30.Oct.2006 CNN’s Wolf Blitzer Calls Out Lynne Cheney For ‘Sniping At My Patriotism’ - Nico -
On Friday, Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a combative appearance on the Situation Room. At one point, she criticized CNN for “running terrorist tapes, terrorists shooting Americans” and asked Wolf Blitzer, “Do you want us to win?” She also repeatedly asked Blitzer to end his line of questioning and focus on her new children’s book.
Today on CNN’s Late Edition, Blitzer said he was “surprised” at Cheney’s “sniping at my patriotism,” and pointed out that CNN had specifically labeled the tape of a U.S. soldier under fire as terrorist “propaganda.” He also said that CNN had made clear to Cheney’s staff “only hours before the interview” that she would be asked questions about politics during her appearance, not just about her children’s book. Watch it : Digg It!
BLITZER: On Friday in the Situation Room on CNN, I interviewed the wife of the Vice President, Lynne Cheney. The interview generated quite a bit of commotion and we are going to replay the unedited version. First, some history. I have been covering the Cheneys for many years, including on a day-to-day basis when he was the defense secretary during the first Gulf War and I was CNN’s Pentagon correspondent.
This — Mrs. Cheney has been a frequent guest on my programs. I have often invited her to discuss her new children’s books. She always is open to discussing the news of the day.
In this most recent interview, she, of course, knew we would would be speaking about politics. That was reaffirmed to her staff only hours before the interview. As a former co-host of Crossfire during the 1990s, she knows her way around the media. She was never shy about sparring with Democratic strategist and co-host.
I
was surprised when she came out swinging on Friday, surprised by what
she said about the “Broken Government” series and the
excellent one-hour report by our chief national correspondent John
King. One of the most precise and respected journalists in
Washington. The decision to air sniper video which Anderson Cooper
branded, I’m quoting now, “a single propaganda tape.”
Surprised at her sniping at my patriotism.
30.Oct.2006
Fox
Responds To Limbaugh Claim That He’s ‘Cruel’ For
Creating ‘False Hopes’ About Stem Cells
- Think
Progress -
Last week, Rush Limbaugh called Michael J. Fox “cruel” for giving people “false hope” that stem cell research will lead to medical breakthroughs:
When you start telling them there’s a cure around the corner if only somebody gets elected, you are misleading them. You are creating a false hope scenario and that is cruel.
Today on ABC, Fox responded, “What is crueler? To not have hope or to have hope?” He pointed out that “it’s not false hope, it’s a very informed hope. I mean, it’s hope that’s informed by the opinion of our leading scientists, almost to the point of unanimity” that embryonic stem cell research offers tremendous potential for treating and and even curing a wide range of diseases and injuries. (Read a list HERE.) Watch it: Full transcript:
STEPHANOPOULOS: We stopped for a moment because Michael was getting warm.
FOX: I’m just about to hit a pocket. This is good.
STEPHANOPOULOS: But after a short break his medication kicked in. (To Fox:) You’re just saying you were about to hit a pocked.
FOX: I just hit a nice pocked. I should be calm for a sec. It’s kind of like surfing. You wait for a wave and I just hit a nice wave.
STEPHANOPOULOS: I don’t want to rile you up but I want to bring up Rush Limbaugh one more time.
FOX: (Laughing) There he goes!
STEPHANOPOULOS: One of the thing he says when you’re talking about all these cures you’re giving people false hope.
LIMBAUGH (tape): When you start telling them there’s a cure around the corner if only somebody gets elected, you are misleading them. You are creating a false hope scenario and that is cruel.
FOX:
What is crueler? To not have hope or to have hope? And it’s not
false hope, it’s a very informed hope. I mean, it’s hope
that’s informed by the opinion of our leading scientists,
almost to the point of unanimity, that embryonic stem cells, because
[inaudible], because they have the capacity to be anything are truly
— you know, will it be a straight path to victory? Probably
not, probably you’ll have stutter step along the way. In fact,
they just did some work where they found it relieved the symptoms of
Parkinson’s in one test, but there was residue, some tissue
residue that built up, which is not ideal. But two steps forward, one
step back, you know, it’s a process. It’s how this
country was built. It’s what we do. I don’t want to get
too corny about it, but isn’t that what the person in the
harbor with the thing (referring to the Statue of Liberty) —
it’s about hope and so to characterize hope as some kind of
malady or some kind of flaw of character or national weakness is to
me really counter to what this country is about.
29.Oct.2006
Serbia
backs draft constitution
Serbia votes for a new constitution asserting Kosovo is an integral
part of the country, initial results say.
29.Oct.2006
US
critics pan Dylan musical
US critics pan a Broadway musical featuring the songs of Bob Dylan,
following its debut last week.
29.Oct.2006
Under
Fire, Soldiers Kill Blogs
Hundreds of active duty personnel have been weighing in on the Iraq
war with personal posts on topics from basic training to military
strategy. Now the brass is taking notice -- and they don't like what
they see. By Xeni Jardin.
29.Oct.2006
Plane
Sensors Forecast Weather
A network of high-tech sensors installed on some U.S. passenger
planes are part of an experiment to more quickly predict weather
conditions that endanger flights.
29.Oct.2006
Greek
Blog Aggregator Arrested
- kdawson 48 -arcanumas
that Greek authorities have raided the house of Antonis Tsipropoulos,
administrator of the blog aggregation site Blogme.gr. His hard drive
was seized and he was arrested. The impetus was a satiric website,
not named in the stories, that apparently offended a Greek public
figure (also unnamed). The site in question was not hosted by
Tsipropoulos but was merely linked to by his RSS fed. From the first
article: "The developing story coincides with the Internet
Governance Forum being hosted in Athens this week, to be attended by
Internet luminaries, entrepreneurs + activists like Vint Cerf, Bob
Kahn + Joi Ito and featuring panels on Openness and Freedom of
Expression."
29.Oct.2006
Venezuelan
Interest In U.S. Voting Software
- kdawson 123 - A
number of readers wrote in about a
U.S. federal investigation into the Venezulean ownership of Sequoia Voting Systems, which makes voting machines used in 17 states and the District of Columbia.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States wonders whether the anti-U.S. government of Hugo Chávez could be trying to influence the U.S. midterm elections.
From the article:
"Government officials familiar with the Smartmatic inquiry said they doubted that even if the Chávez government was some kind of secret partner in the company, it would try to influence elections in the USA.
But
some of them speculated that the purchase of Sequoia could help
Smartmatic sell its products in Latin America and other developing
countries, where safeguards against fraud are weaker."
29.Oct.2006
Testosterone
Tumbling in American Males
- CmdrTaco 369 -
"Yahoo
is running a story about a study that concludes that testosterone
levels are falling across all age groups among American men. It says
'The testosterone-fueled American male may be losing his punch'"
I leave it to you all to draw your conclusions about this, but I
still wonder what my hours of laptop-fu does to me.
29.Oct.2006
Sex-
Affäre: Israels Präsident verteidigt sich als
Verschwörungs- Opfer
29.Oct.2006
Telefonat
mit Merkel: Israels Premier ruft Luftwaffe zur Ordnung
29.Oct.2006
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29.Oct.2006
Weldon
sinks lower and lower: Contacted Navy for negative statements about
opponent, Admiral Sestak 10/30
11
charged in Republican vote fraud 10/30
29.Oct.2006
About
that Iraqi democracy: "Any law or decision that goes against
Islam, we'll put it under the boot!" raves one of its
Bush-installed
Founding Fathers 10/30
Will
John Bolton's mustache continue to make its U.N. Security Council
rounds after its Jan. 1 expiration date? 10/30
29.Oct.2006
Sweatshops,
made in the good, old U.S.A.: How an official who tried to help
exploited workers ran afoul of powerful Republicans 10/30
The
company they keep: In Maryland, Democratic contender Andrew Duck is a
veteran, but Republican Roscoe Bartlett prefers to hang out with
Reverend Moon and Tom DeLay 10/30
Tennessee
race draws attention to unpleasant fact that race is not dead in
American politics 10/30
29.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-444899,00.html
Statt
Hochkultur aus Ägypten zu importieren, hätten die Vorfahren
der Garamanten sogar Fertigkeiten dorthin weitergegeben. Im Jahr 1958
entdeckte sein Vorgänger Fabrizio Mori im Akakus-Gebirge den
mumifizierten Körper eines schwarzafrikanischen Jungen. Diese
gut erhaltene "schwarze Mumie" war aber 5500 Jahre alt,
Hunderte von Jahren älter als die erste bekannte ägyptische
Mumie. Möglicherweise existierte also in jener fernen
Vergangenheit bereits eine heute unbekannte Hochkultur im Herzen der
libyschen Sahara. Vor der sich ausbreitenden Wüste flüchteten
diese Ur-Libyer in das Nildelta.
29.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-444899,00.html
"Um
86 n. Chr. ging der König der Garamanten auf eine viermonatige
Sklavenexpedition" - wahrscheinlich zum Tschadsee an der
heutigen Südwestgrenze des Tschads zu Nigeria.
29.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/erde/0,1518,druck-444899,00.html
Und aus ihrem Berg "Gyri" - dem Berg des Rings - gewannen sie laut Plinius eigenhändig kostbare Edelsteine.
Im Fessan hinter den schwarzen Vulkanbergen erforscht David Mattingly seit 1997 das Wadi al-Ajal - eine etwa 150 Kilometer lange Trockensenke, die im Norden vom Ubari-Sandmeer und im Süden vom Steinplateau Hamada Murzuk begrenzt ist. Bis dato hatte man hier keine größeren Siedlungen aus der Antike gefunden. Wie Eduard Vogel vermutete auch der Brite das legendäre Garama in der Nähe von Jerma - tausend Kilometer südlich der heutigen Hauptstadt Tripolis.
Sieben Jahre lang grub sich sein Team durch Sand, Geröll und die Schichten der von Vogel entdeckten mittelalterlichen Lehmbauten, bis es in vier Meter Tiefe fündig wurde: Ruinen aus massivem Stein, die mindestens in das 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. datierten - laut den antiken Chronisten also in die Frühzeit der Garamanten. Die Grundrisse künden von einer außergewöhnlichen Stadt. Gestufte Steinfassaden müssen einmal zu einem riesigen Tempel gehört haben - ein Steintempel mitten in der Wüste! Und im Zentrum von Wohnvierteln, Marktplätzen und Badeanlagen - ein befestigtes Militärlager.
Offenbar
rühmte Herodot die Kriegskunst des Wüstenvolks zu Recht.
"Alles spricht dafür, dass Garama ein stehendes Heer an
Kriegern hatte", erklärt Mattingly. Zumal eine große
steinerne Mauer mit Wachtürmen die Stadt sicherte - davor ein
Ringgraben, der auf den Forscher wie ein Wassergraben wirkte. Doch
wie soll eine große Stadt samt Kaserne in der Wüste
überlebt und sogar einen Wassergraben unterhalten haben?
29.Oct.2006
Murtha:
‘There Is No Question’ The U.S. Military Is Turning
Against The Iraq War
- Nico -
Today on CBS’s Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer said,
“We keep hearing from people who say the American military is turning against the war.” Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) responded, “There is no question about it.” Watch it:
Earlier this month, veterans advocacy group VoteVets.org released the first-ever poll of Iraq and Afghanistan vets. Some key findings:
– 63 % of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe the Army and Marine Corps are overextended at this time. 67 % of Army and Marine veterans believe their forces are overextended.
– 53 % of respondents said they “did not always know who the enemy was” when they were engaged in the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
– 42 % of the veterans said their equipment was below the military standard of being 90 % operational. 35 % said their Humvees and trucks were not up-armored when they arrived in-country.
SCHIEFFER: We keep hearing from people who say the American military is turning against the war. Now, you have a lot of contacts in the military community. Do you think there is anything at all to that?
MURTHA:
Well, there is no question about it. They’re frustrated. They
realize — listen, the plan has changed from weapons of mass
destruction to al Qaeda to topple Hussein to stabilize Iraq to
democratize Iraq. We need an achievable plan. We don’t have
that. The military operates best when it has an achievable plan.
These folks are going back in less than a year. There is no question
about the hardship on this small proportion of people + we’re
spending $8 billion a month, $11 million an hour.
29.Oct.2006
Dole:
Midterms Are Not A Referendum On Bush,
Says She Is Trying To ‘Change That Scenario’
- Faiz -
Only BushJob1.htm">37 % of Americans approve of the job President Bush is doing. 34 % approve of his handling of Iraq; 60 % think we are losing ground there while 61 % want to set a timetable for our departure.
On Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace repeatedly asked Sen. Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) whether she was content with having the 2006 midterm elections be viewed as a national referendum on President Bush and his management of Iraq. She dodged the question twice, before finally answering, “What we’re doing is changing that scenario.” Watch it: Full transcript:
WALLACE: The president held a news conference this week on Iraq and in it he said that the ultimate responsibility for what’s going on in the war resides with him. Are you and your Republican candidates okay with this becoming a national referendum on Bush and his war policy?
DOLE: First of all, Chuck, of course, is trying very hard to make it a national referendum. President Bush’s name is not on the ballot. But let me speak to Iraq. Each candidate must speak to Iraq from his own conscience. Obviously, it’s a major issue. There’s no question about that. But, you know, what we’re trying to do is find a way to win. The Democrats appear to be convinced or content, rather, to lose. And by lose, I mean —
WALLACE: You’re talking about win and lose the election or the war?
DOLE: The war. They appear to be content to lose. Losing is withdrawing before the mission is accomplished. In other words –
WALLACE: So you’re happy to see this become a referendum on the President and the war.
DOLE: I just want to make a statement about the fact that if we were to pull out of Iraq, you’ve got Syria, you’ve got Iran. Iran obviously would love to fill that vacuum. And here’s one of the largest oil supplies in the world. I think the Middle East would be in flames. And what is likely to happen is that we would have to go back in + that is certainly something that no one desires.
WALLACE: If I may press the point, though, I’m asking you a political question, not a policy question. Are you happy to see this as a referendum on the President and the war?
DOLE:
In my view, what we’re doing is changing that scenario.
29.Oct.2006
Boehner:
‘Rumsfeld Is The Best Thing That’s Happened To The
Pentagon In 25 Years’
- Judd -
This morning on ABC’s This Week, George Stephanopoulos asked House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) whether he agreed with the growing number of prominent conservatives who think Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign.
Boehner said that “Rumsfeld is the best thing that’s happened to the Pentagon in 25 years.” He told Stephanopoulos the buck should stop nowhere. “Let’s not take the problems in Iraq, the tough fight that we’re in there and blame it on anyone.” Watch it: Digg It! Transcript:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Let me just ask one more question on this. Your own senators, I said Mike DeWine, thinks Rumsfeld has to go. Do you agree?
BOEHNER:
I think Donald Rumsfeld is the best thing that’s happened to
the Pentagon in 25 years. This Pentagon and our military needs a
transformation and I think Donald Rumsfeld is the only man in America
who knows where the bodies are buried at the Pentagon, has enough
experience to help transform that institution. Let’s not take
the problems in Iraq, the tough fight that we’re in there and
blame it on anyone. We’re in a tough fight. Al Qaeda is doing
everything they can to disrupt our efforts in Iraq, to disrupt the
new government, creating more violence than anyone can imagine and
defeating al Qaeda there is important, because if we were to pull out
before we win, we will embolden every terrorist in every corner of
the world and then instead of fighting them in Iraq, we’ll be
fighting them on every street in America.
29.Oct.2006
Fierce
storm lashes Philippines
The northern Philippines is battered by fierce winds and torrential
rains as Typhoon Cimaron arrives.
29.Oct.2006
Miliband
draws up green tax plan
The environment secretary is planning green taxes to combat global
warming, ahead of a major report.
29.Oct.2006
Campaigns
Target Web Audience
Significant numbers of U.S. voters go online for political news and
information + they tend to be younger, educated and liberal,
according to a recent AP-AOL poll.
29.Oct.2006
The
Crusade Against Religion
A
band of intellectual brothers is mounting a crusade against the
belief in God. Are they winning converts, or merely preaching to the
choir? By Gary Wolf from Wired magazine. Plus: The Scribe
29.Oct.2006
UK
Think Tank Calls For Fair Use Of Your Own CDs
- CmdrTaco 65 - jweatherley
writes
"The BBC reports that a UK think tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research, has called for the legalization of format shifting.
In a report commissioned by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown, they state that copyright laws are out of date + that people should have a 'private right to copy' which would allow them to legally copy their own CDs and DVDs on to home computers, laptops and phones. The report goes on to say that: 'it is not the music industry's job to decide what rights consumers have. That is the job of government.'
The
report also argues that there is no evidence the current 50-year
copyright term is insufficient. The UK music industry is campaigning
to extend the copyright term in sound recordings to 95 years."
29.Oct.2006
New
Solar Panel Technology Gaining Momentum
- kdawson 79 - jessiej
writes,
"Even
though copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS), a newer type of solar
panel, is less efficient than it's silicon counterpart, millions are
being invested in manufacturing. From the article: 'CIGS panels use
far less raw material than silicon solar panels and the factories
themselves cost less to build,' $25 million compared to $230 million
in one example. These types of panels could even be made into a
t-shirt logo."
