20.Apr.2007
Kirchen:
Vatikan schafft das Fegefeuer ab
20.Apr.2007
Irak:
Scheichs gründen Partei gegen Al Kaida
20.Apr.2007
Schuss
in Raumfahrtzentrum: Bewaffneter Mann versetzt Nasa in
Ausnahmezustand
20.Apr.2007
Starke
Gewinn- Zahlen: US- Börsen gehen wieder auf Rekordkurs
20.Apr.2007
Anschlagswarnung:
Schäuble bestätigt erhöhte Terrorgefahr
für US- Einrichtungen in Deutschland
20.Apr.2007
Amok-
Opfer: Amerikanerin überlebte Littleton und Blacksburg
20.Apr.2007
Österreich:
Dubioser Rüstungsdeal entzweit die Große Koalition
20.Apr.2007
Dramatische
Dürre: Australiens Premier stimmt Farmer auf staubiges Desaster
ein
20.Apr.2007
Vorstoß:
Norwegen soll als erstes Land CO2- neutral werden
20.Apr.2007
Kurnaz-
Buch: Memoiren aus dem Lager des Leidens
20.Apr.2007
Blacksburg-
Analyse: "Amokläufer versuchen, andere Täter zu
überbieten"
20.Apr.2007
Administration
pursued aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout:
For six years,
the Bush administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key battleground states in ways that favor Republican political candidates.
20.Apr.2007
Bush
administration is prying into your medical records in violation of
the law :
The Bush
administration has created a massive database of your private medical
records and they're now abusing it.
20.Apr.2007
Criticism
at Gonzales Showdown
: His job in jeopardy, Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales went before the Senate Judiciary Committee
on Thursday to explain his murky role in the dismissal of eight
federal prosecutors last winter.
20.Apr.2007 DOJ Fails to Comply with House Judiciary Subpoena: U.S. House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) issued the following statement in response to the Justice Department’s failure to comply with the Committee’s subpoena response deadline of 2 p.m. today. The subpoena seeks information the Department has continued to refuse to provide or has provided only in redacted form.
20.Apr.2007 Doolittle steps down from Appropriations Committee: Doolittle announced today that he was giving up -- at least for now -- his seat on the powerful House Appropriations Committee, just days after the FBI raided his Virginia home in connection with an ongoing corruption probe.
20.Apr.2007
Flight
from U.S. dollar gathers strength:
The assault against the U.S. dollar intensifed yesterday as the
greenback slumped to historic lows against currencies as diverse as
the U.K. pound and the Polish zloty amid growing conviction among
investors higher returns lie beyond U.S. borders.
20.Apr.2007
Is
this the start of World War III?:
Several top US political figures, including Sen. John McCain (R)
Arizona + former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (Rep.) called the
current Middle East crisis the beginning of "World War III"
and said they were "gravely concerned"
20.Apr.2007
Former
Mossad chief not against killing Ahmadinejad:
"I'm not against the world coming together and working to take
out Ahmadinejad, even though such an action would make him a Shahid
(martyr)," he told the Kfar Chabad weekly.
20.Apr.2007
We
can sell, but you can't:
Israel
wants both to limit the supply of American armaments to countries
that endanger it and to have the freedom to sell Israeli
weapons to countries that directly endanger the United
States - and indirectly, Israel
too.
20.Apr.2007
Richard
Perle Makes His Case for War: In Defense of Freedom
: Video: Former Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle travels
the globe articulating, defending and debating the neoconservative
case for an assertive American foreign policy. Perle finds no
shortage of candidates willing to challenge him on these issues.
20.Apr.2007 The Third Stage : Video: A collection of short mainstream media and independent film clips on the evolution of 9/11 skepticism
20.Apr.2007
Ethnic
spat heats up Pakistan-Iran border:
While Tehran stares down Washington
and deflects Arab concerns over its nuclear ambitions, it is now also
fighting a skirmish with militants across its Western border with
Pakistan, fanning concerns that an area already mired in Taliban
violence and an ethnic insurgency could be further destabilized.
20.Apr.2007
Iraq:
Thousands missing since war began:
"During Saddam's time,
people were being arrested and sometimes families couldn't get any
information about their loved ones. But the proposed democracy hasn't
changed this reality. My two sons have disappeared and I can't get
any information. I don't even know if they are dead,"
20.Apr.2007 The arrogance of power: Surge 'last chance' for Iraqi leadership: US commander : The surge in US forces in Iraq is likely the last chance for Iraqi leaders to establish a functioning state, a top US commander said Wednesday, warning they needed to take faster action on key political decisions.
20.Apr.2007 Trouble is brewing for the US in Iraqi Kurdistan: While the Bush administration struggles to stabilize Baghdad, a major new threat is emerging in the Kurdish areas of northern Iraq. If it isn't defused, this crisis could further erode US goals in Iraq - drawing foreign military intervention
20.Apr.2007 'War in Iraq lost,' says US Democrat leader : The war in Iraq "is lost" and a US troop surge is failing to bring peace to the country, the leader of the Democratic majority in the US Congress, Harry Reid, said on Thursday.
20.Apr.2007 Pentagon Can Pay for War Through June : The Pentagon says it has enough money to pay for the Iraq war through June, despite warnings from the White House that troops are being harmed by Congress' failure to quickly deliver more funds.
20.Apr.2007 Military Experts: Iraq War Is Damaging Forces: In a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this morning on Army and Marine Corps preparedness, retired Maj. Gen. Robert Scales testified that two thirds of regular brigades and "virtually all of our reserve brigades are not combat-ready."
20.Apr.2007 Experts: Force increases may not be enough: The Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony Tuesday that increasing the size of the Army and Marine Corps may not resolve severe and growing personnel problems. There was even talk of returning to the draft to fill the ranks.
20.Apr.2007
Iraq
is not part of war on terror,
says top UK diplomat:
Former cabinet minister Helen Liddell sparked a diplomatic row today,
as she rejected the idea that the Iraq invasion was part of the "war
on terror"
- despite being high commissioner to Australia, whose prime minister
believes Iraq is the frontline of the war on terror.
20.Apr.2007
Back
Bush's
War Strategy? Then Bring Back The Draft-By
Joseph L. Galloway
Here's a question for those who still support
President Bush's
strategy to stretch out the Iraq War until after he's left office +
for those who think we should be prepared to continue our bloody
occupation of Iraq for five or 10 more years: Continue
20.Apr.2007 Hail and Farewell: the End of the American Empire -By Gore Vidal-Obviously, our weird little emperor is incapable of moral reflection, thus inviting us to reflect morally upon him as he has gone about his systematic wrecking of our common empire. Continue
20.Apr.2007 A U.S. Military Dictatorship? -Audio-A fascinating interview with Chalmers Johnson.
From the democracy that it celebrates to the military might that it wields, some argue that the U.S. is less of a Republic these days and more of an empire. And that, says Charlmers Johnson, means Americans have some decisions to make if they don't want their country to go the route of fallen empires. Click to listen.
20.Apr.2007
Bringing
Down the House of Lies
-By Steve Bhaerman
It's a bit of a mixed feeling to realize that
millions and millions of people who didn't get this distinction two,
four or six years ago now understand that the "political' issues
we now face aren't about right and left, they're about right and
wrong.
Continue
20.Apr.2007
Demonstrating
Our Commitment To Democracy
-By Shahid Buttar
If democracy is an appealing principle, we
should act like it. Rather than support military dictators in client
states whose regimes abuse American human rights activists, U.S.
Presidents could instead support their secular opposition. Continue
20.Apr.2007
Declassified
Documents Confirms U.S. Killed Civilians During 'Korean War
-By The Associated Press
A declassified U.S. Navy document
confirms that on Sept. 1, 1950, the destroyer USS DeHaven, at the
Army's request, opened fire on a refugee encampment on a beach near
the southern South Korean port of Pohang. Survivors say 100 to 200
refugees — mostly women and children — were killed.
Continue
20.Apr.2007
Is
The CIA
Trying to Kill Hugo Chávez?
-By
Chris Carlson
In recent weeks, Hugo Chávez
has increasingly warned that the United
States has plans to kill him and is stepping up its
activity against him and his government. Chávez
has also claimed that the CIA
is working with associates of the famous Cuban
terrorist
and CIA
agent Posada Carriles, designing plans for his assassination. But
could there be any truth to all of this?
Continue
20.Apr.2007
The
State or the People -By
Paul Craig Roberts
Whether one stands with the left or the right,
it is apparent that both political factions are failing the country.
The right responded to 9/11
by asserting American hegemony over international law and by
permitting the executive branch to waive aside civil liberties.The
political left went along with these developments, perhaps thinking
to use the enhanced power of government for its own purposes later.
Continue
20.Apr.2007Karl
Rove
May Have Sent Up to 95% of His E-Mails Through RNC
Servers and On An RNC
E-mail Account to Avoid Having Them Be Part of Executive Branch
Records. Now the White
House is Claiming That These RNC
E-mails (No Doubt Implicating Offenses and Possibly Crimes) are
Covered by Executive Branch Privilege. Now That's Hypocrisy, Alright!
20.Apr.2007
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Republican
Senators Abandon Gonzales. Something Tells Us That They Got the Green
Light from the White
House to Give "Fredo" the Made Man's Hint to
Fall on His Sword. 4/20
U.S.
lawmakers on Thursday railed against senior U.S. Army officials and
defense contractor KBR Inc. over persistent allegations of fraud and
contract abuse on a multibillion-dollar deal to provide food and
shelter to American troops in Iraq. 4/20
McCain
"Jokes" About Bombing Iran. Hey, Don't Let Him Buy a Gun
Under the Mental Illness Prohibition. 4/20
20.Apr.2007
Gonzales/Attorneys
Hearing: A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection Straight Into the
White House
4/20
The
BuzzFlash Mailbag -- Uncensored and Unvarnished Truth from BuzzFlash
Readers.
Larry
Beinhart: War Dispatches from the War On Stupidity -- A BuzzFlash
Guest Contribution
20.Apr.2007
"Gonzales
had weeks to prepare for yesterday's hearing. But the man who sat at
the witness table sounded like the sort of person who forgets where
he parked his car." 4/20
Episode
58: Rest well, Kilgore Trout -- Last Chance Democracy Cafe by Steven
C. Day
20.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/As
well as
00.000.2000 Hearne being the font of voter-fraud accusations in Missouri +
00.000.2000 Hearne involved in the Florida recount,
00.000.2004 Hearne was also very active in Ohio.
-Hearne-
Busy fellow.
One side of this story is phony claims of voter fraud
-- but the other side is genuine election fraud.
And
Hearne
may be very close to the nexus of both.#
posted by starroute
20.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Comments:
There's also this fascinating revelation, which was formerly (but
apparently no longer) part of Hearne's
profile at the Lathrop & Gage website:
00.000.2003
-in the fall of- I was asked by President
Bush’s
uncle, Bucky Bush,
to be the general counsel to the Bush-Cheney
campaign in Missouri
.
00.000.2000 (I had worked with the Bush campaign + successfully represented the campaign in the City of St. Louis poll closing litigation and in Florida 00.000.2000 in Broward County.)
00.Aug.2004
-During the Republican National Convention- I
was asked to be national counsel to the campaign and advise the
campaign on not just Missouri
legal issues but national legal strategy and election litigation.
(Bucky Bush,
for those who have forgotten, is the Bush
who was a member of the
same secret society
at Yale as Porter Goss and John Negroponte.)
20.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Here's
a bit from a piece I wrote for another
site:
A
09.Jan.2006 email from Kyle Sampson (chief of staff for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales) indicates that Graves was "axed" to leave.
His name was on a list of ten U.S. Attorneys who were to be purged. Unlike eight of the ten, Graves left voluntarily and segued into a job at a Republican law firm.
More:
Basically, two multi-million dollar state contracts -- generally
regarded as patronage plums -- went to Graves' wife and
brother-in-law. This situation meant that Graves would have little
motive to investigate any wrongdoing on the part of Missouri's
Governor, Matt Blunt. Blunt made sure that lucrative fee office
contracts went to Grave's wife. In the eyes of a cynic, this might be
viewed as a pay-off.
As we shall see, quite a few people in the
"Show Me" state consider Governor Blunt to be -- how to put
this? -- "ethically challenged." He thus had every reason
to stay on a friendly basis with federal prosecutors. As a general
rule (not naming any names), we can say that stuffing state cash into
wifey's purse might be considered one way to keep a prosecutor
smiling.
When Cummins started looking into this morass, the DOJ
had a problem. If Graves had gone down in the midst of a scandal, he
might well have taken the Governor with him. Powerful interests may
have decided that it was best all around for Graves to resign
suddenly and to take a cozy sinecure in the private realm.
Thus,
Graves was "axed" to leave. His replacement: A Voter ID
zealot named Bradley Schlozman. Thanks to the Patriot Act, Schlozman
did not need Senate approval. If he had been forced to undergo the
approval process, his inexperience might have prevented him from
scoring the gig.
So how does Thor Hearne
and his law firm, Lathrop & Gage, figure into this Graves/Blunt
business? According to this
Missouri
blog,
Lathrop & Gage is the firm that (man, where do I start),
represents the Governor's campaign, hired another lawyer to directly
contact Cummins, set up the fee offices in the first place, loaned
the administration one of its lawyers, Kurt Shaeffer, for a while to
defend Feelya Ferrell + hired the Governor's sister. (Emphasis
added.) This
Kansas City blog refers to Amy Blunt, the Governor's sister, as one
of the best-connected Republicans in the state. The Fired-Up
Missouri
blog
has much in-depth reporting of Blunt and the ongoing fee office (and
related) controversies.
Blunt has hired a private attorney
-- from Lathrop & Gage, natch -- and his campaign's financial
report indicates that Blunt may have paid for these services with
campaign funds, a violation of state law. (A candidate may not make
personal use of monies raised for campaign purposes.)
And that's
not Blunt's only problem: Sources tell FiredUp that auditors with the
U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services Inspector General’s
Office are at this very moment digging through files at the Missouri
Department of
Health and Senior Services. Federal officials have subpoenaed records
concerning federal homeland security funds knowingly misspent by top
brass at the Department
of Health.
The scandal may have already led to the
middle of the night resignation of Department Director Julie
Eckstein, as well as a wrongful termination lawsuit filed by a
whistleblower who refused to go along with plans to cover up the
illegally spent funds. Last week State Auditor Susan Montee released
an audit that details some of the wrongdoing within the
department.
It appears that this may be the second time this month
that Gov. Blunt has attempted to cover up wrongdoing in his
administration. Having learned his lesson from the Ferrell scandal,
Blunt should fess up and tell Missourians
how long he’s known about this wrongdoing, whether his office
directed records to be destroyed, why he didn’t say anything
about it + whether or not this is the reason his department director
resigned. Is this just a state-level controversy? No.
Always keep
in mind: Missouri
is a "purple" state.
00.000.2008
This state -Missouri-
may well make all the difference.
Blunt, Rove
and his buddy Thor surely understand this -- that's why the
Republicans tried so desperately to get a photo ID voting law passed
in that state.
00.Oct.2006 -Fortunately-the State Supreme Court struck that law down in + the Graves/Schlozman lawsuit against Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan failed.
(The Republicans did not have Carnahan in their pocket, so they wanted to get rid of her.
As
you will recall, something similar happened in California.)
It's
up to you now, folks. The firings of Lam and Iglesias are well-known
+ properly so. But the Bud Cummins story deserves much more scrutiny.
After
all -- he is the guy who seems to have "inconvenienced"
Thor Hearne,
Karl Rove's
good buddy. So please do what you can to get progressives and others
talking about this matter... Permalink
20.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Brad
Friedman
has some dug up some interesting facts which link the Cummins affair
to Karl Rove's
good friend, Thor Hearne
-- head honcho of a fake group called the American Center for Voting
Rights.
20.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-478413,00.html
90 % der Tiere kleiner als ein Fingernagel
Kleine Tiere wie Insekten seien alles andere als eine Randerscheinung in der Natur, sagte Gunnar Brehm, Zoologe aus Jena.
Mehr als 90 % aller bekannten Tierarten seien kleiner als ein Fingernagel.
Auf jedes Säugetier kommen etwa 65 Käferarten - jene Arten nicht mitgerechnet, die bisher noch gar nicht wissenschaftlich beschrieben sind.
"Tatsächlich
sind sie unersetzlich, denn ohne kleine Organismen ist kein Ökosystem
der Erde vorstellbar", betonte Brehm.
20.Apr.2007
Angst
vor Anschlägen: USA warnen Amerikaner vor erhöhter
Terrorgefahr
in Deutschland
20.Apr.2007
Lob
von der Kanzlerin: Pierer bleibt Merkels Wirtschaftsberater
20.Apr.2007
Hedge-
Fonds: Gutachten fordert Transparenz für Heuschrecken
20.Apr.2007
Magnet-
Schirm: "Enterprise"- Technik soll Raumschiffe schützen
20.Apr.2007
Verkauf:
Mitarbeiter wollen Chrysler übernehmen
20.Apr.2007
Journalisten
in Afghanistan: "Die Islamisten unterwandern die Medien"
20.Apr.2007
RAF-
Morde: Generalstaatsanwalt bestreitet Informanten- Rolle von
Boock
20.Apr.2007
M
2.188 Sicherheitsrichtlinien und Regelungen für die Mobiltelefon
...
In Deutschland darf er sie nur bis zur Rechnungsstellung speichern, ...
Fehlende
Gebühren für bestimmte Verbindungen können auf Abhören
hindeuten. ... www.bsi.bund.de/gshb/deutsch/m/m02188.htm
20.Apr.2007
TELE
COM
- Versiunea
HTML
Die
Vorschriften zum Abhören in Telekommunikationsnetzen sind
nationales Recht. ...
Für
Anrufe an nicht-geographische Rufnummern wird spezifisch für
diese ...
ec.europa.eu/information_society/policy/ecomm/doc/info_centre/public_consult/voip/telecom_ev.pdf
20.Apr.2007
George W. Bush
- Connections Osama's family and their Saudi
Binladin Group make cash with W's Papa through the ... Baker &
Hostetler LLP. Baker Hosteller Attorney,
Elliot J. Feldman ...
www.politicalfriendster.com/showPerson.php?id=1&name=George-W-Bush
20.Apr.2007
Pierer-
Brief: "Die pauschalen Vorverurteilungen machen mich betroffen"
20.Apr.2007
Asteroid
Itokawa: Vibrationen ordnen Steine nach Größe
20.Apr.2007
US-
Wahlkampf: McCain singt "Bombardiert Iran"
20.Apr.2007
Massenentlassung
von Anwälten: Republikaner- Senatoren fordern Rücktritt von
Bushs
Minister Gonzales
20.Apr.2007
Präsidentschaftswahlen
in Frankreich: Front gegen Rechts
20.Apr.2007
Kalifornien:
US- Schulen aus Angst vor neuem Amoklauf geschlossen
19.Apr.2007
69
% Gewinn- Plus: Google übertrifft alle Erwartungen
19.Apr.2007
Colleges
face surge of troubled students
Seattle
Post Intelligencer - 1 hour ago- By DAVID CRARY. AP
NATIONAL
WRITER. NEW YORK -- Across America, college counseling centers are
strained by rising numbers of mentally ill students and surging
demand for mental health services - a challenging trend as campus
officials try to identify ...
19.Apr.2007
Posada
Carriles é libertado nos Estados Unidos
EL
PASO, Estados Unidos - O anticastrista Luis Posada Carriles, acusado
por Cuba e Venezuela
de atos terroristas,
foi libertado nesta quinta-feira, 19, após pagar fiança
e cumprir os requisitos impostos por uma juíza dos Estados
Unidos.
Chávez
exige extradição Posada Carriles para Venezuela
A Tarde On Line
Exilado
anticastrista é libertado de prisão nos EUA
O Globo Online (Assinatura)
O
POVO Online -
Digital
Granma International
19.Apr.2007
http://www.ksta.de/html/artikel/1176113296807.shtml
Vor
drei Tagen habe er sich noch nicht vorstellen können, dass
jemand in Deutschland verhungert, „und hier in Speyer zweimal
nicht“, betont Bürgermeister Hanspeter Brohm. Das Netz an
Hilfsangeboten sei besonders engmaschig, „aber so hart es
klingen mag“, sagt der CDU-Mann, „die Passivität der
beiden hat den Tod des jungen Mannes verursacht“. Hätte es
nur den „kleinsten Fingerdeut“ gegeben, dass da etwas
nicht stimmt, versichert er, hätte man „das ganze
Instrumentarium an Unterstützung“ in Gang
gesetzt.
19.Apr.2007
Doolittle
Resigns Appropriations Panel Seat Probably
a good idea as his home just got raided by the FBI.
19.Apr.2007
Va.
Tech Killer Ruled Mentally Ill by Court; Let Go After Hospital Visit
A
court found that Virginia Tech killer Seung-Hui Cho was "mentally
ill" and potentially dangerous. Then it let him go.
posted
by Prof. Hex
19.Apr.2007
The
End of a 1,400-Year-Old Business Japanese
temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders'
descendants since 578, succumbed to excess debt and an unfavorable
business climate 00.000.2006.posted
by Prof. Hex
19.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-478368,00.html
Der demokratische Senator Patrick Leahy erklärte, die Führung des Justizministeriums befinde sich in einer möglicherweise noch nie da gewesenen Krise. Specter sagte, Ziel der Anhörung sei eine Entscheidung des Ausschusses darüber, ob Gonzales im Amt bleiben solle. Einige Zuhörer hatten auf den Rücken ihrer Kleidung "Nehmt Gonzales fest" geschrieben.
Der
Minister hat wiederholt erklärt, er sei nicht direkt in die
Entlassung der Bundesanwälte involviert gewesen. Dagegen sagte
sein zwischenzeitlich zurückgetretener Stabschef Kyle Sampson,
Gonzales sowie Präsident George W. Bush
hätten in der Sache das letzte Wort gehabt.
19.Apr.2007
US-
Senat: Justizminister Gonzales wenig überzeugend
19.Apr.2007
Artenvielfalt:
Gates finanziert Pflanzen- Arche- Noah
19.Apr.2007
Swiss
journalists acquitted in case of leaked secret CIA
prisons fax:
Three journalists were acquitted Tuesday of breaking Swiss military
secrecy laws by publishing classified intelligence material about
alleged secret CIA
prisons in Europe.
00.000.2001 France warned CIA of hijack plot -
11.Sep.2001-Nine
months before- al-Qaida
slammed airliners into the World Trade Center, French intelligence
suspected the terror
network was plotting a hijacking — possibly involving a U.S.
airline — + warned the CIA,
former French intelligence officials said Monday.
19.Apr.2007
$400
Billion for war: US
announces USD 100 million
: US Under-Secretary of State Paaula Dobriansky announced today that
her government expects 00.000.2007
to provide USD 100 million in humanitarian assistance for Iraqis,
both inside and outside Iraq. The US will also contribute USD 18
million to the United Nations High Commissioner (UNHCR) emergency
appeal for Iraqi displacement.
