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18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-466991,00.html

01.Mär.2007 -am- Belafonte, der 80 Jahre alt wird, sagte, er werde seinen drei Töchtern und seinem Sohn nur wenig hinterlassen.

"Ich habe meinen Kindern gesagt, dass sie nichts erwarten sollen", sagte er.

So what if three of the top administration officials outed a CIA officer? (Laughter)

So what if the president refuses to say whether or not he authorized it? (Laughter) So what if he once said that he would fire whomever was involved in the outing? (Laughter)

Source: https://blondesense.blogspot.com/2007/02/white-house-press-whores-roaring-in.html Washington Post Coverage: Where's the Accountability?, The Libby-Cheney Bummer, Washington Journalism on Trial
18.Feb.2007 White House Advisers Searching for Ways to ‘Bypass Congress Altogether’ - Payson - President Bush is “struggling for relevancy in the same way many other second-term presidents have,”

Newsweek observed recently. “But Bush’s burden seems much harder than other presidents in recent memory.” 71 % of Americans see Bush as a “lame duck” president + 58 % “wish the Bush presidency were simply over.”

U.S. News reports that conservatives have seen the writing on the wall and are now advising Bush to “jump start” his final two years by pushing through as much as he can by executive fiat:

With President Bush unable to get much traction so far in moving his agenda through Congress or in improving his job-approval ratings with the public, White House advisers are casting about for ways to jump-start his final two years, including issuing executive orders to get things done without having to ask for support from the Democratic-controlled Congress.

“He should get a list of the executive orders for the last 200 years, as a guide + choose what he wants to do,” says an informal Bush adviser.

One proposal that fiscal conservatives are pushing is to halve all capital-gains taxes, as a way to encourage investment and job creation.

Some conservatives argue that even if Bush somehow regains his political footing, whatever he might work out with the Democratic majority in Congress wouldn’t be very good legislation, so he should go the executive-order route and bypass Congress altogether.

Bush has already begun to implement the strategy. Last month, Bush signed Executive Order 12866 to put political appointees — rather than experienced civil servants — in charge of regulatory agencies. The order would “give the White House much greater control over the rules and policy statements that the government develops to protect public health, safety, the environment, civil rights and privacy.” Columbia Law School professor Peter L. Strauss said the move “achieves a major increase in White House control over domestic government. … Having lost control of Congress, the president is doing what he can to increase his control of the executive branch.”
18.Feb.2007 Breaking: Senate rejects debate on anti-escalation resolution. - Amanda -

AP reports: “The Senate gridlocked on the Iraq war in a sharply worded showdown on Saturday as Republicans foiled a Democratic attempt to rebuke President Bush over his deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops. The vote was 56-34.” That was four short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, which is identical to a nonbinding resolution that passed the House on Friday.

UPDATE: “The vote marked the second time this winter that Senate Republicans have blocked action on nonbinding measures critical of the president’s war policies.

This time, however, there were signs of restlessness within the GOP. Seven Republicans broke with their leadership, compared with only two on the previous test vote.”

UPDATE II: Full roll call vote here.
18.Feb.2007 Sen. Thomas: ‘If You Are Talking About Withdrawal, I Don’t Think Most People Favor That’ - Faiz -

On C-Span’s Washington Journal this morning, Sen. Craig Thomas (R-WY) said that he would support Bush’s escalation strategy if it comes to a vote today in the Senate.

Thomas justified his stance by arguing, “If you are talking about withdrawal, I don’t think most people favor that.” Watch it: <

Thomas’s claim has no support. Recent polls have indicated widespread approval for withdrawal. Here’s a sampling:

USA Today: 63 % favor a timetable for withdrawal by the end of next year

Pew: 53 % favor a withdrawal from Iraq

Rasmussen: 55 % favor withdrawal within a year

Newsweek reported recently that Thomas is one of Bush’s “dwindling” supporters on Iraq. But even the stalwart conservative senator from Wyoming has privately expressed concern about the escalation strategy. When it comes to public action, however, Thomas is one of the conservatives struggling “to put country over party.” Transcript: (more…)
18.Feb.2007 Back pain linked to brain changes Chronic back pain is linked to physical changes in the brain, according to researchers in Germany.
18.Feb.2007 Hicks to return home 'this year' Australia's only remaining detainee at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay could be home by the end of the year.
18.Feb.2007 Bounty of scientific breakthroughs Scientists gather in San Francisco to share ideas on everything from robotics to energy technology.
18.Feb.2007 Scientists Expose Weak DNA in HIV - CowboyNeal 160 -
Ace905 writes "The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases announced Thursday that they had discovered a very promising 'weak spot' in the HIV virus.

The HIV virus, a progenitor to full blown AIDS has eluded all attempts at a vaccine since it was discovered sometime in the 1970 's.

The major problem with developing a vaccine initially was isolating the virus. Conventional viruses are often defeated with existing drugs, or after being tested against new compounds.

HIV has been unique + staggering in it's ability to resist all attempts at treatment by mutating its own genetic code.

HIV is able to resist, with great effectiveness, any drug or combination drug-therapy that is used against it."
18.Feb.2007 Dollar Falls Against Euro, Yen: The dollar fell against most major currencies Thursday after a U.S. government report showed net capital inflow tumbling

00.Dec.2006 suggesting foreign securities are attracting investors

18.Feb.2007 Drop in capital flow to U.S. poor dollar omen: An unexpected drop in demand for U.S. financial assets in late 2006 bodes ill for the dollar unless

00.Dec.2006 s data on capital flows released on Thursday proves an anomaly instead of the start of a trend.

18.Feb.2007 The US as leading currency manipulator: Median family annual income has declined by nearly US$1,300 over recent years as income disparity widens.

More than 3 million US manufacturing jobs have been lost since 2001, the steepest and most prolonged loss since the Great Depression.

18.Feb.2007 Anti-China bills follow U.S. trade deficit: - The record $764 billion U.S. trade deficit has led to bipartisan bills in Congress that could punish China for its exports, a newspaper analysis said Friday.

18.Feb.2007 U.S. plans China hotline as deficit soars: Direct connect to Vice-Premier Wu Yi hoped to help iron out trade issues

18.Feb.2007 Oceanic Islanders Win Appeal in Massive Claim Against Mining Giant Rio Tinto : The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals today reinstated the massive human rights claim brought by the people of the island of Bougainville against London-based Rio Tinto (NYSE: RTP), one of the world's largest mining companies.

18.Feb.2007 January world's hottest on record - report : Last month was the world's hottest January on record, further evidence that greenhouse gas emissions are causing global warming, Japanese scientists said on Friday.

18.Feb.2007 Great Andean glacier 'will melt to nothing by 2012':

The principal glacier of the world’s biggest tropical ice-cap could disappear within five years as a result of global warming, one of the world’s leading glaciologists predicted yesterday.

18.Feb.2007 Police ordered to stop taping public events: A rebuke of a surveillance practice greatly expanded by the New York Police Department after the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal judge ruled Thursday that the police must stop the routine videotaping of people at public gatherings unless there was an indication that unlawful activity may occur.
18.Feb.2007 Amy Goodman: Freedom of press needs shield law: Josh Wolf, videographer and blogger, is now the journalist imprisoned longest in U.S. history for refusing to comply with a subpoena.
18.Feb.2007 In case you missed it: Israel Is Spying In And On The U.S.? Video;

Fox News has learned some U.S. investigators believe that there are Israelis engaged in spying in and on the U.S., who may have known things they didn't tell us before 11.Sep.2001 .

18.Feb.2007 Justin Raimondo : The High-Fivers : More proof the Israelis were shadowing the 9/11 hijackers

18.Feb.2007 31 to Stand Trial in CIA Kidnapping Case : An Italian judge on Friday indicted 26 Americans and five Italians in the first criminal trial over the CIA's extraordinary rendition program.

18.Feb.2007 Was Jose Padilla tortured by US military?: "Mr. Padilla is suffering from mental defects stemming from his incarceration in the naval brig,"

writes Anthony Natale, an assistant federal public defender, in a brief to the court.

"The effects of that incarceration ... have left Mr. Padilla in such a psychologically frail posture that he cannot bear to revisit his past +, hence, cannot assist counsel in defending him against the government's allegations."

18.Feb.2007 Accused Terrorist Ordered Released From Canadian Jail: . Mahjoub had been on a hunger strike for 84 days at a Kingston, Ontario prison, dubbed Guantanamo North by human-rights campaigners.

18.Feb.2007 European investigator says U.S. refuses to let him question Guantanamo prisoners: The Swiss senator leading a European investigation into reports that the CIA operated secret prisons in Europe + illegally transferred terror suspects complained Friday that the United States has refused to let him question prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay.

18.Feb.2007 US acting like terrorists: ex-premier: A former Western Australian Labor premier has lashed out at the Australian + US governments over the treatment of terrorism suspects like David Hicks.

18.Feb.2007 Australia Denied on Psychiatrist Request :

Australia was refused permission to send an independent psychiatrist to Guantanamo Bay to assess the lone Australian prisoner at the U.S. detention camp in Cuba, a senior Foreign Department official said Thursday.

18.Feb.2007 US alleges Hicks collected embassy intelligence: He allegedly personally collected intelligence on the US Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan + was trained in covert photography, the use of dead drops and the use of disguises

18.Feb.2007 Hicks supporters scoff at new evidence: Former prime minister Malcolm Fraser has backed the Hicks camp, accusing the Howard government of betraying the former Adelaide man by not trying him in Australia.

18.Feb.2007 Spain furious as US blocks access to Madrid bombing 'chief': Exclusive:

On the first day of the Madrid bombing trial, the splits that have emerged between Spain and the US over the War on Terror, which have their roots in the Iraq conflict, are laid bare
18.Feb.2007 Defendants Are Dealt a Blow In Aipac Spy Case: A federal judge in Virginia has dealt two blows to the defense of a pair of pro-Israel lobbyists accused of illegally trafficking in classified information
18.Feb.2007 Russia to support Palestinian national unity government: - Russia will support the formation of a Palestinian national unity government and negotiations with Israel, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday
18.Feb.2007 Pakistani official: Taliban insurgency becoming 'liberation war': : Taliban-led insurgents are winning ever-greater public support in occupied Afghanistan for a struggle that is taking on the character of a "liberation war" against foreign troops, a senior Pakistani official claimed Friday.
18.Feb.2007 War is a racket!: Flush with cash and fearful, Gulf Arab states plan weapons buying binge : Deep fears about the war in Iraq and growing tension between the USA and Iran are driving the wealthy oil states of the Persian Gulf to go on shopping sprees for helicopters, ships and tanks, officials say.

18.Feb.2007 41% % of Your 2006 Taxes Go to War: This chart shows FCNL's calculations of how much of your 2006 tax dollars go to pay for current and past military activities.
18.Feb.2007 Iran arrests bomb 65 suspects, police say U.S. link: It quoted the local police chief as saying the suspects had clear links to U.S. and British intelligence services.

18.Feb.2007 Iran Limits Uranium Work to Avoid Provocation, Diplomats Say : Iran is limiting uranium enrichment in a signal to the U.S. and its European allies that the Islamic Republic wants to avoid escalating the dispute over its nuclear program, two Western diplomats said.

18.Feb.2007 OIC supports Iran’s quest to go nuclear: - Lawmakers from member states of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference on Friday backed Iran’s nuclear programme, at a meeting in the Malaysian capital.
18.Feb.2007 Frm. Bush NSC Dir. says US provoking pretext for Iran war : A former NSC Director is saying that the Bush administration is trying to provoke Iran into creating a pretext that would spark a US war on Iran.
18.Feb.2007 Frm. Bush NSC Dir. says US provoking pretext for Iran war : Video:

A former NSC Director is saying that the Bush administration is trying to provoke Iran into creating a pretext that would spark a US war on Iran.

Pelosi: Bush Lacks Authority to "Invade" Iran: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that President Bush lacks the authority to invade Iran without specific approval from Congress, a fresh challenge to the commander in chief on the eve of a symbolic vote critical of his troop buildup in Iraq.

18.Feb.2007 U.S. patrol ship on alert in gulf: Soon the Firebolt will be joined in the region by one of the Navy's most heavily armed behemoths:

the 1,092-foot-long carrier John C. Stennis, with a crew of 5,000 + more than 80 warplanes.

The Stennis will head a strike force of destroyers, cruisers and submarines deployed to the region by the Bush administration amid heightened tensions with Iran
18.Feb.2007 Broad Swath of GOP Defecting on Iraq Vote: From the moderate suburbs of Delaware to the rural, conservative valleys of eastern Tennessee, House Republican opponents of President Bush's latest Iraq war plan cut across the GOP's ideological and regional spectrum.

18.Feb.2007 Most Americans Say U.S. Should Withdraw From Iraq, Poll Finds : A majority of Americans -- 53 % -- said the U.S. should withdraw from Iraq, according to Pew.

That is up 5 points in the past month and the highest %age favoring a troop pullout since the war began almost four years ago

18.Feb.2007 GOP Activists: Bush Won't Listen on Iraq: Here's another measure of how much trouble President Bush is in politically: Even once-loyal Republican activists are complaining that Bush's senior advisers, including political architect Karl Rove, don't want to listen to their ideas about changing policy in Iraq.

18.Feb.2007 War helping al-Qaida regroup, Congress told: A panel of experts painted a picture of an Islamic terrorist organization far different from the one President Bush portrays: that al-Qaida “is on the run.”
18.Feb.2007 How America Marginalizes Millions -By Ted Rall
The media's current swooning over Barack Obama's 2008 presidential bid serves as an unintentional reminder that the white majority, which controls top positions in journalism and politics in disproportionate numbers, remains prejudiced against blacks more than four decades after the zenith of the civil rights movement. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Pakistan urges Afghanistan to open dialogue with Taliban : Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, a former general who is now governor of the North West Frontier Province bordering Afghanistan, warned the Taliban-led insurgency was already turning into a "liberation war" in Afghanistan.

18.Feb.2007 Russian-U.S. ties hit new low: For all the talk of strategic partnership + even personal friendship between Putin + President George W. Bush, the relationship between Russia + the USA has reached its lowest point since the Soviet Union collapsed a decade and a half ago

18.Feb.2007 US military planes criss-cross Europe using bogus call sign: THE American military have been operating flights across Europe using a call sign assigned to a civilian airline that they have no legal right to use.

18.Feb.2007 Documents show new secretive US prison program isolating Muslim, Middle Eastern prisoners : The US Department of Justice has implemented a secretive new prison program segregating "high-security-risk" Muslim and Middle Eastern prisoners and tightly restricting their communications with the outside world in apparent violation of federal law

18.Feb.2007 Neo-Nazi rally was organized by FBI informant: That revelation came Wednesday in an unrelated federal court hearing and has prompted outrage from black leaders, some of whom demanded an investigation into whether the February 2006 march was, itself, an event staged by law-enforcement agencies.

00.000.2006 Foreclosures surge 42 % : One out of every 92 households filed for foreclosure, group says.

02/16/07 00.000.2006, suggesting that many homeowners are overextended in mortgage debt.

18.Feb.2007 Iran - Ready to Attack American preparations for invading Iran are complete -By Dan Plesch
American military operations for a major conventional war with Iran could be implemented any day.

They extend far beyond targeting suspect WMD facilities and will enable President Bush to destroy Iran's military, political and economic infrastructure overnight using conventional weapons. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Next Stop: Tehran -By Philip Giraldi
For the past two years, the U.S. has been conducting secret operations inside Iran, employing Special Forces units operating out of Afghanistan, while Pentagon-supported dissidents have been carrying out armed raids into Iran?s predominantly Arab provinces. Continue

18.Feb.2007 StratCom and the Plan To Attack Iran -By Tim Rinne
Under “CONPLAN 8022? (Contingency Plan 8022), the Omaha-based command center is now commissioned to strike anywhere in the world within minutes of detecting a target deemed a threat to the USA’ national security. And the projected attack against Iran-which could well include nuclear as well as conventional weapons-will be planned, launched and coordinated by StratCom. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Congress' Nuclear Liability -By Jorge Hirsch
Congress is on notice. The expanded role for nuclear weapons logically calls for a change in the decision-making process on when nuclear weapons should be used, at least in cases where no extreme urgency exists. Under current law, the President has sole full authority to order their use, Congress has no say. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Blackmailing Bush; How The "Dear Leader" Conned "The Decider" -By Mike Whitney
The Bush foreign policy is predicated on one simple axiom: “We will stop the world’s most dangerous men from getting their hands on the world’s most dangerous weapons”. By that standard, Bush’s dealings with North Korea have been a wretched failure. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Money Trumps Peace...Sometimes -By Cindy Sheehan
“Money trumps peace” should be the rallying call of all the Democrats and Republicans who are exploiting our tired and wounded soldiers in the field to justify handing BushCo more money to complete his mission of totally decimating the Middle East for the oil companies, construction contractors + defense industries. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Pelosi Backs War Funds: With Conditions -By Jonathan Weisman and Shailagh Murray
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) yesterday linked her support for President Bush's war-funding request to strict standards of resting, training + equipping combat forces, a move that could curtail troop deployments + alter the course of U.S. involvement in Iraq. Continue
18.Feb.2007 Wolf Blitzer is a Zionist?: Zionism - "is the national liberation movement of the Jewish people. To deny Zionism, to reject Zionism, is about as racist an element as you can get"
18.Feb.2007 Bush all set to attack Iran: Report: The Bush administration's preparation to strike Iran is complete with the top commander of the US Central Command having received computerised plans for ‘Operation Iranian Freedom’, a report has said. 18.Feb.2007 US-North Korean Nuclear Agreement: Clearing The Decks For Iran: Far from marking a fundamental change in the militarist course of the Bush administration, the deal represents a temporary and tactical shift that conveniently sidelines a potentially explosive issue as the US prepares for war against Iran.

18.Feb.2007 India's anti-Iran votes were coerced, says former US official : India's votes against Iran, in turn, 'paved the way for the Congressional vote on the civilian nuclear proposal last year'.

18.Feb.2007 Iran: Minister briefs media on plans to avoid impact of sanctions on oil industry: Oil Minister Kazem Vaziri Hamaneh said here Saturday that to avoid the impact of sanctions on the country's oil industry, special plans have been drawn up, just as the industry has been expanding over the past 20 years despite sanctions.

18.Feb.2007 Iran's top leader: Oil, gas reserves will dry up, Tehran needs to produce nuclear fuel: "Oil and gas reserves won't last forever. If a nation doesn't think of producing its future energy needs, it will be dependent on domination-seeking powers," the television quoted Khamenei as saying.

