| 06.Feb.2007 Irak- Strategie: Pentagon- Chef plant Truppenabzug schon Ende des Jahres Bedeutende historische Daten im Vorfeld der Entstehung der "Bilderberg-Konferenzen" 23.Jul.1944 Gruendung von Internationalem Waehrungsfonds (IWF) und Weltbank (IBRD) 09.Mai 1945 Ende des II. Weltkrieges in Europa 24.Okt.1945 Gruendung der Vereinten Nationen (UNO) 05.Jun.1947 US-Aussenminister Marshall verkuendet Wiederaufbauprogramm fuer Europa 04.Apr.1949 Abschluss des Nordatlantikpakts (NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) in Washington 05.Mai 1949 Gruendung des Europarates 23.Mai 1949 Verkuendigung des Grundgesetzes fuer die Bundesrepublik Deutschland 07.Okt.1949 Gruendung der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik 25.Jun.1950-27.Jul.1953 Beginn des Koreakrieges (bis) 18.Apr.1951 Europaeische Gemeinschaft fuer Kohle und Stahl (EGKS bzw. Montanunion) 26.Mai 1952 Deutschlandvertrag mit den drei Westmaechten Daten zur Entstehung und Organisation der "Bilderberg-Konferenzen" 00.000.1888-00.000.1960 - Joseph Hieronim Retinger () - Initiator der Bilderberg-Gruppe, sog. "Graue Eminenz" der politischen Kreise Europas - Prinz Bernhard von den Niederlanden - erster Vorsitzender der Bilderberg-Konferenzen - Paul van Zeeland (Premierminister von Belgien) von Anbeginn involviert + - Paul Rijkens (Vorsitzender der Unilever/NL) von Anbeginn involviert + - Max Brauer (Oberbuergermeister von Hamburg) + -> “Atlantikbrücke” - Hugh Gaitskell (Mgl. d. brit. Unterhauses) + - Alcide de Gasperi (ital. Parlamentsmitglied) + - Sir Colin Gubbins (Generalmajor/UK) + - Ole Bjorn Kraft (Aussenminister von Daenemark) + - Guy Mollet (Mgl. der franz. Nationalversammlung) + - Rudolf Mueller (Rechtsanwalt/FfM) + - Antoine Pinay (Premierminister von Frankreich) + - Panayotis Pipinelis (frueherer Aussenminister Griechenlands) + - Pietro Quaroni (ital. Botschafter in Frankreich) -- bilden die europaeische Kerngruppe in der Vorbereitungsphase zur ersten grossen Bilderberg-Konferenz. 25.Sep.1952 trifft sich erstmals die europaeische Kerngruppe in Paris. Erste Ueberlegungen zum amerik. Pendant der Gruppe werden vorgenommen und von der Gruppe erarbeitet. - Charles D. Jackson (Berater des US-Praesidenten) + - John S. Coleman (Praesident der Burroughs Corporation, Detroit) + - Joseph E. Johnson (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) + - Dean Rusk (Direktor der Rockefeller Foundation) + - David Rockefeller (Vize-Praesident der Chase National Bank) + - H.J. Heinz II. (Praesident der H.J. Heinz Corporation) bilden die amerik. Kerngruppe. 29.Mai 1954-31.Mai 1954 findet die erste grosse Konferenz im Hotel "de Bilderberg" in Oosterbeek bei Arnheim statt, der Name des Hotels bildet - kuenftig die Bezeichnung dieser jaehrlich ein- bis zweimal Vonstatten gehenden Tagung. - Teilnehmer an Bilderberg-Konferenzen kommen aus den Bereichen Politik, Industrie (Exxon) + Internationale Organisationen (IWF, Weltbank) + Militaer (NATO) + Gewerkschaften (DGB) + Universitaeten + Medien (ORF, Economist, Burda, Bertelsmann) + Geheimdienste (CIA) + der Hochfinanz (Rockefeller) + sowie dem Hochadel (Britisches Koenigshaus) - Die Teilnehmer kommen nicht in ihrer offiziellen Funktion zu Konferenzen, sondern als Privatpersonen (Offizielle Erklaerung) - Ueber die Konferenzen wird striktes Stillschweigen bewahrt, alle Papiere die in Zusammenhang mit der Konferenz stehen, werden streng vertraulich behandelt, die Presse ist von den Konferenzen ausgeschlossen. Den Medien wird nach jedem Treffen eine kurze Mitteilung uebersandt, in der jedoch weder inhaltliche Details genannt werden noch alle Teilnehmer aufgefuehrt werden. - Der Vorsitzende der Konferenz (z.Z. Lord Peter Carrington, ehemaliger NATO-Generalsekretaer) wird in seiner Arbeit durch den ehrenamtl. Generalsekretaer Europas/Kanadas (z..Z. Victor Halberstadt, Professor fuer Volkswirtschaft, Uni Leiden) + den ehrenamtl. Generalsekretaer Amerikas (z.Z. Casimir A. Yost, Direktor des Institutes fuer Studien zur Diplomatie, Washington, D.C.) unterstuetzt. - Bilderberg-Konferenzen kennen keine strikten Regeln. Die Erfahrung lehrte aber eine max. Redezeit von 5 Minuten pro Person. 29.Mai 1954 -seit- wurden Bilderberg-Konferenzen von ca. 1800 Personen aus ca.25 Staaten + ca. 15 Internationalen Organisationen besucht. Es werden nur einflussreiche und allgemein respektierte Personen eingeladen, da ihre persoenlichen nationalen und internationalen Kontakte die von der Gruppe gesetzten Ziele vorantreiben koennen (Offizielle Erklaerung!) Bestreben ist es aus moeglichst vielen und wichtigen Bereichen Personen zu den Konferenzen zu laden. Es nahmen bislang zwischen 39 und 120 Personen an einer Bilderberg-Konferenz teil. - Bilderberg-Konferenzen wollen kein Politiken iniziierendes Organ sein, sondern die Wahrnehmung der in verantwortlichen Positionen sitzenden Personen auf die Ergebnisse der Konferenzen schaerfen, wenngleich Schlussfolgerungen gezogen werden, so doch ohne abschliessende Abstimmung zu den jeweiligen Themenpunkten (Offizielle Erklaerung) 00.000.1960 wurde der Name von "Bilderberg-Gruppe" in "Bilderberg-Konferenz" geaendert. - Jede vierte Konferenz findet in Nordamerika statt, um amerikanischen + kanadischen Teilnehmern entgegenzukommen - Bilderberg-Treffen finden nur in abgelegenen Hotels statt, um sowohl die Sicherheit zu garantieren als auch Vertrautheit zu foerdern. - Die Themen beschaeftigen sich vornehmlich mit politischen + oekonomischen + militaerischen Fragen. Die einzelnen Themen werden von Fachleuten vorbereitet und vorab an das Buero in Amsterdam bzw. New York City zur Vervielfaeltigung gesandt. - Nach jeder Konferenz bekommt jeder Teilnehmer, sowie all diejenigen die je an einer Bilderberg-Konferenz teilgenommen haben, ein Protokoll des Treffens zugesandt. 00.000.1961 -Seit- erhalten die Teilnehmer zusaetzlich eine erlaeuternde Schrift, um das Bild einer solchen Konferenz zu vervollstaendigen. Diese Papiere sind besonders vertraulich zu behandeln (Offizielle Erklaerung). 00.000.1956 wurde ein Lenkungsausschuss eingesetzt. Momentan begleiten - Hilmar Kopper (Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender der Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main) + - Christoph Bertram (Diplomatischer Korrespondent "DIE ZEIT", Hamburg) fuer die BR Deutschland dieses Amt. Die Lenkungsausschussmitglieder koennen jeder Konferenz und jedem sonstigen Treffen beiwohnen. 00.000.1959 wurde ein Beratungsausschuss eingesetzt. Er trifft sich immer dann "wenn fuer notwendig empfunden", meist im Soestdijk Palace, dem Stammsitz des hollaendischen Prinzen Bernhard. Otto Wolf von Amerongen repraesentiert hier Deutschland. - Das Sekretariat hat heute einen Sitz in New York City/C.W. Muller (Sekr.) + in Amsterdam/Maja Banck-Polderman (Sekr.). - Die Kosten fuer die jeweilige Bilderberg-Konferenz werden vom gastgebenden Land getragen, die Anreise von jedem Teilnehmer selbst, ebenso die Verpflegung. Private Stiftungen welche der Gruppe zur Verfuegung gestellt werden, erleichtern die jaehrlichen Planungen erheblich 00.000.1966 (Alleine die Hotelkosten fuer die 3-taegige Konferenz in Wiesbaden, beliefen sich auf 150.000.- DM). Allerdings haben sich etliche bundesdeutsche Politiker die Freiheit genommen, ihre Kosten ueber die Landes- bzw. das Bundesparlament finanzieren zu lassen, in einigen Faellen wurden Studienreisen inoffiziell angeschlossen und ueber UNSERE Steuergelder abgerechnet Vor der Abfahrt aus dem Knast und bei der Übergabe auf dem Gerichtsgelände müssen sie sich vor einer Gruppe von Polizisten völlig nackt ausziehen und auf ... www.escapeintorebellion.info/News/article/sid=169.html Diese Gefangenen wurden von ihnen nach der Folter durch Kopfschüsse aus ... Nach dem Massaker wollten sie die weiblichen Gefangenen nackt ausziehen und ... www.trend.infopartisan.net/trd1099/t331099.html 00.000.1896 Otto Henrich, Bergmannssohn aus Essen, trat als Jungingenieur in das Charlottenburger Werk von Siemens & Halske ein. Nachdem sich Carl Friedrich von ... w4.siemens.de/archiv/de/persoenlichkeiten/vorstand_stamm.html 07.Feb.2007 Klimaschutz- Kompromiss: EU will erlaubten Durchschnittswert auf 130 Gramm festlegen 07.Feb.2007 Irak: Iran wirft USA Diplomaten- Entführung vor 07.Feb.2007 Demenz: Einsamkeit verdoppelt Alzheimer- Risiko 06.Feb.2007 Irak: US- Offizier wegen Kriegsdienstverweigerung vor Gericht 06.Feb.2007 Notwehr: Junge Iranerin kommt aus Todeszelle frei 06.Feb.2007 Alarm in London: Erneut Briefbombe explodiert - zwei Verletzte 06.Feb.2007 Geschlecht und Gehirn: Männer und Frauen ticken verblüffend ähnlich 06.Feb.2007 Umfrage: Mehrheit gegen Tornados in Afghanistan 06.Feb.2007 Streit über Spritfresser: Killer- Klima für Deutschlands Autobauer 27.Sep.2001 -Erst nachdem am- Fotos von den Tätern veröffentlicht wurden meldete sich keine Person mehr. 27.Sep.2001-06.Feb.2007 -Bisher- gelang es noch keinem ein Interview mit den vermeintlich Lebenden zu arrangieren. wdr.de: Auf der Suche nach den lebenden Attentätern Die Terroristen wurden von westlichen Agenten nach + nach zu ihrem Plan verleitet. So konnte man einerseits sicherstellen, dass eine oberflächliche Untersuchung der Hintergründe der Terroristen auf eine falsche Spur führt + andererseits konnte jede Untersuchung eines westlichen Geheimdienstes unterbunden werden, so dass die Terroristen bei ihren Plänen nicht gestört wurden. Die Behauptung der US-Geheimdienste, beim Versuch al-Qaida + den Islamismus allgemein zu infiltrieren, gescheitert zu sein, wäre in dieser Theorie also eine Lüge, um die Operation unter falscher Flagge weiterhin zu vertuschen. Inwieweit al-Quaida wirklich infiltriert ist, bleibt dennoch schwer zu sagen. Zum Teil wird die ganze Organisation als ein Phantom der US-Geheimdienste betrachtet. Andere hingegen sehen vor allem in der symbolhaften Figur des Osama bin Laden einen US-Agenten. Apr.2004 Passives Radar: China will Stealth -Bombern die Tarnkappe entreißen 00.000.1984 ... an: Harvard-Student T. H. Culhane verbringt mehr als 50 Stunden zwecks ... alfatomega.com/20040717_Report.html The GESIS mbh offers its business partners products and services, ... www.exfa.de/en/firms Die GESIS mbH ist ein Unternehmen der Salzgitter AG, hat eines der modernsten Rechenzentren in Norddeutschland + ist eines der größten Softwarehäuser in ... fuzzy.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/studium/praktika.html Kennzeichendatenbank zur zentralisierten Verwaltung von Nummernschilddaten mit Anbindung an das digitale Bildaufzeichnungssystem MSC3 ... 11.Dec.2005 Die Geschichte der US-Erdölindustrie ... https://alfatomega.com/20051218.html 01.Dec.2006 (Germany), 4 aid workers, archeologist held," in The Boston Globe,, ... iwa.univie.ac.at/iraqarchive65.html We want to do something to get at these people," said Irene Spina, whose daughter, Lisa L. ... https://www.bakerbotts.com/attorneys/...oupid=&areaid= ... forumarchives.uspoliticsonline.com/showthread.php?p=206230 @enron.com, kcordova@enron.com, kenton_erwin@enron.net, Kevin Liss, khiggas@enron.com, kirk.van.tine@ bakerbotts .com, kringbl@enron.com ... enron.trampolinesystems.com/show_email/81604 At the Aspen Institute 1977. aspen75.jpg (20107 bytes) 00.Jul.1977 At the Aspen Institute Symposium, () I am seen briefing Empress Farah Pahlavi about matters ... www.hoveyda.org/aspen77.html Shenidar http://www.hoveyda.org www.shenidar.com/sec/news/pr/news_print.asp?key=469 Open your eyes High time for Muslims to reject once antiquated ... freethoughts.org/archives/000542.php 00.Jul.1977 ) I am seen briefing Empress Farah Pahlavi about matters ... www.hoveyda.org/aspen77.html 22.Nov.2005 The ultimate irony A 00.000.1995 Pentagon document ...alfatomega.com/20051124.html Another of Hoveyda's relations has a small online tribute to ... www.mage.com/history/ps.html The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates ... while former Western Goals director ... alfatomega.com/20050202.html 00.000.1905 -In his- dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly — the future Dean of Education at Stanford—wrote that schools should be factories "in ... www.thememoryhole.org/edu/school-mission.htm 00.000.1905 -In his- dissertation for Columbia Teachers College. Ninety-nine [students] out of a hundred are ... en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Education 00.000.1905 -In his- dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly - the future Dean of Education at Stanford - wrote that schools should ... www.folkandfaith.com/smf_forums/index.php?topic=739.0;prev_next=next 00.000.1905 -In his- dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly the future Dean of Education at Stanford wrote that schools should be factories ... www.mcminnvillemadness.com/viewtopic.php?t=285&sid=14e3f1b8dc91959d201ca4b19a52e60c 00.000.1905 -In his- dissertation for Columbia Teachers College, Elwood Cubberly - the future Dean of education at Stanford-wrote that schools should be factories "in ... www.homeownerschat.com/message183125.html Harold Stanley (Skull&Bones ) was ... Jamie Dimon President + Chief Operating Officer, JPMorgan Chase, New York, NY. ... alfatomega.com/20061201.html Fotos von der. Einschlagstelle des Flugzeugs im Pentagon. freenet-homepage.de/crixdorius2/11Sept.doc Oct.2005 U.S. not legally bound to reveal dump sites : For decades, ... alfatomega.com/20051104.html "Was mich wirklich enttäuscht und ärgert", sagt Dudenhöffer, "ist diese ständige Verteidigungsstrategie des VDA" (Verband der Deutschen Automobilindustrie). Die Herren aus der Vorstandsriege täten geradezu so, als kämpften sie gegen den Weltuntergang. "So wird man auf Dauer unglaubwürdig", sagt Dudenhöffer. "Denn die immergleichen Abwehrrituale haben wir schon beim Dreiwege-Katalysator oder beim Rußpartikelfilter erlebt." Ein konstruktiver Vorschlag, wie beides in Einklang zu bringen ist - eine florierende deutsche Autoindustrie und eine schnelle und spürbare Senkung des CO2-Ausstoßes - gab es vom VDA bislang nicht. Blockaden aber haben noch nie ein Problem gelöst. <b>Tabelle: Was die neuen Klima- Bestimmungen den Autokäufer kosten könnten</b> <b>Tabelle: So viel CO2 stoßen die Autos der großen Marken aus</b> <b>Tabelle: Die sparsamsten Benziner</b> <b>Tabelle: Die sparsamsten Diesel</b> Wirkungsvolle Spritspartechnik ist längst vorhanden In den vergangenen neun Jahren war in Deutschland offensichtlich genug Zeit, um Riesen-Geländewagen wie den Mercedes GL zu entwickeln, Wahnsinns-SUVs wie den Porsche Cayenne Turbo S, Luxus-Renner wie den Audi R8 oder Leistungsfetische wie den BMW M6. Aber wohl zu wenig Zeit, um sich ernsthaft über wirksame Maßnahmen zur Verbrauchsverringerung zu kümmern. "Die deutschen Autobauer sind ja keine Teufelskerle, die unsere Umwelt zugrunde richten wollen", sagt Automarktexperte Ferdinand Dudenhöffer. "Wenn man ehrlich ist, muss man sagen, dass die Kunden die immer stärkeren, schwereren und schnelleren Autos kaufen. Das Geschäft brummt." Angesichts der im wahrsten Sinne aufgeheizten Debatte kann es daher nicht schaden, sich die Rahmendaten noch einmal vor Augen zu halten. Bereits im Jahr 1998 - so lange schon ist die CO2-Problematik auf der Tagesordnung - sagten die deutschen Automobilhersteller in einer Selbstverpflichtung zu, den Kohlendioxid-Ausstoß ihrer Fahrzeuge bis zum Jahr 2008 auf durchschnittlich 140 Gramm je Kilometer zu senken. Je leistungsstärker ein Auto, desto größer der CO2-Ausstoß Die Automarke tut nichts zur Sache, aber der Werbespot ist bezeichnend: Zum Evergreen "What a wonderful world" lässt Suzuki den neuen Grand Vitara durch eine wunderschöne Natur brettern: blauer Himmel, grüne Bäume, weiße Berge, saubere Flüsse - so schön ist Werbung. Kein Hinweis auf die Folgen des Klimawandels, die längst zu spüren sind. Am Mittwoch will die EU-Kommission ihr Strategiepapier zum Klimaschutz im Straßenverkehr vorlegen. Demzufolge sollen die Autohersteller verpflichtet werden, bis zum Jahr 2012 den Kohlendioxid- Ausstoß der in Europa verkauften Neuwagen deutlich zu senken. Im Gespräch sind 120 Gramm pro Kilometer. Porsche Cayenne Turbo S: Pro Kilometer strömen im Schnitt 378 Gramm CO2 aus den Auspuffrohren 21.Jan.2005 The papers and words and writings of Justin's belong to the estate, Daily said. "Our position would be just because the bank owns a safety deposit box ... alfatomega.com/20050121.html Rennhak Nachtsichtsysteme . SIM Security & Electronic System GmbH. GREECE. Econ Optics Mechanics. Intracom SA (Hellenic Telecommunications & Electronics). INDIA. Bharat Electronics Ltd. ISRAEL. Elbit Computers Ltd ... www.privacy.org/pi/reports/big_bro/directory.html An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control - HTML International; KDM; Micro and Security Electronic; PK Electronic and Rennhak Nachtsichtsysteme in Germany; ATET SRi in Italy; ... 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Seit Beginn der Überschwemmungen in Jakarta leiden viele Bewohner unter Hochwasser-bedingten Erkrankungen wie Hautausschlag, Atemwegs- oder Magen- und Darmproblemen. Tausende von ihnen suchten Hilfe an den Notfallstationen. Nach Angaben des indonesischen Gesundheitsministeriums wurden dort bereits mehr als 28.000 Menschen behandelt. Indonesische Behörden warnten zudem vor dem Ausbruch von Seuchen wie Typhus oder Cholera. Jakarta - Die halbe Stadt steht nunmehr unter Wasser: Etwa 330 Quadratkilometer sind von der braunen Brühe überflutet. In der Metropole und ihrer Umgebung leben insgesamt rund 18 Millionen Menschen. Mehr als 340.000 von ihnen mussten ihre Häuser verlassen. Andere sind in Stadtteilen, die wegen der Überflutung von der Außenwelt abgeschnitten sind. Rettungsteams versuchten, die eingeschlossenen Bewohner zu retten. Soldaten brachten ihnen Instant-Nudeln, Reis und Brot. 06.Feb.2007 Flutkatastrophe in Jakarta: Eine Multi- Millionen- Metropole versinkt 06.Feb.2007 Präsidentschaftswahlkampf: Giuliani will "Bürgermeister von Amerika" werden 06.Feb.2007 CO2- Musterknaben: Die sparsamsten Diesel 06.Feb.2007 CO2- Musterknaben: Die sparsamsten Benziner 06.Feb.2007 Energie: Koch will Marktmacht der Konzerne begrenzen 06.Feb.2007 Klimaschutz: Mit Vollgas in den Weltuntergang Mär.2005 Poker und Roulette: Die Erfolgsrezepte der Profizocker ... alfatomega.com/20050317.html Sarkis Soghanalian, the international arms dealer who bought billions in weapons for Saddam Hussein, says he was approached at a Newark airport luncheon ... blueverticalstudio.com/go/index.php?paged=86 00.000.2000 -en- C’est du moins ce que déclarait Sarkis, au quotidien péruvien La Republica. ... Ces faits ont été récemment décrits avec précision par Richard Clarke, www.strategic-road.com/pays/pubs/etats_unis_strategie_geopolitique_txt.htm Bush Pentagon adviser Richard Perle says that unless China and other ... BCCI's relationships with convicted Iraqi arms dealer Sarkis Soghanalian, ... prorev.com/bush4.htm Mar.2005 Right is Wrong Sarkis Soghanalian, the international arms dealer ... alfatomega.com/20050317.html Note in particular cameo appearances by Richard Perle, arms dealer Serki Saghanalian [sic -- obviously an error for Sarkis Soghanalian ], Carlos Cardoen, ... www.inblogs.net/wotisitgood4/2006/11/robert-gates-scandals.html 30.Jan.2007 08:35:24 -0500 A new InfoTrack market research study describes in detail the disruptive impact Microsoft is having on the market for IP Telephony (IPT) systems as well as on the market for Unified Communications (UC) applications. 00.Feb.2005 The Defense Contract Management Agency reviewed all the contracts that 00.000.1993 -since- Ms. Druyun was directly involved with at the request of Wynne. ... rncnyc2004.blogspot.com/2005_02_01_archive.html 05.Feb.2007 Daily Kos: Bush's brings in a hatchet man, Paul "The Grinch" McNulty The official, Darleen Druyun, was also convicted. And, besides the Franklin case, McNulty oversaw the conviction of another spy: Robert Hanssen. ... www.dailykos.com/story/2005/10/24/10208/953 06.Feb.2007 Hunger strike hits 71 days at 'Guantanamo North': -- Supporters of three men detained on security certificates called on the Harper government Friday to intervene in a hunger strike the men have been staging to protest their detention conditions. 06.Feb.2007 Hicks may take plea bargain, dad says: Guantanamo Bay inmate David Hicks could enter a plea bargain on terrorism charges in a desperate effort to come home, his father Terry Hicks said on Sunday. 06.Feb.2007 IDF gearing up for large military operation in Gaza: The Israel Defense Forces has accelerated its planning of a possible extended military operation in Gaza. 06.Feb.2007 Egypt accuses Israelis of espionage: According to the Egyptian security official, Al-Attar was ordered by the Israelis to move to Canada in 2003 to collect information about Egyptians and Arabs living in Canada. For his mission, al-Attar allegedly received 65,000 US and Canadian dollars from the three Israelis, the official said. 06.Feb.2007 US gets Israeli security for Super Bowl: While coaches worry about how to protect their quarterbacks on the field come Super Bowl Sunday, an Israeli-developed system for identifying potential security threats has been adopted at nearby Miami International Airport to help keep visitors to South Florida safe. 05.Feb.2007 William Blum: Full Spectrum Dominance : It is not often that the empire is put in the position of one its victims, in fear of the military and technical prowess of another country, forced to talk of peace and cooperation, just as Iraq and others, hoping to put off an American attack, were forced to do over the years; just as Iran now. 05.Feb.2007 Top secret army cell breaks terrorists :Its members - servicemen and women of all ranks recruited from all three of the Armed Forces - are trained to turn hardened terrorists into coalition spies using methods developed on the mean streets of Ulster during the Troubles, when the Army managed to infiltrate the IRA at almost every level. Since war broke out [!]in Iraq in 2003, they have been responsible for running dozens of Iraqi double agents. 05.Feb.2007 Warner to help block his own resolution on Iraq: Sen. John W. Warner will join his fellow Republicans in voting Monday to block the resolution he wrote rebuking President Bush's Iraq war policy. 05.Feb.2007 Patrick Cockburn: Iraqis on the Run : "One of the World's Great Man-Made Disasters is Taking Place" 05.Feb.2007 Hillary's big lie grows: She needs to end the victim act and stop blaming Bush for her vote on Iraq 05.Feb.2007 AIPAC “Money People” and the Iran Attack : Consider Hillary Clinton’s recent speech, delivered to the AIPAC gathered. 05.Feb.2007 A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski: Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran 05.Feb.2007 Report: Mossad assassinated Iranian nuclear scientist : Intelligence source suggests that a prize-winning nuclear physicist, who recently died in mysterious circumstances, was killed by Israeli security service, Sunday Times reports 05.Feb.2007 US ex-generals reject Iran strike : Three former high-ranking American military officers have warned against any military attack on Iran. 05.Feb.2007 Iran showcases nuclear facility to visiting diplomats, journalists : Iran on Saturday opened the gates to a key uranium conversion facility to visiting diplomats and journalists in an effort to show that its disputed nuclear program is peaceful and not a cover for nuclear bomb making. 05.Feb.2007 Inside Iran's nuclear site: Video: Channel 4 Report: Six ambassadors from non-aligned countries, along with a number of journalists, including Channel 4 News were invited by the Iranian government to visit the uranium conversion site just south of Isfahan 05.Feb.2007 John Pilger - War by Other Means - How the poor finance the rich - A Must Watch Video Das ist aufgebraucht. Vorigen Donnerstag warnte sie: "Wenn Herr Bush nicht aufpasst, könnte er in einen weiteren verheerenden Krieg schlittern. Und wenn der Kongress ihm diesmal nicht klar widerspricht, könnte er das ganze Land mit hineinziehen." Ihre 5000 Soldaten haben früher blutige Anschläge gegen iranische Vertretungen in aller Welt verübt, im iranisch-irakischen Krieg 00.000.1980-00.000.1988 kämpften die Erzfeinde der Mullahs sogar auf Seiten Saddam Husseins. Seit dem Einmarsch der Amerikaner in den Irak sitzen Tausende entwaffneter Kämpfer im Militärlager Aschraf fest, 120 Kilometer nordöstlich von Bagdad. Dschaafarsade will sie den Amerikanern als Hilfstruppe zur Verfügung stellen. Auch deswegen warnte ein US-Militär in der vergangenen Woche: "Ein einziger Fehler + wir sind in der gleichen Lage wie 1914." MEHR AUS DEM NEUEN SPIEGEL TITEL -Erben statt Arbeiten 05.Feb.2007 Former cynic of "Cheney is president" theory now believes there may be a Cheney-led coup d'etat. As Cheney operates in secret, "we just don't know. It's about time we find out." 2/5 05.Feb.2007 Leaky Libby case hangs on premise he was too busy a man to remember what he said about Plame -- and yet the White House seems to have been discussing her constantly, so how could he? 2/5 Labels: cheney, conspiracy, Iran Permalink # posted by Joseph : 11:25 PM 3 comments Comments: Newsweek's article "A Shot Heard Round the World" of 2/27/06 fires a mainstream shot across the bows of the SS Official Story in that it challenges the timeline of the 9/11 Commission with respect to Cheney's shootdown order on the "letsroll" flight 93. # posted by wtc7wtf? : 12:06 AM Why are we sitting around and asking ourselves what the "incident" that triggers our war with Iran will be, when we need to be getting out there and letting America know that this is being planned? Over the last month I've seen a host of blogs speculate over what the incident will be, Karbala, something in the Straits of Hormuz, etc, but not how to stop us from going to war when it happens . # posted by Zandar The Weeble : 5:29 AM The Democratic leadership -- not the occasional blog or columnist -- needs to stand up and say the obvious, so it gets on the nightly news. The question is, does even one of these presidential