War
is a racket: Contractor
says was told to hire Wolfowitz
friend:
The Pentagon
ordered a U.S. contractor to hire a World Bank employee and
girlfriend of then-Pentagon
No. 2 Paul Wolfowitz
00.000.2003
for work related to Iraq, the contractor said on Tuesday.
19.Apr.2007
The
Inexplicable Enrichment of Bush
Cronies
-The Iraq Money Trail -By Evelyn Pringle
It's time for Americans
to face the cold hard truth that nothing will be accomplished by
allowing the daily carnage in Iraq to continue + if Bush
has his way, our young people will be dying in this war profiteering
scheme until hell freezes over. Congress needs to authorize funding
to pull our troops out of that deathtrap and not one dime more.
Continue
19.Apr.2007
France
Warned CIA
of Hijack Plot 00.000.2001
-By
Angela Donald- Associated Press Writer
Nine months before
al-Qaida
slammed airliners into the World Trade Center, French intelligence
suspected the terror
network was plotting a hijacking — possibly involving a U.S.
airline — and warned the CIA,
former French intelligence officials said Monday. Continue
11.Sep.2001 : The French Knew Much About It -By Guillaume Dasquié - Le Monde -Monday
16.Apr.2007 It's an impressive mass of documents. From a distance, one would imagine a doctoral thesis. On closer inspection: nothing of the kind. Red stamps "Confidential-Defense" and "Strictly National Usage" on every page. At the top on the left, a royal blue logo: that of the DGSE, Direction générale des services extérieurs [General Directorate for Foreign Services], the French secret services. In total, 328 classified pages. Continue
19.Apr.2007
Dare
To Look Back
-By Sheila Samples
09.Dec.2000 - three days before the Florida
deadline- the US Republic shuddered on its axis when Bolton
crashed through the doors of a Tallahassee library where Miami-Dade
ballots were being recounted and shouted triumphantly - "I'm
with the Bush-Cheney
team + I'm here to stop the count!"Continue
19.Apr.2007
Kangaroo
tribunals give a Kafkaesque edge to Guantanamo:
It seems almost natural that fact and fantasy collide in Guantanamo,
the prison camp dreamed up by the Bush
administration lawyers. Checks and balances, constitutional
protections and long-standing legal traditions all dissolve before
their fanciful "unitary executive theory." 19.Apr.2007
Amnesty
exec: U.S. is abuser of rights :
"00.000.2007
the idea of human rights has come under the most serious attack from
the United
States of America," Cox said in a talk before
about 150 people at the UW-Madison Pyle Center.
19.Apr.2007 Britons on trial over US Al-Jazeera bombing memo: Two men accused of leaking details of a memo in which US President George W. Bush reportedly referred to bombing Arab broadcaster Al-Jazeera face trial Wednesday.
19.Apr.2007 Rice Resists Testimony to House Panel on Niger Claim : Condoleezza Rice is resisting a U.S. House panel's demand that she testify tomorrow on why President George W. Bush said in a 2003 speech that Iraq sought uranium from Africa
19.Apr.2007 EXCLUSIVE: Gonzales Contradicts His Own Testimony : Recently Released E-Mails Show Attorney General's Involvement in Attorney Firing Talks
19.Apr.2007 'Nothing Compares to the Past Two Years': Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has “shattered” the department’s tradition of independence and politicized its operation more than any other attorney general in more than 30 years. So says Daniel Metcalfe, a senior attorney at the department who retired in January, before the current controversy over the firing of U.S. attorneys erupted.
19.Apr.2007
California
Mortgage Defaults Hit 10-Year High:
Default notices were sent to 46,760 homeowners in the first three
months of 2007, according to DataQuick Information Systems. The
figure is more than double the 18,856 sent during the same period a
year ago + a 23% increase from the fourth quarter of 20
19.Apr.2007
They
Wouldn’t Really Attack Iran, Would They?
: Expressing concerns that the administration will manufacture false
pretexts for attacking Iran, former National Security Advisor Zgbniew
Bzrezinski recently told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that
Bush’s
“imperial hubris” is “undermining America’s
global legitimacy,” “intensifying regional instability”
and putting the U.S on track for a “quagmire lasting 20 years
19.Apr.2007 US cannot be trusted to act responsibly in the world: global poll : The Philippines and Israel proved the staunchest supporters with 85 % and 81 % of respondents, respectively, saying they trusted the US either a "great deal" or "somewhat," followed by Australia at 59 % and Poland at 51 %.
19.Apr.2007 Iran making nuclear fuel in underground plant: Iran has begun making nuclear fuel in its underground uranium enrichment plant, a confidential U.N. atomic watchdog document said on Wednesday, in an apparent heightening of its defiance of the United Nations
19.Apr.2007 Why is the Peace Movement Silent About AIPAC?: "AIPAC!" was the forceful one-word answer of Congressman Michael Capuano when we asked him, "Why was the Iran clause forbidding war on Iran without Congressional approval taken out of the recent supplemental for the Iraq war funding?" I nearly fell out of my chair at his reply - not because this was news but because of who had just said it.
19.Apr.2007 Clinton old guard lines up with main rival Obama: Senior Democratic figures are defecting from Hillary Clinton's camp to her main rival, Barack Obama, in the 2008 race for the White House, according to detailed financial disclosures released yesterday.
19.Apr.2007
The
De-Zionization of Israel;
An Interview with Ilan Pappe
: Of all the Israeli
historians, academics + activists that I have read, Ilan Pappe stands
out as the one who has made the strongest impact on my understanding
of Israel
and Palestine.
19.Apr.2007
McCaffrey:
600 U.S. Mercenaries Have Been Killed in occupied Iraq :
: There are roughly 130,000 Mercenaries in Iraq, said McCaffrey;
about 4,000 of them have been wounded and 600 have been killed, he
said.
19.Apr.2007 Qaeda group says Iraq a "university of terror": The head of an al Qaeda-linked group in Iraq said the country had become a "university of terrorism", producing highly qualified warriors, since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.
19.Apr.2007
War
on Terror
looks like a fraud:
Four years after the invasion, it's becoming pretty clear that Iraq
has been "pacified" solely for the purpose of economic
aggression. Humanitarian considerations are moot. The awful plight of
Iraq's one million Christians, who have no place in the new Iraq,
underscores this ugly truth.
19.Apr.2007
Articles
of Impeachment To Be Filed On Cheney
-By Mary Ann Akers -Rep. Dennis Kucinich
(D-Ohio), the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates
in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic
House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of
impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.
Continue
19.Apr.2007 Escalating Military Spending - Income Redistribution in Disguise -By Ismael Hossein-zadeh -How escalation of war and military spending are used as disguised or roundabout ways to reverse the new deal and redistribute national resources in favor of the wealthy. Continue
19.Apr.2007
Letter
to My Children’s Children’s Children On the End of
Republican Government
-By Marvin Chachere
I found it unbelievable that our republic
would spill out into the entire globe and, repeating the life-cycle
of empires like Rome and Great Britain, our unmatched strength,
confidence and conceit would lead to a sense of invincibility from
which we stumbled, matured, grew old and collapsed. Continue
19.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/How
long have I been saying that the Abramoff thing and the Wilkes thing
might one day merge into One Big Bad Thing?
The French had
penetrated Al
Qaeda before 9/11!
That was just one of the revelations in a blockbuster Le Monde piece
that our American media almost willfully mistranslated. HamdenRice at
D.U. blows the whole matter wide open here
-- and in my view, we all owe this guy a lot.
I hope to delve into
the implications of this piece at greater length soon; right now,
here's Hamden's precis: The revelation here is the level of
penetration into al
Qaeda. The French have Uzbeks posing as jihadists in
the command structure of al
Qaeda ; they have European born or based Muslims posing
as jihadists in the al
Qaeda camps; they are listening to their satellite
conversations.
They have such sweeping and deep penetration of al
Qaeda, that al
Qaeda had become “transparent” to French
intelligence. They even listen in to the jihadists debates about
which airlines to strike and which airline routes to hijack. Their
eyes and ears are there when it is decided months before 9/11
to hit American Airlines and United Airlines.
19.Apr.2007
Gun
Industry Caught Lying for Profit in an Illinois Mailer. They are
Addicted to Their Blood Money. -- A BuzzFlash Editorial
Gonzales/Attorneys
Hearing: A Direct, As Yet Unreported Connection Straight Into the
White House
4/20
19.Apr.2007
MUST
READ! For six years, the Bush
administration, aided by Justice Department political appointees, has
pursued an aggressive legal effort to restrict voter turnout in key
battleground states in ways that favor Republican political
candidates, according to former department lawyers and a review of
written records. 4/19
233
Killed in Iraq on Wednesday; 183 in Single Incident in Baghdad; More
Than 430 Dead Citizens Since Sunday; Time to Leave, Time to Leave,
Time to Leave 4/19
Nearly
200 Dead in Baghdad bombings 4/19
White
House Response to Gun Violence -- Editorial Cartoonist
Mike Peters
From
Gonzales' testimony Thursday: Gonzales told the committee there was
no impropriety in last winter's firings and said the decision was
"justified and should stand."; Gonzales conceded
"reasonable people might disagree." There's nothing
reasonable about what they did to those U.S.
attorneys who were only trying to do their job without
political interference 4/19
19.Apr.2007
Live
coverage of Alberto Gonzales testifying on Capitol Hill
Live
Translation Of The Attorney
General's Testimony Under Oath -- Verse-Case Scenario by Tony Peyser
19.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/bush-administration-is-prying-into-your.html
19.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Glenn
Greenwald
makes a remarkably good catch. First, he quotes an ABC
report on the Virginia Tech shooter (emphasis added by me): Some news
accounts have suggested that Cho had a history of antidepressant use,
but senior federal officials tell ABC
News that they can find no record of such medication in the
government's files . This does not completely rule out prescription
drug use, including samples from a physician, drugs obtained through
illegal Internet sources, or a gap in the federal database, but the
sources say theirs is a reasonably complete search. Greenwald then
asks what you and I should have asked when we first scanned this
paragraph: Files? Federal database?
This intrusion was foisted
upon us without our permission, at a time when all three branches of
government were controlled by alleged "small government"
conservatives. Permalink
19.Apr.2007
Juden
in den USA_Skript.doc
00.000.1919 Suche nach Bolschewiken
in den USA durch Bureau of Investigation FBI
00.000.1919
USA Änderung der Einwanderungsregeln : Einwanderer mussten ...
content.grin.com/data/6/6998.pdf
19.Apr.2007
Crime,
Punishment + Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment
Prema Polit, AlterNet
Rights
and Liberties:
In the U.S., over 2.13 million people are incarcerated. Sasha
Abramsky's new book, American Furies, explores the bloated prison
system and its tremendous financial and moral cost to our society.
Texas
Gov. Rick Perry's Dangerous Database
Jake Bernstein, Texas Observer
Rights
and Liberties:
Texas is amassing an unprecedented amount of information on its
citizens.
19.Apr.2007
Thousands
Protest Climate Change Across the Country
AlterNet
EnviroHealth:
Today, 1,400 actions are taking place in all 50 states in the
country's largest protest against global warming. What does this new
movement for change look like? See for yourself.
19.Apr.2007
U.S.
Attorneys
and Voting Rights: The New Watergate
Marjorie Cohn, AlterNet
Rights
and Liberties:
The attorney
scandal is a cover-up revolving around efforts by the Bush
administration to disenfranchise African-American voters in
communities where the vote is close.
19.Apr.2007
How
a PR
Firm Helped Establish America's Cigarette Century
Allan M. Brandt, AlterNet
MediaCulture:
How the tobacco industry-hired Hill & Knowlton to develop many of
the propaganda
techniques against science used today to attack climate change and
evolution.
19.Apr.2007
Revenge
of the World Bank Secretaries
Susie Bright, SusieBright.com
MediaCulture:
Want to know what really goes on at the World Bank? Read a copy of
Bank Swirled, an underground satirical newspaper published by World
Bank employees.
19.Apr.2007
Global
Warming Hits Southwest
Mike Davis, TheNation.com
EnviroHealth:
The Arctic is not the only theater of unequivocal climate change and
polar bears aren't the only heralds of a new age of chaos. Global
warming is already affecting the U.S.
19.Apr.2007
In
Aftermath of Va. Shooting, Ethnic Groups Prayed, "Let It Be Some
Other Asian"
Andrew Lam, New America Media
As
the country waited to learn the identity of the killer at Virginia
Tech, Asian Americans held their breath, waiting to see if they would
shoulder the spillover of blame for the acts of an individual.
19.Apr.2007
Why
Are Americans Afraid of Being Naked?
Dara Colwell, AlterNet
In
the Netherlands people can be naked in their gardens, the beach and
recently the gym. But in America, even chocolate sculptures can't be
without clothes. What gives?
The
Feminine Face of Poverty
Riane Eisler, AlterNet
Rights
and Liberties:
Seventy % of those living in absolute poverty in our world -- that is
starving or on the edge of starvation -- are female. Not only that,
in our wealthy United
States, women and children are the mass of the poor and
the poorest of the poor.
19.Apr.2007
http://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/30167
EU member countries will begin implementing the first pan-national experiment in total communications logging over the next couple of years. Soon it will be impossible to go online or make a cell phone call anywhere in Europe without leaving a very detailed trail behind you.
What's amusing and sad about all this is that citizens of the United States willingly gave up their right to online privacy long ago, without any fight at all. Everyone who stores email on Google or Yahoo! or Hotmail is creating the same kind of data reserve that the European Parliament created with the Directive on Data Retention. Maybe the EU should learn something from all those Americans happily building a surveillance gold mine without any inducement other than free email. Why pass laws when you can just work with Google?
Annalee
Newitz
is a surly media nerd who can't wait to watch the market for
non-European ISPs go crazy. © 2007 Independent Media Institute.
All rights reserved.
View this story online at:
http://www.alternet.org/story/30167/
19.Apr.2007
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/30167/
01.Jan.2006
7:58 AM People who are in the system - who browse, send emails, leave
a trail - are only part of the issue.
Records exist also for those people who do NOT browse, send emails, etc.
There
will be a point (if not already here) that failing to leave an
electronic trail is in itself suspicious behavior.
19.Apr.2007
http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/30167/
28.Dec.2005
6:05 PM The EU spy technology sounds like the Total Intelligence
Awareness program implemented by John Poindexter at the Pentagon's
Intelligence Awareness Office (IAO).
The
program was developed by Syntek, a security technology government
contractor with whom Poindexter was employed following his
convictions for conspiracy, lying + destruction of evidence while
acting as Reagan's National Security advisor during the Iran-contra
scandal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,5673,651975,00.html
19.Apr.2007
Haushalte:
Euro- Länder wollen ihre Staatsdefizite bis 2010 auf Null
bringen
19.Apr.2007
Ostdeutschland:
Neonazis
schüchtern Politiker ein
19.Apr.2007
Superheiße
Sterne: Forscher vermessen Planeten- Todeszone
19.Apr.2007
Senkung
der Lohnsteuer: "Grober ökonomischer Unfug"
19.Apr.2007 Dänemark: Abgeordneter vergleicht Kopftuch mit Hakenkreuz
19.Apr.2007
Urteil:
EBay muss Angebote gefälschter Produkte verhindern
19.Apr.2007
Brummende
Wirtschaft: Chinas Boom stürzt Börsen in Turbulenzen
19.Apr.2007
Amoklauf-
Debatte: "Amerikanischer Realitätsverlust"
19.Apr.2007
Fahndung
in Hamburg: Sterbender Mann in U- Bahn bestohlen
19.Apr.2007
Amoklauf-
Debatte: "Amerikanischer Realitätsverlust"
WWI.
31.Jul.1915
Der
1. Weltkrieg- Vor
Gott und der Geschichte ist Mein Gewissen rein: Ich habe den Krieg
nicht gewollt .
Nach
Vorbereitungen eines ganzen Jahrzehnts glaubte der Verband der ...
www.stahlgewitter.com/15_07_31.htm
2004072021_B_Report
...
00.Aug.1914 rief er "Auf zu den Waffen",
00.000.1915
tönte er: " Vor Gott und Geschichte ist mein Gewissen rein.
Ich habe diesen Krieg nicht gewollt.”
alfatomega.com/2004072021_B_Report.html
19.Apr.2007
theologie.geschichte
- Zeitschrift für Theologie und Kulturgeschichte
[95]
„Die
Ordnung, unter die das Evangelium ein Volk und seinen Staat vor Gott
stellt, ist die Ordnung der Freiheit, die Wagnis ist; nicht aber der
... aps.sulb.uni-saarland.de/theologie.geschichte/inhalt/2006/18.html
19.Apr.2007
Lobster:
The Journal of Parapolitics
00.000.1986
Sikh separatists also joined the mojahedin in attending the WACL
11th annual conference in Luxembourg,
during which General Singlaub
announced that ...
Summary
of three cases
28.Feb.1986 Palme was gunned down on a Stockholm street (Seavägen)...
World
anti-Communist League
( WACL
) had also an office in that same building.
www.contrast.org/truth/html/summary.html
Ruber
Roseus: Lännen Paratiisit - kirjoituksia vallasta
00.000.1986 ASSASSINS PRESS/COPENHAGEN . Tryk: Kotoeds Skoles Verkstedskursus ...
Nykyinen
Maailman Kommunisminvastainen Neuvosto ( WACL
) perustettiin Söulissa ...
www.geocities.com/aivokuume/txt/kirjoituksia_vallasta_lannen_paratiisit-ruber_roseus.htm
Democratic
Underground Forums - Printer friendly page, topic ID ...
00.000.1970 -In the's- the WACL opened chapters throughout the world, attracting former Nazi supporters in ...
Singlaub was indicted for this
00.000.1986 +
00.000.1988
...
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=printer_friendly&forum=104&topic_id=2497387
FTR#367—What’s
Going on Here
The former World Anti-Communist League or WACL was among the organizations that ...
At
the center is a clearinghouse in Luxembourg
called Clearstream, ... www.spitfirelist.com/f367.html
FTR#529—Nazi
Roots and Fascist Flowers—(Two 30-minute segments
...
American
branch of WACL
) has a great affinity for the ABN
and its members, ... or to discreet groups of Europeans through
Luxembourg
and Liechtenstein. www.spitfirelist.com/f529.html
VIIe
congrès de l’Association française de science
politique Lille ...
Version
HTML
(
WACL
) et aussi, semble-t-il, avec le colonel Pak, bras-droit du ... de
voyages aux Etats-Unis en ju00.000.1986,
quelques semaines après que six sénateurs ...
www.afsp.msh-paris.fr/archives/congreslille/pdflille/tr4venner.pdf
[CTRL]
Fwd: JFK: The Manchurian Candidate and The Final Solution
The former World
Anti-Communist League or WACL
was among the ... Under Quasha, Harken suddenly absorbed Junior’s
struggling Spectrum 7 00.000.1986
. www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv. aol.com/msg97490.html
For
The Record Summary Posts
... American branch of WACL
) has a great affinity for the ABN
+ its members, ...
00.000.1986
-commending the ‘independence’ of the Ukraine under
Stetsko 00.000.1941.
ftrsummary.blogspot.com/2005_10_25_ftrsummary_archive.html
Eschaton
In Monday's edition of the New
York Times, Luxembourg's
Ambassador to the United
States ... (1,6) Moon claimed that he raised $1.4
million for the 1970 WACL
... atrios.blogspot.com/2002_12_08_atrios_archive.html
19.Apr.2007
Assassinats
de Coopérants - South African Links in the Murder of ...
28.Feb.1986 He was gunned down on a Stockholm street (Seavägen) on, ...
It
was almost certain that the World
anti-Communist League ( WACL
) had also an ...
assassinatsdecooperants.ouvaton.org/article.php3?id_article=473
JSTOR:
State Practices, International Norms + the Decline of ...
For the best treatment of WACL see Anderson and Anderson ( 1986 ). ...
States
Unified Liberia Luxembourg
Mexico Netherlands Nicaragua Norway Panama Paraguay ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0020-8833(199003)34%3A1%3C23%3ASPINAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-S
JSTOR:
Africa and International Corruption: The Strange Case of ...
11.Oct.1986 -Affidavit dated- submitted by G. Mario Ricci to the High Court ...
On
the WACL,
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, Inside the League (Dodd ...
links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0001-9909(199604)95:379%3C165:AAICTS%3E2.0.CO;2-P
Summary
Of The Three Cases
Version
HTML
He
was gunned down on a Stockholm street (Seavägen) on February 28,
1986 . ... representative of the ANC in France (and also of
Switzerland and Luxembourg
). www.withmaliceandforethought.com/pdf/summary_of_3.pdf
AFRICA
AND INTERNATIONAL CORRUPTION: THE STRANGE CASE OF SOUTH ...
On the WACL,
Scott Anderson and Jon Lee Anderson, Inside the League (Dodd, Mead. &
Co., New York, 1986 ). 115.
Kenneth Timmerman, The Death Lobby: how the ... afraf.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/95/379/165.pdf 20041206
...
of Operation
Stay Behind has been officially admitted in Luxembourg
+ ... board) with the United
States Council for World Freedom (USCWF) of the WACL
. alfatomega.com/20041206.html
United
States and NATO inspired 'psychological warfare
operations ...
Refer also to Herman, E. and Brodhead, F. ( 1986 ) The Rise and Fall of the Bulgarian ...
Germany + Holland + Luxembourg + Norway + Portugal + Spain + the UK. www.variant.randomstate.org/12texts/Fernandes.html
Variant
12 (Page 10)
Version
HTML
the
World
Anti-Communist League ( WACL
), "an
umbrella group that functioned as a cat's paw for ... Herman,
E. and Brodhead, F. ( 1986 ) The Rise +...
www.variant.randomstate.org/pdfs/issue12/Fernandes.pdf
S.O.S. Traansilvania Noi apartinem la WACL cu numele de "Frontul Roman al Libertatii".
17.Oct.1986
Comandantul imi scrie:. Am primit pachetul cu cartile in limba
engleza ...
www.geocities.com/historicalromanianstudies/chap2tra.htm
FourWinds10.com
The Dirty History of Ronald Reagan
BCCI also had major centres in the Cayman Islands and Luxembourg,
...
00.000.1986
Acting
CIA
Director Richard Kerr told Congress that the Agency was
well aware ...
fourwinds10.com/NewsServer/ArticleFunctions/ArticleDetails.php?ArticleID=4041
19.Apr.2007
Hints Of Conspiracy | TIME
It
is a uniquely American ritual.
... contras on a worldwide basis;
Barbara
Studley,
a rather mysterious friend of ...