29.Oct.2006
Irak-
Spott vor Wahlen: Bush
hält Kurs - oder auch nicht
29.Oct.2006
Uraufführung
"Ulrike Maria Stuart": Heiterer Abgesang auf die radikale
Linke
29.Oct.2006
Neue
Produktionsstätte: Volkswagen legt Grundstein für Werk in
Russland
29.Oct.2006
Weltraumteleskop:
Nasa entscheidet über Leben oder Tod von "Hubble"
29.Oct.2006
Israel:
Mutmaßlicher Sex- Täter klammert sich ans Präsidentenamt
29.Oct.2006
Die
Garamanten: Das mysteriöse Herrschervolk der Wüste
29.Oct.2006
Sex-
Affäre um Israels Präsident: Generalstaatsanwalt fordert
Katzav zum Rückzug auf
(
29.Oct.2006
Cannabis
Culture Forums: High Society preview: The Bush
clan on drugs
... area as director of several banks, including the Dresdner Bank,
the Deutsche Reichsbank + the private Nazi-oriented ...
29.Oct.2006
News Analysis CAPITALIST
CORRUPTION: Greed Is Bad,
04.Jun.2002
(Paul Krugman on "Principle-Agent Theory")
Plutocracy and Politics, 14.Jun.2002
(Krugman on Kevin Phillips ' new book)
www.suu.edu/faculty/bowman/NYTimes/CaptialistCorruption.htm
29.Oct.2006
Wealth
and Democracy: A Political History of the American Rich - Computer
Store
... So writes Kevin Phillips , the accomplished historian and
one-time Washington insider ... traded hands with foreign owners:
Dresdner Bank purchased Wasserstein Peralla; Sumitomo owned ...
www.investordictionary.com/store/product/0767905342.aspx
29.Oct.2006
Irakkrieg - Chronologie Teil 1: 20.03.2003
bis 31...
...
irakischer Gefangenschaft +++ Bush
verlangt humane Behandlung von ... Stadt Nassirijah am Euphrat dauern
an +++ ... www.boa-muenchen.org/boa-archiv3/irak_k01.htm
00.Okt.2001
Die Petro-Dollar-Verschwörung ...
in Nahost betreibt, braucht man eigentlich nur bei George W . Bush
persönlich nachzufragen.
www.umweltbrief.de/neu/html/archiv/Petro.dollar.ver.txt
29.Oct.2006
Syna:
Protestnote an amerikanische Botschaft in Bern
- sfux
Rund 360 Delegierte der Gewerkschaft Syna haben in
Baden Kurt Regotz zum neuen Präsidenten gewählt. Weiter
beschlossen die Delegierten, der US - Botschaft eine Protestnote
wegen der CIA-Affäre zu übergeben.
Der Spionageangriff
durch die CIA sei inakzeptabel und müsse verurteilt werden,
sagte ein Syna-Sekretär. Der Verdacht liegt nahe, dass der CIA -
Agent Daten über arabischstämmige Mitglieder der
Gewerkschaft habe ausspionieren wollen. "Wir werden die
Ausweisung...
29.Oct.2006
Limbaugh
launches new attack on Michael J. Fox.
- Judd -
Media Matters has the
details.
29.Oct.2006
Gene
flaw increases autism risk
A gene mutation which affects brain development increases the risk of
autism, scientists have suggested.
29.Oct.2006
DR
Congo votes in landmark poll
Polling stations open for DR Congo's presidential
run-off, seen as one of Africa's most significant elections for
years.
29.Oct.2006
Cuba
TV shows pictures of Castro
Cuban TV broadcasts images of President
Fidel Castro defiantly countering rumours that he had died.
29.Oct.2006
Climate
change 'hitting Africa'
Climate change is already hitting Africa and will wipe out
anti-poverty efforts unless action is taken, a report says.
29.Oct.2006
Nato
'kills 70 Afghan militants'
Nato forces in Afghanistan say they have killed 70 suspected
militants in clashes in Uruzgan province.
29.Oct.2006
Katsav
'should halt his duties'
President Katsav should step
aside while he is investigated over alleged sexual offences, Israel's
attorney-general says.
29.Oct.2006
Lula
favourite to win Brazil poll
Brazilians go to the polls on Sunday to elect a president,
with incumbent Lula da Silva the strong favourite.
29.Oct.2006
Bolivia
agrees new energy deals
Bolivia seals agreements with 10 foreign energy companies, a major
boost to President Morales'
nationalisation plans.
29.Oct.2006
No
Qatar trip for senior Israeli
Israel's foreign minister cancels a visit to Qatar as Hamas
representatives would be at the same conference.
29.Oct.2006
Experts
crack cancer 'gene codes'
Scientists crack the entire genetic code of breast and colon cancers,
offering new treatment hopes.
29.Oct.2006
Egypt
sends troops to Gaza border
Egypt deploys at least 3,000 extra troops near the Gaza border after
reports of a possible Israel operation.
29.Oct.2006
FBI
Raids Security Researcher's Home
- kdawson 365 - Sparr0
writes,
"The
FBI has raided the home of Christopher Soghoian, the grad student who
created the NWA boarding pass site. Details can be found on his blog
including a scanned copy of the warrant. The bad news is that he
really did break the law. The good news is that Senator Charles
Schumer did it first, 19 months ago, on an official government
website no less. The outcome of this trial should be at least
academically interesting. At best, it could result in nullifying some
portion of the law(s) that the TSA operates under." Read on for
Sparr0's take on what laws may apply in this case.
29.Oct.2006
http://towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911/
The
fact that Bush
signed these Martial Law changes the same day as the Military
Commissions Act of 2006, makes it very clear that his Junta is lying
when it says the Military Commissions Act was not meant for American
citizens.
29.Oct.2006
http://www.uruknet.biz/?p=m27769&hd=0&size=1&l=e
Senator
Leahy's final ruminations: "Since hearing word a couple of weeks
ago that this outcome was likely, I have wondered how Congress could
have gotten to this point. It seems the changes to the Insurrection
Act have survived the Conference because the Pentagon and the White
House want it."
The historic and ominous re-writing of the
Insurrection Act, accomplished in the dead of night, which gives Bush
the legal authority to declare martial law, is now an accomplished
fact.
The Pentagon, as one might expect, plays an even more direct
role in martial law operations. Title XIV of the new law, entitled,
"Homeland Defense Technology Transfer Legislative Provisions,"
authorizes "the Secretary of Defense to create a Homeland
Defense Technology Transfer Consortium to improve the effectiveness
of the Department of Defense (DOD) processes for identifying and
deploying relevant DOD technology to federal, State + local first
responders."
In other words, the law facilitates the
"transfer" of the newest in so-called "crowd control"
technology and other weaponry designed to suppress dissent from the
Pentagon to local militarized police units. The new law builds on and
further codifies earlier "technology transfer" agreements,
specifically the 1995 DOD-Justice Department memorandum of agreement
achieved back during the Clinton-Reno regime.(4)
It has become
clear in recent months that a critical mass of the American people
have seen through the lies of the Bush
administration; with the president's
polls at an historic low, growing resistance to the war Iraq + the
Democrats likely to take back the Congress in mid-term elections, the
Bush
administration is on the ropes. And so it is particularly worrying
that President Bush
has seen fit, at this juncture to, in effect, declare himself
dictator.
29.Oct.2006
Rockefeller
Predicted "Event" To Trigger War Eleven Months Before 9/11
- Paul Joseph Watson -Hollywood director Russo recalls
remarkable "forecast" of coming attack
29.Oct.2006
http://leahy.senate.gov/press/200609/091906a.html
U.S. SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY
CONTACT: Office of Senator Leahy, 202-224-4242
VERMONT
Hill’s
National Guard Advocates Hold News Conference
To Protest DOD
Bill’s Proposed Decisions On National Guard
. . .’Empowerment’ Steps Likely To Be Dropped, While Provision Threatening State Control Likely To Be Added
WASHINGTON (Sept. 19) – Congressional leaders heading the fight for National Guard empowerment Tuesday expressed grave disappointment over the House and Senate conference agreement on the Fiscal Year 2007 Defense Authorization Bill for abandoning the National Guard “empowerment” thrust of the Senate’s version of the bill. The conference report is also likely to take a sizable step toward weakening states’ authority over their Guard units, according to the congressional leaders who are leading the fight for Guard empowerment.
Sen.
Kit Bond (R-Mo.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) – the co-chairs
of the Senate’s National Guard Caucus – said the
conference agreement is expected to include a provision making it
easier for the President to
declare martial law, stripping state governors of part of their
authority over state National Guard units in domestic emergencies.
The provision is opposed by the National Governors Association and by
key leaders in both the House and Senate. The conference report
is also expected to drop a Senate-adopted provision authored by Bond
and Leahy to elevate the status of the National Guard within the
Pentagon.
29.Oct.2006
http://news.pacificnews.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=eed74d9d44c30493706fe03f4c9b3a77
Also
in September, NORTHCOM conducted its highly classified Granite Shadow
exercise in Washington. As William Arkin reported in the Washington
Post, "Granite Shadow is yet another new Top Secret and
compartmented operation related to the military's extra-legal powers
regarding weapons of mass destruction. It allows for emergency
military operations in the USA
without civilian supervision or control."
It is clear that
the Bush
administration is thinking seriously about martial law.
Many
critics have alleged that FEMA's spectacular failure to respond to
Katrina followed from a deliberate White House policy: of paring back
FEMA + instead strengthening the military for responses to
disasters.
A multimillion program for detention facilities will
greatly increase NORTHCOM's ability to respond to any domestic
disorders.
Scott is author of "Drugs, Oil + War: The USA
in Afghanistan, Colombia + Indochina" (Rowman & Littlefield,
2003). He is completing a book on "The Road to 9/11."
Visit his Web
site .
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For
those who follow covert government operations abroad and at home, the
contract evoked ominous memories of Oliver North's controversial
Rex-84 "readiness exercise" 00.000.1984.
This called for the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to
round up and detain 400,000 imaginary "refugees," in the
context of "uncontrolled population movements" over the
Mexican border into the USA.
North's activities raised civil liberties concerns in both Congress
and the Justice Department. The concerns persist.
"Almost
certainly this is preparation for a roundup after the next 9/11
for Mid-Easterners, Muslims and possibly dissenters," says
Daniel Ellsberg, a former military analyst who 00.000.1971
released the Pentagon Papers, the U.S. military's account of its
activities in Vietnam. "They've already done this on a smaller
scale, with the 'special registration' detentions of immigrant men
from Muslim countries + with Guantanamo."
Plans for detention
facilities or camps have a long history, going back to fears in the
1970s of a national uprising by black militants. As Alonzo Chardy
reported in the Miami Herald on July 5, 1987, an executive order for
continuity of government (COG) had been drafted 00.000.1982
by FEMA head Louis Giuffrida. The order called for "suspension
of the Constitution" and "declaration of martial law."
The martial law portions of the plan were outlined in a memo by
Giuffrida's deputy, John Brinkerhoff.
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Public
Law 109-364, or the "John Warner Defense Authorization Act of
2007" (H.R.5122) (2), which was signed by the commander in chief
on October 17th, 2006, in a private Oval Office ceremony, allows the
President to declare a
"public emergency" and station troops anywhere in America
and take control of state-based National Guard units without the
consent of the governor or local authorities, in order to "suppress
public disorder."
President
Bush
seized this unprecedented power on the very same day that he signed
the equally odious Military Commissions Act of 2006. In a sense, the
two laws complement one another. One allows for torture and detention
abroad, while the other seeks to enforce acquiescence at home,
preparing to order the military onto the streets of America.
Remember, the term for putting an area under military law enforcement
control is precise; the term is "martial law."
Section
1076 of the massive Authorization Act, which grants the Pentagon
another $500-plus-billion for its ill-advised adventures, is
entitled, "Use of the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies."
Section 333, "Major public emergencies; interference with State
and Federal law" states that "the President
may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal
service, to restore public order and enforce the laws of the USA
when, as a result of a natural disaster, epidemic, or other serious
public health emergency, terrorist attack or incident, or other
condition in any State or possession of the USA,
the President determines
that domestic violence has occurred to such an extent that the
constituted authorities of the State or possession are incapable of
("refuse" or "fail" in) maintaining public order,
"in order to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic
violence, unlawful combination, or conspiracy."
For the
current President,
"enforcement of the laws to restore public order" means to
commandeer guardsmen from any state, over the objections of local
governmental, military and local police entities; ship them off to
another state; conscript them in a law enforcement mode; and set them
loose against "disorderly" citizenry - protesters,
possibly, or those who object to forced vaccinations and quarantines
in the event of a bio-terror event.
The law also facilitates
militarized police round-ups and detention of protesters, so called
"illegal aliens," "potential terrorists" and
other "undesirables" for detention in facilities already
contracted for and under construction by Halliburton. That's right.
Under the cover of a trumped-up "immigration emergency" and
the frenzied militarization of the southern border, detention camps
are being constructed right under our noses, camps designed for
anyone who resists the foreign and domestic agenda of the Bush
administration.
An article on "recent contract awards"
in a recent issue of the slick, insider "Journal of
Counterterrorism & Homeland Security International" reported
that "global engineering and technical services powerhouse KBR
[Kellog, Brown & Root] announced in January 2006
that its Government and Infrastructure division was
awarded an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to
support U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities in
the event of an emergency." "With a maximum total value of
Read
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In less than 2 weeks, we have a very legal, effective and powerful to take this clown out of office and reign these jokers. Vote. Vote early, vote intelligently (base your decisions on the candidate platform and whether they're just going to be Bush flunkies. After the election, get involved and nage your elected officials to impeach this creep before we all end up in the gulags. This is a mess we got ourselves in for not thinking rationally and demanding our elected officials are actual law abiding and sane. Nope, we chased one president's member and let our mathematically irrational fear of terrorists throwing nukes stop us from thinking rationally. It took years of political indifference, social apathy and outright stupidit to put us here. Its going to hard thinking, hard choices and direct action (beyond protests and fantasies about gunfights with the national guard) to get us out.
We
can sit here and talk about how we're going to go underground to
fight "The Man" (and subsequentially get our collective
asses kicked) or we can use our ballots to make truly frightening
revolution -- Americans actually taking politics seriously and voting
these clowns out of office. The choices is yours/ours. Peace -
Cappadonna
29.Oct.2006
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Appropriate
William Adama Quote (Score:5, Insightful) by Laven
(102436)
on Saturday October 28, @06:27PM (#16625756)
There's a reason why we separate military and the police: one fights
the enemy of the State, the other serves and protects the people.
When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend to
become the people. William Adama from Battlestar Galactica Episode
S01E02 "Water"
29.Oct.2006
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Inflammatory
and Misleading (Score:5, Insightful) by crucini
(98210)
on Saturday October 28, @05:28PM (#16625176)
In a stealth maneuver, President
Bush
has signed into law...
Before the president
can sign a bill, it has to get passed by both houses of congress.
It's one of the least stealthy processes on the planet.
And once a
bill has been passed by Congress, the president
normally signs it. To refuse to sign it is the exceptional event. So
why does this writeup make it sound like Bush
magically created this law himself?
29.Oct.2006
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Text
of the section (Score:4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday
October 28, @04:58PM (#16624866)
Rather than having everyone load a huge bill... here is the text of
the section:
The formatting sucks, but hey, it's
congress.=========
SEC. 1076. USE OF THE ARMED FORCES IN MAJOR
PUBLIC EMER-
GENCIES.
(a) USE OF THE ARMED FORCES
AUTHORIZED.--
(1) IN GENERAL.--Section 333 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
"
333. Major public emergencies; interference with State and Federal
law
"(a) USE OF ARMED FORCES IN MAJOR PUBLIC
EMERGENCIES.--
(1) The President
may employ the armed forces, including the National Guard in Federal
service, to--
"(A) restore public order and enforce the laws
of the United
States when, as a result of a natural disaster,
epidemic, or other serious public health emergency, terrorist attack
or incident, or other condition in any State or possession of the
United
States, the President
determines that--
"(i) domestic violence has occurred to such
an extent that the constituted authorities of the State or possession
are incapable of maintaining public order; and "(ii) such
violence results in a condition described in paragraph (2); or
"(B)
suppress, in a State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful
combination, or conspiracy if such insurrection, violation,
combination, or conspiracy results in a condition described in
paragraph (2).
"(2) A condition described in this paragraph
is a condition that-- "(A) so hinders the execution of the laws
of a State or possession, as applicable + of the United
States within that State or possession, that any part
or class of its people is deprived of a right, privilege, immunity,
or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law + the
constituted authorities of that State or possession are unable, fail,
or refuse to protect that right, privilege, or immunity, or to give
that protection; or
"(B) opposes or obstructs the execution
of the laws of the United
States or impedes the course of justice under those
laws.
"(3) In any situation covered by paragraph (1)(B), the
State shall be considered to have denied the equal protection of the
laws secured by the Constitution.
