22.Oct.2006
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
Wells
betrachtete sich als Sozialist
und stand der Russischen
Revolution
und dem marxistischen
Programm Lenins
positiv gegenüber (siehe Russia in the Shadows ).
Später
distanzierte er sich von der sowjetischen Politik, insbesondere nach
Stalins
Regierungsübernahme.
22.Oct.2006
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
Die drei großen Werke The Outline of History (1920), Science of Life (1929) und The Work Wealth and Happiness of Mankind (1932), waren alle dazu bestimmt, die Idee der Schaffung eines Weltstaates populär zu machen. Seiner Ansicht nach war dies die einzige Alternative zu einem Rückfall in die Barbarei und der endgültigen Vernichtung.
1933 veröffentlichte er seinen pessimistischen Zukunftsroman The Shape of Things to Come +
1934 erschien in zwei Bänden seine Autobiographie Experiment in Autobiography .
Auf seiner letzten USA-Reise im Jahre 1940 traf er auf den jungen Orson Welles, der am
30.Okt.1938
seinen Roman vom Krieg der Welten zu einem Hörspiel adaptiert
und damit eine Panik in New
York
ausgelöst hatte.
22.Oct.2006
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Wells
Wells unterstützte den Ersten Weltkrieg als den "Krieg zur Beendigung aller Kriege".
00.000.1918 wurde er kurze Zeit Propagandaleiter gegen Deutschland in Lord Northcliffes Komitee für Propaganda gegen den Feind.
Sein
bedeutendstes Werk, während des Krieges geschrieben und
veröffentlicht, war Mr. Britling sees it Through (1916).
22.Oct.2006
THE
OUTLINE OF HISTORY . BY. H. G. WELLS ... Figures. View directory of
images. Redactor’s Notes.
www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/sherwood/Wells-Outline/Outline_of_History.htm
22.Oct.2006
Novak:
‘This Is Going To Be One Of The Least Important Elections That
I Have Seen’
- Nico -
A new cover story by Rolling Stone describes the last six years in Congress as the “most shameful, corrupt and incompetent period in the history of the American legislative branch.”
Americans’ approval of the conservative-led Congress is “at its lowest mark in 14 years,” with half of Americans believing “most members of Congress are corrupt.”
Yet some conservatives are trying to downplay the stakes of the upcoming election. This morning on Meet the Press, conservative pundit Robert Novak said, “I would make the argument that this is one of the least important elections that I have seen.” Watch it: Full transcript:
RUSSERT: Would a Democratic majority go wild, or govern from the middle? Bob Novak?
NOVAK: There’s going to be a subpoena onslaught, which may or may not be politicaly beneficial. I have never found, in my time in Washington, that these congressional investigations are that effective.
I know that in six years of investigating everything possible in the Clinton administration, the Republican Congress was not all that effective.
Tim,
let me say this. All politicians always say that this is the most
important election that we’ve ever been in, because it is to
them. I would make the argument that this is one of the least
important elections that I have seen because everybody is really
looking ahead to 2008 as an important election. Because if the
Democrats win the House, as is probable, they can make and pass a lot
of legislation, get nowhere in the Senate
— the Senate
is a very difficult thing to get through — and the President
will suddenly discover his veto pen that he had lost track of for six
years. I don’t think that much will happen substantively. It is
a nice thing for Nancy Pelosi to be Speaker of the House. But I don’t
think there’s going to be much action out of her.
22.Oct.2006
Bush:
‘I Have Not Read One Book About Me,’ Says There’s
Nothing He Could Learn From Them
- Nico -
On ABC’s This Week, President Bush said, “I have not read one book about me. … You know, I just — I feel uncomfortable reading about myself.”
Bush said it is “weird to be reading books about yourself when you’re still trying to be the President,” +
said that authors who comment on his administration before he’s out of office are “myopic.”
Stephanopoulos asked, “You don’t think there’s anything you could learn from these books in real-time?” Bush said: “No.”
Watch it: Bush_I_Have_Not_Read_One_Book_About_Me_Video">Digg It! Full transcript:
STEPHANOPOULOS: You said in your press conference last week, you joked about the books being written about your administration. Have you read any of them?
BUSH: No.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why not?
BUSH: You know, I don’t know. I haven’t read the bad ones. I haven’t read the good ones. I guess it makes me — It’s kinda weird to be reading books about yourself when you’re still trying to be the President.
I really haven’t.
STEPHANOPOULOS: How do you explain, though, how Bob Woodward, who has written three books –
BUSH: I didn’t read the book.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I know. But he’s written three books about your presidency –
BUSH: I didn’t read any of them.
STEPHANOPOULOS: None of them?
BUSH: George, I have not read one book about me. I read a lot of books this year. But not one about myself. You know, I just — I feel uncomfortable reading about myself. It’s — it’s hard for you to relate, I think.
But my — I’m still in the midst of my presidency. And people are writing books about my presidency. It is so myopic in many ways. The true history of my presidency won’t be reflected until way after I’m gone.
STEPHANOPOULOS: You don’t think there’s anything you could learn from these books in real-time?
BUSH:
No.
22.Oct.2006
Biden:
12-14 Conservatives Would Vote To Change Course In Iraq If Senate
Changes Hands
- Faiz -
On Fox this morning, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-DE) said the upcoming elections in November may determine whether the U.S. changes course in Iraq. If control over the Senate changes hands, “you’re going to see twelve to fourteen” conservatives “freed up to go out and join in a bipartisan way to tell the President we are seriously off course,” Biden said. He added that if elections don’t result in a change of control, then the administration will view it as a reaffirmation of stay the course. Watch it:
Biden said three conservatives have told him personally that they want to change course, but won’t state so publicly until the outcome of the elections is determined. If Biden’s assertions are true, nearly a dozen conservative Senators have come to the determination that the course in Iraq is failing, but are unwilling to speak out.
2,791 U.S. soldiers have died in Iraq and this month has been the deadliest in Iraq this year. While troops are courageously fighting and dying in Iraq, conservative politicians at home can’t muster the courage to honestly state their views about the war.
WALLACE: Very briefly, Senator Biden, what’s at stake?
BIDEN: If the Democrats regain control, you’re going to see 12 to 14 Republicans freed up to go out and join in a bipartisan way to tell the President, we are seriously off course. If the Democrats don’t make gains, it will be a reaffirmation for this administration, stay the course + I believe that will happen.
WALLACE: You think there are a dozen Republicans chomping at the bit?
BIDEN:
I know there are at least three that approached me before we left.
22.Oct.2006
Bush:
‘We’ve Never Been Stay The Course’
- Nico -
During an interview today on ABC’s This Week, President Bush tried to distance himself from what has been his core strategy in Iraq for the last three years. George Stephanopoulos asked about James Baker’s plan to develop a strategy for Iraq that is “between ’stay the course’ and ‘cut and run.’”
Bush responded, ‘We’ve never been stay the course, George!’ Watch it:
Bush is wrong:
BUSH: We will stay the course. [8/30.2006 ]
BUSH: We will stay the course, we will complete the job in Iraq. [8/4.2005 ]
BUSH: We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done.
We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15.2003 ]
BUSH: And my message today to those in Iraq is: We’ll stay the course. [4/13.2004 ]
BUSH: And that’s why we’re going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when we say something in Iraq, we’re going to do it. [4/16.2004 ]
BUSH: And so we’ve got tough action in Iraq. But we will stay the course. [4/5.2004 ]
Bush_We_ve_Never_Been_Stay_The_Course_Video">Digg It!
STEPHANOPOULOS: James Baker says that he’s looking for something between “cut and run” and “stay the course.”
BUSH:
Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been “stay the course,”
George. We have been — we will complete the mission, we will do
our job + help achieve the goal, but we’re constantly adjusting
to tactics. Constantly.
22.Oct.2006
“There
was arrogance and there was stupidity
- Judd -
from the United
States in Iraq.” — Alberto Fernandez, a top
U.S. diplomat in the State
Department, 10/21/06
22.Oct.2006
Original
NYT Story Strongly Suggests Suspended Staffer Could Not Be Source of
NIE Leak
- Judd -
A Democratic staffer’s access to classified information was recently suspended by House Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), supposedly because the staffer requested a copy of a National Intelligence Estimate two days before it was reported in the New York Times.
But, as the Washington Post notes, the New York Times was interviewing government officials about the NIE for weeks before the story was printed:
Intelligence community sources, speaking anonymously because the NIE remains classified, have told The Washington Post that Times reporters were asking questions about the contents of that NIE weeks before publication of the story. In his story, Times reporter Mark Mazzetti wrote that over the weeks he had interviewed “a dozen United States government officials and outside experts . . . for this article.”
He added that all “had either seen the final version of the document or participated in the creation of earlier drafts.”
The staffer requested the NIE because Rep. John Tierney (D-MA) received a media inquiry about it. The staffer provided the NIE to Tierney in an appropriate manner. Once Tierney saw the NIE was classified “he refused to discuss it with reporters.”
Hoekstra’s
only apparent reason for suspending the staffer was the timeline of
his request. The timeline, however, virtually precludes the
possibility that the staffer was the source of the leak.
22.Oct.2006
Military
Commissions Act Does Affect US Citizens
- Paul Joseph Watson -Recent application of terror legislation
proves American citizens not exempt from intent of bill
22.Oct.2006
Berry
juice may be a heart tonic
Scientists in India develop a way to extract juice from a berry
believed to be good for the heart.
22.Oct.2006
Israel
used phosphorous bombs
Israel admits for the first time it used controversial phosphorous
bombs during fighting in Lebanon.
22.Oct.2006
N
Korea links tests to 'pressure'
North Korea will only carry out a second nuclear test if "harassed"
by the US, media reports in Asia say.
22.Oct.2006
Vietnam
net users fear crackdown
Vietnamese authorities are accused of creating a climate of fear
amongst the country's internet users.
22.Oct.2006
More
remains found at Ground Zero
Workers find more human remains at Ground Zero as a new search for
victims of the 9/11
attacks gets under way.
22.Oct.2006
Iceland
'breaks ban on whaling'
Iceland reportedly breaks a 21-year-old international ban on
commercial whaling by killing its first fin whale.
22.Oct.2006
Pakistan
and India in spying row
A row erupts after Indian officials detain a Pakistani diplomatic
driver for allegedly receiving secret files.
22.Oct.2006
Warning
over UK race riot danger
The polarised debate over Muslim veils could spark race riots, the
head of the UK race relations watchdog warns.
22.Oct.2006
BP
attacked over safety standards
The US body that investigates major industrial accidents has attacked
safety standards at oil giant BP, the BBC learns.
22.Oct.2006
Immune
alarm 'will help fight TB'
A key way that the body fights back against tuberculosis has been
identified by scientists.
22.Oct.2006
Germany's
New Internet License Fee
- Zonk 260 - PapayaSF
writes
"Beginning January 1st, Germany will require payment of a license fee of 5.52 euros a month on computers + mobile phones that can access TV + radio programs over the Internet. Like the current TV + radio license fees, the money will support national and local public TV and radio stations. German companies with many computers are predictably upset."
I'm
not sure if this is the same story we discussed in 2004. Did this
original fee go through + this is another fee on top of the original?
22.Oct.2006
England
Starts Fingerprinting Drinkers
- Zonk 365 - dptalia
writes
"In an effort to reduce alcohol related violence, England is rolling out mandatory fingerprinting of all pub patrons.
If a pub owner refuses to comply with the new system + fails to show 'considerable' reductions in alcohol-related crimes, they will lose their license.
Supposedly the town that piloted this program had a 48% reduction in alcohol-related crime." From the article:
"Offenders can be banned from one pub or all of them for a specified time - usually a period of months - by a committee of landlords + police called Pub Watch.
Their
offenses are recorded against their names in the fingerprint system.
Bradburn noted the system had a 'psychological effect' on offenders."
22.Oct.2006
Judge
Rules In Favor Of Spamhaus
- Zonk 180 - Waylon
writes
"U.S.
District Judge Charles Kocoras has ruled in favor of The Spamhaus
Project. e360 Insight responded on its homepage, saying the judge's
ruling was 'a devastating loss of personal freedom for all U.S.
citizens'. As opposed to shutting down a voluntary service which
tries to mitigate the millions of unsolicited emails that e360
Insight pumps out every single day." From the article: "In
his order, Judge Kocoras wrote that the relief e360insight sought is
'too broad to be warranted in this case' and that suspending the
domain name would 'cut off all lawful online activities of Spamhaus,
not just those that are in contravention' of the default judgment. He
also called e360insight's motion one that 'does not correspond to the
gravity of the offending conduct.'"
22.Oct.2006
Feds
Start Small on Smart IDs
- Zonk 78 - jcatcw
writes
"Some
government employees will be getting smart ID cards beginning this
week. The unfunded mandate to have all employees and contractors use
Personal Identity Verification (PIV) cards is part of Homeland
Security Presidential Directive 12. The U.S. General Services
Administration is providing enrollment centers that can verify the
identities of employees, fingerprint and photograph the workers +
issue PIV cards to them. The deadline for getting cards to all
employees and contractors is the end of September 2008."
22.Oct.2006
Opening
Diebold
Source, the Hard Way
- kdawson 260 - Doc
Ruby about an article in the Baltimore (MD) Sun,
reporting that someone sent a package to a former legislator containing what appears to be Diebold source code. From the article:
"Diebold Election Systems Inc. expressed alarm and state election officials contacted the FBI
yesterday after a former legislator received an anonymous package containing what appears to be the computer code that ran Maryland's polls
in 2004... The availability of the code — the written instructions that tell the machines what to do — is important because some computer scientists worry that the machines are vulnerable to malicious + virtually undetectable vote-switching software. An examination of the instructions would enable technology experts to identify flaws, but Diebold says the code is proprietary and does not allow public scrutiny of it."
Read
on for more of Doc Ruby's comments and questions.
22.Oct.2006
Israel
insists on Lebanon overflights:
Sources in the Israeli military say that Israel would bomb Unifil
sites in southern Lebanon if Israeli warplanes are intercepted.
22.Oct.2006 Israel admits using phosphorus bombs in Lebanon:
Israel admitted for the first time to using controversial white phosphorus shells against military targets in Southern Lebanon, an Israeli newspaper reported on Sunday.
22.Oct.2006 Feds Probe a Top Democrat's Relationship with AIPAC: The Department of Justice is investigating whether Rep. Jane Harman and the pro-Israel group worked together to get her reappointed as the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee
22.Oct.2006 Weary Israel loses faith in its leaders : The rape allegations against the President are just the latest in a long line of political scandals
22.Oct.2006 Israel founded using fake British banknotes: MORE than £130m worth of British banknotes forged by the Nazis was used by the Jewish underground to help establish the State of Israel.
22.Oct.2006 Iran vows to respond to any sanctions over nuclear program:
An Iranian official warned today that Tehran would not remain passive if the West imposes sanctions against it over its disputed nuclear program, but did not say how the country would respond.
22.Oct.2006 Up to 2,000 refugees a day flood into Darfur's camps of despair : The humanitarian catastrophe in Darfur is worsening by the day, as dramatic increases in fighting and militia raids on villages force thousands of people to flee their homes.