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964308-3,00.html
19.Apr.2007
The Consortium
Molina
and his companion, Enrique Delvalle, had been clearing up business
that ... by another contra arms broker, Barbara
Studley, who worked closely with retired ...
www.consortiumnews.com/archive/lost17.html
19.Apr.2007
Alpha Phi Fraternity - Alumnae Information
Join
the Alumnae Advantage Program. Register Your Alumnae Benefits Card
...
1936 Jean Fuerbringer Nixon
1937 Barbara Studley Chase
1937
Louisa A. Zwicker ...
www.alphaphi.org/alumnae_info/missingalumnae/eta/eta.html
19.Apr.2007
CovertAction.org
... Congressmen who strongly opposed contra ... Singlaub
+ his associate Barbara
Studley had arranged to get Polish weapons to the
contras. Http://covertaction.org/content/vi/0/0/9/18
19.Apr.2007
Supreme Law Library : Court Cases : Col. James "Bo"
Gritz : gritz
Now,
there's a lady that I know named Barbara
Studley . ... Barbara
Studley was the go-between + some of those profits
dropped off there, ... www.supremelaw.org/authors/gritz/gritz.htm
NACLA
Digital Archive - Beyond the Secret Team
00.Feb.1987
THE INVESTIGATION into the ... With Barbara
Studley, his partner in the arms firm GeoMiliTech,
Singlaub
also ... Barbara
Studley, Gen...
archive.nacla.org/Summaries/V22I5P13-1.htm
19.Apr.2007
MIHRA.ORG/Music Industry Human Rights Association
CIA
works of art - Manuals. Written Statement of Celerino Castillo ...
also claims that he met with Barbara
Studley and John
Singlaub + they wanted ...
www.mensch.net/mihra/2k/cia.htm
19.Apr.2007
Dollar:
Schwarze Zeiten für den Greenback - Wirtschaft - SPIEGEL ...
Schwarze Zeiten für den Greenback. Von Arne Gottschalck ...
Bundeswehr-
Video: Rassistische Sprüche bei Schießübung -
Ausbilder versetzt ...
www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,455592,00.html
19.Apr.2007
Stop
Press! Us Plans To Use Nuclear In 7 Countries In Case Of War ...
I
have not, however, been to Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, etc. but have
interacted (in ... a very powerful tool for which seems to be a prime
channel ), ...
www.m5board.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=15101&page=3
10.Mar.2002
05:23. Stop
Press! Us Plans To Use Nuclear In 7 Countries In Case Of War ...
msc3. Originally posted by KnightRider ...
Saudi
Arabia + it's neighbors need to help us put an end to Islamic
terrorists
+ stop ... www.m5board.com/vbulletin/archive/index.php/t-15101.html
19.Apr.2007
INTERNATIONAL
APPROACHES TO NUCLEAR & RADIOLOGICAL SECURITY
- View
as HTML
South
Africa, Egypt, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
Also
led efforts to develop the ... Dr. Neil
Livingstone . Chairman and CEO, GlobalOptions, Inc.,
United
States. www.iapscience.com/IANRS2002.pdf
Ethics,
Espionage + Covert Action
... effects of Soviet power in Eastern Europe, the Ukraine + the
Baltic States.
Neil
Livingstone,
an expert on terrorism
and low-intensity conflict, ...
home.earthlink.net/~davidlperry/covert.htm
Supercom
- Press Releases
AMERICA’S PREEMINENT AUTHORITY ON SECURITY ISSUES, NEIL
LIVINGSTONE, ...
Award
in the Arbitration Proceedings with the Ukraine Ministry of Internal
Affairs ... www.supercomgroup.com/press.asp?info_id=64
19.Apr.2007
Why
the US Is Not Leaving Iraq: The Booming Business of War ...
Neil
Livingstone, a former Senate aide who has served as a
Pentagon
and State
Department ... headed by former US Ambassador to
Ukraine Carlos Pascual.
www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/contract/2007/0112warprofiteers.htm
12.Feb.2001-28.Feb.2001
Aum
Shinri-kyo Updates (CESNUR)-According
to terrorism
expert Neil
Livingstone, his plan was to manipulate ... who served
with the 9th Division at the Simferopol military base in Ukraine, ...
www.cesnur.org/2001/aum_feb01.htm
19.Apr.2007
Veterans
for Peace - Maine
... of armoured cars from Brazil + Ukraine, along with AK-47 assault
rifles,
...
Neil
Livingstone, a former Senate aide who has served as a
Pentagon
and ... www.vfpmaine.org/arms%20in%20iraq.htm
19.Apr.2007
http://www.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg.tcl?msg_id=001KEQ
C-Span
2 is doing Y2K and Terrorism NOW greenspun.com
: LUSENET
:
TimeBomb
2000 (Y2000)
: One Thread Moderator: ed<at>yourdon.com
See above. I
don't know how long this lasts.
-- Rebecca Waldock
(RWaldock<at>aol.com),
30.Aug.1999 Answers Now I see it was originally taped on
08.Jul.1999
, but I still hadn't seen it before.
-- Rebecca Waldock
(RWaldock<at>aol.com),
30.Aug.1999 . Wow, just caught the end of some Navy Seal spokesman(?), suggesting 60 days of cash, prepare for loss of power and water.
Gotta
go.........
-- Will continue (farming<at>home.com), August
30, 1999. Thanks Rebecca...I only have C-SPAN
"60 days of cash, prepare for loss of power and water. "
Will, seriously? And, from the Navy? Interesting...do they post transripts?
Mike
====================================================================
--
Michael Taylor (mtdesign3<at>aol.com), August 30, 1999.
Commentary: Neil Livingstone: "fact is, we think something will
happen somewhere." Don't travel if you don't have to, or travel
early. Concerns about violent crimes, worse if there is a breakdown
in services. (duh!) Questions asked about bank runs + stockmarket
drops.
-- claire (listeningtocspan<at>aol.com), August 30,
1999. That was the best I've seen so far! Admiral Crowe is a GI! That
navy seal dude was excellent! "60 days of cash don't get 100's
get 10's and 5' and singles. Top off your tanks daily end of
December. Water purifacation hand warmers for heat don't forget this
will occur in the middle of winter."
I couldn't beleive it.
Then
this bomb expert got up there and said "state dept numbers are
always too low! When I was at the FBI we would pour over their
numbers and they were always too low.
-- Johnny
(JLJTM<at>BELLSOUTH.NET), August 30, 1999. Y2K rep. from
Wyoming (I just loooooooove their mind set, lol), asks Livingstone
about scenerios he's been made aware of (rumor) that citizens groups
are concerned about marauders traveling up and down highways, hitting
communities to steal preps. He's been made aware of plans to band
together in order to prevent this possibility, to the extent of
blockades and distruction of highways and bridges.
Livingstone
responds by sharing his story of hearing about women buying wood
stoves to be placed in apartments and suggests this level of
"over-reaction" is not prudent or necessary. He goes on to
announce current law enforcement's "fear" of citizens
deputizing themselves and taking the law into their own hands.
--
Will continue (farming<at>home.com), August 30, 1999. They
basically tell us we're on our own, but keep your hooves tied and
your mouths full of grass. LOL
-- Will continue
(farming<at>home.com), August 30, 1999. This was a presentation
by a group named "Global Options" to the National Press
Club on July 8, 1999. They have some charge or authority to mitigate
Y2K disruptions. They are comprised of many "ex" upper
level government leaders including an ex Joint Chief of Staff. I do
not think the tape has aired before today or we would have caught and
talked about what they were recommending. IT IS MORE EVIDENCE THAT
THE PRESS IS NOT DISSEMINATING THE INFORMATION THAT IS BEING HANDED
TO THEM, LET ALONE NOT INVESTIGATING Y2K. No reports on this press
club meeting came out, to my knowledge, in the nearing two months
since it occured. Gary Stubblefield (of the GlobalOps group
reccommended to the newsmen that they secure SIXTY DAYS CASH IN SMALL
BILLS, NINETY DAYS MEDICATIONS + AT LEAST30 DAYS FOOD AND WATER. He
reccommended that if they had no way to safely store extra gasoline
to keep their tanks full, purchase water filtration equipment +
alternate communications equipment, as well as the standard emergency
flashlights, first aid and blankets etc.. All the speakers
discouraged travel and gathering in large crowds. They advised if you
travel GET PAPER TICKETS - NOT E-TICKSETS, OR YOU MAY BE STRANDED.
They revealed plans to commence spaceing aircraft flights at greater
intervals for safety and the backlog that would create. They
reccommended not flying a few days before or after the rollover. They
have a web site it is www.globalops.com
-- Ann Fisher
(zyax55b<at>prodigy.com), August 30, 1999. Well, WAIT A MINUTE,
HOLD ON. If this was produced on JULY 8, then those Navy guys were
probably relying on the JUNE report that Jim Lord released. As we all
know, that report is now "old data" + the new one says
things are going to be just peachy.
(Thought I would get that in
before Hoffmeister could. I'm after your job, Hoffy! Look out,
dude!!)
-- King of Spain (madrid<at>aol.com), August 30,
1999. Ann
Thanks for the link.
Here is a link to their site and a "white paper" they posted.
Most of it is common info.
THE
OTHER Y2K PROBLEM
A Report Prepared by GlobalOptions LLC
The Other Y2K Problem, White Paper
This is an interesting bit;
While the scope and seriousness of the problem can + will, be debated up to the advent of the new millennium, no one is predicting that January 1, 2000, will come and go without problems.
According
to a January 1999 statement by a World Bank official, "While
wealthy countries and large companies have the money and skilled
technicians needed to immunize computers and their operating software
from the Millennium Bug, many of our developing country clients
cannot muster the resources to tackle a problem that most see as a
vague and
distant threat."(12) Even the most optimistic
prognosticators note that Russia and most developing countries are
seriously unprepared for Y2K and that billions of lines of code have
yet to be changed in computer software in those countries. The
Russian government has said it will cost $1 billion to $3 billion to
make the necessary computer fixes in that country. "That is up
to one-seventh of a federal budget that already cannot pay some
pensions and debts," writes one observer.(13) In the Ukraine and
other parts of the former Soviet Union, power and other systems are
at serious risk. An official of China's National Petroleum Office
predicts "disasters" when the millennium bug strikes.
As of May 28, 1999, Nigeria, the second largest economy in Africa, had yet to even begin planning for the Y2K transition.
Although it ranks among the world's 10 most computerized nations, the government of Brazil intends to spend only $300 million on Y2K compliance, far short of the amount actually required. In a recent update, Felix Murillo, Peru's national Y2K coordinator, indicated that only 16 % of the computers have been fixed in government agencies + only 9 % of those agencies even have contingency plans for computer failures. Iran says it will need international assistance to address its Y2K computer problems.(14)
As
of March of this year, Ecuador and Guatemala reported that they
hadn't even begun planning for Y2K. According to presidential
chief-of-staff Alfredo Pena in Venezuela, the previous
government,
which left office in February, "made absolutely
no preparations to get computers ready to handle Year 2000 dates."
This left the country "with 10 months to do what the much larger
United States did in ten
years."(15) Fearing that its traffic
management systems will not be ready, the Panama Canal will not admit
ships on December 31.
Virtually
no country in Africa (with the possible exception of South Africa),
the Middle East, or Latin America is expected to be fully Y2K
compliant + most will require months, if not years, to bring
their
systems into compliance. Similarly, few Asian nations are
expected to be ready for the Y2K changeover. Only in far less
developed nations like Vietnam is the Y2K bug unlikely to have a
major impact.
It is possible that Y2K will lead to political and economic instability in many parts of the world + perhaps even to the collapse of governments.
While
the problems will be most acute in the developing world, there
clearly will be serious disruptions in many other industrialized
nations. Powercor, the largest electrical distributor in the
Australian state of Victoria, has asserted that it cannot guarantee
uninterrupted electrical supplies in the year 2000. Japanese
officials indicate that Japan still lags behind the United States in
Y2K compliance, although the gap has been narrowed from six months to
three months. A recent survey of 7,301 Italian companies found that
56.9 % were unsure whether or not they would be Y2K compliant by the
end of the year. The Italian government didn't even set up a Y2K
coordinating committee until January of this year. "I'm afraid
we're starting a little late," said Cabinet Undersecretary
Franco Bassanini.(16) "Italy is going to crash + we are going to
be crucified," says Romano
Oneda, a member of the country's
Y2K compliance committee.(17)
-- Brian (imager<at>home.com),
August 30, 1999. The program you are talking about aired live on
cspan in June. I and most of my family watched it. By the way, most
of my family and friends have been GI's for over two years.
--
henrietta neville (bneville<at>zebra.net), August 30, 1999.
Navy Seal was former commander of Navy Seal Goup 3 - best of the
bunch and yes he said at least 30 days. Someone also said that the
numbers on the grids and the nuc plants were "probably not very
accurate". Adm. Crowe was very short with some ditsy woman
reporter who said, "You really don't mean to recommend that
people don't go to New Year celebrations do you?" and he replied
something to the effect that you would be placing yourself in a
"target rich environment" if you go to any of the really
large gatherings (Time's Square and the Mall" were two he
mentioned.) They also sounded rather sure that there would be a run
on the banks.
Actually,
I sat there with my mouth open to hear such doomy prognostications
coming from my TV set. Was definitely not an "all is honky-dory"
presentation. Wonder what is on tomorrow - this is supposed to run
every day this week.
-- Valkyrie (anon<at>please.net),
August 30, 1999. Will continue: Keep your hooves up! drop the grass;
now back away. Sloowly.
If
anyone knows where we can get a transcript please post it.
--
Shelia (Shelia<at>active-stream.com), August 30, 1999.
20070201
More joy for those on syndicate 957 ( Cackett, as was). ... View as
HTML no longer at Duncanson & Holt and Cackett was no longer at
Syndicate 957 . alfatomega.com/20070201.html
House
of Lords - Minute
Feasey (a representative Lloyd’s underwriter suing on his own
behalf and on behalf of all the members of Syndicate 957 )
(Respondent) v. ...
www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200405/minutes/050421/ldminute.htm
19.Apr.2007
http://www.davies-lavery.co.uk/Default.aspx?sID=901&cID=714&ctID=11&lID=0
Decision
The Court of Appeal agreed with Syndicate 957 (and the trial Judge). They found that: The deposit premium is part of the overall premium and the final adjusted premium has to take into account the deposit premium already paid. It would be surprising if the brokers were to be remunerated by being paid 15% of the deposit premium twice, once on payment of the deposit premium and again on the deposit part of the (minimum) premium received as a whole. The natural and ordinary meaning of the brokerage clause is not cumulative but takes into account brokerage already paid.
TCRU's
appeal was dismissed.
19.Apr.2007
Deutsche
Kapitalisten als Förderer Hitlers
- politikforum.de ...
Besagter Keppler -Kreis ging übrigens zurück auf den mittelständischen Unternehmer Wilhelm Keppler (1882-1960) + bestand vornehmlich aus Bankiers + ... www.politikforum.de/forum/showthread.php?threadid=138963&perpage=15&pagenumber=1
Hat das „Großkapital“ Hitler zur Macht verholfen? - Seite 2 ...
Wilhelm Keppler von den Chemischen Werken Odin GmbH wird ebenso ...
im Hotel Adlon waren beteiligt:
Bankier
Warburg
als Treuhänder des New Yorker Bankhauses Kuhn, ...
www.politikforum.de/forum/showthread.php?t=74730&page=2
Big
Business and the Persecution of the Jews: The Flick Concern ...
fice or HWA) + Wilhelm Keppler,
an economic advisor to Hitler,
approached the ...
Hahn'sche
Werke, Rawack & Griinfeld, Warburg
) oder unter auslandischem ...
hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/13/1/1.pdf
IEsprajpirfaitncDim
anndl Ex]puiill§n©im TDn© ImpsKcfl: ©IF (tlh ...
tries of finance + the interior; by Reich Plenipotentiary Wilhelm
Keppler
+ the. Austrian Nazi
trade minister, Fischbock.
Topic
five of the meetings ...
hgs.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/14/3/390.pdf
Suchergebnisse
anzeigen
[SW: Waffen-SS/Allgemeine SS/Verfügungstruppe/Wilhelm
Keppler/Reinhard
Heydrich ...
d.
verschollene Dokument von Sidney Warburg
über d. internat.
www.antikbuch24.de/suchergebnisse.php?seller_id=144§ion=2.%20Weltkrieg%20%2B%203.%20Reich&page=20
Recovery
Program Could Have Blocked Hitler's
"Legal Coup"
19.000.1932
, Hitler
received another letter, this time from another ``liaison'' to
business circles, Wilhelm Keppler,
who wrote: ... american_almanac.tripod.com/liebig.htm
The
Nazi
Dictatorship and the Deutsche Bank - Cambridge University ...
Keppler, Wilhelm, 23, 101, 120.
Kesselstadt, Elsa Gräfin, 73.
Keynes, John Maynard, 187–8 ...
Warburg, Max, 19.
Wassermann,
Oscar, 8–9, 39, 41–3, 46, 52 ...
www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=9780521838740&ss=ind
19.Apr.2007
CCF:
Making the Postwar World Safe for Fascist 'Kulturkampf'
Warburg was the publisher of George Orwell, who was also quite active in CCF.
Warburg
was the treasurer of the British
Society for Cultural Freedom (BSCF),
www.new-federalist.com/other/2004/site_packages/3125ccf_kulturkampf.html
19.Apr.2007
Unser
falsches Wissen ist das Kapital der Manipulierer :: vonkraft
...
mit Bush’s
+ Bin Laden’s, Skull
& Bones + das Mr.President-Business. ... am Rande
einer Demonstration oder vor einer Kirche nach dem Gottesdienst.
www.vonkraft.com/Article66.html
19.Apr.2007
kamar.ch
09.Sep.2004
at 2000hrs BST-last night-The
first ever audio broadcast of a Skull and Bones initiation ceremony
was made on BBC Radio 4 .
www.kamar.ch/homed.html
00.000.1981Newsweek,Washington
Post owners acknowledge cooperation ...
00.000.1981Newsweek,
Washington
Post owners acknowledge cooperation with CIA.
http://alfatomega.com/conteudo_gallery001.html
authentico
index
00.000.1981 USA Newsweek+ Washington Post Owners ack Knowledge Cop p+Opp + Erration +U SA+CIA ·
19.Feb.2001
NEWSWEEK EDITION - STINKING GUN #1 ... alfatomega.com/
19.Apr.2007
Saul
Landau: The Mass Media, Symbols and Ownership
The
change occurred after the Watergate era, when Washington
Post owners, who also own Newsweek,
kvelled over the role Post reporters played in forcing ...
www.counterpunch.org/landau07022005.html
Fourth
Estate or Fourth Branch of Government? excerpted from the ...
For
instance, Washington
Post owners Philip and Katharine Graham were best
friends with Frank Wisner, a pivotal figure in the Agency's worldwide
propaganda
...
www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Norman_Solomon/Fourth_Estate_USNS.html
19.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-478067,00.html
Die Nerven liegen blank in Blacksburg: Zwei Tage nach dem Amoklauf eines Studenten mit 33 Toten umstellten bewaffnete Polizisten heute ein Gebäude auf dem Campus.
Zunächst
war von einer Bombendrohung die Rede - später sprach die Polizei
nur noch von einem mysteriösen Anruf.
19.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-478094,00.html
Das
Blackberry-System werde jetzt genau kontrolliert, um den normalen
Service aufrechtzuerhalten, teilte das Unternehmen mit. Die Ursache
werde untersucht.
19.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-478094,00.html
Ein
Systemausfall am Dienstagabend hat die Nutzung der
Blackberry-Taschencomputer beeinträchtigt. Der E-Mail-Verkehr
habe nur unregelmäßig funktioniert, sagte ein
RIM-Sprecher.
Für
die meisten Nutzer sei das System noch in der Nacht wiederhergestellt
worden. RIM-Aktien reagierten zunächst mit Kursverlusten,
erholten sich dann aber wieder.
19.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-478147,00.html
Die Tat von Cho Seung-Hui geht als bisher blutigster Amoklauf in die Geschichte der USA ein. Schon vor seiner Tat war Cho Seung- Hui der Polizei bekannt.
00.Nov.2005+00.Dez.2005
-Im-Zwei
Studentinnen hätten sich an die
Behörden gewandt, weil sie sich von Cho Seung-Hui verfolgt
gefühlt hätten, sagte der Polizeichef der Technischen
Hochschule von Blacksburg Wendell Flinchum am Mittwoch. Aus Sorge vor
einer Selbstmordgefährdung des Studenten hätten Beamte Cho
Seung Hui damals in eine psychiatrische Klinik gebracht.
19.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-478110,00.html
Anhand der genauen Analyse der gut erhaltenen Fossilien konnten die Forscher die komplette Architektur des Baums rekonstruieren und damit auch das Rätsel um das Aussehen der Eospermatopteris genannten Gilboa-Bäume lösen. So muss es sich um einen etwa acht Meter hohen, farnähnlichen Baum gehandelt haben, vermuten die Botaniker. Außerdem verlor dieser wohl häufig Äste.
Die
Gestalt dieses fossilen Grüns zeige starke Ähnlichkeiten
mit heutigen Palmen sowie Palm- und Baumfarnen. Der Fund aus der
Urzeit sei das bisher älteste Beispiel für eine in der
Evolution wiederkehrende und bis heute erhaltene Baumform.
19.Apr.2007
Energie-
Land Irak: Studie vermutet gigantische unentdeckte
Ölreserven
19.Apr.2007
Extremes
Wetter: Robbenfänger sitzen im Eis fest - Schiffe drohen zu
sinken
19.Apr.2007
Heute
in den Feuilletons: "Wir werden also untergehen"
19.Apr.2007
Präsidentenwahl
in Frankreich: Wahlaufsicht droht Bloggern
19.Apr.2007
Ältester
Baum: Fächergewächs aus der Urzeit
19.Apr.2007
Präsident
unter Druck: Weltbank- Vize drängt Wolfowitz
zum Rücktritt
19.Apr.2007
18.
APRIL 2007
19.Apr.2007
Börsenrekord:
US- Aktienindex erreicht Allzeit- Hoch
19.Apr.2007
Atomkonflikt:
Iran beginnt mit Urananreicherung
19.Apr.2007
Anklage:
Kaufmann schmuggelte sieben Milliarden Zigaretten
19.Apr.2007
Kairo:
Zoll ertappt Reisenden mit 400 lebenden Schildkröten
19.Apr.2007
Regierungsstudie:
Große Teile Norddeutschlands als Atommüll- Endlager
geeignet
19.Apr.2007
Großauftrag:
Frankreichs Post will 10.000 Elektroautos anschaffen
19.Apr.2007
Wirbelsturm-
Simulation: Klimawandel als Hurrikan- Bremse
19.Apr.2007
Konzernumbau:
Telekom will Streik juristisch unterbinden
19.Apr.2007
Umstrittener
Gesetzentwurf: Kabinett beschließt Vorratsdatenspeicherung
19.Apr.2007
Terrorabwehr:
Empörung über Schäubles Abkehr von Unschuldsvermutung
18.Apr.2007
The
Truth About Afghanistan: A Member of the Afghani Parliament Says,
"the U.S. government "pushed us from the frying pan into
the fire and selected its friends from among the most dirty and
infamous criminals of the Northern Alliance, sworn enemies of
democracy and human rights, as evil and cruel as the Taliban."