"(b) NOTICE TO
CONGRESS.--The President
shall notify Congress of the determination to exercise Read
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by
yamamushi
(903955)
<yamamushi@gmail.cUMLAUTom
minus punct>
on Saturday October 28, @04:53PM (#16624812)
(http://www.aetheralresearch.com/)
How much more are people going to take before they realize what is
going on here? Seriously, we're only a step away from open
revolution.. Will it actually take having troops parade around your
hometown enforcing martial law before people stand up for their
rights?? (which we don't have many anymore). I'm not saying there
should be a call-to-arms, but I AM saying that people need to wake up
and see what's going on before it's too late! First Patriot Act,
Patriot Act II, Military Commissions Act + now THIS?! All in the name
of "terrorism". We're just letting the government trample
all over our constitution, because people don't understand why it was
written in the first place, TO LIMIT GOVERNMENT! When will people
realize that FREEDOM is NOT letting your government take away all
your rights...
29.Oct.2006
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Most
Americans want Congress to impeach Bush
[afterdowningstreet.org].
29.Oct.2006
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Re:Oh
My. (Score:5, Interesting) by lonesome
phreak (142354)
on Saturday October 28, @08:09PM (#16626696)
(http://www.analogcodec.com/
| Last Journal: Tuesday
November 04, @06:40PM)
Actually, probably so. Many in the armed forces would not take up
arms against their fellow countrymen without a damn good reason. It's
one thing doing disaster recovery...it's another to tell them to go
"house to house" in New York or Chicago. Even using troops
from different areas of the country probably wouldn't work too well.
I would expect the officer corp would be very much against it to.
A
decent chunk of the US's population is former military too. They know
how to fight, know what equipment to sabatoge + could easily make
life a living hell for the troops who didn't just flat walk out and
quit when the pacification order was given.
Currently, there are
499,000 active duty Army troops, backed up by 700,000 National Guard
and Army reservists. There are, as of 2005, 67,742,879 males age
18-49 and 67,070,144 females age 18-49. 12 million vs. 1.2 million.
Many of the active duty / reserve troops are dissatisfied due to Iraq
already...what do you think their reaction would be to have to come
home to enforce martial law?
If it actually came to the point of
using artillary or ordinace against US citizens, then whatever
administration started it has already lost. They would probably
accomplish hastening the end of our current civilization too.
This
isn't even bringing the UN or EU into the fray. A highly destablized
and civil-warring US would be horrible news for the rest of the globe
too. Something tells me everyone wouldn't just sit by and watch us
nuke ourselves 10,000 times over.
29.Oct.2006
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List
of who voted (Score:4, Informative) by bussdriver
(620565)
on Saturday October 28, @11:41PM (#16628450)
The following list of people voted to suspend the writ of Habeas
Corpus and must NOT be allowed to violate their oath again.
Don
Young (R-AK)
Robert Aderholt (R-AL) Spencer Bachus (R-AL) Jo
Bonner (R-AL) Robert Cramer (D-AL) Artur Davis (D-AL) Terry Everett
(R-AL) Michael Rogers (R-AL)
John Boozman (R-AR) Mike Ross
(D-AR)
Jeff Flake (R-AZ) Trent Franks (R-AZ) J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ)
Jim Kolbe (R-AZ) Rick Renzi (R-AZ) John Shadegg (R-AZ)
Brian
Bilbray (R-CA) Mary Bono (R-CA) Ken Calvert (R-CA) John Campbell
(R-CA) John Doolittle (R-CA) David Dreier (R-CA) Elton Gallegly
(R-CA) Wally Herger (R-CA) Duncan Hunter (R-CA) Darrell Issa (R-CA)
Jerry Lewis (R-CA) Dan Lungren (R-CA) Howard McKeon (R-CA) Gary
Miller (R-CA) Devin Nunes (R-CA) Richard Pombo (R-CA) Dana
Rohrabacher (R-CA) Ed Royce (R-CA) William Thomas (R-CA)
Bob
Beauprez (R-CO) Joel Hefley (R-CO) Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) John
Salazar (D-CO) Thomas Tancredo (R-CO)
Nancy Johnson (R-CT)
Christopher Shays (R-CT) Robert Simmons (R-CT)
Michael Bilirakis
(R-FL) F. Allen
Boyd (D-FL) Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) Ander Crenshaw (R-FL) Lincoln
Diaz-Balart (R-FL) Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) Tom Feeney (R-FL) Mark
Foley (R-FL) Katherine Harris (R-FL) Connie Mack (R-FL) John Mica
(R-FL) Jeff Miller (R-FL) Adam Putnam (R-FL) Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
(R-FL) E. Clay Shaw (R-FL) Cliff Stearns (R-FL) Dave Weldon (R-FL)
C.W. Bill Young (R-FL)
John Barrow (D-GA) Sanford Bishop (D-GA)
Nathan Deal (R-GA) Phil Gingrey (R-GA) Jack Kingston (R-GA) John
Linder (R-GA) Jim Marshall (D-GA) Charles Norwood (R-GA) Tom Price
(R-GA) David Scott (D-GA) Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
Leonard Boswell
(D-IA) Steve King (R-IA) Tom Latham (R-IA) Jim Nussle (R-IA)
C.L.
Otter (R-ID) Mike Simpson (R-ID)
Melissa Bean (D-IL) Judy Biggert
(R-IL) J. Dennis Hastert (R-IL) Henry Hyde (R-IL) Timothy Johnson
(R-IL) Mark Kirk (R-IL) Ray LaHood (R-IL) Donald Manzullo (R-IL) John
Shimkus (R-IL) Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Dan Burton (R-IN) Steve Buyer
(R-IN) Chris Chocola (R-IN) John Hostettler (R-IN) Mike Pence (R-IN)
Mike Sodrel (R-IN) Mark Souder (R-IN)
Dennis Moore (D-KS) Jim Ryun
(R-KS) Todd Tiahrt (R-KS)
Ben Chandler (D-KY) Geoff Davis (R-KY)
Ron Lewis (R-KY) Anne Northup (R-KY) Harold Rogers (R-KY) Edward
Whitfield (R-KY)
Rodney Alexander (R-LA) Richard Baker (R-LA)
Charles Boustany (R-LA) Bobby Jindal (R-LA) Jim McCrery (R-LA)
Charlie Melancon (D-LA)
Michael Michaud (D-ME)
Dave Camp (R-MI)
Vernon Ehlers (R-MI) Peter Hoekstra (R-MI) Joseph Knollenberg (R-MI)
Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI)
Candice Miller (R-MI) Michael Rogers
(R-MI) Joe Schwarz (R-MI) Fred Upton (R-MI)
Gil Gutknecht (R-MN)
Mark Kennedy (R-MN) John Kline (R-MN) Collin Peterson (D-MN) Jim
Ramstad (R-MN)
Todd Akin (R-MO) Roy Blunt (R-MO) Jo Ann Emerson
(R-MO) Sam Graves (R-MO) Kenny Hulshof (R-MO)
Charles Pickering
(R-MS) Gene Taylor (D-MS) Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Dennis Rehberg
(R-MT)
Howard Coble (R-NC) Bob Etheridge (D-NC) Virginia Foxx
(R-NC) Robin Hayes (R-NC) Patrick McHenry (R-NC) Mike McIntyre (D-NC)
Sue Myrick (R-NC) Charles Taylor (R-NC)
Earl Pomeroy (D-ND)
Jeff
Fortenberry (R-NE) Tom Osborne (R-NE) Lee Terry (R-NE)
Charles
Bass (R-NH) Jeb Bradley (R-NH)
Robert Andrews (D-NJ) Michael
Ferguson (R-NJ) Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ) Scott Garrett (R-NJ)
Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) Jim Saxton (R-NJ) Christopher Smith
(R-NJ)
Steve Pearce (R-NM) Heather Wilson (R-NM)
James Gibbons
(R-NV) Jon Porter (R-NV)
Sherwood Boehlert (R-NY) Vito Fossella
(R-NY) Brian Higgins (D-NY) Sue Kelly (R-NY) Peter King (R-NY) Randy
Kuhl (R-NY) John McHugh (R-NY) Thomas Reynolds (R-NY) John Sweeney
(R-NY) James Walsh (R-NY)
John Boehner (R-OH) Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Steve Chabot (R-OH) Paul Gillmor (R-OH) David Hobson (R-OH) Michael
Oxley (R-OH) Deborah Pryce (R-OH) Ralph Regula (R-OH) Jean Schmidt
(R-OH) Patrick Tiberi (R-OH) Michael Turner (R-OH)
Dan Boren
(D-OK) Tom Cole (R-OK) Ernest Istook (R-O Read
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Here
is a link to the
bill in question.
The relevant part is Sec. 1076 about 3/4 of the way down the
page.
29.Oct.2006
AnalogWhole,
an Alternative To FairUse4WM
- kdawson 113 - Squidmarks
writes,
"AnalogWhole
is a free application that allows any file that can be played in
Windows Media Player to be transferred to iTunes as an MP3. It uses,
you guessed it, the 'analog hole' to re-record any DRM'ed song as an
MP3. Because the analog signal doesn't actually leave the computer,
but is simply looped back in the sound card, sound quality of the
re-recording is excellent. All meta data is transferred as well. The
MP3 file is automagically added to iTunes. Just show it where you
store your DRM music and walk away."
29.Oct.2006
Bush
Signs Bill Enabling Martial Law
- kdawson 1101 -
An anonymous reader writes to point us to an
article
on the meaning of a new law that President
Bush
signed on Oct. 17. It seems to allow the President
to impose martial law on any state or territory, using federal troops
and/or the state's own, or other states', National Guard troops. From
the article: "In a stealth maneuver, President
Bush
has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick
Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President
to declare federal martial law. It does so by revising the
Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President's
ability to deploy troops within the USA.
The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with
the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict
prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement.
With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush
is seeking to undo those prohibitions." Here is a link to the
bill in question. The relevant part is Sec. 1076 about 3/4 of the way
down the page. Note: the site hosting the article is already
sluggish; I was unable to prime the CoralCDN cache with it. Please
consider mirroring this article if you are able.
29.Oct.2006
http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/print_articles.asp?aid=330840&sid=FTP
The
remains were destroyed during the middle or end of the Yangshao
culture dating back 5,000 to 7,000 years when people usually lived in
houses built partly underground, an expert said.
29.Oct.2006
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Beijing,
Oct 23: Chinese archaeologists have discovered the remains of houses
dating back 6,000 years in northwest Shaanxi province.
The
remains were located on a section of a farming terrace in Linglong
village of Baoji city.
The
remains were about one-fifth the size of the original houses which
are estimated to be nearly 200 square meters, archaeologists said.
29.Oct.2006
Great
Wall size mystery may be resolved A
500-year-old question - just how long is China's Great Wall? - will
be answered 00.000.2008 by
two government departments.
posted by Prof.
Hex
29.Oct.2006
Ex-Bush
official receives 18 month prison sentence
Bush_official_receives_18_month_prison_1027.html">Raw
Story's got it.
posted by Prof. Hex
29.Oct.2006
Archeologists
unveil Aztec monolith
Mexican
archeologists have found a massive stone icon that may be the most
important Aztec figure ever discovered, unearthing a door at a ruined
temple in the throbbing heart of Mexico City. posted
by Prof.
Hex
29.Oct.2006
Book
Paints Escape-Artist Houdini As Spy A
new biography of the legendary performer suggests that Houdini worked
as a spy for Scotland Yard, monitored Russian anarchists and chased
counterfeiters for the U.S. Secret Service - all before he was
possibly murdered.
Via rieraci's
page at Stumbleupon. posted
by Prof.
Hex
29.Oct.2006
State
Dept.'s Karen Hughes's stunningly stupid ideas to combat
insurgency:
Fund "micro scholarships" and an Iraqi AV
club
29.Oct.2006
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Twelve
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incumbents are struggling to corral a key voter group -- rural
residents. A new bipartisan poll indicates that Democrats now
dominate rural voters, a critical part of the Republican base. 10/29
29.Oct.2006
Will
Durst: Don't Stay the Course
"Timetables,"
"Benchmarks"? It's All Just a Lot of Bushevik
Hooey. What They Say is Contradictory and Doesn't Make Any Sense.
10/29
Chaos,
Death Squads + Bushevik
PR in Iraq 10/29
29.Oct.2006
NewsHour
reports:
Top military commander says all troops should leave
Baghdad. This Would Reconfirm that American GIs -- and Iraqis -- Are
Dying for Bush's
Domestic Political Goals.
29.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
George
Allen
is a fountain Wanna make $250? Democrats.com is offering that much to
anyone who can tell a true tale of Senator George Allen
spitting on women. Y'see,
Allen
has been making a stink about the attitude toward the fairer sex (is
that term still permitted?) in the novels of his opponent, Jim Webb.
So the time has come to shine a light on Allen's
own misogyny:
He stopped and looked straight at me. He had to look down at me,
because he stood so tall in those cowboy boots. I thought I spotted a
twinkle in his eye + for a moment, I suspected he might give a
humorous, light-hearted answer. Then he leaned forward and looked all
the way down at the pavement. I figured he was planning a perfectly
crafted answer to my question. I put pen to paper, ready to take it
down. His lips puckered as if he might speak.
Then, the Governor
of the Commonwealth of Virginia gathered up a glob of tobacco-laced
saliva. He used his lips to squirt it out, as if he had practiced.
The spit landed just at the tip of my shoe. He grinned, but didn't
say a word. Then he walked into the building. That was from a female
reporter in Virginia. This tale comes from Jimmy Carter's
gradndaughter, Sarah: My husband’s family lives in Virginia.
Several years ago, his little sister went with a friend to a parade
where George Allen
was making an appearance + her friend’s Mom got a chance to
speak to Allen.
While they were talking, he was chewing tobacco. He spit on the
ground and a fleck of brown spittle landed on my sister-in-law’s
shoe. She was horrified.
So now you know: George Allen
spits on little girls. Maybe that's the big secret in those sealed
divorce papers. Lovers' spat.
(Sorry for the irregular posting.
Sick friend.) Permalink
29.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-445270,00.html
Fidel Castro. Er liegt nicht mehr im Bett, sondern telefoniert, liest Zeitung, läuft ohne fremde Hilfe herum. Der 80-Jährige gibt sich kämpferisch: "Mal sehen, was unsere Feinde jetzt sagen!"
Havanna
- Auf den letzten Bildern im Staatsfernsehen war Fidel Castro noch
bettlägerig: Mitte August scherzte der kubanische Präsident
mit seinem Bruder Raul Castro und seinem venezolanischen Amtskollegen
Hugo Chavez, die ihn am Krankenbett besuchten. Castro war müde
und blass.
29.Oct.2006
Videobotschaft:
Castro wieder fidel
29.Oct.2006 Finanzinvestoren: Pleitegeier im Anflug
29.Oct.2006 Afghanistan: Isaf- Soldaten töten mehr als 50 Taliban
29.Oct.2006 Auslandseinsätze: Jung und Struck sehen Bundeswehr an der Leistungsgrenze
29.Oct.2006
Wieder
Zwischenfall vor Libanon: Israelischer Jagdbomber bedrängt
erneut deutschen Hubschrauber
29.Oct.2006
Angst
vor Gewalt: Nervöse Spannung vor Stichwahl im Kongo
28.Oct.2006
LEAKED
MEMO: Karen Hughes Thinks Small In Combating Iraq Insurgency
- Guest -
Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes heads off to the Middle East this weekend for a round of public diplomacy. Think Progress has obtained this internal memorandum sent from Hughes to National Security Council Principals earlier this month entitled “Thinking ‘bigger.’”
A key section of this memo offers the Bush administration’s strategy for “Public Diplomacy to Counter Insurgency in Iraq.” Far from “thinking bigger,” the recommendations for defeating the insurgency are small-minded, unambitious + disconnected from reality. Here are Hughes’ three ideas:
– Substantially expand…[the] “Micro scholarship” program…targeted at youth in key disadvantaged areas in Iraq, such as Sadr City or Anbar Governorate.”
– Create a fund to support media projects by Iraqis, such as documentaries, short films, animation, audio-visual productions and other material that would show Iraq’s reality to pan-Arab and pan-Islamic audiences.
– Revive book publishing in Iraq to fill the intellectual vacuum…and support…Iraq’s hard-pressed intellectuals.
See the full memo HERE.
These are all nice ideas in theory, but the problems affecting Iraqi society go much deeper and are far more serious that the administration wants to admit. Iraq is in a state of endemic chaos, marked by four raging internal conflicts, ethnic cleansing + few significant advances in Iraq’s economic reconstruction.
These
recommendations fail to scratch the surface of the underlying
problems and do not address what the recent Iraq NIE described as “a
deep resentment
of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world.” Hughes’ memo
sadly reveals that the administration is not “thinking big”
enough about the problems resulting from our current occupation of
Iraq. To get things right in Iraq, we need to embrace a complete
shift in strategy and adopt a policy of strategic
redeployment.
– Brian
Katulis
28.Oct.2006
Rep.
Blunt Blames Media For Sputtering Economy
- Payson -
54 % of Americans think the economy is getting worse. And Friday, the Commerce Department reported that “U.S. economic growth slowed during the summer to its lowest growth rate in three years” — 1.6 % — “amid a slump in the housing sector.”
