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06.Nov.2006 Energieproblem: E.on räumt Verantwortung für Stromausfall ein
06.Nov.2006 Polen: Präsident Kaczynski will eine 100.000 Mann starke EU- Armee
06.Nov.2006 Stromausfall: Politiker werfen Energiekonzernen Gier vor 06.Nov.2006 Nicaragua: Sieg für Ortega zeichnet sich ab 06.Nov.2006 US- Wahlkampf: Republikaner holen auf 06.Nov.2006 Irak: EU und Menschenrechtler kritisieren Todesurteil gegen Saddam
05.Nov.2006 Unruhen in Mexiko: Aufständische von Oaxaca marschieren weiter
05.Nov.2006 War simulation in 1999 pointed out Iraq invasion problems A series of secret U.S. war games in 1999 showed that an invasion and post-war administration of Iraq would require 400,000 troops, nearly three times the number there now.
And even then, the games showed, the country still had a chance of dissolving into chaos. posted by Prof. Hex
05.Nov.2006 Brent Budowsky -- December Surprise: Bush Plans Post-Election Call Up Of National Guard And Reserves
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New York Times Will Endorse No Republicans: "On Tuesday, when this page runs the list of people it has endorsed for election, we will include no Republican Congressional candidates for the first time in our memory. Although Times editorials tend to agree with Democrats on national policy, we have proudly and consistently endorsed a long line of moderate Republicans, particularly for the House. Our only political loyalty is to making the two-party system as vital and responsible as possible. That is why things are different this year." 11/6
Secret nuclear weapons documents found in New Mexico drug raid -- security breach called potentially "devastating" 11/6 05.Nov.2006 Now We're Cutting to the Chase: Bush Says Iraq is About the Oil 11/6
GOP Hypocrisy in a Nutshell, Ted Haggard on Sunday: "The fact is I am guilty of sexual immorality. And I take responsibility for the entire problem. I am a deceiver and a liar. There's a part of my life that is so repulsive and dark that I have been warring against it for all of my adult life," he said. 10/6 06.Nov.2006 Democratic Lead Still Big, But Narrowing a Little: "Democrats lead among independents, classic swing voters, by a still-hefty 56-38 %; it was 59-31 % among independents in the last ABC/Post poll Oct. 22."
The military editorial that has the White House livid: "Time For Rumsfeld To Go" 11/6
"AS UP to 100 million Americans go to the polls tomorrow to decide whether Democrats or Republicans will control Congress during the last two years of George Bush's presidency, controversy, bad news and bad timing continue to dog the Republican Party." 11/6
05.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ I consider Michael Ledeen the most interesting rascal in the rogues' gallery of neoconservatism + Kos writer Meteor Blades has caught the man in a extraordinarily bold lie.
It seems that Ledeen is yet another necon pretending that he never supported the Iraq misadventure. "I opposed the military invasion of Iraq before it took place," writes ML in the National Review Online. Alas, the gods of Google have left us ineradicable proof that Ledeen did indeed offer wholehearted support to Dubya's blunder. From a 2002 interview: Question #2: Okay, well if we are all so certain about the dire need to invade Iraq, then when do we do so?
Ledeen: Yesterday. The man's a proven liar. Keep that fact in mind if he should ever deny membership in P2, or if he should claim that he had nothing to do with "Bulgarians shot the Pope" hoax. Permalink
05.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ exposure yesterday of 1999 war games that showed an invasion of Iraq would require at least 400,000 troops, and even then there would be no guarantee it would not end in chaos.
05.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ National Review Online just published a couple of hours ago a set of their , replete with a Michael Ledeen screed. Or counter-screed, as he would no doubt prefer (indeed, he whines we really should be in Iran, like that would have gone so much better).
05.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Vanity Fair has a teaser up as of this weekend excerpting from David Rose's Neo Culpa, interviews with various vocal neocons who are now not quite so, erm, shall we say insistent about the need to invade liberate Iraq.
05.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-446581,00.html Der italienische Ministerpräsident Romano Prodi sprach sich als Konsequenz aus dem Zwischenfall für eine europäische Energie-Aufsichtsbehörde aus: "Mein erster Eindruck ist, dass ein Widerspruch darin besteht, europäische Stromverbindungen und keine europäische Strombehörde zu haben.
05.Nov.2006 EKD- Synode in Würzburg: Bischof Huber prangert Armut als Skandal an 06.Nov.2006 Todesurteil gegen Hussein: Bush nennt Richterspruch "große Errungenschaft" für Iraks Demokratie
05.Nov.2006 Mega- Blackout: Europa im Dunkeln, Politiker in Panik 06.Nov.2006 Historische Stromausfälle: Wenn ganz plötzlich das Licht ausgeht...
05.Nov.2006 Republikaner- Skandale: Sex, Drogen und Schmiergelder
05.Nov.2006 Vor der Kongresswahl: US- Militärzeitungen fordern Rumsfelds Rücktritt
05.Nov.2006 Kundenkarten: Verbraucherschützer warnen vor Datenmissbauch
05.Nov.2006 Souffleure der Macht: Adenauers Mann für die Moneten
05.Nov.2006 Flugsicherheit: Schärfere Kontrollen, längere Warteschlangen
05.Nov.2006 All-day curfew in Baghdad. - Judd - “Iraqi officials on Saturday announced an all-day Sunday curfew in Baghdad + four provinces, fearing that the expected announcement of a verdict in the trial of former leader Saddam Hussein could inflame nationalist + sectarian passions and escalate the daily deluge of violence.”
05.Nov.2006 Ted Haggard resigns - Amanda - “as leader of the New Life Church after its independent investigative board recommended removal, saying he was guilty ‘of sexually immoral conduct.’”
05.Nov.2006 Rich areas' poor in deaths link Poor people living in rich US neighbourhoods in are more likely to die than those living in poor ones, a study says.
05.Nov.2006 Courtroom clashes Excerpts from some of the trial highlights
05.Nov.2006 Death penalty for Saddam Hussein Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging after being convicted of crimes against humanity by a Baghdad court.
05.Nov.2006 Government hails Saddam verdict The government welcomes the conviction of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by a Baghdad court.
05.Nov.2006 Impact of verdict A defining moment or more chaos for Iraq?
05.Nov.2006 Ortega to face Nicaragua voters Nicaraguans vote on Sunday to decide whether ex-Marxist leader Daniel Ortega should be the next president.
05.Nov.2006 Power cuts strike Western Europe A surge in demand due to cold weather knocks out electricity across several countries, leaving millions without power.
05.Nov.2006 Saddam's last show The ex-leader's courtroom performance
05.Nov.2006 Sex-row US pastor sacked US evangelical Ted Haggard is sacked by his church after being found guilty of "sexually immoral conduct".
05.Nov.2006 UK call for cluster bomb ban International development secretary Hilary Benn is calling for a worldwide ban on the use of cluster bombs.
05.Nov.2006 The Dolphin With Leftover Legs - Zonk 88 - ectotherm writes "Japanese scientists have captured a dolphin with vestigial legs. Evidence, it would seem, of a land-dwelling past and observable evolution." From the article: "Fishermen captured the four-finned dolphin alive off the coast of Wakayama prefecture (state) in western Japan on Oct. 28 + alerted the nearby Taiji Whaling Museum, according to museum director Katsuki Hayashi. Fossil remains show dolphins and whales were four-footed land animals about 50 million years ago and share the same common ancestor as hippos and deer. Scientists believe they later transitioned to an aquatic lifestyle and their hind limbs disappeared. Whale and dolphin fetuses also show signs of hind protrusions but these generally disappear before birth. "
05.Nov.2006 NASA's Rollercoaster for Moon Rocket Escape - Zonk 66 - simonbp writes "NASA's Constellation Project has approved the Rollercoaster Escape System to be used as the Emergency Egress Systems (EES) for astronauts and pad crew to race away from the Ares I pad, should an emergency be called. The Ares I is the first of NASA's new moon/Mars rockets and is scheduled for a first manned flight in 2014." From the article: "An unpowered fixed single-rail system from the access arm level of the ML tower to the existing bunker would be used. The railcars could be enclosed to provide personnel protection. Each railcar can hold four to six people. The rail would follow the ML tower vertically down to the pad surface, then turn and continue close to the ground to the safety bunker. A passive magnetic and friction braking system will decelerate the cars at the tracks end as well as prevent the cars from hitting each other."
05.Nov.2006 Husseins Schreckensherrschaft: Bilanz eines Massenmörders
05.Nov.2006 Todesurteil für Saddam: Das Massaker von Dudschail 05.Nov.2006 US- Wahlkampf in Tennessee: Wo Gott auch Demokraten mag 05.Nov.2006 Ruinenstadt Teotihuacán: Gräbersuche in der Stadt der Menschenopfer
05.Nov.2006 Bagdad: Gericht verurteilt Hussein zum Tod durch den Strang 05.Nov.2006 Stromausfall: Deutsche Panne verdunkelt Europa 05.Nov.2006 Bagdad: Urteilsverkündung im Saddam- Prozess hat begonnen 05.Nov.2006 US- Wahlkampf: Die letzte Schlacht von "Karl dem Großen" 05.Nov.2006 Nicaragua: Comandante Ortega will zurück an die Macht 05.Nov.2006 Saddam- Prozess: Bagdad im Alarmzustand vor Husseins Verurteilung
05.Nov.2006 Could extra dolphin fins be legs? Japanese researchers said Sunday that a bottlenose dolphin captured last month has an extra set of fins that could be the remains of hind legs, a discovery that may provide further evidence that ocean-dwelling mammals once lived on land.
05.Nov.2006 Taliban kill two in attack on US convoy in Afghanistan: Taliban fighters ambushed a convoy supplying logistics and goods to a US base in southeastern Afghanistan, killing two Pakistani drivers and wounding an Afghan, police said. 05.Nov.2006 Afghan politician flays U.S., Britain roles in Afghanistan : "The continued illegal stay of foreign forces and the criminal behavior of the U.S. and the UK troops would cause more crises in Afghanistan," 05.Nov.2006 Kabul: Mock execution of child: Germany's army was hit by fresh allegations of misconduct on Saturday when a newspaper reported peacekeeping soldiers in Afghanistan staged the mock execution of a local child in 2002. 05.Nov.2006 German military challenges newspaper over terrorizing Afghan boy : The German Defense Ministry challenged a newspaper Saturday to provide proof for a claim that German soldiers terrorized a little Afghan boy in 2002 by holding a gun to his head. 05.Nov.2006 Time for Pakistan Army to Arrest its Chief: Who should Pay for 83 Killed at Khar in Bajaur? 05.Nov.2006 Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern Talks About 9/11 : 7 Minute Video: Interview with Ex-CIA Analyst Ray McGovern. He talks about running into ex-Secretary of the Department of Transportation Norman Mineta and confronting him regarding his testimony before the 9/11 Commission. 05.Nov.2006 One Minute Video: Video: Rev. Ted Haggard Puts Foot In Own Mouth: Ted Haggard stepped down from his church, amid allegations of paying for sex with a man and doing methamphetamine with him. 05.Nov.2006 Rick Perlstein: The Odd Couple: Nixon and Lieberman: Richard Nixon said one thing and did another. So, it seems, does Joseph Lieberman. 05.Nov.2006 Test Spits Out Wrong Results At Board Of Elections: During a test using an optical scanner, officials discovered that the machine was providing incorrect election results 05.Nov.2006 UK: Insolvencies jump 55%: The number of people becoming insolvent has jumped by 55% over the past year, official figures revealed today, in the latest evidence of Britain's mounting personal debt problems. 05.Nov.2006 Google 'will be able to keep tabs on us all': The internet will hold so much digital data in five years that it will be possible to find out what an individual was doing at a specific time and place, an expert said yesterday. 05.Nov.2006 Tracked In America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance: This documentary Web site explores more than two centuries of surveillance in America. Included are two hours of audio interviews, 300 photographs and 25 personal stories beginning in 1917. 05.Nov.2006 Ocean Life on the Brink of No Return: Every single commercial fishery in the world will be wiped before 2050 and the oceans may never recover if over-fishing continues at its current rate, a four-year scientific investigation has found. 05.Nov.2006 No more fish to eat in 40 years: Fish stocks are declining so rapidly that scientists have predicted that they will disappear by the middle of the century unless radical measures are taken to protect them 05.Nov.2006 11/03/06 Blood and money -By John Pilger
The United States promised a democracy when the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year finally ended slavery. For the next decade, the civil-rights movement joined the great popular movement to end the slaughter in Vietnam + Congress legislated to restrain the CIA's secretive parallel power. It was a fleeting intermission. Continue 05.Nov.2006 I Want To Hurt Somebody-By Greg Palast
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times yesterday splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who’d retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Baghdad is Surrounded: “The American Era in the Middle East has ended” -By Mike Whitney
After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we still know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in March 2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there’s been no attempt to engage the representatives of the resistance in political dialogue. How can we possibly reach a political solution without dialogue and negotiation? Continue 05.Nov.2006 American Prison Planet -The Bush Administration as Global Jailor -By Nick Turse
The American gulag is so much more than Guantanamo and so much worse. The combination of U.S. "homeland" prisons, where "one in 140 Americans, or as many people as live in Namibia, or nearly five Luxembourgs" are locked away, the offshore imperial detention facilities, the shadowy CIA black sites + the ever-shifting outsourced detention facilities operated by other nations adds up to something new in history -- the makings of a veritable American prison planet. Continue 05.Nov.2006 The Consequences of the Death of Empathy -By Robert Jensen
One of the most devastating consequences of unearned privilege -- both for those of us on top and, for very different reasons, those who suffer beneath -- is the death of empathy. Continue 05.Nov.2006 British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il-By Julian Glover
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq. Continue 05.Nov.2006 It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black -By Phil Rockstroh
While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten apocalypticists. However, I do believe that a craven desire for power and privilege has transformed them into morally bankrupt, lickspittle, corporate stooges. Continue 05.Nov.2006 The Election Farce -By David Pérez
The only reason the Democratic Party is against the fiasco in Iraq is because the U.S. is losing the war. It’s all about “bad planning,” or “bad timing,” or whatever. If Bush and Co. had easily subjugated the nation and controlled the oil fields, the entire U.S. ruling class and their paid politicians would be joyous. Continue 05.Nov.2006 "Hey America, Stop your Bellyaching and get to Work" -By Mike Whitney What can we expect in the midterm elections? The real question is: What should we NOT expect in the elections. We should not expect dramatic change from our present trajectory. Whether Karl Rove engineers another electoral-coup or not, is beside the point. The system has been reshaped to meet the needs and aspirations of the ruling mandarins. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Foreclosure USA -By Joel S. Hirschhorn
We the people once owned our democracy. We elected “representatives” to run it for US. Have you noticed? Somewhere along the way we lost our democracy. It was foreclosed by wealthy and power elites that corrupted our “representatives” who literally sold us out. Our homeland was foreclosed right in plain sight. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Collective Punishment-By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
It is the aim of the United States to inflict collective punishment on the Iranian people. The Bush White House, successfully invoked Chapter VII, Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations stipulating a threat to peace (the pot calling the kettle black) subjecting Iran to sanctions. The compliant United Nations Security Council drafted the Iran Resolution, paragraph 15 of which is as follows: Continue 05.Nov.2006 A cacophony of fundamentalism -By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
In the United States, what we call fundamentalism has very deep roots, from the early colonists. There’s always been an extreme, ultrareligious element, more or less fundamentalist, with several revivals . Continue 05.Nov.2006 Islamic Fascism?-By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
