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08.Jan.2008 https://www.consortiumnews.com/archive/story33.html
Turkey got a wink and a nod from Washington as a quid pro quo for cooperating with the United States during the Gulf War. Turkish jets bombed Kurdish bases inside Iraqi territory. Meanwhile, on the ground, anti-Kurdish death squads were assassinating more than 1,000 non-combatants in southeastern Turkey. Hundreds of other Kurds "disappeared" while in police custody. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the European Parliament all condemned the Turkish security forces for these abuses.
Still, there was no hard evidence that Turkey's security forces had recruited criminal elements as foot soldiers. 03.Nov.1996 -only on- That evidence surfaced, when Catli' died in the fateful auto accident near Susurluk. Strewn amidst the roadside wreckage was proof of what many journalists and human rights activists had long suspected - - that successive Turkish governments had protected narco-traffickers, sheltered terrorists and sponsored gangs of killers to suppress Turkish dissidents and Kurdish rebels.
Colonel Turkes confirmed that Catli had performed clandestine duties for Turkey's police and military. "On the basis of my state experience, I admit that Catli has been used by the state," said Turkes. Catli had been cooperating "in the framework of a secret service working for the good of the state," Turkes insisted.
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The Turkish security forces cited the need to restore order which had been shattered by rightist terrorist groups secretly sponsored by those same state security forces.
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00.000.1970 -In the late s- former military prosecutor and Turkish Supreme Court Justice Emin Deger documented collaboration between the Grey Wolves and the government's counter-guerrilla forces as well as the close ties of the latter to the CIA. Turkey's Counter-Guerrilla Organization handed out weapons to the Grey Wolves and other right-wing terrorist groups. These shadowy operations mainly engaged in the surveillance, persecution and torture of Turkish leftists, according to retired army commander Talat Turhan, the author of three books on counter-guerrilla activities in Turkey.
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But Western intelligence also had its hooks into the Bulgarian smuggling scene, as evidenced 00.000.1980 -in the early s- by the CIA's use of Kintex to channel weapons to the Nicaraguan contras.
The Reagan administration jumped on the papal assassination attempt as a propaganda opportunity, rather than helping to unravel the larger mystery. Although the CIA's link to the arms-for-drugs traffic in Bulgaria was widely known in espionage circles, hard-line U.S. + Western European officials promoted instead a bogus conspiracy theory that blamed the papal shooting on a communist plot.
The so-called "Bulgarian connection" became one of the more effective disinformation schemes hatched during the Reagan era. It reinforced the notion of the Soviet Union as an evil empire. But the apparent hoax also diverted attention from extensive -- and potentially embarrassing -- ties between U.S. intelligence and the Turkey's narco-trafficking ultra-right.
Fabrication of the conspiracy theory might have even involved suborning perjury. During his 00.Sep.1985 court testimony in Rome, Catli asserted that he had been approached by the West German BND spy organization, which allegedly promised him a large sum of money if he implicated the Bulgarian secret service and the KGB in the attempt on the pope's life.
Five years later, ex-CIA analyst Melvin A. Goodman disclosed that his colleagues, under pressure from CIA higher-ups, skewed their reports to try to lend credence to the contention that the Soviets were involved. "The CIA had no evidence linking the KGB to the plot," Goodman told the Senate Intelligence Committee.
08.Jan.2008 https://www.jungewelt.de/2008/01-08/009.php?print=1
Anders als Nietzsche, dessen Lebensbegriff es ihm ermöglicht, das Schicksal zu lieben (amor fati), und dessen Umwertung der Werte doch nur zu neuen Setzungen führt, bindet Marx seine Kritik an die Analyse »der Gesellschaften, in welchen kapitalistische Produktionsweise herrscht«.9
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00.000.1935 -Lion Feuchtwanger in seinem Beitrag zum ersten »Internationalen Schriftstellerkongreß zur Verteidigung der Kultur« (gegen die faschistische Barbarei) in Paris: »Soweit indes Geschichtsschreibung Kunst ist, ist sie nicht anders denkbar als nach den Prinzipien, die Friederich Nietzsche aufstellt. Der in seiner ›Unzeitgemäßen Betrachtung vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben‹ fordert, Historie sei nur zum Zweck des Lebens zu treiben. Wenn der historische Sinn autonom und universal wäre, fräße er das Leben selber an; er müsse also von der plastischen Kraft des Lebens in Zucht genommen werden. Gesundes Leben forme das gültige Bild der Geschichte nach den Erfordernissen seiner Gegenwart und seiner Zukunft.«4
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»Die Pflicht des Historikers ist zwiefach: erst gegen sich selbst, dann gegen den Leser. Bei sich selbst muß er genau prüfen, was wohl geschehen sein könnte, und um des Lesers willen muß er festsetzen, was geschehen sei. Wie er mit sich selbst handelt, mag er mit seinen Kollegen ausmachen; das Publikum muß aber nicht ins Geheimnis hineinsehen, wie wenig in der Geschichte als entschieden ausgemacht kann angesprochen werden.«3 Goethe
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Schon Johann Wolfgang Goethe wußte: »Eine Chronik schreibt nur derjenige, dem die Gegenwart wichtig ist.«
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08.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Ich weiß ja nicht, wie das bei euch ist, aber ich lasse mich ja von niemandem so gerne ins Gesicht lügen wie von SSchäuble und seinen Schergen. Die haben sich doch tatsächlich nicht entblödet, eine FAQ zum Bundestrojaner zu machen, und jede einzelne Antwort ist eine Lüge . Können Dritte den Trojaner mißbrauchen? Nein. Werden Vertraulichkeitsverpflichtungen beeinträchtigt? Natürlich nicht. Werden Antiviren deaktiviert oder geschwächt? Wo denkt ihr hin!1!! Unglaublich. Ich frage mich ja, ob der Azubi, den sie das haben schreiben lassen, wenigstens anständige Drogen gekriegt hat, damit er Spaß dabei hat, das Volk zu verarschen.
08.Jan.2008 Citigroup Seen Cutting Work Force by 5%-10% : On the heels of a very curious move by Citibank to decrease the amount of cash allowed by Citibank customers to withdraw from their ATMs, word now comes that Citi may cut its workforce bt 5% to 10%
08.Jan.2008 High stakes in Kenya crisis for U.S. war on terror: Kenya's violent crisis threatens to destabilise one of the United States' key counter-terrorism partners in Africa and could influence Washington's decision on where to site its new military command for the continent. 08.Jan.2008 U.S. Upset with Bush on Terrorism, Civil Liberties: Poll: 59 % of respondents have a negative view of the way the current administration has fought terrorism, and 57 % are dissatisfied with how it has protected civil liberties.
08.Jan.2008 US ships 'threatened' by Iranian boats: Tensions between the US and Iran resurfaced today when Pentagon officials alleged that Iranian warships threatened three US Navy vessels in the Strait of Hormuz. 08.Jan.2008 Iran 'did not harass US warships' : The US vessels approached the Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf on Sunday, warning they were in the red zone, the official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Press TV on Monday. 08.Jan.2008 Bush will find no Gulf takers for war with Iran: US President George W Bush will not win any support for military action against Iran when he visits four Gulf Arab allies later this month, political analysts in the region say. 08.Jan.2008 More than 10,000 police will guard Bush during Israel visit: Bush, who arrives on Wednesday for his first visit as president, will stay at the King David hotel. Eight truckloads of equipment have already arrived in advance of his two-night stay. All the hotel's rooms will be taken by his entourage - tourists have had their bookings cancelled.
08.Jan.2008 US intelligence suggests coverup in Bhutto assassination: Suicide bomber may have been inserted to eliminate evidence 08.Jan.2008 Pakistanis want Islamic democracy, distrust US -poll : Most Pakistanis want their country to be a democratic Islamic state but are deeply distrustful of the United States and its war on terrorism, according to a poll released on Sunday.
08.Jan.2008 Pakistan 'not particularly looking for' bin Laden: : Pakistan is not specifically looking for Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, as there is no proof he is in Pakistan, President Pervez Musharraf said Sunday. 08.Jan.2008 Osama paid $10 million to ISI to overthrow Benazir's govt: Asked what she would you like to tell President Bush, the Pakistan People's Party leader had said that she would say propping up Pervez Musharraf government, which is infested with radical Islamists, is only hastening disaste
08.Jan.2008 Revealed: Indian troops in Afghanistan: The newspapers here in Delhi reported yesterday that two Indian soldiers were killed by a suicide in Afghanistan in the SouthWestern province of Nimroz. It's a particularly interesting fact because the presence of Indian troops in Afghanistan has gone unreported in the West 08.Jan.2008 US Military Escalation in Pakistan Gets Underway: The Times confirms that as many as 50 American personnel, whether special forces or CIA, already operate clandestinely inside the Pakistani border.
08.Jan.2008 McCain: I would have started Iraq war regardless of WMD: According to presidential candidate John McCain, only the handling of the Iraq war was a mistake -- not the war itself.
08.Jan.2008 Manufacturing Consent For War With Iran? U.S. Says Iranian Gunboats Harassed Warships -By- Jim Miklaszewski - NBC News
Iranian Revolutionary Guard gunboats harassed three U.S. Navy warships in the Strait of Hormuz Sunday, in what the U.S. military officials described as a "significant provocative act." Continue 08.Jan.2008 Sibel Edmonds, Turkey and the Bomb A Real 9/11 Cover-Up? -By- DAVE LINDORFF If a new article just published Saturday in the Times of London based upon information provided by US government whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, we have not only solid evidence of prior knowledge of 9-11 by high up US government officials, but evidence of treasonous activity by many of those same officials involving efforts to provide US nuclear secrets to America's enemies, even including Al Qaeda. Continue 08.Jan.2008 Nukes, Spooks, and the Specter of 9/11 -By- Justin Raimondo - We're in big trouble if even half of what Sibel Edmonds says is true... Continue 08.Jan.2008 Imperialist Propaganda Second thoughts on Charlie Wilson's War -By- Chalmers Johnson
It makes the U.S. government look like it is populated by a bunch of whoring, drunken sleazebags, so in that sense it's accurate enough. But there are a number of things both the book and the film are suppressing. Continue 08.Jan.2008 The Bilderberg Group - Rulers of the World "The war is not against Bin Laden. We are the enemy" - Audio - Interview with investigator and author, Daniel Estulin, on his book, "The True Story of the Bilderberg Group", which describes an annual gathering where the European and American political elite, and the wealthiest CEOs of the world, all come together to discuss the economic and political future of humanity. Highly secretive, the press has never been allowed to attend, nor have statements ever been released on the group's conclusions or discussions. Also discussed are the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Continue
08.Jan.2008 XI. THE RAPID PRODUCTION OF THE OCTOBER NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ... - HTML-Version
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FRONTLINE: the dark side: interviews: sen. bob graham | PBS 00.000.2002 Bob Graham (D-Fla., 1987-2005) chaired the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, as the Congress voted on the Iraq War Resolution. it was Graham ... www-c.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/darkside/interviews/ graham.html
THREATS AND RESPONSES: INTELLIGENCE; U.S. Aides Split On ... Senator Graham asked the C.I.A. in July to update its classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's weapons programs and make it available before ...
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Disarming Iraq by Force: WMD Stakes and Scenarios https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.pdf ; Joint Intelligence Committee,. Iraq ’s Weapons of Mass Destruction-The Assessment of the ... cns.miis.edu/pubs/week/pdf/iraqwar.pdf
Lie By Lie: Search Results A CIA report entitled " Iraq and al Qaida: Interpreting a Murky Relationship" ... Graham later writes writes, " CIA Director George Tenet was asked what the ... www.motherjones.com/mb/mt-search.cgi?tag=CIA&blog_id=2
David Fiderer: Whatever Bush Knew, the Dispute Over the Aluminum ... Szady and Dooley supported the C.I.A. assessment based on tests they .... " Iraq has sought to buy thousands of specially designed aluminum tubes which ... www.huffingtonpost.com/david-fiderer/whatever-bush-knew-the-d_b_18283.html Metroactive Features | George Perkovich This was perceived by the CIA , it was perceived by experts on Iraq , ... Graham from Florida did challenge this assumption, and he was basically ignored. www.metroactive.com/papers/cruz/03.03.04/perkovich-0410.html
Bush and Co. still distorting facts about Iraq So I wonder what he thinks of a new classified CIA assessment warning that Iraq is becoming a training school for terrorists who could use their insurgency ... www.veteransforcommonsense.org/index.cfm/Page/Article/ID/3728
07.Jan.2008 John McCone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia McCone was born in San Francisco, California, and 00.000.1922 graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_ McCone
07.Jan.2008 https://sanderhicks.com/mccone.html The McCone/Saddam Connection: Go back to 00.000.1963 when Lyndon Johnson was president. The CIA, under John McCone, installed Saddam Hussein as dictator of Iraq 2 because a previous dictator had done the very naughty thing of nationalizing two companies. https://www.mindprod.com/bush911.html
07.Jan.2008 Why are these Strapping Romney Lads Not Serving in Iraq? And What About the Animal Abuser and Illegal Gun Toter, David Huckabee and His Brother John Mark? Why Aren't They in Uniform? --
The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination was her own fault, the country's president, Pervez Musharraf, said in an interview on U.S. television. Oh really now. 07.Jan.2008 Can You Make a Contribution to BuzzFlash.com Today? Why Did a BuzzFlash Reader Nominate Us for the Wings of Justice Award? And What You Can Do to Help BuzzFlash Expand 00.000.2007. Read on...
9-11 Cover-Up, Treason, and The Bomb -- Dave Lindorff 07.Jan.2008 What chutzpah!! McCain Falsely Claims He Has 'Never Asked For A Single Earmark Or Pork Barrel Project' For His State 1/8
If Huckabee Loses New Hampshire, Is That God's Will Too? 1/8 07.Jan.2008 Attytood: A brief history of crying in the New Hampshire primary 1/8
Houston DA Chuck Rosenthall Sex E-mail Scandal 'The list of Republican AND Christian hypocrisy on this one goes on and on with Mr. Death Penalty himself.' 1/8
The softer side of Hillary 1/8 07.Jan.2008 Should all the candidates be at the debate? -- Be-Elected
07.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-527186,00.html Washington - Offiziell nennen die US-Behörden es einen "potentiell feindlichen" Zwischenfall. Hinter vorgehaltener Hand beschreiben Pentagon-Vertreter jedoch die ganze Dramatik dessen, was sich am Samstagmorgen in der Straße von Hormus vor der iranischen Küste abgespielt hat: Es fehlten wohl nur Minuten, wenn nicht Sekunden, und es hätte Verletzte oder gar Tote geben können, Opfer eines Feuergefechts zwischen iranischen und amerikanischen Soldaten im Persischen Golf. Die Folgen, politisch und militärisch: unabsehbar.
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07.Jan.2008 https://www.fixmbr.de/google-lauscht-fuer-die-nsa/ 30.Oct.2006 (Google providing info to Government) Google is providing information on people’s searches to the US government — about everyone, not just about specific people for whom the government gets search warrants. Flatterte gerade via Richard Stallmans Newsfeed rein, Even while Google presents a public image of vigorously protecting its users? privacy, it has quietly provided assistance to several U.S. intelligence agencies, such as the Central Intelligence Agency and Defense Intelligence Agency, as the U.S. prosecutes its war on terrorism. In addition, Google may be providing assistance to the National Security Agency. via Homeland-Stupidity
07.Jan.2008 https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/msid-2678687,prtpage-1.cms
US officials helped Pak steal nuke secrets: Report
06.Jan.2008, 1446 hrs IST , PTI SMS NEWS to 58888 for latest updates
LONDON: Senior US officials have helped Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets, a whistlebloweer has claimed.
07.Jan.2008 https://www.atlargely.com/
Sibel Speaks Part II: Naming Names... I have decided that after years of not getting anyone to publish what I have found out about the Edmonds case, I am simply going to give you folks some names. I won't explain what the allegations are, or how these people might fit together or even if they fit together. I also don't claim to have all the names or know the full story by any means. But I am certain, that brilliant bloggers, researchers, and journalists will finally figure it out: Richard Perle
Doug Feith
Eric Edelman
Marc Grossman
Larry Franklin
Dennis Hastert
Roy Blunt
Dan Burton
Tom Lantos
Bob Livingston
Stephen Solarz
Graham Fuller
David Makovsky
Alan Markovsky
Enver Yusuf
Sabri Sayari
Mehmet Eymur And a few phrases for you folks to play around with (in no particular order):
Gray Wolves
Shanghai Cooperation Organization
RAND Corporation
PNAC
East Turkmenistan
Iran
Syria
Foreign Policy
King Faisal
ISI Now start digging kids!!
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07.Jan.2008
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07.Jan.2008 George McGovern calls for impeachment. - Amanda - Comments - In today’s Washington Post, former presidential candidate George McGovern calls for Bush and Cheney’s impeachment: After the 1972 presidential election, I stood clear of calls to impeach President Richard M. Nixon for his misconduct during the campaign. I thought that my joining the impeachment effort would be seen as an expression of personal vengeance toward the president who had defeated me. Today I have made a different choice. […] I have not been heavily involved in singing the praises of the Nixon administration. But the case for impeaching Bush and Cheney is far stronger than was the case against Nixon and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew after the 1972 election. The nation would be much more secure and productive under a Nixon presidency than with Bush. Indeed, has any administration in our national history been so damaging as the Bush-Cheney era?
07.Jan.2008 ponse to NY Times Magazine cover story:"Can you count on voting machines?"
The national media,and the Times, weren't listening before or after Election Day [2004].A week later,and notwithstanding 57,000 protest calls (from "the fringe") to an 800-number in the first 48 hours,the Times dismissed all complaints as the work of "Internet bloggers" and "conspiracy theorists" in a front-page article.The tacit message was,"Pay no attention to all this talk."Now,evidently the Times has been born again...
07.Jan.2008 Why Musharraf Lies About the Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto's murderers were not smart. If their motive was to shut her up, they failed. Before her death, she blamed US policy for creating world wide terrorism. She was right and paid with her life for it.
07.Jan.2008 Don't let the Sibel Edmonds story SUCKER you ...
Sibel Edmonds, whistleblower extraordinaire, has finally spoken in the UK's Times,a long-awaited event. NOW we must learn her lessons while remembering the goal is accountablity - and that means IMPEACHMENT and a war crimes tribunal ..
07.Jan.2008 https://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2008/01/bombshell-sibel-edmonds-speaks.html
Sibel has just now NAMED ALL THE NAMES. -> see here - Please reproduce and redistribute. # posted by lukery
07.Jan.2008 Clinton Campaign Dirty Trick Against Obama on Choice Will Backfire
-- The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog.
With two days to go until the New Hampshire primary, a new /WMUR poll out Sunday afternoon suggests that Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois has opened up a double digit advantage over New York Sen. Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination. In the survey, conducted by the University of New Hampshire on Saturday and early Sunday, 39 percent of likely Granite State Democratic primary voters back Obama as the party?s nominee ? that?s ten points ahead of Clinton?s 29 percent. Obama is up six points and Clinton down four points from the survey conducted on Friday and early Saturday. Edwards is at 16%.
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Bill Bradley endorses Obama 1/7 07.Jan.2008 Chair of Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Supports Obama as You View Clinton Dishonest Attack Ad on Barack's Record on Choice.