22.Oct.2006 'El Comandante' poised to lead Nicaraguans once again: Ortega, dressed in new political outlook, aims for first-ballot win in vote next month
22.Oct.2006 Bolivia for Single, Free Health Care: The Bolivian government pledged its commitment to a single and free health system in which all citizens have the same rights, according to a proposal presented to the Constituent Assembly on Saturday.
22.Oct.2006 Ex-German leader: Bush's stance as 'God-fearing' president provoked suspicion :While meetings with Bush at that time were friendly, Schroeder said he could not reconcile himself with the feeling that religion was the driving force behind many of the Bush's political decisions.
22.Oct.2006 Law allows torture, even if Bush doesn't call it that : Flanked by the panjandrums of shame and the dirty-hands gang, including the current attorney general and the vice president, President Bush on Tuesday signed into law the Military Commissions Act, a law that will go down in history as an obscenity against liberty and decency.
22.Oct.2006 UK: Our dirty little torture secret: Officially, Britain disapproves of rendition, the CIA’s shadowy capture + transport of terror suspects. In reality we have helped, writes Stephen Grey
22.Oct.2006 Do ‘computer police' have too much power?: On Saturday morning,
23.Sep.2006
many police vehicles appeared in our driveway. Men in
black with flak jackets ran to and around our house.
22.Oct.2006
Foley
singled out "hot" boys: report
Chinese
debate over emperor's tomb A
Chinese economist's proposal to unearth the tomb of China's first
emperor has sparked a row, triggering another debate on whether or
not to leave the tomb alone.
posted by Prof. Hex
22.Oct.2006
Alternate
History: After the Nazis
Won World War II Book
reviews and some history, from American Heritage. posted
by Prof. Hex
22.Oct.2006
1.9
million Afghans need food assistance due to drought:
The Afghan government and the United Nations appealed on Sunday for
US$43 million (Ð34 million) in aid for 1.9 million people facing
food shortages because of severe drought.
22.Oct.2006
Andrew
Sullivan: Iraq is no Vietnam – it's far worse than that:
A political solution, the only secure way to achieve peace in Iraq,
has slipped across the horizon, as Sunni Arabs, Shi’ite Arabs
and Sunni Kurds recoil into the protection of the clan, the tribe and
the ethnic or religious family. After each round of violence a cycle
of revenge follows.
22.Oct.2006
Now
we know what we know, why is Blair still in office?
: As more evidence of his role in the Iraq debacle emerges, it
beggars belief that the Prime Minister hasn't been impeached
22.Oct.2006
The
Next War-By
Daniel Ellsberg. -"Harpers" -
A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress + the public remain largely in the dark.
The current situation is very like that of 1964, the year preceding our overt, open-ended escalation of the Vietnam War + 2002, the year leading up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Continue
22.Oct.2006
Robert
Fisk: We've all been veiled from the truth -By
Robert Fisk
We are supposed to look through the veil which Lord
Blair placed in front of our eyes so that lies will become truth, so
that what is true will become untrue.
And
thus we will be separated from the truth. Which is why Blair himself
now represents that "mark of separation". O tempora! O
mores! Continue
22.Oct.2006
Darfur-
Krise: Sudan wirft Uno- Sondergesandten aus dem Land
22.Oct.2006
Gewalteskalation:
US- Strategen suchen Ausweg aus der Hölle Irak
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Iraq: How
to change? I suggest taking a look at Ratbang
Diaries for
some incisive comments on the great problem now confronting Bush:
How
can the Infallible One change course in Iraq without confessing
fallibility? (You'll also want to read Joy's preceding post about
Harold Pinter.)
22.Oct.2006
00.000.2008
run- Sen.
Obama says he's weighing.
A
Gore/Obama ticket would be a likely landside victory.
Foley
to page: "You could always stay at my place. I'm always here,
I'm always lonely + I'm always up for oral sex."
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GOP's
Mehlman seems to concede that Afghanistan is ruled by terrorists
after U.S. abandoned it 10/23
22.Oct.2006
Ex-German
leader Schroeder: I was creeped out by Bush's
incessant God talk. "We rightly criticize that in most Islamic
states, the role of religion for society and the character of the
rule of law are not clearly separated. But we fail to recognize that
in the USA, the Christian
fundamentalists and their interpretation of the Bible have similar
tendencies." 10/23
Biden
tells Fox: If the Senate
changes hands, no fewer than 12 conservative senators will vote to
change course in Iraq 10/23
22.Oct.2006
Guardian:
Last week a tipping point was reached as political leaders in
Washington and London began openly to think the unthinkable -- that
the war was lost 10/23
America
showed arrogance, stupidity in Iraq, current U.S. senior Bushevik
diplomat says
22.Oct.2006
The
United States
is tracking a North Korean ship described as suspicious by a U.S.
official 10/23
22.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-in-paraguay-more-info.html
Bush
in Paraguay: More info
An extremely good friend to this blog sent me a bit more information on the 100,000 acre Bush spread in Paraguay -- specifically, on the possible connection of Jenna Bush's trip to that neck of the woods.
Jenna
met with Paraguayan president Nicanor Duarte and with U.S. Ambassador
James
Cason.
22.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-in-paraguay-more-info.html
This
page appears
to be Cuban in origin, so consider the source with caution.
It identifies Cason as CIA during his incident-filled stint in Havana.
I'm not sure that's accurate...
Alongside appointing Miami Cubans to high office in his administration, this strategy is also a pay-back to the Cuban mafia for its decisive role in the fraudulent presidential elections.
Chief
of the US Interests Section in Havana + CIA
member James Cason orchestrated operations, contacting mercenaries,
hosting meetings at his own residence and securing the flow of
money.
Despite USAID claims that its NGOs can’t provide cash
to Cubans directly, over $100,000 in cash was found in the possession
of the 75 mostly unemployed mercenaries who went on trial.
This
was the Verala Project + the pro-American Cubans received far more
than $100,000 -- more like $20 mill, according to writer Thomas
Riggins.
22.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-in-paraguay-more-info.html
Agee
himself (that was your cue to boo and hiss -- why aren't you booing +
hissing?) offers an interesting profile
of Cason:
James Cason is a career State Department diplomat who has served mostly in Latin American countries, not menacing to the eye, just a bit overstuffed in the round face, double chinned like a Porky Pig in his late fifties, with wide round glasses in front of half-closed eyes. Like he’s had too many two-hour lunches and not enough jogging.
Otto
Reich, Cuban-American fanatic and one of the un-indicted criminals of
Iran-Contra,
who was serving a limited recess appointment (read no chance for
Senate
confirmation) as Bush’s
Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American, gave Cason the job
and apparently put an ample load of hot sauce on his appointee’s
backside.
Cason swooped down on Havana like a fed from
Gangbusters’ central casting with an “in your face”
attitude big time. But give the guy credit. He ran his ass off all
over this island burning his dissident friends, “our guys,”
and sealing their fate as he went along. His blatant support for
Washington’s civil society in Cuba looked for all the world
like he was bent on getting himself PNG’d, expelled as persona
non grata in diplomatic parlance. He made a show of unity with groups
in the provinces as well as Havana; gave 24-hour passes to the
Interests Section to favorites, including Cuban penetration agents,
for free internet access and other facilities; attended meetings in
dissidents’ homes where he gave the equivalent of press
conferences to foreign journalists; personally launched the youth
wing of the Liberal Party; entertained dissidents in his official
residence, even hosting an independent journalists’ workshop
there one Saturday. His conduct went so far beyond accepted
diplomatic protocol that you might say he was the mother of all
provocations.
But expelling Cason would have led to a new crisis
with the U.S. + the Cubans didn’t take the bait. For six months
they waited and watched through their highly placed penetrations of
Cason’s dissident community. Then they decided to act. They had
the evidence of criminal activities in support of Helms-Burton and in
violation of other legislation on sedition, so they finally decided
to sweep away Cason’s constituency in a stroke. And there he
stood in March, appropriately like the Emperor who wore no cool.
Indeed, there’s been not a peep from the man since his acolytes
were picked up.
One can imagine the bitterness from prison with 75
of “our guys” reflecting on how stupid they were to fall
for Cason’s grandstanding.
22.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-in-paraguay-more-info.html
From
Wonkette:
Cason apparently gets around. A former “political adviser”
to the U.S. Atlantic Command and ATO’s Supreme Allied Commander
Atlantic, Cason has been stationed in El Salvador, Honduras,
Guatemala, Panama … basically everywhere the U.S. has run
secret and not-so-secret wars over the past 30 years.
22.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/bush-in-paraguay-more-info.html
As for Duarte and Paraguay,
this
Asia Times piece
provides much of what you need to know. Some excerpts... Way back
00.000.1982,
the US built and started operating a semi-clandestine airstrip in
Mariscal Estigarribia, in the Chaco region in northern Paraguay near
the Bolivian border, where B-52 bombers and C-5 Galaxy cargo planes
are able to land with no hassle.
The
airstrip is literally in the middle of dense forest. It also happens
to be only 270 kilometers from the Brazilian border.
Some
Brazilian diplomats bet off the record that a US permanent base is
all but inevitable. But maybe not, as Brazil is known to play
hardball with Paraguay.
Brazil would see such an official American base as a threat, which may be why this is all being done under the guise of Bush family private ownership.
If that theory is correct, then there ought to be an interesting money trail.
The
Bushes
would not use their own funds to create a United
States air base.
22.Oct.2006
Archäologie:
Gräber der Pharaonen- Zahnärzte entdeckt
22.Oct.2006
Großprojekt:
Volk stimmt über Erweiterung des Panama- Kanals ab
22.Oct.2006
Britisches
Oberhaus: Reformpläne sehen drastische Veränderungen vor
22.Oct.2006
Chronologie:
Der scheinbar endlose Prozess
22.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-443977,00.html
Die Umstände der Attacke vor der Küste von Florida sind noch immer ein Rätsel. Laut Polizei war der stachelbewehrte Adlerrochen am Donnerstag plötzlich in das Boot gesprungen. Als Bertakis versuchte, sich den einen Meter langen Fisch vom Leib zu halten, habe dieser zugestochen und ihn ins Herz getroffen.
Nach
Ansicht von Experten ist es sehr ungewöhnlich, dass Rochen sich
so verhalten. Sie gelten als friedliche Tiere. "So etwas ist
extrem außergewöhnlich", sagte eine Meeresbiologin
von der Universität von Miami.
"Selbst wenn die Tiere unter Stress stehen, greifen sie
normalerweise nicht an."
22.Oct.2006
Afghanistan:
Taliban- Führer kündigt verstärkte Kämpfe an
22.Oct.2006
Aufstieg
zur Wirtschaftsweltmacht: Indiens urbaner Rausch
22.Oct.2006
Irak:
Gewalteskalation zwingt Bush
zu Taktikänderung
22.Oct.2006
Bildungslücke:
Britische Schüler finden Großbritannien nicht auf der
Karte
22.Oct.2006
Teure
Dicke: Fettsucht kostet USA jährlich 90 Milliarden
Dollar
22.Oct.2006
Atomkonflikt:
Nordkorea macht zweiten Test von US- Verhalten abhängig
22.Oct.2006
Wasserverschwendung:
Australiern droht Singverbot unter der Dusche
22.Oct.2006
Bush
is a Loserman Who Weakens America's National Security: U.S. sees
deadliest month of '06 in Iraq
America
showed arrogance, stupidity in Iraq, current U.S. senior Bushevik
diplomat says
22.Oct.2006
A
Sneak Preview of the Lastest Member of the BuzzFlash Internet News
Network Family, BuzzFlash.net! We Will Formally Launch on Monday.
Sign
the Pledge to Keep Our Children Safe from Gun Violence in Their
Schools. It's the Least We Can Do for Them.
22.Oct.2006
The
World's Top 20 Tyrants, With a Special Chapter on George W. Bush
Ohio's
Katherine Harris Goes Bonkers: Ken Blackwell Hits the Gutter Crawling
10/22
The
corpse of Habeas Corpus: Island dungeon is above the law, White House
tells courts 10/22
Some
Recovery for GOP on Issues, But Congressional
Election Outlook Still Looking Grim for Them, Very Grim 10/22
"Destined
for Destiny: The Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush."
This book will cause you to laugh out loud on public transportation.
"To help craft this lasting account of his life and leadership,
George W. Bush
turned to two writers who have earned not only his trust but his deep
friendship [Uh + Iraq Had WMDs]: Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of
The Onion and coauthor of the #1 bestseller Our Dumb Century + Peter
Hilleren, former producer for public radio and some of the nation's
finest public-access cable-television stations." On meeting
Laura Bush:
"I was blessed with the good fortune of meeting a wonderful
small-town Texas woman who had a dazed and clueless stare reminiscent
of a goat that had been struck between the eyes with a tire iron -- a
halting kind of beauty which every man desires in a woman."
22.Oct.2006
New
York Times
reports that U.S. has secret timetable
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Anon...
The $296 billion
deficit figure that the government touts does not include off-budget
items like the ongoing war, which in Iraq alone is costing us 9
billion a month. Nor does it include surpluses in the Social Security
and Medicare funds, which are also being spent without accounting for
them. Yes, the deficit is almost 800 billion a year; that's how much
more the Fed gov't spends than it actually takes in as revenue. And
if future obligations are taken into account (such as federal
pensions and the new prescription drug benefit obligations), which is
how Generally Accepted Accounting Practices would do the math, the
true federal debt is about 50 TRILLION, with this last year's true
deficit about 3 trillion.
No, the US doesn't finance all its debts
overseas, but the "foreign purchases" figure for gov't debt
is running now at 72 billion a month, as of last week.
I get my
figures mostly from the financial advisors on kitco.com, which is
generally recognized as a reliable site. You might try reading some
of the commentaries there. I think you will be shocked to see how
much the feds and their mouthpieces at the Wall Street Journal are
massaging numbers to keep folks like you in the game.
No
meanness intended toward you, but for your family's sake I hope you
look further into this. #
posted by unirealist
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
The most
pernicious myth, still believed by many, holds that anti-war
protestors spat on returning soldiers. If you know of anyone who
still believes this nonsense, show 'em this
interview
with Jerry Lembcke, who teaches Sociology at Holy Cross College.
Lembcke examines the origins of this legend in a book called The
Spitting Image .
I kept looking back in the historical records,
when people were actually coming home from Vietnam and I found out
that no, there was no record. Not only was there no record of people
spat on, but none of anyone claiming that they were spat on. So then
I got interested in the stories as a form of myth and found out that
in other times and other places, especially Germany after WWI,
soldiers came home and told stories of feeling rejected by people and
particularly stories of being spat on. The correspondent who brought
this interview to my attention offers these observations:
I was
very active in the late 60's and 70's anti-Viet Nam War movement.
I
can tell you categorically that all the many activists I associated
with would never countenance anyone spitting, much less spitting on a
military veteran. We took protesting seriously. Anybody engaging in
such outrageously disgusting behavior would have been ostracized.
For
us the Johnson and Nixon administrations were the culprits. We very
clearly understood that our disapproval needed to be directed at the
officials running the war + not at soldiers and/or common folk who
were simply being duped and suckered by the government's lies and
propaganda.