The Bush administration's labeling of radical Islamic movements and leaders as fascist, or "Islamofascism," is sheer nonsense. It betrays either blatant demagoguery, or shameful ignorance, or most probably, both. Continue 05.Nov.2006 The Power of the Israeli Lobby in the US -Audio -An interview with James Petras, author, " The Power of Israel in the United States". Click to listen 05.Nov.2006 Iraq: More than 83 killed as U.S. occupation continues: Police found 56 bodies and a severed head scattered around occupied Baghdad over the last 24 hours, an Interior Ministry source said 05.Nov.2006 7 U.S. occupation soldiers killed in Iraq: Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad and four Marines were killed in "enemy action" in Iraq's western Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said on Friday. 05.Nov.2006 U.N.: Nearly 100,000 Flee Iraq Monthly : The agency says an additional 50,000 Iraqis a month are fleeing their homes but remaining within Iraq, which classifies them as "internally displaced" rather than as refugees who have crossed an international border. 05.Nov.2006 US spy chief on secret Iraq mission: John Negroponte, the US national intelligence director, has made an unannounced visit to Baghdad for talks with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister. 05.Nov.2006 Election looming, U.S. general urges Iraq patience: A senior U.S. general compared Iraq on Thursday to a work of art in progress and played down incessant violence and friction with Iraqi leaders as "speed bumps" on the road to stability. 05.Nov.2006 Paul Krugman: As Bechtel Goes: Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity last month, and much of Iraq’s population lives with untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers’ money and having lost the lives of 52 employees, has come to the end of its last government contract. 05.Nov.2006 U.S. spending watchdog on Iraq closed down by Republicans: Pink slip for overseer mysteriously added to big spending bill 05.Nov.2006 Israeli occupation forces kill, 23 Palestinians : Palestinian medics said on Friday that 23 people, including militants, women and children, were killed as the Israeli army ground military operation called "Cloud of Autumn " went on in northern Gaza Strip. 05.Nov.2006 Israel occupation forces kill women at mosque siege: Two Palestinian women have been killed during a stand-off near a Gaza mosque while they were trying to rescue about 60 Palestinian men besieged inside. 05.Nov.2006 Israel kills 25 Palestinian in 72 hours: In the West Bank, Israeli occupation troops also arrested a Palestinian cabinet minister in the internationally boycotted Hamas-led government, shot dead two Palestinian youths and wounded another two people 05.Nov.2006 Israeli sniper shoots dead a 14-year old boy in Balata refugee camp: A teenage Palestinian boy was killed and his older brother injured during an attack by Israeli occupation forces into Balata refugee camp in the West Bank city of Nablus on Thursday evening. 05.Nov.2006 4-year-old boy among 9 Palestinians killed in occupied Gaza: A 4-year-old boy and 40-year-old woman were among four Palestinian civilians killed Friday during an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun, Palestinian sources said. 05.Nov.2006 Israel occupation forces kill 4 in Gaza missile attack: Four members of Hamas's armed section have been killed by an Israeli missile fired on their car as they were going to pray in the Gaza Strip. 05.Nov.2006 Must listen Democracy Now! Report: Casualties Mount in New Israeli Attack on Gaza: The dead include a 70 year-old Palestinian man who was shot in the head by Israeli troops when he went onto the balcony of his home to take his disabled son inside. 05.Nov.2006 Annan urges Israel to restraint, protect civilians: Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Friday urged Israel to do their utmost to protect civilians and to refrain from further escalating an already grave situation. 05.Nov.2006 Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to Israel : Kissinger had accepted an invitation from the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting strategic goals for improving the situation of the Jewish people. Last week's discussion centered on the Iranian threat to Israel. 05.Nov.2006 Iran Says Missile Tests Send 'Strong Signal' To U.S. : A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, told state radio that the tests should send a strong message to the United States to cease military maneuvers in the area. 05.Nov.2006 Rice Says Iran Understands Consequences of Its Missile Threat : U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, while Iran was trying to show it is ``tough'' by test- firing a ballistic missile able to hit Israel, any use of the weapon would invite consequences understood by Iranian leaders. 05.Nov.2006 Russian Foreign Minister: Says EU Draft On Iran Goes Too Far : Sergei Lavrov says a European draft resolution to impose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program went far beyond what had been agreed. 05.Nov.2006 Iran: Official says UN draft resolution is illegal: "NPT is a valuable document + the Islamic Republic abides by its commitments on the treaty." Larijani stipulated that countries such as the US are trying to form a monopoly club for use of nuclear technology and supervise nuclear energy in the coming years. 05.Nov.2006 US posted Iraqi nuclear bomb documents on Internet: report: The US government hurriedly closed down an official website this week after a newspaper reported it contained Iraqi documents that included details for building a nuclear bomb, officials said Friday 05.Nov.2006 Six Afghan police killed in Taliban attacks: Six Afghan police and a soldier were killed and eight NATO troops injured in three separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, officials and the military say. 05.Nov.2006 Pakistani Taliban behead "US spy": Pakistani Taliban fighters beheaded a tribal cleric accused of being a US spy in the Waziristan region bordering Afghanistan, a security official in the restive tribal region said. 05.Nov.2006 Occupation of Afghanistancould last 10 years: NATO operations will likely continue in Afghanistan for another 10 years, a high-ranking Canadian soldier said Thursday. 05.Nov.2006 Thousands protest over school airstrike: Thousands of angry tribesmen and Islamists protested today across Pakistan against an airstrike that killed 80 people at a religious school near the Afghan border this week. 05.Nov.2006 Pakistan airs bombed madrasa video: Pakistan has broadcast a government surveillance footage, taken a week before the military raided a madrasa which was believed to have links with al Qaeda. 05.Nov.2006 Amnesty expresses concern over arrest of former Guantanamo inmate in Pakistan: Dost's "whereabouts are now unknown and he is at risk of torture," Amnesty said in a statement. 05.Nov.2006 US to deploy inspectors at Pakistani ports: The United States will soon deploy inspectors at Pakistani ports and airports to monitor passengers and cargo ships in a bid to prevent terrorist attacks 05.Nov.2006 Letter in Support of the People of Oaxaca: A new sign-on support letter has been drafted. Signatories include Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Danny Glover, Eduardo Galeano, Michael Moore, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn + many others. 05.Nov.2006 Heather Wokusch: Bush’s Permanent War Economy Must Crash: The Bush administration's military adventurism and the economy are two issues expected to impact next week's US midterm vote. We ignore their interplay at our peril. 05.Nov.2006 Gloves come off! : Bush hints Dems love terrorists in late push 05.Nov.2006 Greenhouse gases hit record high : This is expected to lead to melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, rising sea levels and more extreme weather events such as storms and floods. 02.Nov.2006 Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil-By Raw Story
During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources." Continue 05.Nov.2006 Are the neo-conservatives losing their influence? Stephen Sackur talks to a leading neo-conservative, Norman Podhoretz. Must watch BBC Interview
Podhoretz, provides insights into the racism + fascists ideology that fuels Neo-Conservatives. Click to view 05.Nov.2006 Fascists-By John T. Flynn
when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism. Continued 05.Nov.2006 Howard Zinn: "We Live In An Occupied Country"-Audio -Historian Howard Zinn spoke on "The Occupation of the United States" at Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois. Click to listen 05.Nov.2006 Evil Is As Evil Does -By Paul Craig Roberts
Perhaps Americans don’t notice, but the rest of the world does see the double standard applied when Saddam Hussein is put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while US, UK + Israeli government officials commit far greater crimes by illegally invading countries, targeting civilian populations + torturing detainees. Continue 05.Nov.2006 More Troops—or Less Empire -By Patrick J. Buchanan
15 years after the Cold War’s end, to begin dissolving old alliances and shedding commitments dating to a time when a Soviet Empire bestrode Europe and Asia like a colossus? Continue 05.Nov.2006 The Spoils of Corruption -By Charles Sullivan
The mainstream media, like organized religion, is used to program public perceptions-to steer us away from truth and to perpetuate fairy tales that extol the virtues of bribery, violence + greed. It makes useful idiots of those who cannot think for themselves and persuades them to act like fools in the eyes of the world. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Iraq: More than 41 killed in another day of U.S. occupation: A motorcycle bomb killed seven people and wounded 45 when it exploded in a crowded market in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district, an interior ministry source said. 05.Nov.2006 Iraqi armed group in missile claim : Iraq's Islamic Army has claimed that it has produced a surface-to-surface missile: "The missile will allow the resistance fighters to perform attacks miles away from the target, which is safer for them. 05.Nov.2006 U.S. Puppet : Talabani wants US troops to stay in Iraq: Iraqi President wants presence of US army on his country’s soil for three more years, says Iraq is not in civil war. 05.Nov.2006 In case you missed it: John Pilger: Why Bush lies about Iraq: US President George Bush's plans to invade Iraq have nothing to do eliminating “weapons of mass destruction”, preventing terrorism or ending human rights abuses. An attack on Iraq will be the first phase of a pre-existing strategy to increase US control of the world's oil supplies. 05.Nov.2006 With Iraq Driving Election, Voters Want New Approach: A substantial majority of Americans expect Democrats to reduce or end American military involvement in Iraq if they win control of Congress next Tuesda 05.Nov.2006 It's Iraq, Stupid : Johnstown is a small working-class town, not the kind of place you would expect to find an anti-war rally. 05.Nov.2006 Bechtel ends Iraq rebuilding after a rough 3 years: Instead of the nearly $3 billion originally budgeted, Bechtel finally received about $2.3 billion, a figure that includes money the company spent on projects as well as its undisclosed profit. 05.Nov.2006 Death toll rises to 13 as Israel presses occupied Gaza attack: Israel continued an attack into Gaza which has killed 12 Palestinians and a soldier in little over a day in one of its largest operations since militants seized a soldier in June. 05.Nov.2006 Israeli killings resume in Gaza Strip: Israeli occupation forces are reported to have killed four Palestinians in northern Gaza, two of them civilians including a 75-year-old, in one of its biggest operations in the coastal strip in months. 05.Nov.2006 An international force in Gaza is long overdue: The establishment of such a force has been requested several times by Palestinian leaders in order to protect civilians from various acts of violence carried out by the Israeli military. 05.Nov.2006 U.S. trial: Israeli agent scoffs at Hamas defendant's torture claims: An Israeli security agent scoffed at a Chicago grocer's claim that he was deprived of sleep, forced to wear a foul-smelling hood and otherwise tortured after his arrest on charges of bankrolling terrorists. 05.Nov.2006 Stranger than fiction?: Christians: Here to serve Israel: "We as Christians are living in a time in which we must wake up. We must organize ourselves and become a lobby for these people. That's why we are here," Ellssel added. 05.Nov.2006 Israeli racism?: Ethiopians outraged over blood disposal: Ethiopian communities respond with rage at Channel 2 report that revealed blood donated by Ethiopians is frozen and disposed of. 05.Nov.2006 Are Israelis gearing up to bomb Iran?: The appointment of Israel’s new deputy PM raises fears of a new catastrophe Bush gives green light for Israeli attack on Iran: Bush "would understand" Israeli strike on Iran : President Bush reportedly said he would "understand" a preemptive Israeli strike against Iran´s nuclear sites. 05.Nov.2006 Iran test fires dozens of missiles after US Gulf exercise: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles today, including some that are capable of reaching Israeli and American forces in the Middle East, at the start of ten days of war games. 05.Nov.2006 Russia, China Won´t Back Iran Sanctions : Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program. 05.Nov.2006 The US role against militants in Pakistan : Monday's aerial attack on a seminary in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajaur that killed 80 people has again triggered a debate about who is actually carrying out such attacks 05.Nov.2006 Big Brother Britain 2006: 'We are waking up to a surveillance society all around us' 05.Nov.2006 Britain condoning torture: Since Sept. 11, 2001, Blair's government has at least once sought to use evidence extracted under torture in legal proceedings, has signed agreements to deport prisoners to countries where they may be tortured + has turned a blind eye to U.S. mistreatment of prisoners and secret movement of suspects to countries where they could be abused, Human Rights Watch states. 05.Nov.2006 Kidnapping of Egyptian in Italy shines light on U.S. "extraordinary renditions": Some think a trial in the abduction could uncover high-level collusion between the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, then in power + the U.S. administration. 05.Nov.2006 Don't Look Too Closely: Bush's Record on Anti-Terrorism 05.Nov.2006 Swiss Find Evidence of CIA Spy Attempt: Swiss authorities have found enough evidence to seek a full investigation into allegations the CIA was trying to obtain personal details of about 500 labor union members, most of them Arabs, officials said Friday. 05.Nov.2006 U.S. Near The Bottom In Privacy Study: U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday. 05.Nov.2006 There is something terribly wrong with this country: An interesting edit of some scenes from the movie V For Vendetta 05.Nov.2006 How to hack the vote: : Professor Avi Rubin demonstrates how electronic vote machines can be hacked 05.Nov.2006 A way to restore confidence : Voters in the United States are denied the one powerful technique that might restore confidence in election results -- an independent exit poll. 05.Nov.2006 Civil rights groups ‘outraged’ by absentee voting problems: Civil rights groups say they are distressed that officials will not be able to supply absentee ballots for all residents who want them. 05.Nov.2006 11/01/06 “There has never been an American army as violent and murderous as the one in Iraq”
05.Nov.2006 Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh slams Bush at McGill address -By Martin Lukacs
Hersh described video footage depicting U.S. atrocities in Iraq, which he had viewed, but not yet published a story about. He described one video in which American soldiers massacre a group of people playing soccer. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Baghdad is under siege -By Patrick Cockburn in Arbil, Northern Iraq
Sunni insurgents have cut the roads linking the city to the rest of Iraq. The country is being partitioned as militiamen fight bloody battles for control of towns and villages north and south of the capital. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Saudi study: Iraq a ‘lost battle’ : -By Stephen Collinson -Damning analysis says all indications point to current state of civil war, disintegration of Iraqi state. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos -By MICHAEL R. GORDON
The slide shows Iraq as moving sharply away from “peace,” an ideal on the far left side of the chart, to a point much closer to the right side of the spectrum, a red zone marked “chaos. ” Continue 05.Nov.2006 In the US Empire "Truth is Treason" The Fear Merchants - An audio essay by Mumia Abu-Jamal Must listen - Two minute audio 05.Nov.2006 "Starving The Beast."-By Thom Hartmann -How the Corporatocracy Sets the Rules of the "Game" To Create Peons. Continue 05.Nov.2006 "American Blackout" Video Documentary - Directed by Ian Inaba
Kicking off with the detailed argument that black voters in Florida were systematically disenfranchised in the 2000 presidential election, the film then pulls double duty: It’s a fine-tooth examination of both the continued, unconstitutional marginalization of black voters in America and the attempts by various political and media machines to crush McKinney in retaliation for her outspokenness on that subject and on the illegality of the war in Iraq. Click to view 05.Nov.2006 US-Latin American Relations -By James Petras
Measuring The Rise or Fall of US Power : A realistic analysis demonstrates that political interventions, class conflict and international markets play a major role in shaping US-Latin American relations and more particularly the ascent and decline of US imperial power, social revolutionary forces and the other political variants in between. Continue 05.Nov.2006 The Enlightenment of Resistance-By Manuel Valenzuela Resistance will begin when the many begin the healing of civilization and the planet, when a massive movement commences to purge warmongering leadership from our midst, when a tidal wave of humanity floods the concrete jungles and steel canyons we live in, marching to the drumbeats of peace, non-violence and universal harmony. That is Revolution at the dawn of the 21st century . Continue 05.Nov.2006 Blast shuts down Kuwait refinery: Kuwait has shut down its Shuaiba oil refinery after an explosion hit the 200,000 barrel-per-day plant, a Kuwaiti energy official said. 05.Nov.2006 Six Arab states join rush to go nuclear: Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, UAE and Saudi Arabia seek atom technology 05.Nov.2006 Nuclear Lab Breach Could Be 'Devastating': : Data Found In Drug Raid Contains Weapons-Design Secrets 05.Nov.2006 U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer : Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
05.Nov.2006 Poll: 70% Of Iraqi's Want U.S Occupation Troops Withdrawn Within A Year : 78 % said the U.S. presence provokes more conflict than it prevents; 84 % said they had little or no confidence in the U.S military. 05.Nov.2006 Iraq Imposes Curfew in Capital, Four Provinces: Iraqi officials on Saturday announced an all-day Sunday curfew in Baghdad and four provinces, fearing that the expected announcement of a verdict in the trial of former leader Saddam Hussein could inflame nationalist and sectarian passions and escalate the daily deluge of violence. 05.Nov.2006 Verdict in trial of Saddam Hussein due Sunday : Iraqis and human rights advocates have questioned the timing of the verdict in the Dujail case — two days before midterm elections in the United States — and whether it is intended to boost President Bush and his Republican allies. 05.Nov.2006 Juan Cole: Top Ten Ways we know We have Lost in Iraq Rats Jump Ship: Richard Perle: Iraq War Decision Wrong: Richard Perle, a leading proponent of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, now says devastating dysfunction within the Bush administration has turned U.S. policy there into a disaster. More on Perle 05.Nov.2006 Rats Jump Ship : Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war : Several prominent neoconservatives have turned on George Bush days before critical midterm elections, lambasting his administration for incompetence in the handling of the Iraq war and questioning the wisdom of the 2003 invasion they were instrumental in promoting.