The Key Moment of Democratic Debate on Saturday Night: Edwards Sides with Obama on "Change" Vs. "The Forces of the Status Quo" 07.Jan.2008 Transcript of Saturday Night Democratic Debate in New Hampshire
Repost: How Much Can You Learn About Obama, Winner of the Iowa Caucuses, from His Neighborhood Barber of 13 Years? Watch the BuzzFlash Video and Find Out.
"The New Hampshire primary is just about the only occasion in the American electoral calendar when a politician as famous and storied as Clinton is compelled to get out on the street and on to a soapbox and fight for every vote." 1/7 07.Jan.2008 The Most Crucial Democratic Presidential Debate Also Turned Out to be the Most Lively and Informative as Format Allowed for More Interaction Between Candidates. Hard to Gauge Impact Though, As "Change" (Obama and Edwards) Squared Off Against "Experience" (Clinton and Richardson). Clinton Forcefully Presented Her Credentials; Obama Avoided Any Mistakes; Edwards Passionately Laid Out the Populist Case; and Richardson Spoke the Most Candidly and Refreshingly.
07.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ # posted by Anonymous
07.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ When 00.000.1995 -in the fall of- then county Supervisor of Elections Jackie Winchester told LaPore that she was retiring, LaPore “registered as a Democrat and ran” for the office, according to Tapper. The day before Florida 'reformed' its election law in the aftermath of the 00.Jan.2000 debacle, LaPore dropped her Democratic Party registration to register back to 'independent.' LaPore has been connected to Adnan Khashogi, the international arms dealer.
07.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Grossman also played a still-nebulous role in Plame-gate. Not only that: He met with General Ahmed on or around September 11, 2001!
(Update: BradBlog confirms that Edmonds tagged Grossman. Keep in mind that Armitage and Grossman are thisclose . She names Grossman in the earlier videotaped interview which I'm including below.)
Grossman's name has previously come up in stories about Sibel Edmonds:
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As we detailed in our earlier post, Sakka (or Sakra) was almost certainly giving information to Western intelligence 00.000.2001, at which point he was in Germany. Later, 00.000.2005, while he languished in a Turkish prison, he was visited by a group of Americans who promised him freedom if he testified falsely against Syria -- or so he has claimed.
The strange pattern keeps repeating itself: The terrorists have ties to factions within the American security apparat.
07.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Back to the Times story: The results of the espionage were almost certainly passed to Abdul Qadeer Khan, the Pakistani nuclear scientist.
Khan was close to Ahmad and the ISI. While running Pakistan’s nuclear programme, he became a millionaire by selling atomic secrets to Libya, Iran and North Korea. He also used a network of companies in America and Britain to obtain components for a nuclear programme. Get the picture? Valerie Plame was trying to stop Khan in his tracks. But Armitage stopped Valerie Plame in her tracks. Armitage and his neocon comrades are good buddies with Mehmood Ahmad, who was engineering this trade in nukes. Edmonds was later to see the scope of the Pakistani connections when it was revealed that one of her fellow translators at the FBI was the daughter of a Pakistani embassy official who worked for Ahmad. The translator was given top secret clearance despite protests from FBI investigators. The FBI's behavior cannot be excused as mere sloppiness.
The times received substantial confirmation of Edmonds' story from CIA and FBI sources: One of the CIA sources confirmed that the Turks had acquired nuclear secrets from the United States and shared the information with Pakistan and Israel. “We have no indication that Turkey has its own nuclear ambitions. But the Turks are traders. To my knowledge they became big players in the late 1990s,” the source said. Some of the most intriguing material appears at the beginning of the Times piece. She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey.
07.Jan.2008 https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/6/112413/4231/854/431373 I know that many of you have been (rightly) concerned about FISA, and many of you have (rightly) been confused by the inexplicable behaviour of Democrats in Congress, and wonder why they behave as though they are being blackmailed. Now you know. If any American journalists/media wants to step up, please remember that the nuclear black market story covered by The Times is just one element of Sibel's case. Bradblog has more
07.Jan.2008 https://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/1/6/112413/4231/854/431373 The article doesn't name the official, but he is Marc Grossman, former #3 at the State Department, former ambassador to Turkey, and current Vice President at The Cohen Group, the lobbying company run by former Secretary of Defense William Cohen. (Sibel) claims that the FBI was also gathering evidence against senior Pentagon officials – including household names – who were aiding foreign agents. "If you made public all the information that the FBI have on this case, you will see very high-level people going through criminal trials," she said. Those household names include Richard Perle and Douglas Feith and possibly Paul Wolfowitz. Less familiar names include Eric Edelman, Feith's replacement at the Pentagon, and former Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz.
20060506 Goss and Graham's breakfast with Ahmad in the 868-page investigation chaired by ... Goss and Graham. 06.May 2006 https://www.sploid.com/news/2006/05/fall_of_an_amer.php It was Ahmad who arranged the transfer of $100,000 to alleged hijacker Mohammed ... https://alfatomega.com/20060506.html
00.Apri.2007 Goon Squad: The original video was aired by the London Sunday Times, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch is a darling of the neocons and right-wing radicals in ...
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06.Jan.2008 00.Aug.1999-00.Sep.1999 The FEUDAL HERALD - The Sunday Times is owned by a fervent republican, Mr Rupert Murdoch, an American citizen of Australian birth, whose publishing empire follows a strictly ... www.baronage.co.uk/nl/nl-01-08.htm
06.Jan.2008 Informed Comment: The End of Bonapartism and the War on Terror ... analysis of the situation in Iraq written by Bartle Bull and published in The Sunday Times, (which is owned by, who would have guessed, Rupert Murdoch)? www.juancole.com/2007/09/end-of-bonapartism-and-war-on-terror.html
06.Jan.2008 https://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article3137695.ece?Submitted=true
The Sunday Times
For sale: West’s deadly nuclear secrets A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. She approached The Sunday Times last month after reading about an Al-Qaeda terrorist who had revealed his role in training some of the 9/11 hijackers while he was in Turkey. Edmonds described how foreign intelligence agents had enlisted the support of US officials to acquire a network of moles in sensitive military and nuclear institutions.
06.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ SafeWeb. This Oakland-based company offers an app called Triangle Boy which promises to provide users with anonymity as they surf the internet. Trouble is, they receive funding from In-Q-Tel, a CIA front. Here's Wikipedia: In-Q-Tel of Arlington, Virginia, United States is a not-for-profit venture capital firm that invests in high-tech companies for the sole purpose of keeping the Central Intelligence Agency equipped with the latest in information technology in support of United States intelligence capability. Although In-Q-Tel is an independent firm for legal purposes, the company's only client is the Agency -- in other words, the company is the Company.
06.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ If the CIA connection becomes well-known, will anyone trust SafeWeb?
I'll soon have a follow-up post about surfin' with the spooks. SafeWeb is hardly the only example: We also have Zone Alarm, Facebook, Safe-Mail and a little company called Google... Permalink # posted by Joseph : 6:15 AM 1 comments Comments: i've been suspicious of google ever since they brought on dan senor, right after his disastrous run with bremer at the cpa. here's an early assessment of his background from wash. monthly, via josh et al:
"Before attending Harvard Business School from 00.000.1999-00.000.2001 , Senor was a staffer for then-Sen. Spencer Abraham of Michigan. After receiving his MBA, he went to the Carlyle Group, where he was a venture capitalist from 00.000.2001-00.000.2003 . Senor left Carlyle 00.000.2003 for a brief stint as White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan's deputy before shipping off to Iraq. Though he showed up in Iraq as a junior press handler, Senor is now Bremer's senior advisor and for most of last summer he was in charge of organizing Iraq's post-Saddam media, an effort which most have rated as little short of a disaster. More examples can be found at the Ministry of Education, often cited by the White House as one of the CPA's signal successes."
there was a rumor he had been hired as global communications and strategy director, but that was nixed, tho he's on as a 'contracted' advisor.
then there's alan davidson, hired as its lobbyist. tho they talk a good net neutrality game, pushing democracy etc., it's hard to square that with many of their decisions, such as conforming to china's demands to filter sites from citizen access there.
messy business, this electronic transmission stuff. just like any other powerful thing, the down sides are often as big as the positives. # posted by dr. elsewhere
06.Jan.2008 Angst vor al- Qaida: Bush erwägt neue CIA- Strategie in Pakistan (Politik)
06.Jan.2008 Nahost- Reise: Qaida- Anhänger ruft zu Bombenanschlag auf Bush auf (Politik)
20070531 ... other German officers, Major Waldemar Pabst + ... The National Archives Experience · Our Documents · ... USA 1943 ... 1946 ); Waldemar Pabst and Heino Gaefgen (May 28, 1946); Proposed Austro-Swiss Bank involving ... https://alfatomega.com/20070531.html
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355 Information about breaking Japanese code and ciphers in Portugal and related information on enemy codes and ciphers, 1943-1945, ca. 100 pp.
Memo to William J. Donovan relating to Iran, December 1942, 3 pp.
Memo from William J. Donovan to the Present regarding Japanese and German matters, November 13, 1941, 4 pp. Donovan wrote "Japan is therefore forced to strike now, whether she wishes to or not."
Information on China, 1944-1945, ca. 300 pp.
Location: 250/64/28/04
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Other OSS Records RG 226 2, Continued: Freiherr Constantin von Neurath and Heino Gaefgen concerning hidden German funds (May 10, 1946); German Embassy funds concealed in Madrid, ...
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Records of the Office of Strategic Services (RG 226): Entry 210 ... 10.May 1946 Memo regarding Freiherr Constantin Von Neurath + Heino Gaefgen [head of Deutsche Industrie Kommission] + knowledge of hidden German funds,... www.archives.gov/iwg/declassified-records/rg-226-oss/rg-226-entry-210-boxes-301-to-555b.html
06.Jan.2008 Teurer Rohstoff: Opec sagt weiteren Ölpreis- Anstieg voraus (Wirtschaft)
06.Jan.2008 Entschädigung: Contergan- Opfer bilden internationale Allianz
06.Jan.2008 Italien: Straßenschlachten in Neapel – wegen Müllbergen
06.Jan.2008 Schwarz und Rot einig: Plädoyer für Lohnanstieg
06.Jan.2008 U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan
06.Jan.2008 AIDS Patients Face Downside of Living Longer
06.Jan.2008 Westerwelle wirft CDU Linksrutsch vor
06.Jan.2008 Merkel gegen deutliche Lohnerhöhungen
06.Jan.2008 Hessens CDU im Umfragetief 06.Jan.2008 Dax-Ausblick: Der Himmel verdüstert sich
06.Jan.2008 Obama tritt für mehr Datenschutz und Netzneutralität ein
06.Jan.2008 https://www.heise.de/bin/tp/issue/r4/dl-artikel2.cgi?artikelnr=26998&mode=print Uwe Schulze: Die Menschen werden im Allgemeinen mittlerweile durch die Seiten des AK Vorrat und den Aktionen aufmerksam. Der Name ist nun schon öfters in den Medien gewesen und die Leute wissen was das bedeutet. Daher auch unsere Traueranzeige, die in unsere PE war und sich somit wirklich verbreitet hat. Die Menschen sind einfach sensibler geworden was ihre Privatsphäre angeht, sie wollen Informationen und auch Hilfe, aber sie wollen auch Helfen. Wie wird es nun weitergehen mit dem Bundessarg? Uwe Schulze: Momentan ist der - ich sag es mal so - von mir eigenmächtig zum "Bundessarg" erklärte in Frankfurt und soll nun über Ulm (5.1.) (11), wo auch ein Trauermarsch stattfindet, dann am 06.Jan.2008 in München (12) zu einer Demo der dortigen Ortsgruppe, die dann diesen Bundessarg Herrn Dr. Schäuble übergeben wird. Simon Jung: Wir laden natürlich alle dazu ein, an der Trauerfeier teilzunehmen. Wir bitte darum, dem Anlass entsprechend im schwarzen Anzug/Kostüm zu kommen. Während der AK Vorrat unter anderem auch als Filmpartner beim bundesweiten Filmfestival (13) immer mehr nicht nur durch "normale Demonstrationen" sondern durch Kooperationen oder durch Kunstaktionen (14) auf die Problematik der stets zunehmenden Überwachung in Deutschland und Europa hinweist, steigt das Medieninteresse nicht nur an den Demonstrationen sondern auch am Thema allgemein. So hat der Sender 3Sat derzeit gemeinsam mit DOK Leipzig einen Wettbewerb "Mein Leben in Sicherheit" ausgeschrieben (15), bei dem Dokumentarfilme eingesandt werden können. Links (1) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101067
(2) https://www.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de
(3) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101098
(4) https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/101180
(5) https://www.attac.de
(6) https://piratenpartei-hamburg.de/
(7) https://www.freie-aerzteschaft.de/content/articles/1021/1022/index.html?catid=1022&sID=6cd5867f8dd3ac1e1e5e540fd37b1380
(8) https://foebud.org
(9) https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Ortsgruppen/Hamburg
(10) https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Ortsgruppen/Buchholz
(11) https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Vorlage:Terminkalender#Samstag.2C_05._Januar_2008
(12) https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Was_z%C3%A4hlt_ist_Freiheit
(13) https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Filmfestival_Aktion_Mensch
(14) https://wiki.vorratsdatenspeicherung.de/Kunstaktion
(15) https://www.dok-leipzig.de/v2/cms/de/dok-festival/ausschreibung-3sat/index.html
06.Jan.2008 https://www.heise.de/bin/tp/issue/r4/dl-artikel2.cgi?artikelnr=26998&mode=print Simon Jung: 01.Jan.2008 -Seit dem- ist die Privatsphäre nicht mehr Teil unseres Lebens. Sie ist von uns gegangen. Dieser Prozess ist durch die im Hintergrund stattfindende Datenspeicherung erst mal nicht sichtbar oder spürbar. Deshalb war es uns wichtig, den Tod der Privatsphäre "anfassbar" zu machen. Wir setzen natürlich Hoffnung auf das Bundesverfassungsgericht, dass es die VDS vorerst kassiert. Uns ist aber bewusst, dass auch ohne VDS die Überwachung der Bevölkerung und das staatliche Data-Mining vorangetrieben werden wird. Die VDS ist ja nur ein Pfeiler des Gerüsts "Überwachungsstaat". Wenn wir also am 06.Jan.2008 Herrn Schäuble den "Privatsphäre-Sarg" im Namen Tausender überreichen, ist es ein Appell an die Öffentlichkeit: "Wacht auf. Eure Privatsphäre und eure Grundrechte werden unter dem Vorwand der Terrorismusbekämpfung zu Grabe getragen." Jeder soll wissen, welche Leiche die Regierung aus SPD, CDU und CSU in ihrem Keller liegen hat. Auf Grund der großen Anteilnahme an dem Hamburger Trauermarsch und auf Grund mehrerer Anfragen, wollten wir mehr trauernden Bürgern Deutschlands die Möglichkeit geben, von der Privatsphäre angemessen Abschied nehmen zu können.
06.Jan.2008 Schwarzenegger ruft Notstand wegen Sturm aus
06.Jan.2008 Brennende Müllberge: In Neapel stinkt's zum Himmel
06.Jan.2008 Gerichtsurteile: Wo Mieter noch rauchen dürfen
06.Jan.2008 Der Ton wird rauer
06.Jan.2008 Schweizer Armee strafft den Untauglichkeitskatalog
06.Jan.2008 Primaires : les démocrates comme les républicains débattent à couteaux tirés
06.Jan.2008 Kenyans driven from slums 06.Jan.2008 In Pakistan, life as normal
06.Jan.2008 What will we do if big two go bust?: They don't know it, but taxpayers stand to lose billions as the housing bubble bursts. And in a bipartisan effort to "do something" to save the housing market, President Bush and the Democratic Congress appear set to put taxpayers on the hook for billions more. 06.Jan.2008 Recession fears stoke political debate: With the latest numbers on jobs growth showing the U.S. economy deteriorating more rapidly than expected, the threat of a recession - and the measures needed to revive growth - has taken on a larger political profile. 06.Jan.2008 'War Profiteer' Gets 'Bulletproof' Bail Terms: Released on $400 Million Bond: David Brooks, the founder of a manufacturer of bulletproof vests for U.S. troops in Iraq, has been called a "war profiteer" by critics, was recently charged by the U.S. government with defrauding shareholders and, according to that indictment, allegedly spent $10 million in company funds on his daughter's Bat Mitzvah.
06.Jan.2008 Padilla Sues Ex-Bush Official Over Memos: The lawsuit claims that John Yoo, a former senior Justice Department official, wrote several legal memos that led President Bush to designate Padilla as an enemy combatant shortly after the U.S. citizen was arrested in May 2002 at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on suspicion of "involvement in an al-Qaida plot." 06.Jan.2008 2 election workers get 18 months for rigging presidential recount: A judge suspicious of more corruption pressed two former election board workers to tell what they know and then sentenced them today to the maximum 18 months in prison for rigging the 2004 presidential election recount to make their job easier. 06.Jan.2008 Can You Count on Voting Machines? : As the primaries start in New Hampshire this week and roll on through the next few months, the erratic behavior of voting technology will once again find itself under a microscope.
06.Jan.2008 Musharraf blames Bhutto for her death: . Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf conceded that a gunman may have shot Benazir Bhutto, but said the opposition leader exposed herself to danger and bore responsibility for her death, CBS News said Saturday.
06.Jan.2008 Poll: 81 percent of Israelis back increasing IDF targeted killings : A vast majority - 81 percent - of Israelis support increasing the targeted killings of Palestinian militants, according to a poll administered by Tel Aviv University's "Peace Index" survey. 06.Jan.2008 Thousands protest Gaza seige in Nazarath: Thousands of Arab Israelis marched through the streets of Nazareth on Saturday in protest against Israel’s sealing-off of the Hamas-run Gaza Strip 06.Jan.2008 Olmert admits Israel failed to keep pledge: Israel has failed to keep its pledge to stop enlarging Jewish settlements in the West Bank, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert acknowledged in an interview published yesterday, addressing a criticism he expects to hear next week from President George W. Bush.
06.Jan.2008 Why U.S. strategy on Iran is crumbling: The Gulf has moved away from American arguments for isolating Iran. American policymakers need to do the same. 06.Jan.2008 Iranian bank shrugs off cost of US sanctions: In an interview with the Financial Times, Hamid Borhani said that of 600 foreign banks that used to do business with Bank Saderat before the US imposed sanctions in 00.Sep.2006 some 200 had halted their transactions 06.Jan.2008 Bush.php">Iran still a threat, Bush tells Israeli TV: An Iranian attack on Israel isn't imminent but Iran remains dangerous, U.S. President George Bush said in an interview with an Israeli TV station broadcast Saturday, days before Bush is slated to begin a Mideast visit. 06.Jan.2008 Bush: U.S. would defend Israel from Iranian strike : A recent U.S. intelligence report positing that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons program 00.000.2003 did not mean that Iran no longer poses a danger, because Iran can restart the program or use its civilian nuclear program for military purposes, Bush told Israel's Channel 2 TV. 06.Jan.2008 Iraqi soldier “Caesar” killed three American soldiers : Because they kicked and beat a pregnant woman 06.Jan.2008 Vengeance, Blackwater Style: US Military and Western Mainstream Media trying to conceal War Crimes committed in Fallujah 06.Jan.2008 Rice and Gates divided over Iran: The State Department strategy recognizes that the Mahdi Army, which poses the main threat to the George W Bush administration's plan to maintain an indefinite US military presence in the country, is too strong to be suppressed by US or Iraqi military forces. And it would seek an end to the accusations against Iran regarding Iraqi Shi'ite militias that have been issued regularly by US civilian and military officials throughout 2007.