18.Feb.2007 MP says Switzerland plans to guarantee enrichment in Iran: A Majlis deputy said here Saturday that a plan has been presented by Switzerland to settle the dispute between the West and Iran over the latter's peaceful nuclear activities and guarantee enrichment inside Iranian territory.

18.Feb.2007 Iran police clash with armed group after bomb: Clashes broke out between police and an armed group following a bomb explosion in southeast Iran on Friday, Fars news agency reported.

18.Feb.2007 Unnamed sources?: Report: Weapons used in attack in Zahedan, Iran come from U.S. : Relevant documents, photographs and film footage, which show that the explosives and arsenals used in the attack were American, would soon be made public, an "informed source" was quoted as saying.

18.Feb.2007 IED Lies: : The US claims that Iran supplies Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDS) to Iraqi insurgents. No serious evidence has been provided.

18.Feb.2007 Syria and Iran vow unity against US : Al-Assad arrived in Iran for a two day visit aimed at bolstering robust ties, his second trip to the Islamic republic since Ahmadinejad took power in August 2005.

18.Feb.2007 Interview with Stephen Kinze: Let's start with history.

00.000.1953 the Eisenhower administration backed a coup against the elected leader of Iran, a man named Mossadegh, who had sought to nationalize the country's oil industry.

18.Feb.2007 Olmert, Bush agree to shun Palestinian govt : An official in Olmert's office told Reuters that the agreement was reached in a telephone conversation on Friday between the two leaders.

18.Feb.2007 Palestinian leader Abbas says world must learn to live with Fatah-Hamas coalition:

"President Abbas told David Welch that the Mecca agreement was the only possible agreement + the world must deal with it," Abu Rdeneh said.

18.Feb.2007 Italian FM says Europeans acknowledge new Palestinian goverment: Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema said on Saturday at a meeting with Meretz Chairman MK Yossi Beilin in Italy, that a majority is forming among the members of the European Union to acknowledge the new Palestinian government.
18.Feb.2007 House Rejects Bush's Surge Plan: The Democratic-led House sent a powerful message barreling down Pennsylvania Avenue toward President Bush on Friday, telling him it opposes his latest troop buildup in Iraq and will soon try to curtail military operations in the war zone.

18.Feb.2007 Senate Blocks Iraq War Resolution Debate: Republicans foiled a Democratic attempt to rebuke President Bush over his deployment of 21,500 additional combat troops. The vote was 56-34.

That was four short of the 60 needed to advance the measure, which is identical to a nonbinding resolution that Democrats pushed through the House on Friday.
18.Feb.2007 Jailed 2 Years, Iraqi Tells of Abuse by Americans -By MICHAEL MOSS and SOUAD MEKHENNET
The American detention camps in Iraq now hold 15,500 prisoners, more than at any time since the war began. The camps are filled with people like Mr. Ani who are being held without charge and without access to tribunals where their cases are reviewed, the Times examination published last December found. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Lord knows we've suffered enough already

18.Feb.2007 Keep Them Out Of Ohio -By Mike Ferner
"Ohio Governor Ted Strickland has a message for President Bush: any plan to relocate to the US thousands of refugees uprooted by the Iraq war shouldn't include Ohio. Continue

18.Feb.2007 In case you missed it: To Restore Democracy : First Abolish Corporate Personhood -By Thom Hartmann
For twenty years corporate personhood was debated. Across America, politicians were elected repeatedly on platforms that included the regulation of corporations, particularly the railroads. But the legal fight continued - and in 1886 the railroad hit paydirt. Continue

18.Feb.2007 In case you missed it: The Corporation
This is an extraordinary film about the creation of the American corporation, its legal organizational model, its global economic dominance and its psychopathic tendencies + its incredible ambition to influence every aspect of culture in its unrelenting pursuit of profit. Video. Click to view

18.Feb.2007 Mystery: How Wealth Creates Poverty in the World -By Michael Parenti
There is a “mystery” we must explain: How is it that as corporate investments and foreign aid and international loans to poor countries have increased dramatically throughout the world over the last half century, so has poverty? The number of people living in poverty is growing at a faster rate than the world’s population. What do we make of this? Continue
18.Feb.2007 American Betrayal -By David Michael Green
Surely the hottest place in Hell is being reserved for Colin Powell, who not only violated all his experience, principles, honor and reputation by failing to speak out against the war, but in fact sold that war to a then-skeptical American public by means of his United Nations exhibition in political pornography. Continue

18.Feb.2007 Business As Usual -By Irene Rheinwald
Empire building, the consequence of self-delusion, arrogance + xenophobia, is actually economic exploitation. The spoils of war are paramount: not democracy, not enlightenment, nor freedom, liberty + certainly not self-determination. To assert such lofty motives is disingenuous dissembling. Why is the USA only interested in “liberating” countries swimming in natural resources such as oil? Continue
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Busheviks Make Enemies Throughout the World: "In repudiation for what his presence signifies given the mistreatment meted out to the prisoners at Guantanamo, Alberto Gonzales was not received by any high-level Argentine official. This decision by our Foreign Ministry shows that we are a sovereign nation rather than a subservient republic begging for favors from the strongest."

18.Feb.2007 Ex-envoy says Iraq rebuilding plan won't work: "Now she is back home, angry + convinced that President Bush's new strategy of doubling the number of such groups to 20 along with a troop surge of 21,500 will not help stabilize Iraq."
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18.Feb.2007 Doctors and Drug Makers: A Move to End Cozy Ties 2/18
GOP Senators Stand by the Political Version of Jim Jones and Condemn More Men and Women to Die in Iraq. They Undercut Our Troops by Sending Them on a "Mission" as Undefined as It is Driven By Personal Delusion and Arrogance. Sen. Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, an independent who caucuses with the Democrats, sided with Republicans on the vote.

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Nancy Pelosi for President 00.000.2007 Campaign Button (Why Wait Until 2008?). Evict Bush and Cheney and Put the Woman of the House in the White House.

18.Feb.2007 The war in Iraq followed Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) to Iowa on Saturday, as the Republican presidential candidate faced a series of skeptical questions about the lack of progress in the conflict and whether he or anyone has a plan for success. 2/18
How Pentagon hijacked intelligence for war 2/18
18.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}More: A final Lincoln tidbit, although it pertains to one very specific case:
"These capitalists generally act harmoniously + in concert to fleece the people + now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
00.Jan.1837 speech to Illinois legislature,.
See Vol. 1, p. 24 of Lincoln's Complete Works, ed. by Nicolay and Hay, 1905)

Most modern Republicans, of course, would never believe that the most revered member of their party had his doubts about giving too much power to corporations.
Adam Smith himself voiced some wariness of "joint stock corporations," and was not (contrary to what you've been taught) always opposed to government regulation.

Smith also believed in the Labor Theory of Value, usually attributed to Marx.
18.Feb.2007 Significant Terrorist Incidents,

00.000.1961-0.000.2003 : A Brief Chronology ... Popular Stories. Transcript:

00.000.2007 President Bush's State of the Union Address ...

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Rafael Caro - Quintero - Cartel level trafficker in Guadalajara Mexico. ...

There are two stories here. One is the really naked story of how drug money has ... www.akasha.de/~aton/GNNBushHardDrugEmpire2.html
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html
Aber die Wissenschaftler fänden wieder Gehör, glaubt der Physiker. Das gelte insbesondere für den Klimaschutz. Extreme Wetterphänomene und die intensiver werdende Berichterstattung in den Medien erhöhten auch den Druck auf die Politik. "Wir stehen in dieser Hinsicht an einem Wendepunkt."
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html
Das Publikum findet die umherwirbelnden Grafiken lustig. "Lachen sie nicht", ruft Schellnhuber vergnügt. "Das ist das Ende der Welt." Zumindest könne es so kommen, wenn man nicht schleunigst den CO2-Ausstoß begrenze.
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html
"Die Forschung und Entwicklung auf dem Energiesektor wird seit zwei Jahrzehnten komplett vernachlässigt", sagt Schellnhuber.
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html
Aber der Zweite Weltkrieg - so grauenhaft auch seine Folgen waren - "war einer der größten Innovationsmotoren in der Geschichte", sagt Schellnhuber.
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html
Holdren. "Beim Klimaschutz etwa müssen wir nur 13 Länder ins Boot holen." Das seien neben den G8-Staaten China, Indien, Mexiko, Indonesien und Brasilien.

Problem: Die US-Regierung verweigert bis heute die Unterzeichnung des Kyoto-Protokolls - und Chinas offizielle Politik ist, erst einmal gar nichts zu tun.

Zuerst, so argumentiert Peking, müssten sich die westlichen Industriestaaten im Klimaschutz bewegen. Die aber sind - siehe Kyoto-Protokoll - zerstritten.

"Wir wollen keine Revolution"
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html

Laut Holdren sind die fünf größten Herausforderungen für die Menschheit:

· die Grundbedürfnisse der Armen zu erfüllen,

· die Produktivität des Planeten und den Wettlaufs um Land, Boden und Wasser zu steuern,

· ausreichend Energie für die Sicherung des Wohlstands zu produzieren, ohne zugleich Umwelt und Klima zu ruinieren,

· die Welt von Atomwaffen zu befreien,

· die Ozeane zu schützen.

"Das sind die absolut wesentlichen Dinge", sagt Holdren im Gespräch mit SPIEGEL ONLINE.

Versage man bei der Erfüllung dieser Aufgaben, sei das Ende des heutigen Wohlstands in den Industrieländern noch das kleinste Problem.
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html

Das Verhältnis zwischen der AAAS und dem Weißen Haus dürfte sich derzeit auf einem historischen Tiefstand befinden. Nach sechs konfliktreichen Jahren unter US-Präsident George W. Bush ist unter den Konferenzteilnehmern Frust spürbar. Kaum jemand hätte erwartet, dass eine US-Regierung den Rat der besten Experten des Landes derart missachten würde - sei es in der Klimapolitik oder bei der Suche nach Massenvernichtungswaffen im Irak. "Fact-averse government" lautet Holdrens Lieblingsbezeichnung für die Machthaber im Weißen Haus - eine "faktenscheue Regierung".
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html

Von der AAAS aber, mit weltweit rund 120.000 Mitgliedern nicht zuletzt auch eine Lobby-Organisation, ist in dieser Hinsicht wenig Hilfe zu erwarten. Die Organisation habe den Zenith ihrer Macht längst überschritten, argwöhnen Teilnehmer, die bereits seit Jahrzehnten jährlich die Konferenz besuchen. Früher sei die Resonanz in der Öffentlichkeit bei weitem größer gewesen als heutzutage - und auch die Reaktionen der Politik.

Eiszeit zwischen Wissenschaftlern und US-Regierung
18.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466984,00.html

Die Welt hat Probleme - nicht eines, nicht zwei, sondern gleich fünf. Jedes einzelne hat das Potential, der Zivilisation ein gewaltsames Ende zu bereiten.

Eine schnelle Lösung ist für keines in Sicht, geschweige denn für alle fünf, die obendrein auf komplizierte Art miteinander verwoben sind. AP

Öl-Raffinierie in Texas: "Wir brauchen eine dritte industrielle Revolution" So in etwa könnte man die Rede zur Lage des Planeten zusammenfassen, die John Holdren bei der Jahrestagung der American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) gehalten hat. Die Konferenz, die derzeit in San Francisco stattfindet, ist das größte Wissenschaftlertreffen der Welt + Holdren als amtierender AAAS-Präsident einer der einflussreichsten Forscher überhaupt. Doch angesichts der Herausforderungen der Gegenwart raufen sich die Wissenschaftler in San Francisco kollektiv die Haare:

Es herrscht eine Atmosphäre wissenschaftlich wohlbegründeter Ratlosigkeit.
18.Feb.2007 Planet in Gefahr: Top- Forscher fordern dritte industrielle Revolution

18.Feb.2007 Klimadebatte: Vorstoß für neue Energiesteuern
18.Feb.2007 Karriere: Belafonte hat Bush- Kampf zum Hobby
17.Feb.2007 Chili peppers on human diet 6,000 years ago

Researchers, including a paleoethnobotanist at the University of Missouri-Columbia, recently found fossil evidence in seven archaeological sites ranging from the Bahamas to present-day Peru that showed people were eating domesticated chili peppers as long as 6,000 years ago. _{posted by Prof. Hex}
17.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}More on the Jewish conspiracy to make you think the Earth moves

Turns out Georgia Representative Ben Bridges has distanced himself from the memo that bears his name (see below).

It was put out by Texas House Appropriations Chairman Warren Chisum, who apologized after receiving complaints from the ADL.
17.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Evolution is a Jewish Conspiracy, says Congressman A particularly prehistoric congresscritter named Ben Bridges, representative from Georgia -- Cleveland, Georgia, to be specific -- now finds himself the center of controversy because a memo under his name offers the following anti-evolutionary screed: “Indisputable evidence — long hidden but now available to everyone — demonstrates conclusively that so-called ‘secular evolution science’ is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate ‘creation scenario’ of the Pharisee Religion,” the memo says. “This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic ‘holy book’ Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.”
The memo calls on lawmakers to introduce legislation that would end the teaching of evolution in public schools because it is “a deception that is causing incalculable harm to every student and every truth-loving citizen.”
It also directs readers to a Web site www.fixedearth.com, which includes model legislation that calls the Kabbala “a mystic, anti-Christ ‘holy book’ of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism.” The Web site also declares “the earth is not rotating … nor is it going around the sun.” (Emphasis added throughout.)
17.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-466980,00.html

Dass sich die Regierung unter Druck fühlt, zeigte am Samstag ein überraschender Blitzbesuch von US- Außenministerin Condoleezza Rice in Bagdad. Dort informierte sie sich über den Stand des neuen Sicherheitsplans - und forderte die irakische Regierung zu weiteren Schritten auf. Zu den Gesprächen sagte sie, dass sie über die "Debatte in Washington" gesprochen habe. Diese spiegle "in Teilen die Bedenken des amerikanischen Volkes über die Erfolgsaussichten". Deshalb brauche es im Irak rasche Maßnahmen für mehr Stabilität.
17.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-466980,00.html

Man müsse eine klare Botschaft an das Weiße Haus schicken, forderte Demokraten-Führer Harry Reid: Es brauche "nicht mehr Krieg, sondern weniger Krieg". An Stelle des amerikanischen Volkes müsse man "dem Oberbefehlshaber (Bush) klarmachen, dass er keinen Freifahrtschein im Irak mehr hat". Nach der Blockade durch die Republikaner sagte er, immerhin habe es eine Mehrheit von 56 zu 34 gegeben: "Eine Mehrheit des Senats ist gegen die Eskalation im Irak."

Kampf um Gelder für den Krieg
17.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-466980,00.html

Washington - Nach einer scharfen Debatte stimmten 56 Senatoren für eine Debatte über die kritische Irak-Resolution, die tags zuvor am Freitag im Abgeordnetenhaus verabschiedet worden war.

34 Senatoren stimmten dagegen. Eigentlich eine klare Mehrheit - doch sind für eine Debatte mindestens 60 Ja-Stimmen nötig.

Diesen Verfahrenstrick ("Filibustern"), der zum Verzögern einer Aussprache und Abstimmung dient, benutzten Bushs Republikaner nun schon zum zweiten Mal.
17.Feb.2007 Eins, zwei, drei...: Ente mit vier Beinen geboren

17.Feb.2007 US- Senat: Offener Machtkampf um Bushs Irak- Pläne
17.Feb.2007 Verteidigung: Jung will mehr Wehrdienstleistende
17.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-466959,00.html

Laut einem Bericht der "Berliner Zeitung" galt der Unterabteilungsleiter beim Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND) als wichtiger Zeuge im BND-Untersuchungsausschuss.

Ende vergangenen Jahres sei der Mann mit rätselhaften Lähmungserscheinungen in eine Münchner Klinik eingeliefert worden. Nachdem er schon auf dem Wege der Besserung schien, sei er kurz vor Weihnachten gestorben.

Nach Angaben des Blattes war der Tote nicht nur ein wichtiger Zeuge im BND-Untersuchungsausschuss, sondern auch eine zentrale Figur in vergangenen Affären um den BND.

Der Ausschuss soll unter anderem klären, ob Außenminister Frank-Walter Steinmeier die Freilassung des Deutsch-Türken Murat Kurnaz aus Guantanamo hintertrieben hat.

Der BND wies den Bericht als völlig abwegig zurück: "Stillos, niveaulos und substanzlos", kommentierte ein Sprecher. "Die Geschichte ist von vorn bis hinten an den Haaren herbeigezogen.".

Auch die Verbindung zum BND-Untersuchungsausschuss sei völlig unzulässig.

Der Mitarbeiter sei bisher nicht als Zeuge im Ausschuss geladen gewesen und auch für die Zukunft sei nach Informationen des BND keine Ladung beabsichtigt gewesen.
17.Feb.2007 Geheimdienste: Staatsanwaltschaft untersucht rätselhaften Tod eines BND- Agenten
17.Feb.2007 Ernährungsstudie: Fischesserinnen bekommen klügere Kinder
17.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466195,00.html
Das große Publikum nahm die moralische Rehabilitation erst gar nicht wahr.
17.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466195,00.html
Nun soll die Geschichte der Moorleiche umgeschrieben und die Ausstellung umgebaut werden, verkündete unlängst der Direktor des Archäologischen Landesmuseums Schloss Gottorf, Claus von Carnap-Bornheim. Denn die neuen Ergebnisse bestätigen offenbar einen alten Verdacht: Viele der Moorfunde aus den 1940er und 1950er Jahren wurden unsachgemäß geborgen und präpariert. Die Deutungen beruhen zum großen Teil auf Publikationen, die heutigen wissenschaftlichen Kriterien nicht genügen, teilweise sogar als Fälschungen angesehen werden müssen. Das Paradebeispiel hierfür ist das "Mädchen von Windeby".
17.Feb.2007 Klimawandel: Weltweit heißester Januar aller Zeiten
17.Feb.2007 Klimawandel: Weltweit heißester Januar aller Zeiten
17.Feb.2007 Einzigartiger Einsatz: Polizei sperrt Autobahn wegen Drogenkontrolle
17.Feb.2007 London: Erneut junger Mann erschossen
17.Feb.2007 Windeby: Geheimnis der Moorleichen gelüftet
17.Feb.2007 today's papers
Conflict Resolution
By Justin Peters
Posted Saturday, Feb. 17, 2007, at 5:54 AM ET

Everybody leads with news that the House of Representatives passed a resolution yesterday slamming the administration's plan to send over 20,000 new troops to Iraq.