05.Nov.2006 U.S. speeds attack plans for North Korea -By Bill Gertz
The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea's nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process. Continue 05.Nov.2006 The Case for Engagement - By Scott Ritter
I recently returned from a trip to Iran, where over the course of a week I made the journey from the northern suburbs of Tehran to the gates of the Natanz enrichment facility, and in doing so had my eyes opened. The Iran that I witnessed was far removed from the one caricatured in the US media. I left with the frustrating realization that, as had been the case with Iraq, America was stumbling toward a conflict, blinded by the prejudice and fear born of our collective ignorance. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Iraq War Will Cost More-than-$2-Trillion -By Linda Bilmes and Joseph E. Stiglitz
00.Jan.2006 we estimated that the true cost of the Iraq war could reach $2 trillion, a figure that seemed shockingly high. But since that time, the cost of the war – in both blood and money – has risen even faster than our projections anticipated . Continue 05.Nov.2006 U.S. seeks silence on detainees -By Carol D. Leonnig and Eric Rich
The Bush administration has told a federal judge that terrorism suspects held in secret CIA prisons should not be allowed to reveal details of the "alternative interrogation methods" that their captors used to get them to talk. Continue 05.Nov.2006 While poverty persists, there is no freedom -By Nelson Mandela -Millions remain enslaved and in chains at a time of breathtaking advances in technology and wealth. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Homeland Security Tightens Grip on International Travel -By Ezekiel
The Department of Homeland Security proposed new rules back in July that would fundamentally undermine the right of American citizens to travel abroad. Public carriers--airlines, cruise lines, even fishing boats--will be required to submit the names of all passengers to Homeland Security prior to departure and to obtain permission from Homeland Security to board those passengers. These new rules will take effect January 14, 2007. Continue 05.Nov.2006 Just Try Voting Here: 11 of America's Worst Places to Cast a Ballot (or Try) -By Sasha Abramsky- Machines that count backward, slice-and-dice districts, felon baiting, phone jamming + plenty of dirty tricks.Continue 05.Nov.2006 "Our investigation and Pastor Haggard's public statements have proven without a doubt that he has committed sexually immoral conduct," church board concludes
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Texas GOP howls after crafty Democrats send out mailer to split the write-in vote in DeLay's district 11/5 05.Nov.2006 It Comes Down to the Iraq War. Who are You Going to Believe: Bush or Your Eyes? Dem Candidates End the Campaign Embracing the Iraq Reality Challenge.
05.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ This summary paragraph from The Smirking Chimp tells the story as well as anything else can tell it: Republican Saxby Chamblis defeats Democrat Max Cleland in the Georgia Senatorial race, overcoming a two to five point lead by Cleland and posting a final seven point lead. The probability of a nine to twelve point polling error is less than 2%. Due to the use of Diebold paperless electronic voting machines, Chamblis' victory can not be validated. (Two former Diebold technicians have recently revealed that top Diebold officials ordered the installation of unauthorized secret files into the voting machines shortly before the election). Permalink
05.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-446519,00.html Ein Sprecher der der französischen Gewerkschaft CGT sprach vom größten Stromausfall seit 30 Jahren. Nach Angaben des Energiekonzerns EDF führten Leitungsprobleme in Deutschland zu dem Stromausfall. Vom Energieversorger RWE Rhein Ruhr hieß es, es habe außerhalb des RWE-Netzes ein Störung im Höchstspannungsnetz gegeben. "Es war zu wenig Kraftwerksleistung im Netz", sagte ein Sprecher. Wo die genau die Störung auftrat, sei unklar.
04.Nov.2006 Israel: Hunderttausend erinnern an Ermordung Rabins
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ In a clear indication that someone is panicked and desperate, Charles Schumer's office received an envelope of the frightening (as opposed to deadly) powder.
Schumer, you recall, is currently chair of the DSCC, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Coincidence? Permalink
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Senate numbers, Senate powder dr. elsewhere here
Votemaster's map today puts the Senate races at what we're likely to see on Tuesday, IF - and only if - there is no outlandish theft. Permalink
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ There has been a lively discussion of this topic, germaine to Loftus and her controversial research and position on memory, on the Rigorous Intuition discussion board.
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ the trial will go forward in January, without Libby's ability to use any confusing or obfuscating "expert" memory witnesses to explain to the jury just how it was that he forgot all those key aspects of his testimony to the Grand Jury while up to his eyeballs in setting up planning Iraq's destruction liberation.
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ recent and rather key development in the Libby case.
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ As near as I can tell, Chams' suit against Hopsicker has no merit. Hopsicker refers to it as a nuisance suit. (Listen to the interview here and here.) However, Hopsicker does want to exercise the right of discovery; he thus needs to raise a little money to answer.
Donating to candidates this election season may have tapped you out. But Hopsicker's one-of-a-kind work does deserve support. One way you can help him (and yourself + your friends) is to buy his book, Welcome to Terrorland -- in fact, you should buy several copies to give away during the upcoming holiday season. Permalink
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Chams, who shuttered the store immediately after the 9/11 attacks, was witnessed interacting in very odd ways with Atta. Chams also worked for or with the Titan corporation, which plays a mysterious role in both the Duke Cunningham scandal and the Skyway "coke plane" tale.
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Hopsicker is being sued by Makram Chams, the well-heeled Lebanese businessman who owned a convenience store frequented by Mohammed Atta.
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Daniel Hopsicker's recent stories -- and he's had some doozies.
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Fake progressives For a long time, I've sneered at so-called "progressives" who promote the idea that both parties are equally corrupt and equally undeserving of support. I've suspected that at least a few of the folks saying such things were Rovian snakes slithering through the Democratic grasses. Now we have evidence. Permalink
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Tammy Faye and her husband raised funds for a non-existent radio broadcasting operation in Korea. Then, in order to fund her lavish lifestyle, she helped grossly oversell vacation timeshares to the rubes. How could she not know the truth of the situation? Permalink
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ So. Haggard goes to a gay male hooker but does not receive sex. He buys meth, but does not use it. Then he asks to buy more .Do the Jesus folk in Colorado actually believe this crap?
04.Nov.2006 Leader of Michigan Initiative To End Affirmative Action Welcomes Ku Klux Klan Support - Judd - The man leading the effort to ban affirmative action in Michigan, Ward Connerly, welcomes the support of the Ku Klux Klan. Connerly said, “If the Ku Klux Klan thinks that equality is right, God bless them. Thank them for finally reaching the point where logic and reason are being applied, instead of hate.” Watch it: <object width="340" height="210"> <embed src="https://www.youtube.com/v/qhxis5k2Dmw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="340" height="210"> Connerly, “defended his remark in a statement, saying he accepts support for banning affirmative action wherever he finds it.” According to Mark Bernstein of the Michigan Civil Rights Commission, the Ku Klux Klan is the “only large organization” to endorse Connerly’s ballot measure. Last month, Connerly was photographed shaking hands with John Raterink, chairman of the Michagan chapter of the Council of Conservative Citizens, a white separatist organization. The CCC “opposes most immigration and ‘all efforts to mix the races of mankind.’” Digg It!
04.Nov.2006 EU to disappoint Balkan hopefuls The European Commission is to recommend that Western Balkans countries delay their EU bids.
04.Nov.2006 Cash machine fraud 'still rising' Cash machine crime is still rising despite banks investing millions in anti-skimming technology, say the banks.
04.Nov.2006 U.S.: Ozone-Zapping Pesticide OK Despite European objections, the Bush administration gets treaty partners to approve U.S. use of methyl bromide, a potent ozone-destroying pesticide banned internationally two years ago. And it'll manufacture nearly 6,000 tons of the stuff, even though it has 11,000 tons stockpiled.
04.Nov.2006 Nuclear Tech Race Is On In Middle East - Zonk 88 - CaroKann writes "The TimesOnline is reporting that six Middle Eastern nations have announced interest in developing nuclear technology. The nations involved are Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency. The Middle East Economic Digest states that most of these nations are interested in developing nuclear technology for the purpose of powering desalination plants. However, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, suggests that the sudden interest in nuclear technology is driven by the desire of the six nations to create a 'security hedge' in response to Iran's recent nuclear development program."
04.Nov.2006 UK Has Become a "Surveillance Society" - Zonk 127 - cultrhetor writes "In a story released by the BBC, Richard Thomas, the information commissioner for Great Britain, says that fears of the nation's 'sleep-walk into a surveillance society' have become reality. Surveillance ranges from data monitoring (credit cards, mobiles, and loyalty card information), US security agencies monitoring telecommunications traffic, to key stroke logging at work. From the article, the report 'predicts that by 2016 shoppers could be scanned as they enter stores, schools could bring in cards allowing parents to monitor what their children eat + jobs may be refused to applicants who are seen as a health risk.' The report's co-author, Dr. David Murakami-Wood, told BBC News that, compared to other Western nations, Britain was the 'most surveilled country.' He goes on to note: 'We really do have a society which is premised both on state secrecy and the state not giving up its supposed right to keep information under control while, at the same time, wanting to know as much as it can about us.'"
04.Nov.2006 Afghanistan: Uno- Beauftragter warnt vor Niederlage der Nato
04.Nov.2006 Neue Afghanistan- Vorwürfe: Bundeswehr soll Kindern Todesangst eingejagt haben
04.Nov.2006 Greenhouse gases hit record high in 2005. - Amanda - “Measurements coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization indicate that the global average concentrations of carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide will increase this year too, said Geir Braathen, a climate specialist at the Geneva-based agency.”
04.Nov.2006 Hoekstra Pushed For Publication of Sensitive Nuclear Documents, Blames New York Times, IAEA - Amanda - Yesterday Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, blamed the New York Times and the IAEA for the leak of sensitive Iraqi documents — a “nuclear primer” on how to build an atomic bomb — on a public government website: Concerns by the New York Times and the IAEA prompted the government to shut down the website. The IAEA, “fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms,” privately protested last week to the American ambassador. The Bush administration shut down the site on Thursday evening, only after the New York Times “asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials.” Hoekstra, on the other hand, was responsible for making that information public in the first place. Last November, he and Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS) wrote to Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte and asked him to the post the Iraqi documents. Hoekstra is now claiming that he has “always been clear that the Director of National Intelligence should take whatever steps necessary to withhold sensitive information.” But in a press release on April 18 — approximately a month after the first documents were made public — Hoekstra issued a news release with no such reservations. He instead acknowledged that posting the information carried “risks, but such risks are minimal.”
04.Nov.2006 ‘Donald Rumsfeld must go.’ - Amanda - In an editorial on Monday, a group of military publications — the Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times + Marine Corps Times — will call on Rumsfeld to resign: “It is one thing for the majority of Americans to think Rumsfeld has failed. But when the nation’s current military leaders start to break publicly with their defense secretary, then it is clear that he is losing control of the institution he ostensibly leads.”
04.Nov.2006 Cheney on Iraq: “full speed ahead - Judd - …we’ve got the basic strategy right.” Cheney added, “It may not be popular with the public — it doesn’t matter…We’re not running for office.”
04.Nov.2006 Gefangene geheimer US Gefängnisse sollen zum Schweigen gebracht werden - sfux Washington - Die US-Regierung will es gefangenen mutmasslichen Terroristen verbieten, über ihre Behandlung bei Verhören zu sprechen. In einer gerichtlichen Eingabe des Justizministeriums heisst es: "Die in geheimen CIA-Gefängnissen angewendeten Methoden bei Vernehmungen gehörten zu den wichtigsten zu schützenden Geheimnissen auf dem Gebiet der nationalen Sicherheit" berichtete die "Washington Post" am Samstag.
04.Nov.2006 Schwulen - Hasser bestellt sich kleinen Gott - sfux Stephan Fuchs - Der Evangelikale US Prediger Ted Haggard hasst die Schwulen. Ted ist auch vehement gegen Evolutionsanhänger, gegen Andersgläubige sowieso und Frauen, die Abtreiben - auch gegen jene die müssen; sie alle sollen mit dem Satan im Bund sein - verblendet vom Bösen. Damit Amerika sauber bleibt, hat er den Bund mit Gott geschlossen. Diesem will er die Streitaxt sein. Ted Haggard?s Freund, so sagt Ted, ist Präsident...
04.Nov.2006 China to double its aid to Africa Chinese President Hu Jintao pledges to double aid to Africa as he opens a summit in Beijing with African leaders.
04.Nov.2006 Iranians mark US embassy siege Iranian students hold a rowdy rally on the anniversary of the hostage-taking of the American embassy in 1979.
04.Nov.2006 Campaigners urge action on climate Thousands of people gather in London to call for world leaders to take urgent action on climate change.
04.Nov.2006 US Citizens to Require ''Clearance'' to Leave? - CowboyNeal 273 - jo7hs2 writes "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has proposed a system which will in essence make it mandatory for you to have permission before leaving or entering the country, effectively putting everyone on a no-fly list unless the government says otherwise. Interestingly, the proposal does not seem to cover personal travel, only that on some sort of carrier like an airline or cruise vessel. While this certainly is concerning, it isn't exactly new, as a passport is already required for circumstances covered under the proposal."