candidates have the cojones to do it -- despite the fact that they all know that the "incident" is coming any day now? 05.Feb.2007 US- Haushalt: Bush will Kriegsetat um mehrere hundert Milliarden aufstocken 05.Feb.2007 Parteitag der US- Demokraten: Catwalk der Hoffnungsträger 05.Feb.2007 Studie: 2007 wird Boomjahr für deutschen Immobilienmarkt 05.Feb.2007 Terroralarm in London: Explodierende Briefbombe verletzt Frau 05.Feb.2007 Vogelgrippe: Deutsche Züchter fordern strengere Stallpflicht 05.Feb.2007 Gangs in Berlin: Auf der Straße erzogen 05.Feb.2007 Schmiergeldaffäre: Ex- Siemens- Manager wegen Bestechung vor Gericht 05.Feb.2007 Berlins Polizeichef: "Junge gewalttätige Migranten machen uns am meisten Sorgen" 05.Feb.2007 Werksschließungen: Bei Chrysler sind 10.000 Arbeitsplätze in Gefahr Promises and Betrayals History In Context: Britain And The Struggle For The Holy Land . Documentary on how British double-dealing during WWI ignited the ... johnmccarthy90066.tripod.com/id762.html Looking back on the Spanish war - Orwell Chunks zur empirischen Berechnung von d(k), H(C), H(R) stehen für andere Serverprotokolle bereit. www.wiwi.uni-bielefeld.de/~wolf/lehre/ws0304/stabi0304/stabi/node4.html Die Verteilung der Wörter in der Sprache kann grob durch das zipfsche Gesetz beschrieben werden. Es besagt, dass das Produkt der Häufigkeit eines Worts mit ... information-retrieval.de/irb/ir.part_1.chapter_3.section_6.topic_3.subdiv1_1.html 00.000.1978 murders of San Francisco mayor George Moscone + gay-rights activist Harvey Milk, for instance, nearly crippled a city still reeling from the news ... www.westword.com/Issues/1999-02-04/culture/theater2.html 05.Feb.2007 Tales from Colma - The Martyrdom of Mayor Moscone - 1/4 A Tale from Colma (see https://www.notfrisco.com/silence/colma.html ) which tells the story of Mayor George Moscone, who fell victim to the gun of Dan White. www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/moscone Tales from Colma - The Martydom of Mayor Moscone - Part 3/4 Dan White assassinated Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. ... And in a twisted way, George Moscone and Harvey Milk received the blame for ... www.notfrisco.com/colmatales/moscone/mosc3.html The scariest thing about "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" is that so many of the followers of Jim Jones, the demented demagogue who led them to commit mass suicide, appear to have been intelligent, idealistic, life-loving people... ...Growing up poor in Indiana, Mr. Jones was sensitive to the plight of African-Americans + preached racial equality. His son Jim Jones Jr., who appears in the film, boasts of being the first black child adopted by a Caucasian in the state of Indiana... ...The Life and Death of Peoples Temple RECOMMENDED ..."Nobody joins a cult, nobody joins something they think is going to hurt them," one person says + Jones' adopted son and namesake adds, "Everything I tell you about Jim Jones is a paradox - having this vision to change the world but having this whole undercurrent of dysfunction."... Jones positioned himself as a national figure -- and certainly a prominent San Franciscan, having helped George Moscone become mayor ... much of it never before seen publicly, some of it apparently only recently declassified by the CIA -- exists makes "Jonestown: The Life and Death of the Peoples Temple" one of the year's most important documentaries, a real must-see... "One of the first things I did was to see pictures of the people," Nelson said. "There were so many kinds of elderly African-American people, not the kind of people you would think would join any kind of cult at all," Nelson said. "I was wondering ... why would they join this thing?"... ..."They talked about not joining the cult but joining something that had such high ideals for what, I thought, were the right reasons. I just became fascinated by it."... Among these items is a memorial for cameraman Bob Brown, 36 + Correspondent Don Harris, 42 -- both of whom were murder victims in Jonestown, Guyana, on Nov. 18, 1978. Those old enough to remember...two NBC staffers were gunned down along with California Congressman Leo Ryan. Brown and Harris were covering Ryan's trip to Jonestown to investigate troubling reports from the "People's Temple." They were killed on an airstrip as they were about to leave and just hours before 900 residents of Jonestown drank cyanide-laced fruit punch... The Chronicle recently spoke to Jones Jr... ... Jim Jones Jr.: ...So why were all these African-Americans following this Caucasian? He must have presented something to them to make him trust them. And I think Stanley's film shows this functional world of Jim Jones and the People's Temple...Let me tell you this: When my wife – who I've known for 22 years and been married to for 19 years – when she watched this film, she said, "Jimmy, I finally understand Jonestown." This week marks the deaths of 913 people, including 276 children, in the Guyanan jungle. Most of them died by their own hand, voluntarily drinking a cyanide-laced grape punch (not Kool Aid, contrary to the idiomatic expression). The ones who wouldn't kill themselves were shot. Babies had the lethal concoction forced into their mouths with syringes. Orchestrating the 1978 holocaust was "Reverend" Jim Jones, founder of the People's Temple... ...Mayor George Moscone appointed him to the city's housing authority. Willie Brown, who later served as speaker of the California Assembly, 00.000.1976 introduced the white Jones as a combination Martin Luther King, Angela Davis, Albert Einstein + Chairman Mao... ...When things got too hot in San Francisco, Jones moved his operation to Guyana. He brought with him written accolades from numerous politicians... "Nobody joins a cult," says a woman at the very beginning of Stanley Nelson's documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple."... ..."Jonestown" is a thoroughly conventional documentary -- archival footage, images and voice recordings alternating with talking head interviews. (It was funded by PBS' "American Experience" series.) But this familiar format also emphasizes the movie's universality. For while it's about a particular, peculiar phenomenon + a shattering, generation-defining tragedy of its time (particularly those many friends and relatives in the San Francisco Bay area), the madness depicted here is not limited to Jim Jones... "Nobody joins a cult -- you just join people you really like," says one of the survivors in Stanley Nelson's documentary "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple." The People's Temple, the cult that expired in the mass suicide and murder organized by Jim Jones... ...By the early 1970s Mr. Jones, then leading his movement out of San Francisco, had branded himself a Christian Socialist, advocating for the poor and racially oppressed... ...Among its most impassioned players was Stephan Jones, one of Mr. Jones's sons. His testimony, though all too brief, in "Jonestown: Paradise Lost," to be broadcast on the History Channel tonight, is reason enough to watch a documentary that would otherwise merely invite dim circumspection... ...The History Channel this week aired a documentary on Jim Jones and the Jonestown massacre... ...In California, Jones recruited young, college-educated white students to go with the large number of working class members. The church expanded into San Francisco 00.000.1972, opening a church in the heart of the largely poor, largely black Fillmore District... Several members of the People's Temple, with Dr. Singer's help, left that group before 900 people committed mass suicide in Guyana 00.000.1978...) November 25, 2003 Library remembers tumultuous events of 25 years ago, Oakland Tribune, California (THIS month marks the 25th anniversary of the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. The month also marks a quarter century since the Jonestown massacre... ...The history center incorporates materials from the California Historical Society as well as from its own collection for "November 1978: Moscone, Milk and Jonestown." Photos, documents and artifacts are on display in cases on the sixth floor. More photographs, posters, programs and newspaper clippings are in the Steve Silver Room on the fourth floor...) November 23, 2003 Peoples Temple tragedy haunts African American community/Many who recall the church say it could happen again, Dave Ford, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, California (..."They saw this organization where they could be socially active and maintain their connection to Christ," the Rev. Arnold Townsend told the community forum "Jonestown 25 Years Later: A Look Back," held at the San Francisco Public Library recently. "These were some of the most normal, good folk you were ever going to meet."... ...someone like Jim Jones... ...Jones was a hard man to buck, though some black leaders tried...) November 21, 2003 Jonestown, S.F. slayings stun Bay Area - San Francisco Chronicle, California (Here's a look at the Bay Area's past. Items are culled from The Chronicle's archives. 1978 Nov. 21: The death toll grows to 405 from the mass suicides and killings at the Peoples Temple compound in Jonestown, Guyana. The Rev. Jim Jones was one of only three people who died by gunshot, the rest appear to have died from drinking Kool-Aid laced with cyanide...) November 20, 2003 Jonestown: a forgotten tragedy 25 years later, The Massachusetts Daily Collegian, University of Massachusetts Amherst ...But when you ask random students around campus about the Jonestown situation, an alarmingly high number of them have no knowledge of it ever happening. And if they do, it is in the form of disjointed and incorrect facts... November 19, 2003 Pondering the pain/Some survivors at Jonestown memorial don't discuss it much, but none has forgotten - Pia Sarkar, Chronicle Staff Writer, San Francisco Chronicle, California (They came to Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery in their dark clothes and somber moods, talking of the Jonestown massacre as if it had happened yesterday. In reality, it happened 25 years ago, but survivors such as Leslie Cathey kept the memory fresh. She escaped the mass murder-suicides led by the Rev. Jim Jones in the jungles of Guyana by following a railroad track for 37 miles with her toddler strapped to her back...) (Photos included.) November 19, 2003 Jonestown's Legacy, SF Weekly, California (San Francisco remembers Americans who turned on the news on November 18, 1978, got one hell of a bombshell: Hundreds of members of Jim Jones' People's Temple lay dead in the Guyana jungle, an apparent mass murder/suicide. California U.S. Representative Leo Ryan and four others were also dead, shot by cult members as their entourage tried to flee Guyana to bring back Jonestown reports to U.S. authorities. All told, 913 people lost their lives in a single lethal afternoon. The story sent shock waves around the world, but in San Francisco the tragedy had a particularly horrific impact. You see, before moving his flock to South America, Jim Jones was a local mover and shaker. His sect, headquartered at Geary and Fillmore streets, flourished thanks to the help of religious and civic leaders who accepted his largess and political support while ignoring disquieting tales of forced donations and beatings. Then-Assemblyman Willie Brown went drinking with Jones; Mayor Moscone appointed him to S.F.'s Housing Authority Commission. Jones even had a bulging file full of glowing stories from the local press...) November 19, 2003 Scars linger from Jonestown deaths, by William Brand, Staff Writer, Oakland Tribune, California OAKLAND -- More than 150 relatives, friends and survivors of Jonestown held a somber, emotional tribute Tuesday at the mass grave of 409 victims in Evergreen Cemetery, marking the 25th anniversary of the worst cult tragedy in American history. 18.Nov.1978 The debacle of Jim Jones + the Peoples Temple ended in the jungle of Guyana, South America, on , with the shooting and forced suicide of 912 babies, children, men and women... 19.Nov.2003 Hell's 25-Year Echo: The Jonestown Mass Suicide, by Tim Reiterman, Times Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, California (A reporter who was in the vortex of the cult catastrophe finds survivors still coping... 