The conservative response? Blame the media. On Fox News yesterday, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said “a bigger story is that so much of the media - and I don’t put Fox News in this category - has constantly talked down this economy.” “Believe me, if we were in the mid-90s, Bill Clinton was president,” Blunt said, “I am convinced there would be a totally different national media coverage by most of the media of this economy.”
Watch it:
The economic data points to a slumping economy that is squeezing the poor and the middle class. Wages are stagnating, poverty rates are climbing, family debt is rising + the housing market is slowing.
But
I think a bigger story is that so much of the media - and I don’t
put Fox News in this category - has constantly talked down this
economy. Believe me, if we were in the mid-90s, Bill Clinton was
president, we had the things
happening in the economy that are happening today, I am convinced
there would be a totally different national media coverage by most of
the media of this economy.
28.Oct.2006
Cheney
backs away from waterboarding approval.
- Nico -
“Vice
President Cheney
said yesterday that he
was not referring to an interrogation technique known as
‘waterboarding’
when he told an interviewer this week that dunking terrorism suspects
in water was a ‘no-brainer.’” Read
the transcript
and judge for yourself.
28.Oct.2006
REPORT:
Top U.S. Military Officer Recommends ‘We Remove All Troops From
Baghdad’
- Judd -
President Bush has consistently said that his strategy in Iraq is dictated by military officials on the ground. Last night on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, columnist Mark Shields revealed that one of the “highest ranking men” in the military has recommended removing all U.S. troops from Baghdad. Here’s the key excerpt:
MARK SHIELDS: The highest ranking or certainly one of the highest ranking men in the USA military today has recommended that we remove all troops from Baghdad, all American troops from Baghdad …All of the troops out of Baghdad, secure the road to the airport, secure the oil fields and the borders + say that the pacification and the maintaining of order in Baghdad is the responsibility of the Iraqis. That is the recommendation of probably one of the most — probably the most respected man in uniform today.
JIM LEHRER: You mean in uniform, serving on active duty today?
MARK SHIELDS: That’s right.
JIM LEHRER: So who did he make this recommendation to?
MARK SHIELDS: He made it to the civilian leadership of the USA.
If
Shields’ report is true it represents an acknowledgment by the
military that the conspicuous presence of U.S. troops in Iraq is
actually making the situation worse. This is one of the core
rationales of the American Progress plan, Strategic
Redeployment.
28.Oct.2006
The
Simpsons take on Iraq.
- Nico -
The
annual ‘Treehouse of Horror’ Halloween episode of FOX’s
The Simpsons, set to air Nov. 5, will “parody
the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq.”
Titled “The Day the Earth Was Stupid,” the segment
“recalls the panic caused by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio
broadcast of H.G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds, only this time
aliens Kang and Kodos capitalize on the confusion by invading
Springfield.”
28.Oct.2006
Lynne
Cheney
Unhinged On CNN
- Think
Progress -
Lynne Cheney repeatedly attacked CNN for having a liberal bias during a fiery and combative appearance today on the Situation Room.
Cheney said a CNN special that aired yesterday was a “terrible distortion of both the president and the vice president’s position on many issues,” in part because CNN used the phrase “domestic surveillance” to describe the so-called “Terrorist Surveillance Program.” When Wolf Blitzer pointed out that some individuals have been arrested and interrogated despite having no ties to terrorism, Cheney warned, “I think that you might be a little careful” declaring someone has “clean hands.”
Later, Cheney criticized Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb for including sexually explicit material in his novels. Asked whether her own novel Sisters had “lesbian characters,” Cheney said, “no, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I’ll stand on that.” In fact, her novel did contain multiple scenes describing a lesbian love affair.
Repeatedly, Cheney asked Wolf Blitzer to end his line of questioning and about her new children’s book.
Watch it: Digg It!
Full transcript:
CHENEY: You know, I understand your point. It’s kind of the point of a lot of people right now, to try to distort the administration’s position + if you really want to talk about that, I watched the program on CNN last night, which I though — it’s your 2006 voter program, which I thought was a terrible distortion of both the president and the vice president’s position on many issues. It seemed almost straight out of Democratic talking points using phrasing like “domestic surveillance.” […]
CHENEY: You know, I think that you might be a little careful before you declare this as a person with clean hands.
BLITZER: You’re referring to the CNN “BROKEN GOVERNMENT” special.
CHENEY: I certainly am.
BLITZER: This was the one that John King reported on last night.
CHENEY: Well, you know, right there, Wolf, “BROKEN GOVERNMENT.” Now, what kind of stance is that? Here we are. We’re a country where we have been mightily challenged over the past six years. We’ve been through 9/11. We’ve been through Katrina. The president and the vice president inherited a recession. We’re a country where the economy is healthy. That’s not broken. This government has acted very well. […]
CHENEY: Well, all right, Wolf. I’m here to talk about my book, but if you want to talk about distortion…
BLITZER: We’ll talk about your book.
CHENEY: Well, right, but what is CNN doing running terrorist tapes of terrorists shooting Americans? I mean, I saw Duncan Hunter ask you a very good question and you didn’t answer it. Do you want us to win?
BLITZER: The answer is, of course, we want the USA to win. We are Americans. There’s no doubt about that. Do you think we want terrorists to win?
CHENEY: Then why are you running terrorist propaganda?
BLITZER: With all due respect — with all due respect, this is not terrorist propaganda.
CHENEY: Oh, Wolf.
BLITZER: This is reporting the news. […]
CHENEY: Now, do you promise, Wolf, that we’re going to talk about my book?
BLITZER: I do promise.
CHENEY: Because this seems to be a mighty long trip around the merry-go-round.
BLITZER: I want you to — this was in the news today and your name has come up, so that’s why we’re talking about it. […]
BLITZER: Here’s what the Democratic Party put out today, the Democratic Congressional — Senatorial Campaign Committee: “Lynne Cheney’s book featured brothels + attempted rape.
00.000.1981, Vice President Dick Cheney’s wife, Lynne, wrote a book called “Sisters”, which featured a lesbian love affair, brothels and attempted rapes.”
CHENEY: No.
BLITZER: “00.000.1988, Lynn Cheney wrote about a Republican vice president who dies of a heart attack while having sex with his mistress.” Is that true?
CHENEY: Nothing explicit. And actually, that was full of lies. It’s not — it’s just — it’s absolutely not a…
BLITZER: Did you write a book entitled “Sisters”?
CHENEY: I did write a book entitled “Sisters.”
BLITZER: It did have lesbian characters.
CHENEY: This — no, not necessarily. This description is a lie. I’ll stand on that.
BLITZER: There’s nothing in there about rape and brothels?
CHENEY: Well, Wolf, could we talk about a children’s book for a minute?
BLITZER: We can talk about the children’s book. I just wanted to…
CHENEY: I think my segment is, like, 15 minutes long and we’ve had about 10 minutes of…
BLITZER: I just wanted to — I just wanted to clarify what’s in the news today, given — this is…
CHENEY:
Sex, lies and distortion.
28.Oct.2006
Former
Bush
official gets 18 months in prison.
- Nico -
Former
top White House contracting official David Safavian “wept
as he asked for leniency
in his obstruction of justice case Friday, telling a judge that his
lobbyist friend Jack Abramoff manipulated him.” Safavian was
sentenced to 18
months in prison
for lying to federal investigators about his ties to Abramoff.
28.Oct.2006
Bush
stumps for Jeff Lamberti, keeps calling him “Dave.”
- Judd -
Watch
it: Bush_Stumps_for_Jeff_Lamberti_Keeps_Calling_Him_Dave_Video">Digg
It!
28.Oct.2006
McCain
Calls For Escalation In Iraq, Wants 20,000 More Troops On The Ground
- Faiz -
Today, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) called for sending 20,000 more troops to Iraq. The AP reports:
Republican Sen. John McCain, a possible 2008 presidential candidate, said Friday the USA should send another 20,000 troops to Iraq.
A member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain said increasing U.S. forces would require expanding the standing Army and Marine Corps - a step the Bush administration has resisted. […]
‘’Another 20,000 troops in Iraq, but that means expanding the Army and the Marine Corps,'’ he said.
McCain’s call for escalation would exacerbate the deteriorating situation in Iraq and would only further damage U.S. national security. Here’s at least two reasons why:
1) No troops to send. “Sending more troops to Iraq would, at the moment, threaten to break our nation’s all-volunteer Army and undermine our national security.” McCain suggests enlarging the force to send them to Iraq, an idea that is implausible to carry out over the short-term and would damage the military’s ability to recruit over the long-term.
2) The insurgency would grow more inflamed. “A more visible presence of U.S. troops risks further stoking the flames of the insurgency by feeding perceptions of long-term U.S. occupation among many Iraqis.” The recent effort to increase troop numbers in Baghdad has only increased violence. A recent poll of Iraqis indicated that support for attacks on US-led forces has grown to a majority position — now six in ten — a number sure to increase if more U.S. troops are put on the ground.
Phased
withdrawal is gaining consensus as the last best option for Iraq. A
growing group of experts — including the Iraq
Study Group
and host of conservative
senators
— are consolidating behind a redeployment. 63
% of Americans
believe Congress should set a timetable.
28.Oct.2006
Snow:
Cheney
‘Is Not A Guy Who Slips Up’
- Judd -
Vice President Cheney is under scrutiny for the following exchange with North Dakota radio host Scott Henen:
HENEN: And I’ve had people call and say, please, let the Vice President know that if it takes dunking a terrorist in water, we’re all for it, if it saves American lives… Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s a no-brainer for me , but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President “for torture.” We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in.
Cheney’s comments were widely understood as an endorsement of a practice called “waterboarding” — a technique where prisoner “who is bound and gagged has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown.” (00.000.1947, the U.S. tried and convicted a Japanese officer with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian.)
Today, Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted that Cheney’s comments did not endorse waterboarding. Snow said that Cheney does not comment on specific interrogation techniques and is “not a guy who slips up.” ABC’s Ann Compton countered that Cheney “did go up and curse a senator to his face on the Senate floor and accidentally shot his friend.” Watch it: Transcript:
SNOW: I’m telling you what the Vice President — I talked to Leeann about it. She says, No, he wasn’t referring to waterboarding; he was referring to using a program of questioning, not talking about waterboarding.
Let me put it this way: You’ve got Dick Cheney, who has been head of an intelligence committee. He’s been the secretary of defense. He’s been the vice president. This is not a guy who slips up. And he’s also not a guy who does winks and nods about things that involve matters that you don’t talk about for political reasons. Sorry.
[Snip]
COMPTON:
Saying that Vice President
Cheney
doesn’t make mistakes like this, he did go up and curse a
senator to his face on the Senate floor and accidentally shot his
friend. So he’s not perfect.
28.Oct.2006
Snow:
Cheney
‘Is Not A Guy Who Slips Up’
- Judd -
Vice President Cheney is under scrutiny for the following exchange with North Dakota radio host Scott Henen:
HENEN: And I’ve had people call and say, please, let the Vice President know that if it takes dunking a terrorist in water, we’re all for it, if it saves American lives… Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?
THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s a no-brainer for me , but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President “for torture.” We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in.
Cheney’s comments were widely understood as an endorsement of a practice called “waterboarding” — a technique where prisoner “who is bound and gagged has water poured over him to make him think he is about to drown.” (00.000.1947, the U.S. tried and convicted a Japanese officer with war crimes for waterboarding a U.S. civilian.)
Today,
Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted that Cheney’s
comments did not endorse waterboarding. Snow said that Cheney
does not comment on specific interrogation techniques and is “not
a guy who slips up.” ABC’s Ann Compton countered that
Cheney
“did go up and curse a senator to his face on the Senate floor
and accidentally shot his friend.” Watch it:
28.Oct.2006
Saddam
Hussein’s verdict was recently postponed
- Nico - until
November 5, two days before the U.S. election. Media Matters asks:
Will
the media turn a skeptical eye?
28.Oct.2006
ABC
Political Director: ‘Every Elite Politico’ In The Country
Knows The Media Has A Liberal Bias
- Nico -
Earlier this week, ABC Political Director Mark Halperin told Bill O’Reilly that members of the “old media” are too liberal and that “we’ve got to fix that” by “prov[ing] to conservatives that we understand their grievances.” Previously, Halperin has called right-wing muckraker Matt Drudge “the Walter Cronkite of his era” and said he “rules our world.”
In today’s Note, Halperin goes further. The Note claims that “President Bush, Nancy Pelosi, Lynne Cheney, Phil Singer, Karl Rove, Elizabeth Edwards + every other elite Republican and Democratic politico share a set of cherished core American beliefs.”
Among the beliefs Halperin attributes to everyone:
– The only way to get a fair message out is through (friendly) New Media, because the Old Media is incompetent, weak + biased.
– You can’t refresh Drudge too often.
It’s
one thing to believe in an imaginary liberal bias. It’s another
to deceive yourself into thinking that everyone else agrees with you.
Digg
It!
28.Oct.2006
Tonight:
Letterman v. O’Reilly.
- Nico -
Bill
O’Reilly has taped an episode of CBS’s “Late Show
With David Letterman” set to air tonight. During the show,
Letterman “machine-guns him with insults,” prompting
O’Reilly to say, “It isn’t so black and white, Dave
- it isn’t, ‘We’re a bad country. Bush
is an evil liar.’ That’s not true.” Letterman
responds, “I didn’t say he was an evil liar. You’re
putting words in my mouth, just the way you
put artificial facts in your head!”
28.Oct.2006
New
Bush
security policy asserts U.S. ownership of outer space
(NewsTarget) The potential battleground of the future -- outer
space -- now belongs to the USA,
according to U.S. President
George W. Bush.
Bush,
who just recently signed a new National Space Policy that asserts
America's right to deny access to space to anyone "hostile to
U.S. interests." In...
28.Oct.2006
Elections
easily hacked via electronic voting machines
(NewsTarget) As more voting processes across the country turn
from the old-fashioned pencil-and-ballot to newer, computerized
voting systems, the possibility increases that these new systems will
be open to many kinds of electronic fraud. Cheryl Kagan, a former
Maryland Democratic legislator, was...
28.Oct.2006
Former
Intelligence Agent Says Google In Bed With CIA
- Paul Joseph Watson -Steele also sounds off on 9/11
doubts
28.Oct.2006
Fox
seeks to end Mexican unrest
Mexican President Vincente
Fox orders security forces to quell violence in the Mexican city of
Oaxaca.
28.Oct.2006
Nato
apology over Afghan deaths
A top Nato commander apologises for the deaths of Afghan civilians in
an air raid, but blames Taleban fighters.
28.Oct.2006
Bush
enters Cheney
'torture row'
President Bush
reiterates the US does not condone torture, after comments by
Vice-President Dick Cheney.
28.Oct.2006
Global
warming 'threat to growth'
Global warming may cut world annual economic output by as much as
20%, an influential report is expected to say.
28.Oct.2006
Skirmishes
mark riot anniversary
Minor skirmishes are reported in Paris suburbs a year after two
deaths which sparked riots across the country.
28.Oct.2006
Banks
facing fines over ID thefts
Some leading banks could face unlimited fines because of allegations
customer details were dumped in the street.
28.Oct.2006
EU
seeks Hungary unrest 'facts'
The EU asks Hungary to respond to reports its police used excessive
force to break up anti-government protests.
28.Oct.2006
Boarding
Pass Hacker Under Fire
Rep. Ed Markey wants the government to arrest a graduate student for
launching a website that lets users create fake boarding passes
capable of fooling airport screeners. That'll fix everything! By Ryan
Singel.
28.Oct.2006
Boarding
Pass Hacker Goes Offline
A controversial, do-it-yourself boarding pass generator disappears
from the web soon after its creator says in an instant message that
the FBI is at his door.In 27B Stroke 6
28.Oct.2006
Climate
Camp Eyes U.S. Elections
Baffled as to why the Bush
administration won't approve a carbon cap, negotiators heading to
Kenya for a global conference on climate say the 2008 U.S. elections
will mark a shift in policy and global cooperation.
28.Oct.2006
Diebold
Makes Fixes on the QT
The maker of the controversial electronic voting machine fails to
let Maryland election officials know that it replaced the
motherboards on 4,700 potentially faulty machines in four Maryland
counties, raising questions about whether the company violated state
contracts.
28.Oct.2006
Honeybee
Genome Sequenced
- mapkinase (posted by kdawson) 31 - mapkinase
writes to let us know about articles in Nature
on
the completed sequencing of the honeybee genome. From the first
article: "Two other insects have already been sequenced: the
malaria-carrying mosquito Anopheles gambiae + one of science's great
model organisms, the fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster. Like these,
the bee is much easier to manipulate and study than, say, the monkey.
But unlike the mosquito and the fruitfly, the bee's social behavior
is of special interest." Another article in the same issue
clarifies why this sequencing is important: "The genome is
helping to reveal some of those [such as the bees' dance language and
the division of labor in the hive] mechanisms. For instance, there
are 65 spots in the genome that seem to code for short RNA molecules
called microRNAs (miRNAs), molecular switches that can turn genes on
or off. The researchers found that miRNA activity differs between
bees doing different jobs."