By
1970 the organization Viet Nam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) was in
full swing and I distinctly recall that at any sizeable protest event
a noticeable contingent of VVAWs was almost always present. Usually
they wore camo or olive BDUs conspicuously decorated with very
graphic anti-war messages. These guys tended to be fairly tough, no
bull-shit patriotic working class guys who weren't kidding around.
Civilian protesters greatly respected and admired the VVAW and even
tended to be a little afraid of them. For example, the VVAWs
generally wouldn't tolerate any misuse of the American flag in their
presence. While firmly against the war, I can assure you the VVAWs
would not have hesitated for a moment to physically attack any
protester who spit on, or verbally denigrated a fellow
soldier.
HOWEVER, I definitely recall that as an anti-war
protester we were frequently bombarded with verbal abuse, epithets +
worse by construction workers, cops, etc. For protesters, marching
back then could be somewhat of a physically risky practice. In fact,
for a long time, prominently wearing an anti-war button out in the
street was likely to garner you some choice vituperations from a
passing truck driver or cabby.
I'm glad this pathetic national
myth of the "Spat upon Viet Vets" is finally being exposed.
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22.Oct.2006
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/fulcanelli_da_vinci_code.htm
Put
that together with the head cutting motion and the whispering in the
ear: conspiring + a rather unpleasant picture of St. Peter emerges.
It seems that Peter is hiding his actions behind Judas. Curious.
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/fulcanelli_da_vinci_code.htm
"An institution that is particular to (Aquitaine) + that is stranger to the Gauls," says the highly esteemed author of the History of Gasconny, Abbé Monlezun, "is that of the solduriens, or, rather, saldunes (of Escualdunal, zaldi or saldi, horse; salduna, one who has a horse, horseman, l'eques romain); one names in this way soldiers who make a vow to a chief, to forever share their destiny or rather to identify so strongly with him that there is no example of one who ever survived. As soon as the chief succumbed, we saw them looking for a glorious death in battle + if they could find it, they came back and pierced themselves on the bodies of one who had their faith."
We
can observe that in the account of the war against the Aquitains,
Ceasar speaks only of the institution of the soldurii, without
affirming elsewhere that the soldures existed in the other parts of
Gaul. The term soldures, that in the Basque language beings no idea
to mind, presents, on the contrary, in the language of the
Technosages, a meaning perfectly in accord with the institution
itself. It is the soldier devoted to his chief + the accidents of war
will not separate them; the life of the soldura will not outlast that
of his chief. - Soul (sôl), life, âme. - to dure
(dioure), durer. - In our day, are not they called soldiers in the
Anglo-Saxon ? From whence comes this soldier, if not from soldure
(soldioure) + how would this term exist in the Anglo-Saxon if the
institution of the soldurii was unique to the Iberians? This
institution that, it seems to us, is common to the Celts and the
Celtiberians, indicates to us how, on Aquitain soil, the fusion
operated between the two families. The name of Occitania was used to
designate Aquitain. [...]
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/fulcanelli_da_vinci_code.htm
After
giving us the meaning of the names of the Iberian tribes, the Celtic
language explains just as easily those of the Aquitain tribes. In
this part of Gaul, the Celtic family left larger and stronger traces
than in its mix with the Iberian family. All authors have recounted
the different character traits that separate the Iberians and the
Celts: these were gay, light, ardent, loved to fight and were quick
to attack; the Iberians, on the contrary, were grave, serious, almost
somber, loved war as well and defended it with an invincible
stubbornness. When the two people met, the shock must have been
terrible.
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/fulcanelli_da_vinci_code.htm
In
Plato's Theagetes Socrates confesses, "By the favour of the
Gods, I have since my childhood been attended by a semi-divine being
whose voice from time to time dissuades me from some undertaking, but
never directs me what I am to do."
22.Oct.2006
http://www.cassiopaea.org/cass/fulcanelli_da_vinci_code.htm
This remarkable set is not mere art! Like the windows, it contains thought, a message.
When we carefully observe the details, in the stalls, something immediately appears to our eyes: Demons and snakes, malevolent animals and monsters of all species swarm there. This invasion contributes to give to this whole a tragic aspect that also agrees very well with the profound movement of history that is narrated to us .
This tragic aspect is complementary and has to be put in relationship to the windows of Arnaud de Moles. The windows and stalls constitute a whole. The two masterpieces were designed at the same time. The same story is told. Its theme was proposed to the glaziers and the sculptors. This theme evokes the same reality: the reality of man in general.
One would almost think about Dante’s Inferno. But this obvious tragedy is not hell - it is the history of humanity on earth. Charity - empty handed - walks right before the monsters and demons, sustained by one same hope, going alone, but courageous, to face evil, the malevolent snake. At the end of the cycle, she becomes triumphant Strength. Her mission is accomplished because we see all malevolent snakes crushed under her feet or finally mastered in her hands.
Since this history is told and relived in retrospect, our artists knew in advance that this dramatic adventure had to bring us to Life.
What breadth! What perspective! that comes out of the thought of the woodwork of the choir of Auch. Some connoisseurs are not afraid to compare the extraordinary work of these stalls with the frescoes of Michelangelo. [Raymond Montané]
I
would like to make a note of the fact that, after spending some time
trying to find out who Arnaud de Moles actually was, the information
I was able to obtain suggests that it was a name given to a group,
The
Companions Devoted to Liberty,
or, perhaps an anagram. In terms of Green Language clues, the name
"De Moles" is rich with meaning, ranging from the
possibility of homophonic pronunciation "de Molay," as in
the last Grand Master of the Templars, as well as the meaning of
"mole," which, in French means "stone," or a
jetty: a breakwater. In English, the Green Language leads us to a
creature that lives underground, or the "going underground"
of a tradition. And then, of course, it can also say "Mea Deus
Leonard." A reader may find a better solution. There is more,
but I don't want to divert onto that subject at the moment because I
have a story to tell.
22.Oct.2006
http://historyfromthecloset.blogspot.com/
21.Feb.2005
Where is the Truth hidden?
Sometimes
the Truth is not in the closet or any secret place. Sometimes the
Truth is "hidden" in a plain sight - just staying before
us, waiting to be seen. But to be able to see it we would have had an
eyes to see. And I can assure you, this usually is the most difficult
"exercise" for us, because we probably forgot the mastery
of seeing. We're flowing blind and complacent in our illusory world -
the World as taught to perceive it by our programs, our social and
family imprinting, our hidden masters...
22.Oct.2006
http://historyfromthecloset.blogspot.com/2005/01/who-are-thracians.html
OK,
let me point out only that this Samara cave is located in the Rhodope
mountain, not in Iraq or Russia. Last detail - the artifacts were
found in a place 350 m under the ground level.
Hmmm, who were the
Thracians?
22.Oct.2006
http://historyfromthecloset.blogspot.com/2005/01/who-are-thracians.html
The
find's pertainence to the epoch of legendary Mycenae derives from the
found labris (short two-face ritual axe, characteristic of that
civilization) and a silver amulet of the cult to Mother Earth, as
well as pieces of surgery utensils.
We can find something more
about this "Mother Earth cult". From Standart
News:
22.Oct.2006
http://historyfromthecloset.blogspot.com/2005/01/who-are-thracians.html
And
if we have to trust the Greek or Roman sources, it seems Thracians
were wild, illiterate, skilled in wars Barbarians. It seems also,
that the treasures being unearthed regularly in this area, point to
something different.
Let's take the recent news. Two Bulgarian
sources presented a new discovery. Novinite
told:
The Eastern Rhodopes revealed an old-times funeral site
obviously pertaining to an ancient Crete-Micenae cult dating 3,500
years ago. ...
The artifacts from the late bronze epoch were
found in the nearby Samara cave.
22.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-443964,00.html
-heute-Tel Aviv/Gaza-Der israelische Minister Jaakov Edri habe nach einer entsprechenden Anfrage einer Abgeordneten den Einsatz von Phosphorbomben im Libanon-Krieg bestätigt,
berichtete die israelische Zeitung "Haaretz".
"Die israelische Armee hat während des Kriegs gegen die Hisbollah Phosphorgranaten bei Angriffen auf militärische Ziele in offenen Gebieten eingesetzt", sagte Edri dem Bericht zufolge.
Israel habe sich bei dem Einsatz der hochgiftigen Waffe aber an das internationale Gesetz gehalten. Edri sagte nicht, welche Ziele genau angegriffen wurden.
Phosphor ist hochgiftig und verursacht bei Menschen schwere und oft tödliche Verbrennungen.
Bislang hatte die Regierung in Jerusalem angegeben, solche Bomben nur zur Markierung von Zielen oder Gebieten zu benutzen.
Der libanesische Präsident Émile Lahoud hatte Israel während des Libanon-Kriegs den Einsatz von Phosphorbomben vorgeworfen, nachdem von schweren Verbrennungen bei Zivilisten berichtet worden war.
Einige Militärexperten fordern, Phosphorbomben als chemische Waffen einzustufen und generell zu verbieten.
Menschenrechtsaktivisten haben allerdings nicht nur Israel, sondern auch der Hisbollah vorgeworfen, im Libanon-Krieg geächtete Waffen gegen den Gegner eingesetzt zu haben.
Laut
Human Rights Watch hat die schiitische Miliz Streubomben auf
israelische Ziele abgefeuert.
22.Oct.2006
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102 Hearings:House Committee
Meetings by Date (1992) 1992/01/03 Daily Digest - Friday, pages D1 -
D2 (Bound vol. Chairman, American Battle Monuments Commission; +
Robert W. www.lib.ncsu.edu/congbibs/house/102hdgst2.html
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22.Oct.2006
Choice
America Network :: Archive(2005/4)
"We can send free trade to Central America today, or we will
be sending troops tomorrow" was a frequent refrain. Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez and
Cuba's ... http://choiceamericanetwork.blog.com/2005/7/
2004080709_und_Report While driving back from the speech later that day, Bush [BGW968] ...
00.Aug.2004
Loathed by the rich : Why Hugo Chávez
is heading for a stunning victory ... http://alfatomega.com/..
22.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-443706,00.html
Muße ist nicht faulenzen, sondern schöpferische Gestaltung freier Zeit.
Frage: Erholen wir uns am besten dadurch, indem wir schöpferisch tätig sind?
Bellebaum: Allerdings. Muße im profanisierten Sinne ist für Menschen auf jedweder Bildungsstufe möglich.
Der Intellektuelle, der Künstler kann dies beim Denken, Lesen, Schreiben, Malen oder Musizieren tun.
Aber
auch der Kleingärtner oder der Bastler im Hobbykeller kann Muße
erfahren. Das
Gespräch führte Holger Fuss Technology
Review,
Heise Zeitschriften Verlag, Hannover 22.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-443706,00.html
Bellebaum:
Hier geht es zunächst weniger um Lebenssinn, als um die
Entgrenzung von Bedürfnissen.
Es ging uns noch nie so gut wie heute.
Dennoch sind viele Menschen unglücklich.
Mit der Befriedigung bestimmter Bedürfnisse können nämlich immer weitere Wünsche entstehen.
Der gläubige Mensch ist besser dran - er weiß, worauf es ankommt.22.Oct.2006 http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-443706,00.html
Frage: Warum fürchten wir uns in unserer Kultur so sehr vor der Langeweile?
Bellebaum: Das hat mit überlieferten Vorstellungen zu tun.
Der Heilige Benedikt postulierte das "ora et labora", bete und arbeite.
In einer bestimmten protestantischen Ethik war es ein strenges Gebot, dass wir keine Zeit vergeuden.
Wo dieses Arbeitsethos wirksam ist, erleben wir eine als leer und unausgefüllt empfundene Zeit mit Verdruss.
Arbeitslose kennen das.
Frage: Darin scheint sich das Abendland vom Morgenland zu unterscheiden.
Bellebaum: Ja, im islamischen Kulturkreis herrscht ein anderes Zeitgefühl.
Wenn ein Araber stundenlang vor sich hindöst, muss er sich nicht langweilen, weil er es nicht als belastend empfindet.
Frage:
Unsereiner aber leidet unter Untätigkeit?
22.Oct.2006
Libanon-
Krieg: Israel gibt Einsatz von Phosphorbomben zu
22.Oct.2006
Psychologie:
Warum ist uns manchmal langweilig?
22.Oct.2006
Strategiewechsel:
USA entwickeln neuen Zeitplan für Irak
22.Oct.2006
Ausländer-
Bleiberecht: Aktion Barmherzigkeit vor dem Aus
22.Oct.2006
Schröders
Memoiren: "Gewerkschaftsführer wollten mich zu Fall
bringen"
21.Oct.2006
Containing
North Korea the Old Fashioned Way
- Guest -
This week, China put pressure on North Korea’s mercurial dictator, Kim Il Sung, apparently winning a pledge to not conduct another nuclear test. If it stands, this is the first good news to come from Secretary of State Condoleeeza Rice’s travel to Tokyo, Seoul, Beijing + Moscow drumming up support for the U.N. Security Council’s economic sanctions and trade interdiction package.
North Korea also appears ready to make concessions, the Chinese say, if the United States does as well. Sanctions and tough diplomacy cannot force the regime to collapse — in part because neither China nor South Korea want the chaos of a collapsed state — but they can prod the North Koreans back to the negotiating table.
This is how hard-nosed diplomacy should proceed in the face of North Korean intransigence. The question is: What took so long? It was clear over a year ago that President Bush’s “regime change” strategy for dealing with the “axis of evil” was a failure. And it’s been clear for some time that a tough, but more nuanced approach, could work — witness the success of negotiations with Libya stretching over three administrations that resulted in a deal that “cost little, caused no deaths + was 100 percent effective.”
The
United States
must now be prepared to implement the agreement struck in the
six-party talks last September: security assurances and economic
assistance in exchange for a complete, verifiable dismantlement of
the nuclear program. We should all encourage the realists within the
Bush
administration to get back to basics. –
Joe
Cirincione
21.Oct.2006
The
Alex Jones Report October 20th 2006
- Paul Joseph Watson -Alex Jones discusses the
real context of the Mark Foley scandal and how it may impact the
upcoming mid-term elections.
21.Oct.2006
Putin
Rape "Joke" Betrays Arrogance Of Power
- Paul Joseph Watson -Elixir of power poisons world leaders to
believe they are above moral law
21.Oct.2006
Bush
vows to adapt Iraq tactics
President Bush
says military tactics in Iraq will continue to change to deal with
the threat posed by insurgents.
21.Oct.2006
Rice:
'N Korea escalating crisis'
The US secretary of state accuses North Korea of seeking to escalate
tension over its nuclear programme.
21.Oct.2006
Georgian
anger at Putin war claim
Georgia's leader dismisses Russian claims that it is readying for war
in Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
21.Oct.2006
US
Republicans launch terror ad
The Republican Party launches a controversial terror-linked TV ad to
garner support ahead of November polls.
21.Oct.2006
Plastic
pill to fight gum disease
Scientists develop a tiny plastic pill that they say can prevent
tooth loss by treating gum disease.
21.Oct.2006
Colombian
leader ends Farc talks
Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe breaks off talks on a prisoner
exchange with left-wing guerrilla group Farc.
21.Oct.2006
Home
Office plans floating jails
The Home Office is moving ahead with its plans to use prison ships to
ease overcrowding in jails.