06.Jan.2008 For Sale: West’s Deadly Nuclear Secrets - The Sunday Times
A WHISTLEBLOWER has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a 37-year-old former Turkish language translator for the FBI, listened into hundreds of sensitive intercepted conversations while based at the agency’s Washington field office. Continue 06.Jan.2008 In the Thrall of AIPAC - Why Obama Can't Save Us - By MISSY COMLEY BEATTIE
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh recently said that Barack Obama is our "only hope" to "lead a reconciliation between the Muslim countries and the US." Why? Because Obama's father was a Muslim. Continue 06.Jan.2008 An American Soldiers Opinion on The war - 9 Minute Video - "I am outraged at what's going on" Continue
06.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Wenn ihr gestern das Video geguckt habt, habt ihr sicher auch das Detail mitgekriegt, dass die neuen EU-Verträge ein Aufrüstungsgebot für die Mitgliedsländer beinhalten. Von wegen, Friedensunion. Und Deutschland läßt sich da nicht lange bitten und kauft eine Familienpackung Korvetten für die Marine. Das brauchen wir, um uns gegen die Russ... äh, wartet, die Terrorist... mhh, nee... den Iran zu schützen. Ja, der Iran! Das ist es. Die Schiffe haben "vorzügliche Tarnkappen-Eigenschaften" und können erstmals seit 1945 wieder Landziele von See aus beschießen. Und die 130er Korvetten sind nicht der einzige Marine-Nachwuchs: Das gelte auch für die geplanten Marathon-Fregatten der Klasse 125, die eine übergroße Koalition aus CDU/CSU, SPD und FDP im Haushaltsausschuss pünktlich zur Sommerpause und öffentlich nahezu unbemerkt in Auftrag gab. Das teuerste Kriegsgerät in der deutschen Militärgeschichte kostet 650 Millionen Euro - pro Stück. Vier davon hat die Regierung Merkel bei Thyssen-Krupp bestellt, macht zusammen 2,6 Milliarden plus x, denn der Preis darf jährlich um bis zu drei Prozent nach oben klettern. Das Kürzel der neuen Wunderwaffe: "F 125". Auch diese 150 Meter langen Fregatten können Landziele bekämpfen, vor allem aber zwei Jahre lang nonstop auf See operieren. Na ENDLICH kann unsere Marine die Schweiz belagern!1!! Glücklicherweise läuft die Beschaffung total einwandfrei: Den Verdacht, dass die Marine der Politik Wind in die Segel bläst und nicht umgekehrt, wie es seit dem Militärphilosophen Carl von Clausewitz als üblich gilt, nährt ein Blick in die Beschaffungsgeschichte. im 00.Dez.2001 -bereits- Der Kaufvertrag für die Tarnkappen-Korvetten wurde unterschrieben, 00.000.2004 stand die Strategie für die Marathon-Fregatten weitgehend fest - aber erst 00.000.2006 -im Herbst- gab die Bundesregierung mit dem Weißbuch zur Sicherheitspolitik zu verstehen, wie die Marine als Teil einer "Transformation" der gesamten Bundeswehr zu einer "Expeditionary Navy" umgebaut werden soll. Fakten schaffen war im Öffentlichen Dienst schon immer die beste Strategie. Update : Das werden die größten Fregatten der Welt, weil man Schiffe dieser Größen normalerweise Zerstörer nennt, nicht Fregatten. Aber das war wohl politisch unopportun, Zerstörer zu kaufen. Klingt so brutal und so.
06.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ In der Bundeswehr ist es strafbar, sich an die Genfer Konvention halten zu wollen. Eine Sanitätssoldatin sollte völkerrechtswidrig zum Dienst an der Waffe herangezogen werden, hat sich dann beim Oberleutnant beschwert, und hat daraufhin eine Disziplinarbuße von 800 Euro gekriegt und ist nach Deutschland zurück geschickt worden. (via)
06.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Wenn der CCC gegen Wahlcomputer argumentiert, kommt ja häufig das Argument, es gäbe nicht genug Wahlhelfer, um das überhaupt manuell zu bewältigen. Außerdem ist das teuer und das machen nur ein paar ältliche Idealisten und so weiter. Stellt sich raus, das es dank Hartz IV plötzlich mehr als genug Wahlhelfer gibt, selbst in Hamburg mit dem Ultra-Komplex-Wahlrecht. (Danke, Sven)
06.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526893,00.html
Musharrafs Umschwung zeige nun, dass eine unabhängige Untersuchung von Bhuttos Tod durch die Vereinten Nationen notwendig sei, sagte ein Parteisprecher. Die PPP hatte dies bereits mehrmals zuvor gefordert.
06.Jan.2008 The Most Crucial Democratic Presidential Debate Also Turned Out to be the Most Lively and Informative as Format Allowed for More Interaction Between Candidates. Hard to Gauge Impact Though, As "Change" (Obama and Edwards) Squared Off Against "Experience" (Clinton and Richardson). Clinton Forcefully Presented Her Credentials; Obama Avoided Any Mistakes; Edwards Passionately Laid Out the Populist Case; and Richardson Spoke the Most Candidly and Refreshingly. 06.Jan.2008 Transcript of Saturday Night Democratic Debate in New Hampshire
Waterboarding Used to Be a Crime 06.Jan.2008 Bill O'Reilly Roughs Up Obama Aide, Forced Back by Secret Service at New Hampshire Event
-- A BuzzFlash News Alert 06.Jan.2008 First Major Post-Iowa Poll Shows Obama and McCain with Significant Leads in New Hampshire. Rasmussen Poll Conducted on Friday (4.5% Margin of Error) Has Obama 10% points Ahead of Clinton and 18% Ahead of Edwards. 06.Jan.2008 Edwards Banking on Change and Grassroots Support
Obama Says That His First Action as President Would be to Bring U.S. Troops Home from Iraq
-- A BuzzFlash News Alert 06.Jan.2008 New Hampshire: Independents are the Prize 1/6
Bush?s senior national security advisers are debating whether to expand the authority of the Central Intelligence Agency + the military to conduct far more aggressive covert operations in the tribal areas of Pakistan. 1/6 06.Jan.2008 New Hampshire: "Obama's Rise Dismays Clinton's Supporters." In Watching the Saturday Night Debate (Where all the Candidates Did Well, but Looked Fatigued -- Except for Edwards), What Struck BuzzFlash Finally About Hillary is Her Sense of Entitlement to the Position. That is Reflected in the Remarks of Some of Her NH Democratic Party Muck-a-Muck Supporters in This Article. 1/6
06.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ My question: Why didn't anyone in the mainstream media attempt this kind of investigation years ago? Why didn't more news organizations report on these events as they took place?
Journalism delayed is journalism denied. Permalink
06.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ At the time, the mainstream media dismissed all such concerns as paranoia. Now, the New York Times Magazine has devoted a massive cover story to the topic.
06.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Electronic voting
06.Jan.2008 Bhuttos Todesursache: Musharraf widerspricht eigenen Ermittlern (Politik)
06.Jan.2008 Wahl in Georgien: Präsident ruft sich als Sieger aus, Opposition geht auf die Straße
06.Jan.2008 Griechenland: Heftiges Erdbeben erschüttert Peloponnes
06.Jan.2008 Wetterkapriolen: Kältewelle in Florida - Wintersturm an der Westküste
06.Jan.2008 BBC Censored Benazir Bhutto's Reports that Bin Laden Had Been Murdered
The BBC "censored" portions of Benazir Bhutto's interview with David Frost. Left out was Bhutto's revelation that Bin Laden had been murdered. The "War on Terror" is, therefore, a big fraud!
06.Jan.2008 The Enablers Of Facism, The Mainstream News Media
Few doubt that Bush and Cheney have wrecked havoc on America and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths throughout the world, but in retrospect, their actions and behavior have been condoned and suppressed by America's fascist Mainstream News Media - and without their support, The Commander in Thief and Darth Cheney would have been impeached, removed from office, and prosecuted for their crimes years ago if we still had 06.Jan.2008 Stars Align for Renewable Energy
Around the world, investment in renewable energy projects is skyrocketing. S&P has buy ratings on three stocks poised to benefit from the boom
06.Jan.2008 Study: Investment in clean energy topped $100 billion
"There will also be volatility, as in any growth sector where valuations are driven more by expectation than by proven historical cash flows." Despite the global credit crunch 00.000.2007, new investment in clean energy industries like wind and solar power rose sharply to break through the $100 billion barrier for the first time, a research group, New ... via Budapest Business Journal
06.Jan.2008 Solar panels to go in 30% of Japanese houses by 2030
Under the government-mandated target, the number of solar-powered households would increase to 14 million from the current 400,000 and the capacity of such generation would expand 30-fold from the current 1.3 million kilowatts.
06.Jan.2008 France Sets Ambitious Renewable Energy Targets
Wind and solar power are at the heart of a big new push by the French government to increase the renewable share of the country`s total energy consumption from 6.7 percent 00.000.2004 to 20 percent by 2020.
06.Jan.2008 Losing more than we gain from autumn warming in the north
An international study investigating the carbon sink capacity of northern terrestrial ecosystems discovered that the duration of the net carbon uptake period (CUP) has on average decreased due to warmer autumn temperatures.
06.Jan.2008 NYT Notes Flaws In Current Electronic Voting Methods - Zonk 92 - Comments -
dstates writes "The New York time has an informative article on electronic voting with some frightening statistics and interesting anecdotes. Printers on Diebold machines in Cayahoga County OH jammed 20% of the time, making paper trail recounts suspect. Crashing voting machines in California reportedly resulted from Windows CE sensing fingers sliding from one key to another as a drag and drop event, and the Diebold software failing to handle the event. Of course, rather than just ignore this unanticipated condition, the OS did the right thing for a voting machine and crashed." Read more of this story at Slashdot.
06.Jan.2008 Bill Gates and Microsoft Fund Telescope - CmdrTaco 128 - Comments -
coondoggie writes "Bill Gates and the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences this week donated $30 million to an ambitious telescope that researchers say will be able to survey the entire sky every three nights — something never done before. The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) Project got $20 million from the Charles Simonyi Fund for Arts and Sciences and $10 million from Microsoft founder and chairman Bill Gates. Expected to see its "first light" 00.000.2014, the 8.4-meter LSST will survey the entire visible sky deeply in multiple colors every week with its 3 billion-pixel digital camera, probing the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy and opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move. With the telescope scientists will be able to quickly find Earth-threatening asteroids and exploding stars called supernovas and will be able to map out 100 billion galaxies, according to researchers." Read more of this story
06.Jan.2008 Introducing Magnet-Responsive Memory Foam - timothy 62+ - Comments -
Roland Piquepaille writes "The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently reported that two research teams have developed a new porous foam of an alloy that changes shape when exposed to a magnetic field. The NSF states that this new material is able to remember its original shape after it's been deformed by a physical or magnetic force. This polycrystalline nickel-manganese-gallium alloy is potentially cheaper and lighter than other materials currently used in devices ranging from sonar to precision valves. It also could be used to design biomedical pumps without moving parts and even for space applications and automobiles." Read more of this story 05.Jan.2008 https://www.newstarget.com/z022457.html
WHO warns of high risk of global epidemic from emerging diseases by David Gutierrez
(NewsTarget) The world remains at great risk of infectious disease epidemics and pandemics, and new diseases are emerging at an "historically unprecedented" rate, according to an annual report from the World Health Organization (WHO).
The report, titled "A Safer Future," says that never before have new diseases developed at such a high rate, averaging more than one per year. Since the 1970s, the WHO has identified 39 new diseases, including Ebola, SARS, bird flu, Nipahvirus and Marburg hemorrhagic fever.
05.Jan.2008 Bhutto- Mord: Scotland Yard untersucht Tatort
05.Jan.2008 Protest gegen Schmuseverbot: Südafrikas Teenager planen landesweites Massenküssen
05.Jan.2008 Our torturous vice president. - Satyam - Comments - Yesterday, Attorney General Mike Mukasey announced a DoJ probe into the CIA’s torture tape destruction. The Washington Post’s Dan Froomkin raises the question of whether the probe will investigate the roles of Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, David Addington: Cheney has been the administration’s central figure on all things related to torture . […] So it should have come as no surprise when the New York Times reported last month that David S. Addington, Cheney’s chief of staff and former legal counsel, was among the three White House lawyers who participated in at least one key meeting about the videotapes 00.000.2004. The initial spin from the White House was that only Harriet E. Miers, then a deputy White House chief of staff, had been briefed about the tapes — and that she had advised against their destruction. But with anything related to torture, it’s pretty clear the CIA took its orders from Cheney — via Addington . And how plausible is it that, in his exchanges with the CIA, Addington advised against the tapes’ destruction? Or that the CIA would have done it if he had told them not to? Isn’t it more likely that he supported the idea, either overtly or with a nod and a wink?
05.Jan.2008 Conyers demands special counsel in CIA tape investigation. - Satyam- - Comments -- In response to Attorney General Mike Mukasey announcing he would appoint John Durham, the Assistant United States Attorney from Connecticut, to investigate the CIA’s tape destruction, House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) said “it is disappointing” that Mukasey “declined to appoint a more independent special counsel in this matter.” From his statement: Because of this action, the Congress and the American people will be denied — as they were in the Valerie Plame matter — any final report on the investigation. Equally disappointing is the limited scope of this investigation, which appears limited to the destruction of two tapes. T he government needs to scrutinize what other evidence may have been destroyed beyond the two tapes , as well as the underlying allegations of misconduct associated with the interrogations. The Justice Department’s record over the past seven years of sweeping the administration’s misconduct under the rug has left the American public with little confidence in the administration’s ability to investigate itself. Nothing less than a special counsel with a full investigative mandate will meet the tests of independence, transparency and completeness. Appointment of a special counsel will allow our nation to begin to restore our credibility and moral standing on these issues.
02.Jan.2008 - Think Progress-- - Comments --- Former 9/11 Commission Co-Chairman Thomas Kean and Lee Hamilton write in The New York Times today that the CIA “obstructed our investigation” when it destroyed interrogation videotapes and “failed to respond to our lawful requests” about “the kind of information that would have been contained in such videotapes.” According to the Washington Times, President Bush “is benefiting from a Karl Rove-free White House and the lower-profile approach of his successor,” Barry Jackson, who is now “the right fit for a president now reliant on Republican legislators sticking with him.” After enjoying “a good rest” at his Crawford, TX ranch, President Bush returns to Washington with an “ambitious agenda for 2008,” which includes “tackling the mortgage lending crisis,” “securing more money from Congress for Iraq,” and pushing Congress to “permanently revise the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.” In “the most brazen and deadly attack” that Baghdad has seen in months, 36 people were killed and 32 were wounded by a suicide bomber who “targeted a funeral procession for a victim of another bombing.” There has been “a slight rise in suicide car and vest bombs” in Iraq since October. “An outspoken Saudi blogger is being held for ‘purposes of interrogation,’ the Saudi Interior Ministry confirmed Tuesday.” Fouah al-Farhan, whose blog “discusses social issues,” wrote in a letter to friends before he was arrested that he is being targeted because of his writings on “political prisoners here in Saudi Arabia.” (more…)
05.Jan.2008 Who killed Benazir Bhutto and why - sfux
(Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir wrote an insider?s analysis of the situation in Pakistan, following the, on 27.Dec.2007 brutal killing of Mrs. Benazir Bhutto in Rawalpindi . His article will be first published in a leading Polish weekly ?Wprost?(vprost = direct) on Monday, January 7, 2008. Today we present some excerpts from this article in a short preview. The full text will be posted on the CFP on Monday. ? David Dastych)
26.Sep.1983 Der Tag, an dem die Welt um Haaresbreite einem Atomkrieg entging - softlabhennef
World Content News - Unter dem Titel "1983: The Brink of Apocalypse" strahlt der britische Sender Channel 4 an diesem Wochenende eine 90-minütige Dokumentationssendung aus, die uns vor Augen führen wird, wie knapp wir in...
05.Jan.2008 Criminal inquiry over CIA tapes - The US justice department is to launch a criminal inquiry into the CIA's wiping of interrogation tapes.
05.Jan.2008 Who da Thunk It? Romanians Enjoy More Privacy Than Americans - Associated Press
As eastern Europe improves privacy safeguards for its citizens, western Europe + the United States are stepping up surveillance. The U.S. + Britain rank with China + Russia as the among the most intrusive of governments. 05.Jan.2008 Big Brother gets bigger, says global privacy study
US, UK among worst-ranked "democratic" countries in terms of privacy protections for citizens, says 2007 International Privacy Ranking report.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.jungewelt.de/2008/01-05/062.php?print=1
Doch ein »normales« Vorgehen wollten die Verfolgungsbehörden gerade nicht, sondern größtmögliche Terrorhysterie. Der Sonderparagraph 129a mußte her, um Globalisierungskritiker zu diffamieren, die Bewegung zu spalten und Einblick in linke Strukturen zu gewinnen. In Hamburg wurde die Gelegenheit genutzt, mindestens eine Wohnung zu verwanzen, in Berlin wurde kurz nach der Razzia ein Peilsender am Auto eines Aktivisten gefunden. Aufgegangen ist das Konzept nicht: Wenige Stunden nach den Razzien gingen bundesweit über 10000 Menschen auf die Straße, die Empörung über die Polizeiwillkür kam der Protestbewegung zugute.
05.Jan.2008 Wall Street: Schwerer Wochenstart erwartet
05.Jan.2008 Aktienmärkte "auf Messers Schneide"
05.Jan.2008 https://www.jungewelt.de/2008/01-05/008.php?print=1
00.Mai 1999 wechselte Prof. Dr. Heribert Zitzelsberger, langjähriger Chef der Steuerabteilung des Chemieriesen Bayer AG, als Staatssekretär ins Finanzministerium. Der damalige Bayer-Chef Manfred Schneider verkündete daraufhin den Aktionären auf der Hauptversammlung im April 1999 ganz unverfroren: »Wir haben unseren besten Steuer-Mann nach Bonn abgegeben. Ich hoffe, daß er so von Bayer infiltriert worden ist, daß er (…) die richtigen Wege einleiten wird.« Im Finanzministerium war Zitzelsberger für Grundsatzfragen der Finanz- und Wirtschaftspolitik zuständig und Vater der Unternehmenssteuerreform von SPD und Grünen, die am 1. Januar 2001 in Kraft trat. Neben der Senkung der Körperschaftssteuer sowie einer Reform der Gewerbesteuer begeisterte die deutsche Großindustrie vor allem der Umstand, daß Kapitalgesellschaften vom Jahr 2002 an ihre Beteiligungen steuerfrei verkaufen konnten. Die Folgen für die Haushalte der Länder und Gemeinden und somit für die Allgemeinheit waren dramatisch: Nordrhein-Westfalens damaliger Finanzminister Peer Steinbrück stellte fest: »Wir zahlen unter dem Strich mehr als wir einnehmen.« Der Bayer AG wurden im Jahr 2001 250 Millionen Euro Körperschaftssteuer erstattet, die Gewerbesteuereinnahmen der Stadt Leverkusen brachen ein, weil durch neu eröffnete Möglichkeiten der Gewinnverschiebung der Konzern in seiner Heimatstadt steuerrechtlich keine Gewinne mehr erzielte. Erst seit 2006 steigen die Gewerbesteuerreinnahmen Leverkusens allmählich wieder an. Schneiders Rechnung scheint aufgegangen zu sein. Der »beste Steuer-Mann« hat seine Arbeit gut gemacht.