04.Nov.2006 Oceans Empty by 2048? - Zonk 405 - F34nor writes to mention a CBS news article about the depopulation of ocean species. According to a study by a scientist in Halifax, Nova Scotia and assisted by research from all around the world, the world's oceans will be emptied of large lifeforms by 2048. From the record: "Already, 29% of edible fish and seafood species have declined by 90% -- a drop that means the collapse of these fisheries. But the issue isn't just having seafood on our plates. Ocean species filter toxins from the water. They protect shorelines. And they reduce the risks of algae blooms such as the red tide. 'A large and increasing proportion of our population lives close to the coast; thus the loss of services such as flood control and waste detoxification can have disastrous consequences,' Worm and colleagues say."
04.Nov.2006 Bruce Schneier on Perceived and Real Risks - Zonk 247 - prostoalex writes "Encryption guru Bruce Schneier takes a look at perceived and actual risks with some insightful commentary on how warped the public perception of risks may be: '...we worry more about anthrax (with an annual death toll of roughly zero) than influenza (with an annual death toll of a quarter-million to a half-million people). Influenza is a natural accident, anthrax is an intentional action + the smallest action captures our attention in a way that the largest accident doesn't. If two airplanes had been hit by lightning and crashed into a New York skyscraper, few of us would be able to name the date on which it happened.'"
04.Nov.2006 Libanon: Die ganz private Nachkriegs- Hölle 04.Nov.2006 Amerikanische Irak- Veteranen: Die Zeitbombe
04.Nov.2006 Saddam- Prozess: Bagdad im Alarmzustand vor Husseins Verurteilung
04.Nov.2006 Münteferings Generalanklage: "Geld darf nicht die Welt bestimmen"
04.Nov.2006 Gipfeltreffen: China verdoppelt Afrika- Hilfe
04.Nov.2006 Kandidatur von Irak- Veteranen: Siegeszug einer Kriegsversehrten - Niedergang eines Bush- Soldaten
04.Nov.2006 "In their zeal to promote the idea Saddam Hussein in fact did have (WMD), congressional proponents of the war ... have put up documents on the internet that could give terrorists and states hostile to the United States the very instructions they need to build nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. If Democrats had done that there would be mobs carrying torches in the streets tonight. The Democrats would be accused of treason and there would be calls for resignation."
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How the 101st Fighting Keyboarders (and Rick Santorum and George W. Bush) are helping Iran get the nuclear bomb 04.Nov.2006 Vanity Fair Bombshell: Former Bush Neocon Iraq War Boosters Trash Bush and His Dysfunctional Administration 11/4
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On MSNBC, Keith Olbermann is reporting that on Monday, the day before the midterm elections, editorials will run in the most influential military newspapers calling on President Bush to fire Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld 11/4 04.Nov.2006 Robert Parry has another brilliant election-eve commentary: In the final days before the pivotal Nov. 7 elections, George W. Bush is rallying Republicans with stump speeches that are remarkable - even by today's standards - in their disdain for facts and logic. Bush's performance has added another question that may be answered in the voting - have most of the American people lost the ability to differentiate between spin and reality? 11/4 04.Nov.2006 Republicans entered the campaign's final weekend yesterday desperately trying to keep control of the Senate, with three or four tossup races likely to determine whether the GOP can cling to power there even as it sees its hold on the House eroding. Neocon Outing of Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld in Vanity Fair This Week Isn't Helping the Suicidal Bushevik Cause. Now, Cheney is Back to "Stayting the Course to Victory," Which Means More Deaths So He And His Comrades Don't Have to Admit a Mistake. 11/4 04.Nov.2006 This is not just any religious leader we are talking about. "No pastor in America holds more sway over the political direction of evangelicalism than does Pastor Ted," Jeff Sharlet of Harper's reported in a profile of Haggard last year. He talks to President Bush or his advisors every Monday. 11/4
04.Nov.2006 Irak- Politik: Neokonservative greifen Bush an
04.Nov.2006 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Fundamentalisten der Aufklärung" 04.Nov.2006 Politikverdrossenheit: Demokratie? Voll krass.
04.Nov.2006 Bionische Profile: Algorithmen errechnen Reifen 04.Nov.2006 Handys als Fortschrittsmacher: Revolutionäre Chancen für die Ärmsten
04.Nov.2006 Darryll Issa: Der nette Hardliner der Republikaner
04.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-445426,00.html
Ohne dass es groß in der Öffentlichkeit bekannt geworden wäre, hat es solche Atommülltransporte mit dem Flugzeug schon mehrmals gegeben. Das Bundesamt für Strahlenschutz genehmigte zwischen 1990 und 2005 allein sieben Flüge mit hochangereichertem Uran an Bord. Nach Auskunft der Behörde in Salzgitter ging es dabei meist um den Transport von nuklearem Material in deutsche Forschungszentren - häufig kam das Uran aus Großbritannien. Und im deutschen Luftraum tummeln sich noch weit häufiger Maschinen mit strahlender Fracht. Denn auch international sind solche Transporte üblich + dabei werden Drittländer wie Deutschland überflogen - was durch internationale Übereinkommen geregelt ist. Teilweise landen diese Maschinen auch in Deutschland zwischen, wofür eine Erlaubnis des Bundesamtes für Strahlenschutz notwendig ist. So hat die schwedische Firma Westinghouse Electric am 1. September die Erlaubnis bekommen, bis zu 23.700 Kilogramm schwach angereichertes Uran auf dem Weg nach Argentinien über Deutschland zu transportieren. Die russische Firma Techsnabexport ließ 20 Kilogramm Uranoxid auf dem Weg nach Südafrika am 28. September in Deutschland zwischenlanden. Umweltschützer warnen, dass durch die Transporte in tausenden Metern Höhe neue Gefahren lauern. "Ein Absturz hätte ungeahnte Folgen", sagt Heinz Smital von Greenpeace zu SPIEGEL ONLINE. "Der Aufprall eines Behälters mit radiokaktivem Material hätte in einem solchen Fall eine so große Wucht, dass sie jenseits jeder Spezifikation liegt." So seien Castoren nur für einen Sturz aus neun Metern Höhe gerüstet.
04.Nov.2006 ‘Vanishing’ Pelosi To Appear At Multiple Public Rallies Tomorrow - Nico - The right-wing media — including Matt Drudge, Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News — have launched a baseless campaign (already picked up by MSNBC) suggesting that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has gone into hiding before Tuesday’s election. Here’s an image from Fox News moments ago: In fact, as ThinkProgress has documented, Pelosi has been featured in numerous public and media appearances recently. Two days ago, she appeared at a public rally with former President Clinton, portions of which aired on television + in a feature interview on CNN. She also appeared in interviews on CNBC’s Kudlow & Company on 10/24, ABC’s Good Morning America and ABC’s World News Tonight on 10/26 + conducted interviews for profiles in the New York Times (10/30), Newsweek (10/23), and the Baltimore Sun (10/27). Nancy Pelosi will continue to be in “hiding” throughout the weekend, appearing at numerous public rallies (though Pelosi has indicated that if her daughter gives birth to her sixth grandchild this weekend, she will leave the campaign trail). Here’s where she’ll be tomorrow: 1:30 p.m. Rally with Leader Pelosi, candidate Joe Sestak, Vice President Gore + Governor Rendell in Radnor, PA 3:00 p.m. Rally with Leader Pelosi, candidates Lois Murphy and Bob Casey, Senator Obama + Governor Rendell in Norristown, PA 4:30 p.m. Rally with Leader Pelosi candidate Patrick Murphy, Senator Obama + Governor Rendell in Glenside, PA
04.Nov.2006 Prominent neocons say Iraq was a strategic blunder. - Faiz - Former chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee Richard Perle and former Pentagon insider Kenneth Adelman tell Vanity Fair that they blame the “dysfunctional” Bush administration for the “disaster” in Iraq and say that if they had it to do over again they would not advocate an invasion.
04.Nov.2006 Reynolds Criticizes ‘National Media People’ For Focus On Iraq - Think Progress - This morning in a taped interview on NPR, Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep repeatedly asked Rep. Tom Reynolds (R-NY) if “there needs to be some significant change in the way that the United States approaches Iraq.” Each time, Reynolds refused to give a straight answer, stating only that “‘the commander in chief is the president,’ and that Congress has a responsibility for ‘oversight.’ Pressed for details of what should be done, he blamed ‘national media people like you’ for focusing on Iraq.” After Inskeep’s fifth attempt to get Reynolds to comment on President Bush’s stay-the-course policy, Reynolds abruptly ended the conversation, stating, “Is there any more you have? Because I’m about to walk into another meeting.” CLICK HERE TO LISTEN The Iraq war is not an issue that is important to just “national media people” in Washington. In the latest CBS/NYTimes poll, voters identified Iraq as the single-most important issue. It garnered four times as much interest as immigration, the second most important issue. Full transcript below: REYNOLDS: Do I wish the approval rating in Congress was higher? Sure — for my own self esteem. I’m a Member of Congress. But all politics is local. Local races about the local issues. The issues in my district are jobs, taxes + Social Security. Some it may be transportation and infrastructure, some may be border security, some may be other issues. But – INSKEEP: Iraq? REYNOLDS: There’s only one race that I’m aware of that has Iraq has a center theme and that is Chris Shays’s seat in Connecticut + that’s because he wants it to be the centerpiece of his campaign. INSKEEP: Do you anticipate that after this election, there needs to be some significant change in the way that the United States approaches Iraq? REYNOLDS: Steve, the commander in chief is the president and I believe that the generals who run the war will look to see what type of course corrections the President, his ambassador + the generals that he summoned a few weeks ago will continue to look at where the President puts that — But as I said, the number one issue in my district is jobs, the number two is taxes, the number three issue Social Security. INSKEEP: Does Congress have a responsibility to push the commander in chief at this time to change direction somewhat? REYNOLDS: Congress always has a responsibility for oversight. INSKEEP: I’m asking a much more specific answer though. Do you – REYNOLDS: Steve, I’ve given you a specific answer. The commander in chief is the person that runs the military and is the point on a war on Iraq or any other war. Congress has oversight responsibilities + to my knowledge, it’s doing that. INSKEEP: Let me try to put that in my own words, so that I understand it. Are you saying you trust the President to do what he will in Iraq, you’ll look afterward, but you’re not pushing him to change direction? REYNOLDS: Now Steve, you can draw whatever conclusion. I stand by what I said. I said it twice and I want the listeners to hear what I just said twice. You’re drawing whatever conclusion you want out of it. I’ve set the discussion on Iraq. You’ve asked if in politics — I said there’s one race in the country. Many national media people like you would like to see one issue they can cover out of Washington + it just isn’t happening that way this year. Each race has its own issues, and it’s a choice between two candidates. INSKEEP: Congressman, with all due respect, I was asking about your substantive position on an issue that the President of the United States considers one of the most important issues of our time. REYNOLDS: You asked a question Steve, I gave you an answer. Is there any more you have? Because I’m about to walk into another meeting. INSKEEP: That’ll do. Congressman Reynolds, thanks for taking the time.
04.Nov.2006 Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) set to finally resign. - Nico - “Rep. Bob Ney, facing certain expulsion from the House after being convicted of two felonies in relation to the Jack Abramoff scandal, said on Friday he will resign by the end of the day,” CQ reports. “Ney, who pleaded guilty Oct. 13 to making false statements and conspiracy to commit fraud, is the first member of Congress to be convicted as part of the wide-ranging Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal.”
04.Nov.2006 Mainstream media pick up Drudge fiction. - Nico - Media Matters has the details. MSNBC: NORA O’DONNELL: What about Nancy Pelosi? We were just showing pictures. She would be the speaker — likely be the speaker of the House if Democrats win control. Where’s she been the last week? Fox News: STEVE DOOCY: Have you noticed we really haven’t seen much of Nancy Pelosi? BRIAN KILMEADE (co-host): Nowhere.
04.Nov.2006 Haggard says he bought meth from male prostitute. - Judd - The right-wing evangelist also acknowledged that he received a massage from the prostitute, but denied that they had sex. Haggard said he never used the drugs.
04.Nov.2006 Bartlett Falsely Claims Saddam Had The ‘Capability’ For A Nuclear Weapons Program - Think Progress - This morning on MSNBC, White House Counselor Dan Bartlett used a New York Times report to falsely claim Saddam Hussein “had the capability and he had the know-how to” develop nuclear weapons. Watch it: The Times report documents Iraq’s efforts to conduct nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war and prior to sanctions. Contrary to Bartlett’s claim, Iraq had no nuclear capability at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003. Here are the facts, as reported in the Key Findings of the Duelfer Report: – “Saddam Husayn ended the nuclear program in 1991 following the Gulf war. ISG found no evidence to suggest concerted efforts to restart the program.” – “Although Saddam clearly assigned a high value to the nuclear progress and talent that had been developed up to the 1991 war, the program ended and the intellectual capital decayed in the succeeding years.” – “The former Regime had no formal written strategy or plan for the revival of WMD after sanctions.” Transcript: BARTLETT: Obviously, in this case, Andrea, there has been a problem because these documents went on + they reveal what many people knew, was that Saddam Hussein had the capability and was working toward a nuclear weapon program. They had the scientists and the documents. MITCHELL: Before the first gulf war. These are dated documents, so they go back to what was discovered before the first gulf war. BARTLETT: True, Andrea, but they didn’t lose that knowledge. They didn’t take down the scientific apparatus or the capabilities to develop that. And Charlie Duelfer and other weapons experts all said what Saddam Hussein was doing was waiting the international community out, to make sure they got the inspectors out, so that they can then restart their program. He had the capability and he had the know-how to do it. And I think that’s a stark reminder for people.
04.Nov.2006 Card Blames New York Times For ‘Advertising’ Nuclear Secrets ‘To The World’ - Nico - This morning on NBC, former White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card excused the Bush administration’s role in posting nuclear weapons secrets on a public web site, and instead blamed the New York Times for having “advertised” the secrets “to the world.” Card said “it’s important that we recognize the government is doing the right thing” and claimed the government “acted very quickly” to remove the nuclear secrets. Watch it: According to the Times, the nuclear secrets have been available for weeks despite an incident last spring when information on how to make tabun and sarin nerve agents had to be removed from the site. Moreover, U.S. officials were warned last week by the International Atomic Energy Association that the information available “could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms.” The web site wasn’t removed until last night, after the Times began its inquiry. Digg It! Full transcript: LAUER: What do you make of this? Who’s gonna get the blame for this? CARD: Well, you know, this is one of those things that John Negroponte warned us that we don’t know what’s in these documents, so these are being put out at some risk. And that was a warning he put out right when they first released the documents. We pulled them down + I think the government has acted very quickly + we’ve pulled them down. I’m a little bit concerned that the New York Times has advertised them to the world, so that more people might see them… LAUER: What about the timing? Four days before, five days before a mid-term election this report comes out. Do you question the timing of this report? CARD: Well, I think most things that happen just before an election are designed by someone to have an impact on the election. But I actually think it’s important that we recognize the government is doing the right thing. They shut the website down. They’re not providing information.