4/18
Bush
on gun control: 'Crack down on people who commit crimes.' One
Problem, Mr. Shill for the Gun Lobby: The Shooter at Virginia Tech
Killed Himself. He was Your Usual "Law Abiding" Loner,
Enabled by a Gun Lobby and the White
House.
19.Apr.2007
Retired
general: Dire state of army puts U.S. in strategic harm's way 4/18
It
will take a generation to restore so much of this great nation from
the wreckage of this presidency. But the people shall endure. 4/18
The
Bush
administration fed Republican senators misleading talking points that
hailed the prosecutorial experience of interim Little Rock U.S.
Attorney J. Timothy Griffin, although the protégé
of White
House political adviser Karl Rove
appears never to have actually tried a criminal case. 4/18
19.Apr.2007
The
Iraq war was supposed to spread democracy throughout the Middle East,
but to date its most palpable result has been to spread Iraqis
throughout the world -- 4 million of them 4/18
18.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-477865,00.html
Die demokratischen Waffenfreunde
Dass
die neuerlichen Rufe nach Gesetzen erfolgreich sein werden, ist
ziemlich fraglich. Eher dagegen sprechen nicht nur die US-Geschichte
und die Macht der Waffenlobby, deren Parteispenden im Wahljahr nach
dem Columbine-Massaker 1999 auf vier Millionen Dollar hochschossen.
18.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-477899,00.html
Anfang Mai 2006 hatten chinesische Wissenschaftler berichtet, dass Tibets Gletscher rapide schmelzen.
Unter Berufung auf die Auswertung der Daten von 681 Wetterstationen berichtete Xinhua im vergangenen Jahr, dass die Eisschilde um sieben % pro Jahr schrumpfen.
Die
Durchschnittstemperaturen in Tibet seien seit den achtziger Jahren um
0,9 Grad gestiegen. Umwelt, Wirtschaft und
Wintersportlern fehlt der Schnee
18.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-477913,00.html
Online-Durchsuchungen ohne Wissen der Betroffenen seien ein unverhältnismäßiger Eingriff in die Grundrechte der Menschen. "Das wird auf keinen Fall so kommen, wie Herr Schäuble sich das wünscht."
Dies gelte auch für den vom Minister erneut ins Gespräch gebrachten Einsatz der Bundeswehr im Innern.
Am
Montag hatten sich die Koalitionsspitzen darauf verständigt, zu
Schäubles umstrittenen Plänen zur Speicherung von
Fingerabdrücken + Passfotos sowie zur Regelung von
Online-Durchsuchungen ein informelles Gremium einzusetzen, um den
Streit zu entschärfen.
18.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-477913,00.html
Die Innnenpolitikerin Ulla Jepke von der Linksfraktion sagte zu SPIEGEL ONLINE: "Schäuble hat die Katze aus dem Sack gelassen."
Es sei "unverfroren", wie der Innenminister die Unschuldsvermutung auszuhebeln versuche. "Schäuble strebt den totalen Sicherheitsstaat an", sagte Jelpke weiter.
Wolfgang Wieland, innenpolitischer Specher der Grünenfraktion, erklärte in einer Pressemitteilung: "Schäuble verliert endgültig seine politische Unschuld."
Wenn
der Minister seine Pläne durchsetze, werde "der Rechtsstaat
auf dem Altar der Sicherheit geopfert."
18.Apr.2007
Wetterkontrolle:
Chinesen lassen Schnee auf Tibet fallen
18.Apr.2007
Verfassungsgericht:
Gysi sieht durch Tornado- Einsatz Grundgesetz verletzt
18.Apr.2007
Innere
Sicherheit: Schäuble will Unschuldsvermutung im Anti- Terror-
Kampf nicht gelten lassen
18.Apr.2007
Ultraschall:
Moskitos pfeifen auf hohe Töne
18.Apr.2007
Nach
Amoklauf von Blacksburg: Kriminologe fordert Spielverbote
18.Apr.2007
Nach
Amoklauf: Koreanische Studenten fürchten Vergeltung
18.Apr.2007
Terrorbekämpfung:
EU- Abgeordnete kritisieren CIA-
Gefangenentransporte
18.Apr.2007
Massaker
in Blacksburg: Amokläufer schrieb blutrünstige
Theaterstücke
18.Apr.2007
Ferne
Sternenquelle: Fruchtbarer Nebel des Einhorns
17.Apr.2007
Arbeitsloser
in Speyer verhungert
MDR -
vor 6 Stunden gefunden
In der pfälzischen Stadt ist ein
Arbeitsloser verhungert. Nach Angaben der Polizei wurde die Leiche
des 20-Jährigen in der Wohnung seiner Mutter gefunden. Die
Obduktion habe ergeben, dass der Mann seit Monaten nicht mehr genug
zu essen hatte. ...
Tragödie
in Speyer: Arbeitsloser in Wohnung verhungert
Die Zeit
Zu
Hause verhungert, einfach so
Stern
17.Apr.2007
Ende
der Irak- Verärgerung: US- Bürger haben Deutschland wieder
lieb
17.Apr.2007
Us
1986 U.S. president Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran ... 1950
Joseph A Schumpeter, Aus/US economist/Minister of Finance, dies at 66
... www.brainyhistory.com/topics/u/us.html
17.Apr.2007
http://www.bootsektorblog.de/2007/04/freie_energie_f.html
TrackBack-URL
für diesen Eintrag:
http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/24649/17514202
17.Apr.2007
http://www.bootsektorblog.de/2007/04/freie_energie_f.html
Währenddessen in Hamburg: der Hersteller der Fingerprint-Scanner für die deutschen Reisepässe, Dermalog, steckt bis zum Hals in Korruptionsskandalen.
Mit mindestens einer halben Million Euro wurden Offiziere der indonesischen Polizei geschmiert, damit dort ebenfalls Dermalog-Produkte zum Einsatz kommen.
Mittlerweile ist der Initiator der erwähnten deutschen biometrischen Pässe,
Ex-Bundes-Innenminister Otto Schily im Aufsichtsrat von Byometric Systems AG (Mitterfelden) und SAFE ID Solutions AG (Unterhaching).
Sein
Nachfolger, Wolfgang Schäuble, sucht jetzt nach Möglichkeiten
zur Verschärfung der Gesetzeslage.
17.Apr.2007
[CTRL]
[9] The Marcos Dynasty
The Washington branch was headed by retired Rear Admiral Earl P. Yates, ... with Singlaub in a Washington consulting firm called GeoMiliTech Corporation .
www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg18433.html
Un
Informe de la ONU sobre los Tecos: El Documento Larry Pratt ...
Hanging on the wall of Pearson's Washington,
D.C. office is a letter from then ... GeoMilitech, founded by
Singlaub
and his partner, Barbara
Studley, ...
informe-onu.blogspot.com/2007/04/el-documento-larry-pratt.html
Un
Informe de la ONU sobre los Tecos
GeoMilitech, founded by Singlaub
and his partner, Barbara
Studley, ... Colgando en la pared de su oficina en
Washington
D.C. esta la siguiente carta del ... informe-onu.blogspot.com
Eastern
Europe's Arsenal on the Loose
22, ( Washington,
DC: British American Security Information Council, ... This paper was
written by Abdel Fatau Musah and Robert Castle, Consultants ...
www.iansa.org/documents/development/eeurope_arsenal.htm
Eastern
Europe's Arsenal on the Loos
By Abdel Fatau Musah and Robert Castle, Consultants ... 22, (
Washington,
DC: British American Security Information Council, July 1997). ...
www.basicint.org/pubs/Papers/BP26.htm
D.C.
BANK SWEPT UP IN INTRIGUE ... [CIA,
MAFIA, S&L FRAUD ...
Documents at the Washington,
D.C.-based National Security Archive show that ... the fee paid for
his advice to GeoMiliTech went to his company, SIFT Inc.,
...www.freerepublic.com/forum/a38a509795e07.htm
17.Apr.2007
The
origins of Iran-Contra: Lessons from the Durrani Affair
that GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation (GMT) of 1919
Pennsylvania. Ave., N.W., Washington,
D.C. USA, has been granted the authority to ...
www.springerlink.com/index/Q02N7V0854698HL3.pdf
Council
for National Policy (CNP) - N-Pa - Member Biographies
"...a highly intriguing proposition from GeoMiliTech Consultants
Corp., a Washington
arms brokerage secretly shipping weapons to the contras.
www.seekgod.ca/cnp.n-pa.htm
Christic
Institute. Sheehan Affidavit. 1988-03-25
(Formerly located in Washington
DC.) Affidavit of Daniel P. Sheehan, March 25, ... JOHN (212, 235);
GEOMILITECH CONSULTANTS CORPORATION (187-8, 237-9) ...
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Joseph
Churba
Washington
Times 1987-09-11
(5) ... Washington
Times 1986-04-14 (7) ... 1993 (102). GEOMILITECH CONSULTANTS
CORPORATION · Christic Institute. ...
www.namebase.org/main2/Joseph-Churba.html
Jeff
Studer — John Studley
: ZoomInfo Business People Information
Studley,
Barbara, GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation ... Holland & Knight
2099 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Suite 100 Washington,
DC 20006 (202) 457-5936 fax . ...
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GEOMILITECH CONSULTANTS CORPORATION : Corn,D.
alfatomega.com/20041210.html
- 250 ... Feb.2007 Washington
D.C., USA : Der Sicherheitsprofi ...
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20050103
Carlyle Group, an investment firm based in Washington,
DC + the Canadian ... LOTHAR 1 GEOMILITECH CONSULTANTS CORPORATION 1
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alfatomega.com/20050103.html
The
use of Islamist militants by American and Israeli
militarists ...
An FBI wiretap at the Israeli
Embassy in Washington
picks up Richard Perle ... GeoMiliTech (GMT) Consultants Corporation
is established by conservative talk ...
www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.
jsp?timeline=western_support_for_islamic_militancy
Center
for Cooperative Research
Research fellow at the Washington
Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) ... Executive vice president
of GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation ...
www.terrortimeline.org/entities.jsp
John
K. Singlaub
Soon afterwards Singlaub
helped establish a company called GeoMiliTech Consultants Corporation
(GMT) a Washington
-based arms trading company.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/JFKsinglaub.htm
17.Apr.2007
Euskal
Herria Journal | A Basque Journal | News
The SB 33 mine was sold to Expal, the final destination being Iraq,
00.000.1982.
... aircraft carrying with napalm and mustard gas produced by EXPAL
for Iraq. www.ehj-navarre.org/news/n_conpol_bg_apr03.html
20050116
... the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard
and VX nerve agent. ... Number ... also I upload one model of EXPAL
Mortar and the web .alfatomega.com/20050116.html
17.Apr.2007
Japan:
Bürgermeister von Nagasaki im Wahlkampf erschossen
17.Apr.2007
Irak:
Uno bittet um Hilfe für vier Millionen Flüchtlinge
17.Apr.2007
Monk
details sex, drugs, weeping icon at Texas monestary
One
of five monks facing charges of sexually abusing children told
authorities that an inner circle of monks at the monastery there had
sex with one another, smoked marijuana and used an eyedropper to
produce fake tears on a Virgin Mary icon.
posted
by Prof. Hex
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-477633,00.html
Die
Suche nach einem möglichen Sinn im Text geht weiter.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-477761,00.html
Doch
die Krone der Evolution steht nicht dem Menschen zu, sondern nach
gegenwärtigem Wissensstand dem Schimpansen.
Wissenschaftler der University of Michigan in Ann Arbor hatten insgesamt 14.000 bei Menschen und Schimpansen vorkommende Gene miteinander verglichen.
Dabei
stellten sie zu ihrem eigenen Erstaunen fest, dass sich beim
Schimpansen immerhin 233 Gene durch positive Selektion geändert
haben dürften, beim Menschen hingegen nur 154.
17.Apr.2007
Gen-
Vergleich: Schimpanse schlägt Menschen evolutionär
17.Apr.2007
Evolution
des Kiefers: Auch im Urzeit- Meer wurde schon kraftvoll
zugebissen
17.Apr.2007
La
Réunion: Feuerberg bringt Fischen den Hitzetod
17.Apr.2007
Voynich-
Manuskript: Physiker hält mysteriöse Mittelalter- Schrift
für Schabernack
17.Apr.2007
Report:
USA faces huge changes as climate warms :
Chicago and Los Angeles will likely to face increasing heat waves.
Severe storm surges could hit New York and Boston.
And cities that rely on melting snow for water may run into serious shortages.
Bush
asks Congress to alter 1978 eavesdropping law:
The Bush
administration asked Congress on Friday to expand the number of
people it can subject to electronic surveillance in the United
States
17.Apr.2007
The
Apostles of Deception
-By Charles Sullivan
What passes for Christianity among the
people, like so many things American, is not the genuine article. The
sermons that rise from many of the pulpits of the churches of America
are, I suspect, as counterfeit as a six dollar bill; as phony as the
people running the country. But those whose faith is blind are
incapable of seeing truth. Continue
17.Apr.2007
Chavez
defies US with energy summit :
Venezuela will seek to use
oil wealth to consolidate regional support for anti-US politics as it
hosts an energy summit of South American leaders.
17.Apr.2007 Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on Iraq, Vietnam, Activism and History: In a Democracy Now! special from Boston, two of the city's leading dissidents, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn, sit down for a rare joint interview. 19.Apr.2007 Soros criticises Israel lobby in US: The billionaire investor George Soros has added his voice to a heated but little-noticed debate over the role of Israel's powerful lobby in shaping Washington policy in a way critics say hurts US national interests and stifles debate.
17.Apr.2007 Pentagon: Al-Qaeda suspect alleges torture: Zubaydah, captured 00.000.2002, also told the hearing at Guantanamo Bay that he had been tortured in U.S. custody and confessed to things he did not do just to stop the abuse, according to a Pentagon transcript released Monday.
17.Apr.2007 Impeach Bush, or get out of the way: There will be a time when future generations will look at us and wonder why President Bush and Vice President Cheney were not removed from office. They will look at us and question why, when confronted by the most corrupt and incompetent administration ever witnessed in the United States, nothing was done to stop Bush and Cheney.
17.Apr.2007 In case you missed it: Two Months Before 9/11, an Urgent Warning to Rice: Tenet called Condoleezza Rice, then national security adviser, from the car and said he needed to see her right away. There was no practical way she could refuse such a request from the CIA director.
17.Apr.2007 Gunman Kills 30 on Virginia Tech Campus : A gunman opened fire in a Virginia Tech dorm and then, two hours later, in a classroom across campus Monday, killing at least 30 people in the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history, government officials told The Associated Press. The gunman was killed, bringing the death toll to 31.
17.Apr.2007 Conyers, Sanchez Seek Rove's RNC Emails: The burgeoning congressional focus on the supposedly "missing" emails of White House political czar Karl Rove and almost two dozen other presidential aides who were doing political work on the taxpayers' dime is not limited to questions about the eight U.S. Attorneys who were fired
17.Apr.2007 Padilla in jail peril, experts say: Accused al-Qaida agent Jose Padilla could be thrown back in a military brig even if he's acquitted or gets a light sentence in his civilian criminal trial beginning this week, experts say.
17.Apr.2007 Jose Padilla: The Bad Guy : Gangbanger, fifth columnist, radical Muslim, poor fatherless Puerto Rican—is it mere coincidence that in Jose Padilla the government has the perfect fall guy?
17.Apr.2007 ACLU Congressional Scorecard : The ACLU Congressional Scorecard provides you with a quick summary of important civil liberties measures and how your elected officials have voted. By looking at their actual voting record, you can go beyond the soundbites that characterize much of today's campaigns to better understand your elected officials' positions.
17.Apr.2007 Dollar at Near Record Low Vs. Euro: The dollar gave up more ground to the euro, which climbed to within one cent of its all-time high + the pound neared $2 Monday.
17.Apr.2007 The Economics of Climate Change: Video; A talk by Sir Nicholas Stern, head of the United Kingdom Government Economic Service and author of the highly regarded report, the "Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change." Stern explains how inaction on climate change could lead to the kind of economic downturn that has not been seen since the Great Depression and the two world wars.
17.Apr.2007
Are
mobile phones wiping out our bees? ;
Scientists claim radiation from handsets are to blame for mysterious
'colony collapse' of bees
17.Apr.2007
India
firm on gas pipe from Iran:
A DISPUTE between Washington
and its two major South Asian allies is intensifying as India and
Pakistan dig in their heels over building a highly strategic, $10
billion gas pipeline stretching 2600km from Iran.
17.Apr.2007
UK
abandons 'war on terror'
phrase :
"We do not use the phrase 'war on terror'
because we can't win by military means alone... this isn't us against
one organised enemy with a clear identity and a coherent set of
objectives," said an extract from Benn's planned speech
17.Apr.2007
Photos
of 'tortured'
Iraqi's corpse released:
Photographs showing the severe beating suffered by an Iraqi civilian
who died in British custody were released today as the House of Lords
begins a hearing into whether human rights law should apply to
British forces abroad.
17.Apr.2007
The
Party of Brownshirts
-By Paul Craig Roberts
Neoconservatives have turned the Republican
Party into a Brownshirt Party. Continue
17.Apr.2007
Cheney's
Nemesis
-Matt Taibbi Interviews Seymour Hersh
"We know from the
Pentagon
Papers -- and to me they were the most important documents ever
written -- that from 1963 on, Kennedy
and Johnson and Nixon lied to us systematically about the war. I
remember how shocked I was when I read them. So . . . duh! Nothing's
changed. They've just gotten better at dealing with the press.
Nothing's changed at all." Continue
17.Apr.2007
Torture,
Secrecy + the Bush
Administration
-By Scott Horton
We have a duty to posterity + that is to bear
witness to these events. We must document them carefully. We must act
to avoid the destruction of valuable evidence—and recognize, as
we have already seen, that it is in the character of those who commit
crimes to destroy the evidence of their misdeeds. In this way we lay
the path for the justice which will in good time be meted out to
those who betrayed a nation's trust. Continue
17.Apr.2007
Trouble
in Squanderville
-By Mike Whitney
Two years ago, anyone who wrote about the housing
bubble was dismissed as a conspiracy nut. Now hardly a day goes by
that the headlines aren’t splattered with the grim details of
the massive meltdown in the real estate market. Continue
17.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Comments:
this is a terrible tragedy for all those died today and their
families and friends.
However, a big story like pushes off other
growing stories like the 5 million missing WH emails, or that the US
Postal service is on the verge of putting out of business small print
magazines/newspapers who depend upon being able to send via media
rate.
There are several other big WH stories that are getting
pushed off such as Gonzales having played a far bigger role with the
firings of the US Attorneys.
Or how the new HOLT election reform bill if approved provides the
WhiteHouse with more control over our elections by giving a much
bigger role to Bush's
Election Assistance Committee (EAC).
all of these stories get
pushed to the side and may not resurface as the media and the nation
gets obsessed with the who dunit and why did they do this sort of
questions.
There are probably even more stories about to break
that now won't see the light of day.#
posted by Anonymous
17.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Comments:
I am sorry for what I am about to write. This in no way is to
belittle the tragedy that is the deaths of these victims.
The
timing is tooooo freekin perfect on this. What is in the news today.
Sadr has pulled his block from the Iraq gov. The demonstrations he
just commanded where a show of unity Shia and Sunni. This is by most
accounts the beginning of the end for US presence.
Tomorrow we
will see Alberto give testimony, by which will most likely bring
about his departure from the justice department.
There are fresh
accounts of the CIA
being warned about 9/11
by the French in the news today.
Bush
on Friday had to admit he was completely clueless about the 15 month
deployments.
And along comes a school shooting. Over the last 6
years we have seen that timing is everything. Something about this
just seems to 'perfect' to me. Call me cynical and call me callous.
My thoughts go out to all of the victims, families and friends.#
posted by Anonymous
17.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2007/03/06/millions_of_bees_die_are_electromagnetic_signals_to_blame.htm
17.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Are
mobile phones wiping out bee populations?
17.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/German
research has long shown that bees' behaviour changes near power
lines.
Now a limited study at Landau University has found that
bees refuse to return to their hives when mobile phones are placed
nearby. Dr Jochen Kuhn, who carried it out, said this could provide a
"hint" to a possible cause.
Dr George Carlo, who headed
a massive study by the US government and mobile phone industry of
hazards from mobiles in the Nineties, said: "I am convinced the
possibility is real." Here is an earlier paper by Dr. Kuhn: "How
Electromagnetic Exposure can influence Learning Processes --
Modelling Effects of Electromagnetic Exposure on Learning Processes."
Yes, there are bees in it. Kuhn addresses the sticky issue of
non-thermal effects of electromagnetic radiation, which always leads
to pooh-poohing and over-confident harrumphing. But for 40-or-so
years, a number of researchers have sounded the
we-don't-know-what-we're-messing-with note.
From Kuhn's paper: In
addition to the well known theory of Karl von Frisch that honey bees
communicate through waggle dances on the honeycomb, Nieh and Tautz
discovered that dancing makes the honeycombs vibrate... The
frequencies of these vibrations are set in between 200 Hz and 300 Hz.
As the honeycombs vibrate the information can be transported to honey
bees which are located far away from the vibrating source. With the
GSM-mobile-phones sending their information with a pulsed signal, we
must consider the pure sending frequencies of 900 MHz and 1800 MHz as
well as the pulsing frequency of 217 Hz. The frequency of the pulse
corresponds to that of the waggle dance of the honey bee and so the
dancing area could be resonantly stimulated by this pulsed
frequency...
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17.Apr.2007
Bush
Embraces the Culture of Death -- A BuzzFlash Editorial
Why
Would a Midwest Local Union Leader Go All Out for Republican
Candidates for Governor and the NRA? Good Question: Part Two of a
BuzzFlash News Analysis, "Why Would a Midwest Union Local
Support Two Generally Anti-Union Republicans in Governors' Races?"
A BuzzFlash News Analysis
The
gunman in Monday's Virginia Tech campus shootings has been identified
as Cho Seung-Hui, 23, a student and native of South Korea, according
to campus police chief Wendell Flinchum. 4/17
Students
Capture Horror of Domestic Terrorism
at Virginia Tech, Armed and Loaded by America's Gun Industry 4/17
5
more American soldiers killed in Iraq, including three in Baghdad.