05.Jan.2008 Wie das Gehirn Verbindungen knüpft
05.Jan.2008 Urteil im G-8-Prozess: Bundesrichter kassieren Terrorvorwurf
05.Jan.2008 G-8-Razzia war Willkür
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Haha, Stabilitätspakt, dass ich nicht lache: M3-Geldmenge in der EU ist im November um 12,3% im Vergleich zum Vorjahr gewachsen. Aber klar, Schuld sind die Ausländer: Die stark aufgeblähte Geldmenge in der Euro-Zone speise sich auch durch kräftige Zuflüsse aus dem Ausland, sagte Ökonom Michael Schubert von der Commerzbank: "Man sucht den sicheren Hafen wegen der Finanzmarktkrise." Insbesondere Termineinlagen und kurzfristige Schuldverschreibungen seien derzeit sehr attraktiv.
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Erinnert ihr euch noch an die Flitterwochen in der Lüneburger Heide, die von der Kripo gesprengt wurden? Da gibt es jetzt einen tollen Nachschlag zu in der taz.
05.Jan.2008 Sie würde an deren Stelle nicht gegen die Polizei klagen, sagt Anita Oswald. "Wenn man still ist, fährt man besser." Mir fällt ja bei sowas immer der Herr Niemöller ein.
05.Jan.2008 Vortrag zur EU-Verfassung von Prof Schachtschneider. Interessante Punkte: Deutschland hat der EU-Verfassung nicht zugestimmt, weil das Verfassungsgericht dem Bundespräsidenten die Unterschrift verboten hat. Seit Maastricht gibt es das verbriefte Recht von Staaten, aus der EU auszutreten. Es besteht also kein Zwang, irgendwelche fragwürdigen EU-Richtlinien zu übernehmen.
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Bundesgerichtshof erklärt G8-Razzien für rechtswidrig. Leider aus formalen Gründen, die Harms war gar nicht zuständig.
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Kleine Anfrage der FDP zur NS-Vergangenheit unserer Schnüffeldienste. Auszug: Die Aufklärung der Gründungsgeschichte der Nachrichtendienste sei in erster Linie Aufgabe der Sicherheitsbehörden selbst , heißt es in der Antwort weiter. Die Bundesregierung unterstütze dieses Vorhaben mit den ihr zur Verfügung stehenden Mitteln, da gerade den Sicherheitsbehörden eine besondere Verantwortung für den Schutz der freiheitlich demokratischen Grundordnung zukomme. Aha, soso, man läßt also die Bankräuber den Bankraub aufklären. Das läuft bestimmt super. Aus der Antwort dann noch folgender Knaller: Aus den vorhandenen Personalakten konnten folgende biographische Kontinuitäten von BND-Mitarbeitern zur Zeit des Nationalsozialismus ermittelt werden: 69 Mitarbeiter waren ehemalige SS-Angehörige, 3 Mitarbeiter waren ehemalige Angehörige der Geheimen Staatspolizei (Gestapo), 8 Mitarbeiter waren ehemalige Angehörige des Sicherheitsdienstes (SD), 7 Mitarbeiter waren ehemalige Angehörige der Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo), 10 Mitarbeiter waren ehemalige Angehörige des Reichssicherheitshauptamtes (RSHA). Dabei ist möglich, dass bei einzelnen Mitarbeitern mehrere Merkmale gleichzeitig zutreffen. Lupenreine Demokraten, kann ich da nur sagen. (Danke, Marcel)
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Bei Boeings 787 Dreamliner besteht eine physische Netzwerkverbindung zwischen dem Passagier-LAN für Internetzugang und dem Kontroll-LAN für die Bordelektronik. Ja sind die denn von allen guten Geistern verlassen?!
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Die Bahn setzt ihre Charme-Offensive fort: Bahn fordert "mehrere zehntausend Euro" Trassengebühren für den "Zug der Erinnerung", eine mobile Ausstellung über im NS-Regime deportierte Kinder, die natürlich auf den Trassen fahren soll, auf denen im Holocaust die Menschen deportiert wurden.
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Na da lagen wir doch mal wieder gar nicht so falsch: Der BND hat bereits rund 60mal "Online-Durchsuchungen" durchgeführt, natürlich alles auf Rechnern Verdächtiger im Ausland, daß sich da jetzt bloß keiner Sorgen macht. Inland gehöre schließlich nicht zu seinem Aufgabengebiet. Dabei hat der BND doch 2007 erst Abhörbefugnisse im Inland erhalten, um seine Journalisten-Leaks aufzuklären (wer's glaubt).
05.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ US-Skandal: Video schlafender Wächter in Atomkraftwerk. Und wißt ihr, wieso drüben sowas passiert? Weil die Whistleblower Protection haben. Wenn bei uns jemand so ein Video macht, wird er gefeuert und verklagt. In den USA gibt es wenigstens rudimentären Schutz. Auch nicht wirklich genug, aber immerhin haben die überhaupt was in die Richtung.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
14 On the sixth anniversary of the 11.Sep.2001 attack Cambridge University engineer Dr.Keith Steffen fold BBC that his calculations showed that the WTC’s progressive collapse on 9/11 was a “very ordinary thing.” His paper will appear in the Journal of Engineering Mechanics in 00.Feb.2008 . “9/11 demolition theory challenged,” BBC News , September 11, 2007.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
Interestingly, one week before the September 11 attack, Skilling’s partner, Leslie Robertson, spoke at a conference in Frankfurt, Germany. When asked what he had done to protect the towers from terrorism, Robertson confirmed Skilling: “I designed it for a 707 to smash into it.” “Towers Build to Withstand Jet Impact.” Chicago Tribune, September 12, 2001.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
It is high time that Americans face the shocking reality that explosives were used to bring down the World Trade Center on 9/11.
Mark H. Gaffney’s first book was a pioneering 1989 study of Israel’s nuclear weapons program, Dimona: the Third Temple? Mark’s latest, Gnostic Secrets of the Naassenes, was a finalist for the 2004 Narcissus Book Award. His forthcoming book, The 911 Mystery Plane and the Vanishing of America, is scheduled for release in September 2008. Visit Mark’s website at www.gnosticsecrets.com
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
00.000.1964, four years before the start of construction, an article about the planned WTC appeared in the Engineering News-Record. The article declared that “live loads on these [perimeter] columns can be increased more than 2,000 percent before failure occurs.”[72] A careful reading of the piece also gives insight into why the plane impacts were not fatal to the integrity of the outer wall. The reason is simple: the perimeter columns were designed to function together as an enormous truss, specifically, a Vierendeel truss. The wall was inherently stable. After the plane impacts it behaved like an arch, simply transferring the load to the surrounding columns. As the 1964 article states,
“the WTC towers will have an inherent capacity to resist unforeseen calamities. This capacity stems from its Vierendeel wall system and is enhanced through the use of high-strength steels.”[73]
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
What all of this means, of course, is that even in the most improbable worst case, in which many or all WTC core columns lost half of their strength, there was still sufficient reserve capacity to support the building.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
.[65] This means that the average core column in the impact zone of WTC-1 could support more than twice its design load before reaching the yield strength, i.e., the point where damage may begin to occur. My grateful thanks to the NIST investigative team for helping me locate these numbers, which were buried in the report.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
The testing standards applicable 00.000.1968 give a reasonable idea of the required level of reserve strength in the steel columns and other materials used in the WTC. For example, in the most stringent test a steel member had to withstand 250% of the design load, plus half again its own weight, for a period of a week, without collapse.[62]
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
This finding is so astonishing it bears repeating: The NIST report presents no physical evidence whatsoever that the fires in the core of WTC-2 were raging infernos. On what, then, does the agency base its conclusion that “Dire structural changes were occurring in the building interior”?[59] The answer, apparently, is the following strange hedge:
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
Quiet flames. No roaring inferno. It is not surprising that NIST chose to ignore the testimony of these survivors.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
Curiously, the 9/11 Commission Report also briefly mentions this episode, but, likewise, fails to discuss its possible significance, no doubt, for the same reason.[55]
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
On reaching the 78th floor sky lobby they found many dead or seriously injured people; but no raging inferno. Palmer’s radio exchange with another fireman shows no hint of panic or fear, as the following transcript shows:
Battalion Seven Chief (Palmer): "Battalion Seven ... Ladder 15, we've got two isolated pockets of fire. We should be able to knock it down with two lines. Radio that, 78th floor numerous 10-45 Code Ones.
Ladder 15: "Chief, what stair you in?"
Battalion Seven Chief: "South stairway Adam, South Tower."
Ladder 15: "Floor 78?"
Battalion Seven Chief: "Ten-four, numerous civilians, we gonna need two engines up here."
Battalion Seven Chief: "Tower one. Battalion Seven to Ladder 15."
Battalion Seven Chief: "I'm going to need two of your firefighters Adam stairway to knock down two fires. We have a house line stretched we could use some water on it, knock it down, okay."
Ladder 15: "Alright ten-four, we're coming up the stairs. We're on 77 now in the B stair, I'll be right to you."
Battalion Seven Operations Tower One: "Battalion Seven Operations Tower One to Battalion Nine, need you on floor above 79. We have access stairs going up to 79, kay."
Battalion Nine: "Alright, I'm on my way up, Orlo."[52]
Here, Battalion Chief Palmer calls for more men and water to put out the isolated fires. His expression “10-45 Code Ones” refers to dead bodies, of which apparently there were many. The tape shows that the two firemen were not turned back by heat, smoke, or a wall of flames. They were able to function within the fire zone and were prepared to help the injured and combat the few isolated fires they found. Palmer even mentions that the stairway up to the next level, i.e., floor 79, was passable. Minutes later the building came down on their heads.
NIST knew about this testimony.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
In short, NIST flatly contradicts itself regarding the disposition of the SFRM; and this is crucial because it means NIST’s own data fails to support its conclusions.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
To make matters worse for the official collapse theory, NIST also found that “the fuel loading in the core areas....was negligible.”[42] It’s easy to understand why all of these facts are downplayed in the NIST summary report. Taken together, they are fatal to NIST’s collapse model, which requires that high temperatures be sustained. Fires that subside after only 15-20 minutes simply cannot weaken enormous steel columns and cause them to buckle.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
NIST scientists developed a novel way to evaluate the impact of the fire on the WTC steel. According to the report, the approach was “easy to implement and robust enough to examine the entire component in the field.”[33] They found that the original primer paint used on the steel beams and columns was altered by high heat. This made it possible to determine the level of exposure by analyzing the paint on the samples.[34] But the results were surprising. NIST found no evidence that any of the steel samples, including those from the impact areas and fire-damaged floors, had reached temperatures exceeding 1,110ºF (600ºC).[35] Sixteen recovered perimeter columns showed evidence of having been exposed to fire, but even so, out of 170 areas examined on these columns only three locations had reached temperatures in excess of 250ºC (450ºF).[36] Moreover, NIST found no evidence that any of the recovered core columns had reached even this minimal temperature.[37] The startling fact is that NIST’s own data failed to support its conclusion that the fires of 9/11 heated up the steel columns, causing them to weaken and buckle.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
For example, NIST confirmed that the truss assemblies were not only bolted to the outer perimeter wall, they were also welded, hence, were considerably stronger than expected–––not prone to pancaking.[29] Nor could the pancake model explain the failure of the core columns.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
By limiting the scope of its inquiry NIST rendered the truth unobtainable–––an effective way to neuter an investigation.
With all of this in mind, let us now explore what NIST did investigate.
The Special Projects
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
Strangely, when workmen began to dismantle the badly damaged Deutsch Bank on December 8, 2006, they found more than 700 slivers of bone on the roof and within the structure.[19] This bizarre report has never been explained.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
The buildings were not pulverized as they hit the ground, they disintegrated in midair. As the south tower started to collapse, for example, the entire upper section tipped as a unit, then inexplicably turned to dust before our eyes.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
After I posted a critique of the NIST report in December 2006, I received a letter from a retired fireman who informed me that over the course of his twenty-odd years of service he had fought many types of fires, involving residential, commercial and industrial structures, including high-rise buildings. He explained that on a number of occasions, when his crew lost the battle to save a structure “some of the times the building would collapse…. in a random, haphazard, piecemeal fashion. Not once,” he wrote, “did I personally witness one of those structures collapsing in the rather controlled...fashion as the WTC towers and Building 7.”[18]
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
Although the exact time of the collapse of WTC 1 and 2 cannot be determined with precision because of the growing dust cloud, each collapse took approximately 10-12 seconds, only 1-2 seconds slower than the time for a billiard ball to free-fall from the WTC roof to the plaza. But how can this be? By what special dispensation did the collapsing WTC violate the laws of physics? The reader will search the NIST report in vain for any discussion of this important anomaly. Why not? Obviously. because agency officials made a political decision not to go there.
05.Jan.2008 DARPA Develops Brain Chemical to Replace Sleep As the line between science fiction and reality becomes increasingly blurry, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has always led the pack in terms of cool, weird, wacky and frightening innovations.
Via Mac Tonnies. posted by Prof. Hex
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
In order to understand the official story, however, and why it fails to explain the WTC collapse, it is necessary to know more about the World Trade Center and how it was built.
A State-of-the-Art Design
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
Assuming both were to crash at this speed, the 707 would actually have greater kinetic energy.[5]
05.Jan.2008 https://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18999.htm
NIST simply took it for granted that the impacts set in motion a chain of events leading to a catastrophic structural failure. Working backwards, NIST scientists searched for evidence that supported their predetermined conclusion. Everything else was ignored or excluded. If it is not already evident to the reader, this is no way to conduct a scientific investigation. NIST then had the audacity to imply that it arrived at its favored collapse model through an exhaustive process of elimination. Most readers who merely browsed NIST’s 2005 Executive Summary probably were not aware that NIST’s stated conclusion was really an assumption. Consider this passage, for example:
“The tragic consequences of the September 11, 2001 attacks were directly attributable to the fact that terrorists flew large jet-fuel laden commercial airliners into the WTC towers. Buildings for use by the general population are not designed to withstand attacks of such severity; building codes do not require building designs to consider aircraft impact.”[4]
05.Jan.2008 US: No need for UN probe into Bhutto slaying : The United States on Wednesday brushed aside calls for a UN investigation into the slaying of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, saying Britain's Scotland Yard now leads the probe and will get "the answers" Pakistan's people deserve.
04.Jan.2008 Madness Compounding Madness - Calls for Intervention in Pakistan -By- Gary Leupp
"Al-Qaeda is now as much a Pakistani phenomenon as it is an Arab or foreign element," declares Najam Sethi, editor of Pakistan's Daily Times. It is not just the Arabs, Uzbeks and other foreigners who fled from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the wake of the U.S. invasion of late 2001. It draws in Pakistani tribesmen, Punjabis, Urdu speakers. What was once a group foreigners (numbers unknown) enjoying Pashtun hospitality under the Taliban in Afghanistan has struck roots in neighboring Pakistan. Continue 04.Jan.2008 Stonewalled By The C.I.A. -By- THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
The recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.Continue
05.Jan.2008 FBI to lead investigation of destroyed CIA tapes: In some law enforcement circles the prospect of the FBI's interviewing high-level CIA officials and rummaging around the files of the agency's secret interrogation programs represents a payback moment in the rich history of rivalry between the two agencies.
05.Jan.2008 Propaganda and disinformation: Iran no longer aids Iraq militants: Iran's leaders are no longer supplying weapons or training to Islamic militants in Iraq, the spokesman for the top U.S. commander in Iraq told The Washington Times.
05.Jan.2008 Evidence of Israeli 'Cowardly Blending' Comes to Light -By- Jonathan Cook in Nazareth
It apparently never occurred to anyone in our leading human rights organisations or the Western media that the same moral and legal standards ought be applied to the behaviour of Israel and Hizbullah during the war on Lebanon 18 months ago. Belatedly, an important effort has been made to set that right. Continue 05.Jan.2008 Extinguishing Liberty’s Light and Independent Views - Thinking For Yourself Is Now A Crime -By- Paul Craig Roberts
What was the greatest failure of 2007 ? President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq? The decline in the value of the US dollar? Subprime mortgages? No. The greatest failure of 2007 was the newly sworn in Democratic Congress. Continue 05.Jan.2008 Social Repression and Internet Surveillance
H. Res. 1695, 1955 & S.1959 -By- Nikki Alexander
If current employees of the Federal Government are not happy with the laws that govern this country and would prefer to live under totalitarian regimes they are free to exit and live elsewhere. They are not free to pervert our laws to conform with their own personal belief systems and ideologically based values. Continue 05.Jan.2008 Education is Ignorance - Noam Chomsky
Mass education was designed to turn independent farmers into docile, passive tools of production. That was its primary purpose. And don't think people didn't know it. They knew it and they fought against it. Continue The NIST Report on the World Trade Center Collapse one year later: 05.Jan.2008 Still Dead On Arrival -By- Mark H. Gaffney - It is high time that Americans face the shocking reality that explosives were used to bring down the World Trade Center on 9/11. Continue
05.Jan.2008 Job Woes Deepen Economic Anxiety: Losses Extend Past Housing Industry
In Praise of the Iowa Caucuses: Transparent Democracy at Its Best -- The BuzzFlash Editor's Blog. "What could be more inclusive than allowing just about anyone registered to vote to show up at either party caucus and openly and visibly declare themselves for a candidate. Where else does one's body represent one's vote?" 05.Jan.2008 Our Forrest Gump in the White House and His Box of Tax Cut Chocolates: The Economy is Faltering, So Bush Trots Out Tax Cuts Again as a Solution to What Helped Get Us Here in the First Place, Given His Record National Debt
A Hoarse but Victorious Obama talks with Roland S. Martin on WVON in Chicago (via telephone) to discuss his Iowa Caucus win. (MP3) What Would He Do as His First Act as President? End the Iraq War, He Tells Martin. Well Worth Listening to.
P.M. Carpenter: Where Did It Go Wrong for Hillary? Start With Her Iraq War Vote. 1/6
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards implored New Hampshire voters Friday to repudiate the Iowa caucus results and vote for a candidate ``who will fight for the middle class'' against corporate interests that he accuses of moving jobs overseas and making health care expensive.
January 5th Poll: Obama Leads Giuliani by 10 Points in U.S. 1/5 05.Jan.2008 Iraqi Soldier Kills 2 US Troops 1/6
"Advisers to Clinton, a Democratic senator from New York, said she planned to rebound from her third-place finish in Iowa by attacking the winner, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, and giving former President Clinton a larger strategic role in the campaign." 1/5 05.Jan.2008 Conservative Blogger Overhears Iowa Diner Comments of Infamous Huckabee Campaign Manager, Ed Rollins, and Blogs it on Conservative Site, And It's a Doozy 1/6
05.Jan.2008 https://thegiganticheartlessmultinationalcorporation.com/id827.htm
Our information IS controlled The cell phone calls from the aircraft could not have happened. I am a National Security Agency trained Electronic Warfare specialist, and am qualified to say this. My official title: MOS33Q10, Electronic Warfare Intercept Strategic Signal Processing/Storage Systems Specialist, a highly skilled MOS which requires advanced knowledge of many communications methods and circuits to the most minute level. I am officially qualified to place severe doubt that ordinary cell phone calls were ever made from the aircraft.