04.Nov.2006 Ted Haggard on homosexuality: - Amanda - “We don’t have to debate about what we should think about homosexual activity, it’s written in the Bible.” Watch it (from the new documentary “Jesus Camp“): (HT: Evangelical Right)
04.Nov.2006 Schwarzenegger Calls For ‘Deadline’ For Withdrawal of Troops From Iraq - Faiz - In an interview yesterday with a CBS affiliate in San Francisco, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) said, “I think that we should get out of [Iraq] as quickly as we can.” The governor also called for “a deadline of when we pull the troops out.” When asked what he thought of Bush’s opposition to a deadline, Schwarzenegger said, “I think that eventually he will have to put a deadline on there. I think the American people will demand it.” Watch it: Digg It! Transcript: REPORTER: I want to ask you about the Iraq war. There is a new poll out today from CBS News and the New York Times that says Iraq is on everybody’s mind as they go to the polls. Even local races, state races. What’s your position on the Iraq war? SCHWARZENEGGER: I think that we should get out of there as quickly as we can because, you know, we should have a deadline of when we pull the troops out and figure that out and work together with the government in Iraq. I think they are doing that now. REPORTER: The President said he doesn’t want a deadline. SCHWARZENEGGER: Well, I think that eventually he will have to put a deadline on there. I think the American people will demand it.
04.Nov.2006 November 3, 2006 - Think Progress - The House ethics committee report on the Foley page scandal will not be released before Election Day. The AP notes, “The lack of a report leaves voters to sort through conflicting Republican accounts in deciding whether GOP leaders failed to protect teenagers in their care.” A federal government web archive of Saddam-era documents, launched “under pressure from Congressional Republicans…to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam,” was shut down after weapons experts said some of the documents posted “could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms.” U.S. Sgt. Santos Cardona, a military dog handler at Abu Ghraib prison who was “convicted in May of dereliction of duty and aggravated assault,” is being sent back to serve in Iraq. “Under a new policy, children born in the United States to undocumented immigrants with low incomes will no longer be automatically entitled to health insurance through Medicaid.” Dr. Jay E. Berkelhamer, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the new policy “punishes babies who, according to the Constitution, are citizens because they were born here.” More top conservatives try to back away from Bush’s Iraq policy. House leader Rep. Deborah Pryce (R-OH) told CNN yesterday, “What’s happening in Iraq is not a direct reflection on me.” Four years after Oregon raised its minimum wage , the Wall Street Journal examines conservative claims that it would hurt the economy and finds “none of these fears materialized.” Private, nonfarm payrolls and wages are up + “job growth is strong in industries employing many minimum-wage workers.” “ America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies,” according to a new survey of Great Britain, Mexico, Israel + Canada “that reveals just how far the country’s reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq.” “The world’s supply of seafood — the major protein source for nearly one in six people — could be gone by 2048 if current trends continue.” The number of ocean fish, seafood and plant species “that had already ‘collapsed’ reached 29 % in 2003, up from about 13 % in 1980.” The Department of Veterans Administration confirmed the third theft of personal data from a VA facility in less than a year. A computer containing the personal data of military veterans was stolen in September from the agency’s Manhattan hospital, but VA officials sent out a letter to veterans only within the past two weeks. And finally: Michelangelo’s David, the Sistine Chapel, and Baghdad. “Every great work of art goes through messy phases while it is in transition,” U.S. Maj. Gen. Caldwell told reporters yesterday in Baghdad. “A lump of clay can become a sculpture. Blobs of paint become paintings which inspire.” “I’m not making this up,” the Chicago Tribune’s Frank James wrote about the comment, “he actually said this.”
04.Nov.2006 Right-wing evangelical leader admits “some indiscretions.” - Judd - “The church’s Acting Senior Pastor, Ross Parsley, tells KKTV 11 News that Pastor [Ted] Haggard has admitted to some of the indiscretions claimed by [former prostitute] Mike Jones, but not all of them.”
04.Nov.2006 U.S. speeds attack plans for North Korea - sfux Bill Gertz - The Pentagon has stepped up planning for attacks against North Korea's nuclear program and is bolstering nuclear forces in Asia, said defense officials familiar with the highly secret process.
The officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the accelerated military planning includes detailed programs for striking a North Korean plutonium-reprocessing facility at Yongbyon with special operations commando raids or strikes with...
04.Nov.2006 Schwulen - Hasser bestellt sich kleiner Gott - sfux Stephan Fuchs - Der Evangelikale US Prediger Ted Haggard hasst die Schwulen. Ted ist auch vehement gegen Evolutionsanhänger, gegen Andersgläubige sowieso und Frauen die Abtreiben, auch gegen jene die müssen. Sie alle sind mit dem Satan im Bund - verblendet vom Bösen. Damit Amerika sauber bleibt, hat er den Bund mit Gott geschlossen. Diesem will er die Streitaxt sein. Ted Haggard?s Freund, so sagt Ted, ist Präsident Bush....
04.Nov.2006 Bush Junta "Tools Up" To Fight Americans With Civil Suppression Bill - Paul Joseph Watson -Bush crosses the rubicon, the gun has been loaded, the safety is off, when will the
04.Nov.2006 Will Doubletree Hotel Video Show Pentagon Impact? - Paul Joseph Watson -Conflicting stories make it unclear, yet there are certainly more tapes to come
04.Nov.2006 Sex-row US pastor 'bought drugs' US evangelical Ted Haggard, who quit amid gay sex claims, admits he bought drugs and received a massage.
04.Nov.2006 US closes 'bomb secrets' website The US closes a government website that posted Iraqi material said to detail nuclear bomb-making.
04.Nov.2006 Action urged to save Balkan lynx Efforts are needed to save the Balkan lynx, the largest of Europe's wild cats, from extinction, experts say.
04.Nov.2006 US stops audit of Iraq rebuilding The US official audit agency that has investigated corruption in the efforts to rebuild Iraq is to be closed down.
04.Nov.2006 Taiwan's Chen in corruption case Taiwan prosecutors file corruption charges against President Chen's wife and say he himself was involved.
04.Nov.2006 Greenhouse gases hit record high Levels of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere hit a record last year, a UN agency says.
04.Nov.2006 IMF praises Latin America growth The IMF's economic survey for Latin America forecasts strong growth and backs practical economic moves.
04.Nov.2006 UK 'must shield fishing industry' Britain must protect its fishing industry, despite fears stocks could be virtually wiped out, the fisheries minister says.
04.Nov.2006 What's Your Terror Score? You'll never know. A new government database will use algorithms to rate the terrorism threat of Americans traveling internationally, but you won't be able to check or dispute your score. In 27B Stroke 6.
04.Nov.2006 Gas to Hydrogen a Fallacy Using natural gas to power today's capable vehicles will do more to reduce oil dependency and pollution than converting it to hydrogen. In Autopia.
04.Nov.2006 Bye-bye Ney, but his Web image endures Blog: He's now former Representative Bob Ney (R) of Ohio's 18th Congressional District. Resigned. Caput. Corruption.But we captured...
04.Nov.2006 UK Report Proposes Changes to IP Laws - Zonk 63 - NKJV writes "A new report from the Institute for Public Policy Research, a UK think tank, has some concrete suggestions on how to reform the UK's dated intellectual property laws. The starting point for its deliberations is the notion that knowledge is both a commodity and a public good + it recommends that the UK move from a model where knowledge is 'an asset first and a public resource second' to one where knowledge is primarily a public resource and secondarily an asset. Is that an anti-business attitude? The report's authors don't think so."
04.Nov.2006 Keeping Cool May Be the Key To Longevity - Zonk 173 - merryprankster writes "New Scientist reports that Scripps Research Institute scientists have found that lowering the body temperature of mice by just 0.5C extends their lifespan by around 15%. Until now the only proven way of increasing longevity has been calorie restriction — but as this also causes a lowering of body temperature the researchers speculate that this cooling may be the underlying mechanism retarding aging. In this study mice with a defect in their lateral hypothalamus, which has the side effect of cooling body temperature, not only lived longer but also ate normal amounts."
04.Nov.2006 U.S. Publishes Guide To Building Atom Bombs To Web - Zonk 239 - Jeff writes "The New York Times is reporting that the feds have shut down the 'Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal' due to concerns from weapons experts that the 'papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.' One diplomat is quoted as saying, 'If you had this, it would short-circuit a lot of things.' Indexes to older (less sensitive) documents (and some html from pdfs) are still cached at Google today. Rep. Pete Hoekstra pushed for the public release of the archive to help determine 'whether Saddam Hussein destroyed Iraq's weapons of mass destruction or hid or transferred them'. Critics have said the archive was created to perpetuate misinformation about WMDs."
04.Nov.2006 Ask a "Star" of HBO's Voting Machine Documentary - Roblimo 302 -
Herbert H. Thompson, PhD ("Hugh" to his friends), is one of the people featured in the HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy, that Diebold tried to keep from airing. Hugh is a long-time Slashdot reader who called me to volunteer for this interview — on his own, not through anyone's PR department. Here's a YouTube excerpt from a CNN Lou Dobbs show with Hugh in it. (Find more articles by and about Hugh here. And perhaps check this brand-new MSNBC story about e-voting, too.) Hugh suggests that you give him "your wildest questions about what went on behind the scenes and how safe the e-voting systems actually are." Let's take him up on that challenge, hopefully while following Slashdot interview rules. Note to Diebold and other voting machine companies: We welcome comments and questions from you, same as we welcome them from everyone else. If you feel you are being vilified unfairly by Slashdot readers, please respond and set the record straight.
04.Nov.2006 File Sharing Ruled Legal In Spain - Zonk 119 - stupid_is writes "As a follow-up to a previous discussion a judge in Spain has ruled that under Spanish law a person who downloads music for personal use can not be punished or branded a criminal. This seems to be a teeny bit clearer than the first article, which points out that downloading is a civil + not criminal, offense for individuals. The Spanish recording industry federation Promusicae is predictably a bit peeved + says it will appeal against the decision." From the article: "The state prosecutor's office and two music distribution associations had sought a two year sentence against the man, who downloaded songs and then allegedly offered them on a CD through email and chat rooms. However, there was no direct proof he made money from selling the CDs. Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopéz Aguilar says Spain is drafting a new law to abolish the existing right to private copies of material. Due to different regulatory regimes in Europe, the proceedings against file sharers differ greatly in each country. However, most European judges tend to take a harder stance on file sharing. Twenty two people in Finland were fined €427,000 last week for illegally sharing movies, music, games and software, while courts in Sweden also fined two men who had downloaded movies and music for personal use."
04.Nov.2006 03. NOVEMBER 2006 Kritik an Gewalt: US- Bauriese Bechtel kehrt Irak den Rücken 04.Nov.2006 Kampf gegen die Mafia: Rom mobilisiert 1000 Polizisten
04.Nov.2006 Uno- Studie: Zehntausende Kinder sterben jährlich durch Gewalt
04.Nov.2006 Britische Teenager: Zwei Drittel sind zu dick fürs Militär
04.Nov.2006 Klimawirkung von Flugreisen: Zahlen für das Gewissen
04.Nov.2006 Irak: Militär vor Saddam- Urteil in Alarmbereitschaft
04.Nov.2006 Langes Leben: Unterkühlte Mäuse sterben später 04.Nov.2006 Sexskandal im US- Wahlkampf: Prediger tritt wegen Callboy- Affäre zurück 04.Nov.2006 Riskante Panne: US- Regierung veröffentlichte versehentlich Atombomben- Baupläne
04.Nov.2006 Umfrage- Reaktionen: Große Koalition provoziert großen Demokratie- Verdruss 04.Nov.2006 SAP- Chef Kagermann: "Der Vorsprung vor Indien ist nicht mehr so groß"
04.Nov.2006 US- Spenden deutscher Konzerne: DaimlerChrysler fliegt auf die Republikaner
04.Nov.2006 Terrorismus: USA warnen vor erhöhter Anschlagsgefahr in Kenia und Äthiopien
04.Nov.2006 Steuerschätzung: Mehreinnahmen betragen 39,5 Milliarden Euro
04.Nov.2006 Kandidatur von Irak- Veteranen: Siegeszug einer Kriegsversehrten - Niedergang eines Bush- Soldaten
04.Nov.2006 Brisanter Transport: Atommüll am Himmel 04.Nov.2006 Umfrage: Briten halten Bush für gefährlicher als Nordkoreas Kim
04.Nov.2006 Staatsverdruss: Diebstahl an Demokratie
04.Nov.2006 Kosmischer Crash: Forscher finden Schockwellen im All
04.Nov.2006 US- Wahlkampfthema Mindestlohn: Mini- Stundensatz inmitten des Booms
04.Nov.2006 Bilanzfälschung: Zwölf Jahre Haft für Ex- Chef von CA
04.Nov.2006 Allianz: Erhöhte Prognose nach kräftigem Gewinnsprung
04.Nov.2006 Army Recruiters Accused of Misleading Students to Get Them to Enlist "We're not at war. War ended a long time ago." posted by Prof. Hex
04.Nov.2006 Stranger than fiction?: Christians: Here to serve Israel: "We as Christians are living in a time in which we must wake up. We must organize ourselves and become a lobby for these people. That's why we are here," Ellssel added. 04.Nov.2006 Israeli racism?: Ethiopians outraged over blood disposal: Ethiopian communities respond with rage at Channel 2 report that revealed blood donated by Ethiopians is frozen and disposed of. 04.Nov.2006 Are Israelis gearing up to bomb Iran?: The appointment of Israel’s new deputy PM raises fears of a new catastrophe 04.Nov.2006 Bush gives green light for Israeli attack on Iran: Bush "would understand" Israeli strike on Iran : President Bush reportedly said he would "understand" a preemptive Israeli strike against Iran´s nuclear sites. 04.Nov.2006 Iran test fires dozens of missiles after US Gulf exercise: Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards test-fired dozen of missiles today, including some that are capable of reaching Israeli and American forces in the Middle East, at the start of ten days of war games. 04.Nov.2006 Russia, China Won´t Back Iran Sanctions : Russian and China indicated that they will not support a draft U.N. resolution imposing tough sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt its nuclear enrichment program. 04.Nov.2006 The US role against militants in Pakistan : Monday's aerial attack on a seminary in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajaur that killed 80 people has again triggered a debate about who is actually carrying out such attacks 04.Nov.2006 Big Brother Britain 2006: 'We are waking up to a surveillance society all around us' 04.Nov.2006 Britain condoning torture: Since Sept. 11, 2001, Blair's government has at least once sought to use evidence extracted under torture in legal proceedings, has signed agreements to deport prisoners to countries where they may be tortured + has turned a blind eye to U.S. mistreatment of prisoners and secret movement of suspects to countries where they could be abused, Human Rights Watch states. 04.Nov.2006 Kidnapping of Egyptian in Italy shines light on U.S. "extraordinary renditions": Some think a trial in the abduction could uncover high-level collusion between the Italian government of Silvio Berlusconi, then in power + the U.S. administration. 04.Nov.2006 Don't Look Too Closely: Bush's Record on Anti-Terrorism 04.Nov.2006 Swiss Find Evidence of CIA Spy Attempt: Swiss authorities have found enough evidence to seek a full investigation into allegations the CIA was trying to obtain personal details of about 500 labor union members, most of them Arabs, officials said Friday. 04.Nov.2006 U.S. Near The Bottom In Privacy Study: U.S. privacy protections rank among the worst in the democratic world, a London-based privacy organization said Wednesday. 04.Nov.2006 There is something terribly wrong with this country: An interesting edit of some scenes from the movie V For Vendetta 04.Nov.2006 How to hack the vote: : Professor Avi Rubin demonstrates how electronic vote machines can be hacked 04.Nov.2006 A way to restore confidence : Voters in the United States are denied the one powerful technique that might restore confidence in election results -- an independent exit poll. 04.Nov.2006 Civil rights groups ‘outraged’ by absentee voting problems: Civil rights groups say they are distressed that officials will not be able to supply absentee ballots for all residents who want them
04.Nov.2006 With Iraq Driving Election, Voters Want New Approach: A substantial majority of Americans expect Democrats to reduce or end American military involvement in Iraq if they win control of Congress next Tuesda 04.Nov.2006 It's Iraq, Stupid : Johnstown is a small working-class town, not the kind of place you would expect to find an anti-war rally. 04.Nov.2006 Bechtel ends Iraq rebuilding after a rough 3 years: Instead of the nearly $3 billion originally budgeted, Bechtel finally received about $2.3 billion, a figure that includes money the company spent on projects as well as its undisclosed profit.