00.000.1977 Came My first exposure to the people of the temple, when a handful of defectors agreed to meet me + another San Francisco Examiner reporter at a house in the Haight-Ashbury district. They seemed remarkably normal and idealistic, with dreams of a world free of racism and better lives for themselves and their children. They had jobs. Some were college-educated. But they described a closed universe where families were systematically divided, disciplinary beatings were the norm and sexual exploitation by Jones was a dirty secret shared by too many. And they wanted to stop him... Reiterman, with the late John Jacobs, is the author of "Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People." ) (Photos included.) November 19, 2003 "Jonestown 25 Years Later: A Look Back" - San Francisco Public Library main branch, California (A panel discussion and screening of a short demonstration reel of "After Jonestown," a work-in-progress documentary film. Followed by a Q&A session...) URL for this page:https://www.cultsoncampus.com/jimjones10.html His associates include Kevin Kattke, who 00.000.1983 helped 0liver North prepare the US invasion of Grenada; Norman Bailey, chief economist for the National ... tobaccodocuments.org/pm/2044790431-0442.html Kevin Kattke Kattke was a textbook Soldier of Fortune ripped from the pages of the magazine. When his handlers at CIA wanted his K-Team to kill someone 05.Feb.2007 Scandals/Iraqgate ... HELMY ABOL FAZL HENDERSON PAUL HENDRICKS WILLIAM HENEAGHAN GERARD HERBERT GEORGE ( KEVIN KATTKE ASSOCIATE) HESELTINE MICHAEL HICKEY LARRY HIGGINS MICHAEL ... www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/8-10-03/discussion.cgi.54.html Kevin Kattke Kattke was a textbook “Soldier of Fortune” ripped from the pages of the magazine. When his handlers at CIA wanted his K-Team to kill some ... amsforums.ametsoc.org/tool/post/whosarat/vpost?id=1242824 Who's A Rat is the largest online database of informants + agents in USA. amsforums.ametsoc.org/tool/post/whosarat/vpost?id=1217960&trail=50 ... and connects sugar use to production of hyper-adrenocortic episodes in humans intolerent to ... as insecticidal sprays for fruits and vegetables (cryolite and barium fluoro- silicate ... www.relfe.com/history_1.html 25.Oct.2004 Denn wo viel Geld diskret versammelt ist, da herrscht auch große Vorsicht.alfatomega.com/20041026.html Und noch ein ganz gegenständliches Problem rückt durch die neuen Erkenntnisse in den Blickpunkt: Statisch aufgeladene Mondstaub-Körnchen stoßen sich gegenseitig ab. Sie können aufsteigen und feine Staubwolken bilden, wie sie schon die Astronauten der "Apollo"-Missionen beobachtet hatten. "Dieser Staub klebt überall fest und ist sehr fein", sagte Forscher Halekas. So drang das lunare Material durch Dichtungen und Verschlüsse. Es verstopfte sogar den Staubsauger, den die "Apollo"-Astronauten eigentlich mitgenommen hatten, um ihr Raumgefährt sauber zu halten. Heimliche Online-Durchsuchungen durch die Polizei sind nicht zulässig. Der Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe entschied heute, die Strafprozessordnung decke nicht die heimliche Durchsuchung der im Computer eines Beschuldigten gespeicherten Daten. Karlsruhe - Die heimliche Durchsuchung von Computern durch den Staat ist unzulässig, wie der Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe entschied. Nach dem am Montag veröffentlichten Urteil des Dritten Strafsenats fehlt dafür die gesetzliche Grundlage. Damit sind Pläne zunächst hinfällig, nach denen der Staat gegen die Computer von Verdächtigen sogenannte Trojaner einsetzen kann, um Festplatten nach Beweismitteln zu durchforsten, ohne dass die Betroffenen davon wissen (Aktenzeichen: Bundesgerichtshof StB 18/06). Die Online-Durchsuchung wurde in der Vergangenheit bereits gegen Beschuldigte eingesetzt, etwa um die Mails mutmaßlicher Mitglieder einer kriminellen Bande zu lesen. Das Durchforsten kann nur stattfinden, solange der Computer des Beschuldigten eingeschaltet ist. Die Maßnahme muss von einem Richter angeordnet werden. 05.Feb.2007 Gewalt im Irak: Aufständische zwingen US- Militär zu taktischen Änderungen THEOCRATIC DICTATORSHIP EXCERPTS One was the Christian Reconstruction movement . ... fact that Bush is very closely tied to the Christian Reconstructionist movement . www.adventistlaymen.com/THEOCRATIC%20DICTATORSHIP%20EXCERPT.htm 04.Feb.2007 20041212 Anyone who had the great good fortune and talent to be a part of it, would be changed ... alfatomega.com/20041212.html 04.Feb.2007 The Village Voice: Power Plays Of the many mysteries surrounding 9-11, few have been of as much interest to ... How many Americans have to die ? How much of our freedom and ... www.villagevoice.com/blogs/powerplays/archives/002374.php Polls Show Many Americans are Simply Dumber Than Bush ... Americans share this disability with the Bush administration. Oct. 27, if you mentioned "le tumulte noir'" to a Frenchman he was likely ... committed to both Bush and scandal-scarred political advisor Karl Rove. www.uscrusade.com/index.php?m=200511 The resolution was a resolution that authorized the president to take that action if he deemed it necessary. Had I been more true to myself and the principles I believed in at the time, I would have openly opposed the whole adventure vocally and aggressively. I had a tough time reconciling doing that against the duties of majority leader in the House. I would have served myself and my party and my country better, though, had I done so. Angeblich hatte der Mörder Palmes seiner Geliebten den Mord gestanden, wie die Stockholmer Zeitung ?Aftonbladet? jetzt schreibt [1]. Hauptverdächtiger Christer Pettersson, des Mordes an Olof Palme ursprünglich verurteilt, wurde in zweiter Instanz wegen eines eigenwilligen Ermittlungsfehlers freigesprochen und erhielt einen hohen Entschädigungsbetrag. Zwei Jahre nach seinem Tod, am 29. September 2004, meldete sich die Frau mit seinem Geständnis... French President Jacques Chirac started quite the uproar with his apparent faux pas made public on Thursday in which he downplayed the Iranian nuclear threat. Chirac says he thought he was speaking off the record when, during an interview with The New York Times, International Herald Tribune and Le Nouvel Observateur, he said an Iranian nuclear weapon would not be much of a threat because "Tehran would be razed to the ground" if it ever tried to deploy such a device. 04.Feb.2007 Our Corrupt Congress It's about time somebody said it. There are reasons that congress can't solve problems. They are as corrupt as the President. No matter what party they belong to. It's all about the money. 04.Feb.2007 Gitmo Wingnut Who Attacked Attorneys For Defending Prisoners Resigns 04.Feb.2007 Armchair Activism That Works tapping the power of the progressive netroots 04.Feb.2007 Bush, Iraq And Groundhog Day In Cartoons -Check out the third one: election fraud and the electronic voting machines make an ominous appearance. 04.Feb.2007 ExxonMobil Backed NeoCon AEI Offered Bribes Of $10,000 To Scientists To Dispute The UN Climate Study 04.Feb.2007 Libby Trial Reveals A Failed Cover-Up 04.Feb.2007 Blair Rejects Pressure To Resign Amidst Corruption Scandal Blair has refused to step down before police finish a political corruption probe into his party, despite fears the investigation is damaging his party. 04.Feb.2007 By Allen L Roland - CONGRESS LACKS WILL TO END IRAQ OCCUPATION 04.Feb.2007 By Don Williams - Cracked? No, Iraq Is An Omelet Face Down On The Kitchen Floor 04.Feb.2007 By Mark A. Goldman - My Theory (Guess): What's The Deal With Iran? 04.Feb.2007 By Cenk Uygur - Impeach, Impeach, Impeach 04.Feb.2007 By Rabbi Michael Lerner - There Is No New Anti-Semitism - What's "new" about the alleged New Anti-Semitism? 04.Feb.2007 By David Swanson - How A Bill Becomes A Signing Statement - At the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Bush's use of signing statements on Wednesday, two exchanges at the end were quite revealing. 04.Feb.2007 By Gatto - Who's Responsible For Iraq? We Are - If we really look at who is responsible for this war in Iraq, if you want to be brutally honest...it is "We the People". 04.Feb.2007 By Brent Budowsky - The Cheney Trial, Within The Libby Trial - For the judge and jury, it is the Libby trial. For America and American politics, it is the Dick Cheney trial and the stakes are far higher than reported in the media. The Washington Post leads with a sneak peak of next year's federal budget, including a whopping $726 billion for the military. The New York Times leads with the release of the UN's climate change report, which says that global warming is almost certainly caused by human activities. The Los Angeles Times leads with the bleak National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. The Wall Street Journal world-wide newsbox leads with an Iraq catchall including the military budget and the NIE. The budget for the next fiscal year will be released on Monday, but most of the papers got an early look. It includes $100 billion for the rest of this fiscal year (on top of $70 billion already spent), $145 billion for next year and $481 billion for the regular Defense Department budget ? a 10 % increase over last year. The war budget for next year represents the first time the Pentagon has tried to plan for all the Iraq and Afghanistan money at the beginning of the budget cycle, notes the NYT, which runs the story inside. The previous practice had been to ask for it in bits and pieces, which had consistently annoyed Congress. The budget also, for the first time in three years, includes an increase in non-defense spending. But with the expansion of the alternative minimum tax ? and if projections of a strong economy turn out to be right ? the budget should be balanced by 2012, according to the White House's figures. The budget also calls for big cuts in Medicare and Medicaid, notes the LAT . To continue reading, click here. The Culture Wars are the struggles we Americans face daily to define the heart, soul + identity of America. Our nation has become polarized by differing moral and ethical understandings of what it means to be an American. We've lost our ... (Read on Source)... Source: https://www.megite.com/politics/1170468361/81#item_4 THE US has prepared new charges against Guantanamo Bay prisoner David Hicks, five years after he was detained, but his father has dismissed them as making no sense.... Source: https://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21163674-2,00.html 10:24 a.m.: Scooter Libby arrives and sits at his defense table, 10 feet in front of me. Having stared at the back of this man's head for hours on end last week, I've come to wonder: Who is this tiny, tiny fellow? Not more than 5-foot-7, to my eye. Sleek and slight like a kitten. Wears a digital watch with a Velcro band. Also wears a little beaded bracelet around his wrist. And writes semiperverted novels set 00.000.1903 Japan. I admit it: You fascinate me, sir. 10:42 a.m.: Judge Walton arrives, but the jury is held out of the room as we engage in another lawyer slap fight. At issue this time: whether the jury should see videotapes of former White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan saying, in October 2003, to the assembled media hordes, that he had personally talked to Scooter Libby and that Libby was not involved in the leak of Valerie Plame's identity. (Note: Everyone agrees that McLellan did this only after being pressured by the vice president's office.) To continue reading, click here. Personal Savings In US At 74 Year Low (Worst Since Great Depression) By Richard Rapaport - Looking Towards The Promised Land: Why America Cannot "Get Over" Slavery 04.Feb.2007 By Andrew Bard Schmookler - Thoughts Regarding "The Great Decider" 04.Feb.2007 By Mickey Z. -What I Heard On The W Train - "Passengers are advised that their backpacks and other large containers are subject to random search by the police." 04.Feb.2007 By Cathy Garger - Depleted Uranium Poison Targets US Citizens 04.Feb.2007 By Melinda Pillsbury-Foster - Stop The Bush Library: A Methodist Minister Says Not At SMU 04.Feb.2007 By James Brett -Market Fundamentalism 04.Feb.2007 By Rev. Bill McGinnis - Senate Opponents Of The War In Iraq Should Defeat The Warner Resolution Because It Supports "Staying The Course." 04.Feb.2007 By Bob Geiger - Coburn Says Vote Against Minimum Wage Was "to Protect Salaries Of Low-income Families" - Oklahoma Senator believes in helping poor by paying them less 04.Feb.2007 By Ezekiel -As Easy As 1, 2, 3 - Why has all the optimism brought by the Democrats' November victory been transformed to alarm and despair? It's as easy as 1, 2, 3. 