Although the resolution, which passed by a vote of 246-182, is non-binding, it's symbolically significant in that it is exceedingly rare for a Congress to officially criticize a wartime President's battlefield policies, as the New York Times reports. The Senate is scheduled to meet today to consider whether to debate the House resolution.

The resolution was only two sentences long, the Los Angeles Times notes, but it symbolizes the new order in Washington, and, by extension, the resistance that President Bush will face during the next two years. "Today, in a loud voice, the Congress of the USA has said to the president, 'Mr. President, we need a new direction in Iraq,'" said House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md. But, with the $93 billion requested for additional war funding soon due for a vote, it remains to be seen whether the Democratic resistance will begin and end with symbolism. To continue reading, click here.
17.Feb.2007 Fake Al Qaeda _{- BG}https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

Fake Al Qaeda "Ana raicha Al Qaeda" is colloquial for "I'm going to the toilet". A very common and widespread use of the word "Al-Qaeda" in different Arab countries in the public language is for the toilet bowl.

This name comes from the Arabic verb "Qa'ada" which mean "to sit", pertinently, on the "Toilet Bowl".

In most Arabs homes there are two kinds of toilets: "Al-Qaeda" also called the "Hamam Franji" or foreign toilet + "Hamam Arabi" or "Arab toilet" which is a hole in the ground.

Lest we forget it, the potty used by small children is called "Ma Qa'adia" or "Little Qaeda".

So, if you were forming a terrorist group, would you call yourself, "The Toilet"?

The Phony (Mossad) Al Qaeda Cell in Palestine Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon ... said that al-Qaeda militants were operating in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

"We know that they are there. We know that they are in Lebanon, working closely with Hezbollah. We know that they are in the region," he said. [BBC News - 12/5/2002]
Officials from the Palestinian Authority have accused the Israeli spy agency Mossad of setting up a fake al-Qaeda terrorist cell in Gaza.

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said that Israel had set up the mock cell in order to justify attacks in Palestinian areas. [BBC News - 12/8/2002]
17.Feb.2007 Mossad agents arrested by the PA for attempting to set up phony 'al Qaeda' cells in the Gaza Strip. The full story:

larouchepub.com - Mossad Exposed in Phony 'Palestinian Al-Qaeda' Caper

antiwar.com - By Way of Deception, by Justin Raimondo

khilafah.com - PA uncovers Israelis posing as Al-Qaeda

propagandamatrix.com/palestinians_arrest_al_qaeda_poseurs.htm" target=_blank>smh.com.au - Palestinians arrest al-Qaeda 'poseurs'

Ha'Aretz - Ibrahim, the Shin Bet wants you to join Qaida! Of the MOSSAD, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: "Wildcard.

Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target U.S. forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act." [Washington Times - 9/10/2001]
17.Feb.2007 Images from official FBI wanted poster for terrorist Adam Yahiye Gadahn

The FBI lists Gadahn's aliases as Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, Abu Suhayb, Yihya Majadin Adams, Adam Pearlman + Yayah.

But Adam Pearlmen is his REAL name! Adam is the grandson of the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County.

Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which

00.000.1993 was caught spying on Americans for Israel much as AIPAC has been caught up in the more recent spy scandal.
17.Feb.2007 Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent ONE of al-Qaeda's most dangerous figures has been revealed as a double agent working for MI5, raising criticism from European governments, which repeatedly called for his arrest.

Britain ignored warnings - which began before the September 11 attacks - from half a dozen friendly governments about Abu Qatada's links with terrorist groups + refused to arrest him.

Intelligence chiefs hid from European allies their intention to use the cleric as a key informer against Islamic militants in Britain. ...

Indignant French officials accused MI5 of helping the cleric to abscond. While he remained on the run, one intelligence chief in Paris was quoted as saying:

"British intelligence is saying they have no idea where he is, but we know where he is and, if we know, I'm quite sure they do."

Almost a year later Abu Qatada was found hiding in a flat not far from Scotland Yard. [Times]
17.Feb.2007 From a reader: So,

1. We have MI5 (British CIA) posing as Alqueda. "Al-Qaeda cleric exposed as an MI5 double agent", https://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-3-1050175,00.html

2. We have Mossad (Israel CIA) posing as ALqueda in Palestine: https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html https://www.larouchepub.com/other/2002/2949idf_qaeda.html
https://www.antiwar.com/justin/j120902.html
https://www.propagandamatrix.com/palestinians_arrest_al_qaeda_poseurs.htm
https://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=241042&contrassID=2&subContrass
ID=5&sbSubContrassID=0&listSrc=Y&itemNo=241042
https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/terrorist.html

3. We have USA posing as Alqueda:
https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/fakealqaeda.html

The FBI lists Gadahn's aliases as Abu Suhayb Al-Amriki, Abu Suhayb, Yihya Majadin Adams, Adam Pearlman + Yayah.

But Adam Pearlmen is his REAL name! Adam is the grandson of the late Carl K. Pearlman; a prominent Jewish urologist in Orange County.

Carl was also a member of the board of directors of the Anti-Defamation League, which

00.000.1993 was caught spying on Americans for Israel, much as AIPAC has been caught up in the more recent spy scandal.

3. We have israel posing as alqueda in the phillipines. https://www.whatreallyhappened.com/qaeda_philippines.html
https://www.mb.com.ph/PROV2004061411759.html

4. British SAS posing as Iraqi Insurgants: https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/424614.stm

The two British operatives, arrested by Basra police and later freed by a British military operation, were identified by the BBC as "members of the SAS elite special forces" (https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/424614.stm). They were disguised by wigs and Arab dress.

Iraqi sources reported that the Iraqi police were watching the two + when they tried to approach them they shot two policemen and tried to escape the scene.

The Iraqi police chased and captured them, to discover large amount of explosives planted in the car, which apparently was planned to be remotely detonated in the busy market of Basra.

The SAS involvement in Iraq

30.Jan.2005 was discovered on- the when an RAF Hercules plane crashed near Baghdad killing then British servicemen after dropping off fifty SAS members north of Baghdad to fight Iraqi guerillas.

ARE YOU FUCKIN SURE YOU ARE WATCHING THE RIGHT ENEMY !!!!!!!

CIA + Mossad + MI5 = AlQueada

The greatest false-flag operations conducting in the history on man !!!!

But in fact it does nothing of the sort; instead it obscures the most important issues of the day + it does so at great length. If the "Terrorism Index" is intended as serious analysis, it's very weak indeed; but if it's intended as propaganda then it's brilliant. The report begins by noting that most Americans don't believe we're winning the War on Terror + almost half don't believe the government has a plan to protect the nation from terrorism: America's leaders like to say that the terrorist attacks of S... Source: https://winterpatriot.blogspot.com/2007/02/foreign-policys-terrorism-index-shines.html
17.Feb.2007 More WTC Steel Buried at Ground Zero - Newsday.com _{- BG}More WTC Steel Buried at Ground Zero - Newsday.com
NEW YORK -- An expert who investigated the collapse of the World Trade Center say there is likely much more steel from the buildings buried underground than the pieces recently found at ground zero.
17.Feb.2007 Outrageous!: A BBC Journalist Almost Criticises Israel. Burn The Witch! « The Heathlander - Sent Using Google Toolbar _{- BG}
Outrageous!: A BBC Journalist Almost Criticises Israel. Burn The Witch! « The Heathlander
Jeremy Bowen, the BBCs Middle East Editor (a position he's held since it was created

00.000.2005 ) is in trouble with some for a recent internal memo he sent to colleagues regarding the Israel/Palestine conflict. Here is the offending document, entitled, ' Mini briefing on the Israeli [sic] and Palestinians ':
17.Feb.2007 Sen. Charles E. Schumer: Positively American _{- BG}Blogger Thoughts: Senator Schumer has been useless in exposing the truth about 11.Sep.2001 _{https://www.huffingtonpost.com/sen-charles-e-schumer/positively-american_b_40086.html}
17.Feb.2007 BBC Pressured to Air 9/11 Hit Piece? - Paul Joseph Watson Crane claims two different versions exist, former Fox exec demanding attack dogs released to prevent harm to American
17.Feb.2007 Tammy Duckworth’s husband called to Iraq. - Nico -

“The husband of Tammy Duckworth is being deployed to Iraq, where his wife lost her legs in a helicopter crash before making a bid for Congress.

Brian Bowlsbey, 39, a longtime Illinois Guardsman, has not been sent there previously. … ‘It’s not something that we’re really eager to do, but it’s part of the job and we’ve trained for it for 19 years,” he said.

‘If you believe in the USA you stay in and you keep doing it and you accept the risk.’”
17.Feb.2007 Malkin: “I’m skeptical of anything with ‘Bill of Rights.’” - Nico -

Right-wing author and pundit Michelle Malkin filled in for Bill O’Reilly tonight on The O’Reilly Factor.

During a segment on a newly-proposed Airline Passengers Bill of Rights, Malkin said, “So you’re behind this Passengers’ Bill of Rights move. I have to tell you, in general, I’m skeptical of anything that has Bill of Rights tacked on to it. ” Watch it:

You don’t say?
17.Feb.2007 Worst. President. Ever. - Nico -

Atrios points us to this commentary by USA Today founder Al Neuharth: “A year ago I criticized Hillary Clinton for saying ‘this (Bush) administration will go down in history as one of the worst.’ ‘She’s wrong,’ I wrote.

Then I rated these five presidents, in this order, as the worst: Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, Hoover and Richard Nixon.

‘It’s very unlikely Bush can crack that list,’ I added. I was wrong. This is my mea culpa. Not only has Bush cracked that list, but he is planted firmly at the top.”
17.Feb.2007 ‘Slow Bleed’ Conservatives Voted Against Billions In Equipment For U.S. Troops - Nico -

The right-wing has begun a coordinated effort to smear Iraq war critics by describing their legislative plan as a “slow-bleed strategy.”

The phrase was first used in an article Wednesday by John Bresnahan of The Politico; within hours, the Republican National Committee issued a release falsely claiming that Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) “call their plan the ’slow-bleed strategy.’” In fact, as Bresnahan clarified in a subsequent article, “slow-bleed” was “not a term used by any Democrats or the anti-war groups supporting their efforts.”

Nevertheless, conservatives continue to use the phrase to attack war critics. During this week’s Iraq debate, at least five members — Deborah Pryce (R-OH), Roy Blunt (R-MO), Thaddeus McCotter (R-MI), Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) + Adam Putnam (R-FL) — used the phrase on the House floor. Watch a video compilation:

If only their rhetoric matched their voting record. In October 2003, as insurgent violence in Iraq was growing and military equipment shortages were becoming increasingly problematic, Rep. David Obey (D-WI) proposed an amendment shifting $3.6 billion to pay for better equipment and other quality-of-life measures for U.S. troops. Not one of the five voted for it. That’s a real recipe for “slow bleed.”
17.Feb.2007 Why Did Rove Request A Copy Of A Secret Iranian Proposal For Negotiations 00.000.2003? - Faiz -

Inter Press Service reports that,

00.May 2003 -in early- Karl Rove received a copy of a secret Iranian proposal for negotiations with the USA from former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) — who is now serving 30 months in prison for his role in a corruption scandal.

Former Ney aide, Trita Parsi — who now works at the National Iranian-American Council — said that Ney was chosen by the Swiss Ambassador in Tehran Tim Guldimann to carry the Iranian proposal to the White House because he believed Ney to be the only Farsi-speaking member of Congress and particularly interested in Iran. According to IPS:

Parsi revealed that the document was delivered specifically to Rove, in an exclusive interview with IPS. Within two hours of the delivery of the document, according to Parsi, Ney received a phone call from Rove confirming his receipt of the document.

Parsi said the proposal was delivered to Rove the same week that the State Department received it by fax, which was

04.May 2003 -on or about- according to the cover letter accompanying it.

Contrary to the article’s report, Rove was not deputy chief of staff in May 2003. He was serving at the time as the senior political adviser in the White House, a position with no responsibility on foreign policy. The White House press office has not responded to a request for comment on why Rove received a copy of the Iranian proposal.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — who

00.000.2003 served as National Security Adviser — and Eliot Abrams — the deputy National Security Adviser — have claimed that they do not remember receiving the Iranian proposal. Newsweek recently revealed the contents of the proposal, which were communicated through a Swiss intermediary in

00.May 2003.
17.Feb.2007 The House opposes escalation. - Nico - The House of Representatives has passed a resolution opposing President Bush’s escalation in Iraq, 246-182, marking the first time in four years that Congress has voted decisively against Bush’s Iraq policy. Help stop the escalation.
17.Feb.2007 Hannity Previews Hit Job On Al Gore - _{Think Progress} -

Fox News host Sean Hannity has repeatedly attacked Al Gore, calling him an “alarmist” and a “hypocrite” on global warming.

Earlier this month on his website, Hannity asked his viewers to send him pictures of “Al Gore getting onto private planes”:

Today on Fox News, Hannity previewed his smear campaign which will air on Sunday night, promising to calculate the carbon used by Al Gore in his travel. Watch it:

Hannity argued, “My attitude is, if you want to lead on this issue, then you’ve really got to lead by example.” That’s exactly what Al Gore is doing.

This afternoon, ThinkProgress reached Vice President Gore’s office for response to Hannity’s attacks. Here’s what his office told us:

– Gore lives a strict carbon-neutral lifestyle both in his work and private life. That means he tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible + then purchases carbon offsets for the remaining emissions.

In his private life, Gore tries to reduce his emissions as much as possible. He drives a hybrid, flies commercially whenever he can + purchases green power.
In the few instances where work has demanded that he travel privately, he purchases carbon offsets for the emissions. Digg It! Full transcript: (more…)
17.Feb.2007 Climate action too late to help Pacific islands. - Nico -

“International efforts to combat global warming will come too late to prevent the evacuation of Pacific islands sinking as a result of rising sea levels and severe weather, said Anote Tong, president of Kiribati.

“We can’t out-move the changes in the weather and the sea level rise,” Tong told Bloomberg News. “We have to consider leaving rather than wait.” Most of Kiribati will be uninhabitable by the middle of this century because of weather damage and rising tides.
17.Feb.2007 U.S.: Report of injured al Qaeda leader is false. - Nico -

“The U.S. military on Friday cast doubt on a report from the Iraqi government that al Qaeda in Iraq chief Abu Ayyub al-Masri was wounded in clashes with police. A senior U.S. official, who requested anonymity, told that the U.S. military believes reports about the alleged incident Thursday are false.”
17.Feb.2007 Young Will Not Retract Fabricated Lincoln Quote - Nico -

During yesterday’s House debate on Iraq, Rep. Don Young (R-AK) made the case for escalation by citing a fabricated quote falsely attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “Congressmen who willfully take action during wartime that damage morale and undermine the military are saboteurs + should be arrested, exiled or hanged.” Watch it: <object width="310" height="240">

This morning, Young’s spokeswoman Meredith Kenny told ThinkProgress repeatedly that Young does not plan to take any action to correct the record or clarify his House statement.

Kenny said that Young had learned of the quote from Tuesday’s Washington Times op-ed by Frank Gaffney + noted that the Times has not yet issued a correction or retraction.

Kenny said she “couldn’t confirm or deny” that Young would correct his statement even if the Times published a correction.

Kenny added that Young didn’t literally mean that those supporting the Iraq resolution should be “hanged,” merely that they should not be “undermining the morale of our military.” Digg It!
17.Feb.2007 McCain will skip Saturday’s Iraq vote. - Nico - AP: Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), “a staunch supporter of sending more troops to Iraq, will skip a Senate vote on the war Saturday to campaign in Iowa while other candidates rearrange their schedules.”
17.Feb.2007 Support The Troops, Help Stop The Escalation - Guest -

Our guest blogger is Jon Soltz, chairman of VoteVets.org and veteran of the Iraq war.

Tuesday was Valentine’s Day, but today is the real V-Day in the House of Representatives - Vote Day.

Finally, after weeks of wrangling and days of debate, Members of the House will lay down a vote declaring whether they are for the escalation in Iraq, or for the Troops.

Most likely, the House resolution will pass easily with bipartisan support and attention will turn to the Senate, where Sen. Harry Reid is delaying the President’s Day recess to vote on it.

VoteVets.org’s veterans of Iraq will be spending the weekend in D.C. to help ensure a vote and passage. We’ve had meetings with half of the Senate + a few dozen House offices.

The vast majority of Democrats are eager to cast their vote for the resolution.

On the Republican side, while there are many that won’t support it under any circumstances, I do get the sense from many more that they are genuinely struggling with the issue — whether to put country above party.

I can tell you that the only thing that moves members more than hearing from the troops is hearing from constituents.

The Senate resolution will pass only if their phones are flooded with demands from their constituents. Please do your part and take a few seconds to make a call (800-614-2803) or write and then report back. – Jon Soltz
17.Feb.2007 FLASHBACK: Pace Contradicted Rumsfeld Over Iranian Involvement In Iraq - Nico -

On Sunday, anonymous administration officials presented evidence purportedly showing that weapons have been smuggled into Iraq with “the approval of senior Iranian officials.” The next day, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Peter Pace seemed to contradict this claim, saying that he has not seen evidence that the Iranian government “clearly knows or is complicit” in the weapons smuggling.

As it turns out, we’ve seen this exchange before. In March 2006, Pace and then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld held a Pentagon press briefing, during which Rumsfeld warned reporters that Iran was “putting Iranian Quds Force-type people” into Iraq.

When a reporter asked Pace whether the Iranian forces in Iraq were “backed by the central government,” Pace responded frankly, “ I do not know. ” Rumsfeld was then asked the same question + provided a very different answer: “ Well, of course. The Revolutionary Guard doesn’t go milling around willy-nilly, one would think.” Read the transcript:

SEC. RUMSFELD: I will say this about Iran.They are currently putting people into Iraq to do things that are harmful to the future of Iraq. And we know it + it is something that they, I think, will look back on as having been an error in judgment. … They’re putting Iranian Quds Force-type people into the country. … The Quds Force. The Revolutionary Guard types. …

Q Do you believe it’s backed by the government, or are they individual elements not backed by the central government?

GEN. PACE: I do not know. …

Q Do you think this is backed by the central government in Iran? What’s your —

SEC. RUMSFELD: Well, of course. The Revolutionary Guard doesn’t go milling around willy-nilly, one would think.