04.Nov.2006 Letter in Support of the People of Oaxaca: A new sign-on support letter has been drafted. Signatories include Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Eve Ensler, Danny Glover, Eduardo Galeano, Michael Moore, Arundhati Roy, Alice Walker, Howard Zinn + many others. 04.Nov.2006 Heather Wokusch: Bush’s Permanent War Economy Must Crash: The Bush administration's military adventurism and the economy are two issues expected to impact next week's US midterm vote. We ignore their interplay at our peril. 04.Nov.2006 Gloves come off! : Bush hints Dems love terrorists in late push 04.Nov.2006 Greenhouse gases hit record high : This is expected to lead to melting of polar ice caps and glaciers, rising sea levels and more extreme weather events such as storms and floods. 04.Nov.2006 11/02/06 Bush : U.S. Must Stay In Iraq To Control Oil-By Raw Story
During an interview with conservative pundit Rush Limbaugh, US President George Bush expressed deep concerns about the possibility of the United States leaving the Middle East, raising fears that extremists could topple governments to "control oil resources." Continue 04.Nov.2006 Are the neo-conservatives losing their influence? Stephen Sackur talks to a leading neo-conservative, Norman Podhoretz. -Must watch BBC Interview
Podhoretz, provides insights into the racism + fascists ideology that fuels Neo-Conservatives. Click to view 04.Nov.2006 Fascists By John T. Flynn
when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism. Continued 04.Nov.2006 Howard Zinn: "We Live In An Occupied Country" Audio
Historian Howard Zinn spoke on "The Occupation of the United States" at Northwestern University, Evanston Illinois. Click to listen 04.Nov.2006 Evil Is As Evil Does -By Paul Craig Roberts
Perhaps Americans don’t notice, but the rest of the world does see the double standard applied when Saddam Hussein is put on trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity, while US, UK + Israeli government officials commit far greater crimes by illegally invading countries, targeting civilian populations + torturing detainees. Continue 04.Nov.2006 More Troops—or Less Empire -By Patrick J. Buchanan
15 years after the Cold War’s end, to begin dissolving old alliances and shedding commitments dating to a time when a Soviet Empire bestrode Europe and Asia like a colossus? Continue 04.Nov.2006 The Spoils of Corruption -By Charles Sullivan
The mainstream media, like organized religion, is used to program public perceptions-to steer us away from truth and to perpetuate fairy tales that extol the virtues of bribery, violence + greed. It makes useful idiots of those who cannot think for themselves and persuades them to act like fools in the eyes of the world. Continue
04.Nov.2006 Occupation of Afghanistancould last 10 years: NATO operations will likely continue in Afghanistan for another 10 years, a high-ranking Canadian soldier said Thursday.
04.Nov.2006 Kissinger meets with Jewish leaders on Iranian threat to Israel : Kissinger had accepted an invitation from the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute to be one of a group of leaders tasked with setting strategic goals for improving the situation of the Jewish people. Last week's discussion centered on the Iranian threat to Israel. 04.Nov.2006 Iran Says Missile Tests Send 'Strong Signal' To U.S. : A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Ali Fadavi, told state radio that the tests should send a strong message to the United States to cease military maneuvers in the area. 04.Nov.2006 Rice Says Iran Understands Consequences of Its Missile Threat : U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said, while Iran was trying to show it is ``tough'' by test- firing a ballistic missile able to hit Israel, any use of the weapon would invite consequences understood by Iranian leaders. 04.Nov.2006 Russian Foreign Minister: Says EU Draft On Iran Goes Too Far : Sergei Lavrov says a European draft resolution to impose UN sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program went far beyond what had been agreed. 04.Nov.2006 Iran: Official says UN draft resolution is illegal: "NPT is a valuable document + the Islamic Republic abides by its commitments on the treaty." Larijani stipulated that countries such as the US are trying to form a monopoly club for use of nuclear technology and supervise nuclear energy in the coming years. 04.Nov.2006 US posted Iraqi nuclear bomb documents on Internet: report: The US government hurriedly closed down an official website this week after a newspaper reported it contained Iraqi documents that included details for building a nuclear bomb, officials said Friday
04.Nov.2006 4-year-old boy among 9 Palestinians killed in occupied Gaza: A 4-year-old boy and 40-year-old woman were among four Palestinian civilians killed Friday during an Israel Defense Forces operation in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanun, Palestinian sources said.
04.Nov.2006 U.N.: Nearly 100,000 Flee Iraq Monthly : The agency says an additional 50,000 Iraqis a month are fleeing their homes but remaining within Iraq, which classifies them as "internally displaced" rather than as refugees who have crossed an international border. 04.Nov.2006 US spy chief on secret Iraq mission: John Negroponte, the US national intelligence director, has made an unannounced visit to Baghdad for talks with Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister. 04.Nov.2006 Election looming, U.S. general urges Iraq patience: A senior U.S. general compared Iraq on Thursday to a work of art in progress and played down incessant violence and friction with Iraqi leaders as "speed bumps" on the road to stability. 04.Nov.2006 Paul Krugman: As Bechtel Goes: Baghdad received less than six hours a day of electricity last month, and much of Iraq’s population lives with untreated sewage and without clean water. But Bechtel, having received $2.3 billion of taxpayers’ money and having lost the lives of 52 employees, has come to the end of its last government contract. 04.Nov.2006 U.S. spending watchdog on Iraq closed down by Republicans: Pink slip for overseer mysteriously added to big spending bill
04.Nov.2006 Blood and money -By John Pilger
The United States promised a democracy when the Civil Rights Act became law in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act the following year finally ended slavery. For the next decade, the civil-rights movement joined the great popular movement to end the slaughter in Vietnam + Congress legislated to restrain the CIA's secretive parallel power. It was a fleeting intermission. Continue 04.Nov.2006 I Want To Hurt Somebody-By Greg Palast
It was pure war-nography. The front page of the New York Times yesterday splashed a four-column-wide close-up of a blood-covered bullet in the blood-soaked hands of an army medic who’d retrieved it from the brain of Lance Cpl. Colin Smith. Continue 04.Nov.2006 Baghdad is Surrounded: “The American Era in the Middle East has ended” -By Mike Whitney
After 3 and a half years of violence and mayhem we still know as little about the Iraqi resistance as we did in March 2003. This is inexcusable. In addition, there’s been no attempt to engage the representatives of the resistance in political dialogue. How can we possibly reach a political solution without dialogue and negotiation? Continue 04.Nov.2006 American Prison Planet -The Bush Administration as Global Jailor -By Nick Turse
The American gulag is so much more than Guantanamo and so much worse. The combination of U.S. "homeland" prisons, where "one in 140 Americans, or as many people as live in Namibia, or nearly five Luxembourgs" are locked away, the offshore imperial detention facilities, the shadowy CIA black sites + the ever-shifting outsourced detention facilities operated by other nations adds up to something new in history -- the makings of a veritable American prison planet. Continue 04.Nov.2006 The Consequences of the Death of Empathy -By Robert Jensen
One of the most devastating consequences of unearned privilege -- both for those of us on top and, for very different reasons, those who suffer beneath -- is the death of empathy. Continue 04.Nov.2006 British believe Bush is more dangerous than Kim Jong-il-By Julian Glover
America is now seen as a threat to world peace by its closest neighbours and allies, according to an international survey of public opinion published today that reveals just how far the country's reputation has fallen among former supporters since the invasion of Iraq. Continue 04.Nov.2006 It's Always Darkest, Right Before ... It Goes Completely Black -By Phil Rockstroh
While I harbor little affection for nor feel any affinity with the corrupt establishment of the Democratic Party, I don't believe, as is the case with the present leadership of the Republican party, they're a klavern of insane, death-smitten apocalypticists. However, I do believe that a craven desire for power and privilege has transformed them into morally bankrupt, lickspittle, corporate stooges. Continue 04.Nov.2006 The Election Farce -By David Pérez
The only reason the Democratic Party is against the fiasco in Iraq is because the U.S. is losing the war. It’s all about “bad planning,” or “bad timing,” or whatever. If Bush and Co. had easily subjugated the nation and controlled the oil fields, the entire U.S. ruling class and their paid politicians would be joyous. Continue 04.Nov.2006 "Hey America, Stop your Bellyaching and get to Work" -By Mike Whitney What can we expect in the midterm elections? The real question is: What should we NOT expect in the elections. We should not expect dramatic change from our present trajectory. Whether Karl Rove engineers another electoral-coup or not, is beside the point. The system has been reshaped to meet the needs and aspirations of the ruling mandarins. Continue 04.Nov.2006 Foreclosure USA -By Joel S. Hirschhorn
We the people once owned our democracy. We elected “representatives” to run it for US. Have you noticed? Somewhere along the way we lost our democracy. It was foreclosed by wealthy and power elites that corrupted our “representatives” who literally sold us out. Our homeland was foreclosed right in plain sight. Continue 04.Nov.2006 Collective Punishment-By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
It is the aim of the United States to inflict collective punishment on the Iranian people. The Bush White House, successfully invoked Chapter VII, Article 41 of the Charter of the United Nations stipulating a threat to peace (the pot calling the kettle black) subjecting Iran to sanctions. The compliant United Nations Security Council drafted the Iran Resolution, paragraph 15 of which is as follows: Continue 04.Nov.2006 A cacophony of fundamentalism -By Noam Chomsky and Gilbert Achcar
In the United States, what we call fundamentalism has very deep roots, from the early colonists. There’s always been an extreme, ultrareligious element, more or less fundamentalist, with several revivals . Continue 04.Nov.2006 Islamic Fascism?-By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
The Bush administration's labeling of radical Islamic movements and leaders as fascist, or "Islamofascism," is sheer nonsense. It betrays either blatant demagoguery, or shameful ignorance, or most probably, both. Continue 04.Nov.2006 The Power of the Israeli Lobby in the US Audio - An interview with James Petras, author, " The Power of Israel in the United States". Click to listen
04.Nov.2006 "In their zeal to promote the idea Saddam Hussein in fact did have (WMD), congressional proponents of the war ... have put up documents on the internet that could give terrorists and states hostile to the United States the very instructions they need to build nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. If Democrats had done that there would be mobs carrying torches in the streets tonight. The Democrats would be accused of treason and there would be calls for resignation."
How the 101st Fighting Keyboarders (and Rick Santorum and George W. Bush) are helping Iran get the nuclear bomb
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Republican National Committee Accepts Money from Porn Film Mogul 04.Nov.2006 Iraq sees spike in violence before U.S. polls
Vanity Fair Bombshell: Former Bush Neocon Iraq War Boosters Trash Bush and His Dysfunctional Administration 11/4
Large Group of Voters are Still Undecided on Congressional Candidates 11/4 04.Nov.2006 Busheviks Send Auditor Who Uncovered Administration and American Corporate Corruption in Iraq Packing. Now, There is NO Accountability for the Bushevik malfeasance and criminal activity in Iraq.
Cheney Promises to Continue Iraq Debacle Full Speed Ahead 11/4
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ The sex scandals continue... After first trying the deny, deny deny route, anti-gay mega-church leader Ted Haggard now admits to "indiscretions" with a gay male escort, Mike Jones. "Jones also claims Haggard used drugs with him."
In that light, you'll want to take a look at this video clip from Jesus Camp (brought to our attention by Zontar). I'd call this footage jaw-dropping, but that wording might tempt some of you to make a truly sinful pun:
04.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ "Just press the yellow button..." "Just Push the Yellow Button and Vote as Many Times as You Want." Aren't those Sequoia voting machines convenient? Brad Friedman has published quite a few "Holy crap!" stories in his time, but this may be the holy crappiest. Permalink
04.Nov.2006 NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY In the third category are the likes of Richard Perle + David Frum in their ... Forces Korea ( USFK ) will lead to a conflict initiated by Kim Jong Il. ...
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03.Nov.2006 Druck auf CIA-Entführer und deren Unterstützer wächst - sfux Helmut Küfner - Neue Erkenntnisse über das Entführungsprogramm der CIA und die durch Ermittler geplante Veröffentlichung mehrerer tausend Flugdaten des US-Geheimdienstes im Internet nähren die Hoffnung, dass es langsam eng werden könnte für die Kidnapper und deren europäischen Unterstützer. Hier eine kurze Zusammenfassung über den aktuellen Stand:
03.Nov.2006 Al-Qaeda confirms death of senior leader - sfux Dubai - Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of a senior lieutenant to the movement's chief Osama bin Laden, according to a video posted on the Internet today which also announced a coming "victory" in Iraq.
An al-Qaeda leader who gave his name as Abu Yahia al-Libi said in the video...
03.Nov.2006 Stuttgart bald demonstrationsfrei? - sfux Karl Weiss - Schikanen gegen angemeldete Demonstrationen, ununterbrochenes Filmen und Fotografieren aller Demonstrationsteilnehmer, wütendes unverhältnismäßiges Eingreifen der Polizei, anschließende Razzias und Hausdurchsuchungen, absurde Anklagen, Verweigerung der Rechte für Festgenommene, das ist, was im Moment in Stuttgart angesichts von Demonstrationen an der Tagesordnung ist. Offenbar soll das Demonstrationsrecht...
03.Nov.2006 Concerne: Claude COVASSI / Son retour en Suisse - sfux
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Suite à l?article paru dans le Blick du 2 novembre 2006, ainsi qu?aux nombreux appels téléphoniques ? parfaitement...
03.Nov.2006 FBI Busts Credit Card Cybergang
An international law enforcement operation arrests 17 people who allegedly stole and circulated tens of thousands of credit card numbers + used them to produce counterfeit plastic. By Kim Zetter.
03.Nov.2006 Fake Game, Real Guns The Gran Turismo of warfare promises to push video game weaponry to new levels of realism. By S.E. Kramer from Wired magazine.
03.Nov.2006 Daewoo founder loses fraud appeal Kim Woo-choong, founder of South Korea's Daewoo Group, loses his appeal against a fraud conviction.