21.Oct.2006
Envoy:
'German Jews
feel unsafe'
The Israeli ambassador to Germany speaks of his concerns for Jews
in Germany, as neo-Nazis
gather in Berlin.
21.Oct.2006
UN
retains Liberian diamonds ban
The UN votes to keep a ban on Liberian diamond exports, saying it
must do more to meet international controls.
21.Oct.2006
Sit
Locally, Listen Globally
A weekly, solar-powered radio show from a California cabin
compiles top stories from shortwave radio stations in China, Cuba,
the Netherlands and Russia into an easily-digestable MP3 file. In
Listening Post.
21.Oct.2006
FBI
Kids' Site Violates Law
A new FBI
site to teach kids safe web surfing asks young'ns to give information
online without requiring parental consent -- that's a no no under
online child protection laws. In 27B Stroke 6.
21.Oct.2006
Microbes
Key Ethanol Future
Genetically modifying plants and bacteria to more efficiently
produce ethanol could help us escape our self-inflicted climate
change, but we can't let the science run amok. In Autopia.
21.Oct.2006
Patents
on Tax Reduction Strategies a Problem
- Zonk 164 - EsonLinji
writes
"The
International Herald Tribune has an article about how some lawyers
are realising that patents on tax reduction strategies (a business
method) might be a problem. The article states that there are already
50 such patents with more on the way + at least one lawsuit.
Particularly worrying is the idea of needing a license to follow the
law. Fortunately, some of the laws get that this is a problem. Tax
patents, the lawyers wrote, amount to 'government-issued barbed wire'
to keep some taxpayers from getting equal treatment under the tax
code."
21.Oct.2006
NASA
Announces Record Ozone Hole
- Zonk 140 - Drewsk
writes
"NASA
has announced that the ozone hole over the Antarctic has broken all
records. From the story: 'From September 21 to 30, the average area
of the ozone hole was the largest ever observed, at 10.6 million
square miles,' said Paul Newman, atmospheric scientist at NASA's
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. If the stratospheric
weather conditions had been normal, the ozone hole would be expected
to reach a size of about 8.9 to 9.3 million square miles, about the
surface area of North America.""
21.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
As we've
noted, all the tabloids are controlled by the same right-wing parent
company + they've long had ties to American intelligence. Something
is up.
GOP fundraiser Craig Schelske, director of the theocratic
group American
Destiny,
is addicted to pornography and watches it with the children -- or so
says his lovely wife, Sara Evans. According to his CraigsList ads,
Schelske is particularly interested in having anal sex with strangers
and threesomes. "We as Americans have forgotten our spiritual
roots," or so run the opening words of the American
Destiny
home page. I'm a little suspicious of this organization, which
doesn't seem to do much of anything; the only information provided on
the site is a misleading account of founding fathers' attitude
toward religion.
(Our founders, products of the Enlightenment, tended toward Deism --
which is closer to agnosticism than to any form of Christianity.)
I'm wondering if American Destiny is a front group...
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21.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Weller's
background. He's such an unsavory character that even the
pro-Republican Chicago Tribune has refused to endorse him.
Meanwhile,
Republican Rodney Alexander, who already plays a role in the Foley
cover-up, now faces charges of sexual
harrassment.
Elizabeth Scott, Alexander's former scheduler, claims that Royal
Alexander, the Congressman's
chief of staff, "engaged in a course of misconduct" that
included "inappropriate sex-based comments, ogling and touching"
and "sexual advances," according to Michael Hoare, Scott's
attorney. Scott told the Congressman
of his aide's alleged improper behavior but the Louisiana Republican
took no action to correct the situation, Hoare said....
Scott said
she was demoted from her position as scheduler to staff assistant by
Royal Alexander in May 2006
when "she complained of possible sex
discrimination" by him.
21.Oct.2006
The
corpse of Habeas Corpus:
Island dungeon is above the law, White
House tells courts
"Destined
for Destiny: The Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush."
This book will cause you to laugh out loud on public transportation.
"To help craft this lasting account of his life and leadership,
George W. Bush
turned to two writers who have earned not only his trust but his deep
friendship [Uh + Iraq Had WMDs]: Scott Dikkers, editor-in-chief of
The Onion and coauthor of the #1 bestseller Our Dumb Century + Peter
Hilleren, former producer for public radio and some of the nation's
finest public-access cable-television stations." On meeting
Laura Bush:
"I was blessed with the good fortune of meeting a wonderful
small-town Texas woman who had a dazed and clueless stare reminiscent
of a goat that had been struck between the eyes with a tire iron -- a
halting kind of beauty which every man desires in a woman."
21.Oct.2006
Rumsfeld
joins boss in defending Iraq "clear, hold and build"
strategy, apparently mistaking war for Warcraft III 10/22
If
Bush
Voters Read the National Examiner and Globe Tabloids, It's Not
Looking Good for George -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis
However,
Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, who holds a seat deemed safe for
the GOP, said in a campaign debate Thursday she would have voted
against the war had she known Saddam Hussein possessed no weapons of
mass destruction. 10/22
21.Oct.2006
Another
one? Rep. Jerry Weller, R-Morris, through his election attorney, lets
House know that someone else in Congress
may have been involved inappropriately with young page 10/22
Bluff
and bluster, sure, but Condi Rice changed no one's mind in her Korea
tour 10/22
21.Oct.2006
President
Bill campaigns in Maryland to help Dems 10/22
Falwell's
magic touch finding conservative philanthropists will be his legacy
10/22
"Nickel
and Dimed" author: Downsized But Not Out 10/22
21.Oct.2006
Biography: John Paisley Assassination
of John F. Kennedy, Political Events & Issues, ... Sullivan told
CIA
security chief Robert W. Gambino that there were ten moles in the
CIA.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKpaisley.htm
21.Oct.2006 HSCA/CIA Blahut Incident, pg 2 THE ARRANGEMENT THERE HAD EVOLVED FROM WHAT HAD BEEN INTENDED ORIGINALLY AS A ... TO THE DDCI AND MR ROBERT W GAMBINO, DIRECTOR OF SECURITY, MR BLAKEY MADE ... www.jfklancer.com/autopdocs2.html
21.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-443842,00.html
Wer
ständig zu wenig schläft,
tut seinem Gedächtnis +
seiner Kreativität
keinen Gefallen.
Wer länger schläft als nötig,
kann zwar keine großen Vorteile mehr erwarten,
ist aber in guter Gesellschaft mit passionierten Langschläfern wie
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe +
Albert
Einstein.21.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-443842,00.html
Ein
willkommener Effekt für Born, der seit Jahren das "Lernen
im Schlaf" ergründet.
Dieses aktuelle Ergebnis der Forschung überrascht die Experten insofern kaum, als es eine zuvor gehegte Annahme bestätigt:
"Schlaf kommt vom Hirn,
wird vom Hirn gemacht +
nützt dem Hirn",
fasst der Schlafforscher Allan Hobson von der Harvard Medical School in Boston zusammen.
Das fügt sich auch in eine Theorie über den Zweck des Tiefschlafs ein:
Während der Wachphasen entstünden ständig neue, Energie verbrauchende Kontaktstellen zwischen den Nervenzellen,
erklärt Giulio Tononi von der University of Wisconsin, USA.
Nur ein kleiner Teil davon aber sei so wichtig, dass er dauerhaft erhalten bleiben müsse.
Der Schlaf diene dazu, überflüssige Nervenverknüpfungen abzubauen +
neue Synapsen indirekt zu festigen.
Dafür müssten die Nervenzellen ihre Aktivität synchronisieren,
was sich anhand des typischen langwelligen Hirnstrommusters nachweisen lasse.
21.Oct.2006 SPD und Unterschicht: Partei des gehobenen Proletariats
21.Oct.2006 USA: Güterzug entgleist - mehrere Explosionen
21.Oct.2006 Pariser Flughafen: Dutzende Gepäckarbeiter als Sicherheitsrisiko eingestuft
21.Oct.2006 Schlafforschung: Geistesblitze über Nacht
21.Oct.2006
Irak:
USA und Briten suchen nach Auswegen aus dem Chaos
21.Oct.2006
CSU-
Programmdebatte: Abgeordnete murren gegen geplante Anerkennung von
Homo- Ehen
21.Oct.2006
Congress'
shameful retreat from American values:
None of the men and women who voted for this bill has any right to speak in public about the rule of law anymore, or to take a high moral view of the Third Reich, or to wax poetic about the American Ideal.
Mark their names
21.Oct.2006 Fear-mongers running rampant: Most elected federal-officials think "we the people" do not need the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Why? We have a president who, with a signing statement, declares the laws of the land do not apply to him. How can this happen?
21.Oct.2006 Padilla Was Drugged, Threatened by Authorities, His Lawyers Say : - Lawyers for accused terrorism supporter Jose Padilla say U.S. authorities drugged him with LSD or PCP, filled his cell with ``noxious fumes'' and threatened to slash him with a knife while he was being held without charges.
21.Oct.2006
Most
of U.S. spending monitors sacked:
Most private contractors keeping tabs on billions of dollars in
governmental spending for the U.S. House Appropriations Committee
have been let go. With about 60 investigators gone, the shakeup
leaves only 16 full-time employees in the unit, USA Today reported.
21.Oct.2006
Nicaragua's
Ortega Could Win in First Round:
Former head of state Daniel Ortega is the clear frontrunner in
Nicaragua’s presidential race,.
21.Oct.2006 Operation Because We Can: For 27 years, the most powerful nation in the world has found it impossible to share the Western Hemisphere with one of its poorest and weakest neighbors, Nicaragua, if the country's leader was not in love with capitalism.
21.Oct.2006 Venezuela’s UN Ambassador Accuses Bush Administration of Blackmailing Other Countries Over Contested UN Seat:
Guatemala has won every round of voting but has failed to secure the needed two-thirds majority.
21.Oct.2006 Britain to defy US over UN resolution on arms trade : The UK is next week expected to push through the United Nations a resolution to open the way for a landmark arms trade treaty, in spite of opposition from the US, Russia and China.
21.Oct.2006 The limits of liberty: We're all suspects now : Ten years ago, the novelist and polemicist Henry Porter would have felt silly speaking out about human rights in Britain. But that was before the most fundamental assault on personal freedom ever undertaken. Now, he argues, it's time we woke up to reality
21.Oct.2006 The International Committee of the Red Cross "concerned" over US anti-terrorism law : The president of Swiss-run humanitarian body, Jakob Kellenberger, said that there were questions over its compliance with the Geneva Conventions on the conduct of war.
21.Oct.2006 Court Told It Lacks Power in Detainee Cases: The administration has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.
21.Oct.2006
John
Yoo: Sending a Message : Congress
to courts: Get out of the war on terror:
The military commission bill, which President Bush
signed into law on Tuesday, most of the press and the professional
punditry missed the big story. In the struggle for power between the
three branches of government, it is not the presidency that "won."
Instead, it is the judiciary that lost.
21.Oct.2006
Peace
Now: 43% of illegal squatter camps are built on stolen Palestinian
land
: According to a survey by Peace Now, some parts of 75 of the 102
outposts in the West Bank are on private Palestinian land. The
survey, carried out by the organization's settlement monitoring team,
found that the total area of the outposts is 16,196 dunams, out of
which about 43 percent are on private Palestinian land (6,986
dunams);
21.Oct.2006 Talks Could Lead to Israeli Approval of Illegal West Bank Squatter Outposts: Illegal squatter outposts in the West Bank would get official government approval under a deal Israel's defense minister is working out, government officials and squatters said Thursday.
21.Oct.2006 Furor Over Carter’s South Africa Analogy : Use of the word — apartheid — and some of the book’s content are quickly leaking out + Jewish Democrats were scrambling this week to limit the impact on closely fought congressional races only weeks away.
21.Oct.2006 Jewish political partisans in U.S.: In their campaigns for the Jewish vote on Nov. 7, Republicans are pitching support for Israel and anti-terrorism, as they have for years. Democrats are reminding voters of the party’s traditional support for Israel but are emphasizing health care, keeping church separate from state and supporting reproductive rights, as they have for years.
21.Oct.2006 No more N Korea nuke tests - China: North Korea's Kim Jong-il tells Chinese envoy that Pyongyang is not planning to conduct further nuclear tests.
21.Oct.2006 South Korea prepares for attack: The South Korean army shot missiles at targets during a firing demonstration to prepare for military aggression from North Korea.
21.Oct.2006 N.Korea ship being tracked by U.S. intelligence : The “CBS Evening News,” quoting U.S. intelligence sources, reported that a North Korean ship possibly carrying military equipment banned by U.N. sanctions had left that country for an unknown destination.
21.Oct.2006 Seven in Ten Americans Favor Congressional Candidates Who Will Pursue a Major Change in Foreign Policy: U.S. Public Wants Less Emphasis on Military Force, More on Working Through U.N. A Majority Supports Direct Talks with North Korea and Iran
21.Oct.2006
CIA
approached terrorism trial defendant about job as spy:
A former university professor charged with plotting to bankroll Hamas
terrorists was once asked by the Central Intelligence Agency if he
wanted a job as a spy, his attorney told a jury Thursday.
21.Oct.2006
War
pimp alert: Regime
Change Only Solution for Iran, Israeli Expert Says
: The Iranians "need to fear" the consequences if they
continue in their nuclear pursuits, Olmert said, adding that he did
not discuss specifics of what Israel would or would not do.
21.Oct.2006 ‘US might consider Iran strike’: With North Korea threatening more nuclear weapons tests, officials in Washington have placed the option of a military attack back on the table as they consider ways to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons, experts say
21.Oct.2006 War pimp alert: Ultimately, the U.S. will Attack : Attacking will not provide a fundamental solution to the (nuclear) problem...only delay it. In order to bring about a halt to the nuclear program, there has to be a regime change (that) can take place...in less time than it takes the regime of the ayatollahs to obtain nuclear weapons."
21.Oct.2006 Ahmadinejad: Attempts to strengthen fake Zionist regime doomed to fail : Addressing the supporters of this corrupt regime, he said, "As an option, I recommend you to comply with your claims to democracy and let the Palestinians determine their own destiny through a free and legal election.
21.Oct.2006
Force
may be needed to guard Lebanese airspace -UN:
U.N. peacekeepers may at some point resort to force to prevent
repeated Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace, the commander of
the U.N. force in southern Lebanon said on Thursday.
21.Oct.2006
NATO
Occupation Forces Accused of Executing Afghan Civilians:
"When they saw my son in wounded condition, they shot him and
killed him in front of my eyes."
21.Oct.2006
A
Soldier's Duty? The Ehren Watada Story: Video:
On June 22, U.S. Army First Lieutenant Ehren K. Watada became the
first commissioned officer to publicly refuse deployment to the
unlawful Iraq War and occupation. For the first time since 1965, the
military is prosecuting an objector for his opinions. He faces over
eight years in prison - over six years for First Amendment speech
alone!
21.Oct.2006
White
House Resists Major Course Change in Iraq:
President Bush
will resist election-year pressure for a major shift in strategy in
Iraq, the White House said on Friday, despite growing doubts among
Americans and anxiety over the war among Republican lawmakers.