There have been around 60 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq so far in
April. 4/17
GOP
Lawyers Say Bush
can Eject Dissenters from Events, Even if They Don't do Anything -- A
BuzzFlash News Analysis
Lennon
Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon (CD)
Busheviks
were Warned About 9/11:
"France's foreign intelligence service learned as early as
January 2001
that al-Qaida
was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a U.S. airplane,
former intelligence officials said Monday, confirming a report that
also said the CIA
received the warning."
Why
Would a Midwest Union Local Support Two Generally Anti-Union
Republicans in Governors' Races? -- Part I of A BuzzFlash News
Analysis
Power
Plays: Oil isn't all they have in the desert -- UAE cozies up to
solar -- and more in Gloria R. Lalumia's World Energy Watch for April
17, 2007
17.Apr.2007
Geld
für Energie: Der Star der Risikokapitalgeber hat grüne
Phantasien
17.Apr.2007
12:07)
Islam-
Holdings: Betrug an Deutschlands Türken
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-477657,00.html
Studie.
"Der Klimawandel könnte Bedingungen schaffen, die den Krieg
gegen den Terrorismus
verlängern", warnte der Admiral im Ruhestand, Joseph Lopez,
ehemaliger Oberkommandierender der US-Seestreitkräfte in Europa.
Die Verringerung des CO2-Ausstoßes sei daher eine
"Notwendigkeit", um diesen Herausforderungen zu begegnen.
"Wir werden kurzfristig wirtschaftlich auf die eine oder andere
Art dafür bezahlen, um dieses Gas zu reduzieren (...),
andernfalls werden wir später militärisch mit dem Verlust
von Menschenleben bezahlen", schrieb der ehemalige Kommandeur
der US-Armee im Nahen Osten, Marineinfanterie-General Anthony
Zinni.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-477657,00.html
"The National Security Implications of Global Climate Change".
Viele Entwicklungsländer würden nicht über die nötige Infrastruktur und geeignete Regierungen verfügen, um angemessen auf die vom Klimawandel ausgelösten Stressfaktoren zu reagieren. Wenn nationale Regierungen keine Sicherheit mehr garantieren und Landesgrenzen nicht vor Massen-Migrationsbewegungen schützen könnten, bestünde die Gefahr, "dass Aufruhr, Extremismus und Terrorismus das Vakuum füllen", heißt es in dem Bericht.
Der Klimawandel sei nicht vergleichbar mit herkömmlichen militärischen Bedrohungen, sagte Richard H. Truly, einer der Autoren der Studie - "weil er nicht irgendein Krisenherd ist, den wir zu beherrschen versuchen". Vielmehr sei der Klimawandel ein globales Problem, er betreffe "jedes Land und jeden Menschen dieser Erde zum selben Zeitpunkt", sagte Truly.
Die
gestern vorgestellte Studie stützt sich auf Prognosen des
Weltklimaberichts, wonach die globale Erwärmung zu häufigeren
schweren Stürmen, Trockenheiten und Überschwemmungen sowie
einem Ansteigen der Meeresspiegel infolge des Abschmelzens der
polaren Eismassen und von Gletschern führen werde. Eine Folge
könnten Massen-Migrationsbewegungen sein, die zu Spannungen an
Landesgrenzen führen könnten. Das wiederum könnte zur
Folge habe, dass häufiger Hilfe bei Evakuierungen und
Unterstützung bei internationalen Rettungseinsätze
geleistet werden müsse. Auch Konflikte um Ressourcen wie
Trinkwasser würden zunehmen.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-477610,00.html
auf Anweisung des US-Bildungsministeriums in den Klassenzimmern: Gesucht wird der "Typus Amokläufer", obwohl eine Studie des "Secret Service" bereits vor zwei Jahren zu dem Ergebnis kam, dass ein Profil überhaupt nicht auszumachen ist.
So
gilt stattdessen "Null-Toleranz" + die Justiz langt
kräftig hin: Einem Zwölfjährigen aus Massachusetts
brachte ein gemaltes Bild, auf dem er seine Lehrerin erschießt,
eine Anklage ein.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-477610,00.html
Waffenlobbyisten forderten, nicht weniger, mehr Waffen brauche das Land. Ein einzelner bewaffneter Student hätte das Blutbad stoppen können - indem er den Täter erschossen hätte.
Wenn solche Logik sich auch dieses mal wieder durchsetzt, wird ein anderer Trend noch zunehmen: Schon heute gleichen viele Bildungseinrichtungen in Amerika Festungen - verrammelte Türen, Wachpersonal und Metalldetektoren sind weit verbreitet. Ebenso wie ausgefeilte Evakuierungspläne.
Das
Geschäft für Sicherheitsberater an Schulen und
Universitäten hat seit Jahren Hochkonjunktur. Bush
selbst appellierte vergangenes Jahr an die Beteiligten, die
Anstrengungen gegen Attentäter im Klassenraum noch einmal zu
verstärken.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-477610,00.html
"Die Folgen werden in jedem amerikanischen Klassenzimmer zu spüren sein", erklärte gestern Nachmittag ein sichtlich erschütterter Präsident George W. Bush, und der gerade aus der Osterpause zurückgekehrte Kongress gedachte der Opfer mit einer Schweigeminute.
Es sind übrigens jene Parlamentarier, die es versäumt haben auch nur minimale Verschärfungen der noch immer so großzügigen amerikanischen Waffengesetze durchzusetzen: Weil ein Bann halbautomatischer Waffen nicht verlängert wurde, sind Magazine für bis zu 40 Schuss handelsüblich - geliefert wird per UPS über Nacht.
Die
hohe Zahl der Opfer in Blacksburg könnte darauf hindeuten, dass
der Täter genau solche Magazine benutzte.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-477610,00.html
Eine
9-Millimeter-Pistole, wie sie der Täter benutzte, schießt
so schnell wie sich der Finger krümmt. Auf privaten Waffenbörsen
ist sie so leicht zu haben wie ein Six-Pack Bier.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/0,1518,druck-477610,00.html
Es
waren die Studenten, die sich untereinander per E-Mail und
Mobiltelefon warnten.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-477634,00.html
Wissenschaftler hatten kritisiert, mit solchen Auktionen werde künstlich ein Markt für Fossilien geschaffen. Durch steigende Preise könnten sich viele Museen die Stücke nicht mehr leisten.
Der Forscher Martin Pickford vom Collège de France warnte davor, durch die steigende Nachfrage von Privatleuten könne die Wissenschaft auf der Strecke bleiben. Sie ermutige Laien, überall nach Fossilien zu suchen.
"Der
Köder des Gewinns treibt sie dazu, Fossilien zu entnehmen, ohne
sich im Mindesten um ihren geologischen Kontext zu kümmern. Sie
zerstören damit wertvolle Zusatzinformationen."
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-477661,00.html
wegen
seiner Tätigkeit für die Kommunistische Partei während
des Nationalsozialismus
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-477661,00.html
in
KZ-Haft geriet.
17.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/0,1518,druck-477661,00.html
Honecker
wurde 1927 in Halle an der Saale als Tochter eines Schuhmachers
geboren, der wegen seiner Tätigkeit für die Kommunistische
Partei während des Nationalsozialismus in KZ-Haft geriet.
17.Apr.2007
Sicherheitsstudie:
US- Generäle warnen vor Klimawandel
17.Apr.2007
Auktion:
Mammut- Skelett bringt 260.000 Euro
17.Apr.2007
17.Apr.2007
Massaker
an US- Universität: Amokschütze tötet Dutzende - dann
sich selbst
16.Apr.2007
Trauer
im Internet: "Das kann auf jedem Campus passieren"
16.Apr.2007
Diario
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Gorillas
in our midst : sustained
inattencional blindness for dynamic events.
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Unaufmerksamkeitsblindheit
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(1999): Gorillas
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16.Apr.2007
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16.Apr.2007
Weltbank-
Skandal: Wolfowitz
bekommt Druck aus Brüssel
16.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-477445,00.html
"Erst die Biene, dann der Mensch", warnte DBIB-Vorstand Haefeker Ende
März im Interview des Bayerischen Rundfunks.
Der Imkerverband sieht schwarz + auch sein Motto klingt im Kontext des massenhaften Bienchentods wenig optimistisch.
"Apes debemus imitari" wird der römische Philosoph Seneca auf der DBIB-Website zitiert: "Die Bienen müssen wir nachahmen."
Mobilfunk- Studie: Handys sorgen nicht für Krebs, aber für Schlagzeilen (31.01.2007) http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,463441,00.html
Handy- Studie: Angst essen Daten auf (01.02.2007) http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,463702,00.html
Protest- Aktion: Greenpeace veröffentlicht Genmais- Karte von Deutschland (08.02.2007) http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,465241,00.html
Pilotstudie:Bienen und Mobilfunk http://agbi.uni- landau.de/material_download/elmagexp_bienen_05.pdf
2. Pilotstudie:Bienen und Mobilfunk http://agbi.uni- landau.de/material_download/elmagexp_bienen_06.pdf
16.Apr.2007
Mysteriöses
Massensterben: Werden Bienen tot telefoniert?
16.Apr.2007
Wetter:
Hoch "Peggy" bricht Rekorde
16.Apr.2007
Schwacher
Dollar: Euro steuert Allzeithoch an
16.Apr.2007
Why
Would a Midwest Union Local Support Two Generally Anti-Union
Republicans in Governors' Races? -- Part I of A BuzzFlash News
Analysis
Ex-D.O.J.
official's statements on firings contradict Gonzales. Alberto is just
another Bushevik
crook. We thought he would have resigned by now, but we have come to
realize that he is a man who knows too much. What he knows is that,
as with the Plame Case, Bush
and Rove
play key roles in ProsecutorGate.
Caroline
Kennedy's
"A Patriot's Handbook" (3-CDs)
Shia
cleric Moqtada al-Sadr will withdraw his political bloc from the
Iraqi government, according to officials in his party. 4/16
Article
suggests Bush
at heart of U.S. Prosecutor firing 4/16
Amnesty
International today warned that the Middle East is on the verge of a
massive humanitarian crisis, with 3 million Iraqis displaced 4/16
Why
Aung San Suu Kyi, the opposition leader who has been detained by
Burma's military regime for nearly 20 years, is a hero for our times
4/16
Jose
Padilla, the man once accused of planning a US radioactive bomb
attack, is going on trial in Florida 4/16
Fear
for BBC reporter after Gaza group claims he has been killed 4/16
The
chairman of the Senate education committee, Ted Kennedy,
urged the Bush
administration yesterday to block student loan companies from
accessing a national database that holds confidential information on
tens of millions of students. 4/16
16.Apr.2007
AFRICA
ENERGY INTELLIGENCE n° 377 - 22/09/2004
UNITED
STATES/gulf ...
Chairman
of Tamoil for a number of
years, Omar Massoud has been succeeded by Mahmoud Naas at the Monaco
headquarters of the Libyan trading company. (...).
www.africaintelligence.com/ps/AN/Arch/AEM/AEM_377.asp
16.Apr.2007
LIBYA
- Profile - Abdullah Salem Al-Badri. | Agriculture, Forestry ...
He
removed Omar Massoud from the post of chairman at Tamoil,
the main operating unit of Oilinvest + put in this place Mahmoud
Naas.
www.allbusiness.com/mining/oil-gas-extraction-crude-petroleum-natural/482752-1.html
Archives
Chairman de Tamoil pendant
quinze ans, avant d'être remplacé par l'ancien directeur
de la NOC, Hamouda al-Aswad, Omar Massoud multiplie les apparition
dans ...
www.africaintelligence.fr/LAE/archives/default_archives.asp?num=513&year=2005
Archives
A la tête de Tamoil
depuis plusieurs années, Omar Massoud a été
remplacé par Mahmoud Naas au siège du trader libyen, à
Monaco.
www.africaintelligence.fr/LAE/archives/default_archives.asp?num=494&year=2004
XIV
- Monaco World Summit
Omar . Director for the Division of Relations with International
Organisations. UNESCO.
UNESCO.
Massoud . Omar . Vice Chairman. Tamoil
... cmf.ch/List_participants/mws02.htm
20050301
Feb.2005
Auf Druck der Kurdenführer Dschalal Talabani und Massoud Barsani
...
Tamoil
was formed by Roger Tamraz, an Egyptian/Lebanese turned US citizen
... alfatomega.com/20050301.html
16.Apr.2007
Prince
Bernhard - personal background and his part in the founding ...
Once
a high flier (who 00.000.1954
helped launch a secretive gathering of the global elite called the
Bilderberg Group), Bernhard's reputation took a sharp blow ...
www.bilderberg.org/bernhard.htm
16.Apr.2007
journalism
- Center for Media and Democracy
...
Alex
Jones of Harvard University's Shorenstein Center at a recent
gathering of the PR
Seminar, a rather secretive annual gathering of top PR
executives . www.prwatch.org/taxonomy/term/111?from=80
16.Apr.2007
Deadline
Hollywood Daily » 2006
» June
For so many years Camp Allen was a secretive gathering of the
privileged white men who sat atop America's entertainment
conglomerates and their families, ...
www.deadlinehollywooddaily.com/2006/06
16.Apr.2007
Senator
John Edwards
SINCE its first meeting 50 years ago, the Bilderberg conference, a
secretive gathering of global power brokers, has inspired layer upon
layer of conspiracy ... www.oilempire.us/edwards.html
16.Apr.2007
Unwetter:
Frühlingsstürme verwüsten US- Ostküste
16.Apr.2007
Großbank:
ABN
Amro droht die Zerschlagung
16.Apr.2007
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070412_symmetrical_nebula.html
NASA:
Arctic Meltdown Threatens Ice Cap's Stability
16.Apr.2007
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070412_symmetrical_nebula.html
Lack
of Sleep Causes Old Men's Testosterone to Drop
16.Apr.2007
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_joseph_s_070414_a_9_2f11__22smoking_gun_22.htm
You don't pull off the most spectacular "terrorist" attack in history, especially against largely symbolic targets + then hide.
You
don't put yourself through the expense, trouble, risk, etc., of
carrying out the most daring "terrorist"
attack in world history, only to let a panel of fatuous government
apologists tell the world what your ostensible motive was; e.g.,
"they hate us because of our 'freedom'", or some such
puerile nonsense.
16.Apr.2007
Companies
want scrutiny of Google-DoubleClick deal
Several companies are encouraging regulators to take a close look
at Google's planned purchase of online ad company DoubleClick.
16.Apr.2007
Norway
Liberal Party Wants Legal File Sharing
- kdawson 2 - dot-magnon writes
"The Liberal Party of Norway (Venstre) passed a unanimous resolution that advocates legal file sharing. The party wants to legalise sharing of any copyrighted material for non-commercial use. It also proposes a ban on DRM technology, free sampling of other artists' material + shortening the life span of copyright.
The
Liberal Party is the first Norwegian political party + the first
European mainstream political party, to advocate file sharing. The
Liberal Party's youth wing proposed the resolution."
16.Apr.2007
Scarcity
of Water Now: Next Added 100 Million Americans
The Colorado River no longer reaches the Pacific because its
sucked dry by Los Angeles and farming communities. By adding 100
milllion people to the USA, our water dilemma grows toward what China
faces today.
16.Apr.2007
IACOCCA:
Bushies
are "gang of clueless bozos"
'YOU CAN'T CALL YOURSELF A PATRIOT IF YOU'RE NOT OUTRAGED"
Iacocca pulls no punches in this excerpt from his latest book "Where
Have All the Leaders Gone." Pity he isn't running for office.
This quote will resonate with the majority of Americans who favor
impeachment for George Bush
+ Dick Cheney
16.Apr.2007
The
Final Act of Submission
Is congress allowing AIPAC to dictate policy that puts Israel
before the US?
16.Apr.2007
Aid
and Comfort for Torturers:
Psychology and Coercive Interrogations in Historical Perspective
Psychologists have a long history of aiding the development of
abusive interrogation techniques.
Understanding
this history helps put psychologists' participation in torture
at Guantanamo in context. It also helps to explain the American
Psychological Association abetting of this torture.
16.Apr.2007
The
Apostles of Deception
The phony evangelicals have stolen the pulpit and the ignorant
and foolish have fallen under their spell.
Now we have fools and con men, pretenders + flim-flam artists: hucksters, jilters, jokers + clowns fleecing the hapless flock.
We
have Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, George Bush,
Hillary Clinton + those masquerading as the Christian right marching
us into war after war.
16.Apr.2007
Uneasy
Alliance: Nuclear Power and Capitalism
With corporate malfeasance on display almost daily, can we trust
publicly traded companies to provide the U.S. with nuclear energy?
16.Apr.2007
No
Religious Tests Allowed
Manatee County Schools have suspended a teacher accusing her of
helping a student cheat on the FCAT. The teacher claims these are
bogus charges leveled against her because she complained about a
hostile religious atmosphere perpetrated by the school's principal
who is leading prayer groups on campus.
The
Humanists of Florida Association Responds.
16.Apr.2007
Massive
Honey Bee Wane Threatens World Crops
Albert Einstein once forecasted, "If the bee disappeared off the
surface of the globe then man would only have four years of life
left."
A
dire comment that is prognosticating in our present day.
16.Apr.2007
Countries
Urge The United Nations to Fight Genocide
"There seems to be a world-wide consensus that the United Nation
Security Council has a responsibility to act to protect populations
against genocide," said Steven Kull, editor of
WorldPublicOpinion.org.
16.Apr.2007
Third
largest newspaper in Vermont joins chorus calling Bush
worst president in U.S. history and for impeachment
Vermont paper joins chorus calling for impeachment
16.Apr.2007
Puerto
Rico, United State's largest island colony, was taken by force; 1st
in a 21st Century American Colonies series
First in a series on America's modern-day colonies explores the
conquest of Puerto Rico
16.Apr.2007
Far
North Feels Worst Effects of Warming
(AP)Inuit
hunters are falling through thinning ice and dying. Dolphins are
being spotted for the first time. There's not enough snow to build
igloos for shelter during hunts.
16.Apr.2007
Drugs
seeping into Lake Michigan
Drugs are seeping into the Grand River and Lake Michigan from the
Grand Rapids, Mich., sewage treatment plant, a study found.
16.Apr.2007
Returning
Troops Face Obstacles to Care
(AP)Injured
soldiers returning home for medical treatment face an unacceptable
maze of paperwork and bureaucracy, leaders of a presidential
commission on veterans' health care said Saturday.
16.Apr.2007
Documents:
Millions to Shuttle Survivors (Update)
(AP)NASA
paid $26.6 million to family members of the astronauts who died on
the space shuttle Columbia 00.000.2003,
a newspaper reported Sunday, citing recently released documents.
16.Apr.2007
Pope
Car Auction Ends Without Sale
(AP)A
1999 metallic gray Volkswagen Golf believed to once belong to the
pope went up for sale on eBay, but the auction ended Saturday without
a winner.
16.Apr.2007
Recovering
White House
E-Mail Not Easy
(AP)Although
a top Senate Democrat believes even a teenager could recover missing
White House
e-mails, experts said Friday that doing so could be tough - but not
impossible.
16.Apr.2007
Powerful
winds wreak havoc across Los Angeles
Powerful winds wreaked havoc across Los Angeles on Thursday, fanning
brush fires near one of the city's most exclusive neighborhoods and
knocking out power to thousands of homes, officials said.
16.Apr.2007
Drug-resistant
gonorrhea spreading in U.S.
U.S. health officials say doctors are running out of options for
treating the rapid spread of antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea.
16.Apr.2007
Shanghai
to shut down 29 coal power plants by 2010
China's financial hub Shanghai plans to shut 29 coal-fired power
plants by 2010 in a renewed bid to reduce environmentally damaging
carbon emissions, state press reported Friday.
16.Apr.2007
TJX
Thieves Had Time to Steal, Trip Up
(AP)For
at least 17 months, someone had free rein inside TJX Cos.' computers.
Without anyone noticing, one or more intruders installed code on the
discount retailer's systems to methodically unearth, collect and
transmit account data from at least 45.7 million credit and debit
cards.
16.Apr.2007
Report:
Army Corps Needs Major Overhaul
(AP)The
Army Corps of Engineers needs to acknowledge that the world is
heating up and seas are rising to better protect the nation from
flooding and hurricanes, according to a report by two environmental
groups.
16.Apr.2007
CO2
storage in coal can be predicted better
CO2 storage in the ground is being considered increasingly more often
in order to realise the climate and energy objectives. Dutch
researcher Saikat Mazumder made it possible to better predict routes
of the 'underground highways' along which gasses like carbon dioxide
(CO2 ) and methane (CH4 ) will move. Moreover, coal was found to be
highly suitable for filtering carbon dioxide out of waste gasses and
storing it.
16.Apr.2007
Uncle
Sam Gets a C-Minus for Information Security
A report by a House committee on FISMA compliance gives the federal
government a C-minus in its efforts to protect data on its computer
systems.
16.Apr.2007
A
Symmetrical Cosmic Red Square
- kdawson 58 -
Remember the hexagon surrounding Saturn's
north pole? Now for our delectation Ano_Nimass Coward sends us to
Space.com for a look at a nebula with near perfect bilateral symmetry
surrounding a dying star. The so-called Red Square ranks among the
most symmetrical objects ever observed by scientists. "If you
fold things across the principle diagonal axis, you get an almost
perfect reflection symmetry," said the leader of a study of the
object, recently published in Science. A possible explanation for the
structure's glow, if not its shape, was advanced in a paper appearing
in PNAS, which attributes the glow of a similar object —
dubbed, confusingly, the Red Rectangle — to exotic
space-hardened organic molecules called Polycyclic Aromatic
Hydrocarbons. PAHs are normally unstable but may occur in places like
the nebula in question, in nanostructured clusters that are extremely
stable and radiation hardened.
16.Apr.2007
Are
Mobile Phones Wiping Out Bees?
- Zonk 294 -
Mz6 wrote with a link to an article on The
Independent site about a most unusual scientific theory. "Some
scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause
massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail. They are
putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones
and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more
bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world — the
abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops."
16.Apr.2007
US,
Asia, Europe Ceding Web Dominance
- Zonk 117 -
An anonymous reader writes "A new study
shows that presence of the US, Asia + Western European countries on
the web is strongly declining. Newly internet-empowered countries are
booming; many geographical regions are showing exponential growth,
including Eastern Europe and South America. Chris Harrison explains:
'Countries that have never been able to place a website in the top
500 are now pushing dozens of established websites out of this
prestigious list. This trend is both recent (within the last two
years) and accelerating. Interestingly, Asia is seeing it's presence
eroded the fastest, especially China.'"
16.Apr.2007
New
Laws of Robotics Proposed for US Kill-Bots
- Zonk 335+ -
jakosc writes "The Register has a short
commentary about a proposed new set of laws of robotics for war
robots by John S Canning of the Naval Surface Warfare Centre. Unlike
Asimov's three laws of robotics Canning proposes (pdf) that we should
'Let machines target other machines and let men target men.' Although
this sounds OK in principle, 'a robot could decide under Mr Canning's
rules, to target a weapon system such as an AK47 for destruction on
its own initiative, requiring no permission from a human. If the
person holding it was thereby killed, that would be collateral damage
and the killer droid would be in the clear.'"