03.Nov.2006 White House Launches Campaign To Politicize Saddam Verdict Ahead of Midterm Elections - Nico - The verdict in the trial of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was recently postponed until November 5, two days before the U.S. midterm elections. Media Matters has questioned whether “the date for the verdict’s release [was] set to provide maximum political benefit for the administration and congressional Republicans.” Asked today whether the verdict would be a factor in the U.S. elections, White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said, “You are absolutely right, it will be a factor.” Snow said the verdict “may fit into a larger narrative about an Iraqi government that has been doing what the president has said all along.” He portrayed the decision as yet another turning point for Iraq. “This is a benchmark episode, where the Iraqi people are taking control of their own destiny,” he said. Watch it: The day Hussein was captured, President Bush addressed the nation. He said the capture “marks the end his of the road…for all who bullied and killed in his name.” For ordinary Iraqis, it was “further assurance that the torture chambers and the secret police are gone forever.” Bush said, “A hopeful day has arrived. All Iraqis can now come together and reject violence and build a new Iraq.” In the three years since, all of these claims have come undone. Since Hussein was captured: – 2,358 U.S. soldiers have died , roughly 85 % of the total U.S. fatalities during the Iraq war.
– Iraq has “become the ?cause celebre? for jihadists , breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement.” [Link]
– Torture in Iraq “may be worse now than it was under Saddam Hussein , with militias, terrorist groups and government forces disregarding rules on the humane treatment of prisoners,” the U.N.’s anti-torture chief said in September. [Link]
– Prospects for the “new Iraq” have fallen sharply. The 10-member bipartisan commission that is charged with assessing Bush’s Iraq strategy has reportedly “ruled out the prospect for victory.” [Link] Digg It! Full transcript: KUDLOW: Tony Snow, thanks for coming on the program. Let me begin with this question: Is there a November surprise come out of Iraq? Will the Iraqi court find a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and a possible death sentence? Rumors are flying that it’s going to come down this Sunday, November 5th — which of course will dominate the political news cycle, in the last two days in the midterms. Tony what can you tell us about this? SNOW: Larry that is when this verdict is scheduled to come down. I’m not going to tell you what it will be, because I don’t know. But you are absolutely right, it will be a factor. But you know what, it may fit into a larger narrative about an Iraqi government that has been doing what the president has said all along which is developing the capacity to sustain itself, defend itself and govern itself and to help us out on the war on terror. And you have an Iraqi economy, as you know, that is getting stronger and the military is getting stronger and more assertive in going after terrorist elements and separatist elements within their midst and those are the kinds of things. Slowly but surely you are seeing come to fruition. It is a tough war. The enemy does not want to lose, they are dug in and they are going to fight to the finish but this important thing is you do see signs within Iraq that the government itself is taking steps to make sure there is no new era of Saddam Hussein and know new era of terror. KUDLOW: Tony, getting Saddam Hussein on the sentence, a possible death sentence, for all of the hundreds of thousands of atrocities for which he is directly responsible. Will that be used in the last 48 hours, as an important justification for the war in iraq? SNOW: No. i mean, you are no going to use a court verdict as a justification. The justification, though, a little bit of it lies on what you just described which is a Saddam Hussein who killed tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of his countrymen, simply because he didn’t like them or they disagreed with him. What you now have is an Iraq where people are fighting and working actively to bid a democracy where they don’t have to worry about that kind of reign of terror in the future. This is a benchmark episode, where the Iraqi people are taking control of their own destiny and saying to the world, we will not be — we are going to be free, trust us, watch usu, help us and that is what the United States is doing and that’s what we are going to do. We are going to finish the job.
03.Nov.2006 Sherwood paid mistress $500,000. - Nico - “A Republican congressman” — Rep. Don Sherwood (R-PA) — “accused of abusing his ex-mistress agreed to pay her about $500,000 in a settlement last year that contained a powerful incentive for her to keep quiet until after Election Day, a person familiar with the terms of the deal told The Associated Press.”
03.Nov.2006 Boehner: The Military’s Transformation Under Rumsfeld Has Been ‘Nothing Short Of Remarkable’ - Amanda - In the past few days, House Majority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) has vigorously defended Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying that he is the “best thing that’s happened to the Pentagon in 25 years” and is doing a “marvelous job.” Yesterday on CNN, Boehner stated that under the Bush administration, the military has undergone a “remarkable” transformation and “there’s only person in America who could have brought about that transformation and that’s Donald Rumsfeld.” Watch it: In reality, Rumsfeld’s mismanagement has pushed the all-volunteer force perilously close to its breaking point. Some highlights of Rumsfeld’s “remarkable” leadership: – The military’s equipment is outdated, below standards: Forty-two % of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans said their equipment was below the military standard of being 90 % operational. Thirty-five % said their Humvees and trucks were not up-armored when they arrived in-country. – The military faces severe manpower shortages: Currently, the Army has “close to zero combat-ready brigades in reserve” and the National Guard is “in an even more dire situation than the active Army.” Sixty-three % of all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans believe the Army and Marine Corps are overextended. Full transcript below: There are a lot of people who want to blame what’s happening in Iraq on Donald Rumsfeld. But when you look at the transformation that our military has been through, it’s nothing short of remarkable. And I think there’s only person in America who could have brought about that transformation and that’s Donald Rumsfeld.
03.Nov.2006 Tom DeLay’s definition of torture: - Amanda - “I don’t think water boarding is torture. My definition of torture is you physically harm someone by cutting them, by cutting their fingers, sticking things in their eyes, sticking their fingers in electric sockets. Water boarding is a frightening experience. But the person does not have physical damage.”
03.Nov.2006 Bush Laments ‘Tone’ In Washington, Says His Opponents Want Terrorists To Win - Judd - On Tuesday, in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, President Bush said the worst thing about being President was the “tone” in Washington, saying that it “has gotten ugly.” Bush said that he had stayed above the fray, noting “I really don’t think it’s fitting for the president to drag the presidency into that kind of a mudslinging.” Watch it: This kind of high-minded rhetoric is a staple of President Bush’s election-year stump speech. Expect more of it as the President campaigns in Nevada, Montana and Missouri over the next two days. Bush_Laments_Tone_in_D_C_Says_His_Opponents_Want_Terrorists_To_Win">Digg It! Transcript: Clip 1 BUSH: Let me start with the least. I don’t like the tone in Washington, D.C. I feel like that the politics has gotten ugly, and that tends to discourage people around the country. And that’s just too bad. I would hope in my last two years I can — and, by the way, I’ve never really resorted to name-calling. And I’m not trying to say, well, you know, I’m innocent and everybody else is guilty. That’s not what I’m trying to say. But I understand that it’s one thing to disagree with a person, but it’s another thing to have to resort to kind of shameless name- calling. And I really don’t think it’s fitting for the president to drag the presidency into that kind of a mudslinging. On the other hand, it’s important for the president defends what he believes, you know, in a way that brings honor to the office. But Washington’s a lot — it’s just too — it’s too political in many ways. Clip 2 BUSH: However they put it, the Democrat approach in Iraq comes down to this: The terrorists win and America loses. [Snip] BUSH: In all these vital measures for fighting the war on terror, the Democrats in Washington follow a simple philosophy: Just say no. When it comes to listening in on the terrorists, what’s the Democratic answer? Just say no. When it comes to detaining terrorists, what’s the Democrat answer? AUDIENCE: Just say no! BUSH: When it comes to questioning terrorists, what’s the Democrat answer? AUDIENCE: Just say no! BUSH: When it comes to trying terrorists, what’s the Democrat’s answer? AUDIENCE: Just say no!
03.Nov.2006 Is telling the truth about Iraq a crime? - Judd - The Pentagon is considering filing criminal charges in response to a report in yesterday’s New York Times that revealed the U.S. military believes Iraq is sliding closer to “chaos.” Glenn Greenwald has the details.
02.Nov.2006 November 2, 2006 - Think Progress - Only 29 % of Americans approve of Bush’s handling of Iraq , “matching the lowest mark of his presidency.” “Nearly 70 % said Mr. Bush did not have a plan to end the war + 80 % said Mr. Bush’s latest effort to rally public support for the conflict amounted to a change in language but not policy.” 1,289: Number of Iraqi civilians who died last month in political violence. The number — nearly 42 people per day — was up 18 % from the 1,089 such fatalities in September. Inspectors general from NASA and the Commerce Department will investigate if Bush’s “political appointees have prevented climate researchers from conveying their findings to the public.” The Bush administration is delaying the release of an annual hunger report until after the elections. The Agriculture Department report, which has generally been released in October, has shown steady increases in the number of people struggling with hunger. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) said, “It seems like a pattern is emerging where the administration simply tries to bury bad information the closer they get to the election.” “An internal State Department review has found that U.S. officials screened the public statements and writings of private citizens for criticism of the Bush administration before deciding whether to select them for foreign speaking projects.” At least one advertiser on the Air America blacklist insists that it did not request that its commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates . The company, REI, released a statement saying that it had “not refused to advertise during Air America’s programming. In fact, REI has placed radio ads on stations carrying Air America programming.” The Washington Post writes that, over the next two years, “we’re likely to get dizzy as more folks move through the revolving door from the [Bush administration] to the private sector.” Eric Burgeson, who was chief of staff to Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, recently left to head the energy practice at the conservative lobbying shop, Barbour, Griffith & Rogers. Here are more examples of the revolving door. A new report by Families USA contradicts the Bush Administration’s claims that in 2007 “there will be more plans with coverage in the [doughnut hole] gap.” The study finds that, in 13 states next year, there will be no drug plans that offer coverage in the so-called “doughnut hole” and the average monthly premiums will rise 87 % for plans that provide “meaningful coverage.” The USA Today supports California’s clean energy initiative . “[T]his Election Day, Californians can help put the USA on the path to a saner, cheaper, smarter, more secure energy future by voting ‘yes’ on Proposition 87.”
03.Nov.2006 November 2, 2006 - Think Progress - Only 29 % of Americans approve of Bush’s handling of Iraq , “matching the lowest mark of his presidency.” “Nearly 70 % said Mr. Bush did not have a plan to end the war + 80 % said Mr. Bush’s latest effort to rally public support for the conflict amounted to a change in language but not policy.” 1,289: Number of Iraqi civilians who died last month in political violence. The number — nearly 42 people per day — was up 18 % from the 1,089 such fatalities in September. Inspectors general from NASA and the Commerce Department will investigate if Bush’s “political appointees have prevented climate researchers from conveying their findings to the public.” The Bush administration is delaying the release of an annual hunger report until after the elections. The Agriculture Department report, which has generally been released in October, has shown steady increases in the number of people struggling with hunger. Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) said, “It seems like a pattern is emerging where the administration simply tries to bury bad information the closer they get to the election.” “An internal State Department review has found that U.S. officials screened the public statements and writings of private citizens for criticism of the Bush administration before deciding whether to select them for foreign speaking projects.” At least one advertiser on the Air America blacklist insists that it did not request that its commercials be blacked out on Air America Radio affiliates . The company, REI, released a statement saying that it had “not refused to advertise during Air America’s programming. In fact, REI has placed radio ads on stations carrying Air America programming.” The Washington Post writes that, over the next two years, “we’re likely to get dizzy as more folks move through the revolving door from the [Bush administration] to the private sector.” Eric Burgeson, who was chief of staff to Energy Secretary Sam Bodman, recently left to head the energy practice at the conservative lobbying shop, Barbour, Griffith & Rogers. Here are more examples of the revolving door. A new report by Families USA contradicts the Bush Administration’s claims that in 2007 “there will be more plans with coverage in the [doughnut hole] gap.” The study finds that, in 13 states next year, there will be no drug plans that offer coverage in the so-called “doughnut hole” and the average monthly premiums will rise 87 % for plans that provide “meaningful coverage.” The USA Today supports California’s clean energy initiative . “[T]his Election Day, Californians can help put the USA on the path to a saner, cheaper, smarter, more secure energy future by voting ‘yes’ on Proposition 87.”
03.Nov.2006 Scary Terror Focus Group Video: Real Or Hoax? - Paul Joseph Watson Conference room video asks participants what government should call post-bio attack quarantine program, if media
03.Nov.2006 Trade to top China-Africa summit Heads of state from at least 45 African nations hold a summit with China on their expanding trade.
03.Nov.2006 US pastor resigns in gay sex row US evangelical Ted Haggard steps down after being accused of paying for sex with a man, claims he denies.
03.Nov.2006 More violence in Oaxaca protest Mexican riot police clash with activists at a university in Oaxaca as protests against the state governor continue.
03.Nov.2006 Poachers target rare Nepal rhino Poachers in Nepal target an endangered rhino for its horn, reputed to have aphrodisiac qualities.
03.Nov.2006 US Bechtel wraps up Iraq projects US firm Bechtel, involved for three years in Iraq's reconstruction, pulls out amid worsening security.
03.Nov.2006 'Only 50 years left' for sea fish There will be virtually no fish or other seafood from the oceans by the middle of the century, scientists conclude.
03.Nov.2006 Peru tightens control over NGOs Peru passes a law to tighten control over NGOs, saying it will improve transparency but critics call it authoritarian.
03.Nov.2006 France to declassify Rwanda files France says it will release secret documents on the Rwandan genocide, after claims of French complicity.
03.Nov.2006 UK armed forces 'below strength' The British armed forces have been below strength for five years, the Whitehall spending watchdog warns.
03.Nov.2006 Call for children's food ad curbs European ministers consider an anti-obesity charter saying children should not be "exploited" by food companies.
03.Nov.2006 The Green Room UN climate chief Yvo de Boer warns that developing nations need urgent help to adapt to climate change.
03.Nov.2006 9/11 victims' remains identified More Ground Zero remains are identified, as victims' families urge a wider search at the World Trade Center site.
03.Nov.2006 Eurozone rates unchanged The European Central Bank votes to keep eurozone rates on hold at 3.25%, a decision that was widely expected.
03.Nov.2006 US productivity grinds to a halt US labour productivity slowed to a halt over the summer, while labour costs hit a 24-year high, official data shows.
03.Nov.2006 Scientists: Bush Muzzled Research
Investigations are under way by two federal agencies into allegations that the Bush administration tried to suppress scientific findings into the politically touchy subjects of global warming and the origin of the universe.
03.Nov.2006 Cyberspace, the Wild New Yonder
The U.S. Air Force will establish a separate command to safeguard cyberspace, a sphere considered vulnerable to attack yet vital to the nation's communications, defense and financial networks.
03.Nov.2006 Database Pioneer's Privacy Fears
The man who helped establish Britain's DNA database says it now poses a threat to civil liberties because the police have filled it with samples taken from people who have no business being in there.
03.Nov.2006 Keep Defect Data Public The government wants to respect the privacy of corporations who sell dangerous vehicles and keep data about defects under wraps. In Autopia.
03.Nov.2006 HBO film draws Diebold's fury Blog: If our votes aren't safe, then neither is our democratic society.That's the premise behind a documentary called "Hacking Democracy,"...
03.Nov.2006 Former CA Boss Gets 12 Years, $8M Fine - CowboyNeal 57 - mwnyc writes "The BBC is reporting on the sentence issued today to former CA boss Sanjay Kumar, who had pleaded guilty to charges including conspiracy and securities fraud. Mr. Kumar is expected to begin serving time in February 2007. Under federal sentencing guidelines, Kumar could have faced life in prison but the judge called that punishment 'unreasonable.'"
