006 Law strips Hicks of UK citizenship in hours: DAVID Hicks was secretly made a British citizen inside his Guantanamo Bay cell last month, but spent only hours as an Englishman before his status was stripped from him 20.Aug.2006 I.R.S. Enlists Help in Collecting Delinquent Taxes- If you owe back taxes to the federal government, the next call asking you to pay may come not from an Internal Revenue Service officer, but from a private debt collector. 18.Aug.2006 Bush Must Negotiate to Make America Safer, Say Former Generals -By Aaron Glantz
Twenty-one former generals and high ranking national security officials have called on United States President George W. Bush to reverse course and embrace a new area of negotiation with Iran, Iraq + North Korea. In a letter released Thursday, the group told reporters Bush's 'hard line' policies have undermined national security and made America less safe. Continue 20.Aug.2006 The army is back, but don't expect it to disarm Hizbollah -By Robert Fisk
Now you see them, now you don't. Hizbollah weapons? None to be seen. And none to be collected by the Lebanese army. For when this august body of men crossed the Litani river yesterday, their officers made it perfectly clear that it would not be the army's job to disarm the Hizbollah. Nor was anyone in Lebanon surprised. Continue 20.Aug.2006 "Mass murder on an unbelievable scale" The timing is political -By Craig Murry
None of the alleged terrorists had made a bomb. None had bought a plane ticket. Many did not have passports. It could be pretty difficult to convince a jury that these individuals were about to go through with suicide bombings, whatever they bragged about on the net. Continue
20.Aug.2006 One in Ten Israeli Tanks Destroyed By Hezbollah : The high toll of the war on Israel’s Armored Corps was a shock to top military brass, especially given the fact that Hezbollah has no tanks. 20.Aug.2006 Chavez: Lebanon destroyed by genocidal hand of Israel : Venezuelan president announces nationwide fundraising drive to raise money for rebuilding Lebanon and for Palestinians; calls Lebanese ‘heroic people’ 20.Aug.2006 US names spy operations 'manager' for Cuba, Venezuela: ; The United States has named a special "manager" for its intelligence operations against Cuba + Venezuela, in effect putting the two Latin American nations on a par with "axis of evil" states confronted on multiple levels by the administration of President George W Bush. 20.Aug.2006 Chavez: Venezuela Captured 4 U.S Spies : President Hugo Chavez said Friday that Venezuela has caught four people spying for the U.S. government and has turned them over to the Americans. 20.Aug.2006 Tape revives Mexican conspiracy theory: Recording backs losing presidential candidate's claim of plot against him 20.Aug.2006 Bolivia's nationalisation plans in trouble : The government remains eager to make sure the country's poor benefit from the nation's natural resources. But the government has also admitted setbacks. 20.Aug.2006 Death fall link to 'CIA kidnap' : Rome Prosecutors suspect that the apparent suicide of Italia Telecom’s head of security is linked to his helping police to investigate whether members of the Italian secret service colluded with CIA agents in the abduction in Milan of a man accused of terrorism. 20.Aug.2006 Two Strange Deaths in European Wiretapping Scandal: European investigators are tracking the mysterious deaths of two security experts who had uncovered extensive spyware in their telecommunications firms 20.Aug.2006 In case you missed it: Wiretapping Found at French, German, UK EU Offices : The countries targeted were France, Germany, Britain, Italy, Spain and Austria, the officials said. 20.Aug.2006 Fact or fiction?: 'Zawahiri kin behind UK terror plot': A son-in-law of Al-Qaeda number two Ayman Al-Zawahiri is believed to be the mastermind of the terrorist plot to blow up US-bound flights from UK, according to Pakistani intelligence sources. 20.Aug.2006 War in Lebanon may improve chances for sanctions on Iran : Senior officials in the United States and Israel believe the sanctions will include restrictions on senior Iranian figures + that an effort will be made to avoid, at least initially, measures that harm the populace directly. 20.Aug.2006 Iran stages massive war games: Iranian armed forces held a massive military manoeuvre yesterday to test new weapons and tactics against a potential enemy, state television reported. 20.Aug.2006 Ahmadinejad roadshow seduces an adoring public : Eyewitness report: Iran's president arrives on a US-made helicopter - an evangelist from the sky 20.Aug.2006 The Logic of Suicide Terrorism: It’s the occupation, not the fundamentalism
20.Aug.2006 Alarm as Lebanese army urged to resist Israel: AN INTERNAL Lebanese army statement has called for troops to stand "alongside your resistance and your people who astonished the world with its steadfastness and destroyed the prestige of the so-called invincible army after it was defeated". 20.Aug.2006 UN chief slams Europeans for undermining UNIFIL : United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has criticized European member states for failing to send troops to expand the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) as mandated under Resolution 1701. 20.Aug.2006 Robert Fisk: No wonder the UN can't find volunteers : Israel is keen to see the implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions 1559 and 1701, which demand the disarmament of Hizbollah - an organisation which Israel so dismally failed to disarm over the past six weeks after wrecking Lebanon and slaughtering more than a thousand Lebanese civilians . 20.Aug.2006 The fight reflex : With the ceasefire, the guerrillas are returning to what is left of their homes in Lebanon. But for some, the next battle can't come too soon
20.Aug.2006 Israel Committed to Block Arms and Kill Nasrallah : Despite a cease-fire agreement, Israel intends to do its best to keep Iran and Syria from rearming Hezbollah and to kill the militia’s leader, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, said a senior Israeli commander. 20.Aug.2006 Israel Attack Violates Ceasefire : Lebanon called the raid a "flagrant violation" of the U.N.-brokered cease-fire - Witnesses said Israeli missiles also destroyed a bridge during the raid in what would be the first such airstrike since the cease-fire took effect Monday 20.Aug.2006 Annan: Baalbek operation is violation of cease-fire : U.S. declines to condemn operation.