16.Apr.2007
Did
Bush
personally decide to fire Iglesias?
- Amanda
-
David
Iglesias’s name did not appear on the Bush
administration’s prosecutor hit list until Sen.
Pete Domenici (R-NM)
talked to President Bush
in
a call presumably arranged by Karl Rove.
16.Apr.2007
US
generals urge climate action
Former US military leaders call on the Bush
administration to make major cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
16.Apr.2007
US
'will keep Iranian detainees'
The US will continue holding five Iranians captured in Iraq despite
protests from Tehran, US media report.
16.Apr.2007
Blood
pressure 'is in the brain'
The cause of high blood pressure may lie within the brain and not the
heart or blood vessels, say scientists.
16.Apr.2007
Brown
and Bush
in first meeting
Gordon Brown and President Bush
meet for private talks during the chancellor's trip to the US.
16.Apr.2007
Cisco
in space
Blog: The U.S. military plans to send Cisco Systems into space, or at
least its routing software.Networking giant Cisco has been
selected...
16.Apr.2007
Did
Karl Rove
'delete' four years of e-mails?
Blog: Missing e-mails have Republican and Democratic leaders in
Washington
in a swirl. This is one topic you can track through the world...
15.Apr.2007
New
York Post; Exposing the Lies
- BG (The title of this post is tongue-in-cheek, of course.)
clipped from www.nypost.com
MOORE'S 'SICKO' STUNT TAKES 9/11
WORKERS TO CUBA
15.Apr.2007
Filmmaker
Michael Moore's production company took ailing Ground Zero responders
to Cuba in a stunt aimed at
showing that the U.S. health-care system is inferior to Fidel
Castro's socialized medicine, according to several sources with
knowledge of the trip.
15.Apr.2007
Nico
Gets It Wrong
- BG
Whether or not proof is forthcoming related to "exotic"
weapons used at Ground Zero, Steven Jones will soon be publishing
"iron clad" research that proves thermite related
accelerants/explosives were used. This proof is based on the
particles recovered from the WTC dust samples.
(Related
Independent Supporting Research Found Here:
clipped from
www.tms.org
An Initial Microstructural Analysis of A36 Steel from WTC Building 7
Rapid deterioration of the steel was a result of heating with
oxidation in combination with intergranular melting due to the
presence of sulfur.
The formation of the eutectic mixture of iron
oxide and iron sulfide lowers the temperature at which liquid can
form in this steel.
This
strongly suggests that the temperatures in this region of the steel
beam approached ~1,000ºC, forming the eutectic liquid by a
process similar to making a “blacksmith’s weld” in
a hand forge. )
This new development puts Nico Haupt and Judy Wood
on the spot to justify their high energy criticism of Jones and his
work.
Disclaimer: This post in no way supports that idea that
Jones' research addresses all the effects that happened on 9/11.
clipped from www.911researchers.com
The
credibility of the Jones-Jones Tandem (Alex "Scientology"
Jones, Steven "Los Alamos" Jones) finally turned into
toast.
15.Apr.2007
AG
Scandal
- BG clipped from griperblade.blogspot.com
You Call This Freedom?
The Nation writer and Capital Times
associate editor John Nichols brings up a damned good question -- if
the Bush
administration fired federal prosecutors for not abusing their
offices for political purposes, shouldn't we be more concerned about
the attorneys
they didn't fire than the ones they did? What did these people do to
keep their jobs? The
Capital Times:
The question of whether any of the 85 U.S.
attorneys who were not fired by the Bush
administration may have engaged in political prosecutions blew open
Tuesday, when Wisconsin Russ Feingold and Russ Kohl joined other key
members of the Senate Judiciary Committee in demanding files
pertaining to the botched prosecution of Georgia Thompson.
15.Apr.2007
Ryan
McGreal Miles Away from Whole Truth
- BG clipped from www.raisethehammer.org
A New Pearl Harbor
00.Jul.2001 a lightweight legacy playboy from Texas was President after an ugly legal battle +
he
was just smart enough to surround himself with some very smart people
who really, really knew what they wanted to accomplish.
15.Apr.2007
Really?
- BG clipped from news.independent.co.uk
Are mobile phones wiping out our bees?
It
seems like the plot of a particularly far-fetched horror film. But
some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile phone could cause
massive food shortages, as the world's harvests fail.
They are putting forward the theory that radiation given off by mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets is a possible answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. Late last week, some bee-keepers claimed that the phenomenon - which started in the US, then spread to continental Europe - was beginning to hit Britain as well.
The
theory is that radiation from mobile phones interferes with bees'
navigation systems, preventing the famously homeloving species from
finding their way back to their hives. Improbable as it may seem,
there is now evidence to back this up.
15.Apr.2007
Background
- BG clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
9/11
Television Viewing Linked To Dreams And Stress
Science
Daily
— Dream journals being kept by students in a college psychology
class have provided researchers with a unique look at how people
experienced the events of 9/11,
including the influence that television coverage of the World Trade
Center attacks had on people's levels of stress.
15.Apr.2007
Privacy
Concerns
- BG clipped from www.alternet.org
-By Jake
Bernstein,
Texas
Observer.
Posted April
14, 2007.
Texas
Gov. Rick Perry's Dangerous Database
Texas is amassing an
unprecedented amount of information on its citizens.
Piece
by piece, Gov. Rick Perry's homeland security office is gathering
massive amounts of information about Texas residents and merging it
to create the most exhaustive centralized database in state history.
Warehoused far from Texas on servers housed at a private company in
Louisville, Kentucky, the Texas Data Exchange -- TDEx to those in the
loop -- is designed to be an all-encompassing intelligence database.
It is supposed to help catch criminals, ferret out terrorist
cells + allow disparate law enforcement agencies to share
information. More than $3.6 million has been spent on the project so
far + it already has tens of millions of records. At least 7,000
users are presently allowed access to this information + tens of
thousands more are anticipated.
15.Apr.2007
AG
Scandal
- BG clipped from www.shepherd-express.com
Making Sense of the Georgia Thompson Ruling Thursday’s ruling
by the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago, which
immediately freed former state worker Georgia Thompson, was a
stunner. Not only did the three federal judges immediately give
Thompson her freedom, but they also delivered a smack-down to the
Milwaukee office of U.S.
Attorney Steven Biskupic, calling the evidence in the
case “beyond thin.”
15.Apr.2007
AG
Scandal
- BG clipped from americablog.blogspot.com
White
House lost FIVE MILLION e-mails, CREW reveals
FIVE MILLION e-mails were lost by the White
House according to a just released
report from CREW
called "WITHOUT A TRACE: The Missing White
House Emails and the Violations of the Presidential
Records Act." FIVE MILLION...that's insane. As I explained in
the post
below,
Bush
staffers have been already been using separate RNC
e-mail accounts to conduct official business in order to avoid the
law and hide evidence. How? Because White
House officials are supposed to use White
House email accounts and White
House Blackberrys to conduct official business (this is
required under federal law and under the White
House's own explicit rules). That's because under
federal law every single electronic communication of a White
House official must be recorded and kept in the federal
archives
15.Apr.2007
Homeland
Insecurity
- BG clipped from www.jewishreview.org
Brandon Mayfield stands up for U.S. Fourth Amendment FBI victim
delivers calm plea to Jewish lawyers
Soon, it will be three years since the U.S. government deemed Oregon attorney Brandon Mayfield a material witness connected to the terrorist bombings that killed 191 in Madrid, Spain.
Speaking rarely in public since his wrongful incarceration and subsequent $2 million settlement with the federal government, Mayfield, aided by one of his attorneys, Elden Rosenthal, told his story March 8 to a Solomon's Legacy luncheon at the Benson Hotel where he made the Fourth Amendment (unreasonable search) a key issue.
The
Mayfield case is known across the country for many unprecedented
reasons, none more unique than the partial settlement from November
of 2006,
which, in addition to the payout, allows for further challenges of
the USA Patriot Act.
15.Apr.2007
From
2004
- BG clipped from www.jewishreview.org
50 years on, Lavon Affair still hot potato in Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Israeli military historians call it Operation Shoshana. Scholars of political intrigue know it as the Lavon Affair.
But to veterans of Israel's first--and perhaps worst--intelligence bungle, the 50-year-old episode whose unseemly details are only now being discussed openly has another name: the Raw Deal.
It was 1954 + the fledgling Jewish state watched with worry as Egyptian dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser made clear his goal of nationalizing the Suez Canal after decades of British control. Knowing that Nasser planned to turn Egypt's frequent blockade of Israeli shipping into a permanent policy, Israeli spy masters set about finding a way to keep British forces in charge.
Within
weeks, an Israeli
military intelligence unit known by its code-number, 131, recruited
nine young Egyptian Jews to stage terrorist
attacks that, they thought, would be blamed on local insurgents and
would discredit Nasser's rule.
15.Apr.2007
Noteworthy
- BG clipped from www.nytimes.com
World Bank Chief Apologizes for Arranging Job
WASHINGTON,
April 12 — Paul
D. Wolfowitz,
the president of the World
Bank,
apologized today for his role in arranging a highly paid job at the
State
Department for a woman with whom he has a personal
relationship.
15.Apr.2007
Fascism
- BG clipped from www.salon.com
The Bush
administration's terrible luck with finding documents
I
feel -- in this vaguely intuitive sort of way -- as though there is
some kind of a pattern buried within this set of facts, but as much
as I search, I just can't quite figure out what it might be:
15.Apr.2007
Due
Process of Law Needed
- BG clipped from myanger.wordpress.com
Guantanamo
prisoner No. 940
President Bush’s top advisors are divided over whether to close Guantanamo prison forever.
Adel Hamad grew up in a small village in Sudan. Through hard work, he became a schoolteacher. To support his family, he took a job as an assistant at a community hospital in Afghanistan. Then, late one night, he was torn from his bed and sent to hell - Guantanamo Detainee #940.
Like most of the nearly 400 detainees trapped at Guantanamo, Adel Hamad has had no trial. He has seen no family members for four years. Experts overwhelmingly believe he was not a terrorist.
Even US military officers reviewing his situation have called his detention “unconscionable”
Every detainee should be charged with a crime and tried in a legitimate court or released.
The President’s own Secretary of Defense is publicly calling for closing Guantanamo.
Share
your views. I am sure you have something to say.
15.Apr.2007
http://www.rosie.com/blog/2007/03/15/wtc-7/
wtc
7 Posted
by ro on March 15th at 4:38pm in in
the news
at
5 30 pm
9 11 2001
wtc7
collapsed
for the third time in history fire brought down a steel building reducing it to rubble
hold
on folks
here we go
•
The fires in WTC 7 were not evenly distributed, so a perfect collapse
was impossible.
• Silverstein said to the fire department
commander “the smartest thing to do is pull it.”
•
Firefighters withdrawing from the area stated the building was going
to “blow up”.
• The roof of WTC 7 visibly
crumbled and the building collapsed perfectly into its footprint.
•
Molten steel and partially evaporated steel members were found in the
debris.
[WTC 7] contained offices of the FBI, Department of Defense, IRS (which contained prodigious amounts of corporate tax fraud, including Enron’s), US Secret Service, Securities & Exchange Commission (with more stock fraud records) + Citibank’s Salomon Smith Barney, the Mayor’s Office of Emergency Management and many other financial institutions. [Online Journal]
The SEC has not quantified the number of active cases in which substantial files were destroyed [by the collapse of WTC 7]. Reuters news service and the Los Angeles Times published reports estimating them at 3,000 to 4,000. They include the agency’s major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom. …”Ongoing investigations at the New York SEC will be dramatically affected because so much of their work is paper-intensive,” said Max Berger of New York’s Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann. “This is a disaster for these cases.” [New York Lawyer]
Citigroup says some information that the committee is seeking [about WorldCom] was destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. Salomon had offices in 7 World Trade Center, one of the buildings that collapsed in the aftermath of the attack. The bank says that back-up tapes of corporate emails from September 1998 through December 2000 were stored at the building and destroyed in the attack. [TheStreet]
Inside [WTC 7 was] the US Secret Service’s largest field office with more than 200 employees. …”All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building,” according to US Secret Service Special Agent David Curran. [TechTV]
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15.Apr.2007
Psychology
- Economics
- BG clipped from www.sciencedaily.com
Level-headed: Economics Experiment Finds Taste For Equality
Science
Daily
— The rich don't get richer -- at least not in laboratory
games. According to a new study of behavioral economics, published in
the April 12, 2007 issue of Nature, people will spend their own money
to make the rich less rich and the poor less poor. They do so without
any hope of personal gain, acting, it seems, out of a taste for
equality and sense of fair play.
15.Apr.2007
AG
Scandal and Dusty Foggo
- BG clipped from www.madcowprod.com
Several
little-noticed recent developments point towards major
fireworks still to come in the current series of Republican
scandals...
Fired San Diego U.S.
Attorney Carol Lam has disclosed the existence of a
still-secret and presumably-sealed indictment of an as-yet unknown
individual in the Randy ‘Duke’ Cunningham “Hookergate”
Scandal, issued by her office at the same time as indictments were
made public last month of defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former
CIA
No 3. man Kyle “Dusty” Foggo, the MadCowMorningNews
has learned.
15.Apr.2007
Former
Bush
Speechwriter Hints at 9/11
Inside Job
- Paul Joseph Watson Neo-Cons would have created a false flag to
justify war had it not been for WTC attack, questions
15.Apr.2007
Presidential
Candidate: U.S. In Danger of Dictatorship
- Paul Joseph Watson Congressman Ron Paul warns elite believe
they own us and are "always prepared" to take our liberties
15.Apr.2007
Wolfowitz
To Attend 2007 Istanbul Bilderberg Meeting
- Paul Joseph Watson Turkish journalist refers to ultra-elitist
confab as "covert world government" Paul Joseph Watson
Prison
15.Apr.2007
Ecological
Apocalypse: Why Are All The Bees Dying?
- Paul Joseph Watson GM, toxic chemicals, chemtrails destroying
eco-system, threatening very survival of humanity
15.Apr.2007
Government
Report: Bio-Weapons Could Be Used To Combat Overpopulatio
- Paul Joseph Watson MoD dossier outlines nightmare vision of
new world order, ethnic cleansing, class
15.Apr.2007
US
Aiding Al
Qaeda Affiliated Group In Iran?
- Paul Joseph Watson Pakistani Intel sources and Iranian
parliament claims CIA
aiding anti-Iranian militants
15.Apr.2007
O'Reilly's
America: Who Is The Real "Hater"?
- Paul Joseph Watson A place where the right to disagree = the
right to be locked up
15.Apr.2007
O'Donnell
Pledges Allegiance To 9/11
Truth
- Paul Joseph Watson Says America is great because of "freedom
to speak and think freely"
15.Apr.2007
Will
Iran War Start On Friday?
- Paul Joseph Watson Russian Intelligence claims widely
reported by media Steve Watson Infowars.net Monday, April 2, 2007
Last weekend saw widespread
15.Apr.2007
U.S.
generals call for action on climate change.
- Amanda
-
In
a report, 11 former military leaders “say global
warming poses a serious threat to national security,
as the US could be drawn into wars over water and other conflicts. …
They appear to criticise President George W Bush’s
refusal to join an international treaty to cut emissions.”
15.Apr.2007
67.
- Nico
- %age of
Americans who believe that Congress should allow
funding only with a time limit
(58 %) or block all funding for the war in Iraq (9 %), according to a
new CBS poll. Fully 69 % believe the escalation in Iraq has either
made
conditions worse (26 %) or made no impact (43 %),
compared to 25 % who believe it’s made conditions better.
15.Apr.2007
“The
White House
said Saturday
- Nico
-
it
is agreeing to the Senate Judiciary Committee’s request for how
to choose someone to help
recover some lost e-mails
involving official presidential business.” But as David Kurtz
notes, “The Senate gets to help pick who will find the emails
but the White
House still
hasn’t agreed to let the Senate see the emails
once they are found. Ah, compromise.”
15.Apr.2007
Cheney
overrules Rice on Iran prisoners.
- Nico - Via
TPM, the Washington
Post reports:
After intense internal debate, the Bush administration has decided to hold on to five Iranian Revolutionary Guard intelligence agents captured in Iraq, overruling a State Department recommendation to release them, according to U.S. officials.
At a meeting of the president’s foreign policy team Tuesday, the administration decided the five Iranians will remain in custody and go through a periodic six-month review used for the 250 other foreign detainees held in Iraq, U.S. officials said. The next review is not expected until July, officials say. . . .
Differences
over the five Iranians reflect an emerging divide on how to deal with
Iran. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went into the meeting
Tuesday advising that the men be freed because they are no longer
useful, but after a review of options she went along with the
consensus, U.S. officials say. Vice President Cheney’s
office made the firmest case for keeping them.
15.Apr.2007
Evidence
Emerging Of Cheney-Led
Smear Campaign Against Pelosi Over Syria Trip
- Faiz
-
Before Nancy Pelosi left Israel to travel to Syria earlier this month, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s spokeswoman Miri Eisin said “Pelosi is conveying that Israel is willing to talk if they (Syria) would openly take steps to stop supporting terrorism.” Pelosi delivered as requested + this week received a thank you call from Olmert. So why then did the Israeli Prime Minister originally issue a statement of “clarification” about Pelosi’s message which became the basis for right-wing attacks against her?
The evidence of White House involvement behind the Israeli Prime Minister’s statement has been growing this past week. Middle East analysts have suggested Bush deputy National Security Adviser Elliott Abrams — a close ally of Dick Cheney — may have been coordinating the attempts to undermine Pelosi’s trip. “‘It’s obvious the White House is desperate to find some phony criticism of the speaker’s trip, even though it was a bipartisan trip,’ said Rep. Tom Lantos (D-CA), a Holocaust survivor who is considered the Democrat closest to the pro-Israel lobby. ‘I have nothing but contempt and disdain for the attempt to undermine this trip.’”
Rep. Henry Waxman suggested that the White House’s coordinated attempts to smear Pelosi were part of an effort to undermine her on Iraq:
Waxman said the administration is focused on building a case against the Democrats in preparation for a showdown over the Iraq War funding bill. The more they can paint Democrats as weak and irresponsible, the more likely the Democrats will knuckle under and let the president continue the war unchecked. It’s been known to happen.
So Cheney trashes the reputation of men like Lantos and Waxman (who, by the way, has doggedly pursued waste and mismanagement in Iraq by Halliburton, the company that made Cheney rich) + it’s politics as usual.
This is not unchartered territory for Cheney. He has become famous for kneecapping people with whom he disagrees, even individuals within the administration. Middle East experts recalled Cheney’s involvement in a similar situation last year:
Last year, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice talked Olmert into a 48-hour cease-fire during the war with Hezbollah to allow humanitarian relief, but within hours Israeli planes were bombing again, to Rice’s surprise and anger. Olmert had received a call, apparently from Cheney’s office, telling him to ignore Rice.
The
Cheney
campaign against Pelosi hasn’t let up. This week, the
Washington
Post editorial board — which has helped drive
the Pelosi smear campaign from the beginning — published an
attack piece from Liz
Cheney,
the daughter of the Vice President.
15.Apr.2007
More
Rove
fingerprints.
- Nico
- NPR
reports, “According to someone who’s
had conversations with White
House officials, the plan to fire all 93 U.S.
attorneys originated with political adviser Karl Rove.
It was seen
as a way to get political cover
for firing the small number of U.S.
attorneys the White
House actually wanted to get rid of. Documents show the
plan was eventually dismissed as impractical.”
15.Apr.2007
Did
Justice ‘take any action’ to influence corruption cases?
- Satyam
-
On March 5, 2007, then-Gonzales chief of staff Kyle Sampson forwarded the opening statement of Associate Deputy Attorney General William Moschella to key White House and Justice Department officials for their review. The White House recommended that this line:
Second, the Department has not taken any action to influence any public corruption case + would never do so. be replaced with:
Second,
the Department has not asked anyone to resign to influence any public
corruption case + would never do so. Image
below:
15.Apr.2007
Sampson
Lied Under Oath: ‘Had In Mind’ Plan To Replace U.S.
Attorneys With Loyal Bushies
- Amanda
-
On March 29, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Kyle Sampson told the Senate Judiciary Committee, under oath, that he had no replacements in mind before the Justice Department fired the U.S. attorneys in Dec. 2006:
SCHUMER: Did you or did you not have in mind specific replacements for the dismissed U.S. Attorneys before they were asked to resign on December 7th, 2006.
SAMPSON: I personally did not. On December 7th, I did not have in mind any replacements for any of the seven who were asked to resign .
But a new e-mail released to the House Judiciary Committee shows that on Jan. 9, 2006 — a year before the prosecutors were fired — Sampson recommended replacements for almost every one of the U.S. attorneys on the administration’s hit list, suggesting that these prosecutors were fired to make way for partisan loyalists.
One of the suggested replacements who has received relatively little attention is Rachel Brand, whom Sampson recommended to take the place of Margaret Chiara as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Michigan. Brand has been the Justice Department’s Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy (OLP) since June 2005. She helped push through the Bush administration’s controversial Supreme Court nominees + ran the “murder boards” for Alito, Miers + Roberts. Brand was also a member of the right-wing Federalist Society, which appears to be a consideration for all U.S. attorney candidates.
At Brand’s May 2005 nomination hearing, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) raised concerns that Brand was too inexperienced and unqualified to be Assistant Attorney General for OLP:
Unfortunately, it appears she brings very little depth of experience to a position that is instrumental in setting out DOJ priorities and recommending new judges. By way of comparison, Eleanor Acheson, President Clinton’s nominee for the same position, had practiced law for 19 years prior to her appointment + Viet Dinh, President Bush’s first nominee to head OLP was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center who had published several scholarly articles and op-eds and had held several congressional positions by the time of his appointments.
It
is unlikely that less than a year working at the Justice Department
had suddenly made Brand qualified to be a U.S.
attorney. (TPMmuckraker
has more.)
15.Apr.2007
Rove’s
Lawyer Acknowledges Rove
Emails From 2003
Missing From White
House Archives
- Faiz -
In its report documenting the White House’s destruction of five million emails, CREW also reminded us that in January 2006, special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald informed the Scooter Libby defense team that some of Rove’s emails from his White House account 00.000.2003 were not saved as required by federal law. The key portion of Fitzgerald’s letter:
’s Ed Henry talked to Rove lawyer Robert Luskin today about the missing emails. Luskin admitted, “There was a gap there. … I have no reason to doubt Patrick Fitzgerald.” Watch it:
The controversy surrounding Rove this week has involved his RNC email account. The RNC acknowledged that, while they instituted a new policy 00.000.2004 to preserve emails, there appear to be no records from White House senior political adviser Karl Rove until 2005, leaving open “the possibility that Rove had personally deleted the missing e-mails.” According to the RNC, the Committee took action specifically and singularly against Rove 00.000.2005 to keep him “from deleting his e-mails from the RNC server.”