04.Feb.2007 By Winston Winston - W Has Failed The Democracies Of Both The US And Middle East. By Dan Froomkin Special to washingtonpost.com Friday, February 2, 2007; 12:58 PM The revelation yesterday that Scooter Libby acknowledged in November 2003 that he and Vice President Cheney may have talked in July about whether to tell reporters that Valerie Plame worked at the CIA further bolsters the theory that Cheney may be the prime force behind this whole sordid tale. February 2, 2007 HTML: 02022007.html In Press Box, Jack Shafer dissects the innuendo-laden coverage of Citigroup exec Todd Thomsen's "friendship" with CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo. The Wall Street Journal 's reporting, which cushions the topic of their flight on a Citigroup jet in ambiguous language, is a classic example of insinuation: "It's not saying the two were romantically linked + it's not saying they weren't. ... This is the sort of copy a clever lawyer directs reporters to write when they "know" something but can't prove it." Newsweek is guilty, too, Shafer contends, only they blame bloggers for insinuating the relationship: "At least Britain's Private Eye magazine accepts responsibility for its own impiety whenever it wants to imply an unprintable intimate relationship by referring to a 'Ugandan discussion' or 'Ugandan relations.' " In The Big Idea, Jacob Weisberg considers the "two clocks" ticking in Iran--one marking the time before Iran develops nuclear bomb, the other waiting for the fall of its clerical regime. The nuclear alarm seems much closer to going off than the regime change alarm + the Bush administration's current saber-rattling isn't helping. Everyone knows the United States "lacks plausible military options" in Iran. "Meanwhile," Weisberg writes, "America's hostility is supplying Ahmadinejad with an external demon for his propaganda and helping him cover over his domestic failures." A new approach must emphasize "diplomacy over brinksmanship," with an offer to revoke sanctions in exchange for halting nuclear enrichment. But until that happens, "[t]he only encouraging news may be that Bush's clock, with just 103 weeks to run, is ticking even faster than the other two." In Politics, John Dickerson watches former New York Times reporter Judith Miller take the stand at the Scooter Libby perjury trial. The defense's argument hangs partially on the question of Miller's memory + her repetition of "I don't remember" frustrates defense attorney William Jeffress. " 'Do you remember my question?' he snapped at one point. Miller sighed. She apparently didn't." The next day, Dickerson cringes as his former colleague Matthew Cooper painstakingly and publicly combs through his typewritten notes. Libby's lawyer latches onto one phrase--"had somethine and abou the Wilson thing and not sure if it's ever"--and wonders if Cooper meant to type, "heard something about the Wilson thing and not sure if it's even true." "It all seemed very promising and clever," Dickerson writes. "And then Jeffress tried to turn the blank space in Cooper's notes into the word 'true.' ... That's not evidence. It's magic." The New York Times leads with news that Florida will probably say goodbye to touch-screen voting machines and replace them with paper ballots that will be counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election. Experts say the move could very well be the start of a trend that will bring an end to electronic voting machines, particularly of those that don't leave a paper record. The Washington Post leads with an early look at the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, which, big surprise, says the situation is getting worse and is quickly spiraling out of control. The NIE doesn't spend much time discussing Iran + mentions how Iraqi sectarian violence has become the main obstacle to U.S. goals. The Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox with word that some of President Bush's allies in the Senate are proposing their own Iraq resolution that calls on the local government to meet certain benchmarks. The Los Angeles Times leads with the global warming report by the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which was leaked to some news organizations in advance of its scheduled release today. The report concludes global warming is "very likely" (90 % certainty) caused by human activities. Worst of all, it says global warming has become uncontrollable and "would continue for centuries ... even if greenhouse gas concentrations were to be stabilized." USA Today leads with the Army Corps of Engineers revealing the location of the 122 levees across the country that could fail if there is a major flood. Some of the levees are close to areas with significant population, but others are in rural communities that may find it difficult to raise the money needed to carry out the necessary repairs. On Monday, USAT reported the existence of the at-risk levees but couldn't get their locations. After Freedom of Information requests were filed, The Army Corps of Engineers released the list + the paper posts it online. To continue reading, click here. Najaf - Iraqi government lies over the killing of hundreds of Shias in an attack on Sunday stand exposed by independent investigations carried out by IPS in Iraq. Conflicting reports had arisen earlier on how and why a huge battle broke out around the small village Zarqa, located just a few kilometres northeast of the Shia holy city Najaf, which is 90 km south of Baghdad. Google has always shown a curious bias towards right wing news sources in its news search. Now it has delisted Uruk.net a newsite frequently cited here. What is up with them? Here's one explanation. ALTERNATIVE PRESS REVIEW: ...Google [is] delisting the Italian web site Uruknet as a news source, thus removing it from the Google News page. According to Alexa, the web-ranking organization, Uruknet is highly rated as an Iraqi news source. "URUKNET is and has been the most consistent, credible + powerful web-based source of News and Information on Iraq during the last 4 years. They have incomparable lines of communication direct from inside Iraq that fly in the face of the lies of the Global Corporate Empire. When the imperialists cannot buy off or intimidate websites like URUKNET, th... Source: https://www.cosmiciguana.com/2007/02/google_takes_funds_from_cia_de.html My former Time colleague Matt Cooper took the stand Wednesday and faced what no journalist wants to--a display of his notes and e-mails on a big TV screen. It's not just journalists who don't want this: I'm sure Scooter Libby doesn't like seeing his notes up there either. But for us, who obsess about crafting our final product, it's never pretty to look at the scraps we put into making it. So, while Cooper was mostly calm and measured, it was excruciating to watch him talk through the notes he took while talking on the phone with Scooter Libby on July 12, 2003. Cooper contends that he asked Libby if he knew Wilson's wife worked at the CIA + that Libby answered, "Yeah I've heard that, too," or words to that effect. "Nowhere in his notes though, is there a reference to that exchange. To continue reading, click here. The Washington Post leads with Democratic and Republican senators who oppose President Bush's plan to send more troops to Iraq announcing last night they have reached a compromise and will support a resolution put forward by Republican Sen. John Warner of Virginia. The non-binding resolution isn't as strongly worded as the one Democrats preferred but after Warner made some changes they decided it was their best chance to get Republican support. The Los Angeles Times leads with a look at how Iraq's northern city of Kirkuk "could develop into a third front in the country's civil war" as different groups vie to control the oil-rich region. The Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox with the latest quarterly report on Iraq reconstruction that found tens of millions of dollars were wasted. The paper also notes Iraq has stopped all flights to and from Syria and closed one border crossing with Iran as the government prepares for a security crackdown. The New York Times leads news that a German court issued arrest warrants for 13 people who were part of a CIA "abduction team" that detained a German citizen and held him for five months in Afghanistan. German authorities did not name the suspects + said it is still trying to determine their true identities. The NYT notes the LAT was the first to report the story. USA Today leads with an early look at a study that says oil from the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill continues to cause problems to the ecosystem and wildlife. It's going to take longer for the oil to disappear than many predicted and it "will be readily detectable for decades," a scientist tells the paper. Last week, VoteVets launched a powerful ad campaign opposing President Bush’s escalation policy. ThinkProgress has learned that the new ad will run during today’s Superbowl. The ad, part of the Americans Against Escalation In Iraq campaign, will air in Washington, D.C., Minnesota + Maine, targeting Sens. John Warner (R-VA), Norm Coleman (R-MN) + Susan Collins (R-ME), respectively. Those three senators say they oppose sending more troops to Iraq, but haven’t signed on to the anti-escalation resolution sponsored by Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Joe Biden (R-DE). Watch the ad focusing on Sen. Norm Coleman: Digg It! This morning on ABC’s This Week, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) blasted the Iraq war resolution introduced by Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), which calls for benchmarks, but says nothing about what will occur if the benchmarks aren’t met. “I think if you want to go to a disingenuous resolution, this idea about putting benchmarks on the Iraqi government…and then having no consequences, now that’s intellectually dishonest,” he said. “So what are the consequences? Are we then going to pull out? If the benchmarks are not met by the Maliki government, are we then going to walk out? Are we then going to bring our troops home? Are we going to cut funding? Now, that falls more in the intellectually dishonest category.” Watch it: Asked about the resolution this morning on ABC’s This Week, McCain declared, “Well, the consequences are obvious.” But, he said, “I can’t tell you what the other options are, because there are no good options to this.” Transcript: (more…) On ABC’s This Week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said it is unrealistic to expect the escalation strategy to change the situation in Iraq in “a few months”: MCCAIN: Took us a long time to get in the situation we’re in + to say that — and somehow assume that in a few months, that things are going to get all better I think is not realistic. Just 47 seconds later, McCain said we’ll know whether the escalation strategy is working “in a few months”: STEPHANOPOULOS: You say it’s all in. How long are you going to give it to work? MCCAIN: I think in the case of the Iraqi government cooperating and doing what’s necessary, we can know fairly well in a few months. Watch it: Digg It! Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) has introduced an Iraq resolution which sets out “benchmarks” for the Iraqi government, but does not spell out any consequences if the benchmarks aren’t met. Asked about the resolution this morning on ABC’s This Week, McCain declared, “Well, the consequences are obvious.” But, he said, “I can’t tell you what the other options are, because there are no good options to this.” Watch it: McCain isn’t the only one who can’t make sense of toothless benchmarks. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said last week that benchmarks were “the best way to determine if the Iraqis are holding up their end of the bargain but he stopped short of saying what the U.S. should do it the Iraqis fall short. ‘I think everyone knows what the consequences are,’ McConnell said without specifying what he thinks they are, even when pressed. ‘I’m not going to start playing out the scenarios,’ he added.” Digg It! Transcript: (more…) On Friday, The Guardian reported that the American Enterprise Institute — which has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil — was offering to pay global warming skeptics to speak out in an effort to push back on the new IPCC climate change study. The IPCC report states that it is “very likely” that man-made greenhouse gases were the main cause of the Earth’s recent warming trend. The article reported that one American scientist — Steve Schroeder, a professor at Texas A&M university — turned down the offer citing fears that the report could easily be misused for political gain. “You wouldn’t know if some of the other authors might say nothing’s going to happen, that we should ignore it, or that it’s not our fault,” he said. A copy of the AEI letter can be read HERE. As with any large-scale “consensus” process, the IPCC is susceptible to self-selection bias in its personnel, resistant to reasonable criticism and dissent + prone to summary conclusions that are poorly supported by the analytical work of the complete Working Group reports. […] We are hoping to sponsor a paper…that thoughtfully explores the limitations of climate model outputs as they pertain to the development of climate policy. […] AEI will offer an honoraria of $10,000. … We intend to hold a series of small conferences and seminars in Washington and elsewhere…for which we can provide travel expenses and additional honoraria if you are able to participate. Indeed, the letter reveals that the oil lobbyists at AEI are quite familiar with “self-selection bias.” This week, the UK Daily Mail published photos of polar bears stranded on ice floes in the Arctic. Determined to deny the existence of global warming, Rush Limbaugh said on Friday that the bears were “just