One year later, the Bush administration admits there is no evidence showing that officials in Iran’s central government are directing the weapons smugglers. “I do not know whether or not the Quds force was ordered from the top echelons of government,” President Bush said Wednesday. Yet the fact that Rumsfeld nonchalantly pushed that claim demonstrates once again how the most senior Bush officials have been willing to overlook facts to pursue their ideological agenda.
17.Feb.2007 1 million. - Amanda - Number of Iraqis who may flee their homes this year because of “unrelenting violence and insecurity” in Iraq, according to the International Organization for Migration.

Approximately 1.7 million Iraqis have been displaced from their homes since the start of the Iraq war in “one of the fastest-growing refugee crises in the world.”
17.Feb.2007 54 % - Amanda - Number of Americans who would vote to cut off funding for President Bush’s escalation plan if they were in Congress, according to a Fox News poll.
17.Feb.2007 US Senate seeks Iraq troops vote The US Senate aims to repeat a House of Representatives vote critical of President Bush's Iraq troop surge.
17.Feb.2007 Japan turns down Greenpeace help Japan rejects New Zealand's plea to allow Greenpeace to tow a stricken whaling ship out of Antarctic waters.
17.Feb.2007 Crowds gather for anti-US march Thousands flood into Vicenza, in north-east Italy for a march against the planned expansion of a US army base.
17.Feb.2007 Clashes reported in Iranian city Police and militants clash in the Iranian city of Zahedan following an explosion, state media report.
17.Feb.2007 Action plan for killer asteroids A draft UN treaty to tackle any future giant asteroids heading for Earth is to be drawn up this year.
17.Feb.2007 Eastwood receives French honour US director Clint Eastwood is awarded France's highest civilian distinction, the Legion d'honneur.
17.Feb.2007 Weapons entering Guinea, PM warns Unnamed groups are bringing arms into Guinea, which remains under martial law, the new prime minister says.
17.Feb.2007 Indonesia halts bird flu boycott Indonesia resumes sharing its bird flu samples in a deal that ensures developing nations have access to new vaccines.
17.Feb.2007 Travel surge for Chinese New Year Millions are travelling home for Chinese New Year in what is called the world's biggest human migration.
17.Feb.2007 EU ministers agree biofuel target Energy ministers agree to increase the share of biofuel used in transport but leave a broader renewables target vague.
17.Feb.2007 Rice makes surprise visit to Iraq US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Baghdad unannounced as 10 die in car bombs in Kirkuk.
17.Feb.2007 King of Nepal is stoned by crowd Nepal's King Gyanendra comes under attack from a stone-throwing crowd in the capital, Kathmandu.
17.Feb.2007 Dow Jones at third straight high The Dow Jones Industrial Average index hits an all-time closing high, marking a record for the third day in a row.
17.Feb.2007 Brain 'can beat early blindness' The brain can learn to see in later life even if it has been deprived of visual input early on, work with blind children suggests.
17.Feb.2007 Software to the People! Communist Cuba joins socialist Venezuela in embracing the concept of open-source software. By the Associated Press.
17.Feb.2007 Polar Lakes and Global Warming Previously undiscovered lakes under Antarctica may help improve our understanding of the interaction between global warming and the melting icepack.

Plus: New climate accord sought. By the Associated Press.
17.Feb.2007 Water on Mars: New Evidence Photographs sent by a NASA orbiter suggests that water may indeed be flowing on Mars. And where there's water, there's at least a chance of life. By the Associated Press.
17.Feb.2007 Meteor warning system needed, says panel Strikes are rare, but the results could be cataclysmic; an early detection system could prevent such impacts, scientists say.
17.Feb.2007 A new ally in the energy crisis: Termites Researchers are figuring out how the bugs turn wood into food to see if the same processes could be applied to make transportation fuel.
17.Feb.2007 Net neutrality bill offered in Maryland Blog: Not content to wait for Congress to act, a group of Maryland state legislators is backing a smaller-scale attempt at putting a...
17.Feb.2007 Killer plankton, hard drought, being bipolar Blog: A collection of new scientific findings being presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Science 2007 meeting...
17.Feb.2007 U.S. 'threatened' alleged NASA hacker, defense says London court hears that Gary McKinnon was told he would "fry" in New Jersey unless he cooperated with U.S. authorities.
17.Feb.2007 It's time for tech to rein in energy waste Scientist Jonathan Koomey and AMD exec Mario Rivas say the amount of energy required to run data centers has gotten out of hand.
17.Feb.2007 FCC Report - TV Violence Should be Regulated - Zonk 58 -tanman writes

" reports that a draft FCC report circulating on Capitol Hill 'suggests Congress could craft a law that would let the agency regulate violent programming much like it regulates sexual content and profanity — by barring it from being aired during hours when children may be watching' The article goes on to quote from studies showing a link between violent imagery and violence in life + discusses the 'huge grey areas' that could result from ill-defined concepts of excessive violence." Government as Nanny, or cracking down on an excessive entertainment culture? Which side of this do you find yourself on?
17.Feb.2007 Grid Computes 420 Years Worth of Data in 4 Months - Zonk 94 -

Da Massive writes with a ComputerWorld article about a grid computing approach to the malaria disease. By running the problem across 5,000 computer for a total of four months, the WISDOM project analyzed some 80,000 drug compounds every hour. The search for new drug compounds is normally a time-intensive process, but the grid approach did the work of 420 years of computation in just 16 weeks. Individuals in over 25 countries participated. " All computers ran open source grid software, gLite, which allowed them to access central grid storage elements which were installed on Linux machines located in several countries worldwide. Besides being collected and saved in storage elements, data was also analyzed separately with meaningful results stored in a relational database. The database was installed on a separate Linux machine, to allow scientists to more easily analyze and select useful compounds." Are there any other 'big picture' problems out there you think would benefit from the grid approach?
17.Feb.2007 Bionic Eye Could Restore Vision - Zonk 145 -MattSparkes writes

"A new bionic eye could restore vision to the profoundly blind. A prototype was tested on six patients and 'within a few weeks all could detect light, identify objects and even perceive motion again. For one patient, this was the first time he had seen anything in half a century.' The user wears a pair of glasses that contain a miniature camera and that wirelessly transmits video to a cellphone-sized computer in the wearer's pocket. This computer processes the image information and wirelessly transmits it to a tiny electronic receiver implanted in the wearer's head."
17.Feb.2007 Scientists Dubious of Quantum Computing Claims - Zonk 100 -Dollaz wrote with a link to the International Business Times, which questions the authenticity of D-Wave's Quantum computing.

We discussed the 'Sudoku playing' computer yesterday, but scientists in the field have expressed a lot of distrust of the company's findings. The machine was not available for inspection during or after the demo + even if the technology was working as intended there is some doubt that it can be scaled. The article points out that "notwithstanding lofty claims in the company's press release about creating the world's first commercial quantum computer, D-Wave Chief Executive Herb Martin emphasized that the machine is not a true quantum computer and is instead a kind of special-purpose machine that uses some quantum mechanics to solve problems." Good to see people in the field questioning 'breakthroughs'.
17.Feb.2007 Congress Tackles Patent Reform - Zonk 238 -nadamsieee writes

"Wired's Luke O'Brian recently reported about Congress' latest attempt to reform the patent system. In the article O'Brian tells of how 'witnesses at Thursday's hearing painted a bleak picture of that system. Adam Jaffe, a Brandeis University professor and author of a book on the subject, described the system as 'out of whack.' Instead of 'the engine of innovation,' the patent has become 'the sand in the gears,' he said, citing widespread fears of litigation. The House Oversight Committee website has more details. How would you fix the patent system?"
17.Feb.2007 Server Power Consumption Doubled Over Past 5 years - Zonk 134 -Watt's up writes

"A new study shows an alarming increase in server power consumption over the past five years. In the US, servers (including cooling equipment) consumes 1.2% of all the electricity 00.000.2005, up from 0.6% 00.000.2000. The trend is similar worldwide. 'If current trends continue, server electricity usage will jump 40 % by 2010, driven in part by the rise of cheap blade servers, which increase overall power use faster than larger ones. Virtualization and consolidation of servers will work against this trend, though + it's difficult to predict what will happen as data centers increasingly standardize on power-efficient chips." We also had a recent discussion of power consumption in consumer PCs that you might find interesting.
17.Feb.2007 China Telecom "buy" Rating-Update: New York (aktiencheck.de AG) -

Die Analysten von Goldman Sachs nehmen für die China Telecom-Aktie (ISIN CN0007867483/WKN 786748) ein Upgrade von "neutral" auf "buy" vor. (16.02.2007/ac/a/u)
17.Feb.2007 Folgen_der_globalen_Erwärmung Weitere 24 % stehen kurz vor dem Kollaps + 26 % sind gefährdet. ... JM Jones + CM Bitz (2006): Antarctic temperatures over the past two centuries from ...
17.Feb.2007 Wer hat die Ozonschicht gekillt? Meteorologen des British Antarctic Survey von den Stationen Argentine ... Dass die Menschheit auf einen Kollaps zutreibt, ist eigentlich nichts Neues, ...
www.denk-mit.info/naturtiere/werhatdieozonschichtgekillt.html
17.Feb.2007 die Menschheit zerstört sich gerade selbst... - ARIVA.DE Diskussion zum Thema: die Menschheit zerstört sich gerade selbst...
www.ariva.de/board/239641?page=-2&a=_talk
17.Feb.2007 Antarktis-Lederschildkröten vom Aussterben bedroht auf nullzeit.at ...

Ein Team von Wissenschaftlern der British Antarctic Survey (BAS) befürchtet, ...

Dänische Meeresgewässer vor dem Kollaps · Galapgos weiter gefährdet ... tauchen.nullzeit.at/Content.Node/sealife/unterwasserwelt/gefahren/4046.php
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Dec.2004 These crimes go in cohorts with the biggest military power ever.

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17.Feb.2007 Streit über Bushs Irak- Pläne: Rice auf Blitz- Überraschungsbesuch in Bagdad

17.Feb.2007 Schläfen- Eingriff: Bush lässt Muttermale entfernen
16.Feb.2007 Resolution beschlossen: Demokraten stimmen Bushs Irak- Pläne nieder
16.Feb.2007 Neuer Fall in RAF- Debatte: Gericht prüft Freilassung von Ex- Terroristin Eva Haule
16.Feb.2007 Bürgerkrieg: Im Irak zeichnet sich ein Flüchtlingsdrama ab
16.Feb.2007 Satellitenbild der Woche: Sandsturm über dem Mittelmeer
16.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-466854,00.html

"Dieses Gesetz war überfällig"
16.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-466854,00.html

Kontakt zu Tätern konsequent abbrechen

Karl-Günther Theobald, Psychologe bei der Opferschutzorganisation Weißer Ring, rät Stalking-Opfern dazu, den Kontakt mit dem Täter konsequent abzubrechen.

Auf ein "Ich will keinen Kontakt mehr zu Dir haben" dürfe tatsächlich kein weiteres Gespräch folgen, sagte er der Nachrichtenagentur dpa.

Jede erneute Auseinandersetzung sei ein weiterer Kontakt, der die vorherige Aussage in Frage stelle, so Theobald.

Das Opfer sollte den Stalker zudem öffentlich machen. Wichtig sei außerdem, die Belästigungen zu dokumentieren.

Anrufe sollten auf dem Anrufbeantworter aufgenommen und E-Mails gespeichert werden.

Dann sei es leichter, rechtliche Mittel einzuleiten.

Stalking heißt im Englischen soviel wie "sich heranpirschen" oder "sich anschleichen".

Oft ist verschmähte Liebe der Grund für das Verhalten. Studien zufolge wurden in Deutschland zwölf % der Bevölkerung schon einmal Opfer von Stalkern, die Dunkelziffer ist allerdings hoch.
16.Feb.2007 Italiens Waffenschmiede: Wie die Berettas mit der Globalisierung kämpfen
16.Feb.2007 Neues Gesetz: Stalker werden künftig hart bestraft
16.Feb.2007 CIA- Entführungen: Italienische Justiz klagt US- Agenten an
16.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,druck-466480,00.html

"Wir haben in den Neurowissenschaften inzwischen rund 35.000 Veröffentlichungen im Jahr", sagt Markram.

"Kein Forscher kennt auch nur ein % davon. Ohne ein Modell, in dem das verstreute Wissen wieder zusammengeführt wird, kommen wir überhaupt nicht mehr weiter."
16.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,druck-466480,00.html Markram. "Seitdem wir an die Kommunikation zwischen den Zellen herankommen, ist der Weg zum künstlichen Gehirn gebahnt."
16.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/0,1518,druck-466480,00.html

Ein solches Denkorgan hat es noch nicht gegeben. Es ist zusammengesetzt aus knapp 10.000 Computerchips, die sich verhalten wie echte Nervenzellen.

Ein Teil der Großhirnrinde junger Ratten ist dafür penibel im Rechner nachgebaut worden, Zelle für Zelle, mitsamt des verzweigten Geästs der Leitungsfasern.
Die Simulation entstand an der Technischen Hochschule von Lausanne. 35 Forscher sind dort mit der Pflege des Kunsthirns beschäftigt.

Es läuft auf einem der mächtigsten Superrechner der Welt; und der wird schon bald wieder zu klein sein.
16.Feb.2007 Gravitationsbiologie: Die Schwerkrafttricks der Pflanzen
16.Feb.2007 Schweden: Störfall in Atomkraftwerk
16.Feb.2007 Dax kurz vor 7000 Punkten: "Die Zahl ist völlig irrelevant"
16.Feb.2007 Malaysia: Muslimischer Prediger fordert Keuschheitsgürtel für Frauen

16.Feb.2007 Proteste von Umweltschützern: Chinesen malen kompletten Berg grün an
16.Feb.2007 Patent- Atlas 2006: Wo Deutschlands Erfinder sitzen
16.Feb.2007 Treffen in Washington: Politiker finden warme Worte fürs Klima
16.Feb.2007 US- Präsidentschaftswahl: Ein Mormone strebt ins Weiße Haus

16.Feb.2007 Siemens- Affäre: Ehemaliger Betriebsrat verhaftet

16.Feb.2007 Klimakiller Computer: 14 Kraftwerke arbeiten nur für Rechenzentren
16.Feb.2007 Neuronenfeuer: Schweizer Forscher bauen künstliches Gehirn

16.Feb.2007 Gute Verbrennungsanlagen: Gabriel freut sich über Giftmüllimporte
16.Feb.2007 EU- Klimaschutzpläne: Lufthansa droht mit Flucht in die Schweiz
16.Feb.2007 Fear! courtesy of the front page of MSNBC.COM _{- BG}Dear Reader: We have been ordered by your government to seek to control you at all costs.
16.Feb.2007 Egyptian woman dies of bird flu An Egyptian woman dies of bird flu, bringing the number of confirmed deaths from the virus in Egypt to 13.
16.Feb.2007 Setback for Church conservatives Conservative Anglicans suffer a setback in their efforts to expel the US Church over its liberal stance on homosexuality.
16.Feb.2007 02/14/07 Is the Military Our Last Hope?-By Paul Craig Roberts

Perhaps America could regain its reputation if General Pace would send a division of US Marines to arrest Bush, Cheney, the entire civilian contingent in the Pentagon, the neoconservative nazis + the complicit members of Congress and send them off to the Hague to be tried for war crimes. Continue
16.Feb.2007 Al Quaida Threatens Venezuela : Venezuela provides around 11 % of U.S. oil imports despite diplomatic tensions between Caracas and Washington over leftist President Hugo Chavez's self-styled socialist revolution.

16.Feb.2007 Russia may scrap U.S. arms control treaty: Interfax: Russia warned the USA on Thursday it might pull out of a Cold War nuclear arms reduction treaty because of plans by Washington to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

16.Feb.2007 Giants meet to counter US power: India, China and Russia account for 40 per cent of the world’s population, a fifth of its economy and more than half of its nuclear warheads. Now they appear to be forming a partnership to challenge the US-dominated world order that has prevailed since the end of the Cold War.

16.Feb.2007 Accord allows North Korea to keep nuclear weapons : Now that North Korea has agreed to shut down and seal its nuclear facilities within 60 days, the hardest challenge ahead may be ridding the country of all of its nuclear weapons, several analysts said Wednesday

16.Feb.2007 Our brave John Howard : Australia's brave Prime Minister John Howard had the temerity to stand up in the Australian Parliament this week and call the Leader of the Opposition a coward on national television, because Kevin Rudd opposes the Iraq war and wants to bring Australian troops home

16.Feb.2007 Flugge paid $2,000 a day during Iraq trip, Senate told: Former AWB chairman Trevor Flugge was paid more than $2,000 a day, plus expenses, during a trip to Iraq as part of an AusAID team.

16.Feb.2007 Secret new US spy base to get green light: AUSTRALIA'S close military alliance with the USA is to be further entrenched with the building of a high-tech communications base in Western Australia.

16.Feb.2007 US unlikely to meet PM's Hicks deadline: David Hicks is unlikely to be formally charged by US authorities in the next few days, meaning Prime Minister John Howard's mid-February deadline will not be met.

16.Feb.2007 Lawyers: Padilla Too Damaged For Trial: Andrew Patel, one of Padilla's attorneys, said brig staff members told him Padilla was so "docile and inactive that his behavior was like that of 'a piece of furniture.'"

16.Feb.2007 Switzerland Approves Probe of CIA Flight : Switzerland on Wednesday followed Italy and Germany in raising the threat of criminal prosecution of CIA operatives involved in anti-terrorism operations in Europe.

16.Feb.2007 CIA sounded-out Italy about 'renditions' 00.000.2001 : The CIA spoke with Italy's spy chief about kidnapping terrorism suspects in Italy + flying them abroad

11.Sep.2001 -days after the attacks-, according to testimony being used to prosecute U.S. and Italian agents.

16.Feb.2007 EU nations censured over CIA 'torture' flights: THE European Parliament has approved a report admonishing 15 European countries and Turkey for helping the CIA transport terrorism suspects held in secret or for failing to co-operate in the Parliament's investigation of the practice.

16.Feb.2007 US military tells Jack Bauer: Cut out the torture scenes ... or else! : . The US military has appealed to the producers of 24 to tone down the torture scenes because of the impact they are having both on troops in the field and America's reputation abroad. Forget about Abu Ghraib, forget about Guantanamo Bay, forget even that the White House has authorised interrogation techniques that some classify as torture, that damned Jack Bauer is giving us a bad name.