21.Oct.2006
Iraq
'hiding true casualty figures':THE
Iraqi Government has told medical authorities not to reveal to the UN
the true extent of civilian casualties in the country's
conflict,French newspaper Le Monde said today
21.Oct.2006 Patrick Cockburn: Hospitals now a battleground in the bloody civil war : Iraqi hospitals are dangerous places. Policemen and soldiers carry their wounded comrades into operating theatres and demand immediate treatment, forcing doctors at gunpoint to abandon operations on civilians before they are completed.
21.Oct.2006 The End of Maliki?: Will a Coup Unravel Iraq
Former Top Bush Administration Official Calls For Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Iraq:
00.000.2001-00.000.2005 Richard L. Armitage — served as deputy secretary of state from to-— is
advocating
a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. From the New Jersey
Express-Times:
21.Oct.2006
After
Pat’s Birthday -By
Kevin Tillman
00.000.2002 Kevin Tillman joined the Army with his brother Pat.
22.Apr.2004 Pat was killed in Afghanistan.
Kevin, who was discharged in 2005, has written a powerful, must-read document. Continue
Medics
beg for help as Iraqis die needlessly -By
Jeremy Laurance
Half of all deaths preventable, say country's
medics Reconstruction seen as disaster More than 2,000 doctors +
nurses are killed 18,000 more leave the nation. Even the most basic
treatments are lacking. Continue
21.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Weldon's
hit list Emails disclose that Republican Representative Curt Weldon
(PA) contacted the Navy (and other departments, presumably) in order
to draw together a "hit
list"
of individuals "in the national security field" supportive
of his opponent, Joe Sestak. "If they don't think there will be
retribution before or after the election, they're kidding
themselves." Illegal? You bet. Permalink
21.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Apocalypse This is the news.
All else is superfluous. From the Sydney
Morning Herald:
TREASURER
Peter Costello has called on East Asia's central bankers to
"telegraph" their intentions to diversify out of American
investments and ensure an orderly adjustment.
Central banks in
China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Kong have channelled
immense foreign reserves into American government bonds, helping to
prop up the US dollar and hold down American interest rates.
Mr
Costello said "the strategy had changed" and Chinese
central bankers were now looking for alternative investments.
"Of
course you can have an orderly adjustment," he told reporters.
"And what I would recommend is that these matters be telegraphed
well in advance. I think we should begin preparing ourselves for
it."
Mr Costello said the "re-emergence" of China
as the world's greatest economy "is not something to be feared".
Thank you, George W. Bush
-- the man who destroyed the American economy. Permalink
#
posted by Joseph : 2:40 PM
-: Can't keep up. Between all the new stuff that comes out and the old stuff that I've been reading about, theres just too much to be pissed about. Was just reading up on the torture of John Walker Lindh over at Wiki. His charges were reduced from 10 to 2, 3 lifes sentences to 20 years in prison, in exhange that he be placed under a gag-order + not talk about what happened to him.
Sure wish he'd speak up anyways.# posted by LieparDestin : 4:51 PM
It won't be the apocalypse.
When the U.S. has to finance its own budget deficits, a few things will likely happen:
taxes will go up,
2)
spending (including military spending) will drop, 3) U.S.
adventurism abroad will be abruptly curtailed, 4) interest rates
will rise 1 to 2 points and 4) the dollar will drop.
The sum
effect is impossible to predict, but the adjustment won't be the end
of the world. The standard of living for most Americans will
undoubtedly drop, including for the most vulnerable, but there still
might be positive consequences, if and when people begin demanding
some measure of equity in earnings and taxes.#
posted by Anonymous : 7:55 PM anonymous...
On the contrary, it
WILL be the apocalypse, which is exactly why foreign central banks
keep loaning us $72 billion per month. They know that if they don't,
the US dollar collapses + drags the whole global economy into chaos
with it. The US budget deficit is now almost 7% of GDP. Making that
up by raising taxes and/or cutting spending would plunge the US into
a depression worse than the 30's. Have you ever run the numbers on
800 billion per year? That's nearly three thousand more in taxes per
person per year + even that wouldn't touch the eight trillion in
current debt, on which the interest rate would go to the moon. #
posted by unirealist
21.Oct.2006
Bush
to America: "I Will Continue to Hold America Hostage to My
Stubborness, Elitism, Ignorance + Love of Deciding Who Will Live and
Who Will Die. So Live With It, Vassals! Besides, Karl Told Me That
The Only Campaign Strategy We Have is To Continue to Try and
Convince Americans that Being as Dumb as a Rock is Strength."
21.Oct.2006
BuzzFlash
Department of Reality: Sadr Militia Seizes Control of Southern City
of Amarah in Iraq. 10/21
Dispatch
from the BuzzFlash Department of Reality: "Al-Qaida-linked
gunmen staged military-like parades Friday in a string of towns west
of Baghdad, underlining the growing confidence of Sunni insurgents in
a part of Iraq where U.S. and Iraqi forces maintain a heavy
counterinsurgency presence." Bush
is a Loserman. 10/21
21.Oct.2006
If
Bush
Voters Read the National Examiner and Globe Tabloids, It's Not
Looking Good for George -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis
A
Sneak Preview of the Lastest Member of the BuzzFlash Internet News
Network Family, BuzzFlash.net! We Will Formally Launch on Monday.
Bush
Will Send a Stern Message to North Korea About Exploding Nuclear
Bombs by Attacking Iran, Which Doesn't Have Any + Other BuzzFlash
Insights Into Bush
Strategies Gleaned from "The Mad Hatter" -- -- A BuzzFlash
Editorial
21.Oct.2006
Media
Must Provide Gruesome Iraq Reality if Bush
Won't. War will Continue as Long as we are "Numb to Iraq Troop
Deaths" -- A BuzzFlash News Analysis
LaHood
Admits He Was ?Playing Politics? When He Asked For Intel Staffer To
Be Suspended 10/22
21.Oct.2006
Bush
hasn't learned a thing. "I won't change strategy in Iraq"
He can't learn. And ask his press secretary what strategy means,
because like Bush,
he doesn't know. 10/21
21.Oct.2006
A
Short History of Saddam-Bush-Noriega
Business
... all the tapes + all the photos that he had of his meetings ...
Seems to be a nice picture of Nic Du Toit. seemslikeadream. Mar-13-04
Democratic Underground - Operation GLADIO ... (RAI) allege that the CIA paid Lucio Gelli to "foment terrorist activities. ...
Seems to be a nice picture of Nic Du Toit. seemslikeadream. Mar-13-04
LIBERATION THEOLOGY, THE VATICAN + THE
CIA:
GHOSTS AND PHANTOMS Lucio
Gelli,
the head of P-2, a secret, virulently anti-Communist
Masonic lodge ... have succeeded in creating a total picture of the
Christian
reality + this ... www.antipasministries.com/html/file0000217.htm
21.Oct.2006
Wasser
als Ursache und Mittel internationaler Konflikte Das ...
In der Türkei leben zu Beginn der 1990er Jahre etwa 10 -12
Mio. Kurden, im Irak 3 Mio., in Syrien 1 Mio. und im Iran. 4 Mio.,
vgl. Bozkurt (1997: 140). content.grin.com/data/20/39464.pdf
21.Oct.2006
Proteste
in fünf Städten: Gewerkschaften wettern gegen
Regierungskurs
21.Oct.2006
Genervte
Nachbarn: Brite muss an Weihnachten im Dunkeln bleiben
21.Oct.2006
Innovative
Verbrechensbekämpfung: Mit Sex- Entzug und rosa Farbe gegen das
Böse
21.Oct.2006
US-
Wahlkampf: Werbespot der Republikaner erzürnt Demokraten
21.Oct.2006
Atomtest-
Krise: Kim Dae Jung warnt vor Vergeltungsschlägen aus
Nordkorea
21.Oct.2006
Leo
Kirch wird 80: "Erschossen hat mich der Rolf"
21.Oct.2006
Energiepolitik:
Putin lässt Europäer abblitzen
21.Oct.2006
Aufmarksamkeits-
Kurven: Die Hype- Zyklen neuer Technologien
21.Oct.2006
Chaos
im Irak: Bush
berät über Strategiewechsel
20.Oct.2006
Junge
Union: Mißfelder fordert Abgrenzung von den "Sozis"
21.Oct.2006
AKW
Belene - Alle vier deutsche Banken distanziert
- sfux Michael
Schulze von Glaßer
?
Der
Vorstandvorsitzende der letzten noch verbliebenen deutschen Bank, der
Hypo Vereinsbank, teilte dem Umweltbündnis gestern Abend mit,
dass sich die Hypo Vereinsbank und deren Muttergesellschaft, die
Uni-Credit Gruppe, ebenfalls nicht an dem Projekt beteiligen wird.
Noch im Juli 2006
erklärte das Vorstandsmitglied der Deutschen Bank
Tiessen von Heidebreck gegenüber...
21.Oct.2006
AKW
Belene - Deutsche Bank verkündet Rückzug
- sfux Michael
Schulze von Glaßer
?
Die
rumänische Regierung plant den Bau eines neuen Atomkraftwerkes
an der bulgarisch-rumänischen Grenze geplant. [journalismus ?
nachrichten von heute] berichtete...
21.Oct.2006
First
Time in U.S. History a Jury Convicts an Illegal Immigrant of
Conspiracy to...
- sfux Rachel
Alexander
-
Maricopa
County Attorney Andrew Thomas and Sheriff Joe Arpaio are the only law
enforcement officials in the country arresting and prosecuting
illegal immigrants under an anti-human smuggling (coyote) statute.
21.Oct.2006
U.S.
intelligence has detected the departure from a North Korean port of a
North Korean ship suspected of carrying military equipment banned
under a U.N. sanctions resolution against Pyongyang's Oct. 9 nuclear
test, CBS News reported Thursday.
21.Oct.2006
Unterschicht?
? Deutschlands zynische Debatte
- sfux Dr.
Alexander von Paleske
- Am
17.Okt.2006 war der ?International Day for the Eradication of Poverty?
Während in Deutschland dieser Tag wohl wenig Aufmerksamkeit fand + statt dessen die Debatte darüber entbrannte, ob es wohl eine Unterschicht gibt, hat in Ländern der Dritten Welt, wie auch hier In Botswana,
der
Tag die gebührende Aufmerksamkeit gefunden und zwar mit
Veranstaltungen und...
21.Oct.2006DIE
FALSCHMELDUNG ? Franzosen zu nett zu ausländischen Touristen
- sfux KURZ/VERTICKERT ?
Die
?Grande Nation? ist zu nett zu ihren Touristen. Besonders Pariser
Taxifahrer verhielten sich zu ihren Fahrgästen mehr als
vorbildlich. Dies ergab eine Studie, die im Auftrag des französischen
Innenministeriums erstellt wurde. Sprachprobleme gebe es laut dieser
Studie in Frankreich nicht. Kellner und Verkäufer seien die
Lieblinge aller Touristen und die Gastfreundschaft sei im ganzen Land
nicht zu stoppen.
21.Oct.2006
Who
Is 'Any Person' in Tribunal Law?
- sfux Robert
Parry
-
The
New York
Times lead editorial gives false comfort to American
citizens by assuring them that they will not be victims of George W.
Bush?s
new draconian system for prosecuting enemies of the U.S. government
in military tribunals outside constitutional protections.
?This
law does not apply to American citizens,? the Times editorial stated,
?but...
21.Oct.2006
Petition
zum Verbot von Wahlcomputern
- sfux CCC
-
Der
Chaos Computer Club unterstützt die Online-Petition beim
Deutschen Bundestag zur Abschaffung von Wahlcomputern in Deutschland.
Hierin wird die ersatzlose Streichung des § 35 Bundeswahlgesetz
(Stimmabgabe mit Wählgeräten) gefordert.
Die Petition
findet sich unter unter dem unten angegebenen Link. Die faktische
Nichtüberprüfbarkeit der Auszählung einer Computerwahl
durch den Bürger verletzt die...
21.Oct.2006
LaHood
Admits He Was ‘Playing Politics’ When He Asked For Intel
Staffer To Be Suspended
- Judd -
This week, on the request of Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL), Intelligence Chairman Pete Hoekstra (R-MI) suspended a Democratic staffer’s access to classified information. Hoekstra said the suspension would remain in place pending a review to determine if that staffer leaked a classified National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times.
Today on Fox News, LaHood said, “I’ll tell you why I did it. The reason I did it was because Jane Harman released the Duke Cunningham — who sat on our Intelligence committee — report.” That report, which detailed the misconduct of Cunningham, who is now serving a jail term, was not classified.
A Fox anchor asked, “So, it’s payback?” LaHood responded, “There are some of us on the other side who can equally play politics + I’m not afraid to do it.” Watch it: Watch it: Digg It!
LAHOOD: Well, look, we’ve had far too many leaks in the intelligence committee + I’ve been on the committee eight years and I’m the vice chairman of the committee + I’m sick and tired of leaks. And when I learned that this information was available to this staffer and a member + then printed in the New York Times two days later, I really felt compelled, as a member of the committee that’s fed up with the leaks, to send a letter to the chairman and ask him to investigate it. And that’s what’s going on and given that fact that we, you know, we’ve tried to do things in a bipartisan way, this, you know, obviously clearly is a breach of that. So we just felt compelled to send the chairman a letter.
ANCHOR: Congressman, you wrote that letter nearly three weeks ago + your letter is just surfacing now, at least to us in the media, you know a lot of Democrats are upset today, saying this is all happening just two weeks before the election, the timing is just suspect.
LAHOOD: Yeah, I’ll tell you why I did it, Jane. The reason why I did it is because Jane Harman released the Duke Cunningham — who sat on our Intelligence committee — report, in violation of the trust that she gave to Chairman Hoekstra, in saying that it would be released in a bipartisan way. She released it arbitrarily + I’m furious about that. She betrayed the trust of the committee because that report was to be released in a bipartisan way. She released it to the media just to embarrass, 21 days before the election, Republicans on the committee. That’s the reason that I released my letter today.
ANCHOR: So it’s payback?
LAHOOD:
Look it, this is–we’re in the political season + if the
ranking member on our committee
wants to play politics, there’re some of us on the other side
that can equally play politics + I’m not afraid to do it.
21.Oct.2006
Rep.
Weller (R-IL) refers new page allegation.
- Nico -
Rep.
Jerry Weller (R-IL) “moved Thursday to inform the House that a
former page or intern may have been the subject of inappropriate
attention from another lawmaker.”
A spokesman said “the congressman
was not prepared to reveal the identity of the youth, the timing, nor
the identity of the lawmaker, but felt confident that a former page
or intern was ‘inappropriately invited to a social function by
another congressman.’”
Rep. Weller has been the focus
of recent Internet rumors
suggesting he had acted inappropriately towards a page.
21.Oct.2006
Big
Oil Companies Bankroll Deceptive California Campaign Against
Alternative Energy
- Amanda -
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has repeatedly stated that he is committed to end his state’s addiction to oil. But Schwarzenegger has refused to support Proposition 87, even though it provides one of the strongest prospects for the state to raise funds for alternative energy research and development.