playing around…just like your cat goes to its litter box”: This whole thing is totally misleading. They’re not even stranded on an ice floe that’s broken apart. They’re just out there just playing around. They’re just out there. You know, just like your cat goes to its litter box. When’s the last time your cat got stranded in its litter box? Just like your pit bull attacks and kills the neighbor’s baby horse, whatever, I mean these things happen. It’s called nature. This isn’t “nature.” It’s human-induced global warming. In recent months, scientists have found that: – Polar bears “are drowning because climate change is melting the Arctic ice shelf. Researchers were startled to find bears having to swim up to 60 miles across open sea to find food. They are being forced into the long voyages because the ice floes from which they feed are melting, becoming smaller and drifting farther apart.” – “Pregnant polar bears in Alaska, which spend most of their lives on sea ice, are increasingly giving birth on land, according to researchers who say global warming is probably to blame.” – Polar bears “may be turning to cannibalism because longer seasons without ice keep them from getting to their natural food.” In December, the Bush administration “decided to propose listing the polar bear as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, putting the U.S. government on record as saying that global warming could drive one of the world’s most recognizable animals out of existence.” Digg It! The latest National Intelligence Estimate’s key judgments reached the same conclusion that the Center for American Progress reached last October: that Iraq was worse than simply a civil war because there are at least four major internal conflicts ongoing. The NIE identifies Muqtada Al-Sadr’s Mahdi Army as one of the “very effective accelerators” of Iraq’s civil war. Reporting from Baghdad, Tom Lasseter of McClatchy Newspapers said that many American junior officers are convinced that the Bush military escalation in Iraq will actually hand over portions of Baghdad to Iraqi security forces infiltrated by the Mehdi Army. Infiltration is a major problem that President Bush’s plan fails to adequately address. The independent Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction reported earlier this week that U.S. commander estimates that 20-25% of the Iraqi national police “needed to be weeded out.” In effect, the Bush escalation plan risks handing over territory to forces loyal to Shiite radical cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr, further accelerating Iraq’s civil war and doing nothing to bridge the growing divides among Iraqis. – Brian Katulis and Peter Juul Kenneth Adelman, “a lifelong neocon activist and Pentagon insider who served on the Defense Policy Board until 2005,” was a prominent advocate of the Iraq war. He famously claimed in a February 2002 Washington Post op-ed, “I believe demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.” Two months ago, Adelman delivered a mea culpa in an interview with Vanity Fair. “I just presumed that what I considered to be the most competent national-security team since Truman was indeed going to be competent. They turned out to be among the most incompetent teams in the post-war era. Not only did each of them, individually, have enormous flaws, but together they were deadly, dysfunctional.” This week, at a Denver City Club luncheon, Adelman said he sees the light at the end of the tunnel: Adelman is not optimistic of a positive outcome to the American occupation of Iraq. … He said if by July 4th there is no progress made, “then I will say it is hopeless.” Nevertheless, Adelman said President Bush’s escalation strategy is “worth a try,” even though its “chances of it succeeding are very low.” He also refused to express regret for promoting the war. “I expected an apology from you today,” said one attendee “who identified himself as a former intelligence officer for the United States Army during the Vietnam War.” “Former Vice President Al Gore has accepted an invitation to testify next month in a congressional hearing on the highly controversial issue of climate change. … Gore will appear at a joint hearing on Wednesday, March 21. He will be the only witness to appear before the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality and the Science and Technology Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.” %age of Americans who “favor a firm timetable for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Iraq within a year. That figure includes 37% who favor an immediate withdrawal and 18% who want a timetable that will complete the withdrawal in a year,” Rasmussen reports. Just 33% believe U.S. combat troops should remain in Iraq “until our mission is accomplished.” Charles ”Cully” Stimson, the Pentagon’s top official on detainee affairs, “resigned Friday over controversial remarks in which he criticized lawyers who represent terrorism suspects.” In a radio interview last month, Stimson said he found it shocking that lawyers at many of the nation’s top law firms represent detainees at Guantanamo + that companies “might want to consider taking their legal business to other firms that do not represent suspected terrorists.” Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), an opponent of Bush’s escalation plan, appeared on last night’s edition of Hardball. She told host Chris Matthews that she is “getting a lot of pressure” to go along with Bush from her conservative colleagues. “Tensions are definitely there,” Collins said. “And feelings are running very high on both sides.” Collins also described a “pretty contentious discussion” in which she stood up and responded to claims by the White House that the escalation resolutions “send mixed signals to our troops.” “I am really offended when people say that those of us who are in favor of the resolution are somehow betraying the troops,” Collins said. “I don’t believe that at all.” She added: “I think all Americans support our troops.” Watch it: This morning, the Politico quotes an unnamed conservative saying the debate over escalation is “starting to get really ugly.” According to the lawmaker, those who voice doubts over the Bush plan are being “beaten down” by other conservatives. Transcript: (more…) An increase in the minimum wage is “unfair to workers and, in many cases, it will be harmful to the very people it is supposedly designed to help,” according to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). See the real facts here. (HT: Bob Geiger) A new study by the Congressional Budget Office shows that the real troop increase associated with President Bush’s escalation policy could be as high as 48,000, more than double the 21,500 soldiers that Bush has claimed. Last night on MSNBC, Newsweek’s Howard Fineman reported that White House counsellor Dan Bartlett had written him in an email, “[W]e don’t agree with the CBO estimate and analysis. We think that there are already enough support troops on the ground there that very few will be required.” Watch it: In fact, the CBO report considers Bartlett’s claim and rejected it. “Army and DoD officials have indicated that it will be both possible and desirable to deploy fewer additional support units than historical practice would indicate,” the report states. “CBO expects that, even if the additional brigades required fewer support units than historical practice suggests, those units would still represent a significant additional number of military personnel.” Fineman added that if the administration is going to “flat-out deny” the CBO report, “then the question’s going to be, ok, if it’s not 15,000, how many is it? And where are your plans for actually knowing how many people you are putting in there? It undermines the whole notion that they know precisely what they are doing at this moment.” Transcript: (more…) At a press briefing this morning, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley said the White House will continue to avoid using the term “civil war” to describe events in Iraq, despite the findings of the new National Intelligence Estimate. Hadley was pressed on the issue by ABC News’ Martha Raddatz: “Why do you go out of your way not to use that word? The president goes out of his way as well. You say labels are difficult, but is it not important — certainly any military strategist will tell you it’s important to know what kind of fight you’re in.” Hadley justified his position by pointing to the new NIE. He said the White House will not use the term “because it’s not an adequate description of the situation we find ourselves, as the intelligence community says.” He added, “We know what kind of fight we’re in. We know the facts.” Watch it: In fact, the NIE says that Iraq is worse than a civil war. Specifically, it says the term “civil war” “accurately describes key elements of the Iraqi conflict,” but does not “capture the complexity of the conflict,” which also includes “extensive Shia-on-Shia violence, al-Qa’ida and Sunni insurgent attacks on Coalition forces + widespread criminally motivated violence.” Digg It! Transcript: (more…) The Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that Iran is responsible for the surging violence in Iraq. But on multiple occasions, the Bush administration has “ordered a delay in publication of evidence” to support its claim. U.S. allies who have seen the evidence said that it “still falls short of an airtight case.” In an inteview with yesterday, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said that Iran is “stoking” and “igniting” sectarian violence in Iraq. But he was unable to actually offer any such evidence. Watch it: Today’s new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) explains why Iran is not a driving force behind Iraq’s violence: Iraq’s neighbors influence + are influenced by, events within Iraq, but the involvement of these outside actors is not likely to be a major driver of violence or the prospects for stability because of the self-sustaining character of Iraq’s internal sectarian dynamics. Nonetheless, Iranian lethal support for select groups of Iraqi Shia militants clearly intensifies the conflict in Iraq. The NIE acknowledges that Iran is trying to cause trouble. But it also notes that sectarian violence — not Iranian support — is the most immediate threat. Moreover, as the New York Times wrote yesterday, “more threats and posturing are unlikely to get Iran to back down. If Mr. Bush isn’t careful, he could end up talking himself into another disastrous war + if Congress is not clear in opposing him this time, he could drag the country along.” Transcript: (more…) “President Bush is expected to shift $1.3 billion away from raising and armoring levees, installing floodgates and building permanent pumping in Southeast Louisiana in order to plug long-anticipated financial shortfalls in other hurricane-protection projects, a move Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) describes as a retreat from the president’s commitment to protect the whole New Orleans area.” The key judgments of the long-delayed Iraq National Intelligence Estimate have been released. Read them HERE. Below, some important findings: The term “civil war” “accurately describes key elements of the Iraqi conflict,” though it “does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict”: The Intelligence Community judges that the term “civil war” does not adequately capture the complexity of the conflict in Iraq, which includes extensive Shia-on-Shia violence, al-Qa’ida and Sunni insurgent attacks on Coalition forces + widespread criminally motivated violence. Nonetheless, the term “civil war” accurately describes key elements of the Iraqi conflict, including the hardening of ethno-sectarian identities, a sea change in the character of the violence, ethno-sectarian mobilization + population displacements. Iran is “not likely to be a major driver of violence or the prospects for stability”: Iraq’s neighbors influence + are influenced by, events within Iraq, but the involvement of these outside actors is not likely to be a major driver of violence or the prospects for stability because of the self-sustaining character of Iraq’s internal sectarian dynamics. Nonetheless, Iranian lethal support for select groups of Iraqi Shia militants clearly intensifies the conflict in Iraq. The overall security situation “will continue to deteriorate” in next 12-18 months (more…) “Statistics on a Pentagon Web site have been reorganized in a way that lowers the published totals of American nonfatal casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.” On Monday, the Defense Department’s website listed a total of 47,657 “nonmortal casualties” in Iraq. But on Tuesday, the same page simply listed 31,493 — the total for “medical air transported,” which excludes minor injuries and mental illnesses. Paul Sullivan of Veterans for America “said the changes actually meant the Pentagon was