It was impossible for that to have happened, especially in a rural area for a number of reasons.
05.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526173,00.html
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05.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526173,00.html Künftig müssen die Unternehmen bis zu sechs Monate lang festhalten, wer wann mit wem und wie lange telefoniert hat. Inhalte werden nicht gespeichert Zusätzlich wird bei Mobilfunkgesprächen auch der Standort gespeichert. Dem Gesetz zufolge, das eine EU-Richtlinie umsetzt, dürfen aber keine Daten gesichert werden, die einen Rückschluss auf den Inhalt zulassen. Zugriff auf die gespeicherten Daten haben Polizei und Staatsanwaltschaft nur auf richterlichen Beschluss.
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Nun haben Astronomen den Stoff erstmals außerhalb unseres Sonnensystems nachgewiesen: in der Staubscheibe um den 220 Lichtjahre entfernten Stern HR 4796A. Der Fundort ist pikant: Aus dem Staub, der Sterne umkreist, entstehen laut der gängigen Theorie Planeten. Der Grundstoff für die Entwicklung von Leben sei deshalb auf Planeten möglicherweise schon von Anfang an vorhanden, schreiben John Debes von der Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington und seine Kollegen im Fachblatt "Astrophysical Journal Letters" (Bd. 673, Paper bei arxiv.org). Auch die junge Erde habe wahrscheinlich einst Spuren des Stoffes besessen.
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04.Jan.2008 Krise in Kenia: Nach den Unruhen kommt der Hunger (Politik)
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04.Jan.2008 Rezessionsangst: Schlechte US- Arbeitsmarktdaten lassen Börsen absacken (Wirtschaft)
04.Jan.2008 Peinliche Ölpreis- Prognosen: Er sinkt! Er steigt! Er bleibt! (Wirtschaft)
04.Jan.2008 Luxusgut Wärme: Heizöl so teuer wie nie zuvor (Wirtschaft)
04.Jan.2008 Rezessionsgefahr: US- Arbeitslosigkeit steigt auf höchsten Stand seit 2005 (Wirtschaft)
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Viel Aufregung um einen kleinen Asteroiden, der eventuell unseren Nachbarn treffen könnte. Zu viel? "Es sind zwar nur vier Prozent Einschlagswahrscheinlichkeit", sagt Neukum. "Aber was glauben Sie, was hier los wäre, wenn es um die Erde ginge?"
04.Jan.2008 Neue britische Regel: Eltern kriegen im Pub weniger Bier 04.Jan.2008 Asteroid auf Crash- Kurs: Alarm auf dem Mars
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04.Jan.2008 Verbraucherpreise 2007: Internetkosten um fünf Prozent gesunken 04.Jan.2008 Blutiger Konflikt: Kenias Tourismusindustrie fürchtet Desaster
04.Jan.2008 Deutsche Aktienkurse 2008: Die Rettung kommt aus Fernost (Wirtschaft)
04.Jan.2008 Expert: Crime of torture could only have been ordered by the president: Constitutional expert Jonathan Turley told Keith Olbermann that as many as six criminal offenses could be involved in the 9/11 Commission charge alone, including obstruction of Congress, obstruction of justice, perjury, and conspiracy. 04.Jan.2008 9/11 Commission: Our investigation was "obstructed": The bi-partisan co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission, Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton, jointly published an Op-Ed in today's New York Times which contains some extremely emphatic and serious accusations against the CIA and the White House. 04.Jan.2008 Veteran prosecutor takes over CIA torture tape probe: The CIA acknowledged last month that 00.000.2005 it destroyed videos of officers using tough interrogation methods on two al-Qaida suspects. The revelation touched off a congressional inquiry and a preliminary investigation by the Justice Department into whether the CIA violated any laws or obstructed congressional inquiries such as the one led by the Sept. 11 Commission. 04.Jan.2008 Couple banned for life from shopping centre and branded 'terrorists' - for taking photos of their grandchildren: Kim and Trevor Sparshott were ordered to stop taking photos because they were causing a security threat. 04.Jan.2008 Demonstrators held after Iowa anti-war protests: At least 10 anti-war demonstrators were arrested yesterday during protests in Des Moines over the lack of debate on the war on Iraq in the election campaign. 04.Jan.2008 Rep. Mike Michaud Writes Strong Letter to Conyers Calling for Cheney Impeachment Hearings: Congressman Mike Michaud, a conservative and Blue Dog Democrat from Maine sent a letter over the holiday break to House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers calling for impeachment hearings of Vice President Dick Cheney.
04.Jan.2008 Russian S-300s for Iran: The West appears amazed to see the Russian-Iranian strategic partnership surviving and even strengthening. 04.Jan.2008 Khamenei: Iran sees no benefits in US ties now: Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Thursday that Iran sees "no benefit" in resuming ties with the United States at the moment but did not rule out a resumption of relations in the future.
04.Jan.2008 Aid chief says Taliban control a quarter of Afghanistan at night: The NATO forces battling Taliban guerrillas are stretched thin, unable even to guard key roads, and now some are asking, "Is it Mission Impossible?" 04.Jan.2008 US: No need for UN probe into Bhutto slaying : The United States on Wednesday brushed aside calls for a UN investigation into the slaying of Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, saying Britain's Scotland Yard now leads the probe and will get "the answers" Pakistan's people deserve.
04.Jan.2008 Madness Compounding Madness - Calls for Intervention in Pakistan -By- Gary Leupp
"Al-Qaeda is now as much a Pakistani phenomenon as it is an Arab or foreign element," declares Najam Sethi, editor of Pakistan's Daily Times. It is not just the Arabs, Uzbeks and other foreigners who fled from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the wake of the U.S. invasion of late 2001. It draws in Pakistani tribesmen, Punjabis, Urdu speakers. What was once a group foreigners (numbers unknown) enjoying Pashtun hospitality under the Taliban in Afghanistan has struck roots in neighboring Pakistan. Continue 04.Jan.2008 Stonewalled By The C.I.A. -By- THOMAS H. KEAN and LEE H. HAMILTON
The recent revelations that the C.I.A. destroyed videotaped interrogations of Qaeda operatives leads us to conclude that the agency failed to respond to our lawful requests for information about the 9/11 plot. Those who knew about those videotapes — and did not tell us about them — obstructed our investigation.Continue 04.Jan.2008 The Iraq Charade -By- Ramzy Baroud
It seems odd that the bulk - if not the entirety - of reports on the improvement in security are predicated principally on information released by the US military, Iraqi official sources or willing collaborates of both (conformist Shia sources, tribal Sunni leaders). Continue 04.Jan.2008 An Iron Fist In A Velvet Glove - How American Democracy Relies on Fascism -By- Ted Rall
What would you do if you learned that Bush Administration officials wanted to round up thousands of Americans and throw them into concentration camps? Continue 04.Jan.2008 Atrocity-Linked U.S. Officials Advising Democratic, GOP Presidential Frontrunners: Democracy Now! - Audio and Transcript
Independent journalist Allan Nairn and American Conservative correspondent Kelley Beaucar Vlahos discuss a little-addressed facet of the 2008 campaign: many of the top advisers to leading presidential candidates are ex-U.S. officials involved in atrocities around the world. Continue
04.Jan.2008 https://www.islamicbomb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=44
CBS News: "Fatal Error" Changed Nuclear History
09.Nov.2007 -By- CBS News producer Wendy Krantz.
04.Jan.2008 https://www.islamicbomb.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34&Itemid=44
"We know that members of the network have largely escaped any kind of sanction, and in cases where there have been attempts at prosecution, it's been primarily slaps on the wrist, suspended sentences, small fines," Armstrong said. "There has been no real penalty, no repercussion, for the people who have participated in this and no real serious effort to wrap up the members of network and bring them to justice."
That leaves a potential pool of skilled engineers and technicians trained by Khan's gang available to anyone willing to pay.
"We have situation where you have warlords who first the CIA paid, and bin Laden has paid, who are basically available to the highest bidder, who may end up in control of a weapon," Trento said. "That is something that gives me great pause."
04.Jan.2008 https://journals.democraticunderground.com/lukery/5
Last week in Slate, Dahlia Lithwick wrote Legal Fictions - The Bush administration's dumbest legal arguments of the year 2. State secrets.
Again, it's virtually impossible to cite the single most egregious assertion by the Bush administration of the state-secrets privilege, because there are so many to choose from. This doctrine once barred the introduction into court of specific evidence that might compromise national security, but in the hands of the Bush administration, it has ballooned into a doctrine of blanket immunity for any conduct the administration wishes to hide. The privilege was invoked 00.000.2007 to block testimony about its torture and extraordinary rendition program, its warrantless surveillance program, and to defend the notion of telecom immunity for colluding in government eavesdropping, among other things. No longer an evidentiary rule, the state-secrets privilege has become one of the administration's surest mechanisms for shielding its most egregious activities.
04.Jan.2008 https://journals.democraticunderground.com/lukery/5
According to the Guardian in mid December:
A senior customs investigator could face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act over suspicions that he exposed how US and British intelligence agencies interfered in his attempts to halt an international nuclear smuggling ring.
Police and officials from the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) have searched the home of Atif Amin for evidence that he passed classified information to the American authors of a book about the worldwide nuclear proliferation network.
Amin was in charge of Operation Akin, an investigation into links between British companies and the illegal network run by Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani scientist who helped build that country's nuclear arsenal.
The investigation is the subject of a book recently published in the US, America and the Islamic Bomb: The Deadly Compromise. Its authors, David Armstrong and Joseph Trento, contend that 00.000.2000 Amin uncovered evidence in Dubai of the Khan network's involvement in establishing Libya's nuclear programme but was ordered to drop his inquiries and return home, at the request of the CIA and MI6.
The Libyan programme and the Khan network were not exposed and halted until 2003. The book argues that in the intervening three years the network continued to sell nuclear technology and possibly weapons designs to Iran, North Korea and possibly other countries, under the noses of US and British intelligence.
04.Jan.2008 https://journals.democraticunderground.com/lukery/5
In fact, the CIA apparently knew more about the Pakistan program than even Benazir Bhutto when she was Prime Minister .
According to Seymour Hersh's fantastic 1993 article in the New Yorker
"The question of what Ms. Bhutto knew, or didn’t know, about the bomb would be resolved when she paid a scheduled state visit to Washington in June (1990); at that time she was provided with a detailed briefing by William H. Webster, the C.I.A. director. To dramatize the extent of American knowledge, Webster arranged for Ms. Bhutto to be shown a mockup of a Pakistani nuclear bomb.
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Mark A. Siegel, a former Carter Administration official and close Bhutto associate, who 00.000.1989 served as Pakistan’s American lobbyist + 00.000.1990 -described her feelings of disbelief upon being briefed by Webster. “The briefing was more detailed” than any information that she, as Prime Minister, had been provided, Siegel said. “It also showed that the military was doing it behind her back.” "
04.Jan.2008 https://journals.democraticunderground.com/lukery/5
Sibel Edmonds Case: Benazir and The 'Islamic' Bomb Posted by lukery in General Discussion
Wed Jan 02nd 2008, 02:39 PM According to UPI's Richard Sale: "(Benazir Bhutto) said two things that sealed her fate. She said that if elected PM, she would allow US forces to hunt for bin Laden on Pakistani soil, and that she would allow the Vienna-based IAEA to interrogate the rogue nuclear scientist, AQ Khan about his nuclear smugglings to North Korea, Iran, Libya, etc. After those statements, she had no chance of surviving."
There's one small problem: the CIA, the FBI, and Britain's MI6 probably know more about the so-called 'AQ Khan network' than AQ Khan himself.
For some reason, the criminals involved in the nuclear black market are still (mostly) walking free - in Pakistan, the US and elsewhere - while those who threatened to expose them - Richard Barlow, Sibel Edmonds, Valerie Plame, and the latest addition, Atif Amin - have been harassed, threatened and gagged.
04.Jan.2008 https://journals.democraticunderground.com/lukery/5
Tropical Paradise? "They're living in the tropics… They've got everything they could possibly want." — Dick Cheney - Torture and indefinite detention are shamefully un-American.
WEAR ORANGE January 11 and protest the shame that is Guantánamo Bay. www.aclu.org/closegitmo Read more...
04.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ MUST READ: Benazir Bhutto, Sibel Edmonds and AQ Khan
04.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ MUST read lukery's latest on the Sibel Edmonds saga. Seems that Benazir Bhutto had promised to uncover the truth about the AQ Kahn network. Doing so would have exposed Khan's connections to various powerful players....
One of AQ Khan's American suppliers was a company called Giza Technologies in New Jersey.... Joe Trento says this of Giza:
"So the question is: who is responsible for allowing this to happen? Why wasn’t Giza exposed? Giza wasn’t exposed because it may have been used for other operations in the past. It may have been a front for the U.S intelligence service!
<...> It’s outrageous! There’s every evidence that the United States were deeply involved, in not only helping AQ Khan set up the network but aiding Pakistan in getting a nuclear weapon." Permalink
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04.Jan.2008 Erfolgreiche Beschwerde: BGH erklärt Razzien bei G- 8-Gegnern für rechtswidrig 04.Jan.2008 Sicherheitsbedenken: Rallye Dakar wegen Terrorgefahr abgesagt (Sport) 04.Jan.2008 Rohstoff- Vorräte: Opec rechnet die Öl- Krise hoch 04.Jan.2008 Aktienkauf: Konkurrent Barclays steigt bei Commerzbank ein 04.Jan.2008 Jugendgewalt: "Wir geben den Leuten zu wenig Gründe, uns toll zu finden" 04.Jan.2008 Razzia gegen Kurdenorganisation: Türkische Polizei nimmt Dutzende mutmaßliche Islamisten fest 04.Jan.2008 Globale Kreditkrise: Commerzbank- Chef Müller gibt Bankern die Schuld (Wirtschaft)
04.Jan.2008 Reiserecht: Und täglich dröhnt der Presslufthammer
04.Jan.2008 Streit um Billigcomputer: Intel steigt bei "One Laptop per Child" aus
04.Jan.2008 Fall Buback: Ex- Innenminister Baum findet Beugehaft für RAF- Terroristen peinlich
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04.Jan.2008 Opposition: FDP- General vergleicht Koalition mit Nationaler Front der DDR 04.Jan.2008 Insiderhandel: Fünf Jahre Haft - Ex- Goldman- Banker verurteilt 04.Jan.2008 Kurseinbruch: Ölpreis- Angst drückt Tokios Börse (Wirtschaft)
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03. JANUAR 2008 US- Automarkt: Deutsche fahren Rekorde ein - Toyota überholt Ford 03.Jan.2008 US- Kinokassen: Oberpirat Johnny Depp bringt das meiste Geld rein (Kultur)
03.Jan.2008 Körpergröße: Forscher finden Wachstums- Gen 03.Jan.2008 Parasiten: Schmetterlingsraupen im Ameisenpelz
03.Jan.2008 https://www.taz.de/1/politik/deutschland/artikel/1/beugehaft-fuer-ex-raf-terroristen/?src=TE&cHash=1a5ffec838&type=98 00.000.1980 -etwa- Wisniewski war auch von Ex-RAF-Mitglied Verena Becker bei einer Befragung durch den Verfassungsschutz als Schütze benannt worden. Die entsprechenden Akten sind bei der Bundesanwaltschaft heute nicht mehr auffindbar. Und das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz gibt sie nicht mehr heraus. Nach Informationen der taz hat der Geheimdienst Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble vorgeschlagen, die Akten aus Gründen des Zeugenschutzes zu sperren.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.jungewelt.de/2008/01-03/040.php?print=1
Ungeschoren kam einzig Franz Halder davon, der im Haupt- und dann wieder im OKW-Prozeß als Zeuge auftrat, danach an die Spitze deutscher Militärexperten gesetzt wurde, die sich im Auftrag der USA mit der Auswertung ihrer Kriegserfahrungen befaßten, namentlich den im »Ostkrieg« erworbenen.
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03.Jan.2008 Domestic Issues Now Outweigh Iraq
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03.Jan.2008 EU-Kommission liebäugelt mit Netzsperren bei illegalen Downloads
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03.Jan.2008 35% of firms see economy losing steam during 2008
03.Jan.2008 Musharraf dice no estar satisfecho con las pesquisas sobre Bhutto
03.Jan.2008 „Ölpreis wird auf 200 Dollar steigen“
03.Jan.2008 US-Justizministerium ermittelt wegen Vernichtung von CIA-Videos
03.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ Nachschlag zu dieser Kinderporno-Nummer mit den "12.000 Kinderschändern": das ist alles mal wieder eine fette Nebelkerze. Demnach seien viele der gemeldeten Nutzer nach den Erkenntnissen der Ermittler "nur für Sekunden" und damit "möglicherweise aus Versehen" auf die ins Visier gekommene Kinderporno-Seite geraten. Damit sei fraglich, ob sich die Verdächtigen in dieser Zeit überhaupt Daten auf den eigenen Computer hätten herunterladen können. Die Operation habe einen "irren Verwaltungsaufwand für fast gar nichts produziert", zitiert das Magazin einen Strafermittler aus Westfalen. Genau wie man sich das vorstellt. Und jetzt guckt mal, wie die ganze Nummer im Ausland angekommen ist: German police hunt 12,000 strong child abuse ring Und schon ist aus Pornokonsumenten ein Kinderschänderring geworden. Ganz, ganz groß. Und da wundert sich die Polizei, wenn sie von der Bevölkerung eher als Bedrohung als als Helfer gesehen werden. (Danke, Robin)
03.Jan.2008 https://blog.fefe.de/ In den USA haben sie jetzt Leute deployed, die verdächtige Personen an "microfacial expressions" erkennen sollen. But a central task is to recognize microfacial expressions -- a flash of feelings that in a fraction of a second reflects emotions such as fear, anger, surprise or contempt, said Carl Maccario, who helped start the program for TSA. Denn hey, Furcht, den Flug zu verpassen? Wut über die sinnlosen "Sicherheits"-Maßnahmen? Überraschung, dass die Schlange SO lang ist. Abscheu über die ganzen Idioten, die ihr Gepäck mitten im Gang im Weg stehen lassen? Das hat es ja auf Flughäfen noch NIE GEGEBEN!1!! Völlig klar, das sind alles Terroristen. Der Brüller ist, das ich in Amerika ja echt den Eindruck hatte, dass ein Großteil der Bevölkerung unter Medikamenteneinfluß steht. Prozac, irgendwelche Psychopharmaka, Beruhigungsmittel, ... die wirkten alle irgendwie sediert. Insofern kann das durchaus sein, dass sie so die Leute rausfischen wollen, die noch nicht dauerhaft unter Medikamenteneinfluß stehen. Ich muß da immer an den Film "Equilibrium" denken. Wer den nicht kennt: durchaus empfehlenswert. Der Film ist übrigens in Berlin gedreht worden, und die ganzen Monumentalbauten gibt es wirklich, alles Überbleibsel von "Germania".