The initiative would raise the extraction fee on oil pumped in California. Funds raised from Prop. 87 “would be used to finance research and development of alternative fuels in universities; education campaigns; and subsidies to consumers who buy vehicles that use alternative fuels and businesses that produce and distribute alternative fuels.”
Up until now, as New York Times columnist Tom Friedman points out, “oil companies in California have paid a very low extraction fee compared with those in other states — a rip-off they want to keep.” Chevron lobbyist Jack Coffey even admitted that Prop. 87 is “worth a lot of money” to the oil companies. These companies have launched the massive, deceptive “No On 87? campaign to defeat Prop. 87. Some lowlights:
– Oil companies have concealed their funding of No On 87. According to No. on 87 campaign ads, “a coalition of taxpayers, educators, public safety officials, businesses, energy producers, Chevron Corporation and Aera Energy LLP” are funding the effort to defeat Prop. 87. But in reality, oil companies are bankrolling more than 99 percent of the $35 million campaign against initiative. Chevron and Aera have contributed more than $25 million.
– Oil companies claim that Prop. 87 will force them to raise gas prices. The No On 87 campaign’s website claims that the burden of higher production taxes will force oil companies to raise gas prices for consumers. This claim is false. The head of the American Petroleum Institute recently told Congress “big oil is powerless to control prices at the pump.” Additionally, the California Attorney General has confirmed that Prop. 87 makes it illegal for oil companies to raise gas prices to pass along the cost to consumers.
As
President Clinton recently stated, Prop. 87 gives Calfornia and Gov.
Schwarzenegger the “opportunity…to
do something remarkable to save the planet,
improve our national security and create the next generation of good
jobs for the American people.” Help support the Yes On 87
Campaign HERE.
Digg
It!
21.Oct.2006
VIDEO:
Cheney Still Lying About Iraq-Al Qaeda Link
- Faiz -
Just last month, the Senate Intelligence Committee — chaired by Bush-ally Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) — concluded that there was absolutely no relationship between Saddam Hussein and the late al-Qaeda operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Nevertheless, in an interview with a South Bend, Indiana television station yesterday, Vice President Cheney falsely asserted that Zarqawi was proof of a connection between Iraq and al Qaeda. Watch it:
Cheney’s statement is a lie. Here’s precisely what the Senate Intelligence Committee found:
Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and…the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi. [p. 109]
Watch the entire interview HERE.
Q: Are you saying that you believe fighting in Iraq has prevented terrorist attacks on American soil? And if so, why, since there has not been a direct connection between al Qaeda and Iraq established?
CHENEY:
Well, the fact of the matter is there are connections. Mr. Zarqawi,
who was the lead terrorist in Iraq for three years, fled there after
we went into Afghanistan. He was there before we ever went into Iraq.
The sectarian violence that we see now, in part, has been stimulated
by the fact of al Qaeda attacks intended to try to create conflict
between Shia and Sunni. Digg
It!
21.Oct.2006
Harman:
Intelligence Committee
Chairman Abused Power, Suspended Staffer To Settle Political Score
- Judd -
This week Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) suspended a committee staffer’s access to classified information. Hoekstra said the suspension would remain in place pending a review to determine if the staff leaked a classified National Intelligence Estimate to the New York Times.
Today, Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the ranking member of the committee, fired back:
The Chairman’s unilateral action is without basis and an abuse of his power to provide security accesses. There is no evidence to suggest that the professional staff member in question did anything wrong.
In May, the NIE was provided to multiple congressional committees and made available to thousands of individuals throughout the intelligence and policymaking community. The document was posted on the internal Committee website and available to every Committee staff member days before the story was published. In securing the document and providing it to a Member of the Committee in the secure Committee offices, this staffer acted appropriately.
The Chairman has acknowledged in a letter to me that his action was a direct response to my decision to release the 5-page unclassified Summary of the Cunningham Report by the Special Counsel.
The Majority staff has also informed Minority staff that they do not believe the staffer in question actually leaked any classified information, but they felt “compelled” to take this action because a Majority member of the Committee requested an investigation.
Harman
also sent a letter to Hoekstra. You can read it HERE.
21.Oct.2006
EXCLUSIVE:
Lewis Falsely Implies Mass Suspension Of Committee
Investigators Was ‘Bipartisan’
- Think
Progress -
Powerful House Appropriations Committee Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA) has abruptly suspended the contracts of “60 investigators who had worked for his committee rooting out fraud, waste and abuse, effective immediately.” The investigators were “brought on to handle the extraordinary level of fraud investigations facing the panel.”
Lewis is currently under federal investigation over corruption charges reportedly uncovered during the Duke Cunningham investigation. He has spent nearly $800,000 in legal fees since May.
Lewis’ spokesman yesterday tried to portray the suspensions as part of a bipartisan review that occured with the support of the committee’s ranking member Rep. David Obey (D-WI):
Committee spokesman John Scofield said Thursday that the contracts were not renewed because the panel is conducting a “bipartisan review” of the unit’s staff .
“Frankly, the work we’ve been getting as of late has not been that good,” Scofield said. “There is nothing sinister going on.”
Scofield said the review has the backing of ranking Democratic House appropriator David R. Obey of Wisconsin.
But a source tells ThinkProgress that while Committee Democrats agreed that there were problems with the investigative staff that needed to be addressed; committee Democrats had not been consulted prior to the suspension of the investigators . The source also said that problems with the investigations unit were only part of an overall issue involving the alarming deterioration of the committee’s oversight activities.
The
Appropriations Committee
makes decisions on nearly a trillion dollars a year in federal
spending yet the diligence with which the committee
monitors the use of those funds has declined steadily over the past
decade, with the administrative problems of the Surveys and
Investigations unit being only part of a much larger problem. In
2003, Lewis personally intervened to block a committee
review of the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans that was
responsible for a great deal of the misinformation used by the
administration to justify the invasion of Iraq.
21.Oct.2006
Weldon’s
“FBI
informant” is a campaign staffer.
- Nico -
Citing
information he received from an “ex-FBI
agent,” Rep. Curt Weldon (R-PA) has been suggesting to
reporters that federal agents investigating Weldon have been working
in cahoots with his Democratic campaign opponent Joe Sestak. Weldon
“failed to mention” that the “ex-FBI
agent” is one of his own staffers, who has been
on his campaign’s payroll since May.
21.Oct.2006
Former
Top Bush
Administration Official Calls For Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Iraq
- Judd -
President Bush and other administration officials have been smearing anyone who suggests we begin to withdraw troops from Iraq as “defeatist” and “cut-and-runners.”
Now Richard L. Armitage — who served as deputy secretary of state from 2001-2005 — is advocating a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. From the New Jersey Express-Times:
“ We notify the Iraqis that we’re going to be drawing down a reasonable but careful percentage of our troops over a reasonable interval of months — just for example, 5 percent of troops every three months,” Armitage told a crowd of 850 at DeSales University.
“This will show seriousness of purpose, I think. It will give our population some hope and enthusiasm that this is not a never-ending affair. And also it will put the heat on the Iraqis, because ladies and gentlemen, we can’t win this militarily. By the way, we can’t lose this militarily.”
Armitage’s remarks acknowledge the failure of the administration’s “as Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand down” strategy. As Armitage points out, until Iraqis know we will stand down, they may never stand up.
Armitage was intimately involved in the Iraq war policy and recognizes that he and other top administration officials bear responsibility for a policy that ended up being a colossal failure.
“A lot of us, including me, are going to have a lot to answer for,” Armitage said.
Armitage’s
proposal closely tracks a plan that the Center for American Progress
has been advocating for more than a year, Strategic
Redeployment.
Digg
It!
21.Oct.2006
Former
Top Bush
Administration Official Calls For Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Iraq
- Judd -
President Bush and other administration officials have been smearing anyone who suggests we begin to withdraw troops from Iraq as “defeatist” and “cut-and-runners.”
Now Richard L. Armitage — who served as deputy secretary of state from 2001-2005 — is advocating a phased withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq. From the New Jersey Express-Times:
“ We notify the Iraqis that we’re going to be drawing down a reasonable but careful percentage of our troops over a reasonable interval of months — just for example, 5 percent of troops every three months,” Armitage told a crowd of 850 at DeSales University.
“This will show seriousness of purpose, I think. It will give our population some hope and enthusiasm that this is not a never-ending affair.
And also it will put the heat on the Iraqis, because ladies and gentlemen, we can’t win this militarily. By the way, we can’t lose this militarily.”
Armitage’s remarks acknowledge the failure of the administration’s “as Iraqis stand up, we’ll stand down” strategy. As Armitage points out, until Iraqis know we will stand down, they may never stand up.
Armitage was intimately involved in the Iraq war policy and recognizes that he and other top administration officials bear responsibility for a policy that ended up being a colossal failure. “A lot of us, including me, are going to have a lot to answer for,” Armitage said.
Armitage’s
proposal closely tracks a plan that the Center for American Progress
has been advocating for more than a year, Strategic
Redeployment.
Digg
It!
20.Oct.2006
October
20, 2006
- Think
Progress -
Iraq’s Prime Minister had ordered the country’s health ministry to “stop providing mortality figures to the United Nations, jeopardizing a key source of information on the number of civilian war dead in Iraq .”
President Bush recess-appointed former coal industry executive Richard Stickler to head the Mine Safety and Health Administration.
The Senate had twice refused to confirm him “because of his troubling mine safety record — the mines he managed from 1989 to 1996 incurred injury rates double the national average.”
“Moving quickly to implement” the new Military Commissions Act, the Bush administration “has formally notified the U.S. District Court here that it no longer has jurisdiction to consider
hundreds of habeas corpus petitions filed by inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba.”
00.000.1995, just three days into her tenure as Secretary of the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department, Rep. Heather Wilson (R-NM) removed a routine working file alleging that her husband had engaged in inappropriate contact with a minor . The file, uncovered only recently, reports that Wilson’s husband touched a then-16 year old boy “in a manner that was not welcome.” Wilson sat on the Congressional Page Board and currently serves on the Congressional Missing and Exploited Children’s caucus.
The Government Accountability Office yesterday released a report stating that government-funded abstinence education materials must also contain “medically accurate information on condom effectiveness.” In the past, the Bush administration has insisted that its materials did not need to discuss condoms.
The Bush administration took “another step yesterday toward building a new stockpile of up to 2,200 deployed nuclear weapons that would last well into the 21st century.” The administration announced it will begin the process of repairing and replacing nuclear production facilities as part of an attempt to replace the aging Cold War stockpile of nuclear warheads with a smaller, more reliable arsenal.
In the middle of “National Character Counts Week,” President Bush yesterday went to Pennsylvania to campaign for Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA), who is being sued for repeatedly beating a woman with whom he had an affair. The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank notes that “Bush was careful to avoid the usual lines about family and conservative values.”
“The number of ‘dead zones’ in the world’s oceans may have increased by a third in just two years, threatening fish stocks and the people who depend on them,” the U.N. says. The number has previously doubled every decade since the 1960s.
And
finally: California Treasurer and gubernatorial candidate Phil
Angelides (D) had an unorthodox campaign appearance on the Adam
Corolla radio show. Prior to his segment, a “72-year-old woman
named Sarah made out with a 20-year-old man” trying to get
event tickets. Angelides’ daughter, who was with him, “received
a hearty leering” while someone “suggested
smearing mayonnaise on her.”
Angelides also “made a pitch for some Playboy Mansion tickets
for a staff member.”
21.Oct.2006
Congressman
carries out mass firing of investigative staff.
- Nico -
Powerful
House Appropriations Committee
Chairman Jerry Lewis (R-CA), who is currently under federal
investigation for corruption charges,
has “fired
60 investigators
who had worked for his committee
rooting out fraud, waste and abuse, effective immediately.”
According to Congressional
Quarterly, “The investigators were contract workers, brought on
to handle the extraordinary level of fraud investigations facing the
panel.”
21.Oct.2006
Rumsfeld
inspired by God.
- Nico -
“The
top US general defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld today, saying
it is inspired by God.
‘He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our
country,’ said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff.”
21.Oct.2006
Neo-Fascist
Pigs In Space: Part Two
- Paul Joseph Watson -Space really is "the final frontier"
for the Neo-fascist US crime syndiacte Steve Watson / Infowars.net |
October 19 2006
21.Oct.2006
Neo-Fascists
Threaten Terror Unless Voters Approve Dictatorship
- Paul Joseph Watson -Bush
junta deploys Osama campaign videos to frighten sheep into tacitly
supporting unitary
21.Oct.2006
Drug-induced
labour 'riskier'
Women who have their births drug-induced are at greater risk of an
amniotic-fluid embolism, a study shows.
21.Oct.2006
Eating
bread 'raises cancer risk'
People who eat a lot of bread are more at risk of kidney cancer, a
new study suggests.
21.Oct.2006
Putin
confident on EU energy pact
Russian President Vladimir Putin says he thinks Russia and the EU
will find a common approach on energy.
21.Oct.2006
Anger
as new 9/11
remains found
Relatives of 9/11
victims demand a new search of Ground Zero after more human remains
are found.
21.Oct.2006
Iraq
aide laments troop failings
A top Iraqi adviser says Iraqi forces in Baghdad are under funded,
badly trained and poorly equipped.
21.Oct.2006
Muslim
staff in Paris airport row
Muslim baggage handlers at Charles de Gaulle airport appeal against a
security ban on their employment.
21.Oct.2006
N
Korea 'not planning more tests'
Japan has unconfirmed information that North Korea is not planning
more nuclear tests, reports say.
21.Oct.2006
Iran
warns of revenge over Israel
Muslims around the world will take revenge against states that
supported Israel, Iran's president says.
21.Oct.2006
Nigerian
leaders 'stole' $380bn
Some $380bn has been stolen by Nigerian leaders since independence
00.000.1960,
the anti-corruption chief says.
21.Oct.2006
Mexico
governor under Senate
fire
Mexico's Senate
criticises the governor of Oaxaca state for failing to halt a
political crisis, but decides not to sack him.
21.Oct.2006
Brazilian
Indians leave iron mine
A group of about 200 Xikrin Indians in Brazil agree to leave an iron
mine they had been occupying since Tuesday.
21.Oct.2006
Solomon
Islands PM offices raided
Australian forces raid the office of the Solomons prime minister as
tensions rise over a controversial sex case.
21.Oct.2006
Putin's
'rape joke' played down
Russia's president is overheard joking about the virility of his
Israeli counterpart, who is accused of multiple rape.
21.Oct.2006
Iran
'blocks Israel soldier deal'
An Israeli diplomat accuses Iran of blocking a deal to free a soldier
captured by Palestinian militants.
21.Oct.2006
Iran
'should stop student bans'
Iran must stop banning students from university because of their
political views, a human rights groups says.
21.Oct.2006
Police
cells used for new inmates
Police cells are being used to hold new prisoners as jails approach
full capacity, the Home Office says.
21.Oct.2006
Chrysler
to cut car prices in US
Chrysler reveals plans to cut the price of every car it sells in the
US by $1,000, as it aims to revive sales.
21.Oct.2006
The
Green Room
Consumer choice is not going to deliver the changes needed to combat
climate change, says this week's Green Room.