28.Oct.2006
UK
Banks Dump Credentials in Bin Bags
- CowboyNeal 39 - Plutonite
writes
"BBC
news is reporting that several UK banks face 'unlimited fines' for
careless handling of sensitive client information. This apparently
came after investigators found account details while rummaging
through the trash outside the banks involved. In this age of online
banking and related security problems + in light of this scandal,
where can we expect to find the greatest threat of ID theft?"
28.Oct.2006
More
Evidence for Early Oceans on Mars
- Zonk 71 -
DestroyAllZombies writes
"More
news about Mars. The good news: New Scientist reports that more
analysis of Rover data supports the claims for widespread oceans in
Mars' distant past. The bad news, from the article: 'An ocean of
water once wrapped around Mars, suggests the discovery of soil
chemicals by NASA's rovers. But the same chemicals also indicate that
life was not widespread on the planet at the time the ocean was
present.'"
28.Oct.2006
Congressman
Calls for Arrest of Security Researcher
- Zonk 499 - Christopher
Soghoian writes
"Yesterday,
I published a tool that allows you to Create your own boarding pass
for Northwest flights. This was an attempt to document the fragile
and broken state of identity/security for domestic flights in the US.
Today, Congressman Markey (D-Mass) has called for my arrest."
From the ABC article: "'I don't want to help terrorists or help
bad guys do bad things on airplanes, but what we have now is what we
in the industry call security theater. It's made to make you think
you're secure without actually making you secure,' Soghoian said. 'As
a member of the academic research community, I consider this to be a
public service.' Soghoian admits that he hasn't actually tried to use
one of the boarding passes yet."
28.Oct.2006
Dirtiest
Jobs in Science
- Zonk 116+ -
ExE122 writes
"CNN
and CareerBuilder have posted a listing of the top 10 dirtiest jobs
in science. 'Whether they are sifting through reeking mud banks to
find cures for contamination, or sorting stool samples to get to the
bottom of our bathroom dilemmas, these are some of the science jobs
that sacrifice their time, energy and comfort for the greater global
good.' Sounds like a job opportunity for Mike Rowe!" From the
article: "Hot-zone Superintendent - What they do: Perform
maintenance work for bio-safety labs that study lethal airborne
pathogens, for which there is no known cure. Their work enables
scientists to study the nature of disease-causing organisms, such as
anthrax."
28.Oct.2006
Smart
Cameras Detect Crime, Erode Privacy
- Zonk 189+ -
MattSparkes writes
"Smart
surveillance systems could identify crimes as they take place, if a
computer vision system developed at the University of Texas goes into
production. The system is capable of classifying behaviour as
friendly or violent. In the past there have been attempts to spot
unusual behaviour, but this required subsequent user classification.
These new systems may keep us more secure, but is it worth
sacrificing our privacy for? And will we see false positives, where
police cars screech to a halt beside hugging couples?"
28.Oct.2006
Politicians
Have Poor Grasp of Technology?
- Zonk 278+ - Alfred
Lee Deon writes
"Chris
Patten, a former EU Commissioner, was speaking at the three-day
conference in Nice, France, on European business and technology.
'Many politicians don't understand the technology issues that could
affect government IT schemes,' he said.' Politicians have no sound
grasp of technology issues — but politicians don't necessarily
have a profound grasp of any issue.' He was especially critical of
UK's government's ID card scheme — a scheme he felt would not
achieve one of its possible objectives of making borders more
secure."
28.Oct.2006
Depressed?
Net-based Treatments Can Help
- CowboyNeal 128+ - Jung
and the Restless writes
"Researchers
at an Australian university have found that regular visits to
therapeutic and educational web sites can successfully treat
depression. Researchers directed patients to The MoodGYM, a cognitive
behavior therapy site + BluePages, a depression education site. After
12 months, users of both web sites reported improvement, with the
educational site working out better than the behavior therapy site. A
psychotherapist who did not participate in the study says that the
results aren't all that surprising. 'Cognitive behavioral strategies
— sometimes in conjunction with medication — are the most
effective means of treating depression,' and 'a person who is
visiting an educational site like BluePages is taking the necessary
steps with her own self-care. That's a key component of successful
treatment for depression'"
28.Oct.2006
Navies
of 6 states to exercise in Persian Gulf against nuclear shipments:
Ships from the USA
and five other countries will interdict a British vessel in the
Persian Gulf on Monday in a mock interception of dangerous weapons
technology, an exercise the U.S. expects nearby Iran to notice.
28.Oct.2006 Fears of new North Korea nuclear test: SOUTH Korean military officials fear the North may be making preparations for a second nuclear test. They claim to have observed activities today at the original testing site.
28.Oct.2006 U.S. journalist killed in Mexico's Oaxaca conflict: Nine people, mostly protesters, have been killed in a conflict that began in Oaxaca state five months ago, when striking teachers and leftist activists occupied much of the state capital, a popular tourist destination.
28.Oct.2006 Noam Chomsky: US threats to Venezuela: [T]he US has had two major weapons for controlling Latin America for a long time. One of them is economic controls, the other is military force. They have both been used continually. Both of them are weakening and it’s a very serious problem for US planners
28.Oct.2006 US terror law 'could violate international treaties' : Washington's new anti-terrorism law could end up violating international treaties protecting detainees, with some provisions denying suspects the right to a fair trial, a key UN rights expert said today.
28.Oct.2006
Airport
screeners fail to see most test bombs:
Screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport, one of the
starting points for the Sept. 11 hijackers, failed 20 of 22 security
tests conducted by undercover U.S. agents last week, missing
concealed bombs and guns at checkpoints throughout the major air
hub's three terminals, according to federal security officials.
28.Oct.2006
Turkey
Refuses NATO Request to Go Outside Kabul
: The Turkish Defense Ministry released a written statement saying
Turkish troops would not operate beyond Kabul and serve in different
tasks other than their specified mission.
28.Oct.2006
An
enigma that only the Israelis can fully explain
: If the Israelis or the Americans want to avoid accusations, at the
very least, of a cavalier attitude to the use of nuclear waste
products, they need to explain what was in that bomb and why it was
there.
28.Oct.2006
Confession
That Formed Base of Iraq War was Acquired Under Torture: Journalist
: An Al-Qaeda terror suspect captured by the USA,
who gave evidence of links between Iraq and the terror network,
confessed after being tortured, a journalist told the BBC.
28.Oct.2006
Launching
a new kind of warfare:
Robot vehicles are increasingly taking a role on the battlefield -
but their deployment raises moral and philosophical as well as
technical questions
28.Oct.2006
The
Way Out Of War-By
George S. McGovern and William R. Polk a blueprint for leaving iraq
now
We should find a way to express our condolences for the large
number of Iraqis incarcerated, tortured, incapacitated, or killed in
recent years. This may seem a difficult gesture to many Americans. It
may strike them as weak, or as a slur on our patriotism. Americans do
not like to admit that they have done wrong. Continue
28.Oct.2006
Robert
Fisk: Mystery of Israel's secret uranium bomb -Alarm
over radioactive legacy left by attack on Lebanon -By Robert Fisk
Did
Israel use a secret new uranium-based weapon in southern Lebanon this
summer in the 34-day assault that cost more than 1,300 Lebanese
lives, most of them civilians ? Continue
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
Zaubern
ist ein wunderbares Beispiel dafür, was das Gehirn dem Menschen
vorgaukelt. Seit Jahrhunderten arbeiten die Ma-gier mit dem Wissen,
dass Menschen in jeder Situation nur selektiv wahrnehmen; dass in das
Langzeitgedächtnis nur jene Teilaspekte wandern, denen der
Mensch überhaupt einmal seine Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt hat. Auf
den Nebenschauplätzen kann der Zauberer derweil ganz unverdeckt
hantieren. Vor Kindern, sagt Rawert, sei das Zaubern allerdings
schwieriger. Ihr Gedächtnis habe zu wenige Erfahrungen
gespeichert, die das, was sie sehen, manipulieren könnten.
Erwachsene dagegen dächten Ergebnisse immer schon vorweg.
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
"AUF
UNSERER EIGENSCHAFT , verzerrt wahrzunehmen und verzerrt zu erinnern,
baut die gesamte Zauberkunst auf", sagt Peter Rawert. Tagsüber
ist er Notar, akribisch genau, der jeden Fehler in einem Vertrag
sofort bemerkt, abends jedoch spielt er als Zauberer mit den
menschlichen Unzulänglichkeiten. Sein häusliches
Arbeitszimmer schmücken nicht Bilder, sondern Zauberbücher
und Kunststücke. Darunter der originalgetreue Nachbau einer
Kartentaube aus dem späten 18. Jahrhundert.
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
Einer US-amerikanischen Studie zufolge beruhen 90 Prozent aller Justizirrtümer in den USA auf falschen Zeugenaussagen.
"Als
Zeuge ist der Mensch eine Fehlkonstruktion", bestätigt der
Strafrechtler Thomas Rönnau von der Bucerius Law School in
Hamburg. Horst Herold, einst Präsident des Bundeskriminalamtes,
habe den Zeugenbeweis sogar ganz aus dem Strafverfahren verbannen
wollen. Nur noch der Sach-beweis sollte gelten. Die unbewussten
Irr-tümer, die Erinnerungsfehler, seien das eigentliche Problem
für die Justiz, sagt Rönnau, nicht die bewussten Lügen,
die man viel eher entlarven könne. Die Vereidigung von Zeugen
ist deshalb heute die absolute Ausnahme. Man wolle sie nicht in die
Strafbarkeit treiben, heißt es dazu.
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
Bei
der Erinnerung an traumatische Erlebnisse ist das Gedächtnis
besonders unzuver-lässig: Erfahrungen wie die Dresdner
Bombennacht können - ähnlich wie die einer Vergewaltigung -
extremen Stress und damit zusammenhängende biochemische Prozesse
im Gehirn auslösen, die eine Speicherung von Erinne-rungen
empfindlich stören. Nur noch Fragmente des ursprüng-lichen
Ereignisses gelangen dann ins Langzeitgedächtnis. Um verstehbare
Zusammenhänge bemüht, übernimmt das Gedächtnis
dann die kreative Aufgabe, die Lücken zu schließen. Welzer
vermutet, dass Erinnerungen an emotional belastende Situationen
deutlich mehr hinzugedichtete Episoden enthalten als solche an
"normale" Ereignisse
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
Wer das autobiografische Gedächtnis trainieren will, müsse, so Markowitsch, "ein Ereignis emotionalisieren - eine Bewertung vornehmen und sich fragen: Wie fühle ich mich gerade?" Wahrscheinlich erinnere man sich selten an das Ereignis selbst, sondern an die Gefühle, die man einst damit verband.
Wie wichtig Gefühle für die Erinnerung sind, wird besonders dann deutlich, wenn sie fehlen. Markowitsch berichtet von einer Patientengruppe, die an dem sehr seltenen Urbach-Wiethe-Syndrom leidet, einer Stoffwechselstörung mit neurologischen Ausfällen, bei der sich Kalk in den Gefäßen der Amygdala, des Mandelkerns, ablagert und dadurch das Gefühlszentrum des Gehirns lahm legt. Diesen Patienten erzählten die Forscher eine Geschichte von einer Frau, die in einem schwarz-gelb geblümten Kleid einen Raum betritt, in dem sie nach einiger Zeit von einem Mann hinterrücks erstochen wird.
Später konnten viele der Patienten zwar ausführlich berichten, was die Frau trug, den Mord aber hatten sie vergessen. "Sie sind nicht mehr in der Lage, eingehende Reize emotional adä-quat zu bewerten", erklärt Markowitsch. Weil ihre Gefühlswelt verarmt ist, vermochten sie die Wertigkeit von Kleiderfarbe und Mord nicht zu unterscheiden. Banales wird behalten, Bedeut-sames gelöscht.
BLACK-OUTS,
Verwechslungen und verzerrte Erinnerungen - was Menschen häufig
besorgt an sich selbst wahrnehmen, ist letztlich oft ein Segen.
"Unser ganzes Leben ist eine Erfindung", so spitzt Harald
Welzer es zu, S-zialpsychologe und Leiter der Gruppe "Erinnerung
und Gedächtnis" am Kulturwissenschaftlichen Institut Essen.
"Es gehört zur menschlichen Normalität, sich falsch zu
erinnern. Das korrekte Erinnern ist das Anomale." Zwar forme das
Gedächtnis das Ich, Erinnerung bilde sich aber erst in der
Gemeinschaft, in der Kommunikation mit anderen heraus. Welzer spricht
vom "kommunikativen Gedächtnis". Ein Ereignis sei
nicht das, was passiert sei, sondern das, was erzählt werden
könne.
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
"Eines sollten wir uns klar machen", sagt Loftus, "unser Gedächtnis wird jeden Tag neu geboren."
Die Kapriolen, die es schlägt, sind höchst verblüffend. Ein dras-tisches Beispiel dafür lieferte unfreiwillig der US-Gedächtnis-forscher Donald Thompson. Er wurde von einem Vergewaltigungsopfer akribisch genau als Täter beschrieben und wiedererkannt. Zu seinem Glück hatte Thompson ein zweifelsfreies Alibi: Zur Zeit des Verbrechens war er live im Fernsehen zu sehen, wo er ein Interview zum Thema Gedächtnisverzerrung gab.
Das Vergewaltigungsopfer hatte zufällig unmittelbar vor der Gewalttat gerade diese Sendung gesehen und dann eine "Fehlattributierung" vorgenommen: Für die Frau sah der Täter wie der Professor aus.
DAS TRÜGERISCHE GEDÄCHTNIS - ein Versehen der Schöpfung? Wohl eher ein geglückter Coup der Evolution. "Das autobiografische Gedächtnis hat wenig mit der Vergangenheit zu tun, es ist vielmehr dafür da, dass wir uns in der Gegenwart und in der Zukunft orientieren können", sagt Hans Markowitsch, Professor für Physiologische Psychologie an der Universität Bielefeld. Im autobiografischen Gedächtnis lagert die persönliche, subjektiv erlebte Lebensgeschichte. Es ist das komplexeste der Erinnerungssysteme und zugleich dasjenige, das bei Kindern als letztes entsteht, im Alter von etwa drei Jahren, wenn ein Kind eine Vorstellung von seinem Selbst zu entwickeln beginnt. Dass Schimpansen und Menschen, die 99 Prozent des genetischen Codes gemeinsam haben, dennoch grundverschieden sind, liege vor allem am autobiografischen Gedächtnis, sagt Markowitsch. Nur der Mensch kann sich an seine Biografie bewusst erinnern, nur er weiß, wie er eine bestimmte Situation erlebt und wie er sich dabei gefühlt hat.
Die
Erinnerungen an die Lebensgeschichte prägen die Persönlichkeit,
formen die Identität. Doch nicht etwa die objektiven Lebensdaten
spielen dabei die Hauptrolle, sondern Gefühle. Sie sind es, die
filtern, was im Langzeitspeicher landet und was gelöscht wird.
"Gefühle", sagt Markowitsch, "sind die Wächter
unserer Erinnerung."
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-444334,00.html
Durch Bilder lassen sich Erinnerungen besonders leicht durcheinanderbringen, weil sich die für das Visuelle zuständigen Verarbeitungssysteme im Gehirn mit jenen überlappen, die bei Fantasien aktiv werden.
DIE
VERWIRRENDE ERKENNTNIS, dass das Gedächtnis keineswegs ein
Archiv ist, das pendantisch die Vergangenheit speichert, beschäftigt
Neurobiologen, Psychologen und Sozialwissenschaftler inzwischen
weltweit. Noch vor 20 Jahren hielt man das Gedächtnis für
eine Art Computer, der unbestechlich aufzeichnet, was faktisch
geschehen ist.
28.Oct.2006
Bundeswehr-
Skandal weitet sich aus: Bericht über Horror- Fotos aus dem
Kosovo
28.Oct.2006
AllofMP3-
Sperrung: Aufregung um dänisches MP3- Urteil
28.Oct.2006
Truppenbewegung:
Seoul rechnet mit zweitem Atomwaffentest in Nordkorea
28.Oct.2006
Raketenabwehr:
US- Luftwaffe testet fliegendes Lichtschwert
28.Oct.2006
Waldbrände
in Kalifornien: Schwarzenegger setzt 500.000 Dollar Kopfgeld auf
Brandstifter aus
28.Oct.2006
Zwischenfall
mit deutscher Marine: Opposition verlangt Freigabe des Video-
Beweises gegen Israel
28.Oct.2006
Elfenbeinküste:
Giftmüll auf dem Rückweg nach Europa
28.Oct.2006
Refugee
Relief International is an affiliate of CAUSA and US chapter of WACL
+ involves John Singlaub
, as well as working with Andy Messing's National Defense Council.
Messing is a member of Singlaub's American chapter of WACL, the
U.S. Council for World Freedom.
It operates RRI jointly with Soldier of Fortune . 27.
Samuel A. Brunelli - CNP Member 1996. Former Executive Director and 1995 Chairman of the Board, American Legislative Exchange Council. ( ALEC ). 28 National Advisory Board of Capital Research Center ; former assistant to Secretary of Education William Bennett; formerly with the Denver Broncos. Senior Vice-President Team Builders International 29.