02.Jan.2008 https://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign/benazir-bhutto/16805/did-a-hi-tech-laser-beam-kill-benazir-bhutto/ ">Cernig said, LOL! That’s the most ridiculous claim yet. Even dafter than the sunroof lever. Even if you could hide the truckloads of equipment it would need for a laser with enough power nearby, it wouldn’t cause a fracture. Regards, C
03.Jan.2008 https://themoderatevoice.com/politics/foreign/benazir-bhutto/16805/did-a-hi-tech-laser-beam-kill-benazir-bhutto/ When Benazir was admitted to Rawalpindi General Hospital, Dr M Musaddiq Khan told a PPP leader that he saw such a case for the first time in his life. These wounds were not of bullets, Dr said and added that she had expired before shifting to the hospital and a part of her brain and blood had spilled over from her head,” the sources unveiled. The sources said that both gunshots and bomb blast were a decoy to hide the real shooters.” More here… Some food for thought: If the allegations about laser beam technology prove to be true…then the important question: How did this latest sophisticated US technology reach Pakistan?
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526454,00.html Eine chinesische Mauer soll bald auch um das japanische Web errichtet werden. Die japanische Regierung berät derzeit über eine Regulierung des Internets: In Japan sollen Webangebote wie Blogs oder Videotauschportale in Zukunft wie Rundfunk behandelt werden. Damit würde sich die Regierung den Zugriff auf den Webinhalt sichern und hätte die Möglichkeit, vermeintlich schädliche Inhalte zu entfernen oder zu korrigieren.
03.Jan.2008 Did A Hi-Tech Laser Beam Kill Benazir Bhutto? Key members of the US Congress were last night preparing to block further aid to Pakistan as the mystery surrounding Benazir Bhutto’s assassination deepened, with claims she was “targeted with the latest laser beam technology”, similar to that used by American forces in Iraq, reports The Australian. posted by Prof. Hex
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526477,00.html
Seit einigen Tagen scheint auch der Zugriff auf westliche Medien wieder einmal eingeschränkt, betroffen waren zumindest zeitweilig auch die Seiten von SPIEGEL ONLINE.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526477,00.html
Regierungskritische Blogs wurden zuletzt schlicht verboten.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526477,00.html
Wo Chinas Regierung zensierend in den Web-Traffic eingriff, schloss dies immer auch die Angebote ausländischer Betreiber ein.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,druck-526477,00.html
Webseiten, die Filme anbieten, wie zum Beispiel das auch in China populäre Portal YouTube, sollen ab dem 31. Januar nur noch von staatlich kontrollierten Firmen betrieben werden dürfen. Das wurde am Donnerstag auf den Webseiten der staatlichen Medienbehörde und des Informationsministeriums mitgeteilt.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526464,00.html Konkrete Zahlen dazu liefert laut BfN die aktuelle Rote Liste zu den unterschiedlichen Lebensräumen in Deutschland. Danach gelten mehr als 70 Prozent der untersuchten Biotope als gefährdet oder akut gefährdet. Von den rund 14.000 erfassten Pflanzenarten sind fast 30 Prozent in ihrem Bestand bedroht, knapp vier Prozent gelten als ausgestorben oder verschollen.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526464,00.html
"Der Zuzug und das Verschwinden bestimmter Arten lassen sich nicht mehr aufhalten", sagte Jessel. "Denn der Klimawandel findet bereits statt."
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526464,00.html
"Besonders betroffen von der Erderwärmung sind Arten, die in Gewässern, Mooren, im Hochgebirge oder an den Küsten leben", sagte BfN-Präsidentin Beate Jessel der "Berliner Zeitung". Auch Zugvögel wie der Pirol oder der Gartenrotschwanz seien stark gefährdet. Als Gründe nennt Deutschlands oberste Naturschutzbehörde unter anderem die zu erwartende zunehmende Trockenheit und die sinkenden Grundwasserspiegel.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526464,00.html
Tausende Tier- und Pflanzenarten werden einen stillen Tod sterben - auch in Deutschland, wie jetzt das Bundesamt für Naturschutz (BfN) warnt.
03.Jan.2008 Patentrecht in der Krise: Lieber in den Panzerschrank 03.Jan.2008 Flottenverbrauch: US- Behörden verhängen Rekordstrafe gegen Daimler
03.Jan.2008 Türkische Medien zu Roland Koch: "Kreuzzug gegen die Türkei"
03.Jan.2008 Boot Camps in den USA: Das Versagen der Drill- Maschine
03.Jan.2008 Schwarzes Jahr 2007: Absatz auf niedrigstem Stand seit Wiedervereinigung (Auto)
03.Jan.2008 Hohe Sparquote: Deutsche stellen neuen Rekord im Sparen auf 03.Jan.2008 Streit über Schulsystem: Gesamtschule folgenlos, Bildung wird vererbt
03.Jan.2008 Vorwahlen in Iowa: Clinton fällt in Umfragen auf Platz drei zurück
03.Jan.2008 Gezielte Bildstörung: Peking sperrt Internet- Videoseiten
03.Jan.2008 Aussageverweigerung: Richter ordnet Beugehaft für Ex- RAF- Mitglieder an 03.Jan.2008 Erwärmung: 30 Prozent aller Arten in Deutschland vom Aussterben bedroht
03.Jan.2008 Chinese currency hits new high against U.S. dollar : China's currency, the yuan, hit a new high against the U.S. dollar on Wednesday, breaking the 7.30 mark to reach a central parity rate of 7.2996 yuan to one dollar. 03.Jan.2008 Oil Prices Soar To $100 A Barrel For First Time Ever: Oil prices soared to $100 a barrel Wednesday for the first time ever, reaching that milestone amid an unshakeable view that global demand for oil and petroleum products will continue to outstrip supplies.
03.Jan.2008 9/11 commission leaders blast CIA on interrogation tapes : The leaders of a US commission that examined the 11.Sep.2001 terror attacks accused the CIA Wednesday of having obstructed their investigation by withholding information about videotaped interrogations of terror suspects.
03.Jan.2008 Special forces on standby over nuclear threat: US special forces snatch squads are on standby to seize or disable Pakistan's nuclear arsenal in the event of a collapse of government authority or the outbreak of civil war following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. 03.Jan.2008 American, Pakistani officials reject report about US special squad alert : A United States embassy official on Wednesday dismissed reports of a Special US Squad, put on alert to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, saying it does not go with the US policy towards Pakistan. “Any such action would be contrary to our long standing military and diplomatic cooperation with Pakistan,” said the US embassy official.
03.Jan.2008 Pakistan's Musharraf defends vote, asks British help in Bhutto probe: Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday defended the postponement of elections until February 18 after the killing of Benazir Bhutto, and invited Britain to help probe her death.
03.Jan.2008 Bhutto helped create Taliban : She was a brave woman, without question, but Bhutto was much to blame for the tinderbox that Pakistan became during her exile in Dubai and London – the toxic military entanglement with the Taliban – having helped to create a monster that not even the sponsoring ISI can control any longer.
03.Jan.2008 ISI's Desperate Bid To Save Musharraf -By- Abid Ullah Jan - Alternative media is the West is falling prey to the ISI propaganda to save Musharraf. Continue 03.Jan.2008 How Britain Became Party to a Crime That May Have Killed a Million People -By- George Monbiot
The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg ruled that "to initiate a war of aggression ... is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime". The tribunal's charter placed "planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression" at the top of the list of war crimes. Continue 03.Jan.2008 Move to Impeach Cheney Gains Support in Congress -By- Tim King
A House Resolution to impeach U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney, Dennis Kucinich's H.R. 799, is gathering more support. The national impeachment continues to grow and generate increasing interest since being referred to the House Judiciary Committee last month, a Kucinich spokesperson said. Continue 03.Jan.2008 2008: The Year a New Superpower Is Born -By- Cahal Milmo
The world's most populous nation will mark the next 12 months with a coming-of-age party that will confirm its transformation in three decades from one of the poorest countries of the 20th century into the globe's third-largest economy, its hungriest (and most polluting) consumer and the engine room of economic growth. Continue 03.Jan.2008 In Case You Missed It Network: "Television Is Not The Truth!" - 4 Minute Video.
A movie made many years ago, perfectly describes the situation today about television, news, and the main stream media. It resonates louder and sounds more truthful today that it did when the movie was first made. Continue
03.Jan.2008 Iowa: An Excellent, Thorough Analysis of What All These Varied Polls May Mean. But the Bottom Line is This: "We Have No Idea Who Will Win," Especially on the Democratic Side. So, If You Live in Iowa, It's Up to You. You are the Voters in This Democracy. Make It Happen. 03.Jan.2008 Whoa: The final Reuters/C-SPAN/Zogby tracking poll before Iowa's caucus on Thursday showed Obama surging to a four-point lead over Edwards at 31 percent to 27 percent. Clinton fell to third place at 24 percent. Confirms Vaunted Des Moines Register Poll of Monday, But with a Faster Trending Up for Edwards and a Trending Down for Clinton. 03.Jan.2008 Iowapolitics.com: 2008 Caucus Countdown 1/4
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03.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Comments: Not to mention this unfortunate Lockheed Martin Contractor:
Geraldine Marquez, 31, from Victorville, CA died at Bagram Air Base when a bomb exploded at the front gate the day that Vice President Dick Cheney visited.. # posted by dtmb
03.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Bhutto, Pakistan, Lockheed-Martin and Cheney
03.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ We know that Benazir Bhutto was about to reveal that she had proof of an ISI plot to rig the upcoming elections in Pakistan. We don't know what the nature of this proof might be.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Larisa Alexandrovna has some passionate but well-chosen words to say on the assassination and on the Musharraf-Lockheed-Martin connection:
Let's run down some of the facts about Pakistan for a moment:
* An ISI agent murdered an American journalist.
* An ISI chief financed the 9/11 hijackers, who murdered over three thousand Americans.
* Musharraf and his regime have created a haven for al Qaeda, who continue to murder American soldiers.
* The pro-Democracy candidate running against Musharraf was just assassinated
And yet nearly half a billion dollars of OUR money is going toward paying Lockheed Martin to deliver yet more weapons to the ISI-Musharraf regime. It is bad enough that Lockheed is selling weapons to a regime that has such close ties to terrorism, but that we have to pay for this purchase is absolutely astonishing.
It is even more shocking considering that just 10 days ago, Congress put restrictions on military sales to Pakistan. Someone clearly put some pressure to get this deal passed despite growing concern of Musharraf's violent actions and Congressional restrictions to aid. Who brokered this deal?
Was it Jack Abramoff from behind his prison cell who was a paid lobbyist (with our money) to Pakistan? After all, he was helping out with the F16 issue before 9/11. Somehow, maybe the prison element, rules Abramoff out.
Was it Lynn Cheney, the Vice President's strange other half, who helped push this deal through? After all, she was on the Board of Directors for Lockheed Martin right up to 9/11. But she has moved on to penning lesbian soft porn, which likely keeps her rather busy.
Could it be Dick Cheney's son-in-law, Phillip J. Perry, "who had, while working for a law firm, represented Lockheed with the Department of Homeland Security, had been nominated by Bush to serve as general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security." That all depends on what his current lobbying slate looks like. Is he still a registered lobbyist for Lockheed Martin? I don't know. Do you? With so much secrecy, is it possible to know anything about this all Un-American family?
03.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ My apologies to Larisa for quoting her so extensively, but she raises points that nobody else wants to touch right now. She links to this important story by Christopher Brauchli. Here are the key paragraphs: 27.Mar.2007 -In a report released on- it was disclosed that Pakistan has been rewarded for its warm friendship with Mr. Bush by being made the most favored beneficiary of a new post-9/11 program that the Defense Department informally refers to as the Coalition Support Funds (CSF). CSF sends money to those countries that have helped in the fight against terrorism. According to the report, in the three years that preceded 9/11, Pakistan received $9.1 million in military aid. In the three years after 9/11 it received $4.2 billion in military aid. Only Israel and Egypt received more aid. Before 9/11 Pakistan received less military aid than Estonia or Panama. Since 9/11 Pakistan has received more than $10 billion in overall aid including military aid.
03.Jan.2008 https://www.cannonfire.blogspot.com/ Consider the implications. With that kind of money rolling in from America, would Musharraf or the ISI pull off an assassination (presuming they did it) against the wishes of Bush and Cheney?
Why is that kind of dough being paid out to a nation whose intelligence head paid off Mohammed Atta?
Why were Osama Bin Laden and many of his Al Qaeda comrades allowed to escape from Afghanistan to Pakistan? Permalink
03.Jan.2008 https://www.bkpt.com/Participacoes_Tecnicas.htm
A Brüel & Kjær teve a sua intervenção no âmbito da nova legislação e normalização do ruído e vibrações em particular nos locais de trabalho. O seminário contou com cerca de 250 participantes .
03.Jan.2008 https://www.bkpt.com/Participacoes_Tecnicas.htm - O novo Regulamento Geral do Ruído , os métodos de previsão para a elaboração de Mapas Estratégicos de Ruído , as metodologias para a Medição de Ruído Ambiental e cálculo das respectivas Incertezas Associadas , estarão em foco neste mês de Março. Com efeito, será realizado o primeiro Workshop no nosso país sobre Acústica Ambiental e Avaliação de Incertezas de Medição, no qual participarão especialistas
de Espanha, Dinamarca e Holanda da empresa Brüel & Kjær e da empresa parceira DGMR , para além de técnicos nacionais. Foi, igualmente, convidada pela nossa empresa para este evento a CCDR- Algarve . Este evento ocorrerá nas instalações do Laboratório Nacional de Engenharia Civil, nos dias 29 e 30 de Março de 2007. Para informações mais detalhadas no que concerne a este evento, utilize o seguinte link: (dias 14, 15, 16 e 17 de Março) - Venha visitar-nos na mais importante feira nacional sobre segurança - Segurex . A Brüel & Kjær terá como principais equipamentos para demonstração o novo analisador de ruído modelo 2250 bem como o também recente analisador de vibrações modelo 4447 .
03.Jan.2008 https://www.bkpt.com/Participacoes_Tecnicas.htm
Para findar o primeiro dia e provavelmente como ponto de maior interesse, foi apresentada pelo LNEC uma interpretação da nova legislação ambiental referente ao novo Regulamento Geral do Ruído
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How Brands get wired in the Brain 21.Nov.2006 by Frank on at -https://www.biziki.com/2006/11/ The surge in the number of people walking away from their debts, not because they have suffered an accident or lost their jobs, but merely because they cannot be bothered to pay back the money they borrowed, is the latest manifestation of this corrosive attitude. c/o-: Alister Heath , The Spectator Posted in Economy, Resources, Marketing, Business
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03.Jan.2008 Feuer- Prävention: USA verbieten Lithium- Batterien im Fluggepäck
03.Jan.2008 Pharmakonzerne: Mehr Geld für Werbung als für Forschung (Wissenschaft)
03.Jan.2008 Viele Jobs: Arbeitslosenzahl steigt überraschend wenig (Wirtschaft)
03.Jan.2008 Pakistans Juristen: Musharrafs unbeugsame Gegner
03.Jan.2008 Überlegungen für Konzernfusion: China will Boeing- Konkurrenten bauen 03.Jan.2008 Heute in den Feuilletons: "Parteimitglieder als Leibeigene" (Kultur)
03.Jan.2008 Umweltschutz: 16 US- Staaten verklagen Bush- Regierung
03.Jan.2008 Olympia ohne Makel: Peking will Bettler vertreiben 03.Jan.2008 Verluste in der Kreditkrise: Steinbrück übt scharfe Kritik an Landesbanken (Wirtschaft)
03.Jan.2008 DIW- Berechnung: Ökonomen sagen Ölpreis von 200 Dollar voraus (Wirtschaft)
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03.Jan.2008 US- Präsidentschaftswahlen: Clinton und McCain führen in Umfragen 03.Jan.2008 Unruhen in Kenia: Polizei geht in Nairobi in Stellung - 100.000 Menschen auf der Flucht (Politik)
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02.Jan.2008 https://www.news.com/2102-1032_3-6224291.html?tag=st.util.print "The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses," Wales said in a statement in July. "Look for other exciting announcements in the coming months as we collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box." Wikia Search is part of Wikia, a wiki-hosting company co-founded by Wales.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.news.com/Wikia-Search-to-offer-first-peek-next-week/2100-1032_3-6224291.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-5&subj=news Wales, who also co-founded user-generated online encyclopedia Wikipedia, hopes Wikia Search will eventually rival other search companies by making the way in which search results are arrived at more "transparent." Now on News.com CES preview: Gear galore Today's green news Special coverage: Tech Voters' Guide for '08 campaign Extra: Overnight Web successes "The desire to collaborate and support a transparent and open platform for search is clearly deeply exciting to both open source and businesses," Wales said in a statement in July. "Look for other exciting announcements in the coming months as we collectively work to free the judgment of information from invisible rules inside an algorithmic black box." Wikia Search is part of Wikia, a wiki-hosting company co-founded by Wales.
02.Jan.2008 Now up for grabs: Federal funding for your digital-TV upgrade
All American households can begin applying for up to two $40 coupons to be used toward a converter box that will keep analog TVs going after the digital switch.
02.Jan.2008 Venture stores solar power with molten salt - SolarReserve forecasts $1 billion market in next 10 years for storing electricity made with concentrated solar power.
02.Jan.2008 Technology Voters' Guide: Hillary Clinton
She supports tax incentives to extend broadband, wants open, unimpaired Internet access for all, and has serious concerns about Real ID.
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02.Jan.2008 Rekordpreis: Ölpreis knackt 100- Dollar- Marke (Wirtschaft)
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526307,00.html Unterdessen warfen die Leiter des von US-Präsident George W. Bush und dem Kongress ins Leben gerufenen Untersuchungsausschusses zu den Terroranschlägen vom 11.Sep.2001 der CIA die Behinderung ihrer Untersuchung vor. "Diejenigen, die von diesen Videos wussten - und uns nichts davon sagten - behinderten unsere Untersuchung", schrieben die beiden Ausschussvorsitzenden Thomas Kean und Lee Hamilton in der New York Times. Der US-Kongress leitete in dem Fall eigene Ermittlungen ein. Der verantwortliche Leiter der CIA-Einatzabteilung, José Rodriguez, muss am 16. Januar zu einer Anhörung vor dem Geheimdienstausschuss des Repräsentantenhauses erscheinen.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526307,00.html
Bereits im vergangenen Monat hatte die CIA hatte eingeräumt, hunderte Stunden Videoaufnahmen von Verhören wichtiger Terrorverdächtiger vernichtet zu haben. Die aus dem Jahr 2002 stammenden Bänder seien als Sicherheitsrisiko eingestuft worden. Der Geheimdienst gab an, Agenten vor Vergeltungsmaßnahmen von al-Qaida schützen zu wollen.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526307,00.html Washington - "Es gibt eine Grundlage für eine strafrechtliche Untersuchung", sagte Justizminister Michael Mukasey. Die Untersuchung werde von Bundesanwalt John Durham geleitet. Unterstützt werde er von der Bundespolizei FBI.