16.Feb.2007 U.S. prison population projected to soar by 200,000 in five years: Get-tough policies that lock up offenders for longer sentences are propelling a projected increase of nearly 200,000 in the U.S. prison population in the next five years, according to a private study released Wednesday.

16.Feb.2007 In case you missed it: Torture Inc. Americas Brutal Prisons; Video report: Savaged by dogs, Electrocuted With Cattle Prods, Burned By Toxic Chemicals, Does such barbaric abuse inside U.S. jails explain the horrors that were committed in Iraq?

16.Feb.2007 Medical Apartheid in America: "There isn't a better candidate for torture than a person who isn't really considered a person."

16.Feb.2007 Foreclosures rip neighborhoods: Foreclosures in Denver since 2003 will log a fivefold increase by the end of the year, a trend that is tearing apart neighborhoods throughout the city.
16.Feb.2007 Robert Dreyfuss : Breakdown At The Iraq Lie Factory: President Bush must have been thinking, a heck of a lot easier five years ago. Back 00.000.2002, the president had a smoothly running lie factory humming along in the Pentagon, producing reams of fake intelligence about Iraq, led by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Doug Feith and his Office of Special Plans.
16.Feb.2007 Apartheid Israel: Arab law student denied entry to Sharon Mall :

Four law students at the Netanya College were refused entry at the city's Sharon Mall on Tuesday because the security guards identified them as being non-Jewish.

16.Feb.2007 Brandeis Donors Exact Revenge For Carter Visit : Major donors to Brandeis University have informed the school they will no longer give it money in retaliation for its decision last month to host former President Jimmy Carter, a strong critic of Israel.

16.Feb.2007 Groups Fear Public Backlash Over Iran : While Jewish communal leaders focus most of their current lobbying efforts on pressing the USA to take a tough line against Iran and its nuclear program, some are privately voicing fears that they will be accused of driving America into a war with the regime in Tehran.
16.Feb.2007 Syria offers huge services to Iraqi displaced, UN official says: -UN high Commissioner for Refugees Affairs Antonio Guterres underlined that Syria offers huge services and aid to the Iraqi displaced in Syria on the economic, health and educational levels, calling on the international community to help it in this 'burden'.
16.Feb.2007 Auditors: Billions more may be wasted in Iraq: The U.S. government is at risk of squandering significantly more money in an Iraq war and reconstruction effort that has already wasted or otherwise overcharged taxpayers billions of dollars, federal investigators said today.

16.Feb.2007 Iraq invasion plan 'delusional' : The commanders predicted that after the fighting was over there would be a two- to three-month "stabilisation" phase, followed by an 18- to 24-month "recovery" stage.

16.Feb.2007 12 Republicans Break Ranks on Iraq Resolution: A dozen Republicans arrived in the House chamber on Wednesday to set aside their party allegiances and lend their names to a resolution intended to rebuke President Bush for his Iraq policy.

16.Feb.2007 Leaked Letter Reveals GOP Strategy: Talk About Anything But Escalation

16.Feb.2007 Vermont Becomes First State to Call for US Troop Withdrawal from Iraq : The Vermont State Legislature made headlines yesterday when lawmakers passed resolutions in both the House and Senate calling for the immediate and orderly withdrawal of US troops from Iraq

16.Feb.2007 Murtha Seeks to Restrain Action in Iran: A leading Iraq war opponent threatened Thursday to try prohibiting any U.S. military action against Iran without congressional sanction as House Republicans used military veterans within their ranks to oppose a resolution renouncing President Bush's Iraq troop buildup.

16.Feb.2007 Former Mossad chief: Assassinate Ahmadinejad: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad should "be made to disappear from the arena," Meir Amit, a former director of Israel's Mossad intelligence agency, advocated in an exclusive interview with WND.
16.Feb.2007 Bill Would Restore Detainees' Rights, Define 'Combatant'-By Josh White
A group of Senate Democrats introduced legislation yesterday that would restore habeas corpus rights to all detainees in U.S. custody and would narrowly define what it means to be an "enemy combatant" against the USA, a measure designed to challenge laws ushered in by the Republican-controlled Congress last year. Continue

16.Feb.2007 Ex-aide says Rice ~~misled~~ Lied To Congress on Iran -By Carol Giacomo, Diplomatic CorrespondentControversy over a possible missed U.S. opportunity for rapprochement with Iran grew on Wednesday as former aide accused Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice of misleading lying to Congress on the issue . Continue

16.Feb.2007 Don't Do It, Mr. President-Hon. Ron Paul Of Texas -The moral of the story, Mr. Speaker, is this: if you don’t have a nuke, we’ll threaten to attack you. If you do have a nuke, we’ll leave you alone. In fact, we’ll probably subsidize you. What makes us think Iran does not understand this? Continue

16.Feb.2007 Mourning A Secret Australia -By John Pilger -John Pilger describes another 'day of mourning' for the first inhabitants of his homeland, Australia, which for many whites remains a secret country behind the neo-conservative bluster of John Howard's government. Continue

16.Feb.2007 How Corporations Continue to Rape The Worlds Poor
BBC : 15 Minute Video Report By Greg Palast - Vulture funds - as defined by the International Monetary Fund and Gordon Brown amongst others - are companies which buy up the debt of poor nations cheaply when it is about to be written off and then sue for the full value of the debt plus interest - which might be ten times what they paid for it. Continue

16.Feb.2007 UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism -By Stephen Lendman
These are a few of the many examples of UN failures to address injustice throughout the world on every continent.

It belies discredited former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's standing up for the Security Council claiming it has primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. Continuue

16.Feb.2007 The Ghawar Oil Field: How Much Is Left?
Decline of the world’s largest reserve could cripple the global economy -By David S. Elliott
Back 00.000.2001, before the issue of energy scarcity ever entered my mind, I read a chilling online article called "Ghawar Is Dying" that bluntly speculated about the massive global upheavals modern industrial society would suffer if the largest oil field in Saudi Arabia were indeed running dry. Continue
16.Feb.2007 Killers in the Classroom-By Dr. June Scorza Terpstra
During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours in Iraq told me that they had "sacrificed" by “serving” in Iraq so that I could enjoy the freedom to teach in the USA. Parroting their master’s slogan about “fighting over there so we don’t have to fight over here”, these students proudly proclaimed that they terrorized and killed defenseless Iraqis. Continue
16.Feb.2007 Information Warfare, Psy-ops and the Power of Myth -By Mike Whitney
Just as 9-11 has been used to justify the enhanced powers of the “unitary” president, the evisceration of civil liberties + a permanent state of war; so too, the bombing of the Golden Mosque, has been used to create a fictional narrative of deeply ingrained sectarian animosity that has no historical precedent. Both events need to be exposed by thorough and independent investigations. Continue
16.Feb.2007 https://www.theherald.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1197355
(incidentally, he used to be a magician before becoming a janitor).
16.Feb.2007 https://www.theherald.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1197355

FOLLOWING the events of 9/11, Rodriguez was treated as a hero.

"Every politician wanted to have their photo taken with me," he says. Among those were Hillary Clinton and President George W Bush. "The Republicans offered me funding to go to politics," he says.

"They offered me thousands of dollars of campaign money. They were trying to get the Hispanic vote and saw me as a clear candidate to do that. I was part of the whole party machinery, until I started to ask questions."
16.Feb.2007 https://www.theherald.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1197355

Just before the first plane struck the tower at 8.46am, he was in an office with colleagues on the building's first sub-level when he says they heard "a massive explosion".

"The floor vibrated. We were all thrown upwards, then everyone in the office started screaming. Then we heard another noise, the impact of the plane. It was two different events, separated by a fraction of time. It was a miracle I was there and not in the restaurant," he says.
16.Feb.2007 https://www.theherald.co.uk/misc/print.php?artid=1197355

With the 9/11 Truth Campaign, he insists that both towers were subject to a controlled explosion; and that, moments before the north tower was hit by a plane, he and colleagues heard an explosion underneath their office. This initial explosion was then followed by other bombs. This same version of events is peddled by Loose Change, a 90-minute internet movie made by three American men, which has been watched by an estimated 100 million viewers around the globe. The film, a blitz of statistics, photographs, eyewitness accounts and testimonies, argues that the fire in the towers was not hot enough to melt their steel frames and that they fell too quickly.

Regardless of whether you believe him, Rodriguez's voyage is an extraordinary one. Since 9/11, he has gone from being an establishment figure, taken into the bosom of the Republican party and even groomed for political office, to one who is now considered a maverick in these same quarters. Yet he remains committed to what he calls "a just and truthful cause".

"People say they don't believe in conspiracy theories + I say neither do I. But I was there that day. I was an eyewitness," he says.
16.Feb.2007 Morgan Stanley "accumulate"
Rating-Update: New York (aktiencheck.de AG) - Die Analysten von Punk Ziegel & Co. stufen die Aktie von Morgan Stanley (ISIN US6174464486/WKN 885836) nach wie vor mit dem Rating "accumulate" ein. Das Kursziel werde von 86 USD auf 95 USD angehoben. (16.02.2007/ac/a/u)
16.Feb.2007 FireDogLake's Libby reporting forces a reevaluation of blogs_{- BG}It is virtually impossible to closely follow the Libby trial without relying upon the work of the blogging team assembled by Jane Hamsher + FireDogLake.
https://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/02/15/blogs/index.html
16.Feb.2007 Arianna spouts nonsense on 9/11 with respect to Afghanistan, etc. _{- BG}https://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-tv/arianna-on-scarboroug_b_41365.html
16.Feb.2007 EAC Chair, Donetta Davidson, Knew About Problems Of Voting Machine Test Labs But Kept Quiet
Davidson,as Colorado's Secretary of State, had her own pipeline into the hidden test lab world and cannot deny her own personal longstanding knowledge of failures within the secret labs.In late 2003,Ken Blackwell,then-Secretary of State in Ohio,issued a report disclosing that an independent review of ITA approved voting machines by Compuware,had discovered 57 security flaws-after the test labs qualified the machines.

Call For "neuroethics" As Brain Science Races Ahead - Yahoo! News
The same discoveries that could help the paralyzed use brain signals to steer a wheelchair or write on a computer might also be used to detect possible criminal intent, religious beliefs or other hidden thoughts, these neuroethicists say. "The potential for misuse of this technology is profound," said Judy Illes, director of the Stanford University neuroethics program in California. "This is a truly urgent situation."
16.Feb.2007 Big Brother Will Be Watching You Fly
Tiny cameras the size of a fingernail linked to specialist computers will be used to monitor the behaviour of airline passengers as part of the war on terrorism. Fitted to seat-backs, the cameras will record every twitch or suspicious movement before sending the data to onboard software that will check it against individual passenger profiles.

Loving With All Your ... Brain
Close your eyes and envision all the romantic parts of the human body-- entrancing eyes, strong shoulders... You didn't think about the caudate and the ventral tegmental areas, did you?

These areas of the brain, little known to most people, are helping scientists explain why we feel what we feel when we fall in love.

Studying MRI brain scans of people newly in love, scientists are building a science of love-its power & pain Bush Video
Bush says it's so hard to be President while he's trying to enjoy the plush life inside the White House.
16.Feb.2007 Pace, Chairman Of The Joint Chiefs Of Staff, Questions Whether Iran Leadership Is Source Of Deadly Weapons

Bush On Iran IEDs: Who Said What To Who?
True to his nickname as "the worst communicator", Bush shows how he can translate his handlers' "words that work" into vague non-answers to specific questions asked by concerned reporters on crucial issues.

Meant to reassure his easily hypnotized 20% base, the mantra "we're doing this to protect our troops" rams a tough-on-Iran stance right past a logical expectation of evidence that Iran is behind attacks on those troops.

16.Feb.2007 Media Critiques -Why is the press hiding national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's view of the possibility of a war with Iran?

16.Feb.2007 Freedom To Faschism - If you haven't seen this movie, take 1 1/2 hours and see it. Join us in taking down the Federal Reserve and restoring our democracy.

If this has been linked before, it's good enough to link twice.
16.Feb.2007 America Is Reaching Critical Mass - America is on the edge of becoming a dictatorship. Time to roll up the sleeves.

16.Feb.2007 Army Giving More Criminals Waivers In Recruiting
The number of waivers granted to Army recruits with criminal backgrounds has grown about 65 % in the last three years, increasing to 8,129 00.000.2006 from 4,918 00.000.2003, Department of Defense records show. Some say this puts soldiers and local populace at greater risk.

16.Feb.2007 12 Republicans Break Ranks On Iraq Resolution - New York Times

16.Feb.2007 Ex-aide Says Rice Misled U.S. Congress On Iran - Yahoo! News -Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled the U.S. Congress when she said last week that she had not seen a 2003 Iranian proposal for talks with the USA, former senior government official Flynt Leverett said on Wednesday.
16.Feb.2007 Senior Justice Official Bought Vacation Home With Oil Lobbyist
A senior Justice Department official who recently resigned her post bought a nearly $1 million vacation home with a lobbyist for ConocoPhillips months before approving consent decrees that would give the oil company more time to pay millions of dollars in fines and meet pollution-cleanup rules at some of its refineries.

16.Feb.2007 BBC: Americas | Iraq Invasion Plan 'delusional' The US invasion plan for Iraq envisaged that only 5,000 US troops would remain in Iraq by December 2006, declassified Central Command documents show.

16.Feb.2007 Dan Froomkin - The Libby-Cheney Bummer
For me, the real cliffhanger of the Libby trial has never been whether or not he would be found guilty -- it was whether or not he and his boss would finally face some questions they couldn't duck. Questions that would cut to the very heart of the Bush presidency. Questions about the twisting of intelligence, the manipulation of secrecy, the vindictiveness toward critics + the control of the media.

16.Feb.2007 U.S., Britain Fare Poorly In Children Survey - Los Angeles Times -The USA and Britain ranked as the worst places to be a child, according to a UNICEF study of more than 20 developed nations released Wednesday. The Netherlands was the best, it says, followed by Sweden and Denmark.

16.Feb.2007 What Bush & Co. Want From Republicans
"The Bush team's main goal is to get everyone in GOP circles to repeat the White House talking points to the media, according to several GOP activists," reports US News & World Report. Regarding new ideas about Iraq, one Republican insider says of the White House, "They just get mad when we bring it up, so we leave it alone."

16.Feb.2007 Leveling The Bargaining Table - Rep. George Miller, D-Calif explains the Employee Free Choice Act that would give workers the ability to join together to bargain for better wages and benefits.

16.Feb.2007 Straight From The Horse's Mouth: CIA Analysts On War With Iran
CIA legend Milt Bearden on weapons traffic from Iran to Iraq: "I don't know why anyone would be surprised by Iranian gambling in our Iraqi casino -- especially as there are time-honored rules. . . for proxy wars. The Soviets and Chinese armed our adversaries in the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. Nevertheless, successive American administrations never gave serious thought to attacking either China or the U.S.S.R."
16.Feb.2007 Corporatism Now! The SEC actions in favor of corporate management against investors is a huge step toward Corporatism ... the modern version of fascism.

16.Feb.2007 CFR Report: Iraq A Lost Cause, US Should Withdraw
Securing Iraq is a lost cause for U.S. forces + President Bush should begin withdrawing troops to avoid "floundering ineffectually" and further damaging U.S. Credibility.-

16.Feb.2007 By Allen L Roland- 2007 MATHEMATICAL EQUATION FOR LOVE AND WORLD PEACE
The great dawning and, I would add, inevitable realization of psychology, science and religion is that our separateness is an illusion measured by the state of our consciousness and that our ultimate reality, once again measured by the state of our consciousness, is the realization that we are all united and part of a loving + indivisible whole ~ and that we resist this propensity to unite at our peril: Allen L Roland

16.Feb.2007 By Andrew Bard Schmookler - Who Is To Be Believed: The Anti-Bushite Blogosphere Or The World's Financial Markets?
Is a US attack on Iran likely anytime soon? Read the anti-Bushite Blogosphere + the answer would seem to be Yes. Look at the world's financial markets + the answer would seem to be No. How is this sharp divergence of views to be explained?

16.Feb.2007 By John Ervin - My Two Cents On Electronic Voting Machines
Bottom line: machines have got to go.There is simply no way ever to make peace with this Trojan Horse at our gates, let alone continue to give it free entry in and out of our society, in fact, any of our global societies. We need once and for all to abolish all vote-counting and tabulating and vote-casting machines, in all their sordid combinations + world-wide.

16.Feb.2007 By John Edwards - Edwards Lays Out Comprehensive Proposal To Enact His Plan For Iraq - John Edwards calls on Congress to stop debating and take action: Cap funding for troops in Iraq at 100,000 troops and stop the surge; end war 00.000.2008
16.Feb.2007 By Bob Koehler Sorry About That
"The Bomber's Dream," a documentary on the history of aerial warfare, tears back the assumptions, paradoxes and good intentions of modern, high-tech war and brings us to the brink of the gaping hole at its center: No one is responsible for what happens.

- By Dave Lindorff Wake Up Congress! Bush Is Crazy As A Loon!
Co-Dependent Congress and media need to face the facts: The President is a crazed psychopath and needs to be stopped.

16.Feb.2007 By Kevin Zeese House Debates Iraq Surge As Their Popularity Drops
Article reviews the House debate on the troop increase in Iraq. The Republicans are trapped by the Democrats and the Democrats are trapped by their own divisions. The article urges the Democrats to represent the voters or risk losing their majority status.

16.Feb.2007 By Carol Wolman The Libby Trial Makes Impeachment Easy + Obligatory
Testimony at the LIbby trial makes it clear that Cheney masterminded the outing of Plame + Bush was complicit. Fitzpatrick did the investigative work, the crime is obvious, the evidence is public. Impeachment hearings by the House Judiciary Committee shouldn't take more than a week. What are they waiting for?
16.Feb.2007 By Joan Brunwasser- Confused About Election Reform Legislation? You're Not Alone
Are you prepared to let this important decision be made without your input or consent? Remember government "of the people, by the people, for the people"? Democracy demands eternal vigilance and citizen participation. Without it, we are merely living in a nation impersonating a democracy. Will you settle for that?

16.Feb.2007 By Bev Harris - At Least Do No Harm
The objective is torget real election integrity, which means focusing on getting the person installed in office that the voters actually voted for (as well as making sure eligible people can vote).
16.Feb.2007 By Gatto- Bush Has Been At War Forever, Iran Is Just Another One
Bush is still fighting childhood battles. He doesn't believe that anyone can do things better than he. He's a dangerous man.