03.Nov.2006 Forgent Settles JPEG Patent Cases - Zonk 108 - eldavojohn writes "As many of you know, the JPEG image compression is actually proprietary. This has resulted in many lawsuits between its owner, Forgent Networks + other companies that have used it. Yesterday Microsoft and about 60 other defendants settled with Forgent to the tune of $8 million. For a company with annual revenues of $15 million, that's nothing to sneeze at. You haven't heard the last of Forgent yet, as the article states, 'It is currently pursuing claims against cable companies over a patent that it says covers technology inside digital video recorders.' Sounds like that one could be worth a little bit of cash, wouldn't you think?"
03.Nov.2006 Diebold Demands That HBO Cancel Documentary - Zonk 53 - Frosty Piss writes "According to the Bloomberg News, Diebold Inc. is insisting that HBO cancel a documentary that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program inaccurate and unfair. The program, 'Hacking Democracy,' is scheduled to debut Thursday, , five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims that Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results. 'Hacking Democracy' is 'replete with material examples of inaccurate reporting,' says Diebold. 'We stand by the film," said a spokesman for HBO. "We have no intention of withdrawing it from our schedule. It appears that the film Diebold is responding to is not the film HBO is airing.'"
02.Nov.2006 PC reseller charged over ID theft of employee data Owner of Compulinx Managed Services allegedly used personal details of employees and customers to apply for loans.
02.Nov.2006 Election 2006: Tech on the campaign trail Between campaign blogs, Facebook.com profiles and voter mashups, now more than ever the Web is playing a critical election role.
02.Nov.2006 HBO film draws Diebold's fury Blog: If our votes aren't safe, then neither is our democratic society.That's the premise behind a documentary called "Hacking Democracy,"...
02.Nov.2006 Wikipedia and the End of Archeology - Zonk 127 - Andy Updegrove writes "Far too much attention has been paid to whether or not the Wikipedia is accurate enough. The greater significance of the Wikipedia today + even more for those in the future, is its reality as the most detailed, comprehensive, concise, culturally-sensitive record of how humanity understands itself at any precise moment in time. Moreover, with its multiple language versions, it also demonstrates how different cultures understand the same facts, historical events and trends at the same time. Today, archaeologists are doing digs to understand how people lived only 150 years ago, making guesses based on the random bits and pieces of peoples' lives that they find In the future, that won't be necessary, as archaeologists are replaced by anthropologists that mine this treasure trove for data."
02.Nov.2006 Political Mudslinging Via YouTube, MySpace - Zonk 173 - "BusinessWeek takes a look at how political campaigns are taking the time-honored tradition of political mudslinging digital. One notable example: In the Virginia Senate race incumbent Republican George Allen held a comfortable lead over challenger Jim Webb until one of Webb's camera-toting aides captured footage of Allen making a racial slur during a campaign stop. The video soon held the number 1 ranking on YouTube and gained national attention. Allen has since taken a steep drop in the polls + Republicans now risk losing a seat they thought secure."
02.Nov.2006 Does Offshoring Threaten Combat Software? - kdawson 206 - PreacherTom writes, "Pentagon officials report that 'maliciously placed code' could compromise the security of the Defense Department and, ultimately, hurt its ability to fight wars. The culprits: offshore programmers. While the Pentagon has stepped up its vendor screening and software testing of late, it's becoming more difficult and costly to test every line of software code on increasingly sophisticated weapons systems. The task force assigned to this issue will be soon presenting its report + most likely will determine that offshoring presents too great a risk."
02.Nov.2006 Global Privacy Rankings Released - kdawson 179 - djmurdoch writes to alert us to the release of Privacy International's privacy ranking of 37 nations. This came out of PI and EPIC's annual Privacy and Human Rights global study, which this year runs to 1,200 pages. From a Globe and Mail article on the rankings: "Germany and Canada are the best defenders of privacy, and Malaysia and China the worst, an international rights group said in a report released Wednesday. Britain was rated as an endemic surveillance society, at No. 33, just above Russia and Singapore... The United States did only slightly better, at No. 30, ranked between Israel and Thailand, with few safeguards and widespread surveillance." PI's study coincided with a report from Britain's information commissioner warning that the UK could "sleep-walk into a surveillance society". The nation now has one CCTV camera for every 14 people.
02.Nov.2006 Google Ad Revenue To Top UK Broadcaster's - kdawson 119 - GoingTurbo writes, "By the end of the year advertisers in the UK will have spent more money advertising on Google than they did on the UK's Channel Four TV station. The article suggests we will see the slow erosion of traditional television broadcasting + with it, the death of the great TV ads of the past. The article offers an alternative possibility for the future of television." From the article: "The US has been forced to contend with heinously patronizing and crude TV advertising for decades, but the UK's advertising industry has managed to create art out of the dirty act of selling. Some of the best short films of the last century have been television advertisements... Even if some of these make the transition... online, they'll lack the spectacle of their TV equivalent."
02.Nov.2006 Afghanistan- Einsatz: Wehrmachtsemblem auf Jeep war nicht genehmigt 04.Nov.2006 Umfrage: Mehrheit der Deutschen zweifelt an der Demokratie
02.Nov.2006 Benedikts Türkeireise: Italiener empört über Erdogans Terminprobleme bei Papstbesuch
02.Nov.2006 https://pilotsfor911truth.org/pentagon.html
The light poles would have had to been 440 feet tall (+/- 75 feet) for this aircraft to bring them down. Which you can clearly see in the below picture, the aircraft is too high, even for the official released video of the 5 frames where you see something cross the Pentagon Lawn at level attitude. The 5 frames of video captured by the parking gate cam is in direct conflict with the Aircraft Flight Data Recorder information released by the NTSB. More information will be forthcoming as we come to our conclusions on each issue. We have contacted the NTSB regarding the conflict between the official story and the FDR. They refuse to comment.
02.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Blaming the generals..Hmmmmm..shades of Adolph Hitler. You would think that the Fourth Reich was gradually sliding into place. You would think that "Globalism" is another example of the rise of the "beast" again. You would think that Georges Bush, l and ll were serving at the table of horrors administered by the Octopus..Der Spinne..Der Once and Future Feuhrer.
https://spitfirelist.com/manningpdf/manning.pdf
Captured documents in Manning’s possession reveal that on August 10, 1944 a conference of top representatives of German industry and finance enacted a flight capital program in which Germany’s economic wealth was to be legally, but clandestinely, moved to “Safehavens” in neutral countries. (FTR#305.) Authorized by Bormann and executed by the SS, this conference paved the way for the tremendous economic power of Nazi Germany to power a postwar perpetuation of a Third Reich gone underground. As the captured documents reveal, an important provision of this conference was that German finance and industry would continue to sustain the Nazi party after the formal surrender of Germany. (FTR#305.) The Third Reich has been able to survive—underground—in deadly, Mafia-like fashion.
A decisively powerful network of corporate entities run by hardened SS veterans, the Bormann group constitutes what one veteran banker termed “the greatest concentration of money power under a single control in history.” The foundation of the organization’s clout is money—lots and lots of money. Controlling German big business and, through investments, much of the rest of the world’s economy, the organization was the repository for the stolen wealth of Europe, estimated by British intelligence to have totaled more than $180 billion by the end of 1943 (not including the money taken from Greece and the former Soviet Union, nor that taken after 1943.) [For more on the global economic significance of the Bormann group, see—among other programs—FTR#99.] This organization literally constitutes a postwar “Underground Reich” with (as discussed in FTR#155) a governing hierarchy composed of the sons and daughters of SS men, holding military ranks and titles from the Third Reich.
In addition to the enormous power deriving from its consummate economic clout, the Bormann group has wielded tremendous global influence through its intelligence and enforcement network. Administered by SS general Heinrich Mueller, the wartime head of the Gestapo, the Bormann group’s intelligence and security network was composed of some of the toughest, most capable veterans of the SS. In addition, the Bormann organization and Mueller’s security outfit have commanded the loyalty of the political, intelligence and military elements requisitioned by the Allies after the war. In that regard, the Bormann/Mueller operation could draw on the loyalties of the Reinhard Gehlen spy outfit that handled the CIA’s intelligence on the former Soviet Union and which ultimately became the intelligence service of the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition, Bormann and Mueller were the political masters of the numerous scientists recruited by the U.S. and other nations for their expertise during the Cold War, as well as the numerous Nazis brought into the U.S. under the auspices of the Crusade For Freedom. Those latter ultimately coalesced into a major element of the Republican Party. (For more about the Crusade for Freedom, see—among other programs—FTR#465.)
With its economic, political and espionage capabilities, the Bormann group embodies the triumph of the forces of National Socialism in the postwar period. Whereas the United States was the dominant element within the international cartel system prior to + during, World War II, the Bormann group is the primary entity in the postwar global corporate economy.
You would think that we are facing the most sinister, powerful secretive underground empire ever conceived on planet earth...
https://www.spitfirelist.com/Books/undergrnd.pdf
The Nazis Go Underground-By Curt Reiss
The Third Reich’s elaborate plans for postwar underground survival and continuity were predicated on the certainty that the multinational corporate community would preserve the Nazi infrastructure as a bulwark against communism during the (then) imminent Cold War. This “Underground Reich” was foreseen and analyzed in Curt Reiss’s The Nazis Go Underground, published in early 1944. In addition to the powerful corporate economic interests allied with Nazi business centers, the process of underground perpetuation was greatly aided by “Fifth Column” movements abroad—those in Argentina and the United States in particular. Composed of ideological supporters of the fascist philosophy, these Fifth Column movements were instrumental in realizing Nazi blueprints for military conquest during the war, as well as postwar continuation + enlargement of those plans. # posted by Anonymous : 7:38 AM
02.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ "Calibration errors"? Diebold's ATM machines don't lose their calibration every few uses or even every few hundred uses. https://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1382.shtml LauraK # posted by Anonymous :
02.Nov.2006 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Seems, folks, Colorado evangelist Ted Haggard has been outed.
Is anyone else getting that Jimmy Swaggert, Jim and Tammy Faye deja vu feeling? Tides are definitely turning.... Permalink
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-445889,00.html
"Die gute Nachricht lautet, dass es für eine Wende noch nicht zu spät ist."
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-445889,00.html Erst kürzlich stand in einem Bericht der Uno- Umweltbehörde Unep zu lesen, dass die Ozeane als Transportweg, Nahrungs- und Rohstoffquelle sowie als Müllkippe einen jährlichen Gesamtwert von 20,9 Billionen Dollar besitzen. "Natürlich hat die Artenvielfalt in den Meeren nicht nur einen ästhetischen Wert", kommentiert Heinz-Dieter Franke vom Bremerhavener Alfred-Wegener-Institut für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI). "Wenn sie zurückgeht, hat das gravierende Nachteile für den Menschen".
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-445889,00.html Schon jetzt ist laut Worm knapp ein Drittel der von den Menschen genutzten Fisch- und Meeresfrüchte-Bestände zusammengebrochen, also in der Fangmenge um 90 Prozent gegenüber dem Ursprungswert zurückgegangen. Trotz großer Investitionen in die Fischerei seien die Erträge seit 1994 kontinuierlich gesunken. "Der Trend ist eindeutig", erklärte Worm, "und er beschleunigt sich."
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-445889,00.html Das Fazit: Sollte die Menschheit die Meere weiterhin so rücksichtslos ausbeuten wie bisher, könnten bis zum Jahr 2048 alle derzeit genutzten Bestände an Speisefischen und Meeresfrüchten zusammenbrechen. "Wenn wir unseren Umgang mit den Arten in den Ozeanen nicht fundamental ändern, wird dieses Jahrhundert das letzte mit wild gefangenem Fisch sein", sagte Mitautor Stephen Palumbi von der kalifornischen Stanford University. "Der Trend beschleunigt sich"
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-445889,00.html
Egal, ob sie kleine Gezeitenbecken am Meeresufer oder Studien über einen gesamten Ozean untersuchten - "überall zeigt sich das gleiche Bild", sagte Studienleiter Boris Worm. "Mit den Arten geht die Produktivität und die Stabilität ganzer Ökosysteme verloren. Ich war schockiert und verstört darüber, wie eindeutig diese Trends sind. Das ist schlimmer als alles, was wir erwartet hatten."
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-445889,00.html Die erste globale Studie über die Folgen des Artensterbens in den Meeren bestätigt schlimmste Befürchtungen: Sollte die Menschheit weiterhin ungebremst Raubbau betreiben, könnten sämtliche Bestände von Speisefischen und Meeresfrüchten bis zum Jahr 2048 zusammenbrechen.
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-446089,00.html Der umweltpolitische Sprecher der Oppositionspartei Labor, Anthony Albanese, sagte: "Die Regierung Howard scheint in der Zeit erstarrt zu sein, während sich der Globus um sie herum aufwärmt."
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-446089,00.html Seitdem am Montag der Stern- Report der britischen Regierung veröffentlicht wurde, ist die australische Regierung unter Druck: Am gleichen Tag, an dem Ministerin Fran Bailey ihren Sonnenschirmplan verkündete, nahmen in der Zeitung "Sydney Morning Herald" die Professoren Stuart White und Chris Riedy vom Institut für nachhaltige Entwicklung der University of Technology in Sydney die Regierung unter Beschuss: "Ein Klimaschutzabkommen muss oberste Priorität haben", forderten sie + verweisen auf eine Studie des australischen WWF. Der hatte in der Untersuchung "A Clean Energy Future for Australia" dargelegt, dass eine Verminderung der Treibhausgasemissionen bis zum Jahr 2050 down under umgesetzt werden könne.
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-446089,00.html Experten: Zu teuer, technisch nicht umsetzbar, unsinnig "Für den Tourismus mag die Sonnensegel-Idee ökonomisch lokal sinnvoll sein. Aber ökologisch, für das Überleben des Riffs, ist sie bedeutungslos", sagte Riff-Expertin Katharina Fabricius vom Australian Institute for Marine Science zu SPIEGEL ONLINE. Die schiere Größe des Naturdenkmals nährt Zweifel an dem Projekt, mit Schatten spendenden Stoffbahnen für Abkühlung zu sorgen.
02.Nov.2006 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-446089,00.html "Wir sind sehr besorgt, weil hier ein 5,8-Milliarden-Dollar-Wirtschaftszweig und 33.000 Menschen vom Tourismus auf dem Riff abhängen", sagt die australische Tourismusministerin, Fran Bailey. Dem befürchteten Einnahmeverlust will sie abhelfen: Sonnensegel sollen über Teilen des größten Korallenriffs der Welt ausgespannt werden. Die Ministerin beruft sich damit auf Beobachtungen von Wissenschaftlern, die herausgefunden haben: Korallen an schattigen Orten behalten ihre brillianten Farben, während Artgenossen an allzu sonnigen Standorten eher ausbleichen. Was wiederum die Erwartungen der Touristen enttäuschen könnte.
02.Nov.2006 Artensterben: Meere könnten bis 2048 leergefischt sein
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02.Nov.2006 "Großer Prophet"- Manöver: Iran protzt mit Raketensalven 02.Nov.2006 Alarmierende Studie: In Deutschland entstehen immer mehr Schuldenghettos
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02.Nov.2006 US- Kongresswahlen: Irak- Desaster reißt Republikaner in Umfragetief | 