Board
member and co-founder The Empowerment Network, (TEN) 30 , "1992,
former U.S. Housing and Urban Department (HUD) Empowerment Deputy
Assistant Secretary David Caprara co-founded TEN with state
legislative leaders Sam [Brunelli] and Robin Brunelli, National
Center for Neighborhood Enterprise President
Bob Woodson, Indianapolis Mayor Steve Goldsmith, Kimi Gray, former
Governor George Allen,
Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice + other leaders who shared
the vision of creating a "hub" to springboard empowerment
initiatives at the grassroots, state and federal levels."
28.Oct.2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician)
Allen's
sister's memoir
00.000.2000 Allen's younger sister Jennifer Allen Richard wrote in her memoir Fifth Quarter: The Scrimmage of a Football Coach's Daughter (Random House Publishing, 2000) that Allen attacked his younger siblings during his childhood. [52] The memoir claims that Allen held her by her feet over Niagara Falls, [53] struck her boyfriend in the head with a pool cue, [54] threw his brother Bruce through a glass sliding door, tackled his brother Gregory, breaking his collarbone, [55] and dragged Jennifer upstairs by her hair. In the book, she wrote, "George hoped someday to become a dentist…George said he saw dentistry as a perfect profession—getting paid to make people suffer." [55]
00.May 2006 Richard qualified some of the claims made in the book. [56] With regards to the pool cue incident, she claimed it was a joke and that "Allen was simply testing her boyfriend's reflexes." With regards to the dentist quote, Jennifer claims that the book was a "novelization of the past" and written from the perspective of a young girl "surrounded by older brothers and a larger-than-life father". She claims to have a great relationship with her brother and noted that Allen stepped in for their father to walk her down the aisle at her wedding. [57]
[edit] Barr Labs controversy
It was revealed on August 8, 2006 that Allen owned stock in Barr Pharmaceuticals, the only American maker of the Plan B "morning after pill", an abortifacient. The Webb campaign criticized Allen for holding stock in a company that makes a product that many of his supporters oppose. Allen responded by saying that he holds the stock because Barr has created jobs in Virginia + by pointing to his consistently pro-life voting record. [58] Allen is described as an "abortion opponent"; as governor he pushed successfully for parental notification of teenagers' abortions + in the Senate, he opposed the approval of Plan B for over-the-counter sales. [59]
Allen
supports abortion
before viability
(as well as for children resulting from incest, rape and IVF
+ before (rather than during) a medical procedure is performed on the
mother (see double
effect)
+ who have a gross fetal abnormality) [7].
28.Oct.2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician)
Com-Net
Ericsson
Allen became a member of the advisory board of Com-Net Ericsson 00.Feb.2000 .
The advisory board's responsibility was to meet at least twice a year and provide advice and service.
Allen terminated his service on the board before the end of 2000.
He was paid approximately $300,000 for his services. [34]
Com-Net
Ericsson became part of Tyco after Allen
left the advisory board + then got a new management team. [28]
28.Oct.2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician)
00.000.1994 Allen endorsed Oliver North for U.S. Senate.
00.000.1995,
1996 +
1997, Allen proclaimed April as Confederate History and Heritage Month and called the Civil War "a four-year struggle for independence + sovereign rights." [23] The proclamation did not mention slavery + his successor, Republican Governor James Gilmore, changed the proclamation and wrote a version that denounced slavery. [24]
Allen
could not run for re-election because Virginia's constitution does
not allow a governor to succeed himself; as
of 2006
Virginia is the only state that has such a provision.
[25]
28.Oct.2006
Dana
Milbank - The Senator's Gentile Rebuke - washingtonpost.com
George Allen's
Macaca Moment. Then we learned of challenger Jim Webb's thoughts ...
Turns out the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, reported that the
senator's ...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/18/AR2006091801014.html
28.Oct.2006
Alter:
George Allen's
Problem With Honesty - Newsweek Jonathan ...
George Allen
didn't mention anything to the evangelical Family Research Council
... Despite more than a decade as governor and senator , Allen
is facing a ... www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14973254/site/newsweek
28.Oct.2006
Politics1
- 2008 Presidential
Candidates: US Senator George Allen
...
US Political + Election news from around the nation -by Ron
Gunzburger,publisher of the award-winning Politics1.com site.
www.politics1.com/p2008-allen.htm
George Allen - Congresspedia George Allen currently serves as the Jr. Senator for Virginia ... December 13, 2004: "In a sign that US Senator George Allen Jr. (R-VA) is planning a 2008 ... www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=George_Allen
Teammates: Allen used "N-word" in college | Salon News
George
Allen's
college football team remember a man with racist attitudes ... by the
Virginia senator , said he too remembers Allen
using the word "nigger," ...
www.salon.com/news/feature/2006/09/24/allen_football
28.Oct.2006
George
Allen
(U.S. politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Allen
was the only Republican to unseat a Democrat incumbent that year. ...
Senator Allen
Proposes Federal Line Item Veto Amendment.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Allen_(U.S._politician)
Project
Vote Smart: Senator George Allen
Information from PVS including the Senator's biography, issue
positions, interest group ratings, committee assignments, campaign
finances, ...
www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=CNIP9093
Allen
Quip Provokes Outrage, Apology
George Allen
(R) apologized Monday for what his opponent's campaign said were
demeaning and insensitive comments the senator made to a 20-year-old
volunteer ...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/14/AR2006081400589.html
ALLEN,
George - Biographical Information
ALLEN
, George , a Representative and a Senator from Virginia; born in
Whittier, Los Angeles County, Calif., March 8, 1952; B.A., J.D.,
University of Virginia ...
bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=A000121
GOP
Senator George Allen's
Sister Documents Her Brother's Bully ...
Senator George Allen's
racial remark to a 20 year old Indian man last week, has
re-highlighted accusations that the Senator is a bully and a bigot.
...
www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/08/16/gop-senator-george-allen_n_27382.html
George
Allen's
race problem
Senator George Allen
is the only person in Virginia who wears cowboy boots. ... The
senator has emerged as the principal conservative alternative to John
... www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20060508&s=lizza050806
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-445189,00.html
Aber
nicht nur im Werben um Spenden erreicht der Wahlkampf in den USA eine
neue Härte - die
Kandidaten beider Parteien setzen inzwischen auch im Werben um
Wahlstimmen auf schmutzige Tricks.
So sehen sich Politiker plötzlich öffentlich als Kunden von
Prostituierten und Sex-Hotlines dargestellt oder als Freunde von
Schwerverbrechern. Die "Washington Post" sieht das Niveau
des Wahlkampfes ins Bodenlose sinken. Verzweifelte Kandidaten würden
alles versuchen, um Konkurrenten zu beschädigen. kaz
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-445189,00.html
Selbst
der Rüstungskonzern Lockheed Martin , der 70 Prozent seiner
Spenden den Republikanern zukommen lässt, reduzierte in den
ersten Oktobertagen seine Ausgaben für die Republikaner
zugunsten der Demokraten; diese erhielten 60 Prozent der Spenden des
Unternehmens - insgesamt 127.000 Dollar.
28.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-445189,00.html
Zehn Tage vor den Kongresswahlen setzt die US-Wirtschaft auf einen Sieg der Demokraten: Angesichts verheerender Umfragewerte für die Republikaner haben führende Konzerne ihre Spenden für Bushs Partei gekürzt. Die Demokraten können sich dagegen über Last-Minute-Millionen freuen.
Hamburg
- Die Nachricht dürfte US-Präsident Bush
nicht erfreuen: Eine sichere Geldquelle für den Wahlkampf der
Republikaner sprudelt nicht mehr ganz so stark - die Demokraten
erhalten dafür um so mehr Geld von der Industrie, berichtet die
"New York Times" heute. Den Republikanern droht
bei den Wahlen zum Senat und Repräsentantenhaus am 7. November
Umfragen zufolge eine herbe Niederlage + schon
überdenken Konzerne und Wirtschafts- und Industrieverbände
ihre Beziehung zum politischen Establishment. Lobbyisten, heißt
es in dem Bericht, seien bereits intensiv dabei, viel versprechende
politische Neulinge aus den Reihen der Demokraten für sich zu
gewinnen. Veranstaltungen der Demokraten würden von Vertretern
der Wirtschaft gut besucht werden, zitiert das Blatt einen
Mitarbeiter der Partei.
28.Oct.2006
Hartz-
IV- Korrekturvorschläge: Robin Rüttgers will den Armen
geben
28.Oct.2006
Gemeinsame
Erklärung: Bushs
Zeitplan für den Irak verpufft
28.Oct.2006
Heute
in den Feuilletons: Das Expansions- Gen der USA
28.Oct.2006
Kontodaten
in Müllsäcken: Britischen Banken drohen wegen Dummheit
drakonische Strafen
28.Oct.2006
Sachsens
Kultusminister Flath: "Schüler- Nummern wären wie ein
Gefängnis"
28.Oct.2006
Kampf
um den Kongress: US- Wirtschaft läuft zu den Demokraten über
28.Oct.2006
Mächtige
Souffleure: Der nervende Musterschüler
27.Oct.2006
27.
OKTOBER 2006
Chile:
Ex- Diktator Pinochet erstmals wegen Folter, Mord und Entführung
angeklagt
27.Oct.2006
Online-
Musik: Dänisches Gericht sperrt Zugang zu russischer MP3-
Website
27.Oct.2006
Psychologie
der Skandalfotos: Macho- Macker, Mutproben, Totenköpfe
27.Oct.2006
Frankreichs
Vorstädte: Dauerrandale der Ghetto- Guerilla
27.Oct.2006
Urananreicherung:
Iran weitet Atomprogramm aus
27.Oct.2006
Handelspolitik:
Stoiber verlangt härteres Durchgreifen gegen China
27.Oct.2006
Schüsse
auf deutsche Marine: Video- Beweis soll Israel der Lüge
überführen
27.Oct.2006
Syna
verurteilt den CIA-Angriff aufs Schärfste!
- sfux Syna
-
Mit
Bestürzung haben wir erfahren, dass der amerikanische
Geheimdienst (CIA) versuchte, die Gewerkschaft Syna auszuspionieren.
Syna verurteilt solche Machenschaften mit aller Deutlichkeit und
fordert die Bundesbehörden auf, diese Attacke restlos
aufzuklären. Syna stellt fest, dass kein Datenmaterial von
Mitgliedern in unbefugte Hände geraten ist.
Die CIA hat
offenbar im Frühsommer erfolglos versucht,...
27.Oct.2006
Outsourcing:
The CIA's Travel Agent
- sfux Jane Mayer -
On
the official Web site of Boeing, the world's largest aerospace
company, there is a section devoted to a subsidiary called
27.Oct.2006
Abschliessende
Bemerkungen zu Herrn Engelbrechts et al.
- sfux
Umwälzung der HIV Erkenntnisse.
Dr.
Alexander von Paleske
- Zunächst einmal zur Definition von AIDS. Das Center for
Disease Control (CDC) hat 1993 eine Fassung herausgebracht, die zu
einem zentralen Punkt die Anzahl der CD4-positiven Lymphozyten
macht.
Hier handelt es sich keineswegs um Erbsenzählerei, wie
die HIV-Leugner gerne behaupten....
27.Oct.2006
RAF
man 'witnessed abuse of Iraqis'
- sfux
A
Royal Air Force serviceman has told how he witnessed British Army
soldiers allegedly abusing Iraqi detainees.
Senior Aircraftsman
(SAC) Scott Hughes said while visiting the holding facility in Basra,
southern Iraq, he saw soldiers from the Queen's Lancashire Regiment
(QLR) kicking and shouting at hooded...
27.Oct.2006
IRS
plays politics.
- Nico - “The
commissioner of internal revenue has ordered his agency to delay
collecting back taxes from Hurricane Katrina victims until
after the Nov. 7 elections and the holiday season,
saying he did so in part to avoid negative publicity,” the New
York Times reports.
27.Oct.2006
The
Dixie Chicks Ad NBC Doesn’t Want You To See
- Judd -
NBC is refusing to air an ad for the new Dixie Chicks documentary, “Shut Up & Sing.” Variety reports, “NBC’s commercial clearance department said in writing that it ‘cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.’”
Harvey Weinstein, who is distributing the movie, issued the following statement:
It’s a sad commentary about the level of fear in our society that a movie about a group of courageous entertainers who were blacklisted for exercising their right of free speech is now itself being blacklisted by corporate America. The idea that anyone should be penalized for criticizing the president is profoundly un-American.
ThinkProgress has obtained the ad NBC doesn’t want you to see. Watch it:
More
on Shut Up and Sing, including when it comes to your city, HERE.
Digg
It!
27.Oct.2006
Ohio
Republican Party Spokesman on Franken Smear: ‘It Is What It Is’
- Think
Progress -
Yesterday, the Ohio Republican party distributed a press release claiming comedian Al Franken compared conservative to Nazis “who should drink poison and die.” The quote, represented as fact in the press release, came from a fabricated “satire” piece by right-wing author Bernard Goldberg.
The news release was also accompanied by a doctored photo of Franken, showing him dressed up like a baby bunny, wearing adult diapers and clutching a white teddy bears.
ThinkProgress contacted Ohio Republican party spokesman John McClelland, who issued the release, for comment. Here’s what he told us:
When someone gets under his skin [Franken] can’t handle it. He gets on his radio program and tries to get people fired up. … What goes around comes around. … It is what it is, nothing more.
Told
of McClelland’s comments, Franken responded, “That’s
an apology?”
27.Oct.2006
Ohio
Republican Party Spokesman on Franken Smear: ‘It Is What It Is’
- Think
Progress -
Yesterday, the Ohio Republican party distributed a press release claiming comedian Al Franken compared conservative to Nazis “who should drink poison and die.” The quote, represented as fact in the press release, came from a fabricated “satire” piece by right-wing author Bernard Goldberg.
The news release was also accompanied by a doctored photo of Franken, showing him dressed up like a baby bunny, wearing adult diapers and clutching a white teddy bears.
ThinkProgress contacted Ohio Republican party spokesman John McClelland, who issued the release, for comment. Here’s what he told us:
When someone gets under his skin [Franken] can’t handle it. He gets on his radio program and tries to get people fired up. … What goes around comes around. … It is what it is, nothing more.
Told
of McClelland’s comments, Franken responded, “That’s
an apology?”
27.Oct.2006
Michael
J. Fox: ‘I Could Give a Damn About Rush Limbaugh’s
Pity…I’m Not A Victim’
- Judd -
Rush Limbaugh has smeared Michael J. Fox, claiming that he exaggerated the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease in an ad supporting embryonic stem cell research. (He also mocked Fox by impersonating tremors associated with the disease on air.) In an effort to deflect criticism, Limbaugh told Katie Couric the following: “I believe Democrats have a long history of using victims of various things as political spokespeople because they believe they are untouchable, infallible, they are immune from criticism.”
Last night on CBS, Fox fired back, telling Couric, “I could give a damn about Rush Limbaugh’s pity or anyone else’s pity. I’m not a victim.” Watch it: Digg It! Transcript:
COURIC: I called Rush Limbaugh and he told me: I believe Democrats have a long history of using victims of various things as political spokespeople because they believe they are untouchable, infallible, they are immune from criticism.
FOX: Well, first thing, he used the word victim. And on another occasion I heard him use the word pitiable. And understand, nobody in this position wants pity. We don’t want pity. I could give a damn about Rush Limbaugh’s pity or anyone else’s pity. I’m not a victim. I’m someone who is in this situation. I think I’m in this situation along with millions of other Americans + we have a right, if there’s answers out there, to pursue those answers with the full support of our politicians. And so I don’t need anyone’s permission to do that.
COURIC: You have said before this is a bipartisan problem that requires a bipartisan solution.
FOX: No, disease is a nonpartisan problem that requires a bipartisan solution.
COURIC: Would you support a Republican candidate?
FOX: I have. Arlen Specter is my guy. I have campaigned for Arlen Specter. He has been a fantastic champion of stem cell research. In the meantime, separate and apart from my political involvement, I’ve started a foundation that has raised $85 million for research and is the second leading funder of Parkinson’s research after the federal government.
And,
you know, it’s not — I’m not a Johnny-come-lately.
Nobody plucked me off the apple cart to come and do this. I mean, I
believe in this cause. I put a lot of my life and energy into it +
I’m serious about
27.Oct.2006
October
27, 2006
- Think
Progress -
96: the total number of troops who have died so far this month in Iraq, the bloodiest since October 2005. Five American troops were killed during fighting in Anbar Province yesterday.
Variety reports both NBC and The CW television networks have refused to air ads for the new Dixie Chicks documentary “Shut Up and Sing.” NBC reportedly claims the network “cannot accept these spots as they are disparaging to President Bush.”
Scott Howell, a close associate of Karl Rove, helped produce the racist ad targeting Harold Ford in Tennessee. A second producer of the ad, Terry Nelson, is a consultant to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Wal-Mart. Huff Post reports Nelson will be fired by Wal-Mart.
Responding to accusations made by Rush Limbaugh, Michael J. Fox said he was neither acting nor off his medication for Parkinson’s disease. “The irony of it is that I was too medicated,” Fox told CBS’s Katie Couric, adding that his jumpy condition as he spoke to her reflected “a dearth of medication — not by design. I just take it + it kicks in when it kicks in.”