16.Feb.2007 By Kyle Leatherspoon - America-- Staying In A Toxic, Abusive Relationship-- With Bush
Why Bush is incapable of winning a war in Iraq.

16.Feb.2007 By Brad Griffeth Misconceptions
An article designed to be a 'sheeple's' first look at the issues involved in Iraq and Afghanistan and how our mis- management of the wars is causing more Islamic extremists to develop. Includes the topic of DU.
16.Feb.2007 By Steven Leser -Iran Supplying Weapons To Iraqi Insurgency? Cheney Abbott And Bush Costello Say So! Sort Of?!?!?
Administration spokespeople whine that they do not understand why they are repeatedly asked whether the administration intends to attack Iran despite many assertions to the contrary.

What is so hard to understand?

16.Feb.2007 By Dean Powers Dennis Miller Laughs Off Global Warming On Tonight Show
Dennis Miller derided global warming with a a cache of one-liners that would make the Exxon Mobile public relations team blush.

16.Feb.2007 By TED BOHNE - Iran Can't Be Next
The US cannot win a conflict with Iran without nuclear weapons. Russian won't stand for this. Further, the Bush Regime has yet to produce any evidence to support their allegations.

16.Feb.2007 By Alessandro Machi -The USA Is Losing A Bigger War At Home Than The One In Iraq
Wall Street is Systematically Destroying the USA Skilled Labor Force and they Must be Stopped.

16.Feb.2007 By John Renesch - What Kind Of World Do We Really Want?
Asks Americans to look at their real values, not what they say but what they do.
16.Feb.2007 By Emily Horswill- The Bush " SCARE THE PEOPLE INTO SUBMISSION" ApproachCan Work Two Ways
We need to understand that we are facing Nazis who kicked off their plan to control the World 00.000.1968 and who have proved willing and able t

16.Feb.2007 By Stephen Lendman - UN Peacekeeping Paramilitarism
An account of the true role of UN peacekeepers serving imperial interests as thuggish paramilitary enforcers.

16.Feb.2007 By Carol Wolman - A Good Offense Is The Best Defense
Congress is on the defensive with Bush. We the People need an impeachment offensive, to get him and Cheney out. This is the only way to get us out of Iraq and prevent an attack on Iran.
16.Feb.2007 By Winston Winston- US Military Must Fight With Their Hands Tied.
"The new NIE on Iraq starkly delineates the gulf that separates President Bush's illusions from the realities of the war. Victory, as the president sees it, requires a stable liberal democracy in Iraq that is pro-American. The NIE describes a war that has no chance of producing that result." 43 is lying to us + our soldiers as well as innocent Iraqis, are dying. -By Jeremy Hammond
propaganda_ca.htm">The US Propaganda Campaign Against Iran
The US government has stepped up its propaganda campaign against Iran, but, as was the case prior to the invasion of Iraq, has no real evidence to support its claims.

16.Feb.2007 By John Carey Black History Month Tribute To Frederick Douglass And His Turning Points

16.Feb.2007 By Eileen Fleming - The Way: Truth, Hope And Solidarity Against The Empire
Within walking distance from The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a few hundred thoughtful, committed citizens of the world gathered with hope to make a difference in Palestine-Israel.

16.Feb.2007 by John Pagoda -Fair And Balanced Terrorism- Bill O'Reilly -- The Poster Boy For American Fascism
When the media is used to create fear, to manipulate an audience to accept and approve a political ideology-- that is terrorism.
16.Feb.2007 By Frosty Wooldridge- SPECIES EXTINCTION: THE NEXT ADDED 100 MILLION AMERICANS
As human population grows, animal habitat decreases. With each added American, 12.6 acres of land suffers development of roads, malls, housing, concrete and farmland expansion to support that person. By adding 100 million Americans by 2040, the animals suffer horrific loss of habitat.

16.Feb.2007 By Gerald Day Congress Is Still Asleep

16.Feb.2007 By Martin Zehr - DRAFT PEACE PLAN FOR SOUTH WEST ASIA
The foreign policy of the US Government ought to be focused on facilitating peacemaking and ending its military actions against the nations and peoples of the region.

16.Feb.2007 By Marc McDonald - John Howard's Iraq Stance Deeply Unpopular With Most Australians
It's interesting how Australian Prime Minister John Howard is so concerned about bringing democracy to Iraq, when he has utter contempt for democracy in his own nation. The fact is, Howard ignored the wishes of the overwhelming majority of the Australian people when he committed troops to the "Coalition of the Willing." An astonishing 76 % of Australians opposed their nation participating in the U.S.-led attack on Iraq.
16.Feb.2007 By Peter Zaza - 9 - 11 Living In The Matrix
Understanding the full truth about 9/11 requires two stages of an intellectual process. The first step - Realizing the fraudulence of the "official 9/11 story" which requires study and logic. The second step - Facing the implications of this knowledge + the truth about our politics, economic system, indeed our own capacity for independent critical thought, is by far the more difficult part of this journey.
16.Feb.2007 By Jorge Hirsch - Congress' Nuclear Liability
Congress funds the development and deployment of nuclear weapons but leaves the decision on when and how to use them entirely up to the President. Congressmembers will be liable for the crimes committed with those weapons.

16.Feb.2007 By Andrew Bard Schmookler - The Growth Of Corporate Power: A Crucial Element Behind The Rise Of Bushite Fascism
Here's a nice piece of background regarding the decades-long campaign of corporate America to roll back the advance of progressive values. First it gave us reactionary politics + now --with the rise of the Bushite power-- it has led America into fascism.
16.Feb.2007 Ed Schultz Show Owned By Right Wingers
On a dailykos diary blog, titled, UPDATED: Ed Schultz and Air America in public battle, the producer of the Ed Schultz talk radio show, which claims to be the most l! istened to progressive talk radio show, stated, The owners of the show, Randy Michaels & Stu Krane are both Libertarian Republicans.
Now, they are not just your everyday Republicans.
Randy Michaels, born Benjamin Homel, ( was head of Clear Channel Communications, a verrry right wing company. 00.000.2003, he contributed $2000 to George W. Bush.
He joined Clear Channel when his company, Jacor, which syndicated Rush Limbaugh and Dr. Laura Schlesinger, was acquired by Clear Channel.
Stu Krane was the former VP of ABC Radio and Premiere Radio Networks-- home to RUsh Limbaugh, Glen Beck and Dr. Laura, to name a few.
You have to wonder what influence extreme right wingers have on the program.

Here in Philly, it is not available. I! 'll be posting this as an article too, so, if you have thought! s on thi s, or additional information, chime in. -Rob Kall
16.Feb.2007 Re: Edelman - most interesting missing witness (Cheney Plame Affair) _{- BG}Eric Edelman appears to be a key cog in the neoconservative political machine which has been writing Dick Cheney's script:

Eric Edelman/c Cornell B.A... Source: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/political-research/message/22575
16.Feb.2007 Gulfnews: The need for a new security set-up _{- BG}Saudi Arabia's active diplomacy - in Palestine, Lebanon and the wider Arab world - points to a new concern by major Arab states to take their destiny in hand and ensure the protection of their own vital interests, rather than relying on outside powers https://www.gulfnews.com/opinion/columns/world/10104535.html
16.Feb.2007 Daily Times - Leading News Resource of Pakistan - Man loses trial by dunking, pays Rs 50, 000 _{- BG}
MULTAN: A tribal council in a remote Pakistani village ordered a man to walk neck-deep through freezing water for 10 minutes to prove his son was innocent of stealing, officials said on Thursday.
https://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2007\02\16\story_16-2-2007_pg1_7
16.Feb.2007 I wonder if they held hands (like they do with Bush) _{- BG}MosNews
President Vladimir Putin, making the first visit by a Russian leader to Saudi Arabia, met King Abdullah and other senior officials Sunday for talks on the situations in Iraq and the Palestinian territories, The Associated Press news agency reports. https://www.mosnews.com/news/2007/02/12/saudivisit.shtml
16.Feb.2007 Diane Feinstein Says "Thank You, Carol Lam" _{- BG}
The other day, I noted that Carol Lam deserves our thanks for her work in prosecuting Duke Cunningham and indicting Brent Wilkes and Dusty Foggo. Well, it seems that there is a great deal more that she's accomplished as prosecutor and where she served the public good that should be recognized. Via TPMMuckraker, here's Diane Feinstein's thanks to Carol Lam for her service as US Attorney. Today is U.S. Attorney Carol Lam's last day in office. I want to commend her. I thank her for the work she has done in that office. She was sworn in as U.S. attorney

00.Sep.2002 and was appointed by the President

00.Nov.2002 .

Prior to serving as U.S. attorney, she was a judge of the Superior Court of San Diego + she served as an assistant U.S. attorney in the southern district of Cali... Source: https://www.pacificviews.org/weblog/archives/002473.html
16.Feb.2007 Homeland _Insecurity, _Episode_73:_If_an IT guy tracks down hackers and tells the FBI — Fire Him! _{- BG}
Here's the obverse of what we generally get to report on. Not the incompetence of Homeland Insecurity; but, a taxpayer-funded research lab which assigns someone to track computer security — then, fires him for sharing his findings with the FBI! A New Mexico district court jury has awarded $4.3 million in punitive damages to a [...]...Source: https://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=9787
15.Feb.2007 FT.com/World/UK - Climate change concerts 'to dwarf Live Aid' _{- BG} Update All-star global concerts planned on climate
The Live Earth concerts on July 7 will take place in Shanghai, Sydney, Johannesburg, London and cities to be decided in Brazil, Japan and the USA.
2/9/2007 Update 9:44 p Genesis to play free Rome concert The concert at the Circo Massimo on 14 July will be the final show of the band's first tour in 15 years.
Blogger thoughts: Does this point to the timing of the next major false-flag terrorist event. Pat Robertson said watch out in the second half of 2007. The article linked below lists a possible date of 7/7/2007.
A series of concerts "bigger than Live Aid" is being planned for July, in a bid to put the subject of climate change before an audience of a global audience of 2bn.https://www.ft.com/cms/s/ebad1e4a-b719-11db-8bc2-0000779e2340.html
16.Feb.2007 Protest of Planned Texas Coal-Fired Power Plants _{- BG}
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Carrying signs with slogans of "Stop the Coal Rush" and "Shame on Texas," about 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol to persuade lawmakers to abandon a plan to build up to 18 new coal-fired power plants. Environmentalists fear the new plants will pump millions of tons of pollutants into the air every year.https://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/COAL_PLANTS_RALLY?SITE=FLTAM&SECTION=US
16.Feb.2007 Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall: February 11, 2007 - February 17, 2007 Archives _{- BG}
Sen. Schumer issues a further warning to the White House over the US Attorney purge as Sen. Kyl blocks efforts to repeal the USA Patriot Act provision giving the White House the ability to appoint US Attorneys without Senate approval ( ed.note: We've got a lot more coming on the significance of the firing of US Atty Carol Lam in the midst of her historic indictment of the #3 man at the CIA. We'll be bringing you this shortly. There's much more there than people realize.)
https://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2007_02_11.php#012497
16.Feb.2007 Libby’s Defense Rests Case in C.I.A. Leak Trial - New York Times _{- BG}
But as one juror, a retired North Carolina schoolteacher, rose to speak aloud, Judge Walton became visibly anxious that the juror might say something inappropriate that would threaten the trial. Jurors are not supposed to speak during court sessions and are supposed to make any concerns known through notes to the bench.

The juror said that they were wearing the T-shirts to express their fondness for the judge and the court staff on Valentine's Day. He then added, to the judge's growing discomfort, that they were unanimous in this sentiment, but they would all be independent in judging the evidence

The one juror who apparently declined to don a T-shirt was a woman who had been a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Read the rest...... https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/14/washington/14cnd-libby.html?ei=5094&en=b97547177df9dab7&hp=&ex=1171515600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=print
16.Feb.2007 ABC News: Afghanistan: What the USA Has Spent _{- BG}
Since the Taliban's collapse, the USA has spent more than $10 billion on reconstruction and civilian and military assistance programs, according to a Congressional Research Service Report. This money includes funds spent on controlling Afghanistan's still-thriving opium trade and protecting Prime Minister Hamid Karzai.https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=2878057&page=1
16.Feb.2007 Alex Jones Watch #9: Avoiding the Issue of 9/11 with Ron Paul _{- BG}
Blogger Thoughts: Below is a link and excerpt from a posting at Prisonplanet.com. What is not stated clearly here, is the fact, (which was probably evident when the post was made + is even more evident after the Alex Jones interview with Ron Paul today on Alex's show), is that Ron Paul is not even planning to bring up the subject of 9/11 and investigations when he is allowed on as an official Pres. Candidate at a debate to be held live on . Alex even avoids raising the question in an extended interview with Congressman Ron Paul. This raises the question: what's the use of standing up for 9/11 truth if you won't even address it with those who we are supposed to consider our best hope for changing our corrupt government? Alex may think Ron Paul actually has a chance to succeed as a candidate + realize that bring up 9/11 would hurt his chances. In this bloggers estimation, Ron Paul has zero chance to be considered as a serious candidate. It makes him part of the problem in that he won't tell the hard truth. -

Obama Addresses 9/11 Government Complicity
CALLER: I want a complete, impartial + totally independent investigation of the events of 11.Sep.2001 . I'm tired of this bogus garbage about terrorism. Ask Michael Meacher about how he feels about this bogus war on terrorism. Can you comment on that please?

HON. DR. RON PAUL: Well, that would be nice to have. Unfortunately, we don't have that in place. It will be a little bit better now with the Democrats now in charge of oversight. But you know, for top level policy there's not a whole lot of difference between the two policies so a real investigation isn't going to happen. But I think we have to keep pushing for it. And like you and others, we see the investigations that have been done so far as more or less cover-up and no real explanation of what went on.

16.Feb.2007 Obama Addresses 9/11 Government Complicity - Paul Joseph Watson Obama Addresses 9/11 Government Complicity Possible President responds to an Infowars reader
16.Feb.2007 Escalation battle moves to the states. - Nico -

“Frustrated by the inability of Democrats in Congress to pass a resolution opposing President Bush’s policies in Iraq, state legislators across the country…are pushing forward with their own resolutions,” the New York Times reports. “Resolutions have passed in chambers of three legislatures, in California, Iowa and Vermont. The Maryland General Assembly sent a letter to its Congressional delegation, signed by a majority of the State Senate and close to a majority of the House, urging opposition to the increase in troops in Iraq. Letters or resolutions are being drafted in at least 19 other states.” Much more at the Progressive States Network.
16.Feb.2007 The ‘Get ‘er Done’ defense of escalation. - Nico -

During today’s Iraq debate, Rep. Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL) explained her support for sending tens of thousands of U.S. forces to Iraq by quoting that “wonderful saying” — “Get ‘er done.”

In the South, we have a wonderful saying and it goes like this: Get ‘er done. Our soldiers want to get it done and come home + our President wants the same thing + this Congress should demand the exact same thing. Let’s get out there and get ‘er done.

16.Feb.2007 Gore unveils Live Earth. - Nico -

“Al Gore announced on Thursday a series of worldwide concerts to focus on the threat of climate change, with a powerhouse lineup from the Red Hot Chili Peppers to Snoop Dogg to Bon Jovi.”

The 24-hour event on

07.Jul.2007 is part of a campaign called Save Our Selves (SOS) — The Campaign for a Climate in Crisis.

“In order to solve the climate crisis, we have to reach billions of people,” Gore said today. “The climate crisis will only be stopped by an unprecedented and sustained global movement.”
16.Feb.2007 21. - Nico - The number of investigations into lawmakers from the 109th Congress, which grew today by one with reports that newly-elected Gov. Jim Gibbons (R-NV) is facing an FBI investigation for “suspicions of criminal behavior while he was a member of Congress.”
16.Feb.2007 Pelosi is not a pirate. - Nico -

Yesterday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) launched a new blog, The Gavel. Today, a group of conservative House members issued a release claiming Pelosi had “violated copyright and trademark law on the very first day” by “using pirated content” from C-SPAN. The group suggested “the Speaker bring the gavel down on ‘the Gavel Blog.’” Within hours, the conservatives learned that their legal analysis was wrong and embarrassingly retracted their complaint.
16.Feb.2007 AEI: The Root of Bush’s Right-Wing Ideology - Payson -

Today, President Bush delivered a speech on Afghanistan at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. AEI and the Bush administration are deeply entwined, something Bush admitted during his speech. “I admire AEI a lot,” Bush said. “After all, I have been consistently borrowing some of your best people. More than 20 AEI scholars have worked in my administration.”

Below are a few examples of the people and ideas that AEI has shared — or tried to share — with the Bush White House over recent years:

– Escalation. President Bush’s escalation plan is based on a report by AEI scholar Frederick Kagan. reporter Suzanne Malveaux said of AEI’s influence on Iraq policy: “One conservative policy group that has the president’s ear and is influencing his thinking is the American Enterprise Institute.”

The Cheneys.

00.000.1993-00.000.1995 Dick Cheney served as AEI Senior Fellow +

Dick Cheney wife Lynn currently serves as Senior Fellow studying education and children.

00.000.2005 Vice President Cheney said : “Both Lynne and I have a long history with the American Enterprise Institute + we value the association,”.

– Bomb Iran. “We must bomb Iran,” AEI Resident Scholar Joshua Muravchik wrote in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times. Muravchik called for an “air campaign against Tehran’s nuclear facilities”

00.000.1987 -since – Richard Perle. Perle has been at AEI +

16.Feb.2007 currently serves as a Resident Fellow.

A leading neoconservative, Perle was a fierce proponent of regime change in Iraq.

00.000.2001-00.000.2003 He served as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board.

John Bolton. Served as Senior Vice President of AEI before coming to the Bush administration. Bolton currently serves as a Senior Fellow at AEI.

“There is no such thing as the United Nations,” Bolton said. “If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”

– Climate change inaction. AEI offered $10,000 to climate change deniers to speak out against the recent IPCC climate change study. (more…)
16.Feb.2007 FACT CHECK: Rep. Keith Ellison Never Called Cops To ‘Snuff Tancredo’s Cigar’ - Amanda -

Yesterday, The Hill ran a story with the headline, “Rep. Ellison calls the cops to snuff Tancredo’s cigar.”