With respect to Rove’s White House account, federal law requires the preservation of all such messages. Missing emails could be a violation of the Presidential Records Act. The revelations first reported by Patrick Fitzgerald, now given new life because of the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, raise questions about whether the public is getting the full story on these or other White House scandals.
UPDATE:
Christy Hardin Smith has a statement
from Patrick Fitzgerald’s spokesman: (more…)
15.Apr.2007
‘We
are trying to muddy the coverage.’
- Nico
-
From today’s document dump, an email from Justice Department spokeswoman Tasia Scolinos to Bush counselor Dan Bartlett and Cheney aide Cathie Martin on 3/6/07, one day before several purged U.S. Attorneys testified before Congress:
Right
now the coverage will be dominated by how qualified these folks were
and their theories for their dismissals. We are trying to muddy the
coverage up a bit by trying to put the focus on the process in which
they were told — I suspect we are going to get to the point
where DOJ has to say this anyway. First, it is true. Second, we are
having morale problems with our other U.S.
attorneys who understand the decision but think that
these folks were not treated well in the process.
15.Apr.2007
White
House
Claims Bush
Was In The Dark About Iraq Troop Extensions, Fueling Speculation
- Nico -
On Tuesday, President Bush addressed the American Legion and accused Congress of forcing U.S. troops to extend their deployments in Iraq:
The bottom line is this: Congress’s failure to fund our troops will mean that some of our military families could wait longer for their loved ones to return from the front lines.
The very next day, his own Pentagon announced that all U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq would have their 12-month tours in Iraq extended by 3 additional months.
What explains the strange timing? As Atrios noted, when the Pentagon announced its new policy on Wednesday, Defense Secretary Gates said he was angry that the news had been leaked to the press. That has sparked suspicion that the deployment extension was actually supposed to be announced after Bush had vetoed Congress’ Iraq legislation “so that he could try to claim it was their fault.” In that scenario, Bush’s remarks on Tuesday were just meant to prime the pump.
This speculation was fueled by Wednesday’s White House press conference, where Dana Perino explained the strange timing by claiming that President Bush had been in the dark about this major policy shift until the morning it was announced:
Q So why did he tell the American Legion that people would be staying in Iraq longer because of the Democrats, when his own Pentagon, 24 hours later, was going to keep people there longer?
MS. PERINO: Well, one, I don’t know if the President knew about the — the meeting — remember, yesterday morning is when Secretary Gates came and talked to the President. […]
Q And so the President didn’t know about his own policy until Wednesday?
MS. PERINO: I’m not aware that the President knew that there was going to be — that Secretary Gates had come to any decisions. Watch it:
Could it really be that President Bush was completely unaware of the Pentagon’s new policy until hours before it was made public?
Or is the White House now trying to cover up a botched plan to blame Congress for its own decision to further strain the U.S. military, a move that has hurt Bush politically and angered troops on the ground.
Transcript:
(more…)
15.Apr.2007
FLASHBACK:
Cheney
‘Has The Same Sense Of Humor’ As Imus
- Matt
-
In the debate over Don Imus’ offensive comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, many bloggers and pundits have focused on the fact that despite Imus’ history of inflammatory remarks, politicians and media celebrities have continued to appear on his show over the years.
One big time politician, who has said that he likes to “listen to Don Imus in the morning,” has thus far escaped scrutiny for his relationship to fallen shock jock: Vice President Dick Cheney.
In January 2005, on the day of Bush’s second inaugaration, Cheney and his wife, Lynne, granted Imus a lengthy, exclusive interview, in which Mrs. Cheney affectionately referred to Imus as “the I-man.”
Asked to explain why Cheney chose Imus’ show for the big inaugaration day interview, long-time Cheney adviser Mary Matalin, who negotiated the appearance for the vice president, told the New York Times:
The vice president, she said, “has a wry sense of humor.”
“ He has the same sense of humor that Imus has. He thinks Imus is funny. He gets good guests on. And he asks good questions. It’s not really strategic or complicated. Not everything we do has to work on 50 different levels.”
Vice
President Cheney
has not yet been asked to comment on the Imus controversy, but given
his past relationship with Imus, it might be worth some reporter
asking if he still shares Imus’ sense of humor. Digg
It!
Transcript of a portion of the interview:
(more…)
15.Apr.2007
Rove’s
lawyer says he didn’t delete emails.
- Nico -
“Karl
Rove’s
lawyer on Friday dismissed the notion that President Bush’s
chief political adviser intentionally deleted his own e-mails from a
Republican-sponsored server, saying Rove
believed the communications were being preserved
in accordance with the law. … Any e-mails Rove
deleted were the type of routine deletions people make to keep their
inboxes orderly, Luskin said. He said Rove
had no idea the e-mails were being deleted from the server, a central
computer that managed the e-mail.”
15.Apr.2007
Justice
Department Tracked Federalist Society Influence On U.S.
Attorneys
- Faiz
-
Today, the House Judiciary Committee released a new set of documents from the Department of Justice relating to the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys.
The last page of document set 3 contains an email from Monica Goodling with an attached Excel spreadsheet on “USA data (GWB).”
The spreadsheet appears to assess a list of U.S. Attorneys based on a variety of different qualifications, including prosecution experience and political experience. But there is one column dedicated solely to an assessment of whether the attorneys are members of the Federalist Society. See below. The far right column contains a data column for “FedSoc”:
The Federalist Society has served as a kind of gateway for judges and legal aides who strive to work inside the Bush administration, in effect promoting individuals who have dedicated themselves to enforcing a right-wing ideology rather than the law. University of Illinois Professor Jerry Landay described the group in the Washington Monthly as a “conservative cabal that’s transforming American Law.”
During
his Supreme
Court nomination hearing, Chief Justice John Roberts
repeatedly sought to distance
himself from a connection
to the conservative legal group, unwilling to be tarred by its
association. Digg
It!
15.Apr.2007
Wolfowitz’s
Apology: Don’t Hate Me Because I Helped Launch The Iraq War
- Faiz -
When Paul Wolfowitz, a primary architect of the Iraq war, assumed his post as World Bank President, he claimed the the new boss was going to be tough on corruption. Yesterday, he acknowledged that he “made a mistake” when he became personally involved in securing a promotion and a pay raise far in excess of the normal maximum for his girlfriend, Shaha Riza.
Riza’s promotion came with a pay increase that was more than double the amount allowed by staff rules. “According to the Government Accountability Project, a watchdog group, she has received two raises totaling $61,000 since Wolfowitz took over as president. The group said bank payroll documents put her current annual salary at $193,590.”
Wolfowitz’s admission of wrongdoing came only as the 24-member World Bank board met in a marathon emergency session to discuss his fate. The Board issued a statement saying it would “move expeditiously to reach a conclusion on possible actions to take.”
Wolfowitz tried to explain away his behavior, claiming his mistakes were made because “he had to deal with it when he was new to this institution and trying to navigate in uncharted waters.” He added that criticism of him should not focus on his role in the Iraq war. “For people who disagree with things they associate with me in my previous job, I am not in my previous job.” Watch it:
Alison Cave, chairwoman of the staff association, told staff: “He must act honorably and resign.” Wolfowitz appeared as Cave was addressing employees. Bloomberg described the scene this way:
Calls of “resign, resign” resounded through the World Bank’s atrium yesterday when Wolfowitz, 63, addressed employee representatives.
Despite
the emerging evidence of Wolfowitz’s
corruption and increasing clamor for calls to resign, Bush
is standing firmly with him. “Of course President Wolfowitz
has our full
confidence,”
Deputy White
House Press Secretary Tony Fratto said yesterday. Digg
It!
15.Apr.2007
April
13, 2007
- Think
Progress
-
Former Chrysler CEO Lee Iacocca lambastes the Bush administration in his new book. “Am I the only guy in this country who’s fed up with what’s happening?” Iacocca writes. “Where the hell is our outrage? We should be screaming bloody murder. … But instead of getting mad, everyone sits around and nods their heads when the politicians say, ‘Stay the course.’”
Gov. John Corzine (D-NJ) was seriously injured yesterday in a hit-and-run car accident, hospitalizing him “with fractured ribs, a broken leg + chest injuries.” Corzine did not “appear to have suffered life-threatening injuries.”
Rudy Giuliani’s (R) current foreign policy advisers include retired Gen. Jack Keane, the architect of President Bush’s Iraq escalation policy + former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton.
“Four years after Iraq’s Saddam Hussein was deposed by U.S.-led troops, an international panel charged with recommending invitations for an exclusive meeting of the world’s democracies ” has ruled that Iraq is “not invited,” the same status the country had under Hussein’s rule. Last year, Iraq had observer status at the Community of Democracies meeting.
“President
Bush
is threatening to veto a Senate intelligence bill that’s laced
with provisions that would force the White
House and spy agencies to
be more responsive to Congress.”
(more…)
15.Apr.2007
Troops
React To Forced Extensions With ‘Anger,’ ‘Frustration,’
‘Collective Groan’
- Nico
-
Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced yesterday that all U.S. Army soldiers in Iraq would have their 12-month tours in Iraq extended by 3 additional months. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) called the policy “an additional burden to an already overstretched Army,” and warned not to “underestimate the enormous negative impact this will have on Army families.”
Now, newspapers are returning harrowing accounts from the ground, where U.S. soldiers reacted to the news with “muffled outbursts of anger and frustration laced with dark humor.” The Washington Post reports:
They found out by reading exasperated e-mails from their spouses, hearing somber announcements from their platoon commanders, seeing snippets of the secretary of defense at a televised news conference: The American soldiers who thought they were staying in Iraq one year would now stay 15 months. All of them.
From Texas to Baghdad and Baqubah to the Beltway, the reaction Thursday among U.S. soldiers and their families to the news of the mass extension was akin to a collective groan.
“It flat-out sucks, that’s the only way I can think to describe it,” said Pvt. Jeremy Perkins, 25… “I found this out today from my squad leader. I still haven’t told my wife yet. I’m just trying to figure out exactly how I’m going to break it to her that ‘Honey, uh, yeah, might be home before our next anniversary. Sorry I missed the last one.’”
Similar scenes of soldiers worried about their families and relationships were documented by the New York Times:
The soldiers wondered if their relationships back home could weather an extension and predicted that divorce rates in the military would spike. They muttered about three additional months of forced celibacy and fretted half jokingly about impatient wives and girlfriends. “Now a lot of cheating be going on,” said Sgt. Jonathan Wilson, 29. “I’m serious.”
Specialist Lawson had planned to take a vacation with his former wife, with whom he has two daughters, after he got back to the division’s home base in Schweinfurt, Germany. They were going to give the relationship another try.
“This has totally wrecked everything I had planned,” he said as he slumped on an empty explosives crate.
“Now I’m never going to get together with my ex-wife,” he said. “I’m scared that the longer it takes, more things could happen.”
The
price that’s paid for a war without end.
15.Apr.2007
Missing
emails may be related to prosecutors.
- Nico
-
“The
White House
said Thursday that missing e-mail messages sent on Republican Party
accounts may
include some relating to the firing of eight United
States attorneys.”
15.Apr.2007
Gingrich
suggested creating war ‘czar.’
- Amanda
-
A
few weeks ago, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich sent
a memo to the White
House
advocating the creation of a high-powered “czar” to
oversee the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as part of an 18-point
plan. At least five retired generals have turned down the job.
15.Apr.2007
White
House
says it will not turn over RNC
emails.
- Nico -
The Politico reports:
White House Counsel Fred Fielding, in a letter today, told Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary committees, that the White House has not budged in its refusal to allow the panels to question several White House aides, including Karl Rove, about what they know regarding the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, moving the two sides closer to a constitutional battle over the scandal.
Fielding also appears to be trying to head off an attempt by Conyers to obtain e-mails and documents from the Republican National Committee regarding the firings. … Fielding also said that “it was and remains our intention to collect e-mails and documents from those [RNC-controlled] accounts as well as the official White House e-mail and document retention systems” as part of a broader deal with the two committees on staffer testimony.
In
a response statement, Conyers was unmoved: “the Judiciary
Committee intends to obtain the relevant emails directly from the
RNC.
The White
House position seems to be that executive privilege not
only applies in the Oval Office, but to the RNC
as well. There
is absolutely no basis in law or fact for such a claim.”
15.Apr.2007
Goodling
may be offered immunity.
- Nico
-
“The House Judiciary Committee is ’strongly considering’ offering former DoJ official Monica Goodling immunity in exchange for her testimony in the U.S. Attorney matter, according to one very solid congressional source. Goodling had preemptively asserted her Fifth Amendment rights and has declined to be interviewed or to testify before Congress. … Per Pete Williams, Goodling’s attorney, John Dowd, has no comment on the immunity question.”
UPDATE:
Time magazine has a similar
report.
15.Apr.2007
McCain
Panders To Bloggers After Previously Calling Them ‘Infatuated
With Self-Expression’
- Amanda
-
Yesterday in a conference call with conservative bloggers, McCain attempted to pander to the blogosphere by ensuring them that they would be tapped in to his administration, if he becomes president. From the call:
DAVID ALL: If you become America’s next president, what role would bloggers, left and right, play in your communications strategy?
McCAIN: I feel strongly that bloggers now are a vital part of the information technology in America and the world + it’s an unusual and incredible development. …
And, the second: [As President, I would] be on with the bloggers every two weeks. … Maybe there’s too many bloggers and maybe we wouldn’t get all the questions in + maybe my answers would be too long as they are now…But maybe by lottery. Anyone who wants to ask a question, we’ll throw your name in a hat and pick the top 15, so eventually all the bloggers get a chance.
But as a senator, McCain has hardly been a friend to bloggers. In May 2006, he said bloggers are “infatuated with self-expression” who believe themselves to be “so much more eloquent, well-informed + wiser than anyone else.” In December, he introduced legislation that would treat blogs like Internet service providers and hold them responsible for all activity in the comments sections and user profiles, subjecting them to “even stiffer penalties” than ISPs.
Despite
his friendly rhetoric yesterday, McCain’s true colors began to
show through. “Bloggers
have a lot of maturing to do in a lot of areas,”
he said.
15.Apr.2007
NBC’s
Brian Williams on bloggers:
- Amanda
-
“You’re going to be up against people who have an opinion, a modem + a bathrobe. All of my life, developing credentials to cover my field of work + now I’m up against a guy named Vinny in an efficiency apartment in the Bronx who hasn’t left the efficiency apartment in two years.”
UPDATE:
More Williams: “If
we’re all watching cats flushing toilets, what aren’t we
reading?
What great writer are we missing? What great story are we ignoring?
This is societal, it’s cultural, I can’t change it. We
should maybe pause to think about it. Because like everybody else, I
can burn an hour on YouTube or Perez Hilton without breaking a sweat.
And what have I just not paid attention to that 10 years ago I
would’ve just consumed?”
15.Apr.2007
RNC
has no Rove
emails pre-2005.
- Nico -
TPM Muckraker highlights a portion from this letter today from Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) to Alberto Gonzales:
Mr.
Kelner’s briefing raised particular concems about Karl Rove,
who according to press reports used his RNC
accountfor 95% of his communications. According to Mr. Kelner,
although the hold started in August 2004,
the RNC
does not have any e-mails prior to 2005
for Mr. Rove.
Mr. Kelner did not give any explanation for the e-mails missing from
Mr. Rove’s
account, but he did acknowledge that one possible explanation is that
Mr. Rove
personally deleted his e-mails from the RNC
server.
15.Apr.2007
White
House
Stonewalls Waxman’s Inquiry Into Cheney-Linked
MZM Contracts
- Faiz -
On March 26, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) wrote a letter to White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten demanding “all contracts, subcontracts + task orders between MZM, Inc. … and the Executive Office of the President.”
As ThinkProgress has reported, there is good reason to believe fired U.S. attorney Carol Lam was targeting the White House’s connections to MZM contractor Mitchell Wade, who pled guilty to paying more than $1 million in bribes to former Rep. Duke Cunningham. Despite no record of having ever received a federal contract, Wade’s firm received a $140,000 contract 00.000.2002 to provide a system to screen the President’s mail.
In his letter, Waxman requested that the White House provide documents relating to the White House-MZM contracts as soon as possible, but in no case later than Friday, April 6. But the North County Times reports Waxman has yet to receive the information he requested.
“The White House response is clearly not adequate at this point,” Waxman said in a written response to questions from the North County Times.
On Friday, the White House gave its initial response to Waxman’s March request, with President Bush’s special counsel Emmet T. Flood saying there would be a delay.
“Once we are able to fully evaluate the scope and implications of the letter’s requests, we will soon provide your committee with an appropriate response,” Flood wrote.
Asked about the committee request Wednesday, White House spokeswoman Jeanie Mamo would only say, “We have advised members of Congress that we are looking into this matter.” […]
On
Tuesday, Waxman wrote the White
House, saying in no uncertain terms that he expects
some answers.
“Mr. Flood did not provide any of the
information or documents the Committee requested,” he wrote in
the letter.
Waxman
said he is willing to grant an extension, but that “any
extension should be accompanied by a firm and expeditious schedule
for production.” He noted that on Jan. 23, his committee asked
DHS to provide it with documents on the Department’s $30
billion contract
with Boeing
to design and build a comprehensive border security plan. Fifteen
days later, he received 1,800 pages in documents in response to the
request. By contrast, Waxman noted, “The [MZM] contract is
small and complying with the request should
not be complicated.”
15.Apr.2007
At
least five retired generals
- Amanda
-
have
turned
down the position
of war
“czar,”
according to CBS’s David Martin. He adds that the search for a
war coordinator “is a confession that in the fifth year of the
war in Iraq, the Bush
administration still
has not figured out how to harness all the agencies
of the U.S. government into a unified war effort.”
15.Apr.2007
Perino
‘Defends’ Email Statements: I Didn’t Lie, I Just
Had No Idea What I Was Talking About
- Faiz
-
In this afternoon’s press briefing, the White House press corps confronted spokeswoman Dana Perino about her previous misstatements regarding the White House’s use of RNC email accounts. On March 27, Perino claimed that there were only a “handful” of staffers with such accounts. Today, Perino claimed that her earlier statement was made despite her ignorance of what was actually going on. “Well, I didn’t know how many there were,” Perino said. “I grant you, it’s a very large handful.”
’s White House correspondent Ed Henry then pressed her on why she had earlier stated that RNC emails had been archived for a very long time when the White House now claims that those emails have been lost. On March 27, Perino said RNC archiving was “something that was in place” for years. Today, she backed off that statement and said, “We have developed a better understanding of how the RNC archived or did not archive certain e-mails.” She refused to further elaborate. Watch it:
Perino
defended herself, arguing, “When I said a ‘handful,’
I was asked based on something that I didn’t know.”
Apparently, Perino believes if you don’t know the truth, you’re
allowed to make up whatever you want. Transcript:
(more…)
15.Apr.2007
Major
document dump expected today.
- Nico
-
From a press conference with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) earlier this afternoon:
QUESTION: (OFF-MIC) expecting more documents.
SCHUMER: Today.
QUESTION: Do you know how many (OFF-MIC)
SCHUMER: There’s supposed to be about a thousand pages of documents. It’s supposed to come about 4 or 5 o’clock. We know nothing about what’s in them.
QUESTION: Do you know whether they cover any of your redacted…
SCHUMER: We do not. We do not. We know nothing about what’s in them. We just know it’s a lot + it’s coming in the late afternoon.
UPDATE: “A very senior source who has seen the latest batch of documents to be delivered to the Senate says Sen. Chuck Schumer is wrong in estimating that the Department of Justice will dump about 1,000 pages related to the U.S. attorney firings sometime between 4 and 5 p.m. EDT.
As
the afternoon drags on, it is looking more
likely that the dump will slip to either very late Thursday or
Friday.”
15.Apr.2007
White
House
lost 5 million emails.
- Nico -
“CREW
learned that the Executive Office of the President (EOP) has lost
over FIVE MILLION emails generated between March 2003
and October 2005.
The White
House counsel’s office was advised of these
problems 00.000.2005
and CREW has been told that the White
House was given a plan of action to recover these
emails, but to date nothing has been done to rectify this significant
loss of records.” Read the full report HERE.
15.Apr.2007
U.S.
more focused on Sanjaya than depleted National Guard.
- Amanda
-
In testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday, head of the National Guard Lt. Gen. Steven Blum said, “It bothers me that the Army and Air Force and Marine Corps and the Navy are at war and the nation’s watching ‘American Idol‘ and ‘Dancing with the Stars.’” Watch it:
Blum
also noted that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are have left the
National Guard “woefully underequipped” to meet the
challenges here at home. He “said 88 % of the Army National
Guard in the United
States is not ready due to lack of equipment and
training + that $40
billion was urgently needed
to provide guard troops at home with ‘meat and potatoes stuff,’
such as radios, trucks, humvees, night vision gears and medical
supplies.”
15.Apr.2007
Senators
want Justice docs uncensored.
- Nico
-
Sen.
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is demanding “clean
copies of all documents
relating to the U.S.
attorneys investigation, including previously produced
copies that had portions blacked out and others that may have been
withheld.” In a letter to Alberto Gonzales, Leahy and others
wrote, “To date, you have not provided any valid legal basis
for your redactions, for your limitations on production or for the
restrictions you have unilaterally imposed on their public
disclosure.”
15.Apr.2007
Gonzales’s
Former Assistant Causes Turmoil As U.S.
Attorney
- Amanda
-
The Justice Department has faced criticism not only for firing well-respected U.S. attorneys, but also for replacing them with loyal Bushies.
The U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota demonstrates the havoc that ensues when the Bush administration places politics over justice. Four top staffers to Rachel Paulose, the U.S. attorney in Minnesota, have voluntarily demoted themselves in protest of Paulose’s “highly dictatorial style” of managing. Paulose has also “earned a reputation for quoting Bible verses and dressing down underlings.”
According to news reports, the staffers’ dramatic moves were “intended to send a message to Washington — that 33-year-old Paulose is in over her head.” The Bush administration tried to prevent the resignations by sending a “top justice official to Minneapolis Thursday to mediate the situation. The mediation failed.”
A look at Paulose’s background indicates that she was handpicked by the Justice Department because of her personal connections, rather than her professional qualifications:
She was a special assistant to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, worked as a senior counsel for deputy attorney general Paul McNulty and is best buds with Monica Goodling — the assistant U.S. Attorney who recently took the Fifth rather than testify before Congress.
Add to the suspicions the fact that Minnesota’s former U.S. Attorney Tom Heffelfinger stepped down just as the White House was developing its hit list.