President Bush, “who has not been talking about gay marriage” in recent weeks, “took pains to insert a reference” to gay marriage during an appearance yesterday in an effort to use “to rally dispirited conservatives to the polls.”
A stark warning was delivered to Tony Blair and his cabinet yesterday by Sir Nicholas Stern, a former World Bank economist, about the potential economic effect of global warming . Stern argued “global warming could cost the world’s economies up to 20 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) if urgent action is not taken to stop floods, storms and natural catastrophes.”
Meanwhile, “the drive to tackle climate change gathered pace on Thursday as Morgan Stanley, the investment bank, announced a $3 billion plan to invest in the carbon trading market amid mounting evidence that some US states are growing more sympathetic to international action.”
Amnesty International is asking bloggers to show their support for the plight of fellow bloggers jailed for what they wrote in their online journals . The organization says freedom of expression and privacy “are under threat from governments that want to control what their citizens say + what information they can access.”
Eighty-two
% of Americans believe Congress will set timetable for Iraq
redeployment + 63 % believe Congress should set a timetable,
according to a new USA
Today/Gallup poll.
27.Oct.2006
Bush
condemns Iran nuclear move
The US calls for "redoubled" efforts on Iran, amid reports
Tehran has stepped up uranium enrichment work.
27.Oct.2006
Housing
slump hits US economy
US economic growth slows to 1.6% in the third quarter of 2006
- its lowest level in more than three years.
27.Oct.2006
Judge
'orders arrest of Pinochet'
A judge orders the arrest of Chilean ex-ruler Augusto Pinochet over
crimes at a detention centre, sources say.
27.Oct.2006
Karzai
'sadness' at raid deaths
Afghan President Hamid
Karzai says Afghans are "hurt and saddened" by civilian
deaths in a Nato air strike.
27.Oct.2006
Israel
denies German ship clash
Israel denies reports that its jets fired shots near a German naval
ship contributing to the Lebanon peace force.
27.Oct.2006
German
army skull row intensifies
Germany suspends two soldiers over photos showing German troops
posing with human skulls in Afghanistan.
27.Oct.2006
Free
speech online 'under threat'
Amnesty International calls on bloggers to back a campaign to
preserve free speech on the net.
27.Oct.2006
Niger
suspending Arab expulsions
Niger's government suspends a controversial decision to deport
thousands of Arabs back to Chad.
27.Oct.2006
Oaxaca
teachers vote for return
Teachers in the Mexican state of Oaxaca vote to end their five-month
strike.
27.Oct.2006
Australia
Muslim cleric suspended
Australia's top Muslim cleric is barred from preaching after
comparing immodestly dressed women to "uncovered meat".
27.Oct.2006
Next
UN head in China for talks
The next UN chief, South Korea's Foreign Minister Ban Ki-moon, visits
China for talks on the North Korea crisis.
27.Oct.2006
Riots
haunt Parisians a year on
Hundreds march through a Paris suburb in memory of two youths whose
deaths sparked riots a year ago.
27.Oct.2006
Israeli
minister to visit Qatar
Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni accepts an invitation to a
conference in the Gulf state of Qatar.
27.Oct.2006
Iran
denies Argentina charges
Iran rejects Argentine charges of involvement in the 1994 bombing of
a Jewish centre as "a Zionist plot".
27.Oct.2006
Tropical
storm hits Mexico coast
Tropical storm Paul lashes Mexico's mainland after dumping heavy rain
on the Baja California peninsula.
27.Oct.2006
A
Better Way to Build a Face
Facial scarring is one of the toughest challenges for plastic
surgeons + full transplants may be the best option for some patients.
But
a Stanford team wants to learn how to grow a new face instead.
27.Oct.2006
Deep
Blue See
The Neptune Project sets out to reveal the mysteries of the sea by
connecting 10 semiautomated geobiological labs bristling with cameras
+ sensors 8,000 feet underwater. By Doug Merlino for Wired
magazine.
27.Oct.2006
Should
ICANN Become Autonomous?
Some international leaders think the internet's main governing body
should sever its ties to the U.S government.
It's
just one issue that will be on the table when the Internet Governance
Forum kicks off next week in Greece.
27.Oct.2006
Images:
Marooned after 1,000 days on Mars
Mars rover Spirit, idled for the Martian winter, still reaches a
milestone on the Red Planet and sends back a new panorama.
27.Oct.2006
RFID
passports take off
Despite security and privacy concerns, all but three of the countries
required by the U.S. to issue passports with radio tags are doing so.
27.Oct.2006
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The
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Psychotically Claims Nancy Pelosi Has a "Homosexual Agenda":
Congressman Hostettler, if you want to talk about a "homosexual
agenda," talk to your own party. And while you are at it, talk
to them about that pedophile agenda, too.
27.Oct.2006
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Ellsberg: The Next War - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
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Good economic news, under the radar dr. elsewhere here
Just a
quick suggestion to check out this concise and pithy article in this
month's Scientific American that points out the fact that enough
evidence is in + the laissez
faire market experiment has failed,
miserably.
This is good news because the analysis compares high
income nations who adhere to this free-market, low-tax model - i.e.,
Anglo-Saxons (UK, US, Australia, Canada) - to those that adhere
instead to social welfare, high-tax constraints - i.e., Nordic
countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark). And the numbers don't
lie. The economic health of the Nordic countries significantly
exceeds that of the Anglo-Saxons. Plus, no one in those Nordic
countries goes without health care or education + the poverty rate is
miniscule, even when unemployment is roughly equal that of more
British countries.
And we all know, the US and its fellow members
of the old British Empire have soared to shamefully high levels on
lists of infant mortality, illiteracy, poor health care, prison rates
+ general poverty, while Nordic countries consistently rank highest
in international lists of social necessities.
The author, Jeffrey
Sachs of Columbia University, points out, "The results for the
[Nordic] households at the bottom of the income distribution are
astoundingly good, especially in contrast to the mean-spirited
neglect that now passes for American social policy." This
situation completely refutes the standing "wisdom,"
originally perpetrated by Nobel laureate Friedrich Von Hayek, that
high taxes are the "road to serfdom."
Sachs'
conclusion: "Von Hayek was wrong. In strong and vibrant
democracies, a generous social-welfare state is not a road to serfdom
but rather to fairness, economic equality and international
competitiveness."
And, as Thom
Hartmann
(who alerted his listeners to this article) has repeatedly stressed,
a corporate
feudalism
has actually descended upon us through the low-tax, minimal
social-welfare model, largely because those low taxes are also
offered to robber barron corporations.
27.Oct.2006
Werbung
mit Politikern: Satire erlaubt, Witze tabu
27.Oct.2006
Italiens
Finanzaffäre: Auch Berlusconi und Del Piero bespitzelt
27.Oct.2006
Neues
Teledienstegesetz: Diensteanbieter sollen Kundendaten offenlegen
27.Oct.2006
Law
and Globalization from Below
A successful international campaign led by the NBA, with the.
participation of NGOs drawn from several countries from Europe ,.
North America + Japan , ...
http://www.ces.uc.pt/bss/documentos/law_and_globalization_from_b...
27.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-445033,00.html
Beim
Rundgang durch das Lupanar versäumt es kein Fremdenführer,
auf die Zote hinzuweisen, die im Namen des antiken Bordells offenbar
wird: Der Name Lupanare ist abgeleitet von Lupa (Wölfin), einem
derben lateinischen Ausdruck für Prostituierte. Diese
etymologische Herkunft ist zumindest irritierend, wurden doch Romulus
und Remus der Sage nach von einer Wölfin großgezogen,
bevor sie die Stadt am Tiber gründeten. stx/AP
27.Oct.2006
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltraum/0,1518,druck-445073,00.html
Har Nuur ist komplett vom Niederschlag abhängig. NASA
Har Nuur: Im Herbst wichtige Raststätte für Zugvögel im kargen Zentralasien Den ganzen Sommer über schrumpfte der See, den ISS-Astronauten Anfang September im Vorbeiflug fotografieren konnten. Im Frühling steigt sein Pegel stets aufs Neue wieder an, denn dann fällt in der Region der meiste Regen. Jetzt, im Herbst, bietet der See Zugvögeln einen wichtigen Rastplatz auf ihrer Reise durch das öde, nahrungsarme Zentralasien.
Erst
durch das beständige Schrumpfen und Ausdehnen der Wasserfläche
entsteht rund um Har Nuur ein einzigartiges Feuchtgebiet. Dieser
Kreislauf ist Jahrtausende alt. Forscher wissen: Früher befand
sich hier ein deutlich größerer See. Dieser Paläosee
begann aber vor ungefähr 5000 Jahren zu schrumpfen - und ließ
Har Nuur und seinesgleichen in den Senken der kargen Landschaft
zurück
27.Oct.2006
Flaue
Konjunktur: Schwacher Häusermarkt bremst Amerika
27.Oct.2006
Internationaler
Aufruf: Amnesty will Blogger befreien
27.Oct.2006
Kaiserschnitt-
Mangel: In Entwicklungsländern sterben bis zu 80.000 Schwangere
27.Oct.2006
Afghanistan:
Taliban kündigen Rache an
27.Oct.2006
US-
Kongress: Wahlkämpfer setzen auf schmutzige Tricks
27.Oct.2006
Wärmedämmung:
Windige Geschäfte mit dem Klimaschutz
27.Oct.2006
Schändungen
in Afghanistan: "Die Verteidigung ist schwierig"
27.Oct.2006
Jahrestag
der Krawalle: Leben auf einem Pulverfass
27.Oct.2006
Satellitenbild
der Woche: Uralter See zwischen Wanderdünen
27.Oct.2006
Australischer
Skandal- Mufti: "Wir müssen die Welt vom Weißen Haus
befreien"
27.Oct.2006
"Waterboarding":
Cheney
facht Folter- Debatte wieder an
27.Oct.2006
Zeitarbeit:
Unsicher, unverzichtbar, unterschätzt
27.Oct.2006
Skandal-
Bilder aus Afghanistan: Neue Fotos zeigen nachgestellte Hinrichtung
27.Oct.2006
Saurier-
Streit: Showdown um den Dino- Killer
27.Oct.2006 Trip ins All: Nächster Weltraumtourist trainiert schon
27.Oct.2006
Nach
Festnahme: Naomi Campbell in der Ausnüchterungszelle
27.Oct.2006
Antikes
Bordell: Forscher restaurieren Pompejis Wandbild- Pornos
27.Oct.2006
Skandal-
Fotos aus Afghanistan: Bundeswehr trennt sich von zwei Totenschändern
27.Oct.2006
Unternehmensberatung:
McKinsey kürt neuen Deutschland- Chef
27.Oct.2006
Afghanistan:
Bundeswehr trennt sich von Totenschändern
27.Oct.2006
Olmert's
dangerous choice:
Avigdor Lieberman is a bad advertisement for Israel. The latest
member of Ehud Olmert's coalition is a rightwinger who advocates a
hard line against the Palestinians - and in a way that borders on the
racist.
27.Oct.2006 Exclusive: Hillary Clinton On Israel, Iraq And Terror : Clinton Says U.S. should Only Support Democratic Elections When Certin That The Outcome Favors U.S. / Israel
27.Oct.2006 Rep. Jane Harman’s Connections With AIPAC: The Sept. 13 dinner took place at the home of Harman, the ranking Democrat on the House Select Committee on Intelligence + was attended by over 120 top financial backers of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).
27.Oct.2006 Shin Bet to upgrade security in LA Airport: The original initiative for the visit was brought up by Jack Weiss, a Los Angeles City Council member who participated in a homeland security conference held by the Israeli Foreign Ministry
27.Oct.2006 Democratic leaders: Carter wrong on Israel : Does Jimmy Carter represent the Democratic Party's view on Israel? Carter - who's about to publish a book on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestine Peace, Not Apartheid - is quoted as saying that he represents "the vast majority of the Democrats." But House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi begs to differ
27.Oct.2006 Stephen Lendman : The Power of Israel in the USA: The Lobby's influence is broad and deep enough to include officials at the highest levels of government, the business community, academia, the clergy (especially the dominant Christian fundamentalists/Christian Zionists) and the mass media.
27.Oct.2006 Russia opposes draft UN resolution on Iran: International attempts to forge a united front in the nuclear standoff with Iran today suffered a setback as Russia declared its opposition to current UN proposals
27.Oct.2006 Will Harper back an Iran strike? : While Canadians agonize over the quagmire in Afghanistan, few people are looking at what the Harper government will do if George Bush finds a rationale for military action against Iran.
27.Oct.2006 Bolton: sanctions ‘help regime change’: Imposing economic and political sanctions against Iran and North Korea will help democratic forces in those countries as Washington pursues its “ultimate objective” of regime change, John Bolton, the US ambassador to the United Nations, said on Tuesday.
27.Oct.2006 Cheney confirms U.S. uses torture: Cheney indicated that the Bush administration doesn't regard water-boarding as torture and allows the CIA to use it. "It's a no-brainer for me," Cheney said at one point in an interview.
27.Oct.2006 Book tells of CIA bid to hush up torture: According to a secret report, the CIA offered to let Germany see one of its citizens, an al-Qaeda suspect being held in a Moroccan cell. But US secret agents demanded that in return, Berlin should co-operate and "avert pressure from EU" over Morocco's human rights.
27.Oct.2006 Robert Kennedy Jr.: 'We Have A Negligent Press In This Country': "We know more about Tom and Katie than we do about global warming," Kennedy Jr. said. "We're the most entertained, least informed people in the world."
27.Oct.2006 Peace groups say FBI monitored their e-mails: Obtaining the e-mails of Peace Action Maine and Veterans for Peace is a waste of FBI resources + it has a chilling effect on people who want to speak out against government policies, said Shenna Bellows, executive director of the MCLU.
27.Oct.2006 A Superpower In Decline: America's Middle Class Has Become Globalization's Loser: Globalization is striking back. The USA has promoted the worldwide exchange of commodities like no other nation + the result is that their local industry has begun to be eroded.
27.Oct.2006
Number
of Uninsured Still Climbing Despite ‘Healthy’ Economy:
00.000.2005
another 1.3 million Americans joined the ranks of the
uninsured, bringing the total uninsured non-elderly population to
just over 46 million. Not counting seniors eligible for Medicare, the
uninsured rate reached about 18 %.
27.Oct.2006
27 October 2006
Web informationclearinghouse.info
Number Of Iraqi Civilians Slaughtered In America's War? At Least 655,000
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America's War 2 809
Cost
of America's War in Iraq $337,273,200,602
To
see more details, click here.
Key Articles
Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President
The president's real goal in Iraq
The Project for the New American Century.
The Plan is for the USA to rule the world.
America's War for Global Domination:
Memo: Bush made intel fit Iraq policy
UK Ministers Knew WMD Was "Excuse"
Poll: U.S. Troops in Iraq: 72% Say End War 00.000.2006
Does Iran's President Want Israel Wiped Off The Map - Does He Deny The Holocaust?
'Stability
First': Newspeak for rape of Iraq -By
Pepe Escobar
Iraq is not simply a US electoral issue. It's a
human tragedy of biblical proportions. Hence the urge at this point
to situate the tragedy in a historical context. Continue
27.Oct.2006
Chomsky
On "Terrorism" -By
Saad Sayeed
"What I write causes extreme anger for the very
simple reason that I use the U.S. government's official definition of
terrorism from the official U.S. code of laws. If you use that
definition, it follows very quickly that the U.S. is the leading
terrorist state and a major sponsor of terrorism and since that
conclusion is unacceptable, it arouses furious anger." Continue
27.Oct.2006
Collaborators
of Catastrophe: Inside the Ministry of Truth
Storytellers of the American Narrative - By Manuel Valenzuela
The
role of the fascist media is to protect the fascists, to smear those
exposing truths, to ignore movements seeking truth to criminality, to
enable the activities of the Bush
cabal and to grant life to the manipulative mechanisms of the state.
Its role is to keep the masses obedient, ignorant and subservient to
the state . Continue
27.Oct.2006
The
Fault Lies In Ourselves -By
Paul Craig Roberts
When people no longer understand that civil
liberties are more important than political agendas, they have lost
sight of the belief system that protects them. Continue
27.Oct.2006 Big Brother Doesn’t Practice Fraternal Love-By Jason Miller -
A mere swish of the pen by a conscienceless swine effectively transferred absolute power into the hands of a relative handful of rich and powerful individuals and corporations. Continue
27.Oct.2006
The
Real Axis of Evil: A State without Mercy -By
William A. Cook
By yoking itself to the Zionist cause, the
eradication of the Palestinians and the theft of their land, the U.S.
President and the Congress
have ensured a continuing supply of “terrorists” for
years to come . Continue
27.Oct.2006
The
Power of Israel in the USA
-By Stephen Lendman
The Lobby's influence is broad and deep
enough to include officials at the highest levels of government, the
business community, academia, the clergy (especially the dominant
Christian fundamentalists/Christian Zionists) and the mass media.
Continue
27.Oct.2006 NATO Bombs Afghan Village Kills At Least 85 Including Women And Children : In a statement released on Thursday, the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said it "is very concerned by reports that a great number of civilians may have died during the conduct of military operations" in Nangawat village.