It reported that on Wednesday night, Rep. Keith Ellison’s (D-MN) office called the Capitol Hill Police to check on smoke coming from Rep. Tom Tancredo’s (R-CO) office.

At the time, Tancredo was smoking a cigar.

MSNBC’s Tucker Carlson picked up on the story and reported that Ellison “demanded that the officer march into Congressman Tancredo’s office and confront him anyway, which the officer did, sheepishly.”

Fox News said that Ellison “called the Capitol Hill police on Colorado Republican Tom Tancredo for smoking a stogy in his office next door to Ellison’s.”

These reports are all false. Ellison never called the Capitol Hill police. Rick Jauert, Ellison’s spokesman, confirmed to ThinkProgress that he was the one who made the call. He said he wasn’t sure from where the “smoke odor” was coming, so he called the House superintendent’s office, as is standard protocol. The superintendent’s office then transferred him to the police. Jauert wrote to ThinkProgress:

I informed the officer that along about each day at 5 this vile, offensive and very strong odor began to seep into our offices. I wasn’t even aware of the fact that the Congressman himself suffers from seasonal asthma. … The officer asked me if I knew where the odor was coming from; I said, I thought it seemed to becoming from the direction of the Congressman’s personal office which would mean it likely was emanating from Cong. Tancredo’s office.

Jauert notes that Ellison initially wasn’t even aware he had made the call. Later, when he told him, Ellison “went over to Tancredo’s office to explain to them that he (Ellison) has asthma.”

Tancredo told The Hill that he has no plans to stop smoking: “If he [Ellison] would have [had] the courtesy to say something I’m sure I would have been more accommodating to his wishes.” But Tancredo’s spokesman, Carlos Espinosa, confirmed with us today that “Ellison did come by after the police left to ask us to stop smoking. But when he got to our office, [the congressman] had already left.” Digg It!
16.Feb.2007 VIDEO: Reid Calls Conservatives’ Bluff, Will Delay Recess To Vote On Escalation - Nico -

Two weeks ago, Sens. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Olympia Snowe (R-ME), who say they oppose escalating the war, nevertheless voted to block debate on a bipartisan resolution opposing Bush’s Iraq policy.

Facing a political backlash, those same senators now say they want a vote immediately. In a letter yesterday to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), Hagel and Snowe said they planned to block the Senate from adjourning for next week’s recess until a vote on escalation was held.

Today, Reid called their bluff. At a press conference, Reid announced that he will delay the Senate’s recess and hold a cloture vote on the Iraq resolution on Saturday. “Time is of the essence,” Reid said + we are “determined to end the silence and find a new direction.” Watch it:

The Washington Post reports, “If the Saturday vote succeeds, Reid said he may cancel the upcoming week-long recess” to move forward with a full vote on the resolution. Digg It! Transcript: (more…)
16.Feb.2007 Rezension eines aktuellen Buchs der ZEIT-Gerichtsreporterin Sabine Rückert - onlineredaktion
Gudrun Hoffmann - "Unrecht im Namen des Volkes" lautet der Titel des zweiten Buchs von Sabine Rückert. Die Gerichtsreporterin des Hamburger Wochenblatts "Die Zeit" hat es Mitte Januar 2007 beim Verlag Hoffmann und Campe veröffentlicht.
Sabine Rückert schildert einen Justizskandal, der in seiner Ignoranz besonders auffällig ist. Durch die Zwiespältigkeit der Helfer in einer Therapie-Gesellschaft, die finsteren Seiten des deutschen Feminismus,...
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Franz-Josef Hanke - Über "Die fiesen Tricks von Polizei und Justiz" sprach Jörg Bergstedt am Donnerstag (1. Februar) im Buchladen-Café Am Grün in Marburg. Auf Einladung der "Linken Fachschaft 03" berichtete der Polit- und Umwelt-Aktivist von der Projektwerkstatt Saasen dabei überwiegend von eigenen Erfahrungen. Lügen, Fälschungen und Verdrehungen der Wahrheit durch Richter, Polizisten und andere Prozess-Beteiligte standen im Mittelpunkt des amüsant und pointiert...
16.Feb.2007 Brain creates 'new' nerve cells Researchers have discovered for the first time that the human brain can grow new nerve cells.
16.Feb.2007 Food labels branded 'misleading' A report accuses the food industry of misleading consumers with its new food labelling.
16.Feb.2007 Italy orders CIA kidnapping trial A Milan judge orders the trial of 26 US citizens and five Italians over the alleged kidnap of an Egyptian imam.
16.Feb.2007 Cuba's Castro recovering says son Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making a satisfactory recovery from intestinal surgery, says his son.
16.Feb.2007 Top Madrid suspect denies guilt Youssef Belhadj, a key suspect in the trial of 29 people over the 2004 Madrid train bombings, denies involvement.
16.Feb.2007 Politicians sign new climate pact Legislators from around the world agree to tackle climate change, calling for global caps on greenhouse gas emissions.
16.Feb.2007 US rejects Masri wounding claim US military sources say they do not believe report that the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq has been wounded.
16.Feb.2007 US Democrats warn Bush on Iran Top Democrats in the US Congress warn President Bush he does not have the authority to go to war with Iran
16.Feb.2007 'Bionic' eye could restore sight A retinal implant that could help restore the sight of millions of blind people could be available in two years.
16.Feb.2007 Angola hit by fresh flood threat Thousands of villagers are displaced and hundreds stranded as floods hit eastern Angola.
16.Feb.2007 US releases details against Hicks The US military releases details of its case against David Hicks, an Australian held at Guantanamo Bay.
16.Feb.2007 Colombian politician is arrested A Colombian senator is arrested, suspected of links to the country's paramilitary groups.
16.Feb.2007 Japan urged to 'use Greenpeace' New Zealand calls on Tokyo to accept Greenpeace's offer to tow its stricken whaling ship from the Antarctic.
16.Feb.2007 Verdict due in Turkey bomb trial A verdict is expected in a trial of 73 men charged with a wave of suicide bombings in Turkey 00.000.2003.
16.Feb.2007 US mulls WTO move on China piracy The US considers complaining to the WTO about what it says is Chinese intellectual piracy.
16.Feb.2007 Fish in pregnancy 'benefits baby' Eating fish during pregnancy has long-lasting benefits for the child, a UK study suggests.
16.Feb.2007 Antarctic water world uncovered A complex network of rivers and reservoirs beneath the Antarctic Ice sheet is mapped by US scientists.
16.Feb.2007 World climate change gigs planned Music stars will take part in eight concerts around the world in July to highlight the threat of global warming.
16.Feb.2007 The Green Room Seattle mayor Greg Nickels uses this week's Green Room to explain how US cities are changing the climate debate.
16.Feb.2007 EU ministers agree biofuel target Energy ministers agree to increase the share of biofuel used in transport but leave a broader renewables target vague.
16.Feb.2007 Dow Jones hits new record close The Dow Jones index ends at a new record high of 12,765, beating a record set one day earlier.
16.Feb.2007 $82 For E-Voting Secrets Five Sequoia electronic voting machines sold at on online auction? $82. A chance for a researcher to dissect the embedded software that the company refused to make public? Priceless. 16.Feb.2007 Feb. 16, 2005: Matter of Protocol The Kyoto Protocol goes into effect. But without the participation of the USA, it's not very effective.
16.Feb.2007 Clean Cars Elude U.S. Buyers More than 100 currently available automobiles get 40 mpg or better. Why are all but two unavailable in the USA? In Autopia.
16.Feb.2007 The Father of Quantum Computing Oxford physicist David Deutsch invented quantum computing to prove the existence of parallel universes.

So what does D-Wave's demo mean for the future of our world? Wired News interview by Quinn Norton.

16.Feb.2007 Bright future for OLEDs, report predicts Research firm expects market for OLEDs used in displays and lighting to reach $15.5 billion by 2014.
16.Feb.2007 Inventive device can take you up a 30-story building in 30 seconds
Video: Inventive device can take you up a 30-story building in 30 seconds. MIT graduate student Nathan Ball has won a prize for his invention called Atlas Powered Rope Ascender. CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos describes how it works.
16.Feb.2007 Earth's Constant Hum Explained - CowboyNeal 54 -
MattSparkes writes "It has been known for some time that there is a constant hum that emanates from the Earth, which can be heard near 10 millihertz on a seismometer. The problem was that nobody knew what caused it. It has now been shown that it is caused by waves on the bottom of the sea + more specifically 'by the combination of two waves of the same frequency travelling in opposite directions.'"
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16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}I suspect that what you call the tranny movement is at least part right, but also part wrong. The best way to conceal truth is to mix it with falsehoods.
Why do you think Hopsicker has dropped the Atta stories? Has the trail gone cold? # posted by Anonymous :
16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}allegations that Saeed Sheikh and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (whose capture reamins one of the great lingering mysteries of the so-called war on terror) had links to American intelligence: Shortly after 9/11, in

00.Oct.2001 , U.S. + British newspapers briefly alleged that the paymaster for the 9/11 attacks was a possible agent of the Pakistani intelligence service ISI, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh.

There was even a brief period in which it was alleged that the money had been paid at the direction of the then ISI Chief, Lieutenant-General Mahmoud Ahmad.(23)
Others have since argued that Saeed Sheikh worked for both America and Britain, since "both American and British governments have studiously avoided taking any action against Sheikh despite the fact that he is a known terrorist who has targeted U.S. and UK citizens."(24) The claim what Saeed Sheikh was recruited by MI-6 in Great Britain has been made by myself, by John Newman + by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed;

recently it has been pointed to in the new book by Pervez Musharraf, the President of Pakistan.(25)
And there may have been other double agents.

Last month Robert Baer, a former CIA officer, told an Australian newspaper that ''

00.000.1996 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [the al-Qaeda mastermind of the 9/11 plot] was in Doha [the capital of Qatar], the CIA found out about it + wanted to arrest him and people in Washington stopped them.

That has never been answered in the 9/11 commission report, why that arrest was stopped."(26) Drowning out these important facts explains why the 911 Tranny movement has received so much covert aid.
16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Much evidence supports the proposition that Ali Mohamed was an American plant within Al Qaeda. Scott:
But what we have heard so far is a fall-back cover-up of even worse truths. Peter Lance, who first wrote the script for the National Geographic special, told about Mohamed's detention and release in Toronto. This important detail, along with others, was cut from the program. Lance withdrew from the project and complained on his website about these and other cuts, such as this one:
"Within days of 9/11 Cloonan ... interviewed Ali, whom the Feds had allowed to slip into witness protection + demanded to know the details of the plot. At that point Ali wrote it all out - including details of how he'd counseled would-be hijackers on how to smuggle box cutters on board aircraft and where to sit, to effect the airline seizures."(9) So let us sum up what we know so far about Ali Mohamed: 1. A key planner of the 9/11 plot + trainer in hijacking, was simultaneously an informant for the FBI.
2. This operative trained the members for all of the chief Islamist attacks inside the USA -- the first WTC bombing, the New York landmarks plot + finally 9/11, as well as the attacks against Americans in Somalia and Kenya.
3. And yet for four years Mohamed was allowed to move in and out of the country as an unindicted conspirator. Then, unlike his trainees, he was allowed to plea-bargain. To this day he may still not have been sentenced for any crime + may even be in witness protection.(10) Peter Lance has charged that Fitzgerald had evidence before 1998 to implicate Mohamed in the Kenya Embassy bombing, yet did nothing and let the bombing happen.(11)

In fact, back

00.000.1990 the FBI was aware that Mohamed had engaged in terrorist training on Long Island;

yet it acted to protect Mohamed from arrest, even after one of his trainees had moved beyond training to an actual assassination.(12) If, as claimed, Ali Mohammed ended up in witness protection and not at Gitmo, we have good reason to doubt that his true loyalties went to Osama.
16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Arguably the second-most important "inside man" was the mysterious Ali Mohammed -- he used other names -- of whom Peter Dale Scott has written much. The title of one of Scott's pieces tells the most basic truth about this individual: 9/11's Trainer in Terrorism Was an FBI Informant.
Author Peter Lance has a new book on Mohamed, which portrays him as Al Qaeda's inside man within the U.S. intelligence establishment.
16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}The most significant "inside man" in history was Adolf Hitler, who joined the nascent NSDAP (the Nazi Party) as an informant for German Army Intelligence.

00.000.1979, a police informant within the Klan egged on the massacre of Communist demonstrators in in Greensboro, North Carolina. (The killers were acquitted by a racist southern jury.) During the height of the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, FBI informants within the movement routinely tried to foment violence; the "insiders" would be released by police immediately after arrest.
16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}The Inside Man Stop me if you've heard this one before: The organizer of a Nazi rally in a black neighborhood in Florida turns out to be be a paid FBI informant.
16.Feb.2007 Tony Snow is "a daily GOP hypocrite in his arrogant and deceitful dealings with the lapdogs of the White House Press Corps. He's their male dominatrix. He cracks the whip of mistruths as he casts out snide asides and the well-paid stenographers of the status quo roll over and retreat to their submissive stenography."
Original Remastered Recording of John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" (CD), Perhaps the Most Spiritual Jazz Album of All Time
Gaper's Block -- A BuzzFlash Editorial

16.Feb.2007 Auditors: Billions Wasted in Iraq. That's Our Money, George + We Want It Back.
The Power of Buying Progressive is the Alternative Fuel that Powers BuzzFlash.com

16.Feb.2007 Pelosi: Bush lacks power to invade Iran
Will Gore Go for the Presidential Brass Ring Come September. He Probably Hasn't Decided Yet, But It Appears a Possibility. Hmmmm.... 2/16
BuzzFlash's Colleague and Monthly Book Reviewer Replaces Al Franken on Air America. Nice Profile of Thom Hartmann in the San Francisco Chronicle. 2/16
Sign the Petition Against Mandatory Gun Ownership! Do You Want to be FORCED to Own a Gun? Madness. "InstaPundit" Thinks you Should be.

16.Feb.2007 Bush and Cheney are a Fifth Column Within the American Government: Outgoing Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker said yesterday that the increase of 17,500 Army combat troops in Iraq represents only the "tip of the iceberg" and will potentially require thousands of additional support troops and trainers, as well as equipment -- further eroding the Army's readiness to respond to other world contingencies. Okay, read it again. This is the outgoing Army Chief of Staff Talking! 2/16
16.Feb.2007 _{https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/}Hey, it's ONLY reality...
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16.Feb.2007 Roter Planet: Wasser soll Mars- Felsen ausgebleicht haben
16.Feb.2007 Überfüllte Uni- Bibliotheken: Sitzplatz nur ein Euro pro Stunde
16.Feb.2007 Globalisierte Rüstungsindustrie: Boeing und Lockheed wollen Großbritannien erobern

16.Feb.2007 Irak: Schiiten- Prediger Sadr befiehlt Rückzug der Mahdi- Armee

16.Feb.2007 Atomwaffenprogramm: USA wollen zweite Iran- Resolution
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Academic papers {Richard V. Allen } [Friction] [SK US relations] ... recent Department of Defense Comptroller Dov Zakheim - who now works in the same firm of Booz Allen and ..._{www.vuw.ac.nz/~caplabtb/dprk/NK_paper.htm}

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Rosenthal, John D. ( Booz - Allen &. Hamilton Inc.) ... Zakheim, Dov. Military contractor foreign mergers, 404. Zedillo, Ernesto.

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911 WTC - Evidence of an Nuclear explosion? Dov S. Zakheim Department of Defense Comptroller Former V.P. of System Planning ... of the CIA for Bill Clinton, vice-president at Booz Allen & Hamilton ...
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Archive D&39;Ono Dooley Doppelba Doremus Doroshow Douliery Dove Draizen Drakert ... YUDKIN YZAGUIRR ZAGORIA ZAKHEIM DOV ZARB ZEIDENST ZELIKOW ZELNICK ZEMMOL ... www.argelab.net/archive.html

The Idiocy Behind the '9/11 Truth' Movement

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Russia's Wrong Direction: What the United States Can and Should Do ...

Williams World Wildlife Fund Dov S. Zakheim Booz Allen Hamilton ... Well, in truth I'm actually not a total hawk, but I'm not a dove either - I'm more like ... _{www.arizonasportsfans.com/vb/showthread.php?t=69284}
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HaloScan.com - Comments Dual-Citizen and Zionist, Dov Zakheim, former Pentagon Comptroller, somehow managed to lose $3 ... got an award + moved on to a cushy job at Booz Allen .
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WhatReallyHappened.com: July 2004 Archives Dov Zakheim + the 9/11 Conspiracy.

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CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: Negroponte The non-confrontational language and imagery of the lamb, the virgin, the dove, the gentle shepherd + the kind father have been cast aside in favor of ...
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ReBelle Nation: 07/09/2006 - 07/15/2006 ... anyone could have imagined," said Dov S. Zakheim, the Pentagon's comptroller from 2001 until 2004 and now a vice president at consulting firm Booz Allen ...
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CRIMES AND CORRUPTION OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: Negroponte

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16.Feb.2007 new research on Dov Zakheim, in depth

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Progetto per un nuovo secolo americano - Wikipedia Dov S. Zakheim, Dipartimento della difesa, Controllore, Attualmente è vicepresidente della Booz Allen Hamilton.

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15.Feb.2007 "Live Earth": Al Gore organisiert Mega- Livekonzert für Klimaschutz
15.Feb.2007 Now Iran? ... Hasn't Bush Caused Enough Damage?
15.Feb.2007 Doug Feith thinks you're stupid from Nitpicker by Nitpicker It's Time to Block Bush's Iran Adventure
15.Feb.2007 Oil bourse to be put up in Kish in near future: minister - Irna _{- BG}https://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-18/0702132067170108.htm
15.Feb.2007 Today's Papers: Who Knows? _{- BG}today's papers
Who Knows?
By Daniel Politi
Posted Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, at 5:40 AM ET

The New York Times and Washington Post lead with President Bush's first news conference of the year, where he said Iranian operatives provided weapons to Iraqi militias to use against U.S. troops.

But Bush backed away from claims made in a military briefing on Sunday that the "highest levels" of Iran's government have been involved. The Los Angeles Times leads with the changing argument + emphasizes that the chief military spokesman in Iraq also declared that the role of Iran's top leaders can't be confirmed.

The Wall Street Journal tops its worldwide newsbox with Bush's statements on Iran, but plays down the contradictions + states that "the president said there is no doubt Iran's government is providing armor-piercing IEDs to kill U.S. soldiers."

USA Today leads with State Farm's decision that it will not issue any new home and commercial policies in Mississippi, which could lead to other insurers abandoning the state.