20.Oct.2006
The
Clintons Get Their Village
Bill and Hillary join other "opinion drivers" at Hotsoup, a
new issues-oriented, non-partisan online community that hopes to
connect its participants to the world around them. By Steve Kettmann.
20.Oct.2006
No
Cash Prize for Darpa Race
Millions in prize money motivates contestants in Darpa's Mojave
Desert robot race.
But
Bush
signs a new law preventing the agency from awarding dollars for the
vehicle best able to navigate rough terrain without a human driver.
20.Oct.2006
Medical
Refugees Forced Abroad
Not able to afford a life saving treatment? You might be forced
to join the swelling number of medical refugees filling Indian
hospitals. But don't worry, they're safe. In Bodyhack.
20.Oct.2006
Adapter
Lets Any Car Use Ethanol
Hybrid owners (or anyone else) who wish they could fill their tanks
with ethanol can purchase a gadget and drive green. In Autopia.
20.Oct.2006
Paging
Dr. Robot
A telemedicine network uses robotics to extend neurologists'
expertise to Michigan hospitals. One doctor calls the practice "the
wave of the future."
20.Oct.2006
Microsoft
bows to the Belgians
Company agrees to remove links to articles from Belgian papers to
avoid copyright lawsuit threatened by publishers.
20.Oct.2006
'Super
Telco', Net Neutrality Debated in Europe
- Zonk
My Nipples Explode With Delight writes to mention a
ZDNet article looking at a proposal for a 'super-telco' regulation
board for the EU. The idea was ripped apart, at an event where Net
Neutrality in Europe and roaming charges were also discussed. From
the article: "'The Commissioner thinks Net neutrality needs to
be addressed,' said Blowers, who claimed a lack of relevant
regulation in America had led to the issue being so explosive there.
'It is probably not sufficient to just talk about competition powers
to deal with Net neutrality,' he continued, before suggesting that,
if tiered services were introduced in the UK and Europe, 'there
should be sufficient transparency in the market that consumers can
make informed choices'."
20.Oct.2006
Boy
Scouts Introduce Merit Badge for Not Pirating
- Zonk 151 - The_Slaughter
writes
"The
MPAA has recruited the boy scouts of America to do their dirty work.
Scouts will now be able to learn a merit badge for anti-piracy
related activities, including create public service announcements
urging others not to steal movies or music. No word yet on if that
includes helping the MPAA file lawsuits against 80 year old
grandmothers."
20.Oct.2006
Telemarketers
Use Emotionally Intelligent Software
- Zonk 95 - eldavojohn
writes
"There's a new kind of software that's being used more and more.
It's software that detects emotion and now it's being used in call centers. It's a $400 million industry according to Forrester Research that relies on volume, pitch + even the words & phrases being used.
Are
we inadvertently getting closer to software that can understand us by
filling the needs of telemarketers who need to know when I'm upset
that they just interrupted my dinner?"
20.Oct.2006
Opera
to Start Phoning Home?
- Zonk 134 -
"Near
the end of a story about Opera's determination to stay in the game:
'Earlier this week, Opera announced an addition that will keep it in
step with its rivals. Johan Borg, a developer working on the browser,
said Tuesday in a blog that the next edition, Opera 9.1, will include
beefed up anti-phishing and anti-fraud features. Rather than simply
indicate that a site is secure with a notation in the address bar,
Opera 9.1 will also query Opera-owned servers for information on any
site visited. Those that Opera has identifies as fraudulent will be
automatically blocked by the browser.'"
20.Oct.2006
YouTube
Removed 30,000 Japanese Videos from Site
- Zonk 220 - Grooves
writes
"YouTube
has been asked to remove almost 30,000 videos from their site,
according to reports. The Japan Society for Rights of Authors,
Composers and Publishers (JASRAC) found 29,549 videos on the site
that had materials contained in them that where not authorized by
rights holders. From the article, 'A spokesperson for that
organization said that they were considering petitioning YouTube for
a better screening process. Although YouTube is legally obligated to
remove infringing material when notified, some copyright holders have
expressed irritation at the notion that they need to police YouTube
themselves.' Now that Google's is attached to the site, will events
like this become more commonplace?"
20.Oct.2006
Google
Launches Website Optimizer
- CowboyNeal 60 - Rockgod
writes
"Google Analytics Senior Manager Brett Crosby unveiled the tool, called Google Website Optimizer, this morning at the eMetrics summit in Washington D.C. If you find web site traffic heat maps like CrazyEgg, ClickDensity or Google Analytics' own heat map interesting, this looks like the next generation of that kind of tool.
If
Google's Website Optimizer can score high on usability, I expect it
to be a big hit with small and medium size website publishers."
20.Oct.2006
Strange
Bacteria Sustains Itself Without Sunlight
- CowboyNeal 259 - Hahnsoo
writes
"A
colony of bacteria found 2.8 kilometers below the Earth's surface in
a South African gold mine is able to sustain itself without energy
from the Sun. While sub-surface colonies of microorganisms utilizing
sulfur (mostly near deep sea hydrothermal vents) is not new, this
particular colony is unusual. The colony does it by relying on
radioactive uranium to split water into hydrogen gas. Thus, instead
of solar energy and photosynthesis, this species relies on
radioactive materials and sulfur/hydrogen to facilitate its energy
needs. There is some speculation about life on other planets in the
article as well."
20.Oct.2006
A
Single Pixel Camera
- CowboyNeal 166 - BuzzSkyline
writes
"Scientists at Rice University have developed a one pixel camera. Instead of recording an image point by point, it records the brightness of the light reflected from an array of movable micromirrors.
Each configuration of the mirrors encodes some information about the scene, which the pixel collects as a single number. The camera produces a picture by psuedorandomly switching the mirrors and measuring the result several thousand times. Unlike megapixel cameras that record millions of pieces of data and then compress the information to keep file sizes down, the single pixel camera compresses the data first and records only the compact information. The experimental version is slow and the image quality is rough, but the technique may lead to single-pixel cameras that use detectors that can collect images outside the visible range, multi-pixel cameras that get by with much smaller imaging arrays, or possibly even megapixel cameras that provide gigapixel resolution.
11.Oct.2006
The
researchers described their research at
the Optical Society of America's Frontiers in Optics meeting in
Rochester, NY."
20.Oct.2006
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Chapter XI: THE ALLIANCE OF BANKERS AND REVOLUTION
For example, witness the testimony of Albert Rhys Williams, an astute commentator on the revolution, before the Senate Overman Committee : . . . it is ... www.reformation.org/wall-st-bolshevik-ch11.html
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This
section is based on the Overman
Committee
hearings, U.S., Senate,
Brewing
+ Liquor Interests + German + Bolshevik
Propaganda,
Hearings before ... www.reformation.org/wall-st-bolshevik-ch4.html
20.Oct.2006
The
Roaring 20s and the Roots of American Fascism
On
12.Feb.1919 the Reverend George Simons testified in front of the Senate's Overman Committee, shocking listeners with the tale of a secret ... www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/1920sp5.html
It began with the Overman Committee in the U.S. Senate that investigated "radical" activity in the peace and labor movements + it climaxed in the Palmer ... www.culture-of-peace.info/apm/chapter2-7.html
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"The leaders of the movement, ... www.israelect.com/reference/WillieMartin/ZWP.htm
00.Jul.1927 Catt,"An Open Letter to the D.A.R.,"
She denied any connection between pacifism + Bolshevism + explicitly ... to the Overman Committee investigating the possibility of Reds in America, ... www.binghamton.edu/womhist/milit/doc15.htm
JSTOR: Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed
... with its Islamic holy war over-tones, or
the Red versus White armies, or
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JSTOR:
A Warmth of Soul: Samuel Northrup Harper and the Russians ...
Harper next assisted the Overman
Committee
of the United
States Senate
in selecting witnesses for its investigation of Com- munist
propaganda.
...
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American Communism + Anticommunism: Chaired by Senator Lee Slater Overman, the committee linked Bolshevism to Imperial German espionage + to beer + liquor interests. www.johnearlhaynes.org/page94.html
Free Speech Policy of the Democratic Party
A
Senate
committee
headed by Less S. Overman,
a Southern Democrat of North Carolina, focused on attempting to
suppress radical + Bolshevik
activities with ...
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05.Sep.2005
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The
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noted that Wardwell was favorable to the Soviet
regime although Poole, the State
Department official on the spot, ...
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20.Oct.2006
Arthur
L. Frothingham. Handbook of War Facts and Peace Problems ...
[The Overman Committee of the judiciary of the Senate undertook a thorough investigation of Bolshevism in Russia as far as was possible by calling witnesses ... www.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/WarFacts/wfacts6.htm
William Hard. Raymond Robins' Own Story. 1920. Contents. Chapter Five.
To hurt Bolshevism you need at least to get its number.
... had passed + till the Overman Senate Committee officially summoned him to speak. www.lib.byu.edu/~rdh/wwi/memoir/Robins/Robins5.htm
Beyond the Backword - 11/02 He notes further, "
00.000.1919 the Senate Overman Committee also established that Guaranty Trust had an active role in financing German WWI. efforts in ... www.waronfreedom.org/update.html
Zionism's
Master Plan for World Power
The following extracts are quotes from the testimony of those who
appeared before the U. S. Senate
Overman
Committee
. Also printed in DEMOCRACY AND WORLD ...
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Reds | Joe McCarthy | McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America
00.000.1919
A
pro-Soviet rally in New
York City, caused U. S. Senator, Lee Overman,
to call a hearing, "the first of many congressional
investigations of www.ralphmag.org/CQ/reds.html
20.Oct.2006
HoloHoax
- Parts 4 through 6
00.000.1919 The Overman Committee, published a report of its findings which are ...
one
is convinced that Bolshevism
is a Jewish
movement which can be explained ...
10.Feb.2003
Lies Father, Lies Son -updte-Remarks to the 2nd ...
the Senate Overman Committee also established that Guaranty Trust had an active role in financing German
WWI.
efforts in an 'unneutral' manner."
alfatomega.com/index_00.html
20.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
00.000.1980 -in the's- The largest source of spare change for covert activities was, of course, the cocaine trade, which
00.000.19-- began as a side note to the Contra operation +
00.000.1984 -by about- had become the dominant factor.
It's
never been clear where the profits of that all went -- certainly not
to the Contras, who were constantly complaining about being
under-supplied.
The extent of Israeli involvement in Latin America
during that period also continues to surprise me the more I learn
about it. We tend to forget that Mossad agent David Kimche, together
with Robert McFarlane, set up *both* ends of Iran-Contra.
Israel was already involved in Latin America by the late 70's, when
it took up extensive arms dealing in response to the economic strains
of the 1973 war and the subsequent oil shocks. An involvement with
the drug trade followed very quickly, much of it by way of Mike
Harari's association with Noriega.
And that's not even getting
into the active presence in the same areas of the World
Anti-Communist
League, Reverend Moon + their fascist friends. (One of the things
that gives me conniptions is the extent to which the Israelis and the
old Nazis
seem to have been on the same side in things like the 1980 Cocaine
Coup in Bolivia.)
Among other things, the WACL -- then still
known as the Asian People's Anti-Communist
League -- had been involved in Latin America as far back as the 1954
coup against Arbenz (thanks to E. Howard Hunt) + its ties there ran
very deep.
00.000.1982
Moon's CAUSA also set up a Guatemala office under Montt.
So
there's no lack of larger context for these events.
Even Ollie North might bear consideration here, as someone with ties to prayer-breakfast Christianity as well as to the Enterprise/Operation Phoenix gang.
And
Christian
Reconstructionist gun-nut Larry Pratt was also down in Guatemala in
the 80's, both arming and evangelizing civilian militias.
For that
matter, I find on checking my files that Wayne Madsen links both Rios
Montt and Jerry Weller to the Fellowship Foundation, in his expose
called "The 'Christian'Mafia."
Like
most of Madsen's claims, that would be extremely interesting, if it
can be confirmed.
Overall, the period c. 1977-85 was a time when
many different right-wing factions came together, were energized by
the dominance of conservativism in much of the world + formed a
variety of unlikely alliances and working partnerships. This, along
with the covert nature of much of what was going on, makes sorting it
out extremely difficult.
But
the fact that it still continues to have fallout today also makes it
crucial.#
posted by starroute :
20.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
speaking
of spin, weller's latest strategy is right out of the rove playbook:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001849.php
20.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
The GOP
woos Jews.
In Arizona, surrogates for Republican congressman
J.D. Hayworth -- who endorsed Henry Ford's anti-Semitism -- attended
a synagogue event at which they managed to offend
every Jew
in the room. The comment by Jonathan Tratt, a spokesman for the
Hayworth campaign, drew loud and angry boos and caused nearly
three-quarters of the crowd of more than 200 to walk out in disgust.
After the walkout, another Hayworth surrogate, Irit Tratt, stood on
the Temple's bimah as she told members of the audience who gathered
to ask questions, "No wonder there are anti-Semites."
20.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
The GOP
woos Hispanics. GOP congressional
candidate Tan
D. Nguyen
sent out a letter threatening Spanish-speaking voters with arrest if
they try to vote.
20.Oct.2006
If
Bush
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Destined
for Destiny: The Unauthorized Autobiography of George W. Bush.
This book will cause you to laugh out loud on public transportation.
Pat
Tillman's Brother, a Fellow GI, Speaks Out on Behalf of His Fallen
Bro: "Somehow torture is tolerated. Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma + nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality."
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20.Oct.2006
Bush
Should be in the Dock: The U.S. military announced the deaths of
three U.S. troops in fighting, raising the toll for American troops
in October to 74. The month is on course to be the deadliest for U.S.
forces in nearly two years.
20.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Ever
notice...? In the stylized donkey image used by Democrats, the stars
point upward. In the stylized elephant seen on all Republican web
sites and campaign literature, the stars invariably point down.
The
inversed pentacle is widely considered a symbol of black magic.
Who
designed these symbols? I know that Thomas Nast came up with the
Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant, but who came up with
the widely-seen modern versions? Permalink
20.Oct.2006
http://www.swanngalleries.com/index.cgi
Magic
Specialist Gary Garland Discusses Part 2 of the Christian
Fechner Collection of American & English Magic at Auction on
October 26.
2004070403_Report
The only hopeful sign I saw was a year ago when 10 million people
demonstrated in ... He claimed the bench had been bribed by the
US-led coalition force.alfatomega.com/2004070403_Report.htm
20.Oct.2006
http://olhaquedois.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/230693.html
Trata-se
da primeira Obra em Portugal, que desenvolve a área do
Aconselhamento Filosófico, com uma análise histórica
nacional e internacional, uma exposição de vários
métodos de trabalho na Consulta individual ou em
grupo/institucional, uma reflexão partilhada com o leitor
sobre alguns casos práticos e reais, etc.
Esta obra está
já a ser utilizada como Manual de Cursos, Workshops, Debates,
etc.
Por todas estas razões, esta obra dá inicio a
uma Nova Colecção: «Filosofia Aplicada».
20.Oct.2006
http://olhaquedois.weblog.com.pt/arquivo/230693.html
Jorge Dias pertence à nova geração de Filósofos que acreditam que a Filosofia deve estar presente em todas as dimensões da vida e que pode ser um contributo real à resolução de questões e problemas que dizem respeito à natureza do Ser Humano. Neste livro, através de uma linguagem perfeitamente acessível, introduz o leitor no mundo do Aconselhamento Filosófico utilizando amiúde exemplos da sua própria experiência, o que dá um dinamismo e humanismo muito peculiares à sua exposição.