27.Oct.2006 Travelling with the Taleban : British soldiers landed in helicopters, arrested a suspect and flew away. But they left six dead in one family, including three young girls + partially demolished the mosque.
27.Oct.2006 Video; BBC interview with the Taleban : Watch the full interview between the BBC's David Loyn and members of the Taleban in the Helmand province of Afghanistan
27.Oct.2006 In case you missed it?: Breaking The Silence: A hard hitting special report into the "war on terror" Award winning journalist John Pilger
27.Oct.2006 Iraq: 5 U.S. occupation forces soldiers among at least 31 killed: Gunmen ambushed an Iraqi police convoy in Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing eight policemen, including the commander. At least 50 other policemen were reported missing.
27.Oct.2006 Iraqi Premier Denies U.S. Assertion He Agreed to Timelines: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki lashed out at the USA on Wednesday, saying his popularly elected government would not bend to U.S.-imposed benchmarks and timelines and criticizing a U.S.-Iraqi military operation in a Shiite slum in Baghdad that left at least five people dead and 20 wounded.
27.Oct.2006 Iraqi PM sees peace in 6 months - if U.S. cooperates: Iraq's prime minister said on Thursday he could get violence under control in six months, half the time U.S. generals say they need, provided Washington gave him more weaponry and more say over his own forces.
27.Oct.2006 Patrick Cockburn: From 'mission accomplished' to mission impossible for the Iraqis : The only real strength of the Iraqi government is the US army. In theory, it has 264,000 soldiers and police under its command. In practice they obey the orders of their communal leaders in so far as they obey anybody.
27.Oct.2006 US Strategy Change in Iraq Defines Iran as Main Menace: .The change will ultimately involve a US ground force reallocation to the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, followed by an expansion and continuation of the existing war between the Sunni center and the Shiites in the south into a full fledged war without US ground forces caught in the middle.
27.Oct.2006 Marine pleads guilty in shooting of Iraqi civilian: A Marine charged with murdering an Iraqi civilian last April pleaded guilty today to lesser charges of assault and obstruction of justice in a deal that spared him a possible life sentence.
27.Oct.2006 Blair urged to use extradition scheme over shot journalist : Tony Blair was challenged by Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal Democrat leader, to use new "fast track" extradition procedures with the USA to ensure that American soldiers involved in the death of the ITN journalist Terry Lloyd faced trial in Britain.
27.Oct.2006 Australian PM: Troops stay in Iraq for sake of US relations: Australian troops must stay die in Iraq to maintain the country's friendship with the USA, Prime Minister John Howard says.
27.Oct.2006 Violence making exiles of many Iraqis: What is our moral responsibility as it becomes clear that our bungled occupation has sunk Iraq into chaos - and that the country is approaching all-out civil war?
27.Oct.2006 Neutrality not OK, Zinn tells listeners : Zinn continued to advocate the importance of shattering the myth of American exceptionalism. Slavery and racial segregation, Zinn added, are just two examples of America’s imperfections.
27.Oct.2006
In
case you missed it? Howard
Zinn - You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
: This is a must watch video
27.Oct.2006
Blair
urged to use extradition scheme over shot journalist
: Tony Blair was challenged by Sir Menzies Campbell, the Liberal
Democrat leader, to use new "fast track" extradition
procedures with the USA
to ensure that American soldiers involved in the death of the ITN
journalist Terry Lloyd faced trial in Britain.
27.Oct.2006
Patrick
Cockburn: From 'mission accomplished' to mission impossible for the
Iraqis
: The only real strength of the Iraqi government is the US army. In
theory, it has 264,000 soldiers and police under its command. In
practice they obey the orders of their communal leaders in so far as
they obey anybody.
27.Oct.2006
US
Strategy Change in Iraq Defines Iran as Main Menace:
.The change will ultimately involve a US ground force reallocation to
the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, followed by an expansion and
continuation of the existing war between the Sunni center and the
Shiites in the south into a full fledged war without US ground forces
caught in the middle.
27.Oct.2006
Travelling
with the Taleban
: British soldiers landed in helicopters, arrested a suspect and flew
away. But they left six dead in one family, including three young
girls + partially demolished the mosque.
27.Oct.2006
Video;
BBC interview with the Taleban
: Watch the full interview between the BBC's David Loyn and members
of the Taleban in the Helmand province of Afghanistan
27.Oct.2006
'Stability
First': Newspeak for rape of Iraq -By
Pepe Escobar
Iraq is not simply a US electoral issue. It's a
human tragedy of biblical proportions. Hence the urge at this point
to situate the tragedy in a historical context. Continue
27.Oct.2006
Chomsky
On "Terrorism" -By
Saad Sayeed
"What I write causes extreme anger for the very
simple reason that I use the U.S. government's official definition of
terrorism from the official U.S. code of laws. If you use that
definition, it follows very quickly that the U.S. is the leading
terrorist state and a major sponsor of terrorism and since that
conclusion is unacceptable, it arouses furious anger." Continue
27.Oct.2006
Collaborators
of Catastrophe: Inside the Ministry of Truth
-Storytellers of the American Narrative -By Manuel Valenzuela
The
role of the fascist media is to protect the fascists, to smear those
exposing truths, to ignore movements seeking truth to criminality, to
enable the activities of the Bush
cabal and to grant life to the manipulative mechanisms of the state.
Its role is to keep the masses obedient, ignorant and subservient to
the state . Continue
27.Oct.2006
The
Fault Lies In Ourselves -By
Paul Craig Roberts
When people no longer understand that civil
liberties are more important than political agendas, they have lost
sight of the belief system that protects them. Continue
27.Oct.2006
Big
Brother Doesn’t Practice Fraternal Love-By
Jason Miller
A mere swish of the pen by a conscienceless swine
effectively transferred absolute power into the hands of a relative
handful of rich and powerful individuals and corporations. Continue
27.Oct.2006
The
Real Axis of Evil: A State without Mercy -By
William A. Cook
By yoking itself to the Zionist cause, the
eradication of the Palestinians and the theft of their land, the U.S.
President and the Congress
have ensured a continuing supply of “terrorists” for
years to come . Continue
27.Oct.2006
The
Power of Israel in the USA
-By Stephen Lendman
The Lobby's influence is broad and deep
enough to include officials at the highest levels of government, the
business community, academia, the clergy (especially the dominant
Christian fundamentalists/Christian Zionists) and the mass media.
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27.Oct.2006
Ahnenforschung:
Schleimpilze bekommen Stammbaum
27.Oct.2006
Daniel
Ellsberg: The Next War - A BuzzFlash Guest Contribution
Middle-class
voters who deserted the Democratic Party a dozen years ago are now
giving the party its best chance to reclaim the House since the GOP
swept Democrats from power 00.000.1994.
Scumbag
Rove Protégé Behind Racist Tennessee Ad. He Also
Ambushed Max Cleveland with Attacks on a Severely Wounded Combat
Veteran Unbefitting an American. 10/17
27.Oct.2006
Update
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Bushevik
Alert: U.S. Death Toll in Iraq Worst in a Year
27.Oct.2006
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and Didn't Put Its Foot Down to Stop It 10/27
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Voters
strongly favor Democratic candidates over Republicans in the Nov. 7
congressional election and harbor growing doubts about the Iraq war
and the country's future, according to a Reuters/Zogby poll released
Thursday. 10/27
27.Oct.2006
Why
Hasn't Mainstream Media Connected the Dots Between Saddam's Judgment
Day and the Midterm Elections? 10/27
At
This Point, the Only Way the Republicans Can Maintain Control of the
House is to Steal the Vote in Key Races
27.Oct.2006
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
GO
CHICKS!! dr. elsehwere here
Oh, the Dixie
Chicks
are just so way cool!!
Just watched them on Chris Matthews, who
asked them a lot of questions about the infamous "comment"
and the subsequent ban on their records by Cox and Cumulus radio
companies + their new film, Shut
Up and Sing.
God love 'em - Natalie kept bringing it back, over and over again,
that it was all because of media
consolidation!
27.Oct.2006
Suchmaschinen-
Manipulation: "Google Bombs" gegen Bushs
Republikaner
27.Oct.2006
Angriffe
in Südafghanistan: Nato räumt Tod von Zivilisten ein
27.Oct.2006
DEUTSCHER BUNDESTAG ? Petitionsausschuss: Sagen Sie
Ihre Meinung Demokratie
ist für Milliardäre etwas anderes als Demokratie für
Millionen, z.B. für sechs Millionen ......(Lesen Sie mehr...
itc.napier.ac.uk/e-Petition/bundestag/discuss_petition.asp?PetitionID=29
27.Oct.2006
Anzeigen Russisch Monopoly - Die russischen
Oligarchen
Seine
Partner in der Bank sind die Milliardäre Wechselberg und
Blawatnik. 1999 ermittelten die Behörden gegen Annenski wegen
zahlreicher ... bornpower.blogspot.com/
27.Oct.2006
Secret
Military Support of the Dutch Government of Bush's
War in Iraq by Huub Jaspers (Nov. 4, 2005)
...
contribution of the Dutch Government to the preparations of ...
President Bush
on the eve of the NATO top in Pra-gue, publicly had indicated that
the Dutch Government was considering ...
educate-yourself.org/cn/dutchmilitarysupportiraqwar04nov05.shtml
Bush
Interviewed by Dutch Television in Advance of Europe Trip - US
Department of State
usinfo.state.gov
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF STATE ... And that's why I thank the Dutch government ,
for helping train Iraqis, for example, helping Iraq become stable.
And ... usinfo.state.gov/special/Archive/2005/May/05-692086.html
Online
NewsHour: Dutch Elections -- May 16, 2002
DUTCH
ELECTIONS.
16.May
16 2002 .A
look at the victory of the political right in the recent Dutch
elections + what it may portend for the rest of Europe. ... Democrats
will lead a new Dutch government + a brand new party led ... waiting
to see if they'll be included in the new Dutch government ...
www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/europe/jan-june02/dutch_5-16.htm
68%
of Dutch consider their government "Lap Dog" of USA
- Wikinews
From
Wikinews, the free news source you can write!
06.May
2005 .
Flag of the Netherlands ... also stated 79% find that US President
Bush
overly pressures other countries to become + stay allies to the ...
en.wikinews.org/wiki/68%_of_Dutch_consider_their_government_"Lap_Do...
New
Dutch Government Topples - CBS News
The
coalition came apart after just 12 weeks, largely because of a feud
between two members of the far-right Pim Fortuyn's List party.
Support for the LPF has declined dramatically, too.
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/10/16/world/main525788.shtml
goDutch.com
:: Follow example of Dutch leader
Home
page of the Dutch Heritage Site, the Windmill Herald + Vanderheide
Publishing ...
The
Dutch theologian and statesman who ... government .' Kuyper, Bush
told his audience, had advocated in a famous speech, 'right here in
Grand Rapids,' for Dutch ...
www.godutch.com/windmill/newsItem.asp?id=771
"
Dutch government resigns - RINF Alternative News
The
Dutch prime minister has officially tendered his government's
resignation a day after a junior coalition partner quit in a row over
the country's immigration minister.
The
centre-right Jan Peter ... Instructor who doubts 9/11
compares Bush
to Hitler (2 ...
www.rinf.com/columnists/news/dutch-government-resigns
President
Bush's
Interview by Dutch TV NOS
The
White House. Office of the Press Secretary.
05.May 2005 INTERVIEW OF THE PRESIDENT BY DUTCH TV NOS. The Map Room. 9:48 A.M.
EDT. QUESTION: Mr. ... lost their lives on Dutch soil. And it's an ... do today. And that's why I thank the Dutch government , for helping ... for example.
The
Dutch government is completely on the ... fpc.state.gov/fpc/45734.htm
Bush-Nazi-Connection01
Iraq
Bans Weapons of Mass Destruction, Whatever That Means.
Maybe
It Means that They Discarded the Biological + Chemical Weapons that
the Reagan- Bush
-Rumsfeld-Cheney
Regime Sold to Them. alfatomega.com/index_09.html
Newsvine
- Lies of Hirsi Ali Takes down Dutch Government
The
conservative Dutch government of Jan Peter Balkenende fell apart
Friday over the citizenship case of Somali-born former deputy Ayaan
Hirsi Ali, who made a name with her anti-Islamist
behavior.
keld.newsvine.com/_news/2006/07/01/275062-lies-of-hirsi-ali-takes-down-dutch-government...
27.Oct.2006
Irak-Giftgas
Am vergangenen Freitag hat sich in einem inzwischen weit beachteten
Artikel in der New York Times Professor Stephen C. Pelletiere zu Wort
gemeldet. www.miprox.de/Sonstiges/Irak-Giftgas.html
Bushs Propaganda [Archiv] - politikforum Artikel in der New York Times
Professor Stephen C. Pelletiere zu Wort gemeldet. Pelletiere hat, aufgrund seiner Biographie und seines ... www.politikforum.de/forum/archive/index.php/t-25983.html
Informationsstelle
Militarisierung (IMI) - 2003
Januar ein Kommentar von Stephen C. Pelletiere , der
von 1988 bis 2000 als Professor am Army War College lehrte und davor
als Analyst beim Geheimdienst CIA ...
www.imi-online.de/2003.php3?id=442
Kriegsschauplatz
Irak - 'Massaker' von Halabja
Stephen C. Pelletiere über das Massaker von Halabja im Jahre
1988, ... Einer der Akteure von damals, Stephen C. Pelletiere , hat
sich nun wieder zu Wort ...
www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/irak-halabja-0003.shtml
Kriegsschauplatz
Irak - 'Massaker' von Halabja
Der CIA-Veteran und Autor diverser Bücher zum Iran-Irak-Krieg,
Stephen C. Pelletiere , hat sich vor wenigen Tagen in der New York
Times über seine ...
www.arbeiterfotografie.com/galerie/kein-krieg/hintergrund/irak-halabja-0002.shtml
ak
470: Wer bombardierte Halabja?
Einer der Akteure von damals, Stephen C. Pelletiere , hat sich nun
wieder zu Wort gemeldet. Er war zum Zeitpunkt der Bombardierung von
Halabja Professor am ...
www.akweb.de/ak_s/ak470/31.htm
Kurden
im Irak
(1) Stephen C. Pelletiere , The Kurds: An Unstable Element in the
Gulf, Boulder/Co., 1984, S. 57 f. (2) ebenda, S. 59 f, und: Nader
Entessar, ...
www.jochen-hippler.de/Aufsatze/Kurden_im_Irak/kurden_im_irak.html
Iris Kammerer - Unvermeidliches - Surfbrett - Persönliche Links ... Patrick Eddington, Ray McGovern und Stephen C. Pelletiere ,;
Senatsmitgliedern wie Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Robert C. Byrd (D-WV), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), ... www.iris-kammerer.de/html/IrakStatement.html
Weltpolitik
- Ausgewählte Literatur zu Ägypten
Stephen C. Pelletiere , Shari´a Law, Cult Violence and System
Change in Egypt: The Dilemma Facing President
Mubarak, Strategic Studies Institute, 1994. ...
www.weltpolitik.net/Regionen/Naher%20u.%20Mittlerer%20Osten/%C4gypten/Ausgew%E4hlte%20Literatur.html
Artikel
20: Zeit-Fragen Nr. 12 vom 31. 3. 2003
Januar erschien in der «New York Times» der
Bericht von Stephen C. Pelletiere , führender Mitarbeiter der
CIA und der US-Armee, der eine der hinterhältigsten ...
www.zeit-fragen.ch/ARCHIV/ZF_103b/T20.HTM
27.Oct.2006
Die
Verbrechen eines Teufels
... Zur angeblichen »Wahrheit« über den
Giftgasangriff auf die Kurden Der CIA-Veteran und Autor diverser
Bücher zum Iran-Irak-Krieg, Stephen C. Pelletiere , ...
www.mysnip.de/forum-archiv/thema/12525/68/Die+Verbrechen+eines+Teufels.html
27.Oct.2006
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=import%20-%20export%20bank%20%20%2B%20WWI&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt
Search
results for Morgan
...
III
(1950), the Defense Department, UN and Import - Export Bank ; Dean
Witter, Jr. ... prepared the events around 1917: WWI., the Versailles
treaty, the Balfour Declaration ...
authenticamigos.planetaclix.pt/Morgan2.htm
27.Oct.2006
Nicaragua:
Parlament beschließt totales Abtreibungsverbot
27.Oct.2006
Uno-
Sicherheitsrat: Dominikanische Republik als
Kompromisskandidat
27.Oct.2006
Mexiko:
Calderon vergleicht US- Grenzzaun mit Berliner Mauer
27.Oct.2006
Kreditinstitut:
Chinesische Bank legt Rekord- Börsengang hin
27.Oct.2006
Jahrestag
der Vorstadt- Unruhen: Paris wappnet sich gegen neue
Krawalle
27.Oct.2006
Totenschändung
in Afghanistan: "Wer nicht mitmachte, war ein Weichei"
27.Oct.2006
http://www.daserste.de/doku/beitrag_dyn~uid,lxhnaxm04wmtr85r~cm.asp
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