Officials at State Farm said their decision was partly based on the large number of lawsuits since Hurricane Katrina.

Some say the company wants local officials to fear other insurers will stop providing new policies if the cases aren't settled in their favor.
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15.Feb.2007 Iran's elite Quds Force remains an enigma _{- BG}"On occasion their plans have coincided with U.S. interests ..."... Source: _{https://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-quds15feb15,1,7977308.story?coll=la-headlines-world}
15.Feb.2007 U.S. to shun all members of Palestinian unity govt _{- BG}
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The United States will boycott all Palestinian unity government ministers, including non-Hamas members, unless international demands on policy toward Israel are met, a Palestinian official and diplomats said on Thursday.... Source: https://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2007-02-15T114717Z_01_L13751846_RTRUKOC_0_US-PALESTINIANS.xml
15.Feb.2007 Al-Sadr Supporters Deny Report of Flight to Iran _{- BG}
BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Supporters of Muqtada al-Sadr said Wednesday that the radical Shiite cleric was still in Iraq, denying a report that he fled to Iran ahead of a security crackdown targeting his militia.
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15.Feb.2007 Nita Lowey Carries Water for AIPAC, Throws Personal Wrench Into U.S. Mideast Policy _{- BG}
It's classic guerrilla legislative tactics and it has AIPAC written all over it. Nita Lowey is one of AIPAC's staunchest allies in Congress and is the fifth on the House list (as of 2004) of career recipients of pro-Israel PAC campaign funds. And today, Reuters reports that thanks to her, Condi Rice has [...]...
Source: https://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/02/14/nita-lowey-throws-personal-wrench-into-us-mideast-policy/
15.Feb.2007 BBC 9/11 Documentary Likely Hit Piece - Paul Joseph Watson Obsessive focus on strawman theories say individuals interviewed for upcoming show
15.Feb.2007 Why Is Britain Protecting 'Jihadists'? - Paul Joseph Watson Select British suspects saved in Africa, flown back to UK, then released
15.Feb.2007 Goode: Iraq Critics Are Helping ‘Jihadists Who Want The Crescent And Star To Wave Over The Capitol’ - _{Think Progress} -

During today’s House debate on Iraq, virulently anti-Muslim Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA) said supporting the anti-escalation resolution would “aid and assist the Islamic jihadists who want the crescent and star to wave over the Capitol of the United States and over the White House of this country.” Moreover, he said, “I fear that radical Muslims who want to control the Middle East and ultimately the world would love to see ‘In God We Trust’ stricken from our money and replaced with ‘In Muhammad We Trust.’” Watch it:

00.Dec.2006 Goode wrote a now-infamous letter attacking Muslim Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) and warming “American citizens” to “wake up” or “there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office.” Full transcript: (more…)
15.Feb.2007 ‘Billions already wasted in Iraq, billions more could be.’ - Amanda -

Federal auditors today told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that the government has wasted $10 billion on “overpriced contracts or undocumented costs.” Of that amount, more than $2.7 billion were charged by Halliburton. The Government Accountability Office warned that “the problem could worsen,” given “limited improvement so far by the Department of Defense.”
15.Feb.2007 : White House Now Blames Briefer For Going Too Far On Iran Intel - Faiz -

Last Sunday, the Bush administration finally presented its long-delayed intelligence briefing on Iranian arms shipments into Iraq.

Prior to the presentation, a U.S. official told the New York Times that it had been delayed because they were “trying to scrub” the intelligence, adding “the last thing we want to be accused of is cherry-picking.”

While much of the information had previously been known, the highlight of the presentation — as reported by ABC World News — was that it was “the first time military officials…made the link to the highest level of Iran’s government.” But the briefing “offered no evidence” to substantiate that claim. After coming under intense scrutiny for an intelligence presentation that was approved by the highest levels of the administration, the White House has slowly backed off its claims of Iranian government involvement.

Today, reported that the White House is now blaming the anonymous intelligence briefer who presented the information.

According to ’s Ed Henry, the White House says the anonymous intelligence briefer went “a little too far” in stating the evidence. But, as Henry said, “that begs the question why the administration has taken so long to clarify those comments.” Watch it: Transcript: (more…)
15.Feb.2007 Rep. Shays, Who Supported Withdrawal Before Election, Now Backs Escalation - _{Think Progress} -

Two weeks before last November’s election, when he was on the verge of losing his House seat to anti-war challenger Diane Farrell (D), Rep. Chris Shays (R-CT) suddenly announced that he supported setting a timeline for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. Shays won the race by 3 points.

Flash-forward three months. Yesterday, Shays declared on the House floor that he would not vote for the resolution opposing escalation in Iraq. “It is counterproductive for 535 members of the House of Representatives and Senate to micromanage the war.” He added that the resolution opposing escalation “sends the wrong message to the President, to our troops and to our enemies. … The only way we should leave Iraq is the same way we went in, together.” Watch it: Transcript: (more…)
15.Feb.2007 ‘24' cuts down on torture scenes. - Faiz -

The Fox TV series ‘24' will include fewer torture scenes in its final episodes this season. Executive Producer Howard Gordon claimed that the change was not due pressure from the military, but rather because it had become cliché. “What was once an extraordinary or exceptional moment is starting to feel a little trite. The idea of physical coercion or torture is no longer a novelty or surprise,” Gordon said.
15.Feb.2007 Bush’s ‘gut-level bond’ is lost. - Faiz -

According to President Bush’s former pollster Matthew Dowd, Bush’s “gut-level bond” with the American people “may be lost,” and “wholesale change” is needed in Iraq. As Stephen Colbert informed us, President Bush makes his decisions “straight from the gut” because “that’s where the truth lies, right down here in the gut.”
15.Feb.2007 Former CIA Official: Feith’s Claims Are ‘Hogwash,’ He Took A ‘We Have A War To Sell’ Approach - Faiz -

In a recent interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, former Undersecretary of Defense Doug Feith attacked Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the CIA who specialized in counterterrorism, for claiming that al Qaeda was not working with Saddam Hussein’s secular regime:

FEITH: I think that there were people, there were people in the CIA who had a theory that the Baathist secularists would not cooperate with the religious extremists in al Qaeda. And because they had that theory, when they looked at information that was, that showed, or that suggested that there was cooperation, they were inclined not to believe that information. […]

One of the main people who was propounding that theory…that the Baathists wouldn’t deal with the jihadists is now out in the private sector + he’s actually been quite vocal + has written articles + his name is Paul Pillar.

Pillar was right; Feith was wrong. The Senate Intelligence Committee’s Phase II report noted that Saddam Hussein “issued a general order that Iraq should not deal with al Qa’ida.”

Asked to respond to Feith’s attack, Pillar told ThinkProgress:

It is hogwash that community analysts, as Feith alleges, were peremptorily dismissing, or “suppressing,” reporting based on some bias on their part about what was or was not possible in Baathist-jihadi relations. In fact, I can’t think of any recent issue on which the intelligence community has exhaustively devoted more scrutiny — at great expenditure of senior as well as working-level time and attention–than this one of Iraqi-al-Qa’ida relations. I can say that confidently, based on intelligence assessments I read and meetings I attended.

Pillar told ThinkProgress that Feith’s office recommended that the CIA’s assessment on Iraq-al Qaeda relations “be ignored. Not challenged, not made the subject of a critical dialogue between policymakers and analysts, but ignored.” Pillar described how he personally witnessed Feith’s dismissive attitude towards intelligence professionals in one White House meeting in the fall of 2002:

When an intelligence officer responsible for counterterrorism politely pointed out that something Feith had just said (and was recommending as a public talking point) about Iraqi-al-Qa’ida relations was not supported by the intelligence, Feith dismissed my colleague’s point as “nit-picking” and quickly went on to the next subject. It was a don’t-bother-us-with-the-facts- we-have-a-war-to-sell approach.

Today, Feith claims he was merely asking “tough questions” and “challenging the CIA” prior to the war.
15.Feb.2007 February 15, 2007 - _{Think Progress} -

“The U.S. Central Command’s war plan for invading Iraq postulated

00.Aug.2002 that the U.S. would have only 5,000 troops left in Iraq as of December 2006,” according to newly released documents. “ Completely unrealistic assumptions about a post-Saddam Iraq permeate these war plans,” said an official from the National Security Archive, which obtained the documents.

The Los Angeles Times examines whether the Iranian Quds Forces, accused of smuggling weapons to Shiite forces in Iraq, are controlled by the Iranian government. The conclusion: “Experts aren’t sure.”

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) will today outline his plan to begin ending the war in Iraq “by stopping the deployment of troops from units that have been badly degraded by four years of combat.” Murtha’s legislation will require that U.S. troops who have already served be granted adequate time at home before redeploying + that “any troops sent to Iraq must be…deemed fully trained and equipped under existing military standards.”

State Farm, which insures one out of every three Mississippi homes, has decided to “stop writing new home and commercial policies throughout Mississippi,” which “could prompt other insurers to retreat further from the Katrina-battered region.”

“Lobbyists eager to revive the practice of taking staffers out for a few beers” are encouraged by a House memo that states that even under new ethics rules, lawmakers and staff can accept “food or refreshments of a nominal value offered other than as part of a meal.” “ Happy hours are OK again ,” said one corporate source. (more…)
15.Feb.2007 Oil lobbyist and Bush enviro lawyer share vacation home. - Nico - “Nine months before agreeing to let ConocoPhillips delay a half-billion-dollar pollution cleanup, the government’s top environmental prosecutor [Sue Ellen Wooldridge] bought a $1 million vacation home with the company’s top lobbyist,” the AP reports. “Also in on the Kiawah Island, S.C., house deal was former Deputy Interior Secretary J. Steven Griles, the highest-ranking Bush administration official targeted for criminal prosecution in the Jack Abramoff corruption probe.”

UPDATE: The happy couple:

Griles, now an oil and gas lobbyist, began dating Wooldridge while he was her boss at Interior. He was the department’s No. 2 official from July 2001 to January 2005, behind only former Secretary Gale Norton. He and Duncan, a ConocoPhillips vice president who runs the company’s Washington office, both served on President Bush’s presidential transition team, Griles for the Interior Department, Duncan for the Energy Department.

Duncan has played a major role in getting the Bush administration’s backing for a proposed $25 billion natural gas pipeline reaching from Alaska to Midwest markets.
15.Feb.2007 Endlich! Terrorhelfer auch in der Schweiz! - sfux
Unbekannte Autorin/Indymedia - Bei gewissen Damen und Herren in der Staatsanwaltschaft Zürich und in der Bundesanwaltschaft dürften in diesen Stunden die letzten Schampusflaschen entsorgt werden: Haben sie es doch wieder einmal geschafft, die ?Rädelsführerin? (wie es ja immer so schön heisst), einer bekannten ausserparlamentarischen Gruppe erheblich zu belasten.
Am Montag wurden in Italien in einer grossangelegten Aktion über 70 Personen von der Polizei...
15.Feb.2007 Willkommen in der Kloake des Mittelalters - Bushs Sondertribunale - onlineredaktion
onlineredaktion - Die katholische Kirche hat es einst vorgemacht, US-Präsident George W. Bush macht es jetzt nach: Die blutrünstige ?Inquisition? der finstersten Tage des Mittelalters ist zurück. Bushs Feinde sollen künftig in Sondertribunalen zum Tode verurteilt werden. Indirekte Zeugenaussagen und erzwungene Aussagen sollen zur Verurteilung von Angeklagten führen.
Angeblich gab es ein ?Tauziehen? um die Einrichtung von Gerichten, so genannte ?Sondertribunale?,...
15.Feb.2007 Bericht über die behauptete Nutzung europäischer Staaten durch die CIA für die Beförderung... - sfux
Giovanni Claudio Fava - Nichtständiger Ausschuss zur behaupteten Nutzung europäischer Staaten durch die CIA für die Beförderung und das rechtswidrige Festhalten von Gefangenen.

Den Bericht des Europaparlamentes lesen Sie hier .
15.Feb.2007 Spezielle Medikamente für kleine Kinder? Ja, aber? - onlineredaktion
Harald Haack - Kinder sind anders als Erwachsene. Ist das eine Binsenweisheit? Nun, sie sind klein, viel kleiner als Erwachsene, aber sie sind deshalb keine kleinen Erwachsenen.
Die Pharmaindustrie sah das bisher anders. Es gibt kaum spezielle, auf die chemische Empfindlichkeit von Kindern abgestimmte Medikamente. Noch nicht! Aber das soll nun anders werden, denn eine neue EU-Verordnung soll diesen Missstand eliminieren. Das wäre auch eine Chance für Chemikalien-empfindliche...
15.Feb.2007 Brasilien - größter Fleischexporteur der Welt - onlineredaktion Karl Weiss -

Jetzt sind die Statistiken veröffentlicht worden, jetzt ist es heraus: Brasilien ist im Jahre 2006 zum größten Fleischexporteur der Welt geworden. Was das für Konsequenzen für das Weltklima und die bereits beginnende Klimakatastrophe hat, sowohl wegen der Zerstörung der Regenwälder als auch durch die Freilandviehhaltung auf riesigsten Flächen ohne Baum und Strauch, das kann man erahnen.
15.Feb.2007 Scientists Flex Political Muscles Advocacy rules at the world's biggest general science conference as researchers polish their agendas on topics from climate change to creationists.
15.Feb.2007 'Amphibian Ark' Could Save Frogs As pollution and a killer fungus decimate frog populations around the world, scientists work to quarantine a stock of healthy croakers. Plus: See slideshow of threatened frogs.
15.Feb.2007 U.S. servers slurp more power than Mississippi Power-hungry servers consumed 45 billion kilowatt-hours of power 00.000.2005--double that of 00.000.2000 .
15.Feb.2007 Senate bill urges e-voting paper trail Blog: Under a bill introduced Tuesday in the U.S. Senate, all electronic voting machines would have to allow voters a way to verify...
15.Feb.2007 Raleigh mayor de-bugs light bulbs
Blog: Raleigh, N.C. mayor Charles Meeker on Monday said he wants to convert all the city's municipal lights to LEDs--starting with parking...
15.Feb.2007 Patients, doctors staying away from implantable RFID chips RFID chip company gets ho-hum response to its initial public offering, partly because only 222 people have gotten chipped.
15.Feb.2007 Scientists keep Stone Age skeletons in lover's embrace Blog: Archaeologists said Monday that they won't split up the remains of a couple found with their arms wrapped around each other for...
15.Feb.2007 US Lags World In Broadband Access - Zonk 203 -An anonymous reader writes "When It Comes To Broadband, U.S. Plays Follow The Leader says a story in IWeek.

Their thesis is that, while broadband access in the United States rose

00.Mar.2005 60 million users to

00.Mar.2006 -84 million , the US is well behind countries like England and China.

Indeed, what you may not realize is that the U.S. ranks a surprisingly poor 12th in worldwide broadband access, a situation which could threaten its ability to maintain its technological lead.

The federal government is no help: the FCC has almost no data on the rate of hi-speed adoption, or of what the speed and quality of those services are. Broadband is more expensive here than in other nations, as well, almost 10 times as expensive by some estimates. The cost and poor quality of service aren't from population density, aren't from lack of interest + are not from lack of technical know-how. So, what is holding us back?
15.Feb.2007 Hitachi's Tiny RFID Chips - kdawson 83 - paltemalte writes

"Hitachi has just come out with a new crop of RFID tags, measuring only 1/20 of a millimeter square. That's 1/8 the size (in linear dimension) of Hitachi's currently shipping mu-chips, which are 0.4 mm square.

The new chip's width is slightly smaller than a human hair. These chips could put an end to shoplifting forever, but they could also be used by a governments or other entities to 'dust' crowds or areas, easily tagging anyone present without their knowledge or consent. Will someone come up with a surefire way of neutralizing chips that may be on your body or in your clothing?"

Hard to pin down a source on this. The article cites another blog, which points to an article in Japanese.
15.Feb.2007 Quantum Computer Demoed, Plays Sudoku - kdawson 217 -
prostoalex writes "Canadian company D-Wave Systems is getting some technology press buzz after successfully demonstrating their quantum computer (discussed here earlier) that the company plans to rent out. Scientific American has a more technical description of how the quantum computer works, as well as possible areas of application: 'The quantum computer was given three problems to solve: searching for molecular structures that match a target molecule, creating a complicated seating plan + filling in Sudoku puzzles.' Another attendee provides some videos from the demo." Anyone want to guess how long before "qubit" gets compressed to "quit" (as "bigit" became "bit" in the last century)?
15.Feb.2007 Power Generating Spacesuits - samzenpus 133 -Maggie McKee writes

"Piezoelectric sensors could help power future space missions. Astronauts' spacesuits may one day be covered in motion-sensitive proteins that could generate power from the astronauts' movement, according to futuristic research being conducted by a new lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US. Such 'power skins' could also be used to coat future human bases on Mars, where they could produce energy from the Martian wind. Eventually, the biologically derived suits might even be able to heal themselves."
15.Feb.2007 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-466585,00.html

Japans Forscher erwarten, dass Roboteranzüge eines Tages zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil des täglichen Lebens werden. Schon

00.000.2008 sollen sie auf den Markt kommen: Gegen eine monatliche Miete von bis zu 1200 Euro oder zum Kaufpreis von 3165 Euro.

Derzeit wird "HAL" in Pflegeeinrichtungen für alte Menschen getestet.
15.Feb.2007 Neuronen- Nachschub: Neue Nervenzellen wachsen im menschlichen Gehirn nach

15.Feb.2007 Nachkriegs- Planung: Bush träumte von Irak- Wunder mit 5000- Mann- Minitruppe

15.Feb.2007 Russland: Putin macht Iwanow zum Nachfolge- Anwärter

15.Feb.2007 USA: Heftige Schneefälle legen Verkehr lahm

15.Feb.2007 Putin- Nachfolge: Iwanow wird Vizeministerpräsident

15.Feb.2007 Madrider Terrorprozess: "Ich habe mit den Anschlägen nichts zu tun"

15.Feb.2007 Internet: Eine Geldmaschine namens Mohnhaupt

15.Feb.2007 Verteidigung: Russland droht USA mit Kündigung von Raketen- Abrüstungsvertrag

15.Feb.2007 Bestechungsverdacht: Siemens unterhielt dubiose Verbindung zu Arbeitnehmerboss

15.Feb.2007 Holocaust- Leugner: Höchststrafe für Zündel nach bizarrem Prozess