02.Jan.2008 CIA- Affäre: US- Justizministerium ermittelt wegen Vernichtung von Folter- Videos
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
"Das war nur der Versuch, etwas loszuwerden, statt ernsthaft Transparenz zu schaffen", so der demokratische Abgeordnete. Der Bericht sei "stark editiert" worden. "Diese Daten sind wenig nützlich, wenn wir nicht mehr Informationen erhalten." Es werde, versprach Gordon, weitere Anhörungen vor dem Kongress geben.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
Deshalb dürften auch die Ergebnisse der Untersuchung derzeit nicht als validiert erachtet werden.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
Zudem sei kein Teil der Studie, auch nicht die Methodik, von unabhängigen Experten begutachtet worden.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
Griffin aber bezeichnete die Untersuchung, die die Nasa vom Batelle Memorial Institute hatte durchführen lassen, als methodisch zweifelhaft.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html Nasa-Chef: Umfrage "schlecht durchgeführt" Nasa-Chef Griffin spielte die Bedeutung der Studie bei ihrer Veröffentlichung herunter: "Es ist schwierig für mich, hier irgendwelche Daten zu erkennen, über die sich Reisende Gedanken machen müssten oder sollten." Auch habe die Nasa nie vorgehabt, die Rohdaten selbst zu analysieren. Das wolle man lieber Luftfahrtexperten überlassen.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
"Aber die Nasa hat die Informationen in einer Form veröffentlicht, die es unmöglich macht, Details über die Berichte der Piloten herauszufinden", so die "Washington Post".
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
Die "New York Times" eröffnete ihren Bericht mit den Worten, die Raumfahrtbehörde habe eine "absichtlich verstümmelte, mit Streichungen versehene Version der Sicherheitsdaten" veröffentlicht.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html Auch Jim Hall, früher Vorsitzender des National Transportation Safety Board, übte scharfe Kritik an der Nasa. "Wenn eine Regierungsbehörde nicht transparent gegenüber der amerikanischen Öffentlichkeit ist, insbesondere bei einem Thema wie der Sicherheit, erfüllt sie weder ihre Aufgaben, noch verdient sie ihre Bezahlung." Verheerendes Medienecho
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526170,00.html
Nasa-Chef Michael Griffin wurde vors Parlament zitiert, wo er zähneknirschend versprechen musste, die Details der Untersuchung schnellstmöglich zu veröffentlichen. Das ist nun geschehen - trägt zur Aufklärung aber vorerst wenig bei: Die Nasa hat ihren Kritikern einen Stapel von 16.208 Seiten Papier vor die Füße geworfen, ohne jede Zusammenfassung oder Erläuterung - und das ausgerechnet am späten Silvesterabend. Die Daten sind laut Kritikern derart verfremdet, dass eine Bewertung schwierig, wenn nicht gar unmöglich ist. So könne man nicht herausfinden, ob mehrere Piloten dieselben Zwischenfälle gemeldet hätten. Zudem seien die Berichte der Piloten nun nicht mehr mit ihrer Flugerfahrung oder den von ihnen geflogenen Flugzeugtypen in Verbindung zu bringen. Kritik an undurchschaubaren Daten Die Nasa behauptet, dies sei zum Zweck der Anonymisierung geschehen.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,druck-526262,00.html 00.000.2008 -bereits- Voraussichtlich wird China mehr Waren auf dem Weltmarkt verkaufen als der bisherige Exportweltmeister Deutschland, wo die Wirtschaft nach allgemeiner Einschätzung 00.000.2008 weniger als zwei Prozent wachsen dürfte.
02.Jan.2008 Unruhen in Kenia: Gegenseitige Vorwürfe, keine Annäherung (Politik)
02.Jan.2008 Kochs Rezept gegen Jugendkriminalität: Früher wegsperren, schneller abschieben, härter bestrafen
02.Jan.2008 Musharraf- Rede: Scotland Yard soll Mord an Bhutto klären (Politik)
02.Jan.2008 Ungewöhnliche Kursgewinne: China wertet seine Währung klammheimlich auf 02.Jan.2008 Vorläufige Wetterdaten: 2007 verfehlt Wärmerekord knapp 02.Jan.2008 Piloten- Umfrage: Entrüstung über kryptische Nasa- Daten
02.Jan.2008 Konjunktureinbruch: Singapurs Wirtschaft schrumpft - Warnsignal für Asien (Wirtschaft)
02.Jan.2008 Unruhen in Kenia: Touristen verlassen Großstädte (Reise
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
Oder man behauptet, herausgefunden zu haben, was alle ohnehin glauben. Dann können Sie ziemlich sicher sein, dass es niemand in Zweifel ziehen wird.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
Es gab da ein Problem, und das hatte absolut nichts mit ihm zu tun. Es ist das Problem von Firmen, die unter wirtschaftlichem Druck stehen. Da tun oder sagen Leute praktisch alles, nur um nicht gefeuert zu werden. Denn die Wahrheit kann beruflicher Selbstmord sein. Deshalb darf man wissenschaftlichen Aussagen, die in einer solchen Situation gemacht werden, niemals trauen.
SPIEGEL : Jetzt reden Sie von einem sehr kleinen Teil des Wissenschaftsbetriebs ...
Laughlin : Überhaupt nicht. Meine persönliche Erfahrung sagt mir, dass wir es hier mit einem erschreckend weitverbreiteten Phänomen zu tun haben.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
Ich weiß nicht, welches Glaubenssystem das beste ist, um in der Wissenschaft Fortschritte zu machen. Aber eines weiß ich ganz sicher: Egal, was Sie glauben, am Ende müssen Sie sich fragen: Mit welchem Experiment könnte ich beweisen, dass meine Lieblingsidee falsch ist. Und erst wenn dieses Experiment scheitert, haben Sie eine Chance, richtig zu liegen. Und genau das fällt schwer. Denn nicht selten hängt Ihre Karriere von der Richtigkeit Ihrer Idee ab.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
Laughlin : Oh ja, ich habe die Vermutung aufgestellt, dass es sich bei Schwarzen Löchern in Wirklichkeit um einen Phasenübergang der Raumzeit handelt ...
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
SPIEGEL : Aber es gibt doch durchaus Messungen, die das Urknallszenario stützen: die Rotverschiebung des Lichts ferner Galaxien, die Verteilung von Wasserstoff und Helium im Universum ...
Laughlin : ... ja, und außerdem der Mikrowellen-Hintergrund. All das sind echte Daten. Aber das Urknallszenario ist nur eine Art Synthese daraus, eine Theorie.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
Laughlin : Die Teilchenphysiker mögen interessante Ergebnisse zutage gefördert haben. Aber all ihre Experimente wurden ja nicht aus philosophischen Gründen durchgeführt. Niemand gibt so viel Geld für Philosophie aus. Der wahre Grund, die Beschleuniger zu finanzieren, lag darin, sich gegen neuartige Waffen zu versichern. Im Kalten Krieg konnten die Regierungen es nicht riskieren, dass sich etwas entwickelt, das sie nicht unter Kontrolle hatten.
SPIEGEL : Der Beschleuniger am Cern bei Genf ist also aus Angst gebaut worden?
Laughlin : Exakt. Und nun schwindet diese Angst.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/inhalt/0,1518,druck-526180,00.html
SPIEGEL : Aus einem ganz anderen Grund tauchen Schockwellen in Ihrem letzten Buch auf ...
Laughlin : ... ja, weil sie zu den sogenannten emergenten Phänomenen zählen.
SPIEGEL : Können Sie uns das erläutern?
Laughlin : Entscheidend ist, dass Schockwellen durch einen Prozess der Selbstorganisation entstehen. Sie lassen sich nicht durch eine atomare Theorie der Materie erklären. Sie gehorchen vielmehr den Gleichungen der Hydrodynamik, die das Verhalten von Flüssigkeiten beschreiben. Aber niemand kann von fundamentaleren, atomaren Gesetzen ausgehend beweisen, dass die Gleichungen stimmen.
SPIEGEL : Als Emergenz bezeichnen Sie also alle Phänomene, die nicht auf atomare Gesetze zurückführbar sind ...
Laughlin : ... ja, weil sie die Folge von Selbstorganisation der Materie sind.
SPIEGEL : Und das scheint Ihnen so bedeutsam, dass Sie gleich eine ganz neue Ära der Physik ausrufen, die Sie Ära der Emergenz nennen. Tragen Sie da nicht sehr dick auf?
02.Jan.2008 Physik- Ketzer: "Der Urknall ist nur Marketing" 02.Jan.2008 Viel Arbeit: Erwerbstätigkeit auf Rekordhoch (Wirtschaft)
02.Jan.2008 Ausfallrate 2007: So viel wurde seit 14 Jahren nicht mehr gestreikt
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html
"Wer Pakistan kennt", sagt Awsal, "der weiß, dass politische Morde in diesem Land niemals aufgeklärt werden."
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html Musharraf habe zu Beginn seiner Herrschaft 1999 bis zu den Anschlägen in den USA am 11. September 2001 mit den islamischen Extremisten kooperiert. "Damals wurde das Baby geboren, das nun zum Monster heranwächst, auch wenn die Regierung es nur noch selten füttert." Den religiösen Fanatikern sei alles zuzutrauen.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html
"Das Attentat trägt die Handschrift von Extremisten", sagt Anwalt Awsal. "Die meisten Menschen denken das, werden es aber nicht öffentlich äußern", sagt er. "Wer will schon Mullahs zum Feind?"
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html
PPP-Kreise werfen außerdem dem Geheimdienst ISI Manipulation der Wahlunterlagen vor.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html Nach Ansicht von Musharrafs Gegnern spricht aber vieles dafür, dass die Regierung den Mord eingefädelt hat. Warum hätten Sicherheitskräfte schon eine Stunde nach der Explosion damit begonnen, Blutspuren am Tatort mit Wasserschläuchen wegzuspülen und Beweisstücke zu vernichten? So fehle vom Kopftuch Bhuttos jede Spur - etwa weil damit bewiesen werden könnte, dass mindestens zwei Schüsse Bhutto am Kopf trafen? Die wenigen sichergestellten Gegenstände seien in der Hand der regierungstreuen Ermittler. Warum habe Musharraf sich außer am Tag der Tat nie wieder öffentlich zu dem Attentat geäußert - hat er etwas zu verbergen?
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html
"Wir erwarten von Spitzenpolitikern in den USA, dass sie sich mit Äußerungen zurückhalten, die in Pakistan zu politischen Zwecken missbraucht werden könnten."
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526070,00.html
Die Ermittler seien allesamt von der Regierung beeinflusst und bestochen, ihre Arbeit daher wertlos. "Hillary Clinton hat das doch auch gesagt", behauptet er.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526196,00.html
Seit mehr als hundert Jahren gab es keinen so milden Januar wie 2007.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526196,00.html
Nach Statistiken der World Meteorological Organization erlebt die Erde derzeit ihre wärmste Dekade seit dem Start moderner Messungen im Jahr 1850.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526196,00.html
Damit entfallen nun von den sechs bisher wärmsten Jahren seit Beginn der regelmäßigen Aufzeichnungen - nämlich 2000, 2007, 1994, 1934, 2002 und 2006 - vier auf das neue Jahrtausend.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/natur/0,1518,druck-526196,00.html Frankfurt am Main - "Die Durchschnittstemperatur lag 2007 exakt auf dem Niveau von 2000", sagte die Meteorologin Dorothea Paetzold vom Deutschen Wetterdienst (DWD) nach einer vorläufigen Auswertung der Daten. Damit dürfte das vergangene Jahr den bisherigen Wärmerekord der deutschen Wettergeschichte eingestellt haben. Wie im bisher alleinigen Rekordjahr 2000 lag auch 2007 die Durchschnittstemperatur bei 9,89 Grad, wie Paetzold am heutigen Mittwoch der Nachrichtenagentur AP sagte. Ein höherer Wert wurde seit Beginn der flächendeckenden Wetterbeobachtung 1901 nie gemessen.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526122,00.html Vielleicht sollte man sich auf die Lebensweise unserer körperlich aktiven Ahnen in der Steinzeit besinnen: Unter ihnen war das Wohlstandsleiden unbekannt.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,druck-526122,00.html Vor einiger Zeit trafen sich im australischen Melbourne Mediziner aus der ganzen Welt und gingen erst wieder auseinander, nachdem sie eine düstere Prognose abgegeben hatten: Die Zahl der Ureinwohner auf der Erde werde in diesem Jahrhundert rapide sinken, manche Gruppen und Stämme würden sogar gänzlich aussterben. DPA Jogger: Bewegung wirkt mitunter mindestens so gut wie Medikamente Der Grund sei die träge Lebensweise vieler indigener Menschen und die damit verbundene Gefahr, an Typ-2-Diabetes zu erkranken. Bei den Aborigines in Australien, aber auch bei den Indianern Nordamerikas seien schon sechs Jahre alte Kinder an dem früher als Altersdiabetes bekannten Leiden erkrankt, mahnten die Forscher. Später im Leben drohten den Betroffenen Herzinfarkte, Nierenversagen und Erblindung.
02.Jan.2008 Datenschutz: Deutschland im Abwärtstrend 02.Jan.2008 Vorläufige Wetterdaten: 2007 genauso warm wie Rekordjahr 2000 02.Jan.2008 Umfrage: Mehrheit der Deutschen will den Mindestlohn
02.Jan.2008 Wetterkapriole: Hagelschicht blockiert Straßen in Rhodos
02.Jan.2008 DIW- Schätzung: Inflation 2008 kein Thema mehr
02.Jan.2008 Heilung durch Aktivität: Bewegung schlägt Zucker- Medikamente 02.Jan.2008 Jugendgewalt: Merkel will Verschärfung des Strafrechts prüfen
02.Jan.2008 Kriminalität: Debatte in NRW über Einführung von Erziehungscamps 02.Jan.2008 Pakistan: Internationale Ermittler sollen Bhutto- Mord aufklären - Neuwahlen um sechs Wochen verschoben
02.Jan.2008 US- Krankenhäuser: Schmerzmittel- Gabe hängt von Hautfarbe ab
02.Jan.2008 Mordfall Bhutto: Musharraf will internationale Ermittler einsetzen 02.Jan.2008 Gewalt in Kenia: Polizei begleitet Touristen mit Waffenschutz ins Hotel
02.Jan.2008 Personalwechsel: Commerzbank feuert Amerika- Chef
02.Jan.2008 Dickdarmkrebs: Mutation gelangte im 17. Jahrhundert nach Amerika
02.Jan.2008 Pakistan nach dem Bhutto- Attentat: Machtkampf mit Mordtheorien 02.Jan.2008 Grundgesetz- Debatte: FDP fordert Wahlrecht für Kinder 02.Jan.2008 Fremdenhass: No- Go- Areas in russischen Städten
02.Jan.2008 BBC Censored Benazir Bhutto's Reports that Bin Laden Had Been Murdered
The BBC "censored" portions of Benazir Bhutto's interview with David Frost. Left out was Bhutto's revelation that Bin Laden had been murdered. The "War on Terror" is, therefore, a big fraud!
02.Jan.2008 The Enablers Of Facism, The Mainstream News Media
Few doubt that Bush and Cheney have wrecked havoc on America and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths throughout the world, but in retrospect, their actions and behavior have been condoned and suppressed by America's fascist Mainstream News Media - and without their support, The Commander in Thief and Darth Cheney would have been impeached, removed from office, and prosecuted for their crimes years ago if we still had 02.Jan.2008 Will Big Brother finally arrive 00.000.2008? - The government is using information technology to threaten our civil liberties like never before.
02.Jan.2008 William Kristol, the New York Times and Nazi Gunter d'Alquen
In post-war Germany, the former editor of the Nazi paper, Das Schwarze Korps, was put on trial and convicted for his earlier pro-war propaganda. In Bush's Amerika, a propagandist for our illegal, immoral war against Iraq lands a job at the New York Times.
02.Jan.2008 What is This "Cowardly Act" Bit About?
On Thursday, President Bush made a public statement about the assassination of Benazir Bhutto condemning "this cowardly act." There are a lot of terrible things one can say about someone who perpetrated such an act. But how can one describe as "cowardly" a man who, aside from carrying out an assassination, deliberately blows himself to pieces? Yet this word is almost always used for such crimes. Why is that?
31.Dec.1999 Horror or Hype? Y2K Arrives and the World Trembles - Tony Long
Doomsayers predict pandemonium as computer clocks make the switch from 99 to 00. Count on it: The whole rotten structure is going to tumble like the walls of Jericho.
02.Jan.2008 U.S. seen internationally as an ‘Endemic Surveillance Society.’ - Matt-- - Comments --- In the recently released annual survey of worldwide privacy rights by Privacy International and EPIC, the United States has been downgraded from “Extensive Surveillance Society” to “Endemic Surveillance Society.” As Glenn Greenwald notes, this is “the worst possible category there is for privacy protections, the category also occupied by countries such as China, Russia, Singapore and Malaysia.” In general, “the 2007 rankings indicate an overall worsening of privacy protection across the world, reflecting an increase in surveillance and a declining performance of privacy safeguards.”
02.Jan.2008 CIA tapes were destroyed to ’save image.’ - Satyam-- - Comments --- The New York Times reports that the CIA’s “every action in the prolonged drama of the interrogation videotapes was prompted in part by worry about how its conduct might be perceived — by Congress, by prosecutors, by the American public and by Muslims worldwide.” The Times adds: By late 2002, interrogators were recycling videotapes, preserving only two days of tapes before recording over them, one CIA officer said. Finally, senior agency officials decided that written summaries of prisoners’ answers would suffice. Still, that decision left hundreds of hours of videotape of the two Qaeda figures locked in an overseas safe. Clandestine service officers who had overseen the interrogations began pushing hard to destroy the tapes. But George J. Tenet, then the director of central intelligence, was wary, in part because the agency’s top lawyer, Scott W. Muller, advised against it, current and former officials said. Yet agency officials decided to float the idea of eliminating the tapes on Capitol Hill, hoping for political cover. In February 2003, Mr. Muller told members of the House and Senate oversight committees about the C.I.A’s interest in destroying the tapes for security reasons. The tapes recorded a program “so closely guarded that President Bush himself had agreed with intelligence officials’ advice that he not be told the locations of the secret C.I.A. prisons.”
02.Jan.2008 Disturbed sleep link to diabetes An interrupted night's sleep may increase the risk of developing diabetes, a US-based study suggests.
02.Jan.2008 Dolly the sheep pioneer knighted Professor Ian Wilmut, the man who led the team which created the clone known as Dolly the sheep, is knighted.
02.Jan.2008 Charity backs dementia taggings A key dementia charity backs the electronic tagging of sufferers to stop them wandering too far from home.
02.Jan.2008 Artificial blood vessels 'closer' Scientists are nearer the creation of tiny artificial blood vessels after growing miniscule tubes out of stem cells.
02.Jan.2008 Groundwater threatens Egyptian treasures
Encroaching groundwater threatens the foundations, columns and walls of Egyptian treasures in Cairo's Giza Plateau, scientists and engineers say.
02.Jan.2008 Passenger With TB in Calif. Hospital (AP) Health officials were searching Monday for dozens of airline passengers who may have come in contact with a 30-year-old woman infected with a hard-to-treat form of tuberculosis on a flight from India.
02.Jan.2008 NASA Gives Glimpse of Air Safety Survey (AP) - NASA grudgingly released some results Monday from an $11.3 million federal air safety study it previously withheld from the public over concerns it would upset travelers and hurt airline profits. The data reflects hundreds of cases where pilots flew too close to other planes, plunged from altitude or landed at airports without clearance.
02.Jan.2008 https://www.tagesspiegel.de/wirtschaft/US-Autoindustrie;art271,2447762
Fragezeichen, wohin das Auge blickt.