O autor é professor de Filosofia, Formador e Consultor para a área da Ética.
Tem realizado sessões de Aconselhamento Filosófico Individual, tendo-se especializado na Society for Philosophy in Practice, em Londres.
É membro do Conselho Científico da «Revista Internacional de Filosofia Prática» (Grupo ETOR – Universidade de Sevilha) e foi convidado para ministrar um seminário de Aconselhamento Ético no Mestrado: «Prática Filosófica e Gestão Social», na Universidade de Barcelona.
20.Oct.2006
http://olhaquedois.weblog.com.pt/
01.Aug.2006
Revista
OLHAR entrevista Jorge Dias
Filósofos são uma
espécie de conselheiros
Filosofia para todos os gostos e
necessidades
Quem disse que a Filosofia é só teoria
e apenas interessa aos currículos escolares, talvez se tenha
esquecido dos ensinamentos de Sócrates e de outros tantos
filósofos gregos que viveram nos séculos VI e V antes
da nossa era. Talvez desconheça certos desenvolvimentos
práticos da Filosofia em curso no mundo actual e que sugerem
aos seus cultores: máximas, raciocínios e atitudes
interessantes a uma vida mais
feliz.
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20.Oct.2006
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Der russischen Zeitung "Kommersant" zufolge äußerte sich Putin wesentlich direkter. "Wir alle beneiden ihn", soll er über Katzav gesagt haben.
"Was für ein starker Kerl! Zehn Frauen hat er vergewaltigt", zitierte die Moskauer Tageszeitung Putins Worte. Den Angaben nach fuhr Putin bei dem Treffen am Mittwoch fort, Katzav habe alle überrascht.
Moskauer Medien rätselten, ob das als Ironie oder als moralische Unterstützung für Katzav zu verstehen sei.
Der
für die Berichterstattung aus dem Kreml zuständige
"Kommersant"-Journalist Andrej Kolesnikow kommentierte das
Gehörte mit den Worten, das sei einer jener Momente gewesen, in
denen man seinen Ohren nicht traue.
20.Oct.2006
Energieversorgung:
Russland lehnt EU- Forderungen ab
20.Oct.2006
Uno:
Schmuggler werfen afrikanische Flüchtlinge Haien zum Fraß
vor
20.Oct.2006
Iran:
Ahmadinedschad warnt den Westen vor Unterstützung Israels
20.Oct.2006
Neues
Grundsatzprogramm: CSU entdeckt Alleinerziehende und Schwule
20.Oct.2006
Nach
Irak- Einsatz: Traumatisierter US- Soldat zerstückelte
Freundin
20.Oct.2006
Größte
Primzahl: Rekordwurm aus 9,8 Millionen Ziffern
20.Oct.2006
Big
Brother Awards 2006: Kultus- und Innenminister räumen ab
20.Oct.2006
Ground
Zero: Bauarbeiter finden Leichenteile in Kanalisation
20.Oct.2006
Erste
Säuberungswelle: YouTube löscht 30.000 Videos
20.Oct.2006
Meteoriten-
Einschlag: Außerirdisches Sandkorn setzt Gartenlaube in Brand
20.Oct.2006
Genmanipulierte
Nahrung: EU will Zwangstest für Reis aus USA
20.Oct.2006
Nordkorea-
Krise: Agentur meldet Stopp von Kim Jong Ils Atomtest- Programm
20.Oct.2006
JU-
Chef zur Wirtschaftspolitik: "Die alte Wahrheit gilt häufig
nicht mehr"
20.Oct.2006
Antarktis:
Rekord- Ozonloch so groß wie USA und Russland
20.Oct.2006
Börsengang:
Rekordnachfrage nach chinesischen Bankaktien
20.Oct.2006
Datenschutz
2.0: Privatsphäre ist einfach Mega- out
20.Oct.2006
Börse:
US- Vorgaben heben Dax auf neues Jahreshoch
20.Oct.2006
Finanzspritze:
Fünf Millionen Euro mehr für den Kampf gegen Rechts
20.Oct.2006
Wettersatellit
gestartet: "Metop" saust um die Pole
20.Oct.2006
Offener
Brief: Blair und Balkenende warnen vor Klimakatastrophe
20.Oct.2006
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CQ:
Facing Fed Probe, House GOP Spending Chief Axes Investigative Staff
This
evening, Congressional
Quarterly reports (sub. req.) that in a round of calls Monday
evening, Lewis fired 60 investigators who had worked for his
committee
rooting out fraud, waste and abuse, effective immediately. As in,
don't bother coming in on Tuesday.
Un-freaking
believable. Lewis has spent nearly $800,000 in legal fees to defend
himself against the probe. posted by Prof.
Hex at 7:22
PM
Weller
rumor update Cannonfire
has a cautious update on the Jerry Weller rumors with good links.
posted by Prof. Hex
20.Oct.2006
From
Weller to Rios Montt to Falwell to Disney to...Oliver Stone?
Cannonfire
has more great background on Jerry Weller. Fascinating
stuff.
LieparDestin
has some too.
posted by Prof. Hex
20.Oct.2006
Ruins
of Peruvian city yielding secrets of lost civilization A
trip to Caral, the oldest city in the Americas.
posted by Prof. Hex
20.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/from-weller-to-rios-montt-to-falwell.html
Weller
is married to Zury Rios Montt, a member of the Guatemalan parliament.
She is the daughter of religious madman Efrain
Rios Montt,
installed by the CIA
as Guatemalan dictator in the 1980s, at which time he murdered many
thousands, mostly indigenous Mayans.
The best precis of the Rios
Montt years may be this
page,
which tells us that Rios Montt belonged to a fundamentalist church in
Northern California called Gospel Outreach, which somehow acquired
the funding and organization to spread far-right Protestantism in
Guatemala and other Latin American nations, under the name El Verbo:
Gospel Outreach is an evangelical Pentecostal church with
headquarters in Eureka, California + Guatemala. It grew out of the
'Jesus People' movement of the 1960s in the United
States.
After
the 1976 earthquake, 28 Gospel Outreach evangelicals from California
arrived in Guatemala to help rebuild the country and establish El
Verbo church. Much of the money appears to have come from (or
through) some well-known American televangelists: "Rios Montt
has been supported by Pat Robertson (Christian
Broadcasting Network), Jerry Falwell (Moral Majority, Thomas Road
Baptist Church, Liberty Federation) + Loren Cunningham (Youth with a
Mission) . They have worked with the Florida Cuban community. . .
Jimmy Swaggart Ministries has provided financial support for the
schools of El Verbo in Guatemala. This is done under the ‘Programa
Ayuda Infantile,’ a branch of the Swaggart ministry.”
(Emphasis added.) We've dealt with Youth With a Mission before in
relation to the Path to 911
debacle; see here.
20.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/from-weller-to-rios-montt-to-falwell.html
From
a 1987 issue of Covert Action Information Bulletin (as cited in the
afore-linked page): "Israel also installed computer surveillance
equipment in Guatemala and, under the pretext of providing
agricultural assistance, helped devise Rios Montt's 'beans and
bullets strategic hamlets, modeled after the CIA's
Operation Phoenix. . . [ed. note: ‘beans and bullets’
refers to Rios Montt’s policy, ‘If you are with us, we’ll
feed you; if not we’ll kill you.’]
[Richard Paradise
of Gospel Outreach] says he works under the auspices of the World
Zionist Organization as a liaison with U.S. evangelicals, with the
assigned role of working against anti-Semitism within the U.S. . .
According to a special report entitled 'Sectas y
Religiosidad en American Latina' published in October 1984 by the
Chile-based Instituto Latinoamericano de Estudios Transnacionales,
during Rios Montt's rule, members of Gospel Outreach's Verbo church
took jobs in espionage and torture and accompanied Israeli and
Argentinean experts during interrogation sessions ."
20.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/from-weller-to-rios-montt-to-falwell.html
An
Israeli Knesset member is on record as saying that Israel acted as a
cut-out for the American intelligence community when it did "dirty
work" in Latin America.
Rios Montt's son-in-law, Weller, has
tried to squelch the congressional
report on Duke Cunningham. We know from the official precis that this
report details suspicious meetings between Cunningham and certain
"foreign nationals." I have argued in a previous post that
these "foreign nationals" were probably
Israeli.
20.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/from-weller-to-rios-montt-to-falwell.html
YWAM
emerged as the secret funder of Path to 911,
the deceptive anti-Clinton documentary which ABC (Disney) broadcast w
ithout commercials.
No
mere missionary organization has that sort of money or clout. A psyop
like that is obvious spook stuff + anyone who thinks otherwise is too
damned naive to take seriously.
But Disney isn't the only studio
to come under the influence. The right-wing screenwriter for Path to
911
was Cyrus
Nowresteh,
linked not only to YWAM but to David Horowitz (right-wing propaganda machine -> http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2007/12/war-and-sex-princeton-fraud-and.html ) and his Israel ueber
alles crowd -- not to mention Richard Mellon Scaife, the anti-Clinton
zealot who has bragged about his links to a faction of American
intelligence.
20.Oct.2006
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2006/10/from-weller-to-rios-montt-to-falwell.html
From
Think
Progress:
After steering clear of political controversy with 9/11
heroism tale “World Trade Center,” Oliver Stone and
Paramount Pictures are venturing into edgier territory with
“Jawbreaker.” Pic will focus on America’s response
to the terrorist attacks with the invasion of Afghanistan and hunt
for 9/11
mastermind Osama Bin Laden.
Cyrus Nowrasteh, whose most recent
credit was the controversial ABC miniseries “The Path to 9/11,”
is set to write a second draft of “Jawbreaker.”
Jawbreaker is a deceptive CIA-vetted
book which blames Clinton unfairly. Although author Gary Berntsen
confirms that we had intelligence concerning the presence of Osama
Bin Laden at Tora Bora, the book tells only part of the story. The
Bush
administration made a deliberate decision to allow not just Bin Laden
but literally planeloads of Al Qaeda functionaries to escape. The
truth of the matter can be found in many places, not least among them
the fine documentary 9/11:
Press for Truth . (See the ad on the right-hand side of this page;
also see my earlier piece here).
20.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Weller's wife Zury is
undeniably lovely.
She
is also a member of the Guatemalan Parliament. More than that: She is
the daughter of mass-murdering dictator and noted religious nut
Efrain
Rios Montt.
20.Oct.2006
We've
lost battle for Baghdad, US admits. As one of our waggish readers
noted, Bush
admits Iraq is like Vietnam, except that Bush
had a plan for getting out of Vietnam.
Pat
Tillman's Brother, a Fellow GI, Speaks Out on Behalf of His Fallen
Bro: "Somehow torture is tolerated. Somehow lying is tolerated.
Somehow reason is being discarded for faith, dogma + nonsense.
Somehow American leadership managed to create a more dangerous world.
Somehow a narrative is more important than reality."
Bush
Should be in the Docket: The U.S. military announced the deaths of
three U.S. troops in fighting, raising the toll for American troops
in October to 74. The month is on course to be the deadliest for U.S.
forces in nearly two years.
20.Oct.2006
While
the GOP has run out of people who can properly govern, they never
seem to run out of sexual perverts. The BuzzFlash GOP Hypocrite of
the Week Tells Why.
"Hidden
Power" by Charles Derber - Thom Hartmann's Independent Thinker
of the Month Review
20.Oct.2006
Sign
the Pledge to Keep Our Children Safe from Gun Violence in Their
Schools. It's the Least We Can Do for Them.
Have
You Had Enough of the NRA Shoving Guns Down Our Throats and Making
American Schools Killing Fields? Support the Forces of Sanity and
Public Safety. Donate Goods and Services to an Auction for Gun
Control.
The
Gun Industry Profits Off of Murder. Help Fight Back
Jerry
Lewis, Not the One the French Inexplicably Love, But the GOP
Congressman
Jerry Lewis is Under Investigation for Corruption, So He Fires House
Investigatots. It's the Republican Way! 10/20
Tom
Wieliczka: Anybody Have a Lot of Spare 'Crows' To Be Eaten? - A
BuzzFlash Reader Contribution
20.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-443617,00.html
Dass Lebensgemeinschaften fern jeglicher Sonneneinstrahlung existieren können, ist an sich nicht Neues. Allerdings hatten bisher alle untersuchten entlegenen Mikrobenpopulationen immerhin Verbindungen zum Sonnenlicht, wenn auch nicht als Hauptenergiequelle. Das Ökosystem in Südafrika, das Lins Team untersucht hat, ist hingegen völlig sonnenunabhängig und in der Lage "Millionen von Jahren aktiv zu bleiben, ohne dabei auf Photosynthese angewiesen zu sein", schreiben die Forscher. Sie könnten sich gar unendlich lang selbst erhalten, solange die geologischen Bedingungen gegeben sind.
Eine langsame Lebensweise sichere das Überleben der Mikroben in dieser recht unwirtlichen Tiefe, berichtet das GeoForschungszentrum Potsdam (GFZ), das an den Untersuchungen beteiligt war. Immerhin würde das Nährstoffangebot und die damit verfügbare Energie nur langsam nachgeliefert.
Damit
ließe sich abschätzen, dass die Bakterien 45 bis 300 Jahre
brauchen, um ihre Anzahl zu verdoppeln, sagte Johanna Lippmann-Pipke
vom GFZ.
20.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/zeitgeschichte/0,1518,druck-443278,00.html
Der Superbunker wäre eine Attraktion für Touristenmassen - doch daraus wird vorerst wohl nichts.
Auch wenn mitunter angemeldete Besuchergruppen zu bestimmten Bereichen Zutritt bekommen, bleibt der unterirdische Bunker auf Standby.
"Für den Fall, dass wir doch noch mal einen Rückzugsort brauchen", sagte ein Militärsprecher der "New York Times".
Zuletzt war es am 11.Sep.2001 soweit. Nach den Terroranschlägen wollte der Secret Service den Präsidenten aus Sicherheitsgründen unbedingt dorthin schaffen.
Für
solche Fälle bleibt bis auf Weiteres eine Minimalbesetzung im
Berg, um ihn einsatzbereit zu halten - sicher ist sicher.
20.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-443693,00.html
Grasso
war im Herbst 2003 zurückgetreten, nachdem herausgekommen war,
dass er insgesamt rund 187 Millionen Dollar an Bezügen erhalten
hatte, darunter mehr als 100 Millionen Dollar Pensionszahlungen. Die
Affäre hatte dem Image der Börse und des Verwaltungsrates
stark geschadet.
20.Oct.2006
Urteil:
Ex- Chef der New
Yorker Börse soll 100 Millionen Dollar
zurückzahlen
20.Oct.2006
Unterirdisch:
Einsiedler- Bakterien lebten Jahrmillionen ohne Sonne
20.Oct.2006
Atomwaffentest:
Bericht über Entschuldigung Kim Jong Ils
20.Oct.2006 Reaktion auf niedrigen Preis: Opec- Staaten drosseln ihre Ölproduktion