trying to conceal the rising toll of injuries and illness.” A new international climate report reveals that “there can be no question that the increase in greenhouse gases are dominated by human activities.” White House official Sharon Hays called the report “significant,” but stopped short of saying whether it would change President Bush’s policy on greenhouse gas emissions. Britain plans to put children on “ the front line of the battle to save the planet ,” by making issues of sustainable development - such as energy saving and recycling - a compulsory part of the school curriculum. In contrast, many schools in the United States are banning An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s global warming documentary. A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq “outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration.” The document cites sectarian violence — not al Qaeda or Iran — as the primary source of conflict. -1 %: The personal savings rate for Americans, now at the “lowest level since the Great Depression.” Economists “warn that the phenomenon exists at a particularly bad time with 78 million baby boomers approaching retirement age.” The Senate’s vote yesterday to increase the minimum wage included $8.3 billion in tax cuts to small businesses . Since the minimum wage was last raised 10 years ago, Congress has given small businesses $36 billion in tax breaks. (more…) “Gov. Charlie Crist (R-FL) announced plans on Thursday to abandon the touch-screen voting machines that many of Florida’s counties installed after the disputed 2000 presidential election. The state will instead adopt a system of casting paper ballots counted by scanning machines in time for the 2008 presidential election.” The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the most authoritative group on global warming, will report on Friday that it is “very likely” that human activities were the main cause of warming in the past 50 years. Prominent global warming deniers, such as Rush Limbaugh and Sen. James Inhofe, have already been downplaying the report and contravening the science. But the Guardian reports that there is a more orchestrated movement going on below the radar to confound the public about the IPCC’s report. The oil lobby is so desperate to push back on the new climate change report that they have been offering to pay global warming skeptics to speak out: Scientists and economists have been offered $10,000 each by a lobby group funded by one of the world’s largest oil companies to undermine a major climate change report due to be published today. Letters sent by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), an ExxonMobil-funded thinktank with close links to the Bush administration, offered the payments for articles that emphasise the shortcomings of a report from the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Travel expenses and additional payments were also offered. […] The letters were sent by Kenneth Green, a visiting scholar at AEI, who confirmed that the organisation had approached scientists, economists and policy analysts to write articles for an independent review that would highlight the strengths and weaknesses of the IPCC report. AEI has received more than $1.6 million from ExxonMobil. The well-heeled oil lobby is a primary reason why doubt still exists in the general public about the cause of global warming. As Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth pointed out, despite the fact that no peer-reviewed scientific articles published in recent years express any doubt that climate change is happening, more than 50 % of news media coverage of the issue includes the oil industry’s position on the subject. U.S. News: “Democrats on Capitol Hill are increasingly concerned that President Bush will order air strikes against targets in Iran in the next few months or even weeks. … [T]hey suspect Bush will order the bombing of Iranian supply routes, camps, training facilities + other sites that Administration officials say contribute to American losses in Iraq. Under this scenario, Bush would not invade Iran with ground forces or zero in on Iranian nuclear facilities. But under the limited-bombing scenario, Bush could ask for a congressional vote of support…which many Democrats would feel obliged to endorse or risk looking like they weren’t supportive of the troops.” Vice President Cheney’s determination to ignore global warming will soon be put to the test. The White House has announced that Cheney will travel to Australia and Japan this month “to discuss issues of mutual interest including Asian security and the global war on terror.” The Washington tip sheet The Nelson Report reported this tidbit about his schedule: The Vice President and Mrs. Cheney will visit Japan as part of an Asian tour which will take them to Tasmania for fly fishing, sources confirm. Cheney’s fishing trip will show him the impact of climate change first-hand. The warming of Tasmania’s waters has led to “exceptionally rare” development of coral reefs and “the invasion of about 30 species of fish from warmer areas.” In December, arid lands fueled the worst wildfires in years, 15 of which raged across state forests and burned more than 280,000 hectares. And extreme weather patterns have turned the country into a “freak show“: Every month [in 2006] but September saw a long-term monthly rainfall or temperature record broken. May saw the lowest temperature for the month ever recorded. June experienced the lowest total rainfall. October set records for the hottest day, coldest night, warmest night and lowest rainfall. Hopefully Cheney will use his fishing trip to learn something about the global climate crisis he now seems content to ignore. “The war in Iraq is a historic, strategic + moral calamity,” former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski said in prepared testimony for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. “If the United States continues to be bogged down in a protracted bloody involvement in Iraq,” Brzezinski cautioned, “the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large. … It is obvious by now that the American national interest calls for a significant change of direction.” A study released today by the Congressional Budget Office shows that the real troop increase associated with President Bush’s escalation policy could be as high as 48,000, more than double the 21,500 soldiers that Bush has claimed. As DefenseTech notes, extra forces are expected because the combat units being sent into Iraq “need to be backed up by support troops, ‘including personnel to staff headquarters, serve as military police + provide communications, contracting, engineering, intelligence, medical + other services.’” The CBO’s low estimate envisions at least 15,000 additional support personnel. The alternative scenario “would require about 28,000 support troops in addition to the 20,000 combat troops.” Additionally, the cost of the escalation could be as much as five times higher than White House estimates: According to the study, the costs for the “surge” would also be dramatically different than the President has said. The White House estimated a troop escalation would require about $5.6 billion in additional funding, the CBO now believes “that costs would range from $9 billion to $13 billion for a four-month deployment and from $20 billion to $27 billion for a 12-month deployment, depending upon the total number of troops deployed.” Read the full CBO report HERE. UPDATE: A release from Rep. John Spratt’s (D-SC) office notes that the CBO report also predicts addition burdens on U.S. forces: An average of 170,000 military personnel has been maintained in the Iraq theater of operations + this high deployment level has taken a toll. Last year, CBO reported that the Department of Defense had reduced the amount of ‘dwell’ time for many troops from two years to one year in order to sustain troop levels. ‘Dwell’ time is the time troops spend in training at bases in the United States while living with their families. CBO questioned whether such a high pace of operations was sustainable over the long term. The President’s proposal will increase this level to above 200,000 troops + to reach this level, the Pentagon will probably have to relax ‘dwell’ time standards even more. Bush_Claimed">Digg It! Exxon Mobil “posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company — $39.5 billion. … The 2006 profit topped Exxon Mobil’s own previous record of $36.13 billion set in 2005.” Three months after South Dakota voters rejected an abortion ban at the polls by a 56-44 margin, state legislators have introduced another “sweeping abortion bill…that supporters hope will lead to a legal challenge of Roe v. Wade.” The ban rejected in November was “extreme, allowing for abortion only in instances to prevent the death of a woman. The revised ban, titled the ‘Women’s Health and Human Life Protection Act,’ offers additional exceptions, though they are very narrowly defined.” Ms. Magazine reports: In addition to preventing the death of a woman, an abortion may be obtained in cases of rape or incest, but the victim must report the rape to the police within 50 days, the physician must obtain a copy of the report record + the victim must provide either the name and last known address or a description of the alleged rapist to law enforcement. Furthermore, the physician would be required to take blood samples from the woman and the fetus to be submitted to law enforcement. In the case of incest, a doctor “would have to get the woman’s consent to report the crime along with the identity of the alleged perpetrator before an abortion could be performed. Blood samples from fetuses would have to be provided to police in incest cases too.” Also, the penalties outlined in the new bill are “much more severe than last year’s bill. Any physician who performs an abortion outside the guidelines of the bill would be guilty of a class-four felony and could face up to 10 years in jail.” In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, President Bush acknowledged that as early as “September/October” 2006, he realized a major change was needed in Iraq: WSJ: Was there a moment in the war when you said we have to make a major change in the way we’re doing things in Iraq? But even after Bush realized that a major change was needed — in the weeks just prior to the midterm elections — he continued to knowingly mislead the American public and claim U.S. was “winning” in Iraq and that the strategy was “working”: QUESTION: Are we winning? BUSH: But I believe that the military strategy we have is going to work. That’s what I believe. [10/25/06] QUESTION: But just to be clear: When the commanders on the ground tell the president, in the large picture, we are stepping closer to chaos, he believes that can also be a picture of winning? BUSH: We’ve got a lot going for us. We got a strategy that helps us achieve victory + we got a military that is the finest military any country has ever assembled. [11/3/06] Previously, Bush acknowledged lying about Rumsfeld’s resignation for political purposes in the lead-up to the elections. Bush_Admits_He_Lied_To_Americans_About_Iraq_In_Lead_Up_To_Midterm_Elections">Digg It! “US companies are lagging behind Europe in their readiness to identify climate-change risks, according to the most comprehensive survey to date of industry awareness of the issues.” According to the Financial Times, many U.S. banks stated that “climate change had little to do with their business.” (See the real facts here.) Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, yesterday publicly defended her decision to become pregnant. “I knew it wasn’t going to be the most popular decision,” she said. Cheney then gestured to her middle: “This is a blessing from God. It is not a political statement. It is not a prop to be used in a debate, on either side of a political issue. It is my child.” Reacting to yesterday’s compromise between Sens. Carl Levin (D-MI) and John Warner (R-VA) on a resolution opposing escalation, White House spokesperson Dana Perino said, “These resolutions send mixed signals to our troops and our enemy.” Yesterday marked the first time Bush has spoken of a problem of income inequality in America. He said, “The fact is that income inequality is real; it’s been rising for more than 25 year,” adding that he sees the dividing line as between those with good educations and those without. Universal health care is “socialist,” according to former Sen. Rick Santorum, who believes that such a plan “would be a nightmare for America.” Approximately 69 % of Americans favor a universal health care system. 9/11 Commission members said the intelligence agencies are still slow to share information, money + personnel. “The Bush administration’s execution of the DNI reforms recommended by our commission has been a failure,” said John Lehman, a conservative member of the panel. (more…) “You know that the Fondas and [Sean] Penns are going to say, ‘Listen, I’m as American as you are…I just see things differently.’ And I’m willing to give them the benefit of that doubt. I don’t want to say that they’re anti-American.” Moments earlier: "Gamepolitics is reporting that attorney Jack Thompson is to face a disciplinary hearing before the Florida Supreme Court. The attorney faces five counts of professional misconduct, three of which are correlated with his ongoing campaign against violent video games. Thompson faces the possibility of disciplinary action up to and including disbarment." The piece outlines the development of a new substance reported to be stiffer than diamond. A team of scientists from Washington, Wisconsin + Germany combined the ceramic barium titanate and white-hot molten tin with an ultrasonic probe. The new material was, in some tests, almost 10x more resistant to bending than diamond. Composite materials researcher Mark Spearing of Southampton University comments on the result: "The material's stiffness results from the properties of the barium titanate pieces, Spearing says. As the material cools, its crystal structure changes, causing its volume to expand. 'Because they are held inside the tin matrix, strain builds up inside the barium titanate,' Spearing explains, 'at a particular temperature that energy is released to oppose a bending force.'" "Salon's Scott Rosenberg explains why even small-scale programming projects can take years to complete, one programmer is often better than two + the meaning of 'Rosenberg's Law.' After almost 50 years, the state of the art is still pretty darn bad. His point is that as long as you're trying to do something that has already been done, then you have an adequate frame of reference to estimate how long it will take/cost. But if software is at all interesting, it's because no one else has done it before." "The Globe and Mail is reporting that scientists in British Columbia have successfully used a 'decoy' molecule to shrink advanced prostate tumors. Citing a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the the Globe story explains how the researchers are the first to find a way to block the process of androgen reception in cells and prevent, a key trigger in the onset of prostate cancer." The permanently staffed structure could begin construction sometime in 2010, with six-month duty rotations the norm by 2025. Interestingly, the space agency is looking far afield for technical expertise. Consultants on the project include individuals from Caterpillar, Norcat, Boeing + other manufacturing concerns. Right now the only detail for placement and purpose is 'on the rim of a crater near one of the poles', but the article outlines a few other ideas that enterprising individuals have in mind for a moon base. Besides helium-3 mining and lunar hotels, do you have any good ideas for a moon base startup? Ein Genozid schwappt gerade über die Menschen im Gazastreifen, während die, die dies aus der Nähe und Ferne beobachten, sich in Schweigen hüllen. Etwa 1,4 Millionen Menschen, meistens Kinder, leben zusammengepfercht in einem der am dichtesten bewohnten Region der Erde, ohne Bewegungsfreiheit, ohne Spielplatz und ohne einen Ort, um sich zu verbergen und Schutz zu finden?, schrieb... Europa wird rechtsextrem. Die gefährlichen braunen Sümpfe gibt es längst in jedem EU-Land, nicht nur in Frankreich, in Deutschland oder Italien, sondern auch in Schweden. Time may be running out for Congress and the American people to put in place any constraints on President George W. Bush before he plunges ahead with a new war against Iran. Military and intelligence sources say... Das Amtsgericht München hat heute gegen die Kidnapper von Khaled el Masri auf Antrag des Oberstaatsanwalts August Stern hin Haftbefehl erlassen. Sie werden nun in Deutschland wegen des Verdachts der Freiheitsberaubung und der gefährlichen Körperverletzung gesucht. Noch nicht geklärt dagegen ist die Frage: Gab es auch deutsche Helfer und Mitwisser ?Der Münchener Staatsanwaltschaft... Egal, ob es sich um rechts-, links- oder religiös-extremistische Organisationen handelt: Penibel werden im Verfassungsschutzbericht Details über diskreditierte Organisationen festgehalten. Im aktuellsten 394 Seiten starken Verfassungsschutzbericht [1] (aus dem Jahr 2005) wird augenscheinlich jede auch nur annähernd verfassungsfeindliche Organisation oder Person... Majestic-12 is working towards creation of a World Wide Web search engine based on concepts of distributing workload in a similar fashion achieved by successful projects such as SETI@home and distributed.net. You can read more details on the project here. Below you can see recent news highlights, but for full details its best to check our forum. 21/01/07 MJ12node v1.4.5 Big update with comprehensive support for smart recrawls of priority buckets that will keep search engine up to date, plus bug fixes, please upgrade ASAP! 30/12/06 Almost 7 bln urls added taking database to well over 30 bln! You can see breakdown of urls by TLD here. 27/12/06 MJ12node v1.4.3 Couple more fixes to some rare but possible HTML parsing errors, please upgrade ASAP! 23/12/06 MJ12node v1.4.2 A fix to a few rare but happening during archiving errors are in this release, also updated HTMLparser to v3.0.1 with changes fixing index out of range errors in cases when HTML tag was cut midway at the end of data. 22/12/06 HTMLparser v3.0.0 + MJ12node v1.4.1 Yet another version of .NET C# HTML parser has been released with more than double improvement in performance, .NET 2.0 build, removal of dependency on unsafe code and some old incorrect parsing bugs fixed. To make it faster we used a rather novel (in parsing HTML) approach with context-sensitive heuristical prediction engine to minimise number of new strings created, this feature alone is responsible for 20% performance improvement + complete tag parsing code rewrite add more. Heuristics engine is trained on typical HTML tagset, but you can override that or switch it off completely. If you can beat the speed of parsing with better algorithms then please let me know! MJ12node builds updated with new fast parser, this should reduce Stage 2 archiving time very nicely, also 64-bit Vista/Longhorn now supported, get new node here. 14/12/06 MJ12node v1.4.0 Mammoth* upgrade to MJ12node is released, it is highly recommended to upgrade because new version includes a over 100 of fixes and features too numerious to list here, but inquiring minds can see the details in this forum post. This release, yet again, marks development shift back to the search engine. 04/12/06 HTMLparser v2.0.0 New version of .NET C# HTML parser has been released with about 100% improvement in performance, fixed bugs and support for text encodings to parse non-English pages correctly. 20/11/06 More urls added taking database to almost 25 bln! See for yourself here. 09/09/06 3.8 bln urls added taking database to over 20 bln! Even more billions of discovered urls were process with 3.8 billion of them selected for crawl! You can see breakdown of urls in database by TLD (top-level-domain) here. This load took database of known database to over 20 bln! 30/07/06 Search engine updated to v0.6.4 Continued peformance improvements as well as bug fixes and new index of Wikipedia's 2.5 mln articles are featured in this release. 23/07/06 Search engine updated to v0.6.3 Significant performance improvements and rebuild of all subindices was the main goal of this update. 14/07/06 Search engine updated to v0.6.2 Completely rewritten code to support multiple indices efficiently in a multi-server environment. Functions like View Text, Explain Time, Explain Rank, Word Search are all now working correctly with multiple indices (something that was broken or disabled for 1 bln page release). Development focus is moved to weekly search engine updates. 16/06/06 MJ12node v1.3.0 Major upgrade to MJ12node is released, it is highly recommended to upgrade because new version includes a lot of fixes and features too numerious to list here, but inquiring minds can see the details in this forum post. This release marks development shift back to the search engine itself. 25/05/06 New Statesman New Media Award nomination! The project was nominated for New Statesman New Media Award in the Contribution to Civic Society category, so wish us good luck, the winners will be announced in July 2006! 20/04/06 Biggest URL load to date: 2.8 billion urls added! Huge analysis task that processed many billions of discovered urls and selected 2.8 billion of them for recrawl! You can see breakdown of urls in database by TLD (top-level-domain) here. This load ends recrawl and initiates regional focus. 07/04/06 MJ12node v1.2.7 A fix to broken restart function in Windows release of MJ12node is released, it is highly recommended to upgrade since automatic restart is used internally in a number of cases. Users of Linux/FreeBSD builds are not affected. 06/04/06 MJ12node v1.2.6 New version of MJ12node is released with a number of fixes that reduce CPU and memory usage, it is highly recommended to upgrade. 23/03/06 The Guardian published an article about the project! Michael Pollitt from the Guardian (excellent national UK newspaper) has written an article about us, check it out here! One of the earliest to subscribe to the 23 Enigma was beat poet William S. Burroughs. For him, it was not just the unusual frequency of the number; it was that in any coincidence he would find the number 23. posted by Prof. Hex SAUDI ARABIA. International Information & Trading Services Co. SOUTH AFRICA. Barlows Electronics Ltd ...www.privacy.org/pi/reports/big_bro/directory.html 18.Dec.2004 Big Brother Incorporated Companies List ... NORWAY. Simrad Optronics A/S. PORTUGAL . 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Das ist wenig überraschend: Viele als geheim eingestufte Anlagen fallen erst durch die Satellitenbilder überhaupt auf - entweder weil man sie sieht, oder weil man eben nichts sieht. Die Debatte, ob Google Earth ein Sicherheitsrisiko darstellt, begann nur wenige Tage, nachdem die Software im Jahr 2005 veröffentlicht worden war. Bis heute gehören Abbildungen von Militärflughäfen, Atomkraftwerken und anderen strategisch wichtigen Zielen zu den populärsten Fundstücken, die die Earth-Nutzer in Blogs und Foren veröffentlichen und diskutieren. Satellitenbilder: Schöner spionieren mit Google Fotostrecke starten: Klicken Sie auf ein Bild (12 Bilder) Wobei eines klar scheint: Was wirklich wichtig ist, bekommt man in vielen Ländern längst nicht mehr zu sehen. Wie unabhängig ist Google? Auf Bitten der indischen Regierung zensiert der Online-Konzern Satellitenbilder strategisch wichtiger Objekte. Es ist nicht das erste Mal: Das scheinbar so vollständige Bild der Erde weist immer mehr Lücken auf. 04.Feb.2007 Angst vor Terroristen: Google Earth verschleiert indische Verteidigungsanlagen 04.Feb.2007 Flugsicherheit: Vertrauen ist gut, Kontrolle ist schlechter 04.Feb.2007 Flughafen Frankfurt: Die Sicherheitshölle 04.Feb.2007 Washington D.C., USA: Der Sicherheitsprofi 04.Feb.2007 Brüssel, EU- Generaldirektion für Energie und Verkehr: Der Sicherheitsanalytiker 04.Feb.2007 Berlin, Innenministerium: Die Sicherheitszukunft 04.Feb.2007 RAF- Bewältigung: Schweigen im Packeis Zwei neue Sammelklagen wollen nun auch Gesundheitsstudien erzwingen. "Unsere Hauptsorge sind Benzol und Methangas", sagt Justin Bloom, einer der Anwälte, dessen Klageschrift auf 158 Seiten insgesamt 392 Nebenkläger auflistet. Das Dokument benennt noch zahlreiche andere Schadstoffe: Petroleum, Petroleumzusätze, Benzin, Blei, Steinkohlenteeröl, Dimethylbenzol, Kerosin. Eine Geldstrafe gab es freilich nicht. Anders als bei der "Exxon Valdez", für deren Havarie Exxon letztendlich 2,5 Milliarden Dollar Bußgeld zahlen musste. 150.000 historische Aktenseiten Drei der alten Öltanks rosten heute noch am Ufer des Creek, hinter Stacheldraht an der Kingsland Avenue. "Illegale Substanzen verboten", steht auf einem Warnschild. Dazu hat Exxon begonnen, das Öl abzusaugen. Viel zu spät jedoch, völlig unzureichend und ohne Rücksicht auf die Gesundheit der Menschen, finden Basil Seggos und Hunderte Anwohner, die Exxon in mehreren Zivilklagen vor Gericht gezwungen haben. Der Kampf der Davids gegen Goliath währt schon länger, spitzt sich jetzt aber zu: Der US-Kongress will eingreifen. "So was sieht man sonst nur in der Dritten Welt", murmelt Seggos, über die Böschung des Creeks kraxelnd. "Es ist wie eine Zeitreise in die Vergangenheit." An einigen Stellen kapseln Gummiringe das Ufer ab, um zu verhindern, dass Öl in den Fluss rinnt; davor staut sich ein dünner Ölfilm. "Es hilft nicht viel", seufzt Seggos. "Weiter hinten ist der Creek tot." Rostende Öltanks am Ufer "Der Creek ist tot" "Viele Leute wissen bis heute nicht, dass sie auf einer Zeitbombe sitzen", sagt Seggos, der der Sache als Chefforscher der Umweltgruppe Riverkeeper seit 2001 nachgeht. "Sie atmen toxische Gase ein. Sie werden krank." |