01.Jan.2008 Kucinich Backs Obama in Second Round of Iowa Caucus Voting if He Doesn't Meet 15% Threshold. In Short, Big Coup for Obama."Sen. Obama and I have one thing in common: change,? Kucinich said in a statement. 01.Jan.2008 BuzzFlash Premium: Just Released, Keith Olbermann's "Truth and Consequences: Special Comments on the Bush Administration's War on American Values" (Hardcover)
Pakistan: Opposition Considers Protests Over Election Delay 1/2 01.Jan.2008 In Iowa, the First Choice Maybe the Candidate Who Persuades the Most People to Make Him or Her Their Second Choice. Read on...
BuzzFlash Scoop: Take a BuzzFlash Video Visit to the Home of the $20.00 "Obama Cut." Learn About Barack's Favorite Sports Team and His Loyalty to His Neighborhood Barber of 13 Years. Come on into Barack Obama's Hyde Park, Chicago, Barber Shop. 01.Jan.2008 The Bush Administration's Dumbest Legal Arguments of the Year 1/2
"The decision not to conduct an autopsy on slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto's body was taken by the Rawalpindi police chief even though a medico-legal report based on a mandatory post-mortem examination is a must in a murder case under Pakistani laws."
Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa said today it was a "big mistake" for GOP presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani to cut back on his campaigning in Iowa. 1/2
30 Killed in Baghdad Funeral Bombing 1/2 01.Jan.2008 Is Final Des Moines Register Poll Showing Obama and Huckabee Winning (Outside of the Margin of Error) Having a Ripple Effect? 1/2
01.Jan.2008 Warnung vor Ahmadinedschad: Peres bezeichnet Iran als Gefahr für die Welt
01.Jan.2008 Chaos in Kenia: Massaker- Szenen wie beim Völkermord von Ruanda
01.Jan.2008 Blutige Proteste: Zehntausende Kenianer flüchten vor Gewaltexzessen 01.Jan.2008 Kinderfernsehen in Großbritannien: Werbeverbot für Schokolade und Pommes
01.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526052,00.html Bhuttos Sohn Bilawal Bhutto Zardari verließ am Dienstag mit seinen beiden Schwestern Pakistan. Der 19-Jährige ist zwar Nachfolger seiner Mutter als Chef der PPP, sein Vater aber ist als Co-Vorsitzender für die täglichen Amtsgeschäfte zuständig. Eine Sprecherin der Partei sagte, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari sei auf dem Weg nach England, um sein Studium in Oxford fortzusetzen.
01.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526052,00.html
Bhutto habe Beweise veröffentlichen wollen, die ein Komplott des Geheimdienstes und der Wahlkommission belegten, so Khosa. Der tödliche Anschlag am Donnerstagabend in Rawalpindi habe diese Enthüllungen verhindert. Bhutto habe die Beweise in Form eines 160-Seiten-Dokuments auch zwei US-Parlamentariern überreichen wollen, die sich in der vergangenen Woche in Pakistan aufhielten. Die Namen der amerikanischen Abgeordneten nannte Khosa allerdings nicht. Es soll sich nach Angaben der "Times" aber um den Demokraten Patrick Kennedy und um Arlen Specter von den Republikanern handeln. Die beiden Politiker bestätigten demnach bislang nur, mit Bhutto am Tag des Anschlags zum Essen verabredet gewesen zu sein.
01.Jan.2008 Brisantes Dossier von Bhutto: Neue Vorwürfe der Opposition bringen Pakistans Regierung in Bedrängnis
01.Jan.2008 Raumfahrt: Der nächste Flug zum Mond
31.Dez.2008 Hunger im Irak Lebensmittelhilfen sollen drastisch eingeschränkt werden
01.Jan.2008 Silvesterkrawalle: Randale in Ostdeutschland, brennende Autos in Frankreich
01.Jan.2008 US- Wahlkampf: Obama liegt in Iowa deutlich vor Clinton
01.Jan.2008 Streit über Nuklearprogramm: Nordkorea bricht Atom- Frist
01.Jan.2008 https://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,331920125-111259,00.html In an interview from Villavicencio with Associated Press, Stone said he had no illusions about Farc, "but it looks like they are a peasant army fighting for a decent living. And here, if you fight, you fight to win."
01.Jan.2008 https://www.ftd.de/boersen_maerkte/geldanlage/296912.html?mode=print Im Hauptförderland Südafrika ist die Goldproduktion inzwischen auf das Niveau von 1930 zurückgefallen, beobachten die Experten von Union Investment.
01.Jan.2008 https://www.ftd.de/boersen_maerkte/geldanlage/296912.html?mode=print "Die steigende Nachfrage nach Biokraftstoffen macht Agrarrohstoffe immer interessanter", urteilt Sal.-Oppenheim-Experte Hott. "Gleichzeitig sind die Anbauflächen begrenzt." Durch die Klimaerwärmung schrumpfen sie sogar: Allein in China erodiert Experten der Fondsgesellschaft Union Investment zufolge jedes Jahr rund ein Prozent der landwirtschaftlichen Nutzfläche. Langfristig prognostiziert Union Investment einen deutlichen Aufwärtstrend bei Agrarrohstoffen.
01.Jan.2008 https://www.ftd.de/boersen_maerkte/geldanlage/296912.html?mode=print
Tatsächlich rechnet das amerikanische Landwirtschaftsministerium damit, dass der Durchschnitts-Erdenbürger im Jahr 2010 bereits rund 44 Kilogramm Fleisch pro Jahr verzehren wird, zehn Prozent mehr als 2005.
01.Jan.2008 https://www.ftd.de/boersen_maerkte/geldanlage/296912.html?mode=print Die speziellen Rahmenbedingungen erklären auch die zurückhaltende Einschätzung der Profis in Sachen Ölpreis für das kommende Jahr: Die Lager der Opec leeren sich nämlich. "Es gibt keine Notwendigkeit mehr, die Ölproduktion zurückzuhalten und die freien Förderkapazitäten nicht auszuschöpfen", sagt Markus Mezger von der Tiberius Group. Gleichzeitig rechnet er wie die meisten Marktbeobachter mit einer Abschwächung des weltweiten Wirtschaftswachstums. Er hält deshalb die Schätzung der Internationalen Energieagentur für unrealistisch, wonach die Energienachfrage 2008 um zwei Prozent steigen soll. Die Nachfrage werde sich eher abschwächen - auch, weil Benzin an Tankstellen weltweit so teuer geworden ist, dass Autofahrer ihre Wagen im Zweifel stehen lassen oder auf billigere Kraftstoffe wie Erdgas oder Flüssiggas ausweichen.
01.Jan.2008 Silvesterpartys: Heller, größer, wärmer - die Welt feiert den Jahreswechsel
01.Jan.2008 Outside Groups Spend Heavily and Visibly to Sway ’08 Races
01.Jan.2008 Bhutto Spouse, Divisive Figure, Asserts Himself
01.Jan.2008 Amerika rüstet sich für die Talfahrt
01.Jan.2008 Rürup fordert staatliche Mindestrente
01.Jan.2008 Gute Aussichten für Rohstoffe
01.Jan.2008 Kenia: Weiter Gewalt auf den Straßen - Lebensmittel werden knapp
01.Jan.2008 Stuttgarter Justizminister Goll gegen Online-Durchsuchung
01.Jan.2008 Silvester-Party rund um den Globus
01.Jan.2008 Ein Jahr voller Spannung 01.Jan.2008 Anstrengender Jahreswechsel 01.Jan.2008 Protest gegen Datenspeicherung
01.Jan.2008 Papst bittet zu Neujahr um «göttliche Gabe des Friedens»
01.Jan.2008 Slush fund at Defense confirmed
01.Jan.2008 Au Pakistan, les élections législatives vont être reportées à février 01.Jan.2008 Le Kenya s'enfonce dans la violence interethnique
01.Jan.2008 Subidas de las tarifas de la luz, gas, agua, transporte y telefonía
01.Jan.2008 Quick Pakistan poll 'impossible'
01.Jan.2008 NYT Editorial: "These are not the only shocking abuses of President Bush?s two terms in office, made in the name of fighting terrorism. There is much more ? so much that the next president will have a full agenda simply discovering all the wrongs that have been done and then righting them. We can only hope that this time, unlike 2004, American voters will have the wisdom to grant the awesome powers of the presidency to someone who has the integrity, principle and decency to use them honorably. Then when we look in the mirror as a nation, we will see, once again, the reflection of the United States of America." 1/1
Jesus Must Have Been Pretty Sly Mike: Huckabee Holds a News Conference to Announce He Won't be Running a Negative Ad and Then Shows the Negative Ad to All the Reporters So That They Can Write About It. 1/1
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"With the presidential race in full swing, Colorado and other states have found critical flaws in the accuracy and security of their electronic voting machines, forcing officials to scramble to return to the paper ballots they abandoned after the Florida debacle of 2000." 1/1
01.Jan.2008 Final Des Moines Register Poll: Obama widens lead over Clinton
"The decision not to conduct an autopsy on slain ex-premier Benazir Bhutto's body was taken by the Rawalpindi police chief even though a medico-legal report based on a mandatory post-mortem examination is a must in a murder case under Pakistani laws."
01.Jan.2008 Hillary: Pakistan troops might have killed Bhutto: Hillary Rodham Clinton waded into Pakistan's volatile internal political situation Saturday, raising the possibility the country's military might have assassinated Benazir Bhutto because the killing took place in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. 01.Jan.2008 Tapes by C.I.A. Lived and Died to Save Image : If Abu Zubaydah, a senior operative of Al Qaeda, died in American hands, Central Intelligence Agency officers pursuing the terrorist group knew that much of the world would believe they had killed him. 01.Jan.2008 Africa aid wiped out by rising cost of oil: The rising cost of oil has wiped out the benefits many African countries were expecting from western aid and debt relief over the past three years, new research from the International Energy Agency has shown.
01.Jan.2008 Top economist says America could plunge into recession: Losses arising from America’s housing recession could triple over the next few years and they represent the greatest threat to growth in the United States, one of the world’s leading economists has told The Times. 01.Jan.2008 U.S. Stocks Decline, Poised for Worst Fourth Quarter Since 2000 : U.S. stocks fell and were poised for their first fourth-quarter decline since 2000 after government reports on durable goods and unemployment reinforced speculation the housing-market collapse will push the economy into recession.
01.Jan.2008 Hospital lawyer: Pakistani police stopped doctors from conducting Bhutto autopsy: The police chief of the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi prevented doctors from performing an autopsy on the corpse of former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, according to a lawyer on the hospital's board. 01.Jan.2008 Bhutto 'blocked from hiring US bodyguards': President Pervez Musharraf refused to allow the foreign contractors to operate in Pakistan, according to senior aides. 01.Jan.2008 Musharraf Is 'A Total Failure': An interview with Pakistan's main opposition leader Nawaz Sharif : Everybody in this country holds him and his policies responsible for the murder. 01.Jan.2008 Pakistan to delay vote by at least four weeks: officials : Pakistan will delay parliamentary elections by at least four weeks after a wave of violence triggered by the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, senior government officials told AFP on Monday. 01.Jan.2008 Sharif demands Mush`s resignation : Former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif today demanded his resignation and renewed call for the formation of a government of national consensus to ensure free and fair general elections on January 8 as scheduled. 01.Jan.2008 Prof. Michel Chossudovsky: The Destabilization of Pakistan: : The process of US sponsored "regime change", which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. 01.Jan.2008 Bush's best-laid plans: The Bhutto assassination demonstrates anew the folly of the administration's efforts to manage history. 01.Jan.2008 Iran gives early date for reactor : Iran says its Bushehr nuclear power will start working in mid-2008. 01.Jan.2008 Oil Rises as Iran to Start Reactor: Crude oil rose in New York, poised for its biggest annual increase since 1999, as Iran announced plans to start its first nuclear reactor next year, raising concern that the move will heighten a confrontation with the U.S. 01.Jan.2008 Stranded pilgrims riot in Egypt : Hundreds of Palestinian pilgrims have rioted in temporary camps set up to house them until a dispute over their return to the Gaza Strip has been resolved. 01.Jan.2008 What's the hurry?: Rice tends to compare the Israeli occupation in the territories to the racial segregation that used to be the norm in the American South. The Israel Defense Forces checkpoints where Palestinians are detained remind her of the buses she rode as a child in Alabama, which had separate seats for blacks and whites. 01.Jan.2008 Barghouti: Israel doesn't want peace: "What is demanded of Israel now is that it announce clearly that it is ready to end the occupation, retreat from occupied territories, remove settlements and checkpoints, stop seizing land, release prisoners, stop the siege of the Gaza Strip and stop the operations of killing and destruction," he added. 01.Jan.2008 Abbas reveals: Israel negotiated with Hamas: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas claimed on Monday that despite Israel's stated policy that it would not speak to Hamas, representatives from both parties met for clandestine talks in Switzerland.
01.Jan.2008 New video footage shows Bhutto was shot dead : A dramatic new footage of former premier Benazir Bhutto assassination today lent credence to her Pakistan People’s Party’s claim that she was shot dead, a claim vehemently contradicted by Pakistan government.
00.000.2007 was deadliest year for U.S. troops in Iraq: Two critical shifts that boosted U.S.-led forces 00.000.2007 — a self-imposed cease-fire by a main Shiite militia and a grassroots Sunni revolt against extremists — could still unravel unless serious unity efforts are made by the Iraqi government. 01.Jan.2008 Iraqi refugees turn to sex trade in Syria: A score of young Iraqi women in tight, shimmering gowns shuffle across the nightclub dance floor under the hungry eyes of Gulf Arabs at nearby tables.
01.Jan.2008 The worst, and saddest, job in Baghdad: It must be a candidate for the worst job in Iraq. It falls to Baghdad's street sweepers, who use their bare hands, to pick up the fingertips and scraps of flesh spattered around every bomb site in the Iraqi capital. They do it without gloves, in all but the coldest weeks of winter.
01.Jan.2008 Scores die in Kenya election riots : More than 150 people have reportedly been killed in clashes that erupted in Kenya after the re-election of Mwai Kibaki, the country's president. 01.Jan.2008 In photos: 'Kenya Elections Aftermath': Thousands of youth across the country took to the streets again today to protest the announcement that incumbent President Mwai Kibaki was re-elected, a result which many believe was rigged. 01.Jan.2008 Violence erupts as President Mwai Kibaki grabs election victory at the last minute: David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said that Britain had “real concerns” at voting irregularities reported by European Union monitors. 01.Jan.2008 A stolen election: Halfway through the count in Kenya's presidential and parliamentary elections, the opposition leader, Raila Odinga, was so far ahead - by 700,000 votes - that analysts predicted it would take a minor miracle for the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, to survive. Last night, that miracle duly came to pass 01.Jan.2008 A people betrayed: The cynicism of the cabal around President Kibaki is breathtaking: they knew the consequences of stealing the election
01.Jan.2008 My Heart Bleeds For Pakistan. -By- Tariq Ali - Poor Pakistan. Poor People's Party supporters. Both deserve better than this disgusting, medieval charade. Continue 01.Jan.2008 Waiting For "Mr.Goodbar."-By- Layla Anwar- Survival sex in the era of exported democracy – Great title for a smashing Hollywood film or a best seller book. Continue US Mayors’ Report: Hunger and Homelessness Intensify in US Cities -By- Debra Watson
The number of people hungry and homeless in US cities rose dramatically again 00.000.2007 according to the annual report on hunger and homelessness from the US Conference of Mayors. Continue 01.Jan.2008 The Post-Bush Regime: A Prognosis -By- Richard K. Moore
In order to understand anything about American political affairs, it is necessary to have some understanding of who it is that really makes the decisions behind the scenes, and what their interests are. In this way we have some hope of identifying the hidden agendas being served by government actions and programs, and some hope of identifying the longer-term strategies that are in play. Continue 01.Jan.2008 Now We Are Human Commodities -By- Chris Maser
We are today so ensnared in the process of selling and buying things in the market place, that we cannot imagine human life being otherwise. Even our notion of well-being and of despair are wedded to the flow and ebb of the markets. Why is this so much a part of our lives? Continue 01.Jan.2008 Good and Evil at the Center of the Earth - A Quechua ChristmasCarol - -By- - Greg Palast
Correa is one of the first dark-skinned men to win election to this Quechua and mixed-race nation. Certainly, one of the first from the streets. He’d won a surprise victory over the richest man in Ecuador, the owner of the biggest banana plantation.Continue
01.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/panorama/0,1518,druck-526007,00.html "Wer eine Ratte bekommt, aber sie nicht haben will, wird sie entweder zurück in den Laden bringen - oder auf der Straße aussetzen", äußerte sich ein Tierarzt gegenüber Interfax besorgt. Er hoffe allerdings, dass die meisten neuen Rattenbesitzer die positiven Eigenschaften der Tiere wie Intelligenz und Treue entdeckten. In Russland ist die Astrologie aus dem Nachbarland China sehr beliebt. In Zeitungen wurden zu Silvester Tipps gegeben, wie die Ratten am besten begrüßt werden können: zum Beispiel, indem Frisur, Schmuck und Kleidung dem angeblichen Geschmack der Nager angepasst würden.
01.Jan.2008 CRIMES AND CORRUPTIONS OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER NEWS: 12/01/06
While the new law explicitly strips non-U.S. citizens of the habeas corpus right ... your assignments to the NSC, how many times did you ... www.inblogs.net/mparent7777/2006_12_01_archive.html
01.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526010,00.html
Man habe sich bei ihrer Firma nach Schutzmöglichkeiten für Bhutto erkundigt, teilte eine Sprecherin des privaten US-Sicherheitsdienstes Blackwater mit: "Aber leider wurde nie ein Vertrag geschlossen."
01.Jan.2008 https://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0,1518,druck-526010,00.html Bhuttos Berater kontaktierten Blackwater "Sie wusste, dass es Attentatsversuche geben würde", sagte ein US-Geheimdienstmitarbeiter über Bhutto: "Wir halten keine Informationen über mögliche Angriffe auf ausländische Spitzenpolitiker oder Staaten zurück", so der Beamte zu AP. Doch es sei deren Sache, "was sie unternehmen wollen". Und weiter: "Wir übermittelten ihnen einen stetigen Strom an Geheimdienstinformationen."
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01.Jan.2008 https://www.jungewelt.de/2007/12-31/007.php?print=1
»Meine Religion ist, Gutes zu tun.« Die Tafeln 3 bis 5 zeigen, wie sie Gutes tun: Rebellen werden ermordet, Indianerstämme von ihrem Land vertrieben, hispanische Provinzen annektiert.
Ziel und Resultat des »Bürgerkriegs« (Tafel 6) ist nicht, wie vorgegeben, die Abschaffung der Sklaverei; vielmehr die Bereicherung der Furage-, Uniform- und Waffenlieferanten und der Eisenbahnbarone. Auf die Gewinne, einen gewaltigen Nugget oder Goldklumpen, hat der Bankier J. P. Morgan besitzergreifend seine Pranke gelegt. Während im Süden die sich auf ihre Freiheit berufenden Schwarzen gelyncht werden (Tafel 7)‚ rufen in London Marx und Engels die »Arbeiterbewegung« (Tafel 8) zum Zusammenschluß in der 1. Internationalen auf. Die zunehmende Vertrustung intensiviert den »Klassenkampf« (Tafel 9) und mechanisiert die Arbeitskräfte in der »Modernen Industrie« (Tafel 10). | 