Paulose had been in her position for a year as an interim U.S. attorney before she was sworn-in officially last month. She created controversy when her lavish swearing-in ceremony included a professional photographer, a color guard + a choir.
The Bush administration justified several of its firings of the eight U.S. attorneys by baselessly criticizing their management styles. We await the Justice Department’s response to Paulose.
(TPM and Sepia Mutiny have more.)
UPDATE:
In a statement Friday, Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse
described Paulose as “dedicated
to leading an effective U.S.
attorneys office
in Minnesota and enforcing the laws to ensure public safety. …
We are confident during this transition period that the U.S.
Attorneys office will remain focused on its law
enforcement priorities.”
15.Apr.2007
Bill
O’Reilly: JFK Conspiracy Theorist
- Think
Progress
-
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly has been criticizing Rosie O’Donnell over her blog post repeating a 9/11 conspiracy theory.
O’Reilly declared that “you can’t allow” someone to “make anti-American remarks…accusing your own government of murder.” He called claims that the U.S. government acted in a criminal way “irresponsible and dangerous.”
Too bad for O’Reilly, tapes from his days on the Peabody Award-winning Inside Edition are still floating around.
Watch
below as O’Reilly spreads the JFK conspiracy theory that the
CIA
secretly supported assassin Lee Harvey Oswald: Digg
It!
Transcript: (more…)
15.Apr.2007
Lauer
On Pelosi Syria Visit: ‘Let’s Face It, A Lot Of People
Think She Messed Up On This One’
- Faiz
-
This morning, NBC’s Today Show ran a biased segment casting doubt on Pelosi’s Syria trip. Every single question asked by anchor Matt Lauer was framed around conservative talking points. In his first question, Lauer claimed Pelosi has gotten off to a rough start because of criticisms from a baseless Washington Post editorial, Vice President Cheney + the conservative editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal:
LAUER: Vice President Cheney called Nancy Pelosi’s trip to Syria “bad behavior,” a Washington Post editorial on Thursday called it “counter-productive and foolish,” and an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this morning goes a step further and suggests her trip may actually have been a felony, that it may have violated something called the Logan Act.
Tim, is this the way the Democrats wanted to get off the mark in terms of foreign affairs?
With his second question, Lauer asserted that “a lot of people think [Pelosi] messed up on this one,” and then asked “what’s the impact for the Democrats overall?” Lauer never mentioned the fact that five Republicans — Reps. Frank Wolf, Robert Aderholt, Joseph Pitts, David Hobson + Darrell Issa — visited Syria this week.
To wrap up the segment, Lauer suggested that Pelosi may be “seen as usurping presidential power in designing and implementing foreign policy,” disregarding Rep. David Hobson’s (R-OH) comments that the Pelosi-led delegation “reinforced the administration’s positions.”
Watch the segment:
What
the right-wing and the feckless media haven’t reported is that
the American public supports giving diplomacy with Syria a chance. A
December World Public Opinion poll found that 75
%
of Americans — including 72 % of Republicans and 81 % of
Democrats — support the Iraq Study Group’s recommendation
for direct engagement with Iran and Syria. Polls for the Los
Angeles Times/Bloomberg
and the Washington
Post
found similarly high levels of support for engagement. Transcript:
(more…)
15.Apr.2007
Special
counsel needed for U.S.
Attorney probe?
- Matt
-
Sens. Patrick Leahy and Sheldon Whitehouse sent a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today asking “whether a special counsel is necessary” to handle discussions between Capitol Hill and the Justice Department about White House liason Monica Goodling’s role in the firing of eight U.S Attorneys.
Leahy
+ Whitehouse write that “the office of the Attorney
General appears to be hopelessly conflicted” regarding
Goodling. TPMmuckraker has more.
15.Apr.2007
‘The
secret war against Iran.’
- Nico
-
ABC News reports, “A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005…
The
group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe
and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across
the border from Iran. It has taken responsibility for the deaths and
kidnappings of more than a dozen Iranian soldiers and officials.”
15.Apr.2007
Bush:
Success In Iraq ‘Is More Than A Military Mission, Precisely Why
I Sent More Troops’
- Nico -
President Bush during his Rose Garden press conference today:
The solution to Iraq — an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself — is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad. Watch it:
Now it makes complete sense.
Bush later argued that sending more U.S. troops provides “some breathing space for this democratically elected government to succeed.” This from the man who said 00.000.2005:
Sending
more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to
take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest
that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the
day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave.
15.Apr.2007
FBI
gathered ‘purely political intel’ on war critics.
- Matt
-
“A secret FBI intelligence unit helped detain a group of war protesters in a downtown Washington parking garage in April 2002 and interrogated some of them on videotape about their political and religious beliefs, newly uncovered documents and interviews show…
The
revelations, combined with protester accounts, provide the first
public evidence that Washington-based
FBI personnel used their intelligence-gathering powers in the
District to
collect purely political intelligence.”
15.Apr.2007
Americans
least concerned about global warming.
- Amanda
-
“More
than two-thirds of the world’s people are worried by global
warming with Americans (57 %) among the least anxious even though
their nation is the top source of greenhouse gases, an opinion poll
showed on Tuesday.” Brazilians topped the list, with 87
% concerned about climate change.
15.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,druck-476821,00.html
Die
"Times"-Aktie hat in den vergangenen zwei Jahren um rund 35
% nachgegeben.
Schon
voriges Jahr enthielten sich 28 % der Aktionäre aus Protest der
Stimme, darunter auch das Wall-Street-Haus Morgan Stanley, dessen
Portfolio-Manager Hassan Elmasry, einer der schärfsten
"Times"-Kritiker, rund sieben 5 aller Verlagsaktien
hält.
15.Apr.2007
Untersuchungsbericht:
US- Soldaten erschossen unbeteiligte Zivilisten in Afghanistan
15.Apr.2007
Radikaler
Vorschlag: Wirtschaftsweiser will Stundenlöhne unter drei Euro
15.Apr.2007
Erzbischof
aus Simbabwe: "Wir haben Mugabes Nonsens satt"
15.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-477292,00.html
Robert
Massey von der Royal Astronomical Society sagte der britischen
Zeitung "The Guardian",
dass die Mission "legitime Wissenschaft" sei. Schließlich
gehe es darum, eine Theorie zu überprüfen - auch wenn die
Ergebnisse keinen besonderen Fortschritt bedeuteten.
Ähnlich
äußerte sich der königlich-britische Hofastronom Sir
Martin Rees: Die Ergebnisse seien nicht gerade
sensationell.
15.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-477292,00.html
Winzige Abweichung bestätigt Relativitätstheorie
"Gravity
Probe B" hat die Raumzeit-Krümmung jetzt bestätigt,
wie
die Stanford University mitteilt:
Die Drehachsen der Gyroskope hätten sich in der Tat um winzige
0,0018 Grad gegenüber der Ebene der Satelliten-Umlaufbahn
verschoben - wie von der Relativitätstheorie vorhergesagt.
15.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-477292,00.html
Im
April 2004
hat die US-Raumfahrtbehörde Nasa nach Jahrzehnten der
Vorbereitung den Plan in die Tat umgesetzt und den Satelliten
"Gravity Probe B" ins All geschossen. Jetzt haben
Wissenschaftler der Stanford University die ersten Ergebnisse
veröffentlicht: Einstein lag mit einer Wahrscheinlichkeit von 99
% richtig.
15.Apr.2007
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/weltall/0,1518,druck-477292,00.html
Die
Schwerkraft ist nichts weiter als die Krümmung von Raum und
Zeit: Mit dieser Theorie hat Albert Einstein vor fast 100 Jahren die
Physik revolutioniert. Jetzt hat ein sündhaft teurer
Nasa-Satellit die letzten Zweifel ausgeräumt: Krümmung und
Verwirbelung der Raumzeit sind real
15.Apr.2007
Verbogene
Raumzeit: Satelliten- Messung gibt Einstein Recht
15.Apr.2007
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15.Apr.2007
Dax-
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15.Apr.2007
Gescheiterter
Lafontaine: Auf verlorenem Posten gegen den Einheitskanzler
15.Apr.2007
Afghanistan:
Tornados starten zu ersten Aufklärungsflügen
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The
Goans get tough and mystery remains Did
the Portuguese discover Australia?
posted by Prof. Hex
15.Apr.2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202408_pf.html
Waxman
said the RNC
indicated that it had destroyed all e-mail records from White
House officials 00.000.2001,
2002
and 2003.
15.Apr.2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202408_pf.html
Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, accused the White House of lying about the matter.
He was joined by the ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Arlen Specter (Pa.), in calling on the White House to join Congress in setting up a "fair and objective process for investigating this matter."
"You can't erase e-mails, not today," Leahy said in an angry speech on the Senate floor. "They've gone through too many servers.
Those
e-mails are there -- they just don't want to produce them. It's like
the infamous 18-minute gap in the Nixon White
House tapes."
15.Apr.2007
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202408_pf.html
Rove
E-Mail Sought by Congress May Be Missing
00.000.2005 RNC Took Away His Access to Delete Files
By Michael Abramowitz Washington Post Staff Writer
13.Apr.2007 http://rawstory.com/printstory.php?story=5708
FULL
WASHINGTON
POST ARTICLE CAN BE READ AT THIS LINK
15.Apr.2007
http://rawstory.com/printstory.php?story=5708
"You can't erase e-mails, not today," Leahy said in an angry speech on the Senate floor. "They've gone through too many servers.
Those e-mails are there -- they just don't want to produce them. It's like the infamous 18-minute gap in the Nixon White House tapes."
White House officials rejected that explanation. "What we have done has been forthcoming, honest," spokeswoman Dana Perino said.
"We are trying to understand to the best of our ability the universe of the e-mails that were potentially lost +
we
are taking steps to make sure that we use the forensics that are
available to retrieve any of those that are lost.
15.Apr.2007
http://rawstory.com/printstory.php?story=5708
"Democrats are suspicious that Rove and other senior officials were using the political accounts, set up by the RNC, to avoid scrutiny from Congress," the Washington Post article continues.
"E-mails
already in the public record suggest that at least some White
House officials were mindful of a need not to discuss
certain matters within the official White
House e-mail system."
15.Apr.2007
http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=95605211
Nature
has had about 2.7 billion years to perfect photosynthesis, so there
are huge lessons that remain for us to learn,” Engel said. “The
results we’re reporting in this latest paper, however, at least
give us a new way to think about the design of future artificial
photosynthesis systems."
Source: Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
15.Apr.2007
http://www.physorg.com/printnews.php?newsid=95605211
The
photosynthetic technique for transferring energy from one molecular
system to another should make any short-list of Mother Nature’s
spectacular accomplishments. If we can learn enough to emulate this
process, we might be able to create artificial versions of
photosynthesis that would help us effectively tap into the sun as a
clean, efficient, sustainable and carbon-neutral source of
energy.
15.Apr.2007
Quantum
secrets of photosynthesis revealed
Through
photosynthesis, green plants and cyanobacteria are able to transfer
sunlight energy to molecular reaction centers for conversion into
chemical energy with nearly 100-% efficiency.
posted by Prof. Hex
15.Apr.2007
The
roots of some common superstitions So,
exactly what are superstitions? Merriam-Webster provides a handful of
definitions, including "... fear of the unknown, trust in magic
or chance" and "a notion maintained despite evidence to the
contrary."
posted
by Prof. Hex
15.Apr.2007
Four
years of Rove
emails missing "It
was an honest mistake I tells ya!
posted
by Prof. Hex
15.Apr.2007
ElBaradei:
Iran nuclear plant still in early stages:
Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
Mohammed ElBaradei said here Thursday night that Iran has no
necessary facilities to produce nuclear weapons.
15.Apr.2007 Russia rules out military scenario for Iran : A military scenario for Iran should be ruled out, a senior Russian lawmaker said after a closed-doors meeting with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Kislyak.
15.Apr.2007 Iran leads attack against U.S. dollar : While the world press has focused on Iran's plans to move ahead with enriching uranium, Tehran continues to wage economic war against the U.S. dollar behind the scenes.
15.Apr.2007 Missing American feared a victim of ‘dirty war’: Mr Levinson disappeared on March 8 after a six-hour meeting on the Iranian island of Kish with Dawud Salahuddin, an American who converted to Islam and was recruited by revolutionaries to assassinate an Iranian opposition activist near Washington 00.000.1980.
15.Apr.2007 U.S. hopes to ease Israeli fears over arms sales to Saudi Arabia : U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will visit Israel next week for a series of meetings with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. During his visit, Gates may attempt to persuade Israel to ease its objections to the sale of advanced weapons systems to Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states.
15.Apr.2007 Israel: What price friendship?: The transcripts feature an amazing discussion about the sensitive issue of the political pressure that U.S. Jewry was exerting on the administration and Congress.
15.Apr.2007 Novak: War in Iraq "the Sharon war"? : Robert Novak: "I am convinced that Israel made a large contribution to the decision to embark on this war. I know that on the eve of the war, Sharon said, in a closed conversation with senators, that if they could succeed in getting rid of Saddam Hussein, it would solve Israel's security problems.
15.Apr.2007 Israel will not be transferring Palestinian funds : Israel preceded the Olmert-Abbas meeting by announcing Friday it will not transfer any funds to Israel.
15.Apr.2007 Swedish teen: U.S. troops led operation : A Swedish teenager who was imprisoned for weeks with alleged terror suspects in Ethiopia said in an interview published Thursday that Americans in military uniform directed the Kenyan soldiers who took her into custody on the Somali-Kenyan border.
15.Apr.2007 'I am plotting a new Russian revolution': London exile Berezovsky says force necessary to bring down President Putin
15.Apr.2007 Berezovsky denounces violence despite coup claims: Russia said today it was opening a criminal investigation into Boris Berezovsky after the exiled tycoon told the Guardian he is plotting the violent overthrow of President Putin from his base in Britain.
15.Apr.2007 Bali group, Indonesian army had 'curious link': An international panel of experts says it has identified a "curious link" between associates of the outlawed regional terrorist group Jemaah Islamiah and the Indonesian military (TNI).
15.Apr.2007 Chavez: Troops to Escort Oil Takeovers : President Hugo Chavez said Thursday that soldiers will accompany government officials when they take over oil projects in the Orinoco River basin next month.
15.Apr.2007 Uranium dust : Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories has applied for a permit to blow up as much as 450 pounds of depleted uranium in explosives tests west of Tracy this year.
In case you missed it: Poison DUst : Video: Poison DUst tells the story of young soldiers who thought they came home safely from the war, but didn't.
15.Apr.2007 Australia censors terrorism books : The new law would be targeted at removing the material from publication, rather than punishing its authors + customs officers would be given much broader powers to confiscate books and films being imported into the country.
15.Apr.2007 1984 ?: Homeland Security Developing ‘Hostile Intent’ Technology : The United States Department of Homeland Security announced in April that it is developing human factors technology able to screen people at borders for hostile intent. The tool will help screeners identify people who should not be allowed to enter the country
15.Apr.2007
Wolfowitz
pay scandal laid bare :
The World Bank early Friday released more than 100 pages of documents
that exposed the pivotal role played by its president, Paul
Wolfowitz,
in awarding startling pay hikes to his girlfriend.
15.Apr.2007
U.N.
nuclear chief says Iran is operating only several hundred
centrifuges:
The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog says Iran is operating only
several hundred centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant at
Natanz, despite its claims to have activated 3,000.
15.Apr.2007
Chevron
confirmed as key sponsor of Iraq Oil, Gas, Petrochemical &
Electricity Summit :
The summit has been organised to bring together key Iraq Government
decision makers in the energy sector and international operators
seeking partnership opportunities in both the upstream and downstream
industry.
15.Apr.2007
Banned
in USA -Canada
Offers Forum for Lecturer Barred From U.S.
-By Jonathan Woodward
Unable to travel to the University of
Washington,
Riyadh Lafta -- best known for a controversial study that estimated
Iraq's body count in the U.S.-led war in Iraq at more than half a
million -- will arrive at Simon Fraser University in B.C. this month
to give a lecture and meet with research associates. Continue
15.Apr.2007
The
Baghdad Gulag
-By Pepe Escobar
There were hundreds of thousands, perhaps more
than a million Iraqi nationalists, waving Iraqi flags - with no room
for a religious divide - responding to Muqtada's call for "Occupation
out!" The Shi'ite million-man march proved once again Sadrists
rule the Shi'ite street - and are the most powerful political force
among Iraqi Shi'ites. Continue
15.Apr.2007
A
Paradigm Shift: America as Proxy -By
Ramzy Baroud
While the US was the major power that often
orchestrated proxy wars through clandestine tactics, as it did in
Central America and various parts of Asia, Israel
is now adopting a similar scheme. In most instances in the past,
Israel
managed to sway US administrations to behave according to the
misleading mantra: "What's good for Israel
is good for America." But a clash of interests here is
unavoidable. Continue
15.Apr.2007
The
Israel
Lobby. Portrait of a Great Taboo
The Power of the Israel
Lobby in the United
States
This is a must watch video
A documentary program by the Dutch public broadcast organization VPRO, allows several interesting opinion makers to speak on the future of the American and Israel relationship and the reception of John Mearsheimers and Steve Walts article "The Israel Lobby and US foreign policy." Continue
15.Apr.2007
Dark
of Heartness - A
Journey Into The (Reputed) Soul of Conservatism-By
David Michael Green
I have been haunted this last
quarter-century + especially this last decade, by the darkness that
has descended over the American political landscape, a long shadow
unlike any I remember from the first half of my life. Continue
15.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/And
that is why CREW
is asking Fitz to re-open the case against Karl Rove
. Melanie Sloan, CREW's executive director, said today,
"It looks like Karl Rove may well have destroyed evidence that implicated him in the White House's orchestrated efforts to leak Valerie Plame Wilson's covert identity to the press in retaliation against her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson."
Sloan
continued, "Special Counsel Fitzgerald should immediately reopen
his investigation into whether Rove
took part in the leak as well as whether he obstructed justice in the
ensuing leak investigation." Permalink
15.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Permalink
15.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/Today's
L.A.
Times
(subscription required) emphasizes that Rove,
upon assuming his duties, was officially cautioned not to misplace
any emails, which is sort of like cautioning Charles Ng not to kill
people.
So
where did the missing missives go? How do the White
House email systems (official and non-official)
actually work?
In response to the latest document dump, a
Democratic Underground poster with the euphonious nick
"Tandalayo_Scheisskopf," who seems to have a technical
background, offered a reaction deserving of repetition here: 1. The
documents offered up do not have full email headers included. For
those who understand such things, email headers are a rich source of
information. I do not think that a lack of full email headers in
these documents is a mistake.
2. From their format, as supplied,
especially as regards how file attachments are shown on them, I would
expect that their email server infrastructure is based upon Microsoft
Exchange (version unknown). Now, this possibility, taken with the
recent CREW information that 5 million emails are missing, tells me
something:
5 million emails are missing, out of how many emails?
That is hard to divine, but I can say this: this is a very high
volume email infrastructure, one that surely has a ton of security.
In an Exchange environment like that, you are going to have Exchange
bridgehead servers, connectors, routing servers, active directory
servers, firewalls, clustering, a number of email stores, IIS
servers, service-dedicated servers, ISA servers, SAN storage and a
lot more. Plus Blackberry servers. And, most importantly, a dedicated
sub-infrastructure of servers for just backups and archiving.
For
all these emails to be scrubbed completely is No Small Taters. Either
this was the single worst configured and administered Exchange
infrastructure in the history of mankind, or one or more people with
a very detailed knowledge of Exchange came in, mapped the topology
and proceeded to sanitize the system.
There is a third
possibility: That the White
House and the RNC
have decided to stonewall and ignore subpoenas.
Any way you slice
and dice it, this is big and it points to organized criminal effort.
I also cannot think of any geek who would willingly sign onto duty
like this and place themselves in a position of such jeopardy.
Especially one with the high level of technical expertise needed to
do all of this.
Which leads to a fourth possibility: Could this
system have been intentionally set to wipe out, lose, obfuscate and
obscure. That is not unlikely.
Were I advising Leahy or Waxman, I
would find out where those servers are and put seals on them post
haste.
14.Apr.2007
Washington
Post
Headline: "E-Mail Uproar Gives Dems Ammo Vs. Rove."
Message to WP Headline Writer: We Have All the Evidence we Need. All
That is Needed Now is a Pair of Handcuffs For Rove.
The
Book Versions of "Slaughter-House Five" and Obama's "Dreams
of My Father," Both for $30.00
14.Apr.2007
Nancy
Pelosi: 'The president is not king, the president is the president of
the United
States. America is a democracy. We have to make
decisions based on our judgment. Thus far, the president's judgment
hasn't been good, in terms of say for example the war on Iraq.'
Pelosi Stands Up to a Television Report Who Parrots White
House Talking Points. Well Worth Watching. 4/14
And
last Thursday, Katie Couric and CBS joined the fro of journalists and
corporate owned media outlets competing for the Pulitzer Prize in
Terrible, Apathetic and Horribly Deceptive Journalism. As Media
Matters reported Couric repeated ?thoroughly debunked? rumors that
Obama had gone to a madrassa as a child. 4/15
14.Apr.2007
The
Dalai Lama in America: Cultivating Compassion (3-Cassette Audiobook)
Bush's
"Surge" of Death, Lies and Failed Leaership: Dozens slain
in Baghdad, Karbala attacks
"NPR
now has new information about that plan. According to someone who's
had conversations with White
House officials, the plan to fire all 93 U.S.
attorneys originated with political adviser Karl Rove.
It was seen as a way to get political cover for firing the small
number of U.S.
attorneys the White
House actually wanted to get rid of. Documents show the
plan was eventually dismissed as impractical."
"However,
Levine recalled seeing White
House staff members moving fluidly between their
official computers and the laptops provided by the Republican
National Committee." "However, Levine recalled seeing White
House staff members moving fluidly between their
official computers and the laptops provided by the Republican
National Committee.
Pressure
builds for Wolfowitz
to step down. The Neo-Con Architect of the Iraq War is Just Another
Crook.
14.Apr.2007
Maureen
Dowd: More Con Than Neo. The Entire Bush
Team is a Bunch of Crooks. They Have No Ethics or Morality, by Any
Conventional Standard. 4/14
14.Apr.2007
http://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/I
can't resist repeating what I suggested in a comment to the previous
post:
that I believe the House and Senate investigators to this scandal need to be more aggressive and treat the GOP as the criminals and liars we all know them to be. I believe Congress has within its powers to act as prosecutors. I presume that that could include going to court and requesting a judge approve search warrants to seek out and sieze the documents and computer equipment they need to their investigation. I don't know of any precedent for this kind of action, but we all don't know of any precedent for the blatant criminality we find in the White House either. It goes far beyond even the criminality of Richard Nixon and Company. Many of the current crop of criminals, like Karl Rove, were tricksters and criminals-in- training in the Nixon administration and/or political campaign.# posted by ewastud