20.Aug.2006 .S. Officer: Murder Of Iraqi Women And Children Routine : The Marine officer who commanded the battalion involved in the Haditha killings last November did not consider the deaths of 24 Iraqis, many of them women and children, unusual and did not initiate an inquiry, according to a sworn statement he gave to military investigators in March. 20.Aug.2006 Iraqi Kids Imprisoned, U.S. Official Says : The U.S.-led coalition is ignoring innocent children being held and sometimes abused in Iraqi juvenile prisons, a State Department official says. 20.Aug.2006 In a world gone crazy: Bush: Troops in Iraq Make America Safer: The president says he is determined to keep U.S. troops in Iraq as he says it is better to fight terrorists abroad than to fight them at home. 20.Aug.2006 Left-wingers rally behind Prescott to demand Blair quits over Iraq : Demands for Tony Blair to quit over his support for US President George W Bush in the Middle East are to be taken to Labour's annual conference next month in a direct challenge to his leadership by left-wing Labour campaigners. 20.Aug.2006 Australia: 'War on terror' could last 50 yrs: Costello: Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has said Australians must steel themselves for the fact the "war on terror" could continue for longer than the Cold War. 20.Aug.2006 The De-Zionization of the American Mind : Americans are constantly told that they have to defend themselves against people who “hate them”, but without understanding why they are hated. Is the cause our secular democracy? Our appetite for oil?
20.Aug.2006 Shia pilgrims gunned down in Baghdad: Seven pilgrims heading to a major Shia religious gathering were shot dead in a Sunni neighbourhood, while a vehicle ban aimed at preventing attacks during two days of ceremonies emptied Baghdad's streets Saturday. 20.Aug.2006 Iranian Shells Land in Kurdish Villages in Northern Iraq, Killing 2: Artillery shells fired from Iran have landed in remote northern villages of Iraqi Kurdistan in the past four days and have killed at least two civilians and wounded four others, a senior Kurdish official said Saturday. Dozens of families have fled the region.
20.Aug.2006 land reduced to rubble -By Robert Fisk -'These places now look like French villages did after German bombardment during the First World War' Continue 20.Aug.2006 Israel: A State built on lies -By Punyapriya Dasgupta
Israel has a history not only of trying to cover up its massacres of harmless civilians but of downright lying to camouflage every one of its dark designs. It goes back to the beginning of political Zionism and its "spiritual father", Theodore Herzl (1860-1904) Continue 20.Aug.2006 Saved again, thank the Lord, saved again -The Anti-Empire Report -By William Blum
It is likely that the individuals arrested in the UK August 10 are guilty of what George Orwell, in 1984, called "thoughtcrimes". That is to say, they haven't actually DONE anything. At most, they've THOUGHT about doing something the government would label "terrorism" Continue 20.Aug.2006 The Constitution: Checking a Would-Be King -By Ray McGovern
08.May 2006 -When questioned about the legality of President Bush's eavesdropping program- the widely respected Admiral Bobby Ray Inman, who was director of the National Security Agency (NSA) when the FISA law was passed (+ later deputy director of the CIA), said: "There clearly was a line in the FISA statutes which says you couldn't do this ... There was even an extra sentence put in the bill that said, 'You can't do anything that is not authorized by this bill.'" Continue
20.Aug.2006 “Honor First”; The Liberation of Lebanon -By Mike Whitney
The coverage of the Lebanon fiasco in the Israeli media is alternately narcissistic and hysterical. The details of the massive destruction to Lebanon’s civil infrastructure and environment are brushed aside as inconsequential; the 1,300 civilian deaths, irrelevant. Continue
20.Aug.2006 Gewagte These: Delfine sind doof 20.Aug.2006 Preisexplosion: Energiepreise vor Bundestagsausschuss?
20.Aug.2006 Terrorangst: Videüberwachung wird ausgeweitet
20.Aug.2006 Irak: Pilgerzug in Bagdad endet im Blutbad
20.Aug.2006 Tierversuche: Weniger Käfig, mehr Reagenzglas
20.Aug.2006 Absurde Terror- Folgen: Meuterei im Ferienflieger
20.Aug.2006 Raumfähre Atlantis: Gewagte Reparaturen in letzter Minute
20.Aug.2006 Zugbomber von Köln: Freundlich, unauffällig, fromm 20.Aug.2006 Nahost- Konflikt: Annan wirft Israel Bruch der Waffenruhe vor 20.Aug.2006 Türkei: Gaspipeline nach Explosion in Flammen
20.Aug.2006 USA: Der nächste Angriff auf den Irak
00.Jul.2002-00.Aug.2002 USA: Der nächste Angriff auf den Irak. Gerhard Piper. 11.Sep.2001 -Nicht erst seit dem- steht der Irak ganz oben auf der US -Liste der Feindstaaten. ... und Süden (Golfstaaten + Flugzeugträger ). Der Iran im Osten des Iraks lehnt jeden US -Angriff auf sein Nachbarland ... Daten &Archive. Bits bei der Arbeit ... www.bits.de/public/articles/ami/ami0702.htm
20.Aug.2006 US -Basen in Spanien: Zwischen Streik und Krieg. -Gerhard Piper- Mit dem amerikanisch-spanischen Militärabkommen vom 26. ... la Frontera die einzigen US -Militärstützpunkte + dienen als Drehscheibe ... Combate Alfa gehören der Flugzeugträger Príncipe de Asturias mit der ... Daten &Archive. Bits bei der Arbeit ... www.bits.de/public/articles/ami/ami0602.htm
19.Aug.2006 Forgetting Katrina victims. - Faiz - The AP writes a detailed analysis of Bush’s failure to follow-up on his promises after Huricane Katrina. “The job of clearing debris left by the storm remains unfinished + has been plagued by accusations of fraud and price gouging. Tens of thousands of families still live in trailers or mobile homes, with no indication of when or how they will be able to obtain permanent housing. Important decisions about rebuilding and improving flood defenses have been delayed. And little if anything has been done to ensure the welfare of the poor in a rebuilt New Orleans.”
19.Aug.2006 1,249 days: - Faiz - the length of the ongoing war in Iraq — five days longer that the U.S. involvement in World War II.
19.Aug.2006 Full flight service at Heathrow The UK's busiest airport has operated a full flight service for the first time since the terror alert caused travel chaos.
19.Aug.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-431791,00.html Bisher vermutete man, dass sich die Menge dieses Wasserstoffisotops in unserer Galaxie um ein Drittel verringert hat. Ein internationales Team um den Astrophysiker Jeffrey Linsky von der University of Colorado hat nachgemessen und kam zu einem anderen Ergebnis. Statt um rund 33 % hat sich demnach die Deuteriummasse in der Milchstraße nur um etwa 15 % reduziert. Deswegen müssten nun die Modelle über die chemische Entwicklung der Milchstraße überprüft + dann womöglich korrigiert werden, berichten die Wissenschaftler. Deuterium ist ein Isotop des Elements Wasserstoff: Es hat im Atomkern nicht nur ein Proton wie der Wasserstoff, sondern zusätzlich noch ein Neutron. Deswegen ist Deuterium etwa doppelt so schwer. Dass Linsky und seine Kollegen aus den USA, aus Kanada und Frankreich wesentlich mehr Deuterium aufgespürt haben als andere Forschergruppen vor ihnen, hat einen einfachen Grund: Sie benutzten ein spezielles Gerät der US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa, das Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE). Damit konnte auch verstecktes Deuterium aufgespürt werden.
19.Aug.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-432527,00.html Schäuble: "So nah war die Bedrohung noch nie" Angesichts der gehäuften Terrordrohungen zu Beginn des Wochenendes bezeichnete Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble (CDU) die Sicherheitslage in Deutschland als "ungewöhnlich ernst" bezeichnet. "So nah war die Bedrohung noch nie", sagte der CDU-Politiker am Samstagabend im ZDF- " heute-journal". Wie viele potenzielle Terroristen in Deutschland lebten, sei völlig unklar. "Wir wissen gar nicht, wen wir hier alles noch haben", erklärte Schäuble. Als Konsequenz müssten nun die Sicherheitsbestimmungen verschärft werden. So müsse die Zusammenarbeit der Sicherheitsbehörden in Deutschland und auch mit ausländischen Nachrichtendiensten verbessert werden. "Wir müssen jetzt die Anti-Terror-Datei zu Stande bringen", forderte Schäuble. Er sei sich aber sicher, dass dies im September geschehen werde. Die Datei soll den Informationsaustausch zwischen Polizei und Geheimdiensten verbessern.
19.Aug.2006 Bombenalarm in Deutschland: